Variety (January 1953)

Wednesday, January 21, 1953 ©IICIIESTKAS-MCSIC 47 Inside Orchestras—Music Acceptance of Sammy Stept’s song, “The Army’s Always There,” as the tentative official song of the U. 3. Army touched off an editorial blast in the N. Y. Daily News last week. The News editorialist ac- cepted the tune as. a “reasonably rousing march affair” but took ex- ception to the lyric. “To hold the Army out in an official song as a world-roving police force would be bad business, we think, from almost any point of view,” said the News. (‘Before the song is finally adopted for the Army,” the editorial added,' “let's at least have some drastic revision of those words. We think they're way off key.” Tune, which was selected out of 700 entries, is being published by Sherwin Music, a Bobby Mellin subsid. Coral Records is blanketing the field on the current hit, “Till I Waltz Again With Yoiv” with bestsellers in the pop, country and blues and rhythm field. Teresa Brewer, in the pop field, is currently among the top five while Tommy Sosebee and the Five Bills have hits in the hillbilly and b&r markets, respectively. Coral will do over 1,500,000 sales on the, three sides. 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. BYE BYE BLUES ..Les Paul-Mary Ford MAMMY’S BOOGIE 4. SIDE BY SIDE , Kay Starr NOAH 5. STRANGE Nat (King) Cole HOW COLUMBIA 1. MRl TAP TOE '.Doris Day* y YOUR MOTHER AND MINE 2. KEEP IT A SECRET Jo Stafford ONCE TO EVERY HEART 3. SHE WORE RED FEATHERS Guy Mitchell PRETTY LITTLE BLACK-EYED SUSIE 4. THE TOUCH OF GOD’S HAND Johnnie Ray GONNA WALK AND TALK WITH MY LORD 5. I’M JUST A POOR BACHELOR ...Frankie Laine TONIGHT YOU’RE MINE t CORAL 1. TILL I WALTZ AGAIN WITH YOU Teresa Brewer J HELLO BLUE BIRD 2. HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME Karen Chandler J ONE DREAM 4 3. OH HAPPY DAY ..Lawrence Welk 4 YOUR MOTHER AND MINE 4- 4. NO MOON AT ALL Ames Bros.-Les Brown -4 DO NOTHING 5. NEW JUKE BOX SATURDAY NIGHT Modernaires + RUNNIN’ WILD DECCA 1. GLOW WORM Mills Bros. J AFTER ALL , . t 2. JUST SQUEEZE ME * Four Aces f HEART AND SOUL 3. DON’T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES... .Red Foley J SALLY £ 4. OPEN YOUR HEART Bing Crosby £ YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT LONESOME IS t 5. OH HAPPY DAY ...Dick Todd £ TILL I WALTZ AGAIN Band Biz Hopes Continued from pate 41 and Jerry Gray,, are making noise with “Till I Waltz Again With You” and “No Moon At All,” re- spectively. Guy Lombardo, Decca's orch perennial, also is getting action for his current release, “John, John, John.” Coral’s top orch entry is Lawrence Welk who’s riding strong with “Oh, Happy Day.” Les Brown is also doing well with “No Moon At All,” cut with the Ames Bros, for Coral. Ray Anthony, a consistent wax seller on the Capitol label, current- ly is getting plays for “You're A Heartbreaker ” Art Mooney is fol- lowing his “Lazy River” click on M-G-M with “Winter” and Ralph Marterie is pacing Mercury’s orch stable with “Pretend.” Current wax product also indi- cates that the orchs are laying off gimmicked sounds and intricate ar- rangements. Last year some orchs drew squawks from ballroom payees when they couldn't dupli- cate their platter sounds. The leaders now are attempting to peg their wax output so that the ver- sion can be easily duplicated at an in-person appearance. Decca Renews Russ Morgan Russ. Morgan has been renewed by Decca Records for another three years. 7 The bandleader has been with the label siflce 1938. Bailey-Duke 31G Breaks 8-Yr. Regal, Chi, Record Chicago, Jan. 20. Combination bill of Pearl Bailey and Duke Ellington at the Regal Theatre, Balaban & Katz leading Negro house, last week smashed all records for the past eight years. Layout, which featured Miss Bai- ley’s drummer husband, Louis Bell- son, rang up a tremendous $31,000, exceeded only by Louie Jordan ih 1944 at the Regal. Illinois Jacquet band with Betty McClaren and Willie Maylon is set for Jan. 30 and on Feb. 20''Lloyd jPrice, Earl Bostwick and Mabel I Scott come in. MERCURY t 1. TELL ME YOU’RE MINE Gaylords £ CUBAN LOVE SONG £ 2. PRETEND Ralph Marterie AFTER MIDNIGHT 3. CONQUEST Patti Page £ WHY DON’T YOU BELIEVE ME 4. SUGAR ...... Vic Damone AMOR 4 5. DOGGY IN THE WINDOW Patti Page JEALOUS EYES . ► M-G-M 1. HAVE YOU HEARD * Joni James £ ;; WISHING RING - 2. WHY DON’T YOU BELIEVE ME Joni James £ PURPLE SHADES " 3. NEVER GET OUT OF WORLD ALONE Hank Williams £ I COULD NEVER BE ASHAMED OF YOU 4. JAMBALAYA Hank Williams £ WINDOW SHOPPING 5. YOU WIN AGAIN Tommy Edwards t SINNER 0$ SAINT ■ ;; RCA VICTOR 1. DON’T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES. .Perry Como .. LIES ;; 2. DOWNHEARTED , Eddie Fisher HOW t»0 YOU SPEAK TO AN ANGEL :: 3. EVEN NtiW ...Eddie Fisher IF IT WERE UP TO ME t 4. TEARDROPS ON MY PILLOW Sunny G&e £ STOLEN WALTZ + 5 * I WENT TO YCfUR WEDDING .... * - Spike Jones £ I'LL NEVER WORK ANY MORE *++++>• MM M ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦t M + f + ♦♦♦♦♦»+♦+ i. nfjflPH r-nui U •" V J[fl NOW on record fhe "Voice of Romance” ...the new U SIGH GUY" ?&!! iJ r-,1 'Ji-J' iilii // GODFREY'S BOY" JUUUS ROSA Sings, with ARCHIE BLEYER Conducting the Orchestra “ANYWHERE I WANDER” A By America's Outstanding Composer Frank Lofesser (From the Hit Movie “HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN”) Each and Every Time LA ROSA Did This Song on Radio or TV, fha Audience Mail Poured In—Much More Than for Any Other Song He's Done on the GODFREY Show i Backed Up by Another Coin Collector “THIS IS HEAVEN” Written by Boston (WLAW) Disc Jockey Composer Sherm Feller This is it! This is the tune with "HIT" written all over it. Everybody hear- ing the tune feels ABSOLUTELY sure another Nation-wide hit is on the way. 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