Variety (Sep 1946)

Wedneeday^ September 25, 1946 Songs With Largest Radio Audknces The top 30 songs of the week, boseci on the copyriohted Audience C6ver- ape Inffe^c Survey of Popular Nhisic Broadcast on Radio Networks. Puh- Ushed by the Of lice of Research. Inc. Survey Week of September UAS, 194i6 All the Time. .Robbiiiis ' Along With Me—♦"Call Me Mister".., .................. .Witmark And Then It's Heaven Hemick Blue Skies—f'Blue $kies" ..Berlin Coffee Song, The ; J Valiant Doin' What Comes Natur'lly—*"Annie Get Your Gun" Berlin Five Minutes More ^. .. .Melrose For You For Me Forever Moie. . v. . .Chappell Gii-l That I Marry, The-—*"Annie Get Your Gun"......... .Berlin Gyp-sy .. >...... ... i.. ..... ....... .Leeds 1 Don't Know Enough About You....... .JC-P 1 Don't Know Why—^f'Faithful In My Fiishion",.....,,, ... .Foist i:ve Got Sun In the Morning—*''Annie.Get Your Gun" .Berlin If You Were the Only.Girl.., . ... .Mutual I'U Be With You In Apple Blossom TimS. .. .. . ..;..Broadway It's a Pity To Say Goodnight , „.. .Leed.s Linger In My Arms a Little Longer Baby. . i...; ... ... .Bourne My Sugar Is So Refined....... ... .Capitol Rumors Are Flying , Oxford Somewhere In the Night—♦"Three Little GirLs In Blue" ....Triangle South America Take It Away—*"eaU Me Mister"; ....Witmark Surrender •. . - Santly-Joy That Little Dream Got Nowhere—f'Cross My Heart". .. i.. .Famous . They Say It's Wonderful—'*"Annie Get Your Gun" .Berlin This Is Always—f'Three Little Girls in Blue" BVC To Each His Own—t"To Each His Own" Paramount Whatta Ya Gonna Do ... iBMI Why Does It Get So Late So. Early.........., ......Harms Without You (Tres Palabras)—f'Make Mine Music"...,.. .Southern . You K«ep'Coming Back Like a Song—^^'Blue Skies".... . . . .Berlin Follotving songs are those that did not have enough performance credits on the W':k to be included in the lop group. TKey nioslly are tunes rising in ..opularity; AU Through the Day—fCentonnial Summer" Williamson Come Bain or Gome Shine-T*"St. Louis Woman"..Crawford Cynthia's In, Love ABC Either It's Love Or It Isn't—t"Dead Reckoning".. .Mood Music Everybody Kiss Your Sweetheart .Fci.st t Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home JC-P I'd Be Lost Without You..., . . ..... . .. .Advanced Ifs My Lazy Day Stevens I've Never Forgotten—"Sketch Book" .Morris Land Of Dreams .... .... Dorsey Bros. More Than You Knew Miller My Fickle Eye ,. Santly-Joy On the Boardwalk—T"Three Little Girls in. Blue" BVC •PaSse ... ..... ... .Feist Pretending ............. .... Capitol Prisoner of Love v. .-v-.- , Mayrair Route 66 .Burke-VH There's No One But You. Shapiro Tumbling Trumbleweeds . .. .......... ...... .: . ... .Williamson Under the Wijlow Tree ...Peter Maurice Which Way That the Wind Blows.....................v. .. .Sun Who Told You That Lie.... iStevens Whole World Is Singing My Song .•. Bobbins 10 Best Sheet Sellers (Week Ending, Sept. ,21) To Each His Own, .Paramount Five Minutes. More.,... .Melrose If You Were Only Girl, .Mutual Surrender .. Santly-Joy So. Am. Take It Away. .Witmark Rumors. Are flying.... .Oxford I Don't .Know Why .,... . Feist Gypsy ; Leeds I Don't Know Enough !.. ;. .G-f" Lo.st Without You... . Advanced Coming Up This Is Always., ..', ...fiVC I Guess I'll Get Papers , , .C-P And Then It's Heaven.. Remick My Sugar So Refined. .Criterion Who Told You That Lie.Stevens Soniewhere in Night. . Triangle: Pretending .., ..,. . . .Criterion More Than You Know... .Miller Old Buttermilk Sky..Burke-VH Linger in My Arms ...Bourne OIU:ilK$TIlAS-MIJSlC; 53 Band Plays by Ear Only, So Never Heard Of Copyright Protection St, Joseph, Mo;, Sept, 24. Ray D, Nye, operator of a roadside cafe at nearby Savannah, Mo,, was fined $600 for song infringement in Federal Court here Sept. 18. Penalty was imposed for permitting a five- piece band to play two copyrighted tunes on which thi spot had not received permission of the copyright owners,, Members of the band, testifying in their own defense, said they played only by ear and depended on radio and juke boxes,for picking up their reportoire. Since .cop.yright notice is vocally omitted from air. and coin disk: performances, they were un- aware of the necessity for securing permissioni .- ■ ■ Inside Orchestras-Music The joint promotional tieup between Columbia Records and Revlon C.o.«« meticis, is costing the two outfits a total Of $600,000 exploiting the co.^- metic firm's new "ultra-.violet" lips'tick and nail ,polish plus a long range buildup of the platter fiirm's ehirpstress, Dinah Shore. Whole campaign will be woven around use of the Harms' tune "Who'll Buy My Violets'?" Stunt was born at McCann-Trickson. Fact that agency handled both ac- counts made' it a natural. Revlon has appropriated $500,000 for an all- otit "ultra-violet" campaign and Columbia's participating to the tune of $100,000. Lyrics of the oldie, "Who'll Buy My ViOlets," were slightly altered to fit- the situation, by the addition of the word, "ultra." Columbia is backing the number With a campaign which includes distribution of the recprij ■ to some 600 disc joci<eys and masic librarians, special promotion to coin machine ops and plugs on itffown CBS air program. The Columbia Rec7 ord Shop, emceed by Martin Block. Incidentally, there are two versions of "Who'll Buy