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...Capitol records-Les Baxter's Poor People of Paris and Nelson Riddle's Lisbon Antigua are the No. 1 and No. 2 jukebox favorites in the U.S. Its Sixteen Tons, by Tennessee Ernie, is the fastest selling record in history (1,000,000 in three weeks). Among Billboard's top ten albums, Capitol last week led all other companies with four. In 14 years Capitol has moved from nowhere to fourth place in the industry, just behind the patriarchs: RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca...
Halting before the Congressional Palace, the crowd watched as leaders raised a blue-and-white Argentine flag and a yellow-and-white Vatican flag on the building's flagpole. Several agile demonstrators clambered up the scaffolding of a huge Peronista Party billboard and draped it with the Argentine and Vatican colors...
...University Theater last week advertised its double-bill with a large multi-colored poster which read "ALL CINEMASCOPE SHOW." Jut twenty-five years before, the same theater announced an equally alluring program with a similar billboard. That sign read "ALL TALKY SHOW...
...claim special qualities for their recordings, are hewing to the original $5.95 price line. Others have agreed on a $4.98 "suggested" price. Manhattan's Sam Goody's, the major record discount house, continued to discount the "suggestions," advertised classical LPs for as much as 29% off. Billboard reported one significant change "deep [in] the country's economy": the pawnshop value has dropped from $1.25 to $1 a disk...
...taste in popular music is reflected by the list of best-selling pop singles for 1954 in the trade sheet Billboard. The top ten: 1) Little Things Mean a Lot (Kitty Kallen), 2) Wanted (Perry Como), 3) Hey, There (Rosemary Clooney), 4) Sh-Boom (Crew Cuts), 5) Make Love to Me (Jo Stafford), 6) Oh! My Papa (Eddie Fisher), 7) I Get So Lonely (Four Knights), 8) Three Coins in the Fountain (Four Aces), 9) Secret Love (Doris Day), 10) Hernando's Hideaway (Archie Bleyer...