Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-08-08
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Spangled Dawn" recorded on MGM
Records by Herb Kenny, has taken
on momentum, after these months.
Two weeks ago, Variety reported
that it was among the nations top
ten IN TV performances. A few
days later, the Korean Truce was
signed and all radio stations
throughout the country began Civ
ing it must" programming. The
song is timely. It's Tin Pan Alley
publisher started an about drive
on the number, and MGM Records
did likewise. The Herb Kenny
platter is wonderful. The lyrics
are as follows:
Il dream of star-spanged dawn
The day was born when all the
world
Was free at last
Il dreamed of star-spangled dawn
The night had gone, and all my
dreams
Had come to pass
"And there was laughter on ev'ry
hill top
Singing for miles around
The ocean rolled so gently
While peaceful feet trod the ground
Il dreamed of a star-spangled dawn
The day was born when all the
world
Was free at last"
Harry Belafonte, the folk singer,
sizzling at Bill Miller's Rivera in
Jersey Enrol Garner at New
York's Cafe Society Phyllis
Branch on SIND Street MGM
platter artist, George Shearing at
New York's plush Eastside Club,
The Embers Ella Fitzgerald
clicking in Chicago f.. Next stop
Angeles in Omaha Louis
"Satchmo" Armstrong playing to
"SRO" crowds at the Blue Note
nightly.
MGM is making available to juke
box operators only two tunes from
the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
album. They are Diamonds Are
A Girls Best Friend" and Bye
Bye Baby. Nat King Cole
clicking at the Paramount Hotel,
San Francisco Ford Buck,
eX-Buck & Bubbles, keyboarding at
Bob Olin's Restaurant Jilla
Webb, MGM recrding thrush cur
rently at Crescendo, l.. A.
Art Tatum set for Omaha's Ange-
rs August 20 Eartha Kit old
pint-sized TV and recording SEN
sation, set for the Fred Allen Show.
And, will to the Godfrey's Friends
on TV this winter, the Ed Sullivan
and Milton Berle Show this fall.
My, what a gal! It's toss-up
in our book between Willie Mae
Thornton's Hound Dog" and Will
lie Mabon's 81 Don't Know" as the
hottest R & B record of this or
any other season Lionel
Hampton's band still going strong
| Sarah McLawlor still hand
ling the Hammond Organ beauti-
fully.
MGM Records and Canada Dry
have taken to the juke boxes and
disk jockeys to do a missionary job
in promoting Canada Dry's quinac
tonic drink. Gin and quinac. A new
popular song with a calypso beat
has been recorded for Canada Dry
by Shep Fields, titled keep Cool'
(Gin and Quinac) and is being dis
tributed through regular popular
song channels by MGM Records in
joint promotion with Canada Dry
and its bottlers. Not a commercial,
the song lyrics tell a witty story
| of romance and fiesta, and suggest
that when Things get too hot, one
would keep Cool' by slipping
Quinance and little gin. Rave re-
views of the catchy song have al
ready appeared in columns from
coast to coast. The noted composer,
Phil Moore wrote. keep Cool" and
it was arranged by Leroy Holmes.
This recorded song is expected to
be particularly we'll received by
bar and tavern owners who can ask
their juke box. operators to place
the record in their coin machines.
To stimulate playing of the tune,
Canada Dry is providing streamers
to post alongside the box promot-
ing the keep Cool" both ways
as a drink and as a popular song.