Word: decca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MISS YOUR BABY? (Count Basie; Decca). Blues displaying the extraordinary rhythmic talents of the No. 1 black band...
FRENCH FOLK SONGS FOR CHILDREN (Sung by Louis Chartier with accompaniment; Decca). Album of three records, 13 songs. Musical charm plus educative value...
...even before Harms could get the song printed, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (You Look Beautiful to Me) had become a hit. Decca had two records out: the Andrews Sisters', which had already sold 10,000 copies, and Glen Gray's. Brunswick had released a Russ Morgan version, and at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre the crowd called for four encores the first time Morgan played it. Victor had Guy Lombardo's recording of the song ready this week in time to be put on sale with the sheet music. First day's sheet...
...three big U. S. phonograph record manufacturers (RCA Manufacturing Co., Decca, American Record Corp.) have been doing a steadily improving business since the abysmal days of 1933. Last week three small record companies were making good news for U. S. disc-dilettanti. Founded by earnest amateurs of music, all were operating in Manhattan, all on smallish budgets. For their material, all had gone into the byways of classical music, in some cases with such gratifying results that the big recording companies were following their lead...
...sale in the U. S. Only similar records now available are Linguaphone Institute's (30 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan) 3; recordings, made by the Rothschild Quartet-one of whom drops out in each series-which include selections from Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert. For students of swing, British Decca Records of London has made 14 records of rhythm accompaniment to such standard hot pieces as Dinah, St. Louis Blues, Tiger Rag, Dardanella. U. S. Decca Records plans to place them on sale in the U. S. within two months...