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THE CONVENTION CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. The trade association for marketing music Industry unveiled at NARM "Spotlight" speakers 13. Luncheon honoring NARM officers 14. NARM Markets

1 7. Performers at luncheons and dinners 19. Exhibit area highlights 20. Inform via broadcast and print media 23. Host of spectacular luncheon show 24. Merchandiser of the Year Award 25. More about this promotion alternative 26. Super industry marketing campaign 27. Convention climax 29. Outstanding new opportunity 30. Mid-day Convention showtime 32. What happens at NARM 33. Convention meeting place " 34. In Ireland, "Gift 28. DOWN31. 2. NARM Music 3. Convention eye-openers 4. New participants 5. What NARM members do best 6. Honored at NARM Awards Banquet 7. NARM's newest market expansion program 8. Special interest Convention schedule 11. Tennis, golf and running on Miami Beach 12. Product line getting first-time Convention program 15. Key to retailer's success 16. Relax here after Convention business day 18. Awarded at Foundation Dinner 21. Hot topic of Convention program 22. "Class" topic fora Convention program Profound packaging opportunity Software and games

NARM MARKETS MUSIC” CONVENTION THEME

"NARM Markets Music" encompasses in a short but dising of specialty product (children's and classical). An very meaningful phrase, the focus of the program for exciting new dimension is added to the Convention the 1983 NARM Convention. programming, as artists' managers will be involved in a The Convention gets off to its traditional start with panel session on their role in increasing pre-recorded a Welcoming Reception on Sunday evening, April 10. music sales. The "Gift of Music" Best Seller Awards Banquet closes Afternoons will be reserved for the meetings between the program on Wednesday evening, April 13. In customers and suppliers, which will take place outdoors between will be days packed full of programming in the Fontainebleau's pool and beach area, where a featuring such "NARM Markets Music" expansion oppor- cabana/exhibit booth set-up will provide the unique tunities as "Gift of Music"; "Discover Grammy Music"; environment for inter-company communication. promotion alternatives such as MTV; the compact disc; Luncheon shows will feature outstanding recording new product lines to increase store traffic (video, video artists, as will the Scholarship Foundation Dinner and games, home computer software); and the merchan- the Awards Banquet. You should be there! Register today!

Call or write; NARM, 1008-F Astoria Blvd., P.O. Box 1970, Cherry Hill, N.J., 08034 (609) 424-7404 y L CASH BOX THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC / COIN MACHINE / HOME ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY VOLUME XLIV — NUMBER 41 — March 12, 1983

OISHBOC EDITORML Golden Opportunity GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher The spring break down in the Daytona Beach-Ft. reach this prime record-buying demographic. ALAN SUTTON Lauderdaie region of Florida has long is Vice President and Editor In Chief been Music an integral part of the college lifestyle, and recognized as one of the major MARK ALBERT annual gatherings of effective promotion could probably reap great divi- Vice President and General Manager young people on the East Coast. As the subject of dends in subsequent sales of records and tapes. J.B. CARMICLE countless movies, magazine articles and such, the With so many people gathered together, a captive Vice President and General Manager, East Coast k ~~ “ migration of college age youth to the sunnier climes audience is there for the taking. JIM SHARP Vice President, Nashville of Florida during the spring break from school This year’s series of concerts featuring new and RICHARD IMAMURA means, among other things, a lot of partying. developing acts, plus the various label co- Managing Editor promotions with manufacturers of other youth- JOE FLEISCHMAN And nowadays, partying means, at least to some Director Of Marketing oriented products, are surely a step in the right extent, a lot of music being played and listened to. East Coast Editorial direction. Spring break down in Florida has already FRED GOODMAN, Bureau Chief Thus, it is encouraging to see labels this year begin- LARRY RIGGS. Radio Editor become an institution of sorts — the people will con- JIM BESSMAN ning to experiment with a little imaginative promo- gregate in the sun every year whether the record West Coast Editorial tion in the area during the spring break. MICHAEL GLYNN. Audio/Video Editor companies are there or not.lt is now up to the music MICHAEL MARTINEZ, Marketing Editor JEFFREY RESSNER With some 350,000 youths expected to be in the industry to see if it can make something of this Research area for the next month or so, this is an ideal time to golden opportunity. KEN KIRKWOOD, Manager BILL FEASTER MIKE PLACHETKA HARALD TAUBENREUTHER GREGORY 0. LESCHISHIN CONTENTS Nashville Editorial/Research JUANITA BUTLER TOM ROLAND DEPARTMENTS ANITA WILSON Black Contemporary 49 ON THE COVER Classifieds 54 Art Directors Country 20 In more than 25 years as an en- OIS^'^OXI LARRY CRAYCRAFT 19 Gospel tertainer, Mel Tillis has established International 46 Circulation — Jazz 13 himself as a man of many talents THERESA TORTOSA, Manager Merchandising 16 singer, songwriter, actor and en- PUBLICATION OFFICES Pro Audio 15 trepreneur. Even with his im- NEW YORK Radio 47 1775 Broadway, New York NY 10019 pressive diversification, Tillis has Video 14 Phone: (212) 586-2640 still held firm in his abilities to Cable Address: Cash Box NY FEATURES Telex: 666123 Coast To Coast 12 charm an audience with his dis- HOLLYWOOD Editorial 3 tinctive personal attributes and W 6363 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 930) Executives on The Move 10 Hollywood CA 90028 humble attitude, capturing the New Faces To Watch 8 Phone: (213) 464-8241 Country Music Assn.’s prestigious CHARTS NASHVILLE Entertainer of the Year award in the process. 21 Music Circle East, Nashville TN 37203 Top 100 Singles 4 Phone: (615) 244-2898 Top 200 Albums 52, 53 Re-signing recently with MCA after a stint with Elektra, and CHICAGO Black Contemporary Albums 49 working with Harold Shedd for the first time, Tillis has reinfor- CAMILLE COMPASIO, Coin Machine, Mgr. Black Contemporary Singles 50 ced his position as a formidable recording artist; and the Texas 1442 S. 61st Ave., Cicero IL 60650 Country Albums 21 863-7440 Phone: (312) Country Singles 22 shuffle, Tillis’ strongest suit, still maintains the hard western WASHINGTON, D.C. Gospel Albums 19 edge that has become the trademark of Tillis and his traveling EARL B. ABRAMS International Albums, Singles 46 3518 N. Utah St.. Statesiders band. Jazz Albums 13 Arlington VA 22207 Tillis has come a long way since his days as a lanky quarter- Phone: (703) 243-5664 Rock Album Radio Report 48 ”” Top 30 Videocassettes 14 back in Pahokee, Fla., but after all this time, he’s still one of the MIGUIL SMtRNOFF REVIEWS most congenial and easy-going country boys in the country Director of South American Operations Albums 6 music arena. Cash Box is proud to salute Mel Tillis with a ARGENTINA — MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Singles 8 special supplement this week, beginning opposite page 24. Lavalle 1569, Piso 4, Of. 405 1048 Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: 45-6948 AUSTRALIA — ALLAN WEBSTER 3/57 Dickens St. Elwood Vic 3184, Australia BRAZIL — CHRISTOPHER PICKARD TOP POP DEBUTS Av. Borges de Mederios, 2475 Apt. 503, Lagoa Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 1 WON’T HOLD YOU BACK — Toto — Columbia Phone: 294-8197 SINGLES CANADA — KIRK LaPOINTE 420 Gloucester Street #107 Ottawa. Ontario, Canada. KIE 7T7 WE’VE GOT TONIGHT — Kenny Rogers — Liberty Phone: (613) 235-7743 /1LBUMS GERMANY — GERHARD AUGUSTIN Oettingenstrasse 66 8 munich 22 Phone: 089-221363 POP SINGLE POPABUM Telex: 5-29378 NUMBER ITALY — MARIO DE LUIGI THRILLER "Musica e Dischi" Via Giannone 2 BILLIE JEAN 20154 Milan, Italy Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Phone: (02) 389-059/389-936 Epic Epic JAPAN — Adv. Mgr., SACHIO SAITO Editorial Mgr., KOZO OTSUKA 3rd Floor of Chuo-Tatemono bldg. ONES 2-chome, 11-1, Shinbashi, Minato-ku, B/C SINGLE B/C/1LBUM Tokyo Japan, 105 Phone: 504-1651 NETHERLANDS — CONSTANT MEIJERS BILLIE JEAN THRILLER P.O. Box 1807 Michael Jackson Michael Jackson 1200 BV Hilversum Epic Phone: 035-19841 Epic SPAIN— ANGEL ALVAREZ Lopez de Hoyos 178, 5 CD Madrid — 2 Spain Phone: 415 23 98 COUNTRY SINGLE COUNTRY zILBUM UNITED KINGDOM — NICK UNDERWOOD Flat 6, 196 Sussex Gardens I IF I MOUNTAIN MUSIC London W2 England WOULDN’T CHANGE YOU COULD Phone: 01-402-6779 Ricky Skaggs Alabama SARA RANDELL Epic RCA Phone: 01-402-9338

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Weeks Weeks Weeks On On On 3/5 Chart 3/5 Char 3/5 Charls BILLIE JEAN 33 MICKEY 68 SWINGIN’ TONI MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 34-03509) 2 8 BASIL (Chrysalis 2638) 31 27 JOHN ANDERSON (Warner Bros. 7-29788) 78 DO YOU REALLY WANT TO 34 POISON ARROW eS^SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I HURT ME ABC (Mercury/PolyGram 810 340-7) 40 7 GO 1 15 CULTURE CLUB (Epic 3403368) 35 DREAMIN’ IS EASY THE CLASH (Epic 34-03547) 75 STRAY CAT STRUT STEEL BREEZE (RCA PB-13427) 39 9 70]LAND OF A THOUSAND STRAY CATS (EMI America B-8122) 3 12 36 BETCHA SHE DON’T LOVE YOU DANCES EVELYN KING (RCA PB-13380) 37 8 DOWN UNDER THE J. GEILS BAND (EMI America B-8156) 77 MEN AT WORK (Columbia 38-03354) 4 19 37 MAKE LOVE STAY YOU ARE DAN FOGELBERG WELCOME TO HEARTLIGHT LIONEL RICHIE (Motown 1657) 6 9 (Full Moon/EpIc 34-03525) 41 6 KENNY LOGGINS (Columbia 38-03555) 85 HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF 38 LIES 72 THE FANATIC THOMPSON TWINS (Arista AS 1024) 8 - FELONY (Rock 'N' ROLL/CBS DURAN DURAN (Capitol B-5195) 7 12 42 ZS4 03497) 74 i SHAME ON THE MOON 39 IT MIGHT BE YOU (THEME 73)COME GIVE YOUR LOVE TO ME BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND FROM “TOOTSIE”) JANET JACKSON (A&M 2522) 80 (Capitol B-5187) 5 13 STEPHEN BISHOP (Warner Bros. 7-29792) 43 7 74 BAD BOY BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG 40 SO CLOSE RAY PARKER, JR. (Arista AS 1030) 67 16 PRETENDERS (Sire 7-29840) 10 13 DIANA ROSS (RCA PB-13424) 45 6 75 MINIMUM LOVE ALL RIGHT 41 DER KOMMISSAR MAC McNally (Getfen 7-29736) 84 2 CHRISTOPHER CROSS AFTER THE FIRE (Epic 34-03559) 51 5 76 THE BLUES (Warner Bros. 7-29843) 9 8 42 BEAT IT RANDY NEWMAN and PAUL SIMON 10 WE’VE GOT TONIGHT MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 34-03759) 59 3 (Warner Bros. 7-29803) 70

KENNY ROGERS AND SHEENA EASTON 77 (I’M . . 43 WINDS OF CHANGE SEX A .) (Liberty B-1492) 11 7 JEFFERSON STARSHIP BERLIN (Geften 7-29747) 86 11 ONE ON ONE (Grunt/RCA FB-13439) 47 7 78 LOVE MY WAY DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES 44 NICE GIRLS PSYCHEDELIC FURS (Columbia 38-03340) 88 (RCA PB-13421) 13 7 MELISSA MANCHESTER (Arista AS 1045) 48 6 79 PLEASE MR. POSTMAN GENTLE PERSUASION (Capitol B-5207) 81 12 BABY, COME TO ME 45 I LIKE IT PATTI AUSTIN DeBARGE (Motown 1645) 50 6 SO'IOUTSTANDING (Qwest/Warner Bros, qwe 50036) 8 24 46 DON’T TELL ME YOU LOVE ME THE GAP BAND (Total Experlen- 13 SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS NIGHT RANGER (Boardwalk NB-1 1-1717) 46 8 ce/PolyGram TE 8205) 89 APART) 47 BURNING HEART JOURNEY (Columbia 38-03513) 16 6 VANDENBERG (Atco 7-99947) 49 12 81 SHOPPIN’FROMATOZ TONI BASIL (Chrysalis/CBSVS4 03537) 82 14 PASS THE DUTCHIE 48 IT’S RAINING MEN MUSICAL YOUTH (MCA-52149) 14 13 THE WEATHER GIRLS (Columbia 38-03354) 52 7 (82^00 ARE IN MY SYSTEM ' / THE SYSTEM (MIrage/Atco WTG-7-99937) 15 AFRICA 49 LITTLE TOO LATE 90 TOTO (Columbia 38-03335) 12 20 PAT BENATAR (Chrysails/CBS VS4 03536) 53 6 83)EVEN NOW y BOB SEGER AND THE SILVER BULLET 16 COME ON EILEEN 50 CHANGE OF HEART DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS BAND TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS (Capitol B-5213) — (Mercury/PolyGram 76189) 22 8 (Backstreet/MCA BSR-52181) 58 3 84 DESPERATE BUT NOT 17 BREAKING US IN SERIOUS TWO 51 YOUR LOVE IS DRIVING ME ADAM ANT (Epic 34-03688) — JOE JACKSON (A&M 2510) 18 9 CRAZY 85 ESCALATOR OF LIFE 18 1 KNOW THERE’S SOMETHING SAMMY HAGAR (Getfen 7-29816) 35 15 ROBERT HAZARD PB-13449) — ] GOING ON (RCA 52 ROCK THE CASBAH 86 WALKING IN L.A. FRIDA (Atlantic 7-89984) 20 19 THE CLASH (Epic 34-03245) 33 23 . MISSING PERSONS (Capitol B-5212) — 19 MR. ROBOTO 53 TAKE THE SHORT WAY HOME STYX (A&M 2525) 23 5 f87)ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE > DIONNEWARWICK(Arlsta AS 1040) 64 3 ^-^TO REMIND 20 GOODY TWO SHOES ME 54)WHIRLY GIRL NAKED EYES (A&M 2536) — ADAM ANT (Epic 34-03367) 17 17 0X0 (Getfen 7-29765) 62 4 88 STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART 21 ALLENTOWN 55 YOU CAN’T HURRY LOVE BRYAN ADAMS (A&M 2536) — PHIL COLLINS (Atlantic BILLY JOEL (Columbia 38-03413) 15 16 7-89923) 36 19 89 EENIE MEENIE 22 MANEATER 56 ALWAYS JEFFREY OSBORNE (A&M 2530) — FIREFALL (Atlantic DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES 7-89916) 61 9 90 ONLY YOU (RCA PB 19 22 13354) 57 I DON’T CARE ANYMORE YAZ (Sire 7-29844) - 23 MY KIND OF LADY PHIL COLLINS (Atlantic 7-89877) 65 5 SUPERTRAMP (A&M 2517) 27 7 58 SOMETHING TO GRAB FOR 91 HEART OF THE NIGHT 24 TWILIGHT ZONE RIC OCASEK (Getfen 7-29874) 63 5 JUICE NEWTON (Capitol B-5192) 56 16

GOLDEN EARRING (21/PolyGram T1103) 26 16 59 I CAN’T STAND STILL 92 LOVE ME AGAIN 25 I’VE GOT A ROCK’N ROLL DON HENLEY (Asylum 7-69931) 38 9 THE JOHN HALL BAND HEART 60 LITTLE RED CORVETTE (EMI America B-81 51) 72 7 ERIC CLAPTON (Warner Bros. 7-29780) 29 7 PRINCE (Warner Bros. 7-29746) 68 3 93 NEW FRONTIER DONALD FAGEN (Warner Bros. 7-29792) 79 7 61 26 YOU AND 1 SOME KIND OF FRIEND EDDIE RABBITT with CRYSTAL GAYLE BARRY MANILOW (Arista AS 1046) 76 3 94 YA MAMA WUF TICKET (Prelude 644) 95 4 (Elektra 7-69936) 24 22 62 SHE BLINDED ME WITH 27 JEOPARDY SCIENCE 95 SMILING ISLAND ROBBIE PATTON (Atlantic 7-89955) 97 2 GREG KIHN BAND THOMAS DOLBY (Capitol B-5204) 69 4 (Beserkley/ElekIra 7-69847) 34 7 63 ON THE LOOSE 96 LAST NIGHT A D.J. SAVED MY 28 THE WOMAN IN ME SAGA (Portrait/CBS 37-03359) 54 15 LIFE DONNA SUMMER (Getfen 7-29805) 26 13 INDEEP (Sound Of New York S.N.Y. 5102) 99 2 64 I WON’T HOLD YOU BACK 29 FALL IN LOVE WITH ME TOTO (Columbia 38-03597) — 1 97 WHAT LOVE IS EARTH. WIND & FIRE (Columbia 38-03375) 32 8 MARTY BALIN (EMI America B-8153) 73 4 65 SHOOT FOR THE MOON 30 SEXUAL HEALING POCO (Atlantic 7-89919) 44 12 98 HEART TO HEART MARVIN GAYE (Columbia 38-03302) 25 20 KENNY LOGGINS (Columbia 38-03377) 57 16 66 WHAT ABOUT ME 31 THE OTHER GUY MOVING PICTURES 99 TIED UP LITTLE RIVER BAND (Capitol B-5185) 21 17 (Network/Elektra 7-69952) 60 26 OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN (MCA-52155) 66 9 32 I’M ALIVE 67 I KNEW YOU WHEN 100 DIRTY LAUNDRY NEIL DIAMOND (Columbia 38-03503) 30 9 LINDA RONSTADT (Asylum 7-69853) 55 14 DON HENLEY (Asylum 769894) 71 20 ALPHABETIZED TOP 100 SINGLES (INCLUDING PUBLISHERS AND LICENSEES)

Africa (Hudmar/Cowbella — ASCAP) 15 Heart Of The Night (Warner-Tamerlane/Flying Love My Way (Blackwood — BMI) 78 Should I Stay (Nineden Limited — PRS) 69

Always Something (Hill & Range Songs — BMI) . . .87 Dutchman/Sweet Harmony — BMI/ASCAP) ... .91 Make Love Stay (Hickory Grove — ASCAP) 37 So Close (Rossville — BMI/Mel-Day — ASCAP) . . .40 All Right (Another Page — ASCAP) 9 Heart To Heart (Milk Money/Genevieve Maneater (Fust Buzza/Hot-Cha/Unichappell— BMI)22 Some Kind Of Friend (Townsway/Angela — BMI) .61 Allentown (Joel Songs — BMI) 21 — ASCAP/Foster Frees — BMI) 98 Mickey (Chinnichap/Careers — BMI) 33 Something To Grab For (RIc Ocasek — BMI) 58

Always (Fumunda/Big Fat — BMI) 56 Hungry Like The Wolf (Tritec Ltd.) 6 Minimum Love (I've Got The Music — ASCAP/Song Smiling Islands (Red Snapper/Adel — ASCAP) . . .95

Baby. Come (Rodsongs — PRS/AdmIn. by Almo — I Can't Stand Still (Cass Country/ Tailors — BMI) 75 Straight From The Heart (Irving/Adams ASCAP) 12 Kortchmar — ASCAP) 59 Mr Roboto (Stygian Songs Adm. by Almo — Communications — BMI) 88

