Variety (Apr 1941)

40 ORGHESnUS Wednesday, April 16, 1941. Power of Sugsrestion Palisades . Park, . 'Port Le«^ •Nz-. j., ' resurfies name bands (or suitimer Aptil 26-27. Will ojKsn only yreek- epds tilt May .24. when full-week op- eration begins; . Jack .Teajcardeni .iguests: on Bihg i. drpgby^s: radio ' program tomorrow night/ .(Th.urSi)v He's- working v In erosby;k; 'Birth of Blues' fllnti/: Sam Doiiailiue band shifted -from 6keh ;to Bluebird.. Cut its first tour, 'aldies last wefek. three months is ledvihg- April 25 for the Paxtori Hpte'l; Omaha. Harl Smith prchiastra, how at Sun Valley, will, take over this Olympic spot, playing, in the; Qeoi-gian Room ,fPr dinner six nights a week and fpr supper dancing in the BpwL \yecjnes-. day through Siatutday. / .blclc. Todd, renewed for another yeat; Prt Bluebird; ' ; . ■ BUiy Baer band arid, singer Eddy Howard, nbw working as single, start a tbUr . together :at OrpheUm theatre, Springfieid, 111., April 20. Guy Lomjbairdo pulls out of the RdpseyeltVhbtei, ^.Y.;'May: JS. Bill Roberts '■ orchestra at the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, for the past ••HERE'S THAT BAND AGAIN!" AND HIS ORCHESTRA THE iFAVORITE OF MILLIONS FROM C0A8T«T0-:C0A8T ... ■ \ . ^ j SIX YEARS OF ^SOL^D AIR TIME—WGN-MBS-NBC ON tOU R—BEGIN NING April 14—AppietoB, Wis. April Ifr-rRockford, III. April le-rPeoatar. 111. April IT-i-Shcbojrsaii, Wla. April lis—Ifllwaakee. Wla. . ' Apr 18-Se—CluiM. Hotel, St. tools. I . ^'V. ■ April il:^rColUDSVlUe, IU.~ Apr. SS-SB-^tWBe Hotel, St. lAiib. I Mo. April 2»—Quincy, III. April SO^Raclne, Wla.—Theatre.. Mar i—<irc«n Bar, WU.—Tbeatro. Mar ie-^-Sontli Bend, Ind. ' Mar 8—Coloma, Hieh. .Mar 4—Waakeiaii„.Ill. Mar 5-*—MadlMD, ivii.—Theatre. I ' .Mar .1—Mapltowoc, Wli.—Theatre | .Uar •^Biirciiite.. . Mar 9-ll^IndlanapolU, lad.— Lyric'Theatre. .Mar l(l-!2—St. LoaU, Ho..^I'ox I Theatre.' ■ .Mar !!3-20—Chiea«»—Chicago ,■. 'Theatre. ■ . Mar SO-Jone S^Mllwaakee. Wl*. I l. 'HIverslde Theatre. : ji'ine e-14-^De nlghteia to C^IU. •luiie' l9-jolr lis—^^atalloa Isiandi | ;: .'Cal.—C'aelifo. " iluiy 13-27T^ne nlcbters to Den- ■:■ ■ veri' Jnly 2R-AuKuat T-r-DeOTer^Liake- ■ ; -elde. ; ■ :.: '^'^uvuiit.'iH-li-.^be nlghitera to Chi- .■ WkO.' \uKu«t IB-Dec. 1—Chicago, ill.— I AragOn Uallrooin,' . BEST SELLERS ON OKEH RECORDS , OUR tHANKS to MUSIC CORPdlRATlbN Oiv AMERICA V . POR A SWELL tOUf* Panctao . band. gels Ben Marden's Riviera jpb this, season.. ..OFien early ^in May.. ' '.'V-' ■ Buddy Clark* band signfed to.;Wm. Morris agency fpr, three yfears, ..Gur- rently at Pirk Central hotel, NiY. JLen'a..' ■.Horne,. .• ex-vbcalist /■ with Chariie;,Barrie.t, . will be a. party of the Cafe Society: concfert at Car-; hegie'riall, ;New;Vbrlt,. April 23. . .Marvin .iUong, Fifod Warinit .'trom^ boniist and asst. librarian, called into Service. Scblty Bales .expects ditto., Cbarlie Bariiet has hired four Ibqkers to .form into -£ yocial quartet. "Theiy^re Marie; . McDprtald,- : Toni Traub,. Vivian Blane, Maty-; Ann McCali; Latter was with Barijet he- fore and will, be tbe -maia voice. in- the group. / Leopold Stokowski yiiU lead All- American Youth .Orchestra in con- cert at Forum, Wichita, June 17; . : Al Fremont opened at Merry-Go^ Round, Pittsburgh, Friday (11 )i for third engagement there this season, replacing the .Bubbles 'Becker outfit.' Jack Williams, sax player with Baron Elliott at William' Penn Hotiel's Chatterbox,. Pittsburgh, drafted and replaced by Jimmy Datillo,. from Et7.i Covato band. Dean Sayre tak-. ing ovei; latter's spot. . Don iiarl band, Avith Shirley jeane, into Hotel Roosevelt's Lounge Cafei Pittsburgh; Monday (21). succeeding Ted Blake and his Men About Town. Phil Alwess. takes over at Bal- cohadesi Pittsburgh, in place of Joe Villella, who after six months there moves to Oasis, another Pitt nitery. Sammy Eisert. will lead a. Ruby Newman unit for the 12th consecu- tive year playing for the Vincent Club show, April 17-18-19, John Hancock Hall, Boston. ■, ;. Cecil Golly orch, currently at Deshler Wallick hotel, . Columbus, held over for two. more weeks 'til May 1. Run has broken all recprds in hotel's Ionian Room. • ■ . •; \. , K.H. Pauley'• Turnpike Casino, Lincolni Neb., celebrates its fifth anniversary : this. weekend (16^20), iind has Sterling YoUng booked for the occasion. Allen Curtis orch^ opens season for Hampton Beach Casino, N. H., Sat- urday (19). Bay Galvin'a Eastern Orchestra Seryice, Boston, has booked Abe Lyman intp Totem Pole Ballroom, Auburndaie, Mass., for two days, April 25-26; New England tours for Jerry Wald, April 30, May 1-2-3. and Teddy Powell, May 10-14-18-17. Marks on Stand in His Suit Against Vogel Co. Edward B. Marks A*ill be examined before trial Api-il 16 in N; Y. federal court in connection with a suit bieihig brought by Ed ward . B. Marks Music Corp. against Jerry Vogel Music Co., Inc. On Thursday (10), Vogel filed a general denial to the suit which charges infringement and asked, for a dismissal. ■ -..v .^'■ Marks Music claims that its pre^si- dent wrote a sOng called 'December and May'in November, 1893, and re- newed the copyright in November; 1920. Since April,, 1933, Jerry,Vogel is accused of Infringing via a s.6hg with a similar title and most of the same lyrics and words. An injunc- tion, accounting of profits and dam- ages are sought. SONG INFKINGEM^NT SUIT Jewel Music Publishing Col has filed suit in ■ N. Y. federal I court against .Leo Feist, Inc., charging In- fringement of. the music' of 'Carnival In Cotton Town' by Feist's 'Druinmer Boy.' Plaintiff'9 song Was written in 1935 by. J.^les Lanoh and Louis Ricca. • Ah injunction, accounting of profits, and damages are sought. . Lincoln, April .15. . ' Larry . jierman, leader at the Pla-Mor this weekend, was being . ribbed about his rticcnt marriage to Merijesinhe^Masten, publicist . the Vic Schroader (his : booltsr) office in Omaha.; -,: Ballroom crowd is convinced she got to believing the stuff she wrote about him. BMI Asks That Mut^^ Shorten lis P% Rule For Hourly Repetition Broadcast Music, Inc., has asked the Mutual Network to suspend its riile barring the playing of the same tune within less; than two-hour inr tervals. BMI would.like to,have this interval cut down to ati hour. Both NBC and Columbia sus- pended this rule shortly before the break With ASCAP. for the apparent reason that .BMI's limited supply .of dance music, made: this'■Jipcessary, No move> has been made by. either network to, reinstate the rule/- Mario Merin rhumba band oitcned indef ehgagcraept at El ChicD, i?i^ burgh, iSaturday (12). •. Three more recordings of .'Intermezzo''- copie along this week, all on Columbia release. Of the three, Marie Greene's (36007) soprdnoirig, sup.- pprtcd by chords and orchestra, is the best. . SinffCT handtcs it in a manner .that gets the utmost out of: the meloiii, and the.^chords arid musical bridoies ^enhance its valui:- Xdvief Cugat pops up with version (36016) in bepuine 'tempo, it's a lisrenable cutting, but the. tune-drbps ..a bit of its p.uTich ot this speed. His is\color/ully ^drrangcd, hbvcVcr, /or f\ute.s, DioUiis', etc., with intcrniittent chorol efforts. Charlie Spipak'^.cutting is. tSpmpoTatiyelv lifeless: Too itiuch concentration on his muted horn neglects the accom- paniment, a fault to be found on sorne'6f his past recordings: 'edrnotion! backs Miss Greene's record; o li«elu bit. Cuodt couples his to 'Rendezvous in Rio,' dn average bolero vocalled by Lena Rdmai'ir. 'Sympatica'. backs Spivak's. It's a dull tmd worthless tune, surprisingly so because Riidgers. and Hart authored it, but its intrinst? idcfc b/ disliticfipn ciploiTis tohy this filmusicai excerpt wtuiid up. on the cutting room floor, Qary Sttivens. .I'Ocals. v ; Vaushn Monroe 'Thumbs <Up'—r'Clam Chowder' (Bluebird 11103) ,. Foliowup tb Irving Berlin's 'When That Man Is Dead arid Gone' was to. be expected. 'Thutnbs Up' is similar, telling ^thC' story of 'a; guy,idate, the bombis and bomb shelters. It's in jumt> teim'pp, ;an okay machine bit' 'Clam Chowder^ is an apt title for .the. reverse! : It'is a mohotPnous bit bt. braiss WP'rk in arrjfhger. Jphtiny Watson's. Usual style. v r Claude Thornhill 'O Sole MIo'—Traumiere' (Okeh 6124) Two fine: examples of Thornhill arrangements. Sparkling freshness. in his stuff; and the clean playing of them by the band mark this pair as out pf the ordinary waxings. . 'VVritings . are aboye average appeal, but still cdmihierciai enbUgH to get machine atteiUipn. Either side is rich, 'Sple Mib'. a shade faster and better. No 'vocals. . ' ; ■ \ Gene Krupa 'Gepreia on My Mind'—'Alreet' (Qkeh 6118) " Under wraps for a change. Gene Krupa's group doe.s nicely on 'Georgia.' Cutting has a; smooth hop under clear arid muted brass.; It's okay for y/ -\-. V (Continued on page 42) (Records below are ^grabbing most nickeU thi.<i. ti)eefc in ju/cebo.res throughout the country, as reported bv f he. major coin-nwicftitjc distributors frbni coast , to coast, to Variety. iVdmes 6/ m.drc than pne bond or vocalist after the .title itidicdtes, in otder of pppularitv, whose recordings are being plaued. Figures and names in parenthesis indicate, the number of weeks each song has been in the listings and respective publishers./ m^mm .DISKS GAINING FAVOk Hello Ma; I Done It Acaln: ..v' ^ Fitzgerald.... .Decca _ . , -^. :^ ; ; I Mitchell Ay res ..Bluebird' -I^obbins. : , Sorrento .. , ...... Miislc. Makers.'..... Wlso Old Owl....... My Sister and I..., • • •>• • Woody. Herman. ...Deicca, !Southerq ; , • • ''Harry J?»tnes. .Columbia ...Pararhourit. ( Dick Robertson ... .Decca w»«t 'IAl Donahue.... ....Okeh • '^^^ v f Jimmy Dorsey... . .. .Decca :^ ............. j Benny: Goodman .Columbia.. BMI [Bob Chester ..Bluebird