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By SAPPHIRE
A "little doggie" in a window and a little boy at
bedtime are selling "pop" records faster than they can bBe
pressed.
The picture of a dog
reputedly listening to
his master's voice has
dorie a lot of good for
one record label -over
th evears.
But Mercury is thriving
on the "Doggie in the Win
dow" vogue at present.
And Philips cannot turn
out records fast enough to
meet the demand for "Tell
Me a Story," sung by
Frankie Laine and Jimmy
Boyd. with choir and piano.
There is just enough humor
in their handling of this
little bedtime interlude to
lift it above .the maudlin.
Latest 12-in. Westmin
ster LP disc presents
Rimsky _ Korsakoff's Sin
fonietta on Russian Themes
and Dvorak's , Slavonic
Rhapsody No. 2 in G minor,
played by the Vienna Sym
phony Orchestra, conducted
by Henry Swoboda. The
recording is fair to good,
but there could be quieter
surfaces.
Much the more interest
ing of the two works. the
sinfonietta is notable for
some happy writing for
woodwind and French
horns and' for Rimsky
Korsakoff's construction of
its first movement round a
theme which is almost cer
tainlv a "quotation" of the
opening theme in the Bee
thoven "pastoral" sym
phony.
Except for some slight
pitch wavering and patches
of surface noises, Tschai
kowsky's "Romeo and
Juliet" Overture fantasy is
given a good routine per
formance on a 10-in. LP
Festival disc but if you
think of buying the "Ray
mond" and "Light Cavalry"
overtures on a second Fes
tival 10-in. LP disc you are
advised to hear it first.
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