1957-04-13 — Page 14

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),

15

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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