THE CHINA, MAIL,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1957,
TRAVEL TROUBLE No 2
CYRIL STAPLETON'S COLUMN
UST how does the
music
Cost
Who gets what when you buy a
new gramophone record
1
of an ordinary 10in.
78 rpm. record is 5s, 7d, and
a lot of people from the star to the seller have a share in that.
ROYALTY-2d.
So just what is the break- money go down on the price of that round? Every day I latest "pop" disc you have see people standing around bought in the shop round the in record shops waiting to with the star.
Corner? Here it is-torting
buy their favourite disc, Royalty 10 the performer Last year was the big boom- may average 20. a record- 70,000,000 records sold in Bel- although unyone In the fain and there is no sign of fall- Winifred Atwell elusa may get ing interest,
20.
A British Crossword Puzzle
the Star
The Government's.com
Is Id
22
a
the Maker
1slld
Is 40
the Seller
PL
the Man Between
OFF SEASON?
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see
JARDINES AIRWAYS DEPT.
in good time.
Alexandra House, Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"SERVES 'EM RIGHT
IF THEY CATCH COLD!”
12
[E3
14
16
20
22
24
$26 27
19
30
@ Skirting (4).
1 Cream (3).
à Mutal (4)
2 Ledge (4).
32
33
ACROSS
10 Unproductivo (7),
12 Take off one's clothes in the
garden? (4).
is Condarring (5).
16 Shumer (42)
1 Stip (5),
Rearrange (8).
22. Hastened (4).
23 Feature (8).
Moist (4),.
20 Lasted
I
30 Coarse (4).
ai Old queeri (4).
32 Bury (0),
33 Daybreak 14).
1 Conspiracles (8).
6 Drug (4).
Killed (4).
11 Lifelem (8).
Production costs on onc who sells it to you gets is. 4d., record arc 15, 8d.including and the other 1s. 78. ends up studio costs, fees for musicians in the tax collector's bog. (and bands cun number any- And so your money goes thing from six lo 50), a 3d, round and round..........
musical publisher
copyright royalty to and and composser, labelling and packaging.
But, though the rolling in. the intense
So the actual profil on one petition in the record
record to the maker is ad.
STILL RISKY
is money
com- business the
brings
big Tisky manufacturers,
10
Out of every 100 discs made, perhaps only ave will reach the HE man who distributes the Top Ten. Many of the rest are
THE
record rets 7d., the man a loss.
THE TOP TEN
1 "GARDEN OF EDEN." 6 "SINGING THE BLUES." Frankle Vaughan, Philips. Tommy Steele. Decca. (5)
"ST THERESE OF THE ROSES." Malcolm Vaughan, H.M.V. (4)
DOWN
2 Repent (7).
(1)
4 Foreign (5),
3 Lubricates (4).
"SINGING THE BLUES." Guy Ditlebell, Philips.
(2)
SION." London. (3)
3 "FRIENDLY
PERSUA
Pat
Boone,
(8)
LOVE."
Bing Kelly.
in Dumeult (4).
14 Venture (4).
ju Lukewarm (5).
15 Deposited (4).
18 Check (4).
20 Comes back (7),
#2 Went to the bottom (4).
24 Make newer? Yes, in a way (8).
25 Himder (B).
21 Greedy (4).
28 Jab (4).
YESTERDAYA CROSSWORD—Across: 1, Morass, 1 Ripe, & Bring, 10 Alone, 11 Vast, 13 itemohition, 10 Keen, 16 Muse, 19 Progresses, 27 Aria. 24 Untic, 25 Ideas, 20 se, 27 Desert, Down: 2 Omiu. 3 Angel, 4 Starts, Provokes, 8 Apes, 8 Inane, 12 Tendi, 13 Rumba, 14 Operated, 17 Spins. 18 Agreed, do Exits, 21 Sherr, 23 Rain,
Block That Kickl
"HOW CAN THEY TELL WHO'S DOWN FIRST ? THEY
ALL PILED UP TOGETHER?
4 "TRUE
Crosby and Grace
Capitol (0)
"DON'T YOU ROCK ME DADDY 0." Lonale Donetan. Pye/Nixa. (30)
WATCH THE PASS WATCH THE PASS
"BLUEBERRY
HILL."
Futa Domino. London
9 "CINDY, OI, CINDY." Eddie Fisher, H.M/V) (7)
Elvis
10 "HOUND DOG."
Presley, H.M.V, (10)
DRAWING
BLY MICHAEL RAND
The man nobody hired gets £1,000
a night
out of
A his father's public house in
AFTER being kicked
Londonderry, where he had
been singing for fun, 27-year-
old Patrick O'Hagan strode along the road to fame which eventually led to the concert halls of Australia and New
HOW LONG DO THESE TAINGS LAST ? YOU'RE. SUPPOSED
TO GARGLE AT SIXI
12
WARMING
UP.
WHY DO THEY ALWAYS PICK ON THE BOY WITH THE BALL?
WHY DON'T THEY GO AFTER SOMEONE ELSE
FOR A CHANGE?
COPR. 1916 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CDRY. IM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
END OF FIRST HALE
1
FIRST DOWN-
AND MORE OF THE SAME COMING UP
BELIEVER IN FAIR PLAY.
CORA*
SOME SATURDAY AFTERNOONS ARE ROUGH ON
MYYTHING THAT ISN'T ALILED. DOWNL
- I STILL DON'T
SEE
WHY
·THEY
CALL IT
A
GRIDIRON?
BY HARRY WEINERT
"DOWN
IN FRONT!*
THE MENTAL MARVEL WHO FORECASTS EVERY. PLAY.
ICE CREAM
MAN OUT
FOR AN AFTERNOON
...OF PLEASURE.
-ON AND ON TO THE BITTER END.
PATRICK O'HAGAN
IN ENGLAND: NO OFFERS.
Zealand, and £1,000 a night for singing songs his father had objected to hearing for nothing.
I have just been listening to his long-playing record, "The Dear Little Shamrock," and I have no hestitation in saying, that this broth of a boy is one of the finest singers of his kind I bave heard" "sinco -:- John McCormack,
TWO YEARS' WAIT
JUST before Christmas he sang one song on the Arthur Godfrey TV show in New York, and was immediately booked by Godfrey to sing three googs daily for the next two weeks, at, 2,000 dollars a week.
In
England, he is hardly known and has not been offered n bropdcast for some years,
When he first arrived in Eng- land 10 years ago, ko wolted in factories and sang in his spare time at working men's clubs. He suditioned for the B.B.C. and was given a few broadcasts in variety programmes. Then he worked, in theatres around the country,
During this time he mot a sing...... ing teacher-planist named. Hal Stead, who offered to teach him for nothing, if he would give up singing in public for at least two years.
The next two years 5 worË tough for Patrick, living in 9 back room,“
HIS BIG HIT
WHEN his training was over W
he was offered 12 broad- casts in Australia 1t he and his planist paid their own fares. It was a long way to go for 12- broadcasts, but na there, were no offers coming in England they accepted
Those broadcasts in Melbourne. were no successful that they eventually ran for 18 months. Then the Australian Broadcast= ing Company put Patrick out series of concerts which netted him as much as £1,000 a night,
on a
Ho
He returned to England Inst year, but again found
on
people
Indiferent, to his talents, so nine months he went to erica where he found success, the Arthur Godfrey: show. He may go back, there at the and March trut before then hope to introduce him to you on 'my B.B.C.
I.
Salá
Patrick O'Hagan; **16
dode, som strange now one at home" wants mo,.. but...” people have been kind and who mówie what will comÓ KEKUT KURTI 1e always New York.*****
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