Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representative of Coca-Cola." At his first stop, on the Via Santa Marta, Signor Pretti made a few cheerful remarks, straightened a Coke sign on the wall and departed. At the Zi' Cori, a tiny refreshment room, Pretti wiped the dust from the red Coca-Cola disc, stopped to listen to the woes of the proprietress' daughter: her fiancé had been called to arms, and in order to persuade the Blessed Virgin to keep the young man from harm, the girl had-as a special sacrifice-given up her daily quota of a dozen Cokes...
...song until January, when a strong-lunged little singer named Eileen Barton decided it was to her taste and National Records thought it was worth putting on wax. Her bouncy version, complete with hand clapping and group singing, was just the frosting Merrill's ditty needed. Disc jockeys, singers and jukeboxes began serving it up in more & more generous helpings...
After the contract of WBMS's Disc Jockey Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston "Pops" Orchestra, runs out this month, Lasker will carry "absolutely no classical music of any kind." This week, though five music students were protesting the station's new policy with a picket line, most Bostonians accepted the switchover calmly. Said one: "Rather than listen to high-pressure, ear-jarring sales talk, I, like other Bostonians, will take my recordings at home without commercials...
Last week WBMS lost $700 and the owners had to dip into personal capital to meet the employees' payroll. And Monday the station was obliged by necessity to abandon all attempts at compromise between esthetic and economic considerations. Now it plays almost exclusively "disc jockey" music. Only 350 listeners called up to complain of the change, which means a total listening audience of 7,000 by management figuring. No advertisers have cancelled since Monday, and one of them, a television dealer, reported a 500 percent increase in business...
...Martin Block's Make-Believe Ballroom, on which Disc Jockey Block presents new records, plays request numbers. Typical recent request from "Alex," a listener in Switzerland: play some bop. Block's grave answer: "Alex, did you know that bop is on its way out? . . .Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie has given up bop?" Block then played one of Gillespie's post-bop numbers entitled You Stole My Wife-You Horse Thief...