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...record, through which Decca revolutionized the popular-record business seven years ago, was almost dead and buried. Columbia put its purple Okeh label into storage for the duration. Victor still clung to its Bluebird name, Decca to its standard blue label, but all three moved their top names (e.g., Victor's Glenn Miller, Columbia's Benny Goodman, Decca's Jimmy Dorsey) up to the 50? platters. Sole exception: Bing Crosby. This reshuffling was inevitable after the mid-April WPB order, cutting the use of all-important shellac in phonograph records by 70%. Another consequence: manufacturers required from...
...Under the Apple Tree (Art Jarrett; Victor; Andrews Sisters; Decca). The blithest of the war-inspired songs, now up among the bestsellers...
This week the Decca releases include an album of dance records picked by Arthur Murray and called, of all things, "Arthur Murray Taught Me . . . etc." But they also include a fine 12-inch instrumental pairing by Bob Crosby's band, a two-part version of the blues "Outskirts of Town" by Jimmy Lunceford, and an album of blues and other folk songs by Libby Holman. Decca seems to have cornered the market on jazz for the time being on its new fifty-cent black label, except for the Commodore Music Shop, whose most recent products under Eddie Condon...
Hesitating Blues (Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtimers; Decca). Compelling blues rhythms and rough, torrid blowing from an eight-man combination. Spanier, long venerated in the hot-jazz world, lately smashed attendance records at Manhattan's Arcadia Ballroom, now rates as a name-bander...
Moonlight Cocktail (Glenn Miller; Bluebird; Bing Crosby; Decca). Smoothest dance version, best vocal, of the rollingly rhythmic song now at the top in sheet-music sales...