Variety (September 1950)

Wednesday*. September, 20,. 1950 r ■ r T-*V'- ). ORCHESTRAS-MUSIC RETAIL DISK BEST SELLERS 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. Rating 4 T 1 I v’ Sept. 16 This Last . wk. wk. Artist, Label, Title (0 . o M S W W § « « W) : 8 . & a l ■ W P ' 1 M I * .2 4) JC) SC o g 1 s 2 w “■* D !? rt h : JS <u S R O O ’V - I I s 7 l 1 M (3 a 1 f n a &- |! 3 M W.' . V S' I .8 3 kV w ' •N I a A 3 «? 5 § § ' ' a 9 VJ wm } s 1 4 ;S <! 5 .S S -3 o •rt V . tfl f|> 5 O 0> : ';>'W i Q, ©• A w r * -A * T , < 4 ■ £ I I ? s < L $ IS I 55 I £ I 3 I 5 G. JENKINS-WEAVERS (Decca) 1 2 “Goodnight Ire ne ”—-21077 ....... 1 • NAT (KING) COLE (Capitol) 2 1 “Mona Lisa’ ^iPlO ♦«»♦«- • 1 0 BING-GARY CROSBY (Decca) ~ 3 3 “Play a Sim ple Melody”—27112.. 4 BING-GARY CROSBY (Decca) 4 6 “Sam's Song”—-27112V ............. 8 GriENKINS-WEAVERS (Decca) 5 7 “Tzena, Tzena.Tzena”—27077.... 6 "TONY MARTIN (Victor) 6 5 “La Vie En Rose”—20^3819.... ^. 7 “FRANKIE LAINE (Mercury) 7 4 “Music, Maestro, Please”—5458.. 2 AMES BROS. (Coral) 8 7 “Can Anyone Explain”—80253... 5 JO STAFFORD (Capitol) 9 11 “No Other Love”—1053.,.. 9 " : SAMMY KAYE (Columbia) 10A 15 “Harbor Lights”—38963. V,...... 3 KAY STARR (Capitol) lOB 10 “Bonaparte's Retreat”—936.,.... ., VKrDAMONE (Mercury) 11 12 “Vagabond- Shoes”-—5429... V... V PATTI PAGE (Mercury) 12 8 S'AlI My Love”—5455.. . ..... ... . ~~ DEAN MARTIN (Capitol) 13 14 “I'll Always Love You”—1028.♦.. .. : DENNIS DAY (Victor) 14A 17 “Goodnight Irene”—-20-3870. RED FOLEY (Decca) 14B 15 “Our Lady of Fatima”—14526... V .. FRANKIE LAINE (Mercury) 14C 15 “Dream a Little Dream”—5458... . v. K. KALLEN-R, HAYES (Mercury) 15 . “Our Lady of Fatima”—5466.. >. »■ ♦. JO STAFFORD-WESTON (Cap) 16 ...... “La Vie En Rose”—1153......... ,. VIC DAMONE (Mercury) 17A .. “Cincinnati Dancing Pig”—5477.... SAMMY KAYE (Victor) 17B ... “World Waiting Sunrise”—20-3181 .. BILL FARRELL (M-G-M) r 17C .. “Deed I Do”—10757............ . . . MARINERS (Columbia) 17D .. “Sometime* 1 —3878 . > . ... • JO STAFFORD (Capitol) 17E “Play a Simple Melody”—1039... 6 8 . • r : # • • • ‘ 4 > • » 4 .4 6 33 6 10 •' • V • • 9 10 21 • • ’«:• . • • • '• • •. •• V" • •. . * *' •• • • « • ' * • • 9 4 4 .4 • « • • • • FIVE TOP ALBUMS THREE 1 LITTLI WORDS Hollywood Cast M-G-M M-G-M53 E516 SOUTH PACIFIC ANNIE GET YOUR YOUNG MAN WITH SUMMER STOCK Broadway Cat! Columbia MM850 ML4180 GUN Hollywood Cast M-G-M E509 A HORN H. Jamet-P. Day Columbia C198 CL6106 Hollywood Cast M-G-M M-G-M56 E519 Disk Best Sellers by Companies (Based on Points Earned) No. of Records Label Recor Decca 5 Capitol 6 Mercury ..., , , „ ......,....... 6 Victor . ;................. .. .. 3 No. of Points Label Records Points 230 Columbia •.• 2 27 143 Coral 1 27 92 M-G-M .......v.............. 1 6 50 GIRL BAND Sox, Drums, Piano, Trumpet That Can Do Novelty Num- bers and Play Good Dance Music. FULL DETAILS TO HOTEL ALTAMONT Tupper Lake, New York Columbia Records will shell out a large chunk of coin to promote the coming rodeo opening its an- nual stay in Madison Square Gar- den, New York, Sept. 27. Reason for the promotion is fact that Gene Autry, Columbia’s top western re- cording artist, is headlining the rodeo. Diskery will set up window dis- : plays, post streamei's and devote usual coin to press parties, etc., for Autry and the rodeo. Diskery’s N. Y. distributor, Times-Columbia, will handle most of the promotion, Columbia is also giving an extra promotional push to its “Tea for Two" album based on the WB film of that name. Album features Doris Day and Gene Nelson from the original cast, and Axel Stor- dahl’s orch. In addition to poster campaigns tying in with national [release of pic, diskery will send [ but J >50Q • disk Jockey samples of ^une of the tunes from the album. Songwriters ^have gone on to become film producers, but Owen Murphy is probably the only one who has his own film company. Murphy, who wrote the scores for the “Greenwich Village Follies” and most of the Joe Cook shows, is a partner in Murphy-Lillis, Inc., an industrial .and advertising film producing unit. Murphy : is still writing songs—but these are for his films, which service firms like Chesterfield, Philco and Firestone. Murphy got into the industrial picture business' when he was out in Hollywood, doing the film score for the Columbia production of “Rain or Shine,”’ for which he had written the original Broadway score. ? r ? was contacted there by an indv ial film unit to' do some work foi them, and . after he com- pleted tne assignment, he went into the industrial filmmaking busi- ness permanently. In 1945, he formed his Own firm in partnership with Lillifiw ' ,ir' <i | I _ . . m His Great Decca Album! COLLEGE Fox Trots and Vocals with Instrumental Accompaniment A iVt D(CCA ^OO’?) wo ».<■ v.v Ok AVAILABLE IN ALL 3 SPEEDS! DL 5274 • 10-Inch Long Play Microgroove Unbreakable Record * Price $2.85 , Album R-84 • Four Unbreakable Records • Price $3,35 Album A-782 • Four 10-inch 78 RPM Records • . Price $3.75 (SELECTIONS INCLUDE) *27133 STAR DUST ONCE IN A WHILB *27124 LAURA (JVE COT A CRUSH ON YOU ♦27125 I CAN'T GET STARTED EAST OF THE SUN (And West 6f the Moon) *27124 DEEP PURPLE I'M IN THE MOOD for LOVE 45 RPM and 78 RPM Album Records Available at Singlet *Alsa Available in 4S RPM America's- Fastest “Selling-Records!