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The Rankins head west with a hit single The Rankins have sold almost two million The Canadian sound albums in Canada. Their last album, The Rankin The Rankins (formerly The Rankin Family) have Melfort's Northern Lights Place (21), Yorkton Family Collection, held a firm grip on the RPM by Warren Cosford moved out on an extensive tour of BC and the prairie Arena (22), Estevan Arena (23), and Winnipeg's Country Albums chart for a total of 64 weeks (Feb. provinces. The popular Cape Breton family hit the Centennial Concert Hall (25). 16/98). It was 1977. Ron Morey and I were ha` road with their latest EMI single, Moving On, The Friar's Club in New York with 5. already a Top 20 hit (#13 - RPM) and with a new Intersound and Ichiban World Music Awards Ed Cossman dropped by our table to album, Uprooted, now chalking up sales at retail. pact distribution deal Soupy. We were introduced and got int( The Rankins also scored a first with CMT set for CityTV May 28 talk about radio. Ed apparently had bee Canada. The video for Moving On moved on out to Ray Rosenberg, general manager of the Canadian executive at one of the Manhattan sta The 1998 World Music Awards, which were taped the internet on April 28, the first time ever that operation of Intersound Distribution, with offices walked away, Soupy leaned over his a CMT Canada premiered a video on the internet. on May 6 at Monte Carlo's Sporting Club will be in Scarborough, Ontario, has revealed that his voice and said ... "That guy is nu seen on CityTV on May 28 beginning at 9 pm. Featuring a runaway piano in the streets of Halifax, Intersound has been named exclusive Canadian Apparently, Ed Cossman had juE the video has now been added at CMT and distributor for the Ichiban and associated group of Seen worldwide in more than 130 countries, FM radio station licensed to som Musimax. labels. Intersound distributes the label in the U.S. the awards show is presented under the patronage broadcasters in New Jersey for "a mil The tour kicked off at Vancouver's Orpheum Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Ichiban recently of Prince Albert of Monaco. All proceeds from ticket And according to Soupy, he was sales will be donated to the construction of the Theatre on May 6, followed by Victoria's Royal completed a regrouping and restructuring of the spending another million to move the Theatre (7), Courtenay's Comox Valley Sports company and is highly respected in the U.S. where Princess Grace Hospital in Niger. to the Empire State Building. "2 mil Centre (8-9), Calgary's Jubilee (11), Edmonton's it has scored several hits in the urban and rap fields. The awards presentation is emceed by Gloria said Soupy "and for what? If Eddie tl Estefan, who also performed, and Jason Priestley, Jubilee (13), the Banff Centre (15-16), the Swift Initial releases from the May 4 pacting will fight the big broadcast chains in New who emceed this year's Juno Awards. Daisy Fuentes Current Arena (18), Regina's Centre of the Arts include Alexander O'Neal's Lovers Again and We another think comin'. They're gonna n (19), Saskatoon's Saskatchewan Place (20), Keep It Crunk For You by A -Town Players. of America's Funniest Home Videos, co -emceed. Within a year Ed Cossman's The show opens and closes with Mariah Carey on the air. At first they were just ano performing two songs from Butterfly, her newest Colin James adds to swing with new album rocker .. . and it looked like Soupy's fo: album. Also performing were Hanson, LeAnn come true. Then they did the outrage( With more than 200,000 copies of his first Little Williamson and later adapted by Led Zeppelin for Rimes, Sean "Puffy" Combs, All Saints, Mase, the of desperation ... and became #1 almo Big Band album sold, Colin James follows up this their debut album. Backstreet Boys, Savage Garden, No Doubt, Aqua, WKTU was the New York radio st 1993 release with Colin James & The Little Big The first single, Let's Shout (Baby Work Out), Andrea Bocelli and Luis Miguel. era, that understood that New York r Band II, which will be in stores on June 16. is a cover of Jackie Wilson's 1963 hit. Wilson was The presenters for the evening included Prince James was one of the trendsetters of this new in Toronto, over the May 1-3 weekend to shoot the sound like New York City. Although ma Albert, Damon and Keenen Ivory Wayans and `KTU as "the first disco station," C( generation of swing makers to capture an audience, video for the new single. Steven Seagal. which opened the