Variety (June 1958)

i^edneBday^ jwiie ^la, MlJiSlC HoKM^MSttHA E.B.nuKs^mwns lEMUTAOFHUm Reconk for Parior He^Nans Br BARRY BARNETT London, June 17. Pye Group Records hnii neitiy placed Its ipot In the door of the stereophonic platter age. While other diskeriet have tried to hush up their aclh'itiei in the direc¬ tional sound disk field over: the past couple of years, Pye, without the least warning, boldly an¬ nounced, that it was coming right out into the open with stereo plat¬ ters for the disk-buying public. And this It his done. While other disk companies have been forced to reveal that they will be marketing these types of rec¬ ords inside the next few months, Pye now has them in the stores. Further, with the Pye Group elec¬ trical outfit resources behind, it, playback equipment is hitting the market at the same time and at reasonably popular prices. From $84 to $323 is the price range of the stereo playing' gear, and the disks vary between $2.14 for an EP to $6.70 for a 12-inch LP. Hearing the platters is a revela¬ tion in sound. The effect of depth is immediately apparent and for musical enthusiasts it must prove an immediate click. Switching from pop to classics clearly demon¬ strated that both forms of musk were gr^tly enhanced by the pro- cessi The Halle Orchestra, con¬ ducted by Sir John Barbirolli play¬ ing Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, had the depth and :inobility only assocUted with the concert hall, while the cross lyrics of ‘•You’rb Just In Love” froin “Call Me Jtodam.” as rendered by the Beryl Stott Chorus, backed by BiU Shep- hCTd’s orch. gave the number the kind of sound it achieves only on a .stage.. :■ Gimmick disks so far have been out, apart from the usual spiel on the demonstration platter, but a Pye spokesman said the company will be mairketing a sound eff^ects EP in the near future, because it was felt that there was a potential a.udience for this type of record. Playback gear is, at tfie moment, still limited and demand- has out- numl^red ^pply, but although there is this scarcity, stereo disks are being bought by folk intend¬ ing to get the equipment. For this reason, It Is not yet po^ible to get a clear picture of thie way in which the platters have been received on the iriarket. Sales, are still very limited, but thiB company feels cer¬ tain that it has a winner on its hands, and Intends, to carry on pressing to meet future demand. For the .past year Pye's Nixa, vanguard and Mercury labels have been dually. recoMed, but a diskery spokesman said the outfit was not expecting its first releases (seven classical and two pop platters) to sweep the business. He was con¬ fident, however, that stereo would become a major stream in the same way as LP's and BP'S had been in edging out 78's. Roulette Records ...is - launching a recor^acting game, for » new line to be known as' CbStal? Rec- E. B. Marks has broadened the j spread of its global coverage via GoStar Label Comes Up With a Name . ^ l^ted-diBilllfck^for »-Game publishing house wHb offices in ■ - '■ Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. miipfj » • i ■ The deal was dickered a., few • NT A E pTffl ^ Roulette Records !.'