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What's New (Bing Crosby; Decca). Once more Crooner Crosby illuminates a dull song by singing it as though it were the best he had ever heard...
...Jimmy's Decca record and the Victor of Tommy if you want to see something interesting...
Album of the month: Western songs (Decca), sung as straight as a Texas fence line by the three able Ranch Boys...
...vocal of the month: Ella Fitzgerald's Stairway to the Stars (Decca...
...real upswing came in 1934 when two things happened: 1) RCA began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year...