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...Decca last week released its most ambitious project in Americana. In Our Common Heritage (16 sides, $10) Bing Crosby, Walter Huston, Fredric March, Pat O'Brien, Brian Donlevy and Agnes Moorehead recite (with background music) American poems and anthems that mark milestones of U.S. history. Best of the lot: Walter Huston's recitation of Vachel Lindsay's Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and Agnes Moorehead's reading of Rosemary Benet's Nancy Hanks...
...Tralee and no raises, Evelyn cut & ran for the King Cole Room at Washington's Hotel Claridge, was hired as a chanteuse. After another three years, she left a "strong Washington following" for Manhattan's leery Blue Angel. Then she recorded Dance with a Dolly for Decca. It sold more than 200,000 pressings. She was spectacularly...
...jockey, Kurt Webster of radio station WBT, has done a job other jockeys have dreamed of for years-not only reviving a tune but an entire orchestra. . . . Webster plugged Heartaches when nobody, even Weems, had thought of the record in ten years. Its revival to the point of the Decca re-issue was an absolutely single-handed job. Even the Charlotte press, not given to plugging radio, compares your story to reporting discovery of America by "local sailor...
...disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C. reached deep into his pile of old records and played a 1932 piece called Heartaches. It had a bouncy tune and a catchy whistling chorus. Soon dozens of requests were coming in for Heartaches. Decca hurriedly began pressing copies of the old recording. In the past six weeks it has sold over 500,000 copies...
...shops which sell Zenith radios, hopes to sell their records in 5,000 key stores. But MGM's first album, four ten-inch records of Jerome Kern music from the film Till the Clouds Roll By, will cost $3-75, somewhat higher than most of Victor's, Decca's and Columbia...