Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot resist placing on record my admiration for the splendid article on Picasso in the Art Section of TIME, Feb. 13. You have found a dynamic style in which to express the complicated explanations of art criticism, at the same time both popular and accurate...
...using sixteen Yardlings with the same college board record as that of the "guinea pigs" as controls, the clinic established beyond a doubt that the special training caused a rise in the grades of the slow readers from the November Hours to Mid-Years...
Confirmation of last week's rumors of a huge record war arrives with announcement that Eli Oberstein, formerly record manager of Victor, leaves the company, taking with him Tommy Dorsey, Art Shaw, Larry Clinton, Sammy Kaye, and Dick Todd to form a new record company to be known as Discs Incorporated. General feeling in the industry is that this will seriously impair the Victor line, observes pointing to the atrophy of Brunswick records after Jack Kapp left in 1934, taking Guy Lombardo, Casa Loma, the Dorsey brothers, and other along to form Decca Records...
...Brunswick outfit. Signs of the intense competition brewing can be seen in the plans of the latter to keep its thirty-five cent Vocalion line, drop the price of Brunswick labels to fifty cents, and put the Columbia classical series out at seventy-five cents. Looks as though the record public is going to be able to just sit around and have better music, recorded with more fidelity, at less money than every before...
Disc-ussing: Commodore has put out some very fine records lately, among them a solo by Jess Stacy, who gets all to few opportunities to show what excellent piano he can play. Also recommended highly is "Body and Soul" with Chu Berry (tenor sax) and Roy Eldridge (trumpet). Only trouble with the record is that "Stardust," on the other side, has some of the worst recording this reviewer has ever heard. The turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus...