New Pop Records

John Philip Sousa Marches (Coral; 2 sides LP). Sousa isn't just Sousa any more; he has syncopation possibilities. Here, Bob Crosby and his Bob Cats have some good clean Dixieland fun with The Stars and Stripes Forever, El Capitan, and half a dozen other old March King favorites.

Out of This World (Columbia; 2 sides LP). Comedienne Charlotte Greenwood and some strong-voiced youngsters deliver the score of Cole Porter's new show.

Edith Piaf Sings Again (Columbia; 2 sides LP). More songs (six in French, two in English) about love, sweet & sour, by the little Frenchwoman with the big voice.

Dizzy Gillespie Plays (Discovery; 2 sides LP). Lost somewhere between the flatted fifths of basement bop and the swooping violins of mezzanine dinner music, "progressive" Dizzy gets his bearings now & then in a spot of good horn-playing.

Would I Love You (Love You, Love You). Helen O'Connell starts sweet and ends lowdown in her version of one of the newest heart-on-sleeve songs (for Capitol).

Tell Me You Love Me. A heartbreaking attempt to restyle Pagliacci's old heartbreaker, Vesti la giubba, as a ballad-foxtrot. The most popular version: Mercury's, featuring Vic Damone as the pop Pagliaccio.

Rhapsody from Hunger (y). Spike Jones and his irreverent City Slickers (Victor) pull the tail of several old war horses, including Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, with the usual catastrophic results.

Lovesick Blues (Capitol). Kay Starr bounces through a new blues number in a voice as hearty and healthy as a call for Swiss-on-rye.

I Remember the Cornfields (London). The corn is pretty tall, but warm-voiced Anne Shelton gives some sense of Mother Earth to this piece of Tin Pan Alley nostalgia for the great open spaces.

I Apologize (Mercury). Though handicapped by a fussy orchestral background, supple-voiced Dinah Washington manages to give this oldie a deft push along the road back.

Destination Moon (Coral). Scientifiction rears its supersonic head in a duet by Connie Haines and Bob Crosby, with subsonic swooshes by the sound-effects department.

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