Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With six other big record labels last year (Capitol, Coral, Decca, Mercury MGM, RCA Victor), Columbia shared in the pressing of something like $100 million worth of popular music. The product, boosted around the world by disk jockeys, record-players. TV, movies and old-fashioned stem-winding phonographs, is as ubiquitous as the American candy bar, the milkshake and the neon-lighted jukebox. And to ballad buyers, the voice of Rosemary Clooney, 24, has become as familiar as the voice of F.D.R. was to their parents...
...folklike origin: Donnie heard it sung by an Ohio State girl friend, who had picked it up on the campus. Donnie worked it out on his guitar, changed it a bit, wrote some lyrics, sang it at parties, and prudently got it copyrighted. Six months ago, Cleveland Disk Jockey Phil McClean played a home recording of it on the air. After that, about 20 requests for it came in to station WERE every week. A brand-new record company ("Triple A") grabbed it for its first release, quickly sold 21,000 copies around Cleveland, then leased it to another label...
Nobody professes to understand why. Disk jockeys' enthusiasm for Oh, Happy Day runs the gamut from torpor to disgust; they announce it with such words as "Here's one everybody is asking for-I don't know why." A Boston platter spinner called it "the worst record I ever heard"; one in Manhattan vowed to eat it if it ever became a hit. "Nobody seems to like it," says Cleveland's McClean, "except the people...
...School had worked up the dance. Anthony contrived a tuneless tune, recorded it (for Capitol), ordered a batch of fuzzy bunny ears to give a touch of costume and started plugging song & dance across the U.S. In cooperation with parents, who regard the dance as relatively sedate, if energetic, disk jockeys and Capitol press-agents have built The Bunny Hop into a minor teen-age mania...
...usual horizontal bumpers. Its souped-up engine develops 250 h.p.† Oldsmobile's low-slung Starfire convertible has a panoramic windshield extending around and past the door opening. Buick's 50.4-in.-high Wildcat, of black fiber glass with a green leather seat, has front-wheel disk hubs which remain stationary while the wheels revolve, their airscoops cooling the front-wheel brakes. Pontiac showed off a streamlined version of a landau, with pink leather seats and ceiling lining and a carpet of black broadtail...