Variety (June 1955)

Wednesday* June 22, 1955 MUSIC 5S BETAE DISK BEST SIX TOP ALBUMS STARRING SAMMY DAVIS JR. Sammy Davie Jr. Decca DL 8118 ■ ED 2214-5-8 IN THE WEE, SMAU HOURS Prank Sinatra Capitol W 581 EBF 1, 2-581 LONESOME ECHOES Jackia Gltatan Capitol W 827 EBF 1, 2-627 LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME • t Doris Day Columbia CL 710 B 2090 CRAZY OTTO Crazy Ofto Decca DL 8113 ED 2201 DAMN YANKEES Original Cast Victor LOC 1021 EOC 1021 10c Juke Plays Get Spotty Mass. Reaction; Lots of Bargain Rates Boston. Juno 21. Dime play on jukeboxes has bogged down in eastern Massa- chusetts and many machines are now price ikedded at two for 10c and six for 25c, while others are going at two for 10c, and five for 25c, it was reported at the meet- ing of the Massachusetts Music Operators Assn, at Hampton Court Hotel in Broojdlne last week. Jukes wetfe converted to 10c back in February and while most THE HIT OF THE WEEK ROSALIND PAIGE Stay On the _ t Y«$, Right Side Sitter I Mam, I Mama MGM 12001 K 12001 barrooms and soda spots and res- taurants are now on the dime, sev- eral spots wouldn't and two for 10c had to be instituted, operators reported. Ralph Ridgeway, president of the Western Massachusetts Music Operators Guild* said ‘that in his area boxes had been converted 85 to 90% to the dime, and that almost all nonconverted machines were. 78c. He reported that dime play was getting better acceptance in teen spots than in adult loca- tions. David J. Baker, president of the organization, reported that $10,000 had been raised in the juke cere- bral palsy drive tieup, which had juke boxes all over Massachusetts playing for the fund in May. rently negotiating on the story of her life 'for motion pictures and tv, and failure by Disney to give her credit on the song is detri- mental to those negotiations. Miss Ronell claims thesong was sub- licensed by Irving Berlin's music firm to Disney for use in the “Big Bad. Wolf" cartoon, and in the subsequent tv showings that “gave credit to others,'* she was “mali- ciously hurt and injured.". Cap’s Fowler Surreys Electronics Held In EMI Equipment Tieup Capitol Records is planning an extensive survey of the electronics field in. the U.S. before it moves in as outlet for EMI (Electrical •& Music Industries) equipment. The likely distribution tieup stems from the purchase of the diskery by EMI last January. The survey will be headed up by William H. Fowler, Cap veepee who recently was relieved of his duties as acting general manager of the diskery’s distributing com- pany to concentrate on the elec-, tronics end of the business. Accord- ing to Fowler, it will take between 60 and 90 days before the. advis- ability of Cap's launching the sale and distribution of the British EMI electric line here can be” ascer- tained.-' Fowler is directing the survey from his New York headquarters. Getting special concentration are the possibilities in the TJ.S. for EMI’s electronic components,* test equipment and industrial tv. EMI in England is comparable to Westinghouse and General Elec- tric in this country. * In Hershey 1-Niter Sammy Kaye racked up a solid $4,326 playing to 2,710 payees in a one-nighter in Hershey, Pa., last Saturday (18). The orch has been booked for two more appearances at the Her- shey Ballroom this year. Tokyo, June 12. . The mambo is tops in Tokyo where about 60% of the tunes played in the capital's dance halls and niteries are in this Latin groove. Current mambo passion has been hypoed by the Paramount film, “Mambo,” and the music by Perez Prado’s band in RKO's “Un- derwater,”' both now In general release throughout the country. Prado’s disks are having! a phenom- enal sale also, with “El Mambo” and “Mambo No. 5” leading. Until very recently the city had only one-mAmbo band, The Tokyo Cuban Boys, but two new, hip- shaking organizations have joined them. They are the Afro Cubano and the. Tokyo Mambo orch. In addition, regular bands are includ- ing more’ and more mambos in their repertoires. A TUNEFUL ADDITION TO ANY PROGRAM Styne end Cohn s "PAPA WON’T YOU DANCE WITH ME!" 5TYNE and CAHN MUSIC Inc. USIC USERS I hava tapa library, Kght claulct (Strauss, Offenbach, ate,). Recorded with big orchestral. Saak responsible partner, preferably with organization to exploit tamo, Principals only reply to Box V-62059, Variety, 154 W. 46th St., New York 36 Cleffer Sues Disney For 90G on Tune Credit Stuff Songwriter Ann Ronell filed a.j $90,000 damage suit against Walt Disney Productions in New York Federal Court last week, claiming that Disney had neglected to give her writer’s credit on the' “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” song when the filmed story of its cre- ation was shown on Ed Sullivan's “Toast of the Town” in January of 1954 and again on “Disneyland” in February of this year, Miss Ronell claims she’/i cur- RCA VICTOR RECORDING ARTISTS JACKIE DAVIS DUO CvrrtnHy CARR'S BEACH, ANNAPOLIS, MD« Just Concluded HURRICANE MUSICAL BAR, PITTSBURGH ★ ★ * ★ HAMMOND ORGAN ASSOCIATED BOOKING CORPORATION JOE GLASER, Pres. N ( j w York I Chicago I Hollywood , ‘j j •A.r Pl 7-4/j00 I 203 No Wabash | S'J? Sunset Blvd.