Wacky Weezy's Silly Stew a Reader's Tips on Successful Remotes
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WACKY WEEZY'S SILLY STEW A READER'S TIPS ON SUCCESSFUL REMOTES ISSUE 1874 SEPTEMBER 20, 1991 www.americanradiohistory.com Two-million albu s lat THE FIRST SINGLE. The Sold-Out Tour Continues! mid-October through Christmas Produced by Andy Johns led Templeman and Van Ha en From the Double-platinum album or Unlawful Carnal Know InIne Personal Management: Ed Leffler/EL. ..A.nagement, h c. L ros. leocis , www.americanradiohistory.com the GAVIN REPORT GAVIN f * Indicates Tie Tvr 4u MOST ADDED MOST ADDED MOST ADDED AMY GRANT PEABO BRYSON POOR RIGHTEOUS: TEACHERS That's What Love Is For (A &M) Closer Than Close (Columbia) Shakiyla (JRH) (Profile) PRINCE AND THE N.P.G. ERIC GABLE BRAND NUBIAN Cream (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.) Can't Wait To Get You Home (Orpheus) One For All (E:lektra) ROBERTA FLACK duet with MAXI PRIEST PATTI LaBELLE A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Set The Night To Music (Atlantic) Feels Like Another One (MCA) Check The Rhiine (Jive) RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH NICE & SMOOTH THE COMMITMENTS CHRIS WALKER Hop Junkies Try A Little Tenderness (MCA) Giving You All My Love (Pendulum /Elektra) (Def m /RAL/Columbia) GLADYS KNIGHT/DIONNE DEF JEFF RYTHM SYNDICATE WARWICK/PATTI LaBELLE Here We Go Again Hey Donna (Impact) Superwoman (MCA) (Delicious Vinyl) MOST ADDED MOST ADDED MOST ADDED AMY GRANT STEVE WARINER WALLACE RONEY That's What Love Is For (A &M) Leave Him Out Of This (Arista) Obsession (Muse) GLORIA ESTEFAN RANDY TRAVIS RICKY FORD Live For Loving You (Epic) Forever Together (Warner Bros.) Hard Groovin' (Muse) SIMPLY RED ALABAMA GROOVE HOLMES Something Got Me Started (East West America) Then Again (RCA) Hot Tat (Muse) RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TOO WATCH ANIMAL LOGIC ALISON KRAUSS PAQUITO DRIVERA Rose Colored Glasses (IRS) I've Got That Old Feeling (Rounder) Reunion (Me ;idor) 1101111, . #4. NEIL DIAMOND STEPHEN SCOTT If There Were No Dreams ALABAMA something to consider (Columbia) Then Again (RCA) (Verve /PolyGram) rriït il', rw. MOST ADDED MOST ADDED MOST AID DED RICHARD ELLIOT GUNS N' ROSES THE GOLDEN PAL OMINOS Passios (Charisma) On The Town (Manhattan) Use Your Illusion I & II (Geffen) Drunk With CHUCK LOEB VAN HALEN Balance (DMP) "Top Of The World" (Warner Bros.) ALEX BUGNON TOM PETTY 107 Degrees In The Shade (Orpheus /Epic) "Into The Great Wide Open" (MCA) RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH ANDY SUMMERS THE STORM PM DAVIT Pocket Change (Private Music) "I've Got A Lot To Learn About Love" (Interscope /EWA) Of The Heart ... (Gee St GUNS N' ROSES VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE ERIC MARIENTHAL Use Your Illusion I & II Honey Lingers Oasis (GRP) (Geffen) (London /PLG) www.americanradiohistory.com 1 8 T O P 1 0 S I N G L E S I N T H E 8 O ' S . THE FIRST '- S I N G L E OF T H E 90'S! 19111 POLYGRAM RECORDS, INC. ° www.americanradiohistory.com hie GAVIN REPORT HOTEL HELL Th REMOTES MADE EASY -- see page 15 see page 30 ing Seattle Mariners. Smulyan tive cutbacks have been insti- Smulyan: "Emmis Not For Sale" has consistently been adamant tuted. that he won't be selling radio sta- Responding to a front -page nied such rumors saying, "That is "Emmis on its own is doing to the team, although article that ran in the Seattle Times absolutely untrue." tions save pretty well," Smulyan assured the his Boston WCDJ, is saying that he would be handing Stories about the broadcasting station, on Gavin Report. "The baseball team high -level execu- over all of the Emmis Broad- group's fate have been surfacing the market, and is not. We're trying to fix that." casting outlets to Morgan since it became known that banks Stanley, company President Jeff have called in loans on Smulyan's Smulyan has emphatically de- baseball team, the financially ail- Radio 1991 NAB Convened in San Francisco Last week (9/18 -21) 7,063 ra- occasion as a soapbox for his do- dio executives met at San mestic policies. He asked broad- Francisco's Moscone Center for casters to help boost education, the NAB's Radio 1991. Atten- end drug use and sexual violence, dance figures were slightly down and praised his Supreme Court SMOKY from last n o m i n e e year's total of Clarence Tho- 7,241. mas as, "a man Broadcast- of courage, ers from scholarship and around the common sense." country at- He also called on tended sales, Congress to, programming "help set a SINGS and technical SAN FRANCISCO strong domestic sessions, and agenda that will met with record industry per- be a model for the world." sonnel who