Variety (Apr 1948)

Jones 1ji»Re(mMU Till Vf'Prt^'Disk Wmsliftigton, April 6. Kffort to bjceak the American ■geAva^aa of Miuiciaiu recording f^n to cut it single nuurter. on the found fbat tbeirs is a siieclal case, being, made by the Jones Bros., vocal and iiuttum«BtaI trio cur^ xently playing the Blue, Micror betO" "J^&f *>W>* that the SSaiestic jBfectods: ritnatloa, which has. tied ftp their rendition of "A&i't.She Pretly," is unfairly losing^ them monegr and tiiey want to lemalEe their aeiMigeinent t«e another com- :^ey elalnt they have tlwee rew. ■ So far AniC has tunned tbumlMF ^wn on the graudd ttaatthb aiightt act a preeedeafc which would tet-* tnit otfam to crack thOi rectad' Ing hab. Xtkt botong to the BostaB. local of AFIUL Thegr waxed 'i^ttx*' back in im. A tew montha ago ft caught on and pcqtu-. larity of their platter,, they- daim, cuiaitd thxeo other gionpa; to jcecord^ tt* fiiner. em uaing. « iMHuiOy tdn^tlcal ancaagemeiit; mw, sir 4ft* JoDM boyt thef, Mafeatte. nMter ts- tied up and othen- «nv, oaUan hi at new veiv glons. ' ' ' diuMiF Ttfjte KM Slater De- Itoso hare coUa]knc«ted' on„a «>ng ^odteftted tft BMS*l|tffik. tttled A pueiSttiUaifi. q£ the proceeda go to the Haho Bnth roundatton. -OSCBBSimAS-SilTSIC 47 SPIYAKENI^PACr Holly woodj April e. Charlie Spival^'s orchestra and RCAVVictor have parted company, according to reports here. VTHat caused the split between the ma- estro and the disk manufacturer is pncertain. When his contract came up for renewal, it's understood, there was none agreed to. Spivak came to Victor during the last record strike called by the American Federation of Musicians. At that time his switch from Co- lumbia caused him a lot of grief since he advised the latter of liis intention just before the strike was called and made the move during •the walkout. Columbia pulled all o£ his dislts from the market and Victor had none to issue, which meant he went without a record fox almost two year?. WAAT, Newailc, Quits Jockeyii^r N. Yi Nitery WAAT, Newark, haa pidled its all-night disk jockey show out ot Leon & Eddie's-nitery, N. Y.. because, the station .'could not sen tb* time after .almost a year of airing. Jeny Bob«rt«r stair disk Jodk and annQunc^, did the prb- gtram nightly. Eddie. l5avis, owner of,the elub, is endeavoring to Ihie iw another statUm to do a show in md period WAAT vacated. BilYDiP Triwrnphawli INKim W Wax "SoimiMNp I Dtwamed . IReawt li2) Sepia Sbng Stylist JfteKBERGit Favorite Radio SFnger "I'm Qotiim Onirep to DMtiiii^ New jMexko" "VIMdrnt ■cHc Are Brwiking B|K Hm* QM Ghms of Mine" (Regent 114) JOEDOSH v New Stnginf^ Dis<eovery "(Hi TrMn).|lav» Yw» ■een Awmy" "Emt ef the Sun" (Ri^ent ITS) DON mm TRIO Harmonic Sensations "Wll£i|MMiig" ^'Fareweir Blues" (Regent 116) Goin9 Strong Sofemr Dime* bf ikm Dee Henry Trio ftttlfar Is My SwMlftMrf RE6EN!T RfiCORDS r.fM>i RCA in Dme to Ping Dodgers Cantata ECA-VlctojP Is preparing to launch a heavy exploitation cam- paign behind its "Brooldyn Can- tata" album, to be marketed April 16, the day the Brooldyn Dodgers open their '48 baseball seamonk "Cantata," baritoned by Robert Merrill, Victor Red Seal artist and star of the Metropolitan Opera, is a musical theme whose inspiration is the Dodgers. It was composed by George Kleinsinger, one of the writers of "Tubby the Tuba." Victor recorded the item last fall and has been ^holding it for the start of the annual baseball fever. Feist, Bourne Sue to Halt CQpgnrigh^t Infringements Feist' and Bourne' music com- panies filed infringement suits last week in N, Y. federal court against Vagabond House, Inc., Mohegan Lake. N. Y. Charge is using copy- righted tunes without consent. Standard $25(1 is asked for each violation. Complaint alleges Vagabond per- formed Feist's "I Understand" at various times, and "Careless," owned by Bourne, without permis- sion. An injunction is sought Feist also slapped the Mayfair Restaurant, Ine:, N. nitery, with an infringement action claiming illegal, violatioa.of the.coiarij|^t of "My SSu6 WeKi&i." DgOMiges and injunction'ore asted. um am show KHJ[5iP0RROOF,N.Y. Sammy Kaye's signing for the Chestergeld broadcast for the sum- mer (7 p.m„ Ave times weekly, NBC) eliminates bim from the pos- sibility of playing the Hotel Astor Roof, New York. Though the Astor buys Music Corp. of America bands almost eD^clusively, Kaye, who's now with Qeneral Artists Corp., could have continued playing the spot this year as in the past' He might have signed for it weeks back, but he and Bob Ghristen- berry, Astor managing director, couldn't get together on the pe- i-iod. Kaye wanted the August- September spot and Christenberiy wanted him to take the June-An- gust slice. Cbristenberry so far has only Carmen Cavallaro set for the'sum- mer; he opens the Roof May 17. Usually the spot's season, split into three periods, is fully set by this time of year. iuifcOrdiestra»-4liisR ° Feist Music will continue to< work on the tune, "Miracle of tfie Bells," though the melody was cdipped, from the RKO film of the same name. Feist flgureiB that although its song is set back ar tttt by having been left on. the cutting room floor, there's no reason mby it cannot receive some benefit from .the title while the film is circulating. It^s pointed out that "To Each His Own," one of the heaviest hits of recent years, was not used in the Paramount film of the same name. Cutting Am tune from the Dim was- ironical, however, in view of the hue . and cry that was set up over Kay Twomey's and Al Ckmdr heart's ''Serenade of the Bells." Feist's Harry I^ink once thought of suing the pair, who had originally titled their song "Miracle 'ef 'the Bells;" then switched to "Sermade" when Russell Janney, writer of the "Miracle", book, asserted he intended penning a ttUe tune for the plcturiation with Father Joe Ocimer. One of the reasons for the fidelity superiorly Iiondon Records, made and shipped here by the British Decca company, is the latter's ability to get and use stieUac in its pressings. Few, if any, U.S. record nuuuifacturers are able at the moment to use even minimum amounts- of shellac in their disks because of the unusually high price (76e. a pound) of the material, which comes only front India; ' - England, of course, with its Indian connections, is better able to secure pure shellac and, since the English government-, is giving the London company all the help It can in an effort to round up U.S. dollars, the use of it in pressings makes^ the London disks- superimr. BCA-Victor,. Columbia, Decca or any of the other major and minor- U.S. firms use no shellac at all, or, if some do, only minor amounts per disk. Victor has for some lime been usihg a compound involving a comparatively recently' developed .plastic. Othe^fr are operating along the same lines. - Sanuny Kaye in Kansas City Thursday (8) for a broadcast, concert and dance in the Municipal Aud is getting the benefit of one of the most comprehmsive camimigns ever connected with a' band date in K.C. A & N ^Presentations, which is promoting the band^ ha? tied-up with Crown Drug stores and KCMO. Cro-wn will plug the date in all of its 45 stores in the K.C. area, and KCMO will carry a week's air promotion; . Idea is to sell advance tickets. Every buyer of an advance ducat in the stores will be offered a second one at the price 'c^ the taxes-^6c. A & N recently pulled over 4,000 to the And vidth Vau^bn Monroe. With the three-in-one Kaye program and the heavy plugging, A & N hopes to better that figure. Record for the Aud. is about 13,000, jammed in by the Ink Spots several years agOi ' . . . ' General Artists Corp. is using a new -method' of ascertahiing the validity of promoter's checia forwarded to the agency as deposits on future dates. With permission from the American Federation of Mu- sicians, the agency banks each check for collection'hefore allowing'the bandleader involved to sign the contract for the dftte. Previously AFM rules stated that once « check is deposited for colleetitin the 'action was construed as a ]binder on a booldng, regardless ot wheoHar a bandleader had signed a contract. Permission was sought and granted on the grounds that, checlcs occasionally bounced after deposit, leaving the agency in the position of having agreed to supply a band for a pro- moter who wasn't financially riKsponsible. Diiyc jocks and coin machine ops are handing jukebox music a "new look," according to surveys of performances the past month or so. Concert recordings have been Showing up on popularity polls as well with Macklin Marrow's "Meidcaft Fantasy" and "Sabre Dance" waxings especially in the fore. Leroy Anderson's "Fiddle-Faddle" and Toots Camarata's "Rumbalero" are also cited as a further indication of the new trend. Switch to the classics and quasi-longhair tunes is credited by some quarters to the interest in "Hora^-Staccato," "'Warsaw Con- certo" and numerous filmusicals in the Tschaikovsky and Chopin idiom. National Records states that it has not made a recording of Leeds Music's "Heartbreak" Its name had been included in a story in the previous issue telling how Leeds, which bad accepted the tune less than a week before the recording deadline, Jan. 1, only knew of two disks made/of it at the time but found itself three months later with 11 versions of "Heartbreak" on wax. National also points out that the Billy Eckstine recording of "All of Me," which had been inadvertently credited to M-G^M in Vaiubty's disk jockey poll, is one of its own disks. Eckstine has beoi with the M-G-M label almost a year. Alan Lomax, Decca's folksong authority and Mutual's folksong disk jockey, thinks there must be around 25,000^ compositions of the folk- music category on commercial records, and'he's launching an all-out effort to round up ast many of them as possible. Types of music Lomax is looking for include blues, spirituals, hillhiUyt forciIgn language, gospel singing, ballAds. boogie woogie and "in the alley" Jazz. Lenny Herman combo will be back on the Roof as reUef combo and may have own wires. 