Variety (December 1960)

MUSIC Wednesday, December 7, 1960 67 On The Upbeat New York Roger Williams signed harpist Mary Jane Barton, formerly with Universal and MGM studio orchs, to his concert company which will tour the. south beginning Jan. 5 , . . Three of tunesmith’s Alice Simms’ calypso numbers will be in the Eloise Trio’s next album for Decca ... Adam Wade goes into the Holiday House, Pittsburgh, Dec. 19 for two weeks . . . Lam¬ bert, Hendricks & Ross return to the Village Vanguard Dec. 13 . . . Modern Jazz Quartet’s cancelled a gig at the Cloister, Chicago, and all concert dates until mid-December because of vibraharpist Milt Jack- son’s hospitalization . . . Gloria Lynne and Earl May Trio current¬ ly at the Roundtable ... Monte Kay back at his N. Y. desk after a week in Paris where his wife, Diahann Carroll is filming “Paris Blues.” Herbie Mann’s Afro-Jazz Sextet returned to the Half-Note last night (Tues.) for a two-weeker . . . Singer Jill Allen began a two-week date at the Shoreham, Washington, yesterday (Tues.) . . . Publicist Jay Weston back from the Coast today (Wed.) after a week on the Coast on huddles for Paul Anka and Cinerama Productions . . . Connie Francis will be guest of honor at a special luncheon to be attended by Newark city officials and a group of New Jersey high- scfiool editors at her birthday cele¬ bration Dec. 12 . . , Toni Carroll, MGM thrush, at the Empress Room, Cleveland, for the next two weeks . . . More than 800,000 Christmas records by Dinah Shore have been distributed to Chevrolet dealers across the country as the feature of the company’s “Once Around The Block” demonstration campaign. From The JERRY LEWIS Production CinderFella A PARAMOUNT Release SOMEBODY Records (Alphabetically Listed) TONY BENNETT Columbia JERRY LEWIS Dot JANE MORGAN Kapp JOHNNY NASH ABC Paramount JOE WILLIAMS Roulette FAMOUS MUSIC CORPORATION S) eM 9/o t DEBBIE REYNOLDS "IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN IN CHERRY BLOSSOM LANE" "SATISFIED" Part 2 #16156 Coral Records songstress Lillian Briggs set for next Jerry Lewis film, “Ladies Man” . ,Maynard Ferguson band booked for Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, N. J., Dec. 23-25 ... Kai Winding Septet at London House Dec. 13 to Jan. 1 . . . Kane Sisters, now at the Des¬ ert Inn, Las Vegas, inked to disk producing pact by Aubrey L. May- new. Dorothy Raedler will direct the three-week Gilbert & Sullivan sea¬ son for the N.Y.C. Opera beginning Jan. 17. Singer-harpist Sue Evans currently ut the Stardust Lounge, Las Vegas. She’s being backed by Hank Wayland’s Dixieland band. Brooks Arthur, new Capitol disker, set for Richard Hayes “Big Beat” show Dec. 6 . London Jazz Musicians’ Assn, formed here,- to get improved working con¬ ditions in jazz clubs . . . Jack Na¬ than, pianist and band leader at Churchill’s, switches to The Pigalle Jan. 1 when Woolf Phillips quits . . . Norwegian pop singer Jan Hoiland debs in Britain tomorrow •Thurs.) when he does a stint for Tyne Tees Television . . . Johnnie Gray’s band may tour the U. S. in exchange for the Dave’ Brubeck quartet tour that starts at Royal Festival Hall Jan. 21. Hollywood Don Durant, tv’s “Johnny Ringo,” formed two different pubberies. One, Janson Music, is for ASCAP, and the other is Durson, for BMI . * . Bob Wills cut a series for Li¬ berty Records under Joe Allison’s supervision . ■. . Ray Gardner formed his own label, Normandie Records, and is seeking a distribu¬ tion tieup . . . Roger Williams cut his 26th Kapp Records album last week . . . Roberta Linn planed in for Coral disk sessions . r . Odetta set to warble the title tune of 20th- Fox’s “Sanctuary,” film cjn which she makes her thesp bow . . . Ba- toneer Jerry Rosen penned the overture which he’ll play for the Queen of the Tournament Roses j Dec. 29 at the Pasadena Civic Aud . . . Leonard Feather is collaborat¬ ing with Johnny Mercer and Pete Rugolo on a jazz album suite . . . Disk deals are in the works for actress Hope Holiday at both Capi¬ tol and Dot.. . Herb Shriner taped an album of his act at Mr. Kelly’s, Chicago, and plans to turn it over to any interested parties for dis¬ tribution . . . Guy Lombardo pock¬ eted $4,070. for a Thanksgiving eve one-niter at the Aragon Ballroom. Chicago