Variety (January 1959)

MUSIC 69 Wednesday, January 21, 1959 PfistlEft Inside Staff— Mnsic Capitol Records will etch an album, “Rhapsody In Steely the soundtrack of the U.S. Steel documentary, film of the same name, for which an original score is being' penned by Dimitri Tiomkin.' The 110-piece Pittsburgh Symphony, with William Steinberg as conductor, will play the new "Rhapsody” Febl. 15-20 for the film and the Cap label. : The 26-minute Cinemascope film is being released theatrically in April, given theatres cuffo by U.S. Steel which picks up the tab for production. John Sutherland studios is handling the cartoon, with ar¬ tist Ivan de Earll assigned to it. Documentary relates the history of steel throughout the ages. Tiomkin’s bio,. “Don’t Hate Me,” written with Prosper Buranelli, will be published by Doubleday i*xt year. Toni Carroll, MGM thrush, went through the Iron urtain during her recent overseas junket. She got the greenlight for a visit to Russia and a singing stint at the Moscow Art Theatre. In her songbag for the Soviets were such items as “Love Me Or Leave Me,” “Close Your Eyes” and “Lullaby of Birdland.” In addition to the Moscow gig. Miss Carroll had a two-month stay 'in London where she ap¬ peared at the Colony Restaurant and on such .tv shows as “Saturday .Night,” “Cool . For Cats” and “I’ve Got A Secret." Back in the States now. Miss Carroll is plugging her MGM album, ‘This One Is The Toni.” Stan Freberg’s “Green Christmas,/ the platter, which had Madison Ave. all steamed up with its kidding of the commerpializing of the holiday, was not available anywhere in Philadelphia. A check of 17 record shops by phone brought negative answers from alL Two depart¬ ment stores said they “had run out of it” Some dealers claimed the local distributor had withdrawn the offending disk and they could no longer get it, "Jazz is entertainment,” commented Witold Malcuzynski to an Ot¬ tawa reporter. His observations on rock ’n’ roll were shrug, as ambigu¬ ous as his jazz comment. But he had found, he said, a surging interest In musiC' in? this continent in spite of some “bad modern music.” Re¬ ferring to the growing number of orchestras and concerts, the pianist protege of Paderewski and Menuhin said, “You see it all Over the world. Musical interest is growing almost daily and musical taste is becoming more refined,” In a push for its Four Lads’ etching of -‘The Girl On 'Page 44,” Columbia Records has launched a deejay-listener contest for the teenager “who best typifies the ‘Girl On Page 44’” as described in the Robert Allen-Richard Adler tune. Top prize for the winning photo gets a $500 stereo phonograph and a $300 Columbia disk library. Dee jay who submits the winning photo gets $500 cash, a $500 stereo phono and a $300 disk library. Contest is being, tied in with Teen mag. Peter Whorf has joined the art department of Capitol Records under Marvin Schwartz, art director. Whorf, who recently won a Los Angeles art directors scholarship for advertising cartooning, is currently work¬ ing on an art fellowship for the Melling Corp., a human research company in Pittsburgh. Bill O’Boyle has resigned as veepee of Capitol -Records’ phonograph division. O’Boyle, who moved out of_ihe Capitol setup last week, will take a short vacation before announcing his future plans. Before joining Cap several years ago, O’Boyle had been with Columbia Records. Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Robert Burns’ birth, the Library of Congress will present John Donald Mackenzie Brown¬ lee, vet Met baritone, in program of Scottish songs and ballads Jan. 26. A "service charge” of 25c is the only admission fee. Rome, Jan. 13. The nine-man committee of writers and musicians charged with selecting the 20 finalist songs for the upcoming San Remo Song Festival from among the several hundred submitted by Italian au¬ thors, has finally announced its de¬ cision. Here is the lineup in alphabeti¬ cal order: “Adorami” (Adore Me) by Fusco; “Avevamo la Stessa Eta” (We Had the Same Age) by Marino Marini and Diego Calcagno; “Conoscerti” (To Know You) by Danzi; “Cos! . . . Cosi” (so . . . so) by Vanchieri; “H Nostro Re¬ frain” (Our. Song) by Simeone; “Io Sono. ii Vento” (I Am the Hi T. Kt MINDERS *SLE1GH RIDE ^SCARLET RIBBONS. I * WALTER DONALDSON'S— ^ ; * • JO* Try to Picture Me , DOWN HOME hi TENNESSEE • YOU’RE A MILLION MILES PROM NOWHERE (When You’re Pne llttta' Mile Frdm Home) MILLS MUSIC, INC. PAT BOONE DOT: RECORDS “WITH THE WIND AND THE RAIN IN YOUR HAIR” PARAMOUNT MUSIC CORP. Wind) hy Fanciulli; “La Luna e un’altra Luna” (The Moon is An¬ other Moon) by Rossi; “La Vita mi ha dato solo te” (Life Has Given Me You Alone) by De