Variety (December 1950)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
December 1950
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (December 1950)
Leaf #:
000237
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Recorded Sound",Vaudeville,Theatre,Broadcastin
Collection:
Early Cinema, Hollywood Studio System, and Theatre and Vaudeville
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Founded in 1905 by Sime Silverman, Variety is the best known and most important trade paper in the history of American entertainment. Variety began as a New York weekly publication covering vaudeville, however, its scope expanded over time to include legitimate theatre, burlesque, motion pictures, radio, and television (transitions that the MHDL will eventually document within this record). In 1933, Daily Variety was launched in Los Angeles to offer in-depth coverage of the motion picture industry and serve as a competitor to The Hollywood Reporter, which was founded 'on the Coast' in 1930. In March 2013, Variety's owner ended the print edition of Daily Variety, though as of this writing, the weekly publication and a website offering non-stop news updates still exist. Variety may ultimately be best remembered for its integration of show business slang into entertainment trade coverage. Boffo. Hokum. Quickies. Svelte. Climaxer. Tenpercenter. Coastlander. Skein. We're still feeling zowied. -- Eric Hoyt, 2013
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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ORCHESTttAS-MIJSlC Wednesday, December 27, 1950 presenting BING CROSBY AMERICA’S ‘MR. MUSIC 20tli ANNIVERSARY K' •* PWm His New Decca Album! BIMQ CHOSiY Songs from the Paramount Picture MR. MUSIC BING CROSBY with The ANDREWS SISTERS and DOROTHY KIRSTEN Selections include: Dtcca 27173 High On the List *9-27173 Life Is Se Peculiar with THE ANDREWS SISTERS Decca 27241 Accidents Will Happeh *9-27241 And You'll Be Home Decca 27263 Wouldn*t It Be Funny *9i)I7263 Once More the Blue and White Decca 27264 Accidents Wiii Happen *9-27264 Milady with DOROTHY KIRSTEN Decca Album A-790 • Four 10-Inch 78 RPM Records • Price $4.15 Decca 9-101 • Four 45 RPM Unbreakable Records * Price $3.75 DL 5284 * 1 d-in. Long Play Microgroove Unbreakable Record * Price $3.00 INDICATES 45 RPM VERSION ALL ALBUM RECORDS AVAILABLE AS SINGLES Long Play Prices Include Federal Excise Tax but no State or local taxes. /O RPM prices c^o not Include Federal, state, or local taxes. 0 ^America^siFastest '‘Sdling-iRecords! RETm DISK BEST SELLEBS m 1 National Ratinf This Last \vk. wk. Survey of retail disk best sellers, based on reports ob- tained from leading stores in 12 cities and showing comr parative sales rating for this and last week. Week Ending Dec. 23 Artist, Label, Title 4-> M m g cj Oh O 0) w .M cs ^ .2 'z o 2 2 9B 12 13 12 15A . 15B 17 15C 10 15D .. 15E .. 16A .. 16B .. 16C 13 16D .. PATTI PAGE (Mercury^ ^'Tennessee Waltz"—5534. 4 PHIL HARRIS (Victdi) “The Thing"—20-3968B 6 GENE AUTRY (Columbia) “Rudolph Reindeer"—38610 1 G. MITCHELL-M. MILLER (Col.) “My Heart Cries For You" —39067 3 MARIO LANZA (Victor) “Be My Love"—10-1561A SAMMY KAYE (Columbia) “Harbor Lights"—38963 GENE AUTRY (Columbia) “Frosty the Snowman"—38907... 9 PERRY COMO-B. HUTTON (Vic.) “Bushel and a Peck"—20-3930... 8 G. MITCHELL-M. MILLER (Col.) “Roving Kind"—39067 MILLS BROS. (Decca) “Nevertheless"—27253 ... . BING CROSBY (Decca) “Harbor Lights"—27219 KAY STARR-T. ERNIE (Capitol). “I'll Never Be Free"—1124 GUY LOMBARDO (Decca) “Harbor Lights"—27208 BOSTON POPS (Victor) “Sleigh Ride”—10-1484 DORIS DAY (Columbia) “Bushel and a Peck"—39008 DENNIS DAY (Victor) “All My Love”—20-3870 EDDIE FISHER (Victor) “Thinking Of You"—20-3901 DON CHERRY (Decca) “Thinking Of You"—27128 10 JERRY MARLOWE (Capitol) “Frosty the Snowman"—1204. ... .. JOHNNY DESMOND (MGM) “Sleigh Ride"—10827 PERCY FAITH (Columbia) “Xmas in Killarney"—39044..... .. RALPH FLANAGAN (Victor) “Harbor Lights"—20-3911 .. PERRY COMO (Victor) “Patricia"—20-3905 7 BING CROSBY (Decca) “Marshmallow World"—27230 i § 4) oq <u I ^ I B PI in u) O o CQ 2 1 1 6 7 4 (-1 QU 0 ’S Q rd 1 e 9 of) P< 'a 6 4 1 4 3 3 99 2 5 2 5 6 4 75 4 1 2 1 2 74 5 . . .. 