Show I I I i I I By Dy LYN CONNELLY A FERVENT nod to the late and great fix Colder Bender becke we must report that there Isa is isa isa a new young man with a horn 1052 version who has been breaking break ing fag fabulous long standing records literally from coast to coa coast t Ray Anthony is the trumpet man we mean Two T years ago Rays Ray's band was in hock and the future looked pretty bleak Today To To- day the annual nationwide disc jockey poll poU voted them the No 1 band of the year Ray just jus signed to do the coveted Graduation lion tion Hop at West Point the he big I college plum of the year which usually indicates which band is on top of the heap No less than three of his recent Capitol platters ore are hogging the selling best list At Last I Hear a Rhapsody and There Are Such Things At Last Incidental Incidental- ily ly made the top tunes list in n the trades only two weeks after its ye- ye re lease On his present spring land and summer cross country tour Ray has been playing clubs college proms theatres concerts army camps and hotels Ordinarily stars are unhappy over this hedgehopping hedgehopping hedgehopping hedge hopping from one night stand to another but Ray is the cheerful exception to the rule rule How flow can you knock one one when fans tans crowd the box offices in droves when the press makes frantic bids for interviews when in n two short nights alone at a private party given by a Dallas aircraft company crowded the th hen h n t a- a A I I v v to my music Ray expounds I It 1 wasn't always this way Ra Ray started his band in tn 1948 1048 after his navy discharge and since their first flut break In week In Springfield Ill Ill when they got 1730 1150 for lor the entire entire en en- I tire week they've had the long 1 I arduous pun pull l for r recognition F For r the tiles fUel Ray Kay received three times I that sum l for r one night since that thai 1943 1048 debut Ills recordings of or Mr lUr I Anthonys Anthony's Boogie Cooks Cook T Tour ur All AU J Anthon Anthony to name a f few lew with their unique styling made a small but p positive dent In the success success suc sue cess pattern Show business Is Js keeping its eyes on Mr Me Anthony for a good reason ho be he represents represent the many bands that lost appeal during the late forties In favor of single vocalists like Como and Sinatra |