Variety (Jan 1949)

OllCIIESTRAS-3Ii:SIC Wcdneaday, January 19, 1949 Coast AFM Local 47 Boosts Scale on 2 Aspects of Arranging HoUyAvood, Jan. 18. Creating a marked difference be- tween scales here and in N6w York, AFM Local. 47 lias tilted scale, ^on arranging work done for records and transcriptions. Tilt was okayed, ' it's under- stood, after consultation with James C. " Petrillo anent the long-standing demand o£ 125 or- chestrators withijn local's ranks for more coin. Straight orchestrating rate re- mains at $5.60 per page, but for partial creative efforts such as modulations, the per-page rate was upped to $8.40 and for wholly orig* inal orchestrating, to $1120—just double the old standard rate of $5.60. New scale is purely local. JAMES RE-FORMS FOR EIGHT MONTHS' WORK Hollywood, Jan. 18. Harry James is reforming his band to tee off, eight months' work with a Jan. 28 opening al I'.u Casino Gardens. Band will play eight consecutive three-day week-, ends at the terperj' at $2,500 against a 60% privilege. Following the Casino stands crew .V'ill fly to Chicago for eight weeks of , one-nighters and thence back to the coast for eight more frames as Casino Gardens. DOWN AMONG THE SHELTERING PALMS lyric by Jomti trackman Mutie Jtf Aba Olman Scoring A Great New Popularity MIllER MUSIC CORPORATION RETAIL DISK BEST SELLERS Jocks and Jukes PLACES LAUREL MUSIC CO., 1619 Broadway, New York s G<>ntinued from paee 36 s I good jock stuff for library pur- j poses... Anne Shelton "While the An- I gelus Was Ringing"-"KiSs Me I Goodnight" (London). Miss Shel- ' ton got hold of a tune, in the "Angelus" side, that sounds like it might make some noise. She does it well, with full church- mood , assists from the Wardour Singers and Roy. Robertson's or- chestra. Jocks wiU use it often. It's based on ''Les Trois Cloches," with an English lyric by Dick Manning. "Kiss Me," a waltz, is pleasant listening but it doesn't figure to stir unusual reaction. Dinah Shore "So In . Love"- "Always True .to My Fashion" (Columbia). From Cole Porter's "Kiss IMe Kate" score, "So In Love'* is an impressive piece of melody sung with unusual appre- ciation by Miss Shore. It promises to be a sizeable jock request num- ber since its impact builds with every repeat. Harry Zimmerman conducts the beguine accompani^ ment and i-ates a big assist. From the same score, "Always True," is another hugely acceptable bit of material that jocks should spin often. Miss Shore does it very Presentins a Smash Hit from a Great Show . . . "ALL FOR LOVE" Produced by SAMMY LAMBERT and ANTHONY B. FARRELL Opening New York, Jan. 22 MARK HELLINGER THEATRE By ALLAN ROBERTS and LESTER LEE GEORGE SIMON, INC. New York—HARRY SANTLY Hollywood—SfDNEY GOLDSTEIN smartly, aided by the Starlighters and some more Zimmerman ac- comp, Viola Watkins "Hey Mama, (He's Trying to Kiss Me")-VMy Real Fine Man." (M-G-M). Miss WatkinS is M-G-M's opposition to Victor's Rose Murphy and Capitol's Nellie Lutcher* She's not quite the artist that the other two are, at least on these two sides, but she shows enough to gather attention. Basic- ally, the girl works more like Miss Murphy than Miss Lutcher and the two sides she skips over here wofthrsbme jock attention. They'i-e rhythm pieces. "Kiss Me" is a cute novelty whereas the "Real Fine Man" side seems like a fol- lowup on "Fine Brown Frame." Platter Pointers Maxlne Sullivan displays the style that made her on ''Behaviil Myself for You" (M-G-M), a good Side . . .. Fiesta atiriosphere per- meates the Reggie fcjoff disking of "Streets of Laredo": (liondon) . . ; Columbia and M-G-M each brpke out versions of "iRunning Off the Rails," first by The Columbia Or- chestra and second by Philip Green orchestra; both are good •,• • Burl IvesV who does "Laven- der Blue" in Walt Disney:s "So Dear To My Heart" film, cut a commercial disking of it for Decca with Captain Stubby and the «r"?.??'"1?f'i^'**' « male chorus ... "Little Bird .Told Me" drew a per- fbrmance from the Wayfarers (London) ihftt is the equal of niost of the U. S, .versions , , . "Teh- ^^V, ^S^^^M to Clark Dennis' Capitol dliSklng, gets a push via DickvPriney (Mercury) [' . . Lawrence Welk made a nice "Up Up.Up'.'.CCL^ccs). RCA Pop Albums Cut To 3 Records In Order To Shave Retail Price RCA-Vlctor Is, reducing-the rec- ord content of its albums from four disks to three as a means of cutting retail prices. At the mo- ment, the regular four'disk pop packages sell for $4; by cutting out, one recording, Victor will be able to retail them for $3.25" in the usual album. In some future cases, however, the company will market albums in a different container, which looks just like the current type, but will enable the price to be brought down to $2.95. First package being sold at that level is a new Perry Como ■ group-" in'g of sides titled "Perry Como's Supper Club." It is made up of tunes which have been the most poDular on his Chesterfield Supper Club NBC broadcasts. RCA'S FOURTH QUARTER ROYALTY COIN UP RCA-Victor's fourth quarter roy- alty statements to music publish- ers was up slightly over the pre- vious quarteri Third three-month payment of 1947 had been approx- imately 40% lower than the total coin disbursed for the correspond-' ing period of 1946, indicating the sharp drop of sales during 1947 from the wartime boom period. Victor's fiscal year ends Dec. 1 and it gets its statements out within five weeks. Other companies run their year from Jan. 1 to Jan, 1 and usually take six weeks to deliver statements. FRANK1E LAINE ON VmOY VEE'B CBEBXaSBniiLD BCFPSiR C£.UB .Ttnindar KTenlDg; It'* a Dlllyl LAVENDER BLUE (Dilly Dilly) Santly-Joy, Inc. 1619 Broadway, N*w York Starf off the New Year with ♦hij biq novelty hit. Ml 11 DANA RECORD NO. 2032A TOBIAS and LEWIS use Broadway. N«w York Liston to HARRY 'NIGOCIA WJBW^-HewOrlMm feature Grade field's London Record