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D) V October 29, 1977 $1.75 ART AND RECORDINGS DEPqRTM,EN I Greg Errico -anya Tucker Jimmy Witherspoon Ronnie Laws LOS . Linda Creed Jerry Goldstein/Steve Gold Jinmy Ford Ike White EBBONE Aalon Redbone Eloise Laws 71J:4 132,111 121 ìJ]if www.americanradiohistory.com Dave Loggins has arrived. "Please Come To Boston" introduced America to a very special writer and performer. It has taken him more than a year to lovingly craft the songs for his new album. Now on "One Way Ticket To Paradise;' Dave Loggins has continued to develop his lyric and melodic gifts. The result is a warm and perceptive celebration of love and life that confirms his position as one of the most important new artists around. Dave Loggins' "One Way Ticket To Paradise;' PE 34713 ß"EPIC MARCR REG.C 1977 CBS INC - it's a trip you won't want to miss. On Epic Records and Tapes. www.americanradiohistory.com THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC RECORD WEEKLY ASHVOLUME XXXIX - NUMBERDLL 24 - October 29, 1977 box editorial GEORGE ALBERT cash President and Publisher MEL ALBERT General Manager GARY COHEN Editor In Chief J. B. CARMICLE General Manager, East Coast Buyer East Coast Editorial Misleading The Record KEN TERRY, Assistant Editor PHIL DIMAURO CHARLES PAIKERT The Oct. 17 airing of "Consumer Buyline" with David Horowitz on KNBC-TV in MARK MEHLER West Coast Editorial Los Angeles, featured a segment on purchasing records and some of the quality DAVE FULTON, Assistant Editor CHUCK COMSTOCK problems that consumers may find with today's records. This weekly consumer ALAN SUTTON RANDY LEWIS protection program gave a fair accounting of inherent problems in the JEFF CROSSAN JEFFREY WEBER manufacturing of records and the decreasing quality of the physical product CARITA SPENCER over the past few years. Research MARK ALDERMAN Cash Box is well aware of pressing quality problems and utilized this space on TIM WILLIAMS KEN KIRKWOOD June 11, 1977 to explain our feelings on the subject. SCOTT ANDERSON JEFF RAY But, the "Consumer Buyline" program ended on a less than objective note, LARRY CARLAT BILL FEASTER and in fact, misled the public concerning the profitability of records. Utilizing LEN CHODOSH STEVE HULEN interviews with a pressing plant chief and a retail store manager, the show Coin Machine plant the Chicago unfairly edited two answers together. They asked the pressing official CAMILLE COMPASIO, Manager cost of manufacturing an album, to which he responded "about 354." Art Director LINDSAY BOLYARD Immediately following, they queried the retailer as to the average retail cost of an Circulation album, to which he responded, "about $4.50." THERESA TORTOSA Manager Both of these answers are correct, but in the context of the editing, they PUBLICATION OFFICES NEW YORK unfortunately sought to correlate the two figures. What happened, we asked 119 West 571'1. N.Y., N.Y. 10019 Phone: (212) 586-2640 Horowitz, to the expenses of promotion, sales, artist royalties, publishing, Cable Address: Cash Box N.Y. CALIFORNIA marketing, merchandising, freight and the many other cost factors that add up to 6363 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 930) Hollywood, Ca. 90028 the overall price of a record? Phone: (213) 464-8241 NASHVILLE When contacted by Cash Box on the issue of