Word: deccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-to-hold ear of burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until she ran off to Columbia last year, signed Beryl, and agreed to help coach her into the U.S. big time, a complicated...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...
...that wasn't all. His brassy-voiced renderings of 20-year-old Jolsoniana (My Mammy, Sonny Boy, April Showers) were issued by Decca, and turned out to be the biggest selling album of all time (800,000). His single record of the Anniversary Song (from The Jolson Story) was a best-seller in the U.S. and is currently No. 1 on England's hit parade. His guest appearances on the Bing Crosby show shot it to its highest Hooper rating. A patter record he and Bing Crosby made of Alexander's Ragtime Band and The Spaniard That...
...Decca last week released its most ambitious project in Americana. In Our Common Heritage (16 sides, $10) Bing Crosby, Walter Huston, Fredric March, Pat O'Brien, Brian Donlevy and Agnes Moorehead recite (with background music) American poems and anthems that mark milestones of U.S. history. Best of the lot: Walter Huston's recitation of Vachel Lindsay's Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and Agnes Moorehead's reading of Rosemary Benet's Nancy Hanks...
...Tralee and no raises, Evelyn cut & ran for the King Cole Room at Washington's Hotel Claridge, was hired as a chanteuse. After another three years, she left a "strong Washington following" for Manhattan's leery Blue Angel. Then she recorded Dance with a Dolly for Decca. It sold more than 200,000 pressings. She was spectacularly...