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...event of considerable importance to the juke boxes of the U.S. Southwest occurred last week when Decca recorded Ramon Armengod, Mexico's Bing Crosby, singing Amor, Amor, Amor, Mexico's "new song." It is a cancion bolero with a lovely, lazy melody and a fetching Franz Lehar swipe at the end of the middle part, and Senor Armengod has the voice to sing it bravely. But Amor, Amor, Amor is not new. It has been played south of the Bravo (Rio Grande to Yanquis) for several years. It is called new by Mexicans because, with the fierce competition...
...Famous Door, Kirkland gives you the opportunity to dance to one of our better up-and-coming orchestras. Powell, too, has a nice jump style, and features a number of boogie-orchestrations, some of which (Teddy's Boogie-Woogie and Teddy Bear Boogie) you can hear on Decca records. He's got a gang of good soloists, and gives them ample opportunity...
Thanks to city slickers, there was a boom last week in country dances. Victor's square-dance album, Swing Your Partner ($3.25), had sold nearly 2,000 sets fortnight after publication. Columbia had followed with Square Dances ($2.50). Decca, which had already issued single square-dance discs, humped itself to get out albums. The strains of Hull's Victory, Portland Fancy, Buffalo Girl, Arkansaw Traveler were loud in the land...
...prettier job than the more recent version (COLUMBIA). The other is a Count Basie album, particularly valuable due to the inclusion of Swinging On the Dalsy Chain, one of the Count's first jobs with the full band. Execution is rather rough, but it has that old Basie jump (DECCA...
...game for 15 years. Last week his latest bossing and conducting job was on the counters: an album of songs and dialogue from the Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin musicomedy, Lady in the Dark, recorded by the star of the show, Gertrude Lawrence (6 sides; $2). Between this one and Decca's earlier album by Hildegarde, there was no contest vocally: Hildegarde has the voice. But glamorous "Gertie" Lawrence still has what it takes on the stage, and the Victor set captures that for keeps. Conductor Joy's accompaniment discreetly evokes the footlights...