Ornette Coleman is at the Chi Cloister . . . Horace Silver starts tonight (Wed.) at the Birdhouse here. Same spot booked Quincy Jones band to open Dec. 21 . . . Signatures are current at Fred¬ die’s,' Minneapolis . . . Rusty Rich¬ ards Quartet is at the American Legion Club, Minot, N. Dak. . . . Bobby Lord, Columbia disker, joined radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” company. San Francisco Saxophonist Judy Tristano and pianist George Abend in an auto fire last week . . . Faith Winthrop returned to singing at the hungry i . . . Jackie & Roy opened at Neve . . . Charlie jttfhgus brings his group into the Jazz Workshop for three weeks starting Saturday (10) . . . Helen Humes at Outside- at-the-Inside, Palo Alto, then comes to Neve starting Dec. 27 . . . San Francisco Ballet’s jazz ballet set for March, with score by John Lewis and a Kenneth Rexroth scenario . , . Hi-Lo’s at the new Talk of the Town, with Freddy Gambrellon piano, Sheri Rogers singing . . . Jerry Music at $h« Purple Onion . . . Frank D’Rone into Enrico Banducci’s Other Room. Philadelphia Anita Bryant current at Sciolla’s, followed by Adam Wade, Dec. 12, and Janice Harper, Dec. 19 . . . Frankie Avalon set for the Latin Casino, May 29-June 1 . . . Savan¬ nah Churchill into Orsatti’s, Dec. 5 . . . Oscar Peterson booked into the Red Hill Inn, Dec. 9-11 . . . Four Aces play the Eric Social Club, Dec. 17, 18 , . , Music pub¬ lishers Enrique Lebendiger of Brasil and Peter Meisel of Ger¬ many visited Jimmy Myers, Meyers Music, chief. Lebendiger is the lo¬ cal firm’s rep in South America. Kansas City Deedy & Bill to play the new Bali Hai Club, Portland, beginning Dec. 12 for three weeks, following their current stand at Eddys’, their second here in six months... Michael Bondon returns to Chi and series of club dates there in mid-December... Next in at Ed- dys’ is Corbet Monica with singers Jordan. & Shepard.. .Billy Wil¬ liams Orch now well into. its sec¬ ond year at Eddys’.. .Big Maybelle wound up a big week at the Mardl Gras Nov. 26...Les Brown orch did a concert for the Modern Jazz Workshop- in the Music Hall last Sunday (27). Dixie Maestro Clyde McCoy Gets High Energy Returns Out of ‘Sugar Blues’ Theme Hollywood, Dec. 6 . “Sugar Blues,” vet Dixieland bandman Clyde McCoy’s theme since 1922, is still proving very serviceable shellac for the trump¬ eter. His eighth disk release of the wah-wah routine came out last week, via a new album marketed by Rank Records. To date, on sundry labels, 8,000.000 McCoy cuts of tune have been sold. McCoy first etched the standard for Columbia in 1929. When he signed with Decca in 1934, it na¬ turally was his first disking for that label. Then, successfully it was marketed by Vogue, Mercury, Capitol, Design and Todd.. McCoy quit bandleading short¬ ly after serving a hitch in the Navy i with his entire band during World War II. He sank a chunk of his platter coin in petroleum and emerged as veepee of Wyoming Oil Co., behind a big desk in Denver. With the philosophy “I’d rather wear out than rust out,” he clam¬ bered back on the bandstand 19 months ago and has been working solidly on tour since, with excep¬ tion of three weeks. His stand at the Roundtable, N.Y., won him four repeats, three yet to be played. In tune with the times and tempo, he no longer car¬ ries an 18-piece orch, but seven (banjo, tuba, piano, drums, clari¬ net, trombone and his own trum¬ pet, of course). Still touring with him is his wife, Maxine-Bennett, who with her two sisters used to trio with the band two decades ago in vaudfilm houses. Allen Joins Argo Bill Allen, for the last 11 years a deejay on WLAC, Nashville, has joined the -Chess-Checker-Argo disk combine to handle artists & repertoire, sales and promotion in the south. HeTl headquarter in Nashville. Allen had been with WLAC since 1949. He moves over to the diskery Jan. 1. British Disk Bestsellers Now Or Never.Presley (RCA) Save Last Dance.Drifters (London) Man Of Mystery-Shadows (Columbia) Goodness Gracious Me . Sellers and Loren (Parlophone) Rocking Goose.Johnny & Hurricanes 'London) Strawberry Fair ---Newley (Decca) A Mind Of Its Own .. .Francis • MGM) Little Donkey. Nina & Frederik Columbia) He Needs Me .Bassey 'Columbia) Dreaming .Burnette tLondon) RECORDING, RADIO and T.V. STUDIOS! FORMERLY A . B. C. STUDIOS ' l 1539 NORTH VINE STREET j HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA j AVAILABLE FOR LEASE j Shown by Appointment | GEO. ALEF ^ MA. 2-1061 ; Helma Carpenter to Coral; A1 Hirt Set With Victor; Other Signings Decca’s 30c Diwy Decca Records, Which owns 87% of the common stock of Universal, yesterday (Tues.) declared a reg¬ ular quarterly dividend of 30c per share on the company's common stock. Melon is payable Dec. 29 to stockholders of record Dec. 19. 