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Glinka:'Russian and Ludmilla (soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Moscow State Theater of the U.S.S.R.; Disc, 4 sides). One of Russia's oldest operas (1842) released on records for the first time in the U.S. by Moe Asch's new firm (TIME, Feb. 25). The Russians sing vigorously and loud. Performance: good...
...Brooklyn home of Novelist Sholem (The Nazarene) Asch, jazz was forbidden because it was bordello music; cowboy ballads were allowed. One of his three sons, Moe (for Moses) Asch, 40, has become the nation's No. 1 recorder of out-of-the-way jazz, cowboy music and such exotic items as Paris street noises during the liberation, and little-heard Russian operas...
Last week Moe Asch hit the market with ten albums (under the new label of Disc) which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a Creole lullaby, Mandolinist Bess Lomax singing Careless Love ("Now my apron strings won't pin"), four French Resistance writers reading their own poems and editorials...
...Moe Asch, born in Warsaw, brought up in Brooklyn, schooled in Germany, once installed sound equipment in burlesque houses and Yiddish theaters on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His first recording (in 1939) was In the Beginning, his father's Bible stories for children. He released it under the label "Asch Records," then recorded Leadbelly's songs of bad men and worse women...
Rumors ran through the picket lines that the oldtime strong-arm men of the Chicago circulation wars, the late Moe Annenberg's boys, were moving in. Sporadic violence flared around the Daily News plant. In midtown it suddenly became easier to buy papers, especially the News and the Times; boys and old men were posted at street corners, peddling papers at a 100 to 150% markup...