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...Last September, still trouping but almost forgotten by the U. S. public, which has in the past three years taken to hot music with an intensity surpassing even the mania of the late 1920's, Bessie Smith died after a motor accident in Clarksdale, Miss. Last week Columbia Phonograph Co. issued a Bessie Smith Album, containing re-pressings of six of the 80-odd records she made between...
...from Manhattan last September with St. Lucy attached to their Ford. St. Lucy is 23 feet long, contains living quarters forward, and in the rear, a confessional, a chapel with a folding altar, which can be opened for outdoor meetings. There is space in the trailer for phonograph records, sound film equipment, a public-address system. By last week Fathers Cunningham and Halloran were well accustomed to parking St. Lucy in likely spots, playing phonograph records to attract a crowd and then exhibiting about 50 minutes of religious movies with a 20-minute sermon sandwiched between. Said Father Cunningham before...
...three big U. S. phonograph record manufacturers (RCA Manufacturing Co., Decca, American Record Corp.) have been doing a steadily improving business since the abysmal days of 1933. Last week three small record companies were making good news for U. S. disc-dilettanti. Founded by earnest amateurs of music, all were operating in Manhattan, all on smallish budgets. For their material, all had gone into the byways of classical music, in some cases with such gratifying results that the big recording companies were following their lead...
...Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph, John A. Hartford of A. & P., Motorman Walter P. Chrysler. Oilman J. Paul Getty. For a fee of $50 a month these notables contracted to have the best of the world's music on tap in their homes (without aid of radio or phonograph) just as they have hot water or electricity. This music will come over telephone lines by a special process of Muzak Corp., a little-known company headed by a famed figure of "new era" finance-Waddill Catchings...
While the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that Bandsman Fred Waring and other musicians who make phonograph records have the sole right to determine where and for how much money their discs may be broadcast, in Manhattan a formula drawn up by representatives of some 250 U. S. broadcasting stations promised both more money and more work for musicians who play directly over the radio. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians had threatened a music strike if broadcasters did not hire enough new musicians to bring total expenditures for radio music from...