Films
April, 1956
Big bands that swung like crazy reached their apex in the early and middle Forties, and one combination that could shoot a decibel rating up 200 percent was the Gene Krupa crew, which boasted, in addition to Gene's zany tub thumping, the scatty, rhythm-packed vocals of Anita O'Day and the brilliant, piercing trumpet of Roy Eldridge. It was a chuckleheaded hipster (1941 vintage) indeed who didn't know what "Blow-oh, Roy, blow-oh" meant, or where, exactly, "Uptown" was situated...
