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...Jacobs would peddle the copyrights to music publishers for $15 apiece, and they were happy to get the money. One day in 1937, Secunda heard a familiar sound coming out of the jukeboxes of Flatbush. The Andrews Sisters had picked up one of his tunes, cut a record for Decca with new lyrics, and all over the U.S. people were dancing...
...than 200 songwriters, more than 1,000 instrumentalists. The town swarms with so many agents that, remarks a singer, "they just about have to wear badges to keep from booking each other." The kingmakers of Nashville are the big A. & R. men, Columbia's Law, RCA's Chet Atkins, Decca's Owen Bradley, but the first citizen these days is Jim Reeves, 35, an ex-baseball player (Houston Buffalos). Singer Reeves has written about 100 songs and recorded more than 200, a surprising number of which, including Mexican Joe, Bimbo and He'll Have to Go, have been hits...
...Decca & Boud. The reader who feels at this stage that he has wandered into an early Evelyn Waugh novel will not be far wrong. Waugh might indeed have written another Decline and Fall based on Jessica's chronicle. There is even a Waughlike Mitford uncle who was the author of one book, a privately printed volume of his letters to the London Times and other publications, notably on the subject of manure; his notion was that the greatness of Elizabethan Eng land was due to the widespread use of sheep droppings in producing an organically based diet and thus...
Jessica tells her tale with girlish gush, brilliantly preserved a generation after the events, and there is enough intra-family whimsy to stop A. A. Milne him self in his Teddy bear tracks. They all had special names: the narrator is "Little D." to "Muv," and "Decca" to the rest of the world. They even had a private language, examples of which are merci lessly given. It is all very charming at first, but less so when Decca and Boud (big, "sullen," "baleful" Unity) get past the hair-pulling stage and make the big world their playroom. Boud took...
There is something magnificently arrogant about the way Boud and Decca extracted the last yard of mileage out of their hyphens as they joined forces-Fascist and Communist-dedicated to the destruction of aristocracy. Boud, before she met Hitler, insisted on taking her pet rat to debutante balls. With Philip Toynbee (Historian Arnold's son), Decca raided Eton College chapel and decamped with a carload of top hats...