Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recording studio and played his arrangement of the old Lee David-Billy Rose heart-thumper, Tonight You Belong to Me, while the girls cut a record as a birthday gift for Grandmother. When a musical friend of the family heard the record, "she flipped," and when Daddy submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President Si Waronker flipped too. By now, the record has sold more than a million copies. The next Patience and Prudence effort, Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now, sold 700,000 and made the sisters one of the hottest properties in the unpredictable pop-music world. Last...
That was 40 years ago (the anniversary was solemnly celebrated last week in a special broadcast by Britain's BBC), and since then the worldly fortunes of jazzmen have become firmly glued to records. Now, with the flood of jazz disks higher than ever, record companies are taking a nostalgic second look at some of their earlier artists. Among the more impressive results: the Jazztone Society's ten-disk collection, Styles of Jazz, including that original recording of Livery Stable Blues, a fast and vastly exuberant piece in a weak-and-strong two-beat, with barnyard sounds reproduced...
...many births by the natural method, the prospective father was on hand, comforting and reassuring his wife-and, in this case, operating a tape recorder to pick up every bedside sound. From twelve hours of tape recorded during labor, Westminster Records last week released a 53-minute Long Playing disk (Natural Childbirth; $3.98), reproducing in sound the high drama of life's beginning...
...packed houses for four days in London, are now zooming through the industrial cities of the north. At one rocking session Bassist Al Rex was so carried away by the shrieks of 3,000 fans he ripped his pants straddling his big fiddle, played on anyway. Haley's disk of Rock Around the Clock has become the first record to sell a million copies in Great Britain. And even the more dignified of the British papers have stopped viewing him with sober-faced alarm. Said the Times last week: "Mr. Haley pounds his guitar without mercy . . . But there...
Deejay Heart Parade (Thurs. 8 p.m., ABC). Salute to the 1957 Heart Fund campaign by U.S. disk jockeys...