The Cash Box Disk Jockey Poll was designed to determine which songs The Poll was divided into three sections, popular, rhythm and blues, and and artists have been the most popular and played the most during the past country. several months by deejays around the country. Here we present the findings in the pop field.

Each disk jockey listed three choices in each point for each third choice. Of the total number could possibly receive was 50% since even if every disk jockey voted the same artist it would category. Three points were awarded for each first of points cast, the following is the percentage each #1, still add up to only 50% of the six points available choice, two points for each second choice, and one artist received. The maximum percentage an artist in each category.

WHICH RECORDS DID YOU PROGRAM MOST WHICH MALE VOCALIST DID YOU IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS? PROGRAM MOST? * “DON'T BE CRUEL”—ELVIS PRESLEY 9.6% . 21.0% Frankie Laine 1.3 “True Bing- Crosby Grace Kelly 7.8 Love”— & Elvis Presley 18.0 1.3 “Moonglow & Picnic”-—Morris Stoloff 7.4 Perry Como 16.5 Bing Crosby _ 1.2 “Canadian Sunset” Winterhalter 5.4 —Hugo Pat Boone ?• 13.1 Johnnie Ray 1.1 4.3 “Young Love”—Tab Hunter—Sonny James Nat “King” Cole 9.0 Vic Damone 1.0 Elvis Presley 4.2 “Love Me Tender”— Harry Belafonte 4.5 Tennessee Ernie Ford 1.0 4.0 “Round And Round”—Perry Como Fats Domino 3.3 Tab Hunter 1.0 “Whatever Will Be, Will Be”—Doris Day 3.2 Guy Mitchell 1.7 “Singing The Blues”—Guy Mitchell . 2.6 Tony Bennett __ 1.6 98.0% “Hound Dog”—Elvis Presley 2.5 Eddie Fisher 1.4 Others 2.0% “Banana Boat (Day-O)”—Harry Belafonte . 2.2 “All Shook Up”—Elvis Presley 2.1 “Friendly Persuasion”—Pat Boone .. 1.9 “On The Street Where You Live”—Vic Damone - 1.7 “Blueberry Hill”—Fats Domino •* 1.6 WHICH FEMALE VOCALIST DID YOU “Wayward Wind”—Gogi Grant 1.5 “Green Door”—Jim Lowe 1.5 PROGRAM “Too Much”—Elvis Presley 1.5 MOST? “Little Darlin’ ”—Diamonds 1.4 DORIS DAY 20.0% Ella Fitzgerald 2 6 “Poor People Of Paris”—Les Baxter 1.4 Patti Page 12.9 Lavern Baker 2 5 “Party Doll”—- 1.4 5.6 Peggy Lee 2.4 “My Prayer” Platters _. 1.3 — • Jo Stafford 4.6 Sarah Vaughan 2 3 “Hey Jealous Lover”—Frank Sinatra 1.3 Gale Storm 4.2 Georgia Gibbs 2.1 “Just Walking In The Rain”—Johnnie Ray 1.3 Rosemary Clooney 3.9 Betty Johnson 1.8 “Marianne” Terry Gilkyson 1.2 — Julie London 3.6 Gogi Grant 1 3 “Don’t Forbid Me”—Pat Boone 1.2 Eydie Gorme 3.5 > Carmen McRae 1 0 “Jamaica Farewell” Harry Belafonte 1.2 — Chris Connor 3.4 Margaret Whiting 1 0 “”—Jimmy Dorsey 1.2 Kay Starr 3.4 Jill Corey . . 1.0 “Lisbon Antigua”— 1.2 June Christy . 3.3 “Ivory Tower” Cathy Carr 1.2 — Teresa Brewer 3.0 92.1% “Since I Met You Baby” Ivory Joe Hunter 1.2 — Joni James 2.7 Others 7.9% “I Dreamed”—Betty Johnson 1.2 “Honky Tonk”—Bill Doggett 1.1 “Butterfly”—Andy Williams-Charlie Gracie 1.1 “Why Baby Why”—Pat Boone 1.1 “I Almost Lost My Mind”—Pat Boone 1.0 WHICH VOCAL GROUPS DID YOU “Who Needs You”—Four Lads 1.0 “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody”—Jerry Lewis 1.0 “No Not Much”—Four Lads 1.0 PROGRAM MOST? “Gone”—Ferlin Husky 1.0 FOUR LADS .... 19.0% Five Keys .. “I’m Walkin’ ”—Fats Domino 1.0 1.7 Mills Brothers “Heartbreak Hotel”—Elvis Presley 1.0 Four Freshmen 16.1 1.4 Crew-Cuts 11 7 1.1 Chordettes . 1.1 93.0% Hi-Lo’s 10.8 Others 7.0% 1 i Four Aces 7.2 Ray Charles Singers 1 0 McGuire Sisters 5.6 Walter Schumann Chorus 1.0 Ames Brothers ... 3.6 WHICH DID YOU PROGRAM MOST? Norman Luboff Choir 1 0 Diamonds 3.5 “SONGS FOR SWINGING LOVERS”—FRANK SINATRA 13.8% Hilltoppers .1 - 3.3 93.2%

Fontane Sisters . “Calypso”—Harry Belafonte 7.2 3.0 Others 6.8% “Elvis”—Elvis Presley 5.0

“S’Wonderful”—Ray Conniff ... 4.1 “Four Freshmen & Five Trombones”—Four Freshmen 3.1 “My Fair Lady”—Original B’way Cast : 3.0 WHICH STUDIO ORCHESTRAS DID YOU “High Society”—Film Sound Track 2.9 “Day By Day”—Doris Day 2.7 “Suddenly It’s The Hi-Lo’s”—The Hi-Lo’s 2.6 PROGRAM MOST? “Love Is The Thing”—Nat “King” Cole 2.5 HUGO WINTERHALTER . .... Henri Rene 1 .8 “Belafonte”—Harry Belafonte 2.4 12.2% Morris “King And I”—Film Sound Track 2.4 Nelson Riddle 10.3 Stoloff 1.3 David Rose 1.9 “Cole Porter Song Book”—Ella Fitzgerald 2.4 Les Baxter 10.1 2.4 Buddy Bregman 1.1 “Rodgers & Hart Song Book”—Ella Fitzgerald Percy Faith 8.8 Mitch Miller 1 0 “Casa Loma In Hi-Fi”—Glen Gray 2.3 Ray Coniff 8.7 George Cates 1.0 “Elvis Presley” * 1 2.1 Billy Vaughn .... 4.0 David Carroll 1.0 “My Fair Lady”—Percy Faith #_ 2.1 2.7 “Calendar Girl”—Julie London 2.1 Paul Weston 2.6 “The Elgart Touch”—Les Elgart 2.1 69.7% Mantovani 1.9 Others “Eydie Gorme” 2.0 30.3% • “Solo Mood”—Paul Weston __ _ 2.0 “The Eddie Duchin Story”—Film Sound Track : 1.9 “Pat”—Pat Boone 1.8 “An Evening With Belafonte”—Harry Belafonte 1.7 WHICH BANDS DID YOU PROGRAM MOST? “Hymns”—Tennessee Ernie Ford 1.6 “This Is Sinatra”-—Frank Sinatra 1.5 LES BROWN ...... 14.2% Jimmv Dorsey 2.8 “Harry In Hi-Fi” James — 1.4 Ray Anthony 13.6 Benny Goodman 2.5 “Julie Is Her Name”—Julie London 1.2 Tommy Dorsey Les Elgart 12.7 2.1 “Howdy”—Pat Boone .. 1.1 Harry James 1.6 ” Ralph Marterie ..... 8.0 “Rockin’ —Frankie Laine 1.1 Count Basie 1.6 “Something Cool”—June Christy 1.0 Richard Maltby ..... 5.1 Woody Herman 1.3

“Les Brown’s In Town” i 1.0 Lawrence Welk ..... 5.1 Ralph Flanagan 1.3 “Dream Dancing”—Ray Anthony 1.0 Ted Heath 5.0 Guy Lombardo 1.2 Billy May 4.6 87.5% Glenn Miller 4.1 89.9% Others 12.5% Stan Kenton 3.1 Others 10.1%