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...before. He spent two days shooting Walking My Baby Back Home, took three days off to put together this week's Comedy Hour (he revised all the dances in the show, wrote part of the skits, ad-libbed additions to his routine with Sid Miller, and sang a ballad, Dreaming, for which he wrote the music and Miller the words). In spare moments throughout the week, he met with his associates in Donald O'Connor Enterprises, Inc., dozed through the Hollywood premiere of Call Me Madam ("After all, I'd seen the show before"), conferred with Cartoonist...
...productions. This is certainly a compliment to composer Harry Flynn who has supplied the cast with a varied and original score. Of the eight songs, I felt that Economy and Meet Me at the Coop were freshest, but I'm certain that a more fully orchestrated version of the ballad So Long Love would put that number far above the others. Although this is the first public presentation of any of Mr. Flynn's work, it is polished and neat, and shows considerable promise...
...popular American ballad has, in fact, been written to much this prescription for generations-though the degrees of moroseness and suggestiveness vary with presumably deeper tides. People no longer actually perish in the contemporary ballad, as they did in Stephen Foster...
What happens next is standard procedure at all record companies. Advance copies are sent out to as many as 2,000 of the nation's 5,000-odd disk jockeys-the real middlemen of the ballad business. No A & R man can soundly predict how a new disk will take. But company salesmen as a group are good prognosticates, and certain cities, such as Philadelphia and Boston, seem to be particularly seismographic in detecting the rumble of an approaching hit. If the signs are good, the company may press as many as 150,000 copies in the first edition...
Kentucky Melody. Rosemary Clooney comes from historic ballad country, about ten miles upstream from the place where Eliza nipped across the ice ahead of the bloodhounds. She was born on May 23, 1928, the daughter of a housepainter in Maysville, Ky. (pop. 8,600). Her sister Betty came along three years later and, two years after that, a brother, Nicholas. Later her parents separated, and Rosemary, moving from relative to relative and town to town, has never settled down since (though, nowadays, two blocks of a Maysville street is officially known as "Rosemary Clooney Street...