Variety (Apr 1942)

42 MUSIC Wednesdaj, April. 29t 1942 NBC CBS. Blue, Mutual Plugsi Following tabulation of popular- music pexjormances embraces all /our fietuiorfcs—JVBC, CBS, Blue, ond Mutual—as represented by l^EAF—WJZ, WAJBC and WOR N. 7. Compilation .herewith covers week beoinning .Afondav through Sunday (April 20-26) from S p.m., to I a.m. and is based on data provided by jlccurate Reporting Service regular checking source /or music publishing Industry. TITLE POBLISHEB TOTAL Don't Sit Under Apple Tree .Bobbins 32 . Don't Want Walk Without You—t'Sweater Girl'. .Paramount 32 Somebody Taking Place Shapiro 31 ♦Full Moon Southern 27 Jersey Bounce • ..Lewis ... .-/.•.V.^..... 24 Johnny Doughboy Found Rose Crawford ., 24 'Skylark ' Morris .'.. •Breathless CLP Miss You..." , ^..Santly Always In Heart—t'Always In My Heart'........Remick Not Mine—t'Fleet's In' .P^amount ... Tangerine—t'Fleet's In' Famous .... I. Deep Heart Texas , Melodyljane ... I Threw Kiss In Ocean Berlin Sleepy Lagoon...... ; "..Chalipell ..... I Remember You-t'Fleet's In' .....Paramount ... I'll Pray For You—fWhat's Cookin' .Hariiis ....... Me and My Melihda ..Berlin ........ String of Pearls ...Mutual Three Little Sisters.;., ; Santly ....... Happy,in Love—t'Sons o* Tun''. Feist Mooijllght Cocktail.... Jewel Sing Me Song Islaiid—fSpng of the Island'...,..BVC We'll Meet Again.;.. ; Dash .. 24 .. 21 ..20 .. is! .. 18 ,. 15 .. 16 .. 15 .. 14 .. 14 .. 14 .. 14 .. 14 .. 12 .. 12 .. 12 12 •Heavenly, ISn't It?—t'Mayor of *4th Street' Greene-Revel . '. 11 •Last Night I Said Prayer.. Block •Marines Hymn Marks •Nightingale Marks ...... She'll Always Remember .....Wltmark ... Lamplighter's Serenade Bobbins .... One' Dozen Roses Famous .... ru Keep Love Light Burning ; Remick .... Last Call For Love .' .Robbins .... Somebody Jfobody Loves Robbins All Those Wonderful Years J. Campbell Idaho , Mills Pretty Little Petticoat Circle ...... The Angelus Rings Again .'. ABC .... 11 .... 11 .... 11 .... 11 .... 10 .... 10 .... 9 .... 9 .... 9 8 .... 8 .... 8 .... 8 . Robbins 7 Anchors Aweigh. Keep 'Em Smiling Aget •Little Jive Is Good Excelsior ... Waltzing Mathilde , Fischer ..... Begin ttie Beguine ..Harms Embraceable Yoii ,,; Harms ...... How About You?—t'Babes on Broadway*.Feist •If You Are But Dream.. r..J. Campbell ♦Memory of This Dance BMI •Where CorneU .... With a Sweetheart Inke You Joe Davis .. There Are Rivers to Cross .Cbappell ... Caissons Go Rolling...... .....Shapiro .... Heaven Is Mine Again .Chappell ... •Lamp of Memory .....Marks ' Sometimes , Berlin ' There Won't Be Shortage Love Feist 5 Whisper That You Love Me Shapiro D •Who Wouldn't Love You?... Maestro 6 •Indicates BMI licensing; *• Indicotej SESAC licensing; other* art via ASCAP, tFlImuslcal. t Legitimate. m Top Wriiw! Own Welodlesl TerrHk lyrksl .J TonKiy Dor»«y »•• Or€*«»»»« THE LAST CAll FOR lOVE By t Y. Harburfl. Mar gory Cummingi and Burton Lane POOR YOU Lyric by E.Y.H.rbur, Mu.I. by Burton Lan. ^ ..Anrf Feist Ha» T/i* Blgg»t Show Hit; Tool HAPPY IN LOVE ryrlebyLUn . .I^^'* . . from OlMn ft John»on'f,'lon» O Fun MUSIC EDUCATORS AND LAHN-AM. TUNES . New York. Editor, 'Variety': Concerning the recent Music Edu- cators National Conference,' one of the main objectives of this mammoth- meeting of music educators was to emphasize Latin-American music. It was to be a good-will gesture that would help solidify our good neigh- bor policy. Yet, the manner in wblcli the Latin-American music was presented to music educators result- ed In a very poor presentation. No attempt was made to distinguish be- tween folk songs, carnival songs, or popular songs, and, the net result brought confusion rather than en- lightenment. It seems that £tudent<muslclans are '}0 years ahead of their teachers and. In this particular phase of -music, know more than those who. are at- tempting to teach them about it.