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Allies Davis, trumpeteer and composer of modern jazz, started his tour After his tour of the USA, has started a long tour of throughout in Hannover on March 29th. He goes to Cologne, Munich, Italy, at the end of which he is likely to record with . On Karlsruhe and Nuernberg. March 26th and 27th, Modugno gave three concerts in a Milanese theatre. Renata Tebaldi, First Lady of the Opera, is expected to tour Germany in “Personalita” coupled with “Till” by Caterina Valente is recording high sales May. Marlene Dietrich will visit her home country in May, with her own ballet. in Italy. It is on the Decca label. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellchaft won the “Grand Prix du Disque in “Mustafa’,” a cheerful. Oriental-like tune, distributed by Durium on the 1906”, winning four prizes out of fifteen. Vogue label was released in Italy. A remake of the film, “Bomben auf Monte Carlo” with Eddie Constantine, “Morgen” is becoming popular in Italy and three versions are now available has made the tune, “A Night In Monte Carlo” by Billy Vaughn very popular in —Eddie Calvert’s on Columbia, Ivo Robic’s on Polydor and Miran De Martino’s Germany. Teldec has already sold 200,000 copies of this record. on RCA. The music is published in Italy by Leonardi. Carmen Cavallaro’s recording of “The Eddy Duchin Story”, for which he got Durium will present and distribute the Neopolitan record label. Royal, in Italy large Italian a gold record on American Decca, is now released in Germany on the Bruns- and abroad. Two firms were trying to buy this label, which wick label. has a rather limited, but very interesting Neopolitan catalogue, since it reflects Peter Kraus was invited to appear on the French radio show, “Serenade”. the musical sensitivity of the people of Naples. The managers of Royal, Mr. Also, while doing the TV Film “Rendezvous in ”, he signed a contract for Ruggero and Mr. Polio confirmed the signing of the contract with Durium to a Canadian TV film. Besides that, Peter signed with Stewart Morris for British The Cash Bo.x office. television for four TV shows in London. Decca will release in April the first LP by Eartha Kitt, whose “Sholem” was The premiere of “Porgy And Bess” in Munich will be on April 11th. Bruns- a hit; the LP “” hy Dion And The Belmonts, which has already wick released an EP with four songs from this opera, and an LP with ten songs gone up on the American charts; “My Cocuzza” has made its appearance, by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Carmen MacRae. featuring Louis Prima, whose first LP will be published this summer on the Polydor released two new stereo songs by Cindy Ellis, whose “Das Ziel Dot label. meiner Wunsche”, was very popular in Germany. She sings “Die kleine Stadt Pat Boone is expected to come to Italy, but his program has not yet been will schlafen Geh’n” backed with “Kann ein Glueck denn so vergehn”. decided. Heliodor released a record with The Barry Sisters called “Bet Mich a An exceptional record is “E’ Vero” backed with “Quando Vien La Sera” sung Bisele” and “Beltz”. by Rosanna Carter!, the famous lyric soprano, on the Columbia label. Out of the 20 San songs, she chose these (It’s Electrola already has had an increase of 15% in business for the first two Remo two compositions, “E’ Vero” Bindi months of this year. In classical music, Electrola has a big stereo repertoire, True) was penned by and published by Alfredo Rossi, and “Quando Vien La Sera” (When Evening Falls) Carlo Alberto which includes ten operas, and many symphonies and concerts, including all was penned and published by nine symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven. Rossi. Mr. Candida, general sales manager of (His Master’s Voice Columbia The big hit, “Petite Fleur” is now sung by French chansonette Claude Goaty VCM — Marconiphon) informs me that this firm’s best sellers are at present, “It’s on Vogue in monaural and stereo. Time To Cry” by Paul Anka (this record has sold more than 41,000 copies I have often been asked the names and addresses of the German record from February 29th to 17th); “Kriniinal “Be- companies by American disk jockeys and music publishers. They are as follows; March Tango” by Trombetta; lieve Me” by The Royal Teens. The first two records are in the Italian best Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, Harvestehuder Weg 1-4, Hamburg 13; seller list. Electrola Gesellschaft M.B.H., Maai-weg 149, Koeln-Brausnfeld; Ariola Schall- Umberto Bindi, successful Italian composer is touring Italy with trumpet platten GMBH, Guetersloh; Teldec Schallplatten GMBH, Heussweg 25, Ham- player Eddie Calvert. burg 19; Philips, Moenckebergstr. 7, Hamburg 1. The firm of Schallplatten-Import-Dienst Bernhard Mikulski, , told The Cash Box that they have an arrangement with Interdisc in to dis- 10. tribute Riverside, Contemporary, Goodtime, GNP, Hi-Fi, Jazzland, Le Jazz Cool, Lighthouse and World Pacific Records in Germany, starting on April 1st. Italy's Best Sellers They will be released in Germany in June. This firm also distributes the Verve and Blue Note labels in Frankfurt. “Jackety Jack” sung in the German text hy Billy Sanders on Electrola, is 1. Marina (Marino Marini/Rocco Granata Durium/Bluebell) disti’ibuted by Atlantic in America. Music publisher Kurt Feltz with young — 2. It’s Time To Cry (Paul Anka Columbia) singer, Margit Imlau, produced the German version of “Bye Bye” in Germany — 3. Why (Frankie Avalon Bluebell) titled “Damit ich dir imponier.” This record is released in America by Decca. — 4. Kriminal Tango (Trombetta/Marino Marini/Guareschi—Columbia/Durium /Music) 5. Mr. Blue (Fleetwoods—Top Rank) 6. Believe Me (Royal Teens—Capitol) 7. Personalita/Till (Caterina Valente—Decca) 8. Pretty Blue Eyes (Steve Lawrence/C. Douglas—His Master’s Voice/Top Germany's Best Sellers Rank) 9. Morgen (Eddie Calvert—Columbia) Run, Boy, Run (Sandford Clark—London)

1. Ich zaehle taeglich meine Sorgen (Heartaches By The Number) (Peter Alexander—Polydor) 2. Unter fremden sternen (Under Foreign Stars) (Freddy— Polydor) 3. Red River Rock (Johnny And The Hurricanes/The Fellows-—London/Decca) Song Contest Ends 4. Marina (Rocco Clranata Electrola) 5. Du musst alles vergessen (You Must Forget All) (Freddy—Polydor) Within twelve hours of the result, 6. Seeman (Sailor) (Lolita—-Polydor) Pathe-Marconi, for whom Jacqueline 7. Banjo Boy (Jan und Kjeld—Ariola) Boyer, singer of the top song records, 8. Mr. Blue (Detlef Engel Telefunken) had received a request for tapes from 9. Muli-Song (Ivo Robic— Polydor) seven countries. Columbia plans to re- 10. Kein land kann schoener sein (No Other Country Can Be More Beautiful) lease the song for the English market (Rene Cai’ol —Polydor) backed with the Monaco entry “That Evening” hy Francois Degnelt. Bryan Johnson’s recording of “Looking High, High, High” has been recorded on London Reception For Everly Brothers Decca and is already high in the Brit- ish charts. “Tom Pillibi” is published here by Chappel & Co. Ltd. and “Look- ing High, High, High” by Robbins Music. It is interesting to note that Jac- queline Boyer is the daughter of fa- mous French parents, Jacques Piles and Lucienne Boyer while Bryan Johnson is the brother of Teddy John- son who, with his wife Pearl Carr, won second place for Great Britain in last year’s contest in with “Sing Little Birdie”. Competitors including many top LONDON—“Tom Pillibi,” a French name artists, composers and conduc- song, was the winner of The Eurovi- tors from thirteen European coun- sion Song Contest—Grand Prix 1960 tries converged on London’s Royal held here on March 29. Written by Festival Hall where the contest was Andre Popp, the song is published in held on Tuesday, March 29. The first England by Chappell. was held in The contest developed into an ex- Lugano in 1956 when Switzerland was citing battle between “Tom Pillibi” the host country. Subsequent hosts and England’s “Looking, High, High, have been Germany (1957), Holland High,” culminating in victory for (1958) and (1959). This year France with 32 votes, with IJnited it was Britain’s turn and the contest, Kingdom second with 25 followed by under the auspices of the European Francois Degnelt of Monaco with 15 Broadcasting Union, was the largest votes. Teddy Scholtern of Holland, last European exchange ever to be held in year’s winner, presented the trophy to this country. The aim of the contest is Miss on behalf of the to encourage the output of original BBC. Hostess for the evening was TV songs in the participants’ countries by LONDON—A reception was held at the Savoy Hotel here recently to launch personality Catherine Boyle, who bringing about rivalry between au- the Warner Bros. Record Company in this country. Pictured at the celebration linked the program together and the thors and composers through interna- are (1 to r) Roy Lister, manager of Warner Bros, in London; Phil and Don British commentary was in the hands tional comparison of their works. Everly; Robert Weiss, International Director of Warner Bros.; and S. A. of the popular disk jockey, David Votes for the entries are cast by juries Beecher-Stevens, sales manager for Decca Records here. Jacobs. (continued on page 48)

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