Variety (April 1953)

u OBCBaESTitAS->nj$IC pmWfr Wednesday, April 15, 1953 On the Upbeat New York Claude Thornhill orch pacted by General Artists Corp. . . . Harold Lee, former professional manager of Sheldon Music, has set up a disk promotion office with Fred Lowery, a whistler formerly with, the Freddy Martin orch . . . Singer Tony Bella winds a two-week en- gagement at the Blue Note, N, Y., tonight (Wed.) . . * Jilla Webb, M-G-M Records thrush, held over at the Palms, Columbus, O. . . . Ken Remo into the Rustic Cabin, N. J., Friday (17) . . . Robert J. Mailhonse, M-G-M Records New HaVen distrib, in town last week for sales confabs . . . Pat Terry guesting on Ted Steele’s WPIX. N. Y., tele show until Friday (17) . . . Crooner Joe Allegro pacted a three-year deal with General -Ar- tists Corp. _ • 4 London David Hughes, young British singer, has signed with impresario Bernard Delfont for vaude at $1,- 200 weekly for 19 months ... In preparation for the * Coronation, Tommy Gale is reopening the Crystal Room on April 27. He is putting in clarinetist Frank Weir leading an eight-piece combo. George Shearing was pianist with Weir for a long time and left the Weir group to go to the States... Pianist Harry Musikant is also taking a quartet into Oddenino’s, after the place has been doing without music for four months ... Buddy De Franco quartet starting European 28-day tour at Frankfurt, ■ June 5. Flame. Detroit, May 1 for i frame .. .BUI Tobin in for six weeks at the Phillips Hotel, Kansas City, beginning May 11... Bob McFad- dewt headlines at the San Souci, $R*mLBeach, May 7 for 14 days _ *. Mortlyn Moore set as vocalist With Kay Anthony’s orch, Boston • Claude Thornhill crew and vo- calist Sonny Curtis set for New England Home Show April 18-26, at Mechanics Building... At wind- up of current two-weeker at Shera- ton Plaza, Larry Green will trek to Carlton Hotel, Washington, for indefinite stand . . George Wein, jazz pianist, set to appear at Bos- ton University’s jazz symposium at Haj r den Hall, April 25 . . . Oscar Peterson into the Hi-Hat for week . . . Jack Edwards band slated for Shelton Roof, which reopens latter part of April . . . Danny Goodman has returned to Herbie’s Cactus Room for sixth season. Disk Companies’ Best Sellers CAPITOL ARTIST 1. I’M SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD .. L. Paul-M. Ford SLEEP PRETEND . . Nat (King) Cole DON’T LET EYES SHOP FOR HEART BLUE GARDENIA Nat (King) Cole CAN’T I YES SIR, THAT’S MY BABY Hari Karl J YOKAHAMA MAMA SIDE BY SIDE Kay Starr NOAH 2 . 3. 4. 5. Chicago Paul Quinchette into the Glass Rail, St. Louis, May 15 for 10 days and Dizzy Gillespie follows May 29 for a like period... Count Basie has string of one-nighters in the midwest for three weeks starting May 8 and ties it up with IQ days at the Riviera, St. Louis, June 5... Don Reid occupies the summer podium at the Riviera, Lake Gen- eva, Wise., starting June 26 for seven weeks.. .Jimmy Kram has joined Midway Music as contact man . .Eddie Peabody is recover- ing from an operation at his home in Madison, Wise. Maurice Rocco inked for the Pittsburgh Fred Whitlinger, bass player who left Hy Edwards' band, joined the Joey Sims outfit...Lee Castle into the Vogue Terrace the week of May 25 ... DeLoris Randall, Pittsburgh singer, has left the Alex Alstone band in the midwest to join the Satisfiers, vocal group .. .Clyde Beilin replaced Kloman Schmidt on trumpet with Luke Riley’s Carousel house band.. .De- Marco Sisters open at the Twin Coaches on Monday (20)...Frank Natale Trio into Johnny Laughlin's Shamrock Room on the Northside for an indefinite stay... The Stu- arts back at Bill Green’s cocktail lounge ... Benny Goodman a n d Louis Armstrong combo booked for" a one-night jazz concert at Syria Mosque, May 1. / Tempo Distrib Files Bankruptcy Action Tempo Distributor Corp,, New York platter jobber for coin oper- ators, entered into voluntary bank- ruptcy proceedings last week. Lia- bilities, $112,250 and assets of $43,600. Firm proposed a 100?c settle- ment. payable 5% cash, with the balance in deferred payment. ,| 2 . ! ♦ 4 4 i 4. 5. : 4 ; 4 • 4 : 4 ! 4 '■t i 4 i BARBARA RUICK Sings Now That I’m In Love Ghi-ll, Ghi-ll, Ghi-ll MOM 11483 K 11483 78 RPM 45 RPM 9 RCA VICTOR 1. MY ONE AND ONLY HEART SAY YOU’RE MINE AGAIN _ 2. SWEET THING WHY COME CRYING TO ME 3. WILD HORSES .. I CONFESS 4. ALBUQUERQUE . MOON . 