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...influence of Boss Petrillo's ban was limited to the popular field, where the biggest producer, Decca, had already signed with the union. Capitalizing on its capitulation, Decca last week put out a bang-up album of all the songs from the Broadway smash Oklahoma!, sung by the original cast. Other records of the month...
...George Avaklan, who is one of the country's leading jazz critics and the man who produced so many good records for Columbia and Decca that even he hasn't got 'em all, enjoys nothing better than reminiscing about the old days in Chicago. He freely admits that during those old days he was in New York and somewhat unaware of the joys of gin, Jazz, and allied pursuits; but then Gibbons never met the Caesars, and at least George knows the Chicago boys as their mothers never did. This is the first of what's tending to become...
About a year ago, a Mills Brothers' (Decca) recording of Paper Doll began to catch on in the jukes. Within 30 days Decca was deluged with orders for 600,000 disks. Publisher Marks wondered what to do with Johnny Black's royalties. Black hadn't left a record of any family connections, but someone thought he remembered that his aged father was still alive. Publisher Marks' manhunt finally tracked down one John L. Black, an 84-year-old living with a half-dozen other people in a cheap boardinghouse in Hamilton, Ohio. By the first...
Even in the U.S. Lecuona's tunes outsell those of many a top-flight Tin Pan Alleyite (Decca alone has sold over 1,700,000 records of Andalucia). They also stay in the top sales brackets longer than most Tin Pan Alley songs (Malagueña has been averaging 100,000 sheet-music sales a year in the U.S. for 20 years...
First record made by Decca under the new contract: Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in Pistol Packin' Mama...