TEEN, Page 4 THE SUNDAY STAR, Woshington, D. C. Moy 19. 1957 TOP DISC JOCKEYS PICK TOP TEN RECORDS Consensus of the Ratings of the Nine Oise Jockeys Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing Standing Record Singer Last Wk. 2 H’ks. Ago 3 Wks. Ago Record ' Singer Last Wk. 2 Wk*. Ago 3 Wk«. Ago 1. School Day Chuck Berry 1 3 5 7. Gone Ferlin Huskey 5 4 4 2. Round and Round Perry Como 2 12 Four Walls Jim Reeves
3. So Rare Jimmy Dorsey _ _ Mangoes Rosemary Clooney a Whv ,vllv, p„, o e n 8. White Sport Coat Marty Robbins 6 9 10 y 9. Butterfly . If ? J ? Andy Williams 77 5 5.t All Shook Up Elvis Presley 4 2 1 Fabulous Charlie Grade Almost Paradise Roger Williams 7 8 6 10 jitters in the 6. Valley of Tears Fats Domino I Don Owens I Jerry Strong | Milton Q. Ford Al Ross I Bob Rickman Milt Grant Lord Fauntleroy Jack Rowxie Eddie Galloher~ I WARL I WMAL | VAX WRC ! WEAM WTTG WUST WWDC VVTOP '*ui, 1 Gone j Round and Round All Shook Up Round and Round School Day School Doy sond Round and Round Ferlin Huskey i Perry Como Elvis Presley Perry Cofno Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Perry Como Clyde "Sr’S.McPhoiter Pot Boone _ 7 White Sport Coot Almost Paradise Mangoes So Rare Young Blood Gone School Day Valley of Years Butterfly Morty Robbins Roger Williams Rosemary Clooney Jimmy Dorsey Coasters Ferlin Huskey Chuck Berry Fots Domino Andy Willioms
The Honky Tonk Y«- T° n ht There Oughta Be 3 .^ Why Baby. Why? Why Baby, Why? Whife Sporf Coot All Shook Up School Day Why Baby, Why?
All Shook Up Mangoes Almost Paradise Mama Looka Bubu Fabulous Bye! Bye! Love! Valley of Teors So Rare Almost Paradise Elvis Presley Rosemary Clooney Roger Willioms Horry 6elofonte Chorlie Grocie Everly Brothers Fots Domino Jimmy Dorsey Roger Willioms W muL* ttr 99 Ways Round and Round Butterfly Valley of Teors 4 Walls Come Go With Me Goin' Steady So Rare 5 Midnightil Tob Hunter Perry Como Andy WtMioms Fots Domino Jim Reeves Del Vikings Tommy Sonds Jimmy Dorsey Potsy Cline ; *’ ove ,n ’ A Walls *So Rare So Rare Fabulous Little Dartin' Four Walls Chantez-Chontex " Four * 1 Reeves Jimmy Dorsey Jimmy Dorsey «Vlnd Chorlie Giwcie Diamonds Jim Reeves Dinah Jim Frankie Lome Pot” Boone Shore
When Rol! Up to Me - 7 Young Love Why Baby, Why? Rockjmd 99 Woys Jungle Hop V/orm ~m Wolkin Fabulous Marianea ' Pot Boone Tob Hunter Don ond Dewey Fots Domino Chorlie Grocie Sonny Jomes Jimmy r Terry Gilkyson King Cole P i ,fn ‘ , ,l First Dote. First Mangoes Uk*. Y '"a A Little Loneliness Four Wolls Hey! Cobella! Goin'Steady C. C. Rider ,°" . Mama Looka Bube « KISS, ‘ Love ( Koy Rosemary Clooney Tommy . Storr Jim Reeves Vmme Vtncent ’ Sonds Chuck Willis ~, ~ Horry Belofonte * ' Sonny Jomes . Andy Wllltoms_ F d Me ° ThereGughto Be |'m j Dark Moon Little Darlin* Almost Porodise Bye! Bye! Lo»e! Valley of Tears Serious . 99 Ways Bluebird, JH.r .... . 9 Bonnie Guitor Diamonds Roger Willioms Everly Brothers Fots Domino e , . Hilltoppers Tob Hunter
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- . 'GG Rider/ JM -• Chuck Forrest Talks An Old Tune —But Very Sparingly i* By HARRY BACAS By FIFI GORSKA also skeptical about a gimmick Reporter Chuck his show. Tt’s an old, old song that Chuck Star Staff uses on generate interest, say Willis has revived in bis hit record Fast-talking Chuck Forrest talked “To I I'm jockey broadcasting from a submarine. Os “C. C. Rider.” himself into a disc job with a minimum of talk. Once an indignant teen-ager called I tell you anything up ‘Hah! eh? can almost Chuck has been the morning man and told me. A sub. about it except what it means. * Surer And hung up.” at station WPGC for the last two wife ” ' Ma Rainey, the famous blues months. His voice "unlocks” 1580 Chuck, a native of New York, V ' |K singer of the 19205, first made on the radio dial at 6 a m. Monday turned to the mike when he was “C. C. Rider” famous, but it had through Saturday. Then for the majoring in economics at Ford- been around awhile before that. next four hours, this 23-year-old ham. He was chief announcer of Disc jockeys are arguing these days m \f\ vfl applies the needle to one record the University’s FM radio station until graduated in Into ' over the meaning of the words, CHUCK WILLIS after another. He also applies the he 1954. £ .<* . experts the Army a few months later, he .."sSsJ but most think it belongs gimmick that him his job at to out new sot got further experience CHUCK FORREST to the “train blues” which are a don’t like put a re- the Prince Georges County station: radio there —Star Phots and Stall rich tradition with Negroes in the lease by an artist as long as his “Very little jabbering!” here at radio station WGMB. South. selling Chuck also transcribes commer- like mad” and would like to own current record is well. Chuck believes in just introducing cials and helps Evelyn Swarthout “C. C." may even stand for a the record, giving the weather and and manage a radio station. particular railroad, something like produce her Music in Schools series time and keeping chatter at a piped elementary And if he’s anything like cue at Chicago and Central, for example. The Marimba Effect which is into minimum. What’s more, he doesn't schools in Washington. his Daniel Webster, he The train symbolizes romance and Chuck made a tape recording of “double spot” commercials. Trans- ancestors. perhaps a trip He writes music, "plays the piano might talk himself into ft. to freedom. “C. C. Rider” with his band, trans- lated from trade talk, that means giving right ferred the recording to disc and one commercial after a another. Writer Others took that to Atlantic Records in for Each day Chuck plays the top Chuck Willis is best known as a New York. The company made a 30 tunes of the week as determined song writer. He records his own few changes, had Jesse Stone ar- by record store sales, as well as songs and writes for other singers range it and recorded it with a other records too. like Ruth Brown and Patti Page. consciously chorus, two guitars, a tenor sax, “I don't work for a This is the first time he has used teen-age audience, but it comes an old number instead of his own bass, drums, piano and marimba out that way.” explains the disc songs. Even so. he has changed behind Chuck. The old-fashioned, jockey who sometimes gets as many the words a little: little-used marimba is the source as 220 fan letters in one day. C. C. Rider, strange-sounding Chuck has a theory on why it's you of those tremolo Look what have done. effects. the teen-ager who decides what is ft You made me love you. “C C. Rider” has been iden- popular: “Teen-agers don’t have Now your man done come. tified in some people's minds with the problems and pressures that An Atlanta boy who travels another old blues, “Easy Rider.” adults do and they have more around with his own band, Chuck But Jerry Wexler of Atlantic time to work at playing. Besides, used to record for Okeb and has Records says there is no connec- kids are more receptive to new been with Atlantic Records for a • tion. ‘“Easy Rider’ is a very dirty ideas in music and not so set in little more than a year. In that song.” be says. When I their ways as the grown-ups.” pointed ; time. Atlantic has released only out that Terry Gilkyson of “Mari- Chuck has found out that the there's 4 roes atee* you!iX&r three records—‘Tt’s Too Late.” anne” fame, calls his trio “The .teen-age audience is "more vocal,” and “Juanita,” both originals by Easy Riders,” Mr. Wexler laughed. too. They keep the phone ringing in Chuck, and this one. “That’s all right,” he said. “Gil- the Coral Hills broadcasting station.
up - There haven’t been more, be- kyson is essentially a Westerner “Slip on a singer's name and Watch Miltaajoy a "Sirieiner" cause all three have proved to be and when you give “Easy Rider*’ a the teen-agers catch you. because “durable” records That Is. they Western connotation, the breath of they know the facts. Music is their Maa -Fri., P.M.; Sat., 4-5 PM. B, Chattel 5 keep selling. Record companies the sagebrush kind of sanitizes it.” hobby,” he says. Some of them are ytTI