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CHEECH & CHONG/ THE LAFFS ON THE CHARTS TV's `Golden Era': It's A `Live' One (Ed) Country Music: Tanya Tucker To MCA; Motown C& W Label; CMA, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC Awards Phil Spector Label Via WB; Wan ti co re Via Motown Rock `n' Roll Splinter Groups Head The Charts BILLY JOEL STREETLIFE SERENADE including: The new Billy The Entertainer Joel album, os Angelenos/Last Of The Big Time Spender Root Beer Rag/Weekend Song "Streetlife Serenade. Filled ISM with the same midnight vision that inspired "Piano Man"Sharp,insightful lyric. glimpses from the head and heart of BillyJoel. On Columbia Records* © 1974 Home Grown Music Inc. & Tinker Street Tunes Inc. Reprinted by Permission. © 1971 CSS Inc. 9 "COEUMBIA,"® MARCAS REG. PRINTED IN U SA. 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THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY BQX CASHVOLUME XXXVI - NUMBER 23 - October 26, 1974 President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Executive Vice President cath box editorial IRV LICHTMAN Vice President PHIL JAFFE TV's `Golden Era': Vice President and Director of Advertising West Coast A `Live' One ED ADLUM Managing Editor Two events last week - one happy, one sad - brought to mind the exciting Editorial era of "live" television in terms of the entertainment field. The "live" telecast of New York the Frank Sinatra concert at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Oct. 13, was MICHAEL DAVID STEVE MARKS the happy situation, while news, several hours later, of the death of Ed Sullivan Hollywood took one's thoughts to earlier days of TV when Sullivan hosted a"live" Sunday DAVID BUDGE RON BARON night cornucopia of talent. Sinatra proved there is something missing in this day -and -age of tape Research MIKE MARTUCCI prime -time programs, particularly those shows offering talent from the world Research Manager music and recordings. And that missing element can be summed up in the Art Director of WOODY HARDING word "spontaneity." The Sinatra show was not subject - as taped shows are - Coin Machine to editing that makes everything perfect to a fault. Even Sinatra requesting ED ADLUM - Manager CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago some admiring "hecklers" to cool it was a refreshing departure, since such a Circulation sequence during a taping would probably have been left on the cutting room THERESA TORTOSA Manager floor. Also, the Sinatra special was not subject to newspaper reviews PUBLICATION OFFICES beforehand, and so we didn't get a blow-by-blow description of what we could NEW YORK expect to see and hear. 119 West 57th St.. N.Y , N.Y. 10019 Phone: (212) 586-2640 his -of -a century as host of "Toast of the Town"" and, later, Cable Address: Cash Box N.Y. For most of quarter CALIFORNIA "The Ed Sullivan Show," Sullivan put on his shows "live," and in later years he 6565 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 520) Hollywood, Ca 90028 face variety shows and "specials" Phone: (213) 469-2966 was proud of this decision in the of other taking the convenient way out through tape, and all the artificiality that could NASHVILLE JUANITA JONES mean. By keeping his show "live," Sullivan achieved a maximum spontaneity 1511 Sigler St.. Nashville Tenn. 37203 Phone: (615) 244-2898 by being able to program acts - musical performers included - at a moment's CHICAGO CAMILLE COMPASIO notice. Thus, if something exciting broke in the world of entertainment a few 29 E. Madison St.. Chicago Ill. Phone: (312) 346-7272 days before going on the air, Sullivan could program the performer involved - ENGLAND it DORRIS LAND greatly increasing through timeliness the impact of his show. For recordings, 3 Cork St.. London WI Phone. 01-7342374 could mean a tremendous "plug" for a new recording when, in fact, they were ARGENTINA dozens of examples of Sullivan's knack of seizing the MIGUEL SMIRNOFF still new. There were Belgrano 3252, Piso 4"B" most his Buenos Aires, Argentina moment with regard to late -hour programming, recently quick Phone: 89-6796 response to Beatlemania in 1964 when he showcased the Beatles when they CANADA WALT GREALIS first arrived in America. 6 Brentcliffe Road Toronto 17. Ontario, Canada of music industry performers, "live" Phone:(416) 425-0257 Even without its generous support FRANCE variety show television had the ability to put developments in the FRANK LIPSIK 5 Rue Alfred Dormeuil. 78 Croissy entertainment world on the same basis as a"news bulletin." The Sinatra Phone: 225-26-31 was, HOLLAND concert and the passing of Ed Sullivan are reminders that "live- television PAUL ACKET Theresiastraat 59-63. The Hague perhaps, the real measure of what nostalgia buffs like to call "The Golden Era Phone: 837700 of TV." We wonder who will be the first to fend off the cries ITALY GABRIELE G. ABBATE and prove that it can -and therefore open a new Viale A Doria 10, 20124 Milano "it -can't -be -done -again," BELGIUM "golden era" of"live" prime -time TV. ETIENNE SMET Postbus 56, B-2700 Sint-Niklaas Phone: (0311 76-54-39 AUSTRALIA NUMBER ONE DETER SMITH It 14'114 Ui I "1 FRAGILE 40 Winters Way, Doncaster 3108 SINGLE OF THE WEEK 1\ It\I(It RPM AUT Victoria, Australia CAN'T GET ENOUGH JAPAN BAD COMPANY Adv. Mgr.. SACHIO SAITO 1-11-2-Chome Shinbashi, Minato -Ku, Tokyo Writer: Mick Ralphs Phone: 504-1651 Pub: Bad Co./ASCAP Editorial Mgr.. 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