CHURCHILL SPEECHES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 September 1941, Page 5

CHURCHILL SPEECHES

GRAMOPHONE RECORDINGS • WORLD DEMAND CREATED ' j London, Auk., 20, i | There is a world demand for Hr melon Churchill’s speeches now done ’ r the They are hen ■■ : UouKht up in Australia, in Canada, in h,,i '■ x, ' w Z. ■ ! "id and in Sais,. Africa, and aua.n in tin ir own hour's A met ICOI cities rr are li Vnnu, i„ h /’Give in the tools and we will linisli , the job.” Mr Churchill has joined the best |sellers, among whom to-day are Paul Robeson with his “Trees,” Richard I Tauber, now a British subject (“Begin I the Beguine”). Weboter Booth cTH ' I Walk Beside You”), and Jo- Loss (“You Say the Sweetest Things”). Great Britain shipped more than | 1.000,000 gramophone records overseas ; ias. year, and matrices—the dies from } which records are stamped out-are not in- luded in this colossal total. The most popular records of recent years are Paul Whiteman’s "Rhapsody in Blue, ’ which has sold more than 1 30.000 to date; Richaro Crooks’ "Ah. dvet-L Mystery of Life” (140.000); and *he top score is Ernest Lough with , *30.000 and still selling. I-I c was a i : romple choirboy when he made his I lovely "Hear My Prayer.” Today he i lis a stalwart fireman, training a choir , | from the Auxiliary Fire Service at