Back On The Chain (Al Galileo — BMI) 8 I Don't Care (Pun — ASCAP) 57 ASCAP) 19 Stray Cat Strut (Zomba Ent. — BMI) 3 Bad Boy (Raydiola — ASCAP) 74 I've Got A Rock N' Roll (WB/Warner- My Kind Of Lady (Delicate Adm. by Almo — ASCAP) 23 Swingin' (John Anderson/Llonel Delmore — BMI) .68

Beal It (Ml)ac — BMI) 42 Tamerlane/Diamond Mine/Face The Music — New Frontier (Free)unket — ASCAP) 93 Take The Short Way Home (Gibb Belcha She (Music Corp. of America/Kashif — BMI)36 ASCAP/BMI) 25 Nice Girls (House of Gold/Pullman/Datlcabo/Warner- Brothers/Unichappell — BMI) 53

Billie Jean (Mijac — BMI) 1 I Knew You When (Lowery — BMI) 67 Tamerlane — BMI) 44 The Blues (Six Pictures — BMI) 76

Breaking Us In Two (Albion Admin, by Almo — I Know There's (Russ Ballard Ltd. /Island Ltd.) 18 On The Loose (Pocket — ASCAP) 63 The Fanatic (Roaring 80's/Felony — ASCAP) 72

ASCAP) 17 I Like It (Jobete — ASCAP) 45 One On One (Hot-Cha/Unichappell — BMI) 11 The Other Guy (Screen Gems — EMI/BMI) 31 Burning Heart (WB Music — ASCAP) 47 I'm Alive (Stonebridge — ASCAP/Foster Only You (Stainless — BMI) 90 The Woman In Me (Warner-Tamerlane/Rashida/

Change Of Heart (Gone Gator — ASCAP) 50 Frees — BMI) 32 Outstanding (Total Experience — BMI) 80 Flying Dutchman/Sweet Harmony — ASCAP) . . .28

I Won't Hold Come Give Your (Satellite Ill/Richer — ASCAP) . . .73 You Back (Rehtakul Veets — ASCAP) 64 Pass The Dulchie (Virgin/Hal Shaper — ASCAP) .14 Tied Up (John Farrar/Rit of Habeas — BMI/ASCAP)99 Come On Eileen (CgIgems/EMI — ASCAP) 16 It Might Be You (Gold Horizon — BMI/Golden Porch — Please Mr. Postman (Jobete — ASCAP) 79 Twilight Zone (Fever — ASCAP) 24 Der Kommissar (Chappell — ASCAP) 41 ASCAP) 39 Poison Arrow (Virgin/Chappell — ASCAP) 34 Walking In L.A. (Private Life — ASCAP) 86 Desperate But Not (EMI/Colgems-EMI — ASCAP) .84 It's Raining Men (Songs of Manhattan Island/Olga — Rock The Casbah (Nineden Ltd. — PRS) 52 We've Got Tonight (Gear — ASCAP) 10

Dirty Laundry (Cass Country/Korichmar — BMI/Postvalda Admin, by Almo — ASCAP) 48 Separate Ways (Weed High Nightmare — BMI) ... 13 Welcome To Heartlight (Milk Money — ASCAP) . . .71

ASCAP) 100 Jeopardy (Rye Boy/Well Received — ASCAP) ... .27 Sex (Berlin Era/Xytyryan Rex/Malladin — BMI) . . .77 What About Me (Australian Tumbleweed — BMI) . .66

Land Of A Thousand (Thursday/Anatold . .70 Healing (April . — BMI) Sexual — ASCAP) What Is ASCAP) Do You Really Want (Virgin/Chappell — ASCAP) . 2 30 Love (No Ears/MCA — 97 Don't Tell Me (The Boardwalk/Rough Play — BMI) 46 Last Night (Fool Prayer/Young Lions — BMI) 96 Shame On The Moon (Coolwell/Granite — ASCAP) 7 Whirly Girl (Toy Band — BMI) 54 Down Under (Blackwood — BMI) 4 Lies (Point Ltd. — PRS) 38 She Blinded Me (Participation — ASCAP) 62 Winds Of Change (Alien Music — BMI) 43 Dreamin' Is Easy (Toneman/Wood Street — ASCAP)35 Little Red Corvette (Controversy — ASCAP) 60 Shoot For The Moon (Pirooting — ASCAP) 65 Ya Mama (Trumar/Mason-Malcolm — BMI) 94

Eenie Meenie (WB/Gravity Raincoat/Crystal — Little Too Late (Unichappell/Roseynotes — BMI) . .49 Shoppin' (Broozertoones/Baby Shoes/Irving — You And I (Four Way — ASCAP) 26 ASCAP) 89 Love Me Again (Siren Songs — BMI) 92 BMI/Wham REBOP Music — ASCAP) 81 You Are (Brockman — ASCAP) 5 Escalator Of Life (Heroic — ASCAP) 85 You Are In My (Science Lab/Green Star — ASCAP) 82 Even Now (Gear — You Can't Hurry Love (Stone Agate — BMI) 55 ASCAP) 83 — Fall In Love (Saggifire/Yougoulei/Wenkew— = Exceptionally heavy radio activity this week - Your Love Is Driving (Warner Bros./Benine I Exceptionally heavy sales activity this week ASCAP) 29 ASCAP) 51 V Goody Two Shoes (EMI/Colgems-EMI — ASCAP) .20 HEWS & REVIEWS

people are going out and buying records Retailers Weather and video games so they can play once it Grammy Winners’ Sales Up starts pouring again.” California Rain Fogelman, who reports his retail outlets In Of Awards Telecast have seen an increase in sales ranging bet- Wake Storms, Tornado ween 5_%-10% as a result of the bad by Michael Glynn (Cash Box, Feb. 26). Some 300,000 weather, was very close to the twister that — National Academy 12"x12" flats or posters, one million by Jeffrey Ressner LOS ANGELES The ripped through downtown Los Angeles the of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) “Grammy Winner" stickers for albums and LOS ANGELES — Despite such natural morning of March 1. “The tornado was Grammy Awards Feb. 23 provided product 5,000 ad sheets, each with approximately

' disasters as vicious rain, hailstorms, tor- pretty much in an isolated area ranging just by a number of winning acts with an im- 20 reproducible slicks of varying sizes, nadoes and earthquakes that once again a couple of miles,” he remarked, “but it was petus for significant increases in sales less have already been shipped to 2,000 NARM * left a path of destruction and despair in close to our headquarters, and if it did hit than a week after the highly rated telecast member accounts by the trade organiza- their wake throughout many parts of us here, God forbid, we would have been in on CBS-TV. According to a Cash Box sur- tion’s Stan Silverman, according to NARM vice president Dan Davis. f California last week, most record retailers trouble. But as it turned out, nothing out- vey of retail accounts and sales reports reported that business went on as usual. rageous happened. Some of the stores had from leading chains, rack jobbers and one- “We have five different types of 12''x12" There were some stores that even reported a few leaky roofs, but no inventory was stops, top-selling LPs by such Grammy flats featuring the big winners in each an increase in sales due to the inclement damaged, and none of the stores had to winners as CBS recording acts Toto and musical category, including a generic ‘ conditions, according to a spot check of stop business. It’s not like snow storms, Men At Work received an added boost with ‘Discover Grammy Winners’ poster,” said music merchandisers. where everything closes down.” the awards, as did albums by Lionel Richie, NARM’s Davis. “The ‘Discover Grammy * Rock Music’ flat, for instance, features “Basically, rain is good for us,” said Lou Rain Fair To Business Willie Nelson and Melissa Manchester, John Cougar, Pat Benatar and Survivor; Fogelman, president of Show Industries, Russ Solomon, head of the 30-plus store among others. while the country one features Juice New- which oversees operations of the 27 Music Tower Records chain, which has a number of Record labels — particularly CBS, which ton, Willie Nelson and Alabama. The pop Plus stores around the L. A. /Orange outlets in the Southern California area, took 21 of the 62 awards — have concen- one features Lionel Richie, Melissa County area. “There are so many different concurred with Fogelman’s assessment of trated most of their efforts in support of Manchester, Toto and Men At Work; and things to do in Southern California when it's their Grammy-winning artists on working in } how rain affects the day-to-day operations. one features Marvin Gaye, Jen- ' the R&B sunny outside, so when it rains we’re in “Rainy weather in California is fair for busi- conjunction with the National Assn, of nifer Holliday, Earth, Wind & Fire and The competition with less leisure time activities. ness, because people stay inside. They Recording Merchandisers (NARM) in im- Dazz Band.” Besides, it’s been raining mostly during the can’t go to the beaches, so they go shop- plementing the second and final phase of morning and night; the days are clean, so (continued on page 13) the “Discover Grammy Music” campaign ‘Phenomenal’ Response

Commenting on feedback from retail accounts as to the effectiveness of the cam- daily. paign’s second half, NARM’s Davis called it Nashville Network The cable system is the first one “phenomenal, as was the initial effort with devoted exclusively to country tastes, and nominees.” Bows With Largest many have looked upon the network as an A CBS spokesman stated that the label alternative to MTV. However, in actuality, was still in the proces of “stickering Initial Audience the system will opt for more traditional everything that won with the ‘Grammy Win- programming, including game shows and NASHVILLE — The Nashville Network ner’ sticker,” and was “getting a lot of talk (TNN) will debut March 7 with the largest programs that are geared toward the cooperation from retailers in positioning country lifstyle in contrast to initial subscriber base in cable history, record label- winning product in the front of the store.” supplied video clips. Eight programs have reaching seven million households with its Although CBS wouldn’t confirm it, a top- unique country programming. A product of been scheduled to air on weekdays, in- ranking executive with a national chain WSM, Inc. and Group W Satellite Com- cluding Nashville Now, the first live enter- said CBS was offering a “Grammy discount munications, the network bows with a five- tainment show to emerge in the cable in- deal” on all Grammy winning CBS product, hour lineup of live entertainment from six — dustry. Hosted by Ralph Emery, the 90- with the exception of Men At Work. venues across the country • the Grand minute nightly program combines inter- National Record Mart is an example of Ole Opry, The Savoy in New York, The ASCAP THANKS MERV -= The American views, performances and features along one chain continuing to capitalize on the Palomino in Los Angeles, After The Gold Society of Composers, Authors and with an opportunity for viewers to phone in Grammys by piggybacking its own promo- Rush in Denver, Park West in Chicago and Publishers (ASCAP) honored talk show and talk with guest artists. tion on top of the NARM campaign. Ac- the Austin City Limits stage. host Merv Griffin (r) for his contributions to cording to director of advertising Lance Other daily shows include Dancin’ American music with a luncheon in Beverly Reportedly, the 20 million potential Jones, from Jan. 8 up until the evening of U.S.A., a country dance program with host Hills Feb. 24. ASCAP president Hal David (!) viewers form the largest audience ever the Grammy Awards, National Record presented Merv with a special AM/PM garnered for an initial launch of a cable Jacky Ward and choreographer Melanie Mard and Oasis stores offered $1 off , 1-40 Award — "ASCAP Music Presented by system. TNN will broadcast eighteen hours Greenwood; Paradise, a situation nominated product. In-store point-of- Merv" — in the form of a gold pocket watch. of programming daily, running from 9 a.m.- comedy set at a truck stop between purchase aids, such as banners, alerted On hand were a number of celebrities, 3 a.m. EST, with six hours of original Nashville and Knoxville that will initially customers to the special. including Ginger Rogers. programming that will be run three times (continued on page 20) (continued on page IS)

Record Companies Join In On Spring Break Promotions

by Fred Goodman NEW YORK — The Daytona Beach region • of Florida has long been a mecca for college students on their spring break, a ' fact a number of youth-oriented companies have traditionally taken advantage of. This year, however, promotions for such goods as cigarettes and beer will have a new twist, with no less than five manufactures providing live concert series and co-

> promotions aimed at the 18-24-year-old market. ' With approximately 350,000 students expected to file through Daytona Beach between the second week of March and Easter Sunday, April 3, manufacturers will

• be bombarding the city with giveaways, free samples and special promotions. But, ^ this year, music has come to the forefront I as a prime vehicle for attracting consumers. Among those sponsoring music series are Stroh’s Beer, Camel, Newport RCA GRAMMY BASH — RCA Records president Robert D. Sum- Denver; Summer; and RCA recording artist Sylvia. Pictured in the and Salem cigarettes and Anheuser mer hosted a reception party for label artists and Grammy Awards bottom row are (l-r): RCA artist and Grammy winner Leontyne Busch. nominees at the penthouse suite of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Price: Rick Springfield, RCA artist and former Grammy winner; Emphasis On New Music Angeles following the recent Grammy Awards presentation at the Summer; Gentry and Mark Herndon of Alabama; Joe Galante, Nashville; Alabama’s Aside from the increased use of music in Shrine Auditorium. Pictured in the top row are (l-r): Teddy Gentry division vice president RCA Records, and hosted the Grammy Telecast, broad- t general, two of the companies, Stroh’s and of RCA Grammy Award-winning group Alabama; Summer; Randy Owens. Denver also (continued on page 12) George Albert, Cash Box president and publisher; RCA artist John cast by CBS-TV.

:ash Box/March 12, 1983 5 NEWS & REVIEWS BUSINESS NOTES New Store Fixtures February Certifications Up Over ’82 Reflect Expanded NEW YORK — The Recording Industry Assn, of America (RIAA) certified five platinum Product Lines albums, six gold albums and five gold singles in February, a marked increase from the by Jim Bessman same month last year, when only four gold and three platinum albums were certified. Ad- /1LBUMS ditionally, RIAA/Video, the trade group's autonomous video division, awarded five gold NEW YORK — Corresponding to changes in videos. the product mix being carried by today’s OUT OF THE BOX Albums certified platinum included "Now and Forever," by Arista recording group Air record retailer, merchants are modifying

Supply: "Eye In The Sky,” by labelmates the Alan Parsons Project; "Coda, " by Swan Song store fixturing for their new stores to dis- recording group Led Zeppelin; "Special Forces," by A&M recording group .38 Special; play product more effectively and use and "The Distance," by Capitol recording artist Bob Seger. space more efficiently. Many dealers con- Gold albums included "Jump To It," by Arista recording artist Aretha Franklin; tacted by Cash Box say that they are

"Records,” by Atlantic recording group Foreigner; "Hello, I Must Be Going," by Atlantic currently experimenting with new fixturing recording artist Phil Collins; “The Distance," by Capitol recording artist Bob Seger; and and store layouts with an eye towards "Just Sylvia," by RCA recording artist Sylvia. future product demand. Others have gone Singles certified gold included "The Fox and the Hound,” “Peter Pan," “Bambi” and beyond the prototype stage and have "Cinderella," all on Disneyland Vista Records; and "Down Under," by Columbia recording already installed innovative display pieces. group Men At Work. In discussing new store fixturing, many Video recordings certified gold included Ordinary People, RCA Selectavision retailers express a need for merchandising Videodiscs; On Golden Pond, RCA Selectavision Videodiscs; The 10 Commandments, units that can perform more than one func-

RCA Selectavision Videodiscs; Playboy, Volume I, CBS/Fox Video, videocassettes and tion. “The key word is flexibility," stated

videodiscs; and Rocky III, CBS/Fox Video, videocassettes. Harry Suttmiller, buyer for the Gold Circles department store chain based in Columbus, Ohio. "That way, as a store PolyGram Hastens CD Test Marketing SCOOP — Pete Townshend — Atco begins to mature, you have options open in release its Atlantic 90063-1 -F — Producer: Spike NEW YORK — Bowing to apparent market pressure to Compact Disc (CD) terms of accommodating changes in the System, PolyGram Records and Magnavox have moved up their introduction of the new marketplace.” — List: 10:98 — Bar Coded

