Variety (January 1950)

S(S or€H[R$tra$;-]MUSic Wejnesilay, January 25^ 19$0 The Pedfrnan Anhual Survey of Song Hits )/Vith the Largest r (Jan/1, 1949, to Jan. The 35 song hits with tlfe largest radio audiences are listed below, in order oi the total ACt •points received in the ACT surveys •during 1949. ( Songs in stage or filin p^^ are indicated. Songs cur- rently active are marked with an asterisk. Songs whose activity began on the ACI surveys during the fall of 194S are noted by the 194$ date.) .. Numberof Total Weeks oil • AGI /'Sons: Title Production So In Love (1948) , ; . . ........ .. (Kiss Me Kate) *Some Enchahted Evening ......; (South Pacific) Powder Your Pace With Sunshine (’48) . . , Grtiisiiig Down the River. . ; Far Away Places (1948)............ . .^.. .... Again (1948) ....... ....; (Road House) .. Sutlfllpwer . ■; i . .. ^ .• I’ye Got Love .to Keep Me Warm (’48) ACI Rank Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 3 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 26,552 25,061 20,291 18,376 18,327 18,214 17,487 17,239 16.805 16,793 16,147 14,276 13,500 13,456 13,337 13,200 13,035 12,989 12,796 12,672 12,465 12,374 12,347 11,937 11,884 il,877 11,829 11.805 11,761 11,754 11,752 10,993 10,855 10,436 9,961 Survey 4L, 34 22 22 19 26 22 20 30 14 29 19 16 .19 15 22 21 28 25 18 14 23 26 20 22 18 20 21 17 28 25 12 13 26 18 « • • 4 (South pacific) (South Pacific) .. . .. . (My Dream Is You rs) • • • • • • • • .^(South Pacific) Bali Ha’i A Little Bird Told Me (1948). .. A Wonderful Guy . . . . .. .;.... Someone Like You. . .., . ♦A Dreamer’s Holiday .. ...... Riders in the Sky.. .......,,, ’•‘Don’t Cry Joe .. . ..... ...... *Yoii’re . Breaking My Hearts,. . ‘•‘That Lucky Old Sun, . ‘•‘Younger Than Springtime. ’^Roo m Full of Roses . Red Roses for. a Blue Lady. ’•‘I Can Dream Can’t I. “A”—^YouTe Adorable .•. ..;; Maybe It’s Because.. ..:. .> .. . . .;.. (Along Fifth Avenue) Let’s Take an Old-Fashioned Walk .. (MiSs Liberty) There’s Yes. Yes in Your Eyes ...... • • • • •,. ....... Just One Way to Say 1 Love You. ... (Miss. Liberty) ...... Careless Hands .............. .. • * • ♦ .. . - . . -.... Foreyer and Ever ........ Galway . Bay (1948).. .. !. .. It’s a Big Wide Wonderful World , *Someday (You4l Want Me to Want You) •. .. . ... - ... My Darling, My Darling (1948) .... . (Where’s Charley) . . . Lavender Blue (1948).... <......... (Sb^Dear-to-MyLjIeaili Everywhere You Go :. ..........,.... ... . Fiddle pee Dee ....... ..... (It’s a Great Feeling) I • • k • .• k • • ■ I'.'k • « ' • • * « • • • k • • • Publisher T. B. Harms .Chappell Lombardo i Henry Spitzer Laurel'' Robbins . Famous . Berlin .Chappell . Bourne .Chappell ^ Harms . ShapirorB ; E. H. Morris .Harms .Mellih .Robbins .Ghappell . Hill & Range /Mills .Chappell .Laurel B-y-C .Berlin .Witmark .Berlin'^ . Melrose , Robbins .Leeds .Broadcast Music , Duchess . ,E, H. Morris vSantlv-jov Lombardo Harms Richard HinibenSi neib development in logging broadcast perform- ances lists tunes in the survey, based on four major network Schedules, TJiey^ are Compiled on the b&sis of 1 point fOr sustaining instrumental, 2 points for sustaining vocals, $ for commercial instrumental, 4 for commercial vocal, respectively, in each of the '3 major territories. New York, Chicago and Coast. For. example, a commercial vocal in all three territories coiints 12. Added to these totals fis the listener ratings of commercial shows. ThCxfifst group consists of the top 30 songs. Week of Jan. 13 to Jan. 19, 1950 First'Group'' SOn^s Publii^ers A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart ^Cinderella’* . Disney A Dreaiher’s Holiday........ .......... .,;.: Shapiro All the Bees Are Buzzin* Around My Honey..,,...... ...,... Santly A Th 6 u.sand Vio]ins--t*‘The trreat Lover’’. ;.. .Famous, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Bpp—f’Clnderella*’ .:. w. ^ .. Disney Bye 'Bye Baby—"’•'“(jentlemen prefer Blondes”....... > .,.. J. J.. Robbihs ChaHey My Boy > /iy Bpume ,IJaddy s .'.Ijittie Girl .■ . *-*.**. ..BleaCon Dear Hearts and Geiitle People; . > y v.,,,.,. ; > ...;. i...... ^ > . Morris .IDon t.,.Cry Joe ■ '* *;• .‘. .■■.,........ .IlarmS' ."Eeboes^ * . *'..■* • k.'V..■........ y^alando Festival of Roses ... . V v y .> ..,. i.,;. v> .. ..^..... y.., .y . . VWitmark Happy Times-T-rt'Tnspectbr- General” . ;.y • Vr * . Harms Home Tbwn Biand i . . .Vi .. .:.Ducliessl I Can prc'am Can’t I . . . > . • r • • v ^ ^ ? v* v*** * • * Ghappell i Got^ Have My Baby Back . . .. .y .Peer I’Ve Got a Lovely Bunch of COephuts.............. , >....,..Cornel Jo.hhson.Rag-'■•. * • *-•' > • *. • * ..... .IWliller' l^arta ....■.......... •...i’.... *..,....,. ..*■*»• *,Clarks Old Master Painter . ^Robbins Open Door—Open Arms Quick Silver ..... lli.ver. Seme........ Remick Sittmg By the Window ShapiiA ■Sorry-;.' Spitzer' Stay Well—''•‘“Lost In the Stars” ..,. . ................... Chappell There’s a; Bluebird ph Your Window Siltv...,.., . Mellin Thw^’s No Tomorrow . ,;.,,....;.. • .,;.......... .; ^ ;.... /. .Paxton Way Back Home ,;..,, ,..,.. { .,...... ........,/ ..;; .BVG You’re Always There , iy ............. . . .y. . VBVC Second Group A.Man M^ote a Song :... . ^ ;,.. . 0 ......,..Sain Weiss Crocodile Tears .., .........;. ..,.. y.... ■ .....;... JOhnstohe-Montei Enjoy Yourself ; .. y....... .;.....;.... . Morris Farewell Amanda—t“Adam’s Rib” .. , . .................. yChappeU Have, I Told You Lately'That I Love You..... .. ; Duchess Hush Little Darlin’ . . . . ....... .., ; Michael I Must Have Done Something. Wonderful .... ... .Simon House I Said My Pajamas , . . ...;............. ..... . Leeds I Wanha Go Home With Yoii . v....,................... Paxton My. Love Loves Me—t‘‘The Heiress” Paramount O, Katharina . . ;................ Feist Scarlet Ribbons .,. . .. .y...; /...:..- .;,;.; Mills She Wore a Yellow Ribboh—1‘‘She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”.. . Regent [ Slippin’ Around :........,. . .; : .Peer That Lucky Old Sun.. .Robbins Toot Toot Tootsie—t”Jolson Sings Again”................. Feist Too-Whit! Too-Whoot y >.. .., .y Gallico Wedding Samba :., . Duchess You Missed the Boat ....... . v. Advanced Younger Than Springtime—‘•“'South. Pacific” ...,........ .Williamson .t Fih/msical. '*' Legit Musical. ,.. .Leeds , ^;..... /Morris Continued from page 49 THE SONG FOR VALENTINE'S DAY JIMMY McMtiGH ROBBINS DIXIE HOSPITAL TO ALL San Aritonio, ja”-24: Nix Hospital here is first such institution in the Southwest to pipe music to aill'pf its room.s. There are IS-miriute interludes pf music. During the quarter-hour, breaks, newscasts, footbaU games or other regular radio programs are sometimes dubbed im Volume is corttrpllbd centrally, but patients may turn individual Speakers off whenever they so de- sire; ’ Earii Vpllmer ill To Set Baiids for Palladiuiii Earl Vollmer, . boss of Palladium Ballroom, Los Angeles, is in New York to look at various bands that are Palladium candidates. While in N. Y. be’ll set definite date for Frankie Carle’s summer stand at Palladium/ Lisa Kirk, who winds up at/the Persian Room of the plaza hotel tonight (Wed ), has been signed to resume in that s|iot, Feb. 23, Seattle Symph Musicians SpHf AH Gale Rec^pts Seattle, Jan . 