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Columbia Records celebrated the fifth anniversary of LP recordings with self-congratulatory statistics last week. In five years the company has issued 20 million of its own LPs and pressed over a million for independent labels. Best of all, from Columbia's point of view, LPs helped the company account for nearly a quarter of all records sold in 1952, appreciably narrowing the gap which has long existed between Columbia and giant RCA Victor...
Eartha Kitt (Victor LP). Eight songs of nostalgia, avarice and calculated mischief, with polylingual Songstress Kitt sounding equally enticing in English, Swahili, French and Turkish...
...Sentimental Mood (Tommy Dorsey; Decca LP). One of the most durable and disciplined bands in the business, the Dorsey crew has been riding high (with varying personnel) since 1936, still sounds fine. The selections range from the familiar dreamy theme song, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, to the bouncier Sentimental Baby...
Danny Kaye Entertains (Columbia LP). In addition to a soft and sweet version of the Irish ballad Molly Malone, Kaye sings six songs from the 1941 Broadway hit, Lady in the Dark, among them The Princess of Pure Delight, Jenny, Tchaikovsky. The last is Comic Kaye at his best, as he rattles off the jawbreaking names of four dozen Russian composers without fluffing...
Moonlight Playing Time (Frankie Froba; Decca LP). Oldtime Jazz Pianist Froba has an easygoing keyboard approach. His selections-Moonglow, How High the Moon, Stardust on the Moon, Moonlight on the Ganges, Moonlight Saving Time, It's Only a Paper Moon, Moon Over Miami and Blue Moon-should just about exhaust the subject...