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...Alley's current trend has been called "the double-entendre era" by Eli Oberstein, president of U. S. Record Corp. Mr. Oberstein's biggest hit (150,000 copies) is She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, ostensibly written by John Doe and Joe Doaques (actually Hugh Prince and Don Raye). A sister piece, She Really Meant to Keep It Till She Married, has sold 75,000 records for Mr. Oberstein. Not yet recorded is I'm a Virgin but I'm On the Verge, by ASCAP Member Paul Denniker...
...phonograph records made every year in the U. S., most are put out by three companies: Victor, Columbia and Decca. Year ago, a big-jawed, 39-year-old Victor official named Eli Oberstein decided there was room for a fourth. He resigned his job as Victor's recording manager, took a sheaf of contracts for Victor artists with him, rounded up $500,000 worth of backing, bought and refurbished an old six-story plant in Scranton, Pa. and launched U. S. Record Corp...
Chief cook and bottle-washer is Eli Oberstein. He is vice president, general manager of his own company, raises its capital, signs its artists, tells them how and what to play. Himself a former pianist, trumpet, trombone and tuba player, he chooses his performers with a canny ear, is well able to and does give them pointers on how to toot their own horns. He spends all his evenings In night clubs, cabarets, bars, movies, musical shows, on the lookout for new bands and new tunes. His admiring associates think he can pick a hit more unerringly than any other...
...what they pay me $25,000 a year for," says Manhattan-born Eli Oberstein. "But it's not instinct, it's economics. When I find out that one song has $50,000 behind it for promotion and another has nothing, I forget about the quality of the music and bet on the song with...
...Oberstein, who claims to have invented the idea of "swinging the classics," now believes that swing is on the way out: 1) because "you can't make love in a noisy place"; 2) because "improvision [sic] could never last. There isn't enough permanence to it. We have now," says he, "reached the double-entendre era." Rivals in the record business regard Eli Oberstein as a bumptious upstart. But to U. S. Records he is Mr. Big. Says he: "Everybody who is working with me loves...