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Wasn't it Nice? and I'll Be Blue Just Thinking of You (Victor)?Big Aileen Stanley sings her own obligate to the usual accordion accompaniment...
Phil Baker plays snatches on a glittering accordion and bandies old gags and a very few new ones with his fat comic in an upper box. Aileen Stanley croons sundry ballads in the ultra-modulated, effortless manner. Most talented member of the troupe is Wesley Pierce, whose name does not appear in upper case type with the other headliners, but who thoroughly ingratiates himself with audiences by making difficult feats of acrobatic dancing look easy, by singing inane songs pleasingly, by looking cheerfully funny. There are also 44 personable chorus girls, of whom more is to be seen than...
Happy Days Are Here Again and Humming a Love Song (Victor, $1.25) - Phil Baker's accordion presents almost as much variety as a full-fledged orchestra...
...Accordions are popularly associated with tobacco-chewing rustics and pomaded Italian vaudevillians. Yet Manhattan music dealers reported last week that the piano-accordion, retailing at a minimum of $250, is now their best-selling instrument, exceeding even the saxophone family. Buyers, they said, include all classes from socialites to day-laborers. Principal reason advanced to account for the accordion's increasing popularity: it reproduces excellently over the radio. Added reason: it requires no accompanying instrument...
Since then he has improved the observation tube. It is flexable, having joints like the bellows of an accordion, and provides comfortable seating-room for six people at a time in the chamber at its lower end, from which they may observe the phenomena of the ocean-floor through a pane six feet in diameter. The tube, which may be raised or lowered at will, is suspended from the side of the mother ship...