Variety (July 1950)

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©RCHESTRAS-MUSIC I presenting s Famed International Balladeers • Their Delightful Children! ice $2.25 ax) Favorite Folk Song Albums . SONGS OF THE AFRICAN VELD DECCA ALBUM A-471 Price $5i25 (plus tax) SONGS OF MANY LANDS Available in Both Long Play and 78 RPM DECCA DL 5106 Price $2.85 (Incl. Fed. tax) DECCA ALBUM A-605 Price $3.75 (plus tax) DECCA RETAIL DISK BEST SELLERS National Hating This Last W k. wk. Va HIETY Survey of retail dish best sellers, based on reports ob- tained from leading stores in 12 cities and showing com- parative sales rating for this and last week , Week Ending July 1 Artist. Label. Title 8- u 3 m W § at 03 c 3 M I J at * .2 fe O t ~ n o <y £ m pq d w 8 S 0 c 1 I jT W & at Jt, ft ) *2 *3 2 d ■£» •3 « S Q o i i I s 'V g ; i s NAT “KING” COLE (Capitol) 1 3 “Mona Lisa”—1010 .. 6 2 ANTON KARAS (London) 2 1 “Third Man Theme”—536 2 6 BILLY ECKSTINE (M-G-M) 3 6 “I Wanna Be Loved”—10716 9 1 ANDREWS SIS-G. JENKINS (D) 4 2 “I Wanna Be Loved”—27007 1 .. KAY STARR (Capitol) 5 8 “Bonaparte’s Retreat”—936 BILL SNYDER (Tower) 6 5 “Bewitched”—1473 4 GORDON JENKINS (Decca) 7 10 “Bewitched”—24983 4 .. GUY LOMBARDO (Decca) 8A 9 “Third Man Theme”—24839 7 .. 4 .. 7 8 5 5 2 4 3 6 69 14 .. 21 10 .. 51 .. 8 2 4 .... 6 3 8 .. 47 3 28 9 10 6 1 .. .. 1 27 1 . . 2 5 9 ,. 24 1 .. 2 ... .. 23 BILLY ECKSTINE (M-G-M) 8B 4 “My Foolish Heart”—10623A..... 8 3 DORIS DAY (Columbia) 9 11 “Hoop-Dee-Doo”—38771 MEL TORME (Capitol) 10 15 “Bewitched”—1000 ,. DORIS DAY (Columbia) 11 .. “Didn’t Slip, Pushed”—38818 3 .. RUSS MORGAN (Decca) 12 .. “Sentimental Me”—24904 GORDON JENKINS (Decca) 13A 6 “My Foolish Heart”—24830 10 .. RAY ANTHONY (Capitol) 13B 15 “Count Every Star”—979 PEREZ PRADO (Victor) 14A .. “Marabo No. 5”—20-37B2B 7 DICK HAYMES (Decca) 14B 15 “Count Every Star”—27042 SAMMY KAYE (Victor) 14C 13 “Roses”—20-3754 .. ... MITCH MILLER (Columbia) 15 .. “Tzena, Tzena, Tzena”—38885 LES PAUL (Capitol) 16 14 “Nola”—1014 PERRY COMO (Victor) 17A 6 “Hoop-Dee-Doo”—20-3747 5 .. AMES BROS. (Coral) 17B 7 “Sentimental Me”—60140 10 DORIS DAY (Columbia) 17C 10 “Bewitched”—38689 KAY STARR (Capitol) 17D .. “Hoop-Dee-Doo”—980 7 .. .. 3 1 .. 9 2 21 8 8 1 .. .. 18 8 17 5 .. 5 10 .... 1 7 .. 16 10 13 4 6 9 5.. 12 4 11 1 .. 10 1 2 ' ^ _ YOUNG MAN WITH HARMONY TIME FIVE TOP A HORN Th „ chordett .. H. Jamet-D. Day _ . ALBUMS Columbia C “ a C198 CL6111 CL6106 SOUTH PACIFIC Broadway Cait Columbia MM850 ML4180 4 5 ANNIE GET YOUR DIXIE BY DORSEY GUN Jtmmu hnrtnu Hollywood Cast M-G-M E-509 Jimmy Dorsey Columbia C196 CL6095 No. of Label Records Capitol 6 Decca 6 M-G-M 2 Columbia 4 Disk Best Sellers by Companies . (Based on Points Earned) No. of No. of Records Points Label Records . .. 6 146 London . 1 .... 6 116 Victor 3 .... 2 70 Tower 1 .. .. 4 58 Coral 1 Points 51 33 26 9 Wednesday, July 5, 1950 Key Industry Continued from page 35 I with A. E. Thorwaldsen, buyer for the Woolworth chain, for later this week. Members of this committee are Bernie Prager, of Robbins Mu- sic? Arnold Shaw, of Duchess Mu- sic; and Tom Hughes, of Shapiro- Bernstein. Another “dealer relations com- mittee” was named to contact exist- ing outlets with the goal of im- proving their operation efficiency. Possibility of restoring counter demonstrations as a key factor in sheet music will be explored by this group, which will also act as a j clearing house of retailer squawks j and gripes. This committee con- j sists of Abel Baer, Alex Kramer and Tobias, for the writer reps, and Prager and Sam Snetiker, of Chappell, for the publishers. Burden of raising coin to carry on industrywide promotional activ- ity was assumed by Tobias on be- half of the SPA. Tobias placed before the SPA board Friday (30) | a proposal to form v a writers’ group to contact radio and video pro- grammers with the view of getting sheet music plugs on the airlanes. Production of a video show with i leading cleffers, with all coin re- ceived going into an industry fund, | will also be looked into by the SPA. Finally, conference proposed the .setup of a committee to handle the | long-range public relations aspect i of the project. Personnel for this j committee was not fully set up be- cause of the absence of Walter ; Douglas, M?PA chairman, from the meeting. It’s expected, how- ever, that Douglas and heads of ; the top pub firms will be asked to . serve on the p.r. committee, along | with Shaw and Tobias. Trade < papers reps on the p.r. committee will be Abel Green, editor of Variety, and Joe Csida, editor of Billboard. 