Variety (April 1953)

Wednesday* April -fl, 1953 MAYPOLE CATALOG In a move to fruild up his music firms World (ASCAP) and.Re- nnhHc (BMI), orch leader Sammy &“ve is dickering for the buyout nf the Maypole Music catalog. Lat- LV firm, which has been inactive fnr the past eight months, was onerated by composer Ruth Pole. ° P Kaye’s interest in Maypole fol- lows the pattern set several years Lq when he established Kis firms with purchases of the Isham Jones and Harry Tierney catalogs. Instrumentals ! •** <» 4 U <► <> 4 * 4 ► <> Continued from Oage 37 ssss rish lyric version for Lew Douglas’ nrch and chorus is hitting the mar- ket this week via M-G-M. Tune is the Big Three’s No. 1 plug. Same publishing firm is also riding with kittle Red Monkey,” a BBC TV theme, which was kicked off by the Harry Grove Trio for London and now has eight instrumental covers in the U. S. <4 The Song From Moulin Rouge,” a Broadcast Music, Inc., publica- tion from the “Moulin Rouge” pic, is also getting solid reaction via the Faith slice for Columbia, with Howie Richmond’s tune,. “Swedish Rhapsody,” on the flip. Rene also has cut “Moulin Rouge,” with Leeds’ “Street of Shadows” instru- mental, another British import, on the backing. Also from Britain currently are “The Ecstasy Tango” and “The Marching Strings,” both . cut by Ros for London. As hatching ground for instrumentals, Europe has come up in recent years with such additional numbers as “Meet Mr. Callaghan,” “Petite Waltz” and “Blue Violins,” while South America produced last gear’s “Deli- cado” click. Anderson, Wayne Prolific Among U. S. composers, Bernie Wayne has been prolific in the- instrumental field, although An- derson is the most successful cleff- er in this genre, also batoning his numbers under the Decca banner. Wayne was responsible for the “Vanessa” click with Winterhalter and the latter recently sliced an- other Wayne instrumental, “The Magic Touch.” . Camarata is also having a Wayne followup in “Ren- dezvous,” having hit initially with “Veradero.” The instrumental click is a flex- ible one and has been exploited in the pop field with full-sized symph orch through dance bands down to one-man instrumentals. In the lat- ter category, Les Paul has been tops with his 'multiple-sounding guitar sides for Capitol Records. During the war years in the early 194J)s, Freddy Martin’s orch launched a series of instrumental clicks for RCA Victor which stemmed from longhair themes. Standout were. Chopin’s “Warsaw Concerto” (also a hit for Carmen Cavallaro on Decca) and piano concertos by Grieg and Tchaikov- sky. One of the most ambitious original compositions since the war was “Manhattan Tower,” written and recorded by Gordon Jenkins for Decca with over 500,000 albums sold to date. Swtoping The Cov^ifv' HOLD ME, THRIll ME, KISS ME K«r« CtfinJUr CORAl Robirli t*i - J#rrf Criy Diccyt + 1 4- •V ♦ ♦ ♦ ■V •a- <b * PK iziif rY Disk Companies’ Best Sellers i CA rn7«^. ' ARTIST ' SLEEP NG ° N T0P 0F THE W0RLD ' • L - Paul-M, Ford Son?'let ev^sshop fob heart Nat <Kmg> CWe 3 ‘ cant GARDENIA Nat (Ki "S> Cola 4. YES SIR, THAT’S MY BABY Wori YOKAHAMA MAMA Kan NOAH • Kay StaLr COLUMBIA L S B b°a D JS e MX GAL J “ Ra ^ 2. SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE Percv Faith SWEDISH RHAPSODY y 3. TELL ME A STORY. ... . p Laine-J Bovd LITTLE BOY AND OLD MAN J 4. I BELIEVE Frankie T aine YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART 5. WHEN THE RED, RED BOBBIN Doris Day BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TO LOVE BY COftAL 1. DANCIN’ WITH SOMEONE .Teresa Brewer BREAKIN’ IN THE BLUES urewer CANDY BAR BOOGIE Ames Bros AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW 3« MANY ARE THE TIMES Don Cornell THERE’S NO ESCAPE 4. TILL I WALTZ AGAIN WITH YOU Teresa Brewer HELLO BLUE BIRD 5* GOODBYE CHARLIE, GOODBYE Karen Chandler I’D LOVE TO FALL ASLEEP DECCA 1. YOU CAN BE IN LOVE Hamish Menzies LESS THAN TOMORROW 2. TWICE AS MUCH - Mills Bros. SOMEONE TO CARE FOR 3. YOU FOOLED ME Four Aces IF YOU TAKE MY HEART AWAY 4. KAW-LIGA Dolores Gray MY HEART IS A KINGDOM 5. YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART Louis Armstrong CONGRATULATIONS TO SOMEONE MERCURY 1. DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW Patti Page MY JEALOUS EYES 2. CARAVAN Ralph Marterie WHILE YOU DREAM 3. ,SEVEN LONELY DAYS Georgia Gibbs IF YOU TAKE MY* HEART 4. NO HELP WANTED Rusty Draper TEXARKANA BABY 5. RUBY i Richard Hayman LOVE MOOD M-G-M 1. YOUR CHEATIN' HEART Joni James I’LL BE WAITING FOR YOU 2. ANNA ...... * Silvano Mangano I LOVED YOU 3. MY FLAMING HEART Lew Douglas RUBY 4. KAW-LIGA Hank Williams YOUR CHEATIN' HEART 5. COQUETTE Billy Eckstine A FOOL IN LOVE RCA VICTOR 1. DON’T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES. .Perry Como LIES 2. WILD HORSES Perry Como I CONFESS 3. HOT TODDY Ralph Flanagan SERENADE 4. HOW DO YOU SPEAK TO AN ANGEL ..Eddie Fisher DOWNHEARTED 5. SWEET THING Dinah Shore WHY COME CRYING TO ME *♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦■♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦ »l++♦++♦♦♦♦■ Mul.f f-ortl Tho G’iti 2■ ORCHESTRA LEABERS RECORDING COMPANIES A FAVORITE PIANO NOVELTY r»Mhl»Oy SHAPIRO-RERNSTEIN CO. WO (A Ay.,, Maw Y«fc City Clere. Symph to Pitch Classics to Ball Fans In Night Game Warmups Cleveland, April 7. Tha Cleveland Orchestra, with- out ^jBuramer home because of the air conditioning of the Public Audi- torium, will play 12 concerts in th* Cleveland Stadium as a pre- view to night- home games of the Indians. Agreement was reached through a deal whSfeby Indians put up $15,000;. the Musical Arts Assn, put up $8,000; the Cleveland Federation of Musicians, $5,000, and the Cleveland News, which proposed the idea, $2,000. Louis Lane wiU conduct the con- certs that’ll be played an hour and a half before game time, with the price of admission to the game covering the “pops.’