floodgates. Martini and swing told me that he never thought of it in nights were all the rage across the U.S. and are all. "We were playing music on the n now gaining popularity in Canada. SOCAN a major supporterof content rules for radio until then was only being heard in t Along with two James' originals, Rocket To It goes without question that SOCAN (The Society 35 per cent level (55 per cent for French -language) The Moon and Triple Shot, which reveal James' of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of will have to be maintained throughout the day. Ontario government almost rabid love for the music genre, he has Canada) would be enthusiastic over the announced It was pointed out that SOCAN's support for covered several swing blues classics. Included are changes by the CRTC in the Canadian content rules the increase is based on several important reasons: CIRPA (The Canadian Independc Ray Charles' Mary Anne, Cab Calloway's C'mon for radio. "They provide Canadians a choice that they would Production Association) was obviously With The C'mon, and Willie Dixon's Bring It On SOCAN, along with Brian Chater, president otherwise not have -- the opportunity to hear the the proposed tax credit to Ontario -b Home, originally recorded by Sonny Boy of the Canadian Independent Record Production musical and lyrical expressions of Canadian companies revealed in the Ontario B Association (CIRPA) have been major players in creators, their fellow citizens. Also, Canadian was announced May 5. Steve Blair to Warner presenting their views to the CRTC with regard to creators have an opportunity to expose their music Under the heading of Ontario Soun as Director of A&R this and other hoped for changes. in Canada. And just as importantly, domestic Tax Credit, it was revealed that the go "This long overdue improvement will not only exposure that results from Canadian content rules Ontario "will introduce legislation to pi Warner Music Canada's senior vice-president and help recording artists get more much -needed promotes success in the Canadian marketplace 20 per cent refundable tax credit to sn managing director domestic and international airplay, but it will help our members -- the people which in turn serves as a springboard for based sound recording companies fo division Dave Tollington, has announced the who create and write the songs," said SOCAN board international success." expenditures related to sound rec appointment of Steve Blair to the position of director member Francois Cousineau. "Getting radio SOCAN president Bill Henderson adds, emerging Canadian artists." The cred of A&R. His appointment is effective June 1. exposure has always been a struggle, but it looks "Speaking as a songwriter; I know there's a huge effective for expenditures after Jan. 1, Blair joins Warner from the Vancouver -based like that struggle has just been made a bit easier." pool of great Canadian music that's just waiting To claim the tax credit, a ce S.L. Feldman & Associates, an association of eight The changes which were announced by the for airplay. So it's hard to take the station owners years where he held the position of director of CRTC on April 30, call for Canadian content to be seriously when they say they'll have trouble finding touring. increased to 35 per cent, up from 30 per cent. That music to meet the new requirements." NO.1 ALBUM NO. 1 HIT

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Hanson - Middle Of Nowhere Spice Girls - Spice World Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang Mercury 314 534 615 CD Track( -O Virgin 42174 (CD Track( -F lnterscope 90142 (promo CD) -J This year, Howson celebrates 1( 18 14 11 TURN BACK TIME Ka 62 4 LIKE I LOVE YOU 85 N RAY OF LIGHT SkyDome, joining in 1988 as controlle Aqua - Aquarium Amy Grant - Behind The Eyes Madonna - Ray Of Light treasurer in 1990 and then to vice -I Universal 6075 (promo CON A&M 314 540 760 (comp 0302981-Q Maverick 46847 (promo CD( -F finance in 1996. 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years of this century, it was that DrabinskySiren of ancient Greece was a mythical wisdom that gave birth to Ragtime as a temptress who used the power of her voice to musical, first for Canadian audiences and determine the fate of men." Appropriatelytitled, where now it's the toast of Broadway at thewhat? Compilation produced by Timothy new Ford Centre. It's all here in all its audio Jones. A product of BMG Special Products. splendour with the exacting and powerful stageThe CD is available at Starbucks retail performances that made the musical such a locations for $14.95 or by calling 1-800- Canada's only national we giant hit. Includes the complete opening STARBUC. Contains some Cancon product number as well as such previously unrecorded although MAPL logos not used. -WG songs as Success, Nothing Like The City and TW LW WO MAY 11, 1998 Sarah Brown Eyes, almost twice as much WOO O.S.T. -R&B