5. HOT TODDY .... SERENADE 414 4444444444444 4 64 44 4 COLUMBIA 1. SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE Percy Faitb f SWEDISH RHAPSODY 2. TELL ME A STORY F. Laine-J. Boyd LITTLE BOY AND OLD MAN 3. I BELIEVE Frankie Laine YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART 4. SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL », Johnnie Ray GLAD RAG DOLL ® i t 5. NO-ONE WILL EVER KNOW. Tony Bennett PM THE KING OF BROKEN HEARTS CORAL L DANCIN’ WITH SOMEONE Teresa Brewer BREAKIN’ IN THE BLUES 2. THERE S NO ESCAPE Don Cornell MANY ARE THE TIMES 3. TILL I WALTZ AGAIN WITH YOU Teresa Brewer HELLO BLUE BIRD 4. RUBY Les Brown MIDNIGHT SUN 5. LET’S GO DOWN TO THE TAVERN Johnny Long RED TOP DECCA 1. DOWNHEARTED .. .* Guy Lombardo + SEVEN LONELY DAYS TWICE AS MUCH Mills Bros, SOMEONE TO CARE FOR YOU CAN BE IN LOVE Hamish Menzies LESS THAN TOMORROW RED CANARY Florian Zabach APRIL IN PORTUGAL I’LL BE HANGIN’ AROUND ... Buss Morgan THE GOLDEN YEARS l MERCURY l 1. DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW Patti Page MY JEALOUS EYES Marterie MY JEALOUS EYES 2. CARAVAN ....Ralph WHILE YOU DREAM 3. SEVEN LONELY DAYS Georgia Gibbs IF YOU TAKE MY HEART 4. RUBY Richard Hayman LOVE MOOD 5. NO HELP WANTED Rustv Draper TEXARKANA BABY M-G-M 1. KAW-LIGA Hank Williams T YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART * ANNA Silvano Mangano I LOVED YOU YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART Joni James I’LL BE WAITING FOR YOU + 4. RUBY MY FLAMING rfEART COQUETTE A FOOL IN LOVE ... Lew Douglas .. Billy Eckstine MGM RECORDS M-G-M to Package ‘Blondes’ Soundtrack Hollywdbd, April 14. M-G-M Records has set the soundtrack from the 20th-Fox filmusical, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” for album release. This i marks the second time the diskery ] has stepped out of the Mtro pic. j orbit on a soundtrack album issue, i Previous instance was with 20th’s j “Stars and Stripes Forever.” ! “Blondes” album will feature Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. Score was written by Leo Robin and Jule Styne, composers for the original Broadway production, and Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson, who penned the interpo- lated songs. Clover Club in 111. Faces B&J Infringement Rap Bourne and Jefferson music pub- lishing firms have filed suit against the Clover Club in Benton, 111., in Illinois Federal court, charging that their copyright songs were performed without * .Perry Como Dinah Shore .... Perry Como .Ralph Flanagan .Ralph Flanagan 44444444 4 4 4 444444 4 441444 * license. Tunes involved are Bourne’s “I Never Knew,” and Jefferson’s “Too Young.” Plaintiffs asked the court for an injunction and statutory damages of $250 for each unauthorized per- formance. RCA Finalizes N.Y. Disk Setup Centralization RCA Victor completed the cen- tralization of its disk operations in its Radio City headquarters last week with the shifting of the art department from Camden to New York. Robert M. Jones, formerly art director of Park East mag, will head the art department for the diskery. Jack Parvin, who directs the art department in Camden, will re- main in that post for Victor’s other Consumer products divisions. Raphael Names Kooper As Disney Head in N.Y. ‘ Fred Raphael, general manager of Walt Disney DJusic headquarter- ing on the Coast, sailed for Europe last week * to o.o. firm’s music affiliates in England and on the Continent. Raphael, who’ll be gone about six weeks, also will kick off the plugging drive on the score from the Disney pic, “Peter Pan.” which preeras in London next month. Meantime, Raphael named Mac Kooper as head of the pubbery’s New York office. Kooper’s replac- ing Phil Cahl who exited the post last week. RCA Pubbery Shuffle In a ^reshuffle of RCA Victor's publicity department following the discontinuance of the company’s Picture News mag for distribs and retailers, Frank O’Donnell has been moved over to handle pop publicity. Ben Kemper, who had been handling both pop and longhair publicity, will now concentrate on the Red Seal line. M-G-M Execs Hit Road Two M-G-M Records execs hit the road this week for huddles with several of the diskery’s distribs. Jesse Kaye, M-G-M’s rep on the Metro, lot, is covering the Coast distribs while Harold Drayson, homeoffice sales topper, is confab- bing in the midwest. Both will be back at their desks by the endjof the week. Leroy Anderson, composer-con- ductor, has signed with the Judson, O’Neill & Judd division of Colum- bia Artists Mgt. for longhair con- ducting dates. IT'S SWEEPING THE COUNTRY RALPH MARTERIE 'Afercury BAS-SHEYA Capitol BILLY ECKSTINE MCJ4 ESQUIRE BOYS . Rainbow FERRANTI t TEICHER Enfre (Columbia) LEROY HOLMES 4HCM AMERICAN ACADEMY Of MUSIC INC So.e Se : ng a i?-\ v s C ; IF* Music fey JESSE GREER Program Today Yoslorday't ON THE BEACH WITH YOU WORDS & MUSIC, INC. (KIT Broadway, Now Yori) -t— r -r Another BMI "Pin (Jp* Nit Published by Montclare F'-anki. Laln.. MC ° RDS • •.. I Columbia} Broadcast Mime, Imc. "■ nn [ * w 0*. W.T. . mom* . i*«m u