Variety (Jan 1949)

, Vcdne»d»y» Jmway. 96^ 1949 Pts. 247 219 *RH' Logging System Richard Hiinber^s new development in logging broadcast perform^ ancet lists tunes in the survey, based on four major network schedules. Then are compiled on the basis of i point for sustaining instrumentali 2 points for sustaining vocal; 3, for commercial instrumental; 4 for ' flofrimercial voedl, respectively, in each of the 3 r.iajor territories. New York, Chicago and Coast. For example, a Commercial Vocal in all •XMee territories^ couMs 12, Added to these totah is the listener ratings of commercial shows, which account for the .ar'ge point tallies below. Week of January 14 to January 20 Total Sonr PubHsher A Little Bird-ToW Me—Bourne Here I'll Stay-*-*"Love Life"—Chappell;......... ... My Darling, My Darting—*"Where's Charley"—Morris i.. 200 Buttons and Bows—t"Paleface"—Famous 183 . A Bluebird Singing in My Heart—Advanced ^ 159 On a Slow Boat to China—Melrose 156! -Far Away Places—Laurel i ; 123 Hold Me—Bobbins 123 Tara-Talara-Tala—Oxford 120 ; You Were Only Fooling—Shapiro , 119 i I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm—Berlin 117 ! So In Love—*"Kiss Me Kate"—T. B. Harms 108 [ Until—Dorsey Bros 107 Little Jack Frost Get Lost—Spitzer 96 | I Love You So Much It Hurts—^Melody Lane ,,,, 96 ' By the Way—f'When My Baby Smiles At Me"—BVC 92 , Galway Bay—Leeds .87 I 'gitjf Own True Love^Paramount ......... ;....,.;. ,.i * . . . . . 86 | Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes—Leeds . . . . . .n ,-. , . , . . * ; r82 Lavender Blue—f'So Dear To My Heart"—Santly 80 Cuarito Le Gusta—t"Date With Judy"—Southern ......:... 79 Down Among the Sheltering Palms-^Miller ... ,................ 78 Inithe Market Place of Old Monterey—Shapiro-...............;. 76 Maybe You'll Be There—Triangle , 75 Powder Your Face With Sunshine-rrLombardo. 66 Clancy Lowered the Boom^Kenmore ,.. >...... ;..... . . i «.. *., 65 Bouquet of Roses—^Hill & Range 65 I That Certain Party-Bourne ,...,,;;..>....../..;,.;>..... 60 | The Pussycat Song—Leeds . . .........,....... . . . . .... v...... 58 i One Sunday Afternoon—+"One Sunday Aftemoon"-^Remick. . . . . . 57 : ' For You—Witmark ^ 56 | Rosewood Spinet^Shapiro-B ;.......i....... i . ..... *,... 53. i Bella Bella Marie—t"Melody Man"—Leeds 62 I What Did I Do—t"When Jly Baby Smiles At Me"—Triangle 47 ! The Money Song—Crawford 43 i I Don't Want To Meet Any More People—Dreyer 42 Pretty Baby—Remiek 41, Say It Isn't So—Berlin 40 •Senorita—f'Kissing Bandit"—Feist ............................ 38 City Called Heaven—Warren . ... . .......................;.... 37 One Has My Name—Southern 35 Green Up Time—*"Love Life"-r^^GhappeU ..32 It's a Big Wide Wonderful World—BMI 32 1 Got Lucky In the Rain—t"As the Girls Go"—Sam Fox 31 1 Wish Somebody Cared Enough to Cry—London 28 Lillette—Jefferson 27 )Look Up—^Patmar 27 Sunday In Old Santa Fe—Pemora 26 Down By the Station—Amer. Acad. 25 You, You, You Are the One—Campbell ................ 24 ;Sunflower—Famous • • • • • 21 Best British Sheet Sellers {Week ending Jan. 1^) ■ London, Jan. 14, Buttons and Bows,, , .Victoria When You're in Love,. . Wood My Happiness...... Chappell Cuanta le Gusta..,. Southern Galway Bay Box & Cox Slow Boat to China Morris Cuckoo Walfz. .Keith Prowse So Tired Connelly Dream of Olwen , ;... Wright Ballln' the Jack. F. D. & H. Anything I Dream....., ,Reid Maybe You'll There Victoria Second 12 You Can't Be True Chappell Rambling Rose., , . .Dash-: Heart of Loch Lomtynd. . Unit Betty Blue Feldman Ah, But It Happens. .Maurice Little Bird Told Me ... Gay All Dressed Up,., Cinephonic Little Girl Connelly Cool Water Feldman Sabre Dance., .,:,., Leeds Belong Someone Else, Connelly Far Away Places..... .Leeds OBCVKSTRA^-MITSIC 47 Ban Catches Up On Artists Contracts The 11-months duration of the recording ban lifted last month by the American Federation of Mu- sicians is beginning to be felt by artists and recording companies alike in relation to the expiration dates of contracts. Before' the ban, most recording companies did not ask artists for letters of agree- ment extending pacts by the length of the disking hiatus. Others assert that clauses so extending terms were included: in agrecr; ments. At any rate; there have been sev- eral arguments over the situation. The AFM has not issued a hard and fast ruling applying to the sit- uation. It has more or less ruled that it is up to the artist and the recording company to get together on. However, in the case of argu- ments brought to it for adjudica- tion, the-AFM has said that where no agreements regarding the 11 months existed, contracts should expire on the proper date. j Songs with Largest Radio Audience i i The top 30 sonffs of the loeek, ba^ed on the copyrighted Audi- ence Cowerape, Indea; Survey of Poputor Music Broadcast Over Radio Networks. Published by the Office of Research. M., Df, John G. Peatjnan, Director, ' " Survey Week of January 14-20, 1949 A Bluebii-d Singing In My Heart Advanced A Little Bird Told Me Bourae Bella Bella Marie—fi'Melody Man" ;Leeds Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes,......;. f.;.,. Leeds Buttons and Bows—t"Paleface"......;:.,.;. i. .. . .Famous ■ By the Way—f'When My Baby Smiles at Me".... BVC Cuanto Le Gusta—i"Date With Judy" , South«ni Far Away Places .Laurel Galway Bay Leeds Here I'll Stay—*"Love Life" .Chappell Hold Me .... ,, . ...... j,....v, ,. .'Bobbins I Don't Want To Meet Anymore People.; ,Dreyer I Love You So Much It Hurts ,, .Melody Lane In the Market Place of Old Monterey :... .. : . Shapiro-B Whatcha Do Whatcha Got—t"So Dear To My Heart" Santly-Joy I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Berlin Lavender Blue—t"So Dear To My Heart" Santly-Joy Little Jack Frost Get Lost Spitzer Maybe You'll Be There Triangle Missouri Waltz . .. . ........ . . ..........., , Foster My Darling, My Darling—■'■"Where's Charley" Morris My Own True Love Paramount On a Slow Boat to China ..... . Melrose Powder Your Face With Sunshine Lombardo Pussy Cat Song Leeds Say It Isn't So , Berlin So In Love—^"Kiss Me Kate" Harms Tara Talara Tala , Oxford Until .; .Dorsey Bros. You Were Only Fooling . ; ....... Shapiro-B Jocks and Jukes Continued from paga 44 ; face, too, silkily putting the How-, jump backing. Reverse ties Miss ard cords to a tune that Isn't up to Lee and Dean Martin together on the performance it gets. a tune that fits Into a dualing Bay McKlnley "Sunflower"—Lit-i frame best. This is a good tune tie Jack Frost Get Lost" (Victor), i and it could catch on. Only disking Ray McKinley's initial post-ban bits. He applies a western twist to the "Sunflower" melody, a new and promising pop that has drawn that rivals this is Doris Day-Buddy Clark's Columbia side. Andy and Delia Russell "Rosita | ables and Joe"-"Is It Yes" (Capitol) Cute the attention of even Frank Sina-1 gj^^g j^gt jocks can find good use tra (Columbia). McKinley disk isltof. Russell and his wife work nicely done, it's different than the others and it'll go with jocks. On the backside he gives an even bet- ter ride to a good rhythm tune MORRIS TO RUN NEW LEE-BARBOUR FIRM Hollywood, Jan. 25. Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour have inactivated their own pubr bery, Barbour-Lee Music, , as a rer suit of a new deal worked "with manager Carlos Gastel to set up a new firm, Oriole Music. Selling rights have been assigned to Ed» win H. (Buddy) Morris. Move en- the husband-wife singer^ composer combo to make more coin. Barbour-Lee was handled by Mickey Goldsen who got 50% of The remaining songs of the week, based on the copyrighted Awdience Coverage Index Survey of Popular. Music Broadcast Over Radio Networks. Published bu the Of/ice o/ Research, fnc,^ Dr, John G. Peatmon, Director. Bouquet of Roses ,,...,.,................. . ..... Hill & Range City Called Heaven .... .Warrten Down Among the Sheltering Palms, . Miller Down By the Station American For You Witmark Green-Up Time—t"Love Life" . r Chappell' I Got Lucky In the Rain—*"As the Girls Go" Fox I Wish Somebody Cared Enough To Cry.......... London In My Dreams .. . ■... v , .<....... . Beacon It's a Big Wide Wonderful World ................ BMI It's Too Soon To Know .........:........Morris Liliette . sJefferson My Dream Is Yours..............; ....... . . Witmark One Sunday Afternoon-r-t"One Sun. Afternoon" .. Remiek Portrait of Jennie , Wamow Pretty Baby Remiek Rosewood Spinet .....,...........»i. ... Shapiro-B Silver Wedding Waltz .vii...i....,.i....Mogull That Certain Party :.i. .BOume Twelfth Street Rag. ... Shaplrb-B What Did I Do—-f"When My Baby Smiles" Triangle • Legit Musicoi t Filmusicot. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«»»»»»»444 On the Upbeat smoothly together in Mex dialect. "Rosita" is a fair piece that drags I all profits for himdling office and « bit toward the end. The better j promotion dotaiLs. New deal calls side is "Is It Yes," a samba back-| for Morris to get a sliding scale doing the vocal himself. It moves grounded lyrical 'story that has a' cut oi' profits which, in any event, smartly On a medium beat. Jean " ' ... . „ , , Friley helps out with the vocal. Jack Smith and Margaret Whit- tog "Frankie and Johnnle"-"Makc a Miracle" (Capitol). Neither of these sides may become hot hits lot of appeal. Platter Pointers Alvino Rey moves a good instru- mental in his "Continental" side inese sioes may oecome uoi /r.„v;ini\ h9/.ir Kv Vvnnni. KIiif^r With jocks but both certainly will: (^Capitoy-. ^^g^^^^^ be played often and a lot longer f- - -rtmptbini? h\aeer "a^es BarDour-L,ec, wincn bpeuiai- than others. Unusual coupling of , f^'^ ""^^ f^^^^ songs either written by the Mice WKifino <,„A Rmuh hi-inaa! than an ordinary western in „=.ir nr nnniiiafi7*iH hv th«>m on Roy Will be a smaller cut than Goldsen; got, . - _. . . ^ In establishing Oriole. Morris put Miss Lee and Barbour under pact to publish through the firm anything they write within the next two years. Move automatieaHy de- flates Barbour-Lee, which special- Miss Whiting and Smith brings - p„,,j„„ (vintnfl Decea reis- ^^^S^'"^/'"^"*'^^^-! the lA-«oUm (Victory ... De^ ! *.?^2''^'/"**"P* ?'°'"t?^7,f/' I On a Star" and "June In January" and they dress It in a highly-listen- | « ^^^^ fl„j Buddy able delivery. BacHground helps ,. "n„„,i,, to Go <!t»adv" an the Impact immeasurably. FHP-1 ^^^^iMereurv) Jimmy ZZJ'""""'"'l''" '^^'^ M»chK S"o7'"BewilS" Frank Loesser from Where's, "YtV, w«^^^ Hawkins (Victor) is Charley,'' which will get some cir^ j Sy turned ^^^to P culation of It's own. Ivocal o" "So In Love," (Mercury) Freddy Martin "Once In Lovei Capitol BCcidentally timed a , Wilh^ Amy"."You Was" (Victor). | release of "Lady In Spain" by the Martin, figures to sidle smoothly up ! philharmonic Trio, a good disk, pair or popularized by them on Capitol Records. "Manana," one Of last year's big hits, which was published by B-L, will naturally remain in that catalog. Cap Suit on Bldg. Lease Tossed Out by N. Y. Court In a lehgthy decision, Ni. Y,, sUr preiWe court official refei-ee Gha'Cies _ , „ . , . . ^„...miw,«...^ - mG. Lockwood last week tossed out to jocks and jukes with his "Amy"' \ ^^^^ the "breaking" in Boston of ] a suit brought by Capitol Records arrangement. It's musical; yet -It, victor's Ray Noble recording of the | Distributing Co. against a propne- captures the flavor of the tune as ' B„rne sone plugged into local ] tor of a loft building located at 270 It's done in "Where's Charley" f^vor bv WHDH's Bob Clayton . . . | W. 19th St., N. Y. Recording com- from whence it comes.. Merv Grif- ! "K*ep A Twinkle In Your Eye," . pany had sought a declaratory nn and the Martin Men move the ! ^ut bv Paul Chapman for Apollo,! judgment cancelling a lease on the vocal. Griffin alone handles the . seems a likely tune ... Ike Car- j premises along with a refund of Brush Those Tears"-"Man On the Carousel"—are good and they should start him toward favor . ... , n likely vu---' - - . - vocal of the reverse, a likely new '. penter's initial disks for Victor- melody. He does It well with good , ..nriidh Those Tears"-"Man On tl accompaniment from the band, but there are superior recordings of It. Peifgy Lee "Someone Like You"; Peggy Lee-Dean Martin, "Yott was" (Capitol), "Someone" tune has gotten some very good record- ings, leading off with Doris Day's <Columbia), cutting, the best. Miss 1-ees disking is also in « b o ?M*"?, jukes. She , 555 in revenue. ... I ti;r''ninrnHff "for" rental of' $791 one month's rent of i$791 and re- turn of a security d^osit of $2;375.. Capitol charged defehdant land^ lord Arthur H, Herz. with making I false representations as to the ,r " i , T..ir«B noMlno i availability of the premises which Younptown Jukes DecUne j^^^ plaintiff planned to use for Youngstown, O.. Jan. /5. , purpo-ses and offices. In Apparently there has been a de^ counter claim, Herz stated he cline m the jukebox business n performed evciything as Youngstown. I'urmg 1S48, the ! ^|°eed according to terms of the issued 59 licenses bringing in $1,- « won judgment against New York Harry Steeper, now treasurer of the American Federation of Musi- cians, will be given a testimonial dinner Feb. 1 at Union Club, Hoboken, marking 30 years with the AFM... Joe Carroll joined Dizzy Gillespie's band as vocalist ;,.Kay McKinley band has spent all of its time since Oct. 1 last in New York area and will stay here until March; New Yorker hotel, two runs at Frank Dailey's Mead- owbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J., Par- amount theatre, and Adams theatre,. Newark, will: have been covered in that time.. Gardner Benedict's band sla.vs at New Yorker hotel through April 20...Al Donahue's new hotel crew into Syracuse hotel, Syracuse, Feb. 1 for two weeks... Lorry Raine changed her name to Laurie.. vMarlene Dietrich re- corded "Black Market'' and "Illu- sions" for Decca in N. Y... Louis Bernstein and Georee Pineus, Sha- pirorBernstein head and. prof, mgr., to Miami Friday (28). . . Mills Music signed writers Richard Adler and Philip Springer. . Royal Roost intends setting up its own record-- ing label, using: names that: play spot and do not'have disk tieups; Feb. 12 marks the 25th anniver- sary of the first performance of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," performed at Aeolian Hall, New York . . . Decca signed Larry Fotine orchestra . . . M - G - M grabbed Frankie Masters crew ... Lenny Herman orchestra switched from Tavern-On-the-Green, N. Y. to Warwick hotel; Philadelphia, Jan. 26 . . . Marvin- Drager bought out publiGity firm established two years ago by Wayne Vamum; they had been partners .. i . Eddie Sa- franskt has not joined Woody Herman's orchestra; he : remains with Charlie Barnet. Lucky Millinder with blues singer Roy Brown set for a vaude date at 'the Apollo, N. Y., week of Feb. 4.. .Tommy Duncan, who warbled with Bob Wills' band for 16 years, set up his own outfit last week.. .T. Texas Tyler trouping through Texas and Oklahoma in February prior to a picture stint with Columbia early in March; Hollywood Phil Moore inked a term pact as - musical dirtjctor for. Discovery Records . . . Del Courtney opens six weeks at Palace hotel, San Francisco, Friday (28), returns to Cocoanut Grove here March 29 to backstop Rudy Vallee . . . Freddy ; Martin, winding three-months at the'Grove here, opens Feb. 8 at the St. Frances hotel, San Fran* Cisco ... Dizzy Gillespie, at . the Million" Dollar theatre week of March 1, will pay off acts on the bill and .split 50-50 with the house after deduction of first $2,500'for ballyhoo costs. Art Tatum at Bar of Music, Las Vegas on first Vegas date . . . Rosalind Courtwrierht opens a twO'* weeker at Fairmount hotel, Frisco, March 29 . .. Beacon Music opened - coast office with Mac Green in charge. , . Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn east to absorb West Point atmosphere for tunes they'll write for Warners' "The West Point Story." . . . The Bachelors Long Beach Wilton hotel deal extended three more months. Chicago Al Trace, cornhusker par exr cellence; .recently cut eight orig- inal tunes for Damon, Kansas City ' label, and pacted a three-year con", tract with Columbia Records, shortly after....Chi disk jocks Dave Garroway. Eddie Hubbard - and Linn Burton join Harmonicats and Mel Torme on stage of River- side theatre, Milwaukee, Jan. 20- ' 26 . . . .Sy Stern, in promotion and advertising for Mercury, planning summer wedding to Chicagoan,; Lois Stitzberi;.... Orch lead er Art .Kassel, singer Gloria Hart, Harvey Crawford, tapster JUl [ Adams, juggler Lee Marx and rest l of Blackhavvk Restaurant show en- itertained vets at Hines Hospital llast week Mercury Records is [putting finishing touches to a $25 I per Norman Granz album which covers a decade Itt . jazz .. New- (Continued on page 49).