Variety (Nov 1948)

46 ORCHESniA-MIJSIC Wednesday, November 17, 1948 i Songs widi Lai^est Radio Aufience: _ Die top 31 songs o/ the week based on the copyrighted Audi- •' ence Coverage Index Survey of Popular Music Broadcast Over * Radio Networla. Published by the Office of Research, Inc., Dr. John G. Peatman, Director. $ttmy Week of Novembef 5-11, 1948. /V Tree in the Meadow Shapiro-B Ain't Doin' Bad Doin' Nothin" Spitzer Blue Bird of Happiness T- B- Harm* Bouquet of Roses Hill & Range Buttons and Bows—i"Pale Face" Famous Cornbelt Symphony ,. Mellin Cuanto Le Gusta—1"Date With Judy" Soutliein ; Ev'ry Day I Love You Harms Galway Bay Leeds Hair Of Gold . , .....Robert I Don't Care If It Rains All Night Witmark If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts Feist Isn't It Romantic—1 "Isn't It Romanlic" Famous It's a Most Unusual Day—i "Date With Judy" Bobbins It's Magic—1 "Romance On High Seas" Witmark , Just for Now .*.•■• Advanced : Lavender Blue Santly-Joy Lillette Jefler.«ion , Love Somebody Kramer- W Maybe You'll Be There , Triangle Money Song Crawford My Darling, My Darling—> "Where's Charley" Morris On a Slow Boat-to China Melrose Rambling Rose Laurel ^ Say It Isn't So Berlin ■ • Say Something Sweet To Your Sweetheart Mills ;; Twelfth Street Rag Shapiro-B ' Walkin' With My Shadow Johnstone-M You Call Everybodv Darling Mayfair You Were Only Fooling Shapiro-B booking of special such as the Horace Heldt "Radio Winners" units {which do not work with Heidt himself, but as "Major Bowes" am groups), some one- nighters, etc. He Jiad been with the Gale Agency. Glaser three weeks-ago took oii George Walker, ex-Music Corp: of America agent. Before that, Gla^' ! spr absorbed Continental Artists i and installed its head. Milt I Deutsch, in Hollywood as the ABC + , rep there. Bundy Joins Glaser ^RHT Logging System fiichard Himber's new development tn lofffling broadcast perform, anccs lists tunes in the survey, based on four major network scliedwl«s. Bob Bundy joins Joe Glaser's Associated Booking Corp. in New York Nov. 29, the second person- thi mln'th^^Bundv v^frhand^le the They are compiled on the basis of 1 point for sustaining instrumental; bookinB of special ABC projects, 2 points for sustoinino wcol; 3 /or commercial instrumental; 4 for DooKing 01 spi-LMi Auv^ 11 ji. commercial vocal, respectively, in each of the 3 major territories. New Yorki' Chicano and Coast. For iexttmpli, a Coihi^jereirtt iP^qcttt^ three territories counts 12. ; ■ . '.-r. W«ek of Nov. S-11. Total Pts. j IRH Logging New Ratings .. iSottr'"'' :s ^ ■~PubUshe^^ ■ .-■ Buttons & Bows—1 "Paleface"—^Famous 268 Say It Isn't So—Berlin 217 The Money Song—Crawford 195 If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts—Feist 170 On a Slow Boat To China—Melrose ... > 165 Hair of Gold—Robert . . 149 You Were Only Fooling—Shapiro , 144 Maybe You'll Be There—Triangle 126 My Darling, My Darling—^"Where's Charley"-Morris 117 Cuanfo Le Guiita—i "Date With Judy"—Southern 114 Everyday I Love You—VTwo Guys From Texas"—Harms 110 A Tree In the Meadpw—Shapiro 96 Just For Now—Advanced ., 95 You Call Everybody Darlin—Mayfair ,.,. Lavender Blue—Santly-Joy Say Something Sweet To Your Sweetheart- Here I'll Stay—*"Love Life"—Chappell , Underneath the Arches—Bobbins Galway Bay—Leeds Isn't It Romantic-^f 'lsn't It Romantio"- 90 90 -Mills 8ii 0 71, 67 66 -Famous , 64 -Miller M TJie remaining 22 sovgs of the week, based on the copyvightei Audience Coverage Index Survey of Popular Music Broadcast Over Radio Networks. Published by the Office of Research, Inc., Dr. John G. Peatman, Director. Again Bobbins Ah But It Happens , Bourne Confess Oxford Down Among the Sheltering Palms Miller Far Away Places Laurel For You Witmark Here I'll Stay—^'"Love Life" Chappell I Still Get a Thrill Words & I'd Love to Live in Loveland BVC It's Whatcha Do Witli Whatcha Got Santly-Joy Night Has Thousand Eyes—1 "Night Has Eyes" Paramount One Sunday Afternoon Remick Rendezvous With a Rose Jay Dee Ta-ra Ta-la-ra Ta-la Oxford This Is the Moment Miller Underneath the Arches Robbins Until Dorsey Bi'os. What Did I Do—■l"When My Baby Smiles" Triangle When You Left Me.... Porgic With a Twist of the Wrist