Variety (October 1961)

_Mednesday, October 11, 1961. MUSIC 57 Inside Stuf—Music Mario. Del. Guercio, Ted: Eddy and -Frank: Davis. have Written’ the. Republican ‘campaign. song for Louis J: Lefkowitz’s drive in“ New York's. mayoralty campaign this -year. ‘The song, titled “How Can You. ~ Miss?” was originally scored in march.time. has also been. done in DixieJand style,-and with Spanish words in Latin rhythm. There’ have: been |} ‘5.000: records pressed, and the™ Republican sound trucks. will. start. playing the disks. later: this week. ‘The tune came to the. attention of: Republican fundraising: committee chairman ..Wrede Pétersmeyer through: Gustave S; Eyssell, adjoining shower stall at the Westchester Country :Club.. The three cleffers are ull members. of the. ‘American ‘Society. of Composers. Authors &‘Publishers. They ‘turned. over. all rights to the song to the. i Republican. ‘Campaign: committee. Capitol : Records “will publish asix-page daily newspaper at “next | ‘month’ s Country Music Festival. in Nashville: (Nov,1-4)...The tabloid: | ‘Size paper, to be. called.. The ‘Festival ‘Times, will ‘be published every -morning during the canventior. All the. news. copy for the paper will be written and edited by Cap’s press relations. manager. Fred Martin. -Planned now are. stories on ‘Broadcast Music Inc., the ‘Country -Music Assn. and. WSM; radio station. home of the “Grand Ole Opry” and |; sponsor of the Country Music Festival. ‘The Country. Music Assn: has lined up a roster of falent: for its third | anni banquet in Nashville’ Nov. 3. Already signed for in-person. ‘ap- _ pearances. that night aré’ Homer & Jethro, the Jordanaires, the Anita “Kerr Singers, HankThompson: & his Brazos Valley Boys with Wanda, . Jackson, the Nashville Recording All Stars and Bill Purcell. In addition, : ‘CMA‘s recently, founded Hall of Fame is. to receive its first three names .. that evening. New CMA directors | will also’ be introduced. a Mills Music is getting. its first’ tv airing of one of its opera copyrights -.on ABC-TV next Sunday’ (15), The opera is “The ‘Thief and the Hang-. aman” by Abraham Ellstein with a libretto by Morton Wishengrad: ~ The tv‘praduction, whieh is on tape, features Rosalind. Elias, . Frank i Levin,” and Norman. Atkins, -Oreh | is ‘under . the. direction : of Sylvan “Levin, ? | Paul Taubman Joins NGM Raster, ‘Tubby. Hayes to Epic; Other Conductor. arranger composer + ‘Paul Taubman has joined the MGM | label: He. long.-had been’ etched. exclusively under the RCA Victor |. banner. _ | Also added to’ the MGM. roster “were singers Chip Taylor, Hoagie ‘Lands,. Johnny Rhythm and’ ‘The ‘Squires. . Enie: Tubby Hayes. Tubby Hayes, tenor sax man. * from’England, recorded in the U.S. last ‘week. for ‘the Epic label. He | as in New: York on anexchange deal to play. the Half. Note in ‘Greenwich Village. Zoot ‘Sims. will play a: date in England on the exchange. ‘The LP cut by Hayes here will be released by Epic after the first of. the year. Meantime, Epic. ts releasing a Hayes album this: week, which he cut. in England for Philips to which he is signed. The} ‘“-get is titled “Introdueing Tubby Hayes. wo, Capitol: Russell. ‘Moore ‘“Big’ Chief” © Russell’. Moore, American.’ Indian trombonist, has been. inked by Capitol. ‘The jazz. performer has made appearances in. Europe and. North Africa, performed in the Festival.of Jazz. in Louis Armstrong band: ‘Supervis|. ing his sessions will be ‘Tom: Morgan, artist and repertoire producer at: the diskery. I Atlantic: ‘Ada Lee =. Ada-.Lee, a pop-jazz chirper, has been inked by Atlantic. Her first ‘album: for ‘the label will be “Ada Lee Comes On,” a set of standards. _done up in jazz flavor.’ : Antler: Tke Cole, . others Tke Cole,. Ike Clanton, the Vanguards. the Flaim Bros., Robin Lee, Walt Conley and Ivy EHen. ords, been” signed: by Antler Records Crosby’ s Project Label | Cutting LP For Life Mag ‘Bing Crosby's disk. company, Project: Recards, is. cutting an LP titled, “American. Heritage. of Folk Song”. for Life magazine. Life will ‘offer the album to readers in a special. promotional deal. When. the! “mag promotion winds up, Project ’ will market the. LP independently. Project’ has: also ‘completed two LLP s for Doubleday & Co. which: it. will offer in promotion deals. to! ‘book club members. The albums, ° “Twenty Six '' Avademy Award j. Winning Songs” feature Jane Wil-| son, Stewart ‘Foster and the Robert .ThomasSingers. The. album ‘sale “rights. revert. to Crosby's diskéry.° ‘after the Doubleday promotion ends. and Project will ‘then market the packages itself. . | another low-priced ‘label here yes slat $3.26, ‘represent Decca’s seeond Beinhorn-Shafer Set N. y. will be presented. ‘SaturCarnegie Hall. Trio, Oct. 28; Cecil Taylor, Nov. 4; ‘the Sal Fisch Quintet, Nov. 18: and the ‘Ted Curson Quartet: -Nov. 25: Other--concerts, with artists yet to be: announced, will be held through Jan... 27. ‘Some of the groups will: do repeat perform-. ances and the programs ‘will also feature the. “work of. a satirist, ‘Theodore. het 'Decca Launches Another Cut-Rate | Paris and was.a member of. the |. Label i in Britain|: “London, ‘Oct. 10. “ Decea Records :infroduced.. ‘yet teray ‘Tues.). offering a strong lineup of U.'S. talent. Called Ace of . Hearts, ‘the: first release (of: 12 al| bums) features,. among others, Bing. Crosby, Danny Kaye,. Peggy Lee, . Louis. Armstrong, Judy Gar land, Carmen Cavallaro, Holly, The. Ink “Spots and: the . or iginal sound: track Of: “The Glenn. ‘Miller Story.’ * The new albums,. which’ ‘retail at cut-rate venture in. the pop $field. The diskery started the. Ace of. .Clubs series early in-1958 mainly. to ward off’ the threat. of. the rec‘A: new market was: ord clubs. opened, and now. Pye. ‘and ‘EMI (Electrical. and .Musiéal Industries). have followed suit with Golden. Guinea and Encore: In Pye's ¢ase ‘Golden. Guinea has become the. backbone of the company, selling more than 1,000, 000 in. the first 18 months.. Initial pressing of the new. Decca’ eaat in Reve. 100.000. according |. is akev cording’ such stars as Jack Bénny, Belle’ , to sales exec S. A. Beecher-Stevens. In Nis. opinion, increased availability of cheaper albums will not’ de tract from normal business owing to. the fact that both Clubs -and. Hearts. consist. entirely -of . reissue: ‘material. ‘‘The public is still pre| pared -to pay between $4.80 -and 4 $5.60 for new items,” he = says. © Jazz Concert Showcase : “A. new. concert series ‘to feature. up-and-coming © Jazz -: artists has been . put .in’ Motion’ by Joseph. Beinhorn and Jerry. Shafer. The. | programs | day evenings. at ‘Judson Hall, -N. Y:, a small auditorium across. from Set so far are the Horace Parland Trio, Oct. 21; the Don Ellis. Buddy. British Disk Best Sellers: ‘presi_ dent of Rockefeller. Cériter, who ‘heard Del Guercio. singing it in .an ‘London, Oct. 10. ‘Michael sabes z e. ' Highwaymen (HMV) . | ‘Kon Tiki ce eee evee’ Shadows Columbia) “Johnny. Remember Me. Leyton (Top.Rank) . . Wild In Country .. Presley “ARCA) , . a Walkin’ ‘Back to 0, Happiness 4 Calumbia) -~ Shapiro Jealousy. <.....s0000-++-Fury “«Deceay 7 Get. Lost ‘ae eo eee eo en ene . Kane -{Deeca). SS , “Yowll Answer To Me.. :Laine:. ' 'Fontana) You Don't Know......Shapiro -¢Colurmbia) ep me Wild. Wind . yieeeeeTevton |statements:at their face value and | :“no room for new. labels.” | reported Flaherty dead: + nn . . Miss. ‘Lockett. . {Top ‘Rank) Late Hughie Flaherty Concealed His Identity As Widower of Ada Jones * , Vinton, Va. Editor VARIETY: . _-Inthe Sept. 6 issue of: VARIETY + {Mexican Actors Assn. Organizing Diskeries .Mexico: City, Oct. 10. The: National Assn, of Actors ‘is extending its scope to include “| recording artists. Jaime Fernandez, union official, has signed up RCA ‘Victor, with. contract regulating control of artists working for the firm. Fernandez ‘said that alldisker-° Jies will have similar agreements. Union will supervise artists’. ‘, ] contracts, whether the performers tare hired temporarily or on an exclusive basis. The union will also dicker on salaries and deduct ' _ According to the. union, control f performers wil] react to benefit of diskeries and entertainers. "| Latter. ‘will have no problems in obtaining fees for their services | you carried ‘a brief. note of the! sinee this chore will be handled | death: July. 9 of a onetime” prominent yaude and. musicomedy song-. | and-dance : ‘man, Hughie’ Flaherty. An interesting angle in connection with Flaherty’s. death in Brooklyn at the age of 81 is the fact that for many years prior to his passing he had encouraged. the belief the. ? was already in the ‘grave. ‘Flaherty deliberately elected to ‘| “play. dead” -because he was. mar ried from Aug. 9, 1904, to May: 5, ‘1922, to Ada Jones, the most popu lar woman rec rding artist. of the early days, andthe chosé not to be by the union. Pye Snubs UK. . Distribs With Hot Sinatra Label: London, Oct. 10. Frank Sinatra’s “Granada,” on: the’ British top 20 in one week: giving added impact to. the biggest : ‘Ada. Jones and _ their +Sheelah, had died, he willingly! methods were used. farthest-out idolators still. refuse to. handed. ‘out to the big U.. disbelieve she is. dead. .