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Coyst-Forbids Sinatra- Reprise Reca ds Sea i Along With Cap Dik: a . _. inst Fi ae Capitol Records won a Superior Court orice Friday against Fr 7 Sinatra Essex F TO iO i judemen handed . i i R ord Co, im al It . i . ducti nS and Reprise .. down by Superior Court Judge Gordon L. Fites which prohibits the efamdants from selling, exploiting . AGantS TOM Bent ——— erchandising the Reprise Fer Nore “Swing Along With Me. iy - Action was filed by Capitol July 14, when both that diskery and . Reprise announced the release o extremely similar albums, both ea turing Sinatra, with arrangemen ' and orchestrations by Billy May. The Cap disk is titled ‘ Come Swing With Me,” while Sinatra’a Re rise ' waxing is titled “Swing Along Wit . .* Judge Files commented, is isf a classic example of unfair tition.” \oRRhsueh thousands of the Nee- (Continued on Page 10) A ~~ “TOontinued from rage i) prise disks are in the hands of dealegs, the order forbids the nign-* ufact re or sale by distribs to dealer in its Present form. .§ Sindgtra is stilt under contract to Capi and, according’ to Alin Livingston, Cap veepee, “niugt. record additional albums for our: label until hig contract expires." Sinatra, however, can record for. other Iabels under the terms of his. contract. Dispute in this instance rested on the fact that Sinatra and his subsidiary companies, Es- sex and Reprise, made ze of knowledge of his’ Ca ito] record- ings to record a similer album... Suit charged Reprise ‘and the other named defendants, with breach of trust and ‘confidence, unfair competition and Wrongly in- terfering with Capitel’s “business: a a Bote: The Cafitol Ip, “Come Swing, Me,” stated ingston, ia: ‘as expected; ‘very well - ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED ; DATE Lk 7—h py M0 HLF | 2% A B/ “Daily Variety | a { JUL 33 1961 Je eo Gage Jcak It?