misleading the public, both JIM SHARP LOLA SCOBEY Horowitz and producer Lloyd Thaxton admitted to the biased editing and 21 Music Circle East, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 Phone: (615) 244-2898 described the segment as a "teaser." They added that a second show about CHICAGO CAMILLE COMPASIO records was but no date was set. In addition, they noted that the 29 E. Madison St.. Chicago, III. 60602 buying planned, Phone: (312) 346-7272 second show would possibly begin with the misleading editing, but would be WASHINGTON, D.C. JOANNE OSTROW 4201 Massachusetts Ave., NW clarified within the context of the show by explaining the in-between costs. Washington, D.C. 20016 We at Cash Box do not object to programs examining the problems of buying ENGLAND - ROB THORNE 97 Uxbridge Rd., London W.12 Phone: 01-749-6724 records. "Consumer Buyline" was objective enough to point out that the return ARGENTINA - MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 "B" policies of retailers rarely cost the consumer money when they purchase a Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: 89-6796 defective record. BRAZIL - H. GANDELMAN Av. Rio Branco, 156 Sala 627 But we at Cash Box do object to anyone knowingly misleading the public, Rio de Janeiro RJ CANADA - KIRK LaPOINTE especially on a program which prides itself on protecting the consumer from 56 Brown's Lane Toronto, Ontario, Canada M8W 359 frauds. A clarification of record industry costs is definitely in order to rectify a Phone: (416) 251-1283 HOLLAND - PAUL ACKET glaring inaccuracy. P.O. Box 11621 (Prinsessegracht 3). The Hague Phone: (70) 624621, Telex: 33083 ITALY - GABRIELE G. ABBATE Viale A. Doria 10, 20124 Milano BELGIUM - ETIENNE SMET Postbus 56, B-2700 Sint-Niklaas Phone: (03) 76-54-39 AUSTRALIA - PETER SMITH 6 Murillo Crt., Doncaster Victoria, Australia 3108 Phone: 848-7878 JAPAN - Adv. Mgr., SACHIO SAITO 1-11-2-Chome Shinbashi, Minato -Ku, Tokyo Phone: 504-1651 NUMBER ONE Editorial Mgr., FUMIYO TACHIBANA SINGLE OF THE WEEK 1 -11 -2 -Choree Shinbashi, Minato -Ku, Tokyo Phone: 504-1651 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE FRANCE - CLAUDE EM MONNET DEBBY BOONE 262 bis Rue des Pyrenees Paris, France 75020 Curb/WB 8446 Phone: 797-4261 Writer: Joe Brooks SUBSCRIPTION RATES $70 per year anywhere in the U.S.A. Published weekly by CASH BOX, 119 West 57th St.. New York, N.Y. 10019. Printed in the U.S.A. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and ad- ditional mailing offices. Copyright ' 1977 by the Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved, Copyright under Universal Copyright Convention. POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to CASH BOX. NUMBER ONE 119 West 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10019. ALBUM OF THE WEEK RUMOUIRS FLEETWOOD MAC Warner Brothers BSK 3010 www.americanradiohistory.com I CASH BIJX TO3100 SI\GEES October 29, 1977 Weeks Weeks Weeks On On On 10/2210/15 Chart 10/2210/15 Chart 10/22 10/15 Chart 1 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE 36 IT'S SO EASY 71 YOU'RE IN MY HEART LINDA RONSTADT (Elektra 45438) B-3 45 60 4 DEBBY BOONE (Curb/WB 8455) CPP 1 1 10 ROD STEWART (WBS 8475) WB 79 2 37 TELEPHONE LINE 2 NOBODY DOES IT BETTER 72 I BELIEVE YOU CARLY SIMON (Elektra 45413) B-3 2 3 15 ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA (United Artists/Jet 1000) B-3 30 21 20 DOROTHY MOORE (Mataco/TK 1042) ALM 28 28 18 3 STAR WARS THEME MECO (Millennium/Casablanca 604) CPP 3 4 14 38 DUSIC 73 DO YOUR DANCE BRICK (Bang 734) WB 46 52 9 ROSE ROYCE (WB WHI 4 4 BOOGIE NIGHTS 8440) WB 81 85 HEATWAVE (Epic 8-50370) ALM 6 8 17 39 I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE 74 RED HOT 5 ROCK 'N' ROLL LIKE YOU ROBERT GORDON WITH LINK WRAY THAT'S (Private Stock 156) CPP 77 81 7 SHAUN CASSIDY (WB/Curb 8423) WB 4 5 14 ALAN PARSONS (Arista AS 0260) ALM 31 27 11 6 I FEEL LOVE 40 YOU MAKE LOVIN' FUN 75 MONEY, MONEY, MONEY DONNA SUMMER (Casablanca NB 884) ALM 7 9 13 FLEETWOOD MAC (WBS 8480) WB 51 64 3 ABBA (Atlantic 3434) CPP/IMM 78 88 3 7 BRICK HOUSE 41 GONE TOO FAR FOP 76 DON'T STOP COMMODORES (Motown M 1425) CPP 9 11 10 ENGLAND DAN & JOHN COLEY FLEETWOOD MAC (WB WBS 8413) CPP 35 19 17 Tree 13T-16102) WB 48 55 5 8 KEEP IT COMIN' LOVE (Big KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND (TK 1023) CPP 5 2 14 42 1 GO CRAZY THE HAPPY GIRLS PAUL DAVIS (Bang B-733) WB 44 46 10 HELEN REDDY (Capitol 4487) ALM 85 - 2 9 IT MAKE MY DON'T 43 THUNDER IN MY HEART 78 FLOAT ON BROWN EYES BLUE LEO SAYER (Warner Bros. WBS 8465) ALM 49 58 5 THE FLOATERS (ABC 12284) CPP 36 30 19 CRYSTAL GAYLE (United Artists UA XW 1016) B-3 10 12 11 44 DO YOU WANNA GET 79 GREATEST LOVE OF 10 SWAYIN' TO THE MUSIC FUNKY WITH ME ALLTHE Tree/All. 16094) WB 8 6 19 PETER BROWN (Drive 6258) CPP 47 50 8 JOHNNY RIVERS (Big GEORGE BENSON (Arista 251) CPP 41 36 14 11 IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A 45 A PLACE IN THE SUN 1976) 59 6 80 YOU CAN'T TURN ME OFF SONG PABLO CRUISE (A&M CPP 50 RONNIE MILSAP (RCA PB 10976) ALM/CPP 12 14 17 46 BEST OF MY LOVE (IN THE MIDDLE OF EMOTIONS (Columbia 3-10544) ALM 43 45 20 TURNING ME ON) 12 HEAVEN ON THE SEVENTH HIGH INERGY (Gordy/Motown 47 COME SAIL AWAY G-7155) CPP 88 - 2 FLOOR STYX (A&M 1977) ALM 52 61 8 PAUL NICHOLAS (RSO RS 878) CH 14 17 12 81 STAR WARS 48 BABY COME BACK LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA I 13 JUST REMEMBER LOVE PLAYER (RSO 879) CPP 54 65 5 (20th Century TC 2345) CPP 68 53 27 YOU 49 (EVERY TIME I TURN FIREBALL (Atlantic 3420) WB 16 20 12 82 TEN TO EIGHT AROUND) BACK IN LOVE DAVID CASTLE 14 IT'S ECSTASY WHEN YOU AGAIN (Parachute/Casablanca 501) B-3 84 87 5 LAY DOWN NEXT TO ME L.T.D. (A&M 1974) WB 60 69 7 83 BE MY LADY BARRY WHITE (20th Century 2350) B-3 17 22 12 50 SWINGTOWN METERS (Warner Brothers WBS 8434) WB 83 86 7 15 SHE DID IT STEVE MILLER (Capitol P4496) WB 62 77 3 ERIC CARMEN (Arista AS0266) WB 15 16 10 84 ECHOES OF LOVE 51 SHE'S NOT THERE DOOBIE BROTHERS (WBS 8471) WB 86 90 3 16 BABY, WHAT A BIG (Columbia 3-10616) CPP 57 67 5 SANTANA 85 GETTING READY FOR SURPRISE 52 DRAW THE LINE CHICAGO (Columbia 3-10620) CPP 19 26 6 AEROSMITH (CBS 3-10637) WB 58 66 3 LOVE 17 COLD AS ICE 53 WAY DOWN DIANA ROSS (Motown 1427) CPP FOREIGNER (Atlantic 3410) WB 18 10 15 ELVIS PRESLEY (RCA 10998) ALM 39 33 19 86 BABY LOVE 18 WE'RE ALL ALONE 54 CALLING OCCUPANTS OF MOTHER'S FINEST (Epic 8-50407) CPP 87 89 6 RITA COOLIDGE (A&M 1965) WB 20 24 8 INTERPLANETARY CRAFT 87 HEAVEN'S JUST A SIN 19 HELP IS ON THE WAY CARPENTERS (A&M 1978) ALM 59 62 6 LITTLE RIVER BAND (Capitol 4428) WB 21 25 14 AWAY 55 JUNGLE LOVE THE KENDALLS (Ovation OV 1103) B-3 95 99 3 20 ON AND ON STEVE MILLER BAND (Capitol 4466)