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...year. He is also one of the recording industry's biggest sellers, whose discs annually gross over $500,000. His Tchaikovsky Concerto (Victor) started a national furor a year ago when Bandleader Freddie Martin heard it and made a popular arrangement that was worn ragged in juke boxes from coast to coast. Rubinstein's proper version, riding the crest with Martin's adaptation, shortly rolled up a sale of an estimated 200,000 albums. His Grieg Piano Concerto, released by Victor in July, sold over 100,000 sets in its first three months...
Ideal factory formula, according to Burris-Meyer, must take into accomvt such factors as nationality, age, character of work, time of day. Foreign-born workers respond best to opera. Oldsters are best stimulated by such old standbys as Bicycle Built for Two, East Side, West Side. Youth prefers juke-box favorites. Most effective dose was found to be ten to 15 minutes of music each half hour, administered softly. To eliminate brassy passages, change of key, too ornate orchestrations, about 75% of the music on a "planned" factory program is specially arranged...
Leading all war songs on the juke-box popularity poll was the season's wackiest satirical item, Der Fuehrer's Face, which sold out its initial edition of 100,000 records ten days after its release three weeks ago. A medley of bronx cheers and polka-dottiness that has to be heard to be appreciated, Der Fuehrer's Face last week seemed well on its way to become the comic theme song of World War II. The song was written by Walt Disney's Tunesmith Oliver Wallace for a picture originally entitled Donald Duck in Nutzi...
Like Dinah's drive, Dinah's rise has been more of a trajectory than a career. In two years Miss Shore has become the No. 1 female blues singer. She queens the juke boxes within an inch of Bing Crosby ("than whom," says Dinah, "there is no whomer"). Her extracurricular "honors" have piled up like ticker tape. She was "Queen" of the Brooklyn Dodgers, "Queen" of Manhattan's famed Seventh Regiment, is "Sweetheart" of more Army camps than she can remember. At Manhattan's Butlers' Ball she was named "The Girl We Wish Would Come...
Arthur Murray, the Tiffany and Sears, Roebuck of U.S. dance, has almost every kind of pupil in his nationwide chain of 146 dance schools. But the trade of socialites is fast being augmented by the trade of new-rich war workers, who have long listened to the juke-box hit "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry...