Word: rca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THAT GOOD NEWS: SAM COOKE (RCA-Victor). A rich and diverse collection of songs and styles by one of the best jazz and pop singers around. Cooke is as strongly rhythmic and rocking on Good Times and Meet Me at Mary's Place as he is quietly swinging on the likes of A Change Is Gonna Come and Home...
FALSTAFF (RCA Victor). With a princely cast that includes Geraint Evans, Giulietta Simionato, Mirella Freni and Rosalind Elias, Verdi's masterwork is sung better than ever before on records. But Conductor Georg Solti does not live up to the Falstaff achieved by Arturo Toscanini in his famous 1950 recording. His beat is too rigid to be helpful to his singers...
...PORTRAIT OF MANON (RCA Victor). Soprano Anna Moffo is ideally gifted to sing Manon-both Puccini's and Massenet's. In this two-LP collection of scenes from both operas, she enhances Puccini by shading and softening the music where it is too bold, then enriches Massenet with a vivid, vibrant performance of his pastel score...
PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY-CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). Prokofiev had no affinity for the cello, but with the counsel of Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropoyich, he made his cello concerto one of his loveliest works. Here it is impeccably performed by Erich Leinsdorf, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Cellist Samuel Mayes in a recording that also includes Gabriel Fauré's noble little...
More important, the FCC gave this advantage to A.T. & T.'s chief rivals- RCA, Western Union International and International Telephone and Telegraph. The FCC ruled that these competitors may go into transatlantic voice communication, offer a combined telephone-teletype service. They will thus break A.T. & T.'s monopoly on transatlantic phone calls. Said an FCC aide about the fortunate three: "They're the little boys, so they deserve the breaks...