AND WHAT THE MEN' WHO USUALLY PICK THEM SUGGEST
FOR YOUR DISC LIST
by Cyril Stapleton
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1958.
"The
BIG surprise in the pairs of "The Four Freshmen Talking Train," "Music M
business this Christ- mas is Christmas !·
Becalise up to Number One
the hit parade comes 4 Chistmas caroli
on
It is "Mary's Boy Child," Harry Belatie.
Dell speaks wholeheartedly in "Sparky's Magic Piano," and Five Saxes." Says he: "It's up," and a great LP by any standards. Echo." And If you think your friends will co grout songs from the past sung with seaumental by intimacy, try Dolores Gray's Warm Brandy." I rate It Tive
Must be that Mum and Dad Star."" have begun to buy records The annual spate of now again. Already It has sold songs written hopefully around 650,000 and is expected to top Christmas rarely amounts to a million. It soomed a season- much. But Vera Lynn's "I'l able gift to me, anyway, until Remember Today" and "Home I was smitten with a sudden for the Holidays," according to suspicion.
Alan, could "happen."
Surely the youngsters who rave over Presley and Steele had not also taken to singing Christmas carols And Bola fonte's disc in perfectly straight version of the earol
Convinced
EVERYONE in the business told me the idds must be buying it, but it took a long distance call to a Glasgow record store to convince me,
It was true. The youngsters who were suffering from Haley fever a few short months ago now look like turning a Christ-
mas carol into the biggest selling popular
"You couldn't go far wrong with the LP 'Sammy Swings, by Sammy Davis Jun." David Jacobs tells me. "I'd give t with equal confidence to flying teenagers and the sophisticates. Guaranteed to warm up any- bedy on a cold day.
A
"And a new girl has come inte my life." David counides, "Trudy her but her name, but I'm Richards. I know nothing about fan already, And after you've heard her LP Crazy In Love' you will be too. Cracking ac- companiment by Bully May makes it really exceptional. "On 70. Sinatra's 'Al Way and Chicago' are a
Haley's song since
"Rock Around The Clock"!
I was so ahaken by this that I thought I'd better have a word with the experts-the men who make a living out of spinning
the records they think you will buy. The disc-jockeys, in fact.
Sam Costa agreed that it was fantastic.
"But, at least," he said, "it's a ray of hope for the future. Pity I'm not plugging records
FOR THE SINATRA FAN: "The Jolly Christmas and Frank Sinatra Álbum" with Gordon Jonkina's orchestra and choir. On one side half a dozen, assort- ed carols, on the other, mich popular Christmas tunes as
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TRUDY NICHARDS -UP TO THE STARS SAYS CAVID JACOBS
"Jingle Bells," "The Christmas Story."
FOR ANYONE GIVING A PARTY who wants something everyone can join in; Winifred
Atwell's "Let's Have a Ball"
a good buy.
A British Crossword Puzzle
07 The
fine
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coupling of jazz and sentiment. Delicious."
Short list
you would like to make a rony of my own short lat to pop into your shopping bag, here it is
FOR THE TEENAGER who Biken music with a beat: Frankie Vaughan singing a song called "Kisses are Sweeter than Wine."
at the moment. I'd follow up This is already being spoken of
with a wonderful record by the
as a future No. 1 and Frankde's
KCA Symphony Orchestra call- best so for, Released
ed "For People Who Don't Like December 1. Classical Musle"--and it's made
up of meaty excerpts from the classics,
to resist.
Very hard for anyone
Wise words
THEN I'd give 'em Swing
the Ing In HI-FI by Gerry Fielding Orchestra. It includes 'Razzie Dazzle-a rock 'n' roller-but the whole is cal- culated Lo improve teenage tastes,
To those wise words of Costa, let me add a few from Alan Dell. "If you're buying for older folk, LFs are your best says Alan.
bel,'
a
FOR THE TEENAGER
Bense
23
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13
ACROSS
with the
1. Cut for a child?, 4.
Official proclamation Net a coupe (0).
(6).
8. Putting bro practice (5).
12.
