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...Victor), Columbia shared in the pressing of something like $100 million worth of popular music. The product, boosted around the world by disk jockeys, record-players. TV, movies and old-fashioned stem-winding phonographs, is as ubiquitous as the American candy bar, the milkshake and the neon-lighted jukebox. And to ballad buyers, the voice of Rosemary Clooney, 24, has become as familiar as the voice of F.D.R. was to their parents...
Gomen-Nasai (Richard Bowers; Columbia). The title is Japanese for "Forgive Me," and the rest is jukebox remorse for contemporary Madame Butterflys. As a G.I. in Japan, Bowers made the recording with a Japanese dance band which labors pitifully for a Stateside sound...
Seven Lonely Days (Georgia Gibbs; Mercury). A fresh new country tune that lilts along with an engaging countermelody and plenty of bounce. A good cut above most such songs, and a pretty sure jukebox favorite along the chili-parlor circuit...
...vogue of hillbilly and "country" tunes may have something to do with Marais' new popularity with the jukebox trade. But his songs have engaging, Calypso-style rhythms of their own, and turns of phrase in the lyrics (e.g., "How lovely cooks the meat") that never came from Tin Pan Alley...
...Frankie Laine. Marais invented a man named Willy and changed the song's animals to people. "It would not be nice to bill Mr. Laine as a rat and Miss Stafford as a mouse," says Marais. Moreover, as Columbia Records could have told him, and perhaps did, the jukebox trade seldom gets excited about animal numbers...