Mar¬ tino; “Li per li” (Then and There) by Vezzoli; “Ma Baciami” (But Kiss Mel) by Godini; “Nessuno” (Noone) by Capotosti;. “Ne stelle ne mare” (Neither Stars Nor Sea) by Fahor; “Partir con te” (Te Leave With You) by Calvi; “Per iutta la vita” (As Long as I Live) by Spotti; “Piove” (It’s Rain¬ ing . . .) by Modugno; “Sempre con te” (Always With You) by Murolo; “Tua” (Yours) by Malgoni-Pallesi; “Tu sei qui” (You Are Here) by Birga; “Una Marcia in fa” (A March in Fa) by Pan¬ zer!, and Mascheroni; “Uu bacio sulla boeco” (A Kiss oh* the Lips) by Cicherello. (List is in alpha¬ betic*! order.) List was eagerly awaited here, as even a spot in the top 20 means guaranteed sales and nationwide spotlighting over the RAI-TV tele¬ net, which picks up the show on Jan. 29-30-31. Foreign interest is also high following Modugno’s 1958 ‘San Remo triumph with “Nel blu, Dipipto di Blu” (Volare), which subsequently caught on all over the world. Decca’s ’59 Phono Line }\ Decca Records launched its 1959 phonograph line at a series ~ of cross-country meetings presided over by sales v.p. Sydney Goldberg and national sales'manager Claude Brennan. In tbe stereo field, Decca is making its bid for the low-priced mafket with a $39.95 portable ma¬ chine fully equipped to play the new LP j>latfers. , Decca execs spotlighted nine new sets, ranging from $19.95 to $159.95 whi^h have been added to a full spread df phonograph 'mod¬ els with the Decca brand name. Epitaph for a Sow San Antonio, Jan. 20. Doug China, disk jockey on KONQ here, taking note of a news dispatchfrom England telling how someone’s prize sow broke into a wine cellar, imbibed until she could Imbibe no more and then staggered back out in the open and died, has started a drive for funds to provide a marker to#the sow’s grave. China has invited his list¬ eners to send in contributions of from one to three cents to the cause. A local memorial stone dealer has donated a suitable marker and all that is needed is enough money to send it to Rottingdean, Eng¬ land. China, together with Jerry Miller, also a KONO disk* jockey, has composed and re¬ corded “The Ballad of Grover Sow,” a touching little tribute. (SLPs) Mes Jit In Det. at a Dime Detroit, Jan. 20. ^ Latest jukebox craze at the U. of Detroit is the silent record. Disks are labeled SLPs (silent longplays) and cost a dime to play. Whole idea is “non-entertainment.” Mike McCann, U. of D. student behind the idea, says he is being besieged by other collegiate juke¬ box listeners across the nation for copies of the SLPs. McCann says he is developing -a new model of the SLP. “It will have a beep tone which will sound, ever so gently, every 15 seconds so that people will know the machine is playing.” McCann says the SLPs have to be changed frequently since they develop needle scratch which de¬ tracts from their “silent excel¬ lence.” He says the silent disks have ended the “tyranny . of the dime” which forced persons with¬ in hearing range^of the campus jukebox to listen to unwanted music. -He promises future SLPs . will feature “stereophonic silence. These will be twice as silent as regular monaural recordings. Also, the silence will have finer nontonal qualities, the lows will be more silent, the highs less audible and the middle ranges more median. The woofer and tweeters combined will actually give greater presence to the silence, while the binaural effect will increase the brilliance of the quiet.” McCann says he next will turn his attention to blank home movies, with soundtracks consisting of varying degrees of silence, an oc¬ casional beep, and a blink of light. Herb Goldfarb Mgr. Of London Records’ Subsids Herb Goldfarb has taken over as manager of London Records’ lowprice Richmond and Telefunken subsid labels. Goldfarb plans to hit the road shortly to line up dis¬ tributors and to visit dealers and deejays.. According to the new manager, the Richmond and Tele¬ funken lines may or may not be handled by present London dis¬ tributors. ‘ Goldfarb had been London’s New York branch manager for the past 10 years. His post will be filled by Larry Shaffer, Goldfarb’s assistant since 1956. Billy Vaughn Tour Hollywood, Jan. 2Q. Dot’s Billy Vaughn is making plans to tour Germany and Holland in March and to receive a gold platter for his biscuiting of “Sail Along Silvery Moon.” . Vaughn, one of Dot’s biggest sellers, second only to Pat Boone, is currently propping a new tv show. ZEBEDO REELECTED Hartford, Jan. 20. Louis J. Zebedo has been reelect¬ ed prexy of Local 400, American Federation of Musicians. Tagged v.p. is Joseph Romeo, with Joseph Dorenbaum as sects-' tary-treasurer. 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