¥Flatherty | tributors. | naturally wished to-avoid the atten| Pye, which releases Sinatra's. la-. ‘tions of these gentry,:and when! bel (one of the Hottest prestige newspapers. in Huntington Station, ' ' properties to cross the water), did N: ¥., where he had lived,printed, ‘not. offer’ Reprise to the distribs erroneous reports that he, like 4 although they were clamoring for |: daughter,. rit. Instead, stepped-up direct sales Some ‘15 let the. errata. stand. ‘ Reason for the snub, says a Pye ' }years ago, when 1 wrote: a series | exec, was that leading distribs had : of magazine articles about Ada|refused two labels offered earlier Jones, I unwittingly: accepted the! by Pye on grounds that they had ‘ Ac-: reording to the exec, Pye’s Golden \Chi AFM Insurgents Move to Block _ Proposed $500 Wkly. Petrillo Pension Chicago. Oct. 10. An insurgent group within Local 10, Chicago Federation of Musi‘cians (AFM), will try and block a move to sive Jocal piesident James .C. Petrillo a Hfetimne pension uf $500 a week. The €&-: ear-c'd union leader has heen president of Local 10 since 1922. At press time today :Tut. . the rebel group of approximately 360 musicians was convening in ari-’ cipation of the jocal’s annual rece t ing later in the dav in an atter> t to mobilize its forces, Pre+ attempts ‘almost innualy = splinter groups have been vere ridden .by the Icc2als hoerd ef directors. i The dissidents are heeded hy , two members of the Chicazco Ss:n‘phony and two dance band members. Sam Denov. a symphony member, said that the pension WS “unfair and unrealistic’ and ti:at it was preparing fer further nepotism, by the “Petrillo clan” -The Denov group wiil suggest a ‘$5,200 a year pension. This marks the first time that elements differing with the nower'ful president have open!y criticized | bi. There have been numeroazus sub rosa attempts to stir un eppo‘sition, but none has succecded. A member of the dissenters | teoned the Petrillo leadership in _recent years | as a “do-nothing 2d‘ministration.” The spokesman sa‘d : that the Tocal was “infiltrated” with :Petrillo’s friends and relatives and i that Petrillo would hand over the ; presidency to one of them “like a pestered by fariatical admirers of. his own Reprise label, has made ,crown” when he retired. Petss]io's |the late comedienne, seeking locks ! ‘|of her hair, the location of her. -| grave, and the like. A few of herjsnub a small diskery has, ever son, James J. Petrillo. is financial secretary-treasurer of the union. Roaring 20s Back As Harry Rey Returns To Lendon’s May Feir Hotel London, Oct. 10. A major tieup between the May .Fair Hotel and BBC radio starts ‘next Tuesday (17) when Harry Roy ‘reintroduces his Tiger Ragamuffins after a 14-year absence. The stary ‘dates back to 1927 when Bert Ambrose inaugurated a series of danve The fact that he was “alive be| Guinea series (loWpriced albums} ' music broadcasts from the May came.a carefully guarded secret of | were even returned from retailers Fair Hotel, and three years later a few record collectors: when Mil-|after big distributors had refused iyas succeeded by Roy. who con ford N. Fargo, a member of the-!to handle them and certain “pres-\tinued the series until 1937. faculty of. the Eastman School of ‘Music at Rochester, N. Y.,. discov-: ered: him. (Fargo is establishing an; {Ada Jones Memorial at the school, {working on ‘a life of the come dienne, and trying. to get one good copy of every one of the thousands | of records she made.) When: he approached Flaherty, the old man at first denied having been Ada Jones’ husband, but, attracted by ~ Fargo's: obvious sincerity, broke down and admitted the. facts. Flaherty, who was born Aug. We 1879, in‘the | ‘District of. Tralee, County. Kerry, ‘Treland, had quite a career. of: his own. He lived . in Lawrence, ‘Mass:; aS.a boy and became an expert on. Various types of dancing. In.1S00 he moved to New ; York, became a partner of Biliv: Farrell. and met Ada Jones at a: theatrical rooming house on East’ 10th “St. He : ‘appeared with the Byron Spahn. traveling tent. show; and the James Kennedy Repertoire ; company.. In 1903 he appeared in “The ‘Belle of New York,” with! Elsie. Janis, and had the title role | in. “Jack: and. the Beanstalk.” 