Variety (Jan 1949)

Ve dneflday, January 19, 1949 Bands at Hotel B.O.'s ..•..•Covers',' ToUI ■. .••■ •• . ■ " ' .'...Weeks .Past . Covers' Band Hotel Played week on Date Emil Coleman*... Waldorf <400; $2) 5 2,075 9,525 Gardner Benedict* New Yorker (400; $1-$1.50) ...... 6 900 8,325 Cuy Lombardo ,.. Roosevelt (400; $1.50-$2), H l,800 27,675 Frankie Carle ... Statler .(450; $1.50-$2) 3 ijoo 4,300 * Waldorf, Mario & Floria, Jimmy Carroll; New Yorker, ice revue. Chicago Barclay Allen (Empire Room, Palmer House; 550, $3.50 min., $1 cover). Evelyn Knight, McCarthy & Farrell, Landre & Vema big 4,100. Jack Fina (College Inn, Sherman; 500, $2;50-$3,50 min.). "Salute to Gershwin" still big draw. Lush 3,000. Frankie Masters (Boulevard Room, Stevens; 650, $3.50 min , $1 cover). Continues as transient gathering place with fine 3,600. Henry Brandon '(Marine Room, Edge water; 700, $1.20 cover). Re- placed Leighton Noble Fri. (14). Nice 3,000. . Don Reld (Walnut Room, Bismarck, 300, $2.50 min., $1 cover). Swiss Chalet becomes main spot here next week. Walnut Room so-so 1,700.- Los Angeles Carl Brisson; Freddy ' Martin: (Ambassador, 900; $1.50-$2). Good 3,600. . Jan Garber (Biltinorei.poO; $1-$1.50). Okay 3,200. Location Jobs, Not in Hotels ■'■'.. .■'.. '. V .. ".(Chicago..) Cee Davidson (Chez Paree, 500; $3.50 min.). Ted Lewis show faring high n'mighty; big 5,500. .:Eddie Howard (Aragen, $1-$1.15 adm.).' Continues socko in third week with 18,000. Art Kassel (Blackhawk, 500; $2.50 min.). Conventioneers like tt here. Neat 2,500. Lawrence Welk (Trianon, $1'$1.15 adm.). Danceable tempos keeping ticket takers busy. Sweet 16,000. (Los Anaeles) Tex Beneke (Palladium B., Hollywood, 4th wk.). Okay 7,500. ORCHESTRA$.]»IIJSIC 39 SAMMY KAYE INTO BOWLING ALLEY BIZ Sammy Kaye is going into the bowling alley business as a side- line to his bandleading and music publishing activities. Maestro, has leased a buiidibg in Lakewood, O.,- a suburb of-Ctevelandi. in which will be built a string of . 18 alleys. Discussions are going on currently with Brunswick-Balke for the in- stallation. Kaye is native of the Cleveland area. He was born in Rocky River, another suburb. Evelyn Knight Renews Decca, Signs With ATS Chicago, Jan. 18. Riding on the crest of approxi- mately 1,000,000 copies of "Little Bird Told Me;" Evelyn Knight re^ newed 'her - contract with; Decca Records last weeki She also inked with Associated: Transcription Service for 60 new tunes. With "Little Bird" continuing its climb, Miss Knight stands to make a cool $25,000 on the single disk. Singer is now at the : Empire Room, Palmer Houses 'here. Jolson Cuts Special . 'Brother' Disk for Dimes i . Hollywood, Jan. 18. Al Jolson cut a' special recording here of "Brother Can You Spare i a Dime" for the March of Dimes | campaign. His disking for Decca 1 followed the granting by E. Y.i (Yip) Harburg, composer^ of per-: mission for the writing of special! lyrics. Isham Jones did them. .AH concerned with the record- ing ,are donating services and some 2,500 copies of the disk are being shipped to di.sk jockeys all over, the country to plug the Dimes event. Peer Shakes Up N.Y. Exec Lineup to Free Self for O'Seas Ties Hollywood, Jan. 11. Peer Music Enterprises prexy, 1 Ralph S. Peer, revised New York ] olf ice «xe<; lineup so he may devote major time to foreign subsidiaries. E. M. Roberts becomes v.p. and' general manager of all Peer music j publishing companies in U; S. Rob-1 erts was for many years an RCA- Victor exec; Robert P. Iversen will be assistant general managert R..B: Gilmore, secretary; John L. Lister, treasurer. Shake-up indicates concentrated personal supervision by Peer of his foreign offices from his headquar- ters'in Hollywood. Since