5-Year Col Pact Awaits Doris Day Thelma Carpenter, vet blues vo¬ calist formerly with Mercury Rec¬ ords, has been Inked by Coral Records. Her first disk, “Yes, I’m Lone¬ some Tonight,” was rushed last week. RCA Victor: A1 Hirt Jazz trumpeter A1 Hirt has been signed to RCA Victor. Hirt begins a stand at N.Y.’s Basin Street East tomorrow (Thurs.). Sunbird: Sandyl Cordell Sandyl Cordell, Dallas song¬ stress, joined the Sunbird label. Miss Cordell was a deejay on JOAK, Tokyo, and sang on Texas radio stations. Hollywood, Dec. 6 . Doris Day will receive $100,000 yearly guarantee in new five-year contract with Columbia records. It’s understood to be one of the largest ever given an artist by the label. Only singer’s signature is needed to make it official. Additionally, .it is also under¬ stood label is advancing thrush $500,000 on her expected earnings over five year span to give her better tax break. New pact likewise includes separate deal for husband Marty Melcher, prexy of Arwin Rec¬ ords, whereby he’ll product disks, although not of his wife,? fior Col distribution. Miss Day, pfior to okaying Col agreement, was ro¬ manced by Capitol and almost signed with that outfit. She’s ex¬ pected to resume waxing for Col within couple weeks, following actual inking. Scott Sues Paradons In Row Over ‘Diamonds’ Bakersfield, Cal., Dec. 6 . Hassle over who wrote “Di¬ amonds and Pearls” has resulted in Edward Scott bringing suit against The Paradons, vocal group of which he was a founding mem¬ ber, and three recording companies in Superior Court here. Scott claims he and not West Tyler, member of current Paradons, but not named individually, wrote num¬ ber. The Milestone, Federal and Roulette diskeries, which have put out versions of tune, and Lode Publications are named as co¬ defendants in action which asks for record royalties of around $ 2 , 000 , damages, and injunctive relief. With Scott as co-plaintiffs are Saralee Music and Maverick Music. New Col Legalite Clive Davis has joined Columbia Records’ legal department. He suc¬ ceeds Jerome Talbert, ’who re¬ cently moved over to the William Morris Agency. Argo: Buck Clarke Washington, Dec. 6 . Argo Records has inked the Buck Clarke Quintet, jazz combo located here, to a disk pact. First work cut is an album called “Buckskins.” Elektra: Bob Gibson Folk singer Bpb Gibson has joined the Elektra roster. The pact calls for a minimum of two albums a year. Elektra prez Jac Holzman and chief engineer Mark Abramson head for the Coast in mid-Decem¬ ber to cut Gibson’s first sessions. THE MILLS TREE OF HITS THE BLOSSOMS . . . Theme from THE APARTMENT FERRANTE end TEICHER on United Artists LEROY ANDERSON'S SERENATA SARAH VAUGHAN on Roulette THE BUDS ... LEROY ANDERSON’S BLUE TANGO A Billboard and Cash Box Pick LESTER LANIN on Epic BILL BLACK and COMBO on Hi C0RRINA C0RRINA A Brand New Version RAY PETERSON on Dunes THE ROOTS . . . LITTLE DRUMMER BOY and LEROY ANDERSON'S SLEIGH REDE Both Widely Recorded MILLS MUSIC, INC. 1619 Broadway New York 19. N. Y. ELIGIBILITY TO ASCAP MEMBERSHIP Applicants for membership in the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers who meet the following requirements will be accepted as members: WRITERS: Any composer or author of a copy¬ righted musical composition who shall have had at least one work of his composition or writing regularly published; PUBLISHERS: Any person, firm, corporation or partnership activelf engaged in the music publishing business whose musical publications have been used or distributed on a commercial scale for at least one year, and who assumes the financial risk involved in the normal pub¬ lication of musical works. 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