Variety (December 1951)

OICIBSmS-MIJSIC Week of Dee. 22 Vcdif cidiy, Pccfflber 26, 1951 1; LITTLE WHITE CLOUD (4) (Spier)..... * Johnnie Ray .,.*»•••• -*Ufcen «... A ... (Eddy Howard .........Mercury pBj tl2) (Algonqum).... ................... *»• * * • «• ••••■• • • • | Savannah Churchill ......Victor 3, UNDECIDED (9) (Leeds) Ames Bros.-Les Brown . . . Coral . . . (Johnnie Ray Okeh 4* CRY (1) (Mellow) •.. ........ •.. . • •.............. •..#«...«• | G e0 rgia Gibbs-. ........ Mercury v 5. COLD. COLD HEART (14) (Acuff-R) ..................... Tony Bennett ...,... Columbia a " .... /nlJ , ' f Pee Wee King ..........Victor G. SLOW POKE (8) (Ridgeway).. ...............|Roberta Lee Decca 7. BECAUSE OP YOU (21) (Broadcast) *. Tony Bennett,,..Columbia I GET IDEAS (1» .... V. 9, JEALOUS! (7> (Harm,) Ftonkie LaJne .Cjplwnjbta - - \bei W6od* i>®enness^e 10.v DOWN YONDER (12) (Southern) .... t {Eddie SmM ::...... i*; | Chump Butler Columbia CHARMAINE (Lion) MG .WHY (Signet).>........ <«.... «*............ SHRIMP BOATS (Disney) ANYTIME* (Hill-R) DOMINO (O^iWckWick) *..................i ....w.... RUGGED BUT.RIGHT (Pickwick) ........ 't *.. -........ JINGLE BELLS (Beachwood).... .............. . . . < TURN BACK. HANDS OF TIME (3). (Choice).... .. .............. RUDOLPH RED. NOSED REINDEER (St. Nicholas).........., SOLITAIRE (Broadcast) JUST ONE MORE CHANCE (Famous) AND SO TO SLEEP AGAIN (7) (Paxton).,.......... I TALK TO THE TREES (Chapp?ll),....., .................. .> BLUE VELVET (Meridian) UNFORGEiABLE -(BourUe)...........»......•••»'.......•....v. • * *- ..... »• *•*. Mantovahi ... •‘- London. , Four Aces .........,. t X. .pecCa ( Jo Stafford . r ..... . . Columbia } Dolores Gray ............ . •.Decca Eddie Fisher .'... ....... • Victor Tony Martin .. Victor P. HarrlS'A. Faye* .Victor Les paul-Mary Ford . Capitol Eddie Fisher .......... - Victor Gene Autry' ..-i ,..... .Columbia Tony Bennett ........ Columbia Les PqiulMary Ford .... Capitol Patti Page; Mercury Tony. Bavhar .;...... i.. Victor Tony Bennett .....,.. Columbia. Nat “ King ” Cole ....... Capitol The Oscar Hammersteln, 2d-BertKalmai>Harry Ruby sour “A Kiss To Build * Dream On/' written over 15 years ago and shelved/has finally broken through for a hit as a result of a Louis Armstrong cut for Decca Records, s One of the rare straight pop tunes on which Hammerstei ever collaborated, “Kiss” was only published this year by Miller Music of the Big 1 Three, after it wa$ spotted in’ the* Metro pic, “The Strip •• Since Armstrong's cut has caiight on, tune has been selling about 10,000 copies of sheet music weekly. RCA Victor, meantime, decided to cover the tune only fast week more than two . months after-Armstrong’s disk hit the counters. Hug Winterhalter made it for Victor under the new policy of covering all material instituted by pop artists and reportory chief Dave Kapp. .Composer of the current best seller. “Cry/! is Churchill Kohlman vWho f ».despite' his cleffing click, continues to work, as a watchman at Werners, Pittsburgh dry^leanlhg establishment,' - v Cry” Was Written by Kohlman several years ago, but never got anywhere^ until Johnnie Ray put'it On wax. for the Okeh