MVIEWS usicNOVEMBER • 1957

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100 YEARS OF HARMONICAS Music Views THE C O V E R That easy-mannered singer, One hundred years ago Mat­ modern harmonica, some credit Nov., 1957 Vol. XV, No. 10 comedian, actor and bon vi- thias Hohner and one assistant Christian Friederich Ludvig Busch- vant, Dean Martin, is busier produced 650 harmonicas in the mann, giving the date as 1821. than a one-armed paper han­ " Village” of Trossingen, Buschmann also received credit VIC ROWLAND Editor ger in a wind tunnel these days. In addition to his many in the Black Forest of Germany. for the first "handaeoline,” the MERRILYN HAMMOND Associate Editor nightclub performances (most The harmonicas were sold in only forerunner of the accordion. recently at Las Vegas' Club two countries, Germany and Can­ Benjamin Franklin has been er­ Oasis), Dino has starred in a ada. This year Hohner will pro­ roneously credited with the in­ G O R D O N R. FR A SE R Pub lishe r new picture, "The Young Lions" and is doing his own NBC-TV duce 20 million harmonicas, hun­ vention of the harmonica. Really Published Monthly By show. He is also busy over at dreds of thousands of accordions Franklin’s "armonica" consisted the Capitol Tower with such and many other instruments. They of glass discs revolving in water CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. disks as "Promise Her Any­ will be sold in 100 countries and was operated by a foot pedal; thing" showing up well on the it bore no relationship whatsoever Hollywood & Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif. hit charts. throughout the world. Trossingen Printed in U.S.A. has become the harmonica capital to the harmonica. of the world, and Hohner has be­ It remained for Matthias Hoh­ come the largest producer of free- ner to develop and popularize the reed instruments in the world. harmonica as a musical instru­ The Hohner story began in ment. In the years that followed, 1857 with a watchmaker and mu­ the rise in the instrument’s popu­ sic-lover of Trossingen, one Mat­ larity was phenomenal. By 1887 thias Hohner. Although Matthias Hohner’s annual production had Hohner was a practical man, he reached one million harmonicas. had a dream. Matthias wanted to Matthias Hohner retired in produce a musical instrument at 1900 and the work was carried a price that would permit every­ on by his sons. Today the indus­ body to play it. The instrument try employs some 4500 workers, he selected was the harmonica, more than half of the population although it was then called the of Trossingen. "mundaeoline,” or mouth organ. Thus, primarily, through the Harmonicas were in existence efforts of a watchmaker, the har­ in many forms before Hohner un­ monica has become the most pop­ dertook to implement his dream. ular music instrument in the Nine French horns are featured Some sources credit Frederick world, with 20 million in the the new Gordon Jenkins album 1 Hotz of Knittlingen with the first alone. Capitol titled "Stolen Hours." 3 Following the pattern set by "Oklahoma" and "Carousel," Cap­ itol's new "Pal Joey" soundtrack album presents another sparkling Richard Rodgers score, this time with lyrics by the late Lorenz Hart. The Columbia picture which pal joey stars Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak is a tuneful and dramatic show which tells the story of Joey Evans (Frank), a -and-dance man who has more than his share of unpleasant qual­ ities. A ltho ug h he is in love w ith a nightclub singer, Linda English (Kim Novak), Joey accepts the patronage of Vera Simpson who is now a San Francisco society woman. Walking roughshod over Linda's feelings, Joey makes plans to open the Club Joey, a night spot which Vera is to finance and in which she will sing. His efforts to turn the unsophisticated Linda into a stripper fail, and she leaves town so that Joey can fulfill his desire for a club. The tuneful score and smart lyrics of "Pal Joey" have long been standards in the musical repertoire, with such as "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" becom­ ing big hits. THE MAESTRO First he conducts "Moonlight Sonata” Then a difficult Bach cantata. His skill and precision are almost inhuman On a concerto by Robert Schuman. For the next number he's hurryin’ Through a frantic dance by Katchaturian. And the Sibelius Second Symphony he conquers Dakota Staton's first album for When he encores. Capitol is a sparkling package Tired but triumphant he known as "The Late, Late Show." accepts his ovation, Then takes the records off the turntable and be­ comes again a plumber his usual vocation.

