— — — GERMANY ITALY The new address of the Milan Cash Box office is: Vittorio de Micheli, Via When the German film industry saw fit to take American stars of music for DeirOrso 4, Milan, Italy, telephone 864356. It is in the center of the city, right a film here, it also took old popular numbers by the artists in order to main- near the La Scala Theatre. All who wish to call at this office will be welcome. tain an “evergreen” quality. Therefore the new film “Schlager Rakete” or “Hit Rocket” stars Nat King Cole singing “Mona Lisa,” Duke Ellington play- The Cash Box has been publishing charts from Italy since October, 1959, and ing “Sophisticated Lady,” Cab Calloway singing “Minnie the Moocher” and the following are the tunes which have reached the number one spot on the Sarah Vaughan doing “You’re Not The Kind of a Boy.” The film also features Italian charts, using the 100,000 mark as a basis for sales, in the past 52 weeks. many German hit makers on wax and is scheduled for top box office this season. equivalent to the 1,000,000 mark in the United German Jazz critic Joachim E. Berendt is visiting America and is a guest at The 100,000 mark in Italy is of Italian record houses. the Monterey Jazz Festival. Joe is well known for his many books on jazz, States. Indications come direct from the heads the his programs on Baden-Baden radio and recently presented a TV ballet featur- “Dream Lover”—Bobby Darin—London/Decca Italiana Shakespearian suite, “Such Sweet Thunder.” ing Ellington’s “H Tuo Bacio E’Come Un Rock” (Your Kiss Is Like A Rock) —Celentano one tenor sax Hans Koller has a new quai'tet featur- Germany’s number man Saar. ing former Dave Brubeck bassist Fred Dutton. Hans’ newest composition is titled “Jazzing With Lufthansa.” The Lufthansa aii’line people are crowing “Love In Portofino”—Dalida—Saar about the free publicity. “Petite Fleur”—S. Bechet—Vogue—Durium Germany exported 10,600,000 records last year, reports Teldec Records. “De Guello”—Nelson Riddle—Capitol From this sum, Teldec was responsible for 4 million and RCA 2% million. “Oh Carol”—Neil Sedaka—RCA Lale Anderson, who gained woi’ld wide fame with her multi million seller “Tintarella Di Luna”—Mina—Italdisc “Lily Marlene,” is back in business. Her newest records are the Marty Robbins “Romantica”—Dallara—Mina hit “El Paso” and a vocal version of the title song from the film, “Never On “Marina”—Marino Marini/Rocco Granata—Durium/Bluebell Sunday.” There are at present 2 instrumental versions of the latter tune on “Personalita”—Caterina Valente—Decca the market here, by Don Costa and Helmut Zacharis. “Theme From A Summer Place”—Percy Faith—Philips—Melodicon Marlene Dietrich has invited German star Ralf Bendix to America for club “Serenata A Margellina”—Cori & Marini/Sergio Bruni—Durium/VCM work and tours. The sound that attracted Marlene was Ralf’s recording of the “H Nostro Concerto” (Our Concert) —Bindi—Ricordi Venus Waltz. in sales, but In Dusseldorf from the 23-25 September, the annual Amateur jazz festival Some of the records listed above surpassed the 100,000 mark are still currently was held. Prizes were presented to the best musicians and the best groups in the exact number is impossible to know. Furthermore, many sellers of all time in Italy were “Only You” each class (dixie, modern, etc.). Electrola had been presenting a silver record selling very well. The biggest best Paul Anka. The latter reached the 300,000 to the best Modern Jazz group for the past 3 years, but since the Modern Jazz by The Platters, and “Diana” by Manager, Mr. Candida. Group Freiberg has won 3 times in a row, Electrola has changed its prize to a mark, as stated by VCM’s General Sales silver dog, the symbol of their HMV line. This year, the winners are scheduled Some interesting figures: Italy has approximately 50,000,000 inhabitants. to tour America, sometime in November. 7,852,000 have radio sets and out of these 1,905,000 have TV sets as well. In Although America is now a big market for LP’s, the singles market still 1959, the only Italian Radio Station, R.A.L, devoted 3,296 hours to light music dominates in Germany. Especially American LP’s and LP artists have suifered programs, broadcasted 207 operas and 905 classical music concertos. here. Even stars such as Frank Sinatra and The Four Freshmen have come out with LP’s which sold under 600 pieces here. The main reason is that the stars “The reason that I prefer to live and work in Italy is because I like Italian are still unknown, the language is different, the German taste differs, the LP’s people,” said English singer Colin Hicks, during an interview at Mr. Matalon’s are still too expensive and all the material on an LP is not good for the market. office the other week. Colin, who is not yet known in the States, but is well Finally someone is trying to do something about it. Electrola, the distributors known in England and most popular here, has been living and playing in Italy for Capitol records here have decided to release a new series called Capitol for a year and a half. He is 19 years old, married and a father, and has ap- Presents. These albums will be 10" LP and EP size and will contain material peared on our TV screens and has taken part in the motion picture “Europa Di from the Capitol album repertoir. Mostly standard material will be represented Notte” (Europe By Night). The titles of his hits in Italy are, “Love’s Made A to preserve the life of this series, and the albums will have titles such as Fool Of You” b/w “Blue Moon,” “Garden of Eden” b/w “For Every Boy,” ar- “Western Music,” “Broadway Stars,” “George Gershwin: A Musical Portrait,” ranged and conducted by Maestro De Vita. Italdisc’s art director. His latest re- “Richard Rodgers: A Musical Portrait” etc. This style of album could be the cording is “Giddy Up Ding Dong.” I attended a recoi’ding session of Colin’s and start of big business for heretofore unsellable American stars. Electrola feels noted that his rock and roll style is turned into a more melodious and tradi- that this series is exactly geared for the German taste and pocket book. Other tional type of music, with the use of violins in the band, and with a preference firms are expected to follow suit if the allowance is obtained from their for country and western tunes. American associates. are candidates for pop- West Coast publicity man Irwin Zucker writes that one more way to get a Three recent recordings by well known VCM artists — II Telefono” (Let My Telephone Free) by mention in The Cash Box is through my column. OK, Irwin, you’re in. ularity here “Non Occupatemi Renis; “Plenilunio” (Full The Top 3 for Radio Luxemburg this week were “Moonlight” from Ted Riccardo Rauchi; “Tenerezza” (Fondness) by Tony on the chart Herold, “Irgendwann Gibt’s Ein Wiedersehm” from Freddy and “Midi-Midi- Moon) by Nicola Arigliano. The first tune has already appeared nette” from Conny. as number 7. Michael Jary, who turned out the big Heidi Bruhl hit, “Wir Wollen Niemals Mr. Postiff, who formerly worked with Interdisc in Lugano, visited The Cash Auseinander Gehn,” has a new song on the market with vocals done by Ger- Box office announcing that he has now joined Fonocrom, handled by Mr. Grossi many’s great old timer, Zarah Leander. title of the song is “Einmal The Kommt and now plans a real and active record production. Promotional copies of the Die Liebe” or “Love Comes But One Time.” It’s on Ariola. first release on the new label. Tiger, have already been distributed. It’s a vocal The lyrics were handled by Robert Von Kessler from Hamburg Radio. Zarah and instrumental version of the fine tune, “I Ragazzi Del Pireo” (The Boys Of is also set to record the song in English under the title “Yesterday’s Not Over.” Pireo). This record debut of Fonocrom on the Italian market will be a success, American Paul Siegel handles publishing for the tune. according to Mr. Postiff, who also announced that he is leaving for the States Germany’s top teenage songstress, Conny, is set to record her hit “Wer where he intends to contact some record producers with the hope of getting Wird De Erste Sein” in English for the American market. The text prepared their representation in Italy. by George Pincus will read “Who Will The First One Be.” Gil /Rex handles stateside publishing. 10,000 copies have been sold so far of “Prima Di Dormir Bambina” (Before Paul Siegel also reports that he is starting a new series for Berlin Radio Falling Asleep) by Paolo E I Nordisti, a new band discovered by Bluebell. which has increased its power to 100 KW. The show is entitled “American Di Capri, young talent of Carisch cut a Record Millionaires.” Paul asks American record firms and publishers to shoot It is the second time that Peppino well known thanks to Caterina Valente s million sellers and million sellers to his home at Gustav-Freytag Strasse 11, hit recording with a tune already % One In The World), Berlin, Germany. performance. The first one was “Nessuno A1 Mundo”_(No second one is “Mai Dire Mai” (Never Say This reporter is also in need of American records for his D.J.