My Violets"; the Harms version was copyrighted in 1940 with music,by Jose Padilla, lyric by E, Ray Goetz, French words by Albert Willemetz and Saint-Granier and Spanish words by Eduardti Montesinos, Marks Music copyright "La Violetera" ("Won't Somebody Buy My Violets?") in 1934, Padilla wrote this music also ;with an arrangement by Paul Hill. English lyrics were done by Francis .Luban while Montesinos scribed the Spanish words. Spike Jones draws $9,,'i00 for three days Oct, 3-5 at Kennewick, Wash- ington, .grape festival. New York court of appeals is setting some sort of a record in deliberating the case involving the Music. Publisher.? Holding Corp. (WB music com- bine) vs, American Tobacco Co, Court has had the MPHC appeal from an appellate division reversal o£ a N, Y, supreme court decision in its favor for more than six months without indicating a nod to one or the other. Cases preceding and following the MPHC action on the docket have been disposed of some time ago, Action involves a suit for $100,000 damages against American Tobacco for the claimed mishandling of the accurate position on Its Lucky Strike "Hit Parade" program of two songs published by the Warner firms. Tommy Dorsey did not take any issue with the Inclusion last week of Paul Barry and/or Jack Johnstone in the Coast golf tourney of the Music' Publishers Contact Employees union, which is contrary to earlier reports; Dorsey v/as said'to have threatened to withdraw his prize donation due. to a beef against Barry and Johnstone's participation in the tournament (both are members from N, Y,, and were on the Coast visiting). Tourney, incidentally, was won by Charlie Warren in a 36-hole elimination match; Johnstone won the putting title. Seems like the Russians are solidly decided that jazz isn't jazz unless it plugs the Soviet. For the second time in less than two month.s a .stale music critic has taken hefty pokes at a state pop bandleader, saying in effect that the people want their music draped in pink, jand scoring "ideological scantiness" of the maestro's jazz. . . ; ' I. Alferov, tnusic critic, aimed his thrusts at Leonid UtesoVk saying. lattef had "followed road of creative degradation of imitating western Euro- pean jazz." t Filmusicoii. ♦ Lec«t Mvsicat. t BMl Licensed. GREAT POPULAR D$ TODAY Mex. Composers Seek Govt. Help in Forcing Disk Box Royalties Mexico City, Sept. 24. Help of the government in get-i ting what it calls equitable royal- ties from jukebox use of disks in scribed with its members composi- tions has been asked by the Society : of Authors, Composers and Writers j ot Mexico«(SMACEM). According to the Society, the 17,- ; 000 juke boxes licensed in locali restaurants, tavern.s, beer saloons, J etc. each operate average of 17 hours j daiiy. And, while they yield their j operators small fortunes, the com- posers get but peanuts—a mere 50, i centavos (10.5 cents) a day. New Agency . Newly formed agency. United At- tractions, besides handling legit casting and radio packages, is also invading the band field. New, Ken Casey outfit, at Ru.stic Cabin, Englc- wood eiifts, N. J,, is first band. Starr-Victor Continued from page 49 ; Fof ftftw pirHsf cppkj and ' «f«»»<(«m<s«te, write or phor»e II mi KORNHEISER, Manager, while, ■ lt.',s ai..<!0 .said that Starr gave the same royalty cpnce.ssiion to CapitolVi and Maje.stic, both Of which iiilend.] going to 60c, , : : Aiip'.her angle muddling the disk royaliy situation is ,,that the .song- writers, represented by the Song- writers Protective Assn., last week handed, music publisher' rfeprpsenta- tives the proposals they . Seek , in . a new contract between the two fac- tions. Included in these propo.sals (see'separate story) is a request that •songwriters be paid one-half ot the statutory royalty rate for recordings. This means Je. And if Starr and other publishers agree to accept l%e from Victor and other diskcr.«i and the SPA wins its point, publishers will wind up with %c per .side for thom.selve.s, the same as they now get at a 500 retail price. Q. Does your radio sound different lately? A. Yes, because for the first time in musical history, the Number One song in the nation was written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans To Each His Own (Inspired by the Paramount Pictitre) WATCH THE STATISTICS GO BY! Number 1 on the Hit Parade! Number 1 Sheet Music Seller! Number 1 in Radio Performances! Number 1 in Record Sales! (5 Records Out of the First 8) Number 1 in Juke Box Favorites! (4 Records Out of the First 9) Number 1 in Records "Most-Played>on-the-Air!" (5, Records Out of the First 8) IN A SONG, ITS THE POPULARITY THAT COUNTS FURTHERMORE, "TO EACH HIS OWN" is the most popular song ever written with this title! ALSO, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans are the only songwriters under contract to Paramount whose first names are Jay and Ray! NO OTHER SONGWRITERS CAN MAKE THIS STATEMENT! Coming Soon — "On the Other End of a Kiss'* Beverly Music's New Number 1 Plug Tune. IN PARAMOUNT PICTURES: Currently: ' , , AU the Songs in Bob Hope's "Monsieur Beaucaire." including "Warm as Wine" and "A Coach and Four" Ready For Release: "Beside You" Sung by Dorothy Lamour in "My Favorite Brunette." "Piccadilly Tilly" Sung by Virginia Field in "The Imperfect Lady." ,