7 35 1 34 9 .. 4 . . 10 5 9 1 9 8 24 2 .. 22 8 7 9 20 3 2 1 6 9 .. . 3 I • 6 • • • 3 7 .. 9 3 .. 10 7 8 .. .. 7 4 .. 7 Disk Best Sellers by Companies {Based on Points Earned) Label Columbia Victor .. . Mercury . No. of Records ... 7 . . . 8 .. . 1 No. of Points Label Records 188 I Decca 5 169 I Capitol 2 99 I MGM 1 Points 59 21 8 FIVE TOP ALBUMS MERRY XMAS Bing Crosby Decca A-550, 9-65 DLP-5019 SOUTH PACIFIC Broadway Cast Columbia MM850 ML4180 3 I 4 VOICE OF XTABY CALI ME MADAM Yma Sumac Capitol CC244 Ethel Merman Decca DL-5304 TEA FOR TWO Hollywood Cast Columbia C215 CL6149 On tlie Upbeat New York Jimmy Hilliard, Coral Records artists and repertoire chief, goes to Chicago' and Minneapolis next week for o.o. of talent situation there ... Frank Dailey has switched organist Joe Mooney from his Meadowbrook, Cedar. Grove, N. J., to the Sherbrook, Little Ferry, N. J. . . . Erroll Garner plays a week at Apollo* theatre,' N. Y., Jan. 4 . . . Louis Bernstein, Shapiro- Bernstein ' partner, ‘ leaves for Florida vacation oyer the weekend. Alrlane Trio, instrumental group, currently, .at. .Hotel Dixie, N. Y., inked by Tower Records . . . Singer Teresa Brewer, newly signed by Music Gorp. of America, into the Versailles, N. Y., Jan. 3, for two weeks. Hollywood Desi Arhaz'will team with wife Lucille Ball for, a telefilm package . . . Bob Crosby orch set for a fea- tured stint in “Two Tickets to Broadway"- at RKO . . ; Vldo Musso combo opens tonight (26) at the Black Haw'k, San Francisco . . . Dan Terry orch starts indef stand New' Year’s Eve at the Peabody hotel, Memphis . . . Les Brown inked for the Gene Norman “Holi- day Jazz Concert" at the Shrine auditorium Friday (29) . . . Woody Herman secured his release from Capitol and is talking a deal with i MGM Records under which Her- man w'ould pay entire cost of re- cording session and arrangements and get 5% of the retail sales pi'ice of each disk sold, same deal he had at Capitol. Chicago WENR has moved abbreviated Benn^ Rubin deejay show to 10:30 ' p.m. Show is now half-hour cross- the-boards . . . Noble Davis band set for Claridge hotel, Memphis, Jan. 19 . . . Lou Breesc band play- ing weekly C.Y.O. dances at Sher- aton hotel here . . . Orrin Tucker band Into Shroeder hotel, Milwau- kee, Dec. 26, following at Chase hotel, St. Louis, Jan. 19 . . . Don Ragon band set for Trocadero, Evansville, Ind., Feb. 23 . . . Larry Fotine and A1 Morgan inked for Grand theatre, Evansville, Ind., Jan. 10-14 . . , Harmonicats to Col- ony Club, Waterloo, la., Jan. 4 for 11 days. ^ They follow at Nicollet hotel, Minneapolis, with Jan Au- gust, Feb. 2 . . . Ethel Smith key- boards at Olympia, Miami, Jan, 10, then heads west to El Rancho Ve- gas, Las Vegas, Jan. 26 . . . Metro- Tones slated for Vic’s Minneapolis, Jan. 1 for four weeks . . . Howard Graffman joined McConkey Book- ing gency ... James Hart, Am- bassador hotel prexy, tossed party for David Le Winter last week, celebrating orchster’s fifth year in the Pump Room . . . Dead End Kids move into Seven Seas, Omaha, first of year , . . Sky Club, Aurora, usualy dark for Xmas, remains open, with Ben Marden unit hold- ing over . . . Chirper Wyoma Win- ters joined Gay Claridge unit . . . Ray Pearl orch inked into Grove, Orange, Texas, Feb. 2 . . . Carl Sands, former Oriental theatre ba- toneer, reorganized unit and moves into Mural Room, Baker hotel, Dallas, Jan. 15. Pittsburgh Will Hansen, bandleader and a first lieutenant in the Marine in- fantry reserve, recalled to active duty at Camp Lejeune, N. C. His ex-partner, Wes Parker, will carry on for him as booker for new Royal Ballroom. Skip Nelson, for- mer vocalist with late Glenn Mil- ler, has joined Parker band as pianist-singer , . . Johnny Long at West View Park and Illinois Jao- quet at Savoy ballroom were one- night rival attractions here day after Christmas . . . Luke Riley (Continued on page 36)