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THE "CHINA" MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1958,
THE SECOND-
HAND HITS
This week there's even one at the top!
The
Cyril Stapleton
Column
THEY are busy turning the olocks back
along Tin Pan Alley. We are entering
the era of the second-hand hit.
The "new" records the teenagers play are the "ancient" bewhlakered songs of their grand- fathers but with a difference. Thøy now have #modern beat,
Into the record llets flood the oldies: "Carolina Moun," "Girl Of My Dreams," "You Made Me Love You," "Who's Sorry Now" Remember them?
The trend
towards second-hand songs began quietly enough, but it took Connie Franets to demonstrate that giving the oldies another spin could set up a dizzy new whirlpool of royalties,
GOOD THING
For weeks she topped the best sellers with "Who's Sorry Now? Now she is queening it again with "Caro- hu Moon," and her latest recording, "Happy Days and Lonely Nights," ghows that the Pranels girl knows when she is on a good thing. It is yet another winner in the 30-year-old stakes.
It does not take Tin Pan Alley long to catch on. Now A, and 8, men are feverishiy leafing through dusty entalogues. Hecord making le a gamble, so what better than to back horses that have romped home in the past?
Dinah Shore has also put her hand in the lucky-dip bag, and comes out with "I'm Sitting on Top of the World."
Effervescent Doris
Day
has entered The fists with
Noel Goodwin
"MULLIGAN
MONK"
MEETS
LT2.
www
(1,andon 15127; 211. P.). Not que at the summit level, maybe, but what the politicians call "a
"Bluca In the Night," it war- fruitful exchange of views" in time money-spinner. Britain's Malcolm Vaughan comes up with "Miss You," A elderly tear-jerker that Bing Crosby mournfully Intorted in the forties. It was written in the *twenties.
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LOOK WHAT'S
HAPPENED TO
LAURIE LONDON!
WH
WHAT happened to Laurie London? Remember the 13-year-old Stamford Hill prodigy who from nearly set the Atlantic on fire with "He's Got The
Whole World In His Hands?” · ·
terms at creative laxx between out and out Individualists, tornished eloquence from barl- Jone-saxist Gerry Mulligan_and inventive
work plano Thelonious Monk.
ERROLL GARNER "Sere- They say that Sigmund nade to Laura" (London LTZ-C. He topped the American Hit Young Lourie did not follow Homberg would turn in his 15126; 12n, L.P.). - Some of the Parade, and was hauled off to "up with, apother: hit, but with grave if he could hear what EG. better Garner plano recarded In the States for personal appear- merely a succession of near- Townsend dioes to "When 1 1840 or thereabouts and now ances. He even outseld Frank misscn Having reached the top, Grow Too Old To Dream," reissued on L.P. Not the same Sinatra. A year ago he had the he still had not learned the trick which now
delights adolescent directness of style as his later whole world of entertainment of staying there. ears in the States.
recordings, liks "Concert by the in his diminutive fist. Now it Nevertheless, in the London Bea," but a friendly, relaxing seems that he has let it allp menage hope runs high. Laurie's assortment of 14 numbers. through his fingers.
youthful talents have turned to
The Americans began the wave of second-hand hits, of course. Ironie that our record companies sniffed at the notion of starting their own revival campaign.
Yet our own Frankie Vaughan reintroduced anelent "Give
Me the Moortight" years ago. It was so popular that he uses it to this day as his algnature
tune.
THAT
be
funny little man, Charlie Drake, may
smarter than he looks. Wise guys arc saying that he has missed the boat with his
much
comie version of "Valare,
I think they have missed the
point. "Volare" has reached the "craze" sluge. Next reaction may well be revulsion.
WATCH OUT for the new teenage rave Ricky Nel- son,
son of famous American TV husband- and-wife team, Ossie Nel- son and Harriet Hilliard. His "Poor Little Fool,” in the British best sellers, is
a potential topper.
HERE is
of
a most ironic twist fatc. Tommy Dorsey, who died last year, has attain-- cd II Parade status posthum- ously. His band, still bearing his name, recorded "Tea for Two Cha-Cha" and it elicked.
