• 'ABNER' ON BROADWAY Music Views LU’ Abner, lanky comic strip BIG HAPPY FAMILY Mar., 1956 Vol. XIV, No. 3 favorite of the mythical hills of The National Broadcasting VIC ROWLAND Editor Dogpatch, will make his bow on Company, whose bosses also Associate Editors: Merrilyn Hammond, Dorothy Lambert. Broadway in a musical version of own RCA Victor Records, has

G O R D O N R. FR A SE R Pub lishe r A1 Capp’s famous strip. Para­ a new half-hour filmed music Published Monthly By mount Pictures will finance the series in preparation which CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. stage venture and will film the will star ' Hollywood & Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif. production at a later date. Rosemary Clooney, feature Printed in U.S.A. Subscription $1.00 per year. Johnny Mercer and Gene De- Starlite Records’ Hi-Lo’s (vo­ Paul will write the score. Nor­ cal group) and Capitol Rec­ man Panama and Melvin Frank, ords’ Nelson Riddle and his ON THE COVER who scripted the strip along with orchestra. lt#s the “King of Swing“ him­ Michael Kidd, who will choreo­ A different "name” star will self, Benny Goodm an. graph the show, have formed a guest each week. The tele- He's come up with a great corporation, the Triad Corp. and series is scheduled to bow in new Capitol album called “Ben­ will be responsible for the musi­ 52 markets this spring, di­ ny Goodman,“ with notable cal’s entire production. Opening rected by Dik Darley. assists from Harry James, Lionel is slated for next fall. Hampton and Martha Tilton. In the album, out now, B.G. plays selections featured in the new • 3 MORE FOR KIDS movie, “The "Black Beauty,” "Davy Crockett • DISK SWITCH Story.“ and the Indians,” and "The Night (For a photo synopsis of the Billy Eckstine has made a Before Christmas,” are the titles movie, we invite you to turn switch in labels after a six year currently being added to the to pages 4 through 7 of this affiliation with MGM Records. He Magic Talking Books library. issue.) signed a new pact with RCA Vic­ How well these books rate with In the King's new Capitol tor. Hugo Winterhalter, who package you'll find his opening the children is evidenced in the arranged and conducted for Eck­ 1,000,000 copy sales in less than theme, “Let's Dance," “Bugle stine on many of the singer’s early Call Rag," “Memories of You,“ a year. “One O'Clock Jump," “Avalon,“ hits, will conduct for him again on many forthcoming tunes. The "kiddie” appeal is achieved “Don't Be That Way,“ “Down with the large type, the colorful South Camp Meetin',“ and pictures, but especially with the “Stompin' At the Savoy" on the • FRANK'S 59 IN '55 musical version of the story via first side. Side Two: "Sing, Sing, Fifty-nine major awards during recording that is etched on the Sing," "And the Angels Sing," 1955 were made to Capitol’s 16-year old trouper with Jan Gar­ "China Boy," "It's Been So ber ork is thrush Jeri Randolph. front of the round cornered lam­ for both his sing­ inated cover. These toddler fa­ Long," "Moon Glow," "Shine." ing and acting efforts. She has a disk out, "Who Goofed?" Not ma and pa Randolph, for sure! vorites are produced by Winston.

2 3 1 Burdened with a large family and THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY the small income of a pants cutter, David Goodman decides to do some­ thing for his three boys, hemmed in by overcrowded apartment and 1919 street gangs of Chicago’s West Side. He takes them to Hull House where Professor Schoepp gives free music lessons and loans instruments. Harry Goodman, 14, is given a tuba; Freddie, 12, gets a trumpet, but little Benny, 10, too small to play ffyH E BENNY GOODMAN STORY/1 biography of America's larger instruments, has to be content I greatest man and "King of Swing," is brought to with clarinet. the screen by the same company which filmed "The Glenn Miller Story."

Steve Allen, whose TV show made him a national favorite, stars 2. Six years pass. Benny, 16, is in love in his first film with Oscar-winner Donna Reed as his co-star. The with his clarinet, has learned every­ cast reads like a Who's Who in the world of jazz. Aaron Rosen­ thing Prof. Schoepp can teach, and wants to help his father and family. berg, who produced, and Valentine Davies, who wrote "The Glenn Still in knee pants, he gets his first Miller Story," were given carte blanche, and writer Davies made job in a dance band on a Lake the most of his screenplay by directing it. All or parts of 29 Michigan excursion boat. Benny hits it off with Gil Rodin, saxophonist, Goodman favorite tunes are heard in the sound track, played by and Kid Ory, Negro Dixieland jazz Benny himself and top "sidemen" of his career. king, but Podolsky cools them off, insisting the public wants standard The story in pictures appears on these pages. dance music rather than swing.

3. Convinced his son prefers boogie to Bach, Benny’s dad buys him a second-hand tux so he can follow Rodin to California to accept an offer from Ben Pollack and his Cali­ fornians. Pollack (himself, at drums) and his sidemen are impressed by Goodman’s improvised “hot licks,” and he begins his first road trip with a name band.

4. Years pass before grown up Benny (Steve Allen) gets back to Chicago. With Chicago’s “ Roaring 20s” in full blast, Pollack’s hot band is a luke warm attraction at Little Jake’s Nea­ politan Cafe Music critic John Ham­ mond and his sister, Alice Hammond (Donna Reed), socialite niece of Vanderbilts, drop in, and Benny and Alice meet for first time. Hammond offers to get the band into New York's Club 50 — if Pollack can get out of his deal with Little Jake. Ben­ ny gets Jake’s release and blessing. 5. Pollack’s ardor for hot music cools. 9. Alice, in California “to visit an Benny wants to start own band. aunt,” is still trailing Benny and Benny brings Mom Goodman and witnesses his success. He explains Brother Harry to New York, accepts that the NBC “Let’s Dance" show band job to pay bills. Hammond h a d done it, that the k id s in C a li­ invites Benny to his wealthy father's fornia heard the show three hours home for a musicale — at which earlier on the West Coast and “were Benny plays Mozart's Clarinet Con­ waiting for us — only we didn’t certo — with symphony artists as his know it.” Alice tells Benny that “sidemen.” Mom and Harry, over­ she, too, is waiting for him, but he coming their awe of the society audi­ still hesitates. ence, are delighted — and Alice Hammond looks at Benny with new respect and interest.

6. Alice tags Benny everywhere, “ to Returning from a benefit at Catalina keep her brother out of trouble," she Island, Benny, Alice, Krupa, Teddy explains. She sees Benny walk out Wilson and Alexander stop at a on Kel Murray’s band at New York’s little cafe and discover a waiter- Towntop Roof, watches him and band barkeep-vibraphone player named manager Willard Alexander get top Lionel Hampton (himself) From men like Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, then on the Goodman-Krupa-Wilson Gil Rodin, Urbie Green together at “ Goodman Trio’’ becomes the the Trombone Club, and sees Benny “ Goodman Quartet." realize his big chance: NBC an­ nounces a coast-to-coast Saturday night dance program and wants a hot band to contrast with bands led by Kel Murray and Xavier Cugat.

7. The Goodman group is an instant 11 Benny brings his band into New hit, and luck comes their way in York for a date at the Paramount double doses. Fletcher Henderson Theatre. Worried, as usual, he (played by Sammy Davis, Sr.), joins phones for Alice. She arrives for Benny as one of his arrangers, and the 10 a.m. opening day show — the band is loaded! The "Let’s to find the theatre packed — and Dance" radio show makes Benny Goodman fans swinging in the Goodman known nationally — and aisles. He doesn’t need her for good Benny’s playing the kind of music luck any more, Alice observes. he loves. •

Benny gets his first offer to make a movie in Hollywood. He phones for Alice, but instead of asking the 8. On opening night at the Palomar, question she wants to hear, he tells Aug. 31, 1935, swing is born — and her he's been offered a chance to Benny Goodman becomes its king. appear in a jazz concert at Car­ The ballroom is jammed with dan­ negie Hall. Alice’s idea of a musi­ cers — who’d rather stand and cian is a guy who plays in Carnegie listen to Goodman’s music than Hall. Benny hurries to Hollywood dance! Every number is greeted with and back — then lines up Teddy a deafening roar. Manager Stewart Wilson, Krupa, Hampton, Harry eats his words about a one-nighter James, , Ziggy Elman, and keeps the band indefinitely. Urbie Green, Martha Tilton, etc,, for the Carnegie Hall concert. Introducing

M A R IA COLE Top Mercury recording artists, The Platters, seen here with their manager. Buck Ram (at keyboard) will be featured in new Columbia movie, "Rock One of Capitol’s newest feminine recording artists is the Around the Clock." Also in cast: Fred Bell, Johnny Johnston, Bill Haley. attractive wife of the same label’s Nat "King” Cole, Maria Cole. Hers is the story of a vocalist who has had an earnest desire to sing since she was a tiny mite. "Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to sing,” she admits. L ” i s MAwjHAL I "I was always crazy about Ethel Waters and Frances Langford and all I wanted to do was work in show business. So when I was 12 1 ran away from home with two boys to try for an ama­ V teur show at the Apollo Theatre in New York. Needless to i / )— 1 say, I was brought home that very evening. Kind of a short jaunt, you might say.” Despite the severe objections of her aunt and father, with whom she lived, Maria Ellington, after graduating high school at 15, sandwiched in singing jobs after business college during her teens in hometown Boston. When she was a tot her mother died, and she was reared by an aunt and father, employed as a letter carrier. Sabby Lewis ABC-TV's "Ozark Jubilee" host, Red Foley (I) does routine with was the first band leader to hire her. Capitol's Tex Ritter on a recent A few years later she settled in New York, working for two telecast. Other Cap artists who years with the band, billed only as Maria, to have appeared are Speedy West, cause less confusion about her non-existent relationship to the Tommy Collins, Merle Travis, Texas Bill Strength and Sonny James. 9 8 MORE ABOUT MARIA COLE maestro. For a short period she filled in as vocalist with the aggregation. Maria’s deep, sultry voice and smooth appearance attracted the attention of the owner of the famous Zanzibar night club, who at that time was Joe Howard. He took over managerial reins for her, and she claims to this day that he was one of the nicest persons she’s ever known. It seemed inevitable that she was well on her way toward becoming one of the nation’s top thrushes—until, that is, a replacement was booked into the Zanzibar in 1946 for the Mills Brothers. The substitute act was Nat "King" Cole. Maria recalls with a grin, ”1 was working the club then. Nat sent champagne to me through his valet. Since I didn’t drink, I sent it back. I guess he thought I was a snob. Then a few days later he sent over tickets — $50 tickets to the Joe Louis- Billy Conn fight, and I was really excited.” Two years later, in May of 1948, Maria married Nat. Be­ lieving that there should be no lengthy separations in marriage, she immediately discontinued singing. Maria has taken great pleasure in being an immaculate house­ keeper, though she employs a cook and nurse. Her one talent in the kitchen, she regrets, is baking gingerbread. She is constantly cleaning out closets and chests, and confesses she’s a little neurotic about it. Whenever possible, she has traveled with Nat. As hobbies, she collects cashmere sweaters, owns over one hundred, and antique jewelry. She enjoys swimming and would like to ride horses. Since her return to the nitery biz at Ciro’s in December last year, on which she received excellent reviews with an act penned by Charlie Henderson, she has been queried constantly as to her ambitions. "I want to make good records for Capitol and do a lot of guest shots on television,” Maria says. "I never did find out before I met Nat whether I could make it with singing, and I guess it’s always been in the back of my mind. Nat com­ pletely approved and has been of so much help to me.”

10 11 • CHIRP'S FILM DEBUT • BERNIE BIOPIC Columbia Pictures has acquired "The Old Maestro” is the title Susan Cummings, former vocalist to be given the film story of the with the Claude Thornhill band, late band leader, Ben Bernie’s life for the picture "Secret of Treasure for which negotiations are being Mountain.” Susan’s made by RKO and Ben’s brother, film debut. Herman Bernie.

We were stumped for a caption for Jymme Shore is cute chick featured Balance the apples on your heads, A click disk of "Circle" is spin­ this photo until Miss Fran Ben­ on N BC-TV's "Pinky Lee Show ." men. Cornin' bobbin along is Bobbin ning around the country for Miss nett, above, suggested we mention The 12-year-old know s her jive Hood minus the bow and arrow. Annette Warren, who once supplied her new Warner picture, "Giant." lingo, made her first recordings. She sings in grooves for MGM. the body for Esquire calendar art.

12 13 ''Four Freshmen and Five Trom­ SAX TO CATTLE bones" is the name of the newest album package by this quartet, on Playing a one-nighter with the Capitol label. Hear it soon. his orchestra in Phoenix, Ari­ zona, Russ Morgan was ap­ proached on the bandstand by a well-dressed gentleman in a cowboy hat. He proved to be Morgan’s first tenor sax player r whom he hadn’t seen in 20 years since starting the band in . The ex-musician (Chet Chastain) inherited consider­ able money, including a ranch in Cavecreek, Arizona, where he is now a prosperous cattle owner. Wailed Russ, "And here I am still blowing on a trom­ bone!”

This MGM singer devine has a We had a postal card request to name like wine— Sherry. And her run a photo of , RCA last name is Shear or Sheer, we Victor's boy. So here it is. He's don't know which. Her press agent also seen on NBC video Saturdays. had it spelled both ways. Tsk, tsk. 14 1 THIS LUSTY LAND! MIDNIGHT RHAPSODY “Tennessee” Ernie Ford Joe Bushkin I Here’s a whole album of Romantic piano and a large lusty songs as exciting as orchestra linger over a col­ Ernie’s 16 Tons! Jack Fas­ lection of tunes that bespeak cinato serves up the fasci­ the tall, dark beauty of nating backgrounds. Manhattan at night. T700 T 7 1 1

I I OUR PARIS FOUR FRESHMEN AND MUSIC TO CHANGE CAROUSEL Franck Pourcel FIVE TROMBONES HER MIND Soundtrack Favorite songs of Paris The big new album by this Jackie Gleason Direct from the film those played by the lyrical string brilliant modern vocal Familiar songs and those unforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein songs, per­ orchestra that is the most group. Pete Rugolo backs rich Gleason strings, blend­ formed by all the wonderful popular in all of France. with five top trombonists ing with Bobby Hackett’s T 1 00 0 2 and an all-star rhythm trumpet like a love affair stars of the CinemaScope se c tio n . T683 in sound. W 632 production. W 6 94 fi m j — Stop Watch Music------0. % \ w k. w ' TOP POP MUSIC ARRANGER-COMPOSER WRITES SCORE FOR AWARD-WINNING DRAMATIC FILM "Remember that movie you ers as Nat "King” Cole, Mar­ saw last week? How long did garet Whiting, , it take for that expression of newcomer Jaye P. Morgan and terror to register on the her­ several dozen others, was in oine’s face? Five seconds? Ten New York to do a network seconds? W ell, that’s how long television show; to visit more a musical effect a movie com­ disc jockies; to consult with poser has to produce.” United Artists on last minute We got this information changes in "The Big Knife,” from a slightly collapsed com­ the movie which won one of poser of movie music just a the top prizes at the Venice few hours after his return Film Festival, and to discuss from a seventeen day, thirteen- some of his music publishing city tour on which he visited and composing affairs with more than seventy-five disc Broadcast Music, Inc. jockies on a schedule averag­ "I’m really excited about ing 18 hours a day. "The Big Knife,” he said. "It’s DeVol, known to millions the first major picture score of record addicts for his I’ve done (I won’t even tell unique orchestral arrange­ you the names of the others) ments for such top-name sing- and working on it was a real challenge." He reached over to the desk and picked up the stop-watch. "This thing,” he explained, "is as important to a movie composer as a piano What a whirlwind, history-making success Tennessee Ernie Ford's Capitol and music paper.” recording of "16 Tons" has been. He won not one but two Triple Crown "Movie writing is different Awards from the show business paper, The Billboard— one in the popular music field, the other in the country and western music category. This from any other kinds of com­ success was followed by qualifying, as a million-plus seller, to have a posing. You work with stop­ painted likeness of himself hung in the famous Record Room of the Holly­ watch in one hand, pen in the wood Brown Derby restaurant. Here Ernie holds the framed painting. His other and have to sense when luncheon host at left is Derby owner Robert Cobb. Volpe, the artist, is silence will be more dramatic to the right of Ernie, while his Cap producer, Lee Gillette, is at the De Vol, singer Helen O'Connell than a lot of crashing chords extreme right. Ernie's newest, going great, is labeled "That's All."

18 19 or wailing horns. Music should joined his father in Canton be used to supplement the as assistant conductor at the picture; the person sitting in Grand Opera House. But when the theater shouldn’t even hear talking pictures sounded the it consciously. It’s there mainly death knell for theater bands, to build mood and underscore Frank went on to other fields. emotion.” In 1931 he joined the Emer­ Actually, DeVol’s recent son Gill Orchestra and stayed movie work isn’t his first ex­ on until 1934 when he be­ perience with the medium. came a staff musician at radio Shannon Bolin As a youngster in Canton, station WTAM in Cleveland, Ohio, Frank haunted the writing arrangements for Ben • BOLIN'S DOZEN Grand Opera House where his Bernie’s band in his spare Singer Shannon Bolin, who father, a violinist and com­ time. plays the wife of the baseball poser led the pit band. Young In 1935 he became a mem­ hero in "Damn Yankees,” has DeVol couldn’t be kept away ber of the George Olsen-Ethel recorded her first album of songs Shutta troup, followed that from the theater. for the Vanguard label. Titled David Carroll's "It's Almost To­ He helped his father take with a stint as a singer-instru­ "Rare Wine,” the 12-tune album morrow" going great on Mercury. care of the music library; he mentalist with Horace Heidt, features "offbeat” seldom-heard numbered pages, patched torn wrote arrangements for the songs by America’s foremost com­ music sheets, and, by the time Alvino Rey band, and then posers. he was nine, was helping to returned to Heidt in 1940 as Seven of the songs are from cue musical scores for silent chief arranger and conductor. Broadway shows. These include films. At that age, he could After the end of World two never before recorded: Rod­ also play the piano and violin, War II, DeVol settled down gers and Hart’s "He Was Too and a few years later was also in Hollywood—to stay. For Good To Me” from their 1930 adept on French horn, clarinet, the past decade his work on production, "Simple Simon,” and sax, flute and trumpet. records and radio has made "Yellow Flower” from the 1948 him a consistent favorite of show, "Ballet Ballads,” by Jerome He studied the principals popular music fans through­ of arranging and wrote his Moross and John La Touche. One out the country, and his rec­ tune, "Loneliness of Evening,” first complete musical score ords, particularly those made at the age of sixteen. the Rodgers and Hammerstein for Capitol behind such singers song written for "South Pacific” DeVol’s next brush with as Maggie Whiting and Nat but never actually included in the the cinema took place a few Cole, are looked upon as final score, has only been recorded years later when, after being models of technical brilliance once before, by Mary Martin in a Complete with stogie, Stetson and graduated from college, he re­ by his fellow musicians. limited edition of a now rare Steinway is smiling Bob Wills. He 78 r.p.m. does his platter making for MGM.

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Joni James, the MGM Records gal, Meg Myles, one of Capitol's newest Tootin' his horn over the grati­ Prettily sung by Patty Andrews is seems to be taking herself quite chirps, pays visit to disk session fying public response to his new "I Never Will Marry" on Capitol. seriously as she gives her all at of same label's Frank Sinatra, who album, "Ray Anthony's Big Band Song's writer also composed"Mem- session of "My Believing Heart." recently signed 7-year Cap pact. Dixieland" is the maestro himself. ories Are Made of This" hit tune.

Chester Smith-Hazel Houser blend This small fry, Barry Gordon, is Lovely songstress Dinah Shore is Less serious — considerably — than voices on strong new Capitol re­ gaining spins for his MGM disk, seen and heard couple times weekly Tenn. Ernie's "1 6 Tons" is ver­ ligious disk, "You Can't Lose With "Rock Around Mother Goose" which on NBC television network from sion by Mickey Katz and his or­ God On Your Side." It's great! is backed on flipside by "Seven." Hollywood. She records for Victor. chestra, in the Capitol grooves.

22 23 • SCHOOL MARM the $25,000 jackpot on CBS’s DISK ARTIST, TOO "Name That Tune.” Dorothy won the jackpot—but that wasn’t all. RCA Victor execs caught Dorothy on the show and thought as much of her as did her fourth graders. Quicker than you could name that tune, school marm Dorothy was pacted and rushed into the recording studio where she cut four sides. Singing isn’t a new thing to Dorothy. She won a four-year | Already a best seller is the new tuition scholarship for classical I Capitol album, "The Piano Style of voice study by entering a compe­ 1 Nat "King" Cole." He was backed tition at Syracuse University. But * by ork conducted by Nelson Riddle. When her fourth graders at after two years she decided she’d Battle Hill School, White Plains, rather be a teacher, so she became N. Y., were too full of mischief, a "pop” singer in night clubs teacher Dorothy Olsen would and saved every penny until she quiet ’em down with a ditty or was able to enter New Platz State two. A big favorite with the class Teachers College, N. Y., where was "The Little White Duck.’’ she earned her B.S. — and also That was one of the tunes managed to take flying lessons Dorothy sang for the nation’s TV and earn a private operator’s viewers recently while going for license! • STAN GOES 'STRAIGHT' • PIPES, NOTES SIGN Victor Young, who is scoring The Four Pipes and the Cool "City of Women” has asked Capi­ Notes have been signed by Doot- tol Records’ Stan Freberg to write sie Williams, president of Doo- the lyrics for the theme tune. tone Records to further the This will be the first effort in rhythm and blues efforts of the straight lyric writing for Freberg company. Jazz pianist Carl Per­ who usually pens comedy patter. kins has also signed with the The comic will record his efforts diskery and will cut a series of for Capitol and Young will record EP’s and LP’s in the company’s The cigars look familiar but oh, yeah! It's Eddie Jackson, Liberace same for Decca. expansion of package goods. and Jimmy Durante. They frolicked on NBC-TV Durante show not long ago.

24 25 Introducing on Capitol the United States to play a date at the Elks Convention, that "The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven” was born. At that time Paul White- man was introducing a sym­ phonic approach to popular music. Guy liked the dignity and proceeded to search for a blend with dignity and a dance beat. Thus "The Sweetest Mu­ sic This Side of Heaven.” As Guy became radio con­ GUY LOMBARDO scious, more engagements ap­ and His peared. He persuaded NBC’s ROYAL CANADIANS Cleveland station to give his orchestra time on the air each Exploiting a "new look” is vibes virtuoso Red Norvo who recently intro­ Guy Lombardo and his evening. The nightly "air” duced his trio in Hollywood: Bill Dillard on guitar, Eugene Wright on Royal Canadians make their performance was gratis, of bass, and Red on vibes. They have Fantasy album, "The Red Norvo Trio." debut on Capitol with a tune course, but paid off in lasting imported from Germany, "The friendships. The distinctive Phonograph Song” ("Our Lombardo sound addicted Melody”) On the flip side thousands of listeners to the is "You Couldn’t Help But Be dance beat with dignity, char­ Wonderful.” Both sides fea­ acterized by his theme song ture vocal talents of Kenny "Auld Lang Syne.” Gardner, the top side with the Nationwide recognition won Lombardo Singers, the flip him an invitation to play at side with the Lombardo Trio. the Roosevelt Hotel in New The first Lombardo musical York. Guy opened the week aggregation was formed when the stock market crashed, but the maestro was still in gram­ in spite of chaos he managed mar school. It consisted of to draw patrons to the hotel. four members, three of which Ever since then when he ful­ were Lombardos. It wasn’t un­ fills his annual engagement at til Guy brought his orchestra the Roosevelt, he packs the of nine Royal Canadians to hotel with his legion of fans.

26 Ya, her name's Yana, who just hap­ "You Tell Me Your Dream" is the Newest of The Gaylords, Mercury New bride, Micki Mario, musically pens to be Britain's foremost TV, current Harmonicats Mercury disk. records artists, is "Molly-O." inquires, "How Come You Do Me radio and nightclub thrush. Maybe Like You Do?" on Capitol label. you saw her on Bob Hope TV show. Earl Sheldon conducts orchestra.

This is Les Baxter, whose Capitol Helen O'Connell and Lola Albright Johnny Oliver sings for the MGM Molly Bee, featured singer with disk, "Poor People of Paris" is buss CBS radio's Tony Romano for recording label. "Chain Gang" is Tenn. Ernie Ford on his NBC-TV still going strong. Coupled with his disk, "Sta rs Fell on A la b a m a ," coupled with "These Hands" on his show Monday through Friday, has it: "Theme From 'Helen of Troy'." judged "Radio Juke Box Jury" hit. newest for that shellac company. recently signed to record for Dot.

28 29 Renato Carosone, Italy's foremost On his TV show in Los Angeles, dj pianist-vocqfist, offers a hit from Peter Potter presents Billboard's that country, "Infatuation" which Triple Crown award to Dean Martin is backed by fast "Lotta Piano." for "Memories Are Made of This."

Capitol Records' Gordon MacRae The Four Knights vocally assure "Crazy She Calls Me" is new top­ has taken over Monday night spot "I Love You Still" in newest re­ side tune on Capitol by Mr. Billy on NBC-TV formerly occupied by lease from Capitol. Backside is Valentine. "Show Off" is the tune Tony Martin. Show's aired weekly. familiar, "Happy Birthday, Baby." flipside. Sid Bass ork joins in.

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Recently making their bow on the Capitol label were The Notes, above, who arrived with two excellent sides, "Cha Jezebel" coupled with "That's All There Is to That." Early indications: These boys are really going big.