Variety (August 1955)

Wednesday, Auguit 24, 195$ Houston Cleans The Air Continued from page SI time. During the transition period, as many as 11 representatives of Dr. Bulloch's committee monitored local stations, checking to see if the objectionable disks appeared; If they did, said Dr. Bulloch, "if; was called to the attention of .the station manager." According to the committee head, the effect has been to erase most suggestive or. obscene race music from the air here, with some sta- tions using committee suggestions as guide to disk selections, and others creating: their own screening ^panels. Dr. Bulloch said plans- for the committee’s campaign were pat- terned on those used in a similar movement sponsored by WDIA in Memphis. Records listed for banning were: Ray Charles singing “I Got A Woman”; Little Walter, "My Babe”; The Lamplighters, ’ "Smootchie”; B.. B. King, "Everyday I Save The Blues”; Ray Charles, "Come Back Baby”; Lowell Fulson, "Reconsid- er Baby”; Clyde McPhatter, "Watcha Gonna Do Now”; The Midnighters, "Sexy Ways”; Little Walter, ". . Last Night”; B. B. King, "You Upsets, Me Baby”; Etta James, "The Wallflower”; The Mid- nighters, "Annie Had a Baby”; Dominoes, “Sixty-Minute Man”; Roy Brown, "Good Rocking.To- night”; The Spiders, "I Didn’t Want To Do It”; The Five Royals, ‘Too Much Lovin’ ”; The Midnighters, "Annie Pulled a Humbug”; Drift- [. ers, "Hjoney ‘Love”; The Midnight- ers, "Work With Me Annie’V The Four;. Jacks, 'Tired of Your Sexy Ways”; Jimmy Liggins, "Drunk”; Emitt Slay Trio, "Male Call”; Lightning Hopkins, "Candy.Kitch- en”; Lightning Hopkins, "Another Fool in Town”; The Five Royals, "Laundromat Blues”; Bull Moofefe Jackson, "I Want a Bowlegged Woman”; Lazy Slim Jim, "Wine Head Baby”; Lamplighters, "I Can’t Stand It”; Tommy Collins, "Watcha Gonna Do Now” and El- vis Presley, "Good Rocking .To- night.” Count:Basie’s orch will head up a jazz and rhythm & blues package to tour the southwest this fall for three weeks starting Nov, . 16. Shaw Artists is booking. Package will include George Shearing, Ruth Brown, The Orioles, The Hearts and T-Bone Walker. n* I . J* IJ* I Musicians Uni Richmonds Bnt Firm London^ Aug, 23. American music-publisher Howie Richmond has formed & new pub- lishing company, Essex Music Ltd., which begins operations on Sept, 5. To take charge of the new or- ganization, David Platz has left his post as general manager of Latin- American Music. Platz joined the Southern Music group of compa- nies in 1942 as an office boy and was put in sole charge of the Latin- American subsidiary five years ago. Cleffing Army Major v To Wax Tunes Q-’Seas Dudley Manners, nom de clef of a retired U. S. Army doctor, Major D. D. Krup, leaves for Europe at the end of next month to record several of his tunes. He plans ,to use the BBC band of Ralph Elman (Mischa Elman’s cousin) With EMI to handle 0 the masters. In Germany, he will record two of his Viennese waltzes, "Pawn of Love” and "Love Me Alone,” With a GI orch. Several • of Manners’ tunes are currently being plugged in Germany via . AFRS recordings. Brit Com! TV Best British Sheet Sellers (week ending Aug. 12) London, Aug. 17. Unchained Melody Music Evermore Rogers Dreamboat ........... .Leeds I Wonder ... .MaCMelodies Ev’rywhere . 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They’re riot only having a race against time to get their equip* ment ready, as reported last week, but are involved in last minute complex negotiations, with the Musicians Union, who have report- edly put forward demands which would make the .whole operation uneconomic. v •' ,. An executive of one of the tv programmers; at the end of a two- day negotiating session last week, suggested that the MU’s demands were designed to : restrict the . use of Aimed programs and. were im- posing crippling restrictions to ensure employment of live tooteris. If they had their way, he noted, the program ; contractors would be working for the musicians and npt vice-Versa, 1 It was expected of course that the MU would put forward a stiff minimum wage demand, with con- sequent special bonuses for repeats either in this country or overseas. But no one was prepared for the extravagant : demands which In- clude a definite prejudice against the use of filmed; programs. They have even suggested that where ceilulbid. Js used,, the. background music should he provided live by musicians in the studio. As ah al- ternative, they indicated they might concede pre-recording by a live orch, but each break in their performance would be regarded as another session, calling for extra pay. It would be necessary for the orch to play non-stop to get the recording regarded as a single ses- sion. .Because of the late start of the negotiations, the program contrac- tors are not left with, time to take this dispute fo the Industrial Court. They will, therefore, either have to make the .best possible terms with the unions of*.abandon their sched- ule, released 1 last week,-and put; in alternative programs so as to keep faith with the public. Native ‘Davy Crockett’ Now No. 9 Hit in Sweden Stockholm, Aug. 16; Top disk here is "Cherry Rink and Apple Blossom White,” played by Chicago-born Ernie Englund Jr., on Metronome label. Second' is "Isn’t It Romantic,” with Bengt- Ame Wallin ^trumpet) on Musics. No. 3. is."Billy Boy,” a duet be- tween Alice Babs and > Charles Charles Norman, on Metronoriie. Next is "Majorca" with Johnston Brothers on Decca, followed by "I Love Paris” with Les .Baxter on Capitol. . , . Eddie Calvert, comes at sixth place with his instrumental reading of "Cherry Pink” on Columbia. No, 7 is a Dutch melody, "No. Flowers Growing On a Sailor's Graveyard,” .sung by Ingvar Olsson on Philips. A Swedish reading of "Majorca" with Staffan Brorhs on Metronome is eighth, followed by a Swedish version of "Davy Crockett” sung by Cacka - Israelsson on the Odeon. Tenth is a Dutch recording of the Italian: melody "Mama K1 Baion” sung by Maria Zamora on Philips. Houston, Aug. 23. A fullscale recording session in which local people supplied the songs, the words, the voices and the music was held at the Music Hall here. Ed Gerlach, whose 16 piece orch participated in the rec- ord cutting session, said the mas- ters will,be leased to a company for futurd release. •Jimmy Duncan, young local songwriter who composed two of the songs, was featured vocally on •four: Two other tunes recorded were .composedby Johnny Lee now active in local musical and recording fields. The Bill Knight, eight voice chorus, also took part in the session which was arranged by Gerlach and local disk jockey 1 Larry Kane.