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Brunswick was making records of the music from Blackbirds of 1928. They went on sale last week.* Instead of sending out stereotype notices smart Jack Kapp, Brunswick's publicity man, sent phonograph dealers and record reviewers a disc announcing the album. On Jack Kapp's record Dorothy Fields and James ("Jimmie") McHugh, who wrote the Blackbirds score, paraphrased their theme song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" by saying "Let's all say a prayer so they [the records] will sell, baby." If Fields & McHugh's prayer is answered, Brunswick will revive...
...range of the old-time phonograph was neither wide nor even. With in its narrow effective band, it was stridently partial to certain tones, while notes below middle C were inaudible except for their high overtones, the ear being surprisingly obliging in imagining the absent fundamentals. The newer phonographs and present-day talking pictures have a broad and even response spread, yet there are still inaudible bands at the bass and treble extremes. Wide-Range recording has considerably reduced these inaudible bands. Naturally, improvement is noticeable only in the sounds that lie within these newly retrieved areas of the spectrum...
Many a catchy tune exported from Europe on phonograph records becomes in time a best-seller in the U. S. "Goodnight, Sweetheart," which Ray Noble wrote in London, ran such a course.* So did "Parlez-moi d'Amour," the fragile song which Lucienne Boyer introduced in Paris, and "Zwei Herzen im ¾ Takt" which plump, be-monocled Richard Tauber introduced in Berlin...
...made up sounds which resembled it, sang to the girls in the dressing-room between acts. They jokingly gave her schillings and she bought brandy to treat them all. Several months later she was asked to sing her "English" songs at Vienna's famed Pavilion. She bought phonograph records of "Mean to Me" and "Annabelle Lee," learned to sing them by rote-to the amusement of two U. S. vandevillians who had joined the Pavilion troupe...
...Passed a bill providing for purchase by the U. S. of phonograph records for the blind; sent it to the Senate...