Variety (Feb 1946)

y-Jnr Wav, Febtfuiury 20, 1946 10 Best SeDers od Coin-Machines '*'J±H!f?e OBCHBSTKAS-MPSIC 41 1, symphony <1») ^Chappell) I L*i " Snow c5) iMorris) , 1 can't Begin to Tell Yoi. U8) (BVC) .. ^ pefsonalily (i) tMon-is) I Might As Well Be Spring (13) (WnVson). J, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian (9) tMelro.se>,.. , Oh What It Seemed td Be (2) (Santly-J). g Waiting For Train <9) (Block) ........ J Chiclteiy Chick (13) (Santly-Joy) 10, Some Sunday Morning (.S) (Harms) .... ( Freddy Martin ..,. Victor \ Bing Grosby. ...... ...Deeca ( Vaughn Monroe.; ...Victor \ Connee Bo.swell.,.;... .Decca ( Bing Crosby ,.;;.,. , .Decca \ Harry James Columbia Jobiniy. Mercer ....iCapitol (.Dick llaymos Decca { Margaret Whiting ...Capitol Belty Hutton..... . . .Capitol ( Frank Sinatra , ,. .Columbia ) Frankie Carle i.. . Columbia ( Han y James .... . .Columbia { PfKBy Lee Capitol ) Sammy Kaye ...... . ..Victor ( Gene Kiupa ......Columbia \ Haynirs-Foiiest Decca ( Hal Mclntyre. :.. .. .. .Victor WAX WORKS By BARKY GRAY (WOK-Mutuaf* All-Miulit M.C.) Y„,glin Moiiror ivocal,with Nor- ton Sistei-s and oreh) '■Seems Like Old Time-s'-' Gce! I Wish" Victor 1811A-B). "Seem.s-Like 01(1 Timos" ccitainly docs. For it (shows Monroe still sings an o.spressionless lyric. With the rh\tl\m .iu»t Hair, and the Korton Si.slfrs praclieally hidden be- hind the maestro, this one hasn't got il, "Gee! I wi.sh' sounds better. Easier tempo, better musicianship, and the Norton gals and Monroe reveal some teamwork. Should be the comjiier- ciaPside of, this release. '' '■ PUU Brito (vocal with Wiillcr Gioss orcK)—Tm in Love With Two Swectheait.s' - 'BUie" (M u s i c r a {1 15051). This is a f{ood Phil Brito disk, "I'm in Love," on the A Iside, opens with fine fiddle work by the Gross group, but Biito muddles an opening prohably due to woiKins the mike too clo.se. Long « hard-working vo* calist, Biito seems to be hitting his mide, On the reveise it's "Blue," the Kenny brolliers' tune. Commercially tweet and appealing ui a hokey way. Brito does nicely with it. :Diinh $tiore (vocal with Sonny Burke orch) "Shoo-Kly Pie and Ap- ple Pan Dowdy"-"Hcre I Go Again" (Columbia 36943), Miss Shore's "Shoo-Fly" i.s good and will sell lolidly because o£ the promotional work by her new- recording contrac- tors. But Stan Kenton's, diisk of this number is still the best. "Here I Go Again" is actually better suited to the «oiithern gal's styling. It's soft, ta'iy and nice. Jack LeoiiaTd (vocal with Paul B,iton orch) "In the Moon Mist"-.' ■'You May Not Love Me" (Majestic V170), Paul Baron's musical setting Is neatly handled for Jack Leonard's entrance on this wax/ It's a pop played and sung from a melody by Godard and titled "In the Moon Mist." Leonard asked for a tough as- tigiunent when he chose this one, but he handles it creditably. Packing a lotot femme appeal in his voice, this boy is making a strong bid for an audlenc*. and with exploitation the recotd will sell. Release marks.Leon- ard's second disk date since his Army ■^t MMt ortirt copies ood ^"ren9«m«nt$, writ* Or pt»on« '^IL KORNHEISER, Monoger. itflndord Exploitation D«pt., ^ yotk 19. circle 6-2939 esit -You May Not Love Me," the B side, is from the .show ''Ncliic Bly" and not good Dot>.sn't give the pfiloinier or Oiche.sti'a an even cha,rioe.. , ■ Gene Kruiiii (vocal by Anita O'Day) "Hop, Skip, and Juinp"r"YGS- Icrday.s" (Columbia ,'5()931). Showing the Charlie Venturo ,sax to advan- 'lage. Krupa; has recordefl a rhythmic speei;ii:that'li sell. Anita,.0'.Day han dies a poor lyrio .we'l on ".Hop."' Mu Hie sags a bit in the filial turns bUt the heat is good. Krupa's clrum, ,work is impre.isive. Ki'upa also fronts the other side and again witli Venturo Although the tenor sax ace is adept he fails to sell.this lovely Kern tunei "Yesterdays." Jived towards the fl jiale it develop.s only a bad taste Those who don't remember'the orig- inal melody may like it. I,es Brown (vocal by Doris Day) "Day by Day".,"Doctor, Lawyer, In- dian C'llief" cColumbia. 3694.')). Good I musUMan.ship evident and this disk 1 will sell some. Dons, Day has I .sung belter ou other ■ dafe.s. 