Word: decca
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...years. As I said last week, there's no doubt that the furore over swing which has been going on ever since Benny Goodman scaled the heights five years ago has done the cause of jazz music a world of good, and the boys at Victor, Columbia, and Decca have presumably been cashing in on the widening audience for the attractions of improvised syncopation...
...harmony. When they are sweet they are very, very sweet, as in the sad, melodic Hace Un Ano (A Year Ago), Las Mananitas (Mornings), Adids Mariquita Linda (Goodby, Beautiful Mariquita). Their liveliest number is a ranch song, El Toro, full of shouting, whistling, guitar-beating and mooing. They are Decca artists and they do not appear to be capable of doing any song badly...
...Polyglot Decca, which prides itself on being the Thomas Cook & Sons of popular music, takes especial pride in its Mexican list, and well it might. Mexican popular music is like Mexico itself: vivid, varied, unpredictable, exciting. It comes in many forms. There are many kinds of canciones (songs): fox (fox trot), ranchero (cowboy), bolero (slow rumba), corrido (fast one-step), etc. There are also polkas and a number of varieties of locality songs and dances. Their general characteristic is ingeniously broken time...
...torchy ladies who vocalize in the best black-velvet-gown-and-chiffon-handkerchief manner. One is Adelina Garcia, happily represented by a sad ballad called Desesperadamente (OKeh). The other is glamorous Elvira Rios, familiar to Man hattan nightclubbers. Her cello-voice throbs best on Incertidumbre and Vereda Tropical (Decca...
...Traditional Mexican farewell song is the lament La Borrachita (The Little Drunkard), sung by Cuatitas Herrera on Decca...