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1626 K STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Vol. 9, No. 4, January 24, 1941
THE WEEK IN WASHINGTON
FRENESI led the list in a popularity poll of top tunes of the day staged last week by a Detroit theater. BMI tunes were 1-2-3 last week on the coin machines. Seven of the first ten best sellers in the sheet music field were BMI. (p. 77)
NAB Code Committee will meet in New York, Feb¬ ruary 4-5. (p. 79)
District meetings were held this week in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland with banner attendance at each. (p. 80)
The networks reached new agreements with the A. F. of IM. covering musicians employed in New York and Chicago, (p. 81)
Technical representatives of parties to the Havana Treaty reported progress in ironing out problems incident to reallocation of frequencies. Ohio State’s Broadcast Engineering Conference opens at Columbus, February 10. (p. 82)
The study of how to sell the laundry business has gone out to all members from the NAB Bureau of Radio Adver¬ tising. (p. 82)
Senator Johnson (D.-Colo.) reintroduced his bill to pro¬ hibit the advertising of alcoholic beverages by radio, (p. 83)
The FCC renewed the license of Station WAAB, Boston, saying that stations should not express their own editorial opinion on controversial issues to the exclusion of others. The FCC will meet with the National Tele¬ vision Systems Committee on hlonday, January 27. The licenses of Stations WTIVlC and WDLP were revoked be¬ cause of false testimony and concealment of ownership.
Despite the fact that the great majority of motion picture theatres are not playing BiMI music, due to the bans that have been put into effect by Loews and other prominent theatrical chains, Frcnesi led the list in a popu¬ larity poll of top tunes of the day staged last week in the Fox Theatre in Detroit to determine what selections Kay
Kayser's band should play during his week’s engagement there. In addition to the poll, the theatre conducted a survey of radio audience preferences on two Detroit sta¬ tions — CKLW and WMBC — which carry both BMI and ASCAP music. The audiences, both theatrical and radio, after having ample opportunity to hear ASCAP’s best product, not only gave Frcncsi the top position by a wide margin, but picked BlMFs There I Go as number four, BlNirs / Give You My Word as number five, and BMFs I Hear a Rhapsody and So You’re The One as eight and nine respectively.
The ten best sellers of the week on coin machines in¬ clude Frencsi, There I Go and I Give You IMy Word as one, two and three. / Rear ,I Rhapsody, said by the BIMI Sales Department to be the fastest rising song in the country, landed as number six, and So You’re The One as number ten.
National sheet music sales for the past week, as revealed in Billboard’s popularity chart, show seven out of the first ten are BMI. In the east, on the west coast and in the
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BMI FEATURE TUNES January 2 7February 3
1. HIGH ON A WINDY HILL
2. YOU WALK BY
3. HERE’S MY HEART
4. BUGLE WOOGIE
5. IT ALL COMES BACK TO ME NOW
6. MAY I NEVER LOVE AGAIN
7. I CAN’T REMEMBER TO FORGET
8. WISE OLD OWL
9. ACCIDENT’LY ON PURPOSE
10. KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR HEART
11. BECAUSE OF YOU
12. ALL I DESIRE
13. WALKIN’ BY THE RIVER
14. LET’S DREAM THIS ONE OUT
15. LITTLE SLEEPYHEAD
16. ANYWHERE
17. BREAKFAST FOR TWO
18. I LOOK AT YOU
January 24, 1941 — 77