Variety (July 1958)

Wednesday July % 1958 Cotta Have $1 and a Skirt to Caper On die Caper Wein Preems Jazzville MUSIC Harwich, Mass., July 8. .« , George Wein, operator of Hub’s I Storyville jazz nitery, opened 1 Storyville—Cape Cod here last week with George Shearing in for the first stanza and a lineup which includes Dave Bnibeck, ErroII Garner, Chris Connor, Dakota Staton, Tom Lehrer, Gerry Mulli¬ gan and Four Freshmen for season through Aug. 31. Operating policy of the strawhat jazz nitery is the same as in Boston Wein said, except that Storyville- Cape Cod is a club licensed under General Laws, Section 12. All pa¬ trons have to be members of the club and the fee for membership is $1 for the season. Unlike the Hub jazz spot, there is a restaurant with full-course dinner, and a por- tion of the minimum can be ap¬ plied to orders. Unshod or bathing suited jazz fans are verboten at the spot and distaff side must wear dresses or skirts. Wein issued the following edict: "To prevent any misuhderstand- . ing about dress, we respectfully re¬ quest that gentlemen wear jackets; ties are optional and ladies should wear dresses or skirts. We regret that we cannot accommodate pa- I irons who are unshod or clad in «. bathing suits,” i This marks intro of jazz in nitery form to the Cape area, brainchild of Wein, .who also serves as director of Newport Jazz Festi¬ val, ‘Sugartime’ Tops In Sweden Daring June . Stockholm, July 1. Swedish June bestseller list was topped by American tune .'“Sugartime,” sung. in Swedish by Alice Babs on Metronome. Lyrics are written in a mixture of English and Swedish. Bi-lingual text: has been: a great hit at the Swedish market, and of 53 record shops re¬ porting "most sold records” during June, 32 had this record as tops on their lists. "Sugartime” also topped the lists of most sold piano sheet music for ^he month. Among The. 10 top records in June in. Sweden were: 1. “Sugartime” . . . Alice Babs (Metronome); 2. "Diana” .., Paul Anka (Karu¬ sell). . 3. "April Love” . . . Pat Boone. (Dot), ' 4. "Vita Syrener” . , . Lily Berg- • lund (Karusell). 5. "Melodic D’Amour” . . . Ames Bros. (RCA). 6; “Buona Sera” . . . Little Ger¬ hard (Karusell). • 7. "Jailhouse Rock” . Elvis Presley (RCA). 8. "Nairobi” . Tommy Steele (Decca). ’.■■■ 9. Wear My. Ring”. . . . Elvis Presley. (RCA). : 10. "Crazy Love? . . . Paul Anka (Karusell) Britisik Dbk Bestsellers . London, July 8. All IDoIa Dream. Everly Bros. (London) Street You Live:. . .Damone (Philips) : . Hands .... .By graves (Decca) Who’s Sorry Now.... .Francis (MGM) .BCg Man-.........IPreps (Capitol) •- Witch Doctor.;...... ... iLang , (HMV) Book Of Love:.... .Mudlarks . (Columbia) Twilight Time ....... Platters .. (Mercury) Stairway Of Love.... Holliday (Columbia) •' Army Caine ........ TV Cast.... (HMV) Tops’ Fiedler to Maestro French lick Fest Aug. 30 Chicago, July 8. Arthur Fiedler has signed for a, night of batonning at the second annual French Lick (Indj Music Festival. The .Boston Pops leader 'Will conduct the 60-piece festival symphony (comprised mostly of Louisville Orchestra members) the night of-Aug. 30. Other conduc¬ tors for the fest’s fourth and final weekend will be Minas Christian, of the Evansville Philharmonic, and Dr. Robert Whitney, . of. the Louisville orch: Jazz fest,; set for : the second weekend; now lists Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan, Enroll Garner, Dave Brubeck, Gene Krupa and the Four Freshmen. Billie Holiday, Legrand Jazz Albums for Col Columbia Records is stepping up its jazz LP program with Billie Holiday and Michel Legrand. Miss Holiday : has been tapped to an exclusive Col deal by Irv Town¬ send, of diskery’s album division, and Legrand cut his first.iazz set for the label under the direction of Nat Shapiro, iriternatiorial a&r coordinator, in New York last Week. Miss Holday came to Columbia recently on a one-shot deal for a "Lady in Satin” LP. Townsend now plans to release two new albums a year with the thrush. The next one is set for a recording this | month. The Legrand package wiU j be called "I Love Jazz.” The French I maestro’s three-year bestseller for Col is called “I Love Paris.” I Danny Costello to Coral Singer Danny Costello has been inked to a longterm pact by Coral Records’ . artists & repertoire chief Paul Cohen. A onetime pro baseball player in the Pittsburgh Pirate chain, Costello has been working .as a singer, for the past seven years. He’s Currently appearing in the "Damn Yankees” production at the Westbury, L.I., Music Fair. . RETAIL ALBUM BEST SELLERS - P^UETY - I Survey of retail album, best sellers based on reports from lead¬ ing stores and shewing comparative ratings for this week and last National Rating This Last wk. wk. Ill ; Artist, Label, Title 1 >; JOHNNY MATHIS (Columbia) Johnny’s Great Hits (CL 1133) 2 SOUTH PACIFIC (Victor) Soundtrack (LOG 1932) ... 10 MUSIC MAN (Capitol) Original Cast (WAO 990). .;.: 1 SOUTH PACIFIC. (Columbia) . Original Cast (B 2579-80).... .4 4 TENNESSEE ERNIE (Capitol) . Nearer the Cross (T 1005 >.. ■■■'.. ; MY FAIR LADY (Columbia) Original. Cast (CL 5090) .. 5 MANTOVANI (London) Gems Forever (LL 3032) .. GIGI (MGM) Soundtrack (E 3641)- , ...: . 3 RICKY NELSON (Imperial) Ricky Nelson (imp 9048) .... k 9 MITCH MILLER (Columbia) Sing Along With Mitch (CL 1160),, VAN CLIBURN (Victor) Tchaikovsky Conc’to (LM 2250) . DAKOTA STATON (Capitol) Late, Late Show (T 876) . . . . - ELVIS PRESLEY (Victor; Golden Records (LPM 1707)... 6 . FRANK SINATRA (Capitol) Come Fly With Me (W 920). PERRY COMO (Victor) . Saturday Night (LOP 1004).. . .. FRANK SINATRA (Capitol) This Is Sinatra Vol II (W 982) .: ARTHUR LYMAN (Hi-Fi) Taboo (R 806)... v .. MAkTIN DENNY (Liberty) . Exotica (LRP 3034) ... .:. ■ ■: •..... RAY. CONIFF (Columbia) S’Awful Nice;(CL 1137). .. ... .. FOUR ACES’ (Decca):; p 1 £• ■ S • 5 * S £. S 2 1 5 143 3 3 1 141 1 ... 10 138 4 7 8 53 ^ In a move to cut down the grow¬ ing problem of heavy returns from rack-jobbers and one-stops back to. distributors, and manufacturers, ! Roulette Records has come up with ‘ a new distribution formula in this • key phase of the market. Roulette ■ attempted to get- the most impor- ; tant indies to adopt a uniform plan l at the recent Music Operators of - America convention in Chicago- No concrete solution was reached there, but Roulette exec v.p. Joe Kolsky indicated that other com¬ panies will likely go along with • 1 the new policy. t Starting immediately, rack-job- [ bers and one-stops will be sold : through Roulette distributors at j tile distrib’s cost. They will also I get a 5% return privilege. In turn, ! the diskery is offering its distribu- ; tor^, a 10% discount on their total ! billing. Kolsky stated . that the j new plan would block the tremen¬ dous number of .returns from the rack-jobbers and one-s‘ops while, I at the same time, firming up the i distributor’s profit via the 10% j discount. Roulette has set* a minimum or¬ der of 1,000 records per number for the jobbers and one-slops to be eligible under this plan; In addi¬ tion, the diskery is aiming to elim¬ inate the rack-jobber practice of clashing single prices by a 30-to-45 day period in which they would agree to maintain prices. If they cut prices anyway, they would fun tile risk of being cut off from the distributor on all future releases. One-stops, on the other hand, would be prevented from selling to anyone but their usual custom¬ ers, namely; the juke-box opera- tors. j While the rack-jobbers and one- • stops are being limited in making ; returns to only 5%, they will now be able to buy at a more favor¬ able price than heretofore. Menotti Discloses Loss Future (Less Chi-Chi) of Spoleto Arts Festival Rome, Jnlyjl. Spoleto Festival budget, accord¬ ing to Gian-Carlo Menotti is around 180,000,000 lire ($270,000). If Festival "loses” money (beyond the budgeted "loss”) it shouldn’t be more than a couple of million lire ($5-10,000). He hopes to make up any deficit himself, selling own work(s), or getting it back in fu¬ ture compositions. Italian government contributed $15,000. Rest of funds are from "Festival Foundation” accumula¬ tion. Some $150,000 of total of $270,- 000 went to artistic budget and stars etc. (Italian director Luchino Visconti got $3,000 for staging of "Macbeth”) 'the remaining $120,000 W® n t to restoration of town thea¬ tres and to bettering of housing and other "receptive” facilities at Spoleto for the Fest. Many participants, worked gratis, according to Menotti, and want to return next year under same con¬ ditions: Ben Shan, Jose. Quintero, Jerome Robbins, Saul Steinberg, and "many others”. Would have spent three-four times budget had artists been paid at value. . Menotti has spent plenty of own coin on effort, and on his death . .he’ll leave what he has in Spoleto*—^ to the fest. He expects it to con¬ tinue, arid that in a few years it will become self-sufficient Menotti hopes to get more money from Italo government in future. Defending public, he say s that it Wasn’t intention of fest to draw snob crowd, but at same time couldn’t turn chi-chi down due to financial situation. He hopes to get true intellectuals the**e next year, less or no tux and tails, more pop¬ ular priced showings and opening nights. , (Menotti said he will. be fined *■ five million francs unless he fin¬ ishes work for Paris Opera on time, reason for his current rushed work sked.) . . New Mpls. Sympb Flack Minneapolis. July 8. Richard M. Cisek, Buffalo, N.Y., businessman, has been appointed ! Minneapolis Symphony orchestra publicity, promotions and adver tising director.