Variety (Oct 1942)

42 MUSIC Wednesday, October 28, 1942 NBC, CBS. Blue. Mutual Plugs Following tabulation oi popular ttiusic periormances embraces all four ■networks—NBC, CBS, Blue and Mutual—as represented by WEAF, WJZ, WABC and WOR. N. V. Compilation herewith covers week beginning Monday throtigh Sundayi Oct. 19-25 from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m., and based on data provided by Accurate Reporting Service regular source lor music publishing industry. TITLE PUBLISHER TOTAL Praise Lord. Pass Ammunition Famous 37 Came Here Talk For Joe Shapiro 26 Dearly Beloved—t'You Never Lovelier' Chappell 25 Manhattan Serenade Robbins 25 White Christmas—t'Holiday Inn' Berlin 23 Daybreak Feist 21 Cot Gal Kalamazoo—t'Orchestra Wives' BVC 20 There'll Never Be Another You—f Iceland"... Morris 20 Mr. Five By Five—t'Behind Eight Ball' Leed.-; 19 Can't Get Out Mood—t'Seven Days Leave'... Southern 18 Serenade In Blue—t'Orchestra Wives' BVC Street of Dreams Miller . Anchors A weigh \Robbins •This Is the Army. Mr. Jones Army .. At Last—t'Orchestra Wives* Feist ... 18 18 17 17 16 Cobs of Love Paramount 16 15 15 14 14 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 10 Wonder When My Baby's Comin' Home Crawford When the Lights Go on Again CLP He's My Guy Leeds ... My Devotion Santly .. I Mel Her on Monday ABC .... Pennsylvania Polka Shapiro . By Light Silvery Moon. .. .-r; Remick . Be Careful. My Heart—t'Holiday Inn' Berlin ... Hip Hip Hooray Robbins . •I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep Army I Get Neck of Chicken Southern Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me? Harms . When Long Way From Home B'way .. Major and Minor—t'Major and Minor' Famous . Every Night About This Time Warock 9 Idaho Mills 9 Caissons Go Rolling Along Shapiro 8 Der Fuehrer's Face Southern 8 There Are Such Things Yankee 8 At the Crossroads Marks 7 Abraham—t'Holiday Inn' Berlin 7 Just a Letter From Home Atlas 7 Move It Over Santly 7 People Like You and Me—t'Orchestra Wives'..BVC 7 Blue Ray Robbins 6 Army Air Corps Carl Fischer 6 Leap Frog Leeds Lullabye of Rain .• Jewel Starlight Sonata BMI . Take Me BVC . Velvet Moon Witmark British Best Sheet SeHen (.Early October) London, Oct. 17. Jealousy Wright White Christmas Victoria Anniversary Waltr Chappell Worth Fighting For Sterling 3 Little Sisters C-C Always In My Heart.. .Feldman You're Mine F-D-H One Dozen Roses Victoria Threw Kiss in Ocean Wood Where in World Wood Moonlight Cocktail Chappell Apple Tree Sun YMCA Seeks Song Sheets for U.SA Detention Camps The YMCA is asking music pub- lishers to contribute sheet music, .song folios and orchestrations for distribution among enemy aliens held in resettlement and detention camps. The same organization obtained several months ago from publishers a huge load of music for American prisoners of war in the Orient with, the transportation being handled by the Red Cross. Sid Lorraine Heads Music House Fmanced by An Insurance Man of Frisco . Southern 5 5 5 5 5 5 Touch of Texas Cow Cow Boogie Leeds , It's Lonesome Old Town Berlin Just As Though You Here Yankee Kille Killc Santly Keep Smilin'. Keep Laughin' Leeds . Over There—t'Yankee Doodle Dandy' Feist 5 Ten Little Soldiers Lincoln 5 Whistler's Mother-in-Law Melody Lane 5 Yankee Doodle Boy—t'Yankee Doodle Dandy'. Vogel 5 You Never Lovelier—t'You Never Lovelier'.. .Harms 5 tFilmusical. •'This Is the Army' publishing subsid. Sid Lorraine has become general manager of a newly organized pub- lishing house, the National Music I Corp. The venture is being bank- rolled by Walton Goldman, a San Francisco insurance broker, who for years has had the yen to get into the music business. Lorraine has named Dave Bernie as his New York professional man- ager. Max Lutz will have charge of the Chicago office, and Oakley Haldeman has taken over the Holly- wood representation. Broadcast Music, Inc., will clear Nation's per- forming rights, and the new house is starting off with the song. That Soldier of Mine,' which has already been recorded by Harry James. In the music business for 25 years, Lorraine has in turn been profes- sional manager of Chappell Sc Co. and Southern Music Co. DAYBREAK — "«"'"-zrr^r;... Lyrle by HiroU Adamion Sure-fire Material, Becau.e/t'f D/fferene IF I CARED A UTUE BIT LESS (And You Cared A IWIe Bit More-) Wed. and M«.ic by B.rW.y Or.h.m «d C.rl.y Mill. • Everyone A9ree.-L.st Yea,^. Bi, SKow Hit Will Be This Year*. Picture Song Sensation. TAKING A CHANCE ON lOVE . . - J Muiie by Vernon Dul« Lyrie by John Latouehe and T.d FeHer Mui.e y u- I- Th. Skv" with Ethel W*»«r.. .L ij a U nietura. Cabin In iho s«y , - ^'';oi:?.to-Vr£»onU..Ann.t.n.U^ BucV and Bubble, end many other.. ion HIQOIIIY, ff*L Ngr. MOAMTAY • N«W VOM Success of a Mission Congratulations were heaped upon Fred Ahlert, Stanley Adams and Charles Tobias by ASCAP writer- directors last week for the success- ful way the trio has carried out its mission to the west Coast. The three had been delegated to explain the writers' new system of classification to west Coast members and ulti- mately gain the latter's approval for the plan. On their return to New York the junketeers disclosed that for two weeks prior to calling a meeting of endorsement they saw as many writers individually as pos- sible so that by the time the general gathering took place the selling job had been pretty well completed. Writers living in the east will have the plan explained to them at a meeting called for next Tuesday (3) at the Astor hotel, N. Y. Secret BaHot S Continued from pace 41 ^ terceded with the adjouration, 'No personalities, please!' Buck had submitted the proposi- tion in the form of a resolution, which, in turn, was to be presented for adoption to the general meeting of ASCAP members at the Aslor hotel, N. Y., tomorrow afternoon (Thursday). Under ASCAP by-laws the board is required to pass on all such resolutions. In presenting his resolution Buck argued that it was his opinion that the directors ought to do their vot- ing out in the open so that every- body would know how each man stood with regard to the election of a member and other matters. One Inside Stiiff--MiKk Th* lata Ralph Ralnger and Leo Robin wer« distinguished by the fact they remained an Inseparabla songwrlting team and true friends to the end, differing from the professional and/or personal relationships such as attended other writing teams. Even the time-honored Rodgers and Hart combo is doing a temporary split, with Richard Rodgers engaging in a musical adaptation for the Theatre Guild in collaboration with Oscar Hanv- merstein II, although both will reunite for the Mexican musical that Lorenz Hart is working on. But many another songwrlting partnership has come and gone in the interim, such as Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, later Gordon and Harry Warren, while Revel teamed with Mort Greene and has since split. Arthur Johnson and Sam Coslow, Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, later Arlen and 'Ted Koehler, Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fieldj (who later teamed with Jerome Kern, among others), and even the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach-Hammerstein team has undergone periodic changes. But never Robin and Rvnger, although the former was impressed into service to do what he later called a 'dummy lyric' for an old Frederick Hollander tune which Paramount wanted to slip into a 'B' pic- ture, one of the first Dorothy Lamour sarongers titled 'Her Jungle Love.* Eventually this ad lib so-called 'dog' tune became a 250,000-copy hit, 'Moonlight and Shadows.' Robin and Rainger were a Paramount song-writing team for seven years, starting with 'Big Broadcast.' 'Love in Bloom,' 'June in January,' 'Thanks,' 'Love Is Just Around the Corner,' 'Rendezvous With a Dream' (not a smash pop song, but which quietly sold 250,000 copies), 'Hills of Old Wyoming' (later officially adopted as the stale song), are some of their hits. An untitled forthcoming Par picture, due tor January shooting, was their last collaboration. Despite great pressure on both partners from other tunesmiths, neither stepped out on his own, with the lone exception of the above-mentioned Hollander chore. Edgar Leslie, George W. Meyer and E. Ray Goetz split $15,000 among them for the screen rights to 'For Me and My Gal,' Metro's film of yes* teryear vaudeville. Film had collaborative scripting o^ Sid Silvers, Richard Sherman and Fred F. Finkelhoffe (producer of the current vaude hit, 'Showlime' on Broadway. Arthur Freed, producer. Busby Berkeley, director, and dance stage Bobby Connolly are all steeped in the vaude tradition; as are Ben Blue and George Murphy (and Julliane Johnson) of the cast. Yesteryear Hit Parade medley worked into 'Me and My Gal' include 'Oh You Beautiful Doll,' 'Long, Long Trail,' 'When You Wore a Tulip,' 'After You're Gone,' 'Smiles,' 'Pack Up Your Troubles,' 'Oui, Oui Marie,' 'Over There' and 'You Ask Me If I Love You.' The Elsie Janis plot analogy in the overseas entertainment also is reminiscent of another day. 