Variety (April 1950)

OBCHESTBAS-MITSIC WedneddaTf April $, 1950 I ANOTHER ORIGINAL CAST SHOW AIRDII IVlenbtti's New Musical Drama DECCA retail disk best sellers Sufvey of retail disk best sellers, based on reports ob tairied from leading Stores iti IZ cities and sfioicing com- paratwe sales rating for this and last week. National Thw wk. .Last. Aivk. Artii^, Label. Title ■ w •.3. s.„ - : tti § g I M «' g I i I : Q T' - u I I & S'- . a ^ US o) FIVE TOP ALBUMS SOUTH PACIFIC GENTIEMEN PREFER BLONDES Broadway G»t CoH , Columbia Columbia DIXIE BY DORSEY Dortoy Columbia TEXAS Li'L ' RALPH FLANAOAN DARLIN' PLAYS Broadway Cast ^ Ralph Flanagan Decca Victor .Label London Victor Decca . Columbia Meircury , k * "i ¥ 4 » • • • » Disk Best ..Seliers by Compahies (Based on Points Earned) No.of Records Points Label 2 159 MGM .......... 3 97 Capitol ... 7 85 Coral .. 8 79' Rainbow Now on One Floor lyiusic Publishers Holding Corp., Warner Bros, music grOu^ last week moved its executive and pro- fessional offices into new quarters that bring the whole, .organization together on one floor- in one build- ing for the first time. MPHC, which includes Harms> Remick, Witmark; T; B. Harms/ Advance, etc., is liow located on the fifth floor, of .the .new and not quite Completed building at 48B Madison avenue; N. Y. Firms previously had been Occupying space for some years on a couple of floors at 1256 Sixth avenu®^ Gallic Music chartered to con^ duct a music ptiblishihg; tadio and theatrical business in New York, With a capital stock of 100 shares* no par value. - Wills Irifringetnerit Suit, Consent ycm LP Catalog; An infringement suit which Gambridge,: Mass., publisher Wil- liam Schwann filed in N. Y. Fed- eral court last month against a Y. record dealer was dropped last week when the defendaht, Herman lAemberg, Agreed to.a con- I sent order signed by Federal Judge John M^^ It was charged that' ' L'e^mberg ' unfairly competed with Schwann by giving away a free long playing disk cata- log. ' Schwann, according to his comr plaint, published a long playing bi- monthly catalog which- he copy- righted in 1949. In that year he assertedty ■ sold about 45,000 copies to some-125 dealers at $10 per 100. Later, he claimed,. Lemberg’s Rec- ord Collectors Exchange popped up with a cuffo catalog which was al- legedly similar to his. tTniJer• the consent order Lemberg agrees to stop the practice. IjTTl"' ray ANTHONY ORGH (16) lYltti Rbnnte UeauVllle, Betty ! Holliday Hotel Statler/New York 1 C)pehing Monday (3) for his second stand in the Statler's Cafe Rouge within a year, Ray Anthony paraded ^ some ' smartly^ styled ' dansapatlon before a trade audi- ence increasingly interested in ogling any and all bands capable of leading the whole dance or^ chestra field out of the wilderness in Which it> been lost since the ■, war.- in any complete resurgence of the band business, Anthony will be one of its top names. He has an aggregation which lacks only the inspirational spark that shot Goodman', M.iller and one or two others to the heights a dozen years I ago-^and quibbling about that lack [is captious in the face of art all- around orch perforniance. Former sidetrtart with, among others, Miller and jintmy Dorsey, Anthony fronts an instrumentation that breaks down into four trumpets, three trombones, five reed and three rhythm. With the I leader’s . horn making a fifth i trumpet and Eddie Butterfield , (Billy’s cousin, incidentally) doub- j ling on trumpet and trombone, there’s a flexibility to the brass I that lends added Impetus and color to a string of smart arrangements which : emphasize entire sections, j Open . or muted, rather than soloists/ i : Librairy runs the gamut from pops and standards through Dixie ; land to rhumbas and sambas. . Typical of the superior job done, by this outfit are the Spirit arid I drive it brings to the Latin depart- ment, so often cohsidered only as : a; necessary evil and played per- : functorily . as a chore by bands Of this type. For the ballad and jump i items the accent Is on a strong dance beat behind colorful, .varied, and well-reheat$ed scoring; ■ Vocal contingent is not quite up to the high level Of the instru- i mental performance, but no real fault can be found With Ronnie - Deauville’s romantic balladeering . and Betty Holliday's rhythm chirp- ing. Gal singer is marking her 'first time with a band; and will • no, doubt improve, considerably as .Shef gains experience and con- .fidence. Skyliners, comprised of I Miss Holliday, Deauville and three i of the band boys, cop the honors 1 vocally with sorne agreeable ' rhythmic harmonizing. ! Anthony has come a long way - since he came out of Cleveland to iplay his first N. Y. date at Rose- I land Ballroom almost four years I ago. How a Capitol recording j artist, he reflects in every depart- 1 ment ^ musicianship, showman- I ship, appearance'-^the class , ossen- |tial to any bigtime band. Rich. i Issues FqirdsnRPM Standard Phono Corp., whose catalog contains numbers in 20 dif- ferent languages, issued its first 45 ' rpms last week. Outfit, which caters to an American market that ! includes Bohemians, Germans, Poles, Sloveniahs, Italians, Scan- dinavians and Latin Americans, i noted move was made to satisfy customer demand. Records in the 45 rpm catalog ! are mostly in the polka vein. But Kalman Austria AKHI ban Bows Out t::;: ^ Vienna, March 28. On the same day when the news of Emmerich Kalman’s refusal to rejoiii AKM (Austrian Society of Authors, COinposers and Music Publishers) reached the city, Au- torenzeitung, official organ of AKM, announced, that Robert Stolz had signed up with them. Stolz had returned from London, where his operetta, VWild Violets,” is running. He directed the lOOtli performance of his ‘‘Carnival in Vienna,” at the Stadtheatre. It’s skedded for London COlisCUm this year. Stolz then left for Nurem- berg to direct the Gibrman proem of the same operetta. Music Associates* inc. chartered to ^conduct ar music • pubMshing business in New York. Capital stock is 20(1 shares, no par value. RAIN raeonfaefbx TON! ARDEN Columbio BILLY COnON .London LARRY FOTINE ../Doced DAVE HAMILTDN . ..Hoidt HONEYDREAMERS....RCA Viclor dean martin .. ..........Capitol EDDIE TIANd’ MILLER Roinbow FRANK PETTY TRID . ....M-G-M PAUL YYESTOH / ..Cdpitol DENE WILLIAMS ..........Mdreury : -and fflloro coming MILLER MUSK CORPORATION NKW NOyetTY HIT » > ♦ » »» tWEePINO ACROSS THE NATIQN MVIIUMA Raeord^ Rninasod o —• MILLS MUSIC. INC. HIP , Broadway, Nuw York 19