Word: disks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...images of startling clarity, be congenial with both jazz and classics. Although much admired by jazzmen, he has remained largely unknown to the public. But last week Pianist-Arranger Jackson was finally coming into his own. His album of Jazz Variations on Movie Themes was a surprise hit with disk jockeys. He was busy scoring a new movie, planning new album material, and preparing the Gershwin Concerto in F for eleven concerts with the Hollywood Symphony. "When you talk about him," said Saxman Benny Carter, "you gotta be well versed in superlatives...
...been that way ever since 1947 when New Orleans-born Mahalia Jackson recorded a Gospel song called Move On Up a Little Higher for a small record company. The disk sold a whopping 2,000,000 copies, and Mahalia who had sung Gospel songs in neighborhood churches since her childhood, turned her mention from her Chicago beauty shop to push her professional career. From the start audiences recognized her, as did London's New Statesman, as "the most majestic voice of faith" of her generation. The obvious sincerity of Mahalia's belief moves audiences even when they cannot...
...book, her stepfather (Robert Sterling), principal of the local high school, loses his job-in real life, the author's teacher-husband did. Because of the book, she falls in love with a married man (Jeff Chandler)-in real life, the author fell in love with a disk jockey, left her husband and two children in order to marry him, later left the disk jockey and remarried the first husband...
When television first barged so rudely onto the U.S. entertainment scene, many radio stations flipped the keys shut on their studio mikes, set their turntables to twirling eternally, hired the disk jockey to titillate the teen-ager with pointless prattle. But there are notable signs that the clatter of the platter is gradually being muted. Its replacement: serious chatter...
...last week KMOX could claim a resounding success. Its afternoon audience had jumped 28% above its disk-jockey days; advertising time on the all-talk program (now expanded to seven hours daily) was sold solidly. Other CBS stations in Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia had picked up the same format, and officials of at least eight other stations (from Winnipeg to Mexico City) have traveled to St. Louis to listen-and, perhaps, do likewise...