Variety (April 1953)

76 ©nCHESTKAS-MUSIC P^RIETT Wednesday, April J, 1953 Connelly Inks Richmond, BUHL To O’seas D . V-J. vzmv:- Reg Connelly (CampbellWEon-* nelly, Dash-Connelly, et&SJtfe- turned to London on the Mary over .the weekend with two more deals under contract, on top of the reciprocal international music publishing setup previously reported with Jean and Julian Aberbach. The new deals embrace Howard Richmond’s music firms (Cromwell, Hollis, Ludlow, Folk- ways, Melody Trails, Essex and Dartmouth • Music Corps.), for straight representation in Britain and on the Continent, a la Connel- ly’s hookup with Santly-Joy; and a hookup with Broadcast Music, Inc. The BMI deal gives Connelly “Song from the Moulin Rouge,” the theme by .George Auric which BMI’s music firm tied up world- wide and which Percy Faith waxed for Columbia, Montovani for Lon- don, etc. Reciprocally, Connelly set up Canford Music as the British outlet for BMI copyrights, a coin- age that stems from the famed Canford Cliffs, near Bournemouth, England, where Connelly has his summer home. The Howard Richmond music deals are for two years. Hereto- fore Leeds Music, Ltd., the British subsid of Lou Levy’s- American firm, handled most of Richmond songs on a separate deal. Incidentally, Bernie Miller (& Miller), who died suddenly the morning of Connelly's return to England, handled the music pub- lisher’s new deals, probably his last legal chores. (Details of the w.k. music attorney’s death in this Issue.) The Aberbach freres’ sun- dry firms (Hill 8c Range, etc.) will be handled by Aberbach Music Co., Ltd., in England and, reciprocally, Connelly, Inc., will be the U.&. affiliate for the brothers. In the main, Connelly has clicked with the Santly-Joy cata- log, notably the Bob Merrill songs. Merrill currently has the No. 1 and No. 2 songs in England, ‘‘Doggie In the Window” (Patti Page) and “She Wears Red Feathers” (Guy Mitchell). “Th*y announce Morrill on the f3)&cy^’says Connelly, “with the importance as Irving Berlin 'm : 0* Sorter. And no wonder, Mnlrf5>bu consider that he has had l2|‘hiti i in a row in the last two t yejfrs; some of them even bigger Mtfr&sun England than at home.’.’ ConMlIy cites “Walking to Mis- souri/^* “Feet Up (Pat Him on the 'Po-Po),” “Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania,” “Belle, Belle, My Liberty Belle,” “There’s Always Room at My House” (which stayed on top for IQ weeks), and “We Won’t Live In A Castle” (these are a couple, says the London music man, which are bigger abroad than in the U.S.), “Truly Truly Fair” and “A Beggar In Love.” These tunes have been domi- nantly disked by Mitchell and Mitch Miller on Columbia, and Mitchell's opening at the London Palladium June 8 is figured to ride the crest of the big BBC buildup which has been plugging his plat- ters. Mitchell; comes in directly after the coronation; Danny Thomas precedes him and Martin & Lewis follow thereafter. Mit- chell, incidentally, is set for his second picture at Paramount as co- star with Rosemary Clooney in “Three Sisters from Seattle.” Burke Forms Hosp. Fund In Memory of His Son Hollywood, March 31. Sonny Burke, Decca Records’ Coast artist & repertoire head, has set up a Michael Burke Fund in memory of his two-and-a-half year old son, who died Sunday (29) after having been in a coma for 10 days. Child had gone into the St. Johns* hospital, Santa Monica,- for an operation March 19 and while undergoing surgery his heart had stopped beating for approximately eight minutes, after which time the surgeon managed to restore the heart activity. Fund, being supervised by Burke's assistant, Tom Mack, is for the purchase of- cardioscopes for hospital use. BILLY ECKSTINE Sings COQUETTE A FOOL IN LOVE MGM 11439 K 11439 78 RPM 45 RPM M'G'M RECORDS THE GREATEST * IN E N T E R * A ; \i v E N j' SEVENTH a V E NEW vqRk ’ \ - Disk Companies* Best Sellers CAPITOL ARTIST 1. 