news SEPTEMBER 1948 VOl. 6 >itol NEWS PACE 3 CAPITOL N!w£J'APIT0L NEWS DAVE DEXTER’S news ee-Barbour Kick Off Published Monthly by CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC Sunset and Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif. Printed in U. S. A. "o':T Supper Club' Sept. 3 0 Lutcher and Mel Torme already booked EDITED BY DAVE DEXTER, JR. ; peggy Lee’s first broadcast for for repeated appearances. Chesterfield will come off on Sept. The Lee-Barbour team will appear in with Dave Barbour’s band be- Rambling On a Battered Underwood person Sept. 2-8 at the Capitol Theater lind her. in Washington, D. C. On Sept. 10, 11 and 12 they move up to the State |T O N LY takes one swing to hit, and that’s just how the Duke of on tour, Peggy and Dave Theater in Hartford They are expected ,¡11 be heard throughout the fall Ellington came through in the clutch last month after he flopped at back in Hollywood about Sept. 20. M the mighty Palladium in London (Pearl Bailey got all the raves). and winter months — every Thurs- Peg and her husband, one of the nlght — airing from NBC’s Holly- better guitarists, last month played the Undaunted, Duke went out on a tour of the provinces with only a D eadline i’ood studios tor the smoke-maker. Jo New York Paramount and the Baltimore trio behind him, and with Ray Nance and Kay Davis lending a solid Stafford and Perry Como will head the Hippodrome to capacity houses. When Ihow, known as the Chesterfield “ Sup- they return to Hollywood, they’ll move jrClub” stanza, the other four nights from their house high atop the Holly­ . Red Nichols and his Pennies got Jack Fallon, British bassist, led the combo behind Ellington’s* very week. wood Hills to a larger structure. Peggy Peggy and Como wil1 present guest the call to take over the stand at pianistics and was admittedly overwhelmed with the experience. also will be heard frequently. through lists on their presentations, with the In the British "Melody Maker’’ Fallon commented that Duke’s only Sug­ the fall and winter months on Bing the Hangover Club, Hollywood, af­ ;«g Cole Trio, Frankie Laine, Nellie gestion was to “ play as you feel the music — don’t copy my records.’ Crosby’s ABC series for Philco, despite ter Pete Daily’s Chicagoans moved her having a program of her own on Fallon also said that the American maestro is queer for a strong “bassy1 out . Tommy Dorsey has shelved another net. sound. “ The reason Duke’s American orchestra frequently features two MEL TORME, the Velvet Frog, plans to tour England this fall . Lionel Cuts First bull-fiddles is just to be sure that one is always audible.” and Dean Elliott, fast-rising young Hampton, now in Los Angeles, will fol­ Most British musicians, who have been exposed to bebop, rebop, bopeep California conductor, check a score low Woody Herman into the reopened Airshow Sept. 8 Felice Quartet and similar novelty trivia as have Americans the past few years, concluded on a recent Philip Morris airshow Chicago Sherman Panther room in No­ that Ellington still is The Greatest after more than 20 years. Is that news? Bing Crosby returns to Hollywood Making a Movie which features Torme, Elliott’s music vember . Frank Sinatra, postponing his Nevada ranch to wax his first and sundry dramatic effects. Elliott his vacation,, busy shooting “ Take Me Mister Dee Hits The Long, Long TraiJ program of the fall season on Ernie Felice, his accordion and quar­ has been attracting attention in Out to the Ball Came’’ on MCM lot. 8 with Bill Morrow again script- tet have been making their first motion jim Dorsey may scare a few folk next month when he takes his recent months for his skilled, musi­ He hopes to get to London later this fall. ¡ng. The program will not be aired picture. Days, Ernie and his men have recently-organized combo across the Rockies following flicker work ontil Sept. 29. been working at Monogram in scenes cianly waxings with Martha Tilton. in Columbia’s “ Make Believe Ballroom” pic; it’s a musicianly outfit ABC will carry the Crosby show every for the studio’s “ Melody Man” musical. Wednesday. Sponsor is Philco again, with a beat — something few bands can boast these days, And nightly, they continue to bowl ’em Kay Starr Departs; ihn Scott Trotter resumes as maestro over in the smart Casino room of the Anyone got the answer as to why no new bands have soared to the top in nd Peggy Lee will be featured, more Los Angeles Hotel Ambassador, where Torme Bows at Casbah recent years? Miller, Shaw, James, Herman, Kenton all “ happened” in the ften than any other fern, in the guest they’ve been featured since early last Following Kay Starr as the' main 1938-’46 era. W h y? . Anytime Sarah Vaughan wants to return to Holly­ iche. spring. attraction, Mel Torme opened Aug. 30 wood — to avenge her flop of a year ago — she’S welcome. The hipsters, at the Casbah Club in a surprise book­ and booted characters are eager to greet her again and she’s a cinch t( ing. Kay was booked in for two weeks click her next time out. and stayed eight, racking up an all­ time high gross for the engagement. Spectacular Dixie Bash Planned By Jocks Except for radio, Torme has been in­ Frank Bull and Gene Borm an are making plans to present a active for several months since finishing scenes for MCM’s “ Words and Music,” gigantic — well, a tolerably large — Dixieland Jazz Carnival at the in which Perry Como does most of the big Pan-Pacific Auditorium in L. A. next month. And after the chanting. overabundance of inferior “ progressive” jazz which inundated Southern Californians this past summer, it shapes up as a shoo-in for success with Mugs Spanier, Bud Freeman and others winging west for the event. ,'i Marion Hutton In Everybody’s hoppin’ on the Kay Starr bandwagon, after all these years. She's even graciously brushing off radio, film and nitery offers from the same Film With Marxes tone-deaf ninnies who wouldn’t say "hello” to her a year ago. Marion Hutton is making a movie. The blonde chanteuse, featured with r t Two W ays to Make a Million the late Glenn Miller’s band and a radio There’s a move afoot, in Hollywood, to draft Arthur Shaw back into soloist now in her own right, has just music as leader of the new Dave Hudkins-Bob Keen ork just organized been pacted to appear in “ Blonde LITTLE CROSBYS, all four, ignore the gory details are on Page 5. The^Pied Piper, just freed from his sixth Heaven,” a Les Cowan production for Old Man Bob when pappy comes spouse, still has a legion of loyal followers — and if he could ever get a TELL ME, t ell ME Daddy And that’s the line genial Julia Lee has United Artists featuring Harpo, Chico sound again like he got from that Auld-Rich-Pastor-Robinson-Weiss crew of Urned ¡"to one of home following a Campbell's broad­ and Croucho Marx. David Miller is ’39 he’d make eight million bucks sooner than thi$$$ . Dave Rose, who directing and Ilona Massey and Vera­ cast. The youngsters include Cathy, |ulia'0UShSmaSh triumphs with “ K'nS Size PaPa” and “ Snatch and Crab It.” once pounded a piano in a trio with Krupa and Goodman — they were canne Julia, w ° a|wayS features men |jke Benny Carter, Vic Dickenson, Red Norvo, Ellen also have top roles. Excepting Stephen, Chris and Bobby. Probably the first night — finally is setting his sights on a nation-wide tour, carrying Baby Lovett, Jack Marshall and other virtuosi, is back again playing at musical shorts, it’s the first celluloid playing a bunch of Uncle Bing’s six key sidemen. And he intends to play the little towns, too. Not m a n y do. City- She’s been there now for 15 years, taking an assignment for the Michigan songstress, records, too. '°na time out" to play the big east and west coast theaters. sister of Paramount’s Betty Hutton. PACE 4 CAPITOL NEWS CAPITOL NEWS NACE 5 Oooh! That Man Weird New L. A. Band In Bow Is Back Again Pegged A lo n g On CBS A ir (This Month’s Cover Feature) 0 O P IS great if Diz Gillespie plays Art Shaw S tyle “ The Man W ith the Smile- in it, otherwise it’s just noise. There’s a new band in Hollywood His Voice” is back in action. That’s how bop fan Buddy Rich That would be Jack Smith, who views" the so-called “ new” •a'C\hat already is setting some ^ sort resumed his nightly Oxydol broad­ A year ago he felt differently,1 ancJof mark for being dlfferent- casts Aug. 23 over CBS after a found himself applauding anythin? If Js ihe band ° f DaV£ , short summer siesta during which •in the w a y *'of ' ■bop. -But no more. Hudkins, former associate of Artie time he purchased a new house n “ The biggest weakness of the style," Shaw who now conducts a school California’s Valley area just north he said last month as he closed a run for young musicians. But Dave of Hollywood. at the Holly Palladium, “ is the rhythd doesn’t lead the new crew. A young It simply ain’t.