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/i triean •"# m v? W Banehkind Jjki: CJiirll: Hosis Aijuj'/ersary Sped-j] STAFF BOX GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher KEITH ALBERT CftStt Vice President/General Manager FRED L. GOODMAN Editor In Chief CAMILLE COMPASIO Director, Coin Machine Operations LEEJESKE New York Editor THE MUSIC TRADE MAGAZINE MARKETING LEON BELL Director, Los Angeles MARK WAGNER Director, Nashville KEN PIOTROWSKI (LA) EDITORIAL RANDY CLARK, Assoc. Ed. (LA) INSIDE THE BQX BRYAN DeVANEY, Assoc. Ed. (LA) BERNETTA GREEN (New York) COVER STORY STEVE GIUFFRIDA (Nashville) CORY CHESHIRE, Nashville Editor American BandstandTurns 40! GFEGORY S COOPER-Gospe((Nashvte) American Bandstand, the seminal rock 'n' roll dance show that debuted CHART RESEARCH CHERRY URESTI (LA) in 1952, will celebrate its anniversary with a star-studded television RAYMOND BALLARD (LA) MIA TROY (LA) special this week. Host Dick Clark will be joined by over 200 enter- COREY BELL (LA) JOHN GILLEN (LA) tainers, both Hive” and on tape, for the festivities. A salute to Clark is JOHN COSSIBOOM (Nash) CHRIS BERKEY (Nash) also included. PRODUCTION —see page 8 JIM GONZALEZ Art Director CIRCULATION L.A. Retailers React To Riot Losses NINATREGUB, Manager CYNTHIA BANTA The world will not soon forget the horrendous riots that ripped L.A. PUBLICATION OFFICES apart last week, as many stores were destroyed by looting and arson. NEW YORK 157 W.57th Street (Suite 503) New Record retailers, mostly chains, were unfortunately included in the Yoik, NY 10019 Phone: (212) 586-2640 devastation. M.R. Martinez reports on the damage, and looks to the Fax: (212) 582-2571 HOLLYWOOD V future. 6464 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 605) Hollywood, CA 90028 Phone: —see page 6 (213) 464-8241 Fax: (213) 464-3235 NASHVILLE 50 Music Square West (Suite 502) Nashville, TN 37203-3212 Phone: (615) 329-2898 Fax: (615) 320-5120 CHICAGO 1442 S. 61 a. 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SINGLE DANCE SINGLE Copyright under Universal Copyright Gospel 23 Jump Keep It In The Closet Convention POSTMASTER: Send address Coin Machine 26 changes to CASH BOX, 157 W. 57th Street, Kris Kross Michael Jackson Classifieds 27 Suite 503, New York, NY 10019 (RUFF HOUSE/COLUMBIA) (EPIC) CASH BOX MAY 16, 1992 3 NEWS COOLEYW/GHWAfl/WO/VV'CONTINUESTOSELLINMASSQUANT ITIES: Boyz II Men's album debut, Cooleyhighharmony, continued to Ronnie June ON keep Motown in the multi-platinum chips according to last month's Dashev has been named THE of gold platinum albums. Cooleyhighharmony chalked up RIAAlist and executive vice president MOVE its four millionth sale, which put it just a million or so below Genesis's of Maverick, the recent- 1986 release Invisible Touch. Amy Grant's Heart in Motion and ly formed multi-media Metallica's And Justice All each notched its three millionth sale, while for partnership between Metallica's Ride the Lighning joined Bruce Springsteen's Greetings from Time Warner Inc. and co-CEOs Madonna and Asbury Park, the soundtrack to Oklahoma and Cat Stevens' Greatest Hits Dashev Freddy DeMann. Dashev most recently was in hitting the two million multi-platinum mark. responsible for overseeing management and busi- Ringing up platinum numbers in April: The soundtrack to Wayne's ness affairs for Entertainment. World, Vanessa Williams' The Comfort Zone, Patti LaBelle's Buntin', Mr. DeMann In her new position, she will oversee and coordinate all Big's Lean Into It, Indigo Girls, Salt 'N Pepa's Blacks' Magic, Rush's Chronicles, Sammy Hagai's Standing Hampton, Cat Stevens' Greatest Hits, aspects of Maverick's self-contained companies. Enya's Shepherd Moons, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex At Elektra Entertainment, Annie Roseberry Magik, Nazareth's Hair of the Dog, and a stack of old Capitol soundtracks has been named senior vice president, A&R. Prior and Nat Cole albums. to her tenure at Elektra, Roseberry was at CBS for Roseberry The Wayne's World and Rush also went gold in April, as did DJ Magic eight years. She joined Elektra as A&R manager Mike and MC