Radio Mirror: The Magazine of Radio Romances (Jan-June 1943)

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Those who first heard him knew that as soon as he enriched his style and developed a personality matured by experience, the youngster would be ready for stardom. "It's just a question of time," Carmen will tell you, "you have to wait your turn and strike when the break comes." 'T'HE break came when Decca Rec-■ ords asked him to make an album of piano solos. The records, revealing his own expressive style of emphasizing the melody and subtly improvising around it, and his careful selection of tunes, were enormously successful. Other albums were rushed to the counters. To date they have sold over 750,000 copies. Band bookers took the cue and helped Carmen organize his own orchestra. Flushed with this new found success Carmen could have repeated the mistakes of other new band leaders who meet with unexpected reverses because they immediately hire large personnels and use expensive arrangements. Carmen used only nine men and a minimum of special orchestrations and kept it that way when he played in Washington's Hotel Carlton and Radio City's Rainbow Room. "I decided to build slowly and expand along the way. I saw too many of my over enthusiastic friends go broke because of overhead," he says. Carmen is a real Latin from Manhattan. He was born twenty-nine years ago in midtown New York, the son of an Italian-American barber. Carmen started to take piano lessons when he was five but he can't explain how he acquired so early a taste fc music. "I guess it came natural. My moth er's not a musician and my father ha a tin ear." Carmen kept up his music lessor right through high school and althoug his father almost influenced his so to prepare for college and a mor learned profession, the boy could nc change the course fate had set fc him. Before he was sixteen, Carme was playing in small semi-professionE orchestras and it didn't take him Ion to get jobs with such headliners a Rudy Vallee, Enric Madriguera, an Al Kavelin. Carmen has been married eigf. years. He met his wife, a blue eye Baltimorean, when she came to NeV York on a vacation and had dinne with her mother in the hotel Carme was playing in. The Cavallaros have one child, si.' year old Dolores. They have a per manent residence in Baltimore an> Carmen often goes down there o weekends. Although Carmen made his repu tation playing soft, sentimental musk he has a constant fear that brothe musicians will label him corny. "Don't pin me down as an icky. can play boogie woogie and swing toe It's just that I believe most peopl like to hear the kind of music I fea ture and don't want a constant die of noisy stuff." Carmen says no one influenced hi piano style. He attributes the dis tinctiveness to his early classics training. "I have a simple philosophy abou music. Things that are good can't die I only want to play good things." That's why when Carmen is on th bandstand, playing publicly, the bram of music that floats through the air waves is soft and appealing. But one he's off the bandstand, it isn't. unusua for the slim pianist to rush off to som smoke filled swing sanctum, join in frenzied jam session and cut more rug than Herr Hitler can chew on. "I do that for two reasons. I lik the change of pace. I like to prove t myself that I can play that stuff too. ANOTHER WAY TO DO YOUR BIT THE SIGNAL CORPS SEEKS TO PURCHASE AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT Radio amateurs have been requested to sell their short-wave communication equipment to the Signal Corps, Army Services of Supply. This equipment is needed both -for training purposes and operational use. The radio communication equipment needed consists of transmitters, and receivers and such radio components as capacitors, resistors, and installation material. Especially desired are audio-frequency and radio-frequency signal generators and oscilloscopes, precision AC and DC Voltmeters, ammeters and milliammeters, and other equipment for testing. Used equipment will be purchased if it is in perfect operating condition or if it can readily be restored to such condition. The price paid for each item will be set by a Signal Corps inspector. Persons in possession of the desired equipment who wish to sell it for the use of the Army are invited to send a brief description, including name of manufacturer and model type, to Captain James C. Short at the Philadelphia Signal Corps Procurement District, 5000 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.