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CB-1953-01-24-OCR-Pa * ! Page 23 January 24, 1953 The Cash Box , Music United STARTS THE YEAR WITH Louis Armstrong, Sugar Ray Robinson, and a sup- 3 BIG RECORDS!!! porting cast, are currently being offered to promotors as package. The asking price is $5, 000.00, against 50% of a _ the gate, for a one nite stand. This is a big nut, but aftei 3 TOP ARTISTS ! ! stop. all it’s a big show and should pull crowds at every Sensation, pacted with Illinois . Willie Mabon, Mr. jacquet for a tour to cover most top grade R & B theaters. “Wheel Of Fortune” gal doing a SRO . Sunny Gale, the tour thru the midwest. The pert and real pretty little Miss has another big hit looming for herself with “Tear Drops the On My Pillow”. Sunny and hubby Jerry Fields in Chi. for a two-weeker at AB SMITH: Balaban and Katz big house. Next stop will be the University of Minnesota, for a date, then to Buffalo’s Town*****Casino. and re- “ !) Percy Mayfield, the Specialty label’s ace singer has penned a tune, These Foolish Things corded same, that has great possibilities of getting a other markets. m little different treatment and going in U - 140 f “The River’s Invitation” is a natural for several of the pop singers and for most any of the Western artists. “Red Hot And Blue” Published by Venice Music, tune is clear and clean, with a sweet melody that should not only help May- . The field, but also anyone else who may tackle it. never ceasing search for the right material to record recording is today the' biggest single problem in the industry. But at last it is believed that we have found use, the secret, and here it is, free of charge, for all to and with absolutely no strings attached. Search like mad for what you think is a good tune. After finding it, weeks. rehearse it like mad, for about three or four Oh yes—almost forgot to say—engage a top flight ar- ranger, at a real high price, to fix up only the maddest MARIE KNIGHT possible arrangement. Spend at least four hours in the LEO PARKER: recording studio, using no less than eighteen strings. just ahead and make three After the key tune is cut, relax and tell the boys to go the fourth side, wi l sides of their own choosing. They’ll blow’ like mad, and only will this side pay “Cool Leo” only one take, will be the sensation of the industry. Not having $33,000.00 in accounts all of your session costs, but might result m you this is not fiction, but U - 141 receivable, after being in business only six weeks. And to a mfr. that we know. has actually happened ^ “ » Leo’s Boogie one that is catching Bill Heyman, a newcomer on Sittin’ In label, has done in all charts across the on in Philadelphia, and we believe will go upwards slow, and is told m a clear country It’s “I Cried Last Night”. Tune is not too promise and serves story fashion with good rhythm backing. This singer has name, these days, to sell a to further the belief that you don’t have to be a big . Lloyd song. Get the right material and you’re made. Price, famed for his “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” on Special- Pretty ity, comes back with a smart driver in “Tell Me the Baby”. The flip is slow and old fashioned blues, but former side has new and refreshing vigor and a very novel sixteen bar “big sound” introduction. This side will get many a snin on boxes everywhere. ... Joe ROOSEVELT SYKES: “Papoose” Fritz does one for Peacock that really rocks. It’s “Real Fine Girl” and the lyrics alone are enough singer’s to demand attention, to say nothing about the “4 O’clock Blues” manner of delivery,*****which is good. Bobby Prince with his “Tell Me Why, Why, Why” U - 139 for the Chance people, has a clever backing of hand- clapping that gives movement and appeal to this ori- “Too Hot To Hold” ginal tune, with the A1 Smith ork for balance. PRINCE Sarah Vaughan has sailed for England, on board the BOBBY French liner Liberte, for a series of engagements be- Warfield, the Poigy ginning in London. William Dorothy Dandridge of “Porgy and Bess”, back in the states for concerts - might get the lead role in the proposed film of the late Florence Mills. and the Cy Billy Taylor, and his trio, along with Larry Storch, the comedian Washington s Coleman trio holding forth at the Copa Lounge in NYC. Dinah THE the biggest thing since Christine Jorgenson. “Gambler’s Blues” is reported*****to be Marie Knight, the gospel singer, who is also a real cool looking queen, coine iiom couples with Sister Rosetta Tharpe for the best sounding spiritual to LABEL THAT the girls in a Decca in many a moon. ‘‘His Eye Is On The Sparrow” is done by chorus when the soft sweet lilting style, but the real kick comes in the last singers put a ‘ride’ on the lyrics that makes the song release by the something different. Awaiting a new SPELLS Hampton . Lionel Ravens, due out anytime now. started a trend some years back when he made an album called “Moon Glow”. With the use of an organ, RECORD MAGIC— as backing for his vibes, thruout the disc, the Harnp was the first to use this now very popular style. Many years ago the late Fats Waller did some of his_ immortal work on an organ. Now we find Count Basie leading an ever growing array -of .jazz organists’. Some of the latest and best offerings of Norman Granz are showing the Basie organ as a prominent part of. the entire rec- ord. “Paradise -Squat” is' one that .spot-lights some beautiful organ work. Thislinstrument seems to impart nAii save a record. a depth and versatility that often can v. .<* j * ~ * * SUNNY GALE ~7 Milton Karle is busy these clays handling the record V olruted promotion for some of the nations top artists, such 1 as Nellie Lutcher, Nat “King” Cole, Billy May and his band, Johnny Desmond the singer of “Breakfast Club” fame and the big orchestra of Jerry Grey. Paul Monday, well known pianist with the Al Grey All Star orchestra, who also has come RECORD COMPANY carries some of the band’s vocal chores along with Rosetta Perry, imr out with a new release “I Promise” b/w “I Can’t Forget About You” for Peacock. 5052 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE Both numbers are sentimentally styled and sung with rich serious emotion. Howard Lewis is booking Little Walter and Eddie Boyd with his band into CHICAGO, ILL. 750 E 49th Street dates thru-out the southwest. CHESS Houston, Texas for 1/21/53, to begin a string of Chicogo 15. iHmoii >|tci0 CC1 , WAgner 4-3933-4 in Seattle, had a one-niter in Tacoma . Amos Milburn, in addition to a date last week, then begins a slow trek eastward ending at Pep’s in Philly for a 3/16 opening. “It’s What’s in THE CASH BOX That Counts” www.americanradiohistory.com.
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