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...Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s J. P. Spang Jr., Cities Service Co.'s W. Alton Jones, Decca Records Inc.'s Jack Kapp, Childs Co.'s Edward C. Field, American Chicle Co.'s Thomas H. Blodgett, Artloom Corp.'s A. S. Mitchell...
...last day, the record companies worked long, shirt-sleeved hours to wax what they could. On the Coast, Decca's Jack Kapp personally supervised the last output (with orchestra) of his longtime meal ticket, Bing Crosby. In Chicago, the virtues of soup, soda, beer and cheese were hymned by singers and small bands right up to midnight. From now on, singing commercials could be made with voice and ocarina or harmonica accompaniment, but not with union musicians...
Astute, bespectacled Jacob ("Jack") Kapp bought an armful of children's small-sized records at the dime store to try on one of the three phonographs in his house. His three-year-old daughter Myra didn't like them. So Kapp, who is president of Decca Records. Inc., recorded a group of Mother Goose stories just for Myra, on standard-size discs. Myra liked them so much that Kapp put the records on sale...
That was in 1935. In the years since, Myra has grown into a big girl, and the kind of children's recordings that Kapp started have grown into big business. There are now nearly twoscore companies making records for small fry. This year the industry may reach a gross of $20,000,000. Decca, with 100 albums now on the market, still leads the field...
Bachelors of Science: Edward John Hartmann, Cornelius Joseph Hogan, William Andrew Jaracz, Martin Seymour Kapp, Frank Champion Keegan Jr., George Archibald Kelser Jr., Alden Packard Peterson, Robert Gildersleeve Rhoades, Samuel Bernard Sheldon, Edmund Rudolf Wyder...