13: Ce-shaped (1)
of humour! Stargazers' hilarious "Skling Dogs." Dave Carey, lead singer with the group, wrote this song and it pokes good fun at all the sole dors of the skifle world. Imitates sale
19. mixture (bi. Released December 13.
15. And Ancient? (B),
16. Ofound mind (4)
20. quality all too
171.
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1. Towards the source_(8).
Selted, as most office workers are (8).
Niblick, for example (4), Regarded with acorn 18). Twice able to dancel (8). Utter tuuidity (8).
Candidates favours (8).
Haris in a foundry idi. Suppliers of our needs (8). Young animals (8),
Pooch (6).
+
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are nowadays
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Comman place-nama ending (4).
22.
Only half applaud? (4).
23,
24.
Cool and calm (03.
Bepternal name 13).
I thick, stupid! (8),
Takes Armly in hand (8).
FOR THE TEENAGER who keg a robust voloe: Ronnie 21. Hilton singing a big, powerful song called "That's Why I Was Rorn." I've never heard Ron In better form. He and Frankie should be up top together.
FOR THE VERY YOUNG KIDS Capitol have just re- Issued the "Sparky" series,
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
'COME ON IN ---
LONG
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GRAMOPHONE WEEK
TODAY SURVEYING THE OFF-THE-BEATEN TRACK
Slimming and the Record Boom
get together
HE ingenious advances in the gramophone industry are all the time opening up now horizons of interest for the collector.
The popularity, for example, of modern language courses by gramophone has been a startling. Icature for the past few years.
It is possible nowadays for the theatre enthusiast to sit back at home and hear the entire por formance of "King Lear" with Sir John Gielgud in the title role.
The great moments of e war-when the words. of Wing- ton Churchill so dominated our Jives can slir vur ouce again on wax.
emotions
New technique
IN many other ways hitherto
unthought of the sange an value of the gramophone is expanding all the time.
Today sees the issue of a new departure In gramophone technique.
It is called “REDUCE IN RECORD TIME," and its pur- pase is to harness together the: enthusinam for keeping slim and the great boom in record buy- ing
Reduce In record time" offers those who want to keep slim a new way to make their
wishes come true.
Three
"REDUCE
in RECORD TIME
ABOVE: WHAT THE COVER LOOKS LIKE
Already the course has been are the speeches of Sir Whis. This is a recording of a Mozart exhaustively tried out by a test ton Churchill. You can buy rehearsal under the balon ut panel and the results have been these magnificent orations com Bruno Walter. found to br extraordinarily plete on two H.M.V, dises Then Christmas-wise Capitol good.
(1435 and 1430), or in extract have done Roger Wagner's "Joy called "I Can Hear It Now" to the World" (P8353), Aud (Philips SPL100)..
since Christmas Uime 13 children's-time also try the Informally, another Philips Uttle ones with Uncle Mac's production worth hearing is Nursery Rhymes on H.M.V. "The Birth of a Performance." TEG8284,
records and the exercise manual are packaged in an attractive box. The course is avaliable through most book- sellers, W. H. Smith, and Beats' book branches, and from Kelth Prowse. It costs £8 3s.
A GLIMPSE
AT SOME
OF THE
OTHERS....
CRIME SHELF by Philip
COLLAR FOR THE
Oakes
corpse 1s found in a sarco- NOW, to put alongside your KILLER. By Herbert Brean, phagus by a superior home-help...
Heinemann, It consists of three long slimming course, here
133. ad Really Miss Marple Investigates. playing records and a well- selection of the off-beat, the first-class
thriller about a Reasonable, readable and lightly illustrated instruction manual, surprising and the delightfuldedgling New York detective whimsical. Fine of its type-t The records they are recorded oddities you can get on record who conducts a conscience, you like the type, * by Phyllis Calvert -- contain today,
driven probe into the guilt of exercises set to musle, The
murderer he haa First gimmick-on-the-gramoan alleged manual illustrates the exercises phone is the crazy Concerta for helped to frame,
***** • ILL WIND, By W. L. Heath. Tough and
and plans gramme.
