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Show By LYN CONNELLY COLUMBIA Records began 1952 with one 2,000,000 sales record, Johnnie Ray's "Cry," and closed with another, 12-year-old Jimmy Boyd's "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," establishing both singers as stellar entertainment personalities . . . Johnnie Ray's first album also topped the 100,000 sales mark to become Columbia's top set of the year, and his record-' record-' Ing of "Please, Mr. Sun," was the company's fourth best-selling single disc. 1952 was a year of double-header hits for singing stars Jo Stafford and Rosemary Clooney . . . Miss Clooney's recording of "Half As Much" was No. 3 on Columbia's best-seller list and "Botch-A-Me" was No. 7 ... Jo Stafford's "You Belong to Me" and "Jambalaya" were Nos. 5 and"6 respectively . . . Jo has started 1953 with a bang with her sensational recording of "Keep It a Secret". . . Frankie Lalne's "High Noon" was No. 8, , Arthur Godfrey's "Dance Me Loose" was No. 9 . . . Doris Day's "A Guy Is a Guy" was No. 10, while a collection of songs from her film, "I'll See You in My Dreams," was Columbia's second best-selling album of the year. The jazz record renaissance, Initiated In-itiated in 1950 with Columbia's release re-lease of the Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, was further stimulated in 1952 with a second Goodman anthology of 1937-I 1937-I 38 performances which had become the nation's best-selling album by ; the end of the year . . . Gene Autry j and Rosemary Clooney were the I top children's recording artists of the year, each with a string of 1952 successes added to their perennial best-sellers and a hit duo disking of "The Night Before Christmas." A quartet of young singers dominated domi-nated Columbia's folk music bestseller best-seller lists during 1952 . . . Carl Smith had four hit records and close behind was Lefty Frizzell with two. I |