On the double-jointed tongues of U.S. disc jockeys, the lighted plaques of jukeboxes and the shopping lists of record buyers, one name recurred last week with monotonous frequency. The name was Gordon Hill Jenkins; its owner was a 40-year-old bandleader, composer and arranger who had moved onto the list of the nation's top ten bestsellers with three of his records at once. All tricked out with sobbing, throbbing violins and choruses of female voices, I Wanna Be Loved, Bewitched and My Foolish Heart were proving once again that the U.S. still likes nothing better than the big, lush arrangements of its...
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