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~~ '49 Metronome Disc ~Feafures Bop Solos All-Star Recording Offers ‘Overtime’ - And Popular Favorite Vidory Ball’ ?

Metronome magazine has been sponsoring an all-star recofding with proceeds donated. to a fund for unemployed

: For seven years

musicians, This year RCA V! that features most of

Both the Pete Rugulo original “Overtime” and Lennie Tristano's | “Victory Ball” feature bop solos and some fine progressive jazz en-| semble work. : 2 i The slightly Kentonish “Overtime” has Gillesple, Davis and Navarro on trumpets; Winding and Johnson on trams; DeFranco's -clarinet, Parker, Ventura and Caceres on saxes, Tristano’s piano, Bauer on guitar and Safranski and Manne at bass and drums, It's big, loud and 'swonderful, : . A slightly smaller group of Gillespie, Winding, DeFranco, Parker, Ventura, Tristano, Bauer, | Safranski,and Manne win laurels| on Victory Ball. More than five hours were spent. making the final recording of the 1949 allstar disc.

: ” » ” COLUMBIA — Herb Jeffries’ two new discs for Columbia. We've said it before but we'll repeat that Jeffries, who's been plugging along for years, gets

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presents the 1040 Metronome disc, one the magazine's 1948 poll winners, on two sides which -measure up-to-the high standards-set in-previous years. —

conducts his Hollywood Sym-

compositions, “Street Scene” and “How Green Was Valley.”

Loule, Drop the Gun” merry-go-round with Gloria Hart on vocals; Hoosier Helen Carroll sings “Blue Skirt Waltz,” lyrics of which were written by one of music's forgotten men, Mitchell Parrish, who wrote the lyrics to Hoagy Carmichael's “Stardust”; Patti Page waxes two novelties, “Money, Marbles and Chalk” and “Where's the Man?”; Ann Vincent sings “Keep a Twinkle n Your Eye” and “You're Adorable”; Vie Damone does nice things with “Again” and “I Love You So Much) =

“w » » RCA-VICTOR -— Give a couple spins to a disc featuring a nice, new voice on a couple of pleas-| ing ballads, Bill Lawrence singing “Dreamer With a Penny” and “I'm Beginning to Miss You.” It's one of the better records in

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modern poets reading their own verse have been issued by the Liarary of Congress. The recordings are for sale to the public.

the “Twentieth Century Poetry in English” series of the library. They: were prepared under 3 h : grant of $10,500 from the BolPhony through two. of his gw lingen Foundation in 1946, and include both American and EngArt Kassel joins the “All Right|!ish poets.

drawn from recordings which the

better with each hearing. Butithe latest batch:of releases.

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WASHINGTON, Mar. 12 — §& (UP) —Phonograph records of 21 =

The 25 records are the first of

Byron Janis, pianist, is heard in three Chopin etudes in the RCA.Victor release of the Chopin centennial recordings. The etudes played by Mr. Janis

are on a single record.

Most of the material was |

library has been making since 1940, although some has come from the Harvard University col-

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Plays Chopin -

Handicapped Teen-As Redlizes His Ambition

_ Harry Schopp Jr., Unable to Sign Name, Pecks Out Radio Plays on Typewriter. ~~ i handicaps and the ability to surmount them can bring sueeo ion Harry Schopp ty should realize his ambition to become a top notch wri. al « es ~natur hin BIG, BOOt a when a severe case of pneumonia resulted chicken's in brain hemorrhage. Harry has never walked, bas never been able wish, the board said. {to use his hands even to write HE his own name.

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EO ang diver "hunt and {08- up. Harry decided to. write ay, 43 A: Dp _... peck t ing x atom, he has writ- message to the publcl. ELEY Ae Yping system: It took him a long time to!brought thé custom

ten five radio plays broadcast 0 ; u . WXLW-FM, an poem write it, for Harry's system is was 2271 years old. pve w 2 4 5 slow enough to discourage some- -

broadeast on radio station “lone less stout of heart. But if it

impresses one person, gains one helper or" aids one handicapped | | n, Harry will feel he's

. » ” EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Harry gained a diploma from Shortridge High School, studied by

rrespondence with Indiana Uni- ; a extension and at present| “The Easter sale opens Mar. 17. is taking a correspondeérice course |If everyone knew about Easter

achieved a milestone as a writer. This was his message: : ;

lections and from other institu-! tions. , ! ie “amum *Bible Speaks’ Among the discs is an album * of five recorded by T. 8. Titot. Bi 2 p who recites his famous “Ash| Wednesday,” “The Waste ods Album ue and several shorter poems. Eliot, |

1948 Nobel Prize for literature. | The poetry readings were chosen by the library's yearly successive consultant's in poetry and | ligious programs thelr advisory board, the Fellows|jn aibum form shortly. in American Letters, a group of bum, sponsored by th well known writers and critics. |, The 8 po The: 12-inch. records are avall-| able individually or in five al-

Victor album “The Bible Speaks,

presents the Bible itself to th |listener with the familiar. text

One of the most ambitious reca Missourian who now lives in| .4 projects ever undertaken in’ sped ih |

England, was the winner of the 1 e religious field is the RCA-|

tion of well known re- have to watch the world go by| 20, aap to be released from their wheelchairs,

Joint Religious Radio Committee, camp, Harry got to ga for his!

| | do for th in radio writing. {Seals and what they do for e| a He's one of the original mem- handicapped, Just about everyone p bers of Happy Hoboes and Sad would buy Easter Seals. >

Ceopen toeagers, ana was tl J RCA-VICTOR HIT OF THE -WEEK

|pregident of the group. Red Rose for a Blue Lady c and The Melarcholy Min- 19 strel by Vaughn Monro. .

