Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your reference [TIME, March 10] to "a disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C."-without stating his name-is causing more heartaches locally than Ted Weems's recording ever dreamed of. The disc jockey, having access to twelve million pairs of ears via the ether waves, nightly pleads for each listener to write you to put his name in TIME. . . . Unless you do something soon to stop the clamor in the local press and radio station, you may expect an express collect package to arrive in your office soon. . . . It's my radio I'm. sending...
...This disc jockey, Kurt Webster of radio station WBT, has done a job other jockeys have dreamed of for years-not only reviving a tune but an entire orchestra. . . . Webster plugged Heartaches when nobody, even Weems, had thought of the record in ten years. Its revival to the point of the Decca re-issue was an absolutely single-handed job. Even the Charlotte press, not given to plugging radio, compares your story to reporting discovery of America by "local sailor...
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Moscow State Theater; Disc, two albums, 34 sides). Recorded in Russia, sung in near-hysterical Russian style. Performance: good...
Chamber Music: Mozart's Quintet in C (K. 515), by the Budapest String Quartet and Milton Katims (Columbia). Best single record: Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes, by the William Nowinski Sextet (Disc...
...disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C. reached deep into his pile of old records and played a 1932 piece called Heartaches. It had a bouncy tune and a catchy whistling chorus. Soon dozens of requests were coming in for Heartaches. Decca hurriedly began pressing copies of the old recording. In the past six weeks it has sold over 500,000 copies...