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narm oooo OPPORTUNITIES IN MARKETING RECORDS AND A FUTURE HORIZONS IN HOME VIDEO TAPES AS GIFTS: AN AUDIO VISUAL SPECTACULAR ENTERTAINMENT, DIRECT-TO-DISC, AND DIGITAL RECORDING EXCITING EXHIBITION AREA: suppliers of records, tape, accessories, video software IMPACT OF COMPUTERS AND BAR CODING OF PRODUCT ON INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AWARDS PRESENTATIONS: best selling product/ M merchandiser of the year/radio advertising/ BREAKFASTS • LUNCHEONS • COCKTAILS • DINNERS newspaper advertising/scholarships OOOOOOO UNIQUE SPOUSE PROGRAM OUTSTANDING RECORDING ARTISTS PERFORM MAXIMIZING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PRINT MEDIA: ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL .CONTACT NARM TODAY!.. I AM A MEMBER OF NARM I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN NARM o PLEASE FORWARD CONVENTION INFORMATION TO: o NAME NARM COMPANY. o 22ND ANNUAL CONVENTION o ADDRESS. MARCH 23-MARCH 27, 1980 MAIL TO: OR CALL TODAY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MGM GRAND HOTEL, LAS VEGAS RECORDING MERCHANDISERS 1060 KINGS HIGHWAY. SUITE 200 609 795-5555 CHERRY HILL. N J. 08034 oooooooooooooo ( ) VOLUME XLI — NUMBER 41 — February 23, 1980 THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC RECORD WEEKLY G4SH BOX GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MEL ALBERT Formula For Profit Vice President and General Manager EDITORIAL 8-track Also, locked display NICK ALBARANO As the home video market continues to grow and conventional cases. Marketing Director expand, with new highs in VCR sales predicted for stands are available at nominal costs, while exten- ALAN SUTTON this year and videodisc players to be nationally sive point-of-purchase displays are being offered Editor In Chief marketed by the start of 1981, now, more than ever, free of charge. KEN TERRY Managing Editor is the time for the full-line record retailers and With some software lines now being shipped J.B. CARMICLE wholesalers to get in on the ground floor of this through conventional record distribution channels, General Manager. East Coast burgeoning home entertainment industry. such as WCI Home Video through WEA, Inc., and JIM SHARP many more to follow suit in the near future, product Director. Nashville Record merchandisers should note that initial in- will extremely accessible to the record East Coast Editorial become vestments in stocking video cassette software are LEO SACKS — AARON FUCHS merchandiser. New distribution patterns will also RICHARD GOLD currently very low, with most of the major suppliers for 6-12 West Coast Editorial delay the sale of major films to pay TV little or RICHARD IMAMURA. Wesf Coast Editor and manufacturers requiring no minimum months, so if a customer wants a film he will most MARK ALBERT. Radio Editor inventories COOKIE AMERSON, Black Music Editor order requirements to start up. Large MARC CETNER — MICHAEL GLYNN likely have to buy it. DENNIS GARRICK - MICHAEL MARTINEZ are unnecessary as well, since many companies According to Joe Cohen, executive vice president Research have one-to-two day order turnaround policies. KEN KIRKWOOD. Manager of NARM, the upcoming 22nd Annual NARM Con- BILL FEASTER — LEN CHODOSH JACK CHIPMAN — MIKE PLACHETKA Additionally, suppliers’ credit terms are es- vention in Las Vegas “will devote an entire day to HARALD TAUBENREUTHER — LES HONIG pecially attractive now, with extended credit, state- discussing the home video marketplace for the first Nashville Editorial/Research DON CUSIC — JENNIFER BOHLER ment dating and stock adjustments a part of most time in the history of the organization.” With the sup- PATTI BRYANT — JOHN WEAVER contracts. And video software will require little or no port of NARM, now all that is needed is the support Art Director LARRY CRAYCRAFT major store modification since the cassettes fit in of the record merchandiser. Circulation THERESA TORTOSA. Manager PUBLICATION OFFICES NEW YORK 1775 Broadway. N.Y.. N.Y. 10019 Phone: (212) 586-2640 Cable Address: Cash Box NY ews highlight Telex: 666123 CALIFORNIA S 6363 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 930) N • affairs Hollywood. Ca. 90028 Recent Polygram reorganization centralizes business Phone: (213) 464-8241 NASHVILLE (page 7). 21 Music Circle East. Nashville. Tenn 37203 Phone: (615) 244-2898 • Bogart sells his remaining interest in Casablanca Record and CHICAGO CAMILLE COMPASIO. Coin Machine. Mgr FilmWorks (page 7). 1442 S 61st Ave , Cicero IL 60650 Phone (312) 863-7440 WASHINGTON, D.C. • but the little girls understand” by The Knack and Sister JOANNE OSTROW 4201 Massachusetts Ave., NW Sledge’s “Love Somebody T oday” are the top Cash Box Album Washington D C. 20016 UNITED KINGDOM- NICK UNDERWOOD Picks (page 11). 25 Denmark St.. London WC 2 England Phone 01-836-1362/01-836-4188 • “Love On A Shoestring” by The Captain & Tennille and Stevie MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Director Ot South American Operations Wonder’s “Outside My Window” are the top Cash Box Singles ARGENTINA — MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Belgrano 3252. Piso 4 "B" Picks (page 13). Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: 89-6796 BRASIL Pandisc RVA Conselheiro Crispiniano. 344 4 Ander POP DEBUTS Sala 406 Brasil TOP — Sao Paulo. Phone: 222-9312/223-8907 CANADA - KIRK LaPOINTE 49 FIRE LAKE — Bob Seger — Capitol 34 Dorval Road SINGLES Toronto, Ontario. Canada M6P 2B4 Phone: (416) 536-8824 — Chuck Mangione — A&M HOLLAND — CONSTANT MEYERS ABUMS 62 FUN AND GAMES P.O. Box 7485 1007 JL Amsterdam, Holland Phone: 020-767472 ITALY — MARIO DE LUIGI POP SINGLE POPABUM "Musica e Dischi" Via Carducci 8 20123 Milan, Italy NUMBER Phone: (02) 870-015/869-0702 CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE THE WALL SPAIN— ANGEL ALVAREZ Queen Pink Floyd Lopez de Hoyos 178, 5 CD Elektra Columbia Madrid — 2 Spain Phone: 415 23 98 AUSTRALIA - ALLAN WEBSTER 699 Drummond Street R&B SINGLE Carlton. R&BABUM Victoria, Australia 3054 Phone: 699-3054 JAPAN - Adv. Mgr.. SACHIO SAITO SPECIAL LADY Editorial Mgr., KOZO OTSUKA Ray, Goodman & Brown THE WHISPERS 3rd Floor of Chuo-Tatemono bldg Solar/RCA 2-chome. 11-1, Shinbashi, Minato-ku. Polydor Tokyo Japan. 105 Phone: 504-1651 FRANCE — DILEK KOC 12 Boulevard Exelmans COUNTRY SINGLE COUNTRY ABUM Paris. France 75016 Phone: 524-4784 WEST GERMANY — GERHARD AUGUSTIN YEARS KENNY Herzog Rudolf Str. 3 Barbara Mandrel! Kenny Rogers 8 Munich 22 Phone: 221363 MCA United Artists Telex: 5-29378 NORWAY — TORBJORN ELLINGSEN Vollgt. 28 2000 Lillestrom, Norway JAZZ D4NCE/DISCO Phone: 71-6515/67-9540 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $90 per year anywhere in ONE ON ONE AND THE BEAT GOES ON the USA Published weekly by CASH BOX (ISSN 0008-72891. 