Open Evenings Unil 9 P. M. OUNTAIN SQUARE

HARRY is one of many other! "handicapped persons who might

were it |not for the helping hand extendled by Crossroad. 3} :

elfirst swim. |

in Wishbone Gag |; CHICAGO, Mar, 12 (UP)~Peowishbones

pulling part in ho of mak their {Wish come trac’ Sines 2B. C., reports the Poultry and Egg N

Etruscans, Sauy Med Sierian ean hi peoples, “bel at whoever Harry is a victim of spastic paralysis, broke the Jaingor piece off the ne would have his

| The Romans, the board added, roads, a omy oe Ha picked up the wishbone ceremony {DIL e, *| trom the Etruscans and carri =r I "s on Jo [nual Easter Seals campaign com- t+, wngland during their conquest

time the Pilgrims to America, it

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wonderful are his “Bewildered,”

and the old *ear-jerker “It's Easy To Remember.” Sort of adding insult to injury, Ray Gilbert not only writes sanity-strainers like “Cuanto Le Gusta,” and “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Da,”

__ Buddy Moreno wields the baton| and sings “Doo Dee Doo on an Old Kazoo” and “Johnny Get Your Girl”; Ray Dorey, a boy who sings like a bluebird himself, chirps “A Bluebird Singing in My Heart” and “It's a Big

other celebrated poems W. H. Auden’s “Alonso to Ferdinand,” Allen Tate's “Ode to .the) Confederate. Dead” and William | Carlos Willlams’ “Peace on Earth.” |

ated—into—dramaticform..— FOR THE AID he’s received) Dan pat recorded on the three and the friends he has seen; 12-inch sides include the Parables, helped, Harry would like to do| Golgotha, and Sayings of Jesus. something in return for CrossRadio artists who co-operated) include Raymond Edward John-

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Gilbert ditty “Pin Striped Pants.” He Rg ag RI

now he sings them. He's featured in -his latest tongue twister, “Coca<Roca” backed by another

Wide Wonderful World”; the curse of another generation returns as Spike Jones and his boys revive the 1936 novelty “Knock,

MERCURY — Alfred Newman wields a powerful baton as he

Disc-ussion—

“Tennessee Saturday Night*-and “You Broke Your Promise.” :

Jazz Concert Big News for

Granz ‘Philharmonic’

ison, hronicler; House Johnson,

sented are Marianne Moore, Mar {being released in co-operation |

, BE. E. Cummings, " -operaRoel” The Pag Pipers Sng yor E 85, | with the committee, a co-opera-|

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Boppers Due Here Mar. 24;

Ella Fitzgerald to Be Featured on Bill |

BIG NEWS for the boppeérs

and jazzophiles around town is

scheduled “Jazz at the Philharmonic” concert Mar. 24 at the Murat.

Norman Granz, who arranges the jazz kazazzes, usually pulls a capacity crowd on his Indianapolis appearances. He's got a couple

of his old standbys—Flip Phillips ~—plus some stars added since his of the Kenton band, Fats Navarro, be-bop pianist Hank Jones,

Ray Brown, Sammy Criss and Will

Tommy Turk. And for those who are still crying in their beer because didn’t make it for her last scheduled JATP show here, Ella Fitzgerald is featured on the bill. . » ¥ A NEW TUNE that threatens to be the “Music Goes Round” and “Open the Door, Richard” of the next few months is “All Right Louie, Drop That Gun.” Louie apparently did drop it, alJowing the composer to complete the tune, for which someone

should get the drop on Louie. : 3 ® . »

she|40 r.p.ms

and Coleman Hawkins on the bill last Hoosier tour: Shelley Manne

of an agreement by which Capitol release the famous German

Telefunken discs in the USA. These also will be available on

® & = WORD 1s that eben ahbez of “Nature Boy” fame is working on a new tune to be released soon,

“Land of Love.” eben (he doesn’t like capita letters in his name) is apparently writing for the love of it or to be loved in return. All royalties from “Nature Boy” are still tied up in a lawsuit. (D. M.)

Romance Forecast

WOODY HERMAN, due to let

yy In Ballroom Dancing

Indianapolis hear his new group that's drawn ay raves round the®™ nation, won't’ have skin- | thumping Don Lamond wit him when h ‘comes to the Circle for a week # starting Mar, 31. Both Lamond

When skirts were short, dancing meant lots of leg action, but for

4 [longer women’s skirts, one expert be predicts more romantic dancing.

Sinee ballroom dancing has al-

‘ilways conformed to skirt length,|

contends Donald Sawyer, New

.. | York dance master, the 1949

dance steps will be slower, smoother, better for romance. Mr, Sawyer told midwest mem-

has Mr. Herman taken Chub Jackson's spot at bass, .

. 8» THE King Cole Trio is no more, It's now the King Cole Quartet, with the addition of Jack Costanzo, bongo star of the old Kenton group. Incidenta'y, some of the midwestern cities got a real treat as King and Woody Her- — inal stumped on a-double But with its usual tough luck Indianapolis gets on the billing with Woody not King Cole but the Harmonicats. nr - H . STARTING next month, many of Capitol's releases will be released both on standard discs:and on the new 45 r. p.m. to play on RCA-Victor's new player, Other news from Capitol is that it will g6 into the longhair line, presenting some of the world's finest classical music, the result

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Choral Fete in Texas

NEW YORK, Mar. 12 (UP)— Choral groups from 16 states will be represented at the 25th biennial convention of the National Federation of Musi¢ Clubs in Dallas, Tex., Mar. 27 to Apr. 3. Noted solo singers and instrumentalists vention. : :

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