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Fresh from England, as a guest on the Bob Hope radio show, she had caught the easy-to-catch but hard-to-hold ear of burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until...
Meanwhile one U.S. record manufacturer happily continued making records as though Boss Petrillo and his ban did not exist. Eli Oberstein, proprietor of Classic Records Co., has no truck with vocal ersatz. Many of his records are made in Mexico and shipped to him in plastic pressings via air mail. Even well-known musicians, anxious to pick up some change, have brought him records they have made themselves...
Canny, suave Eli Oberstein asks no embarrassing questions. His recordings bear such names as Johnny Jones, Willie Kelly. Oberstein's Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer and You'll Never Know, have rolled up sales of 200,000 discs. Irritated Boss Petrillo has been unable to find anything amiss. "It's very simple," remarks Eli Oberstein, "I pick up any tune I like, and the records just come...
Musicraft, an outfit which hitherto specialized in high-brow discs, got into the chain-store trade by merest chance. Last summer Eli Oberstein's U. S. Record Corp. (TIME, Feb. 19) petitioned for reorganization. Its record-pressing plant, in Scranton, Pa., was owned by Scranton industrialists, who extricated it from the U. S. corporate setup. Musicraft saw its chance, contracted with the Scranton group to press the anonymous Masterpiece recordings...
...foreign recordings. Columbia, most of whose twelve-inch symphonic discs remained at $1.50, began improving its product mechanically, lately signed up such topnotchers as the Minneapolis Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock, the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodzinski. Likewise U. S. Records (run by Eli Oberstein, onetime Victor executive) produced a collection of classical recordings, not of the best mechanically but attractively priced...