Variety (January 1959)

78 MUSIC PSasa&tr Wednesday, January 14, 1959 New York Bob Karnheiser* who recently took over as sales manager of At¬ lantic Records, opened an account at the Russian Tea Room, eatery near the Atlantic homeoffiee. Eat¬ ery management made it out in the name of “Boris Kornhefcer.” . . . Columbia's Michel Legrxad in from Paris for a looksee . . Bandleader Bobby Dukoff and wife, singer Anita Boyer, opened a rec¬ ording studio in Miami Beach • New CBS-TY series, "Rawhide,” ystng Frankie Laine’s Columbia disking of the same title as its theme . . * Jonah Jones’ new con¬ tract with the Embers extends through 1963. Jack Mills visiting publishing af¬ filiates in Toronto and Montreal this, week ... Fabian, Chancellor disker, guests on Dick Clark’s ABCTV show Saturday (17) . . . Larry Mackes, comedy writer for Arthur Godfrey, Jackie Gleason, and Jack Paar, tnraed deffer with “May Ton Always” . . . CBS-TTTs “Hit Pa¬ rade” salutes Warner Bros’ “20 Million” LP Friday (16) ... . Stan Kenton named country’s best band¬ leader by the 1959 Playboy Jazz Poll surveyed, by Leonard Feather . . . Vaughn Monroe has been re¬ newed for another six months for RCA cammercials ... Marilyn. Bernstein joined publicity-promo¬ tion staff of Urania Records. Hollywood Jerry Colonnx will wax a new album of songs for Mercury tagged “Boh Hope Presents Jerry Colonna —His Trombone and His Mous¬ tache.” Bob Hope will pen the liner notes . . . Gordon MacRae has recorded a new Cap LP, “Love In Season” . . . James Darrin waxed Ned Washington and George GREAT “AUNTIE MAMT Bay Heiodoxf Warner ' gamy Burke, his orchestra Deeca [ DRIFTING i TAmm from' nAnrt» Ifam" ! David Allen ' ' Warner J HANGING TREE jl BLUES, COUNTRY STYLE : Marty BotkM* . Columbia » TRUST. IN ME Patti Pa>t Mercury I VLilC PUBLISHERS HOiDlN^ COR3 ORhTtON MUSIC BY Jesse grek JUST ME Vocal Instrumental PvbGtW by ROBBINS DO YOU NEED musical settlnf for your LYRICS* Am professional composer, wttfc mesfer degree M composition. Write AL CAP Gravesend Station, P.O. BokS, Brooklyn, 23, New York Dining** “Minify Pretty Teiritary”? f for Cofoix Records . . , Abe Mel' tier, of RCA’f personnel dept. In N.Y., transferring/to the Coast on a perinanentbasto . David K4«f has completed his new ‘Whoop-Up”' album for MGM Records * . . Dominic Freniiere and Milt Raksin have co-penned “Davey Jones,” fane to be heard oh? the projected “Skin Diver”’ vidpit series which Robert Carlton will produce. ■■■ London Talbot Bros.* -kicked off their six weeks' May Fair Hotel stint Mon¬ day (12) . 1 . Tbny Mansell has quit the exploitation staff of the David Toff music' pubbery . . . Songstress Joni James made her British tv debut in Associated Television’s “Sunday Night At, The Palladium” (11) . . . George Lewis band in for a four-week British tour . . . Sing¬ er Ken Kirkham has left the Ron¬ nie Aldrich Squadr«aaires band after three years’ residency. CllicfegO P Roberts Show Club has added a second-floor .lounge, with Phyllis Branch ensconced * . . Don Cornell currently tpplining ..Empire Room show. . . Intime Le Bistro has in¬ stalled the Russ Haddock combo . . Jayne. Dinning, of the sincedisbanded singing Dinning Sisters, back in the biz as a percenter, repping Greek warbler Pero Piero, current at Caruso’S in the suburbs .. . Busty Draper set for a week at the Omaha Horiie Show Feb. 3, thence to the Embers, Ft. Wayne, Feb. 20. He’s pacted for Eddy’s* Kansas City, March 29 for two . . . Ramsey Lewis Trio; at the Cloister here since last August, picks up for N.Y.’s Birdland around end ©f month. Return to the Cloister is set for. April 8 . . , Play¬ mates to the Cliche, Detroit, Jan. 27 San Francisco About 2,700 attended Dakota Staton’s show at Frisco’s Civic Au¬ ditorium . . . Kaye Ballard* Gailliano Daneluz, Uncle Phil Philley’s Western Jamboree, and production numbers from Bimbo’s 365 Club and Sinaloa were on bill at annual San Quentin Prison show spon¬ sored by AFM, AGVA and IATSE. William Van Oraun produced . . . Johnny Griffin Quartet follows Sonny Stitt Quartet into Jazz Work¬ shop . . . Earl (Fatha) Hines orch. L SMOKE GET& IKYQUR EYES C4) 2. MY HAPPINESS (2) . . 8. THE CHIPMUNK SONG (5) . . . ...... 4. TO KNOW HIM IS TOMVt HIM (8) 5. STAGGER LEE (1) . .. . ...... K A LOVER’S QUESTION (1) ........ 7. GOTTA TRAVEL ON (2) ; . 8* BEEP BEEP (8) i..... 9y I GOT STUNG (7) . . m 16 CANDLES <1> . . . Platters ..... .Mercury Connie Francis . MGM Chipmunks . Liberty Teddy Bears . . Bore Lloyd’ Price . .ABCPar I Clyde McPhatter ..... .Atlantic £ Billy Grammer \ . .. ..Monument • Playmates . Roulette £ Elvis . Presley. . . Victor Crests . ...Coed Second Group ONE NIGHT . PROBLEMS . THE DAIRY . . TOM DOOLEY . . LONESOME TOWN . WHOLE LOTTA LOVIN' . . BLUE HAWAII . . LUCKY LADY BUG ....... DONNA . . . . . MANHATTAN SPIRITUAL Elvis Presley ..... . Everly Bros. ...... . . . . Cadence . Neil Seddka ...... . Kingston Trio . . Capitol . Ricky Nelson ...... ....Imperial’ . Fats Domino . . . . .Imperial . Billy Vaughn . . Billy, & Lillie . . Ritehie Valens \ . . . . Del-Fi . Reg Qwen Orch . . . [Figures in parentheses indicate number of weeks' song has been in the top 103 with Muggsy Spanier, and Joe Sul¬ livan returned to the Hangover after two-month vacation . . Kid Ory orch, also vacationing, re¬ opened the Kid’s On-the-Levee the same night ... De Castro Sisters went into 365 Club . . . Marty Mar¬ sala baud now at Kelly’s, Sacra¬ mento . . . Gateway Singers sched¬ uled for four Frisco concerts at Veterans Auditorium, Jan. 21-24 . . . ErroU Gamer, due in Friscd in early February for a series of concerts under the S* Hutok ban¬ ner* has turned down all festival appearances to appear at Monterey Jazz Fest in early October . CLIBURN, ATLANTA SELLOUT Atlanta, Jan. 13. Van CHburn will play to a packed house tonight (Tues.) at 2,200-seat Tower Theatre, appear¬ ing" with Atlanta Symphony Or¬ chestra. House has been a sellout (at $5 top) for more than two weeks and advertised as such. . Inside Stuff— Mask The government changover in Cuba stymied a Capitol Records vaca¬ tion. junket, to Nassau and Havana. Trek had been arranged by the diskery for Its topselling: district sales managers. Bill Trilant,. who was diskery’s assistant sales manager and has now been upped to national -merchandise administrator, hosted the. 20 managers and their wives. Group was in Nassau when the. revolution broke out and Tall ant arranged to have a vote on whether they should go on ahead to Havana despite the revolution The vote was 19-to-l in favor of going* but the American consul* wired that it would not be advisable at the time so the Gap crowd sat out their holiday in Nassau. Tallant was in New York last week for a looksee at the Gotham branch before returning to the Coast headquarters and Ms new assignment. More than 35,000 rural and community schools in the nation 're¬ ceived free recordings of “The Star Spangled Banner” during ’58 through a joint project of the Farm Bureau, RCA’s Victor Records Di¬ vision and toe American Heritage Founadtion. Final tally shows dis¬ tribution .of 38,968 records fa 44 states. The 78 rpm’s had Versions of toe national ant ton by the 'Chicago Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestras. Prior to ’58* according to the Farm Bureau, no hi-fi 78 rpm single of toe antoeac was available. Matthew D. Schuster has been named national phonograph admin¬ istrator for Capitol Records. It’s a newly created post* according to James W. Bayless, veepee of label’s manufacturing and engineering departments. Schuster will quarter at toe Cap Tower in Hollywood working under Bayless. He will be responsible for toe entire distribu¬ tion and servicing of toe Cap phono line. > _ _ ******^*****★^****^***************1 I LOUIS ARMSTRONG! : and His ALL STARS J $ Currently Extensive Tour of EUROPE ti* NEAR EAST * * Him May T1 Emhrariuq » * *. * SCANDINAVIA. HOLLAND, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, * * AUSTRIA. SKAT MtfTAJH, BELGIUM, ISRAEL, J « GREECE. TURKEY * -ASSOCIATED lOOKMC CORPORATION—: JOB BLASKIt, Pre*. ( ram* Ay*. 