Word: rca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bach: Mass in B Minor (RCA Victor Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 34 sides). For those who have waited patiently for Victor to replace its old, scratchy set of this momentous work, this one makes the wait worthwhile. Performance: excellent...
...Sell. But the others, notably Capitol Records, Inc. (TIME, May 12) and RCA Victor, are coming up fast. This week and in the next three weeks, the industry will issue about 25 new albums for the Christmas trade, a new peak. Records have changed greatly since those early days of Mother Goose (whose rhymes are still the No. 1 sellers). The accent now is on handsome $3-and-up albums, which many a parent has found surprisingly entertaining. Samples: Decca's album with Ginger Rogers as Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and MGM's gentle satire...
Shortly, M-G-M will put out Lionel Barrymore's reading of A Christmas Carol, hopes to sell up to 500,000 albums at $3.75; RCA Victor will add eight more albums to its present 43. Among them: Alec Templeton's Pied Piper of Hamelin...
...while teaching school, she wrote them down in a book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon.) She had been telling the tales to her students and grandchildren for years but did not record them until 1944, and then for the Library of Congress. When RCA Victor heard the records, it hired...
Target: Toscanini. Victim of O'Connell's fiercest blast is Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The Maestro seen here is ill-natured, stubborn, suspicious, resentful. The reason for O'Connell's dislike is soon apparent: Toscanini once informed RCA Victor that he would make no records while Director O'Connell was present...