Variety (June 1950)

ORCHESTKAS-MIJSIC ARIETY Wednesday, June 7, 1956 I RADIO AND T.V. SINGING STARS ®f the SHOW Latest Dacca jltoleasft RETAIL DISK BEST SELLERS PfaUETY Survey oj retail disk best sellers, based on reports ob 'tained jtorn leading stores 'in 12 cities and showing com- parative sales rating for: this and.last week: National Rating This Last wk. wk.- Q ;! C 5 . l;- o l 1 6 ,i. m Artisty Lahel, Title (n ! •O' Ov J Iffl >* . CD . '* r -* O p. o L 1 ANTON KARAS (London) /‘Third MHah Theme’—536 ■BILLY 'ECKSTINIJ'.;' ( M-G-M) “My- Foolish Heart”—10623A. 1 2 1 3 1 ... 83 10 : . 47 ’ AMES BROS. (Coral) 3 8 “Sentimental Me”—60140 \ . . . .. 8 GORDON JENKINS (Decca) « ' 4 , 3 “Bewitched”—24983 ; : ;- v 1 'SAMMY KAYE. (Victor) • 5 8 “It Isn’t Fair”—20-3609 ... :• .v. ... 10 ANDREWS SIS-G. JENKINS (D) 8 5 “I Wanna Be Loved”—27007 . . 5 PERRY COMO (Victor) 7 r 6 “Hoop-Dee-Doo”—20-3747 . 7 ' BILL SNYDER iTower) 8 4 “Bewitched”—1473 . GORDON JENKINS (Decca) 9 7 “Rfy. Foolish Heart’’—24830 ; - ' PANNY KAY' (Decca) 10A . “C’est Si Bon”-r-24932 . . . . GUY LOMBARDO (Decca) 10B ... “Third Mam Theme”—24839. . . . ^ TONY MARTIN (Victor) 11 14 “Valencia”—20-3755 .... . 3 DORIS DAY (Columbia) 12 14 “Bewitched”—38689 • '• - HUGO WINTERHALTER (Victor) 13 10 “Count Every Star”—20^3697B . SAMMY KAYE (Victor) 14A 9 “Wanderin’' 20-3680 : . . 6 • SAMMY KAYE (Victor) 14 B 15 “Roses”—20r3754 FRANK PETTY (M-G-M) ' 15A 13 “Rain”— t10669 .. E. MERMAN-R. BOLGER (Decca) 15 B- 11 “Dearie”—24873 FRANKIE LAINE. (Mercury.) 16A 13 “Stars and Stripes Forever”—5421 4 MILLS BROS. (Decca) 16B 9. . “Daddy’s Little Girl”—24872 ... TONY - MARTIN (Victor) ' ' 17A “There’s No Tomorrow”—20-3582 ’ MINDY CARSON~( Victor) 17B ; . “My Foolish Heart”—2Q-3681A . . ■ • LARRY GREEN (Victor) 17C . “Bewitched”—20-2329A ........ LARRY COOK (Abbey) 18A 12 “Old Piano Roll Blues”—15003. ; . ■ RUSS MORGAN' (Decca)" ' ' 18B ., “Hoop-Dee-Doo’*—24986 , DOR1 S~~DAY (Col umbla) 180 12 “Hood-Dee-Doo”—38771 RICHARD HAYES (Mercury) I8D v . “My Foolish Heart”—5362 1 . 2 . • . . 2 29 . 5 8 V 26 5 .. 20 l 1 20 7: 1 . 6 1 V. 3 , . 4 5 13 6 . 12 8 ... 10 8 5 9 7 .. 9 ■ 2 -. 2 9 8 . 3 :. .. FIVE TOP SOUTH PACIFIC ALBUMS SOUTH PACIFIC rOUN . G u M ^ W ' TH A HORN Broadway Cast Harry James, Doris Columbia MM850. Day Columbia Cl 98 Label Decca; . ........... Victor .... ........ ... London •;............... M-G-M Coral Disk Best Sellers by Comp ( Based.on Points Earned' No. of. | Records Points ! Label anies Records 8 i 9 '. .. .1 ints ' Label 167 Tower 148 ' Columbia 83 ; Mercury 59 ; Abbey No. of Records 1 2 2. Points 29 23 19 8 COUPLED WITH ... ^ 7 — Policy of the Paramount theatre on Broadway on booking medium- priced bands will, be extended throughout this summer’ . Al i bona hue’s combo opens today (Wed.) ttV be. followed by Herbie Fields’ outfit later . this month ( Bob Chester’s orch in July and ; Bobby Byrnes’ crew in the mid- idle of August. Chester is slated; ror a two-week stand at the New Jersey Palisades Park, opening this weekend. Pali- sades is making an exception for Chester, and the Noro Morales ^combo which opens there. July 10, of booking bands for only, one-week stands.; Await Fall , Lsiss Continued : froippage.41 son tor the low ebb in copy sales. This coterie believes that that part of the public’s money which doesn’t go into savings banks after the normal requirements of today’s high cost of living are paid for, goes into installment-plan pay- ments for TV sets, Frig i da ires, cars, etc:, arid that something as unnecessary as sheet music is defi- . nitely not part of this type of ! spending plan. o ; . Another ; opinion advanced, by still other pubs has nothing to do with ’ economics, b u t revolves around the traditional music-biz ! feeling that it takes a smash hit of universal No. 1 proportions to : effect a general revivifying of [ sales. This belief has always been | based on the assumption that solid • smash gets people into ; music | stores, and once there they’ll buy other tunes in addition to the hit that brought them in. Pubs who follow this line of thinking point . to the fact that, while there have been strong ballad" hits like “It Isn’t Fair” and “My Foolish Heart.” pips a number of flash novelty; ditties of' the “Baked a Cake” variety, during the past few months!; there still hasn’t been one ■ completely sock number recently, such as “Cruising Down the ■River’"" or “No\v Is the Hour” of a couple of years ago. Whether, the present sheet-sale nosedive is due to any ope or a combination of all the reasons ad^ vanced for it, a number Of pubs are sweating it out until fall for the definite answer to the; question of whether this - is a temporary slump or a full-scale depression. ' .... ... ... ,. .. ,. .. .3 .. 8 . .... . ,. . . . . : .. • . 3 8 3 ' • 4 | ' 5 PARKER INNOVATIONS IN GENTLEMEN PREFER WITH STRINGS MODERN MUSIC BLONDES Chat. Parker Stan Kenton Broadway Cast Mercury Capitol Columbia Cl 01 FDL I8l5 MM895 . It's Music By Frogram Today YosttrdayY ON THE BEACH (Words & Music, Inc.) Price 75c (plus tax) DECCA Jimmy Featherstone’s orch' opens at the Martinique. Chicago ' tomorrow (Thurs.) for four weeks Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five open at the Blue Note Cafe, Chicago, June 12 for ,two Weeks. . . Shep Fields’ orch begins a four week stand at the Shaiimar Club, Fla., tomorrow (Thurs.). Ray Anthony orch into the N.Y. Paramount for three weeks starting June 31 . .... Illinois Jacquet, cur- rently on a tour of the south and mid-west, added a new singer to his outfit, Sid McKinney . . . Slierm Feller, Boston disk jockey, turns tunesmith with “I’m in Love With the Mother of the Girl I Love,” waxed by Jack Owens for Decca. Owens, making a nationwide tour, does two weeks at the Pastime Club, Des Moines, la.; beginning Friday (9) . * * Sarah Vaughan I ply tiered eigh t sta ndards for Co- lumbia last week. Ilappy Goday on a California junket for his new Goday Music Corp. . .. , Tony Pastor band into the Vogue Terrace. Pittsburgh; Friday (9), 'with Xavier Cugat tentatively set to follow June 26. . . . On the latter date Artie Shaw is slated, to go into Bill Green’s Casino, in Pittsburgh for a two- wCeker . . . Dean Hudson crew makes its first Coast appearance in August at tommy Dorsey’s Casino Gardens, Sant Monica, Calif. Chicago Les Brown starts summer tour of 80 one-nighters in Salt Lake City June 16 and closes in San Francisco Sept. 3 . . . Benny Strong into Claridge hotel, Mem- phis, Aug. 11 for two w r eeks . , , (Continued on page 49) Unhurt in Bus Crash . Detroit, June 6. Twelve members of Blue Bar- ron’s band escaped injury when a chartered bus that brought them from Cleveland overturned in a field in subu v ban Lincoln Park Fri- day <2) after a head-on crash with a truck. ' The 11 musicians and sjriger ‘Helen Lowe climbed through the ■ broken windshield. " The truck driver was injured seriously. The crash caused • the bus to swerve from the pavement, plow through J a grove of small trees and. over- turn. { The band played as scheduled Friday night, (2)..in Sarnia, Ont., and Saturday night (3) at the De- troit Fairgrounds. I The bus was one of two chartered by Barron. 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