Word: deccas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alley standards, Rum & Coca-Cola was plugged at Manhattan's Paramount Theater by a blond singer named Jeri Sullavan. It quickly became the biggest selling calypso song in history. Last week the Pepsi-Cola Co. was reportedly urging Rum & Coca-Cola's Manhattan publishers and Decca's Jack Kapp to make recordings with "coca" changed to "pepsi...
...year, when he contributed $160,000 to the then-ailing, now-flourishing Detroit Symphony, Henry H. Reichhold has had the musical world abuzz with rumors. Said rumor: he was about to start 1) a musical magazine of national circulation; 2) a new recording company to rival Columbia, Victor and Decca; 3) a national concert-booking agency; 4) a national record-of-the-month club...
...records annually. The ban had begun in August 1942, when Petrillo demanded that the record companies pay his union treasury a small tribute on every record made. Since then, Little Caesar had won every battle. He had split the solid record-company front by signing up Decca (and 100-odd small-fry companies) a year ago. Then he defied the War Labor Board, boldly ignored an appeal by President Roosevelt. Suddenly, Violinist Jascha Heifetz switched from RCA to Decca. Victor and Columbia could see droves of other topnotch artists leaving their stables. After last week's election, they caved...
...34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...
...other members of the recording industry's "big three" (Columbia, Decca) agreed. Experiments with wire and film had revealed a number of shortcomings. The cost of apparatus for playing wire and film recordings is still too high ($400 to $600). The quality of tone, at present, is inferior to that of discs. Experts conceded a limited postwar use for wire recording as developed by the U.S. armed forces, thought the wire recorder might in time replace dictaphones. But wire recordings cannot be printed from master records, like discs. Each must be re-recorded from the master, separately. With...