Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband and I have often chuckled over an imaginary percussive album called Music to Argue...
JOHNNY MATHIS, 21, who was a San Francisco State College sophomore and a high-jump star when Columbia Records heard him singing in his spare time in a San Francisco nightclub. His first, heavily jazz-oriented album limped along un-spectacularly; his first single, Wonderful, Wonderful, attracted scant attention at first. Then it began to light boards in San Francisco and Boston and edge up onto the bestseller charts in the trade press. Another single, It's Not for Me to Say made the charts, too (No. 16 last week...
This phonomaniac family is becoming more or less typical of uncounted U.S. households. Mood music-most of it consisting simply of old favorites and not-so-favorites warmed over-currently accounts for roughly a third of several major companies' album sales. Such old grads of the whipped-cream-and-syrup school as André Kostelanetz, Paul Weston, Phil Spitalny and George Melachrino did some pioneering as early as the '40s, were later joined by a host of others. TV's Jackie Gleason became such an adept mood picker that his Music for Lovers Only sold half...
Last week on his new show called The Album of Paco Malgesto, alert engineers cut off the sound just as Paco began to tell in detail why the police used to raid Mexico City burlesque shows, turned it back five minutes later after Paco had moved on to more discreet matters...
...doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry that made Lipatti one of the finest pianists of the postwar generation...