Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syracuse (Portia Nelson, Jack Cassidy, Bibi Osterwald, conducted by Lehman Engel; Columbia LP). The 1938 Rodgers & Hart musical (based on A Comedy of Errors) in a dazzling record reduction. Such hits as Falling in Love with Love and This Can't Be Love are treated overtenderly, but the album is worth having, if only for the late Lorenz Hart's remarkable rhymes...
Last week Billboard listed Capitol's Music for Lovers Only (produced by TV Funnyman Jackie Gleason) as No. 1 best-selling popular album, leading more sedately covered LPs by such favorites as Doris Day, Eddie Fisher, Eartha Kitt and Liberace. In general, sales of all the gaudily decorated albums are going strong. Record executives take satisfaction in the thought that they are just giving the public what it wants. "We try," says one, "to be sober-within reason...
...Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur W. Radford and his wife Marian, along with Assistant Secretary of State (for Far Eastern Affairs) Walter S. Robertson, stopped off for two days in Formosa. There, in the Taipei home of Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, the visitors struck a family-album sort of pose for photographers with the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang...
Music to Make You Misty (Jackie Gleason's Orchestra; Capitol, 2 EPs). The third album of mood music conducted and produced by TV-Funnyman Gleason. Seductive strings are highlighted by the artful trumpet of Bobby Hackett and saxophone of Toots Mondello...
Brown has Ivy on the brain. Last year Capitol Records pressed a record album entitled "Songs of the Ivy League" including selections from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania. Brown alone was excluded and Brown was hurt...