Word: disks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Getting word that his bootlegged records are being snapped up in the Soviet Union by panting stilyagi (hepcats) for $12.50 a disk, Droner Elvis (Love Me Tender) Presley, 22, muttered: "That's the first Ah heard of it." Warming to the notion, The Pelvis burbled: "If Ah thought it'd do any good, Ah'd just take ma guitar an' get right out there on the front lines. Wouldn' that be somethin'-me singin' an' playin' ma guitar an' bullets whizzin' all 'round like in Hungary!" Then, carried...
These two have pushed the calypso hits, Terry Gilkyson's "Marianne" and the Tarrier's and Belafonte's "Banaha Boat Song" from the top rungs. The "respectable" disk jockies hope that calypso will end the rock and roll craze. Since calypso includes the "Big Beat," it will certainly be much more successful than the previous white hope--fife and drum music as exemplified by the "Yellow Rose of Texas." Rock and roll, however, is here to stay...
...onetime $18-a-week Trenton, N.J. disk jockey and son of a Hungarian saloonkeeper, Kovacs has been a sort of utility infielder for all three networks. He is not a refugee from other places, but that rare being, a home-grown product of TV-and one of the few fresh and lasting performers in the business. Yet his cultivated madness, often abetted by his wife, Singer Edie Adams, has been delighting and annoying audiences only irregularly and at odd hours since he first leered onscreen seven years ago. Neither Kovacs nor his employer, NBC, seems able to explain why there...
What Marconi Wrought Last November station KFDA's Art Holt of Amarillo, Texas set a world's nonstop endurance record for disk jockeys: six days and six nights. Last week Disk Jockey Ray Briem, 26, of Salt Lake City's KLUB, putting on LPs for trips to the bathroom and catnaps, spun, gabbed and wheezed his way to a new record: six days, six nights and six hours...
...chiggers beneath the skins of network bigwigs and Madison Avenue operatives is the custom of the free plug, or "plugola." A TV comic, disk jockey or M.C. slips a brand name into his patter, e.g., "They said I was drunk, but it was all relative-Old Grand-Dad," and he or his gagwriter can count on the "payola"-a case or two of whisky in the next delivery. Offenses have occurred most persistently on the Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey, Steve Allen and Robert Q. Lewis shows; yet the networks fear to order their stars to stop the practice...