Down Beat Poll

Every year Down Beat, jazzmen's magazine, polls the trade for its opinions, which are downright. This year's opinions, published last week:

>Best swing band: Benny Goodman, with 2.130 votes to Duke Ellington's 1,841.

> Best sweet: Glenn Miller, nosing out Tommy Dorsey, 2,605 to 2,427.

> Favorite soloist: Clarinetist Goodman.

Next: Trumpeter Harry James, Clarinetist Artie Shaw.

> Best small combination: Goodman's sextet.

> "King of Corn": Guy Lombardo.

> Best vocalists: Bing Crosby, Helen O'Connell. Blonde, dimpled Singer O'Connell, 20, called "Button-Nose" by the boys in Jimmy Dorsey's band, also took first place in polls held by Metronome, Orches tra World, Swing. She has never studied singing, learns songs and perfects her whiskey-voiced style while lying in bed.

Her best-seller of the year: Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (Decca record).

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