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STAFF BOX GEORGE ALBERT 54 % President and Publisher VOL LIU, NO. APRIL 21, 1990 ROBERT LONG 39, Vice President/Urban Marketing KEITH ALBERT Vice President/General Manager JIM SHARP Director, Nashville Operations CAMILLE COMPASIO Director, Coin Machine Operations JIM WARSINSKE (L.A.) MIKE GORDON (L.A.) Marketing

KEITH GORMAN Editor THE MUSIC TRADE MAGAZINE LEEJESKE New York Editor KAY KNIGHT Nashville Editor Editorial KAREN WOODS, Assoc. Ed. (N.Y.) KIMMY WIX, Assoc. Ed. (Nash.) ERNEST HARDY, Assoc. Ed. (LA) CONTENTS 9 TONYSABOURNIN, Assoc. Ed., Latin (N.Y.) SHELLY WEISS, 6 MANSION OF GLORY: THE HOUSE OF LOVE Assoc. Ed., Publishing (LA.) ROBB MOORE KEEPS THE HOME FIRES BURNING Assoc. Ed. (LA) BERN ETTA GREEN (N.Y.) A visit with Guy Chadwick, the landlord in the House of Love WILMA MELTON (Nash.) Chart Research Robb Moore SCOTT M. SALISBURY 7 SARA HICKMAN WOULD LIKE TO TEACH Coordinator (L.A.) JOHN DECKER (Nash.) THE WORLD TO SING, LOUDLY JEFF (STU) TEMPLE (LA.) C.J. (War Fk>wer)(LA.) 10 Ears of corn, with Sara Hickman TERESA CHANCE (Nash.) 12 JEFF KARP (LA.) Karen Woods

Production 20 NEW VIDEO PROGRAM ALREADY A WINNER JIM GONZALEZ Minutes of pleasure, all on tape Art Director 10 Circulation Kay Knight NINATREGUB, Manager 25 AND THE DOVE GOES TO... CYNTHIA BANTA Publication Offices Flights of fancy, and little golden statuettes NEW YORK Kimmy Wix 157 W. 57th Street (Suite 1402) New York, NY 10019 Phone: (212) 586-2640 ON THE COVER Fax: (212) 582-2571 COLUMNS HOLLYWOOD 6464 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 605) 4 The Buzz / Robb Moore is off to explore a new Frontier; Hollywood, CA 90028 Karen Woods doesn't talk about the Beautiful, because I'm the editor; LAURA BRANIGAN Phone:(213)464-8241 The same old SAW, from Chrissy Iley; Fax:(213)464-3235 Arthur Goldstuck is homeless no more. NASHVILLE AT THE START OF THE EIGHTIES, Laura Branigan 5 Music Publishing / ...I saw a man who wasn't there.. .and it made a splashy debut with her # gold hit, “Gloria," a 1 300 Division St. Ste. 202, wasn't Shelly Weiss. 1 Nashville TN 37203 hit on the dance and pop charts that became something Worldstyle / Lee Jeske follows Lisa Stansfield's advice. Phone: (61 5) 244-2898 of anthem. she often confused with On the Dancefloor / She’s back, and Ernest Hardy still loves Her. an Though was Fax: (615) 259-2913 1 On Jazz She's gone, and Lee Jeske will miss her dearly. another chart queen of that time, Donna Summer, she CHICAGO / Rhythm & Blues / Bob Long puts some rhythm in his CB blues. quickly established herself as a unique and formidable 1442 S. 61 st Ave., Cicero IL 60650 14 Cocinando Tony Saboumin's Eastern sabbatical means it is Phone: (708) 863-7440 / talent. That was in 1982. The following year she time for the Third Keko Jones Awards 1990. BRAZIL solidified her position as one ofpop music's new leading 1 5 Gospel Bob Long dearly needs a vacation, so he takes one. CHRISTOPHER PICKARD / ladies by releasing two smash hits, "Solitaire" and Av. Rio Branco, 123/2012 "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," the latter Rio de Janiero—RJ written by Michael Bolton, who recently scored a hit 20.040—Brazil CHARTS with his version of it. Throughout the eighties she won Phone: (021 ) 2224893/242-3315 Fax: (021) 222-7904 prizes at the highly regarded Tokyo Music Festival, Top 40 Dance Singles ITALY released that continued to stretch her talent, 1 1 Top 40 Traditional Jazz LPs albums MARIO DE LUIGI 12 Top 75 Rhythm & Blues LPs and kept an ear on what was happening in clubs and “Music e Dischi" Via De Amiris 47 13 Top 100 Rhythm & Blues Singles on the streets. 201233 Milan, Italy 14 Top 10 Texas Latin LPs result to Phone: (902) 839-18-37/832-79-37 As a of her open-mindedness new music and 14 Top 10 Chicago Latin LPs JAPAN ideas, as well as a desire to always try something new, 1 5 Top 40 Black Gospel LPs Adv. Mgr., SACHIO SAITO Branigan finds herself entering the nineties with the 1 6 Top 200 LPs Editorial Mgr. KOZO OTSUKA same intensity with which she greeted the eighties. Her 2-chome, 11-1, Shinbashi, 19 Top 100 Pop Singles new single, "Moonlight on Water," is an example of the Minato-ku 21 Top 100 Country Singles Tokyo Japan, 105 22 Top 50 Country LPs seductive, sexy sounds you hear in dance clubs across Phone: 504-1651 24 Top 20 Country Indie Singles the world. With a voice as flexible and rich as hers, she's UNITED KINGDOM 27 Top 40 Contemporary Christian Singles equally at home with a solid top-40 song and a smolder-

CHRISSY I LEY 27 Top 40 Southern Gospel Singles ing ballad. Both are found on the new album, Laura Flat 3, 51 Cleveland Street Branigan, whose highlights include two covers: the London W1P 5PQ England Beat Phone:01-631-1626 Vicki Sue Robinson seventies hit ‘Turn the DEPARTMENTS Around” and Bryan Adams' 'The Best Is Yet to Come.” CASH BOX (ISSN 0008-7289) is pub- The album is a first in that the artist also handled liahed weekly (except Christmas week) 2 Tickertape / The facts, the rumors, the lies, the deceptions, and by Cash Box, 157 W. 57th Street, Suite production and arranging chores for the first time. 1402 New York, NY 10019 for $150 first just what is PE thinking, anyway?... Her best work to date, Laura Branigan, is the album for class. Copyright 1990 by George Albert. 2 Executives on the Move All rights reserved. Copyright under which longtime fans have been waiting, but will also Universal Copyright Convention. 20 Country POSTMASTER: Send address changes 25 Gospel introduce this remarkable talent to a whole new to CASH BOX, 157 W. 57th Street, Suite 28 Coin Machine audience of music fans. O 1402, New York, NY 10019. 31 Classifieds