The Billboard Campaign to Make It Easier for Legit Cus- Tomers to Enjoy Full Value for Their Dol- Vet Re-Employin't Lars
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THE WORLD`S FOREMOST AMUSEMENT WEEKLY SPECIAL MATERIAL MAKES BA PARKS Prepping Expansion Era --- New Rodes & Ideas Sought NIGHT CLUBS-VAUDE Sales Conventions Confabs Mean Plenty $$ for Showbiz EVELYN KNIGHT Evelyn Knight-ingale's Back From Brazil (See Music Section) CARNIVAL PLATTER VS. FLESH SPIELERS www.americanradiohistory.com GUILD RECORDS, INCORPORATED proudly announce the appointmentof JIMMY RICH as General Manager The recent appointment of Jimmy Rich as general manager of Guild Records, Incorporated, is another step toward Guild's goal of securing really fine musical talent and producing only the best in records. Guild Records has also been fortunate in adding to its staff of musical artists many top-notch exponents of music in its various moods. These fine artists under the personal direction of Jimmy Rich, plus Guild's quality recording will mean increased business for you...and ever-growing public de- mand for Guild Records. OUR NEW RELEASES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING Songdom's Newest Star That Young Master of Music DICK BROWN GEORGE PAXTON Vocalist and His Orchestra LOVE LETTERS OUT OF THIS WORLD ARE YOU LIVIN' OLD MAN THIS CAN'T BE LOVE Catalog No. 140 Catalog No. 131 Super -Modern Swing New Ace of Trumpeters BOYD RAEBURN "DIZZY" GILLESPIE and His Orchestra and His Orchestra YOU CAME ALONG SALT PEANUTS BOYD'S NEST HOT HOUSE Catalog No. 133 Catalog No. 1003 GERALD CLARK and His Original Calypsos MAN SMART-WOMAN SMARTER MY DONKEY WANT WATER Catalog No. 115 DEDICATED TO THE PRODUCTION OF THE BEST IN RECORDS II RECORDS REG INCORPORATED NEW YORK, N.Y. 665 Fifth Avenue, www.americanradiohistory.com Vol. 57. No. 35 September 1, 1945 The World's Foremost Amusement Weekl OPEN-END E.T. $$ RAINBOW Servicecamps SplurgingWith Fall Fairs Scrap Standards for Local Idea for Plenty Offering More Dough State -Wide Plan SomePopsToo CHICAGO, Aug. 25. - ODT's green - For Name Bands and Singers light go-ahead to America's State and county fairs flashed too late for many Musical shows that ran of the big ones, but along the lower end Sox Must Be Emptied Before Bases Close of the Mississippi Valley's long -dormant daily have biggest call- State fair belt exposition officials are even top stations buy 'em CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-Several one-night GAC, have routed Sfinny Dunham's band rushing into action. bookers here are prepping for what ap- for a series of 41 one-nighters thru the At Topeka, Kan.; Hutchinson, Kan.; pears to be a forthcoming string of bids Midwest in order that Dunham can grab Shreveport, La.; Oklahoma City and else- . from Midwest army camps and naval some of the big moola being offered by where thru this area, plans that were NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Everyone seems stations for the best they can secure in the service locations. Tour will take Dun - shelved by earlier ODT directives have to feel that the open door to a present- name talent. With the Jap capitulation, ham's ork thru the Midwest into Texas been brought out again, dusted off and day fortune is the open-end musical plenty of these camps and naval stations with the service camps paying up to $500 polished for use yet this season. transcription. There's little excitement will be getting the ax soon, because they more than civilian locations. Fair officials frankly admit that re- about this "gold -mine" at the bigger are rapidly losing personnel, yet their "If" Clauses Are No Ache strictions were lifted too late to permit transcription organizations like World, entertainment treasuries are still heavily the usual full-fledged expositions of and NBC, but the smaller Bulk of the contracts made with service Associated laden with cash. (See SCRAP LOCAL on page 54) boys are in the field with both feet and camps in the Midwest carry a clause rainbows on every prospectus door. Special Service officers from camps in which makes the pact null and void in paint the Midwest, such as the jumping off the event that the camp suddenly folds, The little boys are certain that net- spots of B -29's bound for Japan, are but C.O.'s in these camps have told Spe- work time is going to get tighter and already demanding the cream of the cial Service officers that security of the tighter. They're also certain that indie names for their entertainment schedules. camp dance halls is good Tor the next Showbiz Asked station execs aren't going to show much Brass hats have reported to them that couple Months. Pacts have been inked more ambition than they indicated prior the future of the camp is pretty uncer- to the war and so, say these peddlers as far ahead as October 5 by the local answer. tain and that the officers and enlisted band skedders. Jimmy Dorsey is set for To Aid Its Own. of disks, open-end e.t.a are the men's treasuries, built up during the war, They further explain that during the the Oklahoma and Arkansas circuit in NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-American Thea- to must be spent so the men will get their set ban, open -enders were restricted late September, with Stan Kenton on ter Wing's workroom is making a plea dramas, without musical themes and money's worth before the camp is shut (See CAMP DATES on page 38) time for show- down. As a result, officers are requesting for clothing-but for first with sound effects bridges, yet they did biz people. ATW's pitch is being made okay. Now they stress "we can give the the best in bands and are willing to pay of Greece, who up to 60 per cent more than the usual on behalf of the thesps stations a network class job at a price have not been benefited by previous col- they can sell." buying price for one-nighters. include lections. Items being sought Stuff 15G To Spend in 3 Months Ducat Brokers dressy clothes suitable for stage ward- Leased robe. Most of the platter builders have One broker reports this week that a switched to a leasing proposition with Special Service officer called him with Managers, press agents and stage man- the legit companies. ownership staying in the hands of a $15,000 purse which had to be spent Drive for agers are liaison with peddlers. This makes it possible to for entertainment within the next three OK Clothes may be dropped backstage of any of the Workshop, peddle the disks at least a couple months. Officer is dickering for movie New York theater, or at times, thus saving even the cost of the and music name singles to work with 730 Fifth Avenue. If necessary, Workshop the duds. pressings - and they're getting real name bands for one night p.a.'s at the will have someone call for dough for them, too. Take Singin' Sam's base. First sale, which cost the camp Time on Tix Out-of-towners are asked to mail clothes End E. T. $$ on page 6) $1,500, brings in a newly formed band directly to the Fifth Avenue address. (See Open and two minor movie names for the eve- ning. Officer told the local fee splitter Mackey, T -S, McBride Start It that he wants plenty of such combina- tions during the next three months. _.awNEW YORK, Aug.27.-TieAug. brokers .reare Illinois Job Reporter Seg Bob Weems and Paul Bannister, of stepping into line with the same enthu- siasm as producers with The Billboard campaign to make it easier for legit cus- tomers to enjoy full value for their dol- Vet Re-Employin't lars. With the vast majority of Stem Promotes British Troops managers agreeing to print curtain times of shows on their ducats, and thus save the pew -buyer the price of a newspaper The Billboard Gripe on Poor or phone call in order to check the start- Ad Service of ing time, the specs have been quick to join the parade. As reported in last week's issue, The ENSA Shows Billboard queried the broker and agency Plan May Be Extended to All States LONDON, Aug. 27.-According to a field urging the countermen to include recent dispatch in The London News curtain -rise info on all vouchers sold Chronicle, British troops are blowing for b. -o. exchange. Currently, such ex- male and female veterans who have tops over the complete absence of home CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-Illinois State of- to their change slips, whether sold out of Commission had experience qualifying them for a top-flight English entertainers in Ger- offices or over hotel counters, contain fice of the War Manpower position in show business. Plan will be many, while American G.I.'s are getting this week put into effect a plan to have only such items as theater, seat loca- the State carry described on other stations in the group their fill of stars like Bob Hope, Mickey tions, date and price. Any other advice radio stations thruout next week. Rooney and Jack Benny. They're not mad that the purchaser gets from the vender programs drawing attention to The Bill- the Yanks getting entertainment, board's Veterans' Re -Employment Serv- WMC's Job Reporter is a weekly 15 - about is verbal. The result has been, whether Reporter live interview program. State but can't see why ENSA doesn't do the due to misunderstanding or carelessness ice. This week the WMC's Job minute job they claim USO -Camp Shows, Inc., (see page 39) program on 12 stations headquarters of the WMC provides the on the customers' part, that the latter an explanation scripts for the series.