Variety (May 1954)

V 44 MUSIC Inside Stuff-Music Natural tie-in with the Popcorn .Institute of America has Janet Brace's new Decca disk, “Pop Corn for You," being ballyhooed with handout kernels and with special showcasing at drive-in theatres. Popcorn men have sent out some 3,000 sacks of their product with a picture of Miss Brace and .special promotional jottings to deejays and Juke box operators. Additionally, about 40% of the country’s ozoners arc playing the record at intermission periods to help pop- corn sales at the concessionaires. The Four Girls, femme quartet consisting of Jane Russell, Rhonda Fleming, Connie Haines and Beryl Davis, operates almost exclusively for charitable purposes. Gals are under contract to Russfield Corp. the independent production outfit set up a few months ago by Miss Russell and her husband, Bob Waterfield. All coin for their personal appearances and record royalties is paid into Russfield, which dis- burses the normal out-of-pocket expenses, Including the commission to the personal management firm of Gabbe, JLutz & Heller. Remaining proceeds are then evenly divided and each of the gals has earmarked her share to her own favorite charity. Doris Dowling, actress-wife of Artie Shaw, will get an unusual wax showcasing in a Decca Records set. Album will have Miss Dowling speaking the lyrics to a grodp of standard tunes played by Shaw and an orchestra. Carmen Cavallaro has written a rhumba for his Chase National Bank of N. Y. testimonial ad. The tune is being published by Memory Music, firm operated by Lanny and Ginger. Grey, jingle writers. which ran as a lead sheet, was published in the New Yorker mag’s May 1 issue. A special disking of the tune was made up by Kenyon & Eckhardt, agency for Chase. Lillian Roth, whose autobiog, “I’ll Cry Tomorrow,” is being pub- lished by Frederick Fell Inc., has collaborated on a tune with the same title for waxing on Coral Records. Tune, published by Marlong Music, was defied by Miss Roth, Dave Dreyer and Gerald. Marks. Latter, incidentally, is putting some poems by Francis Cardinal Spell- man to music for.a wax set by Eddie Fisher. Miss Roth’s book, which covers her saga from Hollywood to the AA, was written with the help of Mike Connolly and Gerold Frank. Omnibook magazine has bought the condensation rights. GILLETTE EAST ON CAP’S A&R SHUTTLE Hollywood, May 4. Capitol’s artists & repertoire shuttle gets underway this week, when Lee Gillette leaves for the New York office for a series of recording sessions. He’s the first a&r fliari to trek east under the new 7 policy of alternating between the home ofiice and N. Y. Peregrinating producers will keep Capitol’s N. Y. a&r depart- ment manned without the neces- sity of finding a replacement for Sid Feller who ankled the plattery recently. Freed’s ‘Moondog Ball’ Pulls 20G in Newark Alan Freed, Cleveland deejay, brought his “Moondog Coronation Ball” east to Newark’s Sussex Ar- mory Saturday (1) to draw a ca- pacity 11,500 admissions with a gross of about $20,000. Freed has built lip a dialer following here via his WNJR, Newark, show, which he tapes in Cleveland. Freed’s home base is WJW, Cleveland. Featured at Newark’s rhythm & blues ball were Arnett Cpbb, Bud- dy Johnson, Roost Bonnemere, Charles Brown, Muddy Waters and The Clovers. {A'V.W.W.-/ ***** yyys/yyy. SHIRLEY HARMER sings I’M PLAYING WITH FIRE I COULD MAKE YOU CARE MGMU713 ' K11713 78 It PM 45 It PM M'G'M RECORDS I T H E G P E A NAME £>*}? IN ENTERTAINMENT V C' SEVENTH AVE NEW YORK 3 6 N - i* Songs With Largest Radio Audience The top 30 songs of week (more in case of ties), based on copyrighted Audience Coverage Index ft Audience Trend Index . Published by Office of Research, Inc., Dr. Johry Gray Peatman, Director, alphabetically listed. * ’ Survey Wrfek of .April 23-29, 1954 A Dime And A Dollar—1 “Red Garters” A Girl, A Girl Alone Too Long—+“By The Beautiful Sea” Am I In Love Answer Me,. My Love .»»