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Show IW RECORDS FOR YOUR TALKING HI Arc you planning to follow the advice ad-vice of the phonograph makers and make this "A Vacation with Music?" A splendid Idea this taking this phonograph pho-nograph along to the mountains or the shore one that more of us should ndopt. But whether you pack up and go a-gypsying or enjoy your music at home on the ''ool and shady front porch, you will want to have some of the July records which Columbia hai ji'.r.t put Into the doalers' hands. It is a Mtllnr aggregation so briiliauc with top-notchers that it is hard to know whero to begin to describe it. Included Includ-ed in the group are records by the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Opera orchestra, Josef Holf-mann, Holf-mann, Stracciari, tho New York Philharmonic, Phil-harmonic, Al Jol8on, snappy, up to dato dance tunes by a group of Ihe best known dance orchestras, and no less than eighteen popular song hits of tho day. It is to be hoped that this initial Columbia record of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra is but the first of many that are to come. The selec tlon is most happy, being none other than the wondrcful Ballet Music from "Faust." It Is hardly necessary to attempt at-tempt to describe it to mention the name of the famous organization of musicians is sufficient to convey the idea of perfection. Josef Hofmann makes a piano record rec-ord for the Columbia July group that is not only a triumph of artistic tech-inquo tech-inquo but a marvoy of mechanical reproduction re-production as well. Experts pronounco this one of the most perfect piano records ever made. The artist takes for his subjects Chopin's "Valse Brll-liante, Brll-liante, Opus 34, No. 1," and, on tho reverse, re-verse, "The Hunting Song" and "La Jonglense." It takes a master musician to render ren-der Massonot's "Eleglo" with tho depth and power of feeling that exist In this great music that is so profoundly pro-foundly powerful, yet so beautifully simple. In the now Columbia record of the "Eleglo" Riccardo Stracciari, Metropolitan opera baritone, and Sas-cha Sas-cha Jacobsen, world-famous violinist, unite their remarkable abilities to produce a record of unforgetablo charm. Another splendid record In the Columbia Co-lumbia July list is made by the New York Philharmonic orchestra fresh from the thunderous triumphs of a tour of the cantonments. It is singularly singu-larly appropriate, thorcfore, that they should play Victor Herbert's "American "Ameri-can Fantasie," a thrilling medley of our own folk songs that fairly flames with patriotism. On the reverse is tho famous "L'Estudiantlna" waltz. Al Jolson in a new role! One of the best of the Columbia records for July features the jolly, joyous Winter Garden Gar-den comedian In a song of sweet and tender sentimen that permits full scopo to his really fine and expressive voice. "Hello Contral Give Me No Man's Land" is a great war-song hit sung by Al Jolson it takes on an added heart-grip. Another brilliant American artiste makes her premiere on a Columbia record this month. Miss Amparito Farrar, whose rich soprano voice is fast making a caroor for its talented young possessor, sings two rarely beautiful selections, "Sweet and Low" and "Mighty Lak' a Rose." Columbia is noted for its snappy catchy, up to the minute dance records. rec-ords. This month's group of danco tunes so no exception but rather seem to have taken on an added burst of speed. First, comes the original Wilbur C. Sweatman, tho man who can play threo clarinets at once, with "Regretful Blues" and "Everybody's Crazy 'bout Dcm Doggone Blues," two fox trots, by his inimitable jazz band. Thon Earl Fuller's Noyelty orchestra contributes the "Down Home Rag" and "I Ain't Got Nobody Much"; "Turkey In the Straw" and "Hello, America, Hello" Is played by a Jaza-rimba Jaza-rimba orchestra; Joqker's Brothers who doesn't love to trip the light fantastic fan-tastic toe when these "rag-artists" begin be-gin have a coupling of tuneful medleys, med-leys, "There's a Service Flag" and "I'll Think of You," while Prince's band and Prince's orchestra wind up the list with perfectly riotous medleys waltz, one-step and fox-trot. Among the popular song hits of the day in the July group of Columbia records arc those "daddy-song" sensations sensa-tions of the Winter Garden, the Far-bcr Far-bcr Sisters. They warble two brand new tantalizing, fascinating examples of their own particular type of song, "Won't You Be a Dear, Dear Daddy" and "I Want a Daddy Like You." Here is a bit of real Broadway. Stirring melodies of -war-time fire and spirit are present in good measure. meas-ure. "Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware," sung gloriously by Arthur Ar-thur Fields and the Peerless quartet, is a little bit of history, brought up to date by its prophetic words "General Pershing Will Cross the Rhine." Pay day in the army has its delights de-lights as well as In Civil life, and Arthur Ar-thur Fields paints them In this jolly record, "Pay Day" which is a regular "humdinger" of a soldier's camp song. On tho reverse is another "What'll We Do With Him, Boys?" Bob White sings about the glorious, uproarious time "When Alexander Takes His Band to France," and on the other side of this popular record is "When It Comes to a Lovingless Da" These titles tell their own story. |