THE NEW
DISCS
John Lambert
*** ELVIS
PRESLEY: "King Creole" (N.C.A.). Best of the bolow-standard Presley colles-
tion from his new flim of the mame name. Even so it is the band, not the singer, that comer off beat. -It has a Mér, sollä | beat so easy to danco to,
But the old Elvis exuberance, enelly hía blærevi amet, la sadly ismed. *** DORIS DAY: "Iævò in, a Home." (Phillips). Top choice with the baltaq singers at the motheni Dorla* Day should load the race, bocsure this cony, senilmonial stuff in just her atsin, The reverte *lde: of the record shows her limitations. She tries "ines in The Night," and mouride liko n'abaky, alīook- ed. Imitation of Lorg letne,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"IT'S THE LAST UMBRELLA
|I'LL BORROW
FROM THAT
BUM!
BESIDES, HE DIDN'T WANT TO
GO OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
SOME DAY. WE'LL BUY AN UMBRELLA OF OUR OWN AND
LET OUR FRIENDS' GO JUMP IN THE LAKE,
THERE'S ALWAYS SOME BRUTE |TO LAUGH AT
A GIRL IN QISTRESS.
TOP TEN Mr. Greene laughs at
1 STUPID CUPID
2
Conule Francia (MCM) (10
VOLARE
Dean Martin (Capitol) (2)
WHEN
Kalin Twins
(Brunswick) (5)
4.KING, CREOLE
Elvis Presley (R.C.A.) (D)
MOVE IT
CHI Richard (Columbia). (12)
BIRD DOG
Everly Brothers (London) (5)
7 BORN TOO LATE
Pon! Tails (H.M.V.) (11)
8 MAD PASHIONATE
10
LOVE
Bernard Bressiaw (H.M.V) (6)
POOR LITTLE FOOL
Ricky Nelson (London) (4)
RETURN TO ME
Dean Martin (Capitol) (7)
A CERTAIN SMILE
Johnny Mathis (Fontana) (14)
song-writing. He has just record- ed one of his own compositions, "My Muther,"
Max Dreytus, American head of Chappells, one of the most powerful publishing concerns, predicts great things.
To tide over the lean London
espionage
by RICHARD LISTER
taken from the nards of a VAQUEM cleaner. He grundly choosen his rub-agents by taking at random from, the social register.
He escapes
Bache in Loudon ibo(Chief, in
OUR MAN IN HAVANA, By Graham Greene, Heinomann, liis block coming cost, black
151.
te and black monocle, in very oxcited. Our man in Havana
is a live wire. He orders him
to be reinforced with a secre-
MR GRAHAM GREENE divides his fiction,
into two classes. What he wants us to take tory, and a radio operator, and seriously he calls "novels;" his light stories calls "entertainments."
he then embarrasing additions to
his staff arrive in his dingy and doorepit office.
This ad entertainment, a allows himself, in ludicrous cir- It is oven more embarrassing Secret Service story designed cumstances, to be recruited into when his imaghiary sub-agents to take the mickey out of all, the Secret Service..
beg to get shot at. The enemy Secret Service novels, including Ordered to recruit sub-agents have broken his code and taken This wa
and supply London with all his fletions ser.busly. He' him- Jbn Wormold
sad, possible information political, self only. Just eseppes with his raiddle-aged man. unsuccess commercial and military he fe fully peddling vacuum cleaners. has no idea how to pot about it.. in, Havana, His wife has left But
Mr Greeno gets away witt st be consults
Own hlin with a precocious and imagination and dads he has a by wrapping up his plat in his beautiful, daughton to bring up. talent for inventing just the kind own brand of brilliantly descrip-
It is on her account to pay of dope his bosses want to hear. Ve realism. for a horse for her and riding There are military construc=- lessons and membership of the tions in the hills, he reports, and exclusive Country Club-that he bucks it up with scrie drawings,
FICTION SHELF
By JEREMY CAMPBELL
›● INTERRUPTED JOURNEY. Poles and Russians live out By James Wilson, New Authors their lives in the South of Limited, 158. Sensitive, adult France, seeing visions, dreaming story of the Cyprus campaign dreams. An exquisite study, in by a first novelist. Taut and relationships. Miss Jameson
vivid, with the stink and aweal barrs motive with a surgeon's of war on almost every page, skill,
A regular officer allows himself. the impossible luxury of a delicate concience in an army which permits no such luxury. Excitement, and tragedy follows.
