Word: deccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three singing sisters from Minneapolis made another 2? last week. The Andrews Sisters had sold the 8,000,000th of the discs for which Decca Records pays them 2? apiece. The Andrews girls are the first sister act to owe fame & fortune to the juke box alone...
When Patty was eleven the sisters got in smalltime vaudeville, stayed there until an agent named Lou Levy heard them, taught them a bouncy, Bronxy song. Bei Mir Bist Du Schön. The sisters recorded it for Decca, clicked at once. Since then Manager Levy has picked all their songs, sweet ones as well as cute ones like Beer Barrel Polka, I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, and Well All Right...
...sheltered youngsters is Decca's current children's list: Tarzan of the Apes and Superman's Christmas Adventure. Both Decca and Victor offer recordings of Dickens' Christmas Carol; in Decca's, the Scrooge is Ronald Colman. Columbia puts out Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf. The music is well handled by Leopold Stokowski and his All American Youth Orchestra, but Basil Rathbone's narration lacks the imposing resonance of Richard Hale in the earlier Victor...
...Want to Set the World on Fire (The Ink Spots; Decca). No. 1 on the jukes and networks, beautifully sung by Decca's four Negroes, who used to be $12-a-week theater porters...
Fortunately, however, there are some old dependable still around. The reissues continue to bloom amid the weeds, with the Louis Armstrong Earl Hines album perhaps the best of a satisfying list including a couple of old Teddy Wilsons and Decca's third Gems of Jazz set, which may have escaped someone's notice over the summer. Victor has been producing a Duke Ellington coupling every week or two. 'Twas said Ben Webster's Kansas City tenor sax wouldn't fit in with the highly sophisticated Ellington arrangements, but Duke is building backgrounds for Ben to improvise against, and on "Just...