Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dollar-a-disc repressings...
...April Plays The Fiddle" gets our vote as the most likely new tune most competently played . . . Benny Goodman's "The Sheik" keeps up the good standard the sextet has set--and shows for the first time what excellent drumming Nick Fatool is capable of . . . "Bluin' the Blues" is another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown" has the ost sudden shift this reviewer has ever heard from Dixleland (two-four) to four-four tempo...
Such sales of cheap records by last week had helped along a significant price change in the U. S. record industry, which until recent years had kept its prices stiff and proud. In the early 19305 radio competition cut U. S. disc sales to 10,000,000 a year. While total U. S. sales rose to some 60,000,000 last year, Victor began hearing crescendos of competition. Decca Records, which invaded the popular field with Bing Crosby and a 35? disc, also repressed, at 50? to $1, a great many foreign recordings. Columbia, most of whose twelve-inch symphonic...
...principle of the coronagraph (which resembles an anti-aircraft gun-see cut) is simple. A metal disc is placed at the focus of the telescope lens to cut out the bright sun image. A second lens focuses on photographic film the black disc and flaring corona, and a powerful spectrograph breaks up coronal radiation into its component colors. A moving picture camera can also be attached to the telescope...
Ballad For Americans (Victor). Two-disc album of the patriotic spine-tingler first heard on the Pursuit of Happiness radio program (TIME, Nov. 20). Discounting the influence of Poets Whitman, MacLeish, Anderson and Composer Kurt Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday) on the script and score of Messrs. Robinson and Latouche, even sophisticated listeners should get a kick out of this hopeful musical U. S. history. Paul Robeson, as the Voice Nobody Knows until the last stanza, sings bravely...