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...trunkfuls of funny hats and a large supply of wigs, beards and spectacles. Night after night people lined up to pay 25? and crowd the Midway Club beyond its capacity (250) just to watch Leader Freddie Fisher & colleagues do their odd stuff. On the strength of their antics their Decca records, without any special promotion, were selling well throughout the U. S. The first four had sold out entirely in Chicago. And as they perspired through their nightly routine of horseplay. Freddie Fisher and his boys began getting radio and cinema offers, while taking well-paid jobs at afternoon...
...Manufacturing Co., Inc., Decca Records, Inc., American Record Corp...
There are three independent recording companies in the U. S. Between them- RCA Victor, Decca, and American Record Co. (the Brunswick-Columbia group)- they put out eight different labels at prices from $2 to 25? a disc. Last week this comfortable industrial balance was altered as an independent producer prepared to bring two more labels into U. S. music shops. Irving Mills, music publisher, band manager and a power in Tin Pan Alley, was getting ready to offer the trade his Master Records (75?) and Variety Records (35?). American Record Co. was furnishing the technical facilities and distribution...
...books of Mills Artists, Inc., are such dance orchestras as those led by Paul Whiteman, Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, Cabell ("Cab") Calloway, Jack Denny. Mills bands and Mills music have long been a mainstay of American Record affiliates. Last January, in Hollywood, Mr. Mills began making his own records. Decca put out a feeler for Mills and his songs and artists, but before anything could be done, American had given Mr. Mills a new deal whereby he was to function as managing director of his own labels under American's wing...
...Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that the melody and lyrics had a profoundly depressing effect...