Variety (September 05, 1951)

MClBSmti-MISIC Wnln«d«y, S»pt™W 5, 1951 Jocks, Jukes and Disks .By IIF.RM SCHOENFELD Orch: ‘The Sheet SeDers make this taffy-pull come alive, i Waltz on the reverse is an improve- ment with Camarata furnishing a : lush string background to Cherry's ! strong delivery of the lyric. Elliot Lawrence Orch: “Quick"- “Sixtv Minu.e Man”' (King*. utw- rencc’s hep crew registers brightly oh thisf coupling of rhythm tunes. “Quick” with Rooalind Patton j handling the vocal, rides smartly 1 and rates as a solid juke item. . Reverse is an off-color time slanted for the blues and rhythm market, Melvin Moore vocalling. Platter Pointer* RCA Victor has followed up last year's “Design For Dancing'' album series with four new sets featuring • Freddy Martin’s orch on Jerome Kern tunes. Ratph Flanagan on 1 Rodgers A Hammerstein numbers. Vaughn Monroe on Cole Porter standards and Wayne King o^ Frans l*har waltzes. Albums are Ralph Flanagan Blues From ‘American In Paris' “Love Is Here to Stay” (Victor*. Flanagan's arrangement of a theme from one of George Gershwin's major compositions is probably the best side this crew has sliced for Victor. Handled in a dance tempo closely grooved to the original piece, this cut has a big pop potential, particularly in view of the resurgence of Gershwin oldies expected with Metro’s re- lease of the “American In Paris’’ pie. Flanagan’s keyboard style, showcased on disks from the first time, is simple and tasteful. The Gershwin standard on the reverse is handled conventionally. Harry Prime vocalling competently. Cass Diley-Hoagy CarnPrhael: “Woman Is a Five-Letter Word"- "I’m Waiting Just For You” <Dec- ca*. This duo's applejack warbling grooved along the same commercial (Week ending Aug. 251 London, Aug. 27. Too Youi\g .. Sun My Truly Truly Fair .. Dash My Resistance Is Low. Morris Ivory Rag Macmelodles With These Hands Kassner Too Late Now .. World Wide Jezebel Connelly I Apologize Victoria Be My Love FI) A II. Unless F.D.&H. Loveliest Night F.D.&H. On Top of Old Smoky. .Leeds Second 12 Shotgun Boogie ... Connelly Mockin' Bird Hill . Southern Chr’st’ph’r Col’mb’s. Connelly Tulips and Heather .. . Fields Sweet Violets Morris Our Very Own Wood , God Bless You ... Carolin Beggar In Love.. Cinephonic Petite Waltz Leeds You Are My Destiny . Swan Smoky Mountain .. . Connelly September Song ... Sterling has had mot* kick than is evident on “Womaifr a clever tune in a Calypso vein. Side sounds tired and offers no competition to the original hoked-up version by the Harry Ranch orch for M-G-M. Flip Is delivered with a stronger Ozark bite and rates juke spins. Doris Drew: “Where’s-A Your House'-“I Wish I Wuz” (Mercury*. “Where’s-A Your House” shows lines as the first sets by these orchs. Bernle Mann’s orch has a fair side in “Down Where The Rainbow Ends.” Tommy Hughes and Sandu Scott vocalling (King* . . . Cal Tjader Trio deliver some intricate instrumental on “Ivy” and “Give Me The Simple Life” (Galaxy; . . Fran Warren delivers okay on “Tryin’ Too Hard” for Victor . . . On the same label. Henri Rene Pre-Release Test Of Its Disks Being Studied by Victor ‘RH’ Logging System Week of August 24-30 Richard Himber’s log of broadcast performances, compiled on basis of varying point ratings lor plugs on commercial and sustaining pro- grams logged in each of the 3 major territories, Sew York , Chicago and Los Angeles. First Group Songs Publishers Because of Rain Maypole Because of You—t“I Wa* Aif American Spy” BMI Bonne Nuit—♦’’Here Comes the Groom” Famous Come On-A My House . Duchess Dimples and Cherry Cheeks *.. Leeds Everything I Have Is Yours—♦“Strictly Dishonorable” Miller Go Go Go Go—t“Here Comes the Groom” Famous Hello Young Lovers—♦“The King and I” Williamson How D’va Like Your Eggs In Morning—f'Rich. Young. Pretty.. Feist How High the Moon...... ... .. 