Variety (December 1950)

ORCHESTRAS-MIJSIC American musicians, performers and musical directors who at times are piqued b:/ performance clear- ance routines should be thankful they don’t have to go through what Brazilian musicians must do. Each night a JBrazilian bandleader or conductor must fill out a list in triplicate of each song he has played and the tinie at which it was played. . Performance fees in Brazil are divided among three performance rights - societies, but all collections are made by the police. So if a bandleader should be a bit careless about the time a song was played, he'd better beware. The police have roving inspectors jotting down the time they heard a song played in thi.s cafe or on that radio station/ Their notes are checked against one of the triplicate forms filled out eac: night by the per^ former. This is not the only compUcation inherent in the Brazilian perform^ PROGRAM THE NEW WEDDiNG STANDARD DOROTHY STEWARTS LAUREL MUSIC CORP. 1619 Broadway. N. Y. 19 ahce rights setup, but fortunately for the performer, it’s the only one he’s got to worry about. There are three performance rights so- cieties in Brazil SBAT, the Brazil- ian Society of Authors of the The- atrev is the oldest, dating back some 30 years. This group controls books, plays and music, the latter mostly in the grand rights field. A second group is UBC, the Union of Brazilian Composers, about 10 years oid and affiliated With CISAC the International Gon- tederatibn controlling mostly for- eign music. This, mcide.ntaily, com- prises only writers, as does SEAT. The third group, affiliated with Broadcast^Music, Inc., is SBACEM, the Brazilian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers Of Mu- .sic, formed in 1946, • This, is the only group which has publisher members. One of .the founders, of. SBACEM is Vicente Vitale of Irmaos Vitale (Vitale Bros.) who is in New, York now huddling with BMI execs on performance prob- lems. Vitale go' the four major Brazilian, publishers (there are some 10 publishers in the country ) ' together after years of non-coop- •eration and drew them into the . Society, together with the major- ity Of the domestic pop writers. According to Vitale, the Society, : although only four years .old, con- trols about 90% of the Brazilian pop repertory. It also controls ; Mexican and Cuban catalogs per- formed in Brazil. [ The police are the collection : agency for all three societies and have been in that capacity since SBAT w^as founded. Each police precinct makes the collections for I all performances in its area, and turns them over to a central agen- cy which then divides the collec- tions among the three societies. Every type of public performance must pay for use of music. Since fees and payoff are on ^ per-per^ formance basis, the lists of songs and times played must be main- tained for collection and distribu- tion purposes. Police get no'cut of the per- formance monies, but each time a location or radio station is li- ^ censed, the police charge a li- censing fee. Top Songs TV, (Alphabetically Liated) Week of Nov. 34-30 (Based on copyrighted Au- dience Coverage Index and Audience Trend Index, pub- lished by. Of fire of Research, Inc., Dr. John G. Peatman^ A%u^lml and a Peck. Morris Lucky Me Santly-Joy Nevertheless ....... .Chappell Orange Colored Sky . . Frank Thinking of You. . . ; Remick 5 Top Standards Charleston . . Harms I Got Rhythm... .New World Just Those Things .... Harms Tea for Two. . -. . . .. . .Harms Who Cares . . ...' ..... . Harms Wednesday, December 6, 1950 ALBUM SEILERS TO 45 Despite the absence of apy of- ficial word that it has converted to 45 rpm, Columbia Records is converting 30 of its bestselling al- bums to 45 rpm. The company has In the past few weeks been re- leasing pops on all three speeds simultaneously, and , has already released three of its current top albums to 45 rpm. Columbia would not divulge which albums are being converted, but it’s understood they will be in the pop, semi-classic and legit musical field. 'Three albums already out on 45 are priginal-cast albums of “South. Pacific,’’ “Kiss Me, Kate,’’ and “Tea for Two,” with Doris Day. Bibletone Sets Disk Deal To Test Choir Works Bibletone Records, N. Y., has made a deal with the Sam Fox, Lewis Music and Will Rossiter pub- lishing companies to record a series of choral works for the firms under an arrangement which has as its objective the hypoing of SPA Assuming Continued from page 45 BLASCO MUSIC, INC, 1221 BSLtllVIORt KANSAS CITY. MO. THE WINTER SENSATION! SLEIGH RIDE PROGRAM NOW/ 'I DONT MIND BEING ALL ALONE^^ (When rm All Alone With You) MILLS MUSIC, INC. U19 Broadway .New York 19 sheet music srles on the numbers waxed. Agreement calls for at least two numbers !rom each publisher to be disked by Bibletone. A mini- mum of 500 records will be pressed by the diskery for cuffo distribu- tion to Chora' directors and disk jockeys throughout the country. This figure, on which the tab will be picked up at cost by the in- dividual publishers, is expected to cover the recording expenses. Idea behind the move is to give the choral directors an opportunity to hear what the various choral works sound like when done by professional choral groups. This idea was presented by Bibletone’s prexy, Arthur L. Becker, at a meet in N. Y. earlier this month called by Roy Anderson, editor and publisher of Choir mag The thought advanced at the confab was that the choral directors would be able to decide after list'*ning to a number whether they thought enough of it to go out and buy the 100 or more copies heeded for choral presentation. Initial platter to be sent out by Bibletone will be Lewis’ “I Walked Into the Garden.” which has al- ready been recorded by the diskery. New York Bernie Mann’s orch cut 10 sides for Tower Records in New York last week . . .Irving Fields acted as musical director at the annual Pepsi-Cola affair at the Waldorf-As- toria, N.Y.. last week.; Bijlie Burke recorded the first chapter of her autobiog, *‘With A Feather On My Nose,” as. a talking book for the American Foundation for the Blind . . . Richard Dyer-Benhett, folk- singer, etched 16 songs for Reming- tomContinental Records last week i . . Dorothy Ann, Abbey Records vocalist, booked into the L’Aiglon restaurant, N. Y;, Jan. 1 ... Clark Dennis, Capitol Records’ tenor, currently held over for a second Week at the Mayflower hotel, Washington , . . Ethel LeVane, librettist for the new Ferde Grofe comDQSition, “Atlantic Crossing,” heads for Hollywood Dec. 9 to con- fab with Grofe. Don Cornell, RCA Victor Records’ vocalist, into the N. Y. Strand Dec. 21 for the Christ- mas show . ... Ruth Brown and Willis Jackson’s orch into the Apollo theatre, N. Y. tomorrow (Thurs.) for a week . . Whipoor- wills, vocal group featured on the Frank Sinatra TV show, were formerly known as the Moonmists. Tommy Dorsey orch set for a one-nighter private party at the Waldorf-Astoria Friday (8) . . . J. M. Collins, sales manager of ASCAP, addressed the Advertising Club of Washington last week on tlie society’s public relations pro- gram ... Brace of .M-G^M record- ing artists, including Billy Eck- stine, George Shearing, Johnny Desmond, Art Liind and Hank Williams, cutting transcriptions for the March of Dimes campaign . . . Jane Cans left Famous Music to become secretary to Ivan Mo- gull, general manager 9 f Moe Gale’s new Sheldon Music . , . Winning; record retailers in M-G-M’s window display contest tying in “Annie Get Your Gun” albums with local showings of film are Oscar Mecuih, Hudson-Ross, Chicago; Irving Randolph, Band Wagon Record Shop, East Orange, N. J., and H. Brockman, Uptown Music Shop, St. Louis . . . Deejay Johnny Clarke appointed chairman of the radio-publicity committee of the N. Y. State Committee for the Blind. week, following one-week perch at Lake Club, Springfield, Dec. 8 . . . Jan Garber waxed two sides for Capitol last week . . . Patti Page to Chicago theatre Jan. 12 for two v/eeks. Irik Spots follow for a week, Jan. 26 . . . Johnny Long set for Roosevelt hotel. New Orleans, Jan. Tl for a month . . , A1 Mor- gan cut 19 sides last week for London . . . Anita O’Day to Flame, Detroit, Dec. 29 for two weeks , , . Lawjence Welk to Trianon, Dec. 25 for two months. " Hollywood allies and other income is stated and protected. 3. Publishers have welcomed SPA as a means to elimiriate “un- fair competition” among publish- ers and writers. SPA’s contracts have prevented both publisher and writer members from making dis- honest or unethical deals. 