Variety (December 1952)

OKCMKST1IAS-MUSIC frS&lETr Wednesday^ December 24, 1952 On the Upbeat New York A1 Martino into the Erie Club, Philadelphia, Jan. 1 . . - Eileen Barton opens at the Olympia, Miami, today (Wed.) . . . Nat (K? j) Cole begins a three-week engage- ment at the Tiffany Club, Los Angeles, Friday (26) . . . Buddy De Franco began a two-week en- gagement at the Blue Note, Phila- delphia, Monday (22) . . . Eddie Fisher gets the N. Y. Sunday News coloroto cover Jan. 4 . . . Russ Land! recuperating after a tonsilec- tomy . . . Bill Simon editing a hpuse organ for Peer International . , . Rosetta Davis, former Duke Ellington orch vocalist, pacted by Shaw Artists . . . Songstress Lydia Trecse opened at the Monte Carlo, Hackensack, N. J., Monday (22)... Marvin Frank, E. B. Marks Music publicist, hopping to Haiti on a 12-day song prowl . . . Georgia Gibbs into the Capitol Theatre, N. Y., today (Wed.). Chicago Russ Carlyle starts a three-week- er Dec. 21 at the Schroeder, Mil- waukee, with Alex Alstone coming Jan. 13 for two frames. Don John- stone is set for two weeks Feb. 6 at the hotel .. Gene Marshall, of- fice manager of General Artists Corp., leaves the agency Jan. 15 for California. As yet, no replace- ment has been named... McCon- key agency has pacted Don Reid for Peabody, Memphis, Dec. 31 through Jan. 24 with Henry Busse due in Feb. 1 for two stanzas. Jim- my Featherstone fills the Feb. 16 through March 2 space with Ray Pearl following the next day until April 1. . Warney Ruhl in for a month at the Claridge, .Memphis, starting Dec. 26 . .Tommy Reed opens a four-week stand at the Jung, New Orleans, Dec. 31. . . Red Saunders celebrating 15th anni 'as musical director at the Club DeLisa .. Duke Ellington being nartied around town in honor of 25 years in the band field. Pittsburgh Baron Elliott’s band goes into the William Penn Hotel’s Terrace Room for 10 days on Jan. 7. Bounce Biringer, formerly with Raymond Scott, has joined the Elliott trum- pet section . . . Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars booked into Vogue Terrace for week of Feb. 17 and Tommy Tucker orch plays there week of Jan. 20 . . . Frankie Pell, just out of the Air Force, has rejoined Hal Curtis outfit as fea-: tured singer . . . A1 Powell, who used to play the trumpet for Brad Hunt, is now doing his arrange- ments . . . Lenny Martin band just started its fourth straight year of weekend engagements at Anchor- age near Verona . . . Stan Getz plays one-nighter at Savoy Ball- room tomorrow (Thurs.) . , . Tom- my Carlyn band back into Bill Green’s for over the holidays. Dallas Louann’s starts live-talent policy Jan, 1, with Bill Mayo quintet play- ing nightly.. .Woody Herman orch due for southwestern one-nighters in January.. Spike Jones set for stand Jan. 16 at Lake Worth Ca- sino, Fort Worth . Billy Eckstlne pacted for Jan. 30-31 at Pappy’s Showland here ... Baker Hotel’s “Mural Room will follow-Patti Page (Jan. 2-16) with Dorothy Shay’s fortnight, opening Jan. 30, and Ed- gar Bergen on Feb. 13. Sophie Tucker is set for a May 4 return I date. Satchmo, B.G. Paired For Concert Tour Benny Goodman and Louis Arm- strong are being paired for a con- cert tour to be routed by Joe Glaser’s Associated Booking Corp. Lineup of surrounding talent .is still to be set. • ■ Inf! Music Institute Names New Officers The International Music Insti- tute, org which was founded last May for exchange of musicians and musical info between countries of the United Nations, has named Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor of the N.Y. Philharmonic, prez, and Hans Rosenwald, former dean of the Chicago Musical College, exec director and secretary of the board. IMI is planning to shift its headquarters from Chi to New York in January. QaiiIIiavh ftuiTA ^Olll755^ dviiiuciu uujo ^llUid Southern Music has purchased the world rights to the Joe Davis Music copyright, “Quizas, Quizas, Quizas” (“Perhaps, Perhaps, Per- haps”). The Latino standard was penned by Cuban • cleffer Osvaldo Farres and Davis supplied the English lyric. Roy Smeck, who used to baton Hawaiian music albums for Decca Records, has rejoined the company after a seven-year hiatus. ww jpj P p || B a g gsBgg OPERATORS DJ'S DEALERS Greetings and i d|j P P m Thanks Buddy De Franeo Personal Mgt. LENNY LEWIS Record Promotion UGE McKELVY MGM RECORDS m j /i£i m »Disk Companies' Best Sellers*, CAPITOL ARTIST 1. IT’S IN THE BOOK (2 Parts) Johnny Standley 2. MY BABY’S COMING HOME Les Paul-Mary Ford LADY OF SPAIN 3. I SAW MOMMY KISSIN’ SANTA CLAUS Molly Bee WILLIE CLAUS 4. MEET MR. CALLAGHAN Les Paul-Mary Ford TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS AND HOLD ME 5. I YUST GO NUTS AT CHRISTMAS Yogi Yorgesson YINGLE BELLS COLUMBIA 1. I SAW MOMMY KISSIN’ SANTA CLAUS.... .Jimmy Boyd THUMBELINA 2. KEEP IT A SECRET . Jo Stafford ONCE TO EVERY HEART 3. JAMBALAYA Jo Stafford EARLY AUTUMN 4. YOU’LL NEVER KNOW Rosemary Clooney-Harry James THE CONTINENTAL 5. MA SAYS PA SAYS Johnnie Ray-Doris Day A FULL TIME JOB CORAL 1. TILL 5 WALTZ AGAIN WITH YOU Teresa Brewer HELLO BLUE BIRDS 2. HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME Karen Chandler ONE DREAM 3. TAKES TWO TO TANGO Pearl Bailey LET THERE BE LOVE 4. i Don Cornell BE FAIR 5. OH HAPPY