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...also published in New York. Editor Gene Williams, a Columbia graduate, writes his own record reviews, and has done much valuable work in the field of record collecting, bringing to light obscure yet excellent musicians, and the like. Contributors have included George Avakian, who is responsible for Decca's Chicago Jazz Album and many of the Columbia reissues, George Frazier, who is more or less responsible for Bobby Hackett, and a number of other well-known critics, musicians, photographers and artists. Each issue carries a comprehensive news column with complete information on where your favorite bands...
...best-seller of the year: Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (Decca record...
...Hear A Rhapsody (Jimmy Dorsey; Decca). B. M. I.'s sweetest...
Ethel Merman does four of her Panama Hattie songs for Decca. Fielder's choice...
...Paris, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Not yet a bestseller, this song was well on its way last week. Kate Smith had had exclusive radio rights to it for six weeks. There were half a dozen records of it, of which silky-voiced Hildegarde's (Decca) best captured its nostalgia for the boulevards...