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Less excitable, the police of New York City took no action last week when Brunswick Record Corp. narrowly won a hard race to be the first on the streets with a recorded U.S. version of THE FAMOUS HUNGARIAN SUICIDE SONG. The Victor and Decca companies were not long putting competing disks on sale...
...crazy song. The successor to K-K-K-Katy (1918) and Barney Google (1923) was selling a-copy-a-minute over sheet music counters, might well go on to the fabulous two million high of Yes, We Have No Bananas (1923). The three U. S. phonograph companies (Victor. Decca, Brunswick-Columbia) were distributing the tune under their dozen-odd labels. A tie, a sofa, a cigaret holder were named after the piece. At the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., Bandmaster Bernie Cummins reported he had received more requests for it than for any other number. So did Bandmaster...
Hauptmann in Wax Sirs: Adding to TIME'S pithy paragraph pertaining to posthumous phonographic poesies [TIME, Sept. 30] may I suggest for a bellylaugh, Jack Kapp's Decca platter, End of Public Enemy No. 1, reverse side being Bruno Hauptmann's Fate, wherein the singer refers to the Teuton in the past tense. He fails to reveal however, whether Mr. H. becomes a celestial or takes one of Hermes' personally conducted tours. Me, think Buck Nation should have consulted Bruno's wishes in the matter...
...Wiley Post crashed in Alaska, Songwriter Freddie Rose (Red Hot Mamma) whipped out pieces on that disaster, passed them on to Ray Whitley, a onetime rancher who has a nasal voice, plays his own guitar accompaniments, affects a ten-gallon hat and spurs. Whitley sang the tragic songs for Decca Records. Inc., which last week reported a sale of over 5,000 copies. On one side of the disk was The Last Flight of Wiley Post. Excerpts...
Smart Jack Kapp left Brunswick lately, decided that popular records would have to be cheaper. He founded his own company, Decca Records, Inc., which for 35¢ apiece will have discs on the market this week made by Bing Crosby, Guy Lombardo, the Mills Brothers, the Casa Loma Band, Frank Crumit, Victor Young, Isham Jones. Jack Kapp's claim: All other cheap records have been made by obscure or mediocre performers. His white hope: Bob Crosby, young brother of Bing...