Variety (July 1949)

National Rating This Last wk. W'k. 42 OBCHBSTWAS-MITSIC WB Blows Own , Musical 'Horn’ Hollywood, July 12. Warners will use songs from its own subsidiary. Music Publishers Holding Corp., for “Young Man With a Horn.” thus saving between • $210,000 and $260,000. Buying else- where the music tab would run from $250,000 to $300,000, but sub- sid’s charges are reportedly $40,000 for 15 tunes, including “Honey- suckle Rose,” "Someone to Watch Over Me,” “The Very Thought of You.” “Get Happy,” “Limehouse Blues.” “Moanin’ Low.” “Can’t We Be Friends?” and “Chinatown, My Chinatown.” Doris Day will sing five tunes, W’ith privilege of picking her songs. ■ 3 PUBS. 3 WRITERS SET I ON ASCAP APPEALS BD. Three publishers and as many writeis were named to the Ameri- can Society of Composers, Authors ^ and Publishers’ board of appeals last week. ! Elected were publishers Charles Foley. Max Mayer and Thomas Valando, while writers chosen were i Abel Baer. Peter de Rose and ' Douglas Moore. j Templeton Hits $18,000 In 3 Honolulu Concerts Los Angeles, July 12. Alec Templeton arrived here Saturday (9> after a quickie tour of Hawaii, flying both ways and curtailing his Pacific tour because of the shipping strike in Honolulu.; Instead of two planned concerts in Honolulu, pianist had to give three there, June 28, July 5 and 6, to satisfy the demand, grossing $15,000 in three recitals at a $3.60 top. He also had a sellout concert at Hilo. July 2. for over $3,000 gross. Over 240 Firms to Show ' At N.Y. Music Trade Meet More than 240 firms will exhibit ' at the Music Industry Trade Show and Convention to start in New York July 25 at the Manhattan Center and New Yorker hotel. Show' is spon.sored by the National > Assn, of Music Merchants in con- junction with the National Assn, of Band Instrument Manufacturers. Musical Merchandise Wholesalers and National Piano Travelers Assn. Meet w’ill last four days and 8,000 are expected to attend. » i Mills Music’s 30th Anni Mills Music celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. j The company has more than 45,000 titles in its catalog, built through acquisition of over 35 publishing houses. I RETAIL DISK BEST SEUERS Survey of retail disk best sellers, based on reports ob- tained from leading stores in 12 cities and showing com- parative sales rating for this and last week. Week Ending July 9 Artist, Label. Title § I S s . -o ■** B 0 0 (• s cn w. I S- S 6 ,c S 1 <• ti 0 0 VAUGHN MONROE (Victor) “Riders in the Sky” 1 PERRY Cb.MO (Victor) “Some Enchanted Evening” 3 ~M.~WlTlfING-J. MERCER (Cap) “Baby. It’s Cold Outside”. 6 GORDON JENKINS (Decca) “Again” 2 BING CROSBY (Decca) “Some Enchanted Evening” 8 MARGARET WHITING (Capitol) “A Wonderful Guy” 9 TiEL f ORMI-nCa^tol) “Again ” * TOMMY DORSEY (Victor) “The Ilucklebuck” 2 2 2 2 2 1 6 2 5 92 1 3 6 3 3 15 1 1 .. 3 . 3 58 2 55 13 8. 4 3 5 .> • 26 5 4 9 8 .. 9 .. 26 1 25 6 7 6 4 .... 10 22 ALBUMS Disk Best Sellers by Companies (Based on Points Earncdi No. of I Isabel Records Victor '.. 7 Decca 8 Capitol 4 Points Label No. of Records .213 1 Columbia 4 154 I M-G-.M 1 121 1 Mercury .... 1 Points 47 7 7 Wednesday, July IS, 1949 Hampton’s 15G ; Elks Guarantee ( j Hollywood, July 12. . ’ World-Wide Negro Elks Conven- I tion, set for Aug. 21 at San Fran- ] cisco, will have Lionel Hampton as ' its top attraction. He’ll appear I with extra acts and get $15,000 guarantee for seven nights. Hampton took $6,413 as his grab ; out of the Oakland Auditorium. I July 3. Over 9,000 admis.sions I were paid. On the Elks’ affair he I will get a 50-50 cut of all proceeds ' over $38,000 in addition to his flat guarantee. Admissions will be I charged for a grand ball at the Frisco civic auditorium, for dancing each night and for a “Cavalcade of Jazz.” |. . j Hampton’s $6,900 1 Los Angeles. July 12. Lionel Hampton pulled a net admission of $13,800 in a concert promotion by disk jockey Joe Adams, at Wrigley Field here j Sunday (10). Hampton was in on a $5,000 guarantee against 50^c of. the gross, which gave him $6,900. HERMAN’S 65^ FOR BALBOA BCH. WEEKENDS j * Hollywood, July 12. I Woody Herman orch is playing [ three weekends at Balboa Beach Ballroom, gambling on 65% of the gross. Band members, meanwhile, are on pro-rata salaries, j Date has virtue of permitting ‘ Herman and his men to have par- tial vacash combined wltli work. Don Tibbetts Heads N. H. Jockey Group