Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia Records, no slouch at thicket-hunting, bagged its latest prize in its own doorway. Barbara Eichbauer, 23, is a statuesque suburbanite who wandered into Manhattan looking for an advertising job and wound up instead as a Columbia receptionist. She had once done a little singing at a local inn back in Forest Hills, N.Y., and confided to fellow workers that she happened to have a privately made recording. Just about that time, Orchestra Leader Percy Faith, one of Columbia's stable, was looking for a young unvarnished voice to go with a young unvarnished song called What...
...Johnny Mathis; Columbia). One of the freshest young practitioners of the crewcut, scrubbed-voice style made popular by Pat Boone, Mathis quavers out his fast-selling ballad and all but soft-sells himself out of the lady's vision: "We may never meet again, but then...
Paris Night Life (Columbia LP). A frantic musical tour steamy with atmosphere. It includes such international headliners as Jacqueline François and Juliette Greco, such local music-hall and cabaret favorites as Philippe Clay and Irene Lecarte. Item of three-star interest: "le rock 'n' roll" number, Alhambra Rock, bawled by Paris' chief exponent of "impétuosité frénétique," Magli Noël, in the choked wail of a wet-diapered infant...
First Rites. Just about then, Cohn issued his edict. At a Hollywood party, Marilyn met a Columbia production assistant; he took her to see Maxwell Arnow, then Columbia's talent chief. Arnow inspected her with a routine but practiced eye, advised her to lose some weight and return. When he met her again by chance in the office of Agent Louis Shurr, she had lost the weight-at least enough for Arnow to see possibilities. He ordered a screen test, soon was excitedly telephoning colleagues: "I've got the girl." Against her parents' advice ("I never could...
...record companies. Costs are lower ($8 an hour for a violinist v. $42 in the U.S.), the big stars are on hand for Europe's summer festivals and therefore easier to get at, glamour names like La Scala Orchestra and Chorus help to boost sales back home. Philips, Columbia's European affiliate, has snapped up the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, HMV-Angel has moved into Milan's La Scala and London-Decca into Florence's Teatro Co-munale. One of the busiest of all this year is Rome's cavernous Teatro dell...