The record changer (Feb-Dec 1943)

LEMME take this chorus During the past year or so, the differences between the AFM and the record producers have provided nonunion hill-billy artistry a fabulous bonanza of juke box fame and fortune. By the familiar economic processes, some competant musicianship has been diverted into these channels. It might pay a real hep cat with a castiron ear and plenty of time to wade through the cornsqueezings of the past year in a search for evidences of real jazz work. When he gets down to Gals Don't Mean a Thing, Louise Massey and Westerners, OK 6687, maybe he would tell me who plays the 16 bar clarinet churus . ffffff Don Anderson, hottest artist in the country, has just signed a most attractive contract with the U.S. Government. As I understand it, his duties will afford him an opportunity to study the flora and fauna in nearby Maryland, and at the same time to collect some material on his doctor's thesis U.S. Army Chinauare and Kitchen Utensils, it is rumored that his salary has been set at the figure of $50 per month. In spite of his induction, Anderson will be able to supply us with a few more cover drawings. The first of this new series of Record Changer covers fronts this issue. ffffff With considerable reluctance, Don Wilson, circulation manager of this publication, has provided us this month with a nice twelve bars of piano blues. If you putter with the piano you will enjoy this one,-especially if you happen to have three hands. ffffff Bob Thiele, editor of Jazz magazine, has just had his appendix carved. He writes 'I enjoyed your last issue of the Record Changer, very much. It gets better with every issue... Now that I am home for awhile, I will be able to have the next issue of Jazz out very soon. Starting with the next issue, November, Vol. 1, No. 10, JaZZ will be available on New York City news stands and will definitely come out monthly. ffffff A few ex tra copies of the Bulletin of the Jazz Sociological Society, published in London, have been received. Accordingly, we can offer to our readers a few more subscriptions. Those who subscribed in August to the Bulletin should have received their first issue by this time. If you have never seen this publication, you ought to take a look at it. These English people can tell you things about jazz and the U.S.A. that you never knew before. Here's a proposition: Send us $1.50 for twelve issues of the Bulletin; if, upon the receipt of your first issue, you do not feel that the Bulletin is worth the money, you may return it to us for a refund of your subscription . This applies to all who have already subscribed. ffffff Due to the favorable reception of the rag Weeping Jli I I OV , by Scott Joplin, which we reprinted last month, we are putting another rag in this issue, Cotton Bolls, by Charles Hunter. No information is available on the composer. I would say that Hunter was a white man; the rag doesn't seem to jump right to me, but it's quite pretty, nevertheless. Roy Carew states that Cotton 5o//s was one of the better rags of the 1900's. ffffff Notify us whenever your address is changed; the Record Changer is sent by third class mail which is not forwarded. ffffff No back issues of the Record Changer are available. ffffff WANTED Name and address of collector who did not include this information on his t r ade auc t ion list which was written in green ink on typewriter tissue paper, and which was accompanied by two dollars. ffffff Send special delivery letters or express shipments to the Record Changer at 1220 North Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. rather than to Fairfax, Virginia. ffffff Do not send stamps, for mailing your copy of the Record Changer first class or by air mail. ffffff When your copy of the Record Changer reaches you around the 15th of the month, remember that third class mail is very slow these days. Also we give no collector preferential service such as first class or air mail of his copy. ffffff If we receive your ad on or after the 16th of the month, seven weeks will pass before you see it in print. 35