their players from to March. joint test "Making demos is where I find peace configurations and attendant June A marketing Coupled with flexibility in new fixturing is and sometimes even a feeling of program is expected to begin this month efficiency. Explained Larry Mundorf, vice of prayer,” says Who head Townshend Magnavox, a sister company PolyGram that manufactures CD players, will begin test president of retail at the Stark/Camelot about the marketing them at approximately 100 department stores nationwide. The players will chain, “Mall rents aren’t getting any raw music that comprises this specially priced double album of un- retail for $800. Concurrently, PolyGram is providing 35 pop and classical titles to retail at cheaper, and since we can’^ afford larger released test tapes. A bevy of Who $16.95 apiece to use on the machines. Magnavox will announce specific details of its stores, we have to do a better job with the tunes, solo songs, soundtrack music rollout next week. space that we have in maximizing our and experimental pieces — 25 in all — “We’ve been under a lot of pressure to speed up introduction of the compact discs and merchandising area.” make up the set, giving listeners a their players," said John Harper, vice president, sales and marketing, PolyGram Classics. One merchandising method that chance to intimately examine one of “We’re the third company to introduce them, and we’ve been getting a lot of phone calls satisfies both flexibility and efficiency rock’s greatest contemporary icons at from people who’ve seen them in Japan and wanted them yesterday. But this early testing needs is the slat-wall, or grooved work. Comprehensive inner sleeve will help us iron out any marketing problems we might have with them, and we have had wallboards, that several retailers are in- marketing problems with laser in past.” to specific. notes offer informative anecdotes discs the He declined be more troducing into their new stores. The 4’ x 8Vz’ about each selection,, and the package Harper also denied that this early test marketing will have a drastic effect on the in- slats are grooved for inserting also features an exceptional cover il- troduction of CDs to the market. "Everything in this company has been carefully planned peghooks or various shelves and hangers, lustration has right target,” said. is earliest that by Ian Wright. A "one man and been on he "And May the date we could tae ready and can be used singly or combined in dis- introduce the band” version of "The Magic Bus,” to CDs.” playing just about anything. “It’s a real Piano: At the in Chicago, will its of its “Unused Quadrophenia" and an June CES PolyGram unveil specific details CD introduc- catch-all piece,” said George Hill, general early, emotional version of "Cache, tion into traditional record retail outlets. It will also release its first CD catalog, which will manager of operations at Denver’s DanJay (which in sof- contain over 100 titles. Cache” appeared a much (continued on page 19) ter form on “Face Dances”) are just a VSDA Distrib Advisory Committee Members Toid Jem Claims CBS few of the diamonds in the rough. LOS ANGELES — The members of the Video Software Dealers Assn. (VSDA) Distributors Advisory Committee were recently named at the VSDA Advisory Board meeting in Cherry Overstated Scope FE/1TURE PICKS Hill, N.Y. POP Gene Silverman, president of Video Trend in Farmington Hills, Mich., and a member of Of Import Problems THE ABOMINABLE — Nick the Advisory Board, was appointed chairman of the committee. Other distributors serving SHOWMAN by Fred Goodman Lowe — Columbia FC 38589 — Producers: on the Advisory Committee include George Atkinson of the Video Station in Santa Monica, Roger Bechlrlan with Nick Lowe — List: Calif.; Herb Fischer of Major Video Concepts in La Mesa, Calif.; Noel Gimbel of Sound NEW YORK — Jem Records of South None — Bar Coded vv Video Unlimited in Niles, III; Homer Hewitt of The Video Library Co. in Conshohocken, Plainfield, N.J., and Reseda, Calif., has On his fourth Columbia album. Lowe*" Penn.; Arthur Morowitz of Distribpix in New York, N.Y.; and James Schwartz of Schwartz become the first record importer to com- goes with variations dn a theme of bit-* Bros, in Lanham, Md. ment officially on CBS Records’ recent tersweet romanticism offset by lightheart- According to VSDA executive vice president Dan Davis, among the issues that the Ad- policy statement on importing CBS ed humor using a variety of styles, in- visory Committee will be addressing will be "the identification of the unique needs of the Records from abroad. While saying that cluding rockabilly ("Raging Eyes”), bouncy distributor of video software and, having identified those needs, addressing them within CBS’s policy statement wasn’t a surprise reggae ("Cool Reaction”) and ’50s doo wop the diversified VSDA membership umbrella.” and that it won’t have a significant effect on rock ("Tanque-Rae”). One of the major A date will be established for the first Distributor Advisory Committee meeting at a its own business, Jem also suggested that strategists of the British music revolution gathering of the VSDA Advisory Board members in Washington, D.C. March 15-16. CBS had made an inaccurate assumption since the mid-’70s, Lowe knows the ins and regarding the statute it cited, and added outs of modern pop better than almost that the impact of parallel imports could be AGAC Announces Songwriting Workshop anyone around, producing Elvis Costello, overestimated in this country. NEW YORK — The American of Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker, Rockpile Guild Authors and Composers (AGAC) has scheduled In a recent letter to all its customers, CBS over the years, a seminar for songwriters on April 1 3 at the Ell of Northeastern University and The Pretenders and a Center Ballroom Records informed them that the sale of all in Boston. current cross-country tour gig backing up The day-long event will include four workshops covering the basics of imported copies of recordings on which Tom Petty should undoubtedly help his professional songwriting and will feature input from panelists like AGAC president CBS holds the copyright must be George David Weiss, AGAC executive director own material receive the wide exposure Lewis Bachman, AGAC special projects authorized by CBS in America (Cash Box, director Bob Leone and songwriter Lou Stallman it so richly deserves. March 5). CBS cited Section 602 of the U.S. workshops The are "What Every Songwriter Should Know," which is set for 9:30-10:30 Copyright Law, which provides that a SUBTERRANEAN JUNGLE — Ramones a.m. and discusses contracts, copyright, royalties, and history; AGAC “The Songwriter’s sound copyright is infringed if copies or — Slre/Warner Bros. 23800-1 — Marketplace," 10:30-1 1 from :30 a.m. discussing current songwriting styles and markets; phonorecords of the copyrighted work Producers: Ritchie Cordell and Glen "Ask-A-Pro," a question-and-answer session from 1:00-2:30 p.m; and "Song Critique," manufactured outside the U.S. are im- Kolotkin — List: 8.98 — Bar Coded which allows participating songwriters to obtain feedback on an original composition ported into the U.S. without the permission Onetwothreefouronetwothreefour!!!! which they have taped on cassette, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. of the U.S. copyright owner. CBS also held Kicking off with a respectful cover of the The seminar costs $20, with proceeds going to the non-profit educational AGAC Foun- that the statute applies to anyone who dis- Music Explosion’s “Little Bit o’Soul,” the dation. Reservations can be made by calling Prof. Dennis Miller at (617) 437-2440, or Bob tributes or sells imported product, as well patriarchs of punk and harbingers of hard- Leone at AGAC, (212) 757-8833 as the importer. core come through with another LP of "A plain reading of the statute shows that blitzkrieging bop that should appeal to the Marteii Award Muni To Receive 1983 T.J. it is worded towards the act of importing, expanded new music crowd as well as the NEW YORK — New York radio air personality Scott Muni has been chosen to receive this not the sale of product," said Ed Grossi, old-time pinheads and glue-sniffers. The year's "Humanitarian Award” from the T.J. Marteii Foundation For Leukemia & Cancer vice president of Jem, terming CBS’s inclu- Ramones’ gritty, speedy instrumental Research. The award will be presented at the foundation’s annual dinner at New York’s sion of retailers “an inaccuracy.” assaults and lyrical lunacy, which has Hilton Hotel on May 21. ‘Nothing New’ already earned a permanent niche in Muni is currently operations director for Metromedia’s WNEW-FM, having joined the Additionally, Grossi assessed the policy rock’s hall of infamy, are given the once company in 1967 and serving as program director for 14 years. He also serves on the ex- letter as “nothing new," but rather a reitera- over by Joan Jett producer Ritchie Cordell ecutive council of the T.J. Marteii Foundation For Leukemia & Cancer Research. (continued on page 54) (continued on page 8)

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RECORD OF THE YEAR: “ROSANNA.” TOTO. ALBUM OF THE YEAR: “TOTO IV.” TOTO. SONG OF THE YEAR: “ALWAYS ON MY MIND.” (JOHNNY CHRISTOPHER, MARK JAMES, WAYNE CARSON) BEST NEW ARTIST: MEN AT WORK. BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL: “EYE OF THE TIGER.” SURVIVOR. (SINGLE) BEST R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE, MALE: “SEXUAL HEALING.” MARVIN GAYE. (SINGLE) BEST R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL (A TIE): “WANNA BE WITH YOU.” EARTH, WIND & FIRE. (SINGLE) BEST R&B INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE: “SEXUAL HEALING” (INSTRUMENTAL VERSION). MARVIN GAYE. (SINGLE) BEST COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE, MALE: “ALWAYS ON MY MIND.” WILLIE NELSON. (SINGLE) BEST COUNTRY SONG: “ALWAYS ON MY MIND.” (JOHNNY CHRISTOPHER, MARK JAMES, WAYNE CARSON) BEST RECORDING FOR CHILDREN: “IN HARMONY 2.” (BILLY JOEL, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JAMES TAYLOR, KENNY LOGGINS, CARLY AND LUCY SIMON, TEDDY PENDERGRASS, JANIS IAN, CRYSTAL GAYLE, LOU RAWLS, DENIECE WILLIAMS, DR. JOHN) LUCY SIMON AND DAVID LEVINE, ALBUM PRODUCERS. BEST SPOKEN WORD, DOCUMENTARY OR DRAMA RECORDING: “RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE MOVIE ON RECORD.” TOM VOEGELI, ALBUM PRODUCER. BEST JAZZ VOCAL PERFORMANCE, FEMALE: “GERSHWIN LIVE!” SARAH VAUGHAN. BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, SOLOIST: “WE WANT MILES.” MILES DAVIS. BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCAL: “ROSANNA.” TOTO. JERRY HEY, DAVID PAICH, JEFF PORCARO, INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGERS. BEST VOCAL ARRANGEMENT FOR TWO OR MORE VOICES: “ROSANNA.” TOTO. DAVID PAICH, VOCAL ARRANGER BEST ENGINEERED RECORDING: “TOTO IV.” TOTO. AL SCHMin, TOM KNOX, GREG LADANYI, DAVID LEONARD, ENGINEERS. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR (NON-CLASSICAL): TOTO. BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM: “BACH: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS.” GLENN GOULD. GLENN GOULD AND SAMUEL CARTER, ALBUM PRODUCERS. BEST CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE-INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST OR SOLOISTS (WITHOUT ORCHESTRA): “BACH: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS.” GLENN GOULD. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES lOTH ANNUAL HALL OF FAME AWARDS “BACH: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS” (ALBUM) GLENN GOULD. “EMPTY BED BLUES.” BESSIE SMITH. AND CONGRATULATIONS TO PAT BENATAR AND CHRYSALIS RECORDS- OUR CBS DISTRIBUTED LABEL. 22 GRAMMY M ^^ AWARD ^Bi^^ WINNERS CBS RECORDS NEWS & REVIEWS — Producer: Tony Brown — List: 8.98 In the latest single from the “Toto IV” Vocally, she's the Stephanie Mills of the SINGLES album, the Grammy-winning group dishes gospel works, and, as such, Shirley Caesar up a soft torch tune about a man letting go REVIEWS is the most successful black female singer of his lover. Somber vocals, light piano and in the genre, with an inspired ability to trans- electric guitar flourishes combine to make late the Christian message via pop/R&B this well-crafted tune a sure pop hit. (continued from page 6) shadings with elaborate, emotive phrasing. MISSING PERSONS (Capitol P-B-5212) and Beserkley knob man Glen Kolotkin, Thick, horn-tinged productions showcase Walking In L.A. (3:30) (Private Life Music making tunes such as "My-My Kind of A her renditions superbly here, aptly tex- — ASCAP) (T. Bozzio) (Producer: K. Scott) Girl" and “In The Park" right for AOR and tured with a supporting cast of backing The establishing synth riff and Dale Boz- cuts like "Everytime I Eat Vegetables It vocalists. zio’s hiccup are trademark Missing Per- Makes Me Think of You" just the thing for sons, but the latest single from “Spring alternative outlets. NEW >1ND DEVELOPING ^ Session M,” already a radio hit in Los WAR — U2 — Island 90067-1 — Producer: Angeles, is more straightforward rock than Steve Llllywhite — List: 8.98 — Bar Coded SHABOOH SHOOBAH — INXS — At- those preceding. The lyrics take an affec- A concept album dealing with the per- co/Atlantlc 90072-1 — Producer: Mark LAURA BRANIGAN (Atlantic 7-89868) tionate jab at L.A.’s auto dependency. sonal and political conflicts confronting Opitz — List: 8.98 — Bar Coded Solitaire (4:00) (Youngster Musikverlag CHEAP TRICK (Warner Bros. 7-29723) mankind, "War" by Irish rock team U2 is an Pronounced "Shabu Shubah,” the de- GmbH — GEMA) (M. Clemenceau) Spring Break (3:02) (Gold Horizon Music intense, often unsettling, indictment of but American (Producer: J. White) Corp. /Adult Music — BMI) (R. Nielsen) social structures, nuclear proliferation and album from an- 2" The first single off “Branigan (Producers: Cheap Trick, I. Taylor) mindless militarism. "Sunday Bloody Sun- tipodean pun- splendidly combines the ballad ap- While Cheap Trick’s tunes have long day," “The Refugee" and a ballad called sters INXS (pro- oroach of her overlooked debut single, been compared with Beatles’ melodicism, "Surrender" provide the platter's most nounced “In ex- “All Night With Me,” with the fire of the group’s new single sounds a lot like a haunting moments, and the first single, is lively cess”) a “Gloria.” A staccato keyboard under- White Album rocker. The tune is the first “New Year's Day." should help the LP collection of pinning holds the soft-to-hard progres- single from the forthcoming Spring achieve commercial recognition shortly. Break danceable rock- THE sion together, but it’s Branigan’s movie soundtrack and could be a perfect WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH ers heavily in- TOUGH GET GOING — Bow Wow Wow — dynamic vocal presence that makes it lead-in to summer fun. fluenced by more than a credible follow-up to her RED RIDER (Capitol P-B5211) RCA AFL1-4570 — Producer: Mike Chap- such diverse recent smash. Human Race (3:26) (Rumphyboobah man — List: 8.98 — Bar Coded sources as Split Enz, Peter Gabriel, Bowie Publishing ~ CAPAC) (T. Cochrane) Blondie producer Mike Chapman tries and the Stones, among others. Actually the (Producer: D. Tickle) his hand at twiddling the controls for U.K. group’s third LP Down Under, where it shot Canadian rockers Red Rider deliver a tribal rock act Bow Wow Wow and has FE/1TURE PICKS into the Top 10 just two weeks after its hard-driving song about survival and managed to deliver what could be the debut, “Shabooh Shoobah” boasts several POP freedom in a strange world, in the first group's most accessible album to date. A galvanizing cuts, such as the funk-tinged TOTO (Columbia 38-03597) single from the “Neruda” LP. A steady beat steamy and seductive opener called "Spy of Love,” the high-energy “Black and I Won’t Hold You Back (4:35) (Rehtakul and guitar underscore, while reedy vocals “Aphrodisiac" sets the tone for the entire White” and the uptempo single choice, Veets Music — ASCAP) (S. Lukather) evoke the proper emotions. Look for album, mixing sexy vocals by mohawked “The One Thing.” (Producers: Toto) strong AOR acceptance. teen sweetheart Anabella Lwin over the KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS (Sire 7- throbbing beat of African barundi drums. 29738) THE MAN FROM UTOPIA — Frank Zappa NEW B4CES TO W/ITCH Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy (3:50) (Peren- — Barking PumpkIn/CBS FW 38403 — new friends.” That newfound accep- nial August/Cri Cri Music — BMi) (A. Dar- List: None tance of Dexys has not affected the nell) (Producer: A. Darnell) A wavy diatribe against the evils of original hardcore audience the group This remixed, edited version from the cocaine, a spacey tone-poem about sex in its early stages. “I said from the group’s “Wise Guy” LP tears a page out of and several jazzy Instrumental interludes built Swamp Dogg’s book (including a “mama’s beginning that I always wanted Dexys to are the high points of Zappa's latest LP, be changing and some of them — the baby, papa’s maybe” refrain) and which features both live and studio cuts. A ones who were really into Dexys — are rewrites it with a deeply layered instrumen- stream-of-consciousness-type rap on tal track featuring steel drums, trombone still into it. I see them, and they like us “The Jazz Discharge Party Hats” concern- better than ever now.” and what sounds like a ukulele. Superior ing groupies is pretty amusing, but overall, dance fare and loads of fun. the instrumental pieces work best here, Much of the change in Dexys’ sound thanks to axeman Steve Vai's "impossible BLACK CONTEMPORARY can be attributed to the addition of guitar parts" off-the-wall GIRLS (Gordy 1670GF) and Zappa's Dexys Midnight violinist Helen O’Hara and The Emerald MARY JANE arrangements. Cartoonish cover design, Candy Man (4:08) (Stone City Music — Express, a three-piece string trio. While which depicts FZ looking like a heavy- ASCAP) (R. James) (Producer: R. James) Runners casting about for a new direction bet- a Staccato keyboards and a floating string metal Conan mangling Fender Kevin Rowland and his band, Dexys ween the recording of “Searching For straightforward, up-tempo stratocaster with his fist, is an instant eye- Midnight Runners, have broken through The Young Soul Rebels” and ”Too-Rye- synth pace this catcher. love ballad. punchy vocal pinpoints this into the American market in their own Ay,” Rowland met O’Hara through a chance A Rick James-penned-and-produced song. THE PHOTOGRAPHER — Philip Glass — way with “Come On Eileen,” bulleting encounter at a bus stop. Seeing her CBS FM 37849 — Producers: Kurt this week at #22 on the Cash Box violin case, Rowland began talking and RITA MARLEY (Shanachie SH 705) Munkacsl and Philip Glass — List: None — singles chart. An up-tempo ballad laced trading ideas with her, with the ultimate The Beauty of God’s Plan (3:45) (Rita Bar Coded with traditional Irish fiddle music, result that the two decided to try playing Marley Music/Almo Music — ASCAP) (D.L. Respected composer and keyboardist "Come On Eileen” is a fitting U.S. debut together. The contributions of O’Hara McNeil, C. Samarel) (Producers: R. Philip Glass' latest avant-garde/classical for the band, whose sound marries the and her Emerald Express compatriots Walters, G. Cooper, S. Golding) work serves as a musical backdrop to a punch of American soul with the roman- helped to mold the romantic tenor of the While no one has emerged to claim the theater piece about pioneering ticism of traditional British folk music, latter album. late Bob Marley’s crown as the king of photographer Eadweard Muybridge and producing an exciting and decidedly in- reggae, Rita Marley proves here that she’s “The Bridge,” Dexys’ name for its the murder of his wife's paramour during ternational offspring. Although the still the queen. Her new single for current live show, follows on the heels of the turn of the century. Brilliant synthesizer band’s influences are myriad — in- Shanachie showcases her commanding, two previous thematic shows the group arrangements abound here, particularly cluding Van Morrison and the Americanized vocal style superbly in front — performed. According to Rowland, during the third act, while the second act Memphis/Stax and Motown sounds of a bouncing, almost gospel setting. Look 1982’s "Projected Passion Review” was highlights the eccentric violin of Paul the end result belongs solely to for U/C and fringe rock support. about showing feelings and putting Zukofsky. Rowland and company. things across in the same way the BLACK Dexys Midnight Runners is a con- CONTEMPORARY previous “Intense Emotion Revue” of NEW/1ND DEVaOPING stantly changing group, and that’s the SUPER HITS — Johnnie Taylor — Stax 1981 was "much harder and much more way Rowland wants it. “Searching For MPS-8520 — Producer: Don Davis — List: aggressive altogether. We’ve changed BRYAN ADAMS (A&M-2536) 8.98 The Young Soul Rebels,” the group’s some of the old songs, done them Straight From The Heart (3:30) (Irving This "greatest hits" debut album on EMI in England, and the anthology of blues- in new arrangements,” adds Rowland Music/Adams Communications — BMI) subsequent release of “Geno.” a huge styled vocalist Taylor begins with his first about the current show, "and they’re (Adams, Kagna) (Producers: B. Adams, B. chartbuster. chart success in that country, es- the 1968 classic "Who's Mak- better, they’re more us ... we can’t Ciearmountain) ing Love," and accurately follows his Stax tablished Dexys as a musical force with keep still, it’s no good playing them as On the first career as the “hip philosopher of soul" with both a hardcore and general English they were three years ago because it ^ single from his R&B dancers like "Testify Wonna),” “Steal audience. Between the two albums, ( doesn’t mean anything. So we’ve \ "Cuts Like A though, two years elapsed. “The first Away," "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone” changed the words and the tunes to wave of the group started when ’Geno’ and the million-selling "I Believe In You make them now.” Adams a was successful in England,” comments (You Believe In Me).” Although these gentle dynamic, "eargasmic" ditties have been Rowland, Dexys leader and chief Although “Too-Rye-Ay” is the musical contributor. “Then there was a group’s third album, it is their second out on Stax's previously-released "Chroni- plea year when we weren’t successful hardly American release. Initially signed to cles” series since the ’70s, it's nice to see from the them all on a single disc, with every number at all, so we didn’t have that many fans EMI in Britain, the group madethejump t renew except for incredibly loyal hardcore to Mercury when Roger Ames, their a proven winner. romance. Adams’ raspy Rod Stewart-like following. But then, when we came with A&R man at EMI, joined Phonogram. GOSPEL voice and electric guitar sub-strata make ‘Come On Eileen’ and the new album in “He’s one of our biggest fans,” Rowland this tune a candidate for rock. JESUS, I LOVE CALLING YOUR NAME — modern Top 1 982, 1 think we generated a whole lot of said of Ames. Shirley Caesar — Myrrh/Word MSB-6721 40 and soft rock formats.

8 Cash Box/March 12, 1983 Who is the producer of over 200 greats in jazz, pop & rock?

CLUE: It’s the same source of record-business energy who has just formed a new recording company Teresa Gramophone Company, Ltd. Actually, this wide ranging enterprise encompasses two distinctive labels: Doctor Jazz and Signature.

Doctor Jazz will be a showcase for new music, traditional sounds and the fabled original Signature masters of such classic figures as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Coleman Hawkins. Also, on Doctor Jazz will be the extraordinarily multi-faceted Teresa Brewer. Due soon is a “live” recording of Teresa’s 1978 Carnegie Hall triumph, a concert featuring a host of great luminaries, including Dizzy Gillespie and Cootie Williams. Doctor Jazz will be a label of discovery! Signature will be devoted to a diversity of popular music -- middle of the road, rock, country, et al.

ANOTHER CLUE: This producer and record — company-creator has so formidable a track record, having produced more artists and records than any other producer, that it is very much in the professional interest of dealers, disc jockeys, radio programmers, to follow the action of his new company. Lastly, it is only fitting that Coiumbia Records is to manufacture and distribute his new labels. After all, since the 20’s and 30’s, Columbia has been the most consistent of creative record companies!

