Word: albums
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...studio manager, Jack (and his brother David) made sure that customers would hear all the words as well as all the music on any record Decca released. As an old sales manager (also for Brunswick) he had abiding faith in packaging. Decca began putting out inexpensive albums - 35? a record, 25? and 50? for the album. Some were collections of songs by single composers, artists or bands, some were collections of types of popular or folk music. Thanks to Mr. Steve Stevens - another old Brunswick hand - they looked very impressive for any money. Decca now releases about eight albums...
...never before. From the Cape of Good Hope to the Pacific coast and on around to the Bosporus, Decca had collected a rich variety of old and new music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung by Josef Marais and his Bushveld band. Part Huguenot, part Dutch and a lot of just plain cowboy is the music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover...
Decca turned out an album by Art Tatum, blind pianist extraordinaire, last week. This reviewer still stubbornly insists that Tatum is not such a terrific piano man, that he doesn't have taste, fluent ideas, or touch, though he does have enormous techniques. Trumpeteer Roy Eldridge thinks he's the greatest around. Listen for yourself and see whether you think it's meaningless runs or inspired genius...
...Daphne," by the Quintet of France, is rather meaningless... Mary Martin's album of Colo Porter tunes is okeh. We prefer Lee Wiley's records (General Records)... "Baby Won't You Come Home" is better rendered by the O'Neil Spencer Quartet than by Ella Fitzgerald; both Deccan... Fats Waller is still very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds...
...played by Rodzinski and the Cleveland Symphony, Orchestra, offers a fresh opportunity to hear this great work, and its miracles of beauty and power. The recording supplies a long-standing need for a good rendition of the symphony, as there has been heretofore nothing but Stokowski's old Victor album, full of the cheapest kind of distortion and the most cloying saccharinity. Rodzinski plays the symphony with verve, but straightforwardly. He brings out not the sobbing emotionalism which people profess to find in Tchaikowski, but the wonderful melodic flow, the freedom of motion, and the unfailing dramatic sense...