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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Masterpieces of Music before 1750 (Danish soloists and ensembles directed by Mogens Wöldike; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). Fifty brief selections, carefully performed and recorded. The first disk begins with the constricted Gregorian chant beginning with the 7th century, goes up to 16th century instrumental dances. No. 2 takes the story from large motets by Lassus and Byrd up through early Italian opera by Monteverdi and massive 17th century organ music. The final disk contains mostly Bach and Handel works. A scholarly collection, but with plenty of appeal to the ear as well...
Cardboard Kibitzer. Atlanta's Bridge-Masters put on sale a cardboard bidding wheel that gives the correct bid for any situation with a twist of a disk. Price...
...magazine last spring. It was intended only as a private joke for bopsters, told in the latest Tin Pan Alley argot, where "cool" means good, "crazy" means wonderful and anything that is really tops is simply called "the most." But the tale quickly reached a larger public when Manhattan Disk Jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins read it over the air, then recorded it for Brunswick. The record has sold a reported 200,000 copies to become a solid popular...
Dark, Italian-born Dick Ehrman speaks five languages (Italian, French, German, English, Polish). Before he joined A. P. as a stringer in Florence, he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army and a disk jockey for the Army's radio station in Leghorn. His colleagues say he has a "weird quality of seeming to be the same nationality as the person he is covering." This weird quality paid off last month, when Japanese Crown Prince Akihito visited Rome; Ehrman was mistaken for a member of the prince's party, admitted to the official reception...
COLUMBIA Broadcasting System, which has abandoned its own whirling-disk color-television system, will back a compatible system, developed by the industry's National Television Systems Committee, which is very similar to RCA's color...