Septem- ber he has been on globe-girdling trip, conferring with reps in his London, European and 'Australian offices. RH Tele-Log FoUowinsf is tabulation 0/ song per/onnonces on New Yorfe television networks NBC,-CBS, ABC and DuMont, Tfiey ore based on ratiuflis 0/ seuen top shoios: Texaco (Milton Berle) 80; C/iester/ield tj4rtJiur God- /rej/) 55; Emerson ("Toast Of the Town") 50; Cheurolet, 30; Kra/t, 30; ■Chester/Jcld (Perry Como) 25; Arrow Shirt, 25. Week of Jan. 6 to Jan. 12 Here I'll Stay—*»Love Life"—Chappell 85 A Little Bird Told Me—Bourne < 55 Pn a Slow Boat to China—Melrose ...,. 50 I Love You So Much It Hurts—Melody Lane 45 Far Away Places—Laurel 40- Cuanto Le Gusta—Southern 30. The Pussycat Song—Leeds 30 My Darling, My Darling-^*"Where's Charley"—Morris .......... 20 Maybe You'll Be There—Triangle 20 Pretty Baby—Remick .20 Say It Isn't So—Berlin 20 That Certain Party—Bourne ;., ; 20 You Were Only Fooling—Shapiro..^ 15 Until—Dorsey Bros , , 10 Red Roses for a Blue Lady—Mills'. 1 10 For You—Witmark 10 Lavender Blue—|-"So Dear to My Heart"—Santly 10 Lillette—Jefferson 10 Down Among flie Sheltering Palms—Miller 10 The Money Song—Crawford 10 Buttons & Bows—+"Paleface"—Famous 10 What Did I Do—t"When My Baby Smiles"—Triangle 10 It's a Big Wide Wonderful World—BMI 10 Sunflower-^Famous " , .... >..;.. .. . 1,.. \ ......» 10 Once in Love With Amy—*"Where's Charley"—Morris 10 Green Up Time-r-*"Love Life"—Chappell , 9 Tops of the Tops Retail Disk Seller "A Little Bird Told Me" Retail Sheet Music Seller "Buttbns and Bows" ^'Most Requested" Disk "A Little Bird Told Me" Seller on Coin Machines "A Little Bird Told Me" Dailey Sets Top Bands For Meadowbrook Dates : Frank Dailey has set a,string of top name bands. to ■: play his TWeadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N.. J., between now and the spot's annual- summer hiatus, usually beginning July 4. He has completed negotia- tions to bring in Charlie Spivak, Frankie CarlCj Sammy Kaye and Jimmy Dorsey in that order; Spot hasn't had a consecutive string of bands of that calibre in years. Art Mooney is current at Mead- owbrook. He'll be followed Feb. 18 by Ray McKinley for his second shot at the spot witlfin two months, Spivak on March 28; Carle, April 15 or May 5; Kaye, May 17; and Dorsey on June 5. In the event Dailey can secure a band suitable for the usual lO-week layoff period it's possible he will not close for the summer. MCA UPS COAST BAND HELP TO 10 HANDS Hollywood, Jan. 18. With Larry Barnet^ national di- rector, remaining here for another two months to oversee' activities, Music Corp. of America's local band department, under Eames Bishop, has been enlarged to 10, including Hershey Martin, who ■ moves over from nitery booking. Lee Carroll, who formerly oper- ated a travel agency, moves in. re-: placing Hal Howard, who shifted to Dallas where he'll split activi* ' ties with Norman Steppe. Also new are Bill Stringfellow and Lavcrne: Boyer, an ex-batoneer. Others in the' department are Bob Mohr, Bud Overback, Craig Flanagan, Keuel Freeman, Bob Christy and Fred, Hamilton, who'll handle concerts henceforth. (BELMONT PLAZA HU ^^^^^ Ames Bros.^ 4'. g^^^g Stone l^H^ irca»s OrcH; $3.50 Hat has attainea among P^^^^SSt rooms to play, the more dutiP"*^ reason to brag TOP acts have everyj«,,es are at- , when a pair l2W:stpp..isa^ night of tt^f.^ a song quartet,, the Ai^/^,?i°receptlon. Uchieved such recey ^ few LeS^rVt^ «^1r^ loteWaUties Jor the 5tl^^^ { THE Mm YOU, YOU, ARE THE ONE FAR AWAY PLACES I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY MORE BEER! LORELEI GOOD FELLOW MEDLEY BROTHERS MUSIC CORPORATION OF AMERICA lONDON • NFW YORK • CHIC400 • SAN tRANCIllO • BfVEIIlY HlUi • CUVlUNn • OAli/...