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RADIO MIRROR has just completed first tabulations on its own private popularity contest, which was concerned solely with dance orchestras and masculine vocalists. The judges in the contest were you, the subscribers of Radio Mirror, to whom we sent postal card ballots. You chose Wayne King's Lady Esther orchestra as the one you liked best of all, with Guy Lombardo's, Fred Waring's, Rudy Vallee's, and Benny Goodman's as runners-up. The most popular male vocalist was Bing Crosby, followed by Lanny Ross, Dick Powell, Frank Parker, and Nelson Eddy.
In the midst of all the talk about swing music, it was interesting — and, incidentally, perhaps not so terribly surprising, either — to find that the four most popular bands are those which are better known for rich, lovely harmonies than for the modern successor to what used to be called jazz. Wayne King and Guy Lombardo never indulge in Swing; Fred Waring and Rudy Vallee only occasionally; while the fifth in popularity, Benny Goodman, is the only one known for that type of music exclusively.
The Paramount Theater in New York has been conducting a popularity poll too, asking its patrons which of the many famous bands which play that theater are the best liked. More than 500,000 ballots have been cast, and to date the leading ten are Guy Lombardo, Glen Gray, Fred Waring, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Ray Noble, Hal Kemp, Phil Spitalny, Ozzie Nelson, and Eddie Duchin. Remember, though, this result represents Broadway's opinion, not the radio audience's. * * *
fiO you think it would be pretty nice to sit around and get paid ^ a weekly salary check for doing nothing at all? Most people would think that, but not the employees of the Warner Brothers music publishing groups. Not any more.
From the first of the year until August 5, you know, music on which Warner Brothers and their (Continued on page 99)
By KEN ALDEN
Left, Al Donahue, youthful maestro, whose popularity is growing every day. He's heard over NBC. Below is Leonard Stokes, the baritone who does much of the vocalizing for Hit Parade.
Above, Ted Fio Rito's colorful girl trio on the Frigidaire Frolics each Friday night over NBC. Top to bottom: Marjorie Briggs, Betty Noyes, and Dottie Compton: The Debutantes.
EXTRA! FIRST RESULTS OF THE
DANCE BAND POPULARITY POLL
IN WHICH YOU CAST THE VOTES
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