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...factories of the three big disc makers-Victor, Columbia, Decca-record-pressing machines have been stamping out discs 24 hours a day, and not only because of Christmas. Jukeboxes take 40% of their output, and lower record prices (35? and up for popular records; $1 for 12-in. concert records, plus 5% tax) have tapped a new market. In spite of the present low grade of popular tunes, recent estimates made 1941 the industry's all-time high year-120,000,000 discs. Current records...
Clementine (Bing Crosby; Decca). Part straight, part swing, with gags...
Three singing sisters from Minneapolis made another 2? last week. The Andrews Sisters had sold the 8,000,000th of the discs for which Decca Records pays them 2? apiece. The Andrews girls are the first sister act to owe fame & fortune to the juke box alone...
When Patty was eleven the sisters got in smalltime vaudeville, stayed there until an agent named Lou Levy heard them, taught them a bouncy, Bronxy song. Bei Mir Bist Du Schön. The sisters recorded it for Decca, clicked at once. Since then Manager Levy has picked all their songs, sweet ones as well as cute ones like Beer Barrel Polka, I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, and Well All Right...
...Want to Set the World on Fire (The Ink Spots; Decca). No. 1 on the jukes and networks, beautifully sung by Decca's four Negroes, who used to be $12-a-week theater porters...