● CLOTILDE, By Ceoll Saint Laurent, Weldenfeld and Nicof-
18. son.
Across Hitler's Europe German tanks rumble and the refugees scatter, small-town Clotilde, b sexy
● THE GOOD LION. BY LEN Miss, topping from bed to bed Doherty. MacGibbon and Rec., with an assortment of lively 188. Young Walt Morris packs and adventurous lovers, ob- a toothbrush and some Heming zerves the political fumbling way, leaves a shattered home to and the skeln of French carve himself a carees at the diplomatic intrigue.
Fascinat
pit face. A ruthlessly honest, ing glimpses (through the bed- often violent account of the
of underground
room
door)
"He told me that it will do better than 'He's Got The Whole World" says Lauric's dad. period, cash from his first colos-ins of adolescence in a grimy resistatice.
city. The path to integrity is strewn with gang fights, some since we have forgotten the
fuctive sex and the resin-scented · trallan record charts. He har Author is a miner,, writes prose A FRIEND IN POWER. By urgency of the boxing ring.
sal hit continues to roll in.
na strong and honest as a hob nailed boot.
Baker. Faber. 16 Carlos American professorial. lito chronicled with warmth and wit, though the jokes,ecensionally waver towards the academic. Pore is placid, the atmosphere
number it has topped the, Aus
now. beeri offered a tour Down Under
It would be a pity if the pint- sized prodigy faded is (swiftly ne he appeared. There is nothing offensively precocious about him.
The Londons still religiously⚫ A ULYSSES TOO MANY. By cloistered, but the gallery of follow the advice of recording Storm Jameson, Macmillan. 155 college personalities is closely man Norman Newell, "Don't The pale twilight world of the and finely observed, have bim trained It might spoll exile is patterned here with skill his natural appeal."
and sympathy. A group
of
-(London Express® Service).
However unreal the story, the hot, sleazy, sexy totinist centre of Havana is es etrol as could bo; the dialogue crackles; 'and the_people-the police chief, the German refugee doctor, Jim Wormold and his daughter- have that air of endi actuality which Mr Greene, injects Into all his characters.
(London Express 'Service),
THE TOP SIX
WHAT LONDON IS READING
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THE KING MUST DIE moves into Top place for, the second time in the Evening Standard list of London best sellers during last wook.
Previous week's post- tions in brackets; fiction marked with an asterisk. 1-The King · Must Die,*
Mary Renault (2)♪ 2-Hornblower in the West
indies, C. 8. Forester.
Zhivago,* Boris 3-pr
Pasternak: (1).
4A tho Tree Falls,* -
Doris Leslie (9); 6-The Land God Gave to
Cain, Hammond Innes. G-The Story of Peter
· Townsend, Normen
· Berrymains.
tion
· Complied with the co-ogerty
* of the Army and Nevi Stores Branpur, "Foyles, Harrods, Hatchards, Selfridges,
W. II. Smith and Son, and the -Times Bookshop.
-(London Express Service),
Take Your Umbrella
By Harry Weinert
SOMETHING SHOULD
BE DONE ABOUT THIS,
WE LIKE THESE
TRANSPARENT UMBRELLAS THEY LET PEOPLE SEE WHERE THEİR NEXT SHOWERBATH IS COMING FROM.
'COM. 198 27 SINIRAL FRATĄ
↑ CORP. IM-WOULD LIGHTS AIRES
THE ONE
WHO DOESN'T
LIKE TO CARRY
ANYTHING.
HEAVIER
THAN
A TINE.
10-19
"IS IT RAINING-7
· IT'S A SHAME TO THROW I AWAY - THERE
MUST BE SOMETHING- YOU COULD MAKE WITH IT.
MOTHER SAID:. "KEEP OUT OF..
THE WET {*