.iS:vlaunchihg months ago when Marks’ prexy, V ' ^ a record-a^ing game for a new Herbert E. Marta, was ie 4.uth „ „ Londpn June 17. ii„e to known. Rec- . j 1 j L ^ Vernon Burns, U.K. managing ords,. Albums will feature name America and sealed when Enncpie director of Natiorial Teleffim Assoi performers who will act out scenes Lebendiger, head of Fermata, dates, confirmed that theU. S. from legit, fims, novels as well ns visited New York. company is to launch a record label original material. There will be Fermata already publishes wch “ B'-italn. ‘^njilank spares provl<^ on the Marta coovrlehts as Leciwna-s He said that at preset he eouSfl “«<>rts » ‘>>a“he disk buyer can “ff 'oP^ights. as Lec^a s^^ j^^^^ «t out Ws or her p»l opwsite Malagucna and Andalncia, that NTA was defittUely going into fr®"* “ scnot that wdU 1» Rodgers. & Hart's “Manhattan,” the disk business here. Meanwhilo: supplied ^th the album. Line is Xavier CiJgat^ “My Shawl” and the Ely Landau, NTA prexy, is sched- to retail at $3.98. recent i»p click ^‘Wonderful Won- uled to come to England bn July 6. CaStar’s first release will iii- derful.” Under the terms of ;the' ■ ... ., ——^ elude 15 albums. Among the stars agreement Fdmatal will .pubiish wii w featured will be Basil Rathbone in much of Marks’ music and will be RM] e 1||yce|M ITjiy Porf scenes from “The Brothers ICara- PTititlpd tin collect perfo rming , My vtjcoyo i\u.j g Q.i I mazpv,” Pa,ulet'e <jk)ddanl in chanical and other royalties on the Af It C ^ITCCP rrnim from “Peyion Place,” Tal- entire aysdlable Marks.catalog ex-. V» -UiJiJii uWfljf InvUp lulah Banichead in scenes from cept those compositions previousr' Ulysses Kay, editorial adviser for Gabler” and “Lady Winde- ly given to other Brazilian publish- Broadcast Music Ihc., will join Ean.” Sir Cedric Hard¬ ers. . ’Nonnan Dello Joio, Howard Han- Price, Arlene Dahl, Marks is now represented ex- sum, Peter Mennin and Roger Ses- E®rnando L^as, George Raft, Don clusively by Albert in Australia, skns as i group of American com- . Jaxie Sosenbloom Bdsart in Holland. Cure! in Italy, posers who are due to visit . Russia uave ^ been tapped^ fpr the Grever in Mexico, Reuter tc Reu- tlUs faU .as part of the recently ^ addition. Rou¬ ter in Scandinavia and Siegel in established U. S.-Soviet exchange Germany and Austria. Negotia- agreement. Purpose of the tour is tiohs for a renewal of pact are to permit the group to establish for ^ crack at the CoStar game, new being conducted with Quiroga contacts and exchange experiences _ Ptens ^e m the woito to set the nf Snain and fnr a npw with Soviet Composers. ; Cobtar game on tv shows and in CoStar’s first release will in¬ clude 15 albums. Among the stars featured will be Basil Rathbone in scenes from “The Brothers ICara- mazpv,” Pa,ulet'e Ckiddanl in scen^ from “Peyion Place,” Tal¬ lulah Banichead in scenes from of Spain and for a new exclusive with Soviet composers. ^ows and in agreement with an Argentinian Arrangements for the exchange publisher for Argentina, Uruguay were made by the international, ed- college dramatic Gr¬ and Chile. In Canada, Marks is ucatiohal exchange service of the hv nnrdinn Thhirin-1 rw»ip»f nf mWT Viac 1 _ _g UpS. ganizations as well as amateur BETAIL BISK BEST SEtLEKS tisuaUy handled by Gordon Thbmp- Dept, of State. BMI has cooperated t„ ~ ^ ^ son of Toronto. Several different in the project. Another composer. retaB outlets CoSter publishers handle the Marks tunes to be Selectied later, wBl make up ^ tS?' in England. France and Belgium. 1 the six-man group ~~ sales will be handled by special _ sales representatives appomted by HTIjpliBl (NPW V PWCP Roulette. Negotiations currently Ht J I are underway to have the line sell mmMMyi M ■ ■BlBMBIllB.Blp- as a premium item with a number of Imge manufacturers. Hugo Peretti and Luigi (Creatore, who produced the CoStar albums, (Continued on page 50) Survey of retail disk best sellers hosed on reports ob^ tained from leading stores in 21 cities and shounng com^ parative sales rating for this < and last week. AH’s $2.1 National Rating This Last wkf wk. 4 i o ^ g ^ T Artist. Label, Title fflCA-Tele Deal; SHEB WOOLEY (MGM) Purple People Eater.. 