Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon be going home, he wrote to Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania his order for a seven-day dream: "A suite that will face east ... a cup of English-made tea served to me in bed ... no military title -'Mister' will be music to my ears. . . ." A phonograph "with any & all Strauss selections," a "large, grey-haired, motherly" maid to look after his three-year-old daughter Susie, a new toy for Susie every day, flowers every morning for his wife Jane, candles on the table for dinner, a one-way telephone-"outgoing only," a prodigious menu full...
Speech has been recorded before, but no one could actually read the wiggly groove of a phonograph record or the uneven ladder of a movie sound track. The various sounds which combine to form human speech were too jumbled up. Bell's new apparatus takes the sounds of speech apart and prints them at different levels...
...Symphony. Cinemactor Basil Rathbone and Actor-Singer Richard Hale as narrators have made recordings which are now perennial Christmas best sellers. Last season it was played twelve times by U.S. symphony orchestras; it was also dance-timed by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians (TIME, Nov. 12). In U.S. phonograph-record sales - principally because of Peter and the Wolf-Prokofiev rates above Mozart, though far below Beethoven and Tchaikovsky...
...eleven years Guy Lombardo's band has been picked by 700 U.S. radio editors as the top sweet band on the air. The Royal Canadians gross nearly a million dollars a year, have cut 500 phonograph discs. Last year the Royal Canadians were acclaimed by Orchestra World for introducing more song hits (250) than any other band. Some 30 were written by Brother Carmen-among them Confucius Say, Coquette, Oh, Moitle and Boo-Hoo (BooHoo, I'll tell my mama on you, the little game that you played has made her baby oh! so blue). Downbeat a trade...
With a loud roll on the drums, RCA-Victor last week put on the market its first non-breakable phonograph records. Made of a ruby-red, translucent vinyl resin plastic, they cost twice as much ($2 a record) as a 12-inch Victor Red Seal. Cried Victor: "The greatest improvement . . . in 45 years...