music as the Grammy -nominated Songs from Various Artists 1 2 7 DEJA-VU Ragtime: The Musical. Also includes a Epic/Sony Soundtrax 69364-H Lord Tariq w/ Peter Gunz beautifully illustrated 44 -page bookletfeaturing The great movie always needs the great qacgoito Codine-H the complete libretto and photos from the soundtrack to go with it, especially if it clambers 2 1 6 TMheOLoNxEY, POWER, onto the cinematic, comedic, quasi -romantic vibrant in our minds. The group's third outing Broadway production. Available exclusively at Bad Boy -N territory of a film like Woo. It's not a period reinstates them easily as one of America's Pantages Theatre in Toronto and the Ford 3 3 12 NO NO NO (PART Centres for the Performing Arts in Toronto and piece, it's a format piece, evidenced mostpremiere pop rock combos, thanks to a Destiny's Child Vancouver and on the Livent Internet Order growing talent and a sense to go for the simple Columbia -H Line 1-888-240-8507. -WG ESIC FROM THE - in rock and roll. Recorded at Criteria Studios 4 6 4 GONE 'TILL NOVEL in late 1997, Candy From A Stranger brings Wyclef Jean Ruff House -H JOHN HAMMOND - Country Blues together the songwriting acumen of Pirner with the production expertise of Chris Kimsey 4 8 BOUT YOUR LOVE Long As I Have You Glen Lewis Pointblank -7243-8-45514-F (Rolling Stones, Gipsy Kings, Peter Tosh) Illvibe Records It's tempting to write that veteran John through the backbeat soul of the band of 6 7 9 24/7 Hammond is at his best here but that wouldn't course. The album showcases eleven songs 24/7 be accurate. For Hammond there is no best; in a four piece rock and roll format that hardly Loud/FICA-N holds major surprises but works a latent magic 7 5 12 WHAT YOU WAN1 only a uniform excellence against which all Mase/w Total other blues singers must be compared. On this that is geared smack dab at the heart of Bad Boy -N commercial and modern rock radio. Sony are NOW! 3 - Pop/AC album he sings 15 tracks of compositions by 8 10 4 VP uIffCcTa0d Y Various Artists such greats as Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie remembering the numbers with some strong Daddy promotional muscle and already Pirner has Bad Boy -N UMSSD 81072-J Dixon, Walter Jacobs and Blind Boy Fuller. He benefitted from an acoustic showcase and 9 8 12 4,3,2,1 There's not much to say about this timely sings them all with the uncluttered honestyfor obviously by the track listing run down on the some media appearances. Once the show is LL Cool J Clef Jam -N Universal release boasting 17 high -geared album. Just thinking of Jada Pinkett strutting on, the till will be banging out a tune that tracks that will inevitably drive the compilation 10 13 10 ROYALTY her stuff as an ice queen driven on all sides sounds like thi$. -RG phenomenon to new heights. The Big Shiny Gangstarr by misplaced affection leads us to single out Noo Trybe-F Tunes, Hit Zone, and Now series' have already Mc Lyte, Lost Boyz and Allure from the mix as 11 14 7 IF YOU THINK I'M made their marks respectively at retail and with VARIETY CLUB easy contenders for the film's target market. The Lox tunes like Tubthumping, 3am, Sex And Candy, But there's a lot more, including Charli salutes the Bad Boy -N Foolish Games, I Do, It's The End Of The World Baltimore, Jane Blaze, Simone Hines and al15 3 ANYTIME As We Know It, Barbie Girl and All My Life -- BIG COUNTRY Brian McKnight pairings of The Lox with DMX and Mase, Too A&M-Q Now! 3 is guaranteed to be prominent in the $hort and Slink Capone, Eightball and stores well into the third-quarter and could very AWARDS 13 11 11 NICE Et SLOW Psychorama, Adina Howard and Jamie Foxx Usher well show some significant numbers right that will make this a hit with filmgoing Friday - June 26 LaFace-N through the Christmas peak buying season. audiences. Then there's Pinkett herself, who Royal York Hotel 14 12 12 DJ KEEP PLAYIN' The target demographic for this particular is quickly rising alongside her husband to Yvette Michelle release covers a wide spectrum including Top Loud -N become a serious star and identify with viewing Toronto 15 9 5 SAY 'AH 40 fanatics, A/C subscribers and what would audiences. We've heard she's the key to the a compilation be without a Spice Girls' track, Master P which he has been recognized for the past 35 film's success; that just might be what makes EMI -F Spice Up Your Life, to ensure the interest of years. It would be superfluous to write more. this here a top seller over the next few weeks. 