HYLTON AND MOZART
Some idea of the money to he made by the lucky composer of a " songhit " was given in the course of an action taken recently by Mr. Jack Hylton, the English dance band leader, against the Gramophone Company, Limited. Mr. Hylton revealed that the greatest gramophone success he had ever had was with the number called " Rhymes," of which he was partauthor. The Gramophone Company, Limited, he said, had sold 2-10,000 records of it, and the Decca Company had " sold as many." During the last three j-ears of his association with the Gramophone Company his royalties each year ran into many thousands of pounds. In giving his evidence, Mr. Hylton admitted that at first he got better publicity out of the Is 6d record than out of .3s ones. When one recollects that the divinely-gifted Mozart was buried in a common paupqr's grave, unattended and unobserved by a single sympathising follower, the figures quoted above give food for thought.
Oscar Naizke, the young Auckland basso-profundo, who is considered to be a definite musical " discovery." —rhotogrnm Studio
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)
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179HYLTON AND MOZART New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)
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