•••* Cross Over the Bridge Dream, Dream, Dream Du Bist Mein, Liebchen Happy Wanderer . Here Hernando’s Hideaway—*“Pajama Game” .. I Get So Lonely . . - I Really Don’t Want To Know I Speak to the Stars—t“Lucky Me” I Went Out of My Way If You Love Me (Really Love Me) Isle of Capri Little Things. Mean a Lot Lost In Loveliness—‘•’“Girl In Pink Tights” Make Love to Me .. Man With the Banjo My Sin i Secret Love—t“Calamity Jane” South There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight Till We Two Are One Until Sunrise Until You Came to Me Wanted Young at Heart ... Famous v . .Valando . .Morris ... Miller ,.. Bourne ... Laurel ... Feist ... BVC ,.. Fox ... H&R ... Frank .., Melrose .,.H&R -■ ... Witmark ... Broadcast , ... Duchess ... Harms ... Feist ... Chappell ... Melrose ... Mellin .,.. DeSylva .., Remick . Peer „.. Acuff-R ... Shapiro-B ... Leeds ... Amer. Acad. ,.. Witmark ..: Sunbeam Second Group Amor Southern And This Is My Beloved—+“Kismet" Frank Back In the Old Routine Famous Backward, Turn Backward Sheldon Bahama Buggyride ....... Love Baubles, Bangles and Beads—*“Kismet” Frank Changing Partners - Porgie Don’t Worry ’Bout Me Mills From the Vine Came, the Grape Randy-S Goodbye Southern Heart of My Heart ..... Robbins Jilted .... •.;.. Sheldon Knock On Wood—i “Knock On Wood” Famous Man Upstairs . .. ..1 Vesta Melancholy Me Sheldon Poor Butterfly v Harms Port of Spain Sheldon Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell Morris Stranger In Paradise—*“Kismet” Frank This Must Be the Place Lantern Wednesday, May 5 , 1954 Top Capitol Execs Plan First Nationwide Sales Meeting fn. Estes Park Hollywood, May 4 . Top Capitol sales brass checked In at the plattery’s main office to- day (Tues”.) to help formulate plana for the firm’s first nationwide sales meeting slated for July 8-11 at Estes Park, Colo. Last year Capitol held a meeting at.Pebble Beach, Cal., for th^western divi- sion and at Lake Placid, N. Y., for the eastern division. In other years, as many as four meetings were held. 0 Hal Cook, vice president of Capitol Records Distributing Co and Bill Fowler, sales veepee of Capitol Records, Inc., will be here for a week, helping to set up the agenda. Some 250 sales and pro- motional employes will attend the July meeting, including all branch and district managers. Plattery execs, who will guide the sessions, include prexy Glenn Wallichs, mer- chandising veepee Lloyd Dunn, a&r veepee Alan Livingston, legal veepee Dan Bonbright and national sales promotion chief Bud Fraser. Immediately after the Estes Park meeting-Wallichs takes off for Eu- rope where he’ll spend more than two months huddling with Capi- tol’s continental reps. Sands Orch Into Baker Hotel Dallas, May 4. Carl Sands orch opened last week at Mural Room of the Baker Hotel until May 29. Top 20 Songs on TV (More In Case of Ties ) A. Girl, A Girl Valando Answer Me, • My Love Bourne Back In the Old Routine Famous Cross Over the Bridge Laurel Dream, Dream, Dream Feist Happy Habit Morris Heart Of My Heart Robbins Here II&R I Get So Lonely^; Melrose Little Lucy .. Ronco'm Lost In Loveliness L Chappell Lovin’ Spree . . Joy Make Love to Me Melrose Marie .., Berlin Secret Love ....' Remick Somebody Bad - Stole De Wedding Bell Morris This Is Greater Than I Thought Fampus This Must Be the Place Lantern Wanted Witmark Young at Heart Sunbeam t Filmusical. * Legit musical. LONDON PREPS PUSH FOR NEW HEATH SET London Records is gearing a ma- jor sales and promotion campaign for its latest Ted Heath album re- other four, weeks, giving Dixieland jazz outfit.a total of 12 holdover weeks. Group will now play lo- cation through May. Two-beat rhythm outfit began stint at the hotel March 1. 1 / SPlAK v TO THE STARS Recorded by: DORIS DAY Columbia - 40210 M WITMARK & SONS lease, “The Music of Fats Waller.” Album features a collection of fave Waller melodies and marks the first time his “London Suite” has been grooved on a longplay platter. Diskery is servicing 1,500 disk jockeys with a special radio station kit, which Includes six 78 rpm plat- ters covering all the,tunes on the LP, as well as a special waxing of an Introductory message by Heath. The seven-pocket deejay giveaway also includes a four-page brochure tagged “The Ted Heath Story.” On the dealer* level, London Is supplying the retail outlets with window-size blowups of the album cover. NICHOLAS BROTHERS Currently Two Weeks CHICAGO THEATRE Chicago, III. Dixie Combo Holds;* In Bermuda Hotel Stand of the Salt' City Five at the Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda, has been extended an- Exclusive M a naejement ASSOCIATED BOOKING CORPORATION JOE GLASER. Pres. New York | Chicago I Hollywood o A., PL 9--U0C I 202 No »Vab-^ | i 11 9 Sun»pt Blvd I