1775 Broadway. New York. N.Y. 10019 Bob James & Earl Klugh The Whispers Printed in the U S A Second class postage paid at Tappan Zee/Columbia Solar/RCA New York N Y and additional mailing offices Copyright Ray, Goodman & Brown 1980 by theCash Box Publishing Co . Inc All rights reserved Copyright under Universa Copyright Convention POSTMASTER Send form 3579 to CASH BOX. 1775 Broadway. New York. N.Y. 10019 M / Weeks Weeks Weeks On On On 2/16 Chart 2/16 Chart 2/16 Chart 1 CRAZY LITTLE THING 34 GIVE IT ALL YOU GOT 68 CALL ME CALLED LOVE CHUCK MANGIONE (A&M 2211) 44 5 BLONDIE (Chrysalis CHS 2414) QUEEN (Elektra E-46579) 2 10 35ITHREE TIMES IN LOVE 69 LOST HER IN THE SUN (Millennium JH-11785) 41 6 JOHN STEWART (RSO RS 1016) 2 CRUISIN’ TOMMY JAMES SMOKEY ROBINSON 36 WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN 70 SEXY EYES (Tamla/Motown T 54306) 1 19 BILLY PRESTON & SYREETA DR. HOOK (Capitol 4831) (Motown M 1477) 46 9 LONGER 71 I PLEDGE MY LOVE AN FOGELBERG (Full Moon/Epic 950824) 8 11 37 BACK ON MY FEET AGAIN ' PEACHES & HERB (Polydor/MVP 2053) BABYS (Chrysalis CHS 2398) 42 6 YES I’M READY THE 72 THE HARDEST PART * TERl DeSARIO/K.C. (Casablanca NB 2227) 7 15 38 DON’T LET GO BLONDIE (Chrysalis CHS 2408) ISAAC HAYES (Polydor PD 2011) 30 18 5 COWARD OF THE COUNTY 73 YOU MIGHT NEED SOMEBODY KENNY ROGERS TURLEY RICHARDS (Atlantic 3645) UA-X-1327Y) 3 15 39 LET ME GO, LOVE (United Artists NICOLETTE LARSON 74 WOMEN 6 ROCK WITH YOU (Warner Bros. WBS 49130) 43 9 FOREIGNER (Atlantic 3651) MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 9-50797) 5 17 40 RIDE LIKE THE WIND 75 WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU ON THE RADIO CHRISTOPHER CROSS THE ROMANTICS • DONNA SUMMER (Casablanca NB 2236) 10 6 (Warner Bros. WBS 49184) 60 3 (Nemperor/CBS ZS9 7527) 8 DO THAT TO ME 41 BABY TALKS DIRTY 76 RAVEL’S BOLERO ONE MORE TIME THE KNACK (Capitol 4822) 50 3 HENRY MANCINI THE CAPTAIN 8 TENNILLE 42 ESCAPE (THE PINA (Warner Bros. WBS 49139) (Casablanca NB 2215) 4 19 COLADA SONG) 77 PILOT OF THE AIRWAVES CHARLIE (Island IS WORKING MY WAY BACK TO RUPERT HOLMES (Infinity INF 50035) 26 19 DORE 49166) •YOU/FORGIVE ME GIRL 43 PLEASE DON’T GO 78 SET ME FREE SPINNERS (Atlantic 3637) 15 11 K.C. 8 THE SUNSHINE BAND UTOPIA (Bearsville/BSS 49180) 10 DESIRE (TK TKX-1035) 35 27 79 CAN WE STILL BE FRIENDS 17 5 44 I CAN’T HELP MYSELF (SUGAR ROBERT PALMER (Island IS 49137) 11 ROMEO’S TUNE PIE, HONEY BUNCH) CARS STEVE FORBERT BONNIE POINTER (Motown M 1478F) 47 10 GARY NUMAN (Atco/ Atlantic 7211) 12 13 45 WE DON’T TALK ANYMORE I SHOULDA LOVED YA 12 AN AMERICAN DREAM CLIFF RICHARD (EMI-America P-8025) 33 19 NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN (Atlantic 3631) 14 13 13 SARA 46 FLIRTIN’ WITH DISASTER BRASS IN POCKET (I’M FLEETWOOD MAC MOLLY HATCHET (Epic JE 36110) 48 9 SPECIAL) (Warner Bros. WBS 49150) 6 11 47 DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU FEEL PRETENDERS (SIRE SRE 49181) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL RUFUS AND CHAKA KHAN (MCA 41131) 37 15 83 VOICE OF FREEDOM •(PART II) JIM KIRK AND THE TM SINGERS 48|l THANK YOU PINK FLOYD (Columbia 1-11187) 25 6 ZZ TOP (Warner Bros. WBS 49136) 53 5 (Capitol P-4834) 1 1 49 FIRE LAKE 84 THE SPIRIT OF RADIO RUPERT HOLMES (MCA-41173) 24 6 RUSH (Mercury 76044) BOB SEGER (Capitol 4836) — 1 16 SEPTEMBER MORN BEAT ON 85 CARRIE NEIL DIAMOND (Columbia 1-11175) 18 10 50 AND THE GOES WHISPERS (Solar/RCA JH 11894) 65 4 CLIFF RICHARD (EMI-America P-8035) 17 DAYDREAM BELIEVER 51 FOREVER MINE 86 I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS ANNE MURRAY (Capitol P-4813) 20 10 THE O'JAYS (Phila.