Variety (June 1950)

OnCHESTKAS-MITSIC Wednesday, June 2% 1950 J •* — 4 ■ A I presenting The Record Everybody’s Talking About! and the TZENA, TZENA, coupled with DECCA 27077 Single Records 75c each (Plus Tax) DEGCA RETAIL DISK BEST SELLERS ft' o ■C' .■J3 . • OT W § tt as. fe i2 o O; o .a ; fe- ss co s 3 *i0 (j 1 § f 1 1 & H CO o> J‘ «> : i .S 6A 3 ANTON KARAS (London) 1 “Third Mail Theme 0 —536.. 6 ANDREWS SIS-G. JENKINS (D) 2 “I Wanna Be Loved”-^27007 .... 2 ' NAT “KING" COLE (Capitol)' 2 “Mona Lisa”-—1010 .. ., . ..,..5 BILLY ECKST1NE (M-G-M). 5 “My Foolish Heart”—10623A, ,,. 7 BILL SNYDER (Tower) 6 “Bewitched”—1473 ...... . . ...... . • . • • *» _ : - - I • - ♦ - - i 1 ! L h . . . : , PERRY COMO (Victor) 3 “Hoop-Dee-Doo”—20-3747 . . 1 GORDON JENKINS (Decca) 6B 7 “My Foolish Heart”—24830...... TO .. 5 10 # . • • » * » BILLY ECKSTINE fM-G-M) 6C .. “I Wanna Be Loved”—10716 1 AMES BROS. (Coral) 7 TO “Sentimental Me”—60140. . . ... 5 KAY STARR (Capitol) 8 11 “Bonaparte’s Retreat”—936. GUY LOMBARDO (Decca) 9 15 “Third Man Theme”—24839 . . GORDON JENKINS (Decca) 10A 4 “Bewitched”—(24983) . . . . . . . .. 8 . . DORIS DAY (Columbia) 10B .. “Bewitched”—38689 . v. . . DORIS DAY (Columbia) 11 “Hoop-Dee-Doo”—38771 ........ PERCY FAITH (Columbia) .12 . “I Cross My Fingers”—38786...; SAMMY KAYE (Victor) 13 18 “Roses”—20-3754 ,:... . . . . HUGO WINTERHALTER (Victor) 14A 8 “Count Every Star”—20-36973. . 9 9 MILLS BROS. (Decca) 14B .... “Daddy’s Little Girl”—24872 . ; . . ... . 4 TONY MARTIN (Victor) 14C “Don’t Care, Sun Don’t”—20-37553 LES PAUL (Capitol)' 14D 14 “Nola”—1014 .... DICK HAYMES (Decca) 15A 13 “Count Every Star”—27042....... MEL TORME (Capitol) 15B 16 “Bewitched”—1000 .............. .. .... SAMMY KAYE (Victor) $SC , . “It Isn’t Fair”—20-3609.. . ....... .. . RAY ANTHONY (Capitol) 15D .. “Count Every Star”—979. .....,.... 8 8 31 9 23 * . * ■ • • • 6 6 11 »•; •• • • • » • • 9 10 i * * • • •• •«. FIVE TOP ALBUMS SQ0TH PACIFIC YOUNG-MAN WITH DIXIE BY DORSEY GENTLEMEN PREFER ANNIE GET YOUR Broadway Cast A HORN jimmy Dortey BLONDES GUN Columbia Oo > , Columbia c«. MM850 ML4180 Columbia C198 CL6106 Columbia C196 CL6095 Columbia MM895 ML4290 M-G-M E-509 Disk Best Sellers by Companies (Based on Points Earned ) No. of No. of Label Records Points Label Records Decca 6 151 London 1 Capitol . . 5 100 Columbia 3 Victor ■ • ■..« ..‘.5 71' Tower .. 1. M-G-M ...................... 2 63 Coral .... ............... 1 Points 63 41 33 28 On the Upbeat Charlie Shaver will head Tommy Dorsey’s “Five Men Of Note” jaiz unit when the band opens at the Astor Roof in July . . . Sonny Dun- ham orch opens at the Capitol the-' , atre,. N. Y., Aug. 8 for two weeks ... Gene Krupa topk off this week! on a series of one-niters in the; far west . . . Don Cornell waxing hillbilly duets for RCA Victor with Rosalie Alien . . . Ruth Dales, sec- retary to Sidney Mills at Mills Mu- sic, weds Mike Schachter, aero- nautical engineer, July 29 . . . Elliot Lawrence booked for a three-day stand at the Steel Pier, Atlantic City, July 7-9 . . . Danny Riccardi, who left the Lawrence outfit several nionths ago, has re- joined the outfit . . . Ray Anthony orch booked into the Surf Club, Virginia Beach, July 14 for one week, following with a series of one-niters spread between other week-long dates. Chicago Sol Wagner, ex-bandleader and i former contactman for Music Pub- lishers Holding . Co. here, took over the Chappell and T. B. Harms Chicago offices, replacing Ed Rich- man . . . London, which picked up two Lorry Raine masters two weeks ago, bought two more, “I