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Show BY LYN CONNELLY THE popularity of U. S. tunes in Germany has caused considerable con-siderable concern among the German Ger-man songwriters . . . The cleffers have quitely petitioned the German government to require the U. S. armed forces radio network to pay royalties to the European performance per-formance rights society or discontinue discon-tinue the broadcasts . . . The tune-smiths tune-smiths feel that in this way the AFRN would then begin playing some German tunes . . . The AFRN has attracted a huge listening lis-tening audience due to the fact that German stations are only allowed to play popular music during dur-ing certain hours. Since only American tunes are played, the German writers feel they are not getting sufficient exposure ex-posure for their home-grown songs . . . They also feel that the consequent upsurge in popularity of American tunes has caused German stations to program more American music, cutting the exposure ex-posure even further . . . And all they needed was Elvis Presley in person yet! The wiggling one landed land-ed over there recently for his stint in the army. Speaking of Germany, for the second time an American recording record-ing has sold more than a mlllon copies there . . . Mitch Miller'i "The Bridge on the River Kwal" was the second disk to hit that mark . . . Harry Belafonte's "Day-O" "Day-O" was the first . . . Interesting; sidelight is that the "Kwal" disk didn't sell near a million in the States. PLATTER CHATTER Cute, pert Molly Bee does a whale of a job on "After You've Gone" backed by "Five Points of a Star" . . . And Dean Martin keeps rolling 'em off in a sensa- 1 tional lucky streak which has produced pro-duced "Return to Me," "Angel Baby" and "Volare" in three straight hits. Now it's "Once Upon a Time" backed by "The Magician" Magi-cian" and this Is another com- ! mercial hit for tne singer. j i |