24. - Musicians of / the Seattle $ym- ■ phoriy Orchestra have voted unani- mously to play the remaining eight scheduled concerts for the npL r®" ceipts. Decision; came after the past three eppeerts Were turned into financial successes by a vigorT ous advertising and promotion I campaign launched by the Seattle Advertising & Sales Qliib. . The 75-pieee brcliestra is split- ting $10,500 for the last three con- certs, which included a sell-out Beethoven coheert. Success of the recent dates is laid to the; efforts of the Ad Club’s campaign; which stressed the en- tertainment value of the concerts rather than the “civic duty” angle. Admissibn prices were cut for a number of seats; top; Under the present arrangement with the musicians,; they receive all of the receipts a.fter taxes and adnainistratiye expenses are paid put of a fund sustained by public contributions* : Oi'chestra’s next concert will'be given Jah. 30 in Meany Hall with Eugene Linden conducting. . er members. However, after ta long, hoi argument, ASCAP execs claim it has been voted into practiced That the Meyer plan will be used for a trial period of three years. At the same time, the Society’s fig- ures will be wratigled so as to I measure the effect the so-called 20-20-60 plan would have had bn the ailocatiPn of writer coin over the sanie three-year period. Then, at the latter’s conclusion, which- ever plan turns out to be the fairest, it will be put into effect. Three, or possibly four of the younger writers, of those present -ait the meetings,_.still__are battling the Meyer plan. Presumably, they will make objectiPns to the^Justice Dept.,: which has been concerned primarily with revising the writer- classification angle in arranging the new consent “decree.- On -the other hand, L. Wolfe Gilbert and Robert MacGimsey, representatives ■ of the Society’s Coast contingent, who came east last week to figlit but the classification changes in behalf of the large and important Hollywood faction;; asseriedly have ! agreed to the Meyer plan. They I originally were fighting against any I changesyin: the current setup, which gives - the topline writers, at least, those, with nb current tunes, a gpod break. Gilbert states ifc: Will rec- ommend the Myer plan to his Cobst constituents. Meyer plan, incidentally, wRl change. a rnari’s classificatibn each yepr on the basis of the amount of money he drew in a previous year. .As .'his inepuie goes up br doWn, his classification automati- cally follows the succeeding year. As a means of using the Meyer plan on 1950 payoffs, ASCAP must use the quarterly statements to writers for 1949 as a basis for figuring. As a result; the Meyer plan may not go into effect with j this quarter. • At one point in the hot dispute; the Society verged on. dangerous giPUnd. It’s claimed that Ediat Leslie, tpprated writer, becamb^is- gusted with proceedings and Redd Evans, one.^of the leaders of the younger group; claims to have heard him remark to the effect that ASCAP should return to the so-called “recalcitrants” the cata- logs they have built. In short, give them a chance to get put of the Society if they ar^e so unhappy. It caused a commotion. Evans is violently adamant in his feeling that the Meyer , plan adds- up to the same thing in the final analysis as the current system of classification.. His feelings are shared by Pinky Herman, long a fighter for the younger element, and others. They do not all be- long to one group,however. Herman is not in favor of the Myer plan. It’s his assertion that it allows seniority to govern classification vVhereas the reverse-should be the proper approach. THE OLD MASTER PAINTER r«cofd«d by.. PHIl lNARRIS.,,:.. . .RCA Victor RICHARD HAYCS..... Mercury DICK HAYMILa v. .Decc^ SN60KY UmON . tondpn PEGGY lEC-MEi TORME, Cdpitol JACKII PARIS.. ..... .. .National FRANK SINATRA...:. .Columbio wifft othors to fothw ROBBING MUSK COPPORATipN THE EVER FpPULAR STANDARD DEED I Do LAIIREL MUSie CORF* 141f iffoojwoy. N. 19