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RECORDS

A column contributed by the Music Box devoted to criticism of records

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

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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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