1904-5: he toured the country’ na star of “The Forbidden: Land,” with Ethel Johnson. Later. produc| ‘tions in’ which he appeared were “His . Majesty.” with Blanche Ring, ~The “Rounders,” “Simple Simon,” “The Filibuster” and “In Africa.” .: In 1912 he met: his second wife. Hanna Annie’ Lockett, .who sur. ‘vives him. In 1916 they teamed as and the partnership continued in vaudeville until 1932. Nine. years after Ada Jones. death, he married During their professional ‘association, Flaherty & Stoning appeared on bills -with Baker and Sophie Tucker. So completely had the’ erstwhile j fassoclation with the top recording comedienne of 50. ‘years ago. that none. of the newspaper obituaries mentioned his-having been -mar~ ried. tu. Ada Jones. © Jim, Walsh. * 1492, 9° & a dance pair, Flaherty &Stoning.,: igure’ had been applied. First ‘Reprise album release is: dué here on Tuesday (17) when six | disks will go out — “Sinatra ! { Swings,” Mort Sahl’s “The New: 'Frontier,” Sammy Davis Jr.’s “The Wham’ of Sam,” Calvin Jackson’s ““Jazz Variations on Themes,” “The Ol’ Calliope Man at the Fair’ and Tonv William: “Greatest Hits.”. These will also be Sold directly to retaiJers. K'S ‘MICHAEL’ NEAR 1,000,000 U.S, SALE | United Artists Records’ release of “Michael” by the Highwaymen . dis booming on varied fronts. Disk, ‘which . is nearing the 1,000,000 mark in the U.S. (UA claimed 970,‘000° copies sold as of the early: ‘part of the week), has passed the 200,600 ‘sales. bracket and is: top-ping the British charts. EMI is. handling the “disk for UA in Eng-: a0 “in its first. week of release in’ ; Canada, through Compo, it passed ; the 40,000 mark, and, according to ;S:dney Shemel; director of. foreign | 'onerations. it’s also beginning to:' j break in about a dozen additional | eas. it At the same time, Shemel re! ported that a second UA single, “Town Without Pity,” from the | ’ soundtrack of the film, has passed | the 100, 000 mark in Germany. ‘Thiele Joins Impulse ! Bob -Thiele has been named; aitist & repertoire head for. Im. pulse Records, the Am-Par jazz’ Jabel. He.takes up his duties next ; Monday 116). a3 Ln I before that was a&r head at; Roulette. He was also chief of ‘Dot. Records Eastern Division and was aér topper at Coral for seven years. . Movie | Thiele comes to the label with. ‘ta Jong a&r background. cently had his own outfit, the Han-. song-and-dance. man. concealed his ; over-Signature: Record Corp. and iover the Centinental He re On the initiative of Edward J. sand Harry Lee Danziger. the no , talgia of pre-war years will be .re;vived when Roy and the Tiger ‘ Ragamuffins,. playing the music of the °20s, will be featured nightly _inthe hotel’s Candlelight Room. On the opening night and sukse‘quent Tuesdays, the BBC Light Program will feature direct relays’ from the May Fair from 10:40 p.m. _to 11:55 each night, and the broad casts will cover the entire music program at the hotel. In addition to excerpts from the . Candlelight Room, the airings will ‘Include the music of Peni Latu’'s j Paradise Islanders from the Beach-comber, and pianist George Wor‘thington from the Candlelight .Lounge. The radio series will te ‘hosted, by Jimmy Henney, who will ‘interview various celebs visiting the hotel. His first guest will be Bert Ambrose. Sharing the Candlelight dais ‘with Roy will be Boscoe Holder and the Pinkerton Boys, with Sheila Clarke, playing Caribbean Style music, ' ‘Decca Grooving Oldie Jelson-Levant B’ casts Excerpts of “The Kraft Music ‘Hall’ radio programs with Al ‘Jolson and Oscar Levant have been put in to the groove by Decea_ Records. The material, made up of n.usic ‘and conversations between Jolson ‘and Levant, was cuHed from 25 i broadcasts that were aired in the early 1940s. | MCRAIN PLAYS SHAMROCK Houston, Oct. 10. Don McRain’s orch is tak.ng Room po dium at the Shamrock Hilton Hoi tel on Oct. 19. For years. that { bandstand has been the domain of || Paul Neighbors, Shep Fields. Henry’ Kifig arid Stoan-Krueger bands.