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Lucky Millinder And Sister Tharpe Clicking At SavoyAlabama Bov and ArkansasGirl Set New York on Fire%By DELORES CALVINNEW YORK— lt;C)— Never in the history of music and there has been another team to rival the Chick Webb-Flla Fitzgerald combo which was a sensation until the liwtle drummer blasted away for the last time, but now we have in the making a newer and greater team of swingers, Lucky Millinder and “Sister” Rosetta Tharpe.Arkansas’ Rosetta, who made a record at N. Y.’s Cotton Club by staying over 22 weeks, sings -Pir --ituals with a rockin’ rythm. The. little religious lady started all this when {only five jyears old, she’s just 26, when a visiting relative left her a guitar at her house. She traveled with her mother who was an evangelist and got her bis break during a convention in St. Louis “Sister'’ Tharpe is now considered as America’s greatest spiritual singer. It’s just her voice and her guitar.But Lucky Milttndrr is an Alabama boy. And when he conducts, he does everything but climb the ceiling with his baton,” says Art Franklin, Director of publicity for the team's manager, Moo Gale.Millinder’s bana hotter than a five alarm Harlem fire headed by a brand new determination to make a grand comeback that consumes' his every waking moment His real name is Lucius LeRoy. Friends insist he picked it up from his luck at dice, I mean the name Lucky, but Millinder knows it’s because ol his liick with the ladies.Right now', Dynamaestro «Lucky) and Sister Rosetta are making the .stars look down at the Savoy Ballroom, where they all but carry the Harlem spot away.Honored DvorakNEW YORK, N. Y. — AubreyPankey, Negro baritone, was the featured soloist at the Anton I) jprak Centennial Celebration held at the Studios of Music Education, 9 West 82nd Street, November 7.
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Blackfoot Bingham County News
Blackfoot, Idaho, US
Sat, Nov 22, 1941
Page 7
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