Variety (Nov 1948)

46 ORCHBSTRA-MrSIC Wednesday, November 10, 1948 Bands at Hotel B.O.'s HitnO , , . Hoi«.i einyti Eddy Duchin Waldorf (400; $2i 5 Ray McKinley* New Yorker (400; $1-S1.50).... 5 Guy Lombardo Roosevelt (400; $1.50-$2) 6 Tommy Dorsey ....Pennsylvania (450; $1.50-$2)... 5 Vovtn I'otm ^ Pafit ' Coven W«i>b On. Hat* 2,42S 14,325 1,100 2,450 2,000 5,200 15,200 11,025 • Nev) Yorker, ice show: Waldorj, Peter hind Uayes-Mary Healy. Chicago Victor Lombardo (Marine Room, EdgeWciter, 700; $1.20 cover). Week or dismal rainy weather nipped at tabs. Okay 3,000. ( Joel Merman (Mayfair Room, Blackstone, 350; $3.50 mm.-$l cover), i Joan Edwards out (4), Mata & Hari in Friday (5). Fine 3,000. | Benny Strong (Boulevard Room, Stevens, 650; $3.50 min.-$l cover). | Ice Show holding good crowds. Upped 3,100. . i Griff Williams (Empire Room, Palmer House, &50; $3.50 mm.-$l cover). Small conventions keeping room buzzing. Neat 3,200. Los Angeles Hilde^arde, Eddie Oliver (Ambassador, 900; $1.50-$2). in windup. Jan Garber (Biltmore, 900; $1-$1,50).. Sturdy 3,850. Tops of the Tops Retail Disli Seller "Buttons and Bows" Retail Slicct Music Seller "Buttons and Bows" "Most Requested" Disti "Buttons and Bows" Seliet on Colo Maehlnes "Tree In the MeadovO" Britislt Best Seller "So Tired" Strong 4,000 Location Jobs, Not in Hotels (Chicago) Del Courtney (Trianon, $1-$1.15 adm.). Closing week held up, top ping last. Orrin Tucker opens tonight (9). Over 14,000. Cee Davidson (Chezi- Parfee, 500; $3.50 min.). Harvey Stone, Vaga- bonds and Oracle Barrie, fat 3,300. i Eddy Howard (Aragon, $1-$1.15 adm). Closing week of local fave aocko. Teddy Phillips opens tonight (9). Sock 16,000. Al Trace (Blackhawk, 500; $2.50 min ). Still flying high. Giant 3,600. Los Angeles Lawrence Welk (Palladium B., Hollywood, 3rd wk.). He fty 11,000. BILLY SHAW REMAINS WITH GALE AGENCY Moa Gale and Billy Shaw with- drew the arrangement they hud agreed to last week' and which was all but signed, and Shaw will re- main with the Gale Agency. Dis- pute between Shaw and the Gales ^Moe and Tim-r-was smoothed, over when the brothers flatly re- fused to allow Shaw to take with him into his own agency business the contracts of certain artists han- dled by the Gale org. This would have been in addition to a cash set- tlement for Shaw's one-third in- terest in the operation. ,. Shaw's contract with the Gales doesn't expire for another two years from next February. It was originally a flve-year agreement. Inside Orchestras-Music Hollywood songwriters have contributed approximately $9,000 to the fund begun by New York writers several weeks back, to finance the cost of intervening for the songwriters in the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers case vs^ Independent Theatre Owners of America. Various Coast songsmiths kicked in with indi- vidual sums of $200 to $500 apiece and their contribution^ are said to have swelled the overall fund total to approximately $15,000. AH of it goes to John Schulman, attorney for the writers and for the Song- writers Protective Assn., which has no official l^lace in the ASCAP-ITOA intervention. It's asserted by writers busy doing the collecting that only Schulraan's exluenses and salary during tiie case will be taken out of the fund, the remainder returned pro ratn to contributors. Columbia Records and Philco, which originally collaborated on the marketing of the former's Long-Playing Microgroove record, in the sense that Philco developed the 33>/6 rpm turntable and special tone arm which reproduce the disks, do not collaborate -in advertising. As a matter of fact they seem to avoid mentioning each other. Philco's Sunday evening tele shows (NBC) and Bing Crosby's transcriptions avoid pointing out that the Columbia LP disk is the only platter play- able: with its new machines. The tele show, when it shows a recording spinning on the turntable, uses a plain white label recording. Colum- bia, on the otheiHiand, doesn't mention Philco in its ads. That's ex- plained by the fact that other manufactui'crs are now making repro- ducers capable of handling the LP disk. Boston History Teacher Sells Pan* to Decca Boston, Nov. 9. Lee MorriSj Hub history teacher who scored as a tunesmlth with ''II I Only Had a Match,'' made a package deal with Decca for a coupling of two new tunes he brought out himself under the Richmond labef. Tunes are "Dear to Dream" and "Tish Tish MacTavish," both bari- toned by Bobby Wayne with an orch background. Plugged by Bob