Erroll Garner • Paul Whiteman • The McGuire Sisters • Buddy Holly/The Crickets • Henry Mancini • Steve Lawrence • Teresa Brewer • Lawrence Welk • Buddy Hackett • Eydie Gorme • Barbara McNair • Billy Williams • Johnny Hodges • Coleman Hawkins • Gabor Szabo • Arthur Godfrey • Steve Allen • Les Brown • Louis Armstrong • Gato Barbieri • Dizzy Gillespie • Stephane Grappelli • Lonnie Liston Smith • Bob Crewe • Duke Ellington • Lester Young • Gil Scott-Heron • Bud Freeman • Eddie Condon • Thad Jones • Mel Lewis • Ruby Braff • Louis Nye • Kay Thompson • Lionel Hampton • Ron Carter • Sheila McRae • Jayne Meadows • Cornell Dupree • Eric Gayles • Joe Venuti • Alan Freed • Buddy Greco • Pat Williams • Jerry Fielding • Sid Feller • Max Roach • Abby Lincoln • Della Reese • Kay Starr • Aierto • Grady Tate •

Elvin Jones • Arnie Lawrence • Cyril Ritchard • Judy Garland • Liberace • Henny Youngman • Bill Dana • Sasha Distel • Stanley Turrentine • Tommy Flanagan • Debbie Reynolds • Clark Terry • Freddie Hubbard • Quincy Jones • Johnny Bothwell • Dtis Spann • T-Bone Walker • Joe Turner • Leon Thomas • Carol Channing • Don Ameche • Liza Minelli • Jackie Wilson • Hermione Gingold • Billy De Wolfe • Glenn Osser • Charles Lloyd • Roland Kirk • Roy Haynes • Victor Jory • Johnny Desmond • Jackie Cooper • Don Knotts • Don Adams • Peter Allen • Slam Stewart • Clara Ward • Slim Gaillard • Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson • Rhonda Fleming • Mickey Mantle • Margaret Truman • Carl Stokes • Bucky Pizzarelli • Skinnay Ennis • Dick Jurgens • Chas Hodges • Dave Peacock • Peter Frampton • Peter Lind Hayes • Dorsey Burnette • Mary Healy • Pete Fountain • Jess Stacy • George Harmonica Smith • Gene Page • Jack Pleis • Joe Guercio • Al “Jazzbo” Collins • Milton DeLugg • Horace Ott • Sabicas • Yank Lawson • Count Basie • Don Cornell • Pretty Purdie • Bob Crosby • James P. Johnson • Dliver Nelson • Pee Wee Russell • Bobby Hackett • Geerge Segal • Connie Haines • Marion McPartland • Jackie Paris • Hot Lips Page • Jane Russell • Dimitri Tiomkin • George Cates • Tom Scott • Flip Phillips • Ben Webster • Chico Hamilton • Shelly Manne • Myron Cohen • Dick Shawn • Bob Merrill • J. Fred Coots • Arthur Schwartz • Frankie Laine • Richard Groove Holmes • Fontaine Sisters • Pearl Bailey • Sonny Stitt • Louis Bellson • Stanley Clarke • Donald Smith • Cootie Williams • Don Byas • Anita O’Day • Benny Carter • Art Hodes • Lennon Sisters • B.B. King • Muddy Waters • Mills Brothers • Sy Oliver • Pat Boone Jack Kerouac • Zoot Sims • Al Cohn • Phil Woods • Art Blakely • John Coltrane • McCoy Tyner • Archie Shepp • Albert Ayler • Pharaoh Sanders • Arthur Blythe • Jon Faddis • Horace Tapscott • Edgar Sampson • Shirley Scott • Neal Hefti • Frances Wayne • Ralph Burns • Pat Harrington, Jr. • Cab Calloway • Bobby Bradford • Jimmy Owens • Hank Jones • Ralph Sutton • Bob Haggart • Bob Wilbur • Vic Dickenson • Dicky Wells • Benny Morton • Jimmy McPartland • Bud Jacobson • Toots Thielemans • Henry “Red” Allen • Eric Dolphy • Charles Mingus • Dorothy Loudon • Earl Fatha Hines • Don Redman • Steve Kahn • Sonny Rollins • James Komack • Carlos Montoya • Laurindo Almeida • Larry Carlton • Artie Butler •

ANSWER: If you haven’t guessed the indentity of this producer of over 200 greats in jazz, pop, rock & country — the name is: BOB THIELE!

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TERESA GRAMOPHONE COMPANY LTD. 1414 AVE OF THE AMERICAS • NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019 • USA • Telephone (212) 759-5565 NEWS & REVIEWS MCA Music To Help Jorgensen Named EXECUTIVES THE Develop Score For ON MOVE Finance VP At Military Joins Warner Bros. — Frank Military has Musical Street Hat been appointed executive vice president/generai manager of Warner Bros. Publications. He was most recentiy vice Compleat Corp. LOS ANGELES — MCA Music will be play- president of Chappell Music. Changes L. LOS ANGELES — Henning Jorgensen has ing what the company calls “an active role" At 3M — George Hegg has been named group vice president, memory technoiogies group in 3M’s Electronic been appointed vice president, finance, of in the development of the score for the up- and Information Technoiogies Sector. He suc- ceeds Dr. Sidney M. Leahy, Nashville’s Compleat Entertainment Corp., coming Broadway musical Street Hat, via a who assumes Hegg’s former position as group vice presi- whose Compleat Records has released unique and original arrangement with dent, Chemicals, Film and Allied Products Group, in 3M’s Industrial and Consumer Sector. LPs in the country, black contemporary producer Bert Stratford. Street Hat is Lynch Promoted — Vincent and exercise genres. In addition to his scheduled to open in the fall of 1983. Lynch has been promoted to vice president/general manager of David Friends, financial responsibilities. Jorgensen will The arrangement came out of discus- Rubinson & Inc. He has been with Rubinson for 8 years handling all business and investment affairs for firm. deal with business affairs, contract ad- sions between Leeds Levy, president of the Trumbo Appointed At Capitol — Thom Trumbo has been ministration and production, working with MCA Music. Mike Millius, MCA Music’s named A&R director of talent acquisition at Capitol Records Inc. He comes from Chrysalis company president Charles Fach in han- director of creative services in New York, Records where he had been national A&R manager since 1981. dling marketing and business activities. and Stratford. Levy has designated Millius Jorgensen was most recently employed to act as his liaison with producer Stratford Changes At I.R.S. — Kyle Hetherington comes to I.R.S. as associate director of radio promotion/west coast. as controller for Edition Chappell, S.A. in and Street Hat. She was formerly with Epic/CBS Records for five years where she was the national Paris, France, for PolyGram and, before "We have taken this unusual and promotion coordinator. Keith Altomare, director of college radio promotion for the last fourteen that, served as controller for the label for 14 positive action because we strongly believe months, has been elevated to associte director of radio promotion/east coast. years in several cities, including Montreal, that the Broadway musical has always Chicago and New York. been and continues to be a launching pad Talmadge Named — Randy Talmadge has been named director of creative services for the Nashville-based Elektra/Asylum “I’m happy to be back in the record for new songwriters and new music,” said and Refuge Music. Prior to joining Elektra/ Asylum and Refuge Music, he served business in the States and especially MCA’s Levy. "Moreover, an emphasis on as general manager for Jensing/Jen- song Music. pleased to be working with Charles Fach, the Broadway musical is a natural response to the technological revolution Gretencord Named — Haas-Hudgins has announced the appointment of a new ad- whom I have known and worked with for ministrative assistant, Cathy Gretencord. many years at PolyGram,” said Jorgensen that surrounds us by virtue of the musical’s She had previously been empoiyed by Buddy Magazine, in account services, of his new position. marriage of music with dramatic and visual and by Dallas’ ABC affiliate, WFAA-Channel 8, components. Musicals convert music into in the creative services department. TDK Changes Name a three dimensional mode which ultimately Patack Appointed At ATI — Geoff Patack has been appointed director of sales and distribution for ATI Video. He joined the in NEW YORK — TDK Japan has changed provides a better match for the mediums of company 1980 and has worked in various videodisc, videocassette, pay-TV, etc.” production capacities on ATI’s "Night Flight,” "FM-TV," and the upcoming “Radio its corporate name to correspond exactly 1990.” in English with the Japanese version. For- Volley Publishing Bows Longino Joins Mandrell — Miriam Longino has been hired to handle press and merly called TDK Electronics Co., Ltd., the NEW YORK — Volley Music Production, publicity for Mandrell Management. She last worked in the RCA country publicity of- Toyko TDK parent company is now TDK Inc., has formed Volley Publishing Co., a fice and has served in a freelance capacity for the last two years. Corp. The name change, however, does music publishing concern, in New York. A Walker Added — Disc Mastering Inc. has announced the addition of mastering not affect TDK offices outside of Japan. separate record label formation is expec- engineer Los Walker to the staff. During the past ten years, she held engineering posi- In other TDK news, Yutaka Otoshi has ted momentarily, and first release will be tions at several major mastering facilities on the west coast — MCA, ABC, and the been confirmed as the new president of “Can’t Lose Your Love,” a single by Russ Mastering Lab. TDK Corp., succeeding Fukujiro Sono, the Brown. Shannon Resigns — Harry Shannon has resigned new company chairman. Otoshi has been as executive director of ATV Music Volley Music Production is located at 2 after eight years with the firm. He will be working out of his home, but may be contacted with TDK since 1938 and has been its ex- Penn Plaza, New York. N.Y. 10121. The via the Gorfaine & Schwartz Agency. ecutive vice president since 1974. Sono is 736-5098. telephone number (212) Changes At Airwave — Michael Lee has been named vice president of A&R for Air- had been president for the last 14 years. wave Records. Recently he was head of Club Promotion and Special Proiects at the In addition, four new executive directors Sony Taps Matsumara label. And George Renfro has been appointed director of Black Music Radio Promo- have been approved. They are Hiroshi NEW YORK — Jack Matsumara has oeen tions. Prior to coming to Airwave, he was vice president of Mon-Tab Records. Sawano, in charge of the magnetic tape named associate manager, international BASF Names Paul — Cindy Paul has been named promotions manager for BASF marketing division; Goro Suzuki, manufac- relations, at CBS/Sony Records of Japan. Systems Corporation audio/video products division in the Los Angeles area. She turing; Makoto Komoda, materials and In this new position, he will oversee the comes to BASF Systems from Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation where she was a components marketing; and Yasuo Im- publicity, promotion and release- regional advertising coordinator/media specialist for the Los Angeles area. aoka, research and development. coordination functions of the department.

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-PRODUCTIVE’ MEETING FOR MCA RECORDS IN TUCSON — "Productivity is the ween R&B, country and pop. Live entertainment was provided by Permian recording ar- Future" was the theme of MCA Records Group's annual meeting at the El Conquistador tists Lynn Anderson and Katy Moffat and MCA Records' Joe “King" Carrasco and Lee Hotel in Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 10-13. The four-day conclave featured product presentations Greenwood. Pictured in the top row are (l-r): Bob Siner; MCA Distributing’s Branch of the from MCA-distributed labels Sparrow, Churchill, Permian and Larc, as well as MCA Year (New York) representatives Bob Woods, George Collier, Ronald McDonald, Jim Records. Awards for Promotion Branch of the Year, Branch of the Year, Salesperson of Wilson and Robert Aponte; MCA Distributing president Al Bergamo; N. Y. branch's Ron de the Year, and Account Service Representative of the Year were also made at the gather- Marino; and Bergamo. Pictured in the bottom row are (l-r): MCA Cincinnati branch’s Walt ing, and Bill Wolford, Baltimore salesman, was honored for his longtime service to the Wilson, Sales Representative of the Year and Retail Promotion of the Year winner for his company, attaining 25-year status. In addition, regional breakout meetings were held by "£. T. Loves Kids" campaign; John Burns, MCA Distributing vice president; Danny Bram- MCA Distribution, and MCA Records, under president Bob Siner, held individual clinics, a son. Backstreet Records president; MCA Distributing’s Promotion Branch of the Year, seminar with Tucson and Phoenix radio personnel and a forum on crossing formats bet- Denver, representative Doug Whitmire; John Burns; and Denver’s John Frie.

10 Cash Box/March 12, 1981 Dealers Step Up Emphasis On Security To Stop Piiferage by Michael Martinez or that he might offend an honest customer He said that an investment in regular of security” for store staffers who think all mistakenly targeted. Instead, he recom- mirrors (not the concave variety) placed at they must do is let the system do its thing. LOS ANGELES — In a feeble economy, the mended engaging the suspect in a face 45 degree angles could be effective along “Electronic surveillance and detection record retailer has many enemies. But it is front conversation while someone else with store merchandising for maximum systems are essential for high-mark-up not inflation, escaiating operation and called the police. visibility. items,” McCaffrey said. “They might serve product costs or the higher costs of living The security consultant also recommen- On electronic surveillance and detection as a deterrent for the amateur, but not to for consumers that represents the most in- ded that record store staffs passively in- devices, McCaffrey expressed less professionals. Every criminal has a tool to sidious threat. That distinction is reserved quire about bags brought into stores, enthusiasm. He said that while systems like take those tags and stickers off.” for shrinkage. perhaps by asking about the store where Sensormatic and Checkpoint were good But although manufacturers of the Shopiifting costs the U.S. retaii com- they had previously shopped or how nice it for high-mark-up items like video software security systems agree with McCaffrey that munity — including supermarket, book, looked. and such, they represented a “false sense (continued on page 19) drug, liquor, toy, show and record and tape stores — from $16-$24 biilion annuaiiy, three times the 1979 figures, according to studies by the Nationai Corrective Institute and the Atianta-based National Coalition to Prevent Shoplifting. Both groups an- ticipate the shrinkage rate to acceierate during the coming year. According to one security expert, record albums bring the most doliar per unit through fences, who are normaily aiready established in the industry. The going price for an $8.98 iist LP would be $3.40. The expert noted that there are fences in neariy 'every state and also that some stores get away with a product baianee of 40% legitimate product and 60% “swag," or stoien goods. With circumstances such as these in mind, several record and tape chains are becoming more actively involved in ^development of security systems. This ^concern over in-store theft is manifested in various forms — from heightened employee education to hiring of outside security to electronic anti-theft systems. Many dealers opt to improve employee awareness of the problem because of the costs incurred (both in money and image) by using security guards or electronic surveillance and detection devices. Still, many dealers, to varying degrees, have ex- perimented with each method in efforts to stem shoplifting (Cash Box, Dec. 4, 1982). The more aggressive approach represented by security guards and visible electronic surveillance and detection devices contrasts with the intrinsic merchandising approach utilizing store design for maximum store visibility and T having staff on floor, with eyes open and armed with a predetermined plan of action *for deaiing with suspected shoplifters. But the problem is as multi-facted as the

methods used to curb it, ranging from the shrinkage loss due to professional ‘boosters” and amateur thieves to employee theft and armed robbery. “ Speaking recently to a group of about 50 Southern California independent record and tape dealers at Show Industries’ City f One Stop plant, former thief Michael McCaffrey told the assemblage that they ^ must instill greater enthusiasm in their employees about security measures.

I! Outlining his own exploits in crime, McCaffrey, who is now a busy security consultant, explained that he was once one of ^the most sought after “hitters” in the record boosting business. He was in demand among several five-man boosting teams and police departments around the coun- I try. He said that he had worked with several teams in nearly every major market in the "•U.S., and, at one time, he claimed, he was responsible for $1.5 million in record and one of its ^ape thefts from regional stores. Code Needed Commenting on how to prepare store i staff for security, McCaffrey said that a finest moments in l^code should be established for when a clerk notices a possible heist in progress. ‘’For example, he said, a staffer could let this great others in on what’s going on by saying, new '“Has that shipment come in from Santa Rosa, yet.” He said the code phrase should alert staffers to commence a pre-set album. strategy for dealing with suspected thieves. I McCaffrey disparaged the aggressive approach to dealing with shoplifters, On sale now wherever fine records are sold. oiiyn-li. suggesting that a staffer might be hurt if he were to get physical or abusive with a thief.

Cash Box/March 12, 1983 11 NEWS& REVIEWS C04ST TO C04ST

EAST COASTINGS — Marvin Gaye has been booked for eight shows in six evenings at Radio City. Also look for a midnight show to be added by Prince and Vanity 6 on

March 26 . . . Geffen has inked Madness . . . Rick James Is looking for a label to

produce James Brown on . . . Rewriting the past: Allen Ginsberg will be out stumping for his just-released "First Blues” LP on John Hammond Records this Wednesday night. Ginsberg will be at Studio 54 as part of hippie-turned-entrepreneur Jerry Rubin’s

chic shmoose party. Business Networking Salon . . . Dating themselves: Rolling Stone is preparing an exceptionally long piece on what is basically an unknown band, Rochester’s Chesterfield Kings. The reason? The band Is an early psychedelic

nostalgia group . . . MTV has added "Billy Jean" by Michael Jackson . . . Portrait has

dropped The Producers . . . PVC/Adelphi has released “Th*» Fugs Greatest Hits," culled from the group’s

