Variety (April 1954)

A&RCaroud Rolling Agam; Who Goes Where? The artists & repertoire setup at the major disk companies is be- ginning to rumble again. Situation, which had been comparatively static for the past year, began to stir this week with an a&r switch at Mercury Records. Art Talmadge, Merc’s v.p.-a&r chief, made a quickie trip to New York from his Chicago home base to set the ball >in motion for the takeover of the pop a&r post in the east by Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore from Richard Hayman. I'eretti and Creatore, who’ll split the a&r chores, joined Merc several months ago'to head up the diskery’s new talent department Hayman, who took over the a&r assignment in the east over a year ago when Joe Carlton switched to RCA Victor, will continue at Merc recording artist and musical di- rector. He’ll also put together an orch for in-person dates around the country. Bobby Shad stays on as head of Merc's new jazz ■ label, Emarcy Records. The eastern a&r vacancy at Capi- tol Records, which opened up a couple of months ago when Sid Feller exited, has'stirred up trade interest as to who’s taking over and from where, A number of candidates, currently slotted in a&r posts at various diskeries, are under consideration. The rumor factory has been hard at work nam- ing names and diskeries. The Cap situation, however, is still up in the air. Alan Livingston, diskery’s veepee-a&r topper, who’ll make the appointment* left for Cap’s Coast headquarters early this week. ‘Salute to Glenn Miller’ Grosses 9G on Coast Hollywood, April 20. Gene Norman’s “Salute To ■ Glenn Miller,’’ at Shrine Audi-: torium Saturday 117). grossed a; fine $9,300 from 4,500 payees.,: Billy May batoned orch of former ] Miller sidemen, with vocals by > Ray Eberle and Modernaires. Norman narrated the program. Porter Sues N.Y. Eatery For Tune Infringement [ Cole Porter’s musie firm, Buxton j Hill, a Chappell subsid, has filed an! action in N. Y. Federal Court against the Jager House, N. Y. eatery, charging an infringement of j his tune “Wunderbar.” ’ Porter ' claims that the restaurant has been < giving a public performance of the! song since Feb..19 without a proper' ASCAP license. An injunction and the minimum $250- infringement damages is be- ing sought. Ill YOU CAME TO ME Vic DAMONE Hit YOU CAME TO ME PAT O'DAY 4TIL YOU CAME TO ME JUNE ANTHOHY ntil you came to me WANK YANKOVIC . • • Cotumb^ CAM aCftOtMY OF MUSin. INC. \ r?-? 4 Wednesday, April 21, 1954 BETAIL DISK BEST Survey of retail disk best sellers based on reports ob tained from leading stores in 21 cities and showing com- parative sales rating for this and last meek. 8 5 . ■. . w T I -fa % £ w “ g. S o* 3 i n £ National Jtattng This Last wk. wk. i j§- i f Artist, .Label, Title s ; 3 3 U 2 * I 4} g PS TJ JQ 3 £ •a- T % £ J- i L I S 1 1 t 5 I jjj t. a r.. O « XJ c w ^ « o O u SS 4» 3 ’5 i a a 8 .3 £ T -22 ti I bt *3 .a © a * $ o o 6 * _ 0) w >3 f. ’ CB- ■ ■ g. 9 A 3 P e j*.. fe e ! i i is s 5 i S 3 § k § < ,| < Q j f | i l i 11 I j i » 5 ! s H I S I I 1 1 * I I i J • s ^ « 1 § « % •U « >0 35-1 u eu § i T £ '£ 2 " > ■** B g « ft Q ft I S 6 6 8 8 10A 10 10B 24 12 15 13A 18 13B • • 16 A . 18A 11 18B 16 20 " . 21A 25 21B .. 23 16 24 20 25 12 PERRY COMO (Victor) “Wanted” ........ • PATTI PAGE (Mercury) • “Cross Over the Bridge”....... FRANK SINATRA (Capitol) “Young at Heart” .. JO STAFFORD (Columbia) . “Make" Love to Me”........... FOUR KNIGHTS (Capitol) “I Get So Lonely” DORIS DAY (Columbia) “Secret Love” NAT (KING) COLE (Capitol) “Answer Me, My Love” i....... EDDIE FISHER (Victor) '“A Girl, A Girl” . . ., TONY MARTIN (Victor) “Here” . KITTY KALLEN (Decca) “Little Things Mean a Lot”.. .. AMES BROS.