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Capitol was one of the first to dress up record jackets with brightly colored photographs and prints. Columbia hired top artists (among them: Ben Shahn, Leo Lionni, Antonio Frasconi) to design its album covers. For the lower-browed mar ket, Decca tied in the sales campaign with popular magazines, last week spun out its Esquire series of albums decorated with long-stemmed Petty girls...
Even then, Hibbler used to panic the teen-agers by his sudden, disconcerting swoops from a high note to a sub-basement tone. His second big break came a year and a half ago, when Decca signed him up and he recorded a song called Unchained Melody. It became a No. 1 hit. Now he asks $3,000 and up a week for appearances, plays the gaudiest spots in the biggest towns. Between dates he stays at home in Teaneck, N.J. with his wife, listening to the radio. "They tell good stories, those soap operas," he says. "Songs have good...
...Buddy Buddy (Bill Haley & His Comets; Decca). Rock 'n' roll at its gosh-darndest, with something that goes off like pistol shots on the offbeats, a recurrent crash of someone (apparently) smashing dishes between harmonies, and, out front, Haley himself, exuberant with thoughts of his own vitality...
...Come Back (Peggy Lee; Decca). A rocking blues that turns out to be really blue. Wonderful Peggy starts out confidently, but quickly sinks into a throat-catching mood, using a high, thin voice of ultimate sadness. "Hold out, baby," she keens. "I'll be back...
Mozart: The Magic Flute (RIAS Symphony Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 3 LPs). Despite its slightly studied style and rather tubby sound, this is the finest recording yet to appear of the 165-year-old masterpiece. Soprano Maria Stader makes Pamina a joy to the ear; Rita Streich is awesomely secure in the Queen of the Night's sky-high aerobatics, while the two leading men, Tenor Ernst Häfliger and Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, use their handsome voices with distinction...