recordings for ESP and Broadside . . . Making Book: Publishing books on pop music Is SUBURBAN SIGNING — Minneapolis-based band The Suburbs recently signed an ex- getting to be a very serious business. The latest indication clusive deal with Mercury/PolyGram Records and will soon release a debut EP, titled comes from Proteus Publishing Co., which has "Dream Hogs. " Pictured standing at the signing are (l-r): K.C. McPherson, tour manager recently decided to print books on for the band; Ted Green, vice president, business affairs, PoiyGram; Jack Kiernan, ex- films and rock exclusively. ecutive vice president, PoiyGram; Jerry Jaffe, vice president, rock division, PoiyGram; Mike Shatzkin, the Steve Greenberg, producer of the band; Guenter Hensler, president and chief operating company’s president, recently told us that the decision officer, PoiyGram; Paul Stark, the band’s manager; and Jim Sotet, national promotion was based on several factors such as many manager, rock division. Pictured seated are (l-r): Suburbs members Chan Poiing, Michael of the subjects’ having universal appeal Halliday, Beej Chaney, Bruce Allen and Hugo Klaers. in the English language market; secon- dary opportunities in foreign markets; THE YOUTH OF TODAY — Oldster Labels Join In Spring Break the chance to develop alternative forms Michael Jackson (I) gives a tew pointers on of distribution through sheet music how to make the transition from kiddie racks and record stores; the ongoing phenom to chart mainstay to Michael Grant Promotions At Daytona Beach marketing efforts of record companies of Musical Youth. that keep the subjects in front of the public’s eye for extended periods; and the fact that (continued from page 5) a free phone call from inside the structure, the field provides a nearly endless stream of subjects, especially in biography format. Camel, have opted to focus their attention while viewing videos of CBS recording art- "Film is a legitimate international discipline, and almost every major publisher has put on new music, with Stroh’s presenting ists on a six-foot screen. out film books,” said Shatzkin. "The Beatles really legitimized rock as an intellectual shows by Modern English, Scandel, Greg Dubbing its concert series "Soundwaves discipline in the late ’60s, and it’s getting to the point where serious analytic writers are Kihn and Berlin; while Camel will present A ’83 at Daytona Beach," Stroh’s will be giving sifting through the process. But so far the nature of rock publishing has been that ef- Flock of Seagulls, Bow Wow Wow, The away T-shirts listing the concert lineup, forts were pretty dispersed with the exception of Delilah and Quick Fox. We plan to be English Beat and Lene Lovich. Both series and blanketing the town with 15,000 free the rock publisher because the opportunity is there.” Titles really began flowing from will be presented at the Plaza Hotel and will posters. In addition to the concerts, Stroh’s Proteus in October, and Shatzkin projects the firm will publish 45 rock titles in '83, feature indoor concerts in the evening and will also host an on-going video party at adding that in the future he has "no objection to doing as many as 250 titles a year.” outdoor shows during the day. Also bank- Daytona’s 600 North Club, a state-of-the- Presently drawing on the staff of Melody Makertor most of its writers, Proteus plans to ing on developing acts Is Newport, which art video venue. The party will feature 12 put an editor in New York by the end of the year to work with American writers, and pro- will be presenting Joe “King" Carrasco, hours of new music videos packaged dif- jects that a third of its titles will originate in the States by '84. As for distribution, Proteus The Producers and Duke Jupiter at the ferently each night. is going slow in its expansion to record stores. “Books are a high margin, low volume, Daytona Bandshell. Also at the Bandshell Hand-in-hand with the promotions and low return business," said Shatzkin, comparing it to the tonnage ordering style of the will be Marshall Tucker, America, The product giveaways by the concert spon- record business. “The thing that would kill us would be to get greedy, so we’re going in Atlanta Rhythm Section, The Average sors will be merchandising blitzes by some slowly. We’re initially working with stores that carry both.” Distribution to sheet music White Band, Juice Newton, Southside of the labels whose acts will perform. ] retailers is through Cherry Lane,and Shatzkin expects that to be a stable business, with Johnny and Elvin Bishop, all sponsored by Columbia and Stroh’s will be giving away dealers looking at Proteus to give breadth to their catalog. Other areas being dis- Salem, and Jan & Dean, presented by 20,000 "stage pass” stickers for Scandal, cussed include direct sale through record clubs such as RCA and Columbia House, Anheuser Busch. featuring $1 .00-off coupons redeemable at although Shatzkin speculated that the needs of the clubs may presently exceed "This year Is really the indicator," said Camelot Music stores. In addition, the Proteus’s capabilities. But aside from the books, Proteus is also building up a backlog Will Botwin, director. East Coast opera- band will host a “greet the group” party at of material that may eventually lead the company into other areas. “We’re spending tions, Side One Marketing/Starcom Adver- the 600 North Club, where it will give away $250,000 annually on rock photos," Shatzkin said. "I believe we’re in the process of tising, the firm acting as the agent for 600 Scandal posters. Local radio station getting the most extensive file of rock photographers anywhere, and we’re interested Stroh’s in procuring and marketing the WDIZ in Orlando will also be doing on-air in any obscure photographer that may have shot rock photos for a couple of years, and shows, "if it works, I think you’il really see interviews with bands and promotional we’re finding more and more. fred goodman the product companies blanketing giveaways with record and sponsor com- POINTS WEST — Three royal families descended upon the City of Angels during the Daytona with music next year." panies. And Warner Bros. Records will be last weekend in February, and, consequently, there were three big bashes bringing out Barry Levine, associate director of flying winners of an "After the Snow” every social butterfly around town. One of the wildest parties was held at 20th Century- college marketing for CBS Records, promotion held on Boston station WCOZ in Fox’s studio in West L.A. where around 500 guests showed up to get down with the Un- agrees with Botwin, "I've gone down to support of Modern Engiish and Berlin ited Kingdom’s Queen Mum Elizabeth II. Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Mike Curb, Perry Daytona during the spring break for the last down to the shows, as well as distributing Como, Julie Andrews, Elton John, Frank Sinatra Sr. & Jr., Dionne Warwick, Roy three years now, and this is the first time the thousands of Modern English buttons. Rogers & Dale Evans and an assortment of bigwigs and power brokers were on hand music events have been so prevalent. It’s Although Daytona Beach is firmiy es- to fete Britain’s monarch. Word has it pandemonium broke out when Rod Stewart en- going to be huge." Levine added that many tablished as a major product bazaar for

tered the black-tie gala garbed in (gasp!) spandex pants . . . Across town at of the students who venture down to Day- manufacturers to push their wares, the Hollywood’s Palladium, the rug was being rolled out for King Sunny Ade in what some tona are among the more adventurous success of the music tie-ins will be carefully critics around town labeled “the pop people on campus, and, as such, are con- studied to determine their efficiency. event of the season” — a lengthy, lively sidered "testers" and trendsetters. In- Several sponsors have also committed and enlightening celebration of African troducing them to acts like Scandal, Duke themselves to concerts on South Padre juju music that was hailed by the nearly Jupiter and Lene Lovich can help start a Island in the Gulf Coast of Texas, another sold-out crowd as an enormously suc- buzz on campuses around the country. spring break hot spot. Additionally, several cessful merging of the American and Advance Advertising are considering similar programs for the Nigerian musical cultures. Whether- Conversely, Linda Robock of the New Bahamas during next year’s spring break. they were grinding out Chuck Berryes- York-based National Field Marketing, "It’s all still pretty new,” allowed National que riffs, pounding out percussion which is handling Newport’s concert Field Marketing’s Robock, "but the path solos like morse code signals sending program, reports that her company adver- was only cut last year. I do think it will just messages of inspiration into the brain, tised the series on campuses prior to the keep getting bigger, although I don’t WORD WINNERS — Word/Myrrh Records performing Temptations — Like spring break in hopes of increasing the foresee anybody doing a concert by The at the 25th Anniversary choreography moves or adding a dash turn-out. She added that the chance for a Police." scored big Grammys Feb. 23 when Amy Grant (!) and of salsa to the exotic Gold Coast aural cigarette manufacturer like Newport to ex- CBS’s Levine is also convinced that A! Green took a total of three awards — pyrotechnics. The King and his African pose its product to college students was music is a permanent vehicle for product Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary Beats genuinely Ignited the souls of the even more precious, since cigarette com- promotion to college students. But he feels or Inspirational (Grant) and Best Soul punks, sonic sophistos, curiosity- panies have self-imposed restrictions more sophisticated preparations should Gospel Performance, Contemporary, and seekers and Third World music lovers against going on campus with promotions be made to get the biggest bang. “I can see Best Soul Gospel Performance. Traditional who came to share in the magic. . . The and giveaways. beginning to plan next year’s events in (Green). other “royal” family to arrive in L.A. dur- Along with the live shows will be a April or May," he said, adding that it might ing the weekend was recording group The Lords of the New Church, which played plethora of music merchandising and co- be easier for record companies to set up Pasadena’s Perkins Palace, featuring songs from its self-titled debut I.R.S. LP and a promotions. Anheuser Busch will be the concert series on tneir own and then new tune called "Live For Today.” Unfortunately, the night following the Pasadena gig, setting up inflated "six-packs” that hold bring in sponsors. “You need the spon- the lead Lord, Stiv Bator, was caught in a nasty tussle at a show in San Diego. Bator, 400 people at both Daytona Beach and Ft. sorship, but there are too many hands in (continued on page 54) Lauderdale. Students will be able to make the pie,” he said.

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tory damage when part of its roof was bat- Retailers Weather tered by the rains, and the ceiling in the west part of the building gave way. According to California Rain Jim May, one of the store’s managers, a “big, massive leak” caused water to hit the TOP 30X1 LBUMS Storms, Tornado half-speed master LP bins as well as the (continued from page 5) 99-cent used record stock, hurting the Weeks Weeks ping.” Although Solomon stated that the most expensive as well as the least expen- On 1 THE BEST IS YET TO COME On power went out sporadically for an hour or sive product. GOVER WASHINGTON, JR. 3/5 Chart 16 WINTER INTO SPRING 3/5 Chart GEORGE WINSTON (Elektra 9 60215-1) 1 14 so, at the Tower store in Mountainveiw, “We’ve dealt with leaks in the past, but (Windham Hill C-1019) 17 33 Calif., the weather had no significant im- it’s never been as bad before as it is now," 2 TWO OF A KIND EARL KLUGH/BOB JAMES WELCOME TO MY LOVE pact on the chain, with many of his outlets, stated May. “Tiles have been falling out, DIANNE REEVES (Palo Alto PA 8026) 5 (Capitol ST-12244) 2 19 o 20 such as the shop on Sunset Boulevard in and it looks like the ceiling is about to cave 3 DECEMBER SHADOWFAX iHollywood, possibly busier than usual. in. It couldn’t have hit a worse spot; now GEORGE WINSTON 0 (Windham Hill C-1022) 26 4 “Unless there’s a downright hurricane, those albums are gone, and we have the (Windham Hiil C-1025) 3 13 19 AS WE SPEAK business during rain storms is alright," area covered with plastic tarps.” Although QUARTET DAVID SANBORN (Warner Bros. 23650-1) 14 concluded the Tower chief. a section of the store had to be closed off, o HERBIE HANCOCK 9 37 (Columbia C2 38375) 5 7 Highway Closed business hours at Aron’s were not interrup- 20 TOUR DE FORCE — “LIVE” Although the storms forced authorities ted, but May said he did notice sales were a FINESSE AL Dl MEOLA (Columbia FC 38373) 19 16 o JOHN KLEMMER to close down much of California’s Pacific little slower than usual. “I expected it to be a (Musician/Elektra 9 60197-1) 7 5 21 THE PARIS CONCERT, Coast Highway, several stores located in lot worse,” said the manager, “but overall EDITION ONE < 6 CASINO LIGHTS — BILL EVANS and around beach communities escaped there’s just been a small drop in sales.” RECORDED LIVE AT MON- (Musician/Elektra 9 60164-1) 23 4 virtually unscathed. in Huntington business hurt by the Down Another TREUX, SWITZERLAND CALIFORNIA HERE 1 COME conditions were rainstorms was John’s Music in Beach, where weather One Stop VARIOUS ARTISTS BILL EVANS (Warner Bros. 9 23718-1) 4 20 particularly adverse, with the pounding South Central Los Angeles, which handles (Verve/PolyGram VE 2-2545) - 1 surf knocking over most of the town’s pier primarily mom & pop stores owned and , 7 INCOGNITO 23 LIVE AT THE PLUGGED SPYRO GYRA (MCA-5268) 6 22 and destroying other beachfront property, operated by black retailers. Owner John NICKEL

mom pop stores in the L.A. area were af- ing all over the city, but I think record stores & 12 MUSIC SPOKEN HERE 28 WE ARE ONE fected much worse by the torrential have been having more trouble recently JOHN MCLAUGHLIN PIECES OF A DREAM (Warner Bros. 9 23723-1) 12 8 downpour. Hollywood’s Aron’s Records, than just the weather.” (Elektra 9 60142-1) 22 34 for example, inclurred some serious inven- 13 PETER ERSKINE 29 CHANCE ENCOUNTER RCA Revamps (Contemporary 14010) 13 5 RAMSEY LEWIS (Columbia FC 38294) 30 17 Alabama Appeals 14 OFFRAMP 30 DUKE ELLINGTON Returns Policy PAT METHENY GROUP (ECM-1-1216) 15 43 SONGBOOK, VOLUME 15 HOME AGAIN TWO IHT Lawsuit LOS ANGELES — RCA Records recently STANLEY TURPENTINE ELLA FITZGERALD (Elektra 9 60201-1) 16 15 (Verve/PolyGram VE 2-2540) 1 NASHVILLE — Davidson county chan- instituted changes in its return policy, one cellor C. Allen High ruled March 2 that of which calls for accounts that do less than Alabama breached its contract with the In- of their business as wholesale to have jf 51% ON M7Z ternational House of Talent (IHT) when it their return allowances reduced from 22% left the agency in favor of a company- to 18%. The policy became effective March INDIE ROUND-UP — Island’s Antilles continues to build a diverse and tasteful roster, formed by ousted president Dale Morris. and three new releases by the outfit confirm that the independently distributed label is 1 . Although the extent of Alabama’s liability In a two-page letter from the company serious about constructing a well-,'Ounded catalog. “Priestess,” by bandleader and Gil is has not yet been determined, IHT is claim- dated Feb. 18, RCA stated that if an ac- arranger Evans, the best disc we’ve heard Ly him in many years (and that’s not ing damages of more than $4 million, while count’s business was more than 51%, as so discounting last year’s fine “Where Flamingos Fly”). Cut in ’77, the live date features that that of York’s finest musicians, including ^ attorneys for the band maintain stated in a signed affadavit, the company some New Arthur Blythe,David Sanborn, Jimmy figure is too high, and spokesmen say the will receive 22% returns allowance. Con- Knopper, George Adams, Hannibal Marvin Peterson, Howard Johnson, John Clark, group will appeal the verdict. versely, a signed affidavit stating that an Lew Soloff and Ernie Royal. Each of the four featured compositions is concisely Alabama had signed for exclusive book- account’s business is less than 51% sculpted and spotlights exceptional solo work, most notably by Blythe and Soloff on ,'ing representation with IHT May 22, 1980, wholesale will receive an 18% returns the title track, Sanborn on “Short Visit” and “Priestess” and tenorman Adams on and Morris, who was at that time president allowance. Charles Mingus’ “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress Then Silk Blues.” At 70, Evans pf the agency, also signed the agreement The revised policy also said return per- may be the most important and still underrated arranger in jazz. Mining a totally dif- on behalf of the agency. Morris later centages through June 30 will be based on ferent vein is “Flight of the Spirit” by Zahara, an electric quartet that fuses African became the group’s manager in March the preceding fourth month gross rhythms and chromatics with more Western pop trends and compositional structures. 1981, and, in May of that year, he was purchases. For July, August and Septem- The work of electric bassist Rosko Gee will tantalize fans of the instrument, and the late replaced as IHT president by Billy “Crash” ber, return allowances will be based on the Roebop Kwaku Baah laces the disc with some of the most intelligent percussion Craddock. On June 10, Morrisformed Dale prior month’s purchases or the fourth flourishes in some time. This album can be a very strong contender on jazz, U/C and “15“ Morris and Assoc., Inc., taking IHT em- month’s purchases, whichever is greater. college radio. The third title, by BIrelll Lagrane, celebrates the rise to stardom and ployee Barbara Hardin along with him, In October, the allowance will be based puberty of the 1 5-year-old guitar wizard. He may owe everything style-wise to Django and, as his first client, Morris signed solely on the prior month’s buying. Reinhardt, but the kid’s technical abilities are strong enough to cause a rash of

Alabama. suicides among older and more mortal guitarists . . . While releases by American jazz Subsequently, IHT sued Alabama for Presley Bootlegger Is indies become more and more irregular. New York-based Muse Records has been breach of its three-year contract, which Sentenced To Probation holding its ground and maintaining a steady schedule of superior recordings. Out this also provided for an option of an additional week are three new titles, including“Jlmmy Witherspoon Sings the Blues,” a strong — Louisiana resident Albert i three years. Alabama maintained that the NEW YORK date by the velvet-voiced bluesman made even more enticing by the back-up work of » agreement had been for the personal ser- Bell received a $5,000 fine and five years Panama Francis & His Savoy Sultans. Also out are “Nothing Butt,” a real burner by vices of Dale Morris. probation, following his record bootleg- tenorman Willis “Gator Tall” Jackson featuring Grady Tate, Pat Martino and Charles High ruled, however, that Morris’ ging conviction in U.S. District Court in Earland, and “Listen To The Dawn,” another seamless trio date led by guitarist extraor- District signature on the 1980 document had been Shreveport, La. U.S. Court judge dinaire Kenny Burrell . . . California’s Pausa Records has just hit with two volumes of obtained “in a representative capacity for Tom Skagg found Bell guilty of distributing “Big Band Jazz” by Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass, and “Diffusion” by Minnesota

IHT," noting that his personal services were bootleg Elvis Presley recordings. guitarist Mike Elliott . . . The Adelphi Jazz Line has “Swing Is the Thing” by Widespread Bell to not mentioned directly or implied in the The judge further directed Jazz (formerly The Widespread Depression Orchestra) . . . The reflective Windham contract. “So long as the kind, quantity and remove himself from the record business Hill Label of California has unearthed yet another fine contemplative soloist in Liz that he not be in- qaulity of the bookings were sufficient,” by March 31 , and ordered Story. Story’s album, “Solid Colors," fills a tall order by being both sure-handed and ruled High, “it was immaterial what person volved in the manufacture and distribution delicate. ^or persons made the actual arrange- of sound recordings for the entire term of RECORDS GALORE — Nothing frustrates a jazz fan more than hearing a real knock- ments.” the probation. out recording on the radio or at a friend’s house and then not being able to find a copy. ^ Neither Morris nor Hardin were found Bell, who pleaded guilty to two counts of (And that problem ain’t just isolated to the boonies, as we can well attest.) Weep no liable in the case, since High ruled that copyright infringement Jan. 5, had been more. Mail-order outfit Daybreak Express has just published its 1983 catalog, and it’s a Alabama acted of its own will in leaving the doing business as B&B Sales, located at real bonanza, featuring roughly 1 0,000 jazz titles on over 500 labels (show us the stores IHT agency to join Morris and Assoc. Thus 1014 Joseph Ave., Shreveport. His convic- that stock the catalogs of ESP, Mole Jazz, Hat Art, Creative World and Saville tion stemmed from a two-and-a-half vear *I the court said that Morris did not “violate Records). Aside from the titles listed. Daybreak will try and run down any other records his duty of loyalty” to the IHT agency, and investigation, aimed at cracking a nationwide you’re looking for if you write them. The catalog can be had for $2.00 from Daybreak L that his luring of Alabama was not a Elvis Presley bootleg ring, that Express, P.C. Box 250, Van Brunt Station, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215. ^ “wrongful inducement to procure a breach was conducted by the Federal Bureau of (continued on page 54) of contract.” Investigation (FBI).

