RECORDS

Eight MODERNISTIC COMPOSITIONS have been recorded by VICTOR recently. They are:

AFTERNOON OF A FAUN

REFLECTIONS ON THE WATER

LOVE TO THREE ORANGES

FOUNTAINS OF ROME

BARTERED BRIDE (imported)

PACIFIC 221 (imported)

FLYING DUTCHMAN OVERTURE (imported)

RAVEL'S WALTZ

It seems that during the summer Paul Whiteman's RHYTHM BOYS did a job on THAT'S GRANDMA and WA-DA-DA for Columbia. Since nobody buys records then, the release wasn't discovered until day before yesterday when twenty-five of them walked out of our shop.

STEPHEN FOSTER ALBUM: Why anyone could get enthusiastic about MASSA'S IN THE COLD COLD GROUND and OLD FOLKS AT HOME was rather more than we could see until we heard it. But consider! Directed by Nat Shilkert we have the REVELERS, PAUL ROBISON, the JUBILEE SINGERS, VAUGHN DE LEATH and the VICTOR SALON ORCHESTRA, Gorgeous or chestration-one selection melting into another! A perfectly swell album-at six dollars.

Imagine this combination: RUBE BLOOM plus GEORGE GERSHWIN plus THE COMPOSERS AT THE PIANO plus PAUL WHITEMAN plus TWO VICTOR TWELVE INCH RECORDS plus the name METROPOLIS. This is rumored to be released sometime in October. Orders may be placed now on the strength of the rumor.

HELEN KANE, Victor's latest one to eleven Old Howard star continues to carol her way girlishly into the 500,000 sold class. This by the way, at the royalty of four cents per each means about $20,000,00 to the young lady.

The foreign release department hath come thru with SECTRTO ETERNAL on the organ. One of the best.

If you would care to hear what the four million buy, listen to THE BUM SONG-HALLELUJAH I'M A BUM. Garton's, a store in the tougher regions of Boston has sold better than a thousand of them to date.

PHONOGRAPHS have no place in this column but it may possibly interest someone to know that the VICTOR CO is about to put an automatic-orthophonic on the market at $350. T'will play for an hour without attention and will change its own records in eight seconds.

GRACE HAYS singing: I MUST HAVE THAT MAN-I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE. We can but quote statistics: Release date: next Friday (Oct, 5). We expect to sell: about 500. We will have in our shop and that's all we can get at the time: 100. Orders for the record on our books up to yesterday morning: 60. In the store at present: One lonely sample which is liable to break anytime. Therefore SWEET ELLA MAY - THERE'LL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU. Jacques Renard did it. We didn't believe it possible.

BLUE SHADOWS - WHAT D'YA SAY: Two musical show numbers. OK. TED LEWIS: play JUNGLE BLUES - A JAZZ HOLIDAY. If you like that sort of thing-

Records have been made of numbers from VANITIES BLACKBIRDS, and SCANDALS. Five selections from the last mentioned, incidentally.

The seven best: BLUE GRASS-PICKIN' COTTON HELEN KANE'S RECORD TEN LITTLE MILES FROM TOWN - DRIFTWOOD FAREWELL BLUES - STACK O'LEE BLUES I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE - SWEET LORRAINE SWEET ELLA MAY - THERE'LL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU WEST END BLUES-FIREWORKS

Among other things, the "seven best" above are NOT the seven best sellers. They are, instead the seven best in our judgment. In picking records, a buyer will buy from his first impressions. The above list is picked from having heard them some forty or fifty times. Anyone will tire of some records sooner than others-For example, JUST IMAGINE belongs in the second class, NAGASAKI in the first. The Music Box Inc.

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