The course la effective ---
and
the
fun. Special sections of the course are devoted to:---
L
the reducing pro- Vacuum Cleaner. It is part of credible, with good documentary Hamish Hamilton, 12s. 6d. How Hoffnung Musical Festival flavour, and a nice, disenchanted did tax collector Charley Mott (Columbia CX1400).
stripteaser as a hérolne,
got a bullet in his head? Was it an accident or attempted After that soothe yourself
suleide? The intrigues of a with the mellifluous voice of 4.50 FROM PADDINGTON, #mall American town on the John Gielgud reciting Shakes By Aratha Christie. Crime Club, ego of an election, acidly and peare's connels, (Brunswick, 12s. 6d. Cosy whodunit which Inlimately explored. Nothing LAT8015).
begins with a sensible shopper really to do with crime, but a Again the spoken word-but seeing murder done on a passing straight novel with a
tonic a complete and rousing contrast train. Developments when the streak of tension.
Reducing the Abdomen Reducing the Ilipa Reducing the Thighs Improving the Waist Reducing the Bustline
.
Happy New Year... We. Hope
BY HARRY WEINERT
BA
DON'T LET THE FOLKS UPSTAIRS KEEP YOU |AWAKE-IF YOU CAN'T STOP 'EM, JOIN 'EM —
THEY WON'T KNOW YOU'RE STRANGERS.
"WHY DON'T
YOU GO TO |A MOVIE FOR
AWHILE ?
THE WAITERS
ARENT
HERE
YET!*
WHEN A MÁN HAS TO MAKE RESERVATIONS
A MONTH IN ADVANCE, HE'S ENTITLED
"TO A LARGE EVENING.
START THE
NEW YEAR
RIGHT-
WHEN THEY
DIM THE...
LIGHTS
AND PLAY
AULD LANG
SYAE
THERE ARE GOING. TO BE SOME VERY RED FACES WHEN SOME OF THE MORE DIGNIFIED ELEMENT LEARN HOW THEY USHERED IN THE NEW YEAR..
COPE, 1956 BY GENERAL FEATURES COMP.TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
BE SURE
YOU-KISS
RIGHT YOIRLY
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ELEVEN-FIFTY-EIGHT----
ELEVEN-FIFTY.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN-
HAPPY NEW YEAR 7 WAIT UNTIL WE GET
THE CHECK /
THERE'S ONE IN ALMOST
EVERY PARTY,
YOU'RE
USED TO
WEARING SILLY HATS I'M NOT!*
SHE HAS
HER OWN. OPINION ABOUT
THAT
RESOLV
TO LOOK ON!
THE BRIGHT"
SIDE OF THINGS - WE HOPE,
THE OTHER NEW BOOKS IN BRIEF
By JOHN THOMPSON.
• GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, by Robert Graves (Cassoll, 21): This title joined the English language when Graves Arst pub- lished his angry autobiography 23 years ago. Now the enlarged edition has some new sections, including # much revised chapter on T. E. Lawrence. Graves has also left out what bo calls "some dull or foodina patches" from the original book, put in some proper names where death has made their disguiso Unnecessary, and restored somnu suppressed anecdotes, Looking bucic through hindsight- spectacles much of Graves DOW scents a rather conventional rebel. But Graves decided to take no risks. Saying Goodbye To. All That (which equals goodbye to Britain) he now Hvas in Majoren: a place to the mun for the disgruntled.
• DING DONG BELL, by Percy Young and Edward. Ardimate (Dennis Dobson, 'Zle,); ... Eighly Aursery rhymes, familiar and not, Sections for animals, birds, ari tasects, flowers and trees, people, places, things nonsenas, and evening. Drawings by Ditry in his best vein, and musical settings by Percy Young, with some, useful notes for parents on how to play them. Also a Teamed, little introduction by Young that should help to out- wit the most persistent child.
●«TIE KEYS, OF ST FATTI, by Roger Fevrelište. (Seokar - di Warburg, 18s.)-Best-seller from France enters the British Hat with high expectations' coming bs it does from the author of the very thinny "The Ambass clors” and “Diplomatie: Diver- slopes Victor. Mas arrives in the Vatican where he soon fælle Into the traps" set for callow
household thara falan Paolo,
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