Variety (December 1954)

Draper and the Little Symphony Orchestra. Guber-Ford handle the Little Symph (30-piece ensemble) and planned a kickoff concert, with Draper and Krupa staging an ad lib finale. Charlie Barnet Cuts Band Set for Victor Hollywood, Dec. 7. RCA Victor cut a big band jazz package here last week, spotlight- ing Charlie Barnet and his crew. Twelve sides of his “Indian stuff” probably will be released under the title “War Party.” Billy May did several of the ar- rangements for the platter. Continued from page 49 ing via Terri Stevens* version on the AA label and sparked covers by Sunny Gale for Victor and Georgie Shaw for Decca. Roy Hamilton was the first crooner on “Hurt” via Epic and because of 54 MUSI C Victor s Lightning ‘Melody* Release Victor pulled another lightning recording-release stunt over the weekend and stores around the country yesterday (Tues.) were re- ceiving copies of a Tony Martin- Dinah Shore duet on “Mp’ocW of Love." Tune, a fixture in the Sha- piro-Bernstein catalog and once used as the background for the “Why Do I Love You” recitative, recently had lyrics added. Lyrics were telephoned to Vic- tor artists & repertoire chief Joe Carlton on the Coast last Thurs- day. He had them transcribed, picked up a lead sheet and notified Martin and Shore to be ready for* a recording session Friday after- noon. Between 0 a.m. and 4 p.m. Friday, two arrangements were completed and the recording ses- sion went off as scheduled. After the tune was cut, Carlton boarded a plane and returned to New York, carrying the tapes with him. Rush treatment was patterned after the express job done on Ed- die Fisher’s “Oh My Papa,” which catapulted it into the hit class al- most overnight. Duet, incidentally, marks the first time in a consider- able period that Martin and Miss Shore have worked together. Cheers Find Long Time Tween Sides for Cap Hollywood, Dec. 14. Hit records usually cue fairly swift followups for disk artists, but recording sessions have been a long time coming for The Cheers, Capitol trio which made some noise with “Bazoom (I Need Your Lovin’).” Trio etched the hit disk last July and it has been among Capitol’s top 10 sellers for more than four months. However, The Cheers (Gil Gar- field, Bert Convy and Sue Allen) didn’t have their second recording session until last week. The two new sides, with backing conducted by Buddy Bregman, will be re- leased next month—five months after the release of “Bazoom.” 'Hit Parade’ Lineup (On Deer 11 NBC-TV Show) 1. Teach Me Tonight.. Hub 2. Mister Sandman... Morris 3. Count Blessings .... Berlin 4. Papa Loves Mambo... S-B 5. If I Give My Heart. Miller 6. Let Me Go, Lover . H & R 7. Naughty Lady Paxton VICTOR TO RELEASE PAR TOYS’ SOUNDTRACK Hollywood, Dec. 14. Deal was closed here for RCA Victor release of the soundtrack album of “The Seven Little Foys,” Paramount film based on the career of Eddie Foy Sr., vaude headliner. Bob Hope plays Foy and James Cagney recreates his George M. Cohan characterization in one of the big production sequences. Pic, a show biz cavalcade, has a score that includes several stand- ards of the first quarter of the 20th century. Among the tunes are “Smiles,” Chinatown,” “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Mary.” Monroe, Marshard Team Before Separate Tours Boston, Dec. 14. Prior to taking off on separate junkets, Vaughn Monroe and so- ciety maestro Harry Marshard, president and veepee respectively of The Meadows, are currently ap- pearing. at their swank bistro in a brief double engagement, the first time the pair has teamed in sev- eral years. Following the Meadows stint, Monroe is set to open a four-week engagement at Miami Beach’s new Fontainebleau on Dec. 20, while Marshard heads out on his annual three-week tour of New York and the midwest the latter part of this week, to play a series of deb and Christmas parties. Maestro will take 22 men on the tour, forming separate units for the various en- gagements. Larry Green will join Monroe as his personal *88er, replacing Ernie Johnson, who will return to New York. Dick Hayman will baton the band at the new Florida spot. SHIRLEY HARMER Sings A PAIR OF BLUE EYES MEET ME HALFWAY MGM 11875 K 11875 78 RPM 45 RPM Wednesday, December 15, 1954 RETAIL SHEET BEST SELLERS J^SrIETy Survey of retail sheet music best sellers based on reports obtained from leading stores in 11 cities and showing com- parative sales rating for this and last week. ♦ ASCAP t BM1 National Rating This Last wk. wk. Title and Publisher ♦Count Your Blessings (Berlin) ♦Mister Sandman (Morris). .. tThis Ole House (Hamblen) ♦Teach Me Tonight (Hub-L) tLet Me Go, Lover (H&R). ♦If I Give My Heart To You (Miller) ♦I Need You Now (Miller) ♦Naughty Lady (Paxton) ♦Papa Loves Mambo (Shapiro-B).... ♦White Christmas (Berlin) ♦Rudolph the Reindeer (St. Nicholas) ♦Hold My Hand (Raphael) ♦Home for the Holidays (Roncom).. ♦Hey There (Frank) tWhither Thou Goest (Kavelin) PHILLY JAZZ PROMOTERS BACK TO UPPED FEES Philadelphia, Dec. 14. Convinced that top prices are not necessarily the answer for a successful jazz concert, promoters Lee Guber and Frank Ford have returned to a $4,50 top for their brace of shows New Year’s Eve at the Academy of Music featuring Les Elgart's orchestra, Chet Baker, Charley Ventura and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Concerts are skedded for 8:30 and 11:30. Guber, who operates the Rendez- vous, Philly's name music spot, and Ford, WPEN deejay, went in the red with a program at the Met re- cently headlining Woody Herman and Billie Holiday, scaled at a $2 top. Guber-Ford Attractions had an- other setback wjien Gene Krupa balked on a concert date with Paul “Better Times,” “The Elusive Lady,” “Nifties of 1923,” “The Girl From Cook’s,” “Yours Truly,” “Three Cheers,” and “Here And There.” Hubbell’s songs include “Poor Butterfly,” “Just My Style,” “Life Is a See-Saw,” “Little Girl in Blue,” “What Am I Going to Do to Make You Love Me,” “Beautiful Girl,” “The Ladder of Roses,” “Hello, I’ve Been Looking For You,” “Melodyland," “Somebody Else” and “Look at thq World and Smile.” In 1914, Hubbell pioneered ASCAP along with Silvo Hein, Vic- tor Herbert, Louis A. Hirsch, Gus- tave A. Kerker, Glen MacDonough, George Maxwell, Jay Witmark and attorney Nathan Burkan. All are now dead. Hubbell was a director of ASCAP from 1914 to 1941 and served as treasurer from 1917 to 1928. He is survived by his widow, Finkelstein Back From O’Seas Copyright 0.0. Herman Finkelstein, general counsel for ASCAP, returned to his N. Y. homeoffice Monday (13) after a two-week visit to Europe to o.o. copyright problems on the Continent. Major concern for Finkelstein was the upcoming case of Swiss film exhibitors against the Swiss performing rights society (SSAE). Case, which has been postponed until the end of this month, in- volves the exhibitors' contention that they do not have to pay licens- ing fees for music, since their con- tracts with film distributors also cover the music on the sound- track. SSAE contends that the music is owned exclusively by the publisher and not by the film dis- trib or producer. us winning sunu spiniitng unit: in both the pop and r&b field, Decca and Capitol currently are mulling coverage. The larger disk companies have put a close watch on indie prod- uct. This season they’ve even latched on to a Christmas song that a small company launched. The indie A-Bell company kicked off “Santa and the Doodle-Li- Boop” and Columbia moved in quickly to cover it w'ith Art Car- ney. MGM was also alerted and made a hurried buyup of the mas- ter for release under its own ban- ner. In the talent department, the in- dies have springboarded such thrushes as Jaye P. Morgan, De- nise Lor and Rosalind Paige to ma- jor label pacts. Ray Hubbell SBSBB Continued from page 49 music for the “Ziegfeld Follies” from 1911 to 1914 and also in 1917, 1923 and 1924. Hubbell’s show credits include “Fantana,” “Mexicana,” "Mam- selle Sallie,” “A Knight For a Day,” “The Girl At the Helm,” “The Midnight Sons,” “The Air King,” “The Jolly Bachelors," “The Bachelor Belles,” “The Three Ro- meos,” “The Man From Cook’s,” “A Winsome Widow,” “Cheer Up,” “H i t c h y Koo,” “Everything,* “Among the Girls,” “Miss Mil- lions,” “Good Times,” “Sonny,” UDOI VI IIIOU JUCCI UCUCi D (Weed ending Dec. 4) London, Dec. 6. Hold My Hand Wood If I Give My Heart.. .Robbins This Ole House Duchess My Son, My Son Kassner Santo Nqtale Spier Can’t Tell Waltz Reine Must Be Reason... .Connelly Smile Bourne Veni, Vidi, Vici Dash My Friend Chappell Happy Wanderer . . .Bosworth Things Mean a Lot.. .Robbins Second 12 Sky Blue Shirt Wright No One But You.,.. .Robbins Story of Tina Macmelodies I Love Paris Chappell Count Your Blessings. .Berlin I Still Believe.. .Macmelodies Mama Doll Song Leeds Wait For Me Lafleur High-Mighty .Harms-Connelly Sway Latin American Heartbeat Kassner Not As a Stranger.. .Pickwick It's Music by JESSE GREER Program Today Yesterday's FLAPPERETTE MILLS MUSIC, INC. (1*11 Broadway, Now York) WILL OSBORNE AND HIS ORCH. Now 39fh Week New Golden Hotel, Reno Mgt.c MILTON DEUTSCH America's Fastest ■^Selling-Records!