- By. lIstenin^4o popular radio pro- grams, such as Andre Kostelanetz, Meredith Wlllson, Raymond Paige, Cugat, etc., young students are get- ting a musical education, whether they realize it or not, that Is far ahead of the curriculum to which they are subjected. • . Dr. W. Otto Miessner, head of the music' department at the University of Kansas, told me he is of the opinion that there should be more •living music,' or music written by American composers who are still alive. Student-musicians would give greater attention to their music studies If they were permitted to play and study music which interests them mostly—modern American music. However, there is good prog- ress being made In this direction. Many of the younger teachers realize that they can win the complete co- operation of students if they teach modern American music. A great many schools are now featuring such compositions more than ever before. No doubt within a few years our national music will dominate' school programs, concerts and musical ac- tivities, but if they are serious about developing Latin-American music, they certainly will have to devise a more Intelligent approach and work out a better educational program to achieve their purpose. ■ J. J. Robbins. Buck Out sContlnned from page 41; of Buck's bitterest foes among the pubs were abeani with confidence. How They Voted. The count' that elected Taylor comprised ll piibUshers' votes and five writers'' votes. The 16 votes just made the two-thirds majority re- quired by the by-laws. The pubs' approval was unanimous, A. Walter Fischer, the only publisher repre- sentative on the board, being absent because of lUness. Of the nine writers present the production three- some, Dick Rodgers, Oscar Hanuner- st^ n and Henderson, are said to have all given Taylor the nod, while the other two votes are reputed to have been those of Taylor and George W. Meyer. Taylor was elect- ed on the second baUot, In the first ballot the count was 16 for Taylor and six for Quok. Meyer, after cast- inging an honorary vote for Buck, •witched on the next ballot to Taylor. 'What bad made the Industry dubi- ouf about the anti-Buck movement proving luccessful at this particular time was that Illness was bound to prevent the attendance of not only Fischer but Otto Harbach, on whom publishers had for some tlme- c<>unted .as an ally. The other writer directors on band were Irving Caesar, Oley Speaks and Fred E. Ahlert. All "these voted along 'with Buck. Intense publlsher-direator antag- onism toward Buok has been ac- cumulating since early 1941 when he imdertook to treat with go-b.etweens In a U. I. department of justice situation without first consulting ASCAF's board of directors. Pub- lisher directors have held that they would never have .been brought up before a federal court in Milwaukee on oriminal charges, and fined, had they been aware of the department's -intentions at the inception of the proceedings. It was Buck, they said, who engaged the services of Charles Polettl, jLleut. Governor of New York, in the matter and left the So- ciety no- alternative but to let Poletti resume, his negotiations for a consent decree. - Sack Besented This antagonism incifeased con- siderably w^en Buck some eight BecauM the Olenn Miller and Sanuny Kaye musicals "which 20th Cen- tury Fox is producing will be released within a brief Interval of one an- other in September; the publishing firm of Bregman, Vocco & Conn has elected to handle th«-Miller Kore and leave It to some other publlsbar.to exploit the score of the Kaye picture. B-V-C has an exclusive contract with Mack Gordon and Hany Warren, the writers of these two scores. In making the Kaye score available to an outside publishing bouse Gordon and Warren are insisting.'that such bidders come to Hollywood to listen to tlielr rendition of the songs. The writers don't want to send the manu- scripts east, figuring that an Interested publisher could g«t a better con- ception of the score by hearing them do it. Jack Bobbin* cites some gross sales and pop song statistics to prove that the U. 8. public wop't go for victory dongs until we have some signal victories;* that seemingly they're partial to simple songs. 'Elmer's Tune' and 'Chattanooga Choo Choo,' which sold 350,000 and 250,000 sheets respec, are pig.'Three publications, and that's about the present-day saturation point as' against. 