Variety (Sep 1946)

46 OllClieSTRAS-M IJSIC Possibility of Reciprocal Music Rights Deal With Russia Foreseen Hollywood, Sept. 10. Po.'ssibility of an eventual recip- rocal arrangement between the Uni- ted States . and Russia, protecting the copyright interests of composers and authors in each country, was ex- pressed during . the , annual; sGoast meeting of the American Society of Coihpbsers, Authors and Publishers here Monday (9). Deems Taylor, Society's president, told members that the State Department had re- quested ASCAP to help in the prep- aration of a form to bo used both Vannerson, Gastcl Join Forces on Coast Ijeohard Vannerson, p e r s o n a 1 manager of, Claude ThornbiU's or- chestra, has completed a deal with Carlos Gastel, . manager . of . Stan Kenton, Peggy Lee, King Cole Trio; ot -al, under which he will .ioin Gas- I tel as an associate. He goes to Holly- ' wood with Gastel next weelc (IG) from lni3ianapoliSj Where Thofnliill here and in Russia for the proteC' J. tion of authors' rights in the respec tive countries. .L|=will be working the Circle theatre at the time. Deal arranged between the t\VO There never has been such a deal i involves Vannerson retaining his, between 'D,- S. , and Russia. ' U: S. j hold on ThornMU and-.runnmg, GaS: music users made free with Russian cpmpositions, when the music could be secured, and Russia has acted . similarly with U. S. music books, etc. This was true until Leeds Music, two years ago completed an arrangement with Am-Rns, Russian music rep in this country; to handle Western Hemisphere rights to Russ music outside of Russia. Leeds is respon- sible for the State Department's re- quest of ASCAP. .Firm has been | talking, to the government agency on ' such a propositioh and had received | assurances all. would. be done to work out such an arrangement. . Society's meeting otherwise cov- ered the usual points, .y/i.thbut much fuss. " General manager- John G. .■Paiiie heralded a 1946 income that's expected to surpass by $800,000 or so last year's record revenue of ap- proximately $21,000,000. He itemed tbe reciprocal rights deals, Concluded witli 14 .European and South Ameri- can countries, pointing out that last year's Brazilian contract should re- ■ turn ASCAP $30,000 this year. On the question of the campaign by writers, of background music for films, for a separate share of the ASCAP income from theatres, since very little of their, music ever reaches pop sales-hit status, Paine demurred. Film composers' argu- ment is that European societies turn over a separate slice of income from this source to this strata of composer. Paine pointed out that in Europe the major portion of music rights income is from theatres since there is no commercial radio. In this country the procedure that builds, up the Society's income is reversed. tel'ir. Coast office. He will not par- ticipate in the earnings of any of Gastel's current properties, but any other artists brought into the setup from there on wiU become jointly owned.. Vannerson, who was in the Navy and discharged less than a year ago, was manager of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. He's wed to Martha Tilton, former B. G. vocalist but now a soloist. R. J. Burton to Teach Robert J. Burton, Broadcast Music, Inc., attorney and executive, takes over a new course at City College of New York this semester under the title,, "Copyright and Business Prac- tices, of the Publishing and Enter- tainment Industries." It will covet literary, dramatic, musical, broad- caslitig, films, music, advertising arid publishing. Couise will be conducted one eve- nii}.g a week for two hours starting Sepf. 26. HARRY FOX CHASES WEST ON ARA DEAL Harry Fox, general .manager. of the Music Publishers Protective Assn. and agent and trustee fbi: mu- sic publishers in synchronization and mechanical rights to music, leaves New York for the Coast Sun- day U5). His trip west is over nu- merous film deals for music and checkups on small recording com- panies, including a onceover of the ARA situation. ARA is holding some $80,000 due publishers in roy- alties. Fox will be west at lesist two weeks. 