• EXPERTS LECTURE Aspiring tunesmiths are once more to be given the advice of veteran music business personali­ ties during a course in popular lyric writing at University of Southern . The roster of guest lecturers includes Alan Lerner, Mitch Miller, Richard Ad­ Page Cavanaugh's initial album on ler and Dinah Shore. Course is Cap is a tribute to the late Fats conducted by ASCAP writer Hal Waller, tagged "Fats Sent Me." Levy.

6 THE JOHNNY OTIS SHOW

Causing quite a splash among the disk fans these days is a series of Capitol releases known as "The Johnny Otis Show." Otis, a well-known artist and deejay, 3 $ j * brings his whole troupe to Capitol to rock and roll it up. Pictured here from top to bottom starting at the left are: Johnny Otis, who sings "Can't You Hear Me Callin';" Jeannie Sterling, singing with The Moonbeams on "Too Soon to Know;" Mel Williams, "Stay With Me;" Marie Adams and the Three Tons of Joy, singing "Ma (He's Makin' Eyes at Me);" the Moon­ beams; and the whole gang pictured at the bottom of the right-hand page. OFF BEATS by hd vamp till ready

• 80 YEARS OF BACK-TALK A recent editorial in Music Vendor magazine called atten­ tion to the fact that the phonograph is now an octogenarian. It was on August 15, 1877, that Thomas A. Edison heard his "talking machine" say in his own voice, "Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Even in his most imaginative dreams, it is doubtful that Edison could have envisioned at that time what would happen to his crude, hand operated machine in the eighty years which were to follow. First came improved cylinders and spring-driven mechanisms. Then followed the disc-type recording with cor­ responding improvements in manufacture of records. Electricity then made its presence felt by powering the turn table and later by improving the pick-up and reproduction. From then on the improvements came thick and fast: magnetic tape, vinylite discs, vastly improved recording and reproduction, high fidelity and stereophonic sound. "Mary had a little lamb,” sounding like what was once described as "an educated parrot with a sore throat,” has blossomed into a huge industry which provides enjoyment and education to millions, in the form of the finest sound the ear can hear. "Preserving” man's voice has been a challenge to imagina­ tive people since man first realized that his echo was his own voice and not the mockery of a capricious spirit. Ancient myths tell us of attempts to freeze it, bottle it and otherwise capture the voice of man. But it was Edison who actually succeeded in doing what the ancients left to the gods. And it was he who, eighty years ago, made it possible for us to hear the great voices and music of the world in uncanny resemblance to their actual performance, without leaving our living rooms. So see if you can put eighty candles on a 12" LP and sing "Happy Birthday” to an industry which is 80 years old and hasn't even reached its full growth. 10 11 • SINATRA TOTS DEBUT The three children of Frank Sinatra will make their profes­ sional debuts on three separate programs of ABC-TV's upcoming "Frank Sinatra Show” during the 1957-58 season. They are Nancy Sinatra, 17, Frank Sinatra, Jr., 13, and Chris­ tina Sinatra, 9. Nancy will be the first to ap­ pear during a half-hour musical on Friday, November 15. Nancy and two high school girl friends, who perform together at parties and school assemblies as the "Tri- Tones,” will sing "Side By Side” as a trio and then join Frank in a Sammy Cahn parody of "Exactly Like You.” Frank, Jr., who has been taking piano lessons since he was 5, will play "Kitten On The Keys” and accompany his dad in a duet of Another hit for Sinatra! This one "My Blue Heaven.” Air date of is from his Paramount starrer "The Frank Jr.’s appearance has not yet Joker Is Wild" and is titled "All been set. the Way." Flipside is "Chicago." Christina, youngest of the Sina­ tra off-springs, will dance on her Crosby, Peggy Lee, McGuire Sis­ dad’s second "live” one-hour-long ters and Erin O'Brien. special program Friday, February "The Frank Sinatra Show" pre­ 14, Valentine’s Day. mieres over ABC-TV with a spe­ The three Sinatra children rep­ cial one-hour presentation Friday, resent a portion of the variety of October 18. It will then offer a guests to be featured with the weekly varied menu of half-hour actor-singer on his 13 half-hour musicals, comedies and suspense musical programs. Others are Bing dramas. 13 BARS 'N' STRIPES According to a recent As­ sociated Press story, inmates at Massachusetts State Prison have their own ideas of what should go into a record "Al­ bum for Convicts.” The current issue of Men­ tor, prison newspaper, offers these suggestions: "Those 3500 Volts Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine Blues.” "Up a Lousy River.”

Recent guest on the Nat King Cole "You Ain’t Nothin’ But a show was Tony Martin. Martin was Stool Pigeon.” appearing at the Flamingo while "Throw Mama From the Nat was next door at the Sands in Train a File.” Las Vegas. Show was aired there. ”1 Might As Well Be Sprung.” "Ol’ ’Lectric Chair’s Got Me.” "Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go Over the Wall.”

• PAR BIO'S HANDY W C. Ffandy, composer of "St. Louis Blues" and other well known songs, is to be the subject of an upcoming screen biography produced by Paramount Pictures. Freddy Martin's first slicing under Newcomer Tony Landi has first re­ The title will be "St. Louis Blues” the Capitol banner features a new lease on Safara Records, "Angels and Nat King Cole has been pen­ Martin sound on two tunes, "Sweet Cried" and also "Bubbily Bubbly." ciled in for a starring role. Affection" and "Ca C'est L'Amour." 14 p \ \ - S T A ^ ’01 Rockin' Ern T-888 Tennessee Ernie Ford

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The youngsters on these pages are all getting an early start in show business, since none of them has as yet reached twenty-one, and they are already stars or show great promise of attaining that status. Reading from top to bottom starting at the left they are: Sue Raney, whose newest is "Please Hurry Home;" Don Carroll, "In My Arms;" Gene Vincent, "Lot­ to Lovin," Ann Leonardo; Jack Jones, who debuted with "Good Luck, Good Buddy;" Sammy Hagan with his Viscounts on "Out of Your Heart," fabulous Tommy Sands; and the Four Dolls, who sing "Three on a Date." • OPERA STARS TO TV WHO? The public can expect more A Los Angeles deejay re­ opera singers to appear on TV, cently played a selection from according to operatic star Robert the "Harry James In Hi-Fi” Merrill. The singer says that opera album titled "B.G.” The jock performers are watching the new blithely announced over the Patrice Munsel variety series with air that the tune was a trib­ great interest, hoping that it will ute to , with point the way to additional simi­ whom Harry at one time play­ lar shows. Merrill states that opera ed, and who has the proper stars cannot make a good living initials. It evidently did not in this country without outside occur to the platter spinner income and that TV is preferable that Harry James also has a to night club appearances which wife whose initials are Betty might cause the singer to lose Grable. dignity with the operatic audi­ ence.

This historical photo of "Leadbelly" performing for a San Francisco inter­ racial audience in 1944, was supplied by Music View s reader John Rey­ nolds, a U. S. Navy man who edits a shipboard newspaper. "Leadbelly" is one of the artists heard in Cap's "History of Ja n " series, Vol. 1. 21 MUSICAL FUNNYMEN When Jackie Gleason picked up his baton a few years ago and began a fantastically suc­ cessful series of albums, he didn’t realize he was starting a fad. Latest comic-turned-con­ ductor is Milton Berle, who was recently signed by Rou­ lette Records to do a series of albums. A few months ago Phil Silvers took the same step with the album "Phil Silvers and Swingin’ Brass.” Another comedian to become a maestro 'The Young Mr. Crosby" is the title in the past few seasons is Steve of a new album by the young Mr. John Ireland (left) discusses George Shearing's "Black Satin" album with Allen. Crosby (Gary) and released by George and deejay Jack Lazare. Album promotion has been tied in w ith World Pacific. Album was waxed a "Black Satin" perfume. Meeting was at New York's Embers Club. The Berle album will fea­ in Düsseldorf, Germany, while Gary ture his late mother’s favo­ w a s stationed there in U. S. Arm y. rite standards under the title • DISC FEST PLANNED "Songs My Mother Loved.” Monte Carlo will play host to an International Record Festival on April 15-20, 1958. Patterned somewhat after the International • WELK STARTS 7TH Film Festivals, the event is being If champagne grows better with sponsored by a Paris organization, age, ’s champagne the International Study Center for music should by now be a gour­ the Promotion of Sound Record­ met’s delight. Welk recently be­ ings. The festival is designed gan his seventh consecutive year to focus public attention on the at the Aragon Ballroom in Los achievements of the disc industry. Angeles. This is thought to be a Awards will be given for out­ record for any band in any ball­ standing recordings in various room in the country. Other or­ categories including symphonic, chestras have held forth for long­ Nappy Lamare and Ray Bauduc are classical, vocal, , variety and One of the Capitol FDS albums er periods of time in one location on Capitol for the first time with a others. Selections will be made by this fall features pianist Leonard but always in hotels or cafes. new package, "Riverboat Dandies." an international panel. Pennario on "Keyboard Fantasies." 21 23 Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker (left) is toasted by English songstress Jerri Scott and German bandleader Kurt Edelhagen at Düsseldorf, Germany, during Baker's recent European tour. He records under Pacific Jazz flag.

• ACTS An association going back to their respective vaudeville days was renewed yesterday when pro­ ducer Bryan Foy set actor Jack Kenny for a featured role in Col­ umbia's "The Other Life of Lynn Stuart.” Kenny was doing a single in vaudeville when Foy was one of the celebrated Foy act, and later they collaborated on several songs. Kenny, who has written over 400 folk songs, plays a drive-in "Young Ideas" is the title of Ray counterman in "The Other Life Anthony's new Cap album which of Lynn Smart.” features a cello choir and Anthony. 25 • ELGARTS TEAM The Les Hlgart Orchestra re­ AH YOUTH cently changed its name to the If youngsters want to get Les and Larry Elgart orchestra. married as early as the current Les and his brother Larry have crops of songs would seem to long been partners, but Larry suggest, we may be faced with hasn’t appeared with the outfit the prospect of six - year - old although he has recorded with his kids selling papers to put their own orchestra. The brothers now dads through high school. will appear and record together.

Stan Kenton plays on Bill Leyden's "It Could Be You" TV show while Vicki and Sam Newman dance the "Balboa" which they originated to Kenton's music several years ago.

PICASSO IN SOUND The life and art of Pablo Picas­ track on Folkways long playing so have been expressed in music record. The record features the through an original Flamenco famed Spanish guitarist, Gangi, score for orchestra and guitar, and an orchestra conducted by composed by Roman Vlad, for the Franco Ferraro. The album, titled "Picasso,” presents eighteen musi­ Italian - made documentary film, cal selections, each representing a "Picasso,” soon to be released in different period in Picasso’s crea­ the U. S. First it was trombones, then trumpets and now the Four Freshmen have tivity. The album cover carries a new Capitol album out titled "Four Freshmen with Five Saxes." Pete The Flamenco score has been a reproduction of Picasso’s "The Rugolo conducts the orchestra which features such top sax men as Georgie transcribed from the film’s sound Three Dancers.” Auld, Bud Shank, Skeets Herfurt, Dave Pell and . Great sound! 76 77 RIDE 'EM Somebody at Universal In­ ternational film studios evi­ dently confused disk jockeys with the variety of jockeys who ride horses. Nine jocks from various parts of the coun­ try have been signed to por­ tray cowboy-type characters in the upcoming pic, "Once Upon a Horse.” Livingston and Ev- vans penned the title tune This duet might not be pretty, but which is sung by Martha Hy- it's loud. Groucho Marx is here ers. tuning his pipes to duet with Harry Ruby when the tunesmith appeared recently on Groucho's TV show.

THUMBS UP Never let it be said that ABC Paramount’s new vocal group, the Hitchhikers, aren’t living up to their name. The group is making a record pro­ motion tour traveling in the accepted manner for hitchhik­ ers by their thumbs. The boys will trek cross-country and disk jockeys are being asked to have their listeners pick them up. They are to be recognized by their uniforms Maestro Johnny Richards makes and the name on their suit­ Cap album debut with a big band Faron Young recently signed an­ cases. package which is called “Wide other long-term contract with Capi­ Should cut travel expenses, Range.“ Richards wrote the music tol and his "Love Has Finally Come too. for 's “Cuban Fire“ al­ My W ay" looks like another hit. bum and wrote “Young At Heart." 29 • MONROE TO LEGIT LIVE! Singer Vaughn Monroe recently Steve Allen’s new recording made his debut in the legitimate "Gotta Have Something in the theater. The crooner appeared Bank,” was taken quite literal­ opposite Constance Moore in ly by disk promotion man Ir­ "Annie Get Your Gun,” which win Zucker. Wishing to make production opened in Dayton, sure that all disk jockeys had Ohio, and toured that area. the benefit of that comforting philosophy, Zucker wrote out • WILLIAMS SOLOS a check to each of them in his Tony Williams, lead voice with area. The checks were issued the Platters, made a solo debut for "no dollars and five cents.” on Mercury, recently, with "When Don’t spend it all in one You Return.” The tune is a new place, boys. lyric set to "Londonderry Air.” Years ago that same tune received still another lyric titled "Danny Sonny James, the Southern Gentle­ Boy.” man, has a new one which looks as though it will be big, "(Love Came Love Saw) Love Conquered." Flip Robert Stack recently appeared on is titled, "A Mighty Lovable Man." ABC-TV's "Stars of Jazz" show to present an award to altoist Bud Shank. In center is Bobby Troup. TODD TO DOT When Nick Boone, broth­ • BEE 'GOING STEADY' er of singer Pat Boone, was signed to a recording contract Molly Bee, recording star who with Dot Records, it was felt recently made her film debut, has that his name might bring been signed for the feminine ro­ about confusion, since the eld­ mantic lead in "Going Steady.” er brother is also a Dot pactee. Miss Bee made her film debut So his name was changed to in "Summer Love,” as yet unre­ The unusual sound in Nelson Rid­ Nick Todd. It is probably not leased. She has also starred for dles newest for Capitol, "Blame It a coincidence that "Todd” is Don Rondo, who's first hit disk was NBC on two Matinee Theater tel­ on Paree," is provided by a harp­ "Dot” spelled backwards 'Two Different Worlds," managed evision productions. Molly starts sichord. Flipside is titled "In a it is if you stutter. to repeat the feat with his clicko her third year with the Tennessee Small Forgotten Town." Fine wax. pressing, "White Silver Sands." Ernie Ford Show this October. 30 31 Bulk Rote

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The heart-warming story of trumpeter wa s recalled recently by a repeat of the 'This Is Your Life Show" which did his life story. Nichols (center) is here re-united with members of his original "Pennies" orchestra (left to right) Miff Mole, the late , , Arthur Shutt and Charlie Teagarden. Ralph Edwards at left.