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...records annually. The ban had begun in August 1942, when Petrillo demanded that the record companies pay his union treasury a small tribute on every record made. Since then, Little Caesar had won every battle. He had split the solid record-company front by signing up Decca (and 100-odd small-fry companies) a year ago. Then he defied the War Labor Board, boldly ignored an appeal by President Roosevelt. Suddenly, Violinist Jascha Heifetz switched from RCA to Decca. Victor and Columbia could see droves of other topnotch artists leaving their stables. After last week's election, they caved...
...other members of the recording industry's "big three" (Columbia, Decca) agreed. Experiments with wire and film had revealed a number of shortcomings. The cost of apparatus for playing wire and film recordings is still too high ($400 to $600). The quality of tone, at present, is inferior to that of discs. Experts conceded a limited postwar use for wire recording as developed by the U.S. armed forces, thought the wire recorder might in time replace dictaphones. But wire recordings cannot be printed from master records, like discs. Each must be re-recorded from the master, separately. With...
...wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances...
Nonsense ! Mildred Bailey . . . was a bigger name in those eight years than she ever had been before. With Husband Red Norvo she led one of the first great bands of the so-called swing era. She made many very successful recordings for the Vocalion, Columbia and Decca labels. She sang on such "obscure" radio shows as the Camel Caravan, with such "obscure" bands as Bob Crosby...
...prospect of being a teacher forever began to depress him. He got out. He had been dreaming up ballads in his ample spare time, and for a while he sang them over Shreveport's station KWKH. In the late '30s Decca made a record of his It Makes No Difference Now, made another with Bing Crosby doing the singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business...