10 Best Sheet Sellers (Week EndiiiB, Sept. 7) To Each His Own. .Paramount Five Minutes More Melros« Surrender Santly-Joy Gypsy Leeds If Yoti Were Only Girl. .Mutual So. Am. Takelt Away. .Witniark I Don't Know Enough.. .., .C-P I Don't Know Why... w. .Feist What Comes Natur'lly..Berlin One More Tomorrow.. Remick Coming Up ■ flumors Are Flying; .Santly-Joy I'd Be Lost Without You . Advance My Sugar So Refined.-Critcrton Linger in My Arms. .. .Bourne Moon Over Bklyn..... .London This Is Always..BVG Somewhere in Night.. .Triangle Something Old, New Barton Without You .., Southern You May Not Love.. .Burke-VH Wednesday, September 11, 1946 'A Future Band Uniform: White Shorts, Black Tie Clothing situation, tough for mu- sicians insofar as uniforms are con- cerned, has hit Saxie Dowell. espe- cially hard.; .Contract of Dowell's orchestra, for the Blackhawk hotel, Chicago, opening Sept. 18, requires tuxedo uniforms inasmuch as. Chi's Local 10 of the American Federation of Musicians demands extra scale for work in uniform (only local in the country that asks extra coin, inci- dentally under such Circumstances). Dowell, who just got out of the Navy along with, many of his men, doesn't have a postwar tuxedo. His old one won't fit. Neither he nor his men can find, new ones. Result is the Blackhawk won't tack on the extra uniform scale and the Clii local won't allow them to work in uniform if they aren't paid extra. Big Disk Baddog Unhkely Despite Possible AFM Halt While the recording companies arc not frantically stacking away mas- ters against a possible emergency created by James C. Petrjllo, prexy of the American Federation of Mu- sicians, there is a tendency to file I as .many as possible. Reason stems from the fact thai the current con- tract, with Petrillo, by which, they, pay the union a royalty per record old. expires Jan. 31. However, its terins call for thg opening of new negotiations as of Oct. 20. They don't believe Petrillo will wait that long, that he will hit them with new demands early in October; and if there's any resist- ance among their ranks they feel that despite the fact the pact doesn't run out until Jan. 31, he will call an earlier halt to recording. . They Can't see him allowing them time between Oct. 20 and JajT. 31 to record day and night and stock up fully again as protection against a prolonged strike. Songs With Largest Radio Audiences fhe top 32 songs oj the week, based on the copyrighted Audience Cover- age Index Survey of Popular Music Broadcast on Radio Networks. Pub- lished by the Office oi Research, Inc: Survey Week of Anq. 30-Sept. I94S All the Tii»ie. ; v... .Robbirts ^ Along With Me—""Call Me Mister''..Witmark And Then It's Heaven..Remick Blue Skies—f'Blue Skies" ....................Berlin ' Come Rain oir Come Shine—* 'St. Louis Woman".......Crawford . Cj'nthia's In Love ............. .............. .;;.;i..:ABC Doin' What Comes Natur'lly—«"Annie Get 'iouv Guii"!! . .Berlin Five Minutes More \ .. i.,. . ...... . ■.. . . ' Meli'o.'<e Gypsy '. ['. '.Leeds' I Don't Know Enough About You....... v. . JC-P I Don't Know Why—fFaitliful In My Fashion"",".".'.".'.'.'.'.' '. ..'Feist I've Got Sun In the Morning—«"Annie Get Your Gun"., ....Berlin I'd Be Lost Without You Advanced H You Wete the Only Girl. . ".""""... .Mutual I've Never Forgotten—"Sketch Book".;..... ....Morris Linger In My Arms a Little Longer.. . .'..... Bourne Love On a Greyhound Bus—-fNo Leave. No Love" Bobbins Night and Day—f'Night and Day" '. ... Harms Passe ■ ;'..'.'....Feist September Song.... . ....:......... ; .Crdwford Somewhere In the Night—""Three Little Girls In Blue'" ... .Triangle South America Take It Away—*"Can Me Mister"..., Witmark Surrender . Santly-Joy That Little Dream Got Nowhei?e . . . Famous There's No One But You Shaniro They Say It's Wonderful—■""Annie Get Your Gun''.' "" ' " Berlin This Is Always—"IThree Little Girls in Blue"... .. BVC To Each His Own—t"To Each His Own" " , Paramount «n"'<7''\" iPeniora Whatta Ya Gonna Do .. ^ ;.