Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overweight; but, thanks principally to Showman Todd, the picture skips along with an amazing lightness-like a fat lady winning a cha-cha contest. As a travelogue, Around the World is at least as spectacular as anything Cinerama has slapped together. The customer is offered an album of house-high snapshots of summer in Paris, corridas in Spain, religious festivals in India, a Wild West show in the hoariest Hollywood tradition; and at one point he is even permitted to witness a sight that the 19th century would cheerfully have given its right sideburn to see: Queen Victoria...
Climbing Classics. The boom has spread to all types of records, even rolled through the hot weather when sales usually slump. In 26 weeks this year, Columbia's album of the score from Broadway's My Fair Lady (TIME, June 25) sold more than 653,000 copies, about half as many as the alltime champion, Columbia's South Pacific, has sold since 1949. Also climbing high in the sale of classical recordings, traditionally 25% of the market, and specialty albums, e.g., sports, plays, literary readings, politics. Last month ABC-Paramount brought out a collection of President Eisenhower...
Capitol was one of the first to dress up record jackets with brightly colored photographs and prints. Columbia hired top artists (among them: Ben Shahn, Leo Lionni, Antonio Frasconi) to design its album covers. For the lower-browed mar ket, Decca tied in the sales campaign with popular magazines, last week spun out its Esquire series of albums decorated with long-stemmed Petty girls...
...long-playing RCA Victor record, The President's Favorite Music, went on sale with Mamie and Ike smiling happily at buyers from the cover of the album. The President's musical taste: eclectic. Its range: from Johann Sebastian Bach's We All Believe in One God to Do Not Forsake Me, theme song of the movie High Noon...
...Richard Wagner. Until recently, the modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated by Gesualdo's violent career, and is now equally fascinated by his madrigals. They are, writes Huxley in his program notes, "a kind of musical miracle, in which seemingly incompatible elements are reconciled in a higher synthesis...