16 22 2 24 HRS TO LIVE the 9-25 buyers. Radio won't play too big a Simply enjoy. Produced by Hammond with Contains the obligatory offensive material.-RG Mase role with the sell -through of this endeavour as production assistance by Marla Hammond. -BW Arista -N 17 16 11 MY MELODY the majority of the cuts are still thriving on the SOUL ASYLUM -Pop charts from their own respective offerings. Queen Pen SIREN II A COLLECTION - Jazz'n PopCandy From A Stranger Interscope-J However, with a marketing giant like Universal OF TRUE VOICES Columbia 67618-H 18 25 11 PHONE TAP behind it, the absence of single releases will Various Artists It's been a long while since we saw Dave Pirner The firm not affect any sales figures. The NOW! series BMG/Starbucks-12047-N and his gang grace the music charts, though Sony -H have all been big -sellers but NOW! 3 from this Another example of WOMEN POWER, the jazz the memory of the smash hit Misery is still 19 17 11 EBbeE CLUBBIN' writer's perspective has more drawing power and blues influence here is fairly obvious with WIce Cube AplEtayMa-Q thanthe first 2 puttogether. Sarah Vaughan's Broken Hearted Melody, Ella 20 19 11 DON'T STOP THE I - SL Fitzgerald's I've Got A Crush On You, Billie Holiday's A Fine Romance, I'll Be Seeing You ALBUM PICK Def Jam -0. VARIOUS ARTISTS - Ragtime by Etta James, and Canadians, Juno winner 21 18 11 TOO CLOSE Original Broadway Cast Recording Diana Kral! with Lost Mind and Holly Cole's Next RCA Victor/BMG Classics/Livent-09026- I've Just Seen A Face. Stretch it a little and Arista -N DAVE MATTHEWS BAND -Rock 22 20 11 10 CRACK COMM 63167-N jazz and blues and rock and folk and country Before These Crowded Streets Notorious B I.G This release couldn't be more timely with the RCA 67660-N Bad Boy -N upcoming Tony Awards (June 7) for which The review comes to you a little late (our apologies), though by now much of the early 23 NEW A ROSE IS STILL A Ragtime has been nominated in 13 categories, anticipations for Dave Matthews' newest have been met head on. The album is called AretharistNaFrankiln being held June 7 at New York's Radio City Before These Crowded Streets and in case you forgot, it is the official follow up to 1996's Music Hall. Another example of the creative 24 21 12 GETTIN JIGGY WI' monumental Crash, which instilled the band as a million selling entity on the rock pop Will Smith genius of Garth Drabinsky who takes landscape and defined them as "unpeggable and totally addictive" (Details). As expected, Sony -H executive producer credits with producer Jay that act is a tough one to follow, but 25 23 10 SPANISH HARLEN David Saks. There are 37 tracks included here Matthews and co. have demonstrated the Coca Brovaz on two CDs, with a special bonus track of The ability to do it before and repeat Priority 26 12 Ragtime Symphonic Suite conducted by John performances are sweet indeed. The 27 RAPPERS DELIGH- Mauceri. A musical version of E.L. Doctorow's DAVE MAlTrIEWS BAND Def Squad newest effortfinds them taking the bull by Priority novel celebrating the United States in the early the horns with an audacious selection of 27 24 12 GUESS WHO'S BA funky, colourful, instrumentally dramatic Rakim selection of songs that will pile drive a hole Universal -J ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING 28 NEW through commercial radio. Don't Drink The HARD TO HANDLE fans will catch the sheer entertainment value Water is the lead off track (featuring a IDnateridscMopil-leJr of Nina Simone's I Want A Little Sugar In My subdued but present Alanis Morissette on 29 26 9 RAIN Bowl, Baby, Now That I've Found You by Alison background vocals), though clearly the S.W.V Kraus, Sara McLachlan's Fear, Shawn Colvin's label is biding its time on Rapunzel and RCA/Loud-N Caramel, Loreena McKennitt's Tango To Evora, Crush which weave a warm charm of 30 29 12 YOU KNOW MY S1 Beth Orton's She Cries Your Name, Gillian Gangstarr saxophone and violin -wrapped melody - EMI -F Welch's Pass You By, and Last Forever's Hide imbued pop songs. Strong excitement at radio (Don't Drink The Water is fastest mover And Seek and you don't need any definitive on RPM's Top 100 this week) and a buzz at retail will generate a lot of publicity as the parameters. It's pure and incredibly enjoyable band makes its way across the country. 