Clayton, WHDH joclc, disc began to catch on, and Decca deal fol- lowed. Figures to release them on -its new Coral label as a special. Supreme is publishing. I AFM's Revised Rules I American Federation of Musi- clans issued its revised book ot ' rules last week, the new issue cov- I ering 100 pages less than the old. j Streamlined version.: covers 183 I pages as against the: 292 of its predecessor. I Union reworded the entire book 1 for the first time due to the fact [that many of the rules and regu- i lations were duplicated wholly or I in part by years of constantly add- ing amendments. It felt that the original book was; confusing in many ways, and so .a committee was named to streamline the regu- lations. Disk jockeys in Pittsburgh and St. Louis have been running mystery contests'of their own accord on the new Peter Lind Hayes disks re- leased by Decca, and the company, getting wind of it, is following up by suggesting the idea to other diskers who haven't yet aired the Hayes disks. Idea of Bill Brant, KDKA jock, is based on the fact Hayes has never done a straight singing, job before: He asked listeners to identify the singer, explaining he was: an. outstanding comedian. Most, callers named Danny Kaye and out of hundreds only one. labeled :the singer as Hayes. S-B's Hat Trick Shapiro-Bernstein TJuUed the hat trick.last Saturday (6) evening by placing three songs on the Lucky Strike "Hit. Parade." Program, now a half-hour, uses only. seve,n songs in all. • S-B led the . program with "Tree In the Meadow" and followed Vfith "12th Street Rag" and "You Were Only Fooling," I Mike Vallon,, and his wife, Mary Miremberg, two-third.s of the N; Y. i law firm of Goldfarb, Miremberg & Vallon, aren't allowed to operatef : as attorneys in California, where they now live, because neither is a : member of the California bar. Personal managers as well as attorneys, i they operate as the former only out of Hollywood, while legal angles { are handled back in N, Y. by Goldfarb. Situation has led to rumors : the three are split, but that's not the case. Vallon last week signed ' Judy Canova, incidentally, to a management pact. Larry Barnet East •■„ Larry Barnet, Music Corp of America v.p., returned to New York late last week and will be east for three or four weeks. He has been at MCA's Beverly Hills office for a couple of months; On his trips back and forth, Barnet stops off at MCA offices in Dallas, Chicago, etc. Louis Prima's orchestra is maintaining a good b.o. pace at the newly launched Dance Carnival ballroomi New York-^but drawing most of it on weekends. It's claimed Prima played to between 3,500 and 3,800 admissions the. past Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings (5-6-1), which amounts to :between 20% and 25% better than his opening week- end. Midweek .business, however;- is very light in ■ comparison, which is only following the trend of N. Y. niteries, hotels. Recent story from .Tapan of Burton Crane, how he waited 14 years , to put his show on (tor which Claude Lapham wrote the music), re- minds Lapham of his troubles wlth his"Japanese Concerto for Pianoi" RCA-Ylctor recorded and released it in 1936, only to cancel it in 1938, with no chance even now, he says, to release it again.- Lapham's 1 "Niseire Romance," Jap-American operett.i. had its bow at the Inter- 'national Studio tlieatie, Hollywood, Oct. 31. Do you fiick your own songs? Or are you listening to Gai/ufi, Roper, Hooper, Peatman and Himber? ,//' BELLA BELLA MARIE uncorded b/-THE ANDREWS SISTERS (Decca) • JAN GARBER (Capitol) • EDDY HOWARD (Marcury) PAUL FENNELLY & REGGIE GOFF (MGM) • JACK SMITH (Capitol) • PHIL BRITO (Musicraft) • GRACIE FIELDS (London) LARRY GREEN (Victor) • JOHNNY DESMOND & The Dell Trio (Columbia) • JOHNNY FRANK with Orchestra (Varsity) 6ALWAY BAY Rocordecf by-BING CROSBY (Decca) • ANNE SHELTON (London) • BILL JOHNSON (Columbia) THE SENTIMENTALISTS (Rex) • BOB LESTER (Rainbow) • BOBBY WORTH (Castle) • JANE PICKENi (RCA#yiC*o^^^^^^^ JOSEPH McNALLY & PHILLIP GREEN (MGM) BRUSH THOSE TEARS FROM YOUR EYES Recorded by-EVELYN KNIGHT with THE STARDUSTERS (Deeca) AL TRACE 4 ALAN FOSTER (Regent) • BUDDY CLARK (ColombioJ • R. DEAUVILLE (Mercury) RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE (Capitol) • BARRY GREEN (Rainbow) I 160 ACRES m. Recorded fcy-BING CROSBY & THE ANDREWS SISTERS (Decea) m FOY WILLING & THE RIDERS OP THE PURPLE SAGE (Decco) ■M ART KASSEL (Mercury) • SONS OF THE PIONEERS (Victor) RKO building ■ NEW tORk 20 AIGALUCO PROF MGR