Week of April 25, 1957

government resigns, but the King defies anti-West

demonstrators, which caused the resignations of his

Cabinet. Later, King Hussein places Jordan under a

military governor and launches a determined war

against the Communists in his kingdom. Hussein then

imposes military law on Jordan in a series of dramatic

moves against his enemies inside and outside the

country. As a warning/deterrent to the Reds, the U.S.

sends 36 warships to the area. The U.S. declares that

the independence and integrity of Jordan are being

threatened by “international Communism” - one of the key conditions of the

Mideast resolution under which President Eisenhower may extend aid.

Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy is reported as seriously ill at Bethesda Naval Hospital

with acute hepatitis. His condition is considered serious.

The U.S. offers $10 million in economic aid to King Hussein’s new anti-

Communist government. Jordan indicated immediate acceptance.

President Eisenhower brands labor racketeering “an abomination which must be

eliminated” and calls for ousting union leaders “who abuse power and trust.”

turned-in one of the great upsets of the ring,

knocking out Gene Fullmer in the faith round to win

the world’s middle-weight title for the fourth time.

The Senate Armed services Committee plans a

public hearing on Air Force efforts to promote

movie star Jimmy Stewart and 10 other Air Force

Reserve officers. Listed as James Maitland Stewart

by the Air Force, he’s up for General.

At Sears - Craftsman Paint Sprayer - $76.99 ... House Paint - $4.77 a gallon.

Week of April 25, 1957

For the kids - “Flav-R-Straws” - straws that make a drink

of milk fun. Flav-R-Straws sponsor your favorite Popeye

and Bugs Bunny cartoons on TV!!

Good to last drop? A new bean, which may replace

coffee as a popular beverage, is discovered in the jungles

along the Madelena River in Columbia according to

Bogota newspapers. The bean has been christened

chimbombo by the natives. Natives were attracted by the

aromatic fragrance of the jungle plant, not unlike that of

the coffee bean. Several of them picked some of the

beans, toasted and ground them. Brewing the drink, they

reported it superior in both aroma and taste. Stores are

now selling it at the equivalent of 3 cents a pound. Plans

are under way for large-scale plantations of chimbombo

trees as soon as the laboratory tests produce favorable

reports. Exports will follow.

Now at Texaco gas stations -

Texaco Sky Chief Supreme!

Higher octane. You get new

get-up and go!... You get new

power and longer engine life!

... You get new economy -

greater mileage!

Separate - Actress Ginger

Rogers and her fourth

husband - Jacques Bergerac -

French lawyer turned Hollywood actor.

Bestsellers -

Blue Camelia - Frances Parkinson Keyes

Peyton Place - Grace Metalious

Compulsion - Meyer Levin

The Short Reign of Pippin IV - John Steinback

Never So Few - Tom T. Chamales

The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier

Say, Darling - Richard Bissell

Birthright - Lettie Hamlett Rogers

Stay Alive All Your Life - Norman Vincent Peale

Arthritis and Common Sense - Don Dale Alexander

Week of April 25, 1957

Day of Infamy - Walter Lord

To My Son - Dale Evans Rogers

Too Much, Too Soon - Diana Barrymore with Gerald Frank

The Nun’s Story - Kathryn Hulem

The Organization Man - William M Whyte Jr

Investor’s Roadmap - Alice B. Morgan

The FBI Story- Don Whitehead

Pop music this week in 1957 -

ALL SHOOK UP - Elvis Presley

LITTLE DARLIN’ - Diamonds

COME GO WITH ME - Dell-Vikings

ROUND AND ROUND - Perry Como

SCHOOL DAY - Chuck Berry

GONE - Ferlin Husky

PARTY DOLL - Buddy Knox

SO RARE - Jimmy Dorsey & Orchestra

I’M WALKIN’ - Fats Domino

WHY BABY WHY - Pat Boone

MAMA LOOK AT BUBU - Harry

Belafonte

A WHITE SPORT COAT (And A Pink

Carnation) - Marty Robbins

BUTTERFLY - Andy Williams or Charlie

Gracie

DARK MOON - Bonnie Guitar or Gale Storm

ROCK-A-BILLY - Guy Mitchell

PLEDGE OF LOVE - Ken Copeland or Mitchell Torok

I’M STICKIN’ WITH YOU - Jimmy Bowen with Rhythm Orchids

Week of April 25, 1957

Chart news - Looks like Ricky Nelson of the “Ozzie and Harriet” ABC-TV show

has a new record, a cover of a current Fats Domino tune - “I’m Walkin.” Ricky

was shown performing the tune on a recent episode. Will it be a hit? In the

picture, he sure looks a lot like Elvis!

Dig the Coaster’s latest - “Young Blood.”

Week of April 25, 1957

More top-selling singles -

EMPTY ARMS - Teresa Brewer or Ivory Joe

Hunter

LOVE IS A GOLDEN RING - Frankie Laine with

Easy Riders

TEEN-AGE CRUSH - Tommy Sands

FOUR WALLS - Jim Reeves

LUCILLE - Little Richard

I’M SORRY - Platters

JUST BECAUSE - Lloyd Price

MY LOVE SONG - Tommy Sands

NINETY-NINE WAYS - Tab Hunter

MANGOS - Rosemary Clooney

ALMOST PARADISE - Roger Williams

HAREM DANCE - Armenian Jazz Sextet

SITTIN’ IN THE BALCONY - Eddie Cochran

RING-A-DING-A-DING - Tommy Sands

SHISH-KEBAB -Ralph Marterie & Orchestra

YES TONIGHT, JOSEPHINE - Johnnie Ray

ROSIE LEE - Mello-Tones

(There’ll Be) PEACE IN THE VALLEY (For Me) -

Elvis Presley

BANANA BOAT (Day-O) - Stan Freberg

WIND IN THE WILLOW - Jo Stafford

WONDERFUL! WONDERFUL! - Johnny Mathis

JAMIE BOY - Kay Starr

IT’S NOT FOR ME TO SAY - Johnny Mathis

Television news - Two Perry’s will

half-hour before rival NBC broadcasts “The Perry Como Show.”

