Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloated a Sears, Roebuck & Co. executive: "We've caught the whole radio-phonograph business with its pants down...
Sears got into gloating position by putting a revolutionary gadget on the market last week: a table-model radio-phonograph containing a wire recorder. The recorder gobbles up radio programs, phonograph records, children's talk and business conferences on a spool of steel wire, can play them back immediately. The wire can be electrically erased, re-used indefinitely...
More people bought more phonograph records (300 million) last year than in any year since Thomas Edison recorded Mary Had a Little Lamb. If they were guided by the critics at all, record-buyers frequently found the critics disagreeing. Last week, for the first time, five U.S. music critics* sang in harmony. For a magazine called the Review of Recorded Music they picked the year's best classical recordings. Only Conductor Arturo Toscanini (see above) won two ribbons. The critics' choices...
Indifference and its tradition no longer extend into the musical areas of University life, if the sales figures on phonograph records, concerts, and recitals mean anything. A new phenomenon of what might be called selective enthusiasm has moved in lock, stock and barrel: when Briggs & Briggs and McKenna's can sell out their first shipment of the new "Messiah" recording within two days of arrival, when undergraduates will line up for copies of Italian Cetra discs at $3.25 a shot, when the inability of undergraduates to find seats at the BSO's Sanders Theater concerts begins rumblings of revolt...
Last week M-G-M deftly solved that by signing up with Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. to use Zenith's ready-made distributing organization. By this stroke M-G-M got entry into the many phonograph shops which sell Zenith radios, hopes to sell their records in 5,000 key stores. But MGM's first album, four ten-inch records of Jerome Kern music from the film Till the Clouds Roll By, will cost $3-75, somewhat higher than most of Victor's, Decca's and Columbia...