Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1942)

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Record Details:

Title:
Radio and television mirror
Date:
July-Dec 1942
Publisher:
New York : Macfadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1942)
Leaf #:
000398
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Radio Mirror (later known as Radio and Television Mirror) was a fan magazine for radio listeners and later TV viewers that includes profiles of the stars, visits to radio and television studios, and program listings. The early years in the 1930s show the interaction of motion pictures, recordings, the stage, radio and even politics. The role of radio in World War II is well covered in the 1940s, and by the 1950s the focus shifts to television and a new generation of personalities. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
July 25, 2024
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By KEN ALDEN THE big record manufacturers worked overtime turning out hundreds of new releases before music czar Jimmy Petrillo's recording ban went into effect. This action insures record buyers plenty of new purchases for many months, and they won't feel the effect of the edict until 1943. The ban was ordered because union officials believed the juke boxes were putting too many musicians out of work. * * * They say that Tommy Dorsey has patched up his differences with brother Jimmy and wife Mildred but now he is feuding with bandleader Teddy Powell. * * * As reported, Frank Sinatra has left Tommy Dorsey's band to sing solo. Another important vocalist change finds Ray Eberle set to sing with Gene Krupa, and a newcomer, Skip Nelson, taking Ray's old job with Glenn Miller. * * * Mark Warnow has announced his engagement to socialite Dorothy Mc Gowan. * * * Canada's best known orchestra leader, Luigi Romanelli, died at the age of 56, victim of a heart attack. * * * Sam Donahue's new band did well enough at Glen Island Casino to win a return engagement this Fall. Professor Kay Kyser warns singers Trudy Erwin, Dorothy Dunn and Julie Conway not to cut their College of Musical Knowledge classes. Left, Ginny Simms and Dave Rose rehearse their Tuesday NBC show. Pianist Carmen Cavallaro will enlarge his orchestra and try to woo Duchin fans now that Eddy is in the Navy. Another ivory-tinkler, Frankie Carle, composer of such hits as "Sunrise Serenade," now has a financial interest in Horace Heidt's orchestra and is getting featured billing. Incidentally, Carle turned down an opportunity to take over Duchin's leaderless crew. * * * To The Colors: Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey's top notch drummer, joined the Marines . . . Three Woody Herman men, Mickey Folus, Walter Nimms, and Sammy Rubinwitch, enlisted in the Coast Guard . . . Johnny Long's singer, Bob Houston, has been drafted. * * » Dinah Shore was expected east at summer's end but will stay in Hollywood to appear in the Eddie Cantor film. * * * Bandleaders Skinnay Ennis, Sammy Kaye, and Horace Heidt leave each other confidential notes when following one another on theater tours. * * * As this pillar predicted, Les Brown's band is moving into the major leagues. Right now the troupe is playing its first important Gotham date, New York's Hotel Astor. Dick Haymes, Benny Goodman's singer, is the proud daddy of a baby boy. Ditto for Charlie Spivak's arranger, Sonny Burke. * * * Bostonian Frances Wayne is Charlie Barnet's attractive new vocalist. THIS CHANGING WORLD: Louis Armstrong returns to the movies for a part in MGM's "Cabin in the Sky.". . . . Lionel Hampton's band is celebrating its second anniversary at California's Casa Manana ballroom. . . . Hal Mclntyre has added the four Lyttle Sisters. . . . Willie Smith, hot out of Jimmy Lunceford's sax section, has joined Charlie Spivak's reed retinue. . . . Claude Thornhill will appear in the Paramount technicolor film, "Calgary Stampede." . . . Vido Musso, now leading Bunny Berigan's old band, used to play saxophone for Benny Goodman, Harry James, and Gene Krupa. The band is now in the midwest. •;;.* %. * Glen Gray told me that the reason his Casa Loma band finally decided to hire girl vocalists after ten years of doing without them was because theater managers insisted they were a necessary part of any stage show. * * * Morton Gould gets that big break this month when he starts a coast to coast sponsored show on Mutual for a wine company. * * * Decca's "Holiday Inn" album featuring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is the record buy of the month. Although "Be Careful It's My Heart" is the current tune winner from the film, it will be "White Christmas" that will stay longer in the ears. Continued on page 6 RADIO MIRROR