Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singers and record men, RCA Victor last week showed a prized secret. It was in the shape of a new seven-inch, unbreakable, paper-thin record that played as much music as a 12-inch ($1.31) disc. But it will reportedly sell for much less. There was one big catch; the record had to be played at 45 revolutions a minute (instead of the standard 78). Thus, to play it, phonograph owners would need an expensive special attachment...
...month-old niece does it when she drinks beer out of her bottle, and does it better than any of them." To the naked ear its shrill cacophony seems anarchistic; on repeated hearings it becomes clear that the players planned it that way. Duke Ellington, now a disc jockey, has been kind; old Satchmo Louis Armstrong, critical. The feud now raging between partisans of the New Orleans school of jazz, who enjoy their music, and the "progressives," who seem to undergo theirs, is reminiscent of 12th Century theological squabbles...
...Hollywood tunesmiths were singing the blues. "Every producer wants a song just like some other song. They want another Stardust. We write it for 'em. But it's tough. We have to please the publishers, the song pluggers, the singers, the disc jockeys and the public. But before we even get that far, we have to keep the musical director, the producer, the star and the director happy. If Betty Button's hairdresser doesn't like your stuff, brother, you're dead...
...WHBS, disc jockeys played a record called "The Beaches and the Bassets." They then drew a number from a hat, and phoned Russell...
...Communist Radio Revue which, at the same time, editorially warns against listening to "le pick-up Americain." France is the only European country except Greece that relays a Voice program on its own medium wave band. The Voice's local director, Simon Copans, also runs three weekly disc-jockey shows specializing in American music...