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...week is Phonographs-for-Defense Week. Urged on by the U.S. Treasury Department, juke-box makers and operators tried to get Irving Berlin's promotional song, Any Bonds Today?, into the No. 1 spot in every one of the 300,000 coin phonographs of the land. The song (sung by Barry Wood for Victor, played by Kay Kyser for Columbia) is owned by the Treasury Department. A preliminary test in 5,000 Detroit juke boxes upped defense-bond sales in the area...
...full of sprightly tunes, includes some dazzling dance routines. The title song, a combination Dale Carnegie-George M. Cohan inspirational piece addressed to "the little guy," has the swing of a fine marching song. But the hit of the show is a ballad called That Mittel-Europa of Mine, sung by highborn refugees. Sample lyrics...
...Want to Set the World on Fire (The Ink Spots; Decca). No. 1 on the jukes and networks, beautifully sung by Decca's four Negroes, who used to be $12-a-week theater porters...
...Fire" which were enjoying their brief hour at the time, before their popularity curves began the short but precipitous slide down the hill. That particular number had reached that most devoutly to be wished of all consummations, Number One on the Hit Parade, and after Barry Wood had sung his version of "fire" as a two-syllable word, I contrasted the Ten Terrific Tunes with the old standards of American popular music...
...18th-Century gags in Italian were comprehensible to Broadway. But the singers, only one of whom was over 40, voiced their airs and ensembles with Mozartean freshness and purity. Only one had big-time stage experience-Ina Souez, who was born Ina Rains in Denver, and had sung in Cosi jan tutte in Glyndebourne, England, where costly and flawless Mozart performances were given before...