Screenland (Nov 1949-Oct 1950)

along on this ounce of bounce. Maybe next month's delivery'll be better! ( Columbia) Mindy Carson— The chick who's a cross between Ingrid in looks and Lena Home in sound (and is that bad?) gushes fortli beautifully on "You're Different" and "Lonely Girl." Give this the needle and you'll hear one reason why she's already signed for pictures. And only 2 years ago she was a stenographer. M-m-m what lush locutions, these! (Victor) Mel Torme — Candy's boy is flickering in "Duchess Of Idaho" these days with Esther Williams and Van Johnson. And he's going round and round with 4 fruity new sides that are just caviar. "Meadows Of Heaven," one of the best slabs on this beauty, "Sonny Boy," on which Mel shows the old boy some instructive bop vocal arabesques. Theory is that "Sonny Boy" is a big man now and should be in the modern groove. You may have to dig this more than once but it's a killer. "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" and "There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" are two caramels from the pix of the same handle and mo.st velvety with the "Fog's" fog! ( Capitol ) Sarah Vaughn — MGM deserves a low bow from you for knocking out some of the gems that the defunct Musicraft company never got around to — stuff like this triple peachy tallow by the divine Sarah — "The Man I Love" and "Once In A Wliile" — beautiful breathing that'll make you want to go south and sit under the hibiscus trees. (MGM) Buddy Clark — And here's where the lump in the throat comes 'cause one of America's greatest voices is stilled— and how shocked we were at this monstrous tragedy. Because of that. Buddy is dead. And the country has suffered a deep loss, for this beloved star of show business brought all of us so much pleasure and entertainment and happiness. He was a part of our lives as is any great star and it's a profound bereavement. Right in the prime of his career, too, with such beautiful things as "Dreamer's Holiday" (u-ith its ironic line, "You will feel terrific ivhen you get back down to earth"), and "Envy," just out. Now every time you hear one of his records 'twill be more and more impossible to believe he's gone. There'll be a memorial album for Buddy soon and buying it will be your way of sliowing your appreciation for the glistening Hstening he's brought you. ( Columbia) Nat Cole — Big disappointment is Nat's fresh one — not in performance, 'cause the guy's always "the most" — but both songs. "Nalani." an Hawaiian hunk of [)oi. and "You Can't Lo.se A Broken Heart," are completely mediocre and undeserving of a great talent. His "All I Want For Christmas" is also a boner on Capitol's part. How can anyone be expected to follow Spike Jones' deal on that.^ Just as the Jones boy should never cut anything that's identified with Nat Cole. (Capitol) Christmas Stuff— There's oodles and buckets of chime time cookies — to go THE SWEETS CO. OF AMERICA, INC. • HOBOKEN, N. J.: witli your egg nog . . . DORIS DAY — "Here Comes Santa Claus" and "Old Saint Nicholas." . . PEGGY LEE— "The Christmas Spell" and "Song At Midnight." . . . DINAH SHORE— "Star Of Bethlehem" and "Merrv Xmas Polka." . . . RUSS MORGAN— "Mistletoe Kiss" and "Blue Xmas." . . . BILLY ECKSTINE— "Oh. Come All Ye Faithful" and "O Holy Night." . . . MAGGIE WHITING— "Have Yourself A Merry Little Xmas" and "Mistletoe Kiss Polka.'" . . . GORDIE MACRAE— "Merr^■ Christmas Waltz" and "Adeste Fidelis." . . . BUDDY CLARK— "Merry Christmas Waltz" and "Winter Wonderland." . . . JOHNNY DESMOND— "If Every Day Would Be Christmas'' and "You're .\11 I Want For Christmas." . . JO ST.VFFORD"Gesu Bambino" and "I Wonder .\s I Wander." ... a whole album ful of chimetime favorites bv the THREE SUNS . . . VAUGHN MONROE—"The Jolly Old Man In The Bright Rerl Suit" and ".\uld Lang Svne" and PERRY COMO'S and RING'S albums of Xmas stuff. All the Victor Stuff is also on 45 RPM and it's a matter of whom you like 'cause everyone has etched lioliday goodies so go take inventory in any platter palace, Alice. Kitty Kallen — This talented dreamface has baked her finest biscuit, "A Man Wrote A Song," and what a song it is! Of young lovers' dreams and moonlit streams and sentiment that'll grab vou bv the ear and never let Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald are cutting it, too, and they'll have to be at their best to top this one. "Mad About You" is the back, another shimmery ballad and that's about how we are about Kitty. (Mercury) ALSO EARWORTHY GENE KRUPA'S "Watch Out!" with Dolores Hawkins and Roy Eldridge making like Anita O'Day and Roy used to. Dolly's fine as light wine and Roy — wow! Flip "By The River St. Marie" — strictly instrumental — another buoyant deal by Genie with the light brown drumsticks! (Columbia) . . . EVELYN KNIGHT'S -If I Ever Love Again"— in which Evie loses the handclapping for a change! She can do .slow ones, too, see! (Decca) . . . TONI ARDEN is soulful and extra warm on her first for Columbia— "I Can Dream Can't I" and "A Little Love, A Little Ki.ss." . . . PHIL HARRIS churns up a batch of wax on "Row, Row, Row" and "I .\in't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jellyroll," the old jazz .standard. (Victor) . . \ SARAH VAUGHN'S "Fool's Paradise" is quite Sliangri-La-ish but the flip, "Lonely Girl." suffers when compared with IVIindy Carson's. (Columbia) . . . DANNY K.\YE'S in his best Cockney form on "I've Got A Lovelv Bunch Of Cocoanut.?" and FREDDY MARTIN'S pressed cocoanut of the same deal will bring in lots of cocoanuts, you can bet your bottom cocoanut. (Decca and Victor) . . 61