'r>, Chappell How Many Times Paxton I Cot Ideas H&R I’m In Ix>ve Again Crawford I’m Late—♦“Alice In Wonderland” Disney In Cool Cool Cool of Evening—t“Here Comes the Groom” Paramount It Never Entered My Mind Chappell Jezebel BMI Loveliest Night of the Year— t“The Great Caruso” Robbins Maybe It’s Because I Love You Berlin Mister and Mississippi Shapiro Morning Side of the Mountain. Remitk My Truly Truly Fair Santly Out of Breath Valando Shanghai Advanced There’s No Boat Like a Row boat Bourne These Things I Offer You Valando Too Young Jefferson We Kiss In a Shadow—*“The King and I” Williamson Wonder Why—♦“Rich. Young A Pretty” Robbins You’ll Know—♦”His Kind of Woman” Chappell enterprise in following up on the orch has a couple of more serious current “Come On-A My House" sides in “Intermezzo” and "Moon- click. hut little else. It’s an iinita- J light Sonata” . . . Eileen Wilson tive item with no single twist of has a neat side in “Cold Cold its own to set it apart from the Heart” iDccca* . . . Les Baxter original. The deadpan treatment orch and chorus give a high com* by Miss Drew doesn’t help to hide , mercial gloss to the ballad, “You’ll the carbon fuzzes. Reverse is a Know” ‘Capitol* . . . Mills Bros. promising folk-styled number which Miss Drew handles with suitable brightness Margaret Whiting: “And So To Sleep Again’-’Beer Barrel Polka" (Capitol *. “Sleep” ballad with good could be the material Miss Whit- ing has needed to break through for a new hit. She sells., it w ith a warm straightforwaid rendition Reverse is a rousing remake of the standard. Eddie Fisher: “Turn Back the Hands of Time ”-“I Can’t Go On Without You" (Victor*. “Hands ot j Time”'is in the “My Heart Cries for You” format, and Fisher pro- jects strongly with an assist from the Hugo Winterhalter orch and I chorus. The waltz tempo, folk flavor and familiar refrain have proved to be click ingredients in the current market, and could re- peat here. Bottom deck is a big torch number, also on the familiar side. Fisher delivering with com- mercial full-piped sentimentality. Ted Mack: “Just a Real Old Fashioned Sunday" - “We’re In Love. We’re In Love. We’re In Love” (Premier*. Ted Mack, of the NBC “Family Hour” show, and eo-author of “Sunday.” works out on a folksy narration midway on this slice that will probably help this side’s chances among the Mack fans. Musically, tune is okay, with Ray Charles chorus handling the lyrics in a pleasing arrange- ment. On the reverse, Jan Bart delivers a high tenor rendition of a slightly arty waltz ballad. Giselle MacKenzle: “J’Atten- drai”-“My Greatest Love” (Capi- tol*. Giselle Mackenzie. Canadian! songstress currently featured on the “Club 15” airer w ill In* a i .strong factor on disks with the right material. “J’Attendrai" is a good ballad, but it takes a tune the stature of “La Vie Kn Rose to break through the Gallic lan- guage barrier. This one isn’t quite good enough. Reverse, an adaptation of a classical music theme, could he a hit-list con- tender if the jockeys give this class side « proper break. Andrews Sisters: “Love Is Such A Cheat” - “Lying In The Hay” < Decca*. Two good sides etc hed b> the Andrews Sisters 'during their curr is jet-propelled material which the trio belts across with lots of steam. Number could take off on the basis of this side. For a change-of-pace. the oldie on the reverse gets a softly rhythmic rendition. Ray Noble Orch: “Loretta" - “1 Win! To lie Near You" 'Victor 1 . Ray Noble's crew, recently rejoined fail to impress on "I Ran All The Way Home” (Decca* . . . Bob Ebrrly has an okay slice of “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” for Capitol. Standout western, folk, blues, is a melodic fhvthm. religious, polka, etc.: chances and j Terry Timmons. “Eating My Heart Out For You” ‘Victor* . . . Wynonie Harris. “Man. Have I Got Troubles” (King* . . . Boots Faye A Idaho Call. "You