Variety (Dec 1948)

We«lnc8«lay, PecemLer 29, X948 'RH' Logging System Richard Htmber's new developinent m logging broadcast perform- ances Hsfs tunes in tlie swrpey, based on four major network schedules. They are compiled on the basis of I point for sustaining tnstnmental; a points for svjitaining vocal; 3 for commercial instrxmental; 4 for commercial wocol, respectively, i?i eocJi of the 3 iMjor territories, New Yorlt, Chicago and Coast, For examvle, a Commercial Vocol in all three territories counts 12. Added fo these totals is the Mitener ratings of co?)Mnerciol shows, which account for the Mrge pomt tallies below. ' Week of Dec. 17-23 Publisher -Moi'ris toisH Pts. . 392 . 207 . 201 . 189 . 177 171 ORCHESTRAS-J^mSIC 43 Sons White Christmas—Berlin .... My Darling, My Darling—'^''Where's Charley" Buttons tt Bows—T"Pale Face"—Famous The Christmas Song—BVH ... Winter Wonderland—BVC ....t Santii Claus Is Coming To Town-^Feist.;. .. .. _ _ On a Slow Boat To China—Melrose ,.» 168 A Little Bird Told Me—Bourne 158 i That Certain Part.v—Bourne » 132 ' You Were Only Fooling—Shapiro , 119 Here I'll Stay—""Love Life"—Chapprll 118 My Two Front Teeth—Witmark 116 Down Among the Sheltering Palms—MiUer 103 Lavender Blue—t"So Dear To My Heart"—Santly 84 Say It Isn't So—Berlin , 94 For You—Witmark 93 Guanto Le Gusta—i"Date With Judv"—Southern 88 A Bluebird Singing In My Heart—Advanced , 86 Hold Me—Bobbins 82 If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts—Feist 82 1 Love You So Much It Hurts—Melody Lane . , 81 You're All I Want For Christmas—Poi gie 75 One Sunday Atternoon—I 'Onc Sunday Afternoon"—Remick .... 71 In the Market Place of Old Monterey—Shapiro 71 Par Away Places—^Laurel 67 Bouquet of Roses—Hill & Range 67 Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes—Leeds 6;! Hair ot Gold, Eyes of Blue—Robcit 59 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm—Berlin 54 Galway Bay—Leeds . . 54 One Has My Name the Other Has My Heart—Southern 54 Cornbelt Symphony—Mellin 5S Say Something Sweet To Your S« eetheai t—Mills 52 Until—Dorsey Bros. , 52 By the Way—! "When My Baby Smiles At Me"—BVC 52 The Pussycat Song—Leeds , ., 46 My Own True Love—Paramount 46 It's Too Soon To Know—Melrose . . . 46 Powder Your Face With Sunshine—Lombardo ..... .... 44 The Money Song^-r-Crawford . . ; . . . . . .... . . i ....... You, You, You Are the One—Campbell Maybe You'll Be There—Tiian^le So In Love—*"Kiss Me Kate"—T. B JIarms Little Jack Frost Get Lost—Spii/er ' I Got Lucky In the Rain—i'"As the Girls Go"—Sam Fox The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.—Paramount Tara Talara Tala—Oxford What Did I Do—f"When My Baby Smiles At Me"^Trangle. Lilleltc—Jefterson Pietty Uaby—Remick Standard Pact Revised, Decca Inks Douglas Hollywood, Dec. 28. Deal with Standard Transcrip- tions to waive its contractual rights to sell masters paved the way for Michael Douglas to ink with Decca. Singer last wefek finished track- ing 14 tunes for Standard. Under his deal with them, the transcrip- tion firm had the right to peddle the masters to « plattery tor re- lease. With the threat of other masters bunging fire, Decca de- clined to ink a pact until Marvin iSaltzman of the Orsatti agency in- Itervened and p r e v ai 1 e d upon I Standard: to - cancel the platter I elau.ses. Douglas will continue to I etch transcriptions tor Standard. Hampton 1st Negro Band at Inaugural | Lionel Hampton's orchestra \viUj be the first Negro combination to ■ work a U. S. President's inaugura-:, tion affair. Hampton will put on ; a show only at the Armory the night of Jan. 19. He will not play for dancing. Bookings of the bands involved in the pre-inauguration perform-^ ances and President Truman's In-' augural Ball are being handled through the American . Federation of Musicians. i Jackie Paris Trio heldover at Showboat, Minneapolis, for . extra two weeks. LES BROWN HANDLED ENTIRELY BY GLASER Booking of Les Brawn's orches- tra will be handled .entirely: by .Toe Glaser's Assocated Booking Corp after Satiirday (1). Glaser originally had been Brown's per- sonal manager, while Music Corp. oi America did. his booking. When Gliiscr expanded and set up his ^ ABC agency, he gave up manag- ing and Brown stayed with MCA; Now that deal has expired, and Brown switched back to Glaser. : He's on the Boh Hope show weekly ! from Hollywood and works one- nighters during the week. Band may go into the Palladium ball- room; Hollywoodi in February. . 44 4S' .42. 38 38 36 36 34 34 34 33 On The Upbeat Continued from ii.age 41 Ainslev hotel, Atlanta, Jan. 17 lor tour weeks . : Sherman Hayes orch set for Hotel Muehlebacli, Kansas Gityv Mo., Jan. 5 alter closing at Blackhawk restaurant here. . . llal Mclntyre and Red Ingle will fill in cro.ss-country trek with onc- nighters m midwest m January Wayne Grces st.ivs at Lake Club, Springfield, 111., until Jan. 6, then FARAWAY PLACES VIC DAMONE. MERCURY RECORD I tAUREL MUSIC CO '619 Broadway New York KIE lAlNE hops to.St. Louis lor a one-nightcr at Casa Lonia ballroom . , Anita O'Day set lor Intlehnite slay at, I Domci Minneapoli.s, Jan. 10 .-. Pec i rWcc Russell goes into Dome, Min-^ neapolis, on S(. Valentine's D.iy,' , tor eight weeks Tommy Reed ' .set for two weeks at Trocadero, : ilenclerson, Ky., Jan. T.. Leieh-, ton Noble will do a week at Casa I Loma ballioom, St Louis, after r clo.sing At Edgewater Beach hotel ; I .limmy Dorsey stays a month at i Deshler-Wallick hotel; Columbus, O, bfginning Jan 3 Sammy I Kayc filling theatre dates in Ohio. I with a three-day stint lined up ; Jan. 3 at RKO theatre, Columbus, I and one week starting Jan; 6 at [ RKO, Cincinnati . . . Eddy Howard j will play for New Year's Eve dancers' at Aragon ballroom... James C. Petrillo personally in-, ducted harmonica player Larry! Adler Into musician's union here' last week Art Van DantmcY formerly with Chi NBC for four.; yeai's, opened with his sextet at i new Music Bowl, Dec. 24. Music Bowl was old Latin Quarter, which r became China: Doll . . .DiMy Gil- lespie 5(1 ves his first Chi concert at Chi Opera House, Jan. 2.., Maestro Lou Breese will play for Chi Press Fotog ball, Morruson hotel, Feb. 19. .Jimmy Van Ileusen, composer, accompanied Frank Sinatra at the piano, during Herald-American benefit appear- ance;. Opera House, Dec. 22;.. Bob Miller, exec of Music Pub- lishers Contact Employees, iri town c,onferring with Mori Schaef-: fcr, Irwin Barsr and AI: Bielei^ about Tin Pan Alley ball plans for next March PITTSBURGH Jerrv Condcratto on guitar and Bob Osborne on ba.ss have rc^ placed Pat McCauley and Bill Bickel at Hotel Roosevelt's Fiehla Room to loim new trio with Dom Trimarkie, acooiclioni.st now al.so doubling on electiic oigan. McCauley and Biekel, with Bil UiNardo, have gone to Bi I Green's new cocktail lounge, ad- jacent to his big CaMiio, \\hich opened right before the hnlulayS Ciro Rimac, who played J.phn^ nv Biown's Club in East Liberts for SIX weeks, eloMng .}ust a. month ago, is back there again foi another indefinite engagement . Now compfefing 2ntfvj\ fngagemeiff this year COCOANUT GROVE, Los Angeles LOUELLA PARSONS soys: "Dorothy Shay is wowing them oMht Cocoanut Grove!" MIKE KAPLAN, n. y. VoWefy, so^r "The table-sitters eon't get enough of it!" Co/omn.-sf ERSKINE JOHNSON <oy5: "Dorothy Shoy'i packing 'em in!" FLORABEL MillR, famovt Hollywood columnist, 'jays;*Wrapi up the dining crowd in stitches!" THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER soys.- "Dorothy Shay Is back at the Cocoanut Grove where four months-ago she set r reeordsl" new DAILY VARIETY soys. "Pocked with sock material!" HARRISON CARROLL, King Feofures Syndlcaf column'isl, says: 'Wowed them again... she's 100 per cent class!" , CHOLLY ANGEIENO, sx>deiy editor. Los Ange/es Examiner, says: 'The shopely and handsome songstress had a jam'packed house eating out of her hand!" 1. E. BENTQNi ios'Angefes Ambossacfort soys: "Your highly acceptable performoncer coupled with a pleasing personality, has .< ' V endccred you to the patrons of the . Cocoanut Grove." C. N. HILTON, Hi7>on Hofels, says: '"In your appearance in the famous Empire Room of the great Palmer House, , you mode a tremendous success, and we are frequently asked when you will return for another engagement." GEORGE D. SMITH, Hotel Mark Hopkins, says: : "Congratulations on >the splendid job you ore doing in the Cocoanut Grovel We knew'- your engagement would be a sensation ; there, because you have done such a won- ' derfut business for us when appearing in Peacock Court." HAROLD KOPLAR, Chose Hofef, says: 'Your three previous engagements In our Pork Plaza Hotel were outstanding..^ ' |» this one tops them all." 'DOROTHY SHAY (ra,k Jm umt) SINGS" Columbia Album C;M9 > "DOROTHY SHAY m h,mmm) GOESTO TOWN" Colombia Album C-155 "DOROTHY SHAY (rHU«.!ll!:NMiiti<» COMING 'ROUND THE MOUNTAIN" ciombi. Album cni