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...record industry, which until recent years had kept its prices stiff and proud. In the early 19305 radio competition cut U. S. disc sales to 10,000,000 a year. While total U. S. sales rose to some 60,000,000 last year, Victor began hearing crescendos of competition. Decca Records, which invaded the popular field with Bing Crosby and a 35? disc, also repressed, at 50? to $1, a great many foreign recordings. Columbia, most of whose twelve-inch symphonic discs remained at $1.50, began improving its product mechanically, lately signed up such topnotchers as the Minneapolis Symphony under...
...Symphony Orchestra (Decca Little Symphony, David Mendoza conducting; Decca: 22 sides, with explanatory pamphlets). Four albums of pieces in which the members of the string, woodwind, brass and percussion families are easily identifiable...
...Frances Langford; Decca). Buck Benny Rides Again provides the month's sweetest...
...Interesting to note that the tune on the back of the record, "One Evening in Havana" with its name changed to "One Morning in May," became one of Hoagy's most famous hits, rating a place with "Lazy Bones" and "Shoe Shine Boy" in the Decca album of his songs...
...with its beautiful brass work behind the vocal. Then listen to Louis Armstrong's (Vocalion) disc for what most critics consider to be the greatest solo work on "Stardust," and Benny Goodman's (Victor) for the top orchestral rendition. Unusual versions are Art Tatum's fast but flashy pianistics (Decca), the binging of the one and only Crosby (Brunswick), and movie star Anita Louise's harp pluckings for Royale