Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This news was so calamitous to phonograph makers and record sellers that it threatened to drown out the joyful celebrating over the end of James C. Petrillo's ban* on recordings (see Music). Said one Chicago radio executive: "It raises chaos in the entire industry, just as a change in rail gauges would do to railroads...
...settlement left both sides where they stood a year ago, when Petrillo charged that canned music from jukeboxes and radio stations was threatening the livelihood of his musicians. He then invoked the ban. But he will do little better now. Record makers will pay royalties of between 1% and 2½% a record into the musicians' welfare fund, about the same as before. Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying...
...Night and 0 Little Town of Bethlehem, the U.S. last week was hearing a new kind of Christmas carol-the daffy, bell-ringing, horn-honking, falsetto-voiced Spike Jones kind. Out only six weeks, a new record by Spike Jones & his City Slickers (recorded in 1947, before the Petrillo ban) was already sixth on the hit parade. Its title: All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth...
Owens (A) defeated Henry Foster (H) 3-1; Smith (A) defeated Hugh Foster (H), 3-2; Clark (H) defeated Morgan D 3-0; McKittrick (H) defeated Balance (A), 3-0; Ames (H) defeated Martin (A), 3-0; Nawn (H) defeated Ban (A), 5-1; Longcope (H) defeated Butler (A), 3-0; Cabot (H) defeated Stedee...
Empty Bowl. Whatever the final outcome, NBC's Sunday evening position looked bleak, except for Fred Allen. At one time, NBC strategists had thought of filling in with a series of crime-mystery plays. But that bet was automatically ruled out by NBC's own ban on mystery shows before 9:30 p.m. (presumably the hour when all little pitchers are in bed). Crumped one disgruntled executive: "We've made our policy. Now we have to sleep with...