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ASSURY PARK SUNDAY PRESS, June 24, 1962' Edythe Wright Says Dorsey Was 'Sentimental Gentleman 9 WALL TOWNSHIP "That the way it was in those dayi the musicians were close, and even with the personality clashes and temperament, we stuck to- Miner." That's how Edythe Wright, now Mrs. John T. Smith, Allenwood, recalls her five years as a vo round in his guitar case for several years. One day during a rehearsal hill Bud Freeman and Mastren were playing the tune. T.

D. passed by and asked what it was, and shortly had an arrangement made of it. A young singer named Frank Sinatra sang the ballad on record, and "I'll Never Smile Again" became one of Dorsey's all time best selling discs. Becomes Accompanist Ruth Lowe was later, to become Edythe Wright's accompanist when she left the Dorsey band calist with the band of the at -fT''- fj -i 1 i Urn m4 Tommy Dorsey. Her memories include some great moments in American popular music.

In those days (1935-40, fans and dancers could identify such Dorsey soloists as Bud Freeman, tenor sax; Max Kamin-sky, Lee Castle, Bunny Berigan, and Pee Wee Erwin, trumpets, nd Johnny Mince, clarinet Mellow Sound Of course, the mellow trombone in 1940 and went out on her own as a "single." One of her reasons for leavine. she said, was a dispute with a record company over royalties for vocals she did on Dorsey's recordings. 'A, She had recorded over 50 tunes with Dorsey's band, receiving a sax; Fred Stulce, alto Carmen Mastren, guitar; Miss Wright; Tommy Dorsey, leader-trombonist; Dave Tough, drums; Pee Wee Erwin, trumpet; Axel Stordahl, trumpet-arranger; substitute trombonist; Red Bowen, trombone, and Joe Bauer, trumpet. straight tee tor each one. In those Edythe Wright (center) poses with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra at the Steel Pier, Atlantic City, in 1936, when T.D.

and Benny Goodman were hailed as the kings of swing. Left to right: "Big-Gate," bandboy; Gene Traxler, bass; lee Jenkins, trombone; Johnny Mince, alto sax and clarinet; Howard Smith, piano; Bud Freeman, tenor days, popular vocalists rarely had any contractual arrangements for royalties. If their' records sold over a hundred thousand or even ill! Ace can't remember his last rie" also shows his generosity and sey give his band the arrangement of 'When Did You Leave a million copies, there was seldom any reimbursement for it. of Mr. Dorsey himself had a lot to do with the band's great success from 1935 to 1945.

He was a strong leader and knew what he wanted in the way of sound and musicianship from his band, and he had a "big heart" too, according to Mrs. Smith. He really was the 'Sentimental Gentleman of He proved this when Bunny Berigan died in 1942. The estate be left was meager, even though be had left the Dorsey organisation to lead his own band. When Dorsey heard the news of Berigan's death, be decide 1 to set up a trust fund for his family.

Telegrams were sent to every name bandleader in the country, asking for contributions to cover sincere concern tor lellow mu name, did a dance craze then called the shim-sham. I wanted to learn that dance so bad, but some of Edythe Wright rec "When I asked Tommy about it he agreed provided he receive was shy in asking Ace to teach me. So I went to Ella Hzgeraia( doctor bills funeral expenses, and for the family. Pays for Telegrams Mrs. Smith said Dorsey and his band members paid the bill for the telegrams, and generous offer-ings from other leaders including Benny Goodman went toward the other items.

The story of how T. D. came by his hit arrangement of "Ma ords with Dorsey sold very well. Among her classics are: "Stardust" with the big band, "Milkman's Matinee," and "Rhvthin Saved the World" with the Clambake Seven. then Webb's vocalist, and asked sicians and performers.

"We were playing a date at the Nixon-Grand Theater in Philadelphia," says Mrs. Smith, "and Chick Webb's band was on the bill with us. The pit band was 'The a group from Florida. They had the original 'Marie' arrangement. "Their leader, a guy named her to ask Ace for me.

Knocks at Door "He came knocking at my toe score to Mane Later when Ace was killed in a road-trip accident, Dorsey turned over a percentage of his "Marie" record royalties to the originator's widow and children. Another T. D. hit shows another side of Dorsey. It also involved I Ten tunes she recorded with dressing room door, and said he'd the latter group a Dixieland 1 teach me the dance provided Dor- outfit within the big band have recently been reissued on an RCA Victor LP, entitled "Wonderful Time." an untimely death one of the RADIOISOTOPES: THE MIRACLE WORKERS stark realities of early show business, one-nighter traveling.

Carmen Mastren, Dorsey's gui She still receives no royalty for the records she made between 1935 and 1940. Peaceful Atoms Make Life Better Edythe Wright (above), one-time Tommy Dorsey vocalist, now stars as a busy mother and community worker. She is married to John T. Smith, and resides with her hut-band and 9-year-old son in the Allenwood section of Wall Township. The young man at the trumpet is Allen R.

Boyce, Craig Manalapan Township, who recently won the Styli Club's $500 music scholarship. Mrs. Smith, with memories of those exciting days with the big band still fresh, headed the Styll Club's judge's committee. (Press Photo) tarist, had picked up a manuscript copy of a song written by a Canadian pianist performer. This is one of the themes of an autobiography she is doing jobbers or suppliers in this coun By ALTON BLAKESLEE now three quarters finished.

She says recording artists are protect- Ruth Lowe. It was a ballad inspired sadly by the early death of her young husband. Associated Press Science Writer ed by their management much try and abroad. Their potential uses are only beginning to be realized many more now, and that her genera Not Interested Mr. Mastren showed the sens OAK RIDGE.

Tenn. (fl The Atomic Energy Commission is ending its miracle workers of the atomic age out in increasing tion of singers paved the way eco specialists feel. lionth of an inch, for precision control of industrial processes. Pellets of radio-atoms give off heat, transformable into small amounts of electricity. So pluton-ium-238 has gone into space to broadcast a signal from a navigation satellite, and strontium-90 powered devices now radioing back weather information from buoys at sea and from the Arctic and the Antarctic.

Coming are earthquake recording instruments dropped onto the ocean floor, using instruments powered with cesium-137 to broadcast reports on tremors. Radio-atoms inevitably will find similar jobs one day on the moon, Mr. Rupp says. nomically and musically for today's stars. and has been active in helping the Allenwood First Aid Squad.

She and Carmen Mastren wrote a tune last year, which may he-come part of an LP featuring the "new" Edythe Wright. Tyree Glenn, trombonist at the Asbury Park Jazz Festival last weekend, Festival last weekend, she goes before an audience to sing some of her favorites. Her life is mostly devoted tc caring for her 9-year-old son, Patrick, and husband, who is plant manager for Allenwood Box Co. Active Denmother She is a cub scout denmother to Dorsey several times, but always got an uninterested "no" as to its use in the band's book Oliver, veteran ex-Dorsey arranger and now a top orchestrator is being consulted. So, Edythe Wright appears to be completing a full circle as she turns again toward what has always been a central part of her life: music.

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