Variety (Nov 1946)

yiVdiM-eday, November 6, 1944i Songs With Largest Radio Audioices The (op 30 songs of the loeek, baaed on the copwifihted AXidience Cofer- toe Index Survey of Popular Music Broadcast on Radio Nttworkt. . Pub- liihed W the Office of Research, Inc. Survey Week of October 2i-31, lSi6 And Then It's Heaven Remich Anybody's Love Song Miller Blue Skies—i"Bluc Skies" : Berlin Coffee Song—"Copacabana Revue"' Valiant Five Minutes Moi-e Melrose For You For Me Forever More Chappell Girl That I Marry, The—''"Annie Get Your Gun" Berlin J Got the Sun in. the Morning—'>"Annie Get Yonr Gun" Berlin '■' I Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home C-P I'd Be Lost Without You ........ .' AcK ;inc«c] If You Were the Only Girl .......i . . . .U,., . . . .Mutual It's a Pity To Say Goodnight ;, I.eeil.s Linger In My Arms a Little Longer Baby .Bourne . My Sugar Is So- Refined Capitol Old Lamp-Lighter Shapii-o-B. Ole Buttermilk Sky—+."Canyon Pa.sFage ' Burke-VH On the Boardwalk—i'-Three. LilllG Girls In Blue",.. .BVC . Pretending ..... i............... i...... ,; .Criterion Rumors Are Flyiiig .,; ^.. .Oxford Surr6nd<;r■.,.. . .... V.: v ..; ,, , i.. .V.. ;^v> ■;.SantlyrJoy Somewhere In the Niglit-^t''Three Little.Girls In l^lue";......1",riahgle September Song ............... . .Crawford Smith America Take It Away—""Call Me Mister". , i ....... .Witmark - Tliat Little Dream Got Nowhere—f Cross My Heart",. ... .Famous Things We. Did La,st Summer . .... v.. .Morris .■ This Is Always—f'Three Little Girls in Blue'* ;. .BVC To Each His Own—■i"To Each His Own",,......:.......... .Paramount Whole World Is Singing My Song ... Robbins Why rjoes It Get. So Late So Eai-ly,,.,. Harms You Keep Coming. Back.Like a .So.ng-;--t''Blue Skies'"...... .Berlin 10 Best Sheet Sellers KVfeek Ending, Nov. 2) Rumors Are Flying... .■. .Oxford Ok!,* Buttermilk Sky. .Burke-VH Five Minutes More Melrose. To Each His Own Paramount Old Lattiplighter.;.i.SRapiro Pretending ............ ;Criterion This Is Always....:... BVC It You Were Only Girl.. .Mutual And Then It's Heaven. ..Remick • So. America Take "It, ..Witmark Second 10 You Keep Coming Back: .Berlin ■ Guess 1 11 Get- Papers C-P Things We Did Summer. .Morris World Singing Song.. . .Robbins September Song Crawford Girl That I Marry Berlin For Sentimentar Reasons.. Leeds Linger In My Arhls i;',. .Bourne: Coffee Sorig .... ......Valiant ■ pity to Say Goodnight. . . .Lecd.s ORCIIESTRAS-^IVSIC 49 ■ : FoHoiciiie sevgs are those that Mid not have enough performance credit* on the week to be ineluded in the top group, 'fhey mosUy are tunes rising in popularity. ' ■:, ■ . A Gal in Calico.. .....^^.i....... Remick A Garden In the Rain.,; ,. ......... .Meh-ose Best Man^ The .. v...... ... .Vanguard Doin' What Comes Natur'Uy-i*"Annie Get Your Gun"..... . .Berlin Either It's Love Or :lt lsn't-^i"Dead Reckoning"......... .. .Mood Music For Sentimental Reasons., ............ .Duchess 1 Haven't Got a Worry In the World . ; Williamson If I'm Lucky—7"^ I'm Lucky" Triangle . It's AirOver Now.... .BMI . Pa,ssc :, . ., . / ...:,... ,, .Feist Put That-Kiss Back.Where Ypu Found It Robbins Rickety Rickshaw Man ..Southern Route ,68,, ,. . , . ,. , , , ,, .Burke-V. H. Twilight Sortg....... Mutual Under the Willow Tree , . . ..Peter Maurice What More Can T Ask For..... London Wherever There's Me There's You... ..,,,,,. . .. .Republic Who Told You That Lie? .Republic You Are Too Beautiful........... .... ^ ....... ..Harms Zip-a-De-Do-Dah—r'Song of South" ......................Santly-Joy ^ Filmusicai. * LeaU MusicaL Wrangle Gets Hotter on Recwding Of New Songs; Want Only Top Names BERNSTEIN, BUCK IN ASCAP BOARD ROW Two of the mombei-s of the Amer-. lean Society of Composers, Authors and Publ).shei-s director board Louis Bernsteim and' Gene Buck —•: got into a rather sharp vei-bal clash during, last: week's ,(31) . monthly meeting. Dispute and, its origin are being kept very much imder cover by other members of the board, who were present: Bernstein is chairman of the society's finance committee and the clash with Buck evolved frbm his responsibilities. Other than that not much is known. Dispute was aboilt the only thing of interest to come up at the board meet. Remainder of the; time was devoted to routine iteijis; . Ina Ray Button Divorcing Chicago, Nov. 5. Ina Ray Hutton, working here with her band at the Bandbox, is divorcing Lou Parisotio, sax player in her orchestra. He's quitting the band' this wfeek. Miss Hutton leaves here later this month, goes to the Click, Philadel-: phia, for one week Nov, 29 and then into the Strand theatre, N.Y;, Dec. 13. ■■ ,■■ Covington's Unusual Band Warren Covington, Qutslanding trombonist with various top name ortljestras; in = tb^^ past, has built , & new orchestra which may herald a trend, Since new bands 'made tip along conventional . irislrumental lines.have almost no chance of suc- cess du:e to, certaiiidondUionsw thej postwar band business, Coyirig- tori is loing to try his liand.at maes- troing at the helin of i an 11-piece, sweet-swing group equipped; \vith •'unusual" arrangements. . . ':;; v In usifig only 11 pieces, Covington figures to, defeat, the cpttibination of high operating costs .plus minor- name which have: proved insur- mountable barriers to other postwar .combos.' .'' General Artists Corp. signed his band last week. Vinylite ls Still In Future, Say Wax Techs Hollywood, Nov. 5. Long-touted vinylite record.s—the kind that'don't break-r-are as far off oommercially as they ever were,' despite all the ballj'hood a year or so ago about how imminent they were. That's the dope from techr hicians tinkering with the material. There's a very simple reason or two for the delay. First; nobody has been able to speed up' pi'oduction. Vinylite is; harder to work with then .standard shellac composition disks. An operator can turn out 450 to 550 of the shellac platters in the regu- lar eight-hour working day, as against 300 to 350 of the others, which are slower to press. Also, processing .requires 'more skill. And technicians see no immediate pros- pect 'bf speeding up production be- cause of that. Other main reason for the delay is that vinylite costs about twice as much as shellac. Wrangle bet-ween mlisic pub- lishers and disk company executive* controlling the recording of new songSj which has been poor since the end of the war,' gets progressively worse. So intense is the search by publishers from top to bottom for recordings of their new material,, and so handicapped are the disk' men by production, problems which : hold them down to issuing only two or three records a week, that the situation is a. con.stant powderkcg. It's been responsible Cor many disputes in. recent months. : Main cau.se of the argvunents is artists. Virtually every publisher approaching a di.sk outfit for a re- cording naturally w'ants the be-'^t possible name. At RCA-Victor it s Perry Corno and Vaughn Monroe;, at Columbia, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Carle, et al.; at Decca, Bing Crosby. Arid they don't: want lesser naities.; Spot recording men are in undfer such circumstances is obvious. Thus the disk men cannot record all the tunes of the primary .publishers, let alone the minor ones. All this adds up to an ever-con- , slant beef, exemplified by Herman Starr's recent arguments \yith all majors except Decca. He's; at it agaiin with 'Victor, even though he recently -was: the first to agree to, give that company a l%c. royalty * rate on 60c, disks (which normally demands 2c. a side). And others are behind him in disputes with all manufacturers. As for the small pub.s, they're in such a state that a group has or- ganized to try to do something about their position. Their splefen is being directed at one company. Such get-togethers for unified action have happened before. And they'll con- tinue to happen until; the vproductiqn capabilities of the manufacturers open widely enough to allow more releases per week and the conse-* quent recording of mdre songs. fll CLOSE MY EYE Lyric by BUDDY KAYE (Tin THE END OF TI.ME) Music by BILLY REID (THE GYPSYi Be/ng introduced by SAMMY KAYI on his "SUNDAY SERENADB ' NOV. 10th AT l ;3p P.M., EST, A6C NETWORK ft*corc/*d by ANDY RUSSELL (Capitol) • JACK McLEAN (Coost) DINAH SHORE (Columbi«) HILDEGAROE with PERCY FAITH ond Orchestra (Decco) MILDRED BAILEY (Mojestic) • THE SENTIMENTALISTS (Manor) JACK FINA (Mercury) • TEDDY WALTERS (Musicroft) RAY ANTHONY (Sonoro) • VIC DAMONE (Associated) HAL DERWIN and BUDDY COLE ond FOUR OF A KIND (Capitol) ANTHONY WAHL (Longworth) • (»EORGE TOWNE (Mozak) LOUISE CARLYLE (NBC Thesaurus) GEORGE WRIGHT Organist (NBC Thesaurus) 15 All these guys and gf^l^B are waitin' to do fho song . . . Buzz Adium Angie Bond Trio Ray Anthony Johnny Bothw«ll Louise Corlyl* Carmen Cavalltro Emit Colemon Chris Crott Vic Damone Dove Denney Ha! Derwin Al Donohu* Let Eiflort,; Percy Faith Burt Farber Jack Fina Lorenzo Fuller Carolyn Gilbert Lionel Hampton Hildegarde ' Eddy Howard Joe Mooney Quartet Freddy Martin Jean McKenno Jack McLean Johnny Messner Vaughn Monroe Russ Morgan Buddy Morrow Marcia Neil Jack Owens Jimmie Palmer Tommy Fort Alvino Rcy Andy Russell Dinah Shore Lee Sims , Frank Sinqtrq Bob Smith Jack Smith Charlie Spivak Bob Stanton Lee Sullivan The Sentimentalists The Three Suns Johnny Thompson George Towne Al Trace Bob Trendler Tommy Tucker Lawrence V/elk Marcia Young Michael Zarin The PETER MAURICE MUSIC CO., Ltd. 1650 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 19 HAPPY GODAY, Vice Pres. HAL FEIN, Prof. Mgr.