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the Liquor Board's guide to jazz, sti F.ft, biggest responses at the retail level. Not surprisingly, radio is being big obstacle and, as with other smaller complaint rages that there is a gross ii representation on the bandwidth. R; change a lot of things for the artist, simply because there is no other place "CBC is probably the best venue duMaurier Downtoi Jazz and Blues: the legends,and the struggles, continue course it's a very effective way to m record." by Bill Watt Like all businesses, the music industry is propelled The label has taken the active role by being one of The other way to do it is to become a s i The Toronto duMaurier Downtown Jaz by pure cash economics; the much talked about the sponsors for the Montreal Jazz festival this year, yourself, a strategy which eludes the great majority getting bigger and, against all expe bottom line is, after all, what every one must look not only to stimulate market interest but to prolong of musicians in the format simply because, once unbridled exponentialism, even better. at the end of the day. But unlike many other the presence at retail of the label's priority releases, again, the high commercial platform is elusive. But 12th annual jazz fest, running from Jun businesses, the music industry is also propelled by artists such as Oliver Jones, Jeri Brown, Ranee Lee, that hasn't prevented the market from achieving 28, will present more than 2,000 ir. aesthetic considerations, probably the one antithesis D. D. Jackson, David Murray, World Saxophone its breakthroughs; in Canada with the success of 42.2..it,i artists performing in more than 40 locat to the bottom line, taking into account the kind of Quartet and, of course, Diana Krall. artists such as Jane Bunnett and especially Diana is still, and always will be, referred to as subjectivity that goes into making artistic decisions Obviously, retailers aggressive with the format Krall, the latter a Juno Award winning Vancouver Toronto ... megacity notwithstanding. and appraising art generally. Nevertheless, the lines are gearing up for festival season as well. Tyler itt?'" pianist and singer who is rapidly becoming the face P.; concerts are free. can be pretty clear when it comes to commercial Mokren, who supervises the jazz department at the of jazz in this country. Tellingly, the biggest selling The musical offerings range prisms t:4 music; stuff like dance, pop and even some modern HMV superstore in Toronto, says the store will not record on Justin Time's roster is currently one of trad to mod with affectionate pecks at a rock, but when you get into historically weighted only be initiating window displays but will also r- Krall's first albums, produced by West and since underdog formats like jazz and blues, well, the story continue to have a heavy presence at the street level. licensed to Universal in Canada. Krall's latest, Love Canadian hit maker revisits c can become a nightmare of conflicting ideas. In Toronto, HMV oversees the Jazz Cafe, a series Scenes, is dominating retail charts as the festival Two musically divergent formats, jazz and of popular afternoon concerts scheduled during the season winds up, undoubtedly making her a chief Colin James still doii blues share a lot in common as regards their place festival. draw at this year's event. within the hierarchy of the music making machine. "I think during jazz festivals you get a lot more "She had everything in place," explains West While the music industry continues t -$3 people who probably don't buy as much jazz over They both, for example, share a vibrant, yet of Krall's commercial triumph. "She has a complete the doctrine that jazz and blues are commercially nebulous history. Ironically, both the year," says Mokren. "There is a seasonal package that works, plus she had the muscle and economically soft formats, the appeal of formats are economically buoyed by the fertile increase in the category of people who aren't the might of a major corporation behind her giving of music among the professional musical legacy of their pasts, something which goes far to traditional jazz buyers in the summer, but it still her that push in the US market, and that's half the can hardly be understated. Natic explaining why many contemporary releases are attracts a lot of core jazz fans, and there are still battle there. She has been fortunate, but she's