news NOVEMBER 194? VOL. 7 NO. 11 DEAN MARTIN JIMMY WAKELY WOODY HERMAN SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON JAN GARBER 95 CAPITOL NEWS CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 3 DAVE DEXTER'S n e w s Published Monthly by CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. w Sunset and Vine, Hollywood 28, Calif. SURFACE NOISE Printed in U. S. A. He’s Back—And EDITED BY DAVE DEXTER, JR. MEMO: To Amateur Songwriters . Rarin’ To Go! FROM: Record Companies, Song Publishers, Bandleaders, Vocalists. Stan Kenton's long- awaited and hotly de­ Please don't send us your songs! bated return to music is They come in by the hundreds, every day, every week, every already an actuality. He's month. Invariably they are accompanied by long, rambling letters pointing out that the songs are “ specially written," that they are now being booked for a “ better than the tunes on the Hit Pa rad e" and that—if given just grinding concert tour of this one break—the writer can thus take his deserved place Stan Kenton Returns—Page 3. 75 dates, he will definitely among the Warrens, Mercers, etc., etc. feature 40 musicians and June Charlie Barnet Quits—Page 13. “ All my friends," virtually every letter boldly states, “ say my Christy, and he's toiling night and Why Buddy Clark Died—Page 4. songs are wonderful." day right now composing new If they said they were lousy, or average, they wouldn't be music which his new orchestra Peggy Lee Making a Movie— friends. will perform. Page 6. There are honest and valid reasons why an amateur's songs 1 Gone will be the “ Artistry in Max Steiner Will Record—Page 7. have no chance. Why should a publisher accept an unknown ditty Rhythm" and "Progressive Jazz" Vaughn Monroe Faces Cameras— by an unknown writer when he has his choice of hundreds of taglines which his previous bands Page 12. new tunes which will be featured in million-dollar motion pictures, ; popularized. or Broadway shows, or by big name bands and singers? Why "I have given long and careful risk a suit charging that a tune submitted 17 years ago last consideration to this new under­ Halloween sounds “ just like Lucky Old Su n ?" taking," Kenton said in late Octo­ BACK AGAIN as a bandleader, Stan Kenton hauls out his road Of course the “ big" publisher, or “ big" record company, may ber, “and I've dropped whatever maps again as he plots a concert tour with his forthcoming 40-piece be passing up a sure Hit Parade topper in returning your en­ plans I once had to study psychia­ “ Innovations" orchestra. Rehearsals start early this month. Gene velope unopened. But the odds are something like 20,000 to 1 try. My future lies in music." Howard, who again will publicize Kenton, shot this new portrait a that the next hit will be composed by a known songwriter. To Be 'Innovations' few days after Kenton confirmed his plans—the same plans the Cap All of which leaves the amateur with two alternatives—and All of which confirms the C api­ News published as far back as July. only two. tol News' exclusive story of last Stan's concerts are not being I-—Keep your songs. Try to get them performed in your home July, a news beat which a dozen From the Pacific coast the band will move east, across the Middle- booked by the agency which for­ territory by radio stations, hotel bands, ballroom musicians, national mags took great pains to west, down below the Mason- merly handled him, GAC. He has cocktail combos. If a tune attracts attention, no matter what belittle. At that time, Kenton for Dixon line, across the Atlantic set up his own booking combo. the town or state, the "big" publishers will be aware of it. And I several reasons was unable to if you can get your song started they'll all flock to you to obtain confirm the story of his return seaboard and up into New Eng­ “ I want to try something differ­ the publishing rights. Or . * this fall. But he never denied it. land. ent," Kenton said. "W e went as Several of the musicians for­ far as possible with the other 2.—Leave home. Go to New York (only New York—all the “ Innovations in Music" is the merly featured with the big Kan­ band. The new unit will, as you major publishers are there. Even the Hollywood and Chicago new phrase Stan has conceived san will return to the fold, as will pubs are mere sub-branches of the mighty New York head­ for his big new orchestra, which printed last summer, be more di­ Stan's blonde piper, June Christy. quarters) and prepare to starve. You'll have to call on the pubs will feature a full string section versified, and it should appeal to Carlos Vydal, bongo and conga a much more vast number of lis­ every day, dozens of them, and learn to know the people who and several instruments — wood­ drum star of the disbanded Char­ are in a position to do something with your compositions. If your winds—which he's never used be­ teners. W e may even feature lie Barnet crew, also is expected songs are good, it may take six months or six years. If your songs fore. First rehearsals will get un­ some outstanding guest soloists to join. on the tour, someone we believe are poor you'll get no action in 99 years. der way in Hollywood in early Kenton hopes to spend at least the world should hear." That's the w a y it is. Either you devote full time or none. Mail­ November. half of every year, in the future, ing your songs out is a swell w ay to waste postage. Paying A special stage setting for the Carlos Vydal Joining writing new music and judging some shark outfit cash to “ publish" your works is sheer stupidity. concerts, unlike anything ever JIMMIE DAVIS, former gover­ Capitol will record a complete other new works submitted to him No legitimate publisher ever demands money; they pay money used by a band previously, will nor of Louisiana, is proving a big album of the “ Innovations" mu­ by talented young writers. The to the writers. be carried by Stan. success as a singer and leader of sic, an album which will be re­ best of this, he says, will then be Pete Rugolo, who has been the “ Sunshine" band on Capitol If it's really fame and fortune you want, get into politics. j leased in January. Immediately orchestrated and rehearsed for a free-lancing since Kenton broke discs. He's been in Hollywood this It's easier, as Jim McHugh or Irving Berlin or some bigshot writer after the alb um is marketed, Ken­ national tour. Thus “ Innovations 1 up his previous group last De­ fall making records and movies. once commented, to become a Vice-President than a member of ton and his troupe will swing into in Music—1950“ will become " In ­ And on one-night stands he jams cember, has returned as chief of ASCAP! the first of the 75 concert dates at novations in Music—1951“ and so 'em in. Stan's arranging staff. the Russ Auditorium in San Diego. on, every year. PAGE 4 CAPITOL NEWS CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 5 Berg On Tap Earl Carroll’s Folds At Kid Ory's Nitery After 11 Hectic Years Billy Berg has returned to the nitery field, in Hollywood, as AT A FORMAL inquest held in Los Angeles Oct. 11, An era in Hollywood night life came to an end last month when manager of Kid Ory's "n e w " Buddy Clark's death in the crash of a private airplane the Earl Carroll Theater-Restaurant closed its doors, throwing about club on Vine near Sunset. Berg, on a Los Angeles street was attributed to the lack of 150 persons out of work. who doesn't own the bistro, is But it is expected that the flashy During the w ar, the spot was operating it with Ory's Creole about $6.50 worth of gasoline in the tanks of a nitery, which had been operating one of the most profitable in the band as the lure. The site former­ chartered Cessna twin-engined monoplane. at a loss since Carroll died in an nation. But since Carroll's passing ly was the Gag Club and before The singer, returning with five others to Los Angeles from the air crash in 1948, will reopen in its patronage steadily decreased. that, Wingy Manone tried run­ Stanford-Michigan football game at Palo Alto in ideal weather, December under new manage­ ning it, unsuccessfully. died an hour after the accident. The others weren't hurt seriously. ment. Ory, the New Orleans jazz pio­ Clark, whose age was given as The spot opened on Christmas neer, fronts his group with trom­ both 44 and 38, and whose real New babies arrived in October night, 1938, with W illie Howard Mocambo, Ciro s bone. Others include Joe Darens- name was Sam Goldberg, was at the Joe Graydons, the Dave as the star. At various times bourg, clarinet; Ted Buckner, buried at Forest Lawn's Everlast­ Cavanaughs, the Alan Livingstons Yvonne DeCarlo, Jean Wallace Biz is Booming trumpet; Lloyd Glenn, piano; Ed ing Love section of Memorial Park and Allan Copelands, all in Los and the late Beryl Wallace were Garland, bass; Minor Hall, drums. in Glendale. Pallbearers were Angeles. All are sons except the featured in the gaudy, ornate With the nitery biz fluctuating Owner of the club — and the Frank Sinatra, Clark Dennis, W a l­ 7-pound daughter born to the girlie shows which Carroll pre­ erratically in Hollywood, the two boss of both Ory and Berg — is ter Lantz, Tom Cooney, Mann Copelands.