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Show ' By LYN CONNELLY DlNa CROSBY may twitch from "smoke" to Coke on radio . . . Beverage company executives and the Groaner are talking a deal that would bring Bin to CBS next season ... And still the crooning idol will not consider television seriously , . .Robert Q. Lewii, now doing personal appearances in night spots, kids Arthur Godfrey (for whom he's often pinch-hit) as "any typical ordinary American guy who makes over three mii'inn a year." George M. Cohan's plays and music are the subject of negotiations negotia-tions with representatives of the Cohan estate ... If the deal jells, look for the works of the "Yankee Doodle Dandy" on TV . . . This alone will be worth the price of a TV set . . . Sophie Tucker, so deeply deep-ly touched by audience cheers when she guested on tha Ed Sullivan show that she could hardly speak, had a similar experience in London , . . She was unable to complete a curtain speech at the Palladium after a tumultous ovation . . .. Eddie Cantor's life story goes before be-fore the movie cameras In June. PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: Twe record albums well worth having In your permanent perma-nent library of Immortal pop muale are Clyde McCoy's "Sugar Blues," In which the great man with the ' inimitable horn plays such blues favorites as "St. Louis Blues," i'Wagasb Blue a," "Memphis Blues," "Blues In the Night," "Basin Street Blues" and the title song, "Sugar Blues," a long-time favorite . . . The other album we refer to Is Billy May's waxing of sucb oldies as "You're Driving Me Craiy," "When Your Lover Has Gone," and "Please Bo Kind," "Tenderly," "Perfldla" and the beautiful "Diane." COLUMBIA: Jannette Darts' latest disc is "Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now" backed by "Hold . the Phone" ... A beautiful new ballad is introduced with effect by Jimmy Dorsey . . . It's "The Night Is Filled With Echoes" with "Tell Me True" on the flip side . . . Frank Sinatra is still around and does a pretty good Job with "My Girl" and "Walking in the Sunshine." s |