internationally, jazz and blues cont either implicitly or explicitly retrospective. Jazz and people coming in asking for releases way before definitely got her points." explored and exploited by musicians of blues are also unlike pop in that they are appraised they come out. The festivals bring in a mix of two The advent of the Canadian jazz musician, commercial calibre, who share a need kinds of audiences, people who really know their once a bane to the country, has in fact become its back to the relentless appeal of jazz or "There is a seasonal increase in jazz and casual listeners, and that's what makes it saving grace. It has done wonders in cultivating the sensibility of blues. so great for us." the category of people who aren't format's accessibility for example, something which The tendency has naturally devl Canadian Star -gazing was in dire need several years ago. Serge modern offshoots for the formats wl traditional jazz buyers in the summer, clearly retrospective, nevertheless man but it still attracts a lot of core jazz It's the casual listener, however, who is making the Sloimovits, president of Dark Light Music Ltd., who festival season a commercial success in Canada. has been promotingallcalibre of jazz artists in this a modern vibrancy in the arrangemer fans, and there are still people The main of these audiences,bred on pop country for the past 14 years, says that the country's talent and personality of contempor z coming in asking for releases way conventions, have also made jazz like mainstream gradual openness to its own talent has been key to Canada's Colin James is such an art complemented a career in modern hit c before they come out." music in one important respect; through the demand the format's greater acceptance. 41 for star power. Ironically, it's a tendency that also "I remember when I started working jazz in with side projects in "little" big band jaz Tyler Mokren carries over with blues audiences, though is a this country back in 1985," he says, "I had one artist music that removes him from the ch HMV superstore in Toronto slightly different fashion. and it was very hard in the beginning to promote status of hits like Just Came Back. "A lot of times it helps having a name on the her, a lot of places didn't want her because she was "When I was 16 and 17 I played by fans over the long term, not through chart topping record unlike in pop music where it doesn't matter local and they were expecting artists who came from lot," explains the thirty-three year old singles and videos that have a tendency to burst that much," notes Justin Time president Jim West. New York or places like that. But now, we have an had a lot to do with me first getting notic ig for a few weeks at a time. For these reasons "In jazz you have the Oliver Jones Trio featuring established base of Canadian artists, Diana Krall, this was a form of music that was reallyt primarily, the economic vocabulary of jazz and blues with America's early acceptance of roc 4414; Stan Getz or Chet Baker or something like that. If Jane Bunnett. I think more people like jazz now is significantly different than that of commercial you mention a name that's very well known, of and there are more clubs and more participating James' attraction to the music ste pop, something which at the best of times can pose clubs. The other part too is that we have a lot of the small horn section bands who we a problem for an industry driven by high very good musicians in Canada. I think the Canadian with the rise of Elvis Presley and roc performance commercial art. "I remember when I started working community of musicians got really good and began These music makers left a legacy of Even so, both formats continue to exist and jazz in this country back in 1985, I opening themselves up to play with US musicians remained virtually untouched by other enjoy greater and lesser degrees of success from had one artist and it was very hard in and European musicians so now people are looking "There was this whole amazing leg year to year. The annual slew of jazz festivals in was kind of unknown," he says, "and I al the beginning to promote her, a lot of at what's happening here." fix Canada and worldwide have certainly done a lot to it fascinating." boost sales outside of the Christmas rush schedule places didn't want her because she Radio Blues James' fascination with the music and for all intents and purposes, the three month was local and they were expecting Though the role of radio is increasingly becoming release a