Variety (Jul 1946)

Wednesday, July 10, 1946 ORCHESTRAS-MUSIC 45 Music Notes June Christy, Stan Kenton vocalist, .set for series of Capitol Transcrip- tions backed by eight instrumentalists from Kenton krew... .Lecuona Cuban- Boys parted for plotters by Majestic... .Jcannie McKcoh has cut four new .sides for Bluck & White Records, backed by Al Sack orch ggb Graham and Jewel Records have parted with expiration of one-year contract. Paul Reiner, prcz of Black & White, in Hollywood from Cleve- land headquarters. .. .JohnnyGreen has clett'ed concerto adaptation of Aaron Copland's - 'E1 Salon Mexico" for Metro's "Fiesta" and retagged it "Fantasia Moxicana" Miklos Roz.sa will score "Short, Happy Life 0 C Francis Macombcr" for Benedict Rogeaus' .Productions....Harry Warren arid Ralph Blanc will score Metro's "Mississippi"... .Jack Elliott writing four ditties for Republic Picts. "Hclldorado"... .Ruby Uslandcr, C'usino Records exec, on Coast from N. Y. headquarters. Just routine biz c'\eck... Phil Brito, in Hollywood before lenses in Mono's "Sweetheart of Si-ma Chi." will cut four sides for Musicraft before trudging back to N. Y. Curt Masscy, who recently parted from Columbia Records, has signed to disk for Cadet Records Oliver Sabin, national sales panjandrum of Musicraft, back in N. Y. after five-day huddle of Coast with Bobby Weiss, v.axcry's Hollywood chief... .Jan Garber has cut four new sides for Black ^ White...-"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" copyright renewal has been sold to Remick, which originally published ditty 28 years ago, by coauthors Nat Vincent, Jimmy Kcndis and Jim Brockman. To date song has sold 2900.000 sheet 'copies Abe Olman, Robbins-Fcist-Miller boss, in Holly- wood huddling with Metro execs.. . .Ed Leguno, pres: of Sunset Records, Hollywood pop-plattery, in N. Y. setting up eastern distrib skein L. O. Hopkins named national sales manager of Angelas Recordings. ,. .Foy Will- mu, oatuner who long has disked for Decca, has switched to Majestic ] ; ,b" c | ARA this week debuted a new sales-promotion mag, "Stardust," with prlatlery's p.a., Bruce Altman, editing out of his Coast cubicle Dave Dexter, editor of Note, the jaxzique journal published in Hollywood, Is also editing Capitol Records throwaway monthly fcm mag... .Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved allocation of $50,000 to keep the 45-piecc' County Band intact for another year. Art Babisch again hps been appointed conductor of outfit which plays civic functions and public celebrations... .Lou Bring and band today (Wed.) cut-; two sides for ARA... .Polly Ellis, chirp, parted by World Wide Records... iKelita Shugart, publicist for Los Angeles' Musicians' Local 47, lecturing before slimmer classes at U.S.C... .Stan Kenton's band, current, at Meadow- brook, Culver City/will cut four sides for Capitol Fri. (12) Ben Barton, nominal chief of Barton Music Co., the Frank Sinatra-controlled pub- lishing firm to Hollywood from N. Y. for three-week stay. Barton will huddle with Mac Martin, Coast rep of company, on plans to push items the pub will issue in late summer and fall. Olman, M-G Huddle Abe Olman, general manager of the Metro-owned Robbins,, Feist and Miller music companies,' left New York Sunday (7) by plane for his first huddle ■ with M-G execs in Hollywood since taking over the Big 13. He went west to confab with stu- dio heads on forthcoming scores. Billie Holliday Gets 20G Guarantee From Decca Singer Billie Holliday Was re- signed by Decca Records last week for another two years. New agreement calls for a $20,000 guarantee annually in cash, among other items, an improvement over the former pact. Let Crane, maestro at the Shera- ton hotel, N. Y., is off the stand due to arthritis in his light wrist. Sinatra's Italo Disk Frank Sinatra will surprise many of his fans with his September Co- lumbia Records release. Lyric of one tune is done partly In Italian, the first time the singer has publicly employed the'tongue of his fore- bears. Tune is titled "I Have But One Heart," lyric by Marty Syrries, music adapted by Johnny Farrow from an old Italian folk song. Bar- ton Music, Sinatra's, Arm, will publish. Backup will be L.:,nimy Stept's "I Fall in Love Every Day." Special Master Will Decide on Ability Of Ex-GI to Hold Old Job Question of whether William Mc- Lemore, former Erskine Hawkins orchestra guitarist, has the right to his old job with the band under the Selective Service Act was referred to a special master by Federal Judge William Bondy yesterday (9) in New York. McLemore, member of the orchestra since 1933,- through the U. S. Attorney's office acting for discharged GI's, obtained a show cause order recently which sought reemployment by Hawkins.