Variety (May 1950)

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Si OacmSSTHAS^MIJSilC DECCA presenting coupled with DECCA 27055 YOU'RlE A SWEETHEART coupled With CROSS YOUR HEART DECCA 24935 HAVE THINE OWN WAY, LORD coupled with MY JESUS, I LOVE THEE DECCA 14504 Faith Series SAVIOR, AGAIN TO^ THY DEAR NAMIE coupled With STILL, STII,L WITH TMEE ♦DECCA 14512 Faith Series' Single KeCords 75c each (plus tax) DECCA R E C © 'i:wWftfilNlMk I, ««l«r 1^ -0 n retah disk best sellers Survey of retail disk best sellers » ^ased oTi reports 6b tained from leading stores in 12 cities and showing conir parative sales, rating for this and last week. National Ratinff Tliis Last wk. wk. Mw 21 Artist, Label, Title M U o 4-> U) «• <U: > CO' D u ■ O' 0* Sf. A ■ C ' ■■■O (fl. •o 0 K. 1 ■f9 : o O-. D« 0 JS CA ■■ ■3- s • tfl • ■ C..' .0) 9 1 I o U) c 'on e 6 O a •1^ CO 3 ..S •e- o tin. « . « T O T A L P 0 1 N .T' •S;: ANTON KARAS (Londoii);: ■; ^‘Third Man Theine'^r-SS^; 8 SAMMY KAYE (Victor) 84 «Rcwitched"^1473 TO . •<■{ -5- 31 6A 9 GORDON JENKINS (DeeCa) “Benitched''^24983 : ...; 6B 13 GUY LOMBARDO (Decca) “Third Man Theiiie“-^24839 EILEEN BARTON (National) “Knew You Were Coming”^9103 4 2 3 8 MILLS BROS. (Decca) f‘Daddy's Little GiTr»-.-24872 8 GORDON JENKINS iDeCca) “My Foolish Hearr—2483() 6 3 6 10 6 SAMMY KAYE .(Victor) “Wanderih’”—20^3680 8 11 PERRY G03IO ( Victor) “Hoop-Dee-Doo“—20-3747 ANDREWS SIS-G. JENKINS (D) 12A 14 “I Wanna Be Loved”—27007, 12B FRANK PETTY (M^G^M). “Rain”---10669 " ,. . . . . DORIS DAY (Columbia) t2C 3 “Bewitchedd”—38689 . . 13 ;DORIS' DAY (Columbia); “Hobp-Dee-Doo”—^38771 30 30 28 27 24 20 16 14 14 14 12 DORIS DAY (Columbia) 14 13 “Enjoy Yourself”—38709 . 15A 10 £. MERMAN-R. BOLGER (Decca) ^‘Dearie”—24873 8 10 'll lb FIVE TOP ALBUMS l-:' SOUTH r ACiFiC BroofIvYay Co»t Columbia 2 3 YOUNG MAN VyiTH GENniMEN PREFER AHORN Horry JOrnRiT Doris .Day Columbia BLONDES Broadwoy. Ca»t Golumbia INNOVATIONS IN MODERN MUSIC Stan Kenton Capitol SONGS OP BILLY ECKSTINE Billy Eckttino M-G-M Disk Best Sellers by Coinpanies tBased on Points Earned} Label Decca Victor London M-G-M Coral FOR As part of its 45 rpm prpmotiori, Vietbr is reissuing some of its best-selling 78 rpm disks in the neVY Speied. Initial releases, to be piit out in album form, will comprise two sets titled “Spik^e JonesV Favorites” and ‘•Irving FieldsV Favorites.” Additional al- ’ I bums in the same' series will be ; issued shortly; with other artists, Promotion is part of Victor’s sustained drive to make the 45 rpm speed the standard for the bop held. Top Soloists Scheduled For Philadelphia Qrch Philadelphia; May 23. Fifteen topflight sbioists have ! been engaged for the Philadelphia Orchestra-s 51st season, which be- gins Oct. 6. Eugene Ormandy will Wednesday, May 24, 1950 FOR VICTOR BUILOlir Eddie * Fisher, Eddie Cantor * protege, has been set for a major RCA Victor buildup. Initial step in the process has been the pi.(^ niotion of Fisher from the cheaper- , priced Bluebird disk to the stahd- ; ard-pHced Black label. i BiSkery is making a special push j in behalf of Fisher’s latest coupling 1 of ”Warm Kisses in the Cool of the 1 Night” and “Night Wind” with Hugo Winterhalter’s orch and cho- rus. Qn the strength of the vic- ^ ter disking of “Warm Kisses,”' Charles Ross, tuners publisher, has ' made it a plug song. ;; Meahtime, Hal Kaimer, formefly Hildegarde’s musical director, has joined Fisher as arranger, conductor and accom- panist.:; Phil Kornhei$er Takts a$ . . . ■•.nr 'ATA'Wi Phil Kornheiser took over as general professional manager of Edward B, Marks Music Coiuj. Monday (22); ^ succeeding Harold Lee. ^ Laitter becomes executive assistant to Herbert E. Marks, pub> bevy's prez; and also assumes post of general manager of the ine- chahical department. ICornh eiser, for many years pro- fessional chief for Feist and other firms, had been handling promotion of the Marks standard catalog for the past year and a half.: Kerman Adds New Book Of Terp Arrangements In line with the danceband up- beat, Woody Herman is, adding a compietely hew book of terp ar- rangements to his repertoire. The bandleader also recorded two huin- bers for Capitol last week in the dance vein. They were “Spain’^ and ‘T Want a Little Girl.” Hef- man in the past few months has been concentvating on “progres- sive” jazz. Herman is reported to have split with his personal mahager, Carlos Gastel; Abe Turchih, band’s road manager, will take over the; man- agement chot’es. Orch is set to go into the Capitol, N; Y., for two vveeks beginning tomori'owl'riuirs;). About fourweeks of one-niters will follow. TEN NSC A Ml WIRES . WEEKL ARK s RTAX' NOCOVn RlRIIIplM HBRATOA' HOTCli 303 WEST SSHiSTRIir Mil.: ERNEST ANDERSON, 340 E. 52 S( , N. 1 ‘ THE ^BUDDING' SONG HIT 5^ „ - I Mr. FLORIST” ; Vniighn Monroe, RCA-Yictor ^ Jock Owaiio^ P*cca I FOURD MY MAMA MILLS MUSIC, INC. NOW York 4 'I CoTal CoTrals Walters Ozie Walters, Cowboy singer and western; songwriter, has been inked to ah exclusive disking contract by Coral ReeprdSt Decca’s sub$id.. Walters has appeared in singing rode in several , oatuhe pix. General Artists Corp. is hypoing its „ disk ‘ joclkey ptiblib relotiphs, Agehcy^' will issup ‘ a-. ^ Special ■ bi- monthly newslbtter • to about 509 Jocks";' hottng cutrbbT doings Hollywood, May 23. Musicians’ Local 47 notified all ! agents and mahagers that brehes- again conduct the/majority of the tras henceforth wall refuse to play orch s .concerts, . _ ■ _ . a live show' unless artists involved William Kapelh Menahem Pressler,!'^®''® ^ orchestrations of their Rudolf Firkusny, Agi Jambor, : I’outines for every sideman used. Anna Xydis, Solomon arid Eugene ; is that frequently il; ui* Bi*o»d way nmw York )» List. Mnie. Jambor, Hungarian- i they report for rehearsals and find I born artist; Solomon, the British'^ performers have . no music for virtuoso, and Miss Xydis, Greek ■ them.. They/have to work .out their pianist, -are all making their de-j owm cues and score, and they it : buts with the Philadelphia ensem- ble. Violinists: Zinp Francescatti, Yehiidi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, Emil Telmanyi and Carroll Glenn. Other soloists are Astrid Vamay, Wagnerian soprano; anfi four mem- bers of the Phila. .Orch; Ralph Mc- Lane, clarinetist; ElSa Hilgei% ’cel- haven t been paid for it. 8 Le.Slie Scott, vocalist, currently appearirig with Xavier: Cugat’s unit . 1 the N. Y Strand, will continue with the Latino orch oh Its forth- Marilyn Costello, harpist. I IIULAII iGAC brtlsts. Mllltnder, GAC Part Bandleader Lucky Millihder has parted company with Gehcral Art- of i ■ Ists Gorp. after approximately six months with tlie booking outfit. * ' * ■ ' • ... t coming Cbtiadian tour, Cugat decided to bring Scott into the Strand show a few days after having recorded . “Strange Mood” with him, for GolimiMa. Niur.'icr is only one rendered by - singer in the show. . » •:. »» f j.:*. t •, Lj.'f t.j,. RAIN , fatardfdpy TONI ARDEN ....... ....Columbio BRIY COTTON . , . - ^ London URRV FOTiNC ... Doceo DAVC HAf ItTON .Hejdt ' NONEYDREAMERI ...RCA .Victor DEAN MARTIN CbOfi tlAIHl’MlHMI^Roinbow FRAfiK PiTtY>iTRI0 .. . ..M-G-M PAUL miTUN.., ......Capitol OEliV WlLLIAMf ..i::....Morcury ■ awU mofo <omii?g. MllllR CORPORATION ^ >U *