■ •f.BiVII /Wherever There's Me There's Yoii.;,:'. '''"ReimWit' Without You-f'Make Mine Music"..,;..,,;-; v!,' ""soutllern Vou May Not Love Me—'"Nellie Ely" Burlce-VH t Filmusical. * Lectt Musical, t BMl Licejtsed. Of Juke s, Jocks a nd Disks Also Nostalgic Recordings That Have Boxoffice Durability CAPITOL BIZ BOOSTED 131% IN 1ST HALF '46 Hollywood, Sept. io. Sales and earnings of. Capitol Records in the six months ending June 30. past exceeded by a wide margin .those o£ any other similar period in the company's brief his- tory. Net income in the first half of 1946 amounted to $395,466. equal after preferred dividends are paid to 91 cents per share on the 410,000 common shares outstanding. Flattery's sales accelerated in the second quarter particularly, accord- ing to a report made by Jolmny Mercer, . prez, in a letter to stock- holders, with; volunie 131% more than in the same moilths of 1945. Indications are that total sales for. the full' yeaf ■ will, be in the vicinity of $13,000,000, the report concluded. By GEORGE FRAZIER The truck drivers presumably know how to work their side of the street and they are mentioned here merely by way of explanation. If there "aren't any disks reviewed in the ensuing, it's becaiule none were delivered to this .department during the Strike. We'll have to wait until next week to discuss the lacquering of such promising stuff as Irving Berlin's score for "Blue Skies" and the Gershwins for "Tlie Shocking Miss Pilgrim." In the interim, however, the dos- sier isn't blank. First of all, there's Benny Good- man's statement (anent the passing of the swing craze and its effect, if any, upon him) that no good band has to worry about trend.s. That makes a lot of sense. It also suggests an interesting point: Does a really first rate band (or vocalist, for that matter) need a smash platter to shoot it to fame and fortune? The two best bands around right now are probably Goodman's and Duke Ellington's. Neither ot them ever had a tune—one tune—which cele- brifled them. Their success has been dependent upon consistently good work rather than any single disks. Then there is always Lombafdo, who is still a wow at the wicket. ,No one identifies him with a one-shot, the way, for example, that Shaw is asso- ciated with "Begin the fBeguine." This is probabl.y of no great conse- quence, but it ought to make for some barbering in the lobby of.'thC: Forrest Hotel. The second thing on the agenda is a brietie. to wit: There are too many platters being cut these days and too many guys who couldn't make a respectable bandstand now have their own; sessions. The third matter came up the ■other day When a couple of VARiuTV muggs were discussing jocks. They agreed that most record shows arc painfully lacking in imagination. Day in, day out, the formula- is the same. They spin the latest Dinahs and Frankies and Perrys. and that's about the whole story. There's rarely a change of pace; a play of light and shadow; a .fomposition blending the old and the new. This doesn't apply to all jocks, but it fits enough of .them to make it worthy of some tliought. There's really no reason why the jocks should scorn nostalgia, for example. There would ivndoubtedly be a great deal of charm to a show tliat dipped into the past and every once in a while came up with; an It-ving _ Kaufman or "Cohn on the ;Telephono'' or the "Two Black Grows" or Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys. There could scarcely be any harm in play- ing an old Ben Pollack, for instance, and thereby making it manifest that jazz is nothing so very new. The kids who think that Condon and his barefoot mob is the last word ought to get a load of some of. the things Red Nichols' bunch useiS to do on the old Brunswick label. :■ And nostalgia isn't the only thing lacking in most platter shows. A vvell-roui\ded disk program Should include soniethitig of every- thing—a touch of Latin-America as well as the hot breath of jazz; show tunes as well as palpable Tin Pan Alley; and so forth. From time to time, this pillar's going to run sug-! . gested lialf^hour pragrams. Any and all are entirely welcome to them. , There's no pretensions to authority about these lists, for one man's Meade Lux Lewis is another; man's Duclvin. And speaking of Duchin, who must be a tolerant man