Variety (Sep 1938)

Wednesday, September 21, 1938 DANCE-MUSIC VARIETY 41 15 Best Sheet Musk Sellers (Week ending Sept 17, 1938) ♦Alexander's Ragtime Band ABC •I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams Santly-Joy A-Tisket, A-Tasket Bobbins •Now It Can Be Told Berlin When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby Santly-Joy You Go to My Head Remick So Help Me ... \ Remick I'm Gonna Lock My Heart Shapiro Music, Maestro, Please .Berlin •Small Fry < Famous Stop Beating Around the Mulberry Bush. BVC •Change Partners Berlin •I've Got a Date With a Dream Feist •Garden of the Moon Harms What Goes on Here.in My Heart... Paramount ♦ Indicates fllmusical song. t Indicates stage production song. The others are pops. Rapp Hunts New Singer; Missus Retiring for Baby Pittsburgh, Sept. 20. Barney Rapp, playing at New Penn here, staging series of audi- tions this week to pick a new femme vocalist for band. Ruby Wright (Mrs. Rapp) will retire temporarily to await stork when band leaves next month on series of one-niters. Rapp broached the Pittsburgh try-out idea to Darrell V. Martin, radio , ed of Post-Gazette, asking lat- ter to sponsor it Martin went along with maestro and latter's grabbing off a lot of free publicity as a re- sult in the morning sheet. In 4 NAME ORCHS DREW 35G TO CAN. EXPO Toronto, Sept. 20. Complete boxoffice check-up shows that the Goodman-Lonibardo-Rogers- Dorsey orchs grossed $35,300 during their Dance Pavilion engagement at the Canadian National Exhibition Special structure held some 5,000 people, with admission at $2 a couple. Benny Goodman did $9,900 for the three nights, building from $1,800 to $3,000 to $5,100; Guy Lombardo did $9,000 for the three nights; Buddy Rogers, $4,000; and Tommy Dorsey, $12,400, latter getting the closing three nights when the Expo was packed. Topper for any night of the two weeks (Sundays excluded in Can- ada) was Benny Goodman, who drew $5,100 paid admissions, Swingy Lawyer Salt Lake City, Sept 20. Barrister chores are now just a sideline with Jerry Jones, youthful lawyer, who, in the past year, has become this burg's leading dance hall impresario. Jones, who earned his jurispru- dence sheepskin tooting a sax in his own outfit, has leased Rainbow Ren- dezvous and is spotting traveling bands in the modernistic site. Carl Ravazza's band opened Sept. 14, followed by Frankie Trambauer's outfit Plans to import bands throughout the fall and winter sea sons. BAND BOOKINGS Grant Wood, Westwood Club, Rich- mond, Va., Sept. 23, two weeks. Don Bestor, Albany, N. Y., New Kenmore hotel, Oct 1. Lou Blake, Atlanta-Biltmore hotel, .Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 7. , Blue Barron, Hippodrome theatre, Baltimore, Nov. 4. Gray Gordon, Syracuse, Sept. 28. Syracuse hotel, Harry Candullo, Jflew Penn Club, Pittsburgh, Oct. 1. Hal Kemp, Drake hotel, Chicago Oct. 3. Continues one-nighting until then. Goodman Vs. Vallee At Hub Xmas Jamboree Boston, Sept. 20. Benny Goodman and Rudy Vallee will do a battle of music for jitter bugs at Boston Garden Oct. 24 under auspices of the Boston Evening American Christmas Basket Fund. Dance contest prelims were begun at Brockton Fair last week and are being handled by Joe Rubin, local talent booker and producer. Admish to jitter jamboree in the Garden will be $1, and the arena will be usee for dance floor, while. Vallee's sweet music competes with Goodman's swing. MORRIS AGENCY TEES OFF ITS BAND DEPT. William Morris office officially opened its band booking department this week with creation of new office space, via expansion, and the sale of the Eddie De Lange band to Victor for a series of recordings. Ed Fish- man, formerly with Radio Orchestra Corp. and Orchestra Corp. of America, is now in charge of the Morris band department. He ne- gotiated the takeover of the band and sale. De Lange starts the Victor series Sept 23. Office has been proceeding slowly and will not actually get under way for about another week. No sales men have been taken on and lew properties acquired in slow buildup process which was first indicated by long mulling of possibilities by office before it finally stepped into the band picture. Several Music Corp. of America letoiits may be added here So far Noble Sissle, Joe Rines Emery Deutsch and De Lange have been contracted. Office has had Jan