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"It takes time from the first smile to that waltz down the aisle," she chants — but t' won't take much of that stuff till Doris becomes one of the leading canaries in the Eagle's Nest, U. S. (Columbia) HOT! DAVE LAMBERT AND BUDDY STEWART WITH RED RODNEY'S BE-BOPPERS: "Gussie G.," "Perdido." "Gussie" is the side. Scattin' au gratin! Buddy and Dave spellbind you with this vocal be-bop — catchy and thrilling. Red Rodney's horn is fine-clipped and clean all the way, May. On the back the guys put Duke Ellington's "Perdido" through the same reet treatment. Split my bananas and call me Chiquita! This'll getcha! (Keynote) LOUIS ARMSTRONG: "Mahogany Hall Stomp," "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" These two are from Satchmo's flicker, "New Orleans." First is the jazz classic which Pops did years ago with the hot five. Lotsa nostalgia hearing this done again in 1947 by the same great Louis and a famous group. LA. proves he's still the greatest — on both cheeks he highlights the record. (Victor) DUKE ELLINGTON: "Happy Go Lucky Local." Edward Kennedy chose one of his most exciting concert pieces for his Musicraft date but didn't quite capture the spark we caught when digging it live. Regardless, new Ellingtonia, Sonya, is always refreshing, 'specially amidst the mess of mediocrity these days. (Musicraft) ART HODES BACKROOM BOYS: "M.K. Blues," "Jug-Head Boogie." Ah — here's that mellow Max Kaminsky trumpet in some sensitive blue stuff with excellent support by Art Hodes on the box (piano) , Jimmy Shirley on guitar and Israel Crosby on bass. Sandy Williams falls in on the flip to suffuse you with some fat boogie woogie, which'll send you like air mail. There're two more sides, too — "Low Down Blues," with some of the guttiest trombone you ever absorbed, by Sandy Williams, and "Back Room Blues," with the spotlight on some mellow indigo box of Art Hodes. These'll tuck you in a blanket, of blue. (Blue Note) METRONOME ALL STAR BAND WITH FRANK SINATRA, NAT COLE AND JUNE CHRISTY: "Sweet Lorraine," "Nat Meets June." It's a kick hearing Nancy's Daddy with a jazz group behind him and these are the winners of the All-Star awards, namely and to wit — Nat Cole on piano, Harry Cerney, baritone sax, Johnny Hodges, alto sax, Charley Shavers, trumpet, and Buddy Rich, drums. Frank loosens his lungs about the chick with "a pair of eyes that are bluer than the summer skies" and proves he has a gang of jazz feeling. Turn it over and Nat "King" Cole, he of the "gleesome threesome," shares a blues vocal with that airy canary, June Christy, then the All Stars get off and go like mad. (Columbia) "T-BONE WALKER": "T-Bone Blues." There's a mess of blues singers on the scene today, May, mais one of the better known is Mr. "T-Bone Walker." Guy puts down three minutes of blue tonsils and -guitar that are as fine as wine. Les Hite's gang back him up. T'other face carries a subtle and finely integrated duet 'tween Jimmy Shirley on guitar and Oscar Smith on bass — "Jimmy's Blues." Righteous! (Blue Note) DATA ON THISA AND THATA: Bing's out hunting. Those Wednesday night shows you been diggin' are transcribed. The owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates cuts a flock of 'em and then makes for the woods. . . Laurence Olivier's gonna record "Henry V" for Victor. He'll do it in London and they'll press it over here. . . Ronnie Como, Perry's son, is getting dragged with his old man's publicity. Each time a picture of him and Pop is published his classmates tease the dickens out of him. . . The Fabulous One, T.D., has copped himself a new 40-foot yacht with a ship-toshore phone. Had himself a ball calling all his friends from those warm southern waters recently. The dirt is he'll be reorganizing his band before long. . . Hey, now! Errol Flynn has done a record album for Columbia, "The Three Musketeers." The sword-totin' rascal makes his wax debut as the young rookie Musketeer, D'Artagnan. . . One of the biggest problems in making Frankie's new flicker, "It Happened in Brooklyn," were the curious crowds interfering with the shooting. So just what parts of the garden city were being used were kept very hushy. An alert Bklyn. cop saved one day's work when a mob gathered on the Bklyn. Bridge while the cameras were getting Nancy's Daddy with local color background. He got rid of 'em this way — "Be on your way, folks. Come on, beat it. It's nothing. Just some jerk trying to commit suicide." Well, there's no more time to chin, Min, so guess we'll pack our shellac and hit the track. If any question is buzzing around that pretty cranium, my little geranium, about cookies or the people who make the fetching etchings, knock us a hunk of linen via the Uncle's man in gray and we'll try and put you at ease, Louise. Better pick up on this pulp next month, or we'll beat you to one with our little beanbag. Till then — take it slow! EDITOR'S NOTE: Like Fred's department? We thought you would. Maybe you'd like to know more about this personality kid of the radio recording programs. He's, just 27, former Baltimore boy admitted to the Maryland bar at 21, gave up the law to take an announcing job. Today, he announces the Columbia Record Shop air show on 500 stations from coast to coast, the Teentimers Club program every Saturday morning at eleven on NBC, conducts the "1280 Club" program of popular recordings (WOV, Manhattan) to the vast entertainment of appreciative record fans. Lionel Hampton recently wrote and dedicated "Robbins in Your Hair" to Fred. You'll note, in last paragraph above, Fred Robbins invites you readers to write in and ask him questions. So why not? Write in to Fred Robbins, care SCREENLAND, 37 West 57th St., New York 19, N. Y., and he will answer, in this magazine, the letters he considers of most general interest to record fans. 90 SCREENLAND