Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

Issue: 1941 May

Most Popular Records in the Coin Machines
Reproduced by special and exclusive arrangement with the publishers of DOWN BEAT, the
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~§§SONG§§§§§§§§§~FIRST CHOICE§§§§§SECOND CHOICE=-
I-Amapola
2-New San Antonio Rose
3-1 Understand
4-Dolores
S--Oh Look at Me Now
6--Chapel in the Valley
7-G'Bye Now
8-The Band Played On
9-Memory Of a Rose
IO-There' ll Be Some Changes
II-The Anvil Chorus
I2-Perfidia
"SLEEPERS"
(Destined to be Big Hits in the
Coin Machines)
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Sammy Kaye, Victor.
Bob Wills, Okeh.
Charlie Spivak, Okeh.
Tommy Dorsey, Victor.
Woody Herman, Decca.
Glenn Miller, BBird.
Horace Heidt, Col.
The Jesters, Decca.
Sammy Kaye, Victor.
Benny Goodman, Col.
Les Brown, Okeh.
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca.
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Bing Crosby, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Bing Crosby, Decca
Tommy Dorsey, Victor
Bing Crosby, Decca
Russ Morgan, Decca
Guy Lombardo, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Ted Weems, Decca
Glenn Miller, BBird
Benny Goodman, Col.
Records listed In this elasslficatlon are un-
usual-either the tune or the form of treat-
ment r and are proving surprises or "sleepers"
In many locations throughout the country. ac-
cording to Information from operators. Any
one of these records may break into the "fa-
vorites" elass above. Operators are Invited to
hear the following sides with an eye toward
discovering a smash hit and a nlckel-nobber:
ABE LYMAN: Biggest click in the
boxes by this vet leader to date is
You're in the Army Now with a vocal
sung by his entire band. Timely, too.
Bluebird.
MILDRED BAILEY: Her new ver-
sion of Georgia on My Mind has the
phonographs in the east, especially,
jumping. All vocal, backed up by a
Negro vocal group and a pretty clari-
net. Decca.
EARL HINES:
Reports are that
Hines' new Everything Depends on
You is proving a potent nickel- nabber,
especially on colored locations and
spots where youngsters hang out.
Strength of the arrangement is in the
vocal trio. Bluebird.
JIMMY DORSEY: Hotter than a red
wagon is this band. Try its follow-ups
to Amapola and I Understand; many
ops report they are making a lot of
money on as many as six J. Dorsey
discs of the moment. New ones which
look good are Green Eyes and Yours,
both with double O'Connell-Eberly vo-
cals, and an Eberly specialty titled
Maria Elena, in which Bob gets splen-
did backgrounds from three trom-
bones. All Decca.
BENNY GOODMAN: Lovely version
of the tune Intermezzo may click as
well as Marie Greene's. No vocal. On
Columbia.
WOODY HERMAN: Still another
version of Intermezzo, this time with a
vocal by the leader. The beauty of this
tune is obvious, and is starting to
climb via versions by Herman, Good-
man, Greene, Wayne King and Lom-
bardo. Decca.
GLENN MILLER:
Tab Ida as a
comer. Very Negroid arrangement but
appealing to most ears. Tex Beneke
sings. Bluebird.
BING CROSBY: Here's one by Bing,
with vocal help from Connie Boswell,
which is going to be one of the big
winners of 1941. It's titled YeB Indeed.
Bob Crosby's Bobcats accompany. A
zany little tune well handled by this
pair of top-notch song-sellers. Can't
miss, so stock up. Decca.
WILL BRADLEY: Boogie W oogie
Conga and Southpaw Serenade, both
with Ray (Drummer) McKinley vo-
cals, appear to be selling briskly, and
are worth trying on all types of loca-
tions. The conga has a fine rhythmic
lift; McKinley's singing and Fred
Slack's piano work are more than
enough to sell Southpaw. Columbia • •
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A jury is one thing that never works
properly after it's fixed.
D. J. Donohue, Seeburg District Manager on
fhe West Coast, is shown presenting a Bronze
Placque for outstanding sales showing during
1940, to Jack R. Moore, Portland, Oregon, on
the occasion of Moore's recent organization
meeting in that city. •
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"I wrote a five·act play."
