Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Disc Record Company has asked the Band for a set of six marches, while Capitol is mainly interested in combination work with Glee Clubs. If a contract is arranged, either firm would pay regular royalties for the records...
While too union officials admitted that "We can't stop them," the Harvard University Band continued negotiations with Capitol and Disc record companies to transcribe albums for nationwide public sale...
...even when Owens was plugging it on ladies' laps. Then, a year ago, the Reynolds Pen Co. hired Owens to record the Rocket Song, hoping that listeners would be reminded of Rocket Pens. Owens got a chance to slip How Soon? on the other side of the record. Disc jockeys started playing it, and requests poured in. He expects to earn $100,000 from the song...
Where There's Life (Paramount) there is, naturally, Bob Hope. This movie has quite a lot of Hope, in fact, but rather less life than his admirers have reason to hope for. Bob is a disc jockey for dog food (with appropriate yips) who is sought out as the morganatic heir to a Graustarkian throne. Signe Hasso, the kingdom's military genius despite her sex, is trying to get him crowned; an assortment of statesmanlike heavies (George Zucco, et al.) are trying to get him conked; his fiancée, and her six policemen brothers are trying...
Most of this nonsense goes on in & around Manhattan, with the usual photo-finish race between Hope's cowardice and his concupiscence. It passes the time painlessly enough, though very little of it is quite as funny as Bob's early moments as a disc jockey...