Cash Box/March 12, 1983 13 " VIDEO

SOUND/IEU^ EROTICISE: WORKIN’ OUT WITH MISS NUDE UNIVERSE — Ron Harris, what IDEOC4SSETTES hath thou wrought! The maker of Aerobicise most likely never dreamt he’d start a prosperous little cottage industry of workout programs when he taped the pioneering bend ’n’ stretch production. We’ve gone from Jane Fonda to the men from Chippen- Weeks Weeks dale’s, and, now, Vestron is issuing a full-fledged sexercise session, Eroticise, On On which 3/5 Chart 3/5 Ctiart stars more-than-ample Chester stripper Kitten Natividad, of Miss Nude Universe and 1 AN OFFICER AND A 16 TRON Beneath The Valley of the Ultravixens fame. As the press release puts it, Eroticise GENTLEMAN Walt Disney WD 122 17 11 follows ”a of sleek ladies,” led Natividad, “stretch and bend their Paramount Home Video 1467 1 bevy young by who 3 17 DIVA way right out of their leotards . . . and finally end up in a steaming post-exercise 2 THE WORLD ACCORDING MGM/UA 00183 14 4 jacuzzi.” Sounds like one of the hotter cool down sessions we’ve heard of. Vestron will TO GARP 18 VICTOR VICTORIA Warner Home Video 11261 2 7 MGM/UA 0051 19 17 be launching a full-scale merchandis- 3 POLTERGEIST 19 JANE FONDA’S WORKOUT ing campaign for the April release of MGM/UA 00164 3 11 KVC/RCA Karl Video Corp. 042 16 36 Eroticise on both videocassette and 4 ROAD WARRIOR 20 FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 videodisc, including national and local Warner Home Video 1 1181 15 3 Paramount Home Video 1539 22 3 advertising, promotional tools and 5 ROCKY III 21 DINER point-of-purchase materials. The CBS/Fox TW 4708 4 11 00164 14 MGM/UA 21 Stamford, Conn. -based company will 6 THE BEST LITTLE 22 MOONRAKER be providing free sweat bands, em- WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS CBS/Fox TW 4636 25 2 MCA Distributing Corp. 77014 6 11 blazoned with the Eroticise promo 23 THINGS ARE TOUGH ALL theme “Work Up A Real Sweat,!” with 7 THE BOAT mAS BOOT) OVER RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video every unit purchased by retailers as RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 10149 5 6 10546 18 5 part of a limited offer. See you in the 8 ANNIE 24 YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE jacuzzi. RCA/Coiumbia Home Video 10008 8 12 EROTICISE YOURSELF ~ Miss Kitten Vestron 5012 27 2 VIDEO SOFTWARE NOTES ™ Sex, ac- 9 FAST TIMES AT Natividad, Miss Nude Universe and the star 25 STAR WARS tion & exercise, of a sort, is what Mon- RIDGEMONT HIGH CBS/Fox 1130 24 39 of Russ Meyer’s Beneath The Valley Of The MCA Distributing Corp. 77015 7 terey Home Video has been offering 7 Ultravixens, takes home video viewers during the first three months of ’83. The 10 FIREFOX 26 THE THING through some sexy exercises with the help Warner Home Video 11219 10 15 MCA Distributing Corp. 77009 23 15 company’s January release included of a few friends in Vestron Video’s April 11 NIGHT SHIFT 27 BARBAROSSA two very different films, the most con- CBS/Fox release, Eroticise. Warner Home Video 20006 9 7 TW 9048 20 5 troversial of which is a soft core Cana- 12 MISSING 28 STRAWBERRY dian film starring Dorothy Stratton, the former Playboy Playmate and actress whose MCA Distributing Corp. 71009 11 13 SHORTCAKE IN BIG APPLE gruesome shotgun murder at the hands of her jealous ex-husband became a cause 13 STAR TREK II: THE WRATH CITY celebre in the media. Entitled Autumn Born, the 1979 motion picture’s release has MGM/UA 00338 30 2 OF KHAN already drawn the ire of producer/director Peter Bogdanovich in the press. Paramount Home Video PA 1180 12 15 29 PLAYBOY, THE Bogdanovich, who had directed Stratton in They All Laughed and subsequently fell in 14 BLADERUNNER MAGAZINE, VOL. 1 love with beautiful blonde, (admittedly, “sight unseen”) in the Embassy 1380 — 1 CBS/Fox 6201 28 14 the denounced Autumn New York Post earlier this year, saying, “Dorothy told me about it. She said it wasn’t 15 REDS 30 ON GOLDEN POND Paramount Home Video PA 1331 11 9 CBS/Fox 9037 29 40 very good and all she remembered about it was that she spent most of her time in a big

house, tied to a chair, naked. Releasing it can’t be very constructive. It’s exploitive.” The Cash Box Top 30 Videocassetles chart is a compilation of the fastest moving titles in both Beta Perhaps Monterey isn’t arguing Bogdanovich’s point, since they provided the above and VMS formats, based on sales and rental activity, as reported by various accounts around theT quote in the videocassette’s promotional literature . . . The other January release. On country. Accounts surveyed include: Video Plus-Chicago; Radio 437-Philadelphia; Classic Video- Any Sunday II, the sequel to the successful ’60s motorcycle racing film, is currently Oak Lawn; The Video Store-Cincinnati; Precision Video-Chicago: Entertainment Systems- the Phoenix: Nickelodeon-Los Angeles; Everybodys'-Portland; Radio 437-Bala Cynwyd; American subject of a nationwide “On The Road” contest, with a grand prize of a Yamaha XT550- Tape & Video-Atlanta; Crazy Eddie-New York; The Cinema Store-Encino; Video Company- J dirt and street bike (valued at $2,249). The deadline for the dealer drawing is March Larkspur; Video Studio-Farmington; Video Library-San Diego; Video Media-Chatsworth; Wonder- 28, so coupons supplied by either Monterey or a Monterey distributor must be iul World of Video-Chattanooga; Wherehouse-National; Video Showroom-Louisville; Erol’s Video Club-Soringfield; New England Home Video-Groton; Movies Unlimited-Philadelphia; Video postmarked no later than that date . . . March releases from Monterey include Showcase-Federal Way, Movies To Go — St. Louis. Exercise, “the erotic way to physical fitness,” featuring “four of aerobics most tempting instructors” in a one hour session that is undoubtedly very much like Eroticise (see separate item). According to Monterey, “partial nudity (is) revealed in ’cool down’ ses- Pioneer Expands Laser Disc Operation sions. “The other March program is a full-length feature film entitled A Place Called Today, starring Lana Wood and Cheri Caffaro in a Grade B (or is that C?) political

NEW YORK — Pioneer Video, Inc. is ex- “Increased demand for both consumer thriller long on sex and violence . . . Word from Family Home Entertainment (which dis- panding its laser videodisc manufacturing and industrial videodiscs has required that tributes Monterey Home Video) is that FHE/MGM/UA has shipped 25,000 operations at the Carson, Calif., facility, we reach our objective of a million discs a videocassette units of Strawberry Shortcake In The Big Apple City. As a marketing tie- adding a second shift, and, in conjunction, year from the Carson plant sooner than late in at the Winter CES, FHE offered the extra bonus of a Random House “pop-up” book. relocating its video mastering facilities to 1983,” said Pioneer Video president and Strawberry Shortcake and the Berry Harvest, which retails for $2.50. The vidcassette

expanded headquarters at the plant as part chief executive officer Ken Kai, regarding carries a $29.95 suggested retail price . . . Media Home Entertainment is implementing of major organizational changes in laser- the Carson manufacturing and mastering a new anti-counterfeiting system with the relase of its new all-male aerobic exercise disc replicating and mastering. In addition. expansion. He added that Pioneer is program. Muscle Motion. Developed three years ago by MHE vice president of finance Pioneer will be consolidating several presently interviewing candidates for Dick Spingola, the system — which utilizes a visible “codeword," communicated ver- satellite sales offices in an effort to second shift line positions, "including bally or by electronic device, to pinpoint counterfeit goods — was originally targeted at streamline its industrial sales staff to more many formerly employed by DiscoVision the record industry. It has since been adopted for use with prerecorded software. efficiently service its customers. Associates,” the joint venture of MCA, Inc. LOU REED; FROM VELVETS TO VIDEODISCS — Sometime in spring, you may As part of the latter move, the industrial and IBM that sold the plant to Pioneer last notice an unfamiliar name among the mainstream (and, in our opinion, generally sales activities of the Dallas, Boston, year. bland) pop and rock acts whose programs populate the videodisc racks. To say Lou Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta and Reed is a far cry from Olivia Newton-John, or even the Jefferson Starship for that mat- As to the consolidation of its industrial ter, would understatement. Ever since he co-founded the seminal Phildelphia satellites will now fall under the bean New York rock sales staff. Pioneer’s Kai stated, ”ln es- responsibility of Pioneer’s regional sales band the Velvet Underground in the mid-’60s, Reed’s been, as RCA VideoDiscs divi- sence, we’re fine-tuning our U.S. opera- offices in San Francisco, Minneapolis, sion vice president of programs and business affairs Seth Wlllenson put it, “at rock’s Detroit, Washington, D.C., Long Beach, tions to be in line with current economic cutting edge.” The author of such brilliant, if darkly disturbing, songs as “Heroin” and Calif., and Montvale, N.J. conditions and sales forecasts.” “I’m Waitin’ For My Man,” continues to be a potent creative force of uncompromising artistic vision, as the critical raves showered upon his last LP, “The Blue Mask,” attest.

So it is with great anticipation that we look forward to the CED disc release of a full- length program of Reed in concert at New York’s Bottom Line. Shot during a week-long

stand at the New York City club Feb. 28, it was produced by Boggs/Baker Prods., Inc., an independent video production company formed by Metromedia talk show Bill Boggs and PBS producer Richard Baker. Director was Clark Santee. RCA Videodiscs will market the show to the domestic cable and foreign broadcast markets, as well as home video. Initial distribution will coincide with the release of Reed’s new RCA LP, “Legendary Hearts.” P: ON THE TUBE — Alive/Marshall Arts Prods, has the guest list set for the initial taping of Rock ‘n'Ro// Ton/fe (formerly known as In The Midnight Hour) on March 9 at Perkins Calif. Scheduled to air the week of March 21 the Palace in Pasadena, , debut program stars Billy Squier and features an all-star guitar jam with Les Paul and Jeff Beck, in addition to Full Moon/Warner Bros, act Jack Mack and the Heart Attack and Columbia recording group Scandal ... A pilot of a new weekly rock series entitled Breakout is RCA PUTS VIDEO MARATHON TO BED — RCA Records recently staged a marathon currently being offered for syndication. Featuring clips and live performances taped at promotional clip shooting session for seven music videos by new and developing acts in the Camden Palace, the pilot features Culture Club, ABC, Toni Basil, Depeche Mode, less than 24 hours. Under the guidance of outgoing video manager Steve Khan (r, wearing Trio, Modern Romance, Eddy Grant, Total Coello, Thomspon Twins, Dexys Midnight the cap), a crew in Studio A taped songs by Millennium recording act Rodway and RCA ar- Runners, Bananarama and Flock of Seagulls. Hosted by Chris Hill, England’s top club tists Robert Hazard, The Rockats and Robert Ellis Orrall (I, In the bed). Orraii performed a DJ, the pilot will focus on U.K. Top 20. michael glynn duet for Carlene Carter on "I Couldn't Say No.

14 Cash Box/March 12, 1983 PROilUDIO rammy Winners’ Sales Up Fostex Bows Updated 8-Track Recorder In Wake Of Awards Telecast LOS ANGELES — Fostex Corp. of America has introduced a new 8-channel recor- (continued from page 5) jumped in sales, doubling what we had der/reproducer, the model A-8LR. Ac- “We’ve had Grammy consciousness for done the week before.” Krumholtz, cording to Fostex vice president Mark awhile now,” stated Jones. “We’ve been however, did not believe that most winning Cohen, the A-8LR is basically an updated running Grammy ads, with the help of co- product, with the exception of records that version of the original A-8, the first com- p funds from the labels, in nine markets were already among the top-sellers now, mercially available 8-track recorder utiliz- [^,înce the first week of February.” would sustain the momentum from the ing 'A-inch tape. r ' When the winners were announced, Grammys for more than a couple of weeks. The primary difference between the two Jones, “we just changed the ban- “Toto will keep selling, and Men At Work ! noted models is that while the A-8 can record up sell I think the rest 1 i^Tlers,” and other p-o-p materials, replacing continues to steadily, but to four tracks at a time, the A-8LR is nominees with winners. The chain exten- will taper off,” he said, noting that Tower [j] (Capable of 8-track simultaneous ded the $1 off special to Grammy-winning personnel at the Sunset Strip store left the recording. Among the special applications Ibums, the offer running until March 9. NARM-provided Grammy merchandising Bob Simons the A-8LR is designed for is remote Sales Good materials up a week after the event. the and the NARM recording. Sales, as a result, have been “real good,” Whether Grammys Simons Named As said Jones, with Men AtWork moving “very campaign have a more lasting effect on I sales still remains to be seen, but for now jiicely” and Toto “blowing out the door . . . j Producer/Director hese were acts that were selling well prior there is little question that the awards have ^ to the Grammys but getting that additional positively affected a range of product, For Bullet Studio spurt of momentum after the show,” Jones causing many records to reverse their ^ LOS — ujpointed out. downward sales pattern, if briefly, while ANGELES Bob Simons, veteran Indeed, on the Cash Box Pop Albums resuscitating at least one record, the commercial video producer and director, has staff chart this week. Men At Work’s “Business soundtrack to An Officer And A joined the of Randy Holland’s Bullet Recording As Usual” continues to hold at #2 after 36 Gentleman, which had fallen off the chart studio in Nashville. He will serve as producer/director for the weeks, nosed out of the #1 spot (which it completely. Some records posted modest held for a record period as a debut album) gains, while one, Melissa Manchester’s audio/video facility. Previously with by Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” After 48 “Greatest Hits,” took a 30 point leap, from The Nashville Network, Simon had been producer and director for 'I weeks, Toto’s “Tot© IV” is at #9 bullet and #129 to #99 bullet. 'jB^tiil showing strength. Chart Turnaround Dancin’ USA, a national hour-long daily program featuring live < Jerry Polito, manager of Disc-O-Mat’s “Lionel Richie,” the LP, turned around music, since May of last 'jêxington Ave. in last moving from to bullet on year. Prior to that, Simons was . store New York City, week, #8 #6 'ôted that sales of Grammy winners were the Cash Box Pop Albums chart, at least producer/director for Producers Video I ' '^definitely up, especially the big winners partially owing to his Grammy win for Center in Kansas City, Missouri. l^ke Men At Work, Toto and Lionel Richie “Truly” and a strong new single, “You Are,” Simons’ credits in producing and The A-8LR is available now through Fos- directing include commercials for iT . . . We’re finding it hard to keep them in which moved up on the Cash Box Pop tex Personal Multitrack dealers and carries stock.” Polito said he was placing Singles chart from #6 to #5 bullet. Also Turn McDonald’s, Ballantine Beer, H&R Block, a suggested list price of $2,500. The new I Grammy Heinz Catsup, 'J^roduct up in the front of the store in CBS- ing around was Juice Newton’s “Quiet Stokely-Van-Camp and suggested list price of the A-8 recorder is '^^rovided cardboard display bins. Lies” LP as a result of her win. After 42 Toyota, among others. $1,995.

According to Howard Krumholtz, rock weeks it went from #111 to #107, with the buyer for the Tower Records outlet on Sun- most activity coming out of the South — es- JBL Introduces 4691 Model Cabaret System

I set Blvd. here in Hollywood, “Toto really pecially New Orleans and Dallas — and the LOS ANGELES — JBL, Inc. has introduced developed 2370 flat-fron Bi-Radial horn, a Midwest. a new addition to its Cabaret Series of 2425J titanium-diaphragm, high frequency I Altimari Will Judge Alabama’s “Mountain Music” LP also — sound systems. The 4691 model • a com- compression driver and an El 40 15-inch turned around slightly after the Grammys, M^ear Stolon Motion pact two-way system specifically woofer. Other features include a 1.5 kHz moving from #39 to #38 after 52 weeks on NEW YORK — Frank X. Altimari, U.S. Dis- engineered for high-level, full-range music high pass network, for a smoother blend of I I the chart. The move also owed somewhat I trict Court for the Eastern District of is, Judge playback — according to the company, high and low frequencies, and switchable to anticipation York in Uniondale, N.Y., has been among retailers who were “the most rugged and versatile of JBL’s Uji»New biamplification inputs conveniently located just beginning to of ."wsele^ted to hear Stolon’s motion for receive shipment the Cabaret systems” and is ideal for night Sam on a rear terminal panel. U'^eduction of his one-year prison sentence platinum country group’s newly released clubs, theaters, discotheques “or any ap- ...” unit is r'in the Sam Goody counterfeit tapes case. “The Closer You Get LP. According to plication requiring high acoustic output The enclosed in a hand-crafted y RCA merchandising manager Randy cabinet made from y4-inch multi-laminate I ^ date for the motion has not yet been set. and efficiency, controlled dispersion, ex- Federal Judge Thomas C. Platt, the Goodman, the label is throwing its efforts tremely low distortion and wide frequency cross-grain hardwood, finished with black behind the Goody case trial judge who sentenced new album with “Mountain response (40 Hz to 20 Hz).” polyurethane paint. To provide added Music” continuing to enjoy steady sales as Stolon, agreed last month to Stolon’s attor- Created at JBL’s Northridge, Calif, protection, it comes with a flush-fitting lys’ request that he send the motion to a catalog item. facility, the 4691 incorporates the recently cover and polycarbonate cover guards. another judge (Cash Box, Feb. 5). Stolon is Willie Nelson’s “You Were Always On My wpealing his sentence for his nolo Mind” LP also moved up a little, from #49 to clude D Train, Blancmange, Bananarama, contendere plea of last Nov. 5. #48 after 50 weeks, but his new LP with SESSION MIX Thompson Twins, Phyllis Hyman, Cheap Merle Haggard, “Poncho & Lefty,” con- Kid Creole and the Coconuts are in at Trick and The 1/r Waitresses. opflight Announces tinues to grow, moving from #57 to #50 Electric Lady Studios in New York, with the In the Windy City, Alan Kubicka’s Distribution Network bullet after seven weeks, while an even Kid himself, August Darnell, producing the Chicago Recording Company has been “a (I newer LP, “Tough As Leather,” should be group in Studio A. Mike Frondelli hotbed of recording activity,” the studio ^ NEW YORK — Topflight Records, the label on the charts shortly. Nelson’s “Greatest engineered and Ed Garcia assisted. tells us, including work by local rockers ^recently bowed by Jack Kreisberg, has an- Hits (And Some That Will Be)” continued to Elsewhere in N.Y.C., Sigma Sound The Kind, 8Vi, The Dells and another local 1 nounced its distribution network. Malverne hold steady at #135 after 78 weeks. Studios has been the site of several mix group. The Marquis. ^Jwill handle New York and New England: The Kind has been , Small labels as well as large took advan- sessions, including two for Queen and the Universal, Philadelphia: Zamoiski, working on its second LP For 360 Records, jl tage of the NARM campaign by stickering Greg Kihn Band. John Luongo produced with Craig Leon producing and engineer- \ .Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Virginia and nominated and winning LPs. David Webb, both, with Jay Marks engineering and ing. Al Jourgenson of Arista recording V) West Virginia: Tara, Atlanta: Action, Buf- director of marketing for Churchill Linda Randazzo and Glenn Goldstein group The Ministry produced the first disc falo: Progress, Cleveland: AMI, Detroit: l! Records, said the label is following Roy assisting. Finishing its latest release and Wide Angle, Minnesota. at by electro-pop group 8Vz at CBS, Tom Clark’s Grammy (for Best Country In- Sigma Sound in N.Y.C. has been the Talk- Hanson engineering. Veteran R&B unit The strumental Performance, ’’Alabama ing Heads, working with producer/ Dells has been mixing its latest project Jubilee”) with 5,000 “Grammy Winner” engineer Alex Sadkin. Ad- there as well, with Danny Johnson produc- stickers that will be affixed to albums at ditional engineering was provided by Jay ing and Paul Klingberg engineering. some of the high-volume retail accounts. Mark and John Convertino, with Klingberg also acted as producer/ Webb said he sent a letter to Churchill dis- assistance from Glenn Rosenstein, Jimmy engineer for The Marquis, which tributor MCA urging the company to get Santis, Melanie West and Randazzo. Do- mixed its latest single for Almighty Voodoo end-caps at the retail level that would dising remixes at the studio have been Ric Records. Limits,” play the album, “Austin City thus Ocasek and U2. Francis Kevorkian In Nashville, Barbara Mandrell is con- drawing attention to the Grammy victory. produced both projects. Mike Hutchinson tinuing to work on her latest MCA “I think it’s a great campaign,” said engineered for Ocasek, with Elisa Gura recording at Woodland Sound Studios really with win- Webb. “NARM came up a assisting, while John Potoker engineered with producer Tom Collins. Les Ladd is FIRE THE FINGERTIPS — Capitol ner. We want to have the same advantage for U2, with Glenn Rosenstein assisting. engineering and Ken Criblez assisting. ^lecording artist Peabo Bryson recently of visibility as Toto with Roy Clark.” Among those completing projects in \ recent Next door to Mandrell has been CBS’s Joe T taped a video at Los Angeles’ lavish Palace Webb stated that he has seen increased weeks at Sigma was CBS recording artist Stampley, who’s working on asingleforthe I I Theatre to accompany his tune “Remem- sales in several markets where the cam- Michael Bolton. Gerry Block acted as label with producer Ray Baker, Rick Lber When," trom the current LP, “Don’t paign has been implemented with the producer/engineer, with other engineers McColllster behind the boards, with Ken m^Pl^y With Fire." Pictured here Nominee” stickers prior to the and Carla with Bryson “Grammy John Convertino Bandini. Corlew assisting. And Bobby is Mr Jones is former Playboy centerfold Rosanne show, particularly Denver, where Churchill Assisting on the recording were Randazzo, working on a new album for Word Records, [jKeaton, who also appears in the video pro- had a label showcase that included Clark Rosenstein and Jimmy Santis. Other acts with Brown producing, McColllster ject. Cindy Hurt and Rodney Lay. who’ve had recent sessions at Sigma in- engineering and Corlew assisting.

