Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rushing the Dubs. She learned the song in 15 minutes, recorded it in a dozen takes in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Atlantic rushed the tapes into production, cutting enough "dubs" (sample acetate disks for immediate use, good for 15 to 20 plays) to give the New York disk jockeys a preview hearing (Grean also dispatched a pretty secretary to demonstrate the hoop motion to local deejays...
...days later the completed records started coming into Atlantic's New York offices, were promptly funneled out to a list of 2,500 key disk jockeys about the country. Atlantic distributors started setting up deejay hoop contests through the Middle West. Scarcely more than a week after Lyricist Grean landed, his song was on the market ahead of the competition, and the painful fruits of his inspiration were assaulting ears across the land...
...Imperial Records actually brought out the first hoop disk (Hula Hoop) on the West Coast last June, but the craze had not yet reached its shimmying climax, and the record failed to take...
...trolls for walleyed pike in Wisconsin's Land O'Lakes district, gives away no points to Ike. "I am every bit as good a fisherman," he says firmly, "as my brother." Both are ferociously intense painters, Ike in oil and Milton in painstaking watercolors. Before a slipped disk took him off the fairways, Milton shot an unorthodox but Ike-worthy game of golf (high 80s). Now and then the brothers get together with friends for an evening of bridge, but Milton, who has never progressed beyond the Culbertson quick-trick count, is admittedly overmatched...
...recorded an Americanized version of the song with a new title, Volare (To Fly), and new lyrics that bear as little resemblance to the original as they do to poetry. Sample: "Just like birds of a feather, a rainbow together we'll find." When they call their favorite disk jockey, U.S. fans hardly know what to ask for. But whether the title comes out "Domingo," "Nelly Blue" or "Blue Nell Rides a Blue Pinto," even a monolingual jock knows enough to spin...