Perry Mason debuts September 21 and stars Raymond Burr in

the title role. Other cast members will include Barbara hale, ray

Collins, William Talman and William Hopper. The series was

originally scheduled to go head to head with Perry Como at 8pm.

Duke Ellington and his band appear on CBS-TV’s “A Drum Is A Woman.” It’s part

of the U.S. Steel Hour this Wednesday night.

Week of April 25, 1957

TV competitors The Lone Ranger and Lassie team together for the first time this

week, beginning in Detroit with a six-month tour of 62 cities and 78 appearances

to follow. Also on hand for most of the tour will be side-kick Tonto and the horse

Silver.

Now that “I Love Lucy” will not be returning to

Monday nights, what will replace it? CBS-TV is

important slot. The program has been submitted

to Lucy sponsor General Foods and Proctor and

Gamble for consideration. “Dick and the

Duchess” is a situation comedy about a young

American and his English bride in London. It was

shot in London and features two unknowns

More Lucy - CBS-TV buys ownership of “I Love

Lucy” from Desilu Productions for an estimated

$5 million. The package includes 178 half-hour

episodes already produced and ownership of

whatever films which may be produced in the

future. Although “I Love Lucy” will no longer be produced, plans call for several

hour spectaculars featuring the cast next season.

Music news - Hot music trend these days - Calypso

- lead by Harry Belefonte. Some say it’s giving

rock n roll a run of it. His latest album is “An

Evening With Belafonte” on RCA records. Two male

trios - the Tarriers and the Easy Riders, have

successfully adopted the Belafonte formula of

building a widely varied folk song repertory. Record

stores are filled with Calypso music. The hottest

artist of course is Elvis Presley. He seems to be

everywhere. A movie magazine asks its readers -

“What do you think of Elvis Presley? Is he just

another wiggly guitar-thumper who will soon give way to more conventional Pat

Boone? Is he a second Adonis the Valentino of the bop generation? Is he an

obscene adult who leads youngsters into mass hysteria and sin? Or, as Sen.

Kefauver of Tennessee put it - is he “just a nice young boy from Tennessee?”

Week of April 25, 1957

called to active duty as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Not to worry, producers Hugo Peretti and Luigi

Creatore cut more than 20 sides with Knox “to insure

Buddy’s recording career while he is on active duty.”

The sides will be issued as singles and in albums

during Knox’s term of service, presently estimated at six

months.

Ray Price and Marty Robbins, hot Columbia Records

country artists just finished an eight-day promotional

tour. Robbins was plugging “White Sport Coat” and

Price “Please Don’t Leave Me.”

dial) is getting busier. He has just set up a new BMI

publishing company - “Figure Music” which will be

headed by Jack Hooke. He’ll also emcee his own half-

hour TV show over ABC-TV May 4 and 11; following

which he will ready a stage show at the New York

Paramount Theater starting July 3. He set for a similar

show at the Brooklyn Paramount in September.

There’s talk of him taking a rock show over to Europe.

Freed will tape his WINS radio show since his first

ABC-TV program is set for 7:30 - 8:00pm. The first

ABC-TV show will feature Guy Mitchell, June Valli,

Martha Carson, Del Vikings, the Clovers and

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. If the ratings hold-up, the network will present him on a

regular basis.

Good news for network radio. Ford Motor Co says it is going to spend a hefty $3

million beginning in the fall on network radio advertising. It’s the largest one-lump

sum by one company in many years. Network radio has been losing money since

1953.

Top Rhythm and Blues records -

I’m Walkin’ - Fats Domino

All Shook Up - Elvis Presley

Little Darlin’ - The Diamonds

School Day - Chuck Berry

Come Go With Me - Del Vikings

Week of April 25, 1957

Just Because - Lloyd Price

Next Time You See Me - Little Jr. Parker

C.C. Rider - Chuck Willis

Party Doll - Buddy Knox

It Hurts To Be In Love - Annie Laurie

Mike Wallace has a new talk show on ABC-TV. Starts Sunday night.

Sunday Night Television -

CBS - Air Power, Lassie, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan, G.E. Theater, Alfred

Hitchcock Presents, $64,000 Challenge

NBC - Roy Rogers Show, 77th Bengel Lancers, Circus Boy, Steve Allen Show,

Chevy Show with Bob Hope, Loretta Young Show

Week of April 25, 1957

ABC - You Asked For It, Movie- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Ted

Mack, Mike Wallace Interview.

Jack Benny - Jack, Mary and Rochester head off to Palm Springs for a vacation

Circus Boy - Corky and Joey learn that their star

acrobat is wanted for robbery.

Ed Sullivan Show - Johnnie Ray, Walter Pidgeon, the

Vagabonds, James Melton, Singer Judy Scott,

Comedy team of Allen and DeWood, Toe-dancer

Martha Ann Bently

Steve Allen Show - Singer Jill Corey, Sammy Davis

Jr., The Will Mastin Trio, Orson Welles

Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the U.S. Klans, Knights of

the Ku Klux Klan.

At the movies -

Funny Face - Audrey Hepburn, Fred

Robert Fleming

Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy

Hiller, Juano Hernandez

Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gary

Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson

London

Cooper, Ingrid Bergman

Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine

Jeffrey Stone

Week of April 25, 1957

Hopper

Dragstrip Girl -