Variety (Oct 1946)

Wednesday, October 9, 1946 Songs With Largest Ra^ Audiences The top 31 songs of tile locefc, based on the copyrighted Audience Cover- age Index Survey of Popular Music Broadcast on Radio Networks. Pub- lished by the Office'of Research, Inc. Survey Week of Sept. 27-Ocfc. 3, 1946 A Garden In the Rain ....Melrose And Then it's Heaven i........Remick Blue Skies—t"Blue Skies" Berlin Coffee Song, The Valiant Come Rain Or Conne Shine—*"St. Louis Woman" Crawford Doin' What Comes Natur'Uy—*"Annie Get Your Gun" Berlin Five Minutes More ... ...... .Melrose Girl That I Marry, The—*"Annie Get Your Gun''./.Berlin 1 Don't Know Enough About You.......,..... .C-P 1 Don't Know Why,^-|"Faithful In My Fashion". ..Feist I've Got Sun In the Morning—""Annie Get Your Gun".. ...'.Berlin ] d Be Lost Without You ............................ Advanced It you Were the Only Girl....... ... ^....................Mutual Linger In My Arms a Little Longer Baby...... i.Bourne My Sugar Is So Refined • Capitol Old Lamp-Lighter ............................Shapiro - passe ■ .Feist Rumors Are Flying .Oxford September Song Crawford Somewhere In the Night—"'Three Little Girls In Blue" Triangle South America Take It Away—""Call Me Mister" ...Witmark Surrender , , ............ .Santly'Joy They Say It's Wonderful—*"Annie Get Your Gun"...... ....Berlin This Is Always—r'Three Little Girls in Blue" i...BVC To Each-His Own—t"To Each His Own"..... .... .Paramount Under the Willow Tree , .' i... .Peter Maurice Wherever There's Me There's You....Republic Whole World Is Singing My Song, The.r..»Robbins Why Does It Get So Late So Early....... ............. .Harms Without You (Tres Palabras)—t"Make Mine Music''. .Southern You Keep Coming Back Like a Song—f'Blue Skies'',.......Berlin Following songs: are those that did not have enough performance credits on the week ta be included in the top groxip. They mostly are tunes 'rising in popularity. AU Through the Day—tVCentennial Summer''..,.,..... ... .Williamson Along With Me—""Call Me Mister Witmark Changing My Tune .Williamson Everybody Loves My Baby. ...................Good Music For You For Me Forever More .......................... .Chappell f Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home C-P I'll Be With.You in Apple Blossom Time Broadway It's a Pity to Say Goodnight Leeds I've Never Forgotten-^t"Sketch Book"... ^ ^.,. ^.............Morris Moon Over Brooklyn London Ole Buttermilk Sky ■ .Burke-VH On the Boardwalk—t"Three Little Girls In! Blue'^... BVC Pretending ,.......... ... .Criterion Remember Me ... .Witmark Route 66 Burke-VH Stars Fell On Alabama Mills That Little Dream Got Nowhere—fCross My Heart"..Famous There's No One But You ....... .Shapiro Whatta Ya Gonna Do ........v...................... ....BMI Who's Sorry Now ....Mills Who Told You That Lie? ....4,..;..;^;...... i...Stevens You May Not Love Me—""Nellie Bly"........Burke-VH t Filmusicai. * Lcc't Musical. 10 Best Sheet Sellers • Week Ending, Oct. 5) To Each His Own.. .Paramount Five Minutes More.... . Melrose Rumors Are Flying..... .Oxford So. Am. Take It Away. .Witmark If Yqu Were Only Girl. .Mutual I Guess I'll Get Papers...., .C-P Old Buttermilk Sky. .Burke-VH Be Lost Without You. Advanced Surrender ..........,Santly-Joy Gypsy ., ;.. .... ... .Leeds Coming Up Pretending ...... .. . .Criterion Linger In My Arms Bourne You Keep Coming Back. .Berlin September Sortg.,.,.. .Cbappell I Don't Know Wh|t . . i. . ... ..Feist This Always...: .......BVC And Then It's Heaven. . .Remick It's Pity Say Goodnight.. .'Leeds Somewhere In- Night,. .Triangle My Sugar So Refined.. . .Capitol OllCllESXIlAS-MIJSIC 67 Number of Major Publishers Follow WB's Lead in Royalty Concession Gls Revive Hillbilly Oldie Into '46 Freak Hit A seven-year-old tune, "Filipino 'Baby," popular with armed forces in the; South Pacific during the early days of the war, has dCr veloped into a current hillbilly fave and Shapiro-Bernstein has acquired the. number from its original pub, Rialto Music Written by Billy Cox and Clarke Van Ness, the tune was included in a volume known as "Songs of the Moutains and the Plains" which received wide distri- bution through the west in the pre- Pearl Harbor days. When the boys from the rodeo belt were drafted the song went along with them and soldiers in the Philippines found the tune especially appropriate. "Filipino Baby" came to the at- tention of Texas Jim Robertson, then a member of the Marine Corps serv- ing in the Pacific area. Upon his dis- charge he cut a side for Victor. The song caught on and Decca followed with a version by Ernest Tutob while King Records ha^ a platter by Cow- boy Copus. However, the Robertson dislc is largely credited with putting the song across. RCA-Victor's deal with Herman j Starr, head of the Warner Bros, combine, who two weeks ago ac- j ceded to RCA's request for a l%e royalty disk fee for his songs, ap- parently has accomplished its pur- pose. Starr's lead : has broken the situation wide open insofar as other publishers are ooncerned^a number of majors are following in his foot- steps:', 5,CA Is said to have obtained okays on the i%c fee, in lieu of the 2c fee demanded by the, company's retail disk price boost to 60c, from the Dreyfus eombine (Chappel, Craw- ford, T. B. Harms, Williamson, et al), which rates close on the wheels of the WB combine as a power in the publishing business. Morris Music has not signed yet, but it intends to; Shapiro-Bernstein will follow, and so will virtually all others in th« face of the trend by the most i>ower- ful catalogs. They cannot afford to stay out. RCA's breaking the back of pub- lishers' resistance on the royalty concession will give plenty of aid to the" handful of minor companies which also have gone to 60c and had the same royalty problem. On an annual basis, the saving to RCA, in effecting use of the lower rate, will amount to between $300,000 and -.$400,000. This figure is considerable enough in the operations of RCA disk division (though a drop in the bucket in comparison to the com- pany's overall operation), and the comparative saving to the smaller companies may, in some cases, mean the difference between life. and death. ■, •. " Inside Orchestras-Music Quite a few of the more important b.o. bands are turning attention to the southwestern territory, through which few have played in years. Currently, Tommy Dorsey is at Dallas State Fair, with a string of concert one-nighters to follow. Jimmy Dorsey is in the southwest; Harry James just completed a month of one-nighters in the area (he did likewise two years ago). Woody Herman goes into the Interstate theatres for the first time soon, and Glen Gray takes the same trail later for the^first time in six years. • There's considerable friction at the moment among the band salesmen at one of the major agencies due to the activities of one of the heads of the department. Situation has been growing hotter during the past few months, and executives of rival agencies and those within the agency in question are awaiting what they feel is an inevitable blowup, A Tony Martin recording on Mercury, plus others (Sinatrai et al.), is reviving the late Russ Columbo's oldie, "Guilty," anew. It was written by the late .Richard A. Whiting and the late Gus Kahn, Harry Akst, the sole surviving author of the tune, observing he'd ''prefer it if the songs Stayed dead'and they resurrected the writers." ; Booking of Johnny Long's orchestra into the Commodore hotel Nov. 21 marks his first hotel date in New York away from the New Yorker hotel in eight years. Due for four weeks at the Commodbre, Long has three weeks at Frank Dalley'sMeadowbrook to follow. In spite of his recent separation from Deeca, Percy Faith will cut a "Park Avenue" album for the plattery behind Hildegarde. Faith refused to renew with Decca when his option came up this fall, claiming that the disk company had not given strong enough distribution to his records. EVERYONE TELLS US IT'S A GREAT SONG SO THEY TELL ME By Harold Mott, Jack Gale, Arthur Kent BARJON MUSIC CORPORATION 1619 Broadway, New York 19, New York Charlie Ross, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Prof. Mgr. Sherman Brande-Bert Brooks Chicago-NORMAN FINK Hollywood-MACK MARTIN