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WE NOTE, with pleasure, the ever-increasing sales ofthe weekly musical publications of which, apart

from THE RECORD MIRROR, there are two others.One of them claims a sale of over 97,000 copies weekly,

the other in excess of 100,000.This very healthy trend upwards reflects the splendid state of

the music industry and the continually expanding publicinterest in it.

It is indeed gratifying to watch this robust growth; themore musical newspapers bought the more does the pro-fession ;,enefit by it.

THE RECORD MIRROR is, of course, the "little infant" inthe music -newspaper world. We cannot claim circula-tion figures such as the two other newspapers concerned,but we CAN feel proud of the progress we have made 'nthe comparatively short while we have been established.We are less than a year old, but what invigorating, stimu-lating progress we have made during this very shortperiod!

STEADILY, WITH CERTAINTY, does the circulationof THE RECORD MIRROR go up and up and up.

Steadily does the circulation spread throughout the UnitedKingdom-and abroad. Hundreds of people now areregular readers in the United States of America, France,Holland, South Africa, Australia, Nigeria and other farflung countries overseas.

We follow the progress of the two other weekly musicalnewspapers with great interest, for it is to our eventualbenefit that they prosper and flourish.

Let more music newspapers be sold .. . let the public showgreater and greater interest in music . .. the function of aweekly music newspaper is to see that they do.

THE RECORD MIRROR will play its part dutifully and withtremendous zest to maintain and develop the publicinterest in music; this paper feels that it is also doing aservice to all in the music business . . . to the artistes, tothe recording companies, to the song publishers, to theauthors, to the composers-to one and all involved inthe magnificent profession that represents MUSIC. And,above all, we feel we are rendering a service to thepublic, too. *THE RECORD MIRROR, though it may suffer slightly

only from the point of view that its circulation is notquite so big as its two adult neighbours, has, however,never felt " small." On the contrary the feeling has beenone of pride . . . pride in being associated with anindustry that is one of the cleanest and most wholesomein the world.

From the angle of sheer competition-and we use thewords clean and wholesome in this respect too-it is onlyto be expected that THE RECORD MIRROR will strain atevery leash to catch up to and even eclipse the sales ofthe two other weekly music newspapers. In this spirit ofcompetition we shall strive to produce a better paper thanever. By every possible means shall we try to DESERVEand GET bigger circulations. The fact that-if we maymost respectfully call them such-our rivals sell more

The Newsic Man's Diary

SIX MONTHS AGO,17 -years -old Shirley

Norman was working as ashop assistant atSelfridges. This week shebecame Billy Ternent'snew girl vocalist, and yes-terday (Wednesday) didher first broadcast withthe band.

And if you think thatShirley's just another kidthat sings, you're in for abig surprise. She does acabaret act that includes im-pressions of Betty Hutton,Suzette Tarri, Johnny Ray,Billy Daniels, David Whit-field . . .

She's also one of theprettiest girls you couldever wish to set eyes on-with raven hair and bigblue eyes-and she's got thepersonality to go with it,too.

In other words, she's oneof those rare finds-a real" natural," who takes toshow business as a ducktakes to water.

BACK TO SCHOOLSHIRLEY first started

attracting attentionwhen she was still atschool at Tooting. Threeyears ago, she wrote foran audition for " Oppor-tunity Knocks," and pro-ducer Hughie Green lostno time in fitting her intohis show.

At that time she had togo back to school. But sixmonths ago she came intothe news again in the

Zinger Girl " contest runby the Daily Sketch.

This ,time she was here tostay. She gave up her job atSelfridges, and started workat a Torquay hotel, singingwith the resident band anddoing her own solo cabaretspot.

Now she's got her feetstuck firmly on the ladderof success. Recording com-panies are already interestedin her voice, and, with thetalent and versatility tomake a stage performer aswell, it's a fairly safe betshe'll have her name inlights before she's out ofher teens.

When I met her a fewdays ago, she seemed quiteunconcerned about the in-terest she has been creating,and not unduly nervousabout her coming broad-cast.

How did she learn herimpressions? " Oh, I justlisten to the radio and

Shirley the Shop -GirlShe'll Be NewTeenage Star

records and try and copythem," she told me, " I'vebeen doing that ever since 1was nine." And who are herown favourite singers?Joan Regan and Nat" King " Cole.

FLYINGNONAGENARIAN !

WOULD YOU LIKE tomeet a 94 -years -old

songwriter, someone inTin Pan Alley asked methe other day.

I turned round with greatcuriosity, not realising thatI and the songwriter inquestion were both havingour legs pulled.

The songwriter proved tobe none other than PaddyRoberts, who modestly ad-mits to having written theEnglish lyric for the currentbig -seller, " Softly, Softly."

Paddy isn't really halfthat vast age attributed tohim. But Alley wags havepinned it on to him becausehe also wrote the lyrics ofalmost forgotten hits like" Horsey, Horsey " and" When the Poppies BloomAgain."

And what makes thoseearly days seem fartheraway than they really areis the fact that Paddy hasbeen out of the musicbusiness for over ten years.He first came to thiscountry in 1934, after train-ing as a lawyer in SouthAfrica. He joined up withthe famous Cox and Boxsongwriting team, and pro-duced the first song of hisown in 1937.

When the war camealong he became a R.A.F.pilot, and like many of hiskind, went on to fly forB.O.A.C. He would still beflying today if he hadn't hadto give it up for familyreasons. But in 1950 hemade the last of manyAtlantic crossings, andturned once more to song -writing.

Paddy hadn't thoughtabout writing a song in allhis flying years. But toshow he hasn't lost histouch, he has producedsince he returned to thefold " Begorra " (with RayMartin), the David Whit-field song, " The Book,"and now the ballad that

copies than we do at present only spurs us on as anincentive for us to catch up with them.

We do not envy them their big sales; we admire them forhaving attained such handsome figures and we are furtherstimulated by the thought that so many people want thistype of newspaper.

THE RECORD MIRROR is young and lusty; it is destined togrow up into a vital and powerful force. Let its rivals'sales leap up to the million! Believe us. we will followsuit!

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looks like going right to thetop, "Softly, Softly."

But, such is Paddy'smodesty, I should neverhave discovered all this if Ihadn't been told he was 94!

BLOW FOR THESONGWRITERS

CURIOUS HOW theshows of this country

always seem to hinder,rather than help, Britishinterests.

Latest casuaky is theSongwriters' Guild, which,for the first time since itwas financed in 1947, has topay entertainment tax onits annual all-star charityshow.

In previous years, theGuild has been able toclaim amateur status for itsshows, because all the starsgiving their services free.But as a result of a recenttest case, any show that in-cludes comedians on thebill now has to pay tax.

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This is another indirectblow at the cause of Britishmusic, for the Guild is oneof its staunchest defenders.But though a large slice ofthe proceeds will go to theChancellor, plans are goingahead to make the showonce again one of the bigevents of the year.

This year's show will beheld at the Victoria Palaceon Sunday, March 20.Among the artistes alreadyannounced are CharlesShadwell's Orchestra, theJerry Allen Trio, theCoronets and TommyTrinder, who, as King Rat,automatically becomes anhonorary member of theGuild.Tickets,

I'm told, arealready selling fast . . .

HAVE YOU wonderedwhy David Whitfield's

new disc of " Beyond theStars," is leaping into thebest sellers so fast ?

One of the reasons is thatthe title happened to bementioned in a " DailyMirror " article a littlewhile ago.

And as soon as it wasmentioned, Decca were be-sieged with a 35,000advance order.

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OUR COVER STARS :

THE `BEVS'THE BUBBLING BEVS, born in London of a theatrical

family, decided at a very early age that the brightlights would be their objective, and they worked steadilyuntil they achieved it.

Their career proper began on the radio. But as soon asimpresarios realised that the girls looked as delightful asthey sounded-and had a first-class act, too-they werequickly signed up for other branches of show business.

Work in variety, cabaret and TV constantly came theirway, and as a result of living up to their belief that " if athing's worth doing at all it's worth doing well," they madea big hit everywhere they went.

TEDDY, BABS (they're the twins, of course) and Joy(who is exactly two years older) were already well-known

artistes when their name first appeared on discs. This wasdue to the perspicacity of Norman Newell, then in chargeof the artistes' section of Columbia Records.

He happened to be watching his TV set one evening in 1951. whenthe Revs had their own series, "Three Little Girls in View." He wasimmediately captivated by the enchanting forms and faces of theglamorous sisters, and lost no time in signing them up for his company.

His judgment was fully justified; their first recording for Columbia,called " Teasin' ", was a smash hit.

*WHEN NORMAN NEWELL transferred his activities to Philips, the

Bevs went with him. And they proceeded to turn out a string ofbig -sellers for the new label. The ones that spring most readily to mindare "Side by Side," "Triplets," "Oh, My Papa," " We Like To DoThings Like That," "Cross over the Bridge," " Little Things Mean aLot " and "Get Well Soon." *THE BEVS had a rousing welcome when they went out to Amerirm,

being foted everywhere when they did coast -to -coast TV, besidesmany stage and radio shows. But, though they are grateful for theexperience of working abroad, they are always delighted to be backhome.

Up till now they have already had five glorious seasons-one of themwith Bob Hope-at the London Palladium, and they were chosen toappear at the first Royal Variety Performance for Her Majesty the Queen.

Now they have been booked for the Eddie Fisher bill that re -opensthe Palladium variety season next month.

Recently, the girls made their Continental cabaret debut at the Casino,Ostend. where they sang " He Like It in French?? Their success wasmagnifique ! They will return this year and also make another trip tothe States-a short and crowded visit this time.

The hobbies of the Bevs include embroidery, tapestry, horse -riding,to say nothing of the occasional (all too rare) date !

*THE BEVS were in great demand during the Christmas record rush,

particularly with their disc of "1 Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus."And there was a big seasonable sale, too, of " Sisters" and TheMama Doll Song."

Now the girls have cut a new disc of the current big -selling song," Naughty Lady of Shady Lane," They themselves think it's the bestrecord 'they've ever made. And from three artistes who arc rarelysatisfied with what they do, that's really saying something. They willbe featuring this song during their forthcoming Palladium season.

Who knows, " Naughty Lady " may prove to be the biggest sellingdisc they've yet made ?

THE RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending February 12, 1955 Page Three

The Stories Behind The Stories Of The Stars And Their DiscsWE L L, Billy Mc -

Corrnack finallymade it!

This husky Irish boyis on disc at last. Youcan take my word for it.I saw it happen.

Billy has been singing hislungs out around show busi-ness for quite a time; he's thetype who has deserved the re-cording chance. But it lookedas if he would never get it.

Not because he wasn'tdrawn to the attention of thedisc companies. THE RE-CORD MIRROR raised thequery more than once lastyear. The " Green Man "went quite blue in the facesaying nice things aboutBilly's singing in the Adelphishow " Talk of the Town ",and Michael Ryan couldn'tdiscover a reason for the lackof groove space which cameMcCormack's way.

Well, Polygon have acted. Ilooked on and listened whilethey recorded Billy's versionsof " Unsuspecting Heart " and" I went to My Mother."

Billy is good.And that is understandable,

because this Belfast boy hashad the right kind of ex-perience. Before the war heworked as a semi-professionaldoing concerts and odd showshere and there. After the war,and a spell in the Air Forcehe played the Empire, Belfastand Gaiety, Dublin, deputisingfor Fred Ferrari.

On the strength of these twoshows, Charlie Chester decidedto lend a helping hand,aroused the interest ofGeorge and Alfred Black. Thekind of interest that led to Billysigning a contract with theBlacks. He has been with themever since.

McCormack toured for atwelve-month with the ex -Palladium show " Sky High."

BILLY McCORMACK

He was in Charlie Chester'sTV programme " Pot Luck,"and took over from LesterFerguson in a Summer Showat Blackpool.

The Coronation Crazy Gangproduction, " Ring Out TheBells " gave him a West Endairing, before he went toBlackpool again taking overthis time from Monty Norman.

HARRY JAMES

Now, as I said, he is scoringheavily at the Adelphi.

A man with a strong, easyvoice well suited to ballads,Billy had the benefit of LaurieJohnson's presence as musicaldirector on the Polygon sessionI attended.

Laurie turned up trumpsagain with a couple of finearrangements and a greatorchestra. That song " Unsus-pecting Heart," by the way, isheading for smash success,and that means good luck forRoy Berry's new companyBerry Music Co., since ithappens to be the first songthey have published!

The other number " I WentTo My Mother " was writtenby disc jockey Neal Arden.

SPEAKING PERSON-ALLY: I don't think Billywill have to run home tomother when the results ofthe disc start coming in.

rMARIA

KORCHINSKAIMENTIONED LAURIE

JOHNSON'S orchestraabove which may have whettedyour curiosity. To satisfy anysuch appetite here was theinteresting line-up underLaurie's baton:-

Four saxophones, one flute, fourtrombones, one trumpet, six violins,one viola, one 'cello, a piano -celeste, a bass, drums and a harp.

Among the " names " playingsome of these instruments werealto-saxist Bob Burns, baritone sax -

man Harry Klein, drummer PhilSeaman, bass player SammyStokes, trumpeter Jimmy Watsonand violinist Max Jaffa.

And, of course, harpist MariaKorchinska who commands respectwherever she goes. A free-lance,Maria has played with everyclassical orchestra you cart name.

What is more astounding-shehas also played with practicallyevery dance orchestra you canthink of!

Maria was born in Moscow, butcame to England 30 years ago whenshe got married. Her husband iswriter Count Benckendorff who,incidentally, has just completed anautobiographical book called "HalfA Life."

Half Maria's life has been spentavoiding the use of her title . . .

the working half. She refuses tobe known as Countess Korchinskain her professional life, but usesthe title socially.

Make a good quiz questionwouldn't it: Who was the countesswho used to play for Geraldo,Stanley Black, Louis Levy?

A woman who gets enjoymentfrom every kind of music (althoughher favourite is modern chambermusic), Maria gets a lot of fun outof work. In fact her only "hates"are waiting around and beingbored.

SPEAKING PERSONALLY:Here's one angel who'll never pawnher harp.

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THIS BRIGHT RAYRAY ANTHONY'S dad was

a man who could playany musical instrument youcared to name. But he madecertain that his son would beable to play one instrumentbrilliantly.

Another Trumpeter'sBirthday Present

FUNNY HOW THINGS run together. Having just beenwriting about Ray Anthony, in comes a new disc by Harry

James.And when I checked back on this trumpeter -band -leader

coincidence gave itself another stretch. For like Ray, Harrywas given his first trumpet by his father as a birthday present!Only Harry's father waited till the boy was a little older-eightto be precise!

Not that Harry had been idle up until that age. No oneborn into circus life has the opportunity of being idle. At fouryears Harry was a contortionist - and at six he was playingdrums for the circus band!!

By the time he was ten he was playing solo trumpet.Eventually of course he moved out into the dance bapd

world and registered a hit in 1937 when he joined the BennyGoodman band. Harry's trumpet playing made him famousbefore you could say Betty Grable. In 1939, on Goodman'sadvice, Harry hit the road with his own orchestra, and startedthat still remembered, and phenomenal, list of best-sellingrecords.

Of late we have not heard so much of Mr. James, whichis a pity since he still remains one of the world's finest instru-mentalists. And if you doubt this fact, just bend your eartowards the new record he has made for Philips-" Stomp andWhistle " and " Ya Better Stop."

SPEAKING PERSONALLY: That's me stomping andwhistling.

That's why he gave Ray atrumpet for his fifth birthdaypresent!

And that's why Ray rocketed tothe top of the music profession.At 18 he was so accomplished asto be playing lead trumpet for thegreat Glenn Miller band.

Ray Anthony, like most peoplethe world over, had tremendousadmiration for Glenn. It wasworking with Miller that made himambitious to run his own orchestra. . . and run it with the same sin-cerity, and on the same principles.

He didn't get his band until afterthe war, but he lost no time at allin zooming it to popularity. Apopularity that also rides high withthousands of discs fans in this

Not GivingUp Baby

MAN WITH MOREthan one motoring

string to his bow nowa-days is violinist Max Jaffa.

I saw him bouncing upand down with glee as heextolled the glories of hislatest acquisition. It is ablack Rolls Royce circa1935 which he assures medoes a calm 20 miles tothe gallon.

But Max is not givingup his other automobile. . . a baby Austin!

country who haven't a hope of everbeing able to see the band in theflesh.

I have just been listening toRay's new Capitol release " HeatWave." The number is sung byMarilyn Monroe in the new FORmusical " There's No Business LikeShow Business." The Anthonyorchestral version is terrific . . . itsizzles, you could fry an egg on it.

And it illustrates again how rightis this conductor's theory.

" A band," says Ray. " needsshowmanship from each musicianin it. The co-ordination must besolid front within before you standa chance of taking the public'sfancy."

Well, this orchestra is now rateda firm trans -Atlantic favourite andwill stay that way so long as it rollsout recordings like this one. Onlysnag so far as Ray is concerned isthat popularity keeps him awayfrom home too much. Touring

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HISTORYOF THEGLASGOWJAZZ CLUB

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WHAT A BAND IT WAS!Within months of its breakup, one member

was leading a New Orleans purist combination,one had formed a Chicago -style group, anotherhad his own Dixielanders and a fourth had starteda bop outfit.

But it was the first of the revivalist groups inGlasgow and everybody there thought the worldof it.

Two out of the sextet are now in foreign countries-onein England, the other in Germany-each leading his ownband.

Ian Bell's Dixielanders are resident in the Wood GreenJazz Club in London, whilst trombonist Bill Nummey hasan orchestra attached to an army unit abroad and hasplayed in seven towns in West Germany.

FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE of the band was inMarch 1953 when they had a place in " Spotlight The

Amateurs "-part of Glasgow Jazz Club's so-called " Bop -

Boogie Concert ".Two weeks later they had turned semi -pro and were resi-

dent in Glasgow's earliest revivalist Jazz Club at Riddrie.But leader Ian Bell left town and banjoist Jim McHargdropped out.

Jim's adventures after he left are in themselves a chapterof Scotland's jazz history and need a separate article.Enough to mention at the moment that he is the musicaldirector of the Memphis Jazz Club in Oatlands where hisband is one of the regular groups and that his Sunday JazzColumn is one of the features of the Scottish jazz scene.

*WITH THE entry of Eddie

Munn on the bass to re-place McHaig and JackieBrown as sub for Bell, theband dropped back intoamateur status for a whileand Nummey was called upleaving his spot to IanMenzies. Tony Happel(clarinet) was co-opted and

the leadership fell into thehands of trumpeter GeorgeOgilvie.

Every phase in the history ofthis short-lived organisation is a

preview of the present jazz arena.Tony Happel. after a short spellin the armed forces, now leads" The Swingtones " in the NaafiClub in Buchanan Street, whilstIan Menzies heads our well-knownClyde Valley Stompers whichplays every Saturday and Sunday

Winnie's A Sensation 'Down Under'18 Curtain Calls After Sydney Opening

WINIFRED ATWELL, brilliant pianist fromTrinidad, scored one of the most spectacular

successes ever recorded in the history of Australianshow business when, on Saturday evening last, at theTivoli, Sydney, New South Wales, making her debutin that country, she " stopped the show cold " andtook no fewer than 18 curtain calls !

Early reports say that the scenes of enthusiasmduring and after Winnie's performance were unpar-alleled in that famous theatre which has presented

some of the greatest stars from all over the world.The first -night audience was fascinated the momentshe struck the first note. From then on, Winnie hadthe crowd at her feet. The Tivoli management madea statement that never has an artiste scored sophenomenal a success on opening night. " WinifredAtwell can stay on in Australia for the next ten yearsor more .. . she'll fill every house to capacity," saidthe director of the company which has engaged herfor her Australian tour, due to end in August.

at the Riverside Club in MaxwellStreet, and every Wednesday at thenewly -opened Alex Stewart JazzClub (236 Great Western Road).

The Chicagoans - as the bandwas now called-played in " Spot-light The Amateurs" at G.J.C.'sBerkeley Hall concert on May 4.By the 29th of the month they hadall joined the Union and wereheading the bill in another Glas-gow Jazz Club concert-and playedto a full house.

(Al that concert the ClydeRiver Jazz Band co-starred, ledby trumpeter Charlie Gall, whois now a mainstay of the Stom-pers).

SAXMAIS in the Glasgow JazzBand was Andrew Paton.

Today Dumbarton boasts its own" Saints Jazz Club " and everyMonday evening the members meetat the Band Hall to listen anddance to the music of the AndyPaton Dixielanders. The samegroup plays at the DumbartonBurgh Hall on Saturdays and therest of the week gigs aroundHelensburgh, Ballock and district.

Pianist Kenneth Crawford is indisgrace with the rest of the boys,for Isay it in a whisper) he turnedbop.

We all remember the day insummer of 1954 when Ogilvie-who is now part of the front lineof the Memphis Kings-came andtold us in sorrow that he had losthis band The entire group haddecided to become modernist !

Led by Crawford, and with trum-peter Douggie Kerr included, theboys went into rehearsal and lateremerged as the Jazz At The TempoUnit, to shine briefly at first at theTempo Club, then Beattie's Cluband later at the Monday sessionsof the Lorne; (incidentally, theyplayed at the second RiverboatShuffle and also in Kilmarnockduring the Scottish Jazz Week). The

group were led for a while bydrummer Alex Hudson, but I hearthat Alex is forming a band withDave Finlay and when JATT ap-pear together with McGreggor'sDixielanders at the opening of Sun-day night jazz -for -listening in Ash -field Hall, Possilpark, next week,Kenny will once again be leadingthem.

Well, that's the history of TheGlasgow Jazz Band.

Purist, Chicagoans, Boppers,Dixielanders, all playing together-it is difficult to remember now justwhat they sounded like.

But they were our first bandand we loved them.

SHORT NOTESBIG Toothless guested at the

Memphis last Sunday week.With his band incomplete

(again !) he performed as pianistplus rhythm.

Mind you, worse has been heard;but I feel his music owed more toMcEwan and Red Hackle than toMorton and Red Onions.

5IMONIN1, Kerr, Crawford andCo. are looking for a hall to

start a Tuesday evening modernjazz club.

*BAND NOW resident at the new

Tempo in The Good Com-panions Restaurant on Sundayevenings is a new Ricki Barnes,Scott -Henderson outfit.

*TROMBONIST Allan Lester,

once a member of a Cy Laurieoutfit, is now resident in Glasgow,studying medicine at the GlasgowUniversity. He will shortly beheard playing in one of our newly -formed groups.

VALENTINE'S DAYAnd How...! Thousands Of Dickie'sFans Enjoy Free Recording SessionAT least 2,000 record fans will have an extra special interest

in the new ten -inch Long -Playing disc made for Deccaby Dickie Valentine.

They are the crowds who packed St. Pancras Town Halllast Sunday afternoon to form a " live " audience for theactual recording of Dickie's act. And " live " was an under-statement !

The screams and shrieks froni the capacity audience almost ripped theroof from the staid Town Hall. After a brief warm-up by disc jockeylack Jackson, they roared a fantastic welcome which gave the Valentinedisc a flying start.

Dickie himself was in tremendous form with all his current hits-among them "The Finger of Suspicion " and " A Blossom Fell." Thenfor the wind-up he went into his vocal impressions of Nat King' Cole,Billy Daniels, Al Jolson, Billy Eckstine and Johnny Ray. The receptioncouldn't have been greater had all these stars been appearing in the fleshat one time!

Fine orchestral support for the session was supplied by Eric Rogersand the Skyrockets Orchestra, who never put a note wrong throughout.

*ATER both " BUNNY " LEWIS and DICK ROWE, of Decca,

1-1 announced their satisfaction with the recording. " It looks like beingone of Dickie's best," said " Bunny," adding " we will have it on thecounters in less than a fortnight."

Dickie himself, who journeyed down from Glasgow to make the disc,was delighted with the audience reaction. "When the hall is as friendlyas it was today," he said, " you cannot help but give a good show."

As a way to make a disc, this session was certainly an Al success.Without an audience it would probably have taken twice as long to cuta satisfactory tape. With the audience... it rolled along from start toclose without a hitch.

FOOTNOTE: Decca announced on Jack Jackson's Radio Luxem-bourg programme that the show was to be held, and that applica-tion for seats should be made to Decca. Only two such announce-ments were made on the air and they brought over tenthousand applications for seats

Gee Nicholl

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`JAll STUDIO TWO'MORE EXCITING

THAN 'ONE'NORVO, FOSTER

HERMAN . . . ALL`MOST INTERESTING'

COULD be I'm way off the beam. But, with theexception of only one other recognised British

jazz critic, I was alone in not " doing my nut "about last year's " Jazz Studio One " LP.

I found it boring to the extreme. One side ("Let'sSplit ") had what seemed like a hundred chorusesof " I Got Rhythm." The reverse (" Tenderly "),

taken at two tempos,we struck me as being

equally tedious.So my tongue wasn't

exactly hanging out withlonging to hear " JazzStudio Two," whichfeatures in the most

I& * recent Brunswick Sup-plement.

It seems that whereas " Studio One " was in New York," Two " is way out in Hollywood.

So you won't be surprised to know that the line-upincludes Milt Bernhardt (trombone), Johnny Graas (Frenchhorn), Don Fagerquist (trumpet), Herb Geller (alto), JimmyGuiffre (tenor, baritone, clarinet), Marty Paich (piano),Howard Roberts (guitar), Curtis Counce (bass) and LarryBunker (drums).

Of the less familiar names, Geller is one of the mostinteresting new West Coast hornmen; Fagerguist, a GeneKrupa alumnus, currently with Les Brown; Roberts, theexcellent guitarist from the Bob Cooper Sextet on Capitol;Counce, from similar discs; and Bunker, a young Hollywood" veteran", particularly on Pacific Jazz studio sessions.

WHA

By TONY HALLAS A MATTER of fact, I

find this album muchmore enjoyable than " StudioOne " [despite the fact that,generally speaking, my musi-cal sympathies are muchmore with New York than" West Coast Jazz " (sic)].

Details of the disc are:"JAZZ STUDIO TWO"

"Laura", "Here Come the Lions","Paicheck", "Graas Point", "Darn

That Dream", "Do It Again"(BRUNSWICK LAT 8046)

THE first title opens with Robertsdoing a Johnny ("Moonlight in

Vermont") Smith, out -of -tempo.I'm happy to say that on the

rest of the LP, he bears no resem-blance. style -wise, to Smith. Heswings. And plays some excellent,inventive jazz.

Highlights of the first side areHerb Geller's outstanding alto onall three tracks, on "Laura", inparticular . . . Marty Palch's taste-ful arrangement of same . . . Thetheme (by Graas) and the swing(emanating mainly from Counce-the only coloured boy among them.incidentally of "Lions").

Paich's "Paicheck" (described inthe notes-by Charles Fox-as "arestless theme") has a jerky.Scottish -sounding flavour. I foundit the least satisfying side.

"Point" is (not surprisingly)Graas! I found this by far themost interesting, insofar asthematic content and developmentwere concerned. There are somecrazy tone colours. And the rhythmsection is very relaxed most of theway. There's an unexpected fugualsection in this one.

GELLER THE STARAltoist Herb Geller is the star of

"Dream". Although Vogue arescreaming "Niehaus is Coming",Geller is to my mind definitely themost exciting new West Coast sax -

man since Art Pepper. He seemsto have inherited a little of Art's"soul" and harmonic conceptionGood for him.

Trust Miles Davis to have re-discovered "Dream"! Since hisoriginal disc, the number has be-come an accepted jazz standard.

Guitarist Roberts really wails onGraas' score of "Again". A finesoloist. Incidentally, the cross -rhythm writing on this more thanvividly recalls that of Mulligan forhis Tentette's "Simba" and"Flash". Dig out your record andlisten for yourselves.

Altogether, this is the mostinteresting disc to come from theHollywood jazz stint -men 'in ages.Worth buying.

TONY HALL BRINGS YOU NEWS OF THE

FRANK FOSTER QUARTET"Escale it Victoria", "The ThingsWe Did Last Summer", "Just 40Bars", "My Heart Stood Still","Fat Shoes". "I'll Take Romance".

(VOGUE LDE 112)DRANK FOSTER is 32: currentlyII with Count Basic's crew. Hetoured Europe with them and madethis album in Paris.

His French confreres are theubiquitous Henri Renaud (piano)and the "terrible twins"-Jean-Marie Ingrand (bass), whose play-ing is excellent on all tracks, andJean-Louis Viale (drums).

Foster is more than a little likeSonny Stitt in sound, swing andconception. Though he lacks theuninhibited drive of the latter.

The treatments here are justwhat you'd expect. And like. Themelody of "Victoria" is veryfamiliar, somehow. Was there aTin -Pan Alley English adaptation?

"40 Bars" is the one Renaudwrote for the Woody Herman"Herdmen in Paris" LP. In actualfact, it's a 12-12-8-12 (=44) bartheme.

Oscar Hammerstein's "Romance"(I love the "middle eight"!) makesa fine vehicle for modern jazz im-provisation. "Shoes" is a riffy thing

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SIR. - I would like tothank you for printing myrequest for a GerryMulligan Fan Club and Iam still hoping there willbe some news about theexistence of one.

If there is not, I wouldrather like to start onesince I am a keen fan ofGerry Mulligan. How-ever, I have not done any-thing like this before andI don't know much abouthow to go about it.

For instance would theman himself co-operateand give advice, etc.? I'msure there must be a fanclub in the U.S.A. Per-haps your readers couldhelp me somehow? Willyou please ask anyinterested to contact me?

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artiste and "discovery" in the States,shows himself to be a good, swing-ing soloist. There's bags of poten-tial and promise. But, as yet, nosigns of greatness.

An enjoyable album, marred forme only by the always tasteful.sometimes swinging-but generallytoo anaemically polite -piano ofRenaud. Pity Vogue wouldn't useRene Urtreger a little. Jean-Marie,as I said, is fine.

RED NORVO TRIO(Volume Two)

"Can't We Be Friends?", "BluesFor Tiny", "Somebody Loves Me","Deed I Do"; "Our Love is Hereto Stay", "Signal", "You Are TooBeautiful", "The Best Thing For

You"(VOGUE LDE 115)

HERE'S another instance when" Volume Two is much moreinteresting than One.

Vogue's original album (LDE061) featured Norvo (vibes), TalFarlow (guitar) and Charlie Mingus(bass). With no disrespect to theguys concerned, I found it ex-tremely "surrey" and boring.Though most musicianly.

On the LP under review, JimmyRaney plays guitar; Red Mitchell,bass. Raney you should know well.From his recordings with Getz and,more recently. "In Paris" onVogue LDE 097. A great disc,incidentally.

Mitchell was the brilliant bassistwith the Mulligan Quartet whenthey played the Paris Jazz Fairlast year.

They, for my money, do morethan their share to make this afour (out of five) star disc.

All British bass -players shoulddig Red

He's fantastic. I know thatSammy Stokes, for one, is going toget a lot of kicks out of this one.

HERD FROM MARS(Volume One)

"Beau Jazz", "Men From Mars";"Wooftie", "Moten Stomp"

(LONDON REP 1001)AN enjoyable package, this Lon-

don EP. Here are some of thelast sides Herman's Third Herd cutfor his own label, Mars.

They were made just a fewmonths before the Herd headed forEurope last year.

"Beau" is, musically speaking,the most interesting. The writing'sby Ralph ("Summer Sequence")Burns. And dig the tromboneteam on the twelve -bar, "Mars",where pianist Nat Pierce tries toemulate Basic on organ.

Chubby Jackson's "Wooftie" isan "R&B"-ish blues which rocksin a studiedly " carried -away "fashion. Some of the ensemblephrasing is pretty corny. Purposely?

Final track has become a ThirdHerd special. The rhythm sectionjumps like mad. As do the trom-bone and tenor soloists.

Herman on, basically, a Basiekick. Lots of fun.

RONNIE SCOTTSENSATION

Disbanding April IO: To JoinQuintet: Big Band in Autumn

"ALL about Ronnie,

There's so much to tell.All about Ronnie,

I know him so well."REMEMBER THAT SONG ? Chris Connor used to

sing it with Kenton a couple of years ago.This week, I want to write about Ronnie.Ronnie Scott, that is. The distinguished, slightly greying,

this -side -of -thirty -year -old leader of the most " roaring "band this land has ever reared.

Any news about Ronnie comes like a bombshell out of theblue. Three years ago, he left Jack Parnell, taking nearlyhalf the boys in the band with him. And almost overnight,the Scott Band was formed.

He took to the road with an " all -jazz " policy and an all -jazz personnel. " A bunch of jazz -crazy characters," saidthe sages of the profession. " Doubt if it'll even last sixmonths."

THEY WERE WRONGBUT RONNIE STUCK to

his guns. And proved thepessimists wrong. At first,they starved. An understate-ment, maybe. But the com-mon musical bond in theband was so strong, theysurvived.

Since then, there's been nothingto stop them. They've (literally)" roared " from success to success.They've won practically every popu-larity poll there's been. They'vehad more work offered them thanthey had time to fulfil.

Just recently, there've beenrumours galore about the Scottband. Most of them (and thebehind -the -scenes truth) have beenprinted in this column.

I was first to report Scott'sdesire to front a big band (justas I was first to hint at the forma-tion of his present outfit-longbefore it actually happened).

There were a few domestictroubles.

With Victor Feldman, for in-stance. And Phil Seaman wasoffered the Malcolm Mitchell job.But everything was ironed -out. Andeveryone was happy again.

NEW BOMBSHELLThey began to make plans for

the big band. The small (sic)band would finish at the end ofMay. There'd be a six -week lay-off and a holiday. Then, bang !The big band would start.

Now, this week, comes anotherbombshell. Ronnie's disbanding.Not at the end of May, as ex-pected. But on April 10.

And until the big band starts-in the early autumn, as planned-Ronnie will work with a quintetcomprising current Scottsmen HankShaw (trumpet), Lennie Bush (bass),Phil Seaman (drums) and a pianist.

The latter might well be the boywe've been raving about formonths, Terry Shannon. I've seldomknown a pianist more in demandthan Terry. And rightly so.

What's behind this sudden de-cision?

Ronnie told me : " There are awhole lot of reasons, really. Forone thing, we've done just abouteverything that a small band play-ing jazz can possibly do. And Ithink we're all a bit 'brought -down'. Being on the road six orseven nights a week isn't funny.

"Another thing. Though there isa definite audience for jazz, thereare so very few places where thepeople will accept nothing but jazz.Apart from these spots, theaudiences want an ordinary corn-

mercial show. Sure, we can givethem what they want. But it's hardto, in a large place, with a smallband.

"With a big band, it's different.Just the mere fact that it is a bigband is a definite psychologicalfactor. Audiences which won'taccept small band jazz are muchmore favourably disposed towardsit from a larger band.

"And, let's face it, there's neverbeen a really 'roaring' big band inthis country yet. We'd like to tryand have the first one-and thebest."

All I can say is that the presentScott band has been unique.There's never been anything quitelike it before in Europe.

It has made a tremendous im-pression everywhere. The StanKenton and Woody Herman boyswho heard it-and blew with it-were amazed by its arrangements,musicianship, drive and generaljazz conception.

This column salutes a great-and a courageous-band of excep-tional jazzmen. We shall miss itwhen it's gone. But we wouldn'thave missed it for the world!

CODA -NOTE . . . I believe thatthe band's last London appearancewill be on the same bill on whichMalcolm Mitchell makes hisLondon debut.

At the Royal Albert Hall. On theafternoon of March 20. 1'11 bethere

MUCH HASHAPPENED . . .

personally I can hardly wait till1 this big band is formed.

The probable personnel was de-cided upon a month or more ago.But, since then, a lot has happenedin the band business, as well youknow.

The Malcolm Mitchell Orchestrahas taken one or two potentialScott big bandsmen, for a start.Tubby Hayes, who was a cert forthe new sax section, goes on theroad with his own eight -piece,kicking off on April 1.

Jimmy Deuchar, too, would havewanted to go back to Ronnie'strumpets, more likely than not. Buthis own band project is still in theoffing. Despite the fact that thePaddy McKearnan deal isn't quitethe same as was originally planned.

What will happen to Scott'spresent personnel who won't bewanted for the Quintet ?

"Victor Feldman will be goingto America", says Ronnie. "He'ssuch a brilliant musician that atrip to the States could do himnothing but good.

"Will he be joining the big band?Well, we don't really know yet.The position's still not decided. Butwe hope he will.

"Baritonist Benny Green is goingto stay in town. He's a fine jour-nalist, as you know. He'll probablydo a lot of writing. A novel is oneof his ambitions, I believe.

"Tenorman Pete King will alsostay in town, working for theHarold Davison office.

"Altoist Derek Humble andtrombonist Ken Wray? Thereagain, I don't really know. IfJimmy Deuchar's band comes off,they may go with him. I can't sayyet whether they'd come with thebig band when it Starts, or not. It'sa long way away yet."

Thanks, Ron, for the informa-tion. I'm sorry readers, that I can'tyet give you a clearer picture ofthe situation. It's all happened sosuddenly that no one really knowswhgt will ultimately come out ofit all.

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THISIS A VERY exciting voice.

I'm not too mad about theJohnny Ray snippets, but it mustbe admitted that it isn't overdoneand I might go as far as to say thatif Johnny hadn't got in first, Samwould have ensured that the Raywould have been considerablydimmed.

" Love " is taken at a steadytempo at first, but half -waythrough it changes to a speedy pacethat is one of the most exhilaratingvocal touches I've heard for sometime.

On the other side Sam gets alittle more acrobatic. There's sucha terrific rhythmical force to hisstyle, though, one is inclined tosay, " Oh hell, gimmick. shimmick,who cares? "

This boy really feels it.

DAVID WHITFIELD ANDMANTOVANI ORCH.BEYOND THE STARSOPEN YOUR HEART

(Decca F10438)THERE'S NO DENYING THE

thrilling style of David Whit-field, and I can quite understandthe fantastic following he hasamongst the girls.

Fortunately or unfortunately,whichever way you like to think,I am not a little girl but a humblemusician with quite an acute senseof pitch, and I just cannot thrillwhen I hear bad intonation.

This delinquency occurs chieflywhen David is singing in the topregister and, candidly, I feel thereason is that he is just that littletoo ambitious regarding the keyshe selects. Fall on me tooth andnail if you wish, dear damsels, but" truth will out," and if David isto consolidate his position as avocal ambassador to the U.S.A.. itmight be as well to point thesethings out to him before one ofmy transatlantic colleagues does itin a little less friendly fashion.

Mantovani, as usual, is immacu-late.

JACK BENTLEY(FULL REVIEWS ON PAGE 16)

Page Six THE RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending February 12. 1955

MUSICALTANNER SISTERS HELP RAISE £300 AT GALA BALL

THE STARS seldom say No,' are always ready totwinkle when they hear the call of charity. Once

again did they rally round the Noble Cause . . . thistime at the Wimbledon Palais-de-Danse at a sparkling"Gala Ball of the Musical Stars" organised by the popu-lar songstresses, THE TANNER SISTERS, Stella and

Frances. The event took place on the night of Tuesday,February 1, when the current week's edition of theRECORD MIRROR had already gone to press, and,alas, the pictures taken by our own cameraman, DouglasJohn, could not be published in that issue. But picturesof this sort will always ' keep,' always look fresh, so you

STELLA TANNER (left), bandleader JOHNNY DANKWORTH and FRANCESTANNER, smile happily at the RECORD MIRROR cameraman. They had much tosmile about. The Gala Ball was a gay affair from start to finish-and the money was,rolling in for the charities.

PLENTY TOLAUGHABOUT

ANOTHER VERY POPU-LAR young lady present,complete with charm -smile-PETULA CLARK. Shesigned scores of autographs,raised many pounds for thecause.

THE RECORD MIRROR cameraman went to the Odeon Cinema. Barking, last Sundayevening and found happy crowds inside the theatre and backstage. Smiles were inevidence everywhere . . . and for good reason. The show was a rip-roaring successand every artiste was on top form. Behind the scenes our photographer captured this

gay trio . . . (left to right) bandleader JOE LOSS, whose orchestra at both houses scored resound-ing successes; concert -promoter ED. W. JONES, who put the show on and attracted " house -full"audiences, and BENNY HILL, who. as usual " slayed 'ern", and who, an hour after the show, wentto the Scala Theatre to be presented with his Television Award for being the Top Personality ofthe year.

Incidentally. mention of Ed. W. Jones should direct your attention to Page 10 wheresome of his forthcoming shows are announced.

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will, we know, pardon us even if they are a little late.The charities concerned, by the way, on this occasionwere the Royal Society for the Blind Children's Homeand the Battersea Boys' Town Club. Over £300 wasraised at the Ball and the proceeds will be distributedbetween these causes.

BANDLEADER IVY BENSON (left) and singer ALMACOGAN were two more crowd -pulling attractions at theGala Ball . . . and one of their jobs' was to sign as manyautographs as they could and add as many sixpences aspossible to the cause-for that was what each charged forher signature.'

DAVE'S GOT IT TAPEDDAVID NIXON'S neatest conjuring trick recently was when he put

an entire studio audience-some 800 strong-inside a space 2 ft. x 10 ins.!How did he do it ?Simple!For the opening sequence of his television series " Home and Dry "

he recorded applause and laughter from a " Workers' Playtime " audienceon his Grundig TK.8I9 Tape Recorder. It wasn't until the show hadbeen running for a minute or so that he gave the game away by allowingthe TV camera to track back and show him at the controls of his taperecorder !

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Without His Right Ear, Eddie Condon'stell Helped Him Become Ace BanjoistRomantic Story Of A Great

jazz MusicianALBERT

Edwin Condon was born without a right ear. On November16, 1905, he squalled and bawled his way to life in Goodland, U.S.A.,

an offspring from healthy Irish immigrant stock. Clifford Condon, anelder brother of twenty years seniority, insisted that he should be namedafter Edmund Hayes, a cousin of whom the Condon family were especi-ally proud, who was then starring in a vaudeville show called "The PianoMovers." Edwin was something of a compromise and soon altered toEddie.

When he was nine he was happily engaged in vamping popular tunes on the piano inthe key of F whilst he and the family followed the meandering fortunes of Pa Condonwho, it seemed, dabbled for a living in running saloons amongst other things. Jim,another member of the largeand thriving family, wan-dered off one fine day andleft behind amongst his effectsa Lyon and Healy ukulele.Eddie claimed it and, thusarmed, joined the Condonmusical get-togethers.

School days were forma-tive ones for the young, one -eared ukulele player and heentered high school with ameagre fund of learning anda tough aptitude for suchgrown-up diversions as pool.golf and smoking.

He also possessed a mad passion for music-the music of his day and age.He turned enthusiastically to his errant brother Jim when he came back home from

his mysterious travels, for Jim brought with him a collection of new and exciting music.For the first time Eddie Condon heard the full-throated singing of Mamie Smith as wellas the current dance music of Wilbur Sweatman, Paul Biese, Ted Lewis and ArtHickman.

The first World War hit ragtime America whilst sister Lucille was practising "MapleLeaf Rag" and "That International Rag" on the piano. Pa Condon tangled up withthe law and ended by joining it as a policeman. He soon fell into more trouble whenhe arrested a white and coloured pair of combatants and hauled them before a localjudge. Following the usual and peculiar interpretation of the Declaration of Independ-Nice which so many Americans are prone to do even to this day, the judge freed thewhite man and jailed the Negro. Mr. Condon informed his honour of his own, opin-ions on the case-in rather strong language-and himself became the victim of whiteanti -Negro thuggery. to be rescued before any serious damage was done to him by acouple of friendly Negroes.

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MEANWHILEJIM had hit the trail once again after buying a tenor banjo and

Eddie seized it. He would practise in the cellar in front of the furnace untilthe flickering flames would lull him from his chords and Ma Condon would eventuallydiscover him fast asleep and drag him up to bed.

But the practice succeeded and he joined a trio consisting of a saxophonist anda drummer. " What'll we play?" asked the hopeful young Eddie. " We'll start outeach time on a different tune," whispered the leader, " and if we get lost everybodygo into ' Ida' in the key of C ". In such a fashion did the famous Chicago jazz banjoist,Eddie Condon, begin his career.

In 1919 the group werewearily but determinedly burn-ing their respective candles atboth ends, setting up their in-struments close by an exit or awindow and performing "Ida"in the key of C.

Then, m response to a letterfrom elder brother Cliff from CedarRapids, Eddie took his banjo anda few odd shirts and caught a train.The date was September, 1921. Hejoined Bill Engleman's dance bandand began work in earnest. He wassixteen, and his prize possessionwas a new, shiny, long -neckedpleotrum Vegas banjo which Cliffhad bought for him. From a near-by town called Waterloo, he met aclarinet player called Peavey, whowanted to play hot music andneeded a banjo player to help him.Eddie left the dance band and be-gan his jazz career.

ENTER BIX . . .

BACK FROM A BUSY tour afriend introduced him to a kid

dressed dowdily in a brokenpeaked cap and a cheap green over-

coat with a torn collar, "He had around face," Condon said after-wards, "and eyes that had no de-sire to focus on what was in frontof him." His name was BixBeiderbecke and he was a memberof the new band Eddie was to join.

From then on young Condonrode both high and happy. Jazzwas his music. In Chicago he be-gan to meet musicians who were tobe closer to him than his vest. BudFreeman, Jimmy McPartland, RedMcKenzie, Jack Bland, Dick Slevinand Benny Goodman. Chicago wasa wide-open city and his music wasin great demand amongst thegangsters and the bright set. It wasthe voice of the frantic post -wasyouth.

He listened to the golden musicof King Oliver, Louis Armstrong,Bessie Smith, George Mitchell,Fletcher Henderson and JimmyNoone. He kept playing his banjoand his name began to appear onodd recording dates with the jazz-men he knew. The Mound CityBlue Blowers, the Chicago RhythmKings, and so on. Eddie Condonhad arrived.

Today no jazz fan can dig into

the wealth of good white jazz with-out tapping his foot delightedly tothe swinging chords of Eddie Con-don.

His quick, forceful wit and em-phatic personality carried himthrough the depression, playing fora hundred outfits and most ofthem pick-up groups.

Every recording studio knewhim, and, in later years, the nightspots of New York received himlike a lost brother. He was an im-portant personage at Nick's, beat-ing out the four -to -the -bar rhythmswith such men as Muggsy Spanier,Wild Bill Davison, Milton Mezzxowand Bud Freeman. He headed hisown outfits, recording again andagain, becoming almost the main-stay of the Commodore RecordCompany.

CONDON ' LED THEMOB

WHEN DIE FAMOUS AMERI-CAN record critic George

Avakian decided to record a free -and -easy Dixieland date in NewYork he naturally chose Condon tolead the mob.

Eddie, in his turn, used his ownnight club band, composed of WildBill, on the cornet, Cutty Cutshalltrombone, Ed Hall on clarinet,Gene Schroeder piano, bassistWalter Page and Cliff Leeman ondrums. He also added, for thesessions, guest artistes in the namesof trombonist Lou McGarity,clarinetist Peanuts Hucko, drummerGeorge Wettling and Dick Cary onboth piano and trumpet.

It was something of a unique re-cording date, unbelievably free ofconvention. " Beale Street Blues,"" Amaline," " Don't Worry 'BoutMe," " I Can't Give you Anythingbut Love," " Riverboat Shuffle," aBlues and "Ole Miss " were alltaken to town so naturally andeasily that, in listening to the newPhilips LP . .

COAST -TO -COAST JAMSESSION

Eddie Condon's All -Stars and TheRampart Street Ramblers.

Philips BBL7013.

ONEIS APT to forget that this

is a record one is listening toand indulge in the most perfectform of listening possible.

I just can't remember when Ilast relaxed so completely onlistening to a review record.

Maybe it was another PhilipsLP, the Carnegie Hall concertclassic ma4e by Benny Goodmanor the delightfully attractive" Masterpieces " by the DukeEllington band on Columbia. May-be, again, it was way back whenmy blood was young enough torace and I could still catch mybreath at a new facet of excitingjazz. Indeed, come to think of it,with the advent (for me) of a newand incredibly powerful Bill Mc-Guffie, the increasing pleasure I amfinding in Errol Garner and OscarPeterson, the new concept of Good-man and Lionel Hampton in" Stardust," I must be youngerthan I had ever imagined. Andwhen you see me bobbing up anddown like a rather bulbous piston -rod to the new transcriptions ofthe immense George Lewis concertfrom American Disc Jockey you'llknow for sure.

Putting the dubious prospects ofa possible second childhood behindme for the moment, I would liketo get back to the coast -to -coastjam session and my old friendEddie Condon. The Philips com-pany who, bless their business -likehearts, have been wise enough toleave in the scraps of impromptuconversation made before, duringand after the numbers by Eddieand the boys, have given thetraditionalists their own BennyGoodman concert. For Dixielandjazz comes alive in rich, virilecolours. We are transportedinto a New York record studio,which in imagination looksstrangely like the misty photographin blue which garnishes the cover.Take this record, which is cheapat 32s. 4d., and wait until twilightfalls. Leave the curtains back sothat the street lamp shines throughand stoke up the fire until it dancesin and out of the corners of theroom. Leave the electric light off,put on the record, shut your eyesand relax. That, my hearties, willgive you the supreme pleasure ofjazz listening.

The Rampart Street Ramblers, onthe reverse side, was the result ofa similar idea conceived by record-ing producer Paul Weston in far-away Hollywood. Afterwards thetwo men joined forces to give usthis record.

After I had so thoroughly en-joyed the exceptional pleasure ofthe Condon mob I- turned the LPover with a large amount ofgenuine misgiving.

What could the Eddie Miller -ledpick-up band do but provide acomplete anti -climax ? No off-stage talking-no bright Condoninstructions and no hell -for -leatherplaying by the inimitable Wild Bill.And yet the band made the per-fect coupling. Clyde Hurley as agreat trumpeter, whilst Matty Mat-lock on clarinet and Abe Lincolnon trombone join Miller in a driv-ing front line. The rhythm sectionconsists of pianist Stan Wrights-man, bassist Phil Stephens, guitar-

ist George van Eps and NickFatool on drums.

The tunes, all good, good tunes,include " Black and Blue," "I Ain'tGonna Give Nobody None o' ThisJelly Roll," " Ja Da." " The Sheikof Araby," " Squeeze Me," and,naturally, " South Rampart StreetParade," from which the ex -BobCrosby musicians derived the nameof the group for this date.

This is fine, fervent jam sessionmusic. Yet it is good. ferventDixieland, too. The unconven-tional mood of both sidesstill allows for the strictest dis-cipline in the actual musicalform and the players are all fartoo experienced to forget it foran instant,- Let British jazzmenplay like this and all will he wellin the state of Denmark Street.

CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ BANDChris Barber Plays Spirituals:

" Sing On "I" Lawd, You've BeenSo Good To Me," "Precious Lord,Take My Hand "/" God Leads His

Dear Children."Columbia SEG7568.

BUT THERE ARE occasionswhen British jazzmen do play

well-and here is one of them.The sweet melting clarinet of

Monty Sunshine wins the hardestheart of the most ardent of anti-jazzists. Barber's firm, knowingtrombone places the baritone voiceand the trumpet of newcomer PatHalcox takes an unassuming leadthroughout.

The tunes of these simple Spirit-uals are ideal material for such athoughtful unit as the one Barbernow heads. No soprano from theTemple ever sang so purely asMonty does; no symphony orches-tra has ever approached Beethovenor Mozart as humbly as this groupplay their selected jazz. The rhythmsection is better than its contem-poraries, unless one accepts the dis-tant Colyer band.

Lonnie Donnegan sings nasallybut well on " Precious Lord, TakeMy Hand," and the rest of the EPis well conceived ensemble work.

FRANKIE TRUMBAUER WITHBIX BEIDERBECKE

" Way Down Yonder in NewOrleans "/" For No Reason At Allin C," " I'm Coming Virginia "/

" Ostrich Walk."Columbia SEG7566.

NEARLY TWENTY YEARS agoI the B.B.C. featured mid -after-

noon record half-hours with scriptswritten by various collectors andread by their own staff announcers.

At that time I was engaged inwriting several, and one I recallwas entitled " More Jazz WithoutTears." The idea was to attract thegeneral public to the melodic con-tent in good jazz-and we have nobetter example than in these de-lightful fragments from Bix's briefbut brilliant career. In the graciouscompany of guitarist Eddie Lang,the fruity Trumbauer and a bandof thoughtful New York whitemusicians, Bix moulds golden songfrom the great formative era towhich he so rightly belonged.

The rest of the EP is played byTrumbauer's small band with Bix

one of the most tal-ented and populartrombonists in theworld of jazz. JamesAsman reviews hisColumbia record onthis page, says he is aBritish trombonistwho certainly doesknow how to playwell . .

leading on his open -voiced trumpe ,but " For No Reason At All in C"is a stately piece with Lang, Trum-bauer and Beiderbecke makingchamber music of Meyer's gentlecomposition.

When anyone is inclined tocondemn jazz as a chaotic, ram-pant noise put on this record andgive them the lie.

WASHBOARD JOE AND HISSCRUBBERS

" I Love Onions "/"Paper Kisses."Par!ophone R3984.

EVERY phase of music has itsirreverent imitators. Years ago

the talking picture, fresh from itssuccessful adaptation of music fromthe masters, had to have also its" Warsaw Concerto " and "CornishRhapsody " to follow in the foot-steps of the Emperor and theMoonlight Sonata.

It has to happen, for the mas-sive money -making machine mustseek new inspiration where it canfind it.

Now we have an example of thesame sort of mischance happeningto tit; kind of jazz which ClarenceWilliams made so justly famous.Whoever Washboard Joe might beI have no idea, and I would thankno good intentioned friend to tellme. The truth is that I do not careafter hearing this unpleasant "gim-mick." Like " Big Ben's BanjoBand " and other oddities, it fol-lows idiotically in the trail ofbetter things and achieves no otherresult than to appeal to the lowestintellect. My advice to jazz loversis to avoid it like a plague.

DENMARK ST.NOW BOASTSMILLS HOUSEMILLS MUSIC LTD., announce

the acquisition of their ownpremises at 20 Denmark Street,London, W.C.2. The entire organ-isation which was in the past spreadout over four buildings, has nowmoved to Denmark Street just intime to really exploit their first hitthis year - " Majorca " - whichFred Jackson picked up on one ofhis continental journeys. (The num-ber is being handled by Mills pro-fessional manager, Griff Lewis).

Max Diamond, professional man-ager of B. F. Wood Co. Ltd., isgetting geared up for the exploit-ation of a second continental hit-" Blue Mirage "-which is sched-uled for release in March andalready boasts nine American top -line records. This is said to bea beautiful tango which was waxedin Britain by Frank Chacksfield.

With both these numbers andhandsome new Leroy Andersontunes coming up fast, MickieSchuller of the Light Music Depart-ment has her work cut out to assurethat every tune gets fair represent-ation on the air. . . .

Fred Jackson is waiting for thevisit of his chief, Jack Mills fromNew York, to launch the MillsHouse in Denmark Street inappropriate fashion.

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****************************()(****************A Fabulous Slice Of London Night Life

MEET THEM ALL AT CHURCIESPECIALLY HARRY MEADOWS

HARRY MEADOWS is a name being currentlyemblazoned across the pages of a national Sunday

newspaper . . . and behind the name lies a fantastic storywhich this remarkable character is telling readers of

that newspaper.It matters little if you are a night-club frequenter or not,

if you have or you haven't actually met some of the fabulousfolk who make London Night Club History . . . I know I'llbe right in assuming that the name Harry Meadows, andthe club, Churchills, will ring a bell with you.

In Show Business circles mention of the name Meadows,together with his equally well-known partner, the big, burly,boisterous Bruce Brace, is the signal for animated conver-sation. Churchills Club is symbolic of London's Night Life.

My "Going Places" assign-ments include periodic visitsto night clubs and, up toabout two years ago, my mostfavourite port of call in thissphere was The Albany-which was also a day club-in Saville Row when thathearty character, Bill Little,was in charge. I confess Ipaid only scant attention tothe other night haunts inLondon and that I rather"neglected" Churchills. BillLittle was my type of guy andI loved the atmosphere ofThe Albany whilst he was incharge.

Bill's departure from TheAlbany still is a source ofmuch regret to hundreds ofhis old friends.

NOW IT SEEMS, I shall be trans-ferring my affections to

Churchills. Harry Meadows andBruce Brace arc my type of guys,too - bluff, bright, breezy, forth-right, possessed of keen humourbesides keen business acumen, hostswho have an uncanny knackof "weighing up" each and everyone of their members and treatingeach and all with that diplomacyborn from a life-long associationwith people from all walks of life.

AN EDUCATIONI SPENT A MIDNIGHT to FOUR

A.M. SESSION in the dimly -litprecincts of Churchills Club and thebrilliantly -alive company of Messrs.Meadows and Brace.

Believe me, it was an education.Not the education you'd expect atOxford but, in its own unique way,an education just the same.

For four punch -packed hourscelebrities, (what an autographhunter's paradise) streamed intothe club restaurant room.

"Soft lights" is the theme andmost effective it is too.

The atmosphere is charged witha spontaneous cheerfulness forwhich Harry and Bruce are happilyresponsible.

There is a warmth about theirwelcome, an intensity about theirdesire to make you feel at homeand a sort of delicate determinationthat you will have a darned goodtime.

NOT CHEAP,BUT .

CHURCHILLS CLUB has a mem-bership of 27,000.

It is not an extravagantly expen-sive place to have a night - ormorning - out but, quite naturally,the average man - in - the - streetcouldn't make a habit of goingthere - nor any night club if itcomes to that.

It's a specialised form of enjoy-ment -seeking and if you have themeans then, of course, Churchillsmust undoubtedly be recommended.A meeting with Harry Meadows andBruce Brace is alone worth thecover charge, which I believe, is aguinea.

HARRY came over to my table

to have a "few words". Heuttered them by the thousand.

Our session lasted for about anhour. Harry proudly rolled off thenames of the folk who are mem-bers of the club, of those who re-gularly dine and spend theirevenings there. Royal personages,politicians, Cabinet Ministers, starsof stage screen, television andradio, authors, journalists, painters,record -breaking athletes, ForeignDiplomats " bet you can'tname me a celebrity in any spherewho hasn't been here," challengedHarry. "Look!" pointed Harrytoward the entrance door, "see whothat is coming in? . .. ChristopherSoames, the Prime Minister's son-in-law!" . . .which was quite acoincidence . . . Churchills Cluband there was Sir WinstonChurchill's son-in-law!

"We maintain happy order here,"continued Harry. "Everybodyknows just how to behave. This isthe most respected club in theworld. There isn't the suggestionof a 'scene' anytime, even whenspirits run high!"

HARRY RAMBLED merrily on,interrupting himself only when

some new celebrity made his entryand he went over to give him thetypical all -smiling Churchill wel-come. . . .

All very cheerful, all very bon-homie. I enjoyed every moment ofit, especially the way I was beingfussed about by a squadron ofpolite and efficient waiters, indi-vidually and collectively the essenceof charm and tact . . . a well -trained, well -disciplined section ofthe Churchill Service.

SURPRISE'ITEM . . .

CABARET TIME....an hour ofsong, dance and music. Cecil Lan-dau has just completed a six -weeks'season as producer there. My visitcoincided with the 'surprise' stageappearance of JOHN CALVERT,tall, handsome Jeff Chandler -look-ing American film star here to starin a British picture.

John was persuaded to go on thestage by Harry and Bruce. Okayedby film producer William Wylder,at the Calvert table, the Americanactor presented a unique conjuringand magical act which baffledeverybody in the restaurant.("See?", said Harry, "the place isfull of pleasant surprises!")

FREE BREAKFASTTHE hours speed by....it is near-

ing 4 a.m. Breakfast is servedfree of cost.

Omelettes, fried "worsht",viennas, kippers-take your choice.

The irrepressible Harry andBruce are as fresh and as perky asever.

Just before I left I was shown a'dummy' copy of a monthly maga-zine to be launched in April by thecouple. "We're entering the pub-lishing business," said Harry,"because we think we've got some-thing interesting for the public toread. Although our magazine is tobe called Churchills it won't beabout our club or anything like ahouse magazine. We're going to telleverybody about everything."

I ventured to point out that

AND BRUCE

BRUCE BRACE (left) and HARRY MEADOWS, the popularhosts of Churchills where all is gay, carefree, with a touch ofclass and polish. (Read all about it in " The Green Man" on

these pages.)

publishing was a more hazardousventure than running a night club,but Harry and Bruce replied thatthey were prepared to take thechance, that they already hadready-made readers.

Be that as it may, for me theattraction will always be ChurchillsClub and I hope to pay many morevisits there....it's a great place for'copy'.

And even if you can't allafford to go there it's always in-teresting to READ about.

CAN CAN' STAR' OUT' WITHEXHAUSTION

I TELEPHONED IRENEHILDA, vivacious

French singing star of "CanCan ", at her Regent's Park

flat, was answered by her maidwho very reluctantly passedon my message to the star thatI would like to have a wordwith her.

I could understand the reluctancewhen I heard Irene's voice answerme. She sounded terribly weak,had to force her words.

"I felt this collapse coming onfor a long while," she muttered."I simply couldn't carry on. Mydoctor says I must have completerest."

I interrupted Irene, told her Idid not want her to continue forc-ing her conversation, wished her aspeedy recovery.

The French star has workedexceedingly hard in "Can Can"and, prior to its opening fourmonths ago, had had an especiallystrenuous time rehearsing.

Irene is the sort of trouper whogives her everything into every per-formance. At the end of each she isabsolutely fagged out. She takesultra -ray treatment morning andnight to maintain her vitality.

She has been ordered thoroughrest; the doctor says she is suffer-ing from "complete nervousexhaustion."

When will Irene return to 'CanCan'?

She did tell me before she rangoff, that she was going to makeevery effort to get back to theshow this week -end.

All in Show Business-and shehas countless friends-hope shewill have recovered enough to beable to do so.

DOROTHYDandridge, sensa-

tional coloured star of Cinema -Scope's " Carmen Jones " is beingoffered a most tempting fee to flyover and " do " a one-night con-cert in London. Nothing at alldefinite yet, but signs are pro-mising.

" nISCOVERER " CARROLL1" LEVIS'S voice drawled over

the telephone. " It's me, Carroll,dear boy . . . I've just returnedfrom America ... been away threeweeks," he said.

" Bit hush-hush, wasn't it ? " Iasked, " what did you discoverthere ? "

" Hush, hush, my boy," saidCarroll, " but take it from me it'sall big stuff . . very big. Watchout for some starding news . . .

by, by now dear boy."

BRACE ! SWEET AND

LOVELY COLORATURASOPRANOI DID NOT GO PLACES

. . . nor did I have togo out of my way to meetthis very charming and

good-looking young lady; thehabit is pleasantly growing forthe stars and coming stars tomake the Rupert Street officesof THE RECORD MIRRORa regular rendezvous for achat-and a story.

Of course it's curtailing my wan-derings around Paris but whilstsuch nice people as 25 -years -old,Leeds -born Patricia Varley, keepcalling the straight object.

Miss Varley came to tell me thehappy news that she has beenoffered a contract with the ConcertArtists Record Company of Ameri-can, that her records will be onsale in this country, that she hadreceived lots of fan mail follow-ing her broadcast in 'Henry Hall'sGuest Night' last month and thatshe will be singing again as soloistwith the Spa Orchestra in theHome Service on March 1 at 3.45p.m.

Patricia is not a 'pop' singer.She has a beautiful coloratura -soprano voice. The market may notbe so big for this type of voice butthere are many who want nothingelse....and Patricia will certainlymake this section happy.

She told me that she has been toAiperica, sung there at concertsand recitals. Followed a 22 -weeks'

The sweet and lovely PATRICIA VARLEY

THE LATEST DVERA LYNN

Addio amore; I do F 10463DAVID WHITFIELD with Mantovani

Beyond the stars; Open your heartF 10458

MANTOVANISoftly, softly; Longing F 10468

FRANK CHACKSFIELDBlue mirage; Lady from Luxembourg

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KATHY LLOYDOur future, has only begun;Unsuspecting heart F 10464

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RILLSseason at a West Coast resort.Then came her big break with theCarl Rosa Opera Company asprincipal coloratura soprano. She'snot all that highbrow.... she hassung "light stuff" with the GeorgeMelachrino and Reginald Kingorchestras, has appeared on theEdmund Hockridge "I HearMusic" programme.

I bring Patricia Varley to yournotice because I think you'll beentranced with her singing-it'ssweet and lovely.

A NORTH AFRICANWAR -TIME MEMORY

jWAS GLAD to catch upagain-via television-

with an old war -time buddyof mine - comedian VIC

WISE.I have known and written about

this naturally funny comedian formany years-from the 'way -back -when' days, when as Campbell andWise, the cross -talk act, theyappeared at practically every music -hall in Great Britain.

During the war Campbell andWise did hundreds of concerts forthe troops. I met them whilst Iwas serving in Tunis, North Africa.....met them only several hoursafter they had been landed follow-ing a sea rescue; the boat they hadsailed on had been torpedoed.They lost all their props, theirpersonal belongings, but within 24hours of the rescue were touringthe camps doing their full show.

The Campbell part of the actleft; Vic was on his own, foundplenty of work on television, radioand films as a "character" actor.

On Saturday last in television'sVariety Parade Vic presented asmart, slick 'turn' in which hiseccentric dances was a specialfeature. His foot -stepping wasreally nifty and nimble for a manwho won't deny that he's pastmiddle -age.

MAY I, with pieasure, introduceyou to one of the most

courteous most affable and most" unruffled " managers in thecinema business ? The gentlemanis Mr. H. Coode, in charge of theCameo -Poly Cinema in RegentStreet, W., where Fernandel's fun-niest French film, " The Sheep HasFive Legs " is setting up new box-office records. Mr. Coode (othermanagers please copy) may take afair measure of responsibility forthe success of this happy cinema.

RUSH JOB for Benny Hill last11- Sunday. Two performances atthe Odeon, Barking, then a madcar drive to the Scala, TottenhamCourt Road, to receive his " DailyMail " Television Award. " Didit nice and calm -like," said

Benny.

"MET." THEATRE, Edgware Road, manager ALBERTVASCO demonstrates his delight at the excellent busi-ness prevailing at his variety house this week by a kiss

of gratefulness for MRS.Cause To JOE COLLINS, whose hus-

Celebrate band (known in the pro-fession as WILL), left of the

picture, was responsible for presenting the currentweek's bill. Topped by LITA ROZA, with suchstars as the Jerry Allen Trio and Mike and BernieWinters in support, the business is proving the best atthis theatre in months. Incidentally, the "MET." wasthe first important theatre at which DAVE KING per-formed-he was also presented there by Will Collins.

Proudly 'presenting' the res-taurant its new owner Max Rich,who for many years in chargeof the dining hall above LexGarage in Brewer Street, W.

Max and his partner Sam Bom-ash, proprietor of several West Endsnack bars, have spent considerablesums of money to completely re-decorate and renovate this nowmost attractive eating house. The`new look' should certainly add tothe popularity of the venue whichhas always been well patronised byshow business folk.

PECCA-GROUP 78 and 45 r.p.m. RECORDSSTAN KENTON

to too long; Dont take your lovefrom me CL 14247

THE FOUR KNIGHTSbunch; Write me baby CL 14244

BIG DAVERock and roll party;

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CONNIE RUSSELLen fire; Snow dreams CL 14246

BING CROSBYTobermory Bay; The river 05385

GARY CROSBYReady, willing and able;

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NORMAN BROOKSBack in circulation;

Lou Lou Lousiana HL 8115JIM REEVES

Penny candy; I'll follow you HL 8118

THE HILLTOPPERSVICTOR YOUNG Time waits for no one;

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GORDON JENKINSVera cruz; In an inn in Indiana 05387

ROBERTA LEERidin' to Tennessee;

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CALYPSO SERIESTHE SHAW PARK CALYPSO BAND

Take her to Jamaica;DAN WILLIAMS

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Thank You . . .RESPONSE TO MY

"APPEAL" in thiscolumn last week forAnnual Editions of thepublication I founded andedited, THE WEEKLYSPORTING REVIEW,has been magnanimous.Many of my old-and new-readers have sent me allthe copies I require and Imust sincerely thank themfor the kindness andtrouble bestowed on mybehalf.

If I quote just one letterit is not because I do notwish to acknowledge theothers. I appreciate themall, but the followingletter was the first Iopened. It comes fromMr. Ray Plant of 267Church Road, Sheldon,Birmingham. 26.

" I am sending you withmy compliments fourAnnuals as required.Please accept them asthanks for the manyhours pleasure I had read-ing the W.S.R. when youwere its editor. Con-gratulations on the goodjob you are doing with' The Record Mirror'."

INTRODUCING . . .

`RICH'S RESTAURANT'QIR Henry Irving laid the-) coping stone in 1904 andMadame Sarah Bernhardtlaid the foundation stone in

1905 of the building that is nowa restaurant at 41/43 Wardour Going the rounds of the hallsStreet, London, W. and doing enormously well are

these acts-old and new. Aboveare HARRIOTT and EVANS,the dusky singers of popularsongs, who are developing a bigfollowing in this country. Theyhave made several successful ap-pearances on television and havescored on the stage, in cabaretand other spheres of show busi-ness . . . in fact they have gonea long way in a little while.Harriott and Evans-the abovephotograph was taken by THERECORD MIRROR cameramanDouglas John at a recent Dor-chester Hotel floor show-will beappearing at the LondonColiseum all-star concert (spon-sored by The Sportsman's AidSociety) on Sunday, February 20.

And on this same Sportsman'sAid Society bill will be the oneand only MAX MILLER, whoneeds no introduction.

The cartoon of the " cheekychappie " was drawn by thecelebrated show -business artist,Lissenden-and it was sketched20 years ago ! Says Lissenden. . . " If I were to sketch MaxMiller today, the drawing wouldbe identical to the one repro-duced here . . . he hasn'tchanged a bit-he hasn't addedone extra wrinkle to his chubby,cheeky face !"

STARS OLD AND NEW ON VIEW

' OUR PAULINE 'LOOKS LIKE

MAKING IT !PAULINE SHEPHERD,

the young lady fromHighbury, London, N., whocrashed her way into print

in THE RECORD MIRRORnow looks like crashing herway with equal success intoShow Business.

Readers will remember Pauline'sletter to this paper . . how sheexpressed her determination tomake good and the confidence inherself to " lick most of the bigstars" shining today, said Pauline:

PAULINE .ceeded in making them sit up and

"I'm not conceited; I know I'm take notice.better than lots of the top-notchers. We invited Pauline - who hasI can give 'em several furlongs start only just left school-to comeand still beat 'em easily." along and interview Alma Cogan

Well, her letter made this paper at one of our Luxembourg broad -and if some folk thought she was casts. Her voice was heard forarrogant Pauline certainly suc- the first time over the air.

Now follows really interestingnews. Our confident Pauline maybe seen on television and heardon records. She has been testedin both media. First reports sayshe's fine . . . don't be surprisedif you'll soon be hailing PaulineShepherd as one of Britain's bigshow business names !

PAT KIRKWOOD celebrates her34th birthday on February 23,

the day she opens in Jack Hylton'snew musical comedy, " WonderfulTown " at the Princes Theatre,London, W.

IMPRESARIO Cecil Landau whohas had a run of tough luck

recently, hopes to find his bestform again and put an end to the" jinx " with (a) a visit to America,where he hopes to produce a showand (b) presenting Audrey Hep-burn in a West End play towardthe end of the year. The Hepburnhope is something Cecil is reallyclinging to. Audrey was a meregirl in the back row in a CecilLandau production less than fiveyears ago-she was in the chorus.

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business will express tributes'Ca id exchange reminiscencesC on the programme on Wright's fifty years as a s mgwriter and music pub- I usher.C These include Jack Hyl- t in, Anne Shelton, Jack IC Payne, former boxing cham- pion Len Harvey, Lilian

Jackson, Thorpe Bates and IWilliam Foyle, chief of

C Foyle's Bookshops. 11

C Extracts from Lawrence 4 Wright's most famous song hits. which he wrote under

Cthe name of " Horatio 4 Nicholls ". wilt be featured inthis half-hour pro- IC gramme. 1

The "Close Up " series Iare being produced by

CThurston Holland.Handling the production

Creins on "Close Up of I Lawrence Wright " will be Derek Chinnery. who pro- IC duces the Jack Payne Sun- 4C day afternoon record pro- ICgramme "British Band Box"Cand other BBC record Ishows.

This year Lawrence I Wright celebrates half -a- 4 century as a composer and

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SOUGHT IN RECORD

(ownNEW YORK police are

carrying out one of theirstrange assignments in their at-tempt to track down themystery killer who strangledthe millionaire financier SergeRubinstein in a bedroom re-cently.

They are playing overR thinstein's vast collections ofrecords, checking each discthoroughly in case the deadman had recorded wire -tappedconversations about hisfinancial and personal dealingsand filed them under disguisedsymphonic and popular labels.

THE BBCSALUTES

LAWRENCEWRIGHT

1 ENTHUSIASTIC pre-views of Jack Hylton's

")N Sunday. February 27, Wonderful Town" promptedin the Light Programme

4Marks to get a little nostalgic

6 p.m. Lawrence Wright. 4 over the lovely ladies con -The Daddy of Tin Pan 1 nected with it.Bey ", will be subject My wife being out looking forone of the BBC's famous 1 a clock in contemporary design toClose Up " series. a go with my study (there ain't suchCelebrities from show a thing-clock, I mean, but that's

another story) I fell into a reverie.(1° don't advise you to do thesame thing, for you're apt tocome out of it with a very tenderpart bruised.)

In this reverie Rosalind Russellwas dressed as a traffic cop andwaving a car to get back into line.At the wheel of the car was PatKirkwood - and she was talkingright back at Miss Russell. Herpassengers were Sally Gray andJanet Blain, who were waving likemad to Coral Browne, who hadjust ridden up on an exceedinglyold bicycle. Suddenly Miss Russellmotioned the traffic on, and withone accord the girls jumped outand off their vehicles, surroundedher and started an animated danceround. . Rosalind had dis-appeared and in her place wasShani Wallis.

Car doors opened everywhereand people rushed towwards thegroup-then my wife, Paddle, re-turned without her contemporaryclock, and, naturally, I had tocome out of my reverie.

It wasn't anything I ate thatbrought this on-just a jumble ofconfused and happy memoriesabout some of the stars who haveappeared in " Wonderful Town "or " My Sister Eileen ", as itstarted life.

CORAL AND SALLYURING the war a long runD at the Savoy Theatre starredCoral Browne as the wise eldersister and Sally Gray as the gayyounger one.

Coral, long noted for her wit, herability to wear clothes and hergreat talent as a comedienne, hasgone from strength to strengthsince those days. " The Lady FromDown Under "-she was born inMelbourne-has taken in her stridea series of gay comedies with JackBuchanan, including "Castle InThe Air ", the Alan Melville playto which the Coal Board objected,a successful excursion into Shakes-peare with the Old Vic, and nowanother Melville play, the smashhit about TV, " Simon AndLaura ", which transfers to theApollo Theatre on February 14.

Sally, one of the most glamorousgirls ever to grace the British stageand screen, seems, temporarily, atleast, to have deserted show busi-ness to concentrate on her marriedlife. Her last film appearance wasmore than a year ago-in a thrillerwith George Raft-and since thenshe has spent most of her time atthe ancestral castle in Ireland (sheis Lady Oranmore and Browne)-although I did manage to glimpseher, lovelier than ever, selling pro -

11 Stars of 'Wonderful Town'GUEST COLUMNIST IN MEMORIAM

ALFRED MARKS,4t 6, ,p

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grammes at the Palladium All-starMidnight Matinee at which Dietrichappeared last summer. Sally ismissed in the profession, and I

hope someday soon a part willturn up tempting enough to lureher away from domesticity.

ROSALIND AND

JANETSTARS OF THE FILM

" Eileen " were Janet Blairand Rosalind Russell, who hasrecently been starring in the Broad-way version of "Wonderful Town"-a musical version of "M. S. E."

She has not been seen a greatdeal on the screen lately (I believe" Never Wave To A WAAC " wasthe last), but she is now filming forthe company run by herself and herhusband, Fred Brisson.

Janet, who made a hit as thedizzy Eileen, has not filmed muchsince " That Mad Mr. Jones ",with Red Skelton; she is at pre-sent playing on the stage in theU.S.A.

PAT AND SHANI I LATEST STARS of " Wonder-

ful Town " are, of course,Pat Kirkwood and Shani Wallis.I've admired Pat, as a real artisteand a trouper, who has gonethrough a great deal of personalunhappiness and tragedy in the pastyear or so, but who never ceasesto sparkle before the footlights.

Warm-hearted. generous and afine performer, Pat deserves a re-sounding success in her new show,due at the Prince's on February 23.Good luck, too, to Shani Wallis,who graduated from intimate revueat the club theatres, to a big hitat the Coliseum in "Call MeMadam ". The part of Eileenshould suit her admirably.

I CANNOT LET this occasion goby without adding my very

sincere condolences to Nat Millson the death of his wife, Bobbie.Others have expressed all thatPaddie and I feel at this sad loss;we can simply record the passingof a very dear friend.

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" COSIE JOAN "IF THERE'S ONE person with

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I hear she's got new catch -phrases, and, more importak anew part that sounds right in herline of country. that of a cat trans-formed by a kind goddess into abeautiful girl so that she can makea handsome youth fall in love withher ! Called " The Moon And TheChimney ", it's touring now. Amlooking forward to seeing Joanagain.

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The Dennis Wilson Trio10.00 Robert MacDermot

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10.15 THE JOE LOSSBAND SHOW

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IS the new singing discoveryof CECIL LANDAU'S

another David Whitfield? Andif so, will not Cecil get more' tough' to see to it that thistime he lets no star slipthrough his fingers?

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taneous rehearsal TheBeverley Sisters gave " TheGreen Man " in the Little Cafein Gerrard Street, W., lastweek?

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HOW DID a certain big--IL 1 time vocalist hide his headwhen chatting with conductorIvor Slaney on a recordingsession? Talking over thearrangements, Ivor inquiredif there were any especialinstrumental effects he liked." Nothing in particular " wasthe reply, "Except I can'tbear oboes and things."

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barrassed about dropping afairly hefty clanger? Review-ing a ladies' band on radiohe commented on the excep-tional performance by certaininstrumentalists and gave theband the week's honours forwhat he called " A manly per-

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PROGRAMMES FOR WEEK

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16

p.m.6.00 Pete Murray

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7.1S The adventures ofDAN DARE

Pilot of the Future7.30 FAMILY ALBUM

withEve Boswell

Adrian Foley7.45 SOCCER SURVEY

presented byPete Murray

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formance!" He didn't knowhow near the truth he was, forthe players in question hadbeen hired for the occasionand were all men . . . .

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DOES glamorous pianistDolores Ventura wish that

animal representing her native

Australia was something alittle less unwieldy than akangaroo? Visiting Chessing-ton Zoo for publicity pictures

HOW PETTY CAN SOMEof the pilfering get at

in company with the long- dance -halls, etc., where bandstailed one, she was in danger of are performing? Show Bandbeing trampled on most of the trumpeter, Harry Lathamtime, as the kangaroo decided came off the stand last weekto hog the camera by leaping and found that someone hadup and down at every oppor- pinched his empty trumpettunity . . . case. What this can be used

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with every other band on theair.

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boys out every week in acrowded West End Italiansnack bar? Leisurely signingthe cheques he passes themout much in the manner of aLord of the Manor distribut-ing largesse to his serfs. The

WHO is there in the pro-fession that is not raving

about the new Tommy DorseyLP " Ecstasy "? Tromboneplayers in particular marvel athis fabulous control andvirtuosity, especially asTommy is now well into hisfifties. *

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It's not so long ago that weused to hear her broadcasting

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Pilot of the Future7.30 PENGUIN PARADE

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THE SAMUEL DRIVERRECORD SHOW

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OrchestraDavid CareyJohn Witty

8.30 David Jacobsintroduces

LUCKY COUPLE9.00 SMART WORK

by theHarold Smart Quartet

9.1S VALENTINE'S NIGHTwith

Dickie Valentineaccompanied by

The Don Phillips Quintet.9.30 Perry Mason

inTHE CASE OF THEHUNGRY HEARTS

9.4S FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURSstarring

Johnny JohnstonThe Keynotes

The Dennis Wilson Trio10.00 Teddy Johnson

invites you toTUNE IN TO TEDDY

10.30 EVENING STAR10.45 MARIO LANZA SINGS11.00 OLD FASHIONED

REVIVAL HOURMidnight -Close Down

boys feel rather embarrassedabout this procedure. Sir,couldn't you make some otherarrangement?

*

ARE we at last to find thatTony Fayne, of the

famous radio funster team,Fayne and Evans, has cashedin on a voice that has broughthim fame mainly through im-pressions? At Parlophone lastweek he made a couple of solosides that has set the businessquite agog. (Incidentally theywere both written by JoanRegan's accompanist.)

FRIDAY,

FEB. 18

p.m.6.00 Dick Norton

introducesFRIDAY'S REQUESTS

Write on with your recordrequests

7.00 Butlin'sBEAVER CLUB

with" Uncle " Eric Winstone

7.1S The adventures ofDAN DARE

Pilot of the future

7.30 SUIT YOURSELFwith

Ken Mackintosh, hisOrchestra and Singers

7.45 THE TWO OF USbeing

Jean Campbell, Ray Burns

8.00 Paul Carpentercomperes

SHILLING A SECOND8.30 Sam Costa

presentsWAS THERE SOMETHING?

9.00 Lee Lawrence'sSCRAPBOOK OF SONG

9.1S FRANK WEIR, HISSAXOPHONE & HIS

ORCHESTRAGuest Artiste : Benny Lee

9.30 Perry Masonin

THE CASE OF THEHUNGRY HEARTS

9.45 THE ALKA-SELTZER SHOWwith

Curt Massey and MarthaTilton and the music ofCountry Washburne and his

Orchestra10.00 DREAMTIME

Featuring Pat bodd and hisFriends

10.15 PET'S SONG PARTYstarring

Petula ClarkEach week at this time Petvisits Dr, Barnardo's VillageHomes. Barkingside for a

sing -song with the children

10.30 OLD ACQUAINTANCEintroduced byJohn Witty

10.45 RECORDS

11.00 THE VOICE OFPROPHECY

11.30 MOMtNTS OF FAITH

11.45 MUSIC AT BEDTIME

Midnight -Close Down

SATURDAY, FEB. 19

p.m.6.00 Dick Norton

introducesSATURDAY'S REQUESTS

Write in with your recordrequests

7.00 AMATEUR FOOTBALLResults of the matchesplayed this afternoon inthe Isthmian, Athenian,Corinthian, Delphian, Spar-tan and Northern Leagues

7.15 SHADES OF BLACK ANDWHITE

withThe Bill McGuffie Trio

7.30 WORDS AND MUSICwith

Judy Garlandand

Leroy Anderson & his" Pops " Concert Orchestra

7.4S HELLO YOUNG LOVERSfrom

Joan Regan, Gary Miller.with

Geoff Love and hisOrchestra

Wonderful prizes as usual

8.00 IRISH REQUESTSintroduced byPeter Murray

8.30 Aspro presentWHAT'S MY LINE !

Roy Rich in the chairwith

Isobel Barnett, BarbaraKelly, David Nixon, David

Tomlinson9.00 " SONGS FROM THE

SCREEN "A selection of film musicand songs introduced by

Bob Danvers -Walker9.15 SCOTTISH REQUESTS

introduced byPeter Madren

9.45 COUNTRY FAIRstarring

Judy Canova

10.00 LISTEN WITH PHILIPSintroduced byDavid Jacobs

10.30 THOSE Wer-.E THE HITSwith

Bob Grant and hisOrchestra

10.45 ITALIAN MUSIC & SONG11.00 BRINGING CHRIST TO

THE NATIONS11.30 Jack Jackson

presentsRECORD ROUND -UP

12.30 a.m. - Close Down

Time Signal

THE RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending February 12, 1955 Page Thirteen

ACCORDION AND GUITAR CRAZECLEARLY

IT wouldhave been too much

to expect that Europe'scranks-and there is cer-tainly no lack of thatpeculiar breed - wouldpass up the opportunityof jumping on televisionas a whipping -boy.

The medium is beingused by various bigots asa weapon to lambastpopular trends and at-titudes towards all sortsof things, but in particu-lar music and books.

Among the weirder doc-trines preached by the TVcranks are that watching tele-vision numbs and deadensthe average person's inclina-tion to read serious books orlearn a musical instrument.

Well, not to put too fine anedge on it, that's a lot ofhooey. First of all, despitethe prophets of gloom, book-sellers in America-wherethey have a darn sight moretelevision than we're everlikely to have-report thatbook sales have never beenhigher.

Which takes care of thatone. And if book -publishershere are smart to turn com-mercial TV to their own ad-vantage by taking advertisingtime on it. they shouldn'thave much to worry abouteither.

And so we get down to thisbusiness about the world andhis wife being too lazy, tooscreen -drugged to learn aninstrument for themselves.

As long as there is a con-stant stream of talented per-formers to do the playing, sothis crackpot theory runs,there is no encouragement forMr. and Mrs. Homebody totake up music themselves.

AWAY FROM THEPIANO

WAY BACK IN THE creak-ing, tinny era of radio's

infancy they said more or lessthe same thing; and remnantsof that hidebound philosophyhang around to this day inthe rambling criticisms of" canned " music which stilldodder into the newspapers.

The fact is, of course, thatthe more opportunities youopen to young musicians, the

xitThe

Piano?more young musicians you willhave. Youthful moderns whomight otherwise never havedone much about taking up aninstrument now sprint to do sobecause they have such a widechoice of fields.

More and more teachers andtutors are coming into thefield, too. If you want proofof that, check up on the smallads. columns of the weeklymagazines.

Today's trend, however,seems to be veering away fromthe piano, the violin and theOther instruments which areusually regarded, with someawe by the uninitiated, as" classical ".

The accordion is going fromstrength to strength; serious -looking young ladies arediscerned lugging around un-likely instruments of electronicpedigree like plug-in zithersand vibraharps.

But, outdoing nearly allother portable instruments in aspectacular zoom to popularacceptance is the simple six -string guitar.

In Paris recently a recordingexecutive told me:

" The French are goingcrazy for guitar lessons. Halfthe piano professors in the cityare losing business-and a lotof the others are rushing toguitar virtuosos for tuition sothat they can cash in by teach-ing the rudiments themselves."

A little research bore himout. The guitar, selling overthere in various models atprices ranging from 6,200 to100,000 francs (between £6 and£100) is rapidly ousting thepiano as the accepted saloninstrument.

THE LEADERSIts devotees group them-

selves into five major cults inwhich the leading local guitar-ists are: Henri Criolla (jazz),Ida Presti and Christian Aubin(classical), Pepe de Almeria(flamenco), Stephane Goldman(pops and Alpine style), andJacques Douai, who playsnightly at Chez Gilles and has

The L.A. Rhythms No. 4

THE GUARACHATHE GUARACHA is the

novelty number of theCaribbean. Its music is lively,catchy and gay, and its lyricsare light, often humorous.

Usually the guaracha has ashort introduction sung by twovoices in harmony, followedby a choral refrain. Thechorus is short and bouncy,and is repeated several timeswith slight variations.

Some guarachas have theirorigin in children's songs-which take on a decidedlyadult flavour in the transition.For often the humour is basedon a double meaning none toosaintly.

Animal themes are vastlypopular for this rhythm,which throughout the islandsand the Central Americanmainland runs a close secondto the bolero in popularity.There is one satirical guaracha

in which the mice have acocktail party and wake upthe cat. In another the rumbacriticises the mambo.

And one of the best-knownguarachas recently had a goodrun with European bands-THE DANCE OF THEPENGUIN.

Instrumentally speaking, theguaracha is the least preten-tious of all the popular tunesto be found in Cuba and theCaribbean. Its absolute re-quirement is plenty of per-cussion.

Originally it was a Spanish -Cuban street dance in 6/8time, alternating with 3/4time.

Recorded illustrations ofthe guaracha rhythm arerarely found on British labels,but there are some excellentsamples on the Columbia andHMV overseas catalogues.

developed an effective tech-nique of using the guitar as amusical backing for spokenpoems - which, to put itmildly, are often quitesprightly.

Portability and a vast rangeof tone colour are two mainfactors in this new rave, whichseems to have spread to Britaintoo-unless the guitar casesone sees in the streets are just abizarre way of stowing thegroceries.

Keeping pace with thisgrowing genre, the record com-panies are putting out a wealthof new and interesting guitardiscs. Among them is a recentLP release which, for all itsformal title, is an easy-goingand entertaining affair.

GUSTAVO ZEPOLLMusic for Concert Guitar

(Nixa SLPY142)PERFORMANCE: INTRIGUING

RECORDING : CLEARANOTHER OF THOSE pleasing

and valuable Nixa transfersfrom the Cook " Sounds of OurTimes " archives in the States.This one was recorded down inMonterrey, Mexico, and the musichas definitely caught some of thelocal what -the -heck outlook on life.

Throughout these 10 tracks,which vary from the frankly folksyto ancient and intricate lute trans-criptions, one gets the impressionthat friend Zepoll taped the lot inhis front parlour one afternoonwhen it was too hot to stir out.

The disc has the same off -handhallmarks of truly relaxed playingas one made in France not so longago-in which the artiste's younghopeful tugged at his sleeve in themiddle of a fast and complicatedpassage.

" Beat it," said the parent with-out heat, while his right hand keptup an incredible lickety-split of atremolo study. To my eternalregret, this memorable ad-lib wasnot preserved in the final tape.

Zepoll plays with nonchalantease. At first hearing, you mightthink he hadn't even taken thetrouble to tune his strings properly.But the slightly thin treble tonewhich produces this illusion is infact absolutely typical of theMexican guitar style, and you soonget used to it.

For my money, the bright andlilting Zapateado Criollo - a

strongly rhythmic Latin heel -dance-is about the best thing on thefirst side. The top strings singevenly, while Zepoll's thumb pro-vides a satisfying wump-wumpdown in the base.

Wherever this senor roves. heenjoys himself . . . a serenade, aminuet, three pretty Mexicancountry songs.

'BELTING MERRY HELL'Suddenly, improbably he

launches into a bout of Bach-thewell-known Doublet, followed bythe First Prelude. He doesn't tinkleit around in the grave, ladylikemanner that too many Europeansuse when trying to interpret thisessentially tuneful music.

No, Sir. This Zepoll belts merryhell out of passages where it some-how seems logical to. All right, sohe likes playing Bach. If you wantto listen, that's fine, he seems tosay: if you don't, there's a placewhere they sell good tequila downthe street.

The second side of this recordhighlights a nice arrangement ofRomance, the tune which caught alot of attention when it was heardas theme music in the French film," The Secret Game."

To finish, Zepoll offers a deftinterpretation of the run-of-the-millguitarist's envy, ambition and bane-the madly complicated Leyendaby Albeniz. Here, whatever rough-nesses there may be in his earlierpieces, the artiste displays highability by taking it at the speed thecomposer meant it to be played.

And that is a tempo far too fastfor any but the best -trained fingers.Comparison shows that evenNarciso Yepes, widely regarded asSegovia's successor, cannot copewith the Leyenda at Zepoll's speed.however beautifully he plays itotherwise.

Yes, this disc is well worth aplace in a collection.

Cttit,^4'04,0"-JCV040JCV11.1-44-44M01-4G-Viter-J4-4y. 4AtorK3

ByLIAM

MALLORYFRANCO AND HIS "G.5"

Negro LeonaAi Quem Born

(Columbia MC3441)PERFORMANCE : GOOD

RECORDING : EVENALSO ITALIAN, but better-

known than the Pizzigonigroup for their'experiments in themodern Latin field, Franco andfollowers turn out an acceptabledisc here.

But they fail to hit the zany,free -blowing fun that distinguishedtheir earlier mambo discs for thislabel. Maybe that's because theyhave chosen to couple two non -mambo titles on this 78 which hemthem within the limits of a rumbaand a rarely heard rhythm calledthe porro.

Negra Leona, which is therumba, leaves far too much of thetrack to a vocal, which though welldone, is hogging things a bit.

The turnover dawdles, thoughthe execution is smart. Somehow,I can't see myself pushing theporro. It's slower than the baion,with none of the gripping beat ofthat dance.

All right, Franco-enough of thislarking around. Suppose you getback to that solid, socking Latin -jazz hybrid for your next etching,hrnm ?

PIERO PIZZIGON1 ANDHIS BAND

11 Mambo del TrenineQuel Don Giovanni(Columbia DCQ81)

PERFORMANCE : GOODRECORDING : SMOOTH

HERE IS A COUPLE of brightlyplayed Latin dance numbers

which are modestly entertainingwithout being wildly clever ororiginal.

The Little Train mambo featuressome convincing choo-choo effectson rasps which blend well into thebasic beat. This can scarely be heldup as a virtue in mambo music,which depends on a sharply markedcross -rhythm standing out in clearcontrast to the main pulse.

Top-flight mambo should itchyou into dancing it. This is too

fluid, too even to achieve that.The other side, a pleasant little

samba on the old Don Juan twist,features a vocal by Enza Amadoriwhich is trouble -free listening.

GEORGE BROWNE ANDHIS BANDBon Voyage,

Princess MargaretEmmeline

(Parlophone MP133)PERFORMANCE :

BROWNE-WORTHYRECORDING : FINE

THIS ISLAND SINGER, whomyou're likely to meet beating

across Soho any evening with a newcargo of hand -carved calypsos forhis club patrons, comes well up tostandard with this timely opus,specially made for the Parlo. inter-national list.

I met George in the Undergrounda few weeks back, and he told mea national newspaper had com-missioned him to write a send-offcalypso for the royal personage inquestion.

If this is it, it sounds a likelyrival to the time-honoured routineof speeding departing princesses.Calypsos are a lot more interestingthan a line of guns mouthing a dulland soulless salvo.

I'm not sure that the coupling isthe most discreet that could havebeen chosen, since Emmeline is a

fast bit of goods. But the Princess,being a calypso fan herself, willhave heard lyrics a lot franker bythe time she returns.

By the way, did you read thatbit about that night she dined inan exalted island household-and plunged its top brass into anumber one flap with a requestto hear some calypso records?

Wasn't one in the place. But thelocal radio station obligingly sentaround with a couple of armfuls.

DID YOU, TOO, wonderwho is going to take on

the difficult job of followingBill McGuffie in the ShowBand?

Bill leaves for the Statesearly in July, which still givesCyril Stapleton quite a time tofill the vacancy, but rumourhas it that he has already madeup his mind that the man tofit the Bill is a certain KenPowell.

Good luck, sir !

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radio, records or TV anytime for Ivy Benson's excep-tionally good new outfit?Despite the fact that she hadbeen voted the top attractionamongst the armed forces andis now back entertaining mostroyally the customers at theLyons Marble Arch CornerHouse, her efforts to entermedia have come up against abrick wall.

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eakin ersonallp qfrom page

means that he sees little of hisHollywood home.

In fact he sees more of hisbrother than he does of his wife,because brother Leo plays baritonesaxophone for the Anthonyorchestra!

SPEAKING PERSONALLY:Anthony gets no Adverse criticismfrom me.

HAPPY TIDINGS about acouple of young male

singers.Eddie Parker whom I

brought to your notice a fewcolumns ago, has made thegrade according to his record-ing company . . . Columbia. Idid tell you that Eddie wouldbe among the up-and-comingdiscmen of the year, and itbegins to look as if I was onthe right beam.

Columbia have taken up theiroption on the boy and will be

issuing two sides from him inMarch. He is due to cut them thismonth. Meanwhile, Eddie is keep-ing a sober head on his shoulders.

He is still singing at the Wimble-don Palais ... and he is still keep-ing on his laboratory job.

Other man with reason to be

happy is rocketing Ronnie Hilton.HMV Hilton has now caught theattention of the B.B.C. and on Feb-ruary 27 he starts recording a series

of six quarter-hour programmeswhich will be broadcast in theNorthern Region.

SPEAKING PERSON ALLY We're certainly building them up.

7

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SINGING

SINGERLARRY CROSS is

branching out into adifferent field on February 13.

He has been cast for an im-portant role in the televisionplay " Go Fall In Love"which stars Bernard Braden.Larry is excited and delightedabout the opportunity, and itcertainly seems to be onewhich could do him a lot ofgood.

This spot and the fact that hisEmbassy discs are selling verynicely thank -you make life pleasantfor Mr. Cross at the moment."Count Your Blessings," his latestdisc, seems to be an apt title forLarry right now.

Two unusual features about hisTV appearance are:

(11 Larry the singer does NOTsing in the play . . . it's strictlya straight part, and(2) Larry, who does not drink at

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all in private life, will be seenon screen as a drunkard!SPEAKING PERSONALLY:

I hope that doesn't mean viewerswill see double. rIT ISN'T only British singers2- who are finding home iswhere the highspots are.British melodies too are on theupgrade.

Latest example of a numberrunning away up the sales chart isRay Mortimer's "Go, Go, Go."Already this lively item has hadseveral broadcasts, and RobbinsI'm told have made it their numberone plug.

On records it has been featuredby Ken Mackintosh, by the

Carpenter Ken MakesGrand Birthday Debut

Newsk Manes Diary(Continued from page 2)

4AST SUNDAY Iwent along to theJoe Loss -Benny Hill con-cert at the Odeon, Bark-ing, to attend a birthdayparty. It wasn't an ordin-ary party. There were nocandles, no presents, nomaking whoopee.

It was the professionaldebut of a young singernamed Ken Kirkham, and,suddenly, a few minutesbefore he was due to stepon the stage, someone dis-covered it was his 23rdbirthday.

At that moment Ken wasa bit too worked up abouthis debut to enjoy the" many happy returns " thatwere showered on him. ButBenny Hill gave him agrand introduction and witha final word of encourage-ment from Joe Loss vocalistHoward Jones, he steppedon to sing " I Still Believe ".

And, almost before he'dfinished, he received themost wonderful birthdaypresent any singer couldwish for - the rousingcheers of a capacity audi-ence.

He went on to do thesame thing at the secondhouse. Now, with his firstpublic appearance and hisbirthday behind him, he isall set to take the professionby storm.

I think he will do thatwithout any difficulty. Hehas a magnificent voice,opera -trained, with an un-usual range of two -and -a -half octaves.

KEN KIRKHAMWhen he has had time to

acquire a little more con-fidence and experience, Ihave no doubt we shall findhis name floating around inthe best-sellers.

In the meantime Ken iscarrying on with his ordin-ary job as a carpenter. Hecame to London from hishome town of Bolton justover two years ago. In hisspare time he has beenstudying opera singffig witha well-known Londonteacher.

Then just a few weeksago his voice was heard by

Peter Charlesworth, the go-ahead young exploitationmanager at Harms - Con-nelly. Peter at once sawthe potentialities of Ken'svoice in the popular field,and took him along to seeimpresario Richard Stone.

It was Richard Stonewho asked Benny Hill totake him along to the con-cert at Barking. And it isRichard Stone who will beseeing to it that Ken is notstill a carpenter when hisnext birthday comes round.

Charles Govey

Coronets . . . and now by TedHeath. Ted and his band recordedthe number last week with Denis

SPEAKING PERSONALLY:GO, Go, Go, Going Great Guns.Lotis singing for the Deccarelease.

And VeraNice Too!

VERA LYNN'S new"beat" number

" Addio Amore " is goingto do wonderful thingsfor Vera's popularity.

It is ages since Vera hasdone a rhythm item likethis, and, believe me, sheperforms it to perfection.With the JohnstonBrothers and RolandShaw's orchestra, the girljust lets down her backhair and comes out witha disc that is stamped" HIT " in every groove.

First clue as to the sizethis record is going to becomes in the news thatAmerica has ordered 5,000copies for disc jockeysover there. Which isexactly three thousandmore than they normallyorder!

Well, Vera's done itbefore in the States, sothis Decca disc could be arepeat triumph.

A more recent additionto the disc ranks by far, isRuby Murray. But Ruby,too, has just had goodnews from the other sideof the Atlantic. The cus-tomers over there willsoon be hearing the" Heartbeat " girl. Firstto be issued on the MGMlabel will be Ruby's ver-sion of " Softly, Softly."

SPEAKING PERSON-ALLY: A -more A -moreVera and Ruby please!

FIRST ON THE LIST . . .

Long List on Page 15

G. J. ALEXANDER, 10 CALVERT AVENUE,LONDON, E.2

1. SOFTLY, SOFTLY2. DON'T GO TO STRANGERS3. GIVE ME YOUR WORD4. A BLOSSOM FELL5. MAMBO ITALIANO6. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE7. LET ME GO LOVER8. FINGER OF SUSPICION9. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL

10. WOMAN'S WORLD

LITA AND THEBERRIES SCOREHAD a look in the

Metropolitan, Edge -ware Road, second houseMonday night and saw the

main attractions scoringheavily with the locals.Mike and Bernie Winters, whom

I've been boosting quite a whilenow, once more justified all thegood things I've written aboutthese bright, jazzy and hard-working lads. I was especiallyimpressed with Bernie's clarinetsolos - that boy certainly hasrhythm and melody

Can't be long before the Wintersare Palladium bound.

LITA ROZA, dazzlingly be -

gowned, looking bewitchinglybeautiful and oozing charm andpersonality, has developed a peachof a vocal act. She had the localscheering every one of her numbersand shouting "More!" with rousingEdgware -road enthusiasm.

Isidore Green

LANE3. MAMBO ITALIANO4. DIM, DIM THE LIGHTSS. BEYOND THE STARS6. GIVE ME YOUR WORD7. HEARTBEAT8. FINGER OF SUSPICION9. MOBILE

10. LET ME GO LOVER

ROLO FOR RECORDSLEYT

1. BEYOND THE STARS2. SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL3. MAMBO ITALIANO4. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANES. FINGER OF SUSPICION6. SOFTLY, SOFTLY7. GIVE ME YOUR WORD8. LET ME GO LOVER9. MOBILE

10. MR. SANDMAN

HARTLEY'S, 22 KING1. A BLOSSOM FELL2. S'POSIN'3. GIVE ME YOUR WORD4. LET ME GO LOVER5. FINGER OF SUSPICION6. MAMBO ITALIANO7. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL8. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELY

NIGHTS9. JUKE BOX SATURDAY NIGHT

10. SOFTLY, SOFTLY

Ruby MurrayRonnie HarrisTennessee ErnieDickie ValentineAlma Cogan

Ames BrothersTeresa BrewerDickie ValentineBill HaleyFour Aces

ColumbiaColumbia

CapitolDecca

H.M.V.

H.M.V.Vogue/Coral

DeccaBrunswickBrunswick

, 368 LEA BRIDGE RD.,ON, E.10"

David WhitfieldBill HaleyRosemary Clooney

Ames BrothersDickie ValentineRuby MurrayTennessee ErnieJoan WeberRay BurnsFour Aces

EDWARD ST.,Dickie ValentineDon CornellTennessee ErnieTeresa BrewerDickie ValentineRosemary ClooneyBill Haley

Suzi MillerModernnairesRuby Murray

IMHOFS, 112-116 NEW OXFORDLONDON, W.C.1

1. MR. SANDMAN Chordettes2. MAMBO ITALIANO Rosemary Clooney3. SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ruby Murray4. THIS 'OLE HOUSE Billie Anthony5 TEACH ME TONIGHT De Castro Sisters6. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL Bill Haley7. NO ONE BUT YOU Billy Eckstine8. ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Bill Haley9. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE Ames Brothers10. PAPA LOVES MAMBO Perry Como

DeccaBrunswick

Philips

H.M.V.Decca

ColumbiaCapitolPhilips

ColumbiaBrunswick

LEEDS 1DeccaVogue

CapitolVogue/Coral

DeccaPhilips

Brunswick

DeccaVogue -Coral

Columbia

STREET,

LEVY'S RECORD SHOP, 142A MARROAD, LONDON, N.W.1

1. GIVE ME YOUR WORD Tennessee Ernie2. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL Bill Haley3. MAMBO ITALIANO Rosemary Clooney4. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE Dean Martin5. WOMAN'S WORLD Four Aces6. SALAD DAYS LP Julian Slade7. SOFTI,Y, SOFTLY Ruby Murray8. LET r11& GO LOVER Teresa Brewer9. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELY

NIGHTS Suzi Miller10. TEACH ME TONIGHT De Castro Sisters

L. & H. CLOAKE, 93 GRANVILLEBRIXTON, S.W.

1. I'LL WALK WITH GOD2. BEYOND THE STARS3. SERENADE4. SOFTLY, SOFTLYS. GIVE ME YOUR WORD6. SHAKE. RATTLE AND ROLL7. BAREFOOT CONTESSA8. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE9. HEARTBEAT

10. THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY

Mario LanzaDavid WhitfieldMario LanzaRuby MurrayTennessee ErnieBill HaleyHugo Winterhalter

Dean MartinRuby MurrayJudy Garland

ColumbiaPhilips

ColumbiaColumbia

LondonBrunswick

Brunswick

H.M.V.H.M.V.

YLEBONE

CapitolBrunswick

Philips

CapitolBrunswick

MercuryColumbia

Vogue/Coral

DeccaLondon

ARCADE,

H.M.V.Decca

H.M.V.Columbia

CapitolBrunswick

H.M.V.

CapitolColumbia

Philips

HATCHARDS GRAMOPHONE DEPARTMENT,187 PICCADILLY, W.1

1. MOBILE2. GENTLE SEX3. DON'T GO TO STRANGERS4. FINGER OF SUSPICIONS. TEACH ME TONIr.HT6. LET ME GO LOVER7. MAMBO ITALIANO8. MONOTONOUS9. GIVE ME YOUR WORD

10. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADYLANE

Ray BurnsRay MartinRonnie HarrisDickie ValentineDe Castro SistersPeggy LeeRosemary ClooneyEartha KittTennessee Ernie

Dean Martin

ColumbiaColumbiaColumbia

DeccaLondon

BrunswickPhilips

H.M.V.Capitol

Capitol

REED MUSIC CENTRE, 163A RYE LANE,PECKHAM, S.E.15

1. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADYLANE Dean Martin

2. BEYOND THE STARS David Whitfield3. FINGER OF SUSPICION Dickie Valentine4. SERENADE

DRINKING SONG Mario LanzaS. GIVE ME YOUR WORD Tennessee Ernie6. HEARTBEAT Ruby Murray7. SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ruby Murray8. MOBILE Ray Burns9. LET ME GO LOVER Teresa Brewer

10. SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL Bill Haley

CapitolDeccaDecca

H.M.V.Capitol

ColumbiaColumbiaColumbia

Vogue/CoralBrunswick

GILJAY LTD., 84 CHURCH STREET,EDGWARE ROAD, N.W.8

1. SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL Bill Haley2. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

Dean MartinRosemary ClooneyBill HaleyDavid WhitfieldTennessee ErnieRuby MurrayDickie ValentineRay BurnsTeresa Brewer

Brunswick

CapitolPhilips

BrunswickDecca

CapitolColumbia

DeccaColumbia

Vogue/Coral

THE RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending February 12, 1955

TWO BRITISH SONG HITS! BY CAVENDISH MUSIC CO.,CS

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FOYLES, 1191125 CHARING CROSSI. MOBILE2. MINOR MAMBO3. SOFTLY, SOFTLY4. BELOVED5. COFFEE GR:NDER6. MAMBO ITALIANO7. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL8. A STAR IS BORN9. JAZZ CONCERT No. 2

10. MONOTONOUS

Ray BurnsKirchin BandRuby MurrayMario LanzaHumphrey LyttlesonRosemary ClooneyBill HaleyJudy GarlandBenny GoodmanEartha Kitt

RD., W.C.2Columbia

DeccaColumbia

H.M.V.Parlophone

PhilipsBrunswick

PhilipsPhilips

H.M.V.

KEITH PROWSE LTD., COVENTRY ST.,1. HEARTBEAT Ruby Murray2. MOBILE Ray Burns3. MR. SANDMAN Dickie Valentine4. SHAKE. RATTLE AND ROLL Bill HaleyS. FINGER OF SUSPICION Dickie Valentine6. NO ONE BUT YOU Billy Eckstine7. SOBBIN' WOMEN Sound TrackI. MAJORCA Petula Clark9. LET ME GO LOVER De Castro Sisters

10. SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ruby Murray

McCORMICKS, 12GREEN LANE,

1. GIVE ME YOUR WORD2. FINGER OF SUSPICION3. SOFTLY, SOFTLY4. MAMBO ITALIANO

5. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL6. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE7. MR. SANDMAN8. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELY

NIGHTS9. A BLOSSOM FELL

10. IN THE MOOD MAMBO

ROWALLENBECONTREE,

Tennesee ErnieDickie ValentineRuby MurrayDean MartinRosemary ClooneyBill Haley

Dean MartinThe Four Aces

FRANCIS, DAY138 CHARING CROSS1. MAMBO ITALIANO2. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE3. MOBILE4. SOFTLY, SOFTLYS. LET ME GO LOVER6. DIM, DIM THE LIGHTS7. GIVE ME YOUR WORD8. BsREFOOT9. FINGER OF SUSPICION

10. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELYNIGHTS

Ruby MurrayRonnie HiltonTed Heath

W./ColumbiaColumbia

DeccaBrunswick

DeccaM.G.M.

PolygonLondon

Columbia

PARADE,ESSEX

CapitolDecca

ColumbiaCapitolPhilips

Brunswick

CapitolBrunswick

ColumbiaH.M.V.

Decca

& HUNTER LTD.,ROAD, LONDON, W.C.2Dean Martin Capitol

Dean MartinRay BurnsRuby MurrayPeggy LeeBill HaleyTennessee ErnieHugo WinterhalterDickie Valentine

Frankie Vaughan

CapitolColumbiaColumbia

BrunswickBrunswick

CapitolH.M.V.

Decca

H.M.V.

MILLMANS OF KENSINGTON,62 STOKE NEWINGTON HIGH STREET, N.16

1. MR. SANDMAN Four Aces Brunswick2. A BLOSSOM FELL Dickie Valentine Decca3. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELY

NIGHTS Suzi Miller Decca4. DON'T GO TO STRANGERS Ronnie Harris Columbia5. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE Alma Copan H.M.Y.6. SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ruby Murray Columbia7. THIS 'OLE HOUSE Billie Anthony Columbia8. SOMEBODY Stargazers Decca9. FINGER OF SUSPICION Dickie Valentine Decca

10. HEARTBEAT Ruby Murray Columbia

S. MORRIS, 89 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD,LONDON, W.1

1. LET ME GO LOVER2. COCKNEY CAPERS3. BOY SCOUT4. FINGER OF SUSPICIONS. JOURNEY INTO SPACE6. MAMBO ITALIANO7. IT'S A NEW WORLD8. LET'S GET TOGETHER9. WHISTLING GYPSY

10. SKIN DEEP

Teresa Brewer Vogue/CoralTwo Bills from Bermondsey ParlophoneRalph Reader PhilipsDickie Valentine DeccaFrank Weir DeccaRosemary Clooney PhilipsJudy Garland PhilipsBig Ben Banjo Band ColumbiaPatrick O'Hagen Decca ( Irish )Duke Ellington Philips

PAUL FOR MUSIC, 11 CAMBRIDGE HEATHROAD, LONDON, E.1

1. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADYLANE

2. MAMBO ITALIANO

3. GIVE ME YOUR WORD4. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLLS. SOFTLY, SOFTLY6. FINGER OF SUSPICION7. wrsaleos'S WORLD8. HEARTBEAT9. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELY

NIGHTS10. BEYOND THE STARS

Dean MartinRo.emary ClooneyDean MartinTennessee ErnieBill HaleyRuby MurrayDickie ValentineFour AcesRuby MurraySuzi MillerRuby MurrayDavid Whitfield

CapitolPhilips

CapitolCapitol

BrunswickColumbia

DeccaBrunswickColumbia

DeccaColumbia

Decca

GLASGOW JAZZ CLUB RECORD SHOP,195 TOLLCROSS ROAD, PARKHEAD,

GLASGOW, E.I. HERE'S TO THE GORDONS Kirk Stevens2. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL

DIM, DIM THE LIGHTS Bill Haley3. GIVE ME YOUR WORD Tennessee Ernie4. FINGER OF SUSPICION Dickie Valentine

A BLOSSOM FELL Dickie ValentineS. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELY

NIGHTS Frankie Vaughan6. SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ruby Murray7. MAMBO ITALIANO Dean Martin

Rosemary ClooneyIL NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE9. NORTHERN LIGHTS OF

ABERDEEN10. MR. SANDMAN

Ames Brothers

Robert WilsonFour AcesDickie Valentine

Parlophone

BrunswickCapitol

DeccaDecca

H.M.V.Columbia

CapitolPhilips

H.M.V.

H.M.V.Brunswick

Decca

3. SOFTLY, SOFTLY4. GIVE ME YOUR

WORD5 SHAKE RATTLE

AND ROLL6. FINGER OF SUS-

PICION7. LET ME GO LOVER

8. MOBILE9. BEYOND THE

STARS10. A BLOSSOM FELL

*TheWeek's1-POCOP14)

hNjLAADDISCOMBE MUSIC STORES, 235B LOWER

ADDISCOMBE ROAD, CROYDON, SURREY1. SOFTLY. SOFTLY Ruby Murray Columbia2. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE3. BEYOND THE STARS4. FINGER OF SUSPICIONS. DRINKING SONG6. WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE7. GIVE ME YOUR WORDIL COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS9. LET ME GO LOVER

10. MAMBO ITALIANO

JAZZ TOP TEN.1. CHRIS BARBER J.B. Ex.P.2. BENNY GOODMAN JAZZ

CONCERT No. 2. L.P.3. HUMPH AT THE CONWAY4. ELLINGTON SSS. ORANGES & LEMONS6. MILLIGAN E.P.s.7. O.D.J.B. L.P.B. KENTON SHOWCASE9. IN THE MIDDLE MAMBO

10. SPECIAL MILLER L.P. ALBUM

Dean MartinDavid WhitfieldDickie ValentineMario LanzaJoan ReganTennessee ErnieBing CrosbyTeresa BrewerRosemary Clooney

Heath

CapitolDeccaDecca

H.M.V.Decca

CapitolBrunswick

Vogue/CoralPhilips

Columbia

PhilipsParlophone

CapitolMercury

VogueH.M.V.Capitol

DeccaH.M.V.

RecordMirror

ANAL VSISTHE WEEK'S 'TOP TEN'

TOPSin the current record hits are the following,

analysed from the details sent in by the dealerswhose lists are published here.

The week's best sellers, in order of merit, work outthus:

I. NAUGHTY LADYOF SHADY LANE DEAN MARTIN Capitol

2. MAMBO ITALIANO ROSEMARYCLOONEY Philips

RUBY MURRAY ColumbiaTENNESSEE

ERNIE Capitol

BILL HALEY DeccaDICKIE

VALENTINE DeccaTERESA

BREWER Vogue CoralRAY BURNS ColumbiaDAVID

WHITFIELD DeccaDICKIE

VALENTINE Deceit

McCORMACKS, 31 COWCADDENS STREET,GLASGOW, C.2

1. SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ruby Murray2. GIVE ME YOUR WORD

RIVER OF NO RETURN Tennessee Ernie3. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE4. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLLS. MAMBO ITALIANO

6. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELYNIGHTS

7. FINGER OF SUSPICION8. NO ONE BUT YOU9. LET ME GO LOVER

10. JUKE BOX SATURDAY NIGHT

Ames BrothersBill HaleyRosemary ClooneyDean MartinSuz MillerFrankie VaughanDickie ValentineBilly EckstineTeresa BrewerModernaires

Columbia

Capitol

H.M.V.Brunswick

PhilipsCapitol

DeccaH.M.V.

DeccaM.G.M.

Vogue/CoralVogue/Coral

H. J. CARROLL,29 NEWGATE, MACCLESFIELD

1. GIVE ME YOUR WORD2. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE3. HAPPY DAYS & LONELY NIGHTS4. LET ME GO LOVER5. FINGER OF SUSPICION6. SOFTLY, SOFTLY7. IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD8. MAMBO ITALIANO9. MR. SANDMAN

10. MOBILEPIANO MEDLEY 115

Tennessee Ernie

Dean MartinSuzi MillerTeresa BrewerDickie ValentineRuby MurrayFour AcesDean MartinDick i e ValentineRay BurnsCharlie Kunz

Capitol

CapitolDecca

Vogue/CoralDecca

ColumbiaBrunswick

CapitolDecca

ColumbiaDecca

B. READINGS & SONS, LTD.,11 STATION APPROACH, CLAPHAM JUN., S.W .11

1. MAMBO ITALIANO2. FINGER OF SUSPICION3. SOFTLY, SOFTLY4. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLLS. MOBILE6. I'LL WALK WITH GOD7. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANEIL HAPPY DAYS AND LONELY

NIGHTS9. GIVE ME YOUR WORD

10. LET ME GO LOVER

Rosemary ClooneyDickie ValentineRuby MurrayBill HaleyRay BurnsMario Lanza

Dean Martin

Suzi MillerTennessee ErnieTeresa Brewer

NELSON'S, 12 FROGNAL PARADE,ROAD, N.W.3

1. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY Alma CoganLANE Dean Martin

2. FINGER OF SUSPICION Dickie Valentine3. SERENADE

DRINKING SONG Mario Lanza4. MAMBO ITALIANO Rosemary ClooneyS. A BLOSSOM FELL Dickie Valentine6. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL Bill Haley7. HEARTBEAT Ruby Murray

SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ruy Murray8. MOBILE Ray Burns9. LET ME GO LOVER Teresa Brewer

10. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELYNIGHTS Suzi Miller

PhilipsDecca

ColumbiaBrunswickColumbia

H.M.V.

Capitol

DeccaCapitol

Vogue/Coral

FINCHLEY

H.M.V.Capitol

Decca

H.M.V.PhilipsDecca

BrunswickColumbiaColumbiaColumbia

Vogue /Coral

Decca

WALLY FOR WIRELESS, 238 WHITECHAPELROAD, LONDON, E.

1. SOFTLY, SOFTLY Ruby Murray Columbia2 MAMBO ITALIANO Dean Martin Capitol

Rosemary Clooney Philips3 SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL Bill Haley Brunswick4. GIVE ME YOUR WORD Tennessee Ernie CapitolS. NAUGHTY LADY OF SHADY

LANE Alma Cogan H. M V.6. LET ME GO LOVER loan Weber Philips7. FINGER OF SUSPICION Dickie Valentine Decca8. OPEN YOUR HEART

BEYOND THE STARS David Whitfield Decca9. TEACH ME TONIGHT Nat " King " Cole Capitol

10. HAPPY DAYS AND LONELYNIGHTS Suzi Miller Decca

SHUTTLEWORTH'S,BRA

1. NAUGTY LADY OF SHADYLANELET ME GO LOVER

2. MAMBO ITALIANO

3. SOFTLY, SOFTLY4. GIVE ME YOUR WORDS. LONELY BALLERINA6. MR. SANDMAN

7. SERENADES. MAJORCA9. HEARTBEAT

10. MY SON, MY SON

33 DARLEY STREET,DFORD

Dean MartinRosemary ClooneyDean MartinRuby MurrayTennessee ErnieMantovaniFour AcesMax BygravesMario Lanzalohnson BrothersRuby MurrayVera Lynn/ Frank Weir

JAZZ TOP lEN

CapitolPhilips

CapitolColumbia

CapitolDecca

BrunswickH. M .V.

DeccaColumbia

Decca

THE RECORD SHOP, 100 CHARING CROSSROAD, W.C.2

1. JAZZ STUDIO 1. L.P./E.P.2. KENTON SHOWCASE L.P.3. BOB COOPER L.P.4. MULLIGAN No. 3 E.P.S. RUMSEY " LIGHTHOUSE ALL

STARS " E.P.6. SINATRA " SWING EASY " L.P.7. JAZZ STUDIO 2 L.P./E.P.8. GOODMAN CARNEGIE HALL L.P.9. HAMPTON APOLLO HALL

CONCERT L.P.10 LES BROWN PALLADIUM

CONCERT L.P.

BrunswickCapitolCapitolVogue

VogueCapitol

BrunswickPhilips

Philips

Columbia

JAMES ASMAN'S JAZZ CENTRE,23A NEW ROW, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, W.C.2

1. CHRIS BARBER PLAYS SPIRITUALSEP Columbia

1. GEORGQE LEWIS CONCERT LPs Tra:scriptions3. JAZZ STUDIO No. 2 LP Brunswick4. OSCAR PETERSON " TENDERLY "

ETC., LP TranscriptionS. BENNY GOODMAN CONCERT

No. 2 LPs Philips6. KENTON PRESENTS BOB COOPER

LP Capitol7. NEW ORLEANS PARADE George Lewis Melodise8. BUD POWELL EPs Vogue9. ERIC DELANEY " ORANGES

AND LEMONS " Mercury10. HUMPHREY LYTTELTON "ACE

IN THE HOLE" Pa rlo phonia

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BRITISH BANDS ARE BOOMING!HEALTHY STATE OFAFFAIRS IN WORLDOF 'POPS' AND JAZZ

THERE IS NO gainsaying the fact that duringthe last few years dance -bands on wax ex-

perienced quite a period of the doldrums. A fewof them managed to sail along aided by a die-hardfan following, but, generally speaking, their popu-larity in comparison with vocal discs was practi-cally negligible. Even when a band heading thelabel spotlighted a vocalist on the record it stillseemed that the combination was doomed tomediocre sales.

In the last six months or so this situation has undergonea dynamic change and although it is still not claimed thatbands are ousting vocalists, it is becoming increasinglyobvious that their discs are reaching sales that, to say theleast, are worthy of notice. The main point, however, is that,with the exception of the top U.S.A. jazz groups, the demandappears to be for British goods. Record companies whichturned their noses up at non -vocal outfits a year ago, arenow on the look -out all thetime for likely newcomers.So much so. in fact, that therehave been cases recently ofbandleaders being signed upto record purely on their names as instrumentalists andbefore the personnel of their prospective groups has beencompleted.

More likely than not, the reason for this rosy state ofaffairs is that the public has become extremely jazz -consciousof late. Of course, this doesn't mean to say that we havereached a Utopia where the population can expertly dis-criminate between what's good or bad in the idiom, but atleast it's heartening to know that it is no longer just extrememinority music. With this thought in mind, most maestroshave treated the matter psychologically and their wares con-sequently avoid being extraneous. It could be said thenthat their music is about half way between jazz and ' pops'and in this form is proving to be a gradual process ofeducation.

Currently the discs that look like being money -spinnersfor bandleaders are Ted Heath's " Dig Deep " and " AsiaMinor " on Decca, which are a couple of sides with theexcitement, plus polish, in the true Heath manner beingconspicuous throughout. On HMV Ken Mackintosh isdelighting the youngsters with their favourite catchphrase" Go, Go, Go," set to groovy music.

Probably one of the best bits of big band playing for sometime can be heard on Wally Stott's " Cat From Coos Bay "on Philips. There are many others who are also climbingcomfortably up the sales list, but most worthy of mention atthe moment is the February offering from the Kirchin Band." Lester Leaps The Mambo " and " Lanigiro " fill a discthat is noteworthy enough to place this outfit in the top fewimmediately. Gone is any sign of immaturity in perform-ance and the whole offering is a credit to all concerned andespecially Parlophone for their exploitation of what wasuntil recently a provincial palais band.

By JACKBENTLEY

REST OF THE REVIEWS :

GUY MITCHELLTHE VOICE OF YOUR

CHOICE(Philips BBR8031)

GUY IS PROBABLY one of thefew vocalists to seldom war-

rant any kind of brick -bats fromthe critics. This isn't because he isa deity beyond reproach or thathis singing is immortal.

The fact is, he breezes along inthat jolly sing -song way of his, andthe whole good humour of thething is so contagious that onesimply cannot focus on theacademical aspect. His style variesas little as his standard, and thetype of songs he offers follows arenearly always in the same strainwith the accompaniments to match.

It boils down, therefore, purelyas to whether you liked him in thefirst place and whether you aregoing to continue to buy hisrecords. Personally, I like him.He's a fine tonic for a dull day,which means he should be verymuch in demand in our testy clime.

On this LP there's much of thematerial that has been alreadyissued on 78's, such as " CloudLucky Seven," " Chicka-Boom,""A Dime And A Dollar," " MeetA Happy Guy," "Hannah Lee,""Look At That Girl " and "TearDown The Mountains." Even ifyou've got them, however, I'm surethey'll be worn out by now, andgrouped together here, they look tome to be a very nice investment.

DENNIS HALEBUTTERSCOTCH MOP

S'POSIN'(Parlophone R3978)

nENNIS, I WOULDN'T have1-j thought it of you. Two verygood vocals. The first with bags ofpersonality and spirit, and theslower one proclaiming you to bewell worthy of a ballad solo label.

But that accent! I've heard betterEnglish vowels from the Dead EndKids. It's disappointing to thinkthat you, who refrain from wear-ing loud ties and chewing gum,should be among the last of that

VERA MAKES`RECORD OFTHE WEEK'

VERA LYNNI DO

ADDIO AMORE(Decca)

"I DO" LIKE THIS disc.In fact I like it so much

that Fm going to vote it myRECORD OF THE WEEK.Vera is on the top of herform and without wishing torub it in in certain direc-tions, what a fabulous earthis girl has got! It variesfrom the note nary a vibra-tion. Her renowned sob, in-cidentally, is almost non-existent on both these sides.Is that bad? I don't thinkso. A voice like this doesn'tneed a gimmick. Regardingthe saleable qualities of thedisc. I rate it as high as any-thing Vera has done forsome time. In fact I hearthat it's already in spec-tacular demand, a n dcouldn't have started off theNew Year in happier pros-pect for the lovable Vera.

MAGNETIC MICKIWITH A VOICE as attractive as her looks, American songstress MICK! MARLO is creat-ing quite a stir on Capitol Records. Not many of her numbers have yet been released inEngland but before 1955 is much older you should be hearing a lot of Micki here . . . We'd

like to SEE her, too

dying race, the Yank -happysongste rs.

The Jack Parnell band accom-paniment is first-rate, and the titlesthemselves extremely well chosen.

RUSS CARLYLE ANDHIS ORCH.

IN A LITTEL SPANISHTOWN

IT WAS NICEKNOWING YOU

(HMV B10825)I CAN'T IMAGINE how or why

this little beauty crept into theHMV list this month, and I'm justas much in the dark as to who per-petrated it.

" Little Spanish Town " featuresa saxophone style that is even moremediaval than the site of the title,and the rest of it falls into themood most successfully. The back-ing is one of the most long, drawnout vocals I've ever heard on a78, yet it doesn't show nary amention on the label of the gentle-man who was responsible for it.This may be either cowardly, orjust a tactical victory.

JEFF CHANDLERALWAYS

EVERYTHING HAPPENSTO ME

(Brunswick 05380)BRAVO, JEFF CHANDLER!

You strike a blow againstthose who would have it that allfilm stars are only as talented astheir producers like to make them.

On this hearing, I would say thateven in the unlikely event of yousquabbling with the Hollywoodmoguls, you're still in the happyposition of being able to vie witha lot of gents whose voice is thebeginning and end of their talent.Of course,. like myself, you areobviously a devoted Sinatra fan,but even if you can't keep the ad-miration out of your voice at pre-sent, no doubt it will be part ofyour future plans.

In any case, we all give thanksit wasn't some other characters Ihave in mind.

"Always " proves that you alsohave a pleasant sense of tempo,and the other title is as dis-tinguished as that prematurely

greying hair the teenagersabout. Encore!

dream

EDMUNDO ROS ANDORCH.

MUCH MUCH TOOMUCH

HOT POTATO MAMBO(Columbia DB3576)

1LIKE THIS first title immensely.

It has everything that spellssuccess in this present era ofmamborpania.

The band plays it with a goodbeat and although the resoundingbrass, etc., is as far from theauthentic sound as Regent Street isfrom Cuba, that's the way it goesthese days, isn't it? Except for afew novelty interjections here andthere, Edmundo himself hands overthe vocal limelight to some of hishenchmen, This is a very wisemove, for as much as I admire hisLatin larynx, enough is as good asa feast.

Yes. I think this disc is an attrac-tive proposition.

ERIC JUPP AND HISORCH.

CAPITANOINDIAN GIVER(Columbia DB3572)

" CAPITANO " is a first class'commercial tune, and here it

is played via a good beat-tyarrangement in the manner weexpect from top -rate instru-mentalists.

I cannot reconcile myself toliking it being introduced by sea-gulls and Mersey -side noises shovedin during a lull in the middlethough. Because of the swingy styleof the arrangement, this soundsquite incongruous, and the onlyadvantage that it can be to therecord must be in the case ofmusical bird -watchers.

The reverse side is quite asuccessful effort in the direction ofthose novelty beat numbers thatsometimes pass amongst the un-initiated for jazz. It is, nevertheless,a catchy and attractive effort andsounds a good medium for dancers.

JOE LOSS AND HISBAND

MAJORCAA PRETTY GIRL ISLIKE A MELODY

(HMV BD6185)HERE we have a record by the

one British band that neverseems to waver in popularitythroughout_ the years. There doesappear to have been a change ofpolicy, though. for this session.

"Majorca" is given a treatmentmuch in the manner one wouldexpect from our light musicmoguls. The usual Loss outfit isaugmented by many strings andwoodwind and the arrangement isanything but the type we expectfrom a band which chiefly has thedancers in mind. It is an excellentrendering, however, and most com-mendable is the crisp brass figuresbacking the strings.

The backing is purveyed by theusual instrumentation and hassome pleasant tenor sax and trom-bone solos. With this type ofmelody, though, one would havethought the instrumentation of thefirst side could have been con-tinued. As it is, A "Pretty Girl" isnot so striking because of herordinary garb. But the Joe Lossmusic personality is ever -evidentand none of his big army offans will want to miss it.

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