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1939 - Artie Shaw - publicité Selmer
Begin the Beguine
Cole Porter’s Begin the Beguine from the broadway musical Jubilee, and later the Ziegfeld Follies 1936 musical revue never really gained popularity. That is until swing band leader Artie Shaw recorded it. He jokingly referred to it as “a nice little tune from one of Cole Porter’s very few flop shows.”
Even the original recording label, RCA Victor, was pessimistic about the long tune "that nobody could remember from beginning to end anyway". They shunted the recording to the low cost subsidiary brand Bluebird Records and released it on the "B" side of "Indian Love Call". Shaw however had the last laugh, with the tune hit number 3 on the charts, making it a best-selling record. The recording became one of the most famous and popular of the entire Swing Era.
Shaw was the first white bandleader to employ a black female singer as a full-time member of his band, Billie Holiday, how he had employed just before making that best selling recording, and even though there are lyrics to Begin the Beguine, Shaw recorded it as an instrumental.
Shaw’s 1938 line up included Artie Shaw, clarinet, leader; John Best, first trumpet; Chuck Peterson and Claude Bowen, trumpets; George Arus, first trombone; Harry Rodgers and Russell Brown, trombones; Les Robinson, first alto saxophone; Hank Freeman, alto saxophone; Tony Pastor and Ronnie Perry, tenor saxophones; Les Burness, piano; Al Avola, guitar; Sid Weiss, bass; Cliff Leeman, drums; Jerry Gray, arranger.
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143rd Annual Westminster Dog Show
This world-famous dog show just wrapped up. Congratulations to “King” a Wire Fox Terrier for taking home Best in Show!
It may be of some surprise that the UWM Archives can connect with the event and the breed. What is the connection? We hold the papers of John S. Best. Best was a Milwaukee attorney who had a great passion for showing and breeding Irish and Fox Terriers. At his “Blackacre” kennel he raised 34 champions.
Among his papers are several Westminster Dog Show catalogs. We are showing images of the earliest we have which is 1943, and the title page the one from 1959. The 1943 catalog contained the ads shown, which featured “The world’s most famous dog” Saddler. Saddler was a Smooth Fox Terrier who retired from competition in 1943.
The dog show world is fascinating! If you are in the area you can request the John S. Best papers by asking for UWM MSS 149.
Maybe That's Why
By John Best Maybe that’s why when your car scraped into the rutted driveway and you emerged like a pharaoh seeking your resurrection with gold-leafed ferocity in your eyes, I was not your Isis. Maybe that’s why when your greedy fingers slid through the valleys between each rib counting coup, my soul flew like a crow. Maybe that’s why when the river of your steaming blood roiled…
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Cdm, Ssn can stabilize precarious hires for Covid
Cdm, Ssn can stabilize precarious hires for Covid
“The bodies of the National Health Service are authorized to stabilize the staff hired on a fixed-term basis during the emergency”. This is what we read in the final communiqué of the CDM that gave the green light to the maneuver. Also in the health section, scholarships for medical specialists are significantly increased and permanently increased to 12,000 a year. “I am very satisfied that the…
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Hello World
My past 2 years of life and observations of how the world is going. I have seen the worst of this world and hope to start seeing changes for the best. Comments I add below are my personal experiences and others are welcome to add theirs. Right now I am still in a very bad spot as over the past couple years I’ve dealt with losing job within a week of being carjacked and kidnapped, being able to…
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