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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