Word: lps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked by lustrous tone and silent surfaces. Kempff plays with splendid seriousness in the diabolical Hammerklavier, delivers such lighter sonatas as Op. 2, No. 3 with a hint of mischief. Twelve of his performances have been released on six LPs; the rest will be out next month...
...Goody, 48, cheerfully admits. He also insists that he has passed Liberty as the No. 1 record seller. When long-playing records first appeared in 1947, Goody was selling about $200,000 worth of records a year in a small shop. Goody, deciding that LPs were the coming thing, dumped most of his stock of 78-r.p.m.s at 50% off. To push the LPs, he offered them at 30% discount. He threw in an LP attachment free with every $25 worth of records, to date has given away 20,000. He flooded schools and colleges with direct-mail literature touting...
Before she died, Bessie recorded more than 160 numbers for Columbia. This week Columbia released 47 of them on four LPs, and titled them The Bessie Smith Story. Bessie's album contains some of the best jazz of her day, features such instrumentalists as Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman, Frankie Newton, Jack Teagarden. Some of the titles: St. Louis Blues, Careless Love Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Yellow Dog Blues, Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair, Gimme a Pigfoot...
...moment the big question is how good are the new, Victor LPs. Classical record buyers have already demonstrated their preference for the LP form with its uninterrupted music. They have been looking forward to having Victor's catalogue of famous artists in this form...
Tests of the first RCA releases showed that the new records are at least as good as other LPs and in some respects superior. The record surfaces seemed to be more uniformly good--hardly any needle scratch. The four records tested compared with only the best Columbia surfaces. The inherent possibilities of all LPs are about equal, leaving most quality differences dependent on processing techniques and microphone placement. Victor has always rated well in this respect and is up to its usual standards on these new records. But it is doubtful that these advantages warrant the higher RCA price...