Variety (Nov 1946)

S2 €»ltCII KSTK AK-M VSIC WcJnosiIay, Novcinlter 6, 1946 On The Upbeat New York C'IniiHc Tluivnliill workiiii; w itli bi'ac'e on loi?: at Meadowbrook duo to sciatica cnhdilioiv . which hbspi- tali/.cd him last ;\vcek; two of band's | musicians out with mumps. •..Don Beslor; into - Dixie liolcl, N. Y.; last. | night (Tuesday J . ,Neal .Reid; foi'-; mcr trombonist' with original Woody I Hcrninn. Co-op Ijand. out of Marines,], and partner in, swinimin,!*' poot con- ': striiction company in Hollywood.. Kay Ciudalli .pAC,. i^^^^^^ op' loj-:'pa^t; lb quit to- get, niarricd ,. , George Evans laid up with thi'oat condition so bad he's forbJciden to talk by doctor :IVIary Anne Wayne jpinod George Towne orchestra at Pelham Heath Inn. N. Y. . ;.Stan Kenton adding vocal, quar- tet lo: orchestra. , Todd Duncan's vocals to be disked by- Musicraft.... Benny. Goodman's current. 400 Gkib, N. Y., run .marks his .10th year as maestro. mcrly aimoiinced. His. ueW' voSaitat;,' . Gloria Faye is Pittsburgh Hollywood Boyd Triplets, on completion ol their tout' with Xavier Ciigat, join Gflrmen Gavallaro for 12-week the- atre tour, starting in San Francisco and winding up at N. Y. Paramount .... Spike Jones orchestra into Par's "Vai'iety Girl," men to serve as "heavies' in the plot, as well ... Orrin Tucker opening at Last Fron- tier^ Las Vegas, Dec; 20,. for two weeks, to be followed by Benny StrQ,ng.- , Say Whitaker orchestra opening at Town House's Garden Room Nov. 15.., Skiteh^HendersoTi's new band plays its first dance stand at Civic : Auditorium, San Bernardino. Dec. .5 ... -Joe Reichman bows at St. Fran- cis hotel. San Francisco, Nov. 19, instead of at the Pairniount, as £or- Ijari-y Funk drche.sti'a si,i;nt'd to; open town's ^neWest.n'ight spot, the Ankara'.. First ..local' band to got a break, at Ijig' CUib . Belvedere: is Bob Rhodes, who goes in'Eriday (8 l with a 1.2-piece outfit, replacing Ray Hobbins , . . Ralph Grove; who used to have.-a dance band, taking stroll-;, ing trio into Sealiorse Bar. this week : - . Chuck Foster band into Bill Green's for two Weeks;; ; ditto Johnny Long at Vogue Terrace, .for third.. engagenie:n.t there ., in;;, liftle more than a year. Long will be fol- lowed by Ray Kinney . . . Mary Lou ■Williams, originally slated to open early. .last month but postpOiied bc- ;t;au.se of power strike,. qoines in Meccur Mu.snc Bar on Monday (11). Kclton Vice Ira Schuster As Paull-Pioneer Pro. Mgr. Frank Kelton was appointed gcn- <\rar. professionali niartagoV; of .raiill- I'ioncqr. Kclton formerly had his own music publishinft company be- ! ■I'ore .ioiriing' fhe.^.R'Iax' Ma.ver .(uiilit. 'j He roplaces thc late Ira Schuster. ' | Understood that negotiations are i currently under way Ui have Paull- Pinneor : take oyer. the Kelton cata- log: Nevv GPI\'I's first jolj.will be exploitation oC. "Let's Put Our Dreams. Together," .lasjt tune w-rittcn by Schuster, and :Jac).v Ro.senbcl'g. be- fore, their, deaths.; ; Royalties frorn the;: song, wfU'. go tO;;llie. Widows o'f the two men, , , ;, Inside Orchestras-Music International studio representative of ftlm-working musicians no longer has power to set up regulations concerning members under his jurisdic- tion but must refer all matters requiring decision to International Board of Anierican Federation of Musicians. Previou-sly, prior to settlement now contract wiih studios. Hollywood local rep's operation was virtuallv autonomous and allowed that not even top execs of local "could interfere ,vvitlv, or question his handling of studioites—who are also rriembers of local. Formerly operating with but one office'assistant,. J. W. Gillette, studio rep,' now has throe other