Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week to the 1280 Club's M.C., young (28), vacant-faced Fred Robbins. Last week Robbins was sent by the cheers of his "dicty" public into a top job-the M.C. spot on the Columbia Record Shop. With 359 stations, he would be the most widely broadcast disc jockey, but would have to educate his audience gradually into the mysteries of his "spectacular vernacular." With his take from the 1280 Club, he would now be grossing some $40,000 a year...
Julia's regional fame began to spread when jazz expert Dave Dexter Jr., like Julia a native of Kansas City, put two of her songs in a Capitol Records album called History of Jazz. Disc jockeys picked Julia's record out of the album and played it more than the others, so Capitol lured Julia to Hollywood to record twelve more sides. She took her drummer, Baby Lovett, along, and on the way out they wrote a suggestive tune called Gotta Gimme Watcha Got, which sold out immediately. Some jazz critics boldly compared 44-year-old Julia...
Early American Carols (John Jacob Niles; Disc, 6 sides). Most beautiful of this year's Christmas albums. Nativity music sung simply and sweetly to a dulcimer by the dean of American balladeers...
Kenton is a gladhander who seeks out local disc jockeys when he hits a new town, is up early in the morning to be accommodating to autograph seekers. Said he: "We can't lay any more eggs. Now we play a pulsating melodic throb. People's ears today are in tune to great harmonic things. Our music has to be built into institutional proportions. The band has to become a household word...
Victor, with an eye to the big spenders, brought out a "Heritage Series" of wheezing reissues from opera's so-called "Golden Age" at $3.50 a disc (with gold labels). Pressed from musty masters are Soprano Frances Alda's gracefully sung Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello (recorded in 1910) and Baritone Mario Ancona's Eri tu from The Masked Ball (1907). Even scratchier is Luisa Tetrazzini's carelessly sung Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro (1908). Enrico Caruso's faltering Rachel, quand du seigneur, from La Juive, was recorded...