4. SPA in the past few years has cut in large measure the in- fringement suits brought to court by gathering the parties around a conference table and negotiating settlements. The organization’s files have been an official refer- ence library in this respect. 6. SPA has joined in efforts to promote sales ot sheet music and Third annual benefit concert for better the industry generally, the American Guild of Musical Charles Tobias, veepee of the Artists’ maintenance arid welfare ; group, initiated the present copy j fund will be held Jan. 7, at the ' sales drive of the industry, and | Met Opera House, N. Y. was backed in this action by the , SPA council. j Much of the gains SPA has ex- ' perienced, Romberg declared, have cohie in the past three years, since the formulation of the present ! writer contract. Since then, SPA lawyers have been actiye in repre- senting the writers in Washington j and other legal fronts; SPA has /acted as a negotiator, and it has been able to extend its activities in other directions. Tops of the Tops Retail Disk Best Seller “The Thing” Retail Sheet Besi Seller “Harbor Lights” /*Most Requested” Disk “The Thing” Seller on Coin Machines “Tennessee Waltz” Best British Seller “Rudolph The Reindeer" Louis Armstrong, current at the Flamingo hotel, Las Vegas, set for a three-weeker at Dave Rafel’s 150 Club, San Francisco, starting Jan. 2 . . . Bob Keene orch inked to play the Rose Bowl Queen’s coro-| nation ball Jan. 8 . . . Geri Galian Latune combo inked to make five Shader Telescriptions . . . Eddie! Bergman, batoning the houseband at the CocOanut Grove, has assem- j bled 14 sidemen including a harp-: ist. Pittsburgh Lee Keiton orch started seventh year as staff band at WJAS. Bob Rhodes, who took over Baron El- liott’s crew during war and then later had his own for awhile after Elliott got back from the service, has joined Keltbn as saxman-solo- ist and so has John Grurney, part- time engineer at radio station, on trumpet Dolores Delmar is back as soloist and Herb Stevens has re- turned to outfit after completing tour of armed service bases in Alaska, Greenland and Labrador . . . Luis Morales band into Carni- val Lounge for indefinite stay . . . Joe Sudy’s band winds up six-week stay at William Penh hotel’s Ter- race Room Wednesday (6) and goes into Hotel Statler, Detroit, Dec. 18 . , . Art 'Tatum opens nine- day stand at Johnny Brown’s Club on Friday (8) . . . Don Trimarkie’s Trio had its option picked up at Hotel Roosevelt’^ new Sylvan Room . , . Four Notes have gone into Club Riviera^ just taken over by Harry Pitler> onetime prizefight manager. I’M IN THE Middle of a riddle recorded and feqfured by DOROTHY CLAIRI M-G-M PERCY FAITH ORCH. A CHORUS Columbio LARRY CRIEN A HIS ORCHESTRA RCA Victor AHTON KARAS—KAY ARMCN London EVELYN KNIGHT—GUY LOMBARDO | Oocco SNOOKY lANSON London JO STAFFORD—GORDON MacRAC . Capitol T€D STEELE RainboW ! LAWRENCE WELK A HIS ORCHESTRA Mercury ROBBINS MUSIC CORPORATION Chicago Myron Barg, former FM disk jock, has joined AM fold with a 5-5:30 p.m. across-the-board plat- ter show on WCFL. Jock plucks an additional airing on weekends over WIND when grid beamings stop , . . Ray Anthony band set for six day's at Casa Loma, St. Louis, Jan. 16 . , , Navy is asking orchs touring through Chi to stop off and add to series* of 15-minute record- ed shows for recruiting . . . Bernie Cummins band to Muehlebach ho- tel, Kansas City, Dec. 14 for a month . . . Eddy Howard cut five sides for Mercury last week . . . Buddy Moreno orch set for Mar- tinique, Dec. 19 . . . Lind Bros, cutting “Heavenly Ranch” this week for Majestic. A1 Trace pen- ned ,, . Clyde McCoy set for two weeks at Trocadero, Hender- son, Ky., Dec. 15 . . . Mercury’s prexy, Ilwing Green, and promo- tion veepee Art Taimadge planed to the CoasLlast week 4 . . Mills Bros, slated for Radio City thea- tre, Minneapolis, Dec. 15 for one “MOMMY, Won’t You Buti A Baby Brother” R*corded by SPIKE JONES on RCA-VICTOR RECORDS Published by ARENA STARS, INC. 366 N. Camden Dr. Beverly Hills, Calif. ALL MATERIAL READY “NORTH POLE TOWN" A Real Xmas Jingle Records by- RCA Victor Avoi/obfe tn 45 ond 78 RPM Prof. Copies and Orks WIRE t>R WRITE TO: BURNETT, LTD^ Saranac Loko. New York (SOU SELUNG AGENTS) SPENCER MUSIC CORPORATION, 1-29 W. 52nd St., N. Y. C. 19, N. Y