Variety (March 1959)

66 MUSIC defers ‘Victors’ In Coslow Plan . Songwriters, who have peren- ’ nially squawked about their brush -1 ofl in the Motion Pictures Acad¬ emy Award setup, will have their “Oscars” (or “Victors,” for Victor Herbert) under a proposal feeing pushed by veteran songwriter Sam Coslow'. He’s presenting a plan to the American Guild of Authors & Composers (formerly Songwriters Protective Assn.) under which an¬ nual awards would be handed out for various classifications such as best lyric, melody, novelty, show- tune, serious composition, etc. Coslow believes that promotion of the AGAC awards would halt the song “deterioration” of the past few years by calling attention to the “better example of our craft.” At the present time, only Broadcast Music Inc. gives annual : awards for affiliates’ tunes which ; hit the bestseller lists. The AGAC > aw’ards, according to Coslow, { would cover both BMI and ASCAP ; material, but would not be accent- ! ed so heavily towards the rock *n’ roll material as the BMI awards. The disk industry is also on an “Oscar” kick and the first awards of the National Academy of Re- I cording Arts & Sciences are due ! j to be handed out this spring on a! national telecast bankrolled by j Pepsi-Cola. PHriett RETAIL SHEET BEST SELLERS - P&kTety —— Survey of retail sheet music best sellers based on reports obtained from leading stores in 13 cities aria showing com parative sales rating for this . and last week. * ASCAP t BMI National Rating This Last wk. wk. Title and Publisher | v ♦Children’s Marching (Miller) 3 ♦My Happiness (Happiness) 1 ♦May You Always (H-L&B)... 2 ♦Hawaiian Wedding ( Pickwick) . 4 ♦Smoke in Eyes (Harms).... 5 tPetite Fleur iH.-Range).8 ♦Nola (Sam Fox). : . .... 7 ♦ Alvin’s Harmonica (Monarch) .. ♦ Enjoy Being Girl (Williamson) . tDonna (Kemo) ............. tGotta Travel On (Sanga) . ...... ♦ Wind & Rain (Paramount).. 9 tStagger Lee (Sheldon). ... .. tl Cried a Tear (Progressive) .. ♦Must Be Way (Valando).... 6 Deutsche Grammophcn will is¬ sue the Westminster catalog in | West Germany, Holland. Switzer¬ land, Spain and Portugal under the 1 label Heliodor-Westminster. I Petrilio Local De-Unionjzed - continued from page 57 - A mixup over control of the “Spanish Marching Song” has pliance with T-H, but James C. scale, but continue to work as a been straightened out with Patricia Petrillo's local never has been. producer. This has long been com- Music acquiring all U. S. and for- Ed Maslanka, attorney for NLRB mon practice at one local station, eign publishing rights. (13th District), expressed it thus: but the others have never been Ethel Smith’s version of the song “Local 10 cannot legally enforce able to get away with it. on the Decca label was originally a ‘union shop’ contract until it It was, in fact, when WBKB at- credited to her own publishing Wednesday, March 11, 1959 ELLERS — i Juke Probe — Continued from page 60 against him by the McClellan 3 6 3 group - 0 u 5 On the state level, it’s even more w ^ ^ problematical how lasting the ~ 2 3 « 3 effect of a crackdown might be. c ^ o c o T As far as state legislation is con- o a c . c | O cerned, bills are already being 13 | S a S 5 T pushed to license jukeboxes, and £ « - 5 fe 2 ~ A a few might be enacted, 'Y v | w — L But jukebox — coin machine jj Jj I § I -w o operators have not lost their ability 3 s i? .2 2 ■ U J* to wield influence at the state §. 0 , 0 c « T Y houses. The music publishers and g S « 2 c « ■ songwriter groups can testify to . « g g < S N .. this, c 3 i3 ® ® c Five States Involved iS £ s it) hJ o — -— - . - -■■-■■■■ = ASCAP is fretting over efforts 3 l * 3 4 5 92 in at least five state legislatures —7-«-t— -o-fi-fi 7 aimed at exacting tribute or even --_-_ outlawing record licensing groups. 2 • • 3 8 8 1 83 South Dakota is one of the most 7 4 4 1 8 67 critical of these. There, a member ~0 3 6 I eT - 61 of a jukebox group is reportedly —~2 -~ 3 — ~ij —pushing one such measure. 5 - 10 —|—-— : 7 \ —li Atco’s Stereo Singles -—^- 99 Atco Records, Atlantic subsid ^——--—-- label, is the latest to join the ster- ” 5 . 21 eo singles sweepstakes. Two cur- 4 2 10 9 :. 14 (rent Atco releases, “Plain Janfc” 9 6 10 13 by . Bobby Darin and “Charlie -^- 1 - ^-9 Brown” by the Coasters, were put — --————————- into the stereo market. — --—-————--- - 2 According to Miriam Bienstock, . 12 Atlantic exec, all Atlantic and ■ ' Atco releases that show strong ijj . • • • n 111 /\ sales action will be issued in both | ratricia ID uHQQ 16 UD monophonic and stereo forms. The . 1 mm * • n . price for Atlantic and Atco stereo Spanish Marching Song singles wm be $ 1 . 15 . iiam uisiricti, expressed 11 inus: ■ Int “Local 10 cannot legally enforce WEEK a ‘union shop’ contract until it FRANCIS Sings IF I Packaged in Attractive Sleeve K 12769 fulfills the Taft-Hartley require- tempted to do this that AFM got company, but through an amicable ments. Anyone who has any con- into trouble. Abdut two years ago, agreement with Charles Hansen all tracts with the union may relieve the union revoked the AFM cards, publishing rights now revert to himself of the union shop aspects of Bill Evans and Alexander Mir- Patricia. Under the same agree- of it, although the other provisions kov, both of whom were bona fide ment, the lyric version written by may prevail. Until it complies musicians but who were perform- E. Camino and Art and Dotty Todd with Taft-Hartley, Local IQ may ing on the station as personalities, also goes to Patricia, not take advantage of this (NLRB) Mirkov held an AFM card as a Three instrumental recordings of off’ce.” guitarist and Evans one as a vio- the song have been released, Joe Show business attorneys, work- linist; When AFM discovered that Reisman (Roulette), Don Elliott ing quickly to “get ’em while both were being carried as staff (Josie) and Ethel Smith’s. The they’re down,” are still exploring musicians, toward the quota, it first lyric version, featuring Gen- the ramifications of this develop- cancelled their membership and eral De Zasta, will be released by i ment. What is certain is that the ordered them fired. , Roulette this week. ! union's bargaining power will be - Evans and Mirkov took their --;- weakened by it, and it is expected grievances to NLRB in August, to open the doors to some fancy 1957, and the labor board took all fAlniY TailC Mmnfiarff under-the-counter trading. Affect- of the interim period to consider vVipiA lupo IHClUUvlg ed by the NLRB disclosure are all them. Warned it would be faced k Q P.K PrAmn Monorrar theatrical enterprises that hire with a disgorgement rap if found H5 udlvo 119310 lTlDDd^ur musicians, including legit, hotels, guilty, Petrillo’s local agreed to a R ay Meinberg has joined Colpix niteries and theatres. settlement of $1,520 to each man. Records as. sales promotion man- Standing to gain from it imme- the sums representing eight weeks a ger. He previously headed the diately is the local broadcasting of back pay. WBKB was then no- sa les* and promotion activities for industry, which may, for instance, tified by NLRB that the Local 10 cub and Metro Records and na- meet its AFM musicians quota did not qualify for union security tional deejay promotion while at with persons working at non-musi- rights and that, in fact, its union -MGM. cal jobs, A producer might be shop pact with the local was il- In addition to his sales promo- added to the musicians staff to- legal, ward fulfilling the quota, at AFM The le gaL . ^ __ , tion chores, Meinberg will screen The station, per NLRB ukase, material and talent for Jonie Taps has posted notices m its halls that an( j Paul Sexier, who run the mf. it will not maintain any agreement: i a b e l. with the union, which requires membership in AFM as a condi- TT . __ t tion of employment. 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