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...DAVID KAPP...
...Kapp Records...
...Buttermilk Sky, Hoagy Carmichael (Kapp LP). Even in his rare lyric moments, Singer-Composer Carmichael sounds like a man warbling in a tin shed. In this selection of his songs, mostly from the '40s and '50s, his virtues are manic enthusiasm, an antic rhythmic sense and an endlessly absorbing hobnail accent: "You cain if you tray-a-y/ . . . Ole buttermilk...
Decca's late president, Jack Kapp, fathered the original-cast musical recording with George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and his company has set the pace ever since (Carousel, Call Me Mister, Annie Get Your Gun). But the competition is furious. Producers' royalties have shot up to 10% per record, and producers switch unpredictably to different labels as they bring out new shows. RCA Victor cinched the rights to Call Me Madam by financing the musicomedy for $225,000, but had to do without Star Ethel Merman, whose recording contract committed her to do the songs...
...Couple of Favorites. This spring, Band Leader Gordon Jenkins heard them, liked them so well he persuaded Decca's Dave Kapp to record a couple of the Weavers' favorite songs: the Israeli Hora, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, and the Lead Belly ballad, Good Night, Irene (TIME, Aug. 14), with Jenkins' orchestra and chorus furnishing a fancy background...