Variety (December 1957)

E MUSIC UfiRIEfY Wednesday, December 4, 1957 On Hie Upbeat RETAIL SHEET BEST SELLE New York [visit early next year as the British I - _ ...... ' ... _ . . half of a band swap . . . Trumpeter * Ca P lto1 Records Ronnie Simmonds has joined the t0 F Cyril Stapleton band * Singer diskery s Coast hq for a couple of Carmel Quinn in London for a -£^ e ^^ R ^ rd L f< 2 0W J short stay during.which time she’ll w! t ?'^fi! rend maLke some records and appear With new offices on West57th , . . on tv Vic Duncan representing Johnny _ . ■ Marks*. St. Nicholas Music in Chi> ■ — cago . . . Morganna King opened Chicago Teagarden pacted for two L* * M GMsal- weeks at Brass. Rail, Milwaukee, pum, A Christmas Carol, with March 3 Stan Gets set for My-T-Fint sponsoring . .Tina ^ spot ' ^ ^rowell-Col- Herbie Mann into Crown Propellor W r,„ t ir here. Dec. 18 for four frames, ■pJHa^5-^” n °v i ^TS U ji ng for y e ™ e following James Moody's booking 5r 0du ? mg Starting today (Wed.). Merv Griffin's ABC Radio show v • . . The Techniques, Roulette’s new _ vocal combo, in town from Georgia Boston B&VOTLSP'SS -scat -— UA'RiEfr -—■— Survey of retail sheet music best sellers based on reports obtained from leading stores in 12 cities and showing com- parative sales rating for this and last week. • ASCAP 't BMI National Rating This Last wk. wk. Title and Publisher I B 3 S ’ 9 S ? J i i III 1 II vs < g g 1 S3 g •£» na it. I g & a Boston Mosley's on the. Charles, Dedham dancery, featuring Don Dudley orch weekends . ... Paul Adams and Snger JoeCarrMl at Gil Slnrn’l da ncwy, featuring Don Dudley 5 1 ♦Tammy (Northern). Sugar HilL Newark this week- orchweekends-. ... Paul Adams and 6 5 * AH the Way (Maravi Lothar Perl, composer-piarist, h j s ®“ ie CTe ™ for dancers -7 -e ' *Chances Are (Korwi will Dlav his oWn pnmnndtinn at Revere ■ Beachview Saturday - ■ _ —^7-—— — - «Fdur An^riSSSS? bn a nights .... . Dixie looks to be hitting 8 12 tJailhouse Rock (Pre Theme Bv Paeanini ” at the Rfmatn comeback trail in this area with 9 13 tSilhouettes (Regen Carsone Carnegie’ Hall concerts 10. 10 .tWake Uy Susie (Aa Jan 4-5 Monte Kav inineri his DHver A Satellite Six, making with — • lT r-— Wife, Diahann Carroll, m Paris 2 1 ® two-beat at Newtone Hall in !!___!!__ TiH (Chapp ell . where she's aDDearine at the ofvm- Cambridge weekends. The group 12 7 *Ivy Rose (Roncom). pia Theatre. He’ll Complete book- ..gj* .Llone! Hampton and ’ ing arrangements for the Modern 59^5 Ellington sideman _FIoyd Jazz Quartet’s forthcoming tour a . ddlt i? n Jf° C ^ amp during his European stay . 7. Elly SantaneUo, Tony Fron- Stone filling out a four-week en- ;^ ohn ^ f B . e ^ and frontman-,-——--- Sfbum * of SlSoMs for^Cor5 orchs for dancing .. . Revere Reef pepse pf Wallace’s musicians just Records . 01 8 Coral holding Sunday afternoon jazz ses- a . few da J s befpre Wallace made ' . sions featuring drummer Floogie ^*. 2 —tch-Ah^e Previn Tno WHUsuns and trumpet ihan Dick at the Blac .kh aw k being followed Hollvwood Whittemore . . . Joe Turner, Sarah by.Terry Gibbs Quartet with Pete AAuiijr wooa Vauehn Art Blakev’s Jaxr Mbkph Jolly . . . Earl Hides returns to the Hans J. Salter set to score Uni- gers^ an’d the Dizzy Gillesnie big Hangover Dec. 12 . . . Woody Her- versal’s “Raw Wind in Eden,” hand in concert Sundav ( 1 ) Mp- man’s big band back into the Jazz T^tW me.Toff r>h. n ^i A o. wJL oauu m concerc aunaay ui Me- .jj. • ct 9 rf.'s<>. ♦April Love (Feist)... ♦Fascination (Southern)...---- ♦Around the World (Young)..... tMelodie D*Amour (Rayven)..... ♦Tammy (Northern)........ ♦AIT the Way (Maraville)......... ♦Chances Are (Korwin)......,.., tJailhouse Rock (Presley)....,. tSHhouettes (Regent). .tWake Uy Susie (Acuff-R.)