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MARTIN
BLOCK
Photogenic quintet: Vaughn Monroe and the Moon Maids, who currently supply the music on CBS stations, Saturday evenings at 7 : 30 EST.
WNEW disc jockey Martin Block is also on NBC's Perry Como Show, Thurs., 10 A.M. EST, and seen on the TV version Sunday nights at 8.
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If ever there was a year in which the record buyer could get loads and loads of discs at real bargain prices this was it. What with most of the major record companies running those wonderful "half-off" sales, lots of us have taken full advantage of the opportunity to add those longwanted records and albums to our collections. More than that, this Christmas season sees the manufacturers offering the greatest selection of Yuletime music that was ever available. Of course, RCA Victor, Decca, Capitol, Columbia, M-G-M, London, Mercury and the others will have available the fine catalogue of records and albums that they offered last year. In addition, however, each company has already introduced several holiday items that range from Christmas songs by a western singer to carols sung by a church choir.
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Some of the most interesting news and photographs of your favorite recording artists can be found in those regular monthly publications issued by the disc companies themselves. Newest of the pamphlets is the RCA Victor Picture Review. It's actually a revised version of the old Record Review, but this one is bigger and better. Then, of course, there's still the Columbia Records Disc Digest and the Capitol News. It's a good way to keep up with the latest recordings
and musical happenings of the month.
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One of the most sensational American acts ever to play the British Isles has been Billy Kenny and the Ink Spots. Three separate times, thus far, they have had their original fourweek engagement extended for several additional months. Looks as though our English cousins don't want the group
ever to leave, and we can hardly blame them.
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It may seem hard to believe, but it's absolutely true that the Hit Parade's new vocalist, Jeff Clark, hadn't even thought about singing for a living until three years ago. When friends insisted, Jeff went to see vocal coach Jimmy Rich, who numbers such great names as Dinah Shore among his former