AUGUST 195© . Vol.8 . No. 8

Stan Kenton says: MODERN MUSICIANS ARE LAZY! CAPITOL NE, CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 3 Whiting, Starr S u rfa c e Renew Their Disc Contracts Two of the nation's most An Old Middlewesterner Goes Back popular singers signed ST. LOUIS: Home o f Turns, Bud and Mississippi River humidii, new long-term recording con­ More eateries per block than any city anywhere, and probat tracts, in late July, with Capitol. more ale houses too. Everyone is pulling for the Reds—oops—th Margaret Whiting, who began Redbirds; Musial could be mayor. They call it the "Mound Cil) her professional career with Cap but it's not as hilly as San Francisco or its little sis, Kansas Ghj in 1942, the year Capitol was They buy more records here, per capita, than in most cities, o founded, renewed her contract for M.AKNNU HfcK bold signature prominently all over a spanking new the radio deejays have become, in just a few years, big, big mi a seven-year period. Kay Starr, long-term contract, Kay S tarr agrees to m ake records only fo r C api­ The newspapers (St. Loo boasts the finest in the world with who waxed her first biscuits for tol for the next five years. She started with Cap in 1945 as a straight highly-competitive dailies) even review the new platters. But the label in '45—she was a strict a show town it is nothing. Not one big theater playing „ £?u w T V " '' h,6r "Ho°P-Dee-D?°" in 195° will proba b ly prove jazz canary then — renewed for u „ ll ------T.______u .PJL«J. ...” "er b.ggest-sell,ng plate to date. Witnessing the signature are Hal not one top nitery, no first-rate ballrooms—maybe records arei c*„nio„ u . . „ *•'. ' ------~ ~ ,w ,,v*1 five years. J. B. Conkling repre­ Stanley (left) her m anager, and James sented the waxworks. they can get in this overheated, baseball-crazy Mizzou' metrop.1 Í1Í1ÍL C°nklÍn9 ° f C°Pi,ol's ar,is,s and repertoire division in Hollywood. CHICAGO: Lake Michigan keeps it from being a St. Loo ove Whiting and Starr then trained Much talk of TV, much competition for viewers. But radio—wh out from Hollywood for eastern happened? A decade ago, this was the spot, second only to Mo Sacred Music Boom Brings Cap personal appearances. Both will hattan in all the world. Now virtually everything on the nets have new records out this month. from Hollywood & NY. Jockeys here are behind the Petrill Mag is teaming with Joe "Fin­ Benkert 8-Ball, with musicians and bandleaders not allowed gers" Carr, on one etching, and Contracts To Famous Singers Kay has sliced a duet with Ten­ do simple, non-playing interviews. Newspapers? Violently par (Photos On P 8 9) nessee Ernie. san; you have to read at least four a day to determine who tl romrirL„Li „ t S ,n ,a ^ eS. " . really happening. Much talk of the Cubs and Sox, little of it fit sacrecj mus¡ J & nS6 Jn P °P u*ar,ty Ne9' tering. And just between us, wouldn't a little showmanship ot |ancj r ¡ ■ l , . W 'C ° S f cóme as pronounced as the Dixie- old-fashioned ballyhoo liven up that dull Fair? It won't do shgersTst month reCOrdm* C° ntraCtS to ° flock o f e xPert until Sept. 4 and some imported talent might start those creakir Caoitol «ínnorl i k . d D A ~ , turnstiles spinning. ' u A;,Dame'S' fam°us !" ,he North- KANSAS CITY: They're right proud of Harry S. here, reganfi—i .. sm9m9 preacher, as a baritone. His home is in Port- land. Also recording for the first time was the noted Mt. Zion Church him as real home folks. And they still dodge a hoodlum's but Gosoel Chnlr oc~ : j • I~"J" V-" U,CM 5 occasionally; gang wars have gone on here for so long that! with the M t Z b n $i * * s° b [ * 6 ReV' D an'e'S recorded with the Mt. Zion singers as fe a tu re d soloist. Also landing a contract situation somehow doesn't seem unconventional any more. N e " w a s Sister G oldia Haynes o f East St L ' papers? There's only one (the Star). Television? Just one chann for ^er Spir ;tecj caro|j es ° as ' ° UIS' She's nationally known (The Staar's). Radio? Well, NBC's most valuable franchise is owne ;n ^ same Regularly heard on the purple Cap label c. TU Dl II u J !.. CL e, sa m e fle ld a r e Sal|ie and Cora Martin, the renowned St. Paul SUGAR CHILE, the pride of De­ and operated by the Star. The Blues are cellar-bound int Church Choir nf i j i , troit, is rooting home his beloved American Association andi fansZ—___,Li_i. think .L- the v—_i Yankees___ —- should Xsei ¡n „ the South- °f R;«nûcf Los Angeles and Juanita Jackson, .of Atlanta , a fave ...... n . . i WNEW ORLEANS: The fabulous Crescent Dixieland City, ft Buddy De Sylva Dies Damone Playing Loaded," on a new Cap disc, also mention the international situation and they angrily snarl, "yed In Hollywood is proving a winner during the the trouble was all caused by those danged NORTHERN Korean* Death came to George G ard The H'wood Field summer months. His piano, and Lotsa jocks here, spinning discs, and one finds far more excitii Sylva, w orld -fa m ou s song- his singing, have kept him a music in the little Bourbon street bistros than in all Chicago * n*er, showm an and one of "Welcome to Paris" is the title smash box-office attraction since St. Louis combined. 7he Pelicans are having a poor season, ™ Sunders o f C ap ito l Rec- of the film which Vic Damone is he was 4. He's now an old vet nobody cares—the food's as great as ever and that's mi ®r s/ Inc., a t H ollyw o o d Pres­ making in Hollywood, at MGM. . . . a t 10. the best in the whole, wide world. Hot here, bad as St. Lou arían Hospital July 11. Jane Powell is the star and Vic's MARGARET YOUNG'S return to Must be the winding, lazy Old Miss! De Sylva, known as Buddy, role is th a t o f a French boy. He's show biz as a recording star 'Cats, Valdes Filmed DALLAS: Circling above the airport, one is convinced this «tied of a heart ailment after not even trying an accent. strikes her niece, Margaret Whit­ about the prettiest landscaping, and natural setting, of the tr* 0 long illness. With Johnny ing, as something near to hilari­ The Harmonicats, led by Jerry Romantically speaking, Vic is Later, down on the good earth, you ask a muscular Texan abo fiercer and Glenn E. Wallichs, ous. Young Maggie is in New Murad and the orchestra of Mi- dating various film cuties. "My music activity in some of the other states. "Are there OTH e f°unded Capitol in 1942 York this month, guesting on the guelito Valdes made a U-l mu­ heart hasn't been broken by Liz states?" he asks incredulously. p 1 e executive producer of Jack Haley TV show Aug. 10 and sical short together in July. Will And so, back to California again Paramount Pictures. Taylor," he said. Joe Pasternak is the Chesterfield and Coca-Cola Cowan produced it. guiding Vic in his first screen role. stanzas A ug. 2 and 13. PAGE 4 CAPITOL NEW CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 5 Leighton Noble Songwriters To Blame De Haven Bow For Inferior Tune Crop, At The Grove S till on e of the to: MGM Bigwig Charges JOHNNY GREEN, w ho for rooms in the world aft years led a dance band, more than 20 years, A "If we're not getting Movie musicals, he feels, may have a lot to do with getting the without much success, Cocoanut Grove of the Hotel Air great songs today on the music business back to the so- then hit the golden jackpot in bassador in Los Angeles will In same scale as 10, 15 or called "normalcy" that everyone Hollywood as a film musician, out an all-new show and bon:' 25 years ago, it's only because says it's gotten away from. notches another triumph on his stand attraction Aug. 1, a t they are not being written. It is belt Aug. 26 when he conducts which w ill replace the currents not because the public doesn't "The movie musical has already in Hollywood Bowl. headlined by Tony Martin. want them." had a strong effect on the stage musical, as witness "South Pa­ The program, similar to the Shove that in your pipe and Leighton Noble's orcheslr: cific," a production that carefully tribute to the late George Gersh­ smoke it, for those words come which played Catalina Island follows motion picture technique. win last month, will be designed from one of the nation's veteran year ago, draws the music assic Thus the movie musical should to honor Dick Rodgers and Oscar songwriters, Arthur Freed, who m ent. The band is set for thii reach the point in American music Hammerstein. Tunes will include became so successful as a tune- weeks. where it's giving the country the hits from "South Pacific," "Carou­ cleffer that he's now a top pro­ Topping the Grove's show,oi songs that once came only—or sel," "Oklahoma/' "Allegro," ducer of films at MGM. mainly—from Broadway shows." "State Fair" and others; vocal m arking her first personal appe: DUE HOME in Hollywood after A N ew Era Coming? soloists will be Muriel Maxwell ance in Los Angeles since si playing New York and Chicago Hollywood has had a good and Thomas Hayward. thrushed with the late Jan Savit theaters w ith Dave B arbour's com­ Freed, now 55 years old and start. It's developed a number of band e ig h t years ago, will: the composer of hits like "Sing­ its own songwriters and—Freed Green, who has performed in bo, Peg Lee pulls into California G lo ria De Haven. She's just: ing in the R ain," " I Cried For feels certain—will develop many the big Bowl previously, is now Aug. 12 and will then await word turned fro m a New York theol; You," "It Was So Beautiful" and more in the era we're now enter­ Mr. Big in MGM's music depart­ from MGM as to how her recent and is one o f the stars of 20t "Pagan Love Song," and a mem­ ing. ment. test panned out. Peggy is up for Fox's forthcoming "I'll Get 5 a featured role in the Lion's soon- ber of ASCAP since 1924, also The movie musical, he says, is filmusical which is to be releos: was responsible for recent films here to stay. It will become more Walter Gross, always a fave HOTTEST NEW attraction in to-start film version o f "S ho w in the fall. like "Annie Get Your Gun," "Meet Hollywood—some say she will be­ Boat." Her collie d id n 't test — popular than ever, he predicts. pianist among musicians but a Me in St. Louis" and "O n the come as big as Lana Turner—is Patricia Morrison will foil: Lassie is at the same studio. virtual unknown to the public, T o w n." gets a fair break himself at MGM blonde Marilyn Monroe, w ho Miss De Haven, .in late Augi "American music went through this month when he rates a spot chirped a tune or two with dance Frances Langford and Dora 13 States Hit its great era—from 1920 to 1935, in "Royal Wedding." Gross also bands before getting her big Shay likewise are booked the jazz era—and created most of is seen fre q u e n tly on TV in Los break in Metro's "Asphalt Jun­ headline the shows later at Paar, Nichols today's great standard hits. It al­ Angeles, in addition to massaging gle." Marilyn also has modeled, potted-palm rendezvous. I By Brown Band so created such names as Gersh­ the keys as a single, in suburban for reasons which shouldn't re­ bands to be featured oil In RKO Film win, Kern, Youmans. New names Les Brown and his band, with niteries. quire intensive investigation. Noble's crew winds up have' in a new form of music. Lucy Ann Polk as oriole, point A novelty feature film employ­ been contracted yet. towards the Pacific coast this working opposite Ezio Pinza in ing all types of entertainment, "We've had many changes in Does anybody recall a movie month after a whopping tour "Mr. Imperium." from dancers to D ixie la n d , has this music that they developed. made right after the war, called which even found the band play­ gone into production at RKO stu­ And we've lost many of the "New Orleans?" Jules Levey was Christy, Hutton ing a one-nighter in Fruitport, dios in H ollywood. names. And their loss is as much the producer, and it featured a Al Viola and Lloyd Pratt, long Mich. a cause as any other of the plight batch of first-rate talent, Louis featured on guitar and bass with Radio comic Jack Paar heads On Aug. 26, after a tiring string Due At Mocamb of popular music today. Armstrong, Billie Holiday and the the Page Cavanaugh Trio, left the cast, and w ill emsee fo r the of one-night stands in Kentucky, Hollywood's Mocambo, on " Woody Herman ork. On June 30, Cavanaugh and now are mem­ dozen acts to be filmed. Also Movies May Help Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Wis­ Sunset S trip, w ill present Jlj3 1950, the Los Angeles Security­ bers of Bobby Troup's combo. signed fo r scenes are Red Nichols "It's a moot question perhaps consin, Michigan, Minne'ota, Mis­ Christy as its chief attrodj First National Bank foreclosed a and his Pennies still blowing the whether the era created the great souri, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma starting Aug. 8 for two w* chattle mortgage on the negative, Frank Skinner is composing and ¡azz at Sardi's in Hollywood composers and the great songs of and Texas—all those states played The King Cole Trio is cum« prints and all rights to the picture. conducing the big U-l studio ork nightly. Red Buttons, the com edi­ the 20's and 30's or whether these in August alone—Brown's bomb­ there and Mel Torme die! « The amount allegedly owed the on the "Harvey" soundtrack. an, and the Elderlovlies from Ken men and these songs helped fash­ ers do a night in Fort Worth. Then weeks in July, later moving*' bank is $307,327. Murray's old "Blackouts" show ion the era. This thing called jazz it's back to Hollywood. Les will to Top's in San Diego, where« also are being lensed, according Cole Porter has been headquar­ undoubtedly had an important concentrate on rad:o, probably remain until Aug. 6. fo the pic's producer, George Bil- Lana Turner's picture, "A Life tering in Hollywood this summer, part in the history of our times. with Bob Hope again, as well as of Her Own," will feature solo purportedly to audition talent for June Hutton opens at Moca Whether or not we are going into occasional "in person" appear­ piano by Jacob Gimpel. The film his "Out Of This World" Broad­ following Miss Christy on Title of the production is "F oot- another, completely new, era re­ ances in California during the fall is com pleted and Lana now is way musical to open in the fall. 22 for two weeks. iight V arieties." mains to be seen." and winter months. CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 7 Silvers Quits As Lux Radio Music Chief Louis Silvers resigned on July 5 as musical director of Lux Radio ' I COULDN'T DO a THIN6- Theatre, a post he had held for the past 15 years. Long recog­ w i t h o u t y o u '— Leon 1%yne nized as one of Hollywood's top musical composer-directors, Silvers has held down berths at MGM, Columbia and 20th. He served as 'HAPPY FEET - Tey Williams musical director for first all-talk­ ing picture, "The Jazz Singer," and wrote the music for Jolson's "April Showers." ‘AIN'T NOBODYS BUSINESS Silvers will take a long vaca­ tion before leaving for Nevtf York, BUT M y OWM'~ etan -■> TT « r / e where he intends to become SHOWN WITH just a sm all p a rt o f her collection o f music boxes, "mildly associated" with televi­ Nellie Lutcher w ill spend much o f her tim e in A ugust g etting ready sion. for her coming trek to England. N a t Cole also is booked fo r a tour ' I'VE 6ÖT FIVE DOLLARS a n d ITS through the British Isles starting in September. They'll be following each other, in fact, on the same trek which Lena Horne is m aking Giro's Signs Page SATURDAY NI6HT- Tex "RiVier now. Neither Nellie nor Nat has ever crossed the Atlan tic. Patti Page has been booked to follow Frankie Laine at Ciro's, or­ iate Sunset Strip nitery in Holly­ w ood. Laine, w ho is a t Ciro's SOMETIMEFoy vkJ»UIv\3 Lutcher, Cole Heading now following his honeymoon in South America, is bucking the King Cole combo at nearby Mo- cambo. The Ciro's run will be the V$U6AR Pi-UM Kl$£ES~ Jimmy Wakely For England Next Month first Miss Page has had in Cali­ That long-planned trip to Europe, to play before fornia; most of her appearances have been limited to the Middle- British audiences which have been buying their rec­ west. xS l E E P y EyED Jo h n ~ 0I eRasmussen ords in big batches for several years, will materialize in September for Nellie Lutcher and N a t (King) Cole. WB Shaping Music Nellie will sail on Sept. 25 from New York. Her tour will get under For Four New Pix B A ^ y ' “ Eddie Kirk way on Oct. 2 and she is booked fo r e ig h t solid weeks o f theaters, Four films are "getting the not only in London, but also in the British provinces. works" at Warner Brothers this Cole Abroad Only Six Weeks month, from the music standpoint. Ray Heindorf is pre-scoring songs Cole boards a steamship Sept. 13, following an Aug. 7-20 engage­ "TAKE A LOOK AT THIS b r o k e n for "The West Point Story," Max ment at Top's in San Diego. His tour is for six weeks. Going with Nellie will be Benny Booker, bass, and Earl Hyde drums. Accompany- Steiner is scoring "The Breaking HEART OF MINE '-HankThompson ,ng Nat will be Irv Ashby, guitar; Jack Costanza, bongo thumper, Point" and "Sugarfoot," and W il­ and Joe Comfort, bass. liam Lava is shaping the score for "The Two-Million Dollar Robbery." The British tour for both attractions was set up by their personal kill ail h ip alone manager, Carlos Gastel, w ith the Lew G rade Agency o f London and Stern Turns Ham S My S ' eneral Artists C orp o ra tion , N ew York. Both N ellie and N at w ill be Harold Stern, violinist and paying the same circuit that Lena Horne has been wo rking this sum­ Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan ' bandleader now at the Beverly mer in the company of her husband, Lennie Hayton, noted MGM Hills Hotel, will play himself in musical director. "Counterfeit," an upcoming Allied Lutcher Now Playing Canada Artists production starring Don l%mdaUe m either 78 oi V5fi/m Nellie has a heavy schedule facing her even before she sails. N ow Defore and Andrea King. Stern aM e Palomar Supper Club in Vancouver, she will perform Aug. 14- will conduct an ork in a nitery >n Seattle, Aug. 21-27 in Portland and Sept. 1-10 a t the Horse Shoe scene. Boris Ingster directs the ln ock Island, III. From there she goes to New York and the boat. feature. k g S i

O ne of tlic strong trends of 1950, on records, lias been the undeniable upsurge in popularity of sacred music.. . . In the South, on the Pacific coast, in New England, throughout the Middlewest, everywhere across the nation, religious music is enjoying an emphatic revival.. . . Pictured here are some of the artists who have helped spark this movement on discs. A part of the big (170 voices) St. Paul Church Choir of Los Angeles is shown, attired in church robes and prepared to broadcast via KFWB. It is probably the most popular Negro sacred group on records anywhere. Mother and daughter, Cora and Sallie Martin, have won national popularity with their records—their latest being “Satisfied and Love Like a River in My Soul.”. .. The other group, with the Rev. R. A. Daniels featured as pianist and baritone soloist, is the Mt. Zion Gospel Choir. That’s the young Reverend Daniels at the piano keyboard-----At the mike, waxing her first platters, is Sister Goldia Haynes of East St. Louis, 111., whose popularity has spread nation-wide since she made her debut on discs just a few months back. Not all music is Dixieland these days! PAGE 11 10 C A P I T O L NEW! CAPITOL NEWS • Ramblin’Jimmie: Busiest Westerner? Game Set For Spade Cooley headin' east this Aug. 21; Get He's Doing Five month, with his band. Pinky Say. ¡tt joined him on hot trumpet, Radio-TV Shows Nellie Lutcher helped Spade put The Iron Lung! on one of his all-time finest TV Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan shows over KTLA in July. Risking fractured legs, split j I may very well be the busi- Willing Willing digits and sore muscles, many of [ est westerner in radio and Foy W illin g , w ho is under con­ Hollywood's most popular band­ tract to Republic, jumped right | television. leaders, singers and picture stars back to w o rk in another film with He's got five radio and TV are practicing these humid after­ Roy Rogers following the comple­ shows every week in the Greater tion of his other one with Roy in noons for the fourth annual "Out Los Angeles area, four of them July. Willing, a willing worker, Of This World" benefit softball I radio over KALI, KXLA and KFOX just recently also was a star at Í and one on KLAC-TV, every Sun- game Aug. 21 at Gilmore Field, the Utah State Fair in Salt Lake :■ day evening. On top of this sched- City. home of the Hollywood Stars of | } ule, Ramblin' Jimmie plays, in per­ Tennessee Ernie and Cliffie the Pacific Coast League. i son, at Pop's Willow Lake Dance Stone have just signed new con Hall. Know of anybody any Paul McClure of the Hollywood j tracts with Capitol which will busier? Junior Chamber of Commerce is ! keep them busy making records Ole Also On Television chairman of this year's contest, for the next seven years at least, DOES THIS long-stemmed beauty, Yvonne Doughty, look like o replacing Ralph Kraus. Last year, Also making a big stir in Cali- fig u rin g tim e o ff fo r good be peanut vendor to you? W ell, th a t's the w a y pv's look in Hollywood; 14,000 attended the event in | fo rn ia television circles is Ole Ras­ havior. Yvonne personally toted cans of goobers around to the city s disc which Frank Sinatra's clowns out- : mussen, who started his own TV Jim Wakely vows he will do jocks in a razzle-dazzle promotional venture with Buddy Cole, left, show over KFI in Los Angeles MEET JESS WILLARD, w ho m ay nothing but vacation in August. whose organ solo of ''Peanut Vendor" has just been released. At scored Andy Russell's Bushers for July 15. O le's program features become as popular in the enter­ Sponsor O kays Stone right is KLAC-TV's Jim Hawthorne. Nuts for a nut. Yvonne said. the third straight time.______j vocals by Ted Wilds and, of tainment field as was his name­ Also loafing solidly this month I course, his famous Cornhuskers sake of an earlier era in the is big Cliffie Stone, who is cook­ f band. sports world. Jess, born in Wash- ing a television program with Ten­ Tennessee Ernie—and have you burne, a town outside Amarillo, nessee Ernie. Stone's airshow has Modern Jazzmen Lazy and Confused, | latched onto his duets with that comes from a musical family and been renewed for 13 weeks by ; Kay Starr gal?—will be heard as got his experience touring with his hair-oil sponsor — isn't that j a solo performer on the Meredith the late Jack Guthrie. He even slick. Willson network program in early sings and plays a lot like his pal That man W illard there in the Stan Kenton Apologetically Opines August. We know that for sure, Guthrie did; his latest record sides picture, he lives now in the Comp­ "We who are dedicated to pro­ f 'cause it was all recorded on tape for Capitol include "Two-Dollar ton (Cal.) area and his hobbies Living the good, the easy life along the shore of the gressive jazz are, for just one I a couple of weeks ago in Holly­ Diamond Ring" and "Trouble include fishing and hunting. At blue Pacific this summer, playing weekends only at example, attempting to blow a wood; also booked for an appear­ Then Satisfaction." one time during his long career, the Rendezvous Ballroom at Balboa B e a c h — about an saxophone legitimately, and as ; anee with the Iowa conductor is after leaving his Texas home, he Smiley Burnett, who will be heard hour from H ollyw ood — we move ahead harmonically and Roy Hogsed is in his fo u rth promoted a dance hall in Klam­ real emotional character of mod­ ; about two weeks after Ernie ap­ dress up our sounds, we then get year at the College Inn in San ath Falls, Ore. And now dance Stan K e n to n has found ern jazz and bebop. Why, it's like restrictions and restraints. Today, pears. Diego. hall promoters are promoting him! time to contemplate life, a tinny, gaudy musical. for instance all the tenor men are music and stuff. And while he is "I told all this the other day trying to play like alto men. There all set to kick o ff the 1951 e ditio n to a writer for a British jazz mag­ are no genuine tenor sax sounds of his "Innovations" music next azine and I might as well say today. January with a 40-piece concert the same thing for America's mu­ "We in modern jazz have to crew, he's objective enough to sicians and music lovers—I say overcome this. We have to restore give his unprejudiced view s on that musicians w.ho play progres­ the true emotion and tonal values, the current state of things musical sive music should listen to a otherwise people are going to in America. down-to-earth, honest blues rec­ continue going back to Dixieland. "Modern jazz musicians," Stan ord and see w h a t those older, That's what they admire about says, "are a little lazy—and con­ more experienced musicians have the older music: it's honest, it's fused. in their playing that we haven't naked and basic and true. "They are confused about the got. "We who believe in modern MUTED STYLUS NEEDLES $ 10 0 ^ urge to create new sounds. They "We should, we must, get back music should go ahead and play what we believe in because one needles for use in * eaC think new sounds can be con­ to the real value of our music ceived and performed mechanical­ from an emotional standpoint. of the most important things in muted type cartridges fermo, inc., ly. And this misguided attitude Listen to Armstrong. Listen to life is to have the courage of your has harmed—is still h u rtin g —the Hines. convictions!" CAPITOL NEWS C A P ITO L NEWS PAGE 13 Southern Comfort H e r film work in Spoin pleted, Metro's Ava Gardner, a time Artie Shaw wife, swung 0„. to London in July to tackle anotht, role. Hailing from the deep, d~ South, La Belle Gardner has moJe her biggest impression in the cells lo id fie ld as the w orld ly nitery song, stress in "The Hucksters" oppoi IRVING HOFFMAN M O N IC A LEWIS, who test­ THE TV industry will come Clark Gable. And her Hollywoi. In the H'wood Reporter ed at MGM a few months record collection is said to of age this fall. And it w ill back while working a big as they come. "Oddly enough, one of the be a battle for viewers most popular songs of Ireland to­ Hollywood night spot, got an among the m ighty netw orks and day, 'I'll Take You Home Again, I okay from Metro's brass and will independent stations in every city Kathleen,' has no Irish connec­ be seen in that studio's "Three where TV exists. tions. It was written over 70 years Guys Named Mike," which has NBC, for example, in ¡ust a few ago by an American composer, Jane Wyman as star. It's a story weeks will begin its fall sched­ Thomas Westendorf, as a musical about air hostesses. ule with Eddie Cantor, Dean M ar­ THE COUNT, Bill Basie, swings promise made to his wife, Kath­ tin and Jerry Lewis, Fred A llen, into Los Angeles this m onth fo r leen, in which he stated he would "Time For a Song," the pro­ Milton Berle, Paul W inchell, Kay a run at the Oasis. It will mark take her back to her home in gram featuring Jo Stafford which Kyser, Morey Amsterdam and the first time Basie has ever G erm any." is transcribed in Hollywood and Jerry Lester heading up shows, played the west coast with a beamed out over Europe every most of them new. small combo. His big band, for a LOUIS ARMSTRONG Sunday evening, has been re­ dozen years, was a California In the Record Changer newed for another 26 weeks. In CBS, with Arthur Godfrey, Fred fa v o rite . "I've been playing 37 years. the area served by the powerful Waring and other vets, is w ell When I was 13 years old I was Luxembourg station, there are 31,­ aware of the NBC threat. Frank developing my lip, playing in 908,771 ra dio sets registered, and Sinatra, Burns and A llen and Joan 28 Films For TV street parades. . . . A lot of trum­ the potential audience is rated Davis have all been signed for pet players . . . their lips get around 62,000,000 people. Jo not new TV shows. ABC is placing its Put In The Cans tired and they don't make any only sings, she reviews motion pitch on Paul W hitem an, Edward Jerry Fairbanks has completed effort to strengthen them. I put pix, attempts to predict future Everett Horton, Arlene Francis and 28 TV and radio commercials for those spirits of nitrate on my lips hit records, and she interviews others. Oldsmobile. Cast for the series now and then. My mother used various film players. Fan mail? Music a Problem includes Billie Burke, Mercedes to put it in water and give it to "We really get it," the thrush And the independent stations in McCambridge, Joan Leslie, Mel us to drink, for fever, when we admits. "Everything from requests every TV city likewise are bolster­ Torme, Diana Lynn, Martha Tilton, were kids. So I know if I slap a for information on the Marshall ing their program s. Unable to a f ­ Ruth Hussey, Kenny Baker, Gale little of it on there, I'm not going plan to proposals of marriage." ford names like Berle and C an­ Storm, Connie Haines, The Mod- to have any trouble blowing my tor, they'll be emphasizing local ernaires and The Sportsmen. h orn ." Dick and Nora Haymes bought sports and civic events. On this, a new house in Palm Springs, Dick the big nets can't compete. CHARLIE BARNET Strauss Musical In Down Beat flying into Hollywood every few Music? Well, that's still the big days for radio and recording question mark in television. It is W ill Be Flickered "I had nothing but grief with w ork. dicult to a ttract — and keep — a Max Opuls signed a contract my little novelty combo. MCA on July 6 with producer Gustav huge audience with straight mel­ booked us into strictly w rong That new deal Frank Sinatra Sept. 1 at the Riverside in Mil­ ody. Televising a dance band Wachtl to direct "Artist's Life," a places; places which cared only just set w ith CBS, including both waukee for a week. 10 Million Bucks makes for dull screening. Even a biographical musical based on the incidentally about music. People radio and TV starting this fall, name singer, if he or she is just lives of Johann Strauss, the elder, felt sorry for me. Fans would tell and his son. Financed by Swiss guarantees the New Jersey bari­ Dinah Washington lost $500 For 'My Way' Pit singing falls short on e n te rta in ­ me they were sad I was down tone $250,000 annually, even if ment value after the first few min­ and Austrian banking interests, and hoped I'd recover my for­ cash—w hich she had hidden in Remember the Paramount pic he goes unsponsored. Sinatra, utes. They've got to tell jokes, the film will be made in and tunes soon." her laundry bag—to a thief dur­ of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, meanwhile, spent July in England around Vienna. Opuls will begin ing her run at the Oasis in L. A. introduce a com edian or w e a r JELLY-ROLL MORTON for reasons which (see photo in "Going My Way?" directing Sept. 4, on a 12-week low-cut gowns, else the view ers In "Mister Jelly Lord" next column) appear glaringly The studio, after exhibiting the shooting schedule, and will re­ Emma Lou Welch, one of the switch channels a b ru p tly. obvious. flicker six years through 29,985 turn to Hollywood after New "People believe that Louis Arm­ more recent of many Benny Good­ bookings all over the world, re­ Jockeys a Bore Year's, he said. strong originated scat-singing. I man canaries, joined Jerry (Clari­ must take that credit away from Della and Andy Russell are out vealed that it has now grossed In Los Angeles, every station net) Wald's group in Hollywood. him, because I know better. Tony on an eastern tour again. $10,000,000, a modern record. In has a TV disc jockey. They're all playing a record. It's all a bit a d d itio n , it brought Crosby an pretty much alike, reading d ull b oring. Jackson and myself were using Paul Neighbors and his band Academy Oscar. It will be re­ commercials, chatting "in fo rm a l­ But the TV jocks, we'll concede, scat for novelty back in 1906 Following his current Ciro's run, drew their umpteenth holdover at issued throughout the United ly" with the same dull musician sure sell a lot of reconditioned when Louis was still in the or­ Frankie Laine skids east, opening the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. States this fall. and singer guests, occasionally vacuum cleaners. phan's home." PAGE 14 CAPITOL NEWlll

DAVE CAVANAUGH'S COPS: The Casino on Catalina Island. MONA LISA- N a t Cole JERRY GRAY: Palladium. NAPPY LAMARE: The Palladium. RED NICHOLS: Sardi's. 'B o n a p a r t e ? r e t r e a t '- Starr COUNT BASIE: The Oasis. LEIGHTON NOBLE: Cocoanut Grove. PAUL NEIGHBORS: Hotel Biltmore. ' N 0 L A-'JEALOUS' - Les T3 ,ul RAY ANTHONY'S crack vocal group, the Skyllners, in action on VIDO MUSSO: York Club. their recent engagement at the New York Statler. Betty Hollidoy KID ORY: Royal Room. and Ronnie Deauville, shown with the group are featured vocalists. BEN POLLACK: Beverly Cavern. The band was just signed, in July, to play a return Statler dots 'NO O T H E R LO VE- Jo Stafford JERRY WALD: Wald's Studio Club. starting Nov. 27. And Ray, his trumpet and troupe also are due ini California shortly. MILT HERTH TRIO: Catalina. JESS STACY: Lark Club. SAM'S SOtJG -SMOOKIE OOKUMS-^g** ARTHUR VAN: Colonial Ballroom. TED VESELY: Tom-Tom Club. Jerry Gray’s Like Miller’ Band PAGE CAVANAUGH: Encore. EDDIE HEYWOOD: The Epicure.' Breaking In At H’wood Palladium 'Y O U 'R E M IN E Y O U * Margaret Whiting CLYDE HURLEY: Ace Cain's. A n o th e r e n try in the said, " b u t w ith a ll the other. JIMMIE MADDIN: Burgundy Room. "Sound Like Glenn Miller" bands com ing up and playing GEORGE SHEARING: The Oasis. orchestra sweepstakes is making w ^at t^leY think is Miller music,; 'SENTIM ENTAL MEX-Ray Anthony MARTHA DAVIS: Surf Club. its bow this month, this time at 1 d'eclded if wa* time to step», the Hollywood Palladium. Former ° nd Produce some of the red Miller arranger and one-time fid- U ' dler Jerry Gray opened on July 6 MEET THE JOCKEY! 'SHOW ME THE WAV’ TO ET OUT Peg9. 25 with his new band. It's a lot MEET THE JOCKEY! DON KENNEDY urges his listen­ like the Ray Anthony, Tex Beneke ers to "let your subconscious take and Ralph Flanagan bands which °DON ° N GABRIEL is the "web"waker OF THIS WORLD'—'HAPPy MUSIC - Lee over" while he mans the mike at also emulate the late Iowan's upper" UpP®r inln the,he ClevelandClevelantl area,orea, WBVP in Beaver Falls, Pa. His s ty le gabbing, whirling discs and hit- hit­ ting the time gong every morning J B show is called Four musicians who were prom- on his own "By ■ "When Day is inently featured with Miller are ■PP Daw n's Early 'l LOVE you BECAUSE-JanOarber Done" andnd Don spotted with Gray, W illie W mm ^ fepjm Light" stanza H lulls the folk to Schwartz on clarinet lead, John over WJW. He's ■ sleep withith po- Best and Dale McMickle, trumpets, up and at 'em Pfpetry, softt violins and Jimmy Priddy, trombone, K every day at ' MISSISSIPPIKay Starr and caressingressing Others in the Gray lineup in­ V . £, • 5:30, on the air I k vocals byf Peggy elude Jimmy Rowles, piano; Al m m from 6 to 7:30. HLee andd Mag Hendrickson, guitar; Joe Mon- ■ H I M anc* he tries to H Whiting. On the dragon, bass; Alvin Stoller, drums; 'BEWITCHED*- lAel Tor me' air for more than two years,•s, Ken-Ken­ Murray McEachern, Tom Pederson JSIiiB present all types of music while he is mike- nedy also likes jump music,ic, and and George Arus, trombones; side. A popular feature of WJW his night shift, once a week,eek, is Frank Beach and Conrad Gozzo, since September of 1946, Gabriel devoted to hot jazz. Only 19,19, Don trumpets; Ted Nash, Jules Jacob, likes to emphasize the tempera­ ai.s nightly from 11:10 untiltil mid-mid­ John Rotella and Jimmie Rudge, ture outdoors—warning his listen­ night. The Geneva College|e kids saxophones. think he's super. ers just what to face when rise "\ never wanted to cash in on and shine off to work and school. Glenn Miller's reputation," Jerry lots copy oj Sec. 34.61 J. r j i CAPITOL NEWS Homes to you through coûrtesy of

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EMERGING WITH a big west coast following from the current revival of Dixieland, Nappy Lamare and his Strawhat Seven took time off, last month, from their nightly chore at the Hollywood Palladium to be featured in a Universal-International musical featurette, one of a series produced by Will Cowan. Clarinet, a t far left, is Johnny Costello. On drums is Roy Harte. Then there are Brad Gowans on trombone, Jack Peoples, the pianist; Joe Graves, trumpet; Pud Brown, tenor, and Budd Hatch, tuba. Leader Lamare, on banjo, wears the blazingest blazer of all down front, center. They make records for Capitol.