Little Big Band album severa stretch between June and August is the Yule Tide artists who came from New York or more important, jazz and blues are still largely strictly devoted to casting some lig' airwave shy formats, with campus, jazz -only, blues - season of jazz retail. Participants, of course, are places like that." obscure classics. The album, simply stepping up to bat on it, labels like Justin Time only or format oriented shows keeping the James and the Little Big Band, went Records, who have been supplying this country with Serge Sloimovits promotional mill running. The limited radio access 180,000 units in the country, a big surpt president of Dark Light Music Ltd. jazz, blues and gospel releases for fifteen years. has occasioned an increased role for print media, James and label, who had tried to dissua

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El 2 9 TWO PINA COLADAS EU 52 5 I DO (CHERISH YOU) 68 53 15 TO BE WITH YOU Garth Brooks/Sevens/pro single -F Mark Willsrnish You Were Here/pro single -Q The Mavericks/Trampoline/pro single -J (S.Camp/B.HilVS.Mason) A.Reynolds (Capitol) (K.StegalVD.Hill) C.Chamberlain (Mercury) (R.Malo/J.Bouke) R.Malo/D.Cook (MCA) Montgomery Steelehas been rec 2 3 11 OUT OF MY BONES 36 43 6 MATCHES 69 72 5 I'M NOT THAT EASY TO FORGET encouragement from country progri Randy Travis/You And You Alone/comp 2-J Sammy Kershaw/Labour Of Love/CD track -CI Lorrie Morgan/Shakin' Things Up/pro single -N (BurrNaughn/Lemer) Stroud/Gallimore/Fravis(Dreamworks) (R.Springer/S.Ewing) K.Stegall (Mercury) (C.Waters/G.Teren/S.Bentley) J.Stroud/L.Morgan (BNA) latest is the Northern Native Bro; 13 DREAM WALKING 37 25 20 IF I NEVER STOP LOVING YOU 70 55 26 YOUR LOVE Terrace, BC which has 55 station: E ll 5 Lif.1 Toby Keith/Title track/comp 532-0 David Kersh/Goodnight Sweetheard/pro single -F Jim Brickman w/Michelle Wright/The Gift/comp 25-N (T. Keith/C. Cannon) J.Stroud/T.Keith (Mercury) (D.Kees/S.Ewing) P.McMakin (Curb) (Brickman/Hosier/DeViller) J.Brickman (Windham Hill)) director Bill Wesley says all 55 of till 4 11 13 I'M FROM THE COUNTRY 38 39 8 SOME TRAINS NEVER COME 71 59 18 COME SOME RAINY DAY airing Steele's single The River Son. Tracy Byrd/Self-titled/pro single -J 12 Gauge/Until You Walk The Tracks/CD track if A Wynonna/The Other Side/comp B -J (M.Brown/R.Young/S.Webb) T.Brown (MCA) (G.BarnhilIN.Melamed) T.Rudner (12 Gauge) P (B.McGrath/B.Kirsch) B.Maher (Curb) also picked up plays at CKXX in

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Th Steve Wariner/Self-titled/pro single -F Lila McCann/Self-titled/comp 252-P Suzy Bogguss/Nobody Loves Nobody.../pro single -F moves up to #84 this week. (S.Wariner/B.Kirsch) S.Wariner (Capitol) (C.R.Walkeri J.Kimball (Elelctra) (S.Bogguss/D.Crider/M.Berg) D.Crider/S.Bogguss (Capitol) 8 9 14 TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE 42 44 8 THAT'S WHY I'M'HERE IRE 92 2 ALWAYS WILL Cape Breton's Scott Phillipsis off Michael Peterson/Self-titled/CD track -P Kenny Chesney/I Will Stand/pro single -N VVynonna/The Other Side/pro single -J (M.Peterson/G.Pistilli)R.E.Orrall/J.Lee (Reprise) (S.Smith/M.A.Springer) B.Cannon/N.Wilson (BNA) (H.Stinson/J.Hadley) B.Maher (Curb) Pat Rogers, the senior vice -preside 9 18 7 LOVE WORKING ON YOU 43 33 19 LITTLE RED RODEO 76 63 7 LOVE IS ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS publisher relations for SESAC 1\t John Michael Montgomery/Greatest Hits/CD Track -P Collin Raye/The Best Of/pro single -H Kevin Sharp/Love Is/comp 353-P (C.Wiseman/J.Collins) C.Petocz (Atlantic) (Black.Vassar/Bourke) Raye/Worley/Walker Jr. (Epic) (A.Roboff/A.Roman) G.Farren (Elektra) second oldest and third largest perfor 10 13 12 SHE'S GOT THAT LOOK IN HER EYES 44 26 18 NOTHIN' BUT THE TAILLIGHTS 90 3 DRIVIN' MY LIFE AWAY organization in the US, was at this y Alabama/Dancin' On The Boulevard/pro single -N Clint Black/Title track/comp 53-N Rhett Akins/Black Dog OST/pro single -J (R.Owen/T.Gentry) D.Cook/Alabama (RCA) (C.Black/S.Wariner) J.Stroud/C.Black (RCA) (E.Rabbitt/D.Malley/E.Stevens) F.Liddell/G.Droman (Decca) and caught the young Main -A -Dieu 11 6 12 THIS KISS 45 31 18 JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME FAMOUS FIRST WORDS showcase. She was so impressed NN Faith HilVFaith/pro single -P The Kinleys/Title track/CD track Gil Grand/Title track/pro single -H (Lerner/Roboff/Chapman) Gallimore/Hill(Warner Bros) (H&J.Kinley/R&D.Zavitson) Zavitson/Maselden/Greene (Epic) (B.HilVJ.B.Rudd) B.Hill (Monument) ME 15 B I'M GONE 46 35 17 IF I COULD JUST