1 With the question raised of whether the conference was usurp- . ing the functions of existing trade organizations was raised, Tobias as- serted he wa£ anxious not to step , on any toes and that he was ready I to let any other group carry the ; ball. Absence of any intra-trade acrimony over the conference, how- ever, was indicated by the support given to the sales hypo project by • SPA, MPPA and MPCE. - fa On the Upbeat New York Hollywood Peggy Lee arrived from the Dick Stabile resumed batoning Coast this week for waxing sessions ! of his band at Ciro’s and brother at Capitol’s eastern offices . . .! Joe, who has been fronting, went Johnny Mercer ini New York for a ! on a two-week vacation before re- due deliberation, AFM Local 47, board' decided against putting a popcorn vender in the recreation J room of the new union building I ... Emma Lou Welch will troup ! with Jerry Wald’s re-formed band. ; Chicago short visit last week prior to head- ing for a vacation ip New England . . . The Modernaires, Columbia Records recording group now at the Waldorf-Astoria, start their fourth year on CBS’ “Club 15” Aug. 28 . . . Pete Rugolo, Capitol’s eastern musical director, waxed three sides with Woody Herman’s orch last week . . , Henri Rene, RCA Victor’s Coast recording man- ager, in New York for a short stay to clean up unfinished business . . . Jason Matthews, explorer, nov- elist, aviator and longhair com- poser, has placed a pop number, “The. Ukelele Song,” with Pickwick Music, in collaboration with Terry Shand . . . Erroll Garner opened at the Howard theatre, Washing- ton, D. C., last week, following with the Royal theatre in Balti- more, July 7 and a booking at the Apollo in New York July 14. turning to the band’s brass section . . . Frank DeVol planning a Sep- tember opening for New York of- fices of his pubberies, Grayce Mu- sic (ASCAP) and Derby Songs (BMI) . . . Ray Herbeck’s orch opens at Cal-Neva Lodge July 14 and will remain there until Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Choir and Orchestra move in on Aug. 2 . . . Clyde McCoy orch opens at the Desert Inn, Las Vegas, July 11 . . . Ernie Heckscher bows into the Cocoanut Grove of the L. A. Am- bassador hotel July 18. Ina Ray Hutton band inked to remain another 12 weeks at the Aragon Terpery ... Ike Carpenter band got flat $3,000 for four-days at ; El Paso and Hobbs, Texas airfields ... Eddie Metcalf, former Spike ! Jones vocalist, joined the Gar- • wood Van band at the Cinegrill of 1 the Hollywood Roosevelt.., After | Lou Levy in from New York and I Bob Stern from Hollywood to handle Andrews Sisters opening at! Chicago theatre . . , Ex-bandleader Jimmy Zito playing trumpet in NBC studio orch here . . . Ted Weems into Muelilebach Hotel, Kan- sas City, July 19 for two weeks... Gene Krupa into New York’s Capi- tol theatre for two weeks with op- tions Aug. 24...Claude Thornhill to Bill Green’s Casino, Pittsburgh, Aug. 17 for five days... WGN starting a one-hour cross-the-board morning dee jay show featuring relay team of four disk jockeys, each handling a quarter-hour seg- ment. They* are Holland Engle, Pierre Andre, Norman Kraeft and Hal Lansing.. .Mai Bellairs, former WCFL staff dee jay, now freelanc- ing.. .A1 Friedman, Hill & Range professional manager, in on biz.. . Glen Gray to Souix Falls, S. D„ (Continued on page 42) Exhilarating New Hit Song l TZENA TZENA, TZENA, TZENA THANKS, MR. FLORIST VAUGHN MONROE, RCA-VICTOR JACK OWENS, DECCA MILLS MUSIC, INC. 1619 Broadway, N«w York 19, N. Y. SAVE ME A DREAM BY TCHAIKOWSKY NICK KENNY, AND MILTON BERLE A Lincoln' Standard 1619 B'way, New York City