to put up with a name like "Society's Fa- vorite,", it is .a. little startling to find that he is deeply ancl expansively admired by two such calorific gents as Earl Hines and Count Basic. If there's a moral to that, it's probably the fact that men ot talent have eclectic tastes. It shouldn't be too mucli to ask the jocks to take a hint. Here at any rate, are two suggested half-hour programs: (1) "I Foimd a Million Dollar Baby" by Blng Crosby (Columbia). "Tangerine" by Jimmy Dorsey (Dccca). .; "I Can't Get Started" by Bunny Berigan (Victor). "La Guajira" by Lecuona Cuban Boys (Columbia). "Ugly Chile" by George Bninis (Commodore). "Got a Date With an Angel" by Hal Kemp (Columbia). . ■ : . • (9) "Why Shouldn't I','" by Frank Sin- atra (Coliunbia). "Sometimes I'm Happy" by Benny Goodman (Victor). "Deep Night" by Rudy Vallee (Victor). . "Milenbei'g Joy.s" (part II) by Tommy Dorsey (Victor). "Ya Ta Namora" by Xavier Cugat (Columbia). "It Might As Well Be Spring" by Margaret Whiting (Capitol). Sammy Kaye is currently audi- lioninK male, vocalists for his band io replace Billy Williams. KayC: al.so asked Eileen Htnry, "Miss New York'' in the Atlantic City beauty pageant, to try foe a chirp spot, after she finished her boardwalk commit-. ments. 10 Best Sellers on Coin-Machines Hammond to Majestic As Director and Scout : JohnHammond is joiriihg Majestic Records in New York as a recording director and talent scout. After weeks of dickerihg, he joihs the staff officially as of next Monday (16). .Hammond hact been with; Coliim-,: bia for several months after his .dis- charge from the Army. He left theie some weelts ago. 1. 4-. 5. 6. . 1: 8, 9. 10. Kenton Adopts Avadon In H'wood Palladium Nix Hollywood, Sept. 10. : Stan Kenton, who argued mightily against returning to the Palladium ballr'bom for his cia|e there that he took his case to the American Feder- ation oi Musicians, 'has shiifted his local scene of operations. Next time he hits this territory for a dance date he'll occupy the Avadon ball- rocrn bandstand, in downtown L. A. Kenton signed for the Avadon, operated by; Barney ..McDevitt, last week at almost double the price he got from the Palladium,,; He .opeiis Feb. 6 for four weeks at a claimed $7,000 per. It's asserted the Palla- dium was given tlie opportunity to meet the Avadon price. To Each His Own (7) (Paramount).... Five Minutes More (4) (Melrose) South America Take It Away (4> (Wit'k) Surrender (8) ■(Ssntly-Joy) . .. ..;.i^ Doin'What Come.=, Natur'lly (12) (Berlin) Gypsy (20) (Leedsi '. *... Don't Know Enough About You (13) (C) I Got Sun In Moi'ning (3) (Berlin) They Say It's Wonderful (16) (Berlin)., if, Ybu Were;the: tpnly Gill (1) (Mi)t«a1 j Coming Up i Eddy Howard..... .Majestic \ Freddy Martin....... Victor J.Frank Sinatra... ..Columbia ( Tex Beneke Victor ! Andrews Sisters..... .Decca I Xavier Cugat Columbia f Tony Pa.stor i........Cosmo ( Perry Como ........ .Victor (Dinah Shore...... .Columbia I Freddy Martin..;.Victor S Ink Spots Decca ■f Dinah Shore..... .Columbia ! Peggy Lee Capitol I Mills BroSi.. ..,. i. .Decca { Les Brown.Columbia I Ethel Merman...... i .Decca ;( Perry Como...,.. .Victor ] Bing Crosby..... y., .DeccSi' ' S Perry Como.... .'.i . . . Victor I Dick Haymes. . .Dccca Do You Love Me (BVC) ... . /Haymes-Forrest Dccca • ' ■ ( Harry James..... .Columbia ■ f Freddie Slack . .Capitol . .,.,.. -j Andrews Sisters..... .Decca House of Blue Lights Who Told You That Lie (Stevens) \ ?°""f'' ;■ '^v (Vaughn Monroe ......Victor Route 66 (BVH) ■ ( King Cole Trio.. "I CrosbyrAndrews Capitol Decca Stone Cold Dead (Miller) ..^ivv'.:.../^.^;, Fltzgerald-Jordah .:. .Decca Viy Fickle %e (Santly-Joy). • •• •' ";7''^*°^• j Jerry Colonna ......Capitol .. .Victor .,. Victor Golumbi) Columbia .. .Victor I Don't Know Why (Feist) Tommy Doi'sey. I Know'(Morris). v.;. Tex Benelse..,. Mabel,. Mabel (United).......... Weody Herman Rumors Are Flying (Santly-Joy) 1 ' . (Betty Rhodes.. Blue Skies (Berlin) ( Eing Cmsby Dccca ............... ( Perry Como ........ .Victor My Susiu- Is So Refined (Criterion).... .. J 'v-y Mercer. . . .i .C":)itol I Guess I'll Buy Papers (C-P; Mills Bros Decca