The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-31
BY WALTER c. PARKES

bx WALTER V. FAhAES
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 New York, Dec. 31-Youth is swinging down a new Tin Pan Alley today.
 The ASCAP "cops" who used to patrol the musical air lanes are off, beat now, and the youngsters will make themselves heard-good and loud.
 That's the bright picture of the radio future painted by Broadcast Music, Inc, which, come the dawn of 1941, will have almost sole re- sponsibility for the musical fare that is served up via the 26,000,000 re- ceiver sets from the jive-bound coast of Maine to the song-kissed shores of California.
 When the National Association of Broadcasters refused to sign a l941 contract with long potent ASCAP (American Society of Con- posers, Authors and Publishers, copyright owners of some 100000 tunes), ASCAP asked: If you don't use our music, what will you use?"
 well get our own," was the ar- swer. So BMI was formed to create 8 rival stock of music for the air ways. Besides acquiring, by purchase or license to perform, thousands of existing tunes, BMI formed it's own production department, where scores of songsmiths and arrangers are turning out more music in one week than do the combined music pub fishers of the nation in month. ERNEST GOLD, N SHINING EXAMPLE
 Here, says BMI, is the golden op- portunity for Americas aspiring youngsters. For, explain the broad casters, there are just as good fish in the musical sea as ever came out of it-but they were kept down in the depths by ASCAP restrictions. These require, as minimum, five published songs, although that does mt always guarantee membership in ASCAP.
 BNGI points out 19-year- Ernest Gold, composer of Practice Makes Perfect" as a shining example of a C4DSDlC NDN11 Sd1lo l11lLl d OCSOlll Gershwin"). ambitious tunesmith who couldn't get to first base with the regular publishers in year and a half of tramping the rounds.
 His first published song was put out by BNdI on April 1. Four months lateY he had a tune on the Hit Parade" and is now collecting roy oltieS on sheet music sales of more htan 10000, and on some 5000 or chestrations, in addition to radio fees. For this, BNI takes bow.
 More prideful pointing is done at a team of 19-year-old girls who were graduated from high school a year ago. Broadcast Music calls Leah Worth and Jean Barry born song writers who tried to peddle their tunes without g. tum- ble from the Powers That Be. But the broadcasters gave them a. break, BMI putting out two Worth Barry songs, "Old Jalop" and i've Got a Date With a Gate,' from which they expect big results.
 Another BMI- -boomed group, the broadcasterS say, are the trained professionals, able but unknown be- cause of the closed corporation" at- titude BMI ascribes to ASCAP. In this class is Joan Whitney, attrac- tive young former night club singer
 She has several tunes to her credit, including the popular "Sc You're the One" But she couldn't get tapped for ASCAP. So she's wearing the BNII frat pin, and doing all right.
 The broadcasters also produce Lionel Rand, as an exhibit. They say Rand, who wrote 'Let There Be Love" got rung or two up the ladder of success only to be blocked by what amounted to "This far and no farther-until ASCAP says so."
 LISTENER NOT
 FACING STARVATION"
 So much for the promise BM1 holds out to the forgotten boys and girls of the music world. But when radio broadcasters and tunesmiths