- Ex-GI entered the Army in 1943, was'dis-. charged last January and applied for his job, which Hawkins refused. Appearing for McLemore was As- sistant U. Si Attorney Arthur C. Power, who told the Court that Mc- Lemore was qualified to perform his duties and that the ex-GI on oc- casions was used by the orchestra as a soloist. He produced three re- cordings of the Hawkins group in which McLemore was alleged to be featured. Hawkins, represented by Andrew D. Weinberger, denied Mc- Lemore was capable of playing with the present organization. He pointed out that the band's present library was more complicated than before the war. Weinberger, explained to the court that in 1942, while Mc- Lemore was with them, the orches- tra had used stock arrangements and since the war the band featured special arrangements in' a distinctive style. Judge Bohdy, in referring the matter to a referee to take testi- mony in the dispute, stated that the whole case depended on the ques- tion of facts and suggested that both counsels, invite Eli Bronstcin to act as a special master. Robbins Reversing His Field, Back To 'Starting' Songs in Atlantic City CBS Builds Doris Day Doris Day, ex-vocalist with Les Brown's orchestra, will be the sub- ject of a concentrated buildup by CBS. Her initial chore is. a spot on the new jack Kirkwood show, Mon- day at 9:30 p.m., originating in Hollywood. . Program teed of Mon- day (8). > Brown's orchestra, which Miss Day left before it started" on a string of one-nighters west toward a July 23 opening at the Palladium Ball- room, Hollywood, now has Ann Rus- sell temporarily in the vocal spot. Miss Day may rejoin the band for the Palladium run only. Songpluggers Reach 5-Year Low in Jobs ■ Hollywood, July 9. With six membera out of work, Coast songplugger unemployment situation has reached five-year peak and is certain to become worse as publishers continue plan to . chop staffs here. Off payrolls are Art Piantadosi and Sig Bosley, Southern Music; Al Stool, Stanley Music; Jimmy Campbell, Rudy Vallee Music; Harry Kessell, Carol Music; ■ Harry Hume, replaced at Jewel Music by Danny. Cameron, who came from N. Y. Up until recently and through war years none of 117 local mem- bers of Music Publishers Contact Employees (songpluggers* union) was unemployed. . Nationally, more pluggers are without affiliation than in many years. Pubs are holding up because sheet sales are off 60%. ♦ . Atlantic City, July 9. Veteran ■ music publisher Jack Robbins is reverting 'to type with a new tune, "For Thosp In Love", by Benny ■ Davis and Ted Murray, which he is "starting" at this resort. That's how Robbins first started 25 years ago, when he was a Wool- worth and Kresge song demon- strator. A. C., traditionally; was a good spot to spark a tune into national hitdom, especially in the pre-radib days, on the theory that tourists from all over the country converged on this "playground of the world". Robbins wants to see if ^history can repeat, now that he's back In busi- ness for himself, as Robbins & Sons, since selling out to Metro. Publisher is hibernating here at the Ritz-Carlton for a month with his wife. He is setting up subsid partnership firms for Desi Arnaz, whose "Havana Moon" Uyric by Bob Russell) will be the first pub- lication. Duke Ellington, who has his own Temple Music,, will likewise head another subsid, with Robbins' & . Sons as selling agents. Musicraft in Plea To Victor on Ellington Hollywood, July 9. Musicraft legal representatives will present a plea to Victor this week In New York to allow former firm to wax Duke Ellington in three- day session starting here Aug. 19. The Duke is under contract to Vic- tor for 20 more sides, but he also has inked three-year pact with Mu- sicraft which gets under way Nov. 1. Latter is anxious to get Ellington on wax as soon as possible due to expected hike of platteries' scale for musicians in October, Musicraft promises not to release any Elling- ton product until mid-winter. '0* GIE °*BY °*0 MO** V ^ CAS\*° >/'CAltf° r *H VA^ Personal Managtmtnt A NtW NAME .WITH 3$ VIAM Of SHOWMANSHIP It-HIND ITI A INC. NEW YORK, N. V.