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Sinatra's

Slickest

Deal-

He Turns

CYRIL

STAPLETON

COLUMN

Conductor and Sells

Sinatra to Sinatra

bought the soundtrack rights for "The Frankie's latest picture, Joker is Wild." This is to por- Iray Sinatra in the life-story of E famous American night chub entertainer Joe E. Lewis.

The Al company making

who? Why. Frank Sinatra, of

FEEL cheated. I Barton Music Ine, Simmtra owns The Joker" is owned by--guess have just been listening Barton Music.

He w

A CORON

Afich

netivities.

course.

All of this makes it even more Bleult for ine to understand why on earth he wants to lead a band, Sil, I'm told that all Rrant

men have ambillons to You never talled at something else. Essex know, maybe sume day we shall

Toscanini singing hear Doma e Mobile" on disc.

to 40-odd-minutes of a Not satisfied with his long-playing record bearing ing, acting conducting, Frank Sinatra's name, and music publishing the only sound of Frankie Sinatra han just taken another

Lowards Step

brewing ul lics in the swish of the con- entertainment-industry tycoon. ductor's baton clutched firmly In the grasp of Essex Productions Ine." Sinatra, the would be came into the record field as the Stokowski. The record is producers of the successful long-

Poems called "Tone

playing record "High Society," of This

WAB reased by Colour," and the lubel says Capitel. Sinatra nominally that the orchestra is con- Capilul recording iftisi, bait He ducted by Frank Sinatra, contract is held by Pants, which

in future produce a

Now I don't want to appear Sipatra's recording, for Capital.

weepfient, had I seem to renem- ber that when Mr Stoatra Did ITL cur Show Band Show he confessed to me that Sell read music

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by Perry Como with the

IMV

Ray

instead of paying tax on his Charles Chorus aid the Michell record earnings.

Ayres Orchestra,

Essex in now ating le ballo up as a record fubjut on it own erotint, and is reported to be Dist-rate artists to looking for

has already It record for it,

It has been very well Treated, and I think dat even Debussy would have been pleased.

However, I expect we shull have a lot of classical dichards

to think that all wielders

music sticks should at least been senJanFanfanger Jne fechte, schofe deciding that it is not at for us able 10

notes rend the orchestra is playing.

Of course, i may be doing him en injustice. After all, it is three years since he appeared

with

very In- us, and he is a dustrious man. Maybe he has round time to study since then.

But even though he has, and even though he can now reclic E-vary Good Boy D-eserves Favour and F-A-C-E as fast as the next man, I sull think he should stick to singing. He is belter at that than almost any- one in the world.

Besides, there are eight men muned on

the record who are much better conductors than he They wrote all the musle on it

Again...

VERY one of them is a fam-

OLIS conductor composer, Among them are such grants of the music industry as Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Victor Young, and Nelson Riddle.

Incidentally, I see that all the music they have written for this record is published by The

To

THE TOP TEN

"JUST WALKING IN THE RAIN," Johnate Ray. Philips.

2 "GREEN DOOR." Frankie

Vaughan, Philips.

3

IN "WOMAN

LOVE. Frankie Laine, Philips.

4

5

"ST

THE

"RIP IT UP." Bill Haley Comets. Brunswick.

THERESE OF ROSES."

Malcolm

Vaughan. HMV.

Mup- I , and they will, pore, move heaven and earth to han it for broadensting.

of

Pity if they succeed, because i feel that is better for people

inclodies To hear the lovely the classics this way, rather than not hear them at all.

I'll bet the musle of Borodin, for instance, has become much more popular since the success of "Kismet"

That baby

TERRY LEWIS, the American comedian, having cast covetous eye the tremendour

"HOUND DOG." Elvia recording Successes made by his

Presley. H.M.V.

ex-partner Dean Martin, decided to find out what his own voice

7 MY PRAYER.” Platters, sounded like on wax.

Mercury.

8 "MORE."

Decca,

Jimmy Young.

MOON." Elvis 9 "BLUE

Fresity, H.M.V. 10 "TRUE

Capitol,

LOVE."

Accordingly, he hired a studlo. orchestra, and all the trap- pings and made a couple of tapca. The resulting masters have been sold to Decca,

One of them is already in the BIBA

American Hit Parade. It's called Crosby and Grace Kelly. “Rock-a-Bye Baby," and it la

the same song which was made [~||~||~||~||~|~|HII+† popular years ago by Al Jolson.

Crackers-A British Tradition

LTHOUGH crackers would tax most people's powers

Jick

even # tolerable Aftern minutes,

really only appear at to produce

imitation Christmas time, firms in Nearly all crackers today are London turn them out at stől made by hand.

the rate of one every Although so much a part of three-quarters of a minute the Christmas scene, il la only all the year round. In ninety years since the first real fact immediately after Christmas cracker was born. It Christmas, work begins on they wrap their sweets in #pplies for the next coloured tissue paper and call Christmas.

came about because in France

them bon-bons,

The demand, of course. 14 A young Englishman, Tom heavy; about 40 million crackers Smith, who ran a profitable

are sold in Great Britain alone Libe novelty business cake during the Christmas season. But decorations,

them

are not

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firms on-

in Bagod

the trade—about 20 i

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all in Britain--and the number The sight of some bon-tons in of cracker-makers employed at Paris confectioner's shop gave cach is steadily doolining through him an idea. So back in Lon- the years.

don he bought hundredweight For cracker-making is a' of sugared almonds, and some skilled but dying craft. It takes variously coloured Lissue paper between a year and 18 months and set his staff to wrap the to train #craftswoman-they sweets in time for Christmas, ang nearly all women and

rates of pay (between £5, and They sold like wildiro-but 20 a wock) do not compare as soon as the season was over with the alick salaries of other no one wanted them any more. manual jobs today. So there is So Smith docided to elaborate a serious shortage of recruits and make his Christmas salos and the average age of cracker big enough to support his makers is uncomfortably high.

business for the rost of tho your.

aluminium

How is the job done? First, the outer crope paper is cut First, he placed love mottoes crimped and stuck to the air inside his bon-bons-then toys, and Jewellery. And white lining of the cracker, charms When dry, It is rolled round an then one night as he sat at home looking into the fira a nów. tube; the protrud- ing paper in then "choked by log started to crackle and pop. having string wound tightly round ft.and the tube-

It took him to Years of trial drawn. The paper cap toy and an riddle or motto are then inserted and the oilter and fled in the same way. Finally the decoras llors is stuck 06.

OITOT to perfect a self- immiting explosion, lotitt: Bub harmless, Io solved tha problem with the friction strip. wall of paltpetrosail); used - todagnam * and. In 1800, the Christrans Emzik dakom the crooked cracker came into being and maker, less... than a minute), it came to stay.)

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