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From the March/April 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Nick Rossi Nick Lucas, né Dominic Nicholas Antonio Lucanese, was the first 20th-century guitar hero native to the United States. Born to Italian immigrants on August 22, 1897, in Newark, New Jersey, Lucas enjoyed a remarkable level of success throughout the 1920s and ’30s. He was known as the “Crooning…
I Still Get a Thrill Description (Brief) 78 rpm. Hit of the Week Records was an American record label introduced in 1930. The company manufactured and sold low-priced records made of Durium, a flexible synthetic resin coated on a brown paper base, rather than typical records made of shellac. A new Hit of The Week record was released usually every Thursday every week and was sold in newsstands across the country. The single-faced records originally sold for 15 cents each and had reached 20 cents by the end of the production in 1932. Popular musicians of the day who recorded for Hit of the Week...