WINSTON CHURCHILL
"BEST SELLER
BRITAIN'S 4,000,000) GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
There is a world demand for Mr Winston Churchill's speeches now done for the gramophone. They are being bought up in Australia, in Canada, in India, in New Zealand and in South Africa; and again in their own homes American citizens are listening to his "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." Mr Churchill has joined the best sellers, among whom to-day arc Paul Robesotn, will his "Trees," Richard T'auber, now a British subject ("Begin the Beguine"), Webster Booth ('Til Walk Beside You"), Joe Loss ("You Say the Sweetest Things"). Great Britain shipped more than 4,000,000 gramophone records overseas last year, and matrices (the dies from which records are stamped out) are not included in this colossal total. The most popular records of recent years; are Paul Whiteman's "Rhapsody in Blue" which has sold more than 80,000 to date; Richard Crooks "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" (110,000); and the top score is Ernest Lough with 650,000 and still selling. He was a Temple choirboy when he made his lovely "Hear My Prayer." T'o-day he is a stalwart fireman, training a choir from the Auxiliary Fire Service at Harrow-on-'tlie-H ill.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 157, 19 September 1941, Page 5
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