Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-13
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By Larry Douglas

NEW YORK -(Global)-MGM
has gone all out to build up it's
pride and joy" Tommy Edwards.
The diskery is spending a good
deal of money and time pushing
the talented Negro singer. In fact,
MGM, under the direction of its
prexy, Frank Walker, is spending
more money on Tommy Edwards
than on any other MGM star. This
is remarkable, for the usual reason.
Gospel singer, Sister Rosetta
Tharpe, is shifting from Decca
Records to RCA Victor. She has
been one of Decca's top religious
diskers for years A slugging
match at the Club Onyx in New
York two Friday nights ago in
which Cab Galloway was involved,
has produced a couple of different
Eyewitness" versions. Harvey
Grant, singer at the Club. was
slugged and required a couple of
stitches above his eye. Grant says
Galloway hit him. Galloway SAYS
he never touched Grant. Incident
was touched off at the night spot
when Galloway was talking to his
party while Grant was performing.
Apparently burned by Calloway's
inattention and a previous brush
off, Grant challenged Galloway to
fight and threw the microphone
onto the latter's table, so the story
goes. Calloway's friends claim that
several persons associated with the
Club tried to restrain Grant and
hit him in the melee.
The great Lady Day Holiday
billie, that isl opened May 29 at
Chicago's Beaucoup Lounge for a
three weeks stay. Billie is as
grand as usual. She does more
with lyric than any other singer.
That's why she is classified by so
many critics and fans as the great
est stylist of all time MGM
recording artist, 10 Ann Tolley is
now appearing at the Mayfair Club
in Wilkes Barre, Pa. =. Ella Fitz-
gerald clicked last week at Broad
ways Birdland :. Nat Cole opened
at Club Tiffany, Los Angeles.
The Laugh Girl" Georgia Carr,
is clicking at the Colonial Tavern,
Toronto, singing her Capitol Rec
ords hit tune, Laugh Tho You
Feel You Want to Cry)" and keep
ing the patrons at the Colonial
spellbound. Get a platter and en-
JOY it yourself.
The biggest show idea is set to
invade the outdoor field this sum-
mer. The Gale Agency, which has
been packaging these layouts, is
wrapping up another package to
play ballparks and stadiums dur
ing July and August. Included in
the show so far are former heavy
weight champ Joe Louis, Erskine
Hawkins and his band, Dusty
Fletcher and the Clovers. More
acts are to be signed . Dorothy
cambridge broke an all-time at
tendance record at the Last From
tier in Las Vegas.
The "king of the vlbes" Lionel
Hampton, clicked onstage of Har-
LENS Apollo Theatre last week.
The Ravens at Broadway's Band
box Clyde McPhatter, former
lead singer with The Dominoes,
has formed a new group. The
Eddie Haywood Trio will play The
Embers in New York after Enroll
Gamers month-long stay Sa-
rah McLawler now at Harlem's A
polio Theatre +. Willie Mabon in
vades the Apollo fext.
Illinois Jacquet clicking at the
Celebrity Club in Providence =.
Sarah Vaughan going great at
New York's La Vie En- Rose
The Orioles and the Paul Williams
DIRK doing one-nighters through
July Ia in Connecticut The
Crickets on MGM Records have
another RIB hit. It's called "For
You | Have Eyes" backed with
"Pll Cry No More" The Billy
Taylor Trio still going great guns
at New York's Copa Lounge.
Jolly Joyce Agency, Philly and
New York, has set three major
unit bookings for the summer sea-
son at Wildwood, N. J. :. Follow
ing their stay at New York's Cafe
Society in June, Chris Powell and
The Blue Flames open July l at
Moore's Inlet Cafe. There they
will share the spotlight with the
Three Peppers, opening the same
night Joyce Agency also set
The Top Notes for an indefinite
stand at the Cadillac Club, Cum
berland, Md. Tiny Grimes
clicked at the Memorial Day Dawn
Dance at the Met Ballroom in Phil
adelphia ;. Tiny Bradshaw and
his DIRK currently at Harlem's Sa-
vow Ballroom