Word: phonographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each 15-minute program takes up one side of a $2.50 commercial disc (not playable on an ordinary phonograph). "The Ballad Hunter," whose commentary is part of the programs, is John A. Lomax, honorary curator of the Library's great Archive of American Folk Song...
...promote close harmony-as she is sung by Saturday-night whiskey tenors and beery baritones-a device was on sale in Manhattan last week which threatened to bring Sweet Adeline within the reach of all but the tone-deaf. "Listen-n-Sing" phonograph records teach barbershop harmonizing by taking it apart...
...executive board was authorized to bar union musicians from making phonograph records. It may also levy a tax on 400,000 jukeboxes...
...recently Decca, which helped revive the infirm phonograph record market in 1933 with its low-priced discs, has been running a poor third in the re-pressing race. This has been due to the company's emphasis on novelties like Joe Daniels's Hot Shots and popular favorites like Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, at the expense of weaker selling jazz. Then too, Decca's comparative youth prevented it from recording Beiderbecke, Armstrong, Bessic Smith and others who were in their prime before the New Deal. I hold no brief for pre-Repeal jazz. It's like pre-Repeal...
...concert's most musicianly talent was half-blind Art Tatum, who long ago achieved a safe middle ground between Bach and boogie-woogie. He has had serious training, learns tunes from phonograph records or by using a magnifying glass and his one fairly good eye. Art Tatum's showers of notes in jazz rhythm-as in his workout with Dvorak's banal Humor-esque-pleased his Carnegie Hall audience. The evening ended in the loudest jam session ever heard in the hall, or perhaps anywhere. There were three bands-33 men in all, including six trumpeters, five...