Ex-Soldier Rockets To FameAs Result Of Song Recording

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down last month to civilian lifein his home town, Vaux Hall, N. J.

He got a job as a drill pressoperator in an electrical plant inthe Newark suburb. He also ap-plied for a civil service job withthe government. Then things start-ed popping.

One day he -ame home fromwork, and his sister excitedly re-ported that someone had tele-phoned him from California. Dickthought it was merely one of theArmy buddies he had known inJapan. But it turned out to beFred Raphael of the Walt Disneymusic corporation. After a fewminutes of conversation, Dick wason his way to fame and fortune.

The 25-year-old Negro was liftedfrom obscurity because of achance happening on the otherside of the continent. A chaplain’sassistant named Dean Taylorstepped off a naval ship with arecord he had picked up in Japan.It was called “Comen-Nasai”(“Forgive Me”). The haunting,.Japanese-shaded tune retells thetragic “Madame Butterfly” themeof-an American serviceman who-asks forgiveness from the Japa-nese girl he is deserting.

Taylor took the record to a LosAngeles disc jockey, Ralph Storey,who introduced it on the radio. Thedisc caused a stir and was re-played many times. It started arush in the music industry to findout who owned the rights to thetune and who recorded it.

Investigators in Tokyo finallycleared up the mystery. The musicwas written by Raymond Hattori,a Japanese composer. The lyricswere the wprk of an ex-soldier,Benedict Mayers, now a professorof political science at RooseveltCollege, Chicago. The voice on therecord was that of Cpl. RichardBowers.

Columbia Records, which madethe disc in Japan, quickly waxedit for this country: Some 6,800platters were sold in the first twodays in Los Angeles. Variety re-ported the record “should cleanup in the U. S. market.”

When Bowers was finally locatedin New Jersey, he was instructedto report to the Disney office in

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New York. Disney’s, which man-ages entertainers among its manyother functions, signed him to acontract.

The handsome singer’s future! life began to shaoe up. He signeda pact with Columbia Records for

I eight sides a year, unusual for anewcomer. Columbia Pictures flewhim to Hollywood to sing “Gomen-Nasai” in a picture called “MissionOver Korea.” When I talked withhim here, he seemed to be takinghis new life in stride.

He is now caught up in a whirlof TV and radio appearances toplug the song.

He said that he had sung beforeonly on an amateur basis. Hespent 19 months in Japan as aclerk-typist in personnel. He re-corded nine sides for Japaneselabels, but aever expected any-thing to come of them.

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JACKSONVILLE (ifl-Repeal ofFlorida’s S4OO a year license feefor each chain store is beingsought by the State Chamber ofCommerce which criticized the taxWednesday as ‘admittedly puni-tive and unfair.”

Such a license fee has “no validexcuse in this age of enlighten-ment,” chamber directors said ina resolution.

The fee was enacted 16 yearsago when independent stores op-posed the chains on grounds theywere being driven out of business.

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