Word: decca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record company to be known as Discs Incorporated. General feeling in the industry is that this will seriously impair the Victor line, observes pointing to the atrophy of Brunswick records after Jack Kapp left in 1934, taking Guy Lombardo, Casa Loma, the Dorsey brothers, and other along to form Decca Records...
Tahitian Rhythms (Augie Goupil and his Royal Tahitians: Decca), according to the collection in this five-record album, sound like a succession of rumbas, torch songs, foxtrots, military marches and old-fashioned hillbilly jump-ups. Weirdy-of-the-month...
...Teddy Wilson's "More Than You Know" (Brunswick) with Billie Holiday vocal and Benny Carter alto sax has that proper feeling that goes into a real swing record . . . Made three days before she started to sing regularly with the band, Helen O'Connell's first record with Jimmy Dorsey (Decca) "Romance Runs In The Family," is an excellent job, though not nearly up to what she can do . . . The record of "Fate" and "Deep Purple" is well worth getting, with Jimmy's famed trombone trio taking the former honors and Bob Eberle's vocal fitting the latter...
...Listener's Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James' being the first) is Teddy Wilson's bunch, scheduled to start in late March . . . The height of something is that Doctor Randall, formerly...
Song hits from "The Boys From Syracuse" (Decca). Three records in a handy folder-album which include two of the most melodious selections from the Richard Rodgers musicomedy score, hitherto unrecorded-Oh, Diogenes! and You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea. Frances Langford and Rudy Vallée sing...