Northwest Phono Notes
By LOUIS KARNOFSKY
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Master and Variety records, two newcom-
ers to the field, which are handled by the
American Record Corp_ of Calif., have
found popular favor among Northwest
operators. These two new brands have pro-
duced several bes t selling numbers that have
caught public fancy in a big way.
Judging by reports of operators and
phonograph jobbing houses, very few pop-
ular records have enjoyed a steadier or
larger sale over a longer period of time
than "Boo-H oo." It started slowly, and
gained momentum until it was the Number
One hit of the country. And it has main-
tained a terriffic pace. One well-versed lo-
cal operator predicts that it will be good
for a year's run-not, of course, as the big
seller it was for several months, but never-
theless a steady nickel-getter.
Disc/and D abblings-For a steady pro-
ducer of top-notch music and for clever pre-
sentation, Shep Fields receives the North-
west's acclaim . . . "Cute" is the only word
we can think of that aptly describes "The
Merry-Go-Round Broke D own." This num-
ber is proving a big hit . . . Of all the
record artists' presentations of "Boo-Hoo"
Russ Morgan wins the vote of the North-
west operators as having put it ove r the
best ... The tremendous popularity of Vic-
tor's "J osephine" and Vocal ion's "Take the
T Out of Kelly" has been nothing short
of sensational in record circles here . • •
Some other best selling discs of the past
month or so include: " Sweet Leilani,"
"Turn Off the Moon," "September in the
Rain," "Carelessly," "The Love Bug Will
Bite You," " 'Cause My Baby Says It' s So,"
"Wake Up and Live," "Never in a Million
Years," and "Let's Call the Whole Thing
Off."
Personalities in the R.ecord Parade-Herb
Huff, well-known Seattle operator, has es-
tablished an office in the Seattle Transfer
Building and is operati ng under the name
of Pacific Distributors ... Rumors continue
to fly thick and fast that Johnny Kage, the
Wurlitzer service man, is heading altarward.
Late reports set the date for some time in
June . . . Operator D an Mill er of Tacoma
was seen recently buying some Bing Crosby
numbers at a Seattle jobber's establishment.
D an was look ing right smart and prosper-
ous in a new summer outfit, topped off by
an impressive appearing cigar in a corner
of his mouth.
new type of whistling. "If you've never
heard the birds sing," modest Cliff tells us,
"you won't ever want to hear them after
you've listened to me."
Young Dick Fields, the Wurlitzed service
man for Seattle and vici nity, was recently
spotted turning in some scintillating plays
whi le pastiming in the game of softball
with some of the transfer men during the
lunch hour. Sign him up, scouts, sign him
up! . . . Who is the certain young stock
clerk at one of the record houses who eats
three times as large a lunch as all the other
employees combined, who takes three times
as long to eat it-and yet weighs less than
any man in the concern?
Our nomination for the phonograph
operator with the most winning smile and
sunniest disposition: Ray Pepple, step for-
ward and take a bow. Ray is in the em-
ploy of the Hart Novelty Co. of Everett ...
And while we're nomi nati ng, here's our
choice for the busiest music. man in this sec-
tion: B. A. Almvig, who heads the B. A.
Almvig Mu sic Store in Tacoma and also
operates phonographs. H e is a veritable
dynamo of energy and action and gets more
accomplished in one day than the average
man does in three . . . A close second is
R. D . Peck, also of Tacoma . . . Busy peo-
ple, these T acomans.
Public Mystery Number One on Record
Row: Where did all those chocolates come
from that Maybelle Ebert, the little ray of
sunshine at the American Record Corp.,
was recently passing around to operators?
... The talents of Cliff Carter, hard-work-
ing stock clerk at the same office, knows no
bounds, it seems. To his long list of ac-
complishments, Cliff now adds an entirely
Old Phono Use
suggested by jobber.
ST. LOUIS. (RC) - One local jobber
proposes to dispose of out-moded phono-
graphs to clubhouses, to the members of
clubs consisting of four or five families, if
not more, who have banded together and
built themselves some sort of clubhouse
along some river for a common outing place.
Since this territory abounds with such
cI ubs, an aggressive salesman ought not to
have trouble in moving a good ly number
of machines. Since it is difficult to place
old-fashioned machines on location this
idea may be a good one.
While a fi nal revenue is realized by the
operator, the club members, through ac-
quisition of the machine, become phono-
grap h conscious. Thus it is not unlikely
that such folk may take to playing phonos
on location as they happen across them in
their daily life. It is then that operators at
large wi ll begin to draw added revenue
from the sales of the old machines.
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