field assistants to help police studios following complaints of miusicians' that job was neglected. Diminished power also pei'niits ofTicials of local to investigate studio matters, here- tofore a strictly verbotcn province for all but the studio rep', Chicago Lionel HamptbiV orclicstra to play Wrigley Field early next month.. Henri Brandon signed with Cen- tral Booking .; Gab Calloway .set as the New Year inhabitant of the Panther Room, Sherman ho- tel ... Joann Whitney replacing Pa- tricia Adair at the Chez. .. Mexico ain't allowing the broadcasting or playing of "Coffee in Brazil". .. Bonnie Baker playing Canadian club dates starting Dec. 16 Eddie Con- don in town for jazz Concert . . .T. Dorsey giving a ''symphonic" swing musical Nov. 3. .. .Al Johns into the Syracuse hotel, Syracuse. N. Y,., fjov. 1. ,. .Bernie Cummins re- pacted until .the first of the year at Club Martinique......Ted Weems re- turning to the Boulevard Room, Nov. 15. >tniiouncing the addition fo our organization of NAT FREYER and PAUL SALYATORI to launch our'new balfad SERENADE TO LOVE By SAM H. STEPT and MACK DAVIS STEPT, Inc., 1619 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. JOHNNY GREEN. Otiii. M^r. LENA HORNE SIGNED TO B & W DISK PACT Hollywppd. Nov. ,5. Lena Home, inked to a dijik pact by Black & While Records, througli an arrangement with Metro, which iii featuring her; in the, Jerome Kern biopic, "Till the Clouds Roll by." First cutting is due for :relefl,se around: Nov. 15. . Sepia warbler, whdis, slated; for a p;o. tour through the East, starting late this month', is ako waxing an album, "Little Girl Blue." skedded to follow her initial platter. Saunders Quits Spivak To Go Out as Single Jimmy Saunders, vocalist with Charlie Spivak's orchestra, left that outfit between its clo-sins; recently at the Paramount theatre. N. Y.^ and its opening last week at the Penn- sylvania hotel, N, Y. Singer is gor ing but on.! hi§*'owh as a :single; what specifically caused lum to leave Spivak is undisclosed, but it's known the pair had a dispute, Saun- ders has been rcpU,ced by Tommy Mercer. Before Saunders can go into solo- ing he must first secure a release from a management contract Spivak holds on him. Either that or work under Spivak's supervision. Ambassador Records is latest in the long line of West Coast platteries; Dis'ks are released by Freddy Martin's Ambassador hotel music shop via tacit;approval of RCA-'Victor. Sans the maestro, Martin's band will record under name of Felix Figueroa, and tunes will be specialized type regarded as non-competitive with Martin's own 'Victor output. Initial four sides are ' Pico and Sepulveda." "She of the Black Coffee Eyes," "Brazilian BoOgie'' and "Swing Samba," all sambas. They'll be distributed excluisively, for time being by local shop bearing leader's name. Later expanded local and national distribution may be arranged through-..outside distribs. They're being cut at Sunset Radio'Center and processed by Melo-Disk plant. Few songs get such a varied interpretation as the current hit, "Ol' But- termilk Sky," written by Hoagy Gflrmichael and being published by Burke- ■Van Heusen. There are a half dozen dislts of the tune on the market and every one comes up-with a differently styled version. Connee Bosweirg Dceca disk 13 a jazz piece; Kay Kyser's Columbia face a production ar- rangement; Danny O'Neill does it as a western ballad for Majestic; Matt Dennis and Paul Weston's orchestra as a Johnny Mercer-style beat bit for Capitol; Statistics, for 'Victor as a novelty; Marie Greene on Signature as a straight vocal. Carmichael's own ARA version he claims is the poorest of all. Winnick Back to Eng. Maurice Winnick, British