label. . *At that time, tunesmith entered it in .an amateur songwriting contest then being Conducted by the Copa downtown Pitt nltery. It was weeded out in the . first round, another of Kohlman's tunes, VAppreciation,” getting into the Rnals. nicidentally, Wfemers use a number of slide spots on Pittsburgh's only TV station, WDTy. and* lately they’ve been putting Kohlman’s’'pieture on them, pointing: to the fact that the composer of “Cry” is one of their employes. -Continued from pace 3f these instrumentals. Mantovani’s delivers more slick sides in fi Let crew has a lush sound, with prom- It Be” and “I’ll’ Never Let You inent use of fiddles, and delivers Cry,” Lucy Ann Polk vocalling ... beautifully on both sides. Billy May *'orch continues to . im- Totoy Bavaar: “Another AU- press with his workover of “Char- tumn”-“Close To YoU” (Victor)’, inalne” and “When Take My Sugar Tony Bavaar, legit musical singer To Tea!’ (Capitol) ... Dick Brown iFtpures tn-'-PdrefitheSei indicate number of weeks song has been in the Top 10,1 starring, in ‘‘Paint Your Wagon,” does an impressive job on “An- tvAUtUmn,” from the" show’s .*>It’s « class ballad, which does a gO<HL but late job on “Shrimpboats” for King, WSM w , ; ; so^c commercial style. Bavaar also /V 1 vi'l . Singer Harry Belafonte held over sdfres with hia projectiomof the (In Ikft I nkfiof , at VUlage Vanguard nitery; N. Y„ the bottom) deck, Norman Un UlC UDDCdl for. additibnal six Weeks > . . The , V V r M Honeydreauv?m, vocal combo, If Yotf Go - Jeal- , gan a two-week engagement at ^ousfy” (London). British^ongstress New York Minnesota . Terrace,. |di|meapp)is, Ve^a Lynn turns in one her best ^for^&^eekS opens^at tbe Macombo, HoHyWobd, ballatr^with a powerful melodic .Hotel Statler, N. Y„ for six weeks ja n> g.for two weeks . . , pianist Jme.j-This is a topflight arrangment T.nnia RnriMtEiti. Shaoim- form • . - 'Dm^mna* 4m mm ' mTl n ■mTTtj \m t iT i00%2leordt6 MILLS MUSIC. INC. ,161V BroadwoY New York 19 . Louis Berl ?^P’ , Chuck Tanner, guitar, Louie Reverse is an okay version of the Bernstein topper, to Florida on an- jacohet standard. niial vacation . .; songstress Mary ®“ r tf r ^Ltn aS p P ‘TpV,Htv Club ProVI-'! v Don Cherry: “Take Me Back'- Mayo into Montelleone Hotel; New j an . 4 # . . EUa Fitzgerald “^either Ain I” (Decca). Cherry ,is Orleans for two weeks beginning ng at storeyville,.Boston, Jan. one Of the best of tbe younger J^Vi? * * ; T Mari ^ 7 . . . Lester Young orch into vocal stylists and he gets a good Southern Music S Mexican branch, -3 ^^^ n. Y., Jan. 3 . . . Erroll chance ta show his stuff oh this in 0 Enffland City Garner Opens at Howard Theatre, coupling. “Back” gets af strong after vacationing in England . . . Washington, Jan. 11 . . .. Ralph delivery and should a factor if Peer, -Peer International topper, this number breaks through. “Nei- vacationing in the Swiss Alps. R ther Am U’ is an okay tune smooth- ly vocalled. NEW BALLAD HIT! ALWAYS Percy Feltii —C oimible Jane Vein, H. Wlattfiietter— RCA Victor-. V 9 Victor Yoaag—Dacca . Hollit Music, Inc. Mi Fifth Afay Ntw Yo»k 19, N Y. Pittsburgh Dave Brubeck Quartet opens lim- PUtter Pointers Eddy Howard orch has ^packaged