Variety (Dec 1939)

40 VARIETY MUSIC—DANCE BANDS Wednesday, December 6, 1939 On the Upbeat Manle Sacks, of MCA, speaking on name bands before the International Assn. of Fair and Expositions, in Chicago. 1 Hotel, N. Y., and second private I affair at Providence, R. I. Plays I Junior Women's Club at Larchmont, In. Y., Dec. 23 and opens at Ansley Hotel, Atlanta, Ga., for two v/ecks. Jean Wald's femme group out of Pittsburgh at the Esquire Club in Miami. Went there from Shawnee hotel in Springfield, O. I Dee Orr has taken leader spot with I Andy Anderson band at Show Bar, Forest Hills, L. I. Anderson died Nov. 24. Al Wasel into New Perin, Pills- burgh, for a two-week stay replacing the Lee Barrett outfit. Nelson Maple now at Hotel Henry, Pittsburgh, for month's stay. Checked out of Pines, Pittsburgh, for new spot, Ray Euglert band replacing at the Pines. Maurie Stein orchestra goes in as jecond band at the Ch^z Paree, Chi- cago, on Dec. 11. Hal Kemp plays two deb parties Dec. 20-21. First is at Ritz-Carlton 'Yum jjO-i tUe /tooJzd ! B I L LY !l ALWAYS DREAM OF BILL DOES YOUR HEART BEAT FOR ME? "memory REMfNDERS ' MY HONEY'S LOVIN' .i^RMS .1^ WHO'S SORRY NOW ^ \ MARY LOU 0 ff ' MlUS MuSJC, Lenny Hayton band now at Leon & Eddie's, N. Y.. signed to record for U. S. Records' Varsity label. Benny Goodman will have an answer interview to Artie Shaw's Saturday Evening Post story in the New York World-Telegram soon. Spud Murphy's new band to make Bluebird records. Teddy Powell orchestra goes to Raymor Ballroom, Boston for two weeks Dec. 25. Will Bradley shifts to Jung Hotel, New Orleans, Dec. 21. Now at Baker Hotel, Dallas. Don Bcstor follows Bradley at the Baker and Del Court- ney Jan. 19. Nick PanI will in the future be the name of Neck Pisani. His ' new band is at tha Coronado Hotel, St. Louis. Vincent Travers' band stays on the Miiton Berle program 'Stop Me If You've Heard This One' until after the-first of the year. Abe Lyman booked for the Strand, N. Y., for three weeks Dec. 22 fol- lowing the current Al Donahue. Duke Elllneton plays fbiir single dates this month for more than $1,000. Dec. 9 at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, for $1,100; 15, Pitts- burgh Hospital shindig for $1,250; 29, back to Blackstone for $1,000 and OF HARRY UNK,c...Prof.. m GUBIRT, rwf.wy. tW BROAOWAY Dec. 31 at Sherman Hotel, Chicago for $1,500. Eddie Lane orchestra opens at Bossert Hotel, Brooklyn, Dec. 8. Network Plugs. 8 A.M. to 1 A.M. Woody Herman goes into the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, for four weeks March 1, follows it with a stretch at Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J., and then may play the summer at Glen Island Casino, N. Y. Tony Pastor's new band beginning to rehearse. Art Mooney orchestra now with Stan Zucker's new band agency. Charlie Barnet is being attended by a doctor and a nurse on his cur- rent date at the Apollo theatre, N. Y.. due to an attack of grippe that produced a fever of 102 Friday after- noon (1). Barnet's date at the Apollo is the first time a white band has been used at the house for about five years and his was the last to work there. Glen Gray and the Casa Loma or- chestra booked into Paramount thea- tre, Los Angeles, for one week begin- ning Dec. 7. Ella Fitzgerald orchestra will fol- low the Woody Herman band into the Famous Door, N. Y., on an un- named date in January. Stand is the first location date downtown for the outfit since its eight weeks at the Park Central Hotel, N. Y., about a year ago. At that time it was Chick Webbs band with Miss Fitzgerald. Herman went into the Door last Tuesday night (28) and may stay a total of 13 weeks. Four Inkspots join him there Dec. 12. Lawrence Welk at Dallas' Hotel Adolphus Century Room. With him is Jayne Walton. Hotel also is pre- senting the dance team, Nanno and Stafford, and Ben Stein, single. Jay Smith, Dallas radio tenor, has joined Ray Herbeck's band, late of Hotel Adolphus Century Room there. Sonny Kendis, after almost four years at the Stork Club, New York, interspersed with engagement at leading hotels, niteries, etc., leaves to open Friday (8) at Detroit Athletic Club. Will Osborne orchesf -a, featuring Barbara Bush and Dick Rogers, take over the Cafe Rouge, Hotel Penn- sylvania, N. Y., Friday night (8), suc- ceeding Artie Shaw's orchestra, un- der direction of George Auld. Ralph Rotgers holds over. Tommy Dorsey to guest on the Alec Templeton show Jan. 1 as so- loist, sans band. It's his second guester on this series. FoIlou)iii£/ IS a totalization of tht combined pluflj o/ current tunes on JVBC (WEAF and WJZ), and CBS (WABC) computed Jot the week Jrom Monday through Sunday (Nov. 27-Dec. 3). Total Tepresenfs accumulated performances on the two major networks from 8 a.m. to 1 o.m. Symbol * denotes film song, t legit, all others are pop. TITLE PUBLISHER Scatterbrain BVC Lilacs in the Rain Bobbins South of the Border Shapiro Speaking of Heaven Miller GRAND TOTAI, .... 45 34 32 32 I Didn't Know What Time.. .tToo Many Girls... Chappell n Can I Help It Remick 29 Last Night Feist 28 Goody Goodbye Olman 27 El Rancho Grande Marks 23 Make with the Kisses Mercer ., 23 Are You Havih'Any Fun?.. .tScandals Crawford 22 Good Morning... *Babes in Arms Chappell ! 20 My Prayer Shapiro 20 Honestly Santly 18 Many Dreams Ago Harms 18 Blue Orchids Famous 17 Faithful Forever.. .•Gulliver's Travels Famous 17 I Thought About You Mercer 17 It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day.. .•Gulliver's Travels..Fafnous 17 Stop! It's Wqnderful.. .tMask and Wig Show Spier 17 Day In—Day Out.... BVC 16 After All Sun 15 All the Things You Are. ..tVery Warm for May..Chappell 15 Ciri Biri Bin Paramount 15 In an Old Dutch Garden Harms 15 Oh, Johnny, Oh Forster 15 At Least You Could Say Hello Feist 14 Careless Berlin 14 In the Mood Shapiro 14 Moonlight Serenade Bobbins 14 What's New Witmark 14 Does Your Heart Beat for Me? Mills 13 Tomorrow Night Berlin 13 White Lies and Red Roses ABC 13 Bluebirds in Ihe Moonlight. ..'Gulliver's Travels..Famous 12 Little Street in Singapore Shapiro 12 Melancholy Lullaby Paramount 12 Piggy Wiggy Woo Remick 12 Who Told You I Cared?.. .'Kid Nightingale Witmark ' 12 Baby Me ABC 11 You're a Lucky Guy. ..tCotton Club Parade Witmark 11 Marcheta Leeds 10 You're Letting the Grass Grow Under Your Feet..Ager 10 ^ADIO COMMnTEE DUE TO REPORT Lee Costaldo joins the Tommy Dorsey trumpet section replacing Yank* Lawson. Board of directors of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers will most likely hold Its final meeting of the year on Thurs- day, Dec. 21, Instead of the regular final Thursday of the month, which this time falls on Dec. 28. It is un- derstood that the special radio com- mittee will at this meeting turn in its completed report as to the recom- mended policy and terms for the new contract with the broadcasting industry. Royalty checks for the final quar- ter of this year will ba mailed out in time for the ASCAP members to receive them two or three days be- fore Christmas. Russ Morgan, on one-nighter at Minneapolis Aude Wednesday (29), drew 6,000, a new attendance record ';fqr that spot. Erskine Hawkins Into 'Young Man With Horn' Erskine Hawkins was signed late last week for the legit show 'Young Man With a Horn,' based on the life of Bix Biederbecke. He's to have the same role originally intended for Louis Armstrong, left open when Armstrong went into 'Swinging the Dream' with Benny Goodman. Haw- kins will join rehearsals Dec. 12. Ella Fitzgerald was recently set for a singing and speaking part in the same offering. Mills Music, Inc., has obtained the score from Walter Wanger's produc- tion, 'House Across, the Bay.' Songs are 'I'll Be a Fool Again' by Al seigel, 'Chula Chihuahua' by Jule Styne, Nick Castle and Sid Clare, and 'A Hundred Kisses from Now' by George R. Brown and Irving Actman. YESTERDAY'S HIT TODAY'S REQUEST I WANT YOU FOR CHRISTMAS HARMS, INC. RCA Building New York DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH EDWARD B. MARKS ^^1'.' RADIO CITY 7o^r^ FRANK HENNIGS. Gcnoral Prolcssional Mer. A SWELL SWEET SONG HONESTLY Getting Bigger and Bigger Day by Day SANTLY-JOY-SELECT, 1619 Broadway, New York 3 MEN ON a COTTON CLUB SCORE NORMAN kolevforWITMARK johnny white for remick mack cold man for harms YOU'RE A LUCKY GUY LOVE'S GOT ME DOWN AGAIN IT'S MY TURN NOW YOU'RE JUST A NO ACCOUNT