Remem- ber” and “We’Ve Met Before.” Masters were ori the Universal. Label, and “We’ve Met Before” features a recitation by Chi deejay John McCormick . V Joe Whalen, former Bregman-Vocco-Conrt con- tactman here, off to New York with a couple of new songs for a try at starting his own publishing firm. Tommy Ryan into. Kenny wood Park, Pittsburgh, Aug. 7 for two weeks . ..... ‘Larry Fotine to Peony Park, Omaha, week of Aug. 8 Harry Revel has written words and music for the official song of the Chicago Lake Front Fair, “The Chicago Fair Waltz” . . . Bill Hansen, of Associated Music Pub- lishers, in from Toronto to confer with Broadcast Music Officials here. . . . Harry Fox, New York licensing agent, in town on business . . . Harmonicats will do a short for Universal Pictures here July 5. They then go to the Bell Reive hotel, Kansas City, for a return engagement starting July 14 . Bill Farrell starts the first of his stay-near-Chicago engagements at -iTi iTl the Blue Note Aug. 4 for two weeks. Farrell has a teevee show originating from Chi Monday nights that starts Aug. 7, so he must remain within one-day travel- ling distance of Chi , . ... Clyde McCoy into Hotel Claridge, Memphis, July 28 for two weeks. Hollywood Lionel Hampton, one-niting around Southern California, played successive dates at Balboa Rendez- vous, Mission Beach Ballroom, San Diego and at the “Cavalcade of Jazz” at Wrigley Field . , . Joe Reichman returns to the Mark Hopkins hotel, San Francisco, tonight (27) for a three-month stand. Charlita’s femme orch opened' indefinite stand at Larry Potter’s 1 Supper Club ... . Jerry. Gray took four former Glenn Miller sidemen into his touring orch; saxist Willie Schwartz, trombonist Jimmy Prid- dy and trumpeters Dale McMickles c nd m. Jo J inrty , Bes f • • • Sheldon Smith, Tormeriy pianist with the 2t?u^? b - A ? r ? sby batld » joined the Milt Herth trio at Catalina Island Casino . . , GerL GaUan orch suc- ceeded Bobby Ramos crew in dish- ing the rhuiribeat at Ciro’a i v iTTTMl Fadeout of 78 rpm disks in the longhair field before the end of this year has been signalized by a series of exchange plans formu- lated by three major diskeries. tinder a procedure designed to un- thaw frozen Stocks of shellacs on ; the retailer shelves, RCA Victor, Mercury and London have agreed to exchange old shellacs for new long-playing: merchandise under specified ratios. Decca and Columbia have not joined the plan, but - these disk- eries have been pressing virtually • no longhair shellacs since the intro of LP. Victor plan, which will go into effect over the next three months^ j provides for the exchange of 78’s ' at the ratio of $1 value for every ' $5 purchase of 45 rpm stock. Mer- cury’s liquidation plan is -similar to Victdr’s while London is offer- ing to take back $1 of shellac for i every $3 ordered on their long- ! playing product. Cincinnati, June 27. A stopover here last week cost the loss to Artie Shaw of $4,380. It represented 10 watches, three sets of cufflinks, a cigaret case and lighter, and $180 stolen from his room in the swank Terrace Plafca, he told police Wednesday (21). He checked in at the hotel late Tuesday, an off day between dance dates for his band in Louisville and Columbus. W < ' m ;ti 11 m*s3 TONIGHT TONI ARDEN with Ptrcy Faith Orch. & Char. Columbia RUSS CASE ORCHESTRA V/fh Ray Chariat Vocal M-G-M TONY MARTIN with Hfinri Rena Orchettra RCA Victor and more coming MILLER MUSIC CORPORATION PROGRAM THE NEW WEDDING STANDARD DOROTHY STEWART'S YOUR HAND LAUREL MUSIC CORP. 1619 (roadway, M. V. I V