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...Nearer (Frances Langford; Decca). Rodgers & Hart melody-of-the-month, from the film version of their Too Many Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...October issue of the Hot Record Society Rag. Jam sessions with Count Basie, raids by the Beantown police, George Frazier's night in jail are all featured in Grover's account of the club's decline and fall. . . . Eight-neat fans may add to their list Teddy Powell's DECCA recording of Teddy's Boogie-Woogie. It's fast jump, with a gang of good choruses. . . . Will Bradley has finally turned out his firs fizzle, Scrub Me Mama, an attempt to recapture the success of Beat Me Daddy. However, he makes up for it with Scramble Two, a clean...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

With a larger stable than Decca's to look after, Columbia's Scout Satherly gets around more, operates on a more intense and personal basis. Once, says he, he closed a deal with the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet (Negro) by producing four gaudy scarves and neckties at a strategic moment. Some of his talent, like Blues Singers Bukka White and Buddy Moss, periodically land in jail, where Mr. Satherly does not care to make recordings. Popular Blind Boy Fuller, a lazy, not too bright North Carolina Negro, has been totally blind for 14 of his 32 years, totes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...slight British accent and a portable recording apparatus. Grey-haired Arthur Edward Satherly is paymaster, musical coach, father confessor to the blues singers, hillbilly fiddlers, guitar-strummers, jug-players, washboard-slappers who make Columbia's Okeh* records by the dozen. In this grass-roots musical field, only Decca competes with Columbia. Decca's hillbilly man is David Kapp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Last week, while most record buyers eyed the month's output of commercial jazz and symphonic music, plenty of country folk, and a great many juke-box operators, were more interested in the latest offerings of Messrs. Satherly and Kapp. Decca, which identifies such discs simply as "hillbilly" and "race" (Negro), had such items as Right Now and Essie Mae Blues by The Honey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes); Pocket Knife Blues and Machine Gun Blues by Peetie Wheatstraw, "The Devil's Son-in-Law"; Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm and Birthday Party by Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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