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news 6 CAPITOL NEWCAp|T0L NEWS PACE 3 news DAVE DEXTER’S Old Stars Return To Published Monthly by S u r f a c e CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. Les Brown’s Fold; Sunset and Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif. ' / » o i s e Printed in U. S. A. Palladium Is Next EDITED BY DAVE DEXTER, JR. An eleventh-hour booking will put Les Brown’s band on the Palla­ dium bandstand starting June 1 for five weeks instead of Sonny Dun­ Notes From An Old Desk Drawer ham’s music, as previously scheduled. Bob Crosby is mapping out a stiff road schedule, to get underway! Les, a Pennsylvanian who first Trizzi on guitar, Ray Leatherwood is on this summer when the Campbell’s program (CBS) fades from the air- attracted attention in music as a bass and Jimmy Pratt pounds the tubs. M lanes. His current crew has a style that’s as unrelated to the old Duke University undergraduate, has Les himself, doubling alto and clarinet, Crosby Dixie gang as Diz is to Doctor Gillespie. And that newly- been busy augmenting his crack makes the reeds six strong when he’s blowing up front. formed Jim Dorsey outfit is doing pretty well for an infant. A two-! combo for the Pally engagement. It Dead'ine reeler at Universal will follow the full-length Monogram feature (see is definite that Butch Stone will be The Palladium also has Dick Jurgens tentatively skedded for a September page 7) and JD has his bookings so arranged, through the summer back, on baritone sax, with his hilarious BRILLIANT ALTO soloist, now a comedy act. And Abe Most, clarinet, al­ opening. Henry Busse was featured months, that he can sleep in his own California home every night and through the month of May. Perry Como just signed to make one Harry lames anchor after a decade so will return to the fold for the first film a year for MCM for seven years. shoot 1 8 to 27 holes eveny morning. Dave Hyltone just joined with the late Jimmie Lunceford, is time since the war. Before Pear Harbor Capitol in Hollywood. He’s the Metronome and Hollywood Reporter Willie Smith, This artistic study of Abe was rated one of the five best Dick Haymes and Martha Tilton will writer whose unusual personal integrity is reflected in his decision to a ¡an soloist was made by Charlie stickmen in the business. play eastern theaters in July. Their Mihn’s camera on a recent James drop all his record review columns because of his Cap affiliation. Ray Kellogg Drops Poundage "A utolite” program goes off the air. engagement at the Aragon Ballroom Howcum Pic and the Record Changer, both nationally-circulated mags In Ocean Park, a few miles outside Les will feature Ray Kellogg and Ei­ and supposedly independent, continue to run the biased, moldy-figgy Hollywood. leen Wilson as vocalists. Ray and Eileen Gordie MacRae, Evelyn Knight held recently were married. Kellogg also has reviews under the C. Avakian byline? He’s an executive of a disc over on Texaco show. Program airs via been dieting and is now said to tip the ABC every Wednesday and will continue outfit and he never, never knocks his own waxings— just those of his beams at a mere 200 pounds. Stone and through summer. competitors. ew Band For Les’ brother, Stumpy Brown, also handle Fiddling Vets Wanted By Dave Rose vocal duties with the band. Score one for Davey Rose, whose skilled, musicianly talents are so Les said that the trumpet section ienny Carter would stack up with Frankie Beach, Bob pitifully underplayed on the Skelton show. Rose is rehearsing an all-1 Forsaking a visit to New York Fowler, W es Hensel and Bob Higgins. California orchestra of more than 60 wounded ex-servicemen. They! Trombones will include Ray Klein, Ray . j. • i n Iven though he had his train tickets hope to give concerts this summer along the Pacific coast and with _ Sims, Ralph Phifner and Stumpy Brown. n , ,| , , and reservations set, Benny Carter B u t th e y n ee d a d o z en m o re f idd lers before , _ , _ . .luck, points east, too But they need a dozen more fiddlers before , _ , _ . .luck, Dick Jurgens Due Too noved out to 20th-Fox last month Dave can produce the music he wants. The reeds will comprise Stone, Most, o play his alto sax on the sound­ Here And There On the Hollywood Beat Davey Pell, Jack Tucker and Eddie rack of ‘‘Street With No Name,” one Scheer, whose soprano saxing has caused They’re screaming these days out at the big Burbank plant known if the big productions now in work at lots of attention. Scheer is a holdover (he studio. as W arner Brothers, and all over a freckled-faced blonde who plugged from the old Brown band of 1941. Carter also reorganized his band. W ith along for nearly 10 years as a bandbird with Les Brown and Bob Geoff Clarkson is at the piano, Tony AC contracted to book it, Benny has Crosby. Doris Day, they claim, will be the biggest thing in films since een rehearsing with seven brass, five Crable. Her first two pictures (only one has been released) insure eeds, three rhythm and a girl singer still her future as a top Hollywood star. Lots of grumbling here also o be selected. The “ Amazing Man of Pete Johnson’s Piano BAREFOOT CAL with the Pied about the “ imported” chicklet who has been underbidding the Ameri­ 4usic" also is being considered for a Pipers combo, June Hutton, is shown all network show of his own. Solid in San Diego can gal singers for radio, screen and nitery appearances. Apparently with Chuck Lowry and Hal Hopper Benny’s new crew was tentatively set The hard-hitting boogie piano of Pete while an invisible Clark Yocum holds she’s gonna settle down in the U. S. A. for good, snatching jobs from o debut at the Trianon Ballroom. L. A., Johnson now is being featured in San June’s music. Many girl orioles do her rivals and amassing a small fortune with her tactics— and talons. late May and according to Carter him- Diego, at the St. James Hotel. Pete . Add odds-and-ends to the Kenton story: his daughter Leslie was born pre­ elf, his long-planned trek to Gotham opened on May 1 1 after a long run in their best work sans footwear. For cisely at the same time that he formed his band ’way ’way back in June of dll have to be postponed indefinitely. Los Angeles at various niteries. He works additional proof, see next month’s 1941. Both are seven this month. (And Stan’s band is seven times louder). as a single. issue of the Cap News. “Queen Mary” a Haven For the Squares apitol Bags N e w Note from Cap’s Jimmy Conkling, aboard the mighty British “ Queen Mary" KING COLE somewhere between Liverpool and New York harbor, contends that ‘‘the Orchestra Conducted by Frank DeVol W EA R IN G HER hair short for the musicians on this ship swear they never heard of bebop, Swing, Jazz, ragtime Barclay A lle n O rk first time since she was in elemen­ or Dixieland.” And how many Strauss waltzes can you digest at one sitting— Former Freddy M artin pianist or sailing????? Kay Starr’s 18-month-old daughter, Kathy, attending a recent tary school, Lena Horne will offer Barclay Allen and his new orchestra Nat captures this new look for her legion of fans afternoon floorshow rehearsal with her mother at the Chi Hotel Sherman, ran st month signed to record for WME out on the stage and pulled off a singing and hoofing turn that was so great perfectly the elfin mood of this poignant song. in the forthcom ing “ Words and ■apitol, the manager of the room pleaded to put the babe in the show. Mom decided Music’’ film now under way at MCM. Allen, noted for his speed and sleek The King Cole Trio; Kathy should wait until she’s older. “ W hen she’s two years old,” Kay said, ichnique on the Knabe, is a young vir- LOST APRIL' A dozen great stars will be seen in Orchestra Conducted by Carlyle Hall “ she can make her own decisions. I don’t want to rush her into anything.11 uoso who, before he joined Martin sev- Unforgettable melody, sung in subtle style. the film. But none will top Lena for Howzat? looks. n S^asons kack. was musical director L’A. radio station KLAC. CAPITOL NEWS PA C E 5 PA C E 4 CAPITO L NEW They Put Songs On The Hit Parade T H E N O TICEABLE improvement! two of the nation’s most popula trade papers in recent weeks hasn' escaped the eyes of the Vine stree mob. Sprawled in the Key Club, o' Coffee Dan’s, or at ringside in the Palladium, the gang is particularly er thused these days over The Billboard improved and vastly more accurate ser ies of popularity surveys of America' music tastes. These listings, appear^, weekly, attempt to sum up the “mos played” discs in jukes, and on the air and also which tunes have received th< MEN-ABOUT-TOWN, and the town could be Hollywood, New York or most performances. I t‘s all a much HERE THEY are, the men who help put songs up on the Hit Parade.

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