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Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (Verve LP). After 22 years of making records for Decca-plus a few before even Decca latched onto him-Bing Crosby steps out with a handful of oldies on a new label, proves himself virtually indestructible. It is only when he tries to swing too high that he begins to. sound...
...Lord's on My Side (Jimmy Wakely; Decca). Against some strong competition, this number may rank as the year's most repulsive record. The hero, admitted sad sack, liar and cheat, comes out all right because, by golly, the Lord is on his side. He is prompted in his wobbly confessional by a sanctimonious, echoing female, and goaded by a whining girls' trio in a sickly waltz...
Modified Moorish. Songstress Valente first burst on the U.S. scene last winter with a brassy but strangely appealing version of Malagueña (Decca). Her high, uninhibited voice soared with the echoing strings, and the record became a hit (TIME, Feb. 7, 1955). Unfortunately, her only U.S. appearance at the time was a single shot on TV, and few admirers were able to find out just why the girl with an Italian name should be singing a Spanish song in German...
Mozart: Requiem (the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Westminster Choir, conducted by Bruno Walter on a Columbia LP; Vienna Symphony and State Opera Chorus conducted by Eugen Jochum on Decca; Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Academy Chamber Choir conducted by Hermann Scherchen on London Ducretet-Thomson). The limpid choruses of Mozart's last work have always resisted the efforts of record makers, and are still a bit troublesome on these three latest versions. Conductor Walter's has a certain dramatic excitement but also a rather thick tone; Scherchen's (in the same performance recorded two years...
...bulk of the sales still are made in the nation's 5,000 record shops. Therefore record companies are subsidizing modernization of the cluttered shops to gear them to the new market. Columbia, RCA and Decca give free advice on store design, help dealers buy materials. Says RCA Vice President Lawrence Kanaga: "Gone are the days when the record shop was like a library where a customer really had to know his music. We're changing it into a supermarket where a buyer does not have to worry about mispronouncing Beethoven...