Variety (Mar 1936)

^TctlneBcIay, March 13, 1936 MUSI C VARIETY 55 Stuff Music Notes Personals wats* Waller appeared at the rmr-A" Washington Club... Wlngy Sannoiie dated with Victor. f Louis Armstrong's ° o0k on swl " E t0 be 'Sshed by Longmana Green. Sud Freeman playing Glen Island, March 21 with his own ork, . .Artie Shapiro playing bass with Wingy, Sid Weiss may go with Eennie Hay- ?' . Milton Mesirow waxed six -idea* for Victor' with a black and Shite combo including Bud Free- Ian and Willy (The Lion) Smith. •Titles all pops. ... .Max Farley back in town. . .Bunny Berlgan caught olaybg piano while little Joe Bush- - t.,J ♦wiinnetg and vocalises on 4 I kin trumpets . Never, Knew. . .Several spots along £2d street are staging unofficial Jam sessiptis Sunday afternoons to., at- tract business. Commercloi compe- tition may ruin a good thing. ... .Jack Teagarden waxed Tse. a Muggln',' parts one and two for Victor. Brother Charlie, Bud Freeman, and Karl. Kress, .on this date, « .Stuff Smith cut 'How'm .1 Poln',* 'After you're Gone,' 'I Don't Wanna Make History,' and "Taint No Use.' Bernie Hannigan working, on , ^recording this combo with cornet, and fiddle balanced. . .Herb Allen. . . returned Bunburned from business trip down South.. 1 .Correction: The,, neat trumpet on Tommy Dorsey's disc, •'Every Minute of. the j!oUr,'.;played by Chris Griffin..' .Race vocalist, Joe Pullum, a Victor artist. Relief Jam gcrippy and His Pals; a hot six- piece colored outfit, alternating with Bob Crosby at Hotel New Yorker, Personnel consists ofrScrlppy Bow- ling, drums, Sy Deveraux on Claris * , 3111y: Hicks on trumpet, Clar- ence" Johnson on piano, Jim McClin on guitar, and Ernest Williams on bass. Featuring plenty sock with clarinetist Deveraux lieaidlined, this one just moved In from the Apollo Harlem. On the Air . Fine arrangement , .of 'Mamma .Don't Allow If featuring Ella Fitz gerald and a gang of gibes by Chick Webb ; on the Gems of Color hour , . Jess Stacy steals Goodman's *Dlgga Dlgga Doo.' Peewee Ir.wln a 'few solos. . .Fletcher Henderson's 'Rug , Cutter -Swing' lets .Cqffy .Dav idson loose for sortie old-time slip horn . work, . .Demonstration of swing by' WOR, feature«department headlined Teddy Wilson, Bunny Derigan, Bud Freeman, Joe Marsala and Stan King. On a teyr hours notice Gordon Jenkins 1 turned in an ace job with a baton. Wax Works Or Victor Gene Krupa'S waxing of Tin Gonna Clap My Hands' ;and- 'Mutiny in the Parlor' demonstrates that even the. greatest hot soloists need a little arranging. With a black and white personnel from the Goodman and Henderson orks listed on the label, 'Lilttfe Jazz* .Eldredgc steals. the disc with. some of the screwiest licks ever played. Qn. Decca, Saxie Mansfield - gets oft for some ace tenoring on. Isham Jonas' .'The Day I ; Let; : You Get Away.' On 'Bubbling, Over' Earl Hines" demonstrates some genuine inspiration on the ivories. This band bis-plenty sock. Dick Stabile's 'Just Because' and 'Deep Elem Blues' has some good piano by Slgriorelli, but too>much alto by; Stabile who is bet- ter on clarinet.' Berlgan and Fil- bum swamped on this. disc. On Columbia the Mills' Blue. Rhy- thm Band waxed !Shoe-shlne Boy' and 'Midnight Ramble.' With 'Red Allen and Jay. Higgenbotham this ork doesn't do itself justice. A trom- bonist named George Washington geljs all the solo work, while Jay rests. Federal Project Won't Disrupt N. C. Symphony Charlotte, March 17. Threatened disruption of t h e North Carolina Symphony Orches- tra moved Congressman .• Z e b Weaver to take steps in Washing- ton to prevent such action, The Ashevllle Chamber of Com- merce, heard that Dr. Nikolai Soko- loff, head of the federal music proj- ect, planned to use 17 members of the North Carolina orchestra for his a}l-southern symphony at Asher ville. Others were to, be distributed to orchestral groups at other points. The lorchestra.has had headquarters at Ashevllle for some time. Fearful that the state would lose its identity With the scattering of the musicians as the 'backbone of other similar groups,' the congress man' entered the. picture.