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JUNE 22, 1963 SIXTY -NINTH YEAR a 50 CENTS A Thrush Meets the Chief Biflbuara The International Music -Record Newsweekly Radio -TV Programming Phono -Tape Merehandlat ;Coin Machine Operating Heavy Problems Beset Industry As Activity Starts in Miami MIAMI BEACH, Fla -The heaviest concentration in several years of disk industry operatives, representing virtually all levels of the business, was expected to converge on this city for a full week of activity beginning next Thursday (20). The next- door -neighbor hotels, the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau, will be the twin focal points of A THRILLED YOUNG LADY, Barbra Streisand, meets President activity as members of the American Record Merchants and Distributors Association (ARMADA) and John F. Kennedy after thrush performed for - the Record One-Stops Associa- President and all tion (ROSA) hold their respec- star Washington audience following White House Correspond- tive annual conventions. ents' dinner. In background is TV's Mery Griffin. As ROSA members register Thifty Correction by for their convention, starting Chain Sunday afternoon (3), a do-or - die meeting of board members Columbia on of the Society of Record Deal- Shifts to Direct 20th Records ers (SORD) will be called to order by President V. H. (Andy) Anderson at the nearby Sans Pricing Story Souci Hotel. Buying Policy In Biggest Day Crucial Moment YORK a to -In letter The conventions will at By LEE oard last week, Bill occur ZHITO Gal - a the in- er, vice crucial time for record -president in charge dustry. The topics of conversa- HOLLYWOOD Monroe As 'Cleo' Opens arketing for Columbia Rec- - pEW tion- discounting, alleged price Goodman's Tip Top last week , stated that Billboard had discrimination, dis- started servicing the 210 -store By JACK MAHER made a functional misstatement of fact in counts, transshipping, and the Thrifty Drug chain, an account a story about Columbia's pricing handled for the past six years NEW YORK -Broadway looked like Hollywood and Vine last policies trend toward consolidation of Wednesday (12) when "Cleopatra" opened at the Rivoli Theater here. that ran on page one the various facets of distribution by Eddie Mason's Record Racks. of the 15 issue. Crowds pressed and pushed police lines (crowd estimates ran front June not new. They will how- The -are move came on the heels to 10,000) and celebrities up the red to the Gallagher said: "Paragraph ever, be with 7,000 pranced carpet discussed a greater of reports from within the theater entrance. Reviews in the seven daily papers were split two of the article appearing on sense of urgency than ever, in Thrifty Drug firm that the chain page one of last week's Bill- light of recent Washington between vehement knocks and de- would seriously consider snip- ecstatic raves. In the meantime, board entitled 'Columbia Seeks velopments, wherein both the ping its rack jobber ties to Bring and 20th Century-Fox Records had Order to Price Chaos' Federal Trade Commission and going to a buy -direct policy. states that an important 'change' the biggest selling day in its the Roosevelt Small Business A Thrifty spokesman told DEPARTMENTS to be made in Columbia's policy Committee subcommittee on dis- history. will be the discontinuance of Billboard: "After all, we have While some trade authorities & FEATURES tribution are known to be tak- 210 stores, we have the traffic, any and all extra discounts on ing a hard look at the various felt that the mixed reviews product to large retail users. and we have the racks. Why do would hurt the flick, others ills of the record business. we need a rack jobber? Records "This is a serious misstatement The "now -or- never" feeling noted that the divergent and Hot 100 Chart...Page 22 are the only items we have han- positive pro and con opinions of fact. Columbia's policy has with regard to these problems dled by an outsider. The drug always been to treat all buyers now widespread within the in- of reviewers would only draw Top LP's Chart... Page 24 chain store said his management more attention and more curi- on an equal basis and to make Continued on page 8 has been studying the ways and osity to a picture that has al- Other Music Pop Charts the same discounts available to means whereby both large it can buy di- ready had its share of national Breakout Singles 26 and small purchasers. rect, and Breakout 12 Not thereby enjoy "a far press. Following the premiere Albums only is this necessary under greater Hnnnr Rnll of Hitc 32 Bob Scobey Dies control of our in- night, a line was in front of the the law but it is the only policy ventory." Hot Country Singles 20 which Rivoli, and some estimates were is consonant with sound MONTREAL Bob Mason told Billboard that the Hot R. &B. Singles 18 - Scobey, that the theater was selling tick- of business judgment. the Dixieland Thrifty account has been, de- H5, the Wnrlrt .. 