came to the city to Speaking from the other end of 3Ot take advantage of the opportu- the political spectrum was Friday's SEPTEBER nity to meet with the large num- keynoter, New York Governor ber of programmers. Mario Cuomo, who began by say- President George Bush ad- ing he was admittedly biased to- 01991 SU Records, Inc. dressed attendees live via satel- ward radio, which he called, "the lite on used the Thursday, and continued next page NEWS - Beverly Mire LL-LL LL LttIAï< FORMATS COVER STORY FEATURES 8 TOP 40 48 PROWL HARUM INTERVIEW 13 MADCAP RADIO UPDATE by Louise Polanker 34 COUNTRY 15 ON MANAGEMENT by Oren Harari 17 URBAN 16 HEAR & THERE ay Sheila Rene 20 RAP 30 P.D. NOTEBOOK by Eric Norberg 24 A/C 32 BIOFEEDBACK by Ron Fell 38 ADULT ALTERNATIVE ÌROCOL 41 CLASSIFIEDS by Natalie Duitsman 42 JAll 46 ALBUM 52 ALTERNATIVE ARUM September 20, 1991 /the GAVIN REPORT II www.americanradiohistory.com NEWS the GAVIN REPORT NABContinued from previous page magic box of my youth." "Radio records is censorship," he said. has always been free," he said. "I He also made much of commu- love TV, but I love radio better." nity service, citing examples he Although Cuomo was emphatic used at his New Orleans televi- about not running for president sion station. "We are all respon- in 1992, he outlined the direction sible for each other," he reminded. he felt the country should head The convention's closer was the in. He captured the at -first luke- Marconi Awards dinner, at which warm audiences with tender sto- a number of Gavin reporters and ries of his mother, cleverly quot- friends were honored. Among ing her in Italian, and quickly them were KSPN/FM-Aspen, the translating the often humorous small market station of the year. statements. After taking ques- Gavin stations that won honors in tions from the audience, Cuomo their specific format included: When producer/manager Eric Gardner and his wife Janis re- affirmed their received a standing ovation, KOST -Los Angeles (A /C); wedding vows, Little Richard, who recently converted to Judaism, performed the ceremony that was attended by many famous faces. Celebrating happily walked through the room shak- WRKS -New York City (Black/ ever afters are (l -r): Todd Rundgren, Eric and Janis Gardner, Little Richard and the normally ing hands with attendees and Urban); KNIX -Phoenix (Country); reclusive Phil Spector. answered questions from the WNUA- Chicago (Jazz). press. Saturday's programming key- KISN McCann Named to KRNQ PD Post noter, Quincy Jones, spoke as a Without Current WLRW /FM -Cham- Willie Wells has been named television station owner, a pro- PD paign- Urbana, IL program direc- interim program director of ducer, and a musician. Speaking -Again tor Matt McCann is leaving that WLRW, with McCann oversee- without notes, Jones drew on his A mere six days he took after station to go take a similar posi- ing operations until a replace- considerable experience. He the PD position at KISN -Salt Lake tion at Q102 (KRNQ) -Des Moines. ment is named. Overnight per- used the Beatles as an example of City, Randy Rose abruptly left Both outlets are owned by Saga sonality Lisa Tribley moves into America's capacity to accept dif- the station. Communications. He replaces McCann's midday slot. ferent forms of music. He toed "The only reason I can give is Chuck Knight, and was chosen the line of controversy when he the one Randy gave me," over as many as 50 other candi- Yo Em! Good Luck! addressed censorship, saying said Randy Rodgers, the station's dates. programmers must use common The Gavin family is happy but general manager. "And that is, he "Matt is the ideal program di- sense good judgment. "I sad to announce the departure and had personal problems that he has rector to lead Q102 to the next don't think not playing negative of Ern Llamado, who is headed to work out." level of excellence," said station for Los Angeles as National Col- VP /GM Phil "I Hoover. know lege Promotion Director for Pri- 93Q Goes Country that he has studied and practiced ority Records. the fine Following weeks of specula- are excited to be able to involve art of programming...he Em, who's has been with the has an uncompromising commit- tion, Gannett -owned KKBQ Houstonians in this special event." Gavin Report for over two years, ment to win the big game." Radio 93Q in Houston has done joined us as an intern, and when "I will miss the outstanding what was expected and aban- Fischer Returns staff we instituted our Rap charts be- at WLRW, but look forward to doned Top 40 for Country, and came an integral part of that sec- working with the will call itself Easy Country 92.9 To 'NUA great staff at tion when he was named an As- FM.