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...stereopticon delighted the nation's tasseled parlors with its "magic" ability to make the two-dimensional seem three-dimensional. After a sluggish start in 1958, stereophonic music has finally begun to catch the ear and the purse strings of the U.S. This year's sales of stereo phonographs are nearly double last year's (1,423,179 for 1960 to date; 757,710 for 1959) and stand at more than three times those of standard players (438,011 for the year of date). Fresh labels are flowing from the record mints to fill the stereo...
...kinds of sounds are being recast in the stereo mold, but the stereo fan has learned that he can best demonstrate the pingpong effects with the plink and thump of percussion instruments, and stereo records with "percussion" in the title have a Presley-like pull. Command Records, a stereo pioneer, seldom settles for less than two Ps in titles, such as Persuasive Percussion and Provocative Percussion which between them have sold hundreds of thousands of copies since last September. Companies both big and small are doubling in brass. Among the new releases...
...Private Life of a Private Eye (Enoch Light and the Light Brigade; Command). Bandleader Light, Command's artist-and-repertory chief, and Fellow-Composer Lewis A. Davies have written a ballet for the ear, suggesting that stereo may give rise to original compositions to exploit its spatial effects. The score runs the gamut of styles, incorporating some fine workable musical ideas, as well as some that are merely reminiscent of background music for crime melodramas...
Pertinent Percussion Cha Cha's (Command). This time, Bandleader Light provides a strong, not to say overpowering beat for the stereo fan who likes to exercise while listening...
...profit squeeze has led many firms to diversify in search of new sources of profits. Some retail jewelers are widening their lines to include typewriters, radios, stereo phonographs and small appliances. Shrinking profits have hit such giant food chains as A. & P., National Tea and Kroger, though some others have relieved the pinch by selling more and more items besides food. The Jewel Tea Co. chain (277 stores) has hiked its profits since it added high-profit-margin nonfood items-including brassieres...