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...this improvement may also bring Victor its stiffest competition in 45 years. Decca, second biggest record seller, was waiting only to see how the first Victor album (Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) sells before coming out with its own unbreakable product for home use. Already on the market was the more expensive ($2.50 a record) vinyl album, Prince Igor, put out by the six-year-old Asch Recording Studios. And manufacturers who never gave records a thought before were ready to move into Victor's bailiwick...
...Manhattan, Chappell Music Co. got set to publish C'est Fini as Symphony; song pluggers tried it out for name-band leaders. Husky-throated Marlene Dietrich recorded the French version for Decca. In translation, the French lyrics she sang were...
...coming in on the wings of an old-fashioned hymn sing. Leading the service is Movie Thrush Jeanette MacDonald with such standbys as Holy City and Nearer, My, God, to Thee (Religious Songs, Victor, 6 sides). Fred Waring's glee club & orchestra harmonizes ten others (Songs of Devotion, Decca, 10 sides). Operatic Tenor Richard Crooks solos the Negro hymns Were You There? and The Trumpeter (Victor, 2 sides). Alfred Wallenstein directs his new command, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, in the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Decca, 2 sides). For the more secular-minded...
Johann Strauss: Waltzes (Robert Stolz and orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). Blue Danube, Southern Roses and the others played as written-with bounce. Performance and recording: good...
...bustle of An American in Paris (Columbia, 4 sides). ¶Porgy and Bess, fancied up in a symphonic version by Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony (Columbia, 6 sides), and more glossily by Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony (Victor, 6 sides), is best in its original operatic mold (Decca, 14 sides). ¶Andre Kostelanetz spreads his corn syrup over The Music of Gershwin (Columbia, 8 sides...