1 1 2 1 EVERLT BROS. (Cadence) All I Have to Do Is Dream........ 3 8 . 9 2 DEAN MARTIN (Capitol) Return To Me • • • ^• y. ;.. • -- 2 6 y. : 5 JIMMIE RODGERS (Roulette) Secretly 5 2 7 DAVID SEVILLE (Liberty) Witch Doetor. >8 .. ■ 8 .. BOBBY FREEMAN (Josie) Do You Wanna Dance.. .:...... 4 . ^ 3 , ^ COASTERS (Atco) Yakcty YiA. :7^^^ 5 ..10 FOUR PREPS (CapitoU . . Big Man......;.... 8 JAN & ARNBE XArwin) JemUe Lee. 6 ART & DOTTY TODD (Era) Piahson D’Amoiir .;..,......... • ♦ ♦. -. »« 6 PLATTERS (Mercury) Twifight Time..........,..:-- JODY REYNOLDS (Demon) Endieas Sleep__ .......... .. .. .» . - NAT KING eOLE (Capitol) Looking Back.w . .10 ... . ^ , TONI ARDEN (Decca) Padre 4 — . w . ED TOWNSEJn) (CapitoU : Poc Tbnr Love ■ •.. ^ . - ...... JACK SCOTT tCarltonI My True Love.. ... rr...... ......... ». . 3 KALIN TWINS (Decca) When . ..10 1 9 CHUCK WILLIS (Atlantic) What Am I Living For.... .. .. JERRY GRANAHAN (Sunbeam) No Chemise, Please.,.......... •. 6 JOHNNY OTIS (Capital) Waiie At The Hand Jive.... ^ • •- »» »» * FOUR LADS (Columbia) Enchanted iJami.fi .. .. “johnny CASH (Sun) ' / I Gnem Thingi Happen That . Way .; . . .. ». “PEREZ PRADO (Victor) - Patricia • .. 8 4 . “ELVIS PRESLEY (Victor) ^ Wear My Ring. • ♦» »» r- BON GIBSON (Victor) Oh Lonesome Me. 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 4 2 2 1 3 135 3 .. 10 4 5 S .. .... 3 .. 2 6 .. 5 5 2 7 10 9 6 7 3 2 ..10 5 5 51 3 .. 3 3 .. .. .. 10 .. .. 10 ........ HoRvwood, June 17. 1 A five - year - deal involving $2,-" 1000,000 in salaries for musicians has been closed between the Amer- iican Federation of Musicians and Revile Productions, tv subsid of Music Coip. of America. Pact, a precedent-setting inove, is the first crack in the wall built up by the vidpix Industry for the use of live musicians in scoring trfefilms. Until now, adl of the vid- film companies have used imporied cahned music in tuning their product In return for the Revue deal, the 'AFM will reduce the he^ofore- demanded 5% Music Pertermance Trust Fund payments to 1% of its gross- Herman D. Kenin, newly elected AFM prei^, in disclosing the deal, said that the pact will guarantee 40.000 jobs for musicians. A W'age hike of 10% is included, in the past two years of the contract. \ “Under the terms of^ the agree- ' teWt" Ktoih said, “approximately ^,000,000 committed to the Trust will, instead, be aimlied sole¬ ly to hew employment of musicians. Revue has agreed to match that figure with a like one, so that a total of $2,000,000 will be paid to live musidans in the making of its new tv films within a period of three to five years. “The agreement calls for im¬ mediate live work on film that al¬ ready had been made with canned music and sold as such. The first riioy to be converted from canned music to live is the General Elec¬ tric Theatre show. Several other shows already made with canned music will be rescored with live musicians." The AFM is currently negotiat¬ ing with several other tv. outfits for a similar deal. Kenin also said that an additional $150,000 Is being al¬ located from the union which will be applied to the strike fund, for unemployed Local 47 studio toot- er5. The coin will allow those musicians to draw strike benefits for another aix. we^kfe.