Variety (March 1961)

43 MUSIC * (or your first, for that matter) (The professional entertainer who best tells us how a personal Shure microphone can improve his act wins a 12” cutting date... lock, stock ard barrel!) You introduce an original George Shearing composition. Solo, :-with a group, oras a background. If you win, Shure will showcase you on a major label* stereo disc...with your own choice of sidemen, arrangers, and engineers. We'll design a full-color album cover and guarantee publicity for your record. We'll even give you an original new number by George Shearing to introduce as the first band of your record. You get all the artist’s royalties from the disc becauge Shure pays all the recording costs. up to (and even including) $5,000.00*... payable to you for the recording expenses.* ‘Sidemen (or background “music), Arrangers. You pick them, Shure pays for them* . *Total limit for costs usually paid by the artist: $5,000.00. If yowre under contract to a label, money can be paid directly to contractual recording company. SSCHHSHSEHSHOSSTSHOOSOSSEOHROSHSSHSSEHSHSHEHHHHOSHHOCHSCHOOM all professional entertainers eligible... for complete details and entry blank, write: | Recording Studio and Engineers. , A 9 Shure Entertainers Contest | Shure pays for them*, you get ALL 222 Hartrey Avenue, Evanston, Illinois pep. v-3. the artist's royalties. {| Lambert, Fischer Dieskau—"Schubert: "Don Giovanni’ Wednesday, March 29, 1961 Bill Holman—“I’m Gonna: Go Fishin’ ” Henry Mancini—‘Mr. Lucky.”* Billy May— ‘Honeysuckle Rose.” Nelson Riddie—Nice and’ Easy.” DickSehory— a’Plenty (Other Than for Dancing) Count Basie—‘Count Basie Story. a ‘Esquivel—Infinity in Sound.” Percy Place.” Henry Mancini—‘Mr. Lucky.” | Gerry. Mulligan—“The Concert Jazz Band.” Best Performance By a Vocal Group Brothers Four—“Greenfields.” Favie, Gorme Steve Lawrence—' “We Gat. The Hi Los—"‘All Over the: Place. ” ‘Kingston Trio—‘Here We Go Again.” Swe-Danes—’Scandinavian Shuffle.” Best Performance By a Chorus. | Belafonte Folk Singers—“‘Belafonte Re turns to Carnegie Hall.” Ray Charles Singers—'‘Deep Night.” Pete Ring Singers—“My Favorite Things.” Norman Luboff hoir—“Songs' of: the ; Cowboy.” Robert |! Shaw Chorale—“What Wondrous | Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group Miles Davis—‘‘Jazz Track.’ Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges—""Back | o Back ‘Dizzy Gillespie—"The Greatest ‘Trumpet ‘ of -Them Hendricks &Ross— ‘The Hottest New Group in Jazz.’ Modern Jazz Quartet—'‘Pyramid.” Andre Previn—‘West Side Story.” George Shearing—‘‘White Satin.”’. Art patum— ‘Greatest Piano ‘of Them ‘Best Jazz Performance Large Group Count Basie—"The Count Basie Story.” Miles Davis ‘& _Gik Evans—"Sketches of pa n on Quiney Jones—"The Great ‘Wide World of Quincy Jones. Henry Mancvini—‘Blues and the Beat.” Gerry Mulligan—"I’’m Gonna Go Fishin’ “Spirituals to Swing Concert.” . Best Classical Performance— Orchestra Beecham ‘Royal Philharmonic. — Haydn: : “Salomon Symphonies Vol 2.” Bernstein New York Philharmonic— , “Ives: Spmphony No. 2.” Copland Boston Symphony _ Copland: . “Appalachian Spring. Morton | Gould—Grofe: Suite.’ Krips London Symphony No. Monteux Boston ‘Symphony—“‘Stravinsky: Petrouchka.”’ Ormandy Philadelphia “Tchaikovsky: Sixth Symphony.” Reiner: Chicago Symphony — Bartok: “Music for ‘Strings, Percussion: and ; Celeste.” Best Classical _Performance— Voeal Soloist Almelda Terri—''Conversations with Gui “Grand Canyon Symphony =~ “Schubert: r.’ Eileen , , Farrell— ‘Arias in Great Tradi-. tio ‘Lieder Vol. Maureen Forrester: —_ “Mahler: Kinder totenlieder.”’ } Peter Fears—‘‘Britten: Nocturne: ” Leontyne Price —“Leontyne Price Recital.’ Joan Sutherland—*Handel <Arlas.” Caesare Valetti— ‘Schumann: Dichter liebe.”’ | Best Classical Opera Production “Aida” -——. Tebaldi Bergonzi Simionato Corena Von Karajan. “La Boheme’—Tebald: Bergonzl’ Bastian: ini Cororoa Serafin, Cororoa Serafin. — Siepi] Danco Dermota Corena ‘Krips. ; “Macbeth” — | Warren Hines Rysanek Bergonzi Lainedorf. “Mefistofele’—Siepi Tebaldi Del Monaco ; Serafin. ‘| “Peter Grimes’ — Pears Pease. Ww. atson” Britton. “La Traviata’—De los Angeles Del Monte Sereni Serafin. “Turandot” — Tebaldi Nillson Byverline Tazzi Leinsdorf. | “La Voix Humaine’—Duval _Pretre Qpera Comique. Best Sound Track Album or Re| cording of Music: Score from : Motion Picture or Television “The Apartment’—(Sound Track: “Ben-Hur’-—(Sqund Track». “Exodus’’—(Sound Track). “Mr. Lucky’—Henry Mancini. -. “The Untouchables’—Nelson Riddle. Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast from Motion Picture or Television “Belly .Are Ringing’’—Judy Holiday Dean: Martin Original Cast. “Can-Can"'—Frank Sinatra Original Cast. I Blues”—Elvis Presley.." Abner”’—(Sound Track). “Rashomon *—_Lawrence Rosenthal. Best Show Album (Original Cast) “Bse Bre Birdie.” . “Camelot.” “Fiorello.” “Sound of Music.” ; “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” ‘ Best Comedy Performance (Spoken Word) Shellev Berman—"The Edge of Shelley © Berman.”’ Nichols and = May--—‘‘An Evening with Nichals and May.” Bob Newhart - Strikes Back.” Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks—"2.000 Year Qld Man.’ . Jonathan Winters — “The ‘Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters.”’ Best Comedy Performance (Musica!) “Bulton Down Mind Jonathan and than ‘and Darlene Edwards In, Pati." Stun Freberg—-"Payola_ Blues.’ Homer and Jethro—‘ ‘Homer at the Country Club.” Tom Lehrer—* Tom Lehrer.’ David Seville—“Alvin for President.” Best Performance— Documentary or Spoken W ord (Other Than Comedy) “Ages of Man, Vol. 2.” Henry Fonda—" Voices of the Twentieth Century ’ Sir Jol John Gielgud — “One Man. in His im . Are hibald MacLeish—'J.B.”" Franklin D. Roosevelt—"FDR Speaks.” and Jethro Quincy Jones—“Let the Good Times Roll.” “Wild Percussion &. Horns Best Performance By an Orchestra Faith—‘Theme From a Summer Symphony—, | WB MUSIC COMPANY Darlene Edwards--* Jona, An Evening Wasted with ; NARAS Nominations —SSes Continued from page 45 ——————— Best Performance By a _ Pop Single Artist. . Ray Charles—‘ ‘Georgia On My Mind.” Ella .Fitzgerald—‘Mack the Knife. ” Peggy Lee—‘Heart.” Elvis S bnesley—"Are You Lonesome To. ni aan Frank Sinatra—“Nice “N’ Easy! ‘Best: Country ‘and Western Performance Johnny Horton—‘North..to Alaska.” Ferlin Husky — ‘Wings of a Dove.” Hank LockHn—* Please Help Me, Falling.”” Jim Reeves—“He'll Have to Go.’” Marty Robhins—‘“E! Paso.’’ Best Rhythm and Blues Performance LaVerne Baker—‘Shake a Hand.” Hank Ballard—Finger. Poppin’ Time.’* Ray Charles—* Let the Good Times. Roll.” Bo Diddlev—‘Walkin’ and Talkin’.”. John Lee Hooker—Travelin’. ” Etta James-—“All I Could Do Was. Cry.” Muddy Waters—"Get My Mojo ‘Working. ” -Jackte . Wilson—‘ “Lonely Teardrops.”’ Best Performance—Folk . : ‘Harry Belafonte—‘Swing Dat ‘Hammer. Belafonte Singers—‘Cheers:”” Brothers. Four— “Greenfields.” . _ Jimmy Driftwood—"Songs of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb.” ingston ‘Trio—Here: We Go Again. " Alan Lomax—' ‘Southern . Folk Heritage Series.” ° i Ewan. MacColl—“Songs of Robert Burns,” ! Mirigm Makeba. _ Best New Artist of. 1960 Brothers Four. Miriam “Makeba. Bob Newhor!. Leontyne Price. Joanie Sommers. 'Belafonte, Miles Davis, Minsus, Adderly Cop F rench Platter Awards Paris, March 28. The top annual record prizes ; Were handed.out last week by’. the Academie ‘Des’ Disques ‘Charles-. ‘Cros via.a jury grouping | leading. !erities from all the ‘arts and show :biz facets. Harry. Belafonte. won: ‘the nod as top foreign pop and folk ame ‘with “Swing Dat: Hammer": (RCA) and Miles Davis took a jazz kudos along with Charlie Mingus. and the. Cannonball Adderly Quintet with ‘Kind ofBlue” (Fontana), “Pithecanthropus. Eréctus”’ (Atlane jtic’, and “In -San. Francisco”. |. Riverside) respectively. | { Best pop record went ta Frenchman Leo Ferre: for Barclay Records ‘ a I'm and local femme singer’ Helene ‘Martin for BAM.’ Best vocal group: was The Three ‘Menestrals ‘on Fontana and “The Double Six Meet. : Quincy Jones” for ‘Columbia: Edith Piaf got a special: honorary :award for her whole career with “Edith, Piaf A L’Olympia” «Columbia’ singled out. Charles Munch also got an: honorary. award and in , particular for his recordings of the “Sv mphonies" s” of Mendelssohn and ithe * ‘Requiem” of Berlioz. Daniel. iW avenberg’s:playing with the Concerts De’ Conservatoire. . conducted by Georges’ Pretre, Bot the. ‘ned for lighter: music via George ‘Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in in Blue. " -ARTIE MOGULL JOINS Artie Mogull has joined tne Music Publishers Holding Co.'s pr-' fessional operation. Hell. -concene trate -on lining up recordings of tunes from the catalogs of Harms, Remick, Witmark, Advanced and New World. Mogull. who for the past’ several: years had’ been running the :pubs lishing firms for the Kingston Trio, ‘Will work under firm's prez Here .-man Starr and Mac Goldman. as‘sistant ‘to the prez. .MPHC is the ‘publishing arm of Warner Bros. Pon Market ammo Continued from page 45 sooo Billy Vaughn oreh, représenting an across-the-board spread of musical " approac hes not possible when the big beat was drowning everything else out. A hint of a current trend can he found today.-in he flock’ of’ sides based on’ the new LatinAmerican. rhythm, known gither aS the pas changa or the. charanga. But Hugo & Luigi! don't: expect a repeat of the situation a few years ago when one calypso hit by Harry.. Bela,fonte brought on a tidal wave of calypso” singles. A similar trend occurred aster that‘in..the chacha groove. Thesé were: trends: that never. paid off for the followup. platters and the disk makers ‘have now become more eareful.of trying to.Cash. onwhat looks like a trend bit “turns out to. bea three-. day fad. ee