Lionel Hampton Quotes

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those manufacturing companies: America! With our pocket money we bought flat packets of chewing gum, beautifully wrapped, that included a picture of a movie star – we collected those – and it all smelled strange and rosy: America! On short-wave radio an army station crackled into the room, with an announcer who might start talking right over a swing band: America! Lionel Hampton came to the Netherlands in September 1953 and his saxophonist lay on his back onstage and carried on playing. Hampton abandoned his vibraphone to play drums for a while and to do an improvised dance to β€˜Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop’. De Gelderlander, our provincial newspaper, wrote: β€˜How vast must be the emptiness of those hearts that have lost any longing for values more exalted than those of Negro moaning.’ But
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Geert Mak (In America: Travels with John Steinbeck)
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Lionel Hampton would invite a woman from the audience to dance with him, but
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Tina Fey (Bossypants)
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Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. β€œMona Lisa, men have named you,
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George Hodgman (Bettyville: A Memoir)