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...this, thanks to the phonograph, it is not necessary to know "the technical facts and names of what you are hearing." With the help of a cardboard ruler (provided with each volume), to indicate positions on records, Haggin guides his reader through recordings of more than a score of great compositions, pointing out the developing musical speech of each, the points of special eloquence. Of his reader he asks hard eye & ear work, but in the end the possible rewards may include, for instance, "the right frame of mind to listen to one of the greatest wonders achieved by human...
Shut Up. Bernard Haggin, an angular musical zealot who looks a decade younger than his 44 years, has been a New Yorker from his lower East Side boyhood, through the College of the City of New York, to his present upper West Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book...
...extraordinary even by radio-cinema standards. Eddy's concert tours sell out way in advance, and he averages $15,000 a week from them. His radio salary is $5,000 a week, not including guest appearances. Another $60,000 to $80,000 a year accrues from his phonograph recordings, at least four of which have sold over a million discs apiece. With his movie income, his total earnings to date are about...
...told "no" by James Caesar Petrillo, boss of all U.S. musicians, after he politely asked Mr. Petrillo to stop the two-year-old ban against making phonograph records. (RCA Victor and Columbia, which make two-thirds of U.S. phonograph records, have refused to pay Petrillo's union a tribute for each record-which for the entire industry would total from $500,000 to $3,000,000 a year to the union treasury.) Some Republicans howled that the President sent troops in to haul out obstinate employers, but was humble before Labor Boss Petrillo. Some suspected that Mr. Roosevelt...
Rumors of new, improved methods of phonograph recording (on wire, film, etc.) have filled the wartime air. Last week one of the biggest U.S. recording companies, RCA Victor, said that, so far as its own products are concerned, there will be no such radical changes. Said RCA Victor: "In our opinion, nothing now contemplated in the laboratories or in use commercially at present shows any signs of offering such flexibility, tonal fidelity and simplicity, at low cost, as do the conventional disc and phonograph...