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...Rose (Louis Armstrong; Decca). Satchmo goes continental with a gravel-voiced version of the Edith Piaf café favorite...
...World on a String (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). Not so poignant as Mildred Bailey's classic recording, but even this one proves that the Harold Arlen song is still head & shoulders above most of today's limp romantic ballads...
Last week the old minstrel's old song, prettied up and cut in half, was in fifth place on the hit parade. A quartet called the Weavers, recording (for Decca) with Gordon Jenkins' band, had used it as a filler to back Tzena, Tzena. Helped along by Jo Stafford, Frankie Sinatra, et al., the filler had just about caught up with third-place Tzena...
Hulking alongside his dad at the microphone, Gary chimed in on a ragtime duet called Play a Simple Melody, written by Irving Berlin back in 1914. He had some of the old man's verve, if not much of the voice. Decca Records' Dave Kapp heard it, last month got the Crosbys, father & son, to do a repeat in front of a recording mike. By last week, Play a Simple Melody -with its companion piece, Sam's Song-was a runaway bestseller: more than 300,000 records had been sold in less than three weeks...
...pack of pop tunes") is Manhattan Tower, a frequently maudlin, occasionally sprightly four-section tribute to the big city, which he wrote in 1945 after a three-week champagne party in a suite of Manhattan's Ritz Tower Hotel. Recorded by Jenkins himself, it is still one of Decca's big sellers...