WE’RE REALLY WART YOU MGM 11100 K 11100 78RPM 45 RPM M G M RECORDS ited stay at the Midway Lounge on a fine set of oldies for Mercury Jan. 4 . . . Nelson Maples, pianist under the title of “Easy Listening.” Who. quit to become a circulation ... Al Morgan has a good , cut of man for the Post-Gazette, is on a the new religious bit, “Mother, At winter leave of absence from the Your Feet Is Kneeling” (Decca). newspaper and playing at Al Curt Massey has a fine coupling in Mercur’s Lounge in Miami Beach “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The . v . Tommy Carlyn’s band just cut Boat” and “Forever Begins Today” two more sides for Rondo Records (Coral) ... Camafata orch has a here over the weekend ;. . . Pete superlative cut of “Heaven Drops Murphy, after a three year illness, Her Curtain Down,” Bob Carroll has his doctor’s okay to rejoin vocalling (Decca) ... Merv Griffin Bernie Armstrong s KDKA staff delivers in schmaltzy style on “If I band on Jan. 1 . .>.* Molly Paplle Forget You” and “Eternally” for has switched to the Northside after Victor..On the same label, Perry entertaining downtown at the Como hits nicely on the oldies, “A Horseshoe Bm* for a long stretch Garden In The Rain” and “Oh, » , . Whitey Scharbo .will take six How I Miss You Tonight” ... Cliff men with him into the Ankara,.Lo- ste#ard^ and his San Francisco eal 60 having permitted that ropto Roys break up the joint with their to cut its band from eight during fusing cut of “She Lived Next 'ft* * \S* Dbor To; A Firehouse” (Coral) . . . its option hoisted Oh the same label, Les Brown orch again at the Copa . . Charlie - Spivak plays Carnegie Tech Coun- cil of Interfraterpity Presidents ball at Syria Mosque Jan. 5. -Chicago .. vj Sarah Vaughan and the Doihlf. noea will headline the New Year’s^ package at the Regal . . -. Franks Yankovic .has six days at- the Showboat, Lorain,* Ohio, Jan. 29 through Feb. 4. and follows with like stint at Ciro’s ; Philly.. . Larry Fotine does a month of one*hight* ers after he leaves the Muehlebabh, Kansas City Jan, 16 .CathyjDole cut four sides for indie Sharp label ... Muggsy Spanier moves front the Silhouette, on'the north side to Loop^ Blue. Note: Jan. 11 for two weeks with Frits Joue4-Trio also sharing honoi's. *Trio is being 1 pushed by Columbia Records . , .! Leo Pelper invades Texas for a month’s stay at the Rice Hotel, Houston, beginning Feb. 1 . . . Al Trace cut four more sides for Mer- cury .. . Serge Chaloff, in a strict- ly modern kick, goes into the Pre- view Dec. 21 for two weeks and. then strictly off the corn side. Corn Cobblers come in for a run there Jan. 4. Danny Deane plays the Cltiridge, Meipphty, Feb. 1 through the :21st- . . . Kansas ^City musician’s local goes on six day week starting Jan/ 1 . . . Buddy Charles goes. Into the Towne, MHwaukee, Jan/8 ... Shep Fields crew comes in New Years Eve at the Peabody, Memphis for a mbnth. PROGRAM MEMPHIS IN JUNE THE DIXIE STANDARD Paul Francis Webster BMI PbhSp Sift pobfiM by Sigiraf Rtcorded by EDDIE FISHER .. ^ FOUR ACES Non-Exclu*it*lV Mcentrd by BMI N BROADCAST MUSIC INC. I 8 " T 1 ”” A , vr J \ ™ nitv-ci* • • -o,.’^oco YOHK a. N i ^ America's 'Fastest