'Deep Purple,' for instance, his Hit of three or four years ago, which hit 490,000. Competitive firms' songis like 'Somebody Else Is Taking My Place,'. 1 Don't Wanna Walk Without You Baby,' 'Miss You,' etc., point up hij premise, these .too, being strong sellers. Withal music business is excellen^Hesptte everything.;^ Before Metro ohahjged the. title of the Eleanor Powell-Tommy Dorsey. 'Ship Ahoy' fllni from its former Til Take Manila' designation, a title song had been -written. Unwilling to discard thq melody entirely. It was retained by svritchihg the title and lyric to 'I'll Take Tallulah'. Likewise, the heroine, originally Kate, -was re-dialogued 'Tallulah*. 'Last Call for Love,' considered the hit time in the pic, lists. Marjorle Ciimmings as one of'its 'writers. She's wife of Jack Cummlngs, producer of the film, and her participation in the melody' is because she suggested the tlUe. 10 Best Sellers on Coin-Machines (Records beloto are grabbing most nickels this week in jukeboxes throughout the countrvt « reported by operators'to "Variety.* Names 0/ more than one band or oocallst after, the title indicates, in order of popularltVi tchose recordings are being plai/ed. Figures and names in parenthestf tndicatt the number of weeks each song has been in the listings and rejpectloe pubUihers.) 1. Somebody Else (8) (Shapiro) 2. Moonlight CocktaU (9) (Jewel). (Benny .Goodman Okeh (Russ Morgan ..' , .Decca (Glenn MUler.......Bluebird I Tummy Tucker. Okeh •3. Jersey Bounce (4) (Lewis) {S Do°rS"! '.iSi^^a 4. Tangerine (4) (Paramount) {^^a^^an'^'o'^e.V.V.B^^^^^^^ 5. String PearU (9) (Mutual). ■.•.^{^^/San.-.-.'.-^l'SeTct e. Sit Under Apple Tree (2) (Robbins).. ftSlenn Miller ..Bluebird \ King Sisters. .Bluebird 7. I remember You (2) (Famous) { Sa'rS^jf^ST.V.V.Colu'lrbU .8. Always in My Heart (1) (Remick). (Jimmy Dorsey Decca ' I Glenn MlUer Bluebird 9. Mis. YOU (fl) (Santly) {^fc^^.^^S? 10. Don't want Walk (8) (Paramount) {^"^JSe.V.V.-'^BSS OTHER FAVORITES (These records are directly below first 10 In popularity. Tunes with number of weeks in parenthesis are fading, others gaining.) {Tommy Tucker Okeh Johnny Doughboy (Crawford). ' (Kenny Baker Decca HOW DO I Know If. Real (Chappell) {SJ'^oSo •.•.'.•^^l^a Sleei^ Lagoon (Chappell). (Harry James Columbia ' \ Jimmy Dorsey.... i... .Decca My Little Cousin (Doratae).... {^IZ^ylVrT^^-'.^S^:". Arthur Murray (Famous) {Shn^^^or^^.V.-^luS Nursia, Nursie (Chappell) Connee Boswell Decca Shell-Always Remember (Witmarkt {iirsX'iliii^bTumwf One Dozen Rose. (Famous) {^k''j^Snk;V.\\\V.^!"ok^ Threw Kiss Into Ocean (Berlin) {&^h''.'.!".V.\c^^^^^^^^ Skylark (Morris) { ^o'^/S2^anV.V.':!!'S«a What To Do (Leeds) ; .Andrews Sisters.......Decca - month. later flouted as ridiculous the term, submitted by NBC and CBS for settlement of their freeze^out of ASCAP and scored as '(Quislings' those publisher, who wante4 to openly admit that radio had licked them and-that there was no sound reason for contlpulng &e fight. What actually brought the publishers' determination to get him out of the presidency to « head, say hi. foes, was an all-oiit attack that he de- livered agftinst tiiem at a general membership meeting several months ago. Last Thursday's (23) meeUng also, passed a resolution holding over John O'Connor a. chairman of the ASCAP executive committee for ah additional SO days. It i. understood that the committee recommended granting additional executive powers to John G. Paine, general manager, and the retirement of Sylvia Rosen- berg, 'who has been Buck's execu- tive secretary for many years. Buck had served as president for 21 years and for past 18 years be has received a salary for this post From now on there will be no compensa- tion for elected officers. Buck may get a pension in addition to his royalties as a 'BB' Writer member of ASCAP. The latter Is worth around $6,000 annually. Board meets again today (Wed- nesday) to take up numerous month- ly routine matters which it -was unable to find time for at, last Week's Ksslon. TIN PAN ALLEY HiutU PuhlUhen EMlablUhiid 1937 FttANK CAPANO, Pres.