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...responsible for interpretations of its figures is C. A. B. Having used them against each other, the networks last week united in using C. A. B. statistics against their common foe ASCAP, the cooperative which controls most U. S. music. The networks claimed that according to C. A. B. figures radio listening had not decreased since their contract with ASCAP acrimoniously expired Dec. 31. Promptly they were jolted with the news that in its regular report C. A. B. had checked the popularity of 91 evening programs, discovered that since the New Year 52 were down, 35 up, four unchanged...
Over three independent Manhattan stations (WNEW, WMCA, WHN) ASCAP last week aired a batch of Cole Porter music on a Tums Pot o' Gold program. On hand was Porter himself, who made a speech defending ASCAP's position in its war with B. M. I. One purpose of the show: to find out whether the lure of ASCAP music would attract more listeners in Manhattan than the networks (vowed to B. M. I. tunes) could entice. This week ASCAP will continue its test, guest-starring Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. On the national front, meanwhile, ASCAP will...
...While ASCAP planned this succulent banquet, many were the gags about B. M. I.'s musical mashed potatoes. So often had B. M. I.'s Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair been played that she was widely reported to have turned grey. While crooners moaned tunes the old cow died of, ASCAPers rattled the barn doors with parody titles such as: "When the swallows come back to ASCAP-istrano," such rhymes...
Annoyed by radio's Oberon-&-Titania quarrel was many a big-league radio showman who agreed with the description of B. M. I. as "a pain in the ASCAP." ASCAP's President Gene Buck complacently permitted the BMIred networks to broadcast such patriotic ballads as Stars and Stripes Forever, Anchors Aweigh and God Bless America at the President's inauguration. Meanwhile Arthur Murray introduced B. M. I. tunes in his dancing schools, on the theory that his customers would have to learn them if they wanted to practice by radio at home. Among the sillier consequences...
...halves recital an excited technician rushed up to Thomas C. Peebles, manager of the band, and protested violently that he was being forced to turn the program off the air any time a Harvard tune was played. The musicians rose to the occasion with a snappy rendition of non-ASCAP "Old Black...