Word: deccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jockey, Kurt Webster of radio station WBT, has done a job other jockeys have dreamed of for years-not only reviving a tune but an entire orchestra. . . . Webster plugged Heartaches when nobody, even Weems, had thought of the record in ten years. Its revival to the point of the Decca re-issue was an absolutely single-handed job. Even the Charlotte press, not given to plugging radio, compares your story to reporting discovery of America by "local sailor...
...disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C. reached deep into his pile of old records and played a 1932 piece called Heartaches. It had a bouncy tune and a catchy whistling chorus. Soon dozens of requests were coming in for Heartaches. Decca hurriedly began pressing copies of the old recording. In the past six weeks it has sold over 500,000 copies...
...long been looking hungrily at records. The business was a jungle full of small fry (some 230 manufacturers), lorded over by Victor. Decca and Columbia. The fry was numerous enough and appetizing enough to make Leo's mouth water. With 5,000,000 record-players (including 500,000 jukeboxes) in use throughout the U.S., the industry sold 287 million records in 1946, expects to do nearly twice as well...
...shops which sell Zenith radios, hopes to sell their records in 5,000 key stores. But MGM's first album, four ten-inch records of Jerome Kern music from the film Till the Clouds Roll By, will cost $3-75, somewhat higher than most of Victor's, Decca's and Columbia...
September Song; Just a Gigolo (Joe Mooney Quartet, Decca, 2 sides). The first record by the quietly unorthodox new jazz group which became an instant success in Manhattan (TIME...