Word: rca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Customers, shelling out on the prospect that programs would improve before the novelty wore off, were going heaviest for table sets with 10-in. screens (most popular models: a $339.50 Philco, a $375 RCA). But the smaller 7-in. screen models, such as the $179.95 Motorola, the cheapest set, were right behind...
...Manhattan, ski-nosed Comedienne Bea Lillie ended her day at RCA Victor's big, bare Studio 2 just two minutes before midnight. She did her own offbeat version of Atlanta, a number from Inside U.S.A., a musical show that won't hit Broadway until March...
Send for Shaw. Bob Shaw, who looks a little like Mickey Rooney trying to be serious, and a little older (he is 31), has practically a monopoly on big-league choral singing. He has put new life into the art in the U.S. CBS and RCA Victor own only their company names for Shaw's choruses. When they want a chorus of 40 to record the Bach B Minor Mass (Victor) or 30 voices for broadcast of Beethoven's Mass, they go to Shaw. He has a huge reservoir of singers-his cleanly trained, 185-voice Collegiate Chorale...
...busiest musician in Manhattan this week will undoubtedly be a shock-haired young man named Robert Shaw. When the last round tones of his RCA Victor Chorale conclude NBC's RCA Victor show, Shaw will just about have time to gobble his dinner, struggle into his heavy blue overcoat and dash four blocks to CBS's studios to lead the Columbia Chorale and Symphony in Beethoven's Mass in C. Two days-and eight hours of rehearsals-later, he will conduct his Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall in Bach's three-hour-long Christmas Oratorio; next...
...himself the Tennessee Plowboy, was in Manhattan, the one place in the U.S. where he doesn't seem to be a big hit. Says he: "Dawgonnit, this is the only place my records don't sell." But elsewhere, Eddy's records were selling fast enough for RCA Victor to rush out a few more before Petrillo puts a stop to it (see above...