Word: phonographically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phonograph records made every year in the U. S., most are put out by three companies: Victor, Columbia and Decca. Year ago, a big-jawed, 39-year-old Victor official named Eli Oberstein decided there was room for a fourth. He resigned his job as Victor's recording manager, took a sheaf of contracts for Victor artists with him, rounded up $500,000 worth of backing, bought and refurbished an old six-story plant in Scranton, Pa. and launched U. S. Record Corp...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
Many a music student or musical amateur has itched to play a part in a fine symphony orchestra or string quartet. To give such amateurs a chance to play in professional company, a Viennese violinist named Fritz Rothschild four years ago invented a new kind of phonograph record. With other able professionals, Rothschild recorded standard classical quartets and sonatas. Each record was made with one part missing. For violinists he made a violinless quartet, for cello players a cello-less one. By playing one of these records, the lone amateur violinist or cellist could dub in his part as best...
...Phonograph Record, Player Piano, and Carmen Lombardo," a satire by Alec Templeton is very, very funny, especially the first and last. Wish Templeton would do more of this instead of trying to play jazz (at which he is very bad) and classical (at which he isn't too good) His satire and musical sense of humor is better than anyone I have heard, and it would seem as though a little division of labor is necessary...
...Gene Autry, at 32, gets $12,500 each for eight Republic pictures a year, got $25,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for Shooting High with Jane Withers, makes $10,000 to $12,000 a year on phonograph records that sometimes outsell Bing Crosby's. Another $25,000 a year comes from his magic imprimatur on cap pistols, sweat shirts, cowboy suits, a bandit-hunt game, toothbrushes, bandannas, books, balloons, dolls, a new, syndicated comic strip, make-up kits...