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...best Messiah now available is the newish Angel stereo recording conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent (Angel 3598 C). It's not up to the old mono recording--the Huddersfield Choral Society are worse than usual--but it's not unacceptable. The soloists' names are relatively unfamiliar in this country (with the possible exception of the tenor, Richard Lewis), but Sir Malcolm, unlike Sir Adrian, has used them to good advantage, restrained his extravagances, and produced a restrained, lyrical, and generally balanced Messiah...
During his firm's early days, McCracken realized that religious music could not compete with pop tunes in record stores, set up a Family Record Club that now accounts for half his business. Members can buy a religious record every month for $3.98 (or $4.98 for stereo); if they buy two, they get a third free. Another McCracken plan is the Audio Record Program: 600 salesmen across the country peddle a five-album. 34-record collection that offers, according to McCracken, "everything a family needs for proper inspiration, worship and education"-all for $189.95. "When they...
...training for this week's cover, he put on stereo earphones ("so that only I would be driven crazy") and listened to so many folk-singing LP albums that "my ears literally have calluses," and he hopes the twanging sound in his head will soon go away...
Some prices have come down (most stereo tapes are $2 or $3 more than LP stereo records); the tape itself has been more or less standardized-and the market has begun to boom. RCA's pre-recorded-tape sales are up 50% over last year, and the Harrison Catalogue of Stereophonic Tapes lists 2,782 releases. As for tape machines, their sales increased by some 27% in two years-from 435,000 to 550,000-and some manufacturers predict an annual sale of 1,000,000. Last year $50 million in new tapes was sold...
...like to do their own recording-either from radio broadcasts or from borrowed LPs (a $12 album can be put on tape costing about $4). Although recording from broadcasts is a definite copyright violation, the tapesters went at it even more vigorously last year, after the advent of FM-stereo broadcasting...