...... ♦Till (Chappell).,.....,..,. .,. . ♦Ivy Rose (Roncom).. ♦Heart Reminds Me (Symphony) ♦Leichtensteiner Polka (Burl’ton) ♦Honeycomb (Joy)... Satchmo Swamps Sputnik Wmi S^2JF ha ^ d l er ^ chanics Bldg. Earl Bostic and Showcase for T thffcedays starting; Uruguay gave the jazzmen their starrer . . . Boh Wagner got a re^ Amet Cobb Taands: nlaved at the Dec - 20., .... Jean Hoffman Tno at ® rpiMQP frnm hie onnfToof t - . ^ OUD . Ban .9 s piayeq at tne i.iof covers. release from his contract with Lib- Prnvidenre Areadia P tav rarivi® -the. Offbeat Room—trio’s just- erty Records ... Deal Is in the orch in for holiday dates 7 in Hub ished a Fantasy LP . . . B works for Tony Curtis to make his a£ea * ' Ashton leaving Bimbo’s 365 ( iliclr hniir ir a flnKrf ft.. PU,*.. "* PI Tfn,n. I n by Terry Gibbs Quartet with Pete Continued from page 1 ■■■■ Jolly... Earl Hides returns to the A . ... _ . on Hangover Dec. 12 . . . Woody Her- American capital. In addition, 22 blanket fee of 600,000 pesos, apart man’s big band back into the Jazz magazines in Argentina, Chile and. from time costs.. : Showcase for thffee days starting- TT ril « 11av P av«» tho )a77men thi»ir Rated the costlietet attraction Dec; 20., .... Jean Hoffman Trio at UrUgUay gave the J azzmen their ever booked in Argentina ($20,000 the Offbeat Room—trio’s just fin- covers. weekly), tjie Armstrong tour also ished a Fantasy LP ... Barry The U. S. ambassadors to Ar- broke all records for theatre disk bow as a flptist with the Chico Hamilton Quintet London Philadelphia ished a Fantasy LP ... Barry The U. S. ambassadors to Ar- broke all records for theatre -9^° ® w?65 Club gentina, Paraguay and Chile at- grosses, averaging around 335,000 Bancho tended Armstrone’s concerts With pesos net a day (around $8,625). at the hungry ... A 1 Ganagher Jr. lena ea Armstrongs concerts witn ^ Franc i SC o Lbcoco ’accoVoanied at Royce Russell's Urpwn Roopa ,.... their families and visited him t he b?nd ^to Sant^gp 5^16 io5 London Sarah Vaughn and Dizzy Gilles- ] ^uiS^^^h^^ri^S ba ^ St ^ ? h * dI P lomats were the next stop on the tvr and Val- r» « "m tt t . i pie heading jazz concert at the^I lifpr this mnnth 7 Tnbnnv Mathis given on-the-spot awareness of entin Gonzales, of Iriberri Con- wlUi'j», th, goodwill tho jazzmen was took over^for «ieMontevideo tefeSSS m cartel -»«*. the Bussian, ir. — ' ——^ with the singer going into the Fair- ing football teams and ballet a wonderful seasonal song George Liberace has pacted Bernie Rothbard, of the Suez & Rothbard Agency, as hfs exclusive local book¬ ing partner ... Bill Haley & Com¬ ets and Bob Harry play one-nighter at SunnybroOk Ballroom, Potts- inont this week. troupes in South America and, of -———- course, their sputniks added to the v- flnei# n Jhf propaganda barrage. „ - - y . * In his visits to the various capi- Roger Wilhams goes east for a tals, Armstrong was unable to Walk Kansas City vjy . town (7) . v . Roster at the Erie series of one-nighters in the mid- in the street without being mobbed. a Sbcial Club slates The Charioteers Ohio area following; his two-week At the airports, the officials, after Si^SL Stand at Eddy’s here. Then it’s to national, honor had been preserved Lon Monte (21-22) ... Red Prysock __ ^ . .. in the finished film, working Tunick’s (2-7) . . . CharHe New York and home for the holi- ^ T lue Gracie into Andy’s Log Cabin days; Following him at Eddy’s will . answer, Italian Undersecre- (13) . . The Mariners, George be Marty AUen v& Mitch DeWood, frying to combat the crowds, gave Sommer and Andy Arcari skedded . with The Rhythmettes, all in for p P taking him through the cus- for New Year's Eve party at the the first tiiheliere . . . Juan Makula toms and immigration formalities. rnuM Broadwood Hotel , . . Georgie brings his gypsy; music gack to the They drove cats up to the plane Woods, WDAS deejay, emcees his Picardy of Hotel Muehlebach be- and, after Satchmo and his Wife MUSIC rock ’n’ roller for a 10 -day run at ginning Dec. 7. He replaces George posed for pictures, the police ac- COMPANY the : Uptown, vaudfilm house, . to Rico, now winding up his second companied them to the hotel. In == ^ = j == ^ Dec. 7. Featured are Frankie long stand in the room. Santiago, the police chief, plus 250 LEROY ANDERSON Another Big Hit FORGOTTEN DREAMS Recorded byt • LEROY ANDERSON (Decco) • CYRIL STAPLETON (London) • FREDERICK FENNEtL (Mercery) MILLS MUSIC. INC. Lymon, The