111^ Use for Tele Of Old Band Shorts May Stir Inquiry Band agencies are up in arms over the discovery that some of the shorts filmed around name bands now being used by television sta- tions in New York are'heing sold to them illegally. One agnecy dis- covered recently- when going through some old contracts that pacts under whidbt the I>ands re- corded many of these- shorts were written specifically to covCr their use only in coin-operated machines, or "spundies" as they are called in the trade." "Soundies" machines never were very successful and at the moment are virtually out of existence. But not so the siiorts that were made for them bj^ vaiious combos. And it seems that tiiere are agencies that have gotten hold of the films and are selling them to television. Complaints will be made to the American Federation of Musi- cians. BiTTVlSMSrORA^mi f On fttcMtiKl ALL DRESSEH W WITH AIRCMCEN HEAiT . r«ts« tM-C<4>. tSO» e IvAiy aai)[r-C«l. 379S5 . Bob HmsMn-MGM 10112 • Ahw G*r«ni-lli«. 7919 JoKii Uurmn-4llHcuiy Se«t • Alan Dab-Sig. 1S174 Ih* Ry*. Ben-hibt 1009 » Jodi QwMM^tmw IMA ' Tha Va«gttanh.--UhhMnid 34 * Jwriy Cpu ftt ' .iW I m m m ii SOW Run Martnn-OK. 2433* • iddy Hwwonl-rM«(. 1234 BiU Johnton-Vtc. M474* • PMI llaMl-Oam»^«Mi 17ft DREAM PEDDLER, THE (f««r) Frank!* CarU-Col. 3S034 • HtA Ommiii-tap^ 441 laiBmy Koya-Vic. VkUU • SnMky Ummt-Mw*. 5U4 FOOL THAT 1 AM iMii» H«ah Sliwp-.~Col. snSi fmay Hkfr-Vif. MOtm ' - GMrgie etUn-Moi. t3M9 *. Kfly Etb«M-JMM. IMf7 EmKm HMrMm-Vk. VMUn * , fretiw BmilMftr^Stc. 4(M4t Dhah WinWiigton-WUn. SSSO • .qMiiif a hi w M ar edhr 104 . 'ni«''llaMti»-Naf...f04ft' ' irS EASY WHEN YOU KNOW HOW«'*«^« John Ptm'o-Vwi 2M027 • Joan EduMrdt-Vita. 931 Bwdiiy Clark-Xovior Giiflol-Col. 38135 • Bkio Barran-M6M* r - Eddio Ballantino—Toyrar ^ I WANT TO CRY (ExdAri Cbrit Ctots-Stotlina 4004 , * Sovanrqi Oraniim-lteaMr 1139 , I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED (RoprfiHci Harry Coal—More, 50M) • Sammy Kayo—Vic. 20-2761 LET'S BE SWEETHEARTS AGAIN (Cwiriwu-Persie} . Mo'rgarat Whtting-Cap. 1S010 • Victof lombanlo-lll«|. 7249 . Ma«'BBmm-MSM^012) • Sha|» RoMt-Musicrofr 529 BOiJohnton-VSc. 20.2591 Guy U>mb«iRlo.4Aan(«i. Uwh—Dac. 2429S ~ LOVE IS SO TERRIFFIC (Maiii.) too Brown-Cai. 30040 • AM Uind-MGM lOm IMan CarroN K SotURaM-Vtc. 204472 Vic Damona-Marcury 5104 • End* Fslica ttmm-Xlmf: 4BB PASSING FANCY (tMi) Vaoaim MoaMO-Vie: 10-3S73 Ray Daroy-dhii. ItM ' Johnny Johniton—M6M- 10127 * FiWKot lai mt of d. '- iM arcwy 'anti-. TERESA (OaciMMi Dicfc Haynia>.AiidioMv Sttai»-Dac. 24330 • Kay Kysar-CaL MUf Jock SmiMi-Coik 414 • Vh Damono-Marairy SOtt . . DwJtay^ Tri»-«enu 7S04 • j^brea BlaM»-4Excl. IM Ja> Garbar-Towor 1435 • Joa UM-Vic. 30-2SI9 WHO PUT THAT DREAM IN YOUR EYESfStaortl Mark.Warnow-^oost 8024 • Ray Carlar—Rap. 122 Jack McUan'<-Coatt 8015 • Chuck Fottar-Marc. SI2S WHY DOES IT HAVE TO RAIN ON SUNDAY (JollMiteaal ' Fraddy Martin—Vic. 20-2557 • Snooky lanson—Marc. SOSS MiH Harth-^ac. 243SS • Baale St. Boy*-^M6M 10141 ■Mnnit Ooy-Vic. 20-2377 YOU'RE GONNA GET MY LEHER IN THE MORNING ILewles) Mary Otborna*^l)o(, 24308 * Guy lonibardo->-Dac% YOU'VE CHANGED (Mtlody Lane) Anna Shahon-london 118 • Adela Clark—Dec. 24352 Harry Jamas-Dick Haymei—Col. 36412 Frankia laina—Alia* 236 * IWary Oaborna—Aladdin 3010 King Cola TriaM.Cap. * * Joan Edwards—Vita. * *$«a« To B* Rttaosad. BHOJIBCJIST MUSIC INC. ■580 flfTH AV'ENUE . •, .< ':S« ' N • NEW YORK . CHlCaCO . HOILKWOOD