GET TO YOU CRIED ALL THE WAY HOME George Fox/Suivivor/comp350-P Duane Steele/This Is The Ufe/comp 532-0 Jamie Warren/Upcoming/pro single P aD (M.Green/R.Orozco) K.Tribble (WEA) (D.SteeleaRobbin) S.Bogard/M.D.Clute (Mercury) (J.Warren/N.Sheridan) R.Hutt (TooHip/Spin) 8 47 58 4 WHAT MY HEART ALREADY KNO' 80 77 32 LOVE GETS ME EVERY TIME E l 17 MOVING ON MIA The Rankin's/Untitled/pro single -F Julian Austin/Title Track/pro single -N Shania Twain/Come On Over/pro single -0 (J.Rankin) G.Massenburg (EMI) L (J.Austin/S.Robichaud) D.LeBlanc (Vik/BMG) (S.Twain/R.J.Lange) R.J.Lange (Mercury) 14 16 8 ONE LAST STEP MA 48 76 3 IF YOU SEE HIM/IF YOU SEE HER 81 66 16 PHYLLIS ft DON Shirley Myers/Let It Rain/comp 350-P L Reba w/Brooks & Dunn/Title track/pro single -J Stephanie Thomson/Almost Blue/CD track aormuLaw aloocia smaanoe (Myers/Nicholson/Barnes) Myers (Stony Plain) (James/Kimball/McBride) Brown/DuBois (MCA) (L.A.Reid/J.McLaughlin) T.McKillip (TIS) 15 8 14 A LITTLE BIT OF YOU MIA 49 51 13 ALREADY RESTLESS 82 83 5 WHEN THE NIGHT TIME COMES CASEY CLARKE Jason McCoy/Playing For Keeps/pro single -J KC Jones/Hearts Were Bound/CD track PD Ray Bonneville/Solid Ground/pro single (C.WisemanaMcCoy/S.Burgess)S.Baggett(Universal) (J.Daddario/G.Barnhill) Prescott/Wheeler (Pairadice) (R.Bonneville) R.Haworth/R.Bonneville (Audiogram) 16 4 18 THEN WHAT 50 64 4 THE SHOES YOU'RE WEARING 83 87 7 A WOMAN'S TEARS VIDEO Et INSTANT TOP TV Clay Walker/Rumor Has It/comp 340-P Clint Black/Nothin' But..JCD track -N Matt King/Five O'Clock Hero/comp 351-P (R.Sharp/J.Vezner) J.Stroud/C.Walker (Giant) (C.Black/H.Nicholas) C.Black/J.Stroud (RCA) (M.King/J.Hargrove/M.Christian) G.Morris (Atlantic) 1. This Kiss - Faith Hill nu 22 6 YEAH ill 51 37 13 VALENTINE 84 88 3 THE RIVER SONG Paul Brandt/Outside The Frame/comp 353-P Martina McBride/w Jim Brickman/Evolution/comp 53-I Montgomery Steele/First Time Out/CD track 2.I Can Love - Dixie Chicks (P.Brandt/S.Rosen) J.Leo (Reprise) (Jim Brickman/J.Kugell) D.Shea (RCA) (M.Steele) G.Dere/M.Steele (MSI( 18 21 7 COMMITMENT 62 10 I SAW THE LIGHT 85 95 2 WILDEST DREAMS 3. Now I Found You - Terri Clai LeAnn Rimes/Sittin On Top Of The World/pro single -F Hal Ketchum/No Album/pro single -F Hawg Wyldeffitle Track/CD track (T.Colton/T.Marty/B.Wood) W.C.Rimes (Curb) (T.Rundgren) C.Howard (Curb) (D.Hopewood/N.Clemis) H.Klopak (HWR) 4. You'll Never Know - Mindy I\ 19 19 13 TO HAVE YOU BACK AGAIN NM 84 4 WHEN THE WRONG ONE LOVES YOU... 86 68 18 ROUND ABOUT WAY Patty Loveless/Long Stretch../comp 349-H Wade Hayes/Title track/CD Track -H George Strait/Carrying Your Love/comp 8-J 5. Bones - Randy Travis (A.Robott/S.Roman)E.Gordy Jr. (Epic) (L.Satcher) D.Cook (Columbia) (S.Dean/W.Nance) T.Brown/G.Strait (MCA) 20 27 8 I READ LIPS 54 78 4 THERE'S YOUR TROUBLE 81 NEW WHOEVER SAID THAT dip 6. Heart - Sherrie Austin Thomas Wade/Wayward/Self-titled/CD track Dixie Chicks/I Can Love You..Jpro single -H Stephanie Beaumont/Upcoming/pro single (T.Wade/C.Rawson) J.May/T.Wade (Peg) (T.Sillers/M.Selby) P.Worley/B.Chancey (Monument) (J.Steele/C.Farren/C.Jones) J.Steele/T.Harding 7. Saddle - Matraca Berg 21 10 15 LONELY WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE 55 40 12 PUT YOUR HEART INTO IT 88 93 2 I CAN STILL FEEL YOU 8. Still The One - Shania Twair Trace Adkins/Big Time/pro single -F Sherrie Austin/Words/comp 53-N Collin Raye/Self-titled/pro single -H (M.Danna/J.A.Sweet) S.Hendricks (Capitol) (S.Austin/W.Rambeaux) E.Seay/W.Rambeaux (Arista) (K.Tribble/T.Hyler) Raye/Worley/Walker (Epic) 9. Too Good - Michael Petersc 22 12 16 YOU'LL NEVER KNOW 56 60 7 HOW COULD I BE OVER YOU 89 97 2 OVER MY SHOULDER Mindy McCready/Self-titled/CD track -N Curbs Grambo/You OughtTo Know Love/CD Track John Berry/Self-titled/pro single -F 10. Then What - Clay Walker (K.Richey/Angelo) D.Malloy (BNA) (C.Grambo/D.Singleton) B.Randall (TAC) (M.Hummon/R.Murrah) C.Howard (Capitol) El 30 5 NOW THAT I FOUND YOU 57 42 17 I CAN LOVE YOU BETTER 90 94 2 HAPPY GIRL 11. Almost Over - Lila McCani Terri Clark/How I FeeVpro single -O. Dixie Chicks/Title track/comp 34B -H Martina McBride/Evolution/pro single -H (J.D Martin/P.BegaudN.Corish) K.Stegall (Mercury) (Kostas/P.B.Hayes) P.Worley/B.Chancey (Monument (A.Roboff/B.N.Chapman) M.McBride/P.Worley (RCA) 12. Framed - Chris Knight 24 23 14 SAY WHEN 58 56 22 DON'T BE STUPID (You Know ... 91' 81 22 WALK THIS ROAD Li Lonestar/Crazy Nights/CD track -N Shania Twain/Come On Over/CD track -Q Bruce Guthro/Of Your Son/pro single -F 13. 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