Word: deccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sing Out, Sweet Land! (Decca, 10 sides). A merry survey of 300 years of U.S. music from the late Broadway musical. Best of the 17 songs are Big Rock Candy Mountain, sung by Burl Ives, Casey Jones by Bibi Osterwald, and such treasures as Little Mohee and Frankie and Johnny. Performance: good...
When Jascha Heifetz, fiddle in hand, moved to Decca Records, musicians guessed that Decca, the largest manufacturers of Tin Pan Alley records, pined to go highbrow. But last week it looked as if Decca had given Longhair Heifetz a short haircut...
...months at Decca, Heifetz has recorded, among other "Americana," glossy Negro spirituals and Irving Berlin's White Christmas. His second Decca album, out this month (Gershwin, arranged by Jascha Heifetz; Decca, 8 sides), contained Porgy and Bess songs and three Gershwin preludes, brilliantined up with double stops and Heifetz glissandi. Although the violin is probably the instrument least suited for jazz solos, Decca announced that Heifetz' next album will be Hexapoda-"five studies in Jitteroptera." Said Decca's President Jack Kapp: "If Bing can sing Ave Maria, why can't Heifetz do boogie-woogie...
...Harrington: Come-All-Ye's (Decca, 12 sides). Wonderful Irish folk classics sung with a brogue. Included are Paddy McGinty's Goat, Brannigan's Pup and McSorley's Two Beautiful Twins ("What an elegant time at the christening we had!"). Performance: good...
...week job writing a new CBS comedy show (Holiday & Co.) on which he will air some of his songs. He has also teamed up with Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf to put them in book form and he has accepted an offer from Decca to record his burlesques of the June-moon school of song composers...