Palmar You Came a Long Way from St. Louis, Jewel You Walk By Cavalier RH Logging Sheet begins this ■' i week adding listener ratings oti [various commercial shows to the| I amount of points compiled by a j ; plug hitting all three major out-, -^^^^ A,„o„g j^e Sheltering Palms- | letST-^New. York, Chicago and Los I ppj. Yq _ . I Angeles. Ratings assigned to in-, j^,jgi,i ^ Thousand Eyes—i"Night Thousand Eyes"—Paramount dividual broadcasts are from an un- micttg Jefferson i disclosed source, but they're said , bouquet of Roses—Hili' & Range ' ' '" to be averages struck trom the ifs Magic—r"Romance On High Seas"—Witmark levels posted by the different sys- to Live In Loveland—BVC , It's a Most Unusual Day-^T"Date With Judy"—Rohbins .;. ...... One Sunday. Afternoon-^1"One Sunday Af lern6on'';---Iiemick.. . . . Cornbelt Symphony—Mellih ....;... ., ' ,, ... . .; 1... I Still Get a Thrill—Words & Music v: . ; ;\ ....... .....V Bluebird of Happiness—T.:B. ,Harms .;. i..; .v. ...r; v; i.».. k.: terns of coverage evalution—Hob' per. Nielsen, Pulse. . For: example, as it stands now, a vocal performance on a major cbUt- mercial hitting all three key out- lets rates 12 points under RH's I system. To this will be added, if ^. I the performance is on Jack Benny's show, another 23 points. RH has supplied musie publishers with tlie rating's ot individual shows—froirt "Fibber McGee" at 23. Bob Hope at 22-through 44 major commercials down to a rating of two as a guide to follow. It makes no provision, of course, for highly rated sustain- ing. showF, but these are in: the mi- nority. . liegit Mwsical. t FiI'miistcal.: ■♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ************* * ******************* * ** * * : Campbell's Catalog; London, Nov, 9. ' : Jimmy Campbellj who recently made a comeback in- the music publishing business as general manager of the Noel Gay Music Co., has lined up a sizable catalog. from th» 20th Ctntury-Fox Pieluf "ROAD HOUSE" Th» Ballad Smash Of The Fall Stason ROBBINS MUSIC CORPORATION i ROYALTY WRANGLING Hollywood. Nov. 16. Edwin H. (Buddy)-Morris.music ■; I publishing, ftrrtt is'holding;:Bp^ f^^^^^ Pments of writei* royalties on "The I Dum Dpi. Sptig,''; cleil'ed bjr JUlian I Kay and published by Sinatra I Songs, Inic. Morris holds an in- I teresl :ahd exerts a controlling I hand over Sinatra Songs. V; Shortly after "Dum Dot" was re- Sl. Louis, Nov J6 I leased, two sonRwnteia, Lou ller- Missouri stale supremo scher and Clarke Johnson, assei lcd last w cek invalidated a | tune contained eight consecutive, city ordinance which | note-for-note bars out of "I Put a Penny in the Guvn ■Slot,'' published by L.Wolfe Gilbert in 1939; Hcrscher pressed a claim that ' Dum Dot" also liad some lyrical content out of "Guiii Slot" and melodically :was the ;same. s^ a- key dharige.; Kay then signed a 60 : 60 58 57 •'5T,.' 56 53 ; 52 ■52.' 52 •51 '■ .•50 Walking With My Shadpw-»-Johnstone-M 48 : Love Somebody—Kramer-W 47 Again—i"Boad House"—Robbins 46 What Did I Do—f'When My Baby Smiles at Me"—Triangle 4a Ah But It Happens—Bourne 43. Rambling Rose—Laurel ,• 42; ■ Twelfth Street Rag—Shapiro 40 t Don't Care If It Rains An Night— "Two Guys Texas"—Witmark 37 1 You Came a Long Way From St. ; Louis^Jewel .36 I Rendezvous With a Rose—Jay-Dee 36 I Ain't Doin Bad, Doin Nothin—Spitzer 36 j Tara-Talara-Tala—Oxford 35 You Walk By—Cavalier 33 I Far Away Places—Laurel 30 I You Started Something—BMI 30 Until—Dorsey Bros. 29 When You Left Me—Porgie 27 In My Dreams—Wizell 27 Jocks, Jukes, Disks Continued from page 42 I Mo. Court Invalidates ! Tax On Jukeboxes The I court j Trenton/ Mo I would have imposed a tax on .luke- ! boxes The liigh tribunal ruled I that the measure wasmlendc'd I solely, to produce revenue and. was I not a proper exercise oi the mun- icipality's police power. The Up |vas lor $30 per box annually. The court held that a munituial tax of the kind passed was not specifically authorized by the slate law.; William Moots, owner ol five mechanical music^makers in the town, brought the te-si .suit: He; was upheld in the circuit court ot I CUundy county, and the city ap- I pealed to the high tribunal. Another unusual item, that should appeal