Variety (November 1954)

Wednesday* November 10, 1054 MUSIC 57 Vienna, Noy. 2. Arrival of Wurlitzer representa- tives with the intention to intro- duce jukeboxes in. Austria has aroused interest in the entertain- ment industry. Situation: is not favorable for Wurlitzer. Contrary to the situa- tion in America, the Austrian Sen ciety of, Authors, Composers and Musicpublfshers (AKM) will have no difficulty at all to collect fees. This question is not even being dis- cussed, as AKM has a monopoly, is state-controlled and has a priori the right to collect. Greatest difficulty lies the fact that cafe-bar owners, etc., were asked to pay a flat 3% of the total turnover for rent. This is out of question, replied the owners* association. Nevertheless, a few spots far outside the capital have tried it, but so far haven’t received any favorable response from the cus- tomers.. SACKS & SIDEL WIND INDPLS. BANQUET STAND Robert Se\del, RCA exec vice- prexy over consumer products, and Manie Sacks, v.p. over the Victor disk division, are winding up a two-day banquet stand at the com- pany's Indianapolis plant today (Wed.). Seidel spoke at the 25- year annual service awards dinner yesterday (Tues.) while Sacks is addressing the annual record club dinner there today (Wed.). While in the midwest, Sacks will visit RCA distribs in Detroit and Chicago. Decca Ties Cuban Mambo Maestro to Exclusive Riding with the mambo cycle, Decca Records has wrapped up an exclusive deal with Bebo. Valdes, conductor -. arranger - composer known' as. "the Glenn Miller of Cuba.” Decca was among the first com- panies to click with mambo in this country via Sonny Burke’s ‘‘Mam- bo Jambo” package a few years ago. BETAIL SHEET BEST SELLERS ■ Survey of retail sheet, music best sellers based on reports obtained from leading stores in 13 "cities and showing .com- parative sales rating for. this and last weeK * ASCAP t BMI National Rating This Last wk. wk. Title and Publisher co G •S w 2 u c. . k ti .1 w 3 Pi V x to 0 3 s^. 1 c S $ c 0 s 3 Q 10 01 t-i. ■ Pi CO A u X 25* U CO '•M .£ o c CO O" E CO <■ J e • M e $ e < c co CO Pi 0) •o' to ' Pi CO U i : bO CO o *m X. O o of* (O' ■3 ■s c 0 a CO ft), fk • X 1 CO a. IW T to -p V -.3 s PQ. ■ o 3. C- »H P o X •F* o p d G 6J- ■ '(0. 3,/ 2 6 x 0 CO 1 o ■8 V 3 C to 3 S CO . a ■3 3 d •-J •+». • P* u. to CO JO 3 n id £ ft Ck -3 CO o • I—■ 10 3 S G U. CO w 1. ■g O' G. CO . to 3 a & to to o 5 •3 1 d u IH . U) 3 £ •8 ■£ d d p ■ ft. . v—^ 1 d d b# 3 < S : G to I •A to O CO d co T O T A L P 0 1 N T S ‘DRAGNET’ VIDPIX MAY FOSTER ANOTHER HIT Hollywood, Nov. 9. Looks like another instrumental hit may come out of the "Dragnet” vidfilm series. Last year, the title theme be- came s hit, landing atop the Hit Parade in a matter of weeks. Now, Jack Webb is arranging for the publication and recording of. a new tune, "Funny Man,” which created immediate audience interest when it was used on a "Dragnet” telepic a few weeks ago.. Tune was written by Arthur Hamilton and used in a yarn in which a psychotic killer plays a jukebox before he tackles each new victim. Over n ight Smash! Mister Sandman (I. H . Morris) Words end Music by Pal Ballard (Writer of "Oh,. Baby Mine”) (And, tourto, dozeni of unpub lithod hittl) Simon Into Indie Setup To Make Jazz Masters George T. Simon, jazz critic, and Stanley White, plastics manufac- turer, have organized a new com-' pany, B Plus Records, which will make masters and sell them to ma- jor companies, . The outfit will use freelance jazz and pop artists in various packaging formats. RCA bought the first B Plus package, “Cool Yuletide,” and is releasing It via its quasi-indie Label X. Set is a cool jazz workover of several Xmas standards by a . com- bo headed by trombonist Urbie Green. MGM Records, meantime, has. picked up a couple of masters sliced by songstress Louise Tobin, former Benny Goodman band vocalist. .a Cfpo £ tto9(bt/ "ILL NEVER F4LL IN LOVE. UNLESS • »6unf tqtjovri WHllmberk\th8hm SmnqBand Dinm «ono* t ‘Hit Parade’ Lineup (On Nov. 6 NBC-TV Show) >1. If I Give My Heart. . Miller 2. I Need You Now..: .Miller 3; This Ole House.. .Hamblen 4. Hold My Hand.