Word: decca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real upswing came in 1934 when two things happened: 1) RCA began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year...
Moon Love, from the second movement of Tschaikowsky's 5th Symphony (Paul Whiteman; Decca) and Bach Bay Blues (New Friends of Rhythm; Victor). For swing fans who do not object to classical themes and classicists who do not object to hearing them swung...
Bing Crosby (The Lion and Sa Gomes Rhythm Boys; Decca). Having celebrated Franklin Roosevelt, the Duke of Windsor and the late Graf Zeppelin, Trinidad's Calypso singers turn to a famed U. S. colleague. Professional appraisal...
Rumpel-Stilts-Kin (Decca). The Merry Macks-three boys, one pretty girl and a left-handed trap drummer - record the newest of the swift, adroit, hot vocalizations that they have been airing over the big networks for a year...
Songs of Old California (four-record Decca album). Companion to Decca's New York song album, this one evokes California's past almost as well. Beginning with songs of the vaqueros, cowboys, and miners, the collection winds up with famed California Poet George Sterling's comic tribute to the State's molluscular mascot, Abalone...