MERCHANDISING SINGLES BREAKOUTS IN-STORE Harmony House Detroit Sounds Unlimited Oz - Atlanta WHAT'S - NEIL DIAMOND JOHN LENNON NOTHIN' MATTERS IF IT BAND AND WHAT DID? - Riva recording artist John Cougar and JIM CARROLL JOHN LENNON BURT REYNOLDS NEIL DIAMOND PAUL SIMON radio station WYSP/Philadelphia, along with all Listening Booth Record Stores, held a KORGIS Fathers & Suns BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Cougar promotion where people were to win JOHN LENNON Indianapolis eligible the following: a John Cougar Gold BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Lieberman - Denver JOHN COUGAR Record (grand prize) and 20 John Cougar satin jackets. All the entrants had to do was fill Tower - San Francisco KENNY ROGERS NEIL DIAMOND out the John Cougar/WYSP entry blanks in any one of the 20 Listening Booth stores by Oct. DONNA SUMMER HEATWAVE BILLY BURNETTE 31. Winners will be picked by Nov. 11 and notified by mail. NEIL DIAMOND Waxie Maxie - KORGIS ROBERT JOHN Washington MARCY LEVY & ROBIN GIBB HOLIDAY SEASON PROMOTIONS - Ampex Corp. has announced two special con- OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN/CLIFF JOHN LENNON AIR SUPPLY sumer blank tape promotions for the 1980 holiday season. The DIANA ROSS RICHARD first promotion, "The Great GEORGE BENSON POLICE Holiday Take -Away," features four of Ampex's new C-90 EDR home and audio cassettes ROGER DALTREY PAUL SIMON Richman Brothers - JOHN LENNON BARBRA STREISAND/BARRY pre-packaged in a 10 -pack plastic storage case. This offers consumers four blank OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN/CLIFF Philadelphia GIBB cassettes for the price of three, plus the free storage case, for a suggested retail price of JOHN COUGAR RICHARD DON WILLIAMS NEIL DIAMOND NEILSEN/PEARSON $11.99. The EDR (Extended Dynamic Range) cassettes are specially designed for the BARBRA STREISAND/BARRY Tower Seattle JOHN LENNON - growing autosound market and feature a wide dynamic range formulation that allows SUZI QUATRO GIBB NEIL DIAMOND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN National DR. HOOK users to make hotter recordings for listening above auto and road noise. The "Take Away" Camelot - RANDY MEISNER PAT features colorful, holiday promotional packaging Poplar Tunes Memphis BENATAR BARBRA STREISAND/BARRY and is shipped in 20 -unit cases. The - JOHN COUGAR GIBB second promotion offers dealers a 25% discount on ERIC CLAPTON MAC DAVIS three -pack bags of ELN (extra low CHRISTOPHER CROSS JOHN LENNON King Karol - New York noise) C-90 and C-60 audio cassettes, Ampex's largest volume cassette line. ELN is a new, NEIL DIAMOND TOM BROWNE high quality, general purpose tape suited to a broad range of recording FATBACK Pickwick - Midwest BILLY BURNETTE applications. Both KOOL & GANG AIR SUPPLY DR. HOOK EDR and ELN cassettes feature Ampex's newly engineered "Quiet -Track" mechanism that JOHNNY LEE JOHN LENNON GRACE JONES provides quiet operation and precision fit in today's improved home and JOHN LENNON RANDY MEISNER STACY LATTISAW auto decks. The OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN/CLIFF JOHN LENNON "Quiet -Track" mechanism incorporates an improved tape guidance system that provides RICHARD Port O' Call - Nashville POINTER SISTERS more friction -free tape handling and reduced jamming. The ELN O'JAYS GEORGE BENSON BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN three pack promotion BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN CHRISTOPHER CROSS ROLLING STONES carries a special suggested promotional price of $6.99 for C -90s and $5.99 for C -60s. Ship- BARBRA STREISAND/BARRY MAC DAVIS BARBRA STREISAND/BARRY ping dates for both limited supply promotions are Nov. 1 GIBB JOHN LENNON GIBB -Dec. 31, 1980. GREEN PEACE - Tower Records in Seattle kept its doors open for 48 hours straight over Oct. 24-25 in an effort to raise funds for the Green Peace environmentalist group, of which Save The Whales and No Nukes are a part. There were telephones set up inside the ALBUM BREAKOUTS store, and people phoned in their donations. Tower Records donated 50 cents for each LP that was sold during the two days. The activist group raised $55,000 for its fund. Pickwick National Waxie Maxie - Radio Doctors - IN-STORE ACTION AT RECORD BAR In the Lynchburg, Va. store, the - Washington Milwaukee - customer who KURTIS BLOW came closest to guessing that there were 227 carrots in the AI Stewart DOORS BRUCE COCKBURN BABY'S display won $50 in a LARRY GATLIN DOORS CAPTAIN & TENNILLE promotion of Stewart's "24 Carrots" LP. Second place prize was worth the complete Al EMMYLOU HARRIS JOE JACKSON JAMES GALWAY Stewart catalog. The promotion was part of grand opening festivities Record MICHAEL HENDERSON POLICE JOE JACKSON at the store, JACKSONS LINDA RONSTADT PRINCE Bar's 106th, which opened Sept. 24 ... In Wilmington, N.C., the first of what will be an an- KOOL & GANG SKY SUZI QUATRO nual "Hands In The Sand" sand BARBARA MANDRELL MICHAEL STANLEY BAND ROCHES sculpturing contest attracted 50 entries, more than 500 RONNIE MILSAP STRANGLERS LINDA RONSTADT spectators and TV coverage at the nearby Wrightsville Beach. The Record Bar gave away a OAK RIDGE BOYS DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) $50 gift certificate for best all-round sculpture BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TALKING HEADS STEVIE WONDER and $25 certificates for best sand castle and SUPERTRAMP GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE most creative sculpture. The entries included a unicorn, beached whale, dragon and life- TALKING HEADS DESTROYERS King Karol - New York sized race car ... At the Orland Park, Ill. store, the complete catalog of Wayne King and his SLIM WHITMAN STEVIE WONDER JOE JACKSON ZAPP Orchestra was the prize in a drawing for a Record Bar- and MCA -sponsored Cactus - Houston KOOL & GANG promotion for Charts - Phoenix CAMEO TALKING HEADS the older set. Called "Music Under The Stars," the promotion coincided with an ap- STEVIE WONDER DAVID BOWIE PRINCE pearance by King and his orchestra at Orland Square ... At the Record Bar in JIMMY HALL DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) Record Bar - National HALL & OATES GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE BABY'S Maplewood/Burnsville, Minn., a promotion for The Cars "Panorama" LP was called "Tune JOE JACKSON DESTROYERS HARRY CHAPIN Up With The Cars" and included free precision auto tune-ups to the winners of a drawing RANDY MEISNER Handleman National DIRE STRAITS SPECIALS - . In their WEA "The Peoples' Choice" promotion for the two Greenville, N.C. stores, KOOL & GANG AMY HOLLAND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN JOE JACKSON Record Bar asked customers to vote for the artist of their choice. Voters who chose the win- DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) BARBARA MANDRELL RONNIE MILSAP DELBERT McCLINTON TALKING HEADS OAK RIDGE BOYS ning artist will be included in the drawing for the grand prize -a dinner for six and six DON WILLIAMS ANNE MURRAY KENNY ROGERS DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) movie passes ... At a Jacksonville, N.C. store promotion, the second annual "Rock 'N Roll VAPORS MICHAEL STANLEY BAND Animal Halloween Party" was held at a local club, and free admission was granted to Richman Brothers - BARBRA STREISAND STEVIE WONDER Phlladelphia DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) anyone wearing a rock 'n' roll inspired costume. Prizes for best costumes were Record Bar SUPERTRAMP Boatners New Orleans AEROSMITH - gift certificates for $75, $50 and $25 ... Lastly, in the Media, Penn. store, "Cheaper Isn't STEVIE WONDER KURTIS BLOW CHEAP TRICK Always By The Dozen" was the title of a CBS developing artists promotion. Grand prize in LINDA RONSTADT PRINCE REDDINGS the drawing was a limousine DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) Fathers & Suns - ride and dinner for two at McDonald's. Featured product on STYLISTICS GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE Indianapolis sale during this promotion was Barry Goudreau, Quincy and the Silencers. DESTROYERS DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) CAMEO LENNY WILLIAMS REGIONAL BREAKOUTS - Hiroshima and Tierra in the west ... Head East in the West Wilcox - Oklahoma City HEAD EAST STEVIE WONDER POLICE and Midwest ... Reddings in the South ... Captain & Tennille, James Galway and PETER ALLEN Rose Records/Sounds BABY'S BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Breathless in the Midwest ... Aerosmith and Ellen Shipley in the East and Rockpile in SPYRO GYRA Good Chicago ... JOE JACKSON - East JOHNNY LEE DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) KURTIS BLOW the and Midwest. MADNESS TALKING HEADS BRUCE COCKBURN FOR QUICK COVERAGE - Send items and photos for What's In -Store to Cash Box, 6363 PAT METHENY BILLY THORPE JACKSONS MONTY PYTHON "TIMES SQUARE" KOOL & GANG Sunset Blvd., suite 930, Los Angeles, Calif. 90028. JIM REEVES STEVIE WONDER POLICE linda arditi SPYRO GYRA Licorice Pizza - Los SPYRO GYRA DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) Angeles TALKING HEADS GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE STEVIE WONDER DESTROYERS CAMEO BRUCE COCKBURN DEEP PURPLE Everybody's - Portland Great American Music - HIROSHIMA DOORS Minneapolis JOE JACKSON JOE JACKSON CHICAGO MADNESS PAT METHENY JOHN COUGAR POLICE MOON MARTIN KOOL & GANG DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) LINDA RONSTADT DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) TALKING HEADS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN STEVIE WONDER SPYRO GYRA Lieberman - Denver DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) HEAD EAST STEVIE WONDER PAT METHENY Peaches - Orange OAK RIDGE BOYS HARRY CHAPIN LINDA RONSTADT DOORS Harvard Coop - Boston SPYRO GYRA POLICE JOE JACKSON DONNA SUMMER DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) ROCHES Lieberman Dallas LINDA RONSTADT - SPYRO GYRA Tower - San Francisco BABY'S DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) CAMEO CHEAP TRICK STEVIE WONDER JOE CARROLL BAND DIRE STRAITS JOE JACKSON RANDY MEISNER Western Merchandisers MADNESS LINDA RONSTADT - Amarillo LINDA RONSTADT DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) OAK RIDGE BOYS DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN) GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE LINDA RONSTADT STEVIE WONDER DESTROYERS DONNA SUMMER (GEFFEN)

TOP SINGLE BREAKOUT OF THE WEEK (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER - JOHN LENNON - GEFFEN TOPALBUM BREAKOUT OF THE WEEK TIERRA PLUS - Boardwalk recording group Tierra recently made in-store appearances THE WANDERER - DONNA SUMMER - GEFFEN at the Music Plus outlets in Monterey and San Gabriel, where reportedly more than 1,000 fans showed to get autographs from the members.

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