- He .was assured that the 'North Carolina Symphony was hot thus to be dl vlded up. Joseph DeNardo is di rector of the orchestra. Te ri Josefoyits, Hungarian pian- ist now at the Hotel Lombardy, N. .Y„ with David Greggory and Bill Livingston wrote 'Goodnight to You' (And I Do Mean You') for Joe Davis publication, founded on Jimmy Fidler's radio sign-off. Lawrence Fox. Tibbett's—next at 20th- Jan Pearce recorded his first disc last week for Brunswick. His con- tract with the label is for a • year. Sam Coslow penned themer for Paramount's one-reeler, 'Lucky Starlets,' short to build up contract youngsters; Irving Caesar, and Milton Schwartz back in Hollywood, to pen.numbers for 'Mark of Zorro,' 'Alberto Colombo heads RKO music department, succeeding Fred Fleck, Who goes into production. Portland's New Nitery A newcomer to Portland's night life is the Park Avenue club, which is housed in the basement of the Cornelius hotel. Jack Biles is master of cere- monies and entertainment is pro- vided by a line of girls and singing and dancing waiters and. wait- resses. No cover charge. Cops Raid Colored Music Club, Queer Coin Rumor Baltimore, March 17. Federal agents raided the Col- ored Musicians' club here last week after picking up a man trying to pass a spurious ?5 bill in a store. The man, how held under $2,500 bail for' a hearing, was not a club member, but claimed he got the bogus note at a card game in the club. Immediately a. squad of. cops de- scended on the clubhouse and carted off 21 men. After a hearing they were all dismissed. Kyser's Trianon Return Chicago, March 17. Kay Kyser orchestra returns March 24 for fours at the Trianon. Replacing the Anson Weeks band, ■which moves over to the College Inn for. two weeks' stay until the arrival of Abe Lyman. "Entertainer to the Stars" B. B. B. Public Jester No. 1 ALAMAC Hotel, Miami Beach Closes March 22nd—WHERE NEXT? Berlin vs. Plug List (Continued from page 53) job was comparatively simple, work- ing with director Mark Sandrich Sandrlch knows as much about what a sorig should have as any body in the theatre, says Berlin. Writing For Pi They told Berllh before he went out to pictures, and 'Top '.Hat' that he'd find, 'you can.'t do this; and you can't say that. Well, he found that except, for a .certain obviously nec essary censorship of situations-and lyrics in. pictures, there's the same amount of showmanship, of musical comedy feel/ of production,, of op portunity for expressing and re'fain irig' whatever personality and in dividuality is yours, of awareness on the part of picture producers of quality in music' and lyrics, as there is . in the best of the .theatre; For his part, Berlin says, he never had material as concentrated in quality in any stage musical as ' he had in 'T6p Hat' and 'Follow the Fleet.' For. in a,,stage show, he'd write perhaips 16 musical it'emis; perhaps the outstanding., number would be. the opening chorus, or his kudos might come from the first act finale. But .there . isn't that chance, that latitude, in pictures In, those, pictures he had only, five or six spots; into five or six num bers' he; must .perfpf-ce, squeeze, hit possibilities. As to what .kind of songs suit pictures, Berlin says that the strict- ly pop song, spotted as such with out logical .'gause, " in a, picture; doesn't need the picture arid the picture doesn't need it. Many, hit songs come oiit of'pictures,as pub- lisher's hits, but they don't help their picture because the. public doesn't tie tnem. up with the picture that, spawns them, he says. The ideal picture song, the one that does its picture good, is the song that when heard is straightway identi- fied by the listener as that song from such and such a picture. Analyzing and comparing his songs In "Top Hat*' with those in 'Follow the Fleet,'. Berlin says thai 'Top Hat's' numbers were all pro- duction numbers, but more general than those in 'Follow the Fleet,' which has both production and pop- ular numbers even though 'Follow the Fleet' is a typical musical comedy. 'We Saw the Sea' is its opening chorus. It has popular songs that yet fit the situations, such as 'Hear Am I,' a publisher's song, a 'back-breaker,' maybe slow for the picture, but it fits Miss Hil- liard's mood. On the other hand, 'Let's' Face the Music and Dance' can be tied up only with 'Follow the Fleet/ Comparing musical comedy pic- tures today, looking to their future, as against what they were when they died overnight, Berlin feels they're going to be the most im- portant of the industry's big gross- ers. Musicals always did the biggest business in the theatre, always played to the largest audience. In the picture houses, the quality of their music, lyrics, production has advanced enormously. They've de-. veloped class apace with their audience. . ■■■ A TERRIFIC SENSATION^ MEXICALI IRLOSf .s.*.- (*7^ BEAUTIFUL WALTZ) £t\6 DANCE ORCHESTRATION InJ PAUL WE I RICK 5U\ The TOAST of Paris NOW 'THE HEAT RAVE' OF NEW YORK Josephine BAKER After theatre—Except Sunday In Her Own Club 125 EAST 54th STREET, N. Y. C. 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