THE TOP TEN
"YOUNG "LOVE" Tab 6 "BANANA BOAT!” Harry Hunter... London. (1)
2 "DON'T FORBID ME,"
Pas Boone. London. (2)
3 "KNEE DEEP IN THE
BLUES."
Philips, (3)
Belafonte, II.M.V. (0)
"BANANA BOAT BONG.” Shirley Bassey,
Philips
8
Quy Hitchell.
**TRUE LOVE." BLOK Crosby and Grace Kelly, Capitol. (7)
OF EDEN." Little Richard, London. Frankle Vaughan, Philips
4 "LONG TALL BALLY."9 "GARDEN
(4)
(0)
5 "DON'T YOU ROCK ME
(B)
DADDY 0." Lonnie
Doneran, Pye-Nixa, (5)
10 "SINGING THE BLUES.”
Gay Mitchell,
Philips
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1957.
This Chairborne Dynamo
Count Basie
BRITAIN HAS NEVER
SEEN HIM BEFORE
PHILIPS
Dry Battôry Sets
ANS
Auto Radios.
PHILIPS
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A British Crossword Puzzle
orchestra from the plano stool. is squat, rotund figure bounce
the band into its beat with a simple driving plano introduc
"THERE'LL
HERE'LL be no rock 'n' roll in my show," growled William **Count" Basie over the Trans- tion. atlantic telephone.
He has the gift of Imprinting personality his forceful murle
without
The whole group on leaving his seal.
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17
"I've been making music all my life-and
jump
guess it's the only kind can play. I'm too old chunge my style now way."
I
to
any-
He is modest about his record sales and polite about rock 'n' roll.
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15
16
19
"Record business sure is hot conceded. EVERYBODY'S selling
I was phoning Barie la New at the moment," he
his "But makes
York Brst
17
before he
trkp lo Britain. As records today. And don't ge Basle has topped Big Band me wrong about ruck-'n'-rali, Sometimes popularly polls in the States I'm not against it.
for the past two years, we can it's pretty. Or perhaps he was assume that his music has being ironic.
virtues that don't grow old.
He les beat bandleading with
quile conspicuous success
over 20 years,
for
SAD BILL
HALEY
ELOQUENT PRAISE THEY say that familia-
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Hesitates (6).
ACROSS
DOWN
Division (8).
1
Berin (5).
4
Tented
U.S.
college
Shelf (5).
grounds? (6),
3
Have confidence in (5).
8 Zeal (8).
J
Wine (4).
10 Armistice (5).
12
Cycle (8).
17 Dispose of (4).
4 Support for table (7).
Fold (7).
Purloins (0).
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20 Repeat (7).
19 Chargen with crime (7),
Outcome (8).
13
Withdrew (7).
15
Scold (4).
(4).
22 Valicy (4).
23 Revising (7)-
27 Offer (0).
29 Diminish (5).
30 Territory (0),
31 Supead (0). 32 VIew (5).
18 Thoroughfare (0),
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18 est conceptions (8).
20 Highest
21 Necessitate (6).
24 Felters (5).
25 Likeness (6).
20 Bottled spirit? (5).
28 Nigh (4).
FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Spurlous, 8 Plot, Elevator, 11 Complete, 13 Brad, 15 Relented, 16 Director, 15 Down: 1 Deal, 21 Silenced, 25 Tortador, 2, Pail, 27 Redeemed, Eple. 2 Doom (rev.), 4 Palc, 6 Rave, 6 Outer, 7 Shred, 0 Eland, 10 Ether, 12. Obese, 14 Alone, is Tanda, 17 Deer, 19 Deter, 20 Acrid, 21 Safe, 22 Lode, 23 Coal, 24 Duli.
who
rity breeds contempt. USICIANS
seems to be aren't That certainly normally lavish In their true so far
American suffered a strange eclipse after working in Britain. It would praise rist to
ul heights
recording artists are con- appear that proximity destroys Eloquence on the subject of
cerned, When Haley's something of the glamour of the Basic's band.
Comels came to Britain, Big Boys of show business. they were riding the crest rounds 011 records," enthuses of a popularity wave.
"It's 20 times
Ted Heath.
lour with
as good as
concert a
Bacle kicks off his British The delirious reception that the the "bound" tons gave to Bill might have threatened Royal Festival Hall ( sell-out Haley
it was a eight weeks ago) on the evening public safety, but
of thes of his arrival-the Arst of 10 tremendous snows in 21 days.
of
enthusiasm.
token
They were buying his records This will be the first visit of
the record factory an all-coloured American band so fast that
Hurter's wouln't cope with the demand. another since aristocracy, Edward "Duke"
Now Haley has been and gone, Ellington, 23 years ago,
Did his visit give an additional are lip to record sales? No. They
have sagged alarmingly.
Basic's London concerts practically a sell-out, but pro- been vincial bookings have
CHILL NIP
THE COUNT AT THE KEYBOARD.
Impresario persuaded him to try his luck on wax again and paid for private recording session himsalt.
It turned out to be a shrewd move. Preston Cold the master
who will to Decca, releasing it.
Then recording Donnis Preston
PRESLEY certainly LVIS
felt the nip in the chill His Jack Frost February air. turned out to be Harry Belafonte America the man who made calypso-conscious.
Cleveland Ohin, Ernditionally the barometer city of the record reports: "Prezley In Industrv,
tho Holder, cold. He's only mentioned as a year-old Frank
to coloured singer who came joke by TV comics now." And a Dalion-wide
survey England from Brilish Gulana as made this
America an R.A.F. man, month in shows that Belafonte has now He stayed on after the war to pushedi Presley In'a seccad place win talent contests and eventu in record popularity.
ally joined Johnny Dankworth's That might be because the
band. Alley nowa-
On stage hà Along Tin Pan slower. That is possibly because
performer, yet the the Basle orchestra lacks the young record buyers had been
ays there are predictions that capable. teenage appeal of the seven-man led to expect riot of excine calypso will sweep the board in handful of records that he made
from Haley's personal rock-'n'-roll tornado unleashed ment
coming months and counter- didn't tickle public fancy. His appearances by so much senan suggestions that it has been new record is "Red Beans and on us by Bill Haley.
} overrated. iccal advance publicity,
Rice" find "Caterpillar Bush." Or maybe the teenagers
and musical crazes Songs
on the
SHREWD MOVE simply HAVE to hear It," they resented the way Bili eluded depend to a large extent on
can push them into eny form of demerstition aftan atarn who Alrendy the band has been that frightening mobbing at prominence, and the catch is RANK even ontlelpated, the advent of a calypso boom that no British calypso specialist dubbed Basle's Dynamos in Southampton and Waterloo, America.
of any real stature has emerged. by recording an LP. of Trinidad But sales a year ago. The
But I recall that both
I have just heard the record "songs" Jumping
Ray that may make one out of 32 didn't amount to much, 15-plere Mitchell and
Yet Haley's Comets spoke of the Basic style with awe, "You
sald. "It's Powerhouse jazz.”
Count
50-year-old
his
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"I KNOW YOU'RE
ONLY GOING
ONE WAY mo
BUT DON'T
SAY IT"!“
ONE WAY
"WHAT WE NEED AROUND HERE IS A:
MOUSE !
"COUNT
Johnnic
Guy
Fed Up
"YOU MEN ARE ALL ALIKE! NO MATTER WHERE WE GO IT'S THE SAME OLD THING - 'WHO'S THE BIG BLONDE ?` 'WHO'S THE BIG BLONDE ?
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