Variety (December 1950)

Wednesday* December 6, 1950 ORC»BSTBAS-M1JSIC betah disk best sellebs Survey of retail disk best sellers, based on reports ob* tained from leading stores in 12 cities. and showing cojor parative sales rating for this and last week. Ul I m CO d s o « National Rating This Last wk, wk/ Dec. 2 bo •pH I I I 5 A I ^ Artist, Label. Title •M on .a e o iJ PHIL HARRIS (Victor) 1 1 **The Thing*^—20-3968B . . . . . . . . . . PATTI PAGE (Mercury) 2 2 “Tennessee Waltz“—5534 ■ ....... PERRY COMO-B. HUTTON (Vic.) 3 3 “Bushel a Peck“^20-3930.,..,.. SAMMY KAYE (Columbia) 4 3 “Harbor Lights”—-38963........ DON CHERRY (Decca) 5 6 “Thinking Of You”—27128: . DEAN MARTIN (Capitol) 6 5 “I’ll Always Love You”—1028..., PATTI PAGE (Mercury) 7A 4 “All My Love”—5455 .......... / PERRY COMO (Victor) 7B 5 “Patricia”—20-3905 ..... ... STAN KENTON-N. COLE (Cap.) 7C 10 “Orange Colored Sky”—1184 :.... KAY STARR-T. ERNIE (Capitol) 8 8 “I’ll Never Be Free”-1124 ...... PAUL WESTON (Columbia) 9 12 “Nevertheless”—38982 PERCY FAITH (Columbia) lOA 13 “Xmas in Killarney”—39044..... GORDON JENKINS (Decca) lOB 9 “Goodnight Irene“-^27077...... TONY MARTIN (Victor) IOC 4 “La Vie En Rose”—20-3879 MILLS BROS. (Decca) ^ llA 10 “Nevertheless”—27253 .......... GUY LOMBARDO (Decca) IIB 7 “Harbor Lights”—27208 GENE AUTRY (Columbia) 12A .. “Rudolph, Reindeer”—38610. ♦... BING-GARY CROSBY (Decca) 12B 11 “Simple Melody”—27112.... .. FITZGERALD-A’STRONG (Decca) 13 .. “Can Anyone Explain”—27209 DENNIS DAY (Victor) 14 8 “All My Love”—20-3870 MARIO LANZA (Victor) 15 .. “Be My Love”—10-1561 A. BING CROSBY (Decca) 16A .. “Harbor Lights”—27219......... . KEN GRIFFEN (Columbia) 16B ,. “Petite Waltz”—39047: /... DENNIS DAY (Victor) 16C .. “Xmas in Killarney”—20-3970.... ■ JO STAFFORD (Columbia) 17A .. “Tennessee Waltz”—39065....... RAY ANTHONY (Capitol) 17B 11 “Nevertheless”—1190 4 1 1 1 4 .. 4 14 .. 2 1 .. 2 2 . .. 2 11 1 . 3 7 .. .. 7 3 3 .. .. 4 2 .. 5 .. 9 . . . • 3 • ••• •• •• . ^. . > .'. 1 •. . ■ 2 8 .. 2 .. 7 7 7 .. . 4 7 . ■. ... 2 .« 98 .. .. .. 3 .. 5 .. 6 3 .. 5 -.5 .. '6 .. .. .. .. .. 6 3 9 9 .. .. .. 10 7 .. 2 .. •. . . 8 3 .. .. 10 .. 1 9 a X .. V ... .. • • . a . 6' . . . , .. . . 5 . 2 .. .. 3 .. .. .. 4 a a- . . • • •• •• •• 4 • • ^ •« •• 5 • a 6 a , a • No. of Label Records Victor ...a.., 7 Mercury — • 2 Columbia • • • ® _ ^ ^ ^ THREE timi FIVE TOP WORDS Hollywood Cost ALBUMS ■ M-G-M53 E516 Disk Best Sellers by Companies (Based on Points Earned) j No of Records Points Label Records Points ... . 7 184 Decca 7 87 2 95 Capitol 4 61 .... 6 89 . 2 8 4 5 SOUTH PACIFIC VOICE OF XTABY CALI ME MADAM KENTON PRESENTS Broadway Cast Ymii lumae Ethol Merman Stan Kenton Columbia MM850 ML4180 Yma Sumac Capitol CC244 Ethel Merman Decca DL-5304 Stan Kenton Capitol ECD 248 Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist, was bedded Monday (4) at Medical Arts hospital, N. Y., for ulcers. His condition is not serious, Parker was hospitalized inimedi- etely upon his return to the U. S. folio ving a concert tour in Sweden. DREAMER, IDEA MAN AND SONG WRITER WIshot to moKo contact with somoono in this world In order that ho may spend most of his tlmo out of this world, Howard daveb brooks^ 140 Best 46th street/ New York/ N. Y. Murray Hill 3-0356 Phil Coscia on His OWn Phil Coscia is agenting on after I resigning last week from the Ed- ! die Sherman office, N. Y. He had been set to join the A1 & Belle Dow agency^ but walked out of deal. Coscia had been with Sherman for several years. Sherman, recent- ly turned over the business to Joe Goopersmith in order to devote en- tire time to his. Coast agency. NAD^L JOINS GALE Murray Nadell, former road I manager for the Ink Spots, has. joined the Gale Agency as head of the cafe and cocktail booking dept, i He replaces Walter Hyde, who resigned. ; HOW'S YOUR MUSIC T? MISSING PARTS RIPLACfD ^ or oxtra parti added to any arrahgomint. OrlfUial arr^iemonti « lU aindi, rrices reasonable. For complete Information write tot STANDARD ARRANSINO SERVICe „ Itw 0.r4«lt AV.MOT Gleve. Orch Cancels Week Of Concerts Due to Stonn After-effects of the recent east- ern storm are still being felt in the concert world. With Cleveland still . snowbound, the Cleveland Orches- tra canceled a whole week of con- certs last week, and has skedded an extra week at the end of its regu- lar season instead. The Pittsburgh Symphony also cancelled two con- certS/ and Pittiburgh Opera Co. two performanceB. The Mt. Ver- non, N. Y., Symphony postponed its fall concert three days. Columbia Artists Mgt. had to postpone over a dozen concerts of its various talent due to the snow and rain. A whole week of Cana-, dian dates of the Columbia Boy- choir has been set back until April. James Melton’s Youngstown, O., rd-’ cltal was postponed :A:om Nov. 28 to Dec. 7. Rise Stevens, Edwin Steffe, Menahem ;pressler, Donald Dame and othiuri had trlpf interrupted and dates set back. ; Presenting he Coa st-to-Goast Band Sensation I JERRY GRAY and His Orchestra \ • • Jerry Gray is delivering a brand of dance music that firmly establishes him among the handful of class maestros cur- rently in the pop field . • /' —Variety. 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