1936-05-30 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 30,

1936,

15

SHOWING TO-DAY at the MAJESTIC

GREATEST COMEDY

OF THIS,

OR ANY OTHER YEAR

MUEL GOLDW

presents

1

.ON YOUR GRAMOPHONE

Smiling Through

W

the Gloom

HY 50 many Hun- garlans should have grown suicidal on lienring" Gloomy Sun-

day I can't imagine.

There seem to be so many other. contemporary popular songa more obviously calculated to make the listener go away and end it all.

But that is how "aloomy Bundny" Affected the Hungarians, and the song became famous by publicity that in un- Usunt even in these days.

The song has reached England, and, having lived through "The Music Goes Round," we are able to take it.

The first recordings are beginning to trickle through, among them Albert Bandler (Columbia FB1366), Alfredo and his ortHR (H.MV, B8424), Hutch Purloplione 1444), Cleorge Bou- langer And orchestra (Parlophone F457), Paul Robeson (H.M.V. B8423), Maurice Elwin (Rex 8773).

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NE of the major oddities

of this world is the habit

of Atting words to tunes that were never intended to have words.

People will go to nimost any troubla to find words for a tune that everybody knows already. However, it is good for trade.

Eddie CANTOR Strike Me

Pint

with

ETHEL

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& WILLIAM FRAWLEY and gorgeous Goldwyn Dire Directed by Norman Taurog kylared thru UNITED ARTISTS

Since we have had Kreisler's violin trille, "Caprice Viennols" recorded by most things from the Minneapolis Symphony Orcheal to

51 mouth organ, I couldn't imagine there was. nny way left in which it could be re- corded. And yet

Knowing the ways and means of re- cording companies, there is probably a very sound financial reason for some of the recent titles and stunts put on the wax by Elisabeth Schumann. But it is getting a little monotonous to find a great singer like this constantly singing second-rate songs.

Anybody making a first acquaintance with Schumann during the past year (since her record of "Ave Maria") might well be pardoned for not realis ing that she is one of the most ex- quisite singers of Schubert and Mozart in the world.

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THE latrat slup in the face for those who know

the real Behumann is that she must add n Vocal version of "Caprice Viennois" to the lisis! (H.M.V. DA1453).

It is beautifully done, of course, sung Ilke Kreister would play it, but it's al rather like Dr. Johnson and the walk- ing dog. Why should it have to be

BY

SPIKE HUGHES

done? Are there no good songs that scil?

Miliza Korjus, on the other hand. may be in mather a spot. The 'cotom- turn repertory is limited, but surely not so limited that two Chopin Noc- tumes have to be transcribed and re- corded by her (11.M.V, C2832).

the

Peoplo used to shout about "Jazzing of the classics" I am not sure this" vocal version" habit is not worse. It is not only the composers who are being ancrificed but fine artists as well, intended by nature for higher things..

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Vocalion THE name

on

a gramophone record label old-timers

will make a number of think hard about the good old days. It was on Vocalion that some of the moat enterprising things the gramo photo industry ever did were issued a decade and more ago.

Now Vocallon has reappeared, and how it is translated:

For Vocalion, made by Rex, is a special record series for a special pub lic-that pubile which demands more and more that music should "Swing music."

bo

One of the most ironic things about the gramophone industry today is that 100 206 ostensibly least commer- cial recorda-those of classical and "swing" music-are the stendiest Bellery.

Even if you feel you do not like

Budapest, the starting point of

Cloomy Sunday," which has now reached this country.

"swing" musle, people who like music will take at once to the lyrient-charm of "Nightfall" by Benny Carter and his Orchestra (Vocalion No. 4).

Benny Carter is one of the finest musicians in all Jazz: a young Negro from U.S.A. who plays mast instru- menis extremely well. writes unusual tunes and scores them in an unusual and original way. You have probably heard his lovely "Dies in my Heart' brondenst by Ifenry Hall, for whom he is doing a lot of work just now.

There are three other records sa Jar released in this Vocallon series-- all good, especially Night Wind," by Taft Jordan and the Mob, which in- cludes Teddy Wilson, the great Negro plantet, and "Solitude." by Beriny Goodman's Modernists, a collection of white musicians such as America never produced before.

Since then things matter to the fans, a leaflet is given away with these Vocalion records that tells you who playn what in each tune and why.

And how,

ANRANNANANAANDAMANANAAN

You SHOULD LIKE .

ELGAR. Enigma Variations (ILM.V. DB2000-821. A new recording by the D.D.C. Symphony Orchestra under Boult. It is good, but not good enough to displace Elgar's own recording from the H.M.V. catalogue.

(H.M.V.

"THE TOWN TALKS." BD345.) Phyllis Etanley, ex-Cochran showgirl, and sometime Madonna in the last production of "The Miracle," makes her recording debut with Arthur Rincon in a song from her current show, "You have that extm Some-

Jing."

Prelude.

DIE MEISTERSINGER. (H.M.V. C2809.) Georg Szelt and the London Philharmonie present the firat Rounds you heard of the 1936 Covent Garden Season.

SADDLE YOUR BLUES TO A

WILD MUSTANG. One of the few Bongs about a horse that is alive and kicking. Ridden by Roy Fox (H.M.V UD5043.) Isham Jones (Brunswick 02103). The above lave arrived.

SWING. Song from *Public Nuisance No. 1." Maybe it's the theme song, it's popular enough already, Ro corded by Ambrose Decen P5919), Jay Wilbur (Rex 8739). Billy Cotton (Regal MR2043). The other boys are a bit slow on the uptake, considering.

ALONE AT & TABLE FOR TWO. Another, more elaborate, way of tell. ing un. old, ok story. Recorded by. Guy Lombardo (17.M.V, BD5038), Ted Flo Rilo (Decen P5009), Jay Wilbur (Rex 0753), Henry Hall (Columbia FB1342).

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