Variety (Sep 1933)

Tuesday* September 19, 1933 M U $ I C VARIETY 39 Most Played on the Air Last Week To familiarize the rest of the country with the tunes most sung and played on the air around New York, the followinp is the com- pilation for last week. This, iaHu'lation will continue regularly. In aniswer to inquiries, these plugs are figured on a Saturday- through-Friday week, regularly. Tabulation in turn is broken down info two divisions: 2fumber of plugs On the major networks (WEAF and WJZ of the NBO chain, and WABC, key station of CBS), along with the total of plugs on Net!) York's two most important independent stations—WOR and WMCA. WEAF WJZ Title WABC I f f" • t. * •••••• ' ■ • 4 •,• • • « «-• •'• • • • • * Tiove Is the Sweetest Thi 'Bless Totjr Heart' •Don't iBlame. Me' •Swingy Little Thiney' 'Shadows bri the iSwanee' •Beloved' '''Talk of "the Town' 'Hold Tour Manf •Dinner, at Eight' , •Thiis Time It's Love' This Is Romance' It Isn't Fair* •Shadow' Waltz' V,.. •Marching Along Together' •The Night We Met' •Aliitcha Glad?* • Tiouisiana Lullaby' •I'll Be Faithful' •Life'is So Complete' •Under a Blanket of Blue' 31 21 25 21 22. .22 13- 25 WOR WMCA 14 14 16 11 10 9 5 10 10. 7 8 11 is 10 7 9 •5.- Total 41 32 32 31 3Q_ 29 29 26 26 24 23 22 22 22" 22 20 Gome Up and See Us Some time, Sez Victor To Hot Bing Crosby Bing Crosby Is the present-day disc best seller. He's on Brunswick receiving $200 a. side lor recording or. $400 per two-faced disk. The crooner also collects -9- royalty, but disk sales -being what they are the royalty thing is relatively leas im- portant. Victor Is flirting with Crosby to come up and see them some time— at il.OOO per recording. The flve-ply increase by Victor Is In line wltb its Idea to rehabilit^ite itS: disk biz. Jack Kapp, Brunswick's record- ing talent manager, is currently in Hollywood ttying to dissuade Crosby from making 8i,ny switch in view of "Brunswick's progressiveness. in building him up. ' BEHEN WITH KEIT-E. ON COAST FILM MUSIC AI Beilen from Chicago was in New York last "week and worked out a deal with KeitrEngel to take over the Pacific Coast territory with headquarters lb Hollywood. Kelt Engel wants to get into the etudio end out there.. . . Beilen was the dean of the Chi cago inusio trade for years after Rocco Vbcco scrammed that burgi For the past year Beilen has been in the orchestra booking businesi^ as an executive of Kennaway, Inc. He is rated one of the ace men in music. Beilen will take up his new job Oct. 1. Meanwhile, he will break up his home In Chicago. JACK ROBBINS BACK Prefers Publishing End to Studio Job An Old Favorite And an everlastinv one, too, Is PAUL ASH •who 'wHh bis usually erreat orchestra Is heard dally under the Pabst Blue Ribbon sponsorship at the Chicago World's Pair, via NBC. Dlscrlhilnatlng; Paul Ash features „.„„ "HOLD VOUH MAN" "DON'T BLAME ME" "MARCHING ALONG TO- QETHER" . "DINNER AT |lflHT'„ "I'LL BE FAITHFUL?' ••YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING" ItaBBINS MUSIC CORPORATION nil Si^ENTH AVENU£ ■III • • • NEW YORK • * • MILTON DOUGLAS Acclaimed by Press and Public =.x=^O.atstandini;t:Xonnit^m«!l«9!L=i:^ Baritone APPEARING INDEFINITELY BEN ALIRDEN'S RIVIERA Manaflremont JACK BERTELL LVONS 1^ LY0N8-BATCHEL0H-CNGILL PAIUMOUNT BUIUJING Jack Bobbins ^ets in today (Tues- day) from Hollywood where, after being elevated to the post of head screen-n^usical consultant in Metro's fllm-musical production, he decided to forego Hollywood and stick to milsic publishing. Robbins was payrolled at. $50Q. » week on the MGM lot but tired of the run- aiound and the proverbial Holly- wood stalling. In addition, when finding his ideas not executed with the same dispatch as in his pub- lishing business he cancelled his cqntract. Metro, ias Bi% owner, of Tlobbins Music Corp., enlisted its ally to enter into the studio eniploy this summer, in view of the renew'ed boom in film musicals. Robbins, instead, prefers to make flying triips to the coast on occasion but main tains his headquarters iii New York, whero his family are established. Metro's idea -was ior. Robbins to tfanspliEint his residence to' the coast; Jack Bregman, general manager of the firm; had been at the helm in Bobbins' absience. liatter is bringing back with him Walter Donaldson, who will become a Rob bins contract writer, teamed with Mort Dixon. Donaldson still re- tains an interest in the Donaldson DouglasrGumble music pub firm, but isn't exclusively committed to them as a writer. Classificalion Rushed Thrn ASCAP to Duck Flood of Comphmts Writer coterie of the board of