Tried To Ruin My Name” (Capitol* . . . Johnnie A Jack. “Humming-Bird” (Victor* . . . Oakie Jones. “You’re Just Imagina- tion" 'Columbia* . . . Curley Kin- sey, “1 Don't Want You Now” (Mercury* .. . . Homer A Jethro. “Sound Off No. 2” (Victor*. With, the Initial phase having Second Group ended in RCA Victors at.oinpt to Belle, My Liberty Bell .. Oxford get a scientific pre release appraisal , „ e My Love—fToast of New Orleans" Miller of its disks, the <hskei> execs are L> : ,rk Is the Night—t“Rich. Young & Pretlv" Feist currently studying the results sub- m y K eally Love Me BVC imtted by the Schwerin research Knd o( 4 u>ve Affair Duchess ^tfit. Schwnn. which ilsopri'. if You Turn Me Down Jefferson tests shows for NBC. had been i^, ne50mf sn d Sorry .; Mills r«“.“8JKTto‘5r55 1 *•»*» uo. BUDDY SAVin HELD AS WITNESS IN DOPE CASE at its N. Y. eight weeks. . , Victor execs voiced confidence [that the experiment would prove fruitful, although they said that several more weeks would be need- ed for the tested disks to get a public reaction. They also admitted that several inaccuracies had de- ; veloped early in the testing which were later corrected.. It’s likely that Victor will continue to work | along with the Schwerin research- | ers until a conclusive result, one way or another, is found. Purpose of the test was tu give , Victor an idea which of Its releases had the greatest potential. If there 1 is any correlation between’ the clinical and public reaction. Vic- tor would be able to plan promo- tion accordingly, with possibility i that some disks would be held back from the market completely. Schwerin has been conducting the tests with a cross-sectional sam- pling of people who have been in- vited to make comments on the Victor sides several weeks before release. Make Believe I^md BVC Mixed Emotions Roger My Day Dream Wings My Magic Heart Simon 11 Mv Resistance Is Low , Morris Song Is Ended Berlin Sweet Violets f . . Morris Wang Wang Blues . Miller We Never Talk Much—“Rich. Young A Pretty” ... Robbins While You Darned Danced Danced Spitzer With These Hands . ~ bloom World Is Waiting For the Sunrise a Crawford R H Tele-Log tWeek of August 23-29* (.VtiMierirally Listed Philadelphia. Sept. 4. Burton Schwartz. saxophone player known professionally as Buddy Savitt. was held in bail, in Atlantic City, as a material witness against two men. who allegedly so*d him heroin capsules. Savitt. who was playing at an I Atlantic City night club, had been i CLyilmimwi Hill jit* x under surveillance by the narcotics , uDnUHidn'lldllcil 5 squad, and on his information po- lice picked up Henry Pinkston, of Atlantic City, and Joseph Newbold. of Morristown, N. J.. both of whom were held in bail for the action ot the Grand Jury. Radio Luxembourg’s Lone Yank Disk Jock Luxembourg. Aug. 27. _ Wally Peterson, who’s been han- dling an hourly cross-the-board platter show on Radio Luxembourg, heads for London next month to start rehearsals for “South Pacific” in which he’ll have the role of the Professor. Believed to be the only American disk jockey in Europe • outside of the Armed Forces Net- . s ol° operates the work which is essentially for U. S j «-*nd Symphony Ballrooms in Bos- t - in I)- I a troops*, he came to England in 1947 ! ton; Roseland in Taunton; and the ent tour •‘Che- 1 *” Nvi, h th< ‘ ori R inal ‘‘Oklahoma” cast. 'Sun Valley Ballroom in Worcester. JiL Petersons program is labeled 1 For the summer these operate Terpery Partnership A Longtime Biz Assn. Charlie Shribman and band- leader Mai llallett, longtime part- ners. this summer converted their C’harleshurst terpery at Salem Wil- lows, Mass., into a giant soda foun- tain and have beon weathering the season okay that way. This is the first ballroom in which both were associated, among the several others which Shribman operates individually. The pair are also partnered in a howling alley Ebbins Inks Actress i To Widen P.M. Activity Hollywood. Sept. 4. Milton Ebbins. who has hereto- fore concentrated (on musical tal- ent. entered the acting division by signing a contract as personal man- ager for Barbara Ruick. 