DAY Lawrence Welk YOUR MOTHER AND MINE DECCA 1. GLOW WORM Mills Bros. AFTER ALL 2. JUST SQUEEZE ME ... . Four Aces HEART AND SOUL 3. DON’T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES.... Red Foley SALLY 4. I LAUGHED AT LOVE Louis Armstrong TAKES TWO TO TANGO 5. TRYING Ella Fitzgerald MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN MERCURY ' 1. WHY DON’T YOU BELIEVE ME Patti Page CONQUEST 2. TELL ME YOU’RE MINE Gaylords CUBAN LOYE SONG 3. IT’S WORTH ANY PRICE YOU PAY Eddy Howard KENTUCKY BABE 4. PRETEND ;. Ralph Marterie AFTER MIDNIGHT 5. I WENT TO YOUR WEDDING Pfftti Page YOU BELONG TO ME M-G-M 1. WHY DON’T YOU BELIEVE ME ....... Joni James PURPLE SHADES 2. HAVE YOU HEARD Joni James WISHING RING 3. WINTER ‘ Art Mooney HEARTBREAK 4. LAZY RIVER Art Mooney HONESTLY 5. YOU BLEW ME A KISS Ginny Gibson TOO FAR BETWEEN KISSES RCA VICTOR 1. I SAW MOMMY KISSIN’ SANTA CLAUS Spike Jones WINTER 2. DON’T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES Perry Como £?ES 3. LADY OF SPAIN Eddie Fisher OUTSIDE OF.HHAVEN 4. BECAUSE YOU’RE MINE Mario Lanza THE SONG THE ANGELS SING 5. A STOLEN WALTZ Sunny Gale TEARDROPS ON MY PILLOW Colgate Convention Continued from page 22 a jYi 4i, aJV Dir.: ASSOCIATED BOOKING CORP. Sr** of the “Dragnet” show, a hilarious whodunit tagged “Fishnet.” All these excerpts are clicko. They’ll entertain the soap-peddlers, provide an excellent framework for a “commercial” on the more down- to-earth business facets as expound- ed by the local sales chieftains and also imbue them with “go out and sell for a good product” spirit. This approach may offer compe- tition to such setups as Tele-Ses- sions or Teleconferences, which use cable-relay facilities to get si- multaneous powwows. Latter, be- ing live, have the advantage of per- mitting last-minute changes in the convention show itself. But the film convention concept has good values in getting polished perform- ance and production, flexibility in scheduling, allowing some key execs to visit several local meetings in person and residual uses such as exhibition for grocery confabs. Most of the showings are in hotel ballrooms, but they may also be held in theatres. Cartoonist Capp explains the impact of the Colgate ads in comic strip format and publisher Motley gives a briefing on the magazine supplement campaign. These sec- tions round out the factual-yet-en- tertaining presentation of the Col- gate ad strategy. The film was produced by Les Harris, AM-TV head of the soap firm, and Bill Grathwahl, assistant ad manager, using facilities of Filmways. It projects showman- ship and TV savvy into business. Sherwood Continued from page playwright. “As a matter of fact TV is proving that already, be- cause some top televised dramas have been doing some truly marvel- ous work without scenery. From the orthodox dramatist's viewpoint I’d say that Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ is the ideal play for TV. Even in the Broadway thea- tre it utilized a minimum of scen- ery and trappings.” Sherwood sees TV as a sort of iconoscope theatre-in - the - round, where the movement of the words in the play and the players mean more than scenery. While he doesn’t go “on pay- roll” until Jan. 1, he has been mak- ing the rounds of the top TV- drama shows; has studied tech- niques, absorbed all he can absorb, and. then “when I sit down to write! who knows, I may grind out all three early in the year, and when- ever NBC puts them on is up to them. I rather imagine that one in March-April, another just after Labor Day, and another around now, the peak before-Christmas audience, would be the ideal time- table. While I may find myself in the Easter, pre-Thanksgiving or Xmas cycle of events, my plays will not necessarily be seasonal. On the other hand, it may even be that NBC will decide to do them all next fall—that’s up to them.” [NBC plans the first for March- April.] What amused Sherwood most were the calls from agencies, spon- sors, admen, et al.—“all with the same gripe, to Joe McConnell (NBC prez), ‘Why, if it weren’t for us where would the networks be?’ —and all immediately wanting to know when would Sherwood’s plays be available to them.” That goes for Goodyear, Philco and the Robert Montgomery shows which are of the pattern into whose one- hour could fall the Sherwood-NBC plays. (The important angle of the deal, which the playwright first broached casually to RCA prexy Frank M. Folsom and which Mc- Connell consummated, was the writer’s observation that “there is that no man’s land, that wide area between the creative writer and the network topper which seeming- ly must first be considered in TV, as it was in radio, meaning the agency and the sponsor.” Fol- som-McConnell agreed that play- wrights « of Sherwood’s stature could cut right through all that and come direct to the top and make a deal. Therefore, it amuses Sherwood that after all the squawks from the admen, they’ve been quickest to woo McConnell for the production rights to the first plays.) MILLb M( r S/C Presents WITERHAITBB EXCITING MNOlTlONOf Tht P .*i IJ ■; cf S'i'n »■ ■■■ M-C.-M <■ EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS" EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS ROBBINS MUSIC CORPORATION F America's: Fastest