Most Popular Records
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the Coin Machines
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1-1 Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
2-'Til Reveille
3-Jim
4-Blue Champagne
5-Yes, Indeed
6-You Are My Sunshine
7-A Rose amI a Prayer
8-You and I
9-Flamingo
IO---YouTs
II-Time Was
I2-Marie Elena
Tom Tucker, Okeh .
Bing Crosby, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Tommy Dorsey, Victor
Gene Autry, Okeh
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca.
Bing Crosby, Decca
Duke Ellington, Victor
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Jimmy Dorsey, Decca
Horace Heidt, Col.
Kay Kyser, Col.
Dinah Shore, BBird.
Freddy Martin, BBird.
Crosby-Boswell, Decca.
Bing Crosby, Decca.
Charlie Spivak, Okeh.
Glenn Miller, BBird.
Will Bradley, Col.
Benny Goodman, Col.
Kate Smith, Col.
Tony Pastor, BBird.
WATCH OUT
for Time Was. Yours, You Are My Sunshine and Blue Champagne, above. All are on the upbeat and yet to hit their full
strength in the machines. Other fast·rising songs due to hit the "Big 12"are Why Don't We Do This More Often? Chattanooga Choo·Choo, Piano
Concerto and I Went Out of My Way, all recorded by various bands and vocalists . For additional tips on which discs are showing early strength
in the boxes, check Down Beat' s "Sleepers" lists below. These are sent us by operators who are finding the records mentioned to be sure-fire
coin-snatchers.
"SLEEPERS"
(Potential Hits in the Coin Machines)
BIRTH OF THE BLUES -
Bing
Crosby has the lead on this oldie, re-
vived by the current motion pic of the
same name. And the Bing is on Decca.
Benny Goodman's Columbia version is
the best of the orchestral jobs. Either
should garner jitneys nicely.
HEY DOC -
Woody Herman was
first to cut this novelty, and his job
remains the best one for most loca-
tion s. Cab Calloway has an okay Okeh
discing while the Ink Spots (on Decca
like Woody Herman) have THE vocal
job. Coming up nicely in the East.
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME - Billie
Holiday and Dinah Shore, on Okeh
and Bluebird, resp., have nice-enough
records of another tune of yesteryear
which is being revived with good re-
sults. There's little to choose from
here with Holiday and Shore both
turning in svelte performances.
WATCH THE BIRDIE -
Sonny
Dunham's Bluebird of this novelty
from the Universal pic Hellzapoppin'
is stepping out in front fast. Harriet
Clark's singing seems to lure the nick-
els. Gene Krupa also has it on Okeh
but the Dunham platter is going bet-
ter, ops report.
JOLTIN' JOE DIMAGGIO-A sure-
fire click, heavily plugged over Eastern
radio s tation s, thi s waxing comes just
a s the nation is World series and base-
ball batty. Les Brown has the only
good record so far, on Okeh. Selling
like mad in the East and already head-
ing for some amount of popularity in
the boxes.
NICKEL SERENADE -
Another
novelty which looms as a winner, Les
Brown's Okeh is on the reverse of his
DiMaggio side. But don't overlook it.
Sonny Dunham has it, too, on Blue-
bird. Both should do well on all types
of locations.
ISLE OF PINES -
A slow s tarter,
this lovely ballad as handled by the
coin-machine king, Jimmy Dorsey
(with Bob Eberly on the lyrics) is now
making fast headway and looks set for
a long, profitable stay in the machines.
It's a slow, melodious Nat Burton tune
which grows with every hearing. Decca.
Watch also for the release of In Old
Hawaii by Jimmy Dorsey with another
of those Eberly-Helen O'Connell vocal
duets. Jimmy himself thinks it may go
as big as Amapola.
27584 Jar> Savitt
WHY DON 'T WE DO THIS MORE OFTEN?
(FT VC)
A DROP IN THE BUCKET (FT VC)
throb Power to return and kiss luscious
Betty Grable. It was all in work, however,
a matter of a retake On "Yank in the
RAF", for the public didn't like the un·
happy endi ng and th e only way to change
th at was for Ty to kiss Betty for a fade-out.
Eventually, Power did record th e ballad
which opens with hi s news-flashing the
marines' land ing in Icela nd. The Ray Block
choir and Al Goodman's band cut in with
the fa mOllS marine son g, "From the Halls
of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli,"
and Power takes over describing the
marines' work from the battles in Tripoli,
1805, until today. On the other side of the
r ecord, Barry Wood sings "Arms For the
Love of America." Both numbers were first
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VICTOR
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27600 Sidney Bechet
TEXAS MOANER (FT)
LIMEHOUSE BLUES (FT)
27599 Skin nay Ennis
THE WHISTLER'S MOTHER IN LAW (FT
VC)
YOU MEAN SO MUCH TO ME (FT VC)
2'12*
27598 John Kirby
IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON (FT)
FIFI'S RHAPSODY (FT)
3';'* . 27595 U. of Texas Long Horn Band
EYES OF TEXAS (V)
TEXAS TAPS (V)
27594 Jan Savitt
AFTERNOON OF A FAUN (Ph. I & 2) (FT)
27593 Bea Wain
THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (V)
YOU'LL NEVER KNOW (V)
27591 Tommy Dorsey
PALE MOON (FT VC)
HALLELUJAH! (FT)
27585 Oscar de la Rosa
RESTLESS NIGHT (Bolero VC)
CLAVES (Rumba VC)
The Casa Loma - - only on
DEC C A
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27583 Xavier Cugat
SALUD, DINERO y AMOR (Argentine Waltz
VC)
BENABE (Rhumba VC)
Kiss Halts
RCA Recording
CAMDEN, N. 1. - The machine was
ready! The technician was ready! Tyrone
Power was ready to record "Ball ad of the
Leatherneck Corps" . . . so were the musi -
cians. But Bell's littl e invention interfered,
as an imperative voice came clearly over
th e wires from Holl ywood ordering hear t·
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B-I-BI -
A zany song, almost as
screwy as Hut Sut, this novelty is
geared for the machines by Carl Hoff
(Okeh) with a nickel-nabbing vocal
chorus by the Murphy Sisters. Hoff's
first record, it may establish him as a
"coin" leader his first time out. Horace
Heidt also has it on Columbia and Bob
Chester on Bluebird, but Hoff's is the
disc with the potency.
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We know a girl who is so dumb she
thinks a meadow lark is a picnic.
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