'It Can't Be Wrong,' the song just published by Harms, Inc., has a source history that is similar to that of 'Where Was I?,' Witmark's hit of a couple years ago. 'Wrong' is based on the 18-bar melody which dominates the score of the current Warner Bros.' release, 'Now Voyager.' During a sneak preview of 'Voyager' in Hollywood, Victor Blau, who handles music copyright clearances for Warners, found his fancy captured by this par- ticular melody. In a conversation later with Leo Forbstein, the studio's musical director, Blau ventured the opinion that the melody might turn out to be another 'Where Am I?,' which had served a!s the theme melody of the original and remake edition of 'One Way Passage.' Forbstein took the matter up with Max Steiner, who scored 'Voyager,' and the song that followed was a collaboration between Steiner and Kim Gannon, WB con- tract lyricist. One of the strongest selling fllmusical scores in years is Irving Berlin's 'Holiday Inn,' whose figure totals 393,292 copies to date. Of this, 241,898 copies are accounted for by 'White Christmas'; 'Be Careful, It's My Heart,' sold 120,627; 'You're Easy to Dance With, 7,674; 'Happy Holiday,' 4,666; 'Song of Freedom,' 2,487; 'Abraham.' 7,728; 'I'll Capture Her Heart Sing- ing (Dancing),' 5,512; 'Let's Start the New Year Right,' 1,183; 'I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For,' 1,517. Week ending Saturday (24) saw 'White Christmas' selling 75,218 alone, and 'Be Careful,' the No. 2 hit, 7,007. Not even 'Always' has sold like that, says Berlin. First two days of this week moved 20,000 copies each day on 'Xmas.' The newsreels can take a bow for starting a song on its way to hitdom. Fox-Movietone News, last week, offered a two-chorus plug on the popular English war ditty. The Thing-ummy Bob,' which was sung by a group of Australian femme factory workers. A flurry of jobbers' orders poured into Robbins Music Corp. When "March of Time* foUowed- up with a special presentation of the song last Thursday night (Oct, 22), additional orders caught Robbins short on copies. 'The Thing-ummy Bob' is a novelty about gal factory workers who make war gadgets, but don't know what they're tor. Grade Fields has been plugging it also. ASCAP's publisher classification committee has askecf the pub members to submit a list of numbers in their catalog which they consider to be of marked value as far as availability is concerned. The committee will consult this data when it gets around to the task of revising the avail- ability ratings of the entire roster of ASCAP publisher members. The committee meanwhile is trying to arrive at a set of standards, of rules, to be applied in the general revision. Famous Music has dropped 'Praise the Lord, this is Famous Music Corp.' as a telephonic greeting, after one new phone girl excitedly gave out. Praise Famous Music Corp.,' and they started ribbing the firm. Paramount Pictures prexy Barney Balaban has kudosed Sid Korn- heiser, prof, head of the music subsidiary, that he is 'delighted Paramount indirectly fits into the pattern of giving America a truly great war song.' of the publisher directors pointed out that his outside business Inter- ests, such as that with contract writers, some times made It advis- able for him to cloak what he thought best for the society's interest under this very device, the secret ballot. The publisher added that he saw no reason for jeopardizing his business relations with a writer by letting that writer know how he (the publisher) voted on a proposition sponsored by the writer. The board vote which several months ago substituted Deems Tay- lor |or Buck as^SCAP prez was by secret ballot. 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