Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

RADIO DAILY: Friday. December 16, 1949 PLUG T If n E 5 On Records and Transcriptions TELL ME WHY RYTVOC, Inc. 1585 Broadway New York 19, N. Y. "HUSH LITTLE DAMN"' Recorded By Perry Como Eddy Howard Dick Haymes Curt Massey Kay Kyser Jerry Falligant MICHAEL MUSIC CO., Inc. 1619 Broadway Jerry Johnson New York City Gen. Mgr. You'll LUV this novelty! IT MUST BE L U V MANOR MUSIC COMPANY 1619 Broadway New York City Nothing Can Stop This! FOREVER WITH YOU rr by the writer of "My Happiness" FORSTER MUSIC PUB., INC. 1619 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. 216 S. Wabash Avenue, Ctiicago 4, III. A HIT Is Bornt "BLUE FOR A BOYPINK FOR A GIRL" Vaughn Monroe on RCA-Victor Al Gallico Music Co. Inc. 501 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Revival of a Million Copy Hit! "AM I WASTING MY TIME ON YOU" STASNY MUSIC CORP. 1619 Broadway New York City THE OLD MASTER PAINTER recorded by PHIL HARRIS RCA Victor RICHARD HAYES Mercury DICK HAYMES Decca SNOOKY LANSON London PEGGY LEE-MEL TORME, Copilot JACKIE PARIS National FRANK SINATRA Columbia with others to follow ROBBINS MUSIC CORPORATION WOlllfS and MUSIC By PINKY HERMAN • • • TIN PAN ALLEY OOPS:— Bourne Music has two oldies which have bounced back into the musical limelight. . . . ditties are the rythmic "Charlie My Boy" and "I Never See Maggie Alone." ... • J. I. Robbins & Sons come with a smash in "Bye Bye Baby," swingy thingy penned by Leo Robin and Jules Styne ior the hit musical, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," . . . with major platters by Frank Sinatra (Columbia) Guy Lombardo (Decca) Tony Martin (Victor) Art Lund (MGM) and Ray Anthony (Capitol) how can it miss? ... • That new platter series of musicals. "Your Melody Parade," emceed by Bob Warren with guests interviewed by Peter Roberts, is delightful listenin' these Sunday noons via NBC. ... • Handsome Bill Harrington starts a new series of telecasts Tuesday over WOR-TV . . . program will be beamed Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:15 p.m. ... • Margaret Truman makes her Gotham concert debut Tuesday when she guestrills on American Oil Company's "Carnegie Hall" ABCoast to Coaster. ... • Floyd Tillman, who penned "Slippin' Around" has given Peer International another potential hit parader in "I Gotta Have My Baby Back." . . . • Roy Stevens' Ork opens at Dailey's Meadowbrook Jan. 6 for 11 weeks with beau coup air time. ... • Looks like Mutual is more than interested in Gerry Gross' TVehicle starring Bob Houston. ... • Happy Godcry's first plug tune will be (I'm Gonna Paper My Walls) "With Your Love Letters" a torch penned by Teddy Powell and Bernie Wayne. . . . ft ft ft ft • • • With four major platters due to hit the music counters next week, Duchess Music's (There's Something About A) "Home Town Band" is sure-fire . . . waxings include Freddie Martin (Victor) Russ Morgan (Decca) Harmonaires (Columbia) and Art Mooney (MGM). . . . • Sanford Bickart's narration on the Sunday NBTelevasts of Stromberg-Carlson's "Tropic Holiday," is first rate story-telling. ... • Back in 1932 Arthur Tracey zoomed into prominence as "The Street Singer" and his theme song, "Martha," likewise clicked . . . the number, written by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Moises Simons, has been taken out of the E. B. Marks archives and will be revived . . . look for this fine ballad to repeat. ... • Dennis James' TV series "Okay Mother" has caught on and currently culls over a thousand letters a week. . . . Program, sponsored by Sterling Drugs over the DuMont network, is the first sponsored daytime show to be beamed over a TV network. . . . ft ft ft ft • • • Frances Schillinger's book, "Joseph Schilinger," just published by Greenberg Publications, is a delightful memoir of the late musical genius, whose pupils include most of the country's top-ranking ork pilots, conductors and arrangers . . . entertaining, romantic and anecdotal, the author gives the inside story of modern musical Americana ... it reveals interesting facts such as Glenn Miller' s "Moonlight Serenade" and George Gershwin's "Mine" were developed from exercises they respectfully prepared during their studies with Schillinger . . . tome is a MUST for everyone in the entertainment world. . . . ft ft ft ft • • • ON AND OFF THE RECORD: — Juanita Hall, of "South Pacific," has a solid bit of wax in her latest Victor record of "Blow Them Blues Away" reversed with "Scarlet Ribbons,". . . top side is easily her best effort with effective trumpet support by Billy Moten, who fills a horn like Billy Butterfield. . . • Columbia comes up with a surprise novelty biscuit in Polka King * Walter Solek's fine effort on a novelty titled. "We Don't Make Any Money" (But We Have A Lot of Fun) . . . flip is "Everybody's Polka," . . . made to order for deejays and jukes. . . • When a Wilkes Barre, Pa. fellow wrote a protesting letter to MBS deejay Bob Poole, "because his office help dropped their work to listen to his programs," listeners to Poole (via WBAX) swamped James Monks with indignant phone calls . . . (Monks — who he? He, man who protested, dat who). . . . Eddie 'Gin' PLUG TUBES Wedding Bells Will Soon Be Ringin' LAUREL MUSIC CO. 1619 Broadway New York City Bing Crosby, Grade Fields, Sammy Kaye, Johnny Desmond, Jo Stafford, Doris Day Are All On THE LAST MILE HOME LEEDS MUSIC CORPORATION Making Our Debut Wifh A Hit! "A NEW SHADE OF BLUES" MAYPOLE MUSIC CO. 22 f. 67th St. New York City Phone: REgent 7-4477 I WISH I KNEW Should step right out in front — Just recorded for RCA-VICTOR by DOLPH HEWITT ADAMS, VEE & ABBOTT, Inc. 216 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago 4, III. WHERE ARE YOU BLUE EYES? Russ Morgan Decca 24819 Merrie Musette Victor 25-1134 KNICKERBOCKER MUSIC PUB. INC. 1619 Broodway New York, N. Y. My Heart Goes With You by Thomoi G. Meehoa — ♦ ♦ — JAMES MUSIC, Inc. 1650 Broadway Room 709 N. T. C. Brand New Novelty! "If I Had A Million Dollars" (I Would Give It All to You) TONY PASTOR'S Sensational COLUMBIA Record #38577 RYTVOC, Inc. 1585 Broadway New York 19, N. Y.