The 1948 introduction of the 33 1/3 RPM vinyl long-playing record by a team of engineers at CBS Labs, headed by Dr. Peter Goldmark, was a signal event in cultural history that had roots in an earlier...
If you picture Doris Day evading the clutches of Rock Hudson or Cary Grant in one of those benign battle-of-the-sexes early '60s films, or as the sunny-smiled TV sitcom star of the 1970s, you're likely to underrate her career as a pop vocalist. Still, there's no denying her 1940s big band recordings with Les Brown'the intimate charm of "It's Magic" and "Secret Love" (they seem the model for many of Karen Carpenter's loveliest recordings)-and this evocation of optimistic domesticity in '50s America, included in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Man Who Knew Too Much.
From the motion picture, The Man Who Knew Too Much; (J. Livingston/R. Evans); Conducted by Frank DeVol; Rec. Los Angeles, February 24, 1956. Columbia single 4-40704 (mx. RHCO 33718); Originally Released 1956