Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Microgroove records, with their clearer tone and 22½-minute playing time on each side, represented a much needed technical advance. But they also cut into other record sales by carrying an entire symphony on one 12-inch record for $4.85 v. $8.50 for a six-record RCA Victor album. And L.P. records scared phonograph buyers off; they didn't want to buy phonographs that turned at the old speed, especially when rumors got around of the new Victor record...
Dealers thought that the new Victor record would make things even worse. Though Victor was mum on its record, the industry expects it to go on sale early in 1949, and RCA was reportedly dickering with Capitol Records and Decca to make the record standard for the industry...
While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
When the gag was over, Perry Como rushed into Studio Two, where an all-string orchestra awaited him. A few moments later they were lurching through the Missouri Waltz, a Truman inauguration special which was Victor's first commercial disc...
...some corn named I'm Going Back to Whur I Come From, "noodled," as he called it, on the studio organ. When word came that the ban was over, Columbia, undistracted by bigwigs and publicity gags, got to work on their first record half an hour before Victor...