APRIL • 1950 VOL. 8 • NO. 4 Paul Weston 95 «s^gï* CAPITOL NEU CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 3 news DAVE DEXTER'S Published Monthly by Nichols Signs Mayo, Cagney, CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. Sunset and Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif. Printed in U. S. A. ©W SURFACE NOISE ’ New Contract MacRae To Be EDITED BY DAVE DEXTER, JR. For Records In New Film Rambling On a Battered Underwood Loring (Red) Nichols G ordon MacRae starts In This Issue Despite those erudite statements an Page 5, Cholly Barnet is and his Famous Pennies, work next month in what Stan Kenton's Views of abandoning his six-weeks-old small combo and reorganizing o one of the oldest and most m ay be his biggest film Classical Music.................Page 11 20-piece band. He's in New York, and will tee off in the east, A 1950 Portrait of popular name bands in assignment. And Ben Goodman, his lessons with Reginald Kell ended, Louis Armstrong ...............Page 7 the world, have been is ready to shuttle over to Europe again in late April. He and his With James Cagney Dixieland Revival in signed to record exclu­ High G ear................. Page 14 Selmer stick will appear in several countries which w ere skipped and V irginia M ayo as his sively for Capitol. Picture Pages.................... 8 and 9 in 1949. Freddy Martin starts a new TV show in Hollywood co-stars,.MacRae will play STILL BLO W ING th a t w a ilin g Nichols, now playing every an important role in "The West this month with KTTV paying him $1,500 a shot, sponsored or cornet to the four winds, Red night at Sardi's Monkey Room on Point Story," which Warner Broth­ Nichols is featured with his Pen­ not. One of the local niteries is trying to cash in on the Hollywood's Hollywood Boule­ ers is shooting in Technicolor. The nies nightly, in Hollywood, at flying you-know-what craze. They've got a tiny table, complete vard, has made discs for Capitol producer is Louis F. Edelm an. Sardi's, and now that he's been previously. But he and his band, with four miniature chairs, on which sets a placard reading, signed to a fat new contract, his Still featured on the "Railroad until now, were never tied to a "Reserved For Flying Saucer Pilots 23 Inches Tall Or Under." records w ill be appearing regular­ Hour" airshow and on records, contract. ly on the purple Capitol label. MacRae's rise in show business Last month's coal shortage fouled up Stan Kenton's concert Grabbing the renowned Utah Red is M ike Levin's fa v o rite m u­ has been spectacular since he first tour. But he s back on schedule now and doing great on most cornet star, who was a famous sician. bagged a singing job in Horace dates . Coast hipsters are digging young Cora Martin's leader in N ew York before he Heidt's pre-war stage band. Gor­ sacred solos on those Sunday eve "Echoes of Eden" airings over was 20, gives Capitol three of the die now has been seen in a half­ KFWB. She s as g reat as M a ha lia and may become even better. nation's greatest Dixieland bands. dozen films, all at Warner's. Sharkey Bonano and his Kings of Murray, Livingston Roy Del Ruth is d ire ctin g the Nappy Lamare booked his own Strawhat Seven into Ciro's in Dixieland, favorites throughout "West Point" pic and it will get the south and a fixture at the Hollywood himself, landed his own TV show with Frank Bull and Named Cap Veeps the gun as soon as Miss Mayo re­ Hotel Roosevelt in New Orleans, is making his own recording deals without help from a personal turns from England, where she and Pete Daily's combo also are Newly-installed in his offices of has been co-starring with Gregory manager or booker. He also operates his own night club—whal pacted to long-term exclusive Capitol Records in Hollywood, Peck in "Captain Horatio Horn- heights could the personable little Noo 'Leans guita rist reach binders with the Cap waxworks. James W. Murray, for 22 years a leading figure within the re­ blower." Her return is slated for with a little help? . Anita Boyer, the singer, and Saxist Bob Nichols features Joe Rushton on cording industry, has been elected early May, the studio said. bass saxophone, King Jackson on DukofF deserted Hollywood and are now living in New York a vice-president of the company trombone, Rollie Culver, drums; permanently with their daughter. Gene Norman admits he at a meeting of the firm's board Bobby Hammock, piano, and Rosy finally dropped "a certain amount" of money on his concerts, of directors. McHargue on clarinet. His first L. A. Greets Ella And with Louie and Duke, no less! platter under his new contract Murray, for several years a resi­ couples parts one and two of dent of Japan as an executive Frankie Laine and Nan Grey have postponed that trip to the "Battle Hymn Of The Republic," with both RCA-Victor and Colum­ Fitzgerald Again preacher until June . A new singer on the west coast is recently released and already bia, is now serving Capitol in an Ella Fitzgerald swung back into using the handle of "Red Lyte." He's with the Joh nny Otis out­ spinning in the jukes in 48 states. executive position. Also elected to Los Angeles March 28, creating a fit . Much of this new crop of Dixieland jazz is so phony a vice-presidency with Capitol THE RAGE of the "National Red makes his perm anent home flurry among California jazz fans. it is tarnishing and may kill—the good. Singers who sneered was Alan W. Livingston, in charge Barn Dance" show, heard each in North Hollywood. She w ill sing nightly at the Oasis, at traditional music 10 months ago are pleading for Dixie of albums and nationally noted Saturday via ABC from Chicago, a neighborhood bistro not far for his children's packages. Glenn is Bob Atcher. Bob's soulful guitar accompaniments . You reckon those fly-boys really are only fro m the U. S. C. cam pus, fo r a t 23 inches tall? E. Wallichs, Cap's president, an­ and voice are soon to be featured least two weeks and possibly Doris Day Pegged no need both moves in mid-March only on Capitol platters; he just longer. Ella, who first got raves signed a new contract. Born in There's talk now that Vic Damone's first film at MGM will bt following the meeting of the board. In the m iddle 1930's w hen the Kentucky, on a farm which today "They All Sing," a musical which features Sinatra. Steve For 'Sunshine' Pic late Chick Webb gave her her is part of the massive Fort Knox Allen defied that new "Let's Go To Church Next Sunday" ditty Warner Brothers just assigned first pro job after she had won plot, Atcher is famous throughout Doris Day to star in "Painting The Cole, Trio On Road which Mag Whiting and Beaver Wakely duet on a disc. • an amateur chirp competition in the world for his western and folk Clouds With Sunshine," a musical King Cole and the Trio skip a New York vaude house, plays music talents. Capitol's Lee Gil­ S'funny how nobody ever agrees with the Movie Academ y's music soon to roll at the Burbank studio. from Pittsburgh to St. Louis April Los Angeles about once annually lette completed negotiations which awards. But then nobody agrees on music anyway. Let us Doris, for years Les Brown's 8. Combo, which just closed at and is re po rte d to be tucking will bring out Atcher's first disc know w hen YOU see a saucer, huh? thrush, has now attained the the N. Y. Paramount, will do a away $1,500 a week at the Oasis this month. Details on Page 10. "star" rank on the big WB lot week at the Riviera Club in the in addition to 50 per cent of the in Burbank. Missouri city. , loot taken in via door admissions. PAGE 4 CAPITOL NEW CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 5 Weston’s Musi 'Most Played On The Radio ALTHOUGH SHE was HARRY JAMES born and reared in Lake (Front Cover Feature) With Don Otis over KLAC Charles, deep in the Loui­ "Every time I take a vacation siana bayou country, Nel­ If every disc jockey the word goes out that Harry lie Lutcher has never been the United States suddet James has broken up his band for good. On the contrary, my band back there since she ly went off the air, Pm will soon go out on a long tour Weston's music still woul moved to California in the again, heading as far east as the 1930's. This month, with be regularly broadens Atlantic Ocean. And what do you Earl Hyde, drums, and Benny over more than 1,500 statior like in the fifth at Tanforan to* Booker, bass, Nel will undertake every week. morrow, Don?" her first Dixie tour, teeing off in Weston worked night and do EDDIE CONDO N the New Orleans Aud April 15-16. last fall, arranging and condui In the New York Daily News She will get $2,000 for the two ing numbers for the "Naval nights. Reserve Show" which was tro "The bop guys flat their fifths A skein of one-night stands will scribed in Hollywood.