Garber for radio for some time anc also Jacques Renard. Xavier Cugat, Arcadia-Internation al, Philly, Sept 26, following Clem Williams, who has two weeks in the spot Sam Wineland doing the music I score for Paramount's 'The Arkan- sas Traveler.' ' Bill Hardy, Ray Noble's manager back from London, Leader returns in about a month. On the Upbeat PAIWE'S VISITS Canada to Cooperate en Government Rulings New John G. Paine, general manager of the American Society of Compos- ers, Authors and Publishers, last week visited the organization's Bos- ton office and the Toronto head- quarters of the Canadian Perform- ing Rights Society. Latter call was for the purpose of going over the new schedule of rates for music users which the CPRS must soon submit to the government's copy- right rate board. Copies must also be furnished users in advance for study prior to the rate board's hear ing. Visit in Boston disclosed that the ocai federal court has 37 infringe ment suits against users listed for xial during the October calendar. Defendants are located in various parts of New England. REMOTES BAN UP IN PHILLY Skinnay Ennis and band, after 22 weeks at Victor Hugo in Los An- geles, moved to San Francisco for eight weeks at the M^rk Hopkins. Frarakie Trombar touring midwest after closing at Los Angeles Bilt- more. Philadelphia, Sept. 20, Ban on netwerk airing by remote bands, imposed by Philly musicians local on Labor Day, will come up tomorrow (Wed.) for consideration by the union's executive committee Ruling was put into effect by the price committee, which' may be overruled by the exec group.' It is understood the new edict may be toppled if certain concessions are made. According to the new rule, whi6h is also in force in some other cities, bands from night clubs can be airec locally, but not cn a net unless a full standby rate of $9 a man is paid, This makes such broadcasts prac tically prohibitive. Name bands which formerly came to Philly niter ies, particularly the Arcadia-Inter- national, at reasonable fees because they were guaranteed one or two network shows every night, are re- fusing to take jobs here. This is in line with the idea of the tooters' union in giving more work to local men. Lew Palmer, former drummer with Jan Garber, is lining up dates for his own band. Harry Candullo orch moves into New Penn, Pittsburgh, Oct. 1 for four weeks, succeeding Barney Rapp, who begins series of one-nighters in tri-state area. Jack Gamble band into Lincoln Terrace, Pittsburgh, for indef stay. New season opens at Coliseum Ballroom Greensburg, Pa., Sept. 15 with one-nighter of Tommy Dorsey orch. Baron Elliott, staff band leader at WJAS, Pittsburgh, and his dance crew go into new Riviera, near Pitts- burgh, this week. Artie Shaw settles for three weeks at the Chase hotel, St. Louis, com- mencing Sept 30. Gets Mutual net wii - e from spot. Dave Burnslde at Ansley hotel, Atlanta, Ga., after a season at Ocean Forest hotel, Myrtle Beach, S. C. Jack Wardlaw's band set for Dempsey hotel, Macon, Ga., for month of November after closing at Jefferson hotel, Columbia, S. C. Jane Dover, formerly Will Hud- son's vocalist, now with Bunny Berigan. Ditto George Bohn and Gus Bovana, saxophonists, last with Hudson. Willie Farmer looking for a hot singer since exiting Radio City Promenade JRestaurant in N. Y. Tito's Swingtette cut 20 electrical transcriptions for World Broadcast- ing. Howard Gale, Democratic Ball, Ritz-Carlton hotel, Philadelphia, Oct. 28. Currently doing weekly series on WHP, Harrisblirg, Pa. Al Jahns opens Providence, Oct. 30. Biltmore hotel, Lou Breese, Earle burgh, Sept. 30. theatre, Pitts- Billy Swanson, Lowry hotel, St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 29. Network Plugs, 8 A.M. to 1 A.M. Folldwing is a totalization of the combined plugs of current tunes on NBC (WEAF and WJZ), and CBS (WABC) computed for the week from Monday through Sunday (Sept. 12-18). Total represents accumu lated performances on the two major networks from 8 a. m. to 1 a. m. In 'Source' column, * denotes film song, t legit tunes, and 'pop' speaks for itself, GRAND TITLE PUBLISHER SOURCE. TOTAL. I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams Santly-Joy *Sirig You Si .56 Stop Beating Around the Mulberry Bush.. BVC Pop 42 A-Tisket A-Tasket Bobbins Pop 41 Change Partners Berlin ""Carefree 40 What Goes on Here in My Heart..; Paramount *Give Me a Sailor 37 I've Got a Date with a Dream Feist *My Lucky Star 37 You Go to My Head Remick Pop \ 36 So Help Me Remick Pop 35 Small Fry..., .\ Famous *Sing You Sinners 33 Bambina ... Spier .. ;Pop 31 Now It Can Be Told Berlin * Alexander's Ragtime Band 29 I Used to Be Color Bli Berlin ""Carefree 28 Lambeth Walk , Mills Pop 28 I'm Gonna Lock My Heart Shapiro Pop 28 There's a Faraway Look i Tenney ••**<>? 27 Little Kiss at Twilight Lullaby in Rhythm When Mother .Nature Sings Her-Lullaby At Long Last Love No Wonder Alexander's Ragtime Band There's? Honey on the Moon Tonight.. .. The Yam.., '... ." Don't Let That Moon Get Away Santly-Joy. *Sing My Own Robbins 'That Paramount ....... *Glve Me a Sailor 26 Robbins Pop 24 Santly-Joy , Pop 23 Chappell tYou Never Know 22 Crawford tHellz-a-Poppin 21 ABC i . * Alexander's Ragtime Band 21 Miller Pop 20 Berlin *Carefree 20 You Si 19 Certai 19 Joe Haymes, Club Schenectady, N. Y.., Sept. Palorama, 28. .Marvin Frederic, St. Paul hotel, St. Paul, Sept. 22. Guy Lombardo, Chicago, Sept. 29. Palmer House, Harry Owens, Baker hotel r Dallas, Sept. 21. Dick Stabile, Edgewater hotel, Chicago, Oct. 15. Beach Buddy Rogers, College Inn (Sher- man hotel), Chicago, Oct. 8, Freddy Fisher (Schnickelfritz), Loew's State, N. Y., Oct. 20. How Can We Be Wron*; Cr?wford Pop 18 I Hadn't Anyone Till You ABC Pop 18 Don't Cross Your Fingers ^?er-Yellen Pop 18 You Never Know Chappell tYou Never Know.. 17 I Married an Angel Robbins tl Married an Ansel 17 Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish Harms !S arden of the ¥l 00n \l Love Is Where You Find It Harms *Garden of the Moon 17 Could You Pass in Love? Feist *My Lucky Star. 16 There's Something About an Old Love,... Exclusive Pop 1G You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven. Shapiro Pop 16 Why Doesn't Somebody Tell Me Things... Shapiro Pop 16 Garden of the Moon Harms 'Garden of the Moon 16 Summer Souvenirs BVC Pop 16 If I Loved You More Words-Music Pop 16 Heart and. Soul / Famous *A Song Is 15 Who Blew Out the Flame Feist. Pop 15 Teacher's Pet.-. M?rks Pop 15 Put Your Heart in a Song Miller. ..: *Breakin' the Ice 15 Knights of Note, five-piece en- semble, current at the Radisson lotel, Minneapolis, after three years on KSTP sustainer. Dave Burnslde and orch, current at Hotel Anslej Rathskeller, Atlanta, hit air Friday (16) night in first of two-a-week series Of sustainers for CBS net Milton Davis' orch opens .at Ham- ilton hotel, Washington, tonight (Wednesday). Skeeter Palmer also opening tonight at Seneca hotel, Rochester, N. Y. i Carl Tisen's orch at Troika, Wash- ington, Oct 1. Walter Miller's orch goes Copley Plaza, Boston, Sept. 29. into Ted Fio Rito's orch opens at Top- sey's, Southgate, Cat, tomorrow (Thurs.), replacing Benny Meroff, who goes on a tour of one-nighters. Jimmy Dorsey, Earle Philadelphia, Nov. 11. theatre^ Sammy Kaye winds up one-night- ers prior to its debut al the Commo- dore Hotel, N. Y., with, dates at Johnson City, Pa., Sepf 23; Provi- dence, Sept. 24; Ritz Ballroom, Bridgeport, Sept, 25; Worcester r Mass., Sept. 27, and North Adams, Mass., Sept. 28. Emit Coleman plays a society din- ner dance at Irvington-on-the-Hud- son Sept. 24. When a Prince of a Fella Remick Pop ... When the Circus Came to Town Shaniro, Pop ... Where in the World Feist... J' VTosette I Haven't Chaneed a Thing MUJs...... ' Pop Love of My Life ABC p op Monday Morning. Witmaik, Pop Music. Maestro. Please Reriiq ?°B • *' , , D „., D . ,„ My Walking Stick Berlin..; * Alexander's Ragtime Band 12 Night Is Filled with Music Berlin 'Carefree 11 Says My Heart,.'. Famous ; 'Cocoanut Grove 10 Toytown Jamboree Red Star Pop 10 Marilu Fox Po P 10 Lecturer Asks $10,000 In Hotel Bathtub Injury "Detroit, Sept. 20. Suit for $10,000 damages, filed against Hotel Fort Shelby here by Dr. Angelica Balabanoff, lecturer, will be aired in court here next' week. : Dr.- Balabanoff Claims she slipped in bathtub at hotel,' while trying to dodge hot water, from a cold-marked faucet and injured her collarbone. As result, she says,, she missed 29 weeks of lecturing. Kellem Turns A^cnt Philadelphia,' Sept, 20. Milton Kellem, former- orch batoneer here, last week, went ii&o the band agency biz. Merged, with Agent Tony Phillips to form the firm of Kellem-Phillips.