Cash Box/March 12, 1983 I 15 8 AIERCHilNDISING

TOP 15 DEO GAMES TOPl^ IDUNES

Weeks Weeks On On 3/5 Charls 3/5 Charls

1 RIVER RAID Activision AX020 1 9 LOOK SHARPI Joe Jackson (A&M SP-6-4907) 1 24 2 PITFALLI Activision AX01 2 15 TAPESTRY Carole King (Epic PE 34946) 29 3 FROGGER Parker Brothers 5300 3 15 THE DOORS (Elektra EKS 74007) 33 4 MS. PAC-MAN Atari CX2675 13 2 THE CARS (Elektra 6E 135) 4 5 VANGUARD Atari 0X02669 4 7 SO FAR Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Atlantic SD-19119) 24 6 SPIDER FIGHTER Activision AX021 7 5 LET THERE BE ROCK AC/DC (Atco SD-36151) 12 7 ZAXXON Coleco 2435 5 15 PIANO MAN Billy Joel (Columbia PC 32455) 7 8 REAL SPORTS; FOOTBALL Atari CX2668 8 6 FLEETWOOD MAC (Reprise MSK 2281) 7 9 DONKEY KONG Coleco 2451 6 15 SOUVENIRS Dan Fogelberg (Full Moon/Epic PE 33137) 10 18 10 DRAGONFIRE Imagic 3611 9 4 10 WHO ARE YOU? The Who (MCA 3050) 11 4 11 MOUSE TRAP Coleco 2419 14 5 11 MEATY, BEATY, BIG AND BOUNCY The Who (MCA 37001) 13 12 DEMON ATTACK Innaglc 3200 10 15 12 SUPER HITS Marvin Gaye (Motown 301) 14 13 TRON: DEADLY DISCS M Network 5662 1 13 WINELIGHT Grover Washington, Jr. (Elektra 6E 305) 15 14 REAL SPORTS: BASEBALL Atari CX2640 11 15 14 LED ZEPPELIN (IV) Atlantic SD 19129

15 MEGAMANIA Activision AX017 12 15 15 ROCK ’N ROLL, VOLUME I The Beatles (Capitol SN/16020)

COMPILED FROM: Alta — Phoenix • Disc-O-Mat — New York City • Sound Video, Unitd. — Chicago • Musicland — • St. Louis • Everybody’s — Portland • Licorice Pizza — Los Angeies • New Engiand Home Video — Groton Movies To • Go — St. Louis • Sound Warehouse — San Antonio • Spec's — Miami • American Tape & Video — Atianta Nickeio- COMPILED FROM: Licorice Pizza — Los Angeles • Cavages — Buffalo • Dan Jay Music — Denver • Lieberman - • deon — Los Angeles • Show Industries — Nationai ‘Tower — Sacramento, Seattie • Crazy Eddie — New York City Portland • Musicland — St. Louis • Karma — Indianapolis • Peaches Records — Cincinnati, Columbus • Charts — Video Store — Cincinnati • Turties — Atlanta • Radio 437 — Baia Cynwyd • Wonderf ui Worid of Video — Chattanooga Phoenix • Gary's — Virginia • Sound Video, Unitd. — Chicago • Record Theatre — Cincinnati • Tower Records - • • Entertainment Systems — Phoenix • Lieberman — Kansas City • Day Jay — Denver • Cavages — Buffalo T ower Sacramento, San Diego, Seattle • Disc-O-Mat — New York City • Massachusetts One-Stop — Boston. — Sacramento, Seattle • Wherehouse — Los Angeles • Camelot — Kansas City, Dayton, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis.

Regional >4lbum ,^n4lysis '/

6 . ISMTION4L BREAKOUTS Ulm10 THOMAS DOLBY EARTH, WIND & FIRE ULTRAVOX KENNY ROGERS OAK RIDGE BOYS GOLDEN EARRING NIGHT RANGER GREG KIHN BAND HANK WILLIAMS, JR. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS DEBARGE BERLIN JOHN ANDERSON TRIUMPH MERLE HAGGARD/WILLIE NELSON This listing of records outside the national Top 20 showing steady or upward movement is designed to keep retailers abreast of the latest regional sales trends.

NORTHMST SOUTHEAST 2 . BALTIMORE/ WEST W/1SHINGTON

1 EARTH, WIND 8i FIRE 1 EARTH, WIND & FIRE 1 EARTH, WIND & FIRE EARTH, WIND & FIRE 2 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 2 KENNY ROGERS 2 TRIUMPH GREG KIHN BAND 3 GREG KIHN BAND 3 GREG KIHN BAND 3 DEBARGE BERLIN 4 KENNY ROGERS 4 HANK WILLIAMS, JR. 4 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS THOMAS DOLBY 5 DEBARGE 5 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 5 ANGELA BOFILL ULTRAVOX 6 SCANDAL 6 JOHN ANDERSON 6 THOMAS DOLBY DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 7 THOMAS DOLBY 7 MELISSA MANCHESTER 7 BERLIN DIRE STRAITS 8 BERLIN 8 AFTER THE FIRE 8 GOLDEN EARRING GOLDEN EARRING 9 GOLDEN EARRING 9 GOLDEN EARRING 9 KENNY ROGERS NIGHT RANGER 10 BRYAN ADAMS HOOKED ON SWING 2 10 FRIDA TRIUMPH

MIDWEST CENTRAL « NORTH » I DENVER/PHOENIX-I SOUTHCENTRAL

1 EARTH, WIND & FIRE OAK RIDGE BOYS EARTH, WINDS: FIRE EARTH, WIND & FIRE 2 GOLDEN EARRING KENNY ROGERS GREG KIHN BAND HANK WILLIAMS, JR.

3 TRIUMPH DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS BERLIN MERLE HAGGARD/WILLIE NELSON I 4 KENNY ROGERS NIGHT RANGER ULTRAVOX RANDY NEWMAN 5 GREG KIHN BAND MUSICAL YOUTH MUSICAL YOUTH JOHN ANDERSON 6 MELISSA MANCHESTER TRIUMPH KENNY ROGERS KENNY ROGERS 7 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS EARTH, WIND & FIRE AFTER THE FIRE GOLDEN EARRING 8 ULTRAVOX MERLE HAGGARD/WILLIE NELSONi GOLDEN EARRING OAK RIDGE BOYS 9 BRYAN ADAMS GREG KIHN BAND OAK RIDGE BOYS NIGHT RANGER 10 DIRE STRAITS HOOKED ON SWING 2 DAZZ BAND DAZZ BAND

16 Cash Box/March 12, 1983.' MERCmNDISING

wmrs IN-STORE FOR WEEK OF MARCH 2-8, 1983 PARA-PROMO — Rick Blelweiss, vice president, marketing/product development, at PolyGram Records, says that the label’s new children’s line. Parachute Records (Cash

Box, March 5), which he developed, is a “serious” attempt at competing with independent children’s record companies on their level. "We decided that it would service no purpose to stick our big toe in the water halfheartedly with a few records to determine viability, but are going full-bore with 1 5 albums this month and batch-releasing in June Playlist and September an additional 45 albums,” states Bleiweiss. He further states that Parachute product will best its competition due to packaging, production and This report does not Include those videos in recurrent or oldie rotation. merchandising support. “We’ve designed our cover graphics to be contemporary and 3-4 PLAYS PER DAY appealing, with the feel and quality of frontline rock act covers instead of having little HEAVY white sheep on pale yellow backgrounds that look like they cost 37 ARTIST CLIP LABEL cents to make,” says Bleiweiss, in- Be Good Johnny Columbia sisting that Parachute jackets will ap- Men At Work Golden Earring Twilight Zone 21 peal to both parents and kids even Pretenders Back On The Chain Gant Sire though most are designed by Red Rider LIght/Human Race Capitol PolyGram’s rock product cover art Greg KlhnBand Jeopardy Beserkley designers. In terms of the recordings Def Leppard Photograph Mercury themselves, ”We have consciously Styx Mister Roboto A&M avoided the traditional type of Dexys Midnight Runners Come On Eileen Mercury Geffen WALL TO WALL — I.R.S. recording group children’s product and have instead RIc Ocasek Something To Grab For Anxiety (Get Nervous) Chrysalis Wall Of Voodoo has been making the in- gone for contemporary music and Pat Benatar Styx Heavy Metal Poison A&M store rounds in support of its current "Call stories, produced with an ’80s sound for Of The West" LP. Pictured at a recent ap- the child of the ’80s by using instru- pearance at the Dallas Sound Wherehouse ments and types of music he’s hearing MEDIUM 2-3 PLAYS PER DAY are (l-r): Joe Carriere, Sound Wherehouse; on the radio every day.” As for Marc Moreland, Stanard Ridgway, Chas. T. merchandising support, Bleiweiss says ARTIST CLIP LABEL Gray, Bill Noland and Joe Nanini of the that Parachute will be competitive with Culture Do You Really Want To Hurt Me Virgin/Epic group; and Gerald Smith and Mike Moore other labels both in wholesale and retail Club Modern English 1 Melt With You Sire of Sound Wherehouse. pricing. Carrying a $5.98 retail list tag. Heaven 17 Let Me Go Virgin/Arista wholesale allowances “could entail discounts of as much as 25% from our normal pric- Duran Duran Hungry Like The Wolf/Rlo Capitol “100% fully ing.” Another deviation from the norm is that all Parachute product is Joe Jackson Breaking Us In Two A&M guaranteed,” as with other other children’s companies, but here Bleiweiss explains INXS The One Thing Atco that “most accounts run at or under 1 0% in returns on children’s records, and that they Triumph A World Of Fantasy RCA seem to have a huge shelf life, from five to 10 years in many instances.” PolyGram has FIxx Red Skies MCA printed up special order forms for the line and is seeking a heavy in-store display Flirts Jukebox 0 Schon& Hammer No More Lies Columbia presence where possible. “We have distributed an introductory sales kit to our sales Bryan Adams Cuts Like A Knife A&M people to be made available to accounts, but haven’t created any specific merchandis- Jefferson Starship Winds Of Change Grunt/RCA ing pieces since so many accounts handle children’s records differently. So our feeling Billy Squier She’s A Runner Capitol was that generic pieces weren’t applicable In all cases, but we have supplied trim Donald Fagen New Frontier Warner Bros. fronts, ad minis. We’ll utilize local through local accounts to impact mats and media Randy Newman 1 Love L.A. Warner Bros. local consumers at first, then we’ll go national.” Bleiweiss adds that cassette product Devo That’s Good Warner Bros. will be packaged in removable blister packs on regular album covers and that smaller U2 New Year’s Day Island packagings will be available later. He expects close cross-merchandising involvement Prince 1999 Warner Bros. Walls PolyGram with the many other licensees of the popular Parachute-licensed logos. The Call When The Come Down STRAWBIRRY SHORTS — Strawberries Records & Tapes is running a two-week promotion in its 22 Worcester, Mass, area locations in support of another Rick Bleiweiss project, “Everything You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Home Com- LIGHT 1-2 PLAYS PER DAY puters” (Cash Box, Feb. 12). Run in conjunction with Worcester’s WAAF-FM, Spag’s ARTIST CLIP LABEL Discount Department Store in Shrewsbury and Commodore Home Computers, the promotion allows buyers of the $5.99-priced LP to purchase either the Commodore Paul Collins Beat Kids AreTheSame Columbia Vic-20 at Spags for $129.88 instead of the usual $135, or the new Commodore C-64 at Utopia Feet Don’t Fall Me Now Network The Cure Let’s Go To Bed Fiction/Important $399, which is $50 off ... A red-and-white Fender Stratocaster guitar, like the one on Judas Priest Helllon/Electric Eye Columbia Eric Clapton’s new “Money And Cigarettes” album cover, is now on display in the Kenny Loggins Heartlight Columbia Worcester store This one, however, is autographed by Clapton as the grand window. ABC Poison Arrow PolyGram prize in a drawing held in conjunction with WEA, WAAF-FM and Fitchburg Music in Ultravox Reap The Wild Wind Chrysalis Fitchburg, Mass. Tygers Of Pan Tang Love Potion No. 9 MCA ACCESS’ EXECS — Confessing that “I can’t do the work myself anymore,” Toni Basil Nobody Chrysalis Stark/Camelot vice president of purchasing Joe Bressl reports that Indianapolis- Sammy Hagar Three Lock Box Geffen DIvInyls Boy’s In Town Chrysalis based district supervisor Mike Stephenson has become the chain’s new accessory English Beat 1 Confess I.R.S. buyer, in charge of purchasing all record and tape care products, prerecorded music Chris DeBurgh Don’t Pay The Ferry Man A&M and video accessory product, and blank audio and video tape. These chores were han- Kim Carnes Say You Don’t Know Me EMI America dled by the former buyer, Dwight Montjar, until six months ago when Bressi took over Trio Anna Mercury let to Montjar concentrate on the chain’s expanding involvement in video as video Ian North Only Love Is Left Alive NEO buyer. “Buying accessories is a full-time job,” says Bressi, glad that he can now clear Simple Minds Promise You A Miracle Virgin/ A&M out the blank tapes, joysticks and posters cluttering up his office. “Accessories make FranCour Under The Boulevard EMI America up 10% of our business, which will increase because of the new video add-on Total Coello 1 Eat Cannibals Chrysalis Twins Lies Jive/Arista business.” Bressi now has a total of six buyers on his staff. Meanwhile, an admittedly Thompson Naked Eyes Always Something There EMI America “swamped” Reade White-Spunner, special products manager for Record Bar, is glad To Remind Me to report help from her new special products buyer Susan Austin, who formerly Dire Straits Twisting By The Pool Warner Bros. the chain’s managed Winston-Salem store. Austin will be a general accessories LeRoux Carrie’s Gone RCA merchandise buyer with the focus on boutique and lifestyle items. She will also head Vandenberg Love In Vain Atco test marketing of new product and assist in new product selection. “Non-prerecorded Strange Advances She Controls Me Capitol product has grown so much for us that we needed to add another buyer,” explains Loz Netto Fade Away PolyGram White-Spunner, joking that Austin already needs an assistant. Finally, the Hastings Supertramp My Kind Of Lady A&M John Hall Band Again Books, Records & Video chain has created the position of retail buyer for John Reid to Love Me EMI America Rodway 1 Am Electric Millennium take a load off retail vice president Bruce Shortz. Reid will acquire product categories including pre-recorded video, personal stereo equipment and boutique items. Hastings’ its expansion of boutique offerings necessitated the new position . . . Other ADDS changes at Stark include the promotion of Jeff Tomlinson from advertising coordinator to the newly created director of advertising: Lora Hupp, who moves up to ad- ARTIST CLIP LABEL ministrative secretary in the advertising department from her previous role as 3H>. The J. Gells Band Land Of A Thousand Dances EMI America secretary/receptionist: Jeff Wagner, who becomes sales rep for the company’s Big Prince Little Red Corvette Warner Bros. Wheel/Conley leased in departments Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania after manag- Falco Der Kommissar A&M ing the Colony Square Camelot in Zanesville, Ohio; and Dave Sanders, promoted to After The Fire Der Kommissar Epic supervisor of the recently established Microfilm and Records Retention Department Felony The Fanatic Warner/EiektraUK

. . . And while we’re on the Stark subject, let’s correct last week’s column photo cap- Nell Young Sample & Hold Geffen tion. The picture was not of Cleveland jock Matt ’’The Cat” Lapczynski on the far right Malcon McLaren Buffalo Gals Island with the three customers who beat him during the “Activision Super Bowl Tourna- Todd Rundgren Hide Away Bearsville Michael Jackson Billie Jean Epic ment.” Rather, they were (l-r) Chuck Kinney, Activision sales rep; Gail Haas, TheTunes Video Games Unsign Grapevine general manager; Lapczynski; and Jim Marchyshyn, station WMMS-FM director of marketing and promotion. jim bessman

