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...year-old hit Peg o' My Heart (TIME, July 7) was the top song of the year. But the biggest record-seller was Francis Craig's tinkling Near You, which skyrocketed a dime-a-dozen record company (Bullet) into the big money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout of the year: Frank Sinatra, who wasn...
...year, maybe more, if a hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
...York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stokowski, Rodzinski, Walter, and Damrosch--at different times, of course. It has Heifetz, Rubenstein, Pinza, Piatigorsky, and other artists. It has Vaughn Monroe and Harry James. It has an insipid plot that runs contrapuntal to Beethoven's "Fifth" and Tehaikovsky's "Piano Concerto"--you know ... "Tonight we love...
Working on the theory that if classical stuff doesn't get them, the popular surely will, whoever should be held responsible has also injected the manly voice of Vaughn Monroe backed by an orchestra he leads. But more popular still should be the finale when dewy-eyed, earnstarched-haired Miss Hunt sits in Carnegie Hall listening lachrymosely to Tony lead his own composition which features the caterwaul of Harry James' trumpet. It has everything...
...wasn't until last summer, when the colonel took over the Bob Hawk quiz show for six weeks, that radio listeners noticed him again. The show zoomed up twelve places one week to the nation's top Hooperating. Bandleader Vaughn Monroe heard him, signed him to a seven-year contract...