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ART AND RECCRDI"; GS DEPARTMENT MENT $1.25 -O-R Memo: What About Show Music? (Ed) ... Atlantic egisters Top Sales In '71; Gross Up 10% ... '72 LP Product Ready To Roll; Label Confab Reports... Capricorn Label Switches To WB Ties... Big Tree Thru Bell ... CRTC Says To Waters: 'Yes' & 'No' .. THREE DOG NIGHT: HOT DOGS rc www.americanradiohistory.com R "EPIC." NIARCA REG. T.M. PRINTED IN U.S.A. EPIC F People are listening to BobbyVinton's "Every Day of My Life" every hour on the hour Because it's already on Top -40 stations in cities like Philadelphia, New Haven, and Hartford. Bobby's also struck up a new friendship with an old admirer: Bill Gavin,who picked the song for a winner. So all that's really left to say s, as the hours go by, Null have something more to d up at the end of the week. Bobby Vinton, Dayof My Life 5-10822 On Epic Records www.americanradiohistory.com THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY XIn, Vol. XXXIII - Number 30/January 15, 1972 Publication Office/1780 Broadway, New York, New York 10019/Telephone: JUdson 6-2640/Cable Address Cash Box, N. Y. GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Executive Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Vice President and Editorial Director EDITORIAL CHRISTIE BARTER West Coast Editor ED KELLEHER KENNY KERNER ROBERT ADELS TODD EVERETT RESEARCH MIKE MARTUCCI Research Director ANTHONY LANZETTA Assoc. Dir. BOBBY SIEGEL ADVERTISING STAN SOIFER Advertising Manager Account Executives M -O Memo: ED -R ADLUM, What New York HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood WOODY HARDING Art Director COIN MACHINE & VENDING About Show Music? ED ADLUM General Manager DON DROSSELL CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago SHERYL BAKER, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. HOLLYWOOD HARVEY GELLER-CHRISTIE BARTER 6565 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 525), Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (213) Hollywood 9-2966 NASHVILLE JUANITA JONES 806 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 Phone: (615) 244-2898 CHICAGO CAMILLE COMPASIO 29 E. Madison St., Chicago, II I. Phone: (312) Fl 6-7272 ENGLAND HOLLAND DORRIS LAND PAUL ACKET 3 Cork Street Theresiastraat 59-63 London WI The Hague Tel. 01-7342374 Tel: 837700 Now that the cat is out of the bag with greater exposure of this material GERMANY ITALY (thanks to the recent staging of an via the sponsorship of concertized CHRISTIAN TOERSLEFF GABRIELE G. ABBATE 2 M -O -R concert in New Hamburg 56 Viale A. Doria 10 York's Madison versions of the great hit shows or Leuchttrum Weg 30 20124 Milano Tel: 34-91-94-86 Square Garden) that M -O -R music is evenings devoted to one or more of alive and can be BRAZIL BELGIUM well again, we think the great show music writing talents. PEDRO FRAZAO ETIENNE SMET it's appropriate to put in a pitch for The approach, we must add, is im- DE VASCONCELOS Postbus 56 B-2700 Sint-Niklaas a subdivision of M -O -R: show music. portant. To Rue Frei Caneca, II, Apt. 13 simply offer Tin Pan Alley- Tel: (03) Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil 76-54-39 We believe a Tel: 257-15-58 that staging of a ized versions of show music would AUSTRALIA Broadway -only musical format in a miss the point. ARGENTINA Many original cast PETER SMITH large arena MIGUEL SMIRNOFF will bear out the continu- stars might be assembled to bring out 40 Winters Way Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 "B" Doncaster 3108 ing appeal of this type of music. Be it the true flavor of show music, which Buenos Aires, Argentina Victoria, Australia Tel: 89-6796 Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & can lose a lot in attempts to turn its CANADA JAPAN Loewe, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, material into contemporary formats. WALT GREALIS Adv. Mgr. Irving Berl ,n etc., the music of these Some performers not directly asso- RPM SACHIO SAITO 1560 Bayview Ave. masters need no longer be just rele- ciated 1 -II 2-Chome Shinbashi with Broadway appearances do Toronto, 17, Ontario Minato -Ku, Tokyo Tel: gated a (416) 489-2166 Tel: 504-1651 to role of "our musical heri- have, we must add, an affinity for tage" without regard to the continu- show music. These FRANCE Editorial Mgr. should be picked FRANK LIPSIK FUMIYO TACHIBANA ing pleasure they give millions. carefully. 5 Rue Alfred Dormeuil I-11 2-Chome Shinbashi And speaking 78 Croissy Minato -Ku, Tokyo of millions, there The labels who have extensive show Tel: 225-26-31 Tel: 504-1651 have been untold millions of dollars music catalogs know who they are. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $35 per year anywhere in +he invested by record companies in the Individually or in collaboration, they U.S.A., Published weekly at 34 N. Crystal 5t., E. Strouds- burg, Pa. by Cash Box, 1780 Broadway, New York, N.Y. production of original cast albums. should get the message of Columbia's 10019. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., U.S.A. and additional offices. Many, of course, have been all-time recent M -O -R event and help renew Copyright r 1972 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. recording sellers. We think, however, the vitality of a All rights reserved. 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