^Victor) “Man With the Banjo” RONNIE GAYLORD (Mercury) “Cuddle Me”. JEFF CHANDLER (Decca) < - “I Should Care” CREW CUTS (Mercury) “Crazy About You Baby”...... VERA LYNN (London) “If You Love Me”, ’... FOUR ACES (Decca) “Amor” KAY STARR (Capitol) “Man Upstairs” GAYLORDS (Mercury) “Vine.Came the Grape”. KAY STARR (Capitol) “If You Love Me” ... JACKIE LEE (Coral) “Isle of Capri” * TERESA BREWER (Coral) “Jilted” JONI JAMES (M-G-M) “Am I in Love” . .. TONY BENNETT (Columbia) “Stranger in Paradise” CROWS (Rama) “Gee” ' v TONY BENNETT (Columbia) a “No Teardrops Tonight” .“. 7 1 . 5 4 4 2 5 1 1 a 2 1 2 1 2 8 .. 2 5 2 4 3 . 2 5 7 6 3 3 2 1 14 1 12 1 7 169 5 5 2 2 4 3 7.1 139 2 4 * 6 2 4 8 7 6 5 .93 3 9 3 5 . 4 6 . 6 7 8 10 .. 1 4 . 11 9 1 .. 4 4 6 . < 3 .. 4 .. 7 1 3 118 P 2 113 8 5 2 8 81 3 6 7 5 5 5 8 ... 8 8 .... 5 5 7 9 6 72 6 4 .. ‘64 8 7 10 9 .. 8 9 7 . .. ,. . .7 3 .. 10 2 .. 9 3 9 7 10 . • ., •«, 5 9 60 . 50 ... ..29 3 4 29 8 .. .. .. .... 17 8 ...... .. 9 .. 9 . . .. 15 6 .. 13 8 2 8 ,. 5 12 6 4 7 9 6 .. 8 .. 8 8 . .. SIX TOP ALBUMS GLENN MILLER STORY Film Soundtrack Decca DL 5519 SONGS FOR YOUNG LOVERS Frank Sinatra ( Capitol H 488 GLENN MILLER MEMORIAL Glonn Millar Victor LPT 3057 MUSIC FOR LOVERS ONLY Jackio Gloatoh —11J ROSE MARI I Film Soundtrack M-G-M E 229 KISMET Broadway Cait~- Columbia ML 4850 ■ ftMERI * ..,ii"' - Got a BB Tone? Hollywood, April 20. Tunesmiths and disk jockdys . have a chance to win the song con- gest sponsored by Robert H. (fobb, prexy of the Hollywood Stars base- ball team, who’s looking for a new baseball tune. L. Wolfe Gilbert, Jimmy McHugh and Harry Ruby will be the judges. Cleffers will submit their tunes through their favorite decays. Winning song , will bring $250 award to the writers and a similar stipend to the disk jockey through •whom the ditty was entered. Another BMI % Up' Hit UNTIL YESTERDAY ■ backed with PLEASE, DRIVER Recorded bv TONY BENNETT V b, Hollis music ' mc GLENWOOO MUSIC coS ° Best British Sheet Sellers (Week ending April 10) London. April 14. Happy Wanderer....Bosworth I See the Moon Feldman Don’t Laugh At Me..... Toff Bell Bottom Blues.. . .Reine Changing Partners .... Mellin Oh My Papa Maurice Tennessee Walk... F. D. & H. The Book ... Kassner Secret Love.%. Harms-Connelly Bimbo Macmelodies Heart of My Heart.. F.D.&H. Swedish Rhapsody .. Connelly Second 12 Ebb Tide. Robbins Easter Sweethearts ..... Morris Luxembourg Polka Dash The Jones Boy....... .Wood Someone Else’s Roses.. Fields That’s Amore., i, .Victoria Cloud Lucky Seven. .Robbins Make Love to Me..... .Morris Answer Me . Bourne Heartless Kassner Here to Eternity ....... Dash Vine Came Grape .. .Chappell Joan Roberts to Cut For Quality Records Quality Records, a hew indie la- bel, has tagged Joan Roberts as its first femme pactee. Thrush, who has appeared in legit and niteries, cut her first sides for the ^iskery Monday (19). 1 Miss Roberts’-pact with Quality calls for eight sides a year. Fontane Sisters Exit Victor for Dot Label Continuing to expand its pop ar- tists’ roster, the Dot label last week latched on’ to The Fontane Sisters. The vocal combo had been recording for RCA Victor for the past six years. Dot will release the trio’s first sides next month. • Merc Builds Roster With 3 New Pactees Mercury Records’ new talent de- partment, under the direction of Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, has inked crooner Dick Island to a longterm pact. Island, a newcomer to show biz, did some singing while serving A hitch in the Army. Merc also has pacted thrush June Winters and The Laurie Sis- ters, FOR MOTHER : LAY PROGRAMMING! MOTHER'S! EYES LEO FEIST, INC 48th ST. 105 WEST PARLOR FLOOR STORE SuitabU musical lain offlc«, racordt, ate. J. ARTHUR FISCHER, INC. 1050 6th Avo. Now York City 1 r America's - Fastest ^ Selling- Records!