Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsible for transplanting the tune is Wilfrid Thomas, Australian disc jockey, who picked up the record in a back street in Hong Kong, brought it to London with him last winter. The oriental lilt caught the British fancy. A flood of letters and inquiries at record shops sent Columbia Records' British affiliate on a hot-breathed search for the old master copy of the Chinese record. Their Far Eastern division finally uncovered it in India, flew it to London...
...sheet music, Chappell Music commissioned Disc Jockey Thomas to shake the rosebuds out of the oriental version, replace them with full-blown Western lyrics...
...icing on the cake for Meredith Willson last week. The big event was the celebration of his 20th anniversary with NBC as probably the most durable composer-conductor in radio. Tallulah saluted him over the air with a sub-contralto speech, and gave him a plaque. His publishers exhorted disc jockeys throughout the U.S. to make it "May-the-Good-Lord-Bless-and-Keep-You" Week...
Fattened out with an Autry-devised tribute to Mac ("The world will ne'er forget him, to him we say well done"), the record was cut the day after MacArthur's speech before Congress. Within 24 hours it was in the hands of California disc jockeys and shortly thereafter in record shops, selling an estimated 25,000 copies a day. Hot on Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those...
People's Choice. In Chattanooga, Tenn., after his playful radio campaign for mayor drew more support than he had bargained for, Disc-Jockey Luther Masingill ran a full-page ad announcing that he was not a candidate, urging his supporters to pick one of the men who were...