www.universalcanada.com Sounds,Inc. illmo 01998 MUSIC UNIVERSAL Entertainment Borman/Moir management: 12 may tuesday It" "Push featuringx,' 1351 No. Registration Mail GST) .20 plus ($2.80 $3.00 1998 11, May - 7 No. 67 Volume 10-17 pages 2 -RPM- Monday May 11,1998 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." 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