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...fastest selling record in history (1,000,000 in three weeks). Among Billboard's top ten albums, Capitol last week led all other companies with four. In 14 years Capitol has moved from nowhere to fourth place in the industry, just behind the patriarchs: RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: In the Groove | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Later, Alligator (Bill Haley; Decca). Rock 'n' roll rhythm in full cry, primitive to the point of idiocy. The title is warmed-over jive talk; the response: "After a while, Crocodile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Explain (Jeri Southern; Decca). One event in the he-she cycle that is very rarely explored in pop tunes: the philanderer's return. Songstress Jeri Southern gives it a fairly heart-wrenching onceover in a plain but expressive voice, while in the background a baritone sax cries hoarsely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...through the South last week, the embarrassing chant of If Jesus Came to Your House sounded from phonographs. Victor, Decca and Capitol have each made recordings of the song in cooperation with three music publishers. None of the publishers know who wrote the original. It is "showing action" so far only in the South and Southwest, the market for which it was pointed. But such things have been known to spread, and soon lumbermen in jackboots, starlets in cashmere sweaters, and briefcase-toters in high-buttoned charcoal grey may all be able to wince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: If Jesus Came . . . | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...concoctions, e.g., a series of LPs by Organist Reginald Foort, on the Cook label, continued with a series by George Wright, put out by newly formed High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. On the serious side there are Columbia's fast-selling church-organ recordings with E. Power Biggs, and Decca has completed a major release of Bach by German Organist Helmut Walcha. But one outfit, Westminster, which made its reputation with fine sound, did not release a pipe-organ disk until last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Organ Revival | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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