*. .Raphael 5. Hey There ..Frank 6. Papa Loves Mambo..... .S-B 7. Skokiaan .....S-B Maestros to Double As Bookers in New Setup Of McConkey Ex-Veep Chicago, Nov. 9. Bill Black, v.p. of McConkey Artists Corp., is ankling MAC on Nov. 15 and is pulling out the band department with him. Company will pitch wholly at tv films and cocktail units: henceforth! Meanwhile, Black is setting up an unusual corporation with the former McConkey orchs to be known as Orchestras Inc. Band- leaders Ray Pearl, Russ Carlyle, Jimmy Featherstone, Don Reid and Larry Faith will double as book- ers in the office maintained by Black whenever they are playing dates in this area. Most of the orchu have been playing location dates in hotels and ballrooms In the midwest and south, Black reports that at least two other orchestra leaders have invested, money in the new venture and will join Orchestras Inc, as soon as their present contracts ex- pire. There’s to be constant cross- plugging among the orchs in the corporation. ENG. MAESTRO AMBROSE London, Nov. 2. A deal has been fixed between British bandleader Ambrose and RCA Victor for him to record titles specially for the United States mar- ket with a hand-picked 40-piece orchestra. The deal was Inaugu- rated by Joe Carlton on his visit here last week; Ambrose has not been recording for a couple of years or so, nor has he had a regular band in a resident spot f~r the same period. He is being given carte blanche In regard to musicians and choice of numbers for disks for the Ameri- can market. Cleveland, Nov. 9. Sudden hike in jukebox playing fees from 5c to 10c per platter, or three for a quarter, is causing nub- bles arid; some grumbles along the circuit of approximately 4,000 tav- er About. 500 of them have al- ready /climbed aboard the dime- pet-spin bandwagon, beaded by Jack Cohen, prez of Cleveland Pho- nograph Merchants Assn.. Northern Ohio operators of coin music boxes have fought against the 10c lake for several years, Cohen said, but, his association’s members were ^‘forced either to i crease, prices or go out of busi- ness,”: because. costs have tripled. ... One of the first major operators to install the new dime jukeboxes was Sanford Levine, of Atlas Music Co. who . pointed out that machines costing $265 each several years ago now come to more than $1,200 wholesale for latest models. Quick spot-check indicated that moist ..tavern-keepers are going along with the. hike amicably, al- though there are still some beefs* WITH ITS ‘HEART’ ALBUM MGM Records is hopping on the deluxe-package bandwagon. Label is boxing its 12-inch soundtrack platter of Metro’s ‘‘Deep In My Heart” with a four-page brochure of text and photos about the pic. The package will be priced at $6.95. It’s MGM’s first try at deluxe al- bum merchandising.. Previous MGM albums had been priced at $4,85. Soundtracker will feature the works of: Sigmund Romberg sung by Jose Ferrer, Helen Traubel, Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone, Tony Martin, Gene and Fred Kelly, Jane Powell and Howard Keel, among others.. Columbia Records gave MGM the okay for Miss Clooney, while Mercury and RCA Victor released Vic Damone and Tony Martin, respectively) for the special set. 7 .WWLiUM W " Campus Combos Ready Carnegie Hall Takeover New York’s Carnegie Hall, which has*housed virtually every variety of. modern jazz from Granz to mambo this fall, will swing to an educated form of dixielahd Nov. 27 when a couple of Ivy League combos will take over. It’s report- edly the first intercollegiate jazz concert to be held in the longhair auditorium, . /Lineup.will feature Stan Rubin’s Tigertown Five, an aggregation hailing from Princeton U., and the Spring Street Stompers, from Wil- liams College. The two combos wiiralternate on the program and combine for the finale. Eddie Con- don, a non-academic jazzman, will emcee the bash. ‘ Rubin’s unit toured most of the large colleges along, the eastern seaboard and recently played a date at Frank Dailey’s Meadow- brook in Cedar .Grove, N. J. This group also played at Maxim’s on the . French Riviera a couple of years ago. The Stompers also have been swinging along the campus jazz loop. Bob Cross orch booked for a re- turn date at the St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio,opening Dec. 9 through New Year’s Eve. Cross is currently at the Studio Lounge in Galveston. Betty Madigan ALWAYS YOU b/w That Was My Heart You Heard MGM 11812 K 11812 78 RPM 45 RPM MGM RECORDS THE G ^ E A \ EG