.-yfrëyE«-’ 95 C A P IT O L NEWS CAPITOL N E W S PAGE 3 news Palladium Pacts New DeVol Band Published Monthly by CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. Sunset ond Vine, Holly wood 28, Colif. Printed in U. S. A. Helen O'Connell To Sing; Opening Here's That Man Again! Set For Nov. 14 W ith Helen O'Connell "It's like this," the man said, turning on his padded stool and pacted to handle the sing­ tapping his swizzle-stick on the long mahogany plank. "I see 'em ing chores with his new dance­ come and go. You remember Ace Brigode and his Virginians? band, Frank DeVol is rehearsing Al Katz and his Kittens? Fred Waring when he actually featured for a five-week run at the Holly­ a couple of native, unspoiled Pennsylvanians? wood Palladium commencing "Why, I can go back to the days when Freddy Martin wore a Nov. 14. The engagem ent, first to sailor's suit—it was at the Bossert Hotel in Brooklyn and the outfit be played by DeVol's new dance was known as 'Martin and his Mariners' and they aired clean out crew, will follow the current run of Ray Anthony's ork. to San Diego just as Paul Tremaine and his Lonely Acres gang broadcast from a chop suey joint on Broadway. Irving Aaronson's Still Keeps CBS Show "There will be 15 musicians in Commanders? Knew 'em well, Bud. Once roomed with Irv's first the band," DeVol said, "includ­ fiddle in Cleveland. ing men like Ray ConnifF, on trom­ "If you wanna get interspective seriously, Bud, I'll lay this on bone; Paul Smith at the piano; you. I saw Ted Lewis down on one knee blowing a clarynet when Jimmy Pratt, drums, and Jimmy ; he was a punk sideman in New York with Earl Fuller's Jazzbos. Salkow, trumpet." And Hank Busse came along later, maybe 1923, playing lead horn Because of his heavy radio with Whiteman. Thank you, sir, just one more and I've gotta run schedule, the musicians heard in ; —easy on the ice, n o w —and w here w ere we? Phil Harris? Haw! DeVol's band on the CBS "Oxy- ^ He was teamin' with a slide player name of Lofner—called it the dol" show with Margaret Whit- i LOOKING TEN years yo un g e r w ith his new hairpiece, Frank DeVol Harris & Lofner orchestra and Phil did right well on the coast ing, Jack Smith and Dinah Shore : with his cornpone humor and curly hair. stops a rehearsal to preview his new look with blonde Helen O'Con­ are not allowed by the musicians' nell, who will be DeVol's featured vocalist when the new DeVol "Y ep , yo u're righ t. W a lte r Davison d id lead the Louisville loons union to work the Palladium. dance band opens at the Hollywood Palladium on Nov. 14 fo r a five- DeVol, therefore, has been hand­ and Clyde McCoy was featured on cornet. Cab Calloway—you'll week run. Miss O 'C onnell is re tu rnin g to action fo llo w in g marriage picking his Palladium ork from remember his early Cotton Club band but did you know that there and motherhood. the best of the Local 47 member­ were three other Calloway bands, too? Blanche, Harriet and Jean ship not tied to radio work. Calloway all led orks and even made records, Bud. And whatever Helen O'Connell, like DeVol, happened to that big police dog Horace Heidt always featured in came out of Ohio a decade ago. his stage shows? Heidt isn't important but that dog is—or was. Whiting, Now a Mother, First with Larry Funk, then with He could always get a big hand, and Vince Lopez used another Jimmy Dorsey's crew, she became gimmick, running up a small American flag from his piano at the established as the most popular— close of the show while his ork played 'My Country 'Tis Of Thee Starts New Air Series and many thought the most beau­ or something equally as patriotic. tiful—oriole with a band. A doz­ "Madcap Maggie" Whiting became plain old Mom Whiting on en of her records sold in the "Yes, thanks, d o n 't m ind if I do—one ice cube is plenty and Oct. 10 when she up and presented her husband, Lou Busch, w ith millions before she voluntarily re­ how 'bout Harry Reser's Eskimos? They sure had a nifty theme a king-sized dau g h te r w e ig h in g m ore than nine pounds a t Cedars tired, in 1943, in favor of mar­ song, dogs barking and sleighbells jingling. Sounded great when of Lebanon H ospital in Los Angeles. riage and motherhood. Helen also I was in Florida one winter, lyin' in the hot sand and listening to Maggie, m arried secretly to the p ianist, conductor and C apitol will be featured as vocalist on a Friday Cliquot Club broadcast. Or am I goin' back too far? Records exec last winter, was making records a few days before DeVol's dance records for Capitol. "Coon-Sanders, Bernie Cummins, Garber-Davis, the Ipana Trou­ the arrival of the baby. She was named Deborah Irene Busch. And Polk Set To Sing badours, Isham Jones, Bert Lown, Danny Russo, Boyd Senter and already, Mag is back in action. Her first assignment was to launch DeVol also announced that HERE'S THE w a y V irg in ia M ayo a new series of transcribed radio programs for Armed Forces Radio Gordon Polk and the Dream- appears in Warner Brothers' soon- out west, Earl Burtnett, Anson Weeks, Abe Lyman, Art Hickman Service—to be heard all over the world—which feature W h iting as Makers, a vocal group, also will due musical, "The West Point and Gtis Arnheim, in his later days featuring a big raw kid from ° singer, news com m entator and intervie w e r o f H ollyw o o d stars, sing with his new outfit at the Kansas name of Stan Kenton as piano-plunker—sure, Bud, I r® Story" with Jim Cagney and ■»'s a daily show. Palladium. The Pally booking Gordon MacRae. And for news member 'em all well. And I often get to thin kin' if the bands o She also is heard re g u la rly on the CBS " O x y d o l" show w ith Frank came a bout as a result o f the about another pretty blonde 1950 will be remembered 10, 20, 30 years from now. DeVol's ork, Jack Smith and Dinah Shore. During her maternity period tumult aroused by DeVol's discing named Mayo, see page 5 of this "Hey, speaking of that Kenton kid, whatever happened to him. she transcribed her songs ¡n advance on tape—and never missed of "Dream Awhile," one of the issue. Both Mayos are much too 0 broadcast. fall season's top sellers. lovely to be related. r it e PAGE 4 CAPITOL NEWS -a« PAGE 5 . M Stardom Neared By Blonde Mary Mayo; She’s Al! Set On Discs And Sinatra’s TV Show She has a range of three octaves, EIGHT DIXIELAND bands grossed $1 2,327 after taxes A personable little blonde singer whose which is about double the range Oct. 6 at the big Shrine Auditorium In Los Angeles, o f most fern thrushes, and she voice has been featured on hun­ marking one of the larg­ has studied classical music exten­ Pianist-Singer Jerry Marlowe, dreds of radio jingles—from Halo sively. She therefore crosses a est mobs ever to attend a recently signed to make children's shampoo to Van Cam p's beans— warm and intimate pop style with strict musical event at the Shrine. discs for Capitol, spends his nights will make her debut as a record­ a clear and legit style peculiar Presented by Frank Bull and Gene entertaining at the Kimball at ing star this m onth. Her name is to the longhairs. But it's all very Norman, the third annual Dixie­ Carl's Sea Air Cafe in Santa Mary Mayo. natural for Mary; her father was land Jubilee missed by some 500 M onica. patrons of equalling the 1949 Mary, just 21 and married to a tenor with the Met Opera and overflow but plans for another, a New York musician, Al Ham, her mom toured as a concert Frankie Carle bobbed up with soprano. next fall, already are being made. sliced her first discs for the Capi­ a new girl singer, Joan House, to Sharkey and His Kings of Dixie­ tol label a few weeks ago in M ary studied b alle t a t 3, replace Terri Stevens. Change NEWEST S IN G ING sensation in land flew in from New Orleans Manhattan after Walter Rivers, started piano at 5 and became came about last month, in Holly­ the New York area is Mary Mayo, to top last month's show and re­ Cap talent scout, and George T. the soloist in her church choir be­ wood, when the pianist and Miss who recorded her first sides last ceived a warm welcome from the Simon, music mag editor, heard fore she got out of the doll stage. Stevens flared over a number of month and also made her video more than 6,000 howling Dixie her piping in the Four Chicks and From her home in Statesville, radio and TV guest shots she was debut on Frank Sinatra's CBS fanatics.