'She 1 seems .to be attempting a different style and It doesn't register. Butch Stone t^ikes the grooves for "Doctor Lawyer."' He's adequate. Orchestra plays better here in a rhythm beat GorOon MacRae (vocal with Wal ler Gross Orch) "Full Moon and Empty Arms"-"Evei-ybody Knew but Me" "iMu.sicuift 15053). New to Mu sicraft wax, Cj{)rdon MacRae has been heavily touted a.s a comer. He sing.s a pleasant enough bary but has trouble On the high ones in "Moon." Walter Gross throws » lot of digits at the keyboard yet only clutters up the disk's cleanliness MacRae, doesn't: .lound good or bad enough with this tune to make any- one exclaim "Who's that singing"? He does better on the other side with "E\eiybody Knew." It's pitched easier, but the band has been re corded poorly, particularly the cen ter grooves. Violin.s fair. Samhiy Kaye (vocal by Betly Bar clay and Billy Williams) "I'm a Big Girl Now"-"Put Your Little Foot Right Out" (Victor 1812). "J m a Big Girl" w'as originally special stage material for the Kaye group. The lyric has been toned down and as .sung by Belly Baiclay, comparative Iv new Kaye band member, it's a fait vocal. Ka.ve band plays commercial ly, , as usual., and that means they sell. "Foot", Is from the pic "Sail An-^ tonio" and is a Kaye oppoi-tunit.y to iiidiiige in a tune reiiiini.sceut of 'his "La ■Ghiaperiacasi" Sun,g by Mi,ss Bai'elay.iand Billy Williair)s and is i not too good. Record could have u^ed ' the Kaydett«s to advantage. Miss Barclay is trying loo hard. Majestic Opens Coast Disc Plant in Burbank ' HoUyv.iK.ci. Feb. 19 , Ma,iestio Records, opened its i)e,v production plant, in BiirVjaiik last week, with 20 ..pVe.s.s-es popping., aiid the film piexv, N. Y,'s ex-mayOi Jimmy Walker, on hand.. Di.sk outfit has brought .west, froiT) Its Newark, N, J., factor,v, Bareli, to bos.s the nVeclianieal ieiid here ai'id: Mei'ton , Cilatt'-as Chief, pE tho. busine.ss o,fTI;ce. Bill; Stui:d,evantwill, continue as westoin divi.sioii head and will keep his otJice.s in,. San Francisco. " , ; ' . ■ Walker has not .signed anv per- forinpi-.s for Ma.iestic while- here;._ at- though it is known he ha.s been dick- eriiig wilh at least two iiitnies;. . 'West Coa.st disti lb-lights to Maje.siic plat- ters are held by the combo of Hal Roach and DOc Driver. After an argument with NBC last week, Frank Dailey uprooted the net's lone remote wire ■ into his Meadowbrook, Cedar . Grove, N. J. Dailey objected to the manner in which NBC cancelled broadcasts from his spot when other ite.ms the net deemed more important came up, He wanted undisturbed pickups or none at. all. . To make up for the NBC shot, two extra ABC periods were added. CoL, Decca, Cap. Royalties Up Royalty statements from Colum- bia, Decca and Capitol for the third quarter of 1945, were dispatched last week. Slatf-menls of all three com- panies arc claimed to be substan-: lially better tlian the previous quar- ter although the exact percentage of increase not disclo.sed-. ^ RCA-Vietor delivered its third quarter statement a month ago due to the fact its fiscal year ends Nov. 30. It, too, forked over a substan- tially higher amount to publishers, on the average. 1,000,11 Disks Seen for Majors As Steel Rolls. Promising Presses With the steel strike over, record | companies anticipate adding greatly in the near future to disk produc- tion. Stoppage had completely erased the biiilding of new presses which the majors need as badly as all of the newcomer firms. But with the i-trike stopped and things again rolling, one headache will be. lifted from, producers. That will leave the diskers with only two Other items to worry about (1) the. securing, and training of people to operate presses; and (2) replacement parts for machines now in operation, which are being kept iOinning in many cases by sheer ingenuity only. These old campaign- ers cannot immediaiely be replaced by new machines. In spile of pVoductioil .barriers, disk companies are making better production strides, than they, antici- pated. RCA-Viclor is claimed to have maiketed 8,000,000 disks of all types m January; Decca is said to i have done about 6,000.000: and Co- lumbia over 5,000,000. At this pace, j the majors alone during 1946, inr I eluding RCA, Columbia, Decca, and Capilol, and the better-looking in- I dies like Musicraft, Majestic, and Vogue, if it gets going, should turn out dose to 400,000,000 platters alone in 1946, not to mention the 100-odd smaller companies in op- eration all over the country. On the basis of the above figures for the lour major firms alone, Va- lUKiv's prediction of last year De» lore the war ended, that disk sales would: ultimately reach between 300,d00,000 and'600,Q,0Q,Q00 postwar, seems a bit puny. At that, disk com- pany execs assert that production will lag far behind demand for, some time to come—that new radio-rec- ord set production, ever-expanding coin machine production and op- eration. eVc, will keep them behind the profluction.eightball.-,, , ■ L Wolfe Gilbert East Hollywood, Feb. 19. L. WoUe Gilbert planed East yes- terday for funeral of' his father Allied Wolf. President of Wolf Radio Assn.. who died Sunday. Another son, Ed Wolf, is manager of program packaging outfits , , Wolfe Gilbert will be ca.st sboiit a week. . ..: . ■ : ■. THE SONG'S THE THING Here's Your New Rhythn Hit! WITHOUT A PENNY IN YOUR POCKET Lyric* by JACK WOIF Chorus Muitc by rUD UVINOSTON fiim »W A? .JB^L WITH-OUT A PES-NV IS YOVB POCK-ET rail Bl.? * Dont B««« • ptft-ny la your jock-«t yott can k»v« s Iot>M fan It tn your heart yonV* fcand tlu) one L. 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