Word: deccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last day, the record companies worked long, shirt-sleeved hours to wax what they could. On the Coast, Decca's Jack Kapp personally supervised the last output (with orchestra) of his longtime meal ticket, Bing Crosby. In Chicago, the virtues of soup, soda, beer and cheese were hymned by singers and small bands right up to midnight. From now on, singing commercials could be made with voice and ocarina or harmonica accompaniment, but not with union musicians...
...phonograph in his home and money in his pocket can have the reading done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading...
Franck: Symphonic Variations (Eileen Joyce, pianist, with 1'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). Few could excel Walter Gieseking's fine performance of this popular work; Miss Joyce didn't. Recording: good...
...about 25 new albums for the Christmas trade, a new peak. Records have changed greatly since those early days of Mother Goose (whose rhymes are still the No. 1 sellers). The accent now is on handsome $3-and-up albums, which many a parent has found surprisingly entertaining. Samples: Decca's album with Ginger Rogers as Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and MGM's gentle satire on big business, The Bear That Wasn't, with Comedian Keenan Wynn...
...record makers mix propaganda for democracy and education (a selling point to parents) with their music. Decca's Churkendoose ("it was neither a turkey, a chicken, a duck nor a goose") with Comedian-Dancer Ray Bolger is a broad plea for racial tolerance. Capitol Records bound books inside its Bozo the Clown albums so that children could follow the narrative of Bozo's travels, get a rudimentary idea of geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey...