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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disadvantages of U. S. music films at present: 1) Their fidelity is poorer than that of the best discs; 2) the mechanism which plays them makes a noise; 3) high price of film makes film recordings four to eight times as expensive as phonograph discs. A more important obstacle: a sudden change from disc to film recording would dislocate the $36,000,000 record business, make all present phonographs, record collections and recording apparatus obsolete...
Calypsos (Wilmoth Houdini; Decca). Three-disc album of Trinidad's unique babu-pa-doop. Note Roosevelt Opens World's Fair...
...York, who has a great many of his ideas patented . . . Mannie Klein, star trumpet player, has his lips insured for $100,000 by Lloyd's of London--and carries around the policy to prove it . . . Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" is selling well and is a very good disc. Incidentally, try anybody on the last chorus who prides himself on being a crack dancer--it is just a wee bit difficult . . . Jimmy Dorsey's record of "Body and Soul" pretty definitely proves Bob Eberle to be the best male band singer in the country . . . "Melancholy Lullaby" by the same...
Last year a morose Czech tunesmith named Jaromir Vejvoda wrote a bouncing little tune and called it Skoda Isky ("No more love"). Popular among polka-dancing Bohemians and Moravians, Vejvoda's bit of tinkle-tonkle was soon recorded by an old-fashioned Czech beer-garden band, and in disc form reached the U. S. Because of the record's quaint, beery boopishness, Victor (its U. S. distributor) renamed it the Beer Barrel Polka. The Beer Barrel Polka record not only caught on, it spouted continuously and deliriously from slot machines in every skating rink, juke joint and hamburger stand...
...while the record manufacturers gloomed over their dwindling sales accounts, the engineers of Western Electric and the Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction. By means of their new recording and amplifying gadgets the phonographic disc could, for the first time, catch a close approximation of actual sound, from the topmost squeaks of the piccolo to the profoundest groans of the bass tuba. Morose manufacturers adopted the new gadgets in the middle 20s. Electrical recording failed to set the industry on the road to recovery. But it did lay a firmer foundation for the Industry...