2A3fL WatohAvG *07 Lincoln KL til* Sunset Btvtf. NtW YorftttR.Y CWCA«o* flL * MUmLBucJv??*. H'wood44, Calif. VLaxa t-4SBB . CKntraf M45I. JltfawaVuM ' OLympla2-mr * * A6AG Continued from pace 71 — Protective Assn., set up the ma¬ chinery for the new agency last yeac-as a means of getting accurate and timely statements from the publishers, especially the smaller firins who were frequently late or to tally delinquent in shelling out the writers’ royalties. AGAC fig¬ ured that a centralized agency would have more resources to get action from .the publishers than each writer acting on his own. AGAC has imposed a 5% bite on all writers’ royalties to finance the auditing. That’s a tentative figure and will likely be revised once the collection agency gets a firm -idea Of what the operating expenses Will be. ‘Nola’ —a Continued from P*E» 71 and wrote the lyric, though no actual publishing deal was signed. Meantime, lyric writer Sunny Skylar came up with words* te the song on his own initiative and ob¬ tained a couple of pop disk slices, including Billy Williams on Coral and the Morgan Bros, on MGM. Fox Music thereupon made the deal with Skylar for the lyric. Gabler, who is understood to be doing a burn over his lockout, has now withheld the Four Aces* dfsk from the market. For one thing* he doesn’t want -to hurt the release by Coral which Is a Decca release. Idea of putting a lyric to. “Nola” was conceived by A1 CaWcr who was then professional manager with the Fox firm. Albums Continued from par* 71 — labels, MGM, MetroJazz, Cub and Lion. MGM, Incidentally, will pre¬ view its January line at a distribu¬ tor meeting' to Chicage tomorrow (Thurs.) at the Sheraton Hotel. The new Warner Bros, label is rise get¬ ting Into the swing with 18 new stereo, and monaural. LFs on its schedule. WB’s January package was totroduced at the company's first annual sales meeting in Holly¬ wood Jast month. Also In the January sweepstakes are ABC-Paramount with 15 pack¬ ages; Kapp. Records, with 10 LPs, Everest Records with 10 sets and Seeco with eight new albums. AFM Pad big victory for Herman D. Kenfn, AFM prexy who Is now in a fight with the rival footer imion of the Coast, the Musicians Guild of America. There is no question now that the overwhelming bulk of re¬ cording musicians will support Kenin in view of the broad gains made in the disk pact Manny Gor¬ don, AFM general counsel, assisted Kenin. and the AFM board to the negotiations withthe major diskers. *SLEIGH RIDE ‘ * SCARLET RIBBONS WALTER DONALDSON’S *Jusf Try To Picture Mu DOWN HOME iNtENNESSS •you're a Billion miles FROM NOWHERE (Whoa Ybb’n ■ Orb ttttJ*' BHy Cam Hta») MILLS MUSICS INC Continued from past 71 tional contract Formerly, they were determined on a local basis. In general, arrangers and orchestrators, who are paid on .a com¬ plicated piecework basis, received the same scale increases as the symphonic musicians. Copyists, similarly, were increased in scale, although differentials Between the New York and Los Angeles pay schedules were preserved. The basic payment to the Trust Fund by toe recording companies remains substantially unchanged. A microscopic increase, going from 1.4375% of the disk price to 1.5%, will now be paid. . The disk com¬ panies, however. Will now be re¬ quired to* make quarterly, instead of semi-annual, payments to the Fond. . AFM spokesmen Indicated that the new pact will be made Uniform over the whole industry. Some! indie labels have stated that they want separate deals with the AFM. I The likelihood of such pacts being t made is smalL [ The -new contract represents a I PAT BOOK DOT RECORDS “WITH THE WIND AND THE RAIN IN YOUR HAIR” PARAMOUNT MUSIC CORP. 'THE iss Df th! S XTH m ap D: s .Si THE CHILDREN’S MARCHING SONG Me*. -A';