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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C (Mitchell Miller; Saidenberg Little Symphony conducted by Daniel Saidenberg; Columbia, 1 LP). This disk is recommended as an antidote for aches and pains caused by some of Hitmaker Mitch Miller's pop creations (he is a Columbia Records executive as well as an oboist). Miller's oboe tone is sweet, his technique impeccable. In the plaintive slow movement, his sense of graceful phrasing makes Mozart sing...
...company might have as many as 21 different "suggested list prices," for its different lines, speeds and performances, ranging from 89? to $5.95. Furthermore, record dealers offer discounts, some as high as 30%, so that a customer might buy a $5.95 LP in one shop and find the same disk for as little as $4.25 in another shop...
...night bearing a gaily wrapped Scheherazade-one of the lushest of full-orchestra scores-"which he had bought at the corner drugstore for well under a dollar. 'Oh, it may have a few reproduction flaws,' he said, 'but this cheap little music-for-the-masses disk contains a flamboyant Scheherazade worthy of your steel.' " The connoisseur was so unsettled that he discussed the lowbrow disk at length, thus shattering his reputation. "A chamber-music man, my foot!" was the consensus. Bonnard, on the other hand, "now is recognized as one of the leading connoisseurs...
...Wilford G. Crane, a mere "10-watt amplifier bank clerk," once brilliantly undermined a wealthy "hifi bourgeois" with a gift of a single 78-r.p.m. disk. " 'It's Dajos Bela and Salon Orchestra, been looking for it for years. The way he plays these Hungarian Dances is beyond comparison. Finally found it on my last trip to Chicago. Some allowances you may have to make, but for 1933, don't you think the sound is spacious and resonant, eh?' Of course, Crane had actually found the disk in the attic . . . and had then rubbed dust...
Many of the top current groups were harmonizing in church or school gatherings when the original Mills Brothers, the Andrews Sisters and the Modernaires were first warbling their close harmonies on the radio. The outfits usually got their break with a performance on a disk-jockey show or an amateur hour. Their commercial success (some now earn five-figure incomes) probably depends on listener identification, i.e., the more amateurish the singers sound, the stronger their appeal for the jukebox set. As a result, most vocal groups get best results with music that has a country or hillbilly flavor, with primitive...