Word: phonographic
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...more of those simple, melodic, tunes like "Sugar" and "More Than You Know." Songs like those are not being written today, or at least I hadn't heard them. Then I played Billic Holiday's record of "Sugar" and Mildred Bailey's of "More Than You Know" on the phonograph and realized it even more acutely. Perhaps the radio and talkies had done the job, perhaps the demand for music for films, stage shows, juke-boxes, and all the other media through which the backneyed din reaches the public ear, has been too great. Output had to be stepped...
Thanks to movies, phonograph, radio and missionary, the world's primitive music is fast dying. Long ago Hawaiian guitar and ukulele tunes were corrupted by the harmonies of the missionary hymn. Elsewhere cowboy ditties and last year's swing hits on battered records have influenced, if not supplanted, the authentic aboriginal hotcha. So the Fahnestocks, who began sailing the South Seas seven years ago, resolved to catch some native music before it got G-stringed...
...merits many more admirers than it could claim in 1935, it has remained an esoteric secret to the average radio listener and record buyer who thrills to the superficialities of the popular dance-bands and their pretty ballads or noisy killer-dillers. Over a hundred million phonograph records are being sold this year; yet how many of them are bought and forgotten within a month...
...very simple. The notes of reveilles, or technically speaking, of "first call", blasted the night air at 5:40, but not the notes of a bugle. The Army has gone modern. The sergeant whose job it was to serve as bugler simply turned over in bed and started a phonograph which played the bugle calls over a public address system. The phonograph also had a large collection of popular songs, and it was not an unusual occurrence a few seconds after reveille for the stirring military notes of "The Booglie Wooglie Piggy" to sound forth...
Smartest users of music to make political points are the Almanac Singers, four young men who roam around the country in a $150 Buick and fight the class war with ballads and guitars. Their recorded collection Songs for John Doe, ably hewed to the then Moscow line, neatly phonograph-needled J. P. Morgan, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and particularly war (TIME, June 16). The three discs of Talking Union, on sale last week under the Keynote label, lay off the isolationist business now that the Russians are laying it on the Germans...