^Cash Box/March 12, 1983 17 GRAMMY AWARD HIGHLIGHTS — This year’s Grammy Awards show, celebrating its Ing winners in the jazz category; Greg Ham, Silver Anniversary, Ron Strykert, Colin Hay, Jerry Speiser anc^ featured a number of top entertainers in the roles of presenters as well John Rees of Men At Work displaying their Grammy for Best as nominees and winners. Among the New Artist; and Olivia many artists participating in the show were (l-r): Tim Newton-John, winner of the Video of the Year Grammy for her OMa Physical, and LioneL Hauser and Cheryl Bentyne of Manhattan Transfer, Ella Fitzgerald and Janis Siegel and Richie, winner in the Best Pop Vocal Performance, Alan Paul of Manhattan Transfer Male, category for "Truly.” The 25th doing a version of "How High The Moon" prior to announc- Grammy Awards were held Feb. 23 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. CRI, Tata Industries Capitol, VMI Pact For Video Clips JBL Offers New Bow Joint Label In India LOS ANGELES — Video Music Inter- Capitol/EMIA/Liberty Updated Materials NEW YORK — CBS Records International artists, through national, Inc. (VMI) LOS ANGELES and CapItol/EMI Startime, now will have the — JBL Inc.’s Professional (CRI) and Tata Industries, India’s largest in- opportunity to America/Liberty Records Group recently reach Division is offering updated point-of- dustrial conglomerate, have bowed CBS audiences in a variety of locations entered an agreement for VMI to use purchase materials to its musical instru- Gramaphone Records artist such as restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotel and Tapes, Ltd., a videos from the record company for its and theatre lobbies, record ment retail accounts as part of a new joint venture company in Bombay servicing stores, shopp- Startime Video Jukebox. merchandising and advertising campaign, the Indian market. ing malls and college student unions. Ar- Under the agreement, signed which will also include recently at tists to be featured in the video an expanded print The firm will be headed by Suresh jukebox in- VMI’s new Hollywood offices by VMI presi- clude Ashford ad kit and p-o-p displays for the E series Damley, who has been named managing & Simpson, O’Bryan, Juice dent Jack Millman and Victor D. Rap- and new 4612 Cabaret system. Newton, Sheena Easton, Little River Band, director. It is located at Dalamal Towers, paport, director of business affairs, The ad kit, designed to aid video Duran Duran, America and Billy Squier. dealers in ty- Suite 1110/1112, Nariman Point, Bombay. development for EMI Music, the video ‘Marketing Boon’ ing into JBL’s extensive national advertis-^, The telephone number is 244225. Its disc company pays Capitoi and the other labels Commenting ing campaign, offers layout suggestions for pressing plant and on the agreement, EMI’s tape duplicating a pre-set royalty for the video each product, Rappaport said, “We are very excited JBL Musical Instrument (M.I., facilities will be located at Aurangabad. which will be used to defray mechanical product or line. Full-page layouts about this new medium and have total con- come "It has been our intention for some time license fees and snychronization fees when with camera-ready copy and line art, while fidence that it will prove a marketing boon to extend a significant CBS Records applicable. ^ to our company," said Rappaport. several pages of separate product illustra- presence onto the subcontinent | of India," A union and guild trust and tions and JBL Logos pension fund VMI’s Millman commented that “the are also supplied, for J said CRI vice president Peter Bond on the contributions will be made by VMI, ac- Startime Video Jukebox use in multi-brand ads. formation. “Now, with has upgraded the all the requisite ele- cording to Douglas Foxworthy, A colorful VMI vice classical Jukebox into a video jukebox and three-dimensional display ments in place, we expect to make an im- president of software and acquisition. with copy and graphics created a whole new market for musical has been specially portant contribution to the Indian music The Startime video Jukebox is developed for currently videotape entertainment." He also noted JBL’s new 4612 Cabaret market. Our faith in achieving this goal is in distribution in Los Angeles, system, which can Las Vegas, that the machine’s dual feature of coin-op be attached to the^ due in no small part to our partners, the Miami, ^ Cleveland, New York, the Philip- entertainment play and model’s tripod stand, set on top of the en- T atas, together continuous loop of with whom we expect to en- pines and the U.K., with closure, or worldwide dis- advertising messages for use between coin hung as a mobile. Individual p- joy a mutually beneficial and profitable tribution expected to reach 2,500 to 5,000 play can serve as a valuable o-p units with detailed descriptions of per- relationship." promotional units by the end of the year. tool. formance capabiiities are aiso being offered for each E Series model. AlP Pacts With MC III Music Consultants Record-Rama Publishes NEW YORK — Audio New Singles Directory International Prods. past 25 years and has served in Europe and (AlP) has retained NASHVILLE — Offering the first compila- printed the services of MC III, a Australia. annually in lieu of supplemental^,, tion of its kind, consultant firm specializing Paul Mawhinney’s Record- copies. in discovering AlP is an investment concern that seeks Rama has developed Music crossover talent, worldwide Master, a com- initially, Mawhinney intends to service marketing and ventures in the music business. Its range sales, prehensive singles directory that lists nearly the and technical assistance in audio 33,000 libraries that dot the nation with, encompasses funding such record labels every master product single released since 1947. The the reference guide, but he acquisition. as Accord/Townhouse and Neo, and seek- also notes the^ director, which carries a $150 tag, contains volumes’ worth MC III is a joint venture of music ing talent as a source for radio, business to develop both as performers two volumes, one that lists the records retailers and jingle veterans Richard L. Broderick, William J. and songwriters. producers, as well as alphabetically by artists and another that Walsh and Jack F. Wiedenmann. Wieden- the two million known active record collec- lists them alphabetically by title. tors. mann is former president at Metro-Media Buddy Killen Elected The entire data is also available In addition to original releases, including through a Records and Kapp Records. He has also computer base, which, when ac- To Board Of NMPA the year of release, the publication held vice con- cessed, can provide a myriad of potential presidencies at CBS Records and NEW YORK — Buddy Killen, president and tains information on reissues, 12-inch Gulf + Western's uses. Through a key word file, every record music complex. owner of T ree International, has been elec- singles and picture sleeves, combining all that Broderick is former contains a specific word in the title, international ted to the board of directors of the National music styles from pop to country to R&B in such as “Tennessee,” marketing vice president for MCA and Music Publishers can be located, and Assn. (NMPA). He fills a set that represents more than Decca 3,500 a specialty file can list certain types of Records and currently heads the the vacancy created by the resignation of record labels, and is backed up by a collec- records such music, business and technology program Wiiliam as ’’drinkin’ songs” or Denny of Cedarwood Publishing tion of some 1.5 million discs. at The first Christmas records. New York University. Walsh has been Co., left who Cedarwood to take a position volume covers records released through marketing While the entire gamut of musical styles director at RCA Records for the in another company. December of 1982, and new editions will be is contained in the project, which took $2 million and 15 years to develop, a special country edition is currently being considered for release next year, although Mawhinney indicates that no other specific^ format will be singled out with exclusive volumes. r RCA Pays Dividends NEW YORK — >' RCA directors decided at their regular meeting to pay 22’/? cents per ’ i share as a quarterly dividend on RCA Com-' mon Stock, payable May 2 to holders record March 14. In addition, the directors i declared dividends of ST'/z cents per share on $3.50 Cumulative First Preferred Stock,''-^ GRAMMY CELEBRATIONS $1 per share on $4 Cumulative Convertible — Following a very successful night Teller, senior vice president/general manager, Columbia; Myron First Preferred Stock, 9VA cents per share at the recent Grammy Awards presentation, CBS Records held a Roth, senior vice president/general manager of west coast opera- on $3.65 Cumulative reception at Los Angeles' Preference Stock, Rex/ll Ristorante. Pictured are (l-r): Dick tions, CBS Records; Steve Lukather and Bobby Kimball of and 53Ve cents per share Asher, president CBS Records and deputy on $2,125 president of CBS Grammy-winning band Toto; Yetnikoff; and Records Group; David Paich, Steve Cumuiative Convertible Preference Stock, Colin Hay of Grammy-winning group Men At Porcaro, ^ Jeff Porcaro and Mike Porcaro of Toto. CBS artists all for the period of Work; Walter Yetnikoff, president and April 1 to June 30 and of CBS Records Group; Al recordings pulled In 21 of the 62 Grammy Awards. payable July 1 to holders of record June 10.

Cash Box/March 12, 1983 GOSPEL Dealers Design New Fixtures To Show New Stores’ Goods LBUMS (continued from page 6) racks to allow handling of albums and Music and Video chain headquarters. "You videodiscs and cassette packagings, both can use wood, metal, plexiglass or glass in our generic 4” x 12” spaghetti boxes or 6" 12” shelves or wire hangers for albums, 45s, in the new x Christopher Crosses, if Spiritual Inspirational tapes, video and accessories. The shelves that type takes hold. Our current fixtures Weeks snap in and out so easily that you can will handle everything, but the fit is too Weeks On On within tight.” change your displays minutes 3/5 Chari 3/5 Chari without refixturing. We’re crazy about 1 LORD, YOU KEEP ON I Mundorf added that the new record 1 AGE TO AGE them.” racks could also contain the Compact PROVING YOURSELF TO AMY GRANT (Myrrh MSB-6697) Distributing Shelves ME Open 1 43 Discs (CD) if they are packaged in the FLORIDA MASS CHOIR Hill said that DanJay is even distributing 6”x12” containers. Other retailers were (Savoy SQL 7078) the shelves for its supplier. Shore Panel, in "Be Ye Steadfast" 1 44 2 STAND BY THE POWER undecided as to fixturing CDs since the IMPERIALS (Dayspring DST-4100) Philadelphia. Cost for each panel is $75, 2 YOU BROUGHT THE product’s package is uncertain. SUNSHINE Open 2 18 he has a at the for and mock-up warehouse Cassette Fixtures THE CLARK SISTERS demonstration purposes. Cassette merchandising has become (Sound of Gospel SOG 132) Athe live concert Title Cut 3 18 DON FRANCISCO Chip Cappelletti, construction manager another important area in planning new 3 THE JOY OF THE LORD IS (Newpax NP 33128) for Record Bar, also extolled the merits of store fixtures, and methods are being MY STRENGTH "Love Is Not A Feeling" 5 7 slat walls and said that all new stores and devised to cross-merchandise both album DOUGLAS MILLER AND THE TRUE WAY CHOIR renovations this year would focus on their and tape configurations. John Overmann, 4 PEACE IN THE VALLEY (Gospearl Records PL-16008) B.J. THOMAS (Myrrh MSB-6710) use. “Slat walls are becoming a very impor- vice president of Hamilton Fixtures, a "Pass Me Not" 4 8 Open 4 8 tant part of our fixturing at this point,” he Hamilton, Ohio, company that manufac- 4 UNCLOUDY DAY said, noting that most stores would have MYRNA SUMMERS (Savoy SL 14594) 2 24 tures fixtures in conjunction with several Open CkMORE POWER TO YA PETRA (Star Song SSR0045) 20-foot floor-to-ceiling sections in order to major rack jobbers and retailers, outlined a *0 THE RICHARD Open 7 8 “get a lot more on the wall,” Including all pair of new techniques in this regard. ©SMALLWOOD SINGERS accessory lines, which were previously “We have a new three-sided end-cap, (Onyx/Benson R3803) kept in smaller, enclosed fixtures. "I Love The Lord" 9 28 6 AMAZING GRACE a standard waterfall on each side which has 6 PRECIOUS LORD B.J. THOMAS (Myrrh 6675) The slatted approach is also carrying but can contain either the cassette AL GREEN (Hl/Myrrh MSB-6702) Title Cut 6 81 over into Record Bar’s new “D” fixture. ‘The Title Cut 6 31 equivalent or any other item in a bottom ‘D’ is dump-type, but it’s designed for flex- 7 EDWIN HAWKINS LIVE pocket,” said Overmann. “We’re making 7 LIFT UP THE LORD ibility and has a million and one uses. It WITH THE OAKLAND SAND! PATTI (Impact 3799) record bins such that the cassette can be "How Majestic is Thy Name" 3 28 utilizes oak slat-walls for merchandising SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA merchandised behind the album.” product on four sides and can hold VOL. II (Myrrh MSB 6700) Gold Circles’ Suttmiller, who works with 8 SPIRIT WINGS anything from the shelves or wire racks, as "I Know A Man" 5 24 JONI EARECKSON (Word WSB-8878) Overmann in devising his fixtures, is hop- well as in the dump bin. The bin bottom ad- 8 I FEEL LIKE GOIN’ ON "Hosanna" 8 9 ing to use the album/tape bins when a new KEITH PRINGLE justs up and down from three to 12 inches (Hope Song HS-2001) store opens in Cincinnati in November. to allow maximum facing for whatever Title Cut 8 4 STEP OUT OF THE NIGHT “This way we would have ‘Rock -—A’ 9 BROTHER TO BROTHERS © ANDRUS BLACKWOOD AND CO. product, or comes out altogether, making it (Greentree R3942) right A‘ WILLIAMS BROTHERS cassettes behind the ‘Rock — Title Cut 2y2 feet deep.” (Myrrh MSB 6717) 12 3 rather the two,” Stark/Camelot’s Mundorf said that albums, than segregating "Call Him Up" 7 33 he said. pegboard was being used in his stores 10 SINCERELY 10 I SAW THE LORD THE CLARK SISTERS DALLAS HOLM (Greentree R3723) with plexiglass in along shelving units, as The expansion into video and computer (New Birth Records NEW-7058) Title Cut 10 65 slat-walls, to handle a wide variety of items products was reflected in other merchan- "Name It. Claim It" 10 6 and use more wall space. He added that dising shifts by several retailers. “Our store 11 IT’S GONNA RAIN MILTON BRUNSON 11 MAINSTREAM record racks were also being modified to planograms call for 12-30 running feet for (Myrrh MSB 6695) MICHAEL AND STORMIE OMARTIAN Title Cut 12 44 (Sparrow SPR1060) handle other product. "We’re widening the (continued on page 54) 12 MIRACLE MAN "Praise His Name And See It Happen" 11 3 MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY (Myrrh MSB 6694) 13 3 Dealers Take Steps To Boost Security Open 12 PRIORITY (continued from page 11) 13 THE GOSPEL MUSIC IMPERIALS (Dayspring DST 4017) the hardware systems while range between WORKSHOP OF AMERICA "The Trumpet Of Jesus" 9 45 the professional can side-step such $100 and $2,500 per month in rental and MASS CHOIR systems, they maintained that the biggest sales. (Savoy SGL-7081) 13 THE VERY BEST OF THE "He'll Never Let You Down" 15 shoplifting problem is among amateurs. “If Another electronic detection firm, 2 IMPERIALS 14 JAMES CLEVELAND AND you ask most retailers who the problems is, Knogo Corp., based in New York with inter- (Dayspring SST 4025) THE CLEVELAND "Same Old-Fashioned Way" 14 61 they’ll tall you it’s the amateur thief,” asser- national headquarters in Mons, Belgium, SINGERS ted Brad Kane, director of marketing ad- also advocates electronic tagging of record (Savoy 7080) 14 STUBBORN LOVE Open — 1 .ministration at the Deerfield Beach, Fla.- and tape product, an endeavor that should KATHY TROCCOLI based Sensormatic, Inc. be investigated by manufacturers, ac- 15 SOON I WILL BE DONE (Reunion Records RRA-OOOI) Numerous Systems WITH THE TROUBLES OF Open 15 2 cording to a spokesman. THE WORLD In active business since 1970, Sensor- “The ultimate to protect records and way JAMES CLEVELAND AND THE NEW 15 THE CRUSE FAMILY offers JERSEY MASS CHOIR matic more than seven separate tapes is to get manufacturers to put on a (Priority BJU 38335) (Savoy SL-14709) systems, a variety of "I Am. The Mighty One" — 1 which are used by protective strip as part of the package or Open — 1 several record store chains, Kane claimed. the label,” said Jim Dellomo, vice president Last notation Indicates the cut receiving the most airplay. The Cash Box Gospel chart is compiled He said that Sensormatic systems were be- of finance for Knogo. “If we can convince from a sampling of sales reports from national distributors and one-stops and radio. ing used by Musicland, Peaches, Record companies to throw that strip on or under- Factory and others. neath the labels, then dealers won’t run into “Public awareness of Amy has been One Sensormatic system frequently em- the problem of them (thieves) leaving the Word Releases built,’’ commented Word director of ployed by record stores is the “Keeper” package in the bin.” marketing Lynn Nichols, “but it’s important box, which allows open merchandising of Employing the electromagnetic Grant 45s Medley that we continue to increase her visibility. cassettes. The Keepers are made of clear, technology, Knogo has been in operation This type of thing has never been done reusable plastic that has a high-frequency since 1966, starting out tagging books for NASHVILLE — Word Records has before, and we believe that it is indicative of strip that must be deactivated at the cash libraries, then bookstores, then moving released a medley of eight of Amy Grant’s our desire for Word to be a prime innovator register. To walk out without paying for the into drug stores, supermarkets and video most successful songs in the form of a six- in the area of Christian communications.” cassette would set an alarm off. Another stores, plus developing systems for both minute single titled “Ageless Medley.” Ac- Sensormatic carrier comes in the form of a hard and soft goods. companying the single is a coupon inten- high-frequency tag that can be placed on The electromagnetic tags used in the ded to boost sales of Grant’s previously Sparrow Bows Green LPs, can contain store logo, price informa- Knogo system would cost no more than 10 released “Age To Age” album, which does Anthology Package tion or bar coding symbols. cents per record at 100% mark-up and not include the new single. Kane also said that the company trains hardware could cost between $3,500- The 7-inch release, produced by Brown LOS ANGELES — The five years the late itore employees in the use of hardware $5,000, depending on store design. The Bannister, is a re-recorded medley of “Old Keith Green spent with Sparrow Records and application of the software, and also Knogo exec said that lease arrangements Man’s Rubble,” “Too Late,” “Walking Away will be chronicled in his first anthology, “I includes training on how to approach were also part of the marketing program. With You,” ”EI Shaddai,” “I’m Gonna Fly,” Only Want To See You There,” which also customers in a firm but courteous manner. Dellomo said that they were pressing “My Father’s Eyes,” “Sing Your Praise To includes a multi-page scrapbook compiled staff in-store “With fewer because of the new companies to try electronic systems, The Lord” and “I Have Decided.” With the by Sparrow president Billy Ray Hearn, Billy economy, you have less of a deterrent fac- stressing that along with installation of the purchase of the single, which is priced at Maxwell, his long-time recording tor than in previous years,” said Kane. “If system, field reps educate employees not $2.49, consumers will receive a coupon en- producer, and his wife. the staff is concentrating on security in- only on the system’s use, but how to ac- titling them to a discount of $2.49 on the The anthology will be Sparrow’s April stead of service, then you could be losing tively police a store without impressing “Age To Age” LP or cassette. A counter special and will be available with the com- revenues.” customers as security. “The system display is also being readied to hold the pany’s 747 display, color mobiles, album Cost of the Sensormatic Keeper box doesn’t work by itself. If you put it in and disc and cassette configurations of both flats, radio co-op spots and camera-ready goes for four cents a unit per month rental. walk away, it won’t work.” the single and the album. ad slicks.

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Sparks Fly Over Playlist Size At Country Radio Seminar by Roland Tom themselves. “If the only criteria we use to NASHVILLE — The most-controversial add a record is whether or not (Chicago’s) and best-attended session during the WMAQ is playing it,” he noted, “I suggest Country Radio Seminar, Feb. 17-19, was, in that is incest.” many respects, the replacement for the Dene Hallam, program director for traditional “Radio, Records And Trades" WKHK-FM/New York, suggested in retalia- panel at which different segments of the tion that larger lists actually provide less music industry were allowed to air their exposure for artists since the average frustrations and point accusing fingers, oc- listener tunes in to radio only seven to eight casionally with surprising results. "The hours a week. “If your list is 80 records,” he Great Debate — Tight vs. Loose Playlists" asked, “how many times will the listener rose in its stead as a volatile session, with hear one record?” He suggested that the overt name-calling (one panelist termed real way to provide assistance to the ailing the opposition's supporting statements record industry is to give maximum ex-

“asinine”) as proponents of open playlists posure to a record once you go on it and charged their counterparts with per- back-announce the artist and the title. petuating a short-listed scheme that will Oatman had suggested that the industry eventually undermine the country industry. has become more close-minded toward Mike Oatman, executive vice president new artists, recalling that he first played for the nine-station Great Empire Broad- Merle Haggard when Haggard, an un- LOBO JOINS FAMOUS — Writer/Artist Lobo has entered into a co-publishing/catalog casting chain, attacked the short playlist, known quantity at the time, brought his administration agreement with the Famous Music Publishing Co., which has increased its saying that “a short playlist says a station is “Strangers” record into the studio when he activity in the country field in recent months. Famous writers have penned recent cuts by short on other things sometimes, such as was with Tally Records. Hallam called this Moe Bandy, Tammy Wynette, Don Williams, Ed Bruce and the Bellamy Brothers. Pictured courtesy to promoters and artists and in- example “asinine.” standing are (l-r): Famous/Ensign staff writers Johnny Cymbal, Mark Sameth, Rick Klang terest in the industry.” Additionally, he Competitive Reasons and Jerry Careaga. Pictured seated are (l-r): Judi Cottier, director of Nashville operations; cited the recent emphasis on shorter Lon Helton, music director for KHJ/Los Lobo; and Bill Holmes, creative director. Famous Music. playlists as a situation created by the Angeles, had been placed on the panel in movement of former Top 40 programmers support of long playlists, and he suggested Nashville March 7 into the country market. that the longer lists can be used as a means Network Debuts “Top 40 died four years ago," he said, of positioning the station. Playing more (continued from page 5) at the Opryland U.S.A. theme park. “and the jocks are working on us now.” records than the competition ensures that feature such guests as Jim Ed Brown, John Weekend programming includes Bobby Most programmers who play fewer some of the product on the playlist will not Hartford, Jeannie Seely and Archie Bare And Friends, a look at the country records have based their decisions on the be duplicated by the cross-town rival, he Campbell: Fandango, a Bill Anderson- songwriter; This Week in Nashville,; theory that listeners are more apt to said. hosted quiz show centered on country Tumbleweed Theater, a Riders In The Sky- change a station when they are presented a Additionally, he indicated that depth music trivia; Yesteryear In Nashville, which hosted feature on western films; and record they are unfamiliar with, but Oat- should also be provided in the oldies examines the genre from a historical Country Sportsman, as well as many other man embraced a study conducted by Rob category, since duplication of oldies by perspective: Nashville After Hours, a show- country-oriented shows. E. Balon & Assoc, that stated that 34% of more than one station in the market can case of Music City nightlife with concert To attain the highest quality and the respondents change radio stations create a larger “gross perception” by the performances and host Wayne Massey; Off credibility, TNN will not utilize any lip- because of excessive repetition, an in- listening audience of that record’s volume Stage, an interview program that portrays synching; all programs that appear on the herent problem with shorter lists, while a of play within the market, compelling artists such as Ed Bruce and Connie network will be either live or taped from a mere six percent tune out a signal because listeners to switch formats as well as sta- Francis, as well as ind ustry executives such live performance. WSM, Inc., handles all they are unfamiliar with it. tions. as BMI’s Frances Preston, Tree’s Buddy programming and production for the Oatman further hurled criticism at Dan O’Toole of the Capitol Broadcasting Killen and Cash Box president and Nashville Network, while Group W Is programmers’ tendencies to wait for other Corp. had prepared a survey of 61 publisher George Albert; and Opryland On responsