Most Popular Records in. the Coin Machines
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I-The Hut Sut Song
2-Aurora .
3-Maria Elena
4--Daddy
5-Green Eyes
6--1 ntermezzo
7-Apple Blossom Time
8-Yes Indeed
9-Amapola
IO-Music Makers
11-1 Understand
12-Let's Get Away from It All .
WATCH OUT
for "Yes Indeed," the
surprise of last month, for it is moving up
briskly via the Bing Crosby·Connie Boswell
IDeccal and Tommy Dorsey IVictor! versions.
" Hut Sut," "Daddy" and "Aurora," all nov·
Freddy Martin, Bluebird
Andrews Sisters, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca •
Sammy Kaye, Victor
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca .
Benny Goodman, Columbia
Andrews Sisters, Decca
Crosby. Boswell, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca .
Andrews Sisters, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca .
Woody Herman, Decca
elty songs, look gllod for another couple of
weeks as champion nickel· grabbers on all types
of locations. "GIBye How" and "Alexander
the Swoose" are dropping fast, although they
barely missed the "big 12" listings above.
Merry Macs, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Lawrence Welk, Okeh
Andrews Sisters, Decca
Tony Pastor, Bluebird
Marie Greene, Columbia
Wayne King, Victor
Tommy Dorsey, Victor
Sammy Kaye, Victor
Harry James, Columbia
Charlie Spivak, Okeh
Tommy Dorsey, Victor
Records of " Do I Worry,"
On,"
I'Dolores,"
"The Band Played
"Look af Me How."
"My
Sister and I" and "Everything Happens to Me"
have all shot their wads and are fading fast,
operators report.
"SLEEPERS"
(Records Destined to be Big Hits in ·the Coin MachinesJ
HORACE HEIDT-Goodbye Dear,
I'll Be Back in a Year is the lengthy
title of a new Heidt Columbia platter
which is getting a good play in many
boxes. Ronnie Kemper's vocal sells the
tune and the "draft" angle is timely.
A potential hit.
PETE JOHNSON-As a follow.up to
his very successful 627 Stomp, John-
son has a tune he calls Pete's Mixture,
Decca, which may be even more suc-
cessful. Flipover side, a pretty ballad
without any boogie woogie for which
Johnson is famous, is called Just For
You and also is worth trying.
SAMMY KAYE -
The Reluctant
Dragon, from the new Walt Disney
cartoon, is as inane a song as has ever
been recorded. But it's one of those
silly, musically-poor novelties which
the public may go for. Sammy Kaye
has the most commercial version on
Victor.
TOMMY DORSEY-Will You Still
Be Mine? That's Tommy's latest wax-
ing, slanted at the machines, and be-
cause the lyrics are surefire-and
Connie Haines does a masterful selling
job-this side, on Victor, looms as a
big winner. Superb stuff for every
location-sure to be a real sleeper.
ELLA FITZGERALD-Due for a
nice buildup in motion pix, Ella is hot
right now. And for operators, her No
Nothing, a ballad sung by La Fitz-
gerald, also looks hot. Decca.
MILDRED BAILEY-Mildred her-
self believes her new record of Some-
times I'm Happy, Decca, is the great-
est thing she's put on grooves in years.
Really mellow backgrounds help make
it socko. Perfect music for a drinking
or dancing atmosphere.
6244 Count Basie
GOIN' TO CHICAGO BLUES (FT VC)
9:20 SPECIAL (FT)
VICTOR
27487 Enric Madriguera
MOON I N THE SEA (Bolero·VC)
DANZA LUCUMI (Rumba)
27486 Bea Wain
YOU STARTED SOMETHING (Vocadance)
PEEKABOO TO YOU (Vocadance)
27484 Joe Reichman
MRS. AUSTIN FROM BOSTON (FT VC)
MOONLIGHT SONATA (FT)
27483 Tommy Dorsey
LOVE ME AS I AM (FT VC)
NINE OLD MEN (FT VC)
27478 Barry Wood
ARMS FOR THE LOVE OF AMERICA (V)
(The Army Ordnance Song)
ANY BONDS TODAY? (V)
27477 Jan Savitt
JO·JO, THE HOBO (FT VC)
TOPPER (FT)
3*
Jimmy Dorsey - - - only on
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3*
27476 Sammy Kaye
DON'T CRY, CHERIE (FT VC)
SAND IN MY SHOES (FT VC)
27474 Art Jarrett
LOVLlNESS AND LOVE (FT VC)
YOU STARTED SOMETHING (FT VC)
27465 Xavier Cugat
SERENATA TROPICAL (Bolero)
NOCHE DE RONDA (Mexican Waltz VC)
27464 Jan Savitt
IT'S SO PEACEFUL IN THE COUNTRY
(FT VC)
SUGAR FOOT STRUT (FT)
27463 Joe Reichman
DON 'T BE BLUE, LITTLE PAL, DON'T BE
BLUE (FT VC)
FOOLED (FT VC)
27462 Tito Guizar
AURORA (V)
ACERCATE MAS (V)
27461 Tommy Dorsey
KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE (FT VCl
I'LL NEVER LET A DAY PASS BY (FT VC)
27449 Sammy Kaye
SLEEPY SERENADE (FT)
THE RELUCTANT DRAGON (FT VCl
27448 Joe Reichman
THE MONKEY ON A STRING (FT VC)
NIGHTY·NIGHT (FT VC)
27447 Sidney Bechet
I AIN'T GONNA GIVE NOBODY NONE
0 ' THIS JELLYROLL (FT)
WHEN IT'S SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH
(FT)
JAY McSHANN -
Confessin' the
Blues is the title of a blues number
which young McShann, a pianist, put
on wax for Decca's sepia series. Here
is a natural for colored locations and
locations where college students, jitter-
bugs and musicians hang out. S trong
vocal and McShann's brilliant piano-
logics sell this with a sock.
JIMMY DORSEY -
The greatest
vocal Helen O'Connell has yet put on
grooves is her Embraceable You, taken
at slow, pashy tempo, stacking up as a
sensational coin machine item. Watch,
also, for such J. Dorsey nickel-grab-
bers as Be Fair, a lovely new ballad
composed by the team which wrote
I Understand, and similar to that song,
and another ballad, Isle of Pines,
which looms as a money-maker for
operators everywhere. Bob Eberly sells
the wordage to both Be Fair and Isle
0/ Pines. Can't miss. All Decca.
3*
27446 Larry Clinton
TOWN TATTLER (FT)
TEMPUS FUGIT (FT)
4*
27445 Bea Wain
THAT'S HOW I GOT MY START (V)
KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE (V)
Amusements, Inc.,
Opens in Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD - Amusements, In c., is
the name of a new Wired Music System
whi ch made its bow in Hollywood night
spots the first week in July.
Operating from studios in the Otto K.
Oleso n Building on Vine Street the com·
pany started serving locations on July 4th.
Stanley Kuhns, Al Ezor and Martin
Smith are memb ers of the organization . •
Andrews Sisters - - only on
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