Word: decca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America has long been known in show-business circles as "The Octopus." The sobriquet still stands, even though the company (now called MCA Inc.) stopped handling talent in 1962 under threat of a Justice Department antitrust suit. Besides TV production, MCA has major interests in moviemaking (Universal Pictures), recording (Decca Records) and real estate (Universal City). Last week it agreed to link tentacles with Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corp., itself no small fish when it comes to diversification...
...philanthropy. The man who actually runs MCA is President Lew Wasserman, 55, who was elevated to that job by Stein in 1946. A onetime theater usher, Wasserman moved MCA into TV production when the new medium began threatening the movie industry in the early 1950s, six years ago acquired Decca Records and its controlling interest in Universal Pictures. Under Wasserman, MCA has grown into a $224 million-a-year company, with earnings last year...
...SELL OUT (Decca). The sellout, or the put-on, is the theme of this album-with a series of deadpan radio commercials for Charles Atlas, Heinz baked beans, Medac acne salve and Odorono deodorant. Once that's out of the way, the boys get down to music with their hard-rock top seller, I Can See for Miles; I Can't Reach You, a tightly vocalized rock piece with a brisk tambourine; and Armenia City in the Sky, a sprightly mind excursion with soft feedback and subtle imagery. Unfortunately, to get to these pleasantries, the listener...
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Decca). It's the bee's knees, the cat's whiskers and 23-skidoo in the razzmatazz sound of the '20s, featuring Julie Andrews and Carol Channing from the sound track. Julie sweetens up the oldies (Poor Butterfly, Baby Face) and puts a high gloss on the show's new tunes (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Tapioca), while Carol stamps her mark on Jazz Baby and Do It Again...
DELIUS: PIANO CONCERTO (Decca). As a young man, Delius weny out from England to spend a year managing his father's plantation in Florida, and snatches of Negro spirituals seem to echo in the dreamy sequences of his only piano concerto. Playing with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland, Marjorie Mitchell gives a full-blooded performance of the seldom-heard romantic work...