are good enough to make an effect, but not VANGUARD VRS 9004. 12 -in. $4.98. so good that the effect is too slick. For anyone whose affection for this style is Miss Rae is a genuinely talented artist cur- beyond satisfaction, the record is a good rently plagued with a bad case of inde- Why is SOWANN'S one to own. The sound is a credit to Mr. cision. Trying to be Beatrice Lillie, Anna McIntosh and his amplifiers. J. H., JR. Russell, and Ethel Merman all rolled into one, she succeeds in being none of them. When she has developed a more definite ROY HAMILTON and personal style, she should become one long Playing Record The Voice of Roy Hamilton of the best satirists around. Her material is EPIC LN 1103. Io -in. $1.98. taken from her own night -club act and some Broadway shows, and it could be ex- Six popular tunes, ranging in theme from tremely funny if handled with more the miseries of love to the blessings of subtlety than Miss Rae now seems capable CataIo'Ihe BihIe"of religion, are sung here by a young baritone of. Her manner here is too broad and in- in the Billy Eckstine tradition. Hamilton sistent. J. F. I. has a big voice as popular singers go, and what he lacks in finesse he compensates for FRANK SINATRA Record Colleclors? with an all -out "sincerity" barrage. Epic, The Voice for its part, has left half the record space Because Schwann offers on a regular monthly R. K. I Don't Know Why; Try a Little Tender- on each side unused. basis o complete listing of long play records ness; A Ghost of a Chance; Paradise; These classified as follows: HERE COME THE GIRLS Foolish Things; Laura; She's Funny That Way; Fools Rush In; Over the Rainbow; Froman; Classical (By Composer) Mary Martin; Ethel Merman; Jane That Old Black Magic; Spring Is Here; Irene Gertrude Niesen; Martha Raye; Lover. Chamber Music Dunne. Frank Sinatra. Anthologies EPIC LN 1114. to -in. 51.98. COLUMBIA CL 743. r2 -in. $3.95 Piano From Columbia's vaults, Epic has rescued Organ these sides cut in the late Thirties and early At the time these songs were recorded about Forties and has reissued them to appease ten to fifteen years ago, Sinatra was, I think, Vocal collectors. Mary Martin (My Heart Belongs one of the finest popular singers we've ever Spoken & Miscellaneous had. Just hear the sweetness to Daddy) and Ethel Merman (1 Get a to and light, Orchestral Kick Out of You) escape almost unscathed the wonderfully apt phrasing, and the very from this new exposure, but Jane Froman real affection that he gave to these tunes is Operas and Gertrude Niesen are not so fortunate. to hear them as no one else has ever sung Musical Shows The former's passionate wobbling through them. It's also to hear them as Sinatra Operettas the Tchaikovsky- derived Tonight We Love himself never sings anything today, busy as (and what a nightmare that was) is no Films more convincing than Gertrude Niesen's Folk Music & Folksongs attempt to be exotically sultry in Where Popular, Jazz, Swing Are You. Martha Raye (Once in a While) Rid Your Records of Dust runs pretty true to form, tearing her song Childrens in a manner now well established but apart always use 11 your dealer does not handle Schwann fairly novel in its day. Irene Dunne's vocal Catalogs kindly send us his name and address. equipment is sadly unequal to the demands of Jerome Kern's fine song Lovely to Look At. J. F. 1. ßWflC masters Have you seen EDITH PIAF The Best ...The Dry Method Piaf Tonight NO SPRAYING the new C'est à Hambourg; Le chemin des forains. NO Miséricorde; L'Accordéoniste; La goualante WASHING du pauvre Jean; Et moi ...; Les amants d, NO RUBBING SCHWANN DIGEST? Venise; N'y va pas, illanuel; L'effet qu'tu Johnny, tu n'es pas m'fais; Jean et Martine; The Schwann Digest is the un ange; Bravo pour le clown. Brush while companion piece to our regu- Edith Piaf, with M. Mercier Chorus and lar cata og. It's a orchestra directed by Robert Chauvigny. record is rotating beautifully ANGEL 65024. 12 -in. $3.98. illustrated brochure which lists The An effective easy -to -use fifty to sixty outstanding re- The day of the ten -inch pop LP appears to Polonium record brush that will pay be passing, in witness whereof Angel has Strip does for leases of the month as selected the trick itself many times over - reissued on this twelve -inch disk the eight in the protection it will give by the record manufacturers. songs previously released as Bravo pour le your prized record collec- Many of the album Clown (Angel 64005) and added to them tion. covers are the first four songs listed above. These illustrated in a sparkling dis- twelve vignettes make a fine sampling of compared with play of color. Ask your the Piaf repertoire, and with the singer in 978 SExpensiveother products... but inex- fine voice and so adept in capturing and pensive when noise -free Schwann dealer for this excit- projecting changing moods, the record is and longer lasting records ing new addition to the consistently delightful. J. F. I. are considered. Schwann family. Buy STATICMASTERS at your Hi -Fi dealers or CHARLOTTE RAE order direct... sent postpaid -cash with order. Schwann Long Playing Songs I Taught My Mother NUCLEAR PRODUCTS Record Catalog Charlotte Rae, with John Strauss and his CO. 10173 E. RUSH ST. EL MONTE, 1, CALIF. 137 Newbury St. Boston 16, .Mass. Baroque Bearcats.

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