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Pearl Hart, Lady Bandit
Only woman to rob a stage in Arizona
and only white woman ever to be incarcer-
ated in Yuma Penitentiary are the unique
distinctions of Pearl Hart, Arizona's "lady
bandit" and now almost legendary figure in
a part of the Southwest famous for its
bad men and gun fighting sheriffs_
Pearl's excursion into banditry appears
the result of circumstances rather than a
deliberate departure on a path of crime
but the fact remains that she was after-
wards implicated in a train robbery which
indicates she did not find the adventurou.
life altogether displeasing. Musty news"
paper records in Tucson reveal as strange a
career as ever conceived for any plot, yet
the world generally knows little of the
gun-toting Pearl.
Born Pearl Taylor in Lindsay, Province
of Ontario, Canada in 1871 she, at the agp.
of seventeen, eloped and married a man
named Hart, first name lost "to history.
Three years of connubial bliss followed be-
fore Ha.rt developed the habit ".of beating
his wife almost to death. She left him,
adopting the well known habit of wives
from time immemorial, and returned to
mother.
However Hart had a way wi th women,
they set out on horseback accompanied by
two Mormon boys. Heavy rains had made
he was her husband and she loved h im, so
in spi te of beatings and abuse when he
the going so bad they would make but an
snapped his fingers she returned to him;
average of three miles a day. They camped
besides there was the baby boy whose in-
at night as best they could, finally reached
Globe. Pearl landed a job as cook in a
fluence she hoped would change matters.
miner's boarding house, saved her money
The reunion in Trinidad, Colorado lasted
so when the job failed she was not in such
but two short weeks when repeated beatings
a bad spot. But Pearl's luck ran true to
again drove her from Hart's bed and board.
form . Word came from her .brother that he
Odd jobs here and there, cooking, dish-
was in trouble and desperately in need of
washing, anything that offered money to
money. She sent him what she had and
support herself and the baby followed for
started looking for ano ther job. To make
several months and always when one job
matters worse Hart, now mustered out of
was lost she moved on to ano ther. Months
the army, returned and suggested Pearl
later she found berself in P hoenix, Arizona
support him and the "work" he wanted her
and the first person she met on the main
to do was not to her liking although quite
street was her husband. This time they
popular and profitable in the mining camps
lived together for three years and another
of those days, even as it is now.
child was born, a girl. Then Hart resumed
Thi s time Hart left her for good but
his abuse and Pearl sent the two chi ldren
Pearl's hard luck was still running strong.
to her mother, fled east and got a job as a
Her mother wrote that she was dying and
servant with a well to do family. No use.
wanted to see her before she passed on.
Hart found her and again prevailed upon
No money and no job created the right
her to return . They located in Tucson and
atmosphere for Joe Boot who reappeared on
this time Hart varied the routine by desert-
the scene. He was broke but had a mining
ing her. He joined McCord's Regiment of
claim and suggested Pearl don men's
Rough Riders. Pearl returned to P hoenix
clothes and work with him, promising her .
but work was scarce and there are records
all the money they made, so she joined him.
of several attempts at suicide. She lived
The claim proving valueless Joe suggest-
through them, finally getting a job as cook
ed robbing the Globe stage as an easy way
in a mining camp at Mammoth in 1898.
to get money for her fare home and she
Her "house" was a tent on the banks of
agreed . after exacting a promise that no
the Gila River and the hard work and bad
one would be shot. Joe assured her this
living conditions soon broke her health and
·was a cinch saying that all that was needed
she quit her job, loaded her few possessions
was nerve.
on the Mammoth-Globe stage and started
for th e latter ci ty. Bad weather had ma de
The fo llowing day saw Pearl and Jbe rid-
the road impassable and she found herself
ing leisurely down the road over which the
back in Ma mmo th, broke and wi thout a job. <" Globe stage must travel. In the distance
It was upon thi s scene that Joe Boot, the nimble of the stage was heard; J oe
doub tful hero of the. occasion, entered. He
wen t over the instructi ons again and then
too wanted to reach Globe and together
the stage swung around a bend coming
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