Word: deccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Teschemacher. Decca has marketed such choice collections as Riverboat Jazz and Harlem Jazz, 1930. Asch has continued to record the jazz chamber music played in Manhattan's nightclubs by Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum...
Orson Welles, 29, boy prodigy of theater, radio and cinema, took on a prodigious job: recording the entire Bible. Reading 15 minutes a day for a year, he expects to put the 773,746 words of a "slightly rewritten" King James Version on Decca records. He has already finished the Song of Solomon...
...years Fish Ball was kept alive by long-memoried minstrels. Jimmy Savo made the newest recording of the modern version for Decca. But bobby-soxers already knew the recordings of Josh White, Tony Pastor, the Andrews Sisters...
...Decca records, which Crosby has helped to make, put out statistics which offered a partial answer. Crosby can sing almost any type of song, and sing it well. His best-sellers are a ballad (White Christmas, 1,700,000 records), a hymn (Silent Night, 1,500,000), a cowboy song (Don't Fence Me In, 1,250,000), a romantic love song (Sunday, Monday and Always, more than one million...
...long will it go on? Crosby's current contract with Decca, the latest in a long, profitable series, runs into...