Variety (November 1954)

MUSIC Wednesday, November 24, 1954 Hollywood, Nov 23. The Newman family has a sixth le'mber in show biz. He’s Dr. Irv- ing Newman, who bows this week as a tunesrriith via his song, “Who Gave You the Roses,” recorded by Bing Crosby for Decca with Alfred Newnian, one of the doctor's show biz brothers, batoning. There seveni Newman brothers, five of whom show biz: Alfred,. Emil, and Lionel, all iusic directors; Mark, an agent, and Robert, vice-president of Sam- uel Goldwyn Productions. Dr. Irv- ing lias, like three of his brothers, always been interested in music, but. on a purely amateur basis. He attended his mother, Mrs.. Luba Newman, during her final, fatal illness, earlier this year. When he saw a vase full of flowers in her room and asked “Who gave you the she suggested the phrase i ight .be a good basis for a song—and Dr. Newman promptly wrote the. tune. When. Mrs. Newman died in April, the song was one of several played at the services, in response to one of her final requests. It was subsequently published and Alfred Newman recorded it for Decca as an instrumental. Crosby heard the disk and made arrange- ments to record a vocal to the Newman background. The job was completed a few weeks ago and the disk was included in the cur- rent Decca releases. Scoreboard TOP TALENT AND TUNES ■ c ■■ ■ ■ ■ - — - - 4 - - , ■ - . ■ , ... ■ , — . , ' . Compiled from Statistical Reports of Distribution Encompassing the Three Major Outlets Coin Machines Retail Disks Retail Sheet Music as Published in the Current Issue NOTfe: The current comparative sales strength of the Artists and Tunes listed hereunder is arrived at under statistical system comprising each of the three major sales outlets enu- merated above. These*findings are correlated with data from wider sources, which are exclusive, with Variety, The positions resulting from these findings denote the OVERALL IMPACT de- veloped from the ratio of .points scored, two ways in the case of talent (coin machines, retail disks) nd three ways in the case of tulles (coin .machines, retail disks and retail sheet musicK TALENT POSITIONS This Last Week Week Artist and label THANKS! It may not be news when an a.k. song- writer suddenly gets hot but it's fun! ASCAP Writer of MR. SANDMAN (And, OH, BABY MINE) (Arid a trunkful of othersI 1 RpSEMARY CLOONEY (Columbia) 2 EDDIE FISHER (Victor) 4 CHORDETTES (Cadence) 7 BILL HALEY’S COMETS (Decca) 3 PERRY COMO (Victor) 6 DON CORNELL (Coral) 5 DORIS DAY (Columbia) 8 De CASTRO SISTERS (Abbott) FOUR ACES (Decca) ^ McGUIRE SISTERS (Coral) TUNE 'This Ole House .. - Hey There Mambo Italiano v I Need You Now .Count Your . Blessings (.Fanny Mister Sandman 'Shake, Rattle and Roll .. Dim, Dim the Lights Rock Around the Clock (Papa Loves Mambo ’') Things t Didn’t Do Hold My Hand If I Give My Heart to You Teach Me Tonight (Mister Sandman ’ Jit’s A Woman’s World (Muskrat Ramble J Lonesome Polecat POSITIONS This Last Week Week TUNES. (*ASCAP. fBMlj TUNE * MISTER SANDMAN ♦I NEED YOU NOW ♦IF I GIVE MY HEART TO YOU. fTHIS OLE HOUSE ♦HOLD MY HAND ♦PAPA LOVES MAMBO ♦HEY THER$ ♦TEACH ME TONIGHT fSHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL , ♦COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS. . NtRC TWEY Mil JUST RIUAUM TKi Na«ttl Muitcal Parboil* From Tbs Whlfmicol Pso sf Leroy Anderson’s sandpaper ballet SON* OF THE BELLS ' vr mer - 8wrc »ttm hv AtO’.r INtTOV.'ClKOlWi* rt* M "ML USOV ANM8JON HX*AJ* fu* R.-U —■ . >4 O r l'i Si I — — G«lWk • m ia«i ■ : MILLS MUSIC Inc. PAR GETS DISKS, SCORES FOR NICHOLS B10PIC Hollywood, Nov. 23. More than 3,000 Red Nichols recordings and approximately 2,500 scores and arrangements have been transferred to Para- mount by the trumpeter to speed preparations for “Intermission,” the Nichols biopic. Material wiil be scrutinized by Nichols, Para- mount production chief Don Hart- man and by Paul Jones and Robert ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ , ■ ■ 8 ■ 8 B 8 8 I 8 » ■ 8 [8 It « 8 8 ■ 8 nan ■ DEL SIMMONS AMERICA'S SMARTEST SOCIETY DANCI ORCHESTRA Currently. LONDON CHOP HOUSE DETROIT, MICH. From Aug., 1954, and Continuing Thru Junt, 1955 ■ ■ ■ i ■ ■ ■ ■ i ■ ■ ■ ■ ASSOCIATED BOOKING CORPORATION JOE GLdSER, Pres. New York | Chicago ’ h 5 ’> r h A,e PL 9-4600 I 203 No Wabash Hollywood 8619 Sunief Blvd Smith, who will produce and write the film. Among the scores, all properties of Nichols, are those from John Murray Anderson's “Almanac” and George Gershwin’s “Strike Up the Band,” both Broadvyay entries in the 1929 season, and “Girl Crazy,” a Broadway hit of 1931. Nichols was musical director of all three shows. Diskings are by Nichols and the Five Pennies; Trumpeter and his latest Pennies outfit open tonight (Tues.) at Harry Ringland’s Sarriez Restau- rant in. Beverly Hills for an in- definite stand. Kosty Bowing Special Series With N.Y. Symph For the second successive year, the N. Y; Philharmonic Will offer a series of three special Saturday night concerts batoned by Andre Kostelanetz. Opener, Saturday night (2.7), will offer Ferde Grofe’s “Mississippi” Suite, the first N/Y. performance of Yoch’s “Circus,” Rimsky-Korsa- koy’s “Scheherazade,” Khachatu- rian’s “Masquerade”. -Suite and Beethoven’s “Prometheus” Over- ture. ’Hit Parade’ Lineup (On Nov. 13 NBC-TV Show) 1. If I Give My Heart.. Miller 2. Hey There Frank 3. Papa Loves Mambo... S-B 4. This Ole House. .Hamblen 5. Count Blessings Berlin 6. Mister. Sandman... .Morris 7. I Need You Now.... .Miller PUBLISHER .•.. . Morris ..........., i.. Miller Miller — .•Hamblen .............. . Raphael Shapiro-B Frank ... . Hub-L * - Progressive Berlin : - * \ VICTOR PLANTS BUSY RIDING SEVERAL HITS ' Riding with several hits, RCA Victor is cooking fulltime on all three of its burners. Plants in Hockaway, N. J., Indianapolis and Los Angeles are working’^around the clock on a three-shift basis to me§t the demand. Victor currently is rolling with the Ames Bros.’ “Naughty Lady Irom^Shady Lane,” Perry Como’s “Papa Loves Mambo,” Eddie Fisher’s “I Need You Now” and “Count Your Blessings,” Hugo Winterhalter’s “The Barefoot Con- tessa” and Jaye P. Morgan's “All I Waftt Is You.” Davit Kevivgt Beacon Joe Davis, N. Y. publisher and disk operator, has revived his Bea- con Records label for rhythm & blues releases. His first release fea- tures Dean Barlow <Sc The Crickets. Davis formerly had a deal with MGM Records for release of coun- try & western sides. Continued from page I j . fi talk spurted Widespread interest in phonograph machines, but it has sparked a virtual revolution in the major companies’ conception of disk quality, Whereas, formerly, the accent Was exclusively on art- ists and/repertory, the spotlight [ is now on the engineering as Weill. In the longhair field particularly, a disk label must have high qualiiy standards in order to survive. Terrific Potentials Even though the disk biz is at a peak level, trade toppers believe that the potential is at least double of,present grosses. One exec said: “There are some 50,000,000 auto- mobiles on the road today. Why can’t we shoot for 50,000,000 phonograph machines in the homes? In view of the various lowpriced machines and attach- ments on the market today, there's ho reason why every hom shouldn’t have at least one phono- graph.” While the overall disk sales climbed 17% this year according to royalty payments actually paid to publishers, one major record company, boomed 62% last year while others had mure mod- est gains. Three of the seven I major labels had decreases ranging ! from 5% to 24%. In the hi-fi equipment field, sales this year climbed 50% over 1953 to an estimated $300,000,000. This gross covers not only phono- graphs, but AM-FM tuners and tape machines. Tape recorders, which were a limited hobbyist item only a. cou- ple of years ago, have also been; swept along in the hi-fi stream. Numerous low-cost machines hav entered the market recently, while RCA Victor began showing inters est in this field, by introducing a limited repertory of longhair and popular works for the tape market. With the tapes going at fancy prices, ranging up to $14, Victor execs have been surprised at. the extent of the; demand. A WONDERFUL SEASONAL SONG Sly ■ e g n d Cohn's Iff IT SHOW!" Iff IT SHOW!" iff IT$H 0 W!" CAHN MUSIC COMPANY It'* Mufti by JESSE GREER Program Today YoffarddyY FLAPPERETTE MILLS MUSIC, INC. (1(1* (roadway, N»w York) America's Fastest / Selling-.Records!