record Dedicated To Servira The Needs O/ The Mruic & Retord Industry 0 CD >- 0 Vol. 22, No. 1073 December 30, 1967 u)JC JQ1 cl'SiG In the opinion of the Culturs, mis week the following records are the SINGLE PICKS OF THE WEEK etc ror WITHOUT LOVE (Thom Is Ronde OSCAR TONEY JR. aMs'm Ìl\ Spanky and Our Gang have Humorous, biting ditty Oscar Toney Jr. details the a cleverly - written (by about the superficial power deep meaning of love on Margo Guryan) jazz-rock of "Money" (Faithful Virtue, this new gospel - tinged song called "Sunday Morn - BMI) by John Sebastian will "Without Love (There is in' " (Blackwood, BMI) kids make bundles and pots of Nothing)" (Progressive -Suf- will love (Mercury 72765). the green stuff (Kama Sutra folk, BMI) (Bell 699). 241). The Cream could catch on Neil Diamond travels down Jean-Paul Vignon paints the way they deserve with to "New Orleans" (Rock pretty portrait of adoles- this beat, beat "Sunshine Masters, BMI) on this new cent girl on moody "Good - of Your Love" (Dratleaf, track and should cause bye, G o o d b y e, Colette" BMI). From their album, party -giving teens great re- (Bikini, ASCAP) for his im- "Disrael Gears" (Atco joicing (Bang 554). pressive Philips bow 6544). (40502). CALBUM PICKS OF THE WEEK "Al Hirt Plays Bert Kaemp- "Fowl Play," the new al- Kenny O'Dell, clicking with fert" delivers just what bum from Julius Wechter his "Beautiful People" 4,42 4e4tGrin 01,- the title promises-a col- and the Baja Marimba single, makes a likeable lection of sleekly played Band, will get lots of play. album debut with his click tunes by the slick trum- "Yellow Days," "Windy," and other familiar newies peter (RCA Victor LPM/ "The Look of Love" (A&M (Vegas -White Whale V491), LSP 3917). 136; SP 4136). 1¡ - 64(7 _t eut, ri I 1 II ) rl www.americanradiohistory.comAmericanRadioHistory.Com THE NATIONS FASTEST BREAKING H IT! ltøw etd«4ùie4 apt V 1279 Ardis Music & Unart Music Corp. BMI. "MR. SOUL SATISFACTION" oz (G. McGregor) J Produced & Arranged by G. McGregor " do for Sidra Records Inc. OP- C/NiT `NG Ep ARTISTS REG°R°S NITED A DIVISION OF TISTS Transamerica www.americanradiohistory.comAmericanRadioHistory.Com The Record World Rocked To Its Very Soul in '67 A number of other sound- R G R Albums R B tracks were important, too. and & in General Decca started the year with Among Year's Success the blockbuster Julie Andrews Stories tracker, "Thoroughly Modern By DAVE FINKLE be traced back easily to Capi- were admitting to the use of Millie." The year is closing A lot went on in the music tol's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely drugs and/or marijuana.) with the release of "Doctor industry this past year. Hearts Club Band," from con- tinuing trendsetters, And there was even a res- Dolittle," which, along with In the way the Beat- of trends there les. The response to this album, urrection of such ditties as "Valley of the Dolls," gives were any number of notable most notably from the press "Yes, We Have No Bananas," 20th Century -Fox two big develoments and counter - when - reviewers, was overwhelming word suddenly spread soundtrack packages. UA's "A developments. For instance, that frying banana peels and and even over -intellectualized. Man and A Woman" also broke first there was the influence Although it was not really the smoking the remains caused an of drugs on teen music (e.g., first time the Beatles had tried hallucinogenic stimulation. records during the year. the thread of LSD-talk through something extensive on albums, The usual unusual novelties the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Mysticism Contemplated the scene -watchers felt it was sparked the year also. Politi- Lonely Hearts Club Band") and since the diverse As December rolled around, was ditties on the cians Adam Clayton Powell and then there the sudden dis- album were bracketed by a however, fascination with drug avowal of drugs (e.g., the set -piece song. and with non -addictive musi- Everett Dirksen waved for Beatles' swearing off the stuff cal translations seemed to be Jubilee and Capitol, respec- and Donovan's stand against Albums of a Piece fading as a new interest, again tively. their use). And the next thing, every- a new enterprise fostered by Comedy Resurgence And then there was that pro- body was the Beatles, grew-mysticism, creating albums of Comedy also made a resur- liferation of long, long singles a piece-concepts, not entities, the allure of the contemplative at the end of the summer. life. The focus of attention was gence on records. The butt of as the Rolling Stones put it much humor Things like Bobbie Gentry's recently. And spending increas- Indian mystic Maharishi Ma- of the political over -four minutes "Ode to Bil- ing hesh Yogi, who cut his own was Lyndon Johnson, although time and money in the re- Robert Kennedy came in for lie Joe" and the Doors' over - cording studios. And taking album for World