Music Trade Review
Issue: 1946 Vol. 105 N. 3 - Page 26
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Prominent Orchestras and
Artists Signed by RCA Victor
A large number of outstanding new
additions have been made to the RCA
Victor recording roster, according to
an announcement by J. W. Murray,
Vice President, RCA Victor Record
Division. Among the newly signed
artists are Greta Kelle, famed internat-
ional chanteuse, The Satisfyers, sen-
sational quartette on the Perry Como
radio show, and Red Allen and J. C.
Higgenbotham, celebrated swing music-
ians.
Betty Hutton, singing comedienne
of innumerable movie hits, whose rapid-
fire vocalizing and lively antics have
made her the idol of millions of movie
fans, has been signed to an exclusive
recording contract by RCA Victor.
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, one of
the all-time greats in the world of
jazz, maed both for his husky voiced
vocals and superb trumpet, has also
been signed to an exclusive RCA Vic-
tor recording contract.
This outstanding musician, cele-
brated for the fundamental swinging
music style which has made him a
jazz fans' idol, will make the first of
12 scheduled RCA Victor sides during
the band's date at New York's Aquar-
ium Restaurant, starting April 15th.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra with
Tex Beneke, the morst famous musical
aggregation of the wartime era, is
another which has been signed to an
exclusive RCA Victor contract.
Beneke, star vocalist and tenor sax
soloist, achieved national fame with the
Miller Band in pre-war days, winning
Downbeat awards for his sax through
'10 and '45. The Miller Orchestra
and Beneke, in their initial post-war
civilian appearance, cracked the New
York Capitol Theate's top 1930 box-
office record. Their first post-war RCA
Victor recording was made on Feb-
ruary 21st.
Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra, pur-
veyors of exciting tropical rhythms in
the Latin-American tradition, have also
been signed to an exclusive RCA Vic-
tor recording contract.
Arnaz, whose new band made, its
first sides last month in Hollywood,
has returned to the orchestral field,
where he initially made his reputation,
following several successful years in
pictures. He will record the popular
rhumba and conga type of tunes which
have swept the country in the colorful
craze the past few years for Latin-
American dance music.
26
Gulbransen Piano Brings $10,000
In Albany, Oregon, Bond Rally
Last Fall the Elks Lodge of Al-
bany, Oregon held a County War
Bond Drive with a quota of $84,000.
about the piano. It came as a sur-
prise. I was happy to do it and glad
it made such a 'hit'."
Gulbransen
Clayton
Model
which
Brought
SI 0.000
in
Bond
Rally
in
Albany,
Oregon
It was put over in one night, but when
the bidding got slow Loren J. Luper,
of the Luper Piano & Musical Co. put
up a Clayton Model Gulbransen Con-
sole piano which was bid in by O. L.
Bowman for $10,000.
"From then on" said Mr. Luper,
"the bidding became lively and the
quota was sold. The Elks gave much
of the credit for the success of the eve-
ning to the awarding of the piano
which was a surprise to everyone.
They had no previous arrangement
Ray Devitt was general chairman
for the evening and owns a Ladies Ap-
parel Shop in Albany. O. L. Bow-
man whose wife and daughter are in
the accompanying picture owns a sand
and gravel plant in Albany.
Schmidt and Wilson
Named RCA V.P.'s
Ohio Association to Meet
in Cleveland in Sept.
Election of D. F. Schmit as vice
president in charge of the engineer-
ing department of the RCA Victor Di-
vision, Radio Corporation of America,
and Fred D. Wilson as vice president
in charge of the personnel department
of the same division, was announced
recently by David Sarnoff, president
of RCA. Mr. Schmit has held impor-
tant engineering posts in the company
more than fifteen years, having joined
RCA in 1930 as manager of research
and engineering in tube manufacture
at Harrison, N. J. After nearly twenty
years in the electrical appliance and
radio fields. Mr. Wilson joined RCA in
1936.
Cleveland has been chosen for the
1946 annual convention of the Music
Merchants Association of Ohio, and the
time for the meeting has been shifted
from June to September by vote of the
Mid-Year Meeting held in Columbus
on Monday, January 21st.
Preliminary discussions by President
Floyd L. Cronquist, Vice President
Ernest L. Dahlen, Treasurer Ora W.
Newman and Secretary Rexford C.
Hyre, to whom the Mid-Year left the
arrangements, pointed to the dates of
September 15, 16 and 17 for the con-
vention and to Cleveland as the place.
For many years the Ohio convention
was held in September just after
Labor Day.
In the photo standing behind the
piano are: Left to right, Elaine Bow-
man, Luper, Gordon Fairley, commit-
teeman; R. C. McDevitt, who presided
at the aution; O. L. Bowman and Mrs.
Bowman.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1946
Prominent Orchestras and
Artists Signed by RCA Victor
A large number of outstanding new
additions have been made to the RCA
Victor recording roster, according to
an announcement by J. W. Murray,
Vice President, RCA Victor Record
Division. Among the newly signed
artists are Greta Kelle, famed internat-
ional chanteuse, The Satisfyers, sen-
sational quartette on the Perry Como
radio show, and Red Allen and J. C.
Higgenbotham, celebrated swing music-
ians.
Betty Hutton, singing comedienne
of innumerable movie hits, whose rapid-
fire vocalizing and lively antics have
made her the idol of millions of movie
fans, has been signed to an exclusive
recording contract by RCA Victor.
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, one of
the all-time greats in the world of
jazz, maed both for his husky voiced
vocals and superb trumpet, has also
been signed to an exclusive RCA Vic-
tor recording contract.
This outstanding musician, cele-
brated for the fundamental swinging
music style which has made him a
jazz fans' idol, will make the first of
12 scheduled RCA Victor sides during
the band's date at New York's Aquar-
ium Restaurant, starting April 15th.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra with
Tex Beneke, the morst famous musical
aggregation of the wartime era, is
another which has been signed to an
exclusive RCA Victor contract.
Beneke, star vocalist and tenor sax
soloist, achieved national fame with the
Miller Band in pre-war days, winning
Downbeat awards for his sax through
'10 and '45. The Miller Orchestra
and Beneke, in their initial post-war
civilian appearance, cracked the New
York Capitol Theate's top 1930 box-
office record. Their first post-war RCA
Victor recording was made on Feb-
ruary 21st.
Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra, pur-
veyors of exciting tropical rhythms in
the Latin-American tradition, have also
been signed to an exclusive RCA Vic-
tor recording contract.
Arnaz, whose new band made, its
first sides last month in Hollywood,
has returned to the orchestral field,
where he initially made his reputation,
following several successful years in
pictures. He will record the popular
rhumba and conga type of tunes which
have swept the country in the colorful
craze the past few years for Latin-
American dance music.
26
Gulbransen Piano Brings $10,000
In Albany, Oregon, Bond Rally
Last Fall the Elks Lodge of Al-
bany, Oregon held a County War
Bond Drive with a quota of $84,000.
about the piano. It came as a sur-
prise. I was happy to do it and glad
it made such a 'hit'."
Gulbransen
Clayton
Model
which
Brought
SI 0.000
in
Bond
Rally
in
Albany,
Oregon
It was put over in one night, but when
the bidding got slow Loren J. Luper,
of the Luper Piano & Musical Co. put
up a Clayton Model Gulbransen Con-
sole piano which was bid in by O. L.
Bowman for $10,000.
"From then on" said Mr. Luper,
"the bidding became lively and the
quota was sold. The Elks gave much
of the credit for the success of the eve-
ning to the awarding of the piano
which was a surprise to everyone.
They had no previous arrangement
Ray Devitt was general chairman
for the evening and owns a Ladies Ap-
parel Shop in Albany. O. L. Bow-
man whose wife and daughter are in
the accompanying picture owns a sand
and gravel plant in Albany.
Schmidt and Wilson
Named RCA V.P.'s
Ohio Association to Meet
in Cleveland in Sept.
Election of D. F. Schmit as vice
president in charge of the engineer-
ing department of the RCA Victor Di-
vision, Radio Corporation of America,
and Fred D. Wilson as vice president
in charge of the personnel department
of the same division, was announced
recently by David Sarnoff, president
of RCA. Mr. Schmit has held impor-
tant engineering posts in the company
more than fifteen years, having joined
RCA in 1930 as manager of research
and engineering in tube manufacture
at Harrison, N. J. After nearly twenty
years in the electrical appliance and
radio fields. Mr. Wilson joined RCA in
1936.
Cleveland has been chosen for the
1946 annual convention of the Music
Merchants Association of Ohio, and the
time for the meeting has been shifted
from June to September by vote of the
Mid-Year Meeting held in Columbus
on Monday, January 21st.
Preliminary discussions by President
Floyd L. Cronquist, Vice President
Ernest L. Dahlen, Treasurer Ora W.
Newman and Secretary Rexford C.
Hyre, to whom the Mid-Year left the
arrangements, pointed to the dates of
September 15, 16 and 17 for the con-
vention and to Cleveland as the place.
For many years the Ohio convention
was held in September just after
Labor Day.
In the photo standing behind the
piano are: Left to right, Elaine Bow-
man, Luper, Gordon Fairley, commit-
teeman; R. C. McDevitt, who presided
at the aution; O. L. Bowman and Mrs.
Bowman.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, MARCH, 1946
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