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...pluggers pass payola to A & R (artists and repertory) chiefs, who decide what the record companies will record; the companies, in turn, spread payola around to selected disk jockeys. If the custom is fully understood in the trade, it is rarely discussed outside it. But last week Singer Frank Sinatra fired a telegram from Hollywood (a town with its own brand of payola) to Florida's Senator George A. Smathers of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, accusing Columbia Records' bearded pop A & R chief Mitch Miller of self-confessed payolatizing...
...Shot of Pizazz. Sinatra's telegram was transparently timed to pump a little publicity pizazz into the weary, long-running argument between 33 members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the organization known as Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). For a generation, ASCAP has been collecting flat, annual fees from broadcasting stations for broadcast performances of its members' works. In 1939, some 250 pinched broadcasters, including all the major networks, formed a rival organization, BMI, and the two have been skirmishing ever since. The point currently at issue: Does the broadcasters' control...
...with some of the top crooners in show business under contract, also plans to tame the wild frontier with some likely-looking cowpokes from the stables of Warner Bros. Biggest and most expensive property is tantrum-prone Frank Sinatra, who will headline two live hour-long spectaculars, 13 half-hour musicals on film and 23 filmed dramatic shows. Frankie's three-year contract will bring him about $4,500,000. Soprano Patrice Munsel will become the first star on the Metropolitan Opera roster to have her own TV series, and both bouncy Guy Mitchell and bland Pat Boone will...
...Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical edition of Junior Miss; and a Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor Co.'s new Edsel, Crooners Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra will team up for the first time on TV. And Producer John Houseman's new Omnibus-type show, The Seven Lively Arts, will kick off in November with Perelman's treatment of The Changing Ways of Love over the past 30 years. Arts will also tackle: Ernest Hemingway...
...read into testimony a dozen whole stories from the magazines, it was the wire services' turn to drool. The wire-room machines gushed juicy details from such Confidential stories as "Eddie Fisher and the Three Chippies," "Mae West's Open-Door Policy!" "Here's Why Frank Sinatra is the Tarzan of the Boudoir." "Why Tony Steel Chuckled When Anita Ekberg Said 'I Do,' " "It Was the Hottest Show in Town When Maureen O'Hara Cuddled...