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Ja?z Concert For Atmosphere in Diskings The Brunswick .label, a Coral- Decca Records subsid, will stage a cuffo jazz concert, at Pythian Tem- ple, N. Y., April 4 to get a “live” concert atmosphere for a record- ing session featuring a couple of all-star jazz combos. Brunswick previously cut a similar set, “Jazz- time, U.S.A.,” under the same cir- cumstances. Upcoming album wilt showcase Buddy Rich, Terry Gibbs Georgie Auld and Neal Hefti) among others.” Brunswick, meantime, has inked the Do-Re-Mi trio to a term pact. Vocal combo clicked several years ago on the indie Commodore label with “Wrapped Up in a Dream.” Brunswick also signed jazz clari- netist Tony Scott as a maestro-in- strumentalist. He’ll also do some work for the Coral label. Scott ar- rived back in New York early this week after playing a week's engage- ment at the Blue Note, Philadel- phia. JONES PULLS RECORD CROWD TO MPLS. SHOW Minneapolis, March 31. With Spike Jones and his band as the magnet, annual Northwest Builders Show set a new all-time attendance record, drawing 117,180 paid admissions for the nine days, or an average of more than 13,000 daily. Total compares to 76,540 for last year, a gain of 40,630. Previous high was in 1949 when, with the Ralph Edwards show, the aggregate attendance hit 112,150. Jack Mills Launches 3 European Subsids Jack Mills^ Mills Music proxy, launched deals fori setting up Mills subsids in. three European coun- tries during hfs recent trek abroad. Negotiations are currently under way for’ the finalization of plans to form Mills outlets in Germany, France and Italy. The firm already is repped in England, Canada and Belgium. In addition to kicking off deals for new firms, Mills picked up sev- eral foreign copyrights for publi- cation in the U. S. First to be re- leased here will be “Gypsy Leg- end,” a semi-classical- instrumental penned by Mantovani. Composition was acquired from Lawrence Wright, British music pub. Federal Tax Continued from page„71 some Armed Forces group, are ask- ing that bookers only set orchestras at a flat rate. In other cases the agencies are limiting the percent- age deals. • The edict also states that tax exemptions would not be granted museums, art galleries, YMCAs or similar groups such as Campfire Girls, Boy Scouts, 4-H Clubs, all which fall in the educational field, but only the broadest sense. While colleges and schools are ordinarily exempt, most of these buy- their entertainment at flat guarantees, using bands, for example, between open one-nighters or locations. Among the booking offices, it is held that the only move that can be made is to raise the basic guar- antee, taking little or no percent- age deals. .This would hurt the or- ganizations if weather or any other circumstances' cutrintO attendance at the fair. In smaller towns, pro- moters would rather work a split deal, which takes them off the hook if any thing happens. In another communication the commissioner emphasized that whjle admissions to agricultural fairs, are tax free, events within the grounds such as vaude shows and horse races which are private- ly promoted are not. Iverson Named Peer U.P. Bob Iverson, business manager of Peer International and Southern Music, has been upped to veepee by firms’ topper Ralph S. Peer. In addition to his business managing chores, Iverson will continue to handle the foreign copyrights di- vision. ’ Meantime,--Irving-Deutchr firms* general manager, returned to his New York desk last week after Coast huddles with Peer. FOR MOTHER S DAY PROGRAMMING! ' MY ' MOTHER'S EYES lEO FEIST. INC. America's Fastest ^Selling"Records! PONT MISS , _ THE THRILL OF YOUR MSS A LOVELY BALLAD 1149 VmI IT* StNDt CkUmf 9, HI. CAmI 4-J7M.