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May 1951 • Voi 9 , No 5 Tennessee Ernie MAY 1951 • VOI 9 , NO 5 NEWS TENNESSEE ERNIE CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 3 Eberly Back On Sumac Smash Discs; Pacted In Musicomedy Ramblin' Round On the Underwood Peggy Lee is m oving her things fro m Hollywood to Net iBy Capitol "Flahooley” York. She and Mel Torme are set for the summer—mebtf longer—with their own teevee show (P. Como checksc: On h¡S first trip to Cali- Yma Sumac, the Peru­ and they'll work niteries and theaters occasionally. There fornia since 1942, w h e n vian beauty whose voice still a fightin' chance that Peg's split with Dave Barbo, . h He|en O 'Connell he has been called the most exciting only temporary. And speaking of jazz, as we we, , .. last month, slap Erroll Garner's name on the list of taler* WQS Q f e a t u r e d v o c a l i s t in the world by Collier's, has who consistently combine superb musicianship with succes with Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra a t stormed the musical comedy on records and at the turnstiles. And give tall John Sir the Hollywood Palladium, big- stage. Spotlighted by concerts mons and Shadow Wilson an assist. It's a trio which rote voiced Bob Eberly w ill soon cut and records, musical comedy ap­ with the best these days. The best is Red Norvo's. ^ first records on the C ap ito l peared an unusual field fo r her* rare talents. After an appearance Blonde Corrals J. Dorsey Alumni at the New York Roxy with Nat Cole got his house back from the government, EbeHy's career aS a baritone Danny Kaye, she decided to ac­ regards it as the greatest triumph of his lifetime, for® oloist was niPPed in tul1 bloom Norman, Morgan cept the opportunity offered her eral reasons. Club 15's new thrush, a lass by the nair w^en served five years in the by producer Cheryl Crawford and of Gisele McKenzie, not only sounds like a cross betwe? army* Since returning to civvies, Duet On Album join his musical production, "Fla­ Kay Armen and Kate Smith. She looks it, too. Ji b has scorned ork chanting Lucille Norman and Dennis hooley." Dorsey would drop dead if he could walk in on a Hek favor of working as a single in Morgan will be paired in an al­ Story was authored by E. Y. O 'C onnell record date. His fo rm e r chirp has Harold Moc eastern niteries. bum of tunes from their forth­ ney arranging and conducting and guys like Allan Reui; coming Warner musical, "Painting Harburg, Fred Saidy and Sammy Ralph Muzzillo and a half-dozen more old Jaydeei'i 'Fine Print' O kay the Clouds with Sunshine." Num­ Fain and is a mixture of fact and blowing up a typhoon behind her much-improved pipe T|,e pacting 0f Eb to a new . bers to be included are the title fantasy concerning a toy factory Nappy Laniere replaced Brad Gowans with War« 0„g.term dlscing contract was song, "Jalousie," "With a Song where "Flahooley," the world's Sm.th on trombone and Stan Wrightsman now is at ,nnolmeed |afe March after in My Heart," "Tip Toe Through only laughing doll, is manufac­ piano in Nap s entertaining combo on Hollywood Tv £ details were agreed upon by his the Tulips," and "One Alone." they call it "Dixie Show Boat." tured. The appearance o f clow n­ manager, Johnny Brown, and the ish genie upsets the production Eberly Return M ay Be '51s Big Yarn waxworks' Dave Dexter, Jr., also schedule and threatens to ruin Sandra Spence takes exactly \*/-u x u ... ,i • , • i . a Jim Dorsey alumnus. It w as the romance of the doll's creator. the right number of trips to the Wildest baseball enthusiast in show business, west coci .. .. u , , . plate each season. The versatile branch, at least, is Bob Crosby. Figures the Yanks will tol , Y hat JHar° ld M ooney Via one o f the best scores to be miss sings and dances. Sandra's the AL again and even goes so far to argue that DiMc j6 e n° arran9e ar,d con- heard on Broadway this year, currently making TV brighter than will have a great season, aches and all. Bob Eberl) UC or er ^ on his first Cap some excellent dancing, "Flahoo­ ever by appearing weekly on return to national popularity via a new series of etchinc tc ln9s' Dexter said. M ooney is ley" winds its way to a happy Mike Stokey's Patomime Quiz. may become the big story of '51, and there's a legion¡r',ln9 Helen O'Connell in a srm- ending. loya l Eb fans w ho w ill w o rk to make it come true. Befor1 ar capacity on a ll her new According to the advance no­ he teams w ith H. O 'C onnell a g a in , however, he'll try nscuits. tices, Yma Sumac is a show­ alone. And the button-nosed Ohio lass, meanwhile, wi Together A gain? stopper in all of her numbers. wax duets with Dean Martin. Eberly's first discs re« possib||ity of EbeH team i unquestionably, that he's singing better them he sang k Jp with the b|onde 0 -Conne,| , Jerome Courtland, young motion fore he donned an army suit. Perhaps better than anyi a series of duets Qn ", picture actor, demonstrates a Edited By pleasant voice and personality in to d a y's baritones! « they did a decade ago ' w w ith his first musical venture. BUD FREEMAN M a il Call u°rsey, also appeared a cer- From Texas, Maine, Hawaii—an im pressive batch of i J ; They Popularized "A m a - telligent letters is being received on our little "What's Wi: a' "Brazil," "Yours," "Green Jan And Paul Jazz?" contest. Tabbing the best for a $25 prize wo n'lljj“ ' Tangerine" and numerous 95 _ ■ No one's going to get Rex easy. But somehow, with help, we'll announce it here nil ?r 11 Parade toppers on w a x Koury, pianist to open his mouth! Get Around month. It's encouraging to know that a lot of folks« j * ° n every vocalist p o ll in The gent sporting the pork pie Jan Garber and the band nest concerned about hot music. Maybe we can help it co« 4 '42’ ‘ heV spi'* when he vol- bonnet is Fred Astaire. The down for the month of May in news back. Thanks! '™ered for army duty a year Published Monthly by healthy looking lass is Judy Gar­ New York's Statler Hotel after CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. land who is currently in England working their way from the West Sunset and Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif Eberly now resides in N ew Ro- demonstrating talent's better than Coast. While Jan plays May in Printed in U. S. A. elle, N. Y. Capitol w ill hustle anything. The exposed adenoid the big town, Paul Neighbors “ first new biscuits o ut "som e- moment was captured at an ABC takes his crew to the Peabody in *"e i" M°y," Dexter declared. "Screen Guild Players" rehearsal. Memphis for a four week stand. CAPITOL NEW S 5 PAGE 4 CAPITOl NE# PAGE Mag. whiting Tennessee Ernie Sprints To Fame W ill Join The front door to the small farmhouse 14 miles After the war, Ernie returned to vï7»e out o f KFXM as a staff announcer. When CÍ'-' Bristol, Tennessee was never locked. Mr. and the network cancelled a 7:30 a.n Hn. ford were neighborly coun- show, Ernie filled in the fifteen s u n s e t Boy Scouts try folks who liked to have their minutes as a hillbilly disc jockey. friends stop by. Tennessee Ernie In her "M a rg a re t Whiting's Re It was at this time that he took can hardly recall the tim e w hen the name, "Tennessee Ernie." Tony Martin was turned down for the lead as ords for the Boys"s' drive, theB: there were not tw o to tw e n ty Scouts of America will coll|gUests visiting w ith his parents. Benny Fields in Paramount's forthcoming musical. Solid Stone "The Blossom Seeley Story." Yarn discs and deliver them to theF: f0 everyone in the neighborhood don's Palladium. Hoagy Carmi­ From KFXM he moved to KXLA, called for Martin to be pictured W est Coast Theatre in each d Mr. and Mrs. Ford w ere A u n t chael and Judy Garland smash Pasadena, Calif., as a staff an­ as an unknown singer whose trict. Platters w ill then go to Maude and Uncle Clarence. They hits with English audiences. central w arehouse where Ait bad kind o f self-dependence nouncer. It was at KXLA that voice had questionable entertain­ Guy Lombardo returns to the Ernie met Cliffie Stone. Ernie says ment value at the beginning of camps may pick and choose.! Il,at9rew from the best tra d itio n s happy hunting ground, the Roose­ of the early American frontier. without qualification that he his career. With Martin's rep and program will get under way velt Hotel Grill, N. Y., on 1 May Entertainment was not m erely the M ay 6 , N a tio n a l Defense Dayc owes his success to Cliffie. On pipes, nobody would believe it, for a month. Harry James, process of turning—.....
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