Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staid, steady seller at Christmas time is Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. This Christmas, buyers had better beware. Victor last week marketed a new recording of Nutcracker-done by Spike Jones and his City Slickers. It was the musical mayhem...
Belched Danube. Their first big seller, in 1942, was the Hitler lampoon, Der Führer's Face. When it sold a phenomenal 1,500,000 records, Spike took the City Slickers on a road tour. Recalls Spike: "We were too corny for sophisticated people, and too sophisticated for corny people." But by the end of the tour, collectors and radio disc-jockeys were calling for more. He set about deflating some of Tin Pan Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else...
Cass Timberlane, the story of a middle-aging Midwesterner's love for an intermittently erotic bobbysoxer, grossed Novelist Sinclair Lewis well over a quarter-million dollars before publication. Once on the stands, the novel soared into second place on the best-seller list, with 675,000 sales in ten weeks...
...broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...
Last week this old tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick...