Freddy Martin others), which featured the band's pianists Jack Fina, Murray Arnold, and Barclay Allen. In 1946 he recorded "Dingbat the Singing Cat" adapted from Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf", and later recorded "A Lover's Concerto", adapted from baroque composer Christian Petzold's "Minuet in G major", two decades before pop group The Toys released it. At this time, Martin enlarged the orchestra to a strength of six violins, four brasses, and a like number of saxes. His band's first hits included "Intermezzo" and "the Hut-Sut Song". Martin was nicknamed "Mr. Silvertone" by saxophonist Johnny Hodges. Chu Berry named Martin his favorite saxophonist.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock his concern over aging. Like many of Eliot's poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" makes numerous allusions to other works, which are often symbolic themselves. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as "Prufrock", is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). Eliot began writing "Prufrock" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse" at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885–1972). It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet (or