Variety (Aug 1941)

ORGHESTIIAS--MUSIC Wednesday, August 27, 1941 Inside Stuff-Music One of the human interest quirks stemming from the ASCAP-radio war Involves a former soneplugger who has suddenly found himself the pub- lisher of what looks like a smash hit. He was without a job for over .a year prior to the ASCAP-radio split and had been living on relief money obtained from the industry's benevolent organization, Professional Music Men, Inc. His break came when an ASCAP firm agreed to return the song in question to the writers because of the firm's inability to exploit the number on the networks. The unemployed plugger soon fell heir to the song and licensed it for radio through Broadcast Music, Inc. A band leader recorded the tune and included it consistently in his remote broad- casts. In quick time three other hands put the song on wax. Recently an ASCAP publisher offered the plugger |5,000 for outright transfer of the number, but the ex-reliefer turned the proposition down. Jimmy Campbell' Publications, Inc., was organized by the former Lon- don music man to protect a couple of songs he brought over from Eng- land, but otherwise he has yet to form his own publishing outfit. Camp- bell is doing a temporary exploitation chore for Meredith Willson, the Coast maestro, on two songs the latter authored, 'You and I' (a hit already, exceeding 100,000 copies to date) and 'Two in Love.' Larry Richmond of Music Dealers Service, Inc., is selling agent, biit neither Campbell nor Richmond are otherwise partnered in any publishing business. Richmond, for obvious reasons of amity with all music pubs, doesn't want to go into song publishing in competition with the established firms. Campbell hopes, when his deal with Willson ends, to organize his own company. Sudden revival in popularity of 'Miss You' has Santly-Joy-Select, which published the tune in 1929, quite puzzled. Victor has lined up Tommy Dorsey, Dinah Shore and Freddy Martin to make recordings of the num- ber and there has been a marked call from sheet music dealers, but the publishing firm is still unable to find out what started the thing. One speculation from within S-J-S is that the song, becc^use of its nostalgic theme, might h-ave caught the fancy of soldiers in some training camp and the popularity began rolling from that point. Meanwhile, the lyrics have been slightly revised, with the torch angle taken out entirely. Num- ber was written by the Tobias Bros., Charles, Henry and Harry. After an ASCAP publisher had been approached by a songsheet outfit about selling it lyric reprint rights, he instructed his counsel to investigate the executive personnel of the songsheet organization. The inquiry dis- closed that both the general manager and the distribution manager had done time in a Connecticut institution, one for fraud involving state funds and the other in connection with the wholesaling of contraband song- sheets. The two, it was also found, got acquainted in the clink. Harry James and his father, Everette James, supervisor of music courses at St. Anthony's School, Beaumont, Texas, collaborated on a modern trumpet instruction book being published by Robbins Music. James got his early instruction on the instrument from his father, who led a circus band for years before settling in Beaumont to teach. Leader's early days were spent playing in circus outfits. The Treasury Dept. (Defense Savings Staff) has started distribution of Irving Berlin's 'Any Bonds Today?' theme song specially written by him for this branch of U. S. defense. Copyright is in the name of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, as a means to circumvent any ASCAP-radio complications for widest clearance. The 'I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now' wartime evolution Is inanifested again at Fort Monmouth, N. J., where Ben Bernie's boy, Jason, is Garson Kanin's superior in the film-cutting division of the Signal Corps. Mutual Network Plugs The follovoing tabulation of network .poputar music performances is not confined to WOR, New York releaseffor Mutual Broadcasting System, but also includes the entire MBS, chain. ' Compttattnrt herewith coners the week beginning Aug. 18 (.Mondi^^nd ^ding Aug. 24 (Sunday), from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. based on dai(]/,.'r^^ituIations furnished by Accurate Reporting Service and the MBS lodsi' TITLE PtlBLISHEB TOTAL Kiss the Boys Goodbyie—*Kiss Boys Goodbye Famous Daddy j ,. Republic . I Understand....-,'..'..,./ Feist ........ You and I , ; Willson Give Me Your Answer Mills Guess in Have to Dream the Rest Block Green Eyes Southern Aurora Robbins Jim Kaycee Don't Want Set World-on Fire Cherio Things I Love .• Campbell .... Apple Blossom Time Broadway ... Intermezzo Schuberth ... Harbor of Dreams ..' Miller , Peaceful in the Country Regent Love Me a Little Little Mayfair Don't, Take Your Love from Me Witmark .... Maria Elena i Southern .... Rose and a Prayer B'VC Under Blue Canadian Skies Feist Do You Care? Campbell Dolores—'Las'Vegas Nights Paramount .. Don't Cry Cherie Shapiro I Went Out of My Way BMI Music Makers Paramount ., TattleUle Santly •Til Reveille ; Melody Lane. Vours Marks ♦Filmusical excerpt. 31 30 26 25 24 22 20 18 18 17 15 14 14 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 The writers of G'BYE NOW say "HELLO THERE" and thank* to JOAN BROOKS' SINGtillating Singing POWERS MODELS NOW AT LOEWS STATE THEATRE, NEW YORK for your swell vDcal* of O'BTE NOW aad oar new vmt 'HELLO THEBE' ' on jronr .perM^al, appearance (oar. We'U be Ilstenlns Sat. at ai^Voa WJK and tfBC'.Biae, toot ' • LEVISpNi'EVANS MUSIC «ORP. sm Werf sith BU. ITeW Tork City 10 Best Seflers on Coin-Machines (Week of July 21) Darling Daughter Chappell All I Care Wright Tell M^ FDH I Understand Sun Amapolo C-C How Did He Look? Prowse Do I Love You? Chappell That Song Again Wood Love You So Chappell I Yi-Yi-Yi FDH Hear Rhapsody C-C Happy Day Gay Airlines ^Continued from page Z- his way home from a trip to his news-gathering unit in London. Judy Clark to H'wood Judy Clark, singer and dancer with Ray Heatherton's orchestra at the Biltmore (N.Y.) roof, who has been sighed by Republic Pictures, left the port Mdnday (25) for Holly- wood via the American Airlines way. Her first pix for Republic will be 'Marines on Parade,' starring Al Pearce and his Gang, which goes in- to the works in October. The 17- year-old Lynbrook, L.I., songstress, made not-so-ancient news hawks feel Social Securitylsh, for a few of them remember when the gal made her singing debut at Texas Gulnan's old roadhouse stand in VaUey Stream some 11 years ago. Word flits northward that to- morrow night (28) Cab-Callaway and his musicians will fly United Air Lines from Philadelphia to Chi- cago. Sunday's (?4) spies saw Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hammerstcin, in from L. A. on the sTWAtoliner, while Clare Boothe, Henry Luce's No. I playwright, and William Schirer, of 'Berlin Diary' authorship, were off on the evening sTWAtoliner to the western end of the car tracks. The 23d saw Milton Berle winging his way westward via transport plane, while the same face-on-the- clock saw TWA carry Allen Jenkins to Pittsburg. American Airlines bring to town Madeleine Carroll and Alexander Korda from the Realm of Reels. Lou Mindling, CBS exec, was off to L. A. the TWA way on Friday (22), while the sTWAtoliner that evening brought in Kyle Crlchton, Collier's wfiter. A roll call of the week's aerial manifests reveals Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Deere Wiman, of the pro- ducing Wimans, were off, TWA, to L. A.; Maureen O'Sullivan chose the TWA route in from Chi, where she had, with Naval Se'cretary Prank Knox, attended the Governor's Navy Day festival, to do some show shop- ping for a few days; Billy Gilbert in from the Coast to the east; Mrs. Ar- turo Toscaninl and Jack Kirkland off to Hollywood, and Vincent IiOpez, Harrisburgh-bound on a personal ap- pearance tour, all aboard TWA. Jesse! Busy Georgie Jessel was the busy bee of the airways, hopping out Sunday night (17) to L. A. and bounding back in again four days later to be greeted at the TWA gates by Al Bloo'mingdale, who is straying from the department store showcase to Broadway to finance the Jessel Broadway musical, 'High Kickers.' Ole Olsen, of Olsen & Johnson, the 'Hellzapoppin' kids, was due in Monday night (25) from L. A., where the boys have been slaving over a celluloid record of their stage antics. Katie Hepburn flew out during the week, via TWA, to L. A., with a stop-off at St. Louis. She's to make a picture. The visit Dan Topping and his wife, Sonja Henie, made to the air- port produced somewhat of an event. The couple came down to greet Miss Henie's mother, who was inbound from L. A. aboard a Strato- liner. While awaiting the ship's ar- rival, the couple ventured upstairs to the Aviation Terrace to arrange a bit of party for Sonja's mama. The couple never got around to discussing the costs of preparing fatted calves, etc., for they were told they couldn't enter the restaurant because they were accompanied by Miss Henie's two.toy spaniels. More mirthful than miffed, the couple bounced back downstairs, de- posited their pups with a friend and arranged their fleste at another es- tablishment that, they later learned, wasn't adverse to slipping' ■ bit of supper to the-canines, too. (Records below are grabbing most nickels this week In Jukeboxes throughout th* country, as reported by operators to Varieiv, Names of more than one bond or uocalist after the title indicates, in order of populariti/, tohose recording* are being played. Figures and names in parenthesis indicote the number of weeks each song has been in the listings and respective publishers.) 1. Maria Elena (9) Southern 2. Yours (6) Marks. 3. Kiss Boys Goodbye (4) Famous. (Jimmy Dorsey .Decca ■ * I Tony Pastor Bluebird (Jimmy Dorsey Decca " ^Vaughn Monroe Bluebird J Jimmy Dorsey Decca ■ ■ I Tommy Tucker Okeh 4. Yes, Indeed (4) Embassy Tommy Dorsey ..•Victor „ ,r J T /.^ mil (Glenn Miller Bluebird 5. You and I (1) Willson ^Tommy Dorsey Victor 6. 'Til Reveille (1) Melody Lane { ^IT/S.'^.V.V.V.boluS 7. Goodbye Dear Be Back Year (7) C. to C. ) grerRobtrtn\\V.^^^^^^^^^ „ „ J « (Jimmy Dorsey Decca 8. Rose and a Prayer (7) BVC | Charlie Splvak Okeh (Jimmy Dorsey Decca ■ ■ I Barry Wood Victor (Tommy Dorsey Victor "' { Glenn Miller Bluebird DISKS GAINING FAVOR (These records arc directly below (he first 10 in popularttv, but growing in demand on the coin machines.) 9. Things I Love (4) Campbell. 10. Guess I'll Dream Rest (1) Block. Don't Want Set World on Fire (Cherio) Time Was (Southern). South of North Carolina (Porgie) | Peaceful in Country (Regent) , | Booglie Wooglie Piggy (Mutual) | You Are My Sunshine (Southern) | Jim (Kaycee) | $21 a Day, Once Month (Kaycee) | I've Been Drafted (Pacific) { Lament to Love (Roe) Blue Champagne (Encore) Why Don't We Do This Often? (BVC). (Tommy Tucker Okeh I Horace Heidt .,. .Columbia (Jimmy Dorsey Decca I Charlie Spivak Okeh Dick Robertson Decca Gene Krupa Okeh Charlie Splvak Okeh Harry James Columbia Andrews Sisters Decca Johnny Long Decca Bing Crosby Decca Tommy Tucker .......Okeh Jimmy Dorsey Decca Dinah Shore ......Bluebird Dick Robertson Decca Tony Pastor Bluebird Kay Kyser Columbia Jesters Decca (Harry James ....Columbia ' I Sonny Dunham.... Bluebird Jimmy Jorsey ...i...Decca (Kay Kyser Columbia Freddie Martin ...Bluebird NBC-CBS Plugs Following compilation of plugs on NBC and Columbia's New York out- lets covers the week beginning Aug. 18 (IVfondav) and endiTtg Aug. 24 (Sundav), from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m., and is based on daily recapitulations fur- nished by the Office of Research-Radio Oii>ision of the College of the City of New York. FDB- TITLE LISHEB TOTAL Guess I'll Have to Dreani Rest Block 49 Time Was Southern 36 Yours Marks 32 Daddy Republic 30 I Went Out of My Way BMI 27 Booglie Wooglie Piggy Mutual 25 Green Eyes ; Southern 25 You and I Willson 25 Do You Care? Campbell 24 Peaceful in the Country Regent 24 Things ! Love CampbeU 22 Til Reveille Melody Lane .... 22 What Word Is Sweeter? Rels 22 Lament to Love Roe 21 Maria Elena .....Southern 20 South of North Carolina Porgie 19 Intermezzo Schuberth 17 Yes, Indeed Embassy 16 Hi Neighbor BMI 14 City Called Heaven Warren 13 J™ Kaycee 13 Wasn't It You? BMI 13 B-I-BI Rinker 12 HeUo There Levison 12 Sing Love Song Musicana 12 Hut Sut Song Schumann 11 I See a Million People Radio Tunes .... 11 Nighty Night Beacon 11 You Talk Too Much Southern ........ 11 We Go Well Together Regent 10 Easy Street Pacific 10 Let's Get Away From It All Embassy 10 You Can Depend on Me La Salle ; 10 /«'« Hotter Than The Chicago Fire! TOMMY TUCKER'S original recording of I DON'T WANT TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE Okah 6320 HORACE HEIDT — Columbia 36295 THE CHARIOTEERS — Okeh 6332 CHERIO MUSIC PUBLISHERS, INC. 1585 Broadway, New York City