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NOTES ON NOTES
MB Lawrence Berk
of the Berklee
School of Music, an- nounced in Hongkong recently that
able for Hongkong jazz musicians.
Mr Berk, who is accompanied by his wife, is in Hongkong on vacation.
by CARL MYATT
Scholarships galore
Music
ceived will be broadcast over USA" together with the judges comments.
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more playing instruments in any the late thirties and forties and notwithstanding the fact that groups as the Kingston Trio,
are still popular today..
the latters brings in the dollars. Bud and Travis, and the Los scholarships are avail- style The best recordings re-
Contino and Layton do justice Hear Patti Page on EmArcy Paraguayos. These men of the
big sombreros an colourful - to tunes such as Duke Elling- MG 36116. -
shawls, bring to life the music ton's "Perdido" and, the lovely Indigo", and Glean
of the Pampas, the bull ring, the food
and The Trio Los Panchos, plains and mountains of Latin Miller's "In The Mood" "String Of Pearls".
leaders in the field of American. They do so with the The hammond organ I notice, Latin-American group sing aid of three guitars and softly blending voices-the voices of Adderley, John LaPorta, Louis is being used widely these days ing, are back with a fresh chucho Navarro, Alfredo GI
additional power to collection of songs and to add
songs and Julio Rodriguez. They have small combos. The organ, with that through the years have charmed audiences from Europe, its tremendous range of notes
built for them a hard America the Philippines and chords, is almost art'
Japan. and
They'll charm you too in itself, In the coterie of loyal fans. orchestra
musician it: The Trio Los Panchos, are on this LP. hands of a good
On Philips B 07593. surges to power adding colour the forerunners of such modern and life to any tune.
The judges include musicians Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Billy Taylor, Goodman, Paul The School will ́ ́award five Benny scholarships valued at US$500 Desmond, Julian "Cannonball" each for a course to be con- bducted by
of Bellson, Woody Herman the Voice
Teo Macero; also Eugene Lees, 'America's International- Jazz
editor of Down Beat magazine, Clinic
Suber, publisher of Charles Down Beat; Orrin Keepnew and George Avakian, both re cognised jazz critics and the faculty of the Berklee School
The Clinic is open to instru- mental soloists, small combos,
slagters, composer-arrangers and big bands, both professional and amateur, who like their music analysed by leading American critics and musicians, eligible,
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musicians
are
is your name
Lolita
?
LOLITA, ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT GREEKS, WAS A GAL WITH A MAN'S SPIRIT."
1959 TEE
KENGRAY
can
Modern
this
exponents of of Music.
Located in Boston Massachu- instrument include Milt Buck- cetts, Berklee is the training ner, Earl Grant, Jon Thomas ground of many young Ameri-
and Layton.
So for a swinging session of and foreign students, among whom will soon be dance music, listen to Contino Hongkong's own Connie Grego, and Layton, who are "In The
Jazz musicians in Hongkong Mood". can contact the Hongkong Jazz Club PO Box 201, if they are interested in recording with, background accompaniment Ar- rangements will be made with USIS to tape their solos with professional accompaniment.
Strange isn't it how good
tunes
better now
On MG 20471
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* STAMP NEWS
settlement of Hong.
THE kong was ceded to.
Great Britain on August 29, 1842 under the provisions of the Treaty of Nanking,
Following ratification of the treaty on June 26, 1843 the con-. trol of the local posts passed to the British Post Office, and a postmaster was appointed from London.
-PATTERN
A pair of hand stamps of a a pattern issued by the G.P.O. in London to local postmasters the and agents at overseas posis tunes served by British mail packet.
An old album by the wonderful Miss Patti Page. "East Side" is an LP that hasn't received a great deal of publicity, but is one that deserves some. Miss Page never seem to die. here discards the novelty Tunes written ten, twenty, type songs which made her even thirty years ago are
famous, songs such as "Tennessee Waltz" and today being revived.
Many of them sound "Doggie In The Window"
than they did and concentrates on when originally recorded. more sophisticated This is due primarily to the like "I Fall In Love Too advance in musical techni- Early",
The PAID strike was applied ques and the greater free- Depths", and "Who Cares dom modern
What People Say".
with the amount of postage in- scribed in manuscript seem to have.
Miss Page is ably backed by sterling) and the dated stamp Accordianist Dick Contino the fine orchestra of Pete applied in black to the reverse and hammond organist Eddie Rugulo, and she shows her of the covers; and all incoming Lawton have teamed up to cut a versatility and "feel" for a song. mail was back-stamped in black fine album for Mercury Records. She has expressed a preference with this dated stamp.