di- rectors .of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers hold their classiflcation nieetihg last Wednesday (13), which wias two weeks ahead of the usual time;, •and thereby escaped a flood of re' quests lor boosts in rating. Classi- flcation get-togethers for both the publisher and author groups are, as a rule, held at the end of each third month. Dissatisfaction with the deal they've been getting from their own reps on the hoard with regard to the adjustment of class ranking has reached the ijolrit where the writers are talking of appealing to the pub- Usher group for mediation. Biggest obstacle that the writers have to contend with is the ASCAP bylaws, which makes the membership of the board self-perpetiiating instead of leaving their selection to a vote of rank and file- CHEZ PAREE Chicago, Sept. 14. Leading the Chicago cafe boom is the Chez Paree, owned and man- aged by one of the best known night club operiators in the United States, Mike Fritzel. Spot previously Chez Pierre, seats about 600 and is situ- ated on the near .north side on a side street. Oh the second floor of a remodeled, warehouse but king of the nite clubs here. Decorated in the style moderne spelled with an 'e' nowadays, it's getting the play of tiie town, Plenty of room, with a lai'ge dance floor, plus subdued lighting. Serves a two-dollar dinnfer. This nite place has played the biggest names from , legit, pictur^a. and vaude. At .present their show is headlined by the TaLcht Club Boys, 'vvlio opened this week, the DeMarcos, Franfees Langford, Vivian Pay, Ina Ray, a line of 16 girl^ alnd^Tom Gerun band. Three shows a night, 8:00 o'clock, 11:45 and 2:15. An m.c. for the acts and run like a . show. ^ --J^eMarcos-being-held-over-ior .^n- extra four weeks, but with seyera,! new dances. First one a slow, dance with the- second some fast whirls and lifts, with an extra ehcore thrown in. Miss Iiangford uses a mike iand is known, having been «n sustaining programs in the East, An extraordiharily fine toe dancer is Miss Faye, also playing a return engagement, while Ina Ray is a dancing, singing blonde soubrette. She does singles and numbers with the chorus. ^ , , Of course^ the punch and big moment of the show is the Tacht Club Boys. They a;re filling in a three-wieek engagement then> going Ijack to the Embassy Club In N. It was questioned tor a while If Chicago, would undierstand songs about Broadway. There was no question after the flrst show, Tlje four boys are master showmen and they know not only how to take it but to serve it. They are ihixera, t«/hich meaiis good .night club en tei.lainers. After the show a- five-piece Hawaiian orchestra gives the cus tomers a chance to show off their tango. Then later, Tom Gerun gives them exactly the tempo Chicago likes. Gerun, a good-looking fellow with an easy flow of language, has a very nice dance band plus enough novelty numoers, crooners and spe- cialties to make his own spot, NUT CLUB, N. Y. New York, Sept. 14, Meyer Horowitz has reopened his Village Grove Nut Cliib, now New York's sole frank institution for nite life nuttery addicts. It's a no-cou- vert establishment where the in- mates must satisfy a $1.50 mininium check, for which Milton Splelman's danc2 band and floor show paced by Hughle Clark hold forth in ex- change. Most prominent among the talent is Elsie Gilbert with a quiver- ing sense of showmanship, whose al fresco niethod of working is well suited to the hotcha tempo of the room. Others in the show are Blanche Lytell, a Village fav; Jim Kelso, Frank Wheeler, Gil Rams- ford; Red Davis and Marion Bailor. It has already established itself as „ cinch divldend-'getter at Horo- witz's sister spot, the Village Barn, which has been doing plenty all right for its impresario over the summer. The Nut factory has been shuttered, reopening, for the fall season. When La Belle Rose, the sponsor's pseudo-maniacal Scotch performer 'in drag* gets ba,ck In November or thereabouts, after be- ing deported for quota laches, that will probably be further occasion for 'premiere' festivities. Meantime, In time-honored sea sonal reopening, Horowitz pulled a smart stunt in a press preview de- but to get rid of the on-the-cuft trade all at once. Jildglng by the unveiling and the Same hey-^hey spirit of tomfoolery he should <tgain manage a.better than fair season. Aoei, KEMP ON l-NITERS =^ChTcag6,=-septr 18; Hal Kemp steps out of the Black Hawk cafe next week for a month or six weeks of one nighters on the road. Jan Garber band replac- ing for the interim and then back Into the southslde Trianon ball- room, , , > 1 Kemp comes back to the cafe fol- lowing the tour. Biltmore Hotel, N. Y. (DON BESTOR) New York, Sept. 13. Cascades atop the Hotel Biltmore has a hew and good dance, attrfic- tion in Don Bestor and his. of" chestra. The combo has been around New York latterly putting the Lexington hotel on the map and before that at the New Yorker, besides going commercial for Nestlfe's. It knows how to purvey commercial dance music, i.e„ dansa patlon that's rhythmically compel! Irig without becoming too flpssy in orchestrating. . ™ - With the combo there is Florence Case, wide-range soprano of better thian average quality, who Irt the accepted band style of the day sits in with the boys and warbles into the mike. (There's an NBC wire into the hotel.) ^ , Barry Devine, a baritone, is m.c, .Minor..^and=JliyiLJ§Jlcl^m^ Armstrong rounds out the support^ Ing show. Couvert after 10 la %1. , Apel. Ms PiiFbiered in Hopeful Alliance to Revive Disc Sales A deal of unusual significance is the afflliation closed this past week between RCA Victor records and Irvliig Mills, thei talent manager. Victor has enlisted Mills' experi- ence and services as advisor, talent sc.but and re^sorder without Mills divesting himself from, his manifold outside interests as man^ ager ind producer. This Is un- usual for the conservative RCA Victor in that it doesn't insist on Mills' exclusive services. - - Jt^ a-liew berth for Victor. It's comparable to nothing • In record^ Ing annals In that Mills has aiitor cratic power to sign anything, he pleases for recording by Victor and to exploit and create' new talent. Of course^ with this, new deal, Mills briniris over 'with him his three- ply ace attractions, Duke Elling- ton,'CAb Calloway and Mills' BXw Rhythm orchestra. All these were exclusive Brunswick recording art- ists. They now. become ditto for Victor. Fred Erdmann, the Victor record ing .' head man, made the deal with Mills. Mills, with these and other or- chestras, has been one of the most prolific recorders in the business. In 1929-30 his many orchestras which he controls, riecording under nbms-de-disks for every record company, made more popular dance records than all the other dance .■ybamls combined on all labels. As Go-Between Mills is assigning his recently added publicist, Al Selig, to the task of co-opei:ating with the Cam deii, N. J., headquarters of RCA Victor on. the. new recording set up. It's In line with the planned rehabilitation of Victor's riecord business as elsewhere set forth, Calloway starts this week on his new chores for Victor with a quar tet of tunes, 'Lady With a Fan,' 'I Learned About Women From Her,' 'Harlem Hospitality' and 'I Lik Bite"My Baby on the Neck.' ICllins- ton will record next week for Vic- tor. Mills plans talent trips to Chi and Los Angeles shortly where he will contact all talent with a view to Victor recording:. He Is authorized to make top Offers for all desirable talent. Mills thinks he can make the country niore record-conscious or as 'much as it was in the past. Among Publicist Sejig's tasks wi be the .lining Uip of record revietv diepartments in publications such, as "was first Inaugurated in Va- RiBTt' but re.Q.e,ntly,\abandoned««>with- the dwindling sales. RCA Victor has gone over Its past'records and found that. Victor record business In certain halcyon years has been at the rate of 118,000,000 ito $20,000,000. With this thought in mind, Victor Is setting aside a $350,000 advertising cam- pialgn budget on behalf of the rec- ord end and $200,000 for the radio adjunct for this fall and winter. VIctpr believes the tlm* propi- tious for the comeback of the rec- ord business, what with conditions, etc^, ,ahd is proceeding towards that end a build-up of Its name Q Frists* Victor's retailing outlets through the medium of the many RCA radio machine dealers are likewise favor- ably rega)>ded as an asset. .FALMEB HOUSE STICKS Chicago^ Sept. 18. Palmer House Is out to keep its Empire Room big after World's^ Pair close. Now dickering /With the Eddie Dtichln orchestra tor a session starting about Oct. 15. House is switching Its entire floor show along with the Duchln entry, retaining only the present line of Abbott girls. Until this summer Palmer House conserva- tively sidestepped dance bands. Irving Geller, long a pianist in Phil Romano's orchestra, opened with his own unit at Powell Inn, Colonic, N. Y., last week. Gellers played with Romano at same spot earlier in the season. APPEARING NOW CENTRAL PA R K CASINO NEW YORK —ANN GREENWAY Just Closed a Season at Arrow Head Saratogai New York DUDLEY WILKINSON At the Piano