Variety (May 1952)

HeJnrxUy, UHf' YT'ToSI ,v u; okVlt^STRAS.Mtt^C 53 Disk Companies T Best Sellers •.**•'* ”• ■•• v 1 * . ■■i CAPITOL ARTIST - t. WHEEL OF FORTUNE. , Kay Starr V, I WANNA LOVE YOU * BLACKSMITH BLUES Ella Mae Morse 4* LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME 3. I WAITED A LITTLE TOO LONG. Kay Starr - - ME TOO ;; i 4. I’M CoftFESSIN’ * Les Paul-Mary Ford - * „ CARIOCA * 5. I’LL WALK ALONE .......... .Jane Froman f SONG IN MV HEART * COLUMBIA I i. GUY IS A GUY Doris Day I WHO WHO WHO + 2. DELICADO . .* Percy Faith J FESTIVAL 4- 3. PITTSBURGH, PA Guy Mitchell I GIRL WITH SAWDUST HEART x 4. WHAT’S THE USE , Johnnie Hay MOUNTAINS IN THE MOONLIGHT 5. YOU Sammy Kaye MISS YOU TONIGHT * DECCA 1. BLUE TANGO .-..Leroy Anderson BELLE OF THE BALL JJ. I’M YOURS Four Aces I UNDERSTAND 3. BLUE TANGO Guy Lombardo at LAST AT,LAST 4. PERFIDIA Four Aces YOU BROUGHT ME LOVE 5. WIMOWEH Jenkins-Weavers OLD PAINT MERCURY 1 1. KISS OF FIRE Georgia Gibbs A LASTING THING X 2. BE .ANYTHING ...Eddy Howard SHE TOOK , J 3. WHISPERING-WINDS Patti Page LOVER WHERE ARE YOU NOW J 4. JUNCO PARTNER.... Richard Hayes SUMMERTIME X 5. JUST BECAUSE ‘ ; Rusty Draper HOW COULD YOU, BLUE EYES MG-M 1. KISS OF'FIRE Billy Eckstine NEVER LIKE THIS HEAVENLY FATHER .Fran Warren LEAVE THEM ALONE HARLEM NOCTURNE David Rose Orch ON A LITTLE COUNTRY ROAD AM I IN LOVE. Debbie ^Reynolds WHAT GOOD IS A GAL LET THERE BE LOVE .. Joni James MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME Jocks, Jakes :: *• :: 3. :: 4. - K :: s. » RCA VICTOR ” 1. I’M YOURS Eddie Fisher X ;; JUST A LITTLE LOVIN’ - 2. KISS OF FIRE Tony Martin J " FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME “ 3. ANYTIME Eddie Fisher J NEVER BEFORE " 4. THAT’S THE CHANCE YOU TAKE. Eddie Fisher | “ FORGIVE ME “ 5. BLUE TANGO Hugo Winterhalter 4 THE GYPSY TRAIL * t #♦ ♦ 4 4 4 ♦ 4 4444444 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 4 4++4+4 M f.M ♦ 4 4 ♦ 4 ♦ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4* CefctlMued fr««t page 44 ating simplicity but solo efforts are sock. ’’Johanna” will probably be the top side here. Platter Pointer* Mercury has packaged an un- usual if not widely commercial al- bum in Ralph Bum’s’’Free Forms” . . . Clyde McCoy works over a flock of blues tune* for fair re- sults in a Capitol package titled ‘‘Sugar Blues” . . . The Brewster Boy* have a clicko potential in ‘My Tears Can’t Wash 1 Love You’ From My Heart” (Victor) . . . ’Kiss of Fire" get* a ftrstrate workover by the Les Brown orch on the Coral label... Jerry Wayne could break through with “Did You Mean It” on the indie Tabb labefl . . Bobby Wayne is effective on ‘Rutza, Rutza” (Mercury) . . . Jim- my Wakely has an okay side in ‘‘Just Because” (Capitol) . . . The Charioteers have a solid slice in Tm the World’s Biggest Fool”' on the Indie Keystone label . . . Ella Fitzgerald has a neat workover of the oldie, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You” (Decca) . . . Mills Bros, have a standout coupling, of “When You Come Back to Me” amd 1 “Pretty as a Picture” (Decca) . . . Paul Nero Orch has cut a flock of solid jazz items for the indie Rhythm Rec- ords including “Sittin’ ’Neath Wil- low Tree.” “Whistler's Father,” ‘The Do-Do Song’* and “Lover Come Back to Me.” Standout western, folk, blues, rhythm, religious, polks, etc.; The Hi-Neighbor Quartet, “Go Down to Jordan” (Bibletone) . . . .Joe (Fing- ers) Carr,* “That Ever Lovin’ Rag" (Capitol) . . . Curley Dalton, “All My Life I’ve Dreamed” (Columbia) Eddie Chamblee Orch, String Boogie” (Coral) . . . Daisy Mae & Old Brother Charlie, “Cot- ton Lisle Stockings and a Two | Dollar Dress” (Columbia) . . . Bill Monroe, “When the Cactus Is in Bloom” (Decca). Music Merchants Assn.. Sets N. Y. Convention Annual convention of the Na- tional As*n. of Music Merchants, which also is the occasion for a music industry trade s h o w~, has been set for New York, July 28-31. Heretofore, the NAMM ha* been staging its annual powwows in Chi- cago but the last couple of meets were not too successful from the viewpoint of attendance or buying. Locale for the sessions will be the Hotel New Yorker where, over 200 disk firms, publishers