Variety (June 1949)

42 ORCHKSTRAS-MIJSIC Wt^nesday, June 29, 1949 MUSIC BOURNE TO LIVE Vottr >1 a l-Mr?* CANADIAN DISTRIB TO PRODUCE M-G-M DISKS Toronto. June 28 Quality Records, Ltd., Canadian distributor of M-G-M Records, has started construction of a plant in Scraboro Township, Toronto su- burb, w'here M-G-M disks will produced. Quality‘’■currently dis. tributes disks pres.sed at M-G-M’s , Bloomfield. N. J., plant at 85c re- tail, which may be reduced when the sides are produced on this side of the border. j New plant is expected to be In operation by the end of this year. Edward Joseph, formerly ‘with i M-G-M at Bloomfield, will be plant manager. Manor Records Sued i By Pubs on Royalties ' ' Suit has been filed in N. Y. 1 federal court against Manor I Records, independent disker. by ■ Harry Fox, agent and trustee for j a group of music publishers to I whom Manor ow'es royalties. Ac- J I tion seeks an accounting andr-pa.v- ^ ment for at least the two past quarters and possibly more. It’s not disclosed how’ far Manor is in ' arrears. Fox is representing a list of pubs in the action, but only five firms are named as complainants. ^ Shapiro-Bernstein is among them. PERRY COMO (Victor) “Bali Ila’i” Waring Feeds Pluggers ' Fred Waring conducts his fourth ' annual outing for the music men assignat! to contact him. next Wed* Tuesday (6> at his Shawnee-On-The- Delaw'are, Shawnee, Pa. Waring foots the bill for the entire affair, , transporting the contactmen front New York in a chartered bus and supplying food and drinks. Major part of the day is taken up by a golf tourney on Waring’s own course, a part of the Shaw'iiee lay- STARDIJSTERS (Dcccai 11 13 “Becau.se You Love Me" w 1 10 J.“STAI-T()RD-G.~MacRA'ElcTp* 12A 16 “‘A’—You’re Adorable” 9.. 7.. 8 9 PEGGY LEE (Capitol* 1211 14 “Bali Ha’i” 2 9 3 MANHAHAN TOWER Gordon Jtnkint Decca 2 KISS ME, KATE Broadway Cast Columbia from Mill (tnl«ry*Fox'i “THE lEAUTIFUL IIONOI FROM lASHFUL lEND’ \ Slorrinf lETTY CRAIIE Writttn, froduetd ond Diridtd PRESTON STUR6ES rocordod by MARCARn WHITINB .. Copilot PERRY CORAO RCA Victor BUDDY CLARK Columbio DICK NAVMES Docco ART LUND M-G M GLORIA URROLL ..Danco Tono HILLBILLY REGROOVED I FOR LEEDS POP PLUG Leeds Music, which bought the copyright of tite tune. “Someday." from Bob Miller’s Main ‘ Street Songs a few weeks ago. is propping a switcli with the melody. Original- ly a hillbilly hit in 1935. Leeds in- tends a full-blown plug on the tunc as a pop. It has recordings by Vaughn Monroe (Victor, which is giving the disk a big promotional splurge as a followup to the same singer’s “Riders in the Sky”». Buddy Clark (Columbia*, the Mills Bros. (Decca). et al. Leeds placed tlie tune in its Duchess subsid, a Broadcast Mu.sic affiliate. That occurred because Miller’s Main Street outfit is a BMI firm. Jimmy Hodges wrote the tune. YOU’RE HEARTLESS • TING-A-LING (Walts of tha l•llf) THE DREAM OF OLWEN MILLS MUSIC. INC. Ifil# nroadwar N>w York It. N. T. B. CROSBY-E. KNIGHT (Decca* 12C 17 “ How It Lie s” 9 .. 4 9 DORIS DAY (Columbia* 12D . . “Again” 2 9 dTsHORE-B. CLARK ((’olumbia) 12E 9 “Baby. It’s Cold Outside” ^ 9 4 9 BING CROSBY (Decca* 13A 10 “Ball Ha’I” 3 8 DORIS DAY (Columbia* 13B 12 “Everywhere You Go” ‘ 7 7 8 VIC DAMONE (Mercury* 13C 15 “You’re Breaking My Heart” 3 8 TOMM^Y DORSEYTvictoi-* 13D 17 “The Hucklebuok” 8 6 8 FRANKIe YANKOVIC (Columbia* 13K . “Blue Skirt Waltz” 3 .. 8 MEL TORME iCapitof* 14A 8 “Again” 4 7 BLUE BARRON (M-G-M* 14B 17 “Whgse Girl Are You?” 4 .. 7 FIVE TOP ALBUMS I SOUTH PACIFIC Broadway Cast Columbia SUPPER CLUB FAVORITES Parry Como Victor CONNECTICUT YANKEE Bing Cratby Decca Disk Best Sellers by Companies (Based on Points Earned) No. of Label Records Points Label Victor 4 214 Columbia Decca 8 176 j Mercury Capitol 5 98 M-G-M No. of Records ... .5 . . . I . . I Points 46 8 7 Vannerson Now Reps Both Dorsey Bros. Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey will both be represented, in New York, by the same man—Leonard Van- nerson. Unique arrangement is based on the fact tliat Jimmy D. at the moment has no personal manager, therefore has no one dis- cu.ssing probable dates and terms with his agency. General Artists. Vannerson is a sort of liaison be- tween Arthur Michaud, T. D.’s per- sonal manager, who lives in Holly- wood. and Mu.sic Corp. of Amer- ica’s New- York offices, which books that band. He will pick up the same sort of W'ork betw-een J. D. and GAC, except that it the case of the latter he will have closer supervision over dates oflercd. T. D.’s $7,300, Denver Denver, June 28. Tommy Dorsey’s band turned up one of the most satisfactory b.o. totals reaped recently by Lakeside Park here over the weekend. Play- ing three daj’S, Friday through Sunday. Dorsey worked to over 10,000 dancers and on a guarantee and percentage basis took out ap- proximately $7,300 as his end. Dor.sey is headed westward for his first visit to the Coast in almost tw'O years. FRANKIE LAINE CURRENTLY ORIENTAL CHICAGO RETAIL DISK BEST SELLERS USmtEfr Survey of retail disk best sellers, based on reports ob- tained from leading stores in 12 cities and showing com- parative sales rating for this and last week. National Rating This Last wk. wk. Week Ending June 25 Artist, Label. Title t(THE ALPHABET SONG LAUREL MUSIC CO 1619 Broadway New York A NEW JIMMY McHUGH STANDARD irs A MOST UNUSUAL DAY Music by.. . JIMMY McHI/GH ROBBINS llUSiC CORPORATION On the Upheat New York Columbia Records signed Ted Steele to a disk pact . . . Irvingr Fields and RC.\-Viclor running a letter contest hooked up with Fields' disk of "Wedding Song." which will give winners a free week at the Senator hotel, Atlantic City, where Fields is playing; con- testants must recount how they proposed . . . Elliot Lawrence pul trombonist Gene Hensler in place of Jap Harris, who quit to form a small unit of his own . . . Treniers. with Gene Gilbeaux, into Chicago theatre July 8. Bop City. N Y.. Aug. 4, and Blue Note. Chicago. Sept. 19 . . . Decca signed Carol Richards, Floyd Huddleston, Doles Dickens and Cecil Payne. Pittsburgh Dorothy Nesbitt, pianist at old Ho- tel Henry's Gay Nineties Room for years, into Spotlight Room of .lackie Heller’s Carousel for indef- inite slay . . . Al Marsico. Nixon Cafe m.teslro. will take six-week vacation troni the nitery and spend it al his summer place in Ligonier, P;» Terrace Room. William r*cnn hotel, closing down July 16 for remodeling, and Billy Cati- zone’s trio will be dropped until middle of September. Hollywood Tex Williams’ western orch re- mains at Riverside Rancho for an- other six months, plus half-year option more when he winds ono- Phil Cavezza’s band into Hil’ Green’s with the Ink Spots . . . Lee Angelo (ucli opens two-week engagement at Idora Park. Youngs- town. O.. on Saturday (2* . . . Earl Mellen, who had a big datjce h.iml around here dozen years ago, hack in the business, but tltis time at head of four-piece combo . . . year stand .hily 7. He gets 65''r ot admish coin . . . Ike Carpenter band drawing flat $1,200 for gig al Meadow brook Club. Great Falls. M«)nt . Barclay Allen band re- places .lack Fina when Cocoaniit Grove ' Salute to Gershwin’’ show moves to Mark Hopkins. San Fian- cisco. next week Ra.v llackett orch opening Tues- d.iy *281 at the Mark Hopkins. Frisc») 1'onini.v Dorsey hand doing 29 straight days through Pa- cific Nvulhwcsl, all ono-nighters except July 7-10 dale at Jantzen Beach Paul Martin hand booked for July 2l-.\ug. 4 at Jant- zen Beacit. Kenny Baker and Art Davis set up Kenart Enterpri.ses to sell re- ligious records made by Baker. First albums are “Strangers of Galilee,’’ “Hymns of Praise” and Hymns f>f Worship,” with tenor •backed h\ an organ . . . Nellie Lutrher set ftir huir weeks, on a flat $1,750 a week, at the Cashah. starting Aug 2 . . . Harry Sukman cioinK piano solos at Sawlcllc vets* hospital . . . Andrews Sisters’ ball club beat KL..AC-TV team. 4-3 . . . RC.\-Viclor signed Phil Regan, la.st with Majestic . . . Sons of the Pio- neers wind up a one-nighting tour of hall parks in Calgary July 9. King Cole combo inked lor week of Aug. 17 at Ciro’s. Frisco . . Latest of 16 songpluggers out of work here are Ralph Harris, Peer Music, and Eddie Lagoona, Mills Music. No replacements contem- plated . . . MGM Records, for the hist time, will make a tw(»-plattcr alt)um of a musical score from a Metro pic, “Madama Bovary.’’ Al- hunv vvill |)e I'eleased simultaueous- l.v " hh film . . . Vidor Young scor- ing “Gun Cra/.v” for Lhiitcd .Ailists . . . Rozelle Gayle inked a 24-.side scries of platters for Aladdin Rec- ords . . . “Love at the Counlv Fair.” Glenn Spencer tune, tied in with (Continued on fvage 55) REMEMBER? 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