3? jazz musician, ets now for late fall. DoublePlay Disks 46 "It is true that Columbia died Thursday (13) of stomach spite its volume-approximately views with deep concern the million The day following the pre- cancer. He was 46. His best - $2 per year -a dif- miere, Thursday (t3), 20th Cen- Record Reviews serious problems facing the rec- IP Revniws In known recordings were made for ficult one to handle due to tury-Fox Records racked up the on 8 Singles Reviews 26 Continued Pape the Good Time Jazz label. Continued on page 8 biggest sales day in its history. The record company took orders Music & Record News for more than 102,000 albums, Talent 14 F a fact that puts the sound track Country Music 20 of well Rhythm & Blues 18 "Cleopatra" over the Fnik Music 300,000 mark in combined 16. orders and actual sales. > Departments Some of the biggest chains . International Music News 34 and department stores in the RadioTV Programming 39 city and in the country are get- Phono -Tape Merchandising-41 ting on the "Cleo" band wagon. Coin Machine Operating 44 Bulk Vending 50 Sears Plunges In Norm Weiser, vice -president Buyers & Sellers in charge of operations for the Classified Mart .... label, noted that an important percentage of the 102,000 new orders came from Sears, Roe- props used in buck & Company. He said the the picture r built an entire window art album would be carried in all a "Cleopatra" theme. M of the chain's stores and a good Goody's, and % many of them would carry spe- Schirmer :re also added to the K ette, cial displays pushing the LP. Colony and In addition to the 2,000 de- Doubleday dLLplays. partment and retail record stores In Chicago, Lyon and Healy displaying and selling the LP, was joined by Polk Brothers in window 1.e a number of Manhattan depart- displays. Sears is en- peeled to push the set now that LONDON record personalities gathered to Andrey de Vekey; record producers Denis ment -type operations have in- stalled special window produc- all of its stores are handling th wish farewell to Art Rosett (center foreground) Preston, Don Wedge, Ritz Records' Bunny actions. Stern's, for instance, set. who resigned last month as Billboard's Euro- Lewis; record executive Harry Walters, Marcel placed a display in its 42d Street Lots of Action eon directo . him (left to right) are Rodd of Saga, end Morris Levy of Oriole. window devoted to the movie In Cleveland, Halle Broth ber succ,ssor and LP. The store obtained Continued on pag www.americanradiohistory.com "DETROIT CITY" BOBBY BARE "O LOVE YOU) DON'T YOU FORGET IT" PERRY COMO "ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT" Ùaíì1 i.iúu t "I'M SAVING MY LOVE" SKEETER DAVIS "LONELY BOY, LONELY GUITAR" ED% "ABILENE" GEORGE HAMILTUN Ili "I WISH I WERE A PRINCESS" PEGGY MARCH "GUILTY" UM REEVES. "LET'S GO STEADY AGAIN" NEILSEDAI(A HITS YOU CAN COUNT ON FROM RCA VICTOR www.americanradiohistory.com TUNE 15. 1963 BILLBOARD 3 See Columbia Surveys Key Point in Case By REN GREVATT dent of Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., uments in connection with the that the club membership was, ords had siphoned off the re- a market research and manage- study. Commission counsel Mort in general, in favor of the offer tail demand for those records. NEW YORK -Reports on a ment consultant firm, testified Needelman objected on the of outside label product. In one case a list of eight series of surveys shared the about a study of club members grounds that the opinion of the The Commission objection was records, already tabbed as rec- spotlight with a troupe of Co- undertaken in the fall of last consumer public was irrelevant sustained and the exhibit was ord club feature offers (on lumbia artists and executives year following the filing of the to the central issues of the case. rejected. In stating that the Columbia and other labels) for last week in testimony given at FTC complaint to determine the Says Public Involved questions on the survey were several months starting in April the latest sessions of hearings on attitude of members toward Columbia counsel Jean R. highly hypothetical and specu- of this year, were selected. Federal Trade Commission mo- Columbia's offering of outside Silver then argued that anti- lative in nature, Moore added: On March 25, several weeks nopoly charges against the Co- label product in its club. The trust litigations, by tradition, "I fail to see how such evidence before the first of these were lumbia Record Club. Commission has objected to cer- carry an implication that as a could help in the resolution of to be offered through the club, At least a part of the testi- tain aspects of Columbia's li- result of the alleged monop- any legal issue in this pro- a staff of shoppers, surprised by mony on survey (advanced by censing arrangements with the olistic activities, the interest of ceeding." Donald P.