Variety (July 1957)

104 MUSIC PBrIET? Wiedneftday, July 31, 1957 Sheraton Hotels 5-Day Music Fete For French Lick Indianapolis, July 30. Plans for French Lick Music Festival at French-Lick Sheraton Hotel that eventually are expected to put'it into a class with Tangle- wood and Aspen were unveiled by Joseph M. Curry, Sheraton’s cen¬ tral regional manager, at press con¬ ference with newspaper, radio and tv reps from Indianapolis, Louis¬ ville and Cincinnati. First series at famous southern Indiana spa, on comparatively mod¬ est basis because of late start of project, will be held nightly from August 28 to Sept. 1. Robert Whitney will conduct the Louisville Orchestra in all-Gersh¬ win program with Eugene List as soloist Aug. 30. Skitch Henderson will lead pop concert, using Louis¬ ville orch Aug. 31. Izler Solomon, conductor of Indianapolis Sym¬ phony, will direct Festival Orches¬ tra, composed of Indianapolis and Louisville symphonists, in finale, an all-Tchaikovsky program, Sept. 1. Idea is to expand festival to 10 or 12-week season in future, Curry said. Sheraton has given old French Lick Springs Hotel multi¬ million dollar facelifting since tak¬ ing it over two years ago. Resort hotel is in picturesque southern Indiana hill country. The OF THE WEEK MARVIN RAINWATER MY LOVE IS REAL and MY BRAND OF BLUES .*. # snatst * catties 1 = "Saturday Night it tht f & loaeBest night of tht we*k”i M' . ju <Am i mm' co**,. f^RIETY Scoreboard OF TOP TALENT AND TUNES Compiled from Statistical Reports of Distribution Encompassing the Three Major Outlets Coin Machines Retail Disks Retail Sheet Music as Published in the Current Issue NOTE: The current comparative sales strength of the Artists and Tunes listed hereunder is arrived at under a 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) and three ways in the case of tunes (coin machines, retail disks and retail sheet music). POSITIONS This Last Week Week ' 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 POSITIONS This Last Week Week 1 1 2 5 4 3 2 7 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TALENT ARTIST AND LABEL TUNE BILLY WILLIAMS (Coral) .,. Gonna Sit Bight Down* ELVIS PRESLEY (Victor)---- Teddy Bear* PAT BOONE (Dot) ... Love Letters In The Sand* EVERLY BROS. (Cadence) .Bye, Bye, Lovef JOHNNY MATHIS (Columbia)...|WonderfS'Wonderfuff ‘ JIMMY DORSEY (Fraternity) , So Rare* COASTERS (Atco) ..{lo^g B^odf DEBBIE REYNOLDS (Coral). Tammy* NAT KING COLE (Capitol)...l?, en< i FOr M , e t» ■ 4. 0 (My Personal Possession! DELL VIKINGS (Dot) _ Whispering Bellsf TUNES TUNE PUBLISHER *LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND. Bourne *GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN .... Chappell *AROUND THE WORLD ........ Young fTEDDY BEAR .. ........,.... Hill & Range fBYE, BYE, LOVE....... Acuff-Rose *FTS NOT FOR ME TO SAY...... Korwin *TAMMY ........ Northern *OLD CAPE COD............ Pincus *SO RARE........Robbins fWHITE SILVER SANDS..... Southern (*ASCAP. fBMI) Ball of Wax —^ Continued from page 97 s==s Columbia, Decca and its subsid. Coral (see separate stories)* with Capitol having previously disclosed its program and RCA Victor plan¬ ning to do so in a couple of weeks. Confidence in an expanding market is at the heart of all the various disk company projects. On the retail level, the situation is now sounder than ever. Whereas a few years ago, a great number of retailers were in a shaky state, today, the number of outlets is in- : ABC ATTRACTIONS DO BUSINESS Currently **★*★★★*********★★*★★★★★*★★********* * -* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THEATRE UNDER the STARS, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK t ERROLL GARNER • BILLIE HOLIDAY * GERRY MULLIGAN QUARTET * GEORGE SHEARING SEXTET * (Listed alphabetically because they're ALL STARS) * -ASSOCIATED BOOKING CORPORATION- JOE GLASER# Pres. 745 Fifth Av*. 203 N. Wabash Ava. 407 Lincoln Rd. tilt Sonsaf Blvd. New York 22, N.Y. Chicago, III. Miami Beach, Fla. H'wood 4«, Calif. Phone: Phone: Phone: Phone: PLaza 7*4400 CEntral S-M51 JEffarson t-0313 OLympla 2-7740 creasing at a steady and healthy rate, keeping pace with the indus¬ try’s overall expansion. Despite the competition of the chain store racks, discount houses and the disk clubs, the take for the individual retailer is now limitdft only by his merchandising savvy and aggres¬ siveness. Columbia Continued from page 97 I order placed. The dealer can make his own choice of the “dividend” packages. Col has also developed a number of dealer aids, including a Master- works’ “theme finder,” a disk de¬ signed to teach clerks how to iden¬ tify 24 of the most popular sym¬ phonies. Col is also making avail¬ able a motor-driven revolving unit holding 24 covers plus a flasher section spotlighting promotion messages. Gift Gimmicks Columbia also unwrapped a com¬ plete gift-wrap program for disks to boost the reegrds-for-gifts con¬ cept. In a Cbl-designed wood browser unit for LPs and 45s there’s space for special holiday streamers and gift-envelopes, gift tags and colored ribbons in addi¬ tion to dividers holding regular cards for various occasions. The new twin LP series, selling at $6.98, will start off with four in¬ strumental collections,' including George Gershwin played by Percy Faith, Jerome Kern Played by Paul Weston, Richard Rodgers played by Andre Kostelanetz, and Cole Porter played by Michel LeGrand. One of the promotional high¬ lights in the fall program is the soundtrack set from the Warner Bros, film, “Pajama Game,” star¬ ring Doris. Day. Col is providing dealers with promotional material to tie in with the film’s release in September. Dot Track* Boone ‘April’ -Hollywood, July 30. Pat Boone’s exclusive contract with Dot Records has given the diskery the soundtrack album on his currently-shooting- 20th-Fox starrer, “April Love.”-L/Film also stars Shirley Jones* previously heard in soundtrack albums from “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel,” both released by Capitol. Album will feature seven tunes from “April Love” penned by Sammy Fain and Paul Webster. Paris: (1) Pathe, (2) Philips In Disk Sales Race Paris, July 23. Philips rates second only to Pathe-Mareonl here in actual disk sales. It has also gained grouhd this year in pop music names on. its roster. A survey of its month’s disk bestsellers gives a good cross-section of the type of songs and personalities appealing to rec¬ ord buyers here today. Of a list, communicated to Variety, of 19 there were only two Yanks presented, Doris Day with “Que "Sera Sera” and Nornfan Maine in a Calypso “Cindy.” Rest were French names and mainly French numbers with a few Italo cleffed songs also showing. In order the toppers were Dario Mo¬ reno a belter, Henri Salvador a song stylist, and Jacqueline Fran¬ cois, Patachou, Georges Brassens, Miguel Amador, a charm singer from Mexico, Zizi Jeanmaire, Jo Boyer orch and Magali NoeL BEAU JAMES ‘BEAU JAMES' DEAN MARTIN Famous Music Corporation # CO Ml NO UP ...' 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