Word: phonographically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Frank Conrad, 67, "father of radio broadcasting"; in Miami. He played phonograph records in a homemade station he built in his garage in Pittsburgh, in 1919, broadcast plugs for the dealer he borrowed records from, acquired a regular audience of listeners...
...that vast NBC was only a detail in Radio Corp. of America-whose activities included not only NBC but the manufacture of its equipment, the sale of radio sets, the management of artists, a share (through RKO) in the production of movies, the manufacture of movie sound equipment, phonograph records, etc. But FCC did not observe how nearly indispensable to RCA is NBC's earning power...
...theater audience sat clapping hands. The audience had stood while a phonograph played God Save the King (sometimes called America) and the Internationale, then watched a play called Distant Point by a Russian author named Alexander Afinogenov. The play was about a Red Army general, dying of cancer of the lung, talking to villagers in Siberia, persuading them that they must prepare themselves for invasion...
...Phonograph records for children last week began their seasonal boom. Victor, most kiddie-conscious of disc makers, released its Christmas list: six sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children...
...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...