BEST SELLER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 6

BEST SELLER

WINSTON CHURCHILL SPEECHES. RECORDED FOR GRAMOPHONE. 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 today are Paul Robeson with his “Trees,” Richard Tauber, now a British subject (“Begin the Beguine”), Webster Booth (“I’ll 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” (140,000); and the ton score is Ernest Lough with 630,000 and still selling. He was a Temple choirboy when he made his lovely “Hear My Prayer.” Today he is a stalwart, fireman, training a choir from the Auxiliary Fire Service at Harrow-on-the-Hill.