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Other Worlds Other Sounds (Esquivel and His Orchestra; RCA Victor LP; Stereo). Mexico's mood master transmutes a gaggle of standards-Begin the Beguine, Night and Day, It Had to Be You-into something new and cunningly deranged with the aid of bongos and a conga drum and a chili-flavored beguine tempo. Stunningly opulent sound...
Fancy Meeting You Here (Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney; RCA Victor LP; Stereo). An infectious musical dialogue between two of the sassiest fancy talkers in the business. C. & C. give slick and witty readings to a selection of retreads -On a Slow Boat to China, You Came a Long Way from St. Louis-and introduce a punchy, potential hit named Calcutta. One of the most intriguing vocal entertainments since Noel Coward had his famous chat with Mary Martin...
...eagerly the U.S. consumer greets an exciting new product was witnessed by Chicago's Motorola Inc., one of the first to jump into the market for stereophonic phonographs in 1958. The company put on sale a portable stereo set priced at $159.95, hoped to sell 8,000 units by Christmas. Actual total: 72,000 sets. Next year Motorola will spend $12 million on advertising its products, and thinks that stereo, which can run to $5,000 a set, may turn into as big a bonanza...
Each of the Monopoly players now personally owns about 15% (168,000 shares) of Seeburg's outstanding stock, and together their families control perhaps 45%. Coleman and Siegel have already given Seeburg hearty shots in the arm by introducing stereo jukeboxes, getting into the profitable cigarette vending business, giving new financial backing to Seeburg dealers. In the 1958 fiscal year ending this month, they expect Seeburg to earn only about 50? a share, owing mainly to the cost of scrapping unprofitable old products. Next year, with enough stereo orders already to run at full production well beyond the current...
...questions and there were some, like the young man above, who preferred to examine the equipment on their own. The binaural headsets went over big with the young married set, yet there were some, such as the Shavian gentlemen at about four o'clock, who found plain old stereo enough to keep them interested...