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...sheltered youngsters is Decca's current children's list: Tarzan of the Apes and Superman's Christmas Adventure. Both Decca and Victor offer recordings of Dickens' Christmas Carol; in Decca's, the Scrooge is Ronald Colman. Columbia puts out Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf. The music is well handled by Leopold Stokowski and his All American Youth Orchestra, but Basil Rathbone's narration lacks the imposing resonance of Richard Hale in the earlier Victor...
Fortunately, however, there are some old dependable still around. The reissues continue to bloom amid the weeds, with the Louis Armstrong Earl Hines album perhaps the best of a satisfying list including a couple of old Teddy Wilsons and Decca's third Gems of Jazz set, which may have escaped someone's notice over the summer. Victor has been producing a Duke Ellington coupling every week or two. 'Twas said Ben Webster's Kansas City tenor sax wouldn't fit in with the highly sophisticated Ellington arrangements, but Duke is building backgrounds for Ben to improvise against, and on "Just...
Record sales soared like a soprano saxophone cadenza during the month past. Decca twice and Columbia once postponed new popular releases, pleading a rush of orders. One reason for the boom: anticipation of the Federal 10% tax on discs which went into effect Oct. 1. With the announced aim of acquainting newcomers with the wonders of the Victor classical catalogue, Victor began hawking two $1 classical discs for the price of one. First pair of discs was a good buy at the price: the Faust Ballet Music by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston "Pops" Orchestra; Strauss's Emperor Waltz...
...Lombardo (Decca) called his version Concerto...
...Tony Martin's (Decca) was a song, Tonight We Love...