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The Cash Box, Music Page 16 November 19, 1955

HITS we HITS

BONNIE LOU LITTLE WILLIE JOHN ALL AROUND DADDY-0 THE WORLD KING 4835 KING 4818 ALL ABOUT DISK JOCKEYS Still Going Strong His Latest THE TEN RECORDS MY BOY • FLAT TOP THE MOST JOCKEYS PLAYED THIS WEEK KING 1494 KING 4853 DISK MOST (PLUS THE NEXT TEN)

JACK DUPREE BOYD BENNETT A SUMMARY OF REPORTS RECEIVED FROM THE HATION’S BISK JOCKEYS

WALKING THE BLUES SEVENTEEN 1. MOMENTS TO REMEMBER Four Lads (Columbia) KING 4812 KING 1470 i 2. LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING Four Aces (Decca) I 3. AUTUMN LEAVES Roger Williams (Kapp) | 4. SIXTEEN TONS Ernie Ford (Capitol) Hibbler (Decca) 5 HE j Al McGuire Sisters (Coral) COME HOME I Gale Storm (Dot) 6. I YOU KNOCKIN' Two Great Versions HEAR 7. YOU ARE MY LOVE Joni James (MGM)

P |( ners (MercLAry) BUBBER JOHNSON CATHY RYAN 8. ONLY YOU i I HilltoppersJ 1 (Dot) KING 4822 KING 4848 ( ty Drap er ( ercury) 9. SHIFTING, WHISPERING SANDS \ ^? w , ^ ( Billy Vaughn (Dot) THE HI-FI FOUR THE PLATTERS 10. LOVE AND MARRIAGE Frank Sinatra (Capitol)

11) YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS. 12) SUDDENLY THERE'S A VALLEY. 13) AT MY BAND OF GOLD ONLY YOU (And You Alone) FRONT DOOR. 14) BLACK DENIM TROUSERS. 15) MY BONNIE LASSIE. 16) NO b/w ARMS CAN EVER HOLD YOU. 17)F0RG1VE MY HEART. 18) CROCE Dl ORO. 19) SOMEONE YOU LOVE. 20) TINA MARIE. 20) THE LONGEST WALK. 20) IT'S DAVY, YOU UPSET MY LIFE YOU MADE ME CRY ALMOST TOMORROW. KING 4856 FEDERAL 12244 KGO-San Francisco, Calif., 50,000 watt station owned by American Broad- THE CATS THE MIDNIGHTERS casting Company, has re-programmed the entire station and now features four disc jockeys and a solid record-show line-up. The featured DJ’s are George DON’T CHANGE YOUR morning jockey; Fred Jorgensen, mid morning; John Harvey, AFTER I GAVE YOU MY HEART Lamont, early afternoon hours; and Jay Snyder, late night show. John Harvey reports PRETTY WAYS b/w 3y2 “The jockeys are using The Cash Box listings in preparing their shows. The Disk of the Week selections are programmed for possible future hitdom.” WE LL NEVER MEET AGAIN * * * | I DON’T CARE NO MORE FEDERAL 12243 FEDERAL 12238 Pic of the week Norm Tulin ( WORL-Boston, Mass.) flew to do a record hop in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the Dalhousie Uni- versity Gym on October 13. With him were Jerry JACK DUPREE Vale, Columbia record star; and Joe Smith, WVDA

. . . . Bob McKinnon ( KTKT-Tucson, Ariz.)

KNOW doing the “Alarm Clock Club” from 6 to 7:15 a.m. . . . FOR ALL WE STUMBLING BLOCK Shel Horton ( WKMC-Roaring Spring, Penna.) has b/w been appointed promotion manager and is in charge of b/w sales in the Cove area. Shel recently promoted a train BEYOND THE excursion. It was the biggest and longest to ever go THAT’S MY PA over the main line at the Horseshoe Curve at Altoona. BLUE HORIZON 1942 paid tickets. . . . Lou Salty Morton (WQXI- Atlanta, Ga.) now doing a night time show for the KING 4829 I^ING 4827 Rounsaville station in Atlanta. . . . Boyd Bennett was interviewed on the Con Schrader show at KTLN- NORM TULIN Denver, Colo. Rich Frombee, also of KTLN, had Dana NEW RELEASES (WORL—Boston, Mass.) Wynter on his show. Dana was in town promoting her new flic, “View From Pompey’s Head.” . . . Joe Deane LITTLE WILLIE JOHN RUBY WRIGHT ( WBBF-Rochester, N. Y.) now just about settled back in Rochester after his stay at KQV-Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . William W. Walker (WGH-Newport News, Va.) writes to tell us the station has gone on 24 hour E AT LAST I FALL IN LOVE operation. “We just celebrated our 27th year of broadcasting,” says Walker, b/w “and we send a steady signal to Virginia Beach and out towards the Atlantic WITH YOU EV’RY DAY for all the liners that are on their way in and out of the harbor.” . . . Jerry Kay, formerly with WTIX-New Orleans, La., has been added to the staff of Jubilee NEED YOUR LOVE b/w Records. Jerry will cover the south doing record promotion. . . . Jeff Evans

( WUSN-TV-Charleston, S. C.) says “Help!” He is in dire need of jazz records SO BAD DO YOU BELIEVE and jazz LPs. These are to be the nucleus of radio and TV shows now in the offing. “Up ’til now jazz has been seriously neglected in an area loaded with KING 4841 KING 4850 colleges and upper schools,” writes Evans. . . . Sherm Brodey (WRUC-Utica, N. Y.) says thanks to all who have been sending records and promotional mate- EARL BOSTIC rial ever since we made mention of his needs in this column several weeks ago.

Arnie Kuvent ( WGAN-Portland, Me.) does the “560 Revue” Monday thru

Friday. . . . Ex news-continuitv Director Forrest N. 0 SOLE MIO HONEY BOX Morgan. Jr. ( WKBR-Man., N. H.) to WCCM-Law- rence, Mass, succeeding Pete Ward as program direc- b/w b/w 1 tor. Plans call for WCCM staffer Bi’l Varney to take over “Club 800” and Forrest to host “The Song-

Peddler.” . . . Gene Platt (KELO-Sioux Falls, S. D.) POEME MISTY MOON has made “Follow That Man” his own pet project. . . . After a nine month leave of absence from WAAT Bill KING 4845 KING 4838 Cook, Roy Hamilton’s manager, will be back on air via WOV-New York starting November 10. Bill will stay with his well known title, “Bill Cook’s Caravan.”

. . . Lee Case, who made a presentation of a 1955 Chevrolet Sedan during the height of the recent hur- ricane at which time both Lee and his equipment were RECORDS soaked, will next give away a pony with western ARNIE KUVENT (WGAN— Portland, Me.) saddle and bridle. “Only those records best suited for commercial use are reviewed by THE CASH BOX’