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...years ago Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., which makes 60% of all U. S. bowling-alley and poolroom equipment, vowed that the U. S. bowling alley should no longer be a hangout for the unwashed. Reasoning that where women go, men will follow, B-B-C launched a promotional campaign, persuaded alley proprietors to clean house, encourage female bowling...
Founded 95 years ago by Swiss Immigrant John Brunswick, B-B-C began as a maker of billiard tables, branched and merged its way into bowling alleys, tires, toilet seats, phonographs, records, radios, became the world's largest maker of bar fixtures. But Prohibition cooled the bar business. The music division was sold to Warner Bros. Pictures in 1930. B-B-C lost $3,047,963 in 1929, lost again in five of the next six years. Steering it helplessly in this heavy weather was Benjamin Bensinger, old-fashioned autocrat, grandson of Founder Brunswick...
...just coincidence that Shaw used to work in Kostelanetz's clarinet section. Only original note is the hot clarinet against a string background. But even this Shaw did three years ago with his first band (see "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" for an example. Brunswick.), so that once again Mr. Shaw gets the scarlet covered roll of Scott's. The tunes are some Mexican ditties that weren't too sharp either before or after recording...
...band that's been wiping up records right and left lately and certainly seems like a sure bet for anybody's money to be one of the big successes of coming years is Al Donahue's new swing band, opening at the Marlonette Room of the Hotel Brunswick...
However, from time to time there will be printed here lists of what record sales and the opinion of musicians show to be really good records. Some of these are: "Just a Mood" by the Teddy Wilson Quartet (Brunswick), a blues recording done with the aid of Red Norve (xylo-phone), Harry James (trumpet), and Johnny Simmons (bass). This is blues as it should be--quiet, relaxed, and with long, luscious ideas. Harry James plays phenomenally, although I suspect that most of his solo is swiped from several old Louis Armstrong records...