to jocks who try for well- balanced programming. Miss Shel- ton and Ambrose's combo combine on a sort of semi-concertized "Man- hattan Towers" idea and, while it's 1 not cut as sharply as other London i things in the same vein, it's distinct | live and worth attention.; It's two-1 sided. Georgia; Crsickcrs "That's the] Way It's Gonna Be''-"Broken; Doll" (Victor) The "Gonna" side may never rise off the: hillbilly-; country jock lurnlableSi but that I doesn't diminish the excellence of the Crackers' performance, vocally Waring's I71/2G, MpU. Minneapolis, Nov. 16. Playing a single Sunday night concert performance under his own auspices, Fred Waring grossed a smash $17,500 at $3.60 top. Using the entire 9,000-seat Audi- torium, he ■ drew 8,500 .eustomers. SOMETH SWEET TO Y SWEETHEART oaoer allofatlna In Uerorhp'r I »"<^ musically. A fine job. Reverse ?9 ' r- «f .tw ,..,,,M?ti„cr i,\f^„^^ I equally well done; a Mills Bros. m2',c of what royalties he got | ^ approach to a good tune, . Piatt** .Pointers :^^y^^ from his song However, now llerscher insists he and JohJi.son gel one-third each. Meanwhile, Morris has not given Ka.v what royalties Sinatra Songs derived from sheet sales nor the three recordings accorded "Dum "Little Jack Frost Get Lost," by Frankie Carle (Columbia), seems a worthwhile wintry melody . . . 'Indian Maiden," a new tune by Sheb Wooley, has good possibilities; ! Dot," Frank Sinatra on Columbia, | his own disking of it for M-G-M is Tommy Dorsey's son, "Skipper." now 18-years-old, is a star foot- baller at Hotchkiss School. Con- necticut.' Youngster Intends going to Dartmouth after prep schooling,; for engineering and grid. Korn Kobblers on MGM and Cap tain Stubby on Majestic. No lawsuit has eventuated.' At- torril'y Lee Eastman, representing Morris' companies, has ■ told the three cleSfers merely to settle their'snarl amicably. ' Petrillo's Special OK spoiled somewhat by too much background . . : Tony Pastor's"It's Like Taking Candy From a Baby'^ (Columbia) again shows the ex- cellence of Rosemary Clooney'S vocalizing ;. . .- Dana label's four Xmas sides by Frank Gallasher do a; varied job, including "You're All 1 Want For Xmas," "Kris Kringle" and "Merry Xmas" and "Happy New Year" in polka tempo . . . I "Gielito Lindo" in handily treated For March Dimes Disking i ^: "" ciearto„es (signature) EMM ■■■WD ■■ii«aaaai«ii Hollywood, Nov. 16. ; James C. Petnllo has given spe^ cial permission . to the March of Dimes Committee to have Spade Cooley record "Piggy Bank Polka."! Tune, cleft'ed by Del Porter, Carl Hoebble and ..Cooley, has been I made official song for the March I of Dimes. Petrillo has also given I his blessings for the making of a ' television film, using the song, by Cooley. . Dimes Committee will have 3.000 copies of the platter pressed to send to stations throughout the country: as . a booster' for the col- lection of dimes. Cooley crew will make the TV film at RKO studios today (16), Short is being seAt to video, stations; throughout the coun- try. . , Columbia reissued two excellent sides by Claude Thornhill—"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" and "I Knew You When" . . . Sonny Dunham's "You Gave Me The Runaround" 1 (Embassy) is worth disk jock atten- tion; a good melody' nicely per- formed in a light jump vein. ■ Recommended hillbilly, western,: country land . race: Jesse Ashloch, i "I'll Never Be Sorry If You're Satisfied"-"Knuckle Head" (Co- lumbia^; Eddy Arnold!, "Then I Turned and Walked Slowly Away" (Victor); Foy Willing, "Rose of Old i Pawnee" (coupled to "Brush Those Tears") (Capitol); Al Dexter, "Is That the Way To Treat a Friend" (Columbia); Johnny; Stone, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Apollo); Sister Rosetta Tliarpe "NAbody's. Fault But Mine" <Decca), and "Sit Down"; Bud Hobbs, "Oklahoma Sweetheart ' (M-G'-M), ' / UNtVERSAl RECORD JUST RELEASED "JUST ONCE MORE" Racked wl»h "DON'T EVER FORGET" JOAN BROOKS , ■. . ■«nd ■■■■■ ■ HI, LO, JACK AND THI DAME A DREAM OF A LULLABY TARRA TA-LARRA TA-LAR OXFORD MUSIC CORF. Uiy 'iraadway Haw Yark Exclusive Management ASSOCIATED BOOKING CORPORATION JOE GLASER. Pres. 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