Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Glass (Starlite LP). Just about the most virtuoso vocal quartet on records, singing a dozen far-out arrangements of those oldies. Some of the music, e.g., Through the Years, is strictly barbershop, of the brush-cut variety. More, e.g., Birth of the Blues, I'm Beginning to See the Light, has a beguiling touch of lunacy...
...Solos by an Old Master (Joe Sullivan, piano; Riverside LP). A Chicago jazzman of the old school plays old favorites, from I Cover the Waterfront to Gin Mill Blues, with a gentle fervor...
...Living Right Kit is a handsome blue and white box containing five filmstrips, five LP recordings and five discussion manuals on five subjects: Right Choice, Right Attitude, Right Counsel, Right Outlook, Right Leadership. The kits were designed for the use of discussion leaders, who are instructed to organize gatherings of laymen, run off the problem-posing filmstrips and the accompanying recordings, then turn up the lights for a discussion of how best to play the often tricky game of weekday life. The discussions, not the kits, are supposed to supply the answers...
Suggestible readers who want to continue the séance can buy an LP record ($5.95) on which Bridey can be heard gasping out her story. She sounds somewhat like a savagely beaten gun moll who is being quizzed by the opposition gang...
...Columbia LP, Lotte Lenya sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill; the composer's widow does Mack the Knife and other Threepenny ditties as they should be done. Fiftyish, and after two years of starring in a successful New York revival of the work, Lotte Lenya still sings with a smoky, strangely appealing quality that always suggests the waif beneath the cynic...