And as you have probably for standards in favour of. guessed by now, they have novelty numbers, and we hope selected tunes that were hits in she records more of the former
arrangers
The Hit Parade
By
Of course it had to
happen: An
Ted Thomas
1. Surrender
2. The Story of My Love
сп.
the
3. Where the Boys Are
nouncement . from States last week said that Saturday February 25. was set aside as Elvis Presley Day. It was de scribed as more exciting than election night, and more colourful than In- 'dependence Day, and with the world's number one Rocker
the
as
figurehead of this crazy celebration it's probably all true!
So far the festival was' con- fined to the "Maow Wong" (King of Cats) own town where he got his first big break in the entertainment world: but with the Elvis cult
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4. Calender Girl
5. Perfidia
6. Don't Read the Letter
7. Walt Till Tomorrow
8. The World is Getting Smaller 9. Somebody
10. Will Follow You
11. There's a Moon Out Tonight 12. If I Didn't Care 13. Let's Go Off-Beat 14. Rubber ball
15. Calcutta
16. Three Steps to Heaven
17. Devil of Angel
18. We den Heart
19. The Green Leaves of Summer
20. You'd Be Mine
ANOTHER
star show- ing, the "evergreen" being what it is, there's little touch is Bobby Darin, doubt that the "Elvis Day" who rocketed from the idea will spread everywhere. ranks of the less
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THERE'S still по serious
challenge to Connie Francis position as being queen of the thrushes. She's been at the top of the pop music field for so long now that it's hard to think of her ever being displaced.
The titia number from
talented 'rock' 'n' rollers, with the release, of his swingin' Knife," has caught the "Mack The
imagination of the State- side cabaret audiences in a manner not seen since the halycon days of Frank Sinatra.
Mr Darin's latest, "Lary "Where The Boys Are" is "River" is bright and melodi- Just starting to go over big In Britain, but in Hongkong It's
a firm
been
favourite ever since the picture was shown - herë,
us, and full of the polished showmanship that we have coma ta expect from this very talented lad.
"Down In The
Elvis Presley. Paul Anka. Connie Francis. Neil Sedaka.
The Ventures. Patti Page. Eileen Rodgers. Mark Dinning. Johnny Nash. Eydie Gorme. Pat Boone." The Platters.
Kong Ling. Bobby Vee. Lawrence Welk. Edd's Cochran, *Bobby Vee.
Elvis Presley. Easy Ride
The Diamonds.
OW much influence
Ho do the Deciays have on your choice of re- cords?
Both the record dealers and the deejays of Hongkong would be interested to know. One school of thought has It that the more a disc is played on the air the less are It's chances of being sold. Would you agree?
HITS HERE AND THERE
DEPARTMENT
America: 1. Pony Time, by Chubby Checker. 2. Surren- der, by Elvis Presley.
Britain: 1. Walk Right Back, by The Everly Brothers. 2
Are You Sure? by. The Allisona.
steamers were sent out.
in red on the face of the covers
(in
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Reel Corner
HEID
OʻRETUY
[EIDI ERICH is 22, blonde and very beautiful. Add a of perfect figure (36-22-36) and a great deal personality and the result is one of the most exciting newcomers on the show business scene.
Four years ago she arrived in England to work in a girls' school in Middlesex where she rose at six o'clock every morn- ing and lit the fires, scrubbed the floors and washed up three hundred dishes twice a day ("they hadn't got a washing-up machine").
Not a very auspicious begin- ning to a career in the enter- tainment world, one might say. But Heldi had been dancing from the age of five, learning classical ballet until her father, a Hamburg hoteller, told ber that "nice girls don't go on the stage" and found her a job in an export business.
For three years Heidi was a shorthand-typist
and book- keeper in the busy port of her native Hamburg until she de- cided that she would come to England. She needed a work permit—hence the interminable washing-up.
SIX WEEKS
of two farm workers who, in the Julian Wintle-Leslie Parkyn It is now a well-known fact production “VERY IMPORTANT that her father bet her she PERSON" come across the would not stay six weeks, that burly, uniformed figure of she stuck the job for a year and James Robertson Justice dangi- that after four years she was ing from a tree by his parachute able to tell him that she had harness after landing (almost) appeared in a number of tele on German soil during the war. - vision Alms, cinema films and In this hilarious comedy ho had been seen on the stage in plays an eminent scientist who England and on live television- takes part in a reconnaissance and had done a personal appear- flight over Germany and even- ance tour of the United States tually finds himself an excood- in connection with a film.
ingly angry and frustrated Her latest screen role is ona prisoner of war.