Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show Biz (Victor LP). An audible history of the entertainment world for the past half-century. A fast-moving, name-dropping kaleidoscope, narrated by George Jessel, it is illustrated by selections of everybody who was anybody from Will Rogers to Dinah Shore...
There was no more-and there is no more, yet. Entertainer Lehrer has a repertory of just 14 songs suitable for public performance. A year ago he put twelve of them on a privately made LP, suddenly found himself swamped with orders...
Django Reinhardt (Clef LP). French jazz in the modern manner, played by Paris' late guitar favorite and his combo. Softer in texture and drive than U.S. jazz, the selections still have authentic jazz feeling. Included: a frothy little number called Blues...
Kismet (Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow and other members of the original cast; Columbia LP). A musical précis of the current Broadway idea of an Arabian night, featuring such popular songs as Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Stranger in Paradise and a couple of deft patter numbers. The music was culled from the work of Alexander Borodin, the 19th century Russian composer, by Robert Wright and George Forrest...
Shades of Bix (Jimmy McPartland and his band; Brunswick LP). Trumpeter McPartland undertakes the touchy task of recapturing the style and feeling of the cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, in the process socks out some fine Dixieland jazz. The combo, a duplication of Bix's own Gang (including a hoarse-voiced baritone sax), gets a lift from the inspired drumming of George Wettling...