* Seventy mu- sicians will be used, most of whom are regular’ members of the or- chestra under "George Szell. Orchestra will be seated behind the center field home-run fence. Rehearsals of the orchestra will be open to the public through A contribution for the concerts from the Music Performance Trust Fund. Ziggy Talent Makes Like Monroe as Single Ziggy Talent, featured vocalist and sideman with Vaughn Mon- roe’s orch for more than 10 years, will follow the maestro’s steps when the orch folds next month and go out as a single. Willard Alexander, who’s handling Mon- roe’s solo bookings, also will, book Talent. Talent’s first move sans the Monroe affiliation occurred several months ago when he - signed a pact with Decca Records. Although he continued to work with the band, he waxed a couple of Decca sides as a vocalist. Alexander cur- rently is lining up solo dates for Tiilcnti The Monroe Orch’s farewell date in the New York area will be at a weekend engagement (April 10-li) at Frank Dailey’s Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J. OUCHESTItAS-MTJSIC 45 PITT INDIE PROJECTS SMALL DISKERS’ASSN. Pittsburgh, April 7. Don Hall, who runs Steel City Studios here and records h lot of local talent for his own Pitt Co., is trying to organize the small, indie label waxeries all over the country in a nation-wide organization. Idea would be to have them combine for distribution as well as production. Hall figures there’s plenty of rev- enue around for the little fellows who sell to the major platter com- panies because they haven't the distrfb facilities. He points out that the majors have had plenty of clicks lately that they picked up from little-known outfits through- out the country. Questionnaires were sent out by Hall last month to more than a hundred of the independent groups, and he’s already had answers from a majority of them who seem in- terested in the idea and want to know more about its possibilities. So far, Hall says, the organization’s still in the embryo, but he hopes to get it in working shape just as soon as the owners of the small labels can get. together and work out their problem. t Sam Braverman’s Son Victim of Murder Spree The five-murder spree of Marine Fred E. McManus last week touched the music biz when it was revealed that the first of the vic- tims was William Braverman, 19- ] year-old son of Sam Braverman, J w.k. in Tin Pan Alley circles. Braverman, pere, is a vet sheet music and record buyer for Neis- ner Bros., Rochester, N. Y., depart- ment store. Seven Lonely States Spike Jones was on a bicycle last week to cover seven states in seven consecutive one-niters on his current swing through the midwest. The inter-state jaunt began Sun- day (29) in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was followed with dates in Evans- ville, Ind., Nashville, Tenn., Vicks- burg, Miss., Little Rock, Ark., Shreveport, La., and Houston, Tex. Plug-Shy British Dim ‘Mazda’ ill ‘Glow-Worm’; Other Marks’ Tunes Hit British idiosyncrasy as to what tunes or parts of tunes should be censored once again hit a Marks Music copyright. Most recent rhu- barb was over the new Johnny Mercer lyric to “Glow-Worm”. Since the British object 'to the use of trade names in a lyric, they switched the couplets in which “mazda” and “neon” appear. Lat- ter objection was later reversed, but the “mazda” ban still holds which bars the airing of the Mills Bros, click Decca waxing from be-* ing aired via BBC. The Mercer lyric which was changed ta meet British 'standards originally read “You’ve got a cute vest-pocket mazda—which you can make both slow or fazda.” In the British version, it’s now “You got a cute vestpockefc lighter—which you can make both dim and light- er.” Other changeover, which was later reversed, was “Glow little glow-worm in the dark night—You are equipped with such a bright light” from the. original, “Glow little glow-worm turn the key on— You are equipped with taillight neon.” Sidebar to the “Glow Worm” fracas is that Leslie Boosey, of Boosey & Hawkes, British publish- er of the tune, also is a BBC topper. Another Marks’ run-in with the British was over “Paper Doll,” which was said to be an insult to womanhood. Tune also was waxed by the Mills Bros. Jimmy Phillips of Peter Maurice Music, who pub- lished the tune in England, was forced to hold back its release for a couple of months until squawks from GIs stationed there at the time got the ban lifted. “God Bless’ The Child,” a Negro spiritual cut by Billie Holiday for Decca and Frankie Laine for Columbia, also was banned on the grounds that it was sacreligious. It’s also a Marks’ copyright. Songstress Doris Day and her husband, Marty Melcher, are due in N. Y. next week from the Coast for huddles with Columbia Records execs. DANNY WINCHELL Sing* 1 I CAN’T HELP LOVING YOU MGM 11455 7S RPM K 11455 45 RPM 4