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Radio: MONARCHS OF THE COB

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TIME

This gruesome assortment of musicians has been using radio the last four months to lead a new trend in U.S. music. It is a deliberate trend back to the corniest ragtime possible. The City Slickers under Lindley Armstrong (“Spike”) Jones have made their greatest hit with a barnyard version of the Bronx-cheerful Der Führer’s Face. Jones’s name for it: “A very violent comic type of music.”

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