Pacific and six minutes "Light My Fire." sabbaticals appeared on the back cover of his share of knocks, too. to give the muse Cameo Parkway's "Hardly The counter - development a break. the new Donovan album pack- / here was radio age, among other honors. Worthit Report," Atlantic/ that stations Among the results of this Atco's "Lyndon put their turntables down and was an Johnson's emphasis on albums were that Rhythm and blues Lonely Hearts Club Band" and said nothing doing over 3:30 radio stations important commodity in the unless started playing "Here Comes the Bird" were it's already in the Top many more album cuts than 1967 market. Without question funnies 20. Almost from that date, the was among the political had been previously the case. the girl singer of the year pulled by the industry. long record had had it. And this resulted in more sin- r/b proponent Aretha. Frank- gles being released out of al- lin, who under the supervision Merger Fever Rock Art of Wexler, cut bums than had previously been Atlantic's Jerry Aside from went on in a number of million -selling what This past year was the year the case. a number things singles and albums. Other r/b the grooves, of of the emergence of the rock Groups experimenting in went on around them. Merger album as an important artists-many of them from art newer ideas became the cyno- Atlantic/Atco, Tamla/Motown, fever hit the industry and has- form. In fact, the increasing sure of all companies and the n't subsided yet. Gulf and legitimacy of rock might be Jewel/Paula - clicked heavily. recipients of unprecedented ad- R/b became increasingly suc- Western bought Dot; Seven the trend story of the year. As vance monies. Arts bought Warner Bros., be- all things, the development can cessful overseas as well. The coming Warner Bros. -Seven In San Francisco, where Stax/Volt artists, Sam and and Arts, which, in turn, bought there suddenly seemed to be Dave, Arthur Conley the Atlantic; Uni bought Kapp; l'rodnCer% Of more groups starting out, a new late Otis Redding staged well - Trans -America bought United sensibility emerged - Flower attended tours. Artists. This Week's Music, which was no more and (Unfortunately television no less than a catchall title prime time exposure has re- Independent producers mul- Front Coles- Pieks for love -spouting groups mak- tiplied also, as indicated by mained elusive to most Negro inde- ing new music. Other generic a situation Record Record World's recent artists, And Stu Scharf and Bob Dorough words that were in constant World deplored in a series of pendent producers issue. new of the "Sunday Mornin'" use to describe the people were editorials recently.) a trend grew out "hippies," "psychedelic," "love." increasing importance of the The Lorin' Spoonful and Hollywood Goes Rock indie producer. Labels inaug- Because at one point many urated subsidiary labels with Joe Wissert groups were calling their music This past year, more than "Money" "psychedelic," the connotative previously, Hollywood looked at indies. Lou Adler's Ode for confusion with drugs coagu- rock for background sounds Columbia, Jeff Barry's Steed A Papa Don Production for Dot, Bob Crewe's Dyno- lated, and in the spring there and title songs, and the songs Voice for Dot and Koppelman- "Without Love (There is Nothing)" was a rash of scares over insid- were frequently successful, Rubin's Hot Bisquit Disc Com- Felix Pappalardi ious lyric contents. Some sta- such that the impending Oscar tions were worried that, unbe- race, for the first time in many pany for Capitol are just a "Sunshine of Your Love" years, may include more than few of the highly -capitalized knownst to them, rock and roll new labels have appeared & Ellie one tune that reached the top that Jeff Barry Greenwich songs might be proselytizing in the recent months. "New Orleans" 10-the Supremes' "The Hap- for drugs in one form or an- pening," Lulu's "To Sir, With In other words, the industry, Paul Vance & Dee Anthony other. (Indeed there was basis Love," both of which were as always, digested new ideas "Goodbye, Goodbye, Colette" in fact, because certain groups highly -successful. in its forward march in time. RECORD WORLD-December 30, 1967 3 www.americanradiohistory.comAmericanRadioHistory.Com Editorial RCA's Racusin NARM Wall Street Journal Confirms Keynote Speaker Record World's Stand On PHILADELPHIA - Norman Racusin has been an active Racusin, VP and General Man- participant in many earlier Fan Mags' `Jim Crow' ager of the RCA Victor Rec- NARM conventions, as a rep- ord Division has been named resentative of the RCA Victor During the past summer, would get by sitting in the au- Keynote Speaker for the Tenth Re Division, one of Brown con- Annual Convention of the Na- cord Record World published a ser- dience of a James NARM's charter Associate ies of attacking the cert at Madison Square Gar- tional Association of Record editorials Member companies.