Madness' Ain't No Doubt About It, Eric Clapton's 24 and was promoted to A&R director in 1985 and Nights, The 2 Live Crew's Sports Weekend, Indigo Girls' Nomads Indians later to VP, A&R. PolyGram has appointed Saints, Digital Underground's Sons of the P, Collin Raye's All I Can Be, Manolo Diaz to the position of president of the Shooting Straight in the Mary Chapin-Carpenter's Dark and Black new Latin American office, to be based in Miami. Sheep's in Sheep's Clothing. A Wolf He comes to the label from Sony Music Entertain- ment, Spain. Steve Corbin has been appointed USE YOUR TELEVISION 111: Guns N' Roses's June 6 concert in Paris vice president, sales and marketing, PolyGram will be telecast over pay-per-view TV. Westwood One will simulcast, Corbin Group Distribution, which has also promoted Soundgarden will open and there will be "unannounced guests." Margaret House-Williams to manager, sales ser- vice. EMI Records Group North America has HONORS SOCIETY: Charles Koppelman, EMI Records chairman w promoted Ken Lane to vice president, promo- I v and CEO, will receive the first Benjamin J. Cardozo Distinguished h 1 tion. Recordings has appointed Ron Achievement Award at a Yeshiva University banquet. May 13 at New J Chaos York's Pierre Hotel. Mikhail Gorbachev, chairman and CEO of noth- Geslin to the post of vice president, promotion. ing, will grab the first Benjamin Cardozo Democracy Award, and He joins the label after eight years at EMI Records. Epic Records has named Charita Brittenum deliver an address on anti-Semitism, at the same affair.... The Lane Songwriters Hall of Fame will induct Billy Joel, Elton John & Bemie to the slot of regional promotions manager, Taupin, Linda Creed and Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman at its May 27 central south region. Savage Records has an- dinner at the Sheraton New York. Paul Simon, Tony Bennett, Ray nounced a slew of appointments: Eloise Bryan is Charles and others will be on hand.... The Berklee College of Music director, production & creative services; Pat bestowed honorary Doctor of Music degrees on Bonnie Raitt and Smith becomes vice president, publicity; Rachel Capitol president Joe Smith at its commencement exercises earlier this Dodd assumes the post of publishing ad- month. ministrator; and Adrian Janssens is the new label's director Cindy Wilson has been Geslin of A&R. POW-WOWS: NAMM's summer session will be held in Atlantic named vice president of international at Liberty City June 20-21; call (800) 767-6266 for details.... The fourth annual Records in Nashville. Wilson was formerly NewSouth Music Showcase will rock Atlanta, Sept. 30-Oct. 4 and, no, director of production and development for the it's not too early to sign up. Potential attendees, and bands who want New York-based VideFilm Producers Interna- to be considered for a showcase, should blow a call to (404) 875-5579. tional. Warner Bros, has announced the restructuring of its publicity department. Under the reorganization. Gene Shelton, national direc- tor of publicity, has relocated from Burbank to the label's New York offices. Ron Carter was named to the post of publicity manager. Prior to this, he was west coast director of publicity for Mercurv I Records. Additionally, both Erma Bryd and , Carol Hawkes were promoted to the post of publicist. Dexter Moore has been promoted to ^ the position of senior director, writer/public rela- Wilson tionsat BMI. He has been with BMI since 1982 and joined the company's writer/ public relations staff Jr ^ in 1986. John Wohlgemuth has been ap- pointed general manager and director of BMG Music Publishing International in London. Mary Ann Collins was named to the position of national director of video for Quality Records, Inc.. She is also responsible for all aspects of music Shelton video production for the label. And at VH-1, Barry Kluger has been named to the new post of Atlantic recording artists Marc Cohn and Tori Amos recently performed senior vice president, media and network rela- at New York City’s LoneStar Roadhouse for a special WNEW-FM Earth vice president, public relations, VH-1, Day live broadcast.