band- leader, w.k. in vaudeville abroad arid also owner of a couple of radio, programs on the BBC. returns to London Nov. 29 on the Queen Eliza- beth. : He has been in the States over a month, having preceded Geraldo, Ambrose and Jack Hylton. who came over Oct. 28 on the maiden voyage of the Queen Bess. Quite a hassle was started recently between a major maestro and an act that worked for jiim and with him in a package show in a major eastern theatre. It seems that the act turned up almost every show far under the weather, once to the point where he apologized to the audience tor not doing his full turn because he had "too many friends in the area." At the end of the week,'when the maestro paid off. the unit, the act tore up his check, explaining that the job he did wasn't worth a nickel. His manager and the maestro's reps worked out a suitable sum in payment even though the original sum proferred was the fully contracted amount. ' Following the abortive Washington, D. C, dinner fete* a fortnight ago, because of the hotel strike, ASCAP hosted the International Confederation of Authors and Composers at the Ritz-Carlton, N: Y., last week. Among the highlights was the introduction of name Yank composers, and when Irving Berlin's medley was played, the highlight was "God Bless; America," whereupon the ensemble ro.se to iLs feet in tribute to the No. 1 U. S. song- smith.: ' " ■■■„.■■'■.■'■;,'■•■''■,■■■•■■,■'■.■ ';'■■■■'■""" ■ '.'■."■.' One of the better known music men got himself snagged by the Pinker- tons at Jamaica last week for bookniaking. He's out on $1,500 bail, his case due to be heard in two weeks. Guy apparently was aiding another gent close to the music boys. Latter book.s bets tor music people who hit the trades weekly, relieving them of the necessity of fighting long lines to the mutuel windows. Norman C/outier, CharlU Goines. Lee Gfffeffe. Winnie O'Keefe. Morfy Falitz, Andy WttwII and offcert ogree... THERE IS NO BREEZE (TO COOL THE FLAMF. OF LOVE) beouftful n,'::ody b/ Ali'on-; Composes of "Symphony .'. ,jni. J-.- '^yi' br' SONGI Profasfional matmal soon avallabh When Columbia Records signed Dinah Shore away from RCA-Victor almost a year ago, many in the music business pooh-poohed' the move, since during the latter year os two with RCA, Miss Shore's records "couldn't be given away." Now the singer has become one of Columbia's top sales: artists and is again one of the top recording artists. And' the explanations of her new success by her former critics are plenty. Jack Owens, songsmith ("Hut Sut Song," "Louisiana Lullaby") and "cruising crooner" of ABC's "Breakfast Club," is turning out to be his own:' best plugger. Publisher's campaign on his latest effort, "Cynthia's in Love," has cooled off to nothing, but it's still getting a big play on the air--on only one network, however, and on only one p'rogram^^the flve-a-week ' "Breakfast Club." ■ — ' ' ' ; ' ' ' ' ' ' " '''y "'1 ' i ''M ' ' Stept, Inc., Expands Sammy Stept's music firm set up branches on the Coast and in Chi- cago last week, Nat Freyer going to Hollywood and Paul Salvatori step- ping into the Chi spot. Latter was formerly with Shapiro-Bernstein while Freyer switched from Freddie Martin's N. Y. office. H.o. in New York will continue to be headed by Johnny Green with Pete Leonard assisting. Firm's cur- rent plug: tune is "Serenade to Love," new ballad by Sammy Slept and Mack David. Aflat all it said and dQne . , . There is raally only one MARGIE Wards by B»nny Davit Muiic by Con Conrad & J. R. Robinson Now a aOfrh C*inilir.v-,l''o.\" I'Mlinitiulnr Hit MILLS MUSIC, INC. I&19 Broadway. New York 19. N. V. 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