18-year-old i daughter of radio actress Lurene Tuttle Rulck’s MINDY CARSON RENEWS WITH RCA LONG-TERMER Mindy Carson has been renewed by RCA Victor to a long-term re- cording pact via a deal negotiated by the songstress’ manager-hus- band. Eddie Joy. Added feature of the new deal “Time on My Hands.’’ He’ll con- tinue the show on tape from Lon- don after he assumes the “SP” stint. Through his use of the old Vincent Youmans number as a theme the tune may be revived— at least in this part of Europe. Decca reportedly is interested in cutting the oldie when the platter calls for Victor to absorb costs of Ebbins engineered Miss t future disking sessions. Usual run I miufis new seven-year pact at j of pacts, except for a handful of ,n | Metro by bringing her to the at- top names, provide* that costs of Taunton, Mass., while Shribman ( tention of Metro veepee Marvin record sessions come out of artists’ Roseland-State i Sclu ‘ ntk aft< * r she debuted on the royalties. New York “College Bowl” vidshow. * William Morris will act as her agent. Ebbins* musical stable includes Billy Eckstine. Hugo Wintprhaltcr and Count Basie. with the Victor label, do a cute _ job on “Loretta” with a series of I pilot ;7r rives in Britain, dialect passages set in a sharp in- strumental arrangement. Tune is an okay rhythm item written along , j:i Oriolo* I > juIpi* conventional lines On the flip. ’ 1 M ’ xn liCa(U r, l Noble Has an attractive cut of an As Sol()i*t by Jubilee adapted French folk song, with , Vocal by a choral group Sonny Til.' lead voice of the Don Cherry-Camarata: “I Will Orioles, vocal quintet, has beer. N ver Change”-‘‘The Sweetheart «#ned as a vocal soloist by Jubilee Waltz” (Decca*. “Change” is just Records. a string of cliches headed into a Jubilee also recently inked the big ballad form. Don Cherry can’t . Orioles to a new five-}ear pact. | fires. ( looney's New Col Disk Ties Into Cereal Push Rosemary Clooney’s new disk for Columbia Records. “Dandy, Han- dy and Candy.” will be pushed via tie-in with a $2,000,000 promo- tion for a new cereal food, Sugar Crisp Cereal. * E. B. Marks Music, which is pub- lishing the tune, written by Alan and Marilxn Scott, linked up with Latter Shribman heads for Nlolly- convert its equipment to the new the ad agency. Benton & Bowles, for wood Sept. 10 on Miss Clooney’s speed Sept. 10. Victor has been an extensive disk Jockey drive and ft Ini testing bids. opci weekends, chiefly, which is when Hallett tours the circuit with his band. Midweek he supervises his business interests. Another brother. Joe Shribman is talent manager for Rosemary j RCA Victor has gained accept- Clooney, among others, a music i anee for its 45 rpm system at an- publisher (Roger Music*, along other radio station, this one in with other New York operations. Minneapolis, where WTCN will WCTN Goes 45 pushing its 45’s into the broadcast a premium deal through which the system to hypo disk Jockey plugs food company will offer both the totp 1 * or ^* ctor ^tem Move will record and sheet music of the song rLEK S «*L0 dAL TRIP be pccomped by ballyhoo In con- to cereal buyers. This guarantees Ralph Peer. Peer International , junction 'with the Victor distrib in a minimum uf 50.000 disk and copy. Music prexy, return to fl, Y. from ♦Hat area. i sales. Hollywood Sept. 10 and then takes The Minneapolis NBC affiliate is Platter Is Mist Clooney’s first off for a six month trip around the the second station to go 45. the first release since her “Come On-A My world to check with branch of-. being WFIL, Philadelphia, several j House” side broke through early I months #;o. I this summer.