Rays, Thurston Harris, Lee Andrews, Billy Miles . . . Atlantic. Records waxed'the score of “The Confidence Man,” which an amateur group staged at the ong stand in the room. Santiago, the police chie|, plus 250 ——^——— uniformed cops and plainclothes- HniisFnn men * ^ ad to cope with the fans. „ .. „ u*wn Armstrong is due back in the Betty Madigan opened a two- u._S. this Week and opens his first Broadwood Hotel Lord Jim week stand at Continental Room date at the Copacabana, N. Y., next Ferguson, manager of BUI Haley’s sharing the hill with. Charles Wednesday (12). Comets, is handling The Tyrones, Manha and Carl Sands orch ... ^ musical group at the Erie Social Jay,Lawrence in for a fortnight S **&£^ 0 ^^***L Glu1 ?- at the Cork .Club in his first Hous- B . u 5“°?_^ i £ es ’» N 9Y: 2d ’.., . ■' .. ton engagement . * . Larry Herman _, Louis Armstrong^ & His All C. n F ran( .i« rA orch will take over the bandstand ®tars wound, up at the Buenos * 7 an rranciseo at the St. Anthony Hotel, San An- Aires Opera Theatre amid “Satch- A1 WaUace orch departing Blm- tonio, early next year in a switch moismo feVer on the part of lo- )’s 365 Club for the Fairmont’s from the present policy of out-of- cal jazzophiles, requiring relays of San Francisco bo’s 365 Club for the Fairmont’s Cirque Room Dec. 15—it may or town 'bands.: Herman is a local police to get him into and out of may not have been a coincidence l Kandlendpr. f I in c-o-po+.r may not have been a coincidence bandleader. I that Eddie Burns, business ren of AFM. Local 6 , warned Baddy Lester EDDIE HEYWOOD - 2-Level Jazz = 55 ; Coqhmied from page 59 . fine, recognizable “Autumn in Ver¬ mont.” ■ the theatre in safety. As a goodwill ambassador his tour was surefire. At the final per¬ formance he was kept on stage two hours beyond the' usual closing time, playing with .some of the lo¬ cal talent, including the teenage “Mac Ke Macs,” sons of American jazzman Don Dean McCluskie who * PRESENTLY * EMBERS, New York l RCA VICTOR RECORDS •—ASSOCIATED BOOKING CORPORATION- JOE GLASER7 Prt*.* 745 Fifth Av*. S03 N. Wabash-Av«. 407 Lincoln Rd. «619 Suns*t Blvd. Ntw Yorlc 22. N.Y- Chicago, III. Miami Boach, Flo. H'wo^d 44, Cal Phonoi Phona: Phono: Phan.. . PLata 9-44H CEntral 4-V451 JEfforsoit 5-0313 OLympla 2l994f * Then Thelonious Monk is one settled In this country 20 years * I * 1 ’ 3 ^^ c oi>certbo K s ran ag ^ mstrong hho pIa d a cou le N- T e J? ^ sood^o quite of Argentine tango,tunes, had lo- ^ indifferent, the latter mainly be- cal jazz singer Lois‘Blue onstage it cause the group stretched, out num- for a number or two, and generally * tfV 00 ^ ong * ^ on ? y Rollins sent did just about everything that was * Sf 3 tenor sax-sound out even far- likely to make him “simpatlco.” ther than Moiffr had ^one. It came It’s doubtful if any other American * enthusiastic performer has ever had such a re- N- hands that Ray Charles and his ception. Presentations were made * er? u p. *°t When they relapsed into to him on behalf of a number of + shoutmg rough-cob rhythm & local groups, including Odeon, RCA blues sti^E for the blowolf. While Victor and Columbia Records. I nh/w • true ; biodern jazz Apart from 20 performances I .walked m protest, a^major- over 10 days at the Opbra Theatre, ■ lty of the audience which h a d a p- Armstrong did two broadcasts I Pfauded the cool, stayed to cheer over the Mundo web channel un- I enthusiastically, posing for every der General Electric sponsorship, ■ cool performer the question:. Just arranged by Grant Advertising, A how mixed are these cats? Len. while another was telecast; all at a Frwiz wurum’s ^■r MiRtifMl tbtlM fTMl the Wanwr arm. fredvctroii W “Saituri’' w Fkatsumi LOVE THEME* V Mm*m DouM RCA WctW i E Poicy Faith Colombia A Uray Holmot MOM D M Frank ChaksffoM tamtam jM WITMARK A WINTER WAftM GALE STORM Dof Records FAMOUS V.uSIC CORPCRATCNl 'LATEST RE LE AS! • ♦87» CLINT MILLER ins* BERTHA LOU L . : /w A m. DOO-CONE it BABY M I'M I N LOVE NEW DIRECTIONS MUSIC ASSOCIATES Interested New Material Songi, Talent, Instrumeatal, Vocal Call GR 6-1529 or GR 6-1245