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Ella Sings Gershwin (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca; 2 sides LP). Ella's little-girl-lost voice is well suited to some of the best ballads (Someone to Watch Over Me, Looking For a Boy, Maybe and five others) ever written...
...Knew You Were Comin? I'd"ve Baked a Cake, which should very soon be driving its share of sensitive souls out of the nation's bars. Among those carrying on for Carry Nation are Guy Mitchell (Columbia) and Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (Decca...
...shows, and 2) theatergoers who want something more than a playbill to remember them by. Columbia Records has sold 980,000 copies of South Pacific (at from $4.85 to $8.87 an album) for about $6,500,000. The Broadway show itself has grossed less than $5,000,000. Decca's 1943 Oklahoma!, still going strong, heads the bestseller list at over 1,000,000 copies, and its new Guys and Dolls is selling faster than Oklahoma! did in its heyday...
...Decca's late president, Jack Kapp, fathered the original-cast musical recording with George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and his company has set the pace ever since (Carousel, Call Me Mister, Annie Get Your Gun). But the competition is furious. Producers' royalties have shot up to 10% per record, and producers switch unpredictably to different labels as they bring out new shows. RCA Victor cinched the rights to Call Me Madam by financing the musicomedy for $225,000, but had to do without Star Ethel Merman, whose recording contract committed her to do the songs...
...their original spirit, mostly with new performers: 1931's The Bandwagon, 1934's Anything Goes (both with Mary Martin). Awaiting release: 1940's Pal Joey with the original's Vivienne Segal, and 1934's Conversation Piece with Author Noel Coward and Lily Pons. Decca is turning out record albums of straight plays with only minor cuts: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and, soon to be issued, The Lady's Not for Burning, which Poet-Playwright Christopher Fry conveniently wrote even more...