and man- ufacturers will display their wares. M-G-M Inks Skip Martin In Band Roster Buildup M-G-M Records hopped on the dance bandwagon last* week with the inking of the new Skip Mar- tin orch to a longterm pact. Mar- tin, who activated his crew on the Coast several months ago, had been concentrating on arranging and composing. He penned “I’ve Got My Love To. Keep Me Warm.” Martin had worked for the disk- ery previously -batoning a pickup orch backing songstress’ Barbara Ruick’s slice*. His initial waxing, “I Concentrate On You” backed by “Villa,” will be released June 6. San Antonio’* New Patio San Antonio, May 13. Leslie Cooper, manager of Club Hurricane, will open a new patio called Hurricane island. Patio ac: commodates 1,000. Pete Brewer band is scheduled to tee off the spot Saturday (17). Hugo Winterhalter, RCA Victor musical director, and Jack Lee, of Meridian Music, head out on a disk jockey trip this week. . Cincinnati, May 13. U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals here Friday (9)'upheld refusal of Gamble .Enterprises, Inc., Akron, to hire a standby orch for its Pal- ace Theatre on charge of unfair labor practice against Local 24, American Federation Musicians. Management claimed' union re** fused to permit name bands to play the. theatre in 1947. National Labor Relations Board dismissed the theatre’* petition but circuit court set that aside prior to enact- ment of Taft-Hartley Law. In June, 1947, the theatre contracted with the union for nine musicians during engagements of stage orch*. The court said the theatre had established that it never desired the services of local band and that union had acquiesced for nearly six months after Taft-Hartley act became effective. Monroe Opens Peony Park Gross Omaha, May 13. Peony Park got off to a good starts on its name band policy for the summer. The attraction in tht Park’s Terrace was Vaughn Mon- roe band‘'and entertainer*. Gross was $3,500 for the one-nighter at $2 a head. Bertie and. Bob Heilman, duo pianists also opened strongly at the Blackstone Hotel’s * Cottonwood Room here. N. Y. Exhibs’ Fight — Continue* from pare 7 business area*,. Theatre construc- tion permitted in downtown com- mercial areas will become overly expensive, exhibs add, Under the re-zoning plaf^s-Tules for bulk re- strictions. Another beef is the necessity for expensive parking lots. In some cases, exhibs point out, 20% of a proposed* theatre site wopld have to be given over for’ parking space; for some small theatres the space must be enough for one car for every five seats, and for others, enough space for a car for every 10 seats. i _ Theatre ops are also against the sign regulations in the zoning code. They fear that theatres will not be allowed to use marquees or any illuminated signs above the first- story level. Suggested regulations propose that any non-conforming structure, if unused for one year or badly damaged by fire, could not be reoccupied or rebuilt unless for a conforming use. Exhibs feel this is unfair and is tantamount to a confiscation of their property. HB & A report makes no dis- tinction between various types of theatres or their size, and includes all theatres with skating rinks, public dancehalls, auditoriums and fight arenas, the MMPTA notes. Furthermore, tlieatremen add, the- atres are barred from areas in which' nightclubs, poolhalls, bowl- ing alleys and department stores are allowed. Theatre TV Continued from page 3 TV and radio Wednesday nights. And, with the network broadcast- j ers having their own sponsored j schedules to carry through on | Thursdays, It’s considered unlikely ■ that any of them could clear enough time for the pickup* TNT prez Nathan L. Halpern re- ported, incidentally, that he is working on several other projects for big-screen video but .said that none of them has progressed far enough yet to reveal what they might be. •RECORDS Walter WincheJI: “Danny Sutton Is headed for stardom, him , . Kate Smith: “Danny has the voice and the looks that insure his success • • .“ '4 Dorothy KifgalUn: “Danny Sutton singing 'Is It True' Is the topi In this town . . Johnnie Kay: “Danny is the greatest new singing bet around. I pkk him te click.. "