Manchester. N. H., July 12. Don Tibbetts is regional admin- istrator of a New Hampshire chap- ter of the American Society of Disk Jockeys, organized here by 30 record-spinners from eight AM stations and five FM outlets. Included on the Yoster are Bernie Mack and Tony Adams, WMUR - WMUR - FM, ManchesterJ Dick Piper and Ted Sawyer, WLNH, Laconia and Franklin: Gerry Kearney, Jay Boivin and I Church O’Neil, W^'EA, Manches- , ter; Bob Huse, Alan Rock, Bob ' Cassidy, Stan Morgan and Dave ! Bodge. WOTW-WOTW-FM. Nashua: Win Blake, Norm Messier and • ^ Bob Longchamp, WKXL, Con- cord, and Tracy Cole. John Far- rell, John Scott and Eleanor Con- nerton. WHEB-WFMI, Portsmouth and Dover. ■ I Pettiford Breaks Arm Hollywood, July 12. Oscar Pettiford, vet bass man with the Woody Herman band, broke his arm in four places while playing baseball last weekend. He may be out as long as six months. Joe Mondragon is replac- On the Upbeat - S '' PRO-PROGRAMMING CARMEN LOMBARDO'S SAILBOAT IN THE MOONLIGHT CRAWFORD Hollywood Dave Cavanaugh’s band in for tw'o-wecker this week at Casino Gardens, Santa Monica, at $1,750 weekly . . . Barclay Allan orch takes over the “Salute to George Gershwin” troupe, replacing Jack Flna, when show goes in for two stanzas at Cal-Neva, Lake Tahoe, opening Aug. 12 . . . Leighton Noble opens for two weeks at Lagoon, Salt Lake, beginning July 2R. Larry Shane, head of Paramount and Famou.s Music, will plug songs for Paramount as economy wave swept out IiA’ing Weiss. Tubby Garron continues as songplugger for Famous ... Nat Finston and Andre Brunimer signed as musical supervi.sors for “Sugar Hill,” col- ored musical bowing here Tuesday ( 12 *. Tommy Dorsey band drawing $2,400 for one-nighter at Butte last week . . . Spike Jones band booked for four nights at Davenport. la., starting No\. 24. They'll appear under auspices ol the Daveni>ort Merchants Assn., getting $2,500 nightly, again.st 60^J. Chicago Frankie Masters, currently at Boulevard Room of Stevens,* had option picked up to Jan. 1, 1950. stretching stay at hotel to over 15 months . . . Cab Calloway into Don Carlos Casino. Winnipeg. July 28 for a w'eek . . . Shep Fields doing four weeks at Balinese Room, Gal- veston, July 19 . . . Freddie Nagel will play southside Martinique out- door ballroom July 15-27 . . . Jack Fina into Lakeside Club. Denver. July 12-31, with Lawrence Welk set for Elitch’s Gardens, Denver, July 23-.\ug. 1 . . . Buddy Moreno stays at Trocadero, Evansville, Ind., to July 21. opening at For- est Park Highlands, St. Louis. July 24 to end of the month *. . . Ted Weems into Lake Delavin, Wise., July 19-24 after onc-nighting In midwest territory first part of July . . . Sherman Hayes returns to O. Henry ballroom, Julv 20, for indefinite stay . . . Eddie O’Neill and ncs\ orch into Palmer House July 21 instead of July 14, since Ted Straeter. currently there, holds over with Sid Caesar .show for u week . . . Jerry Saxon. WIND night watch disk jock, spinning platters again after two-week va- cash . . . Nat Hale, former pronu)- tion man for Columbia Records, now hypoing Tower Records . . . ' Bernie Cummins closes at Muehle- bach ’hotel, Kansas City, July 19 .. . . Nick Stuart's option picked ■up at Chase hotel, St. Louis,•ex- ' tending stay to Labor Day . . . Benny Strong opens at Peony Park, Omaha. July 29, staying until Aug. I 7 . . . Buddy Baer back at baton- , ing, with one-weeker at Bowery, Detroit, Aug. 1 . .. Jimmy Feather- stone plays eastern booking for i first time, \fith 17 davs lined up at I Bill Green’s Casino, Pittsburgh, ' Aug. 1 . . . Leo Del,yon set for four weeks at Blue Room, Roo.sevelt hotel. New Orleans. July 29 . . . Ken Griffin inlo Theatre Club, Logansport. Ind.. July 18 for a j W'eek. following w'ith a two-weeker ■ at Miami Club. Rockford. Ill . . . I Harry Kool and Mel Brandt Trio stay over at Casa Bonita for two' I additional weeks . . . Quintones ! remain at Turf (’lub. Austin, Minn., until Jiil.s 30 . . . Jackie O’Shea now Rfl’lng in Bal Masque Room, Slicialun iiotel IDONTSEEME IN YOUR EYES ANYMORE LAUREL MUSIC CO 1619 Broadway New i riimiii^iiiiiMiiiiiH B frMR 20tk B “THE lEAUTIFUl ILONDf I FIOM lASHFUL lEND’ B SttrriRf lETTV CRAILE X Wrillffl, fr*4itc*4 ind Dirwtid kf PIESTON STURCES ^ recorded by MARiAin WNITINS ... Copitol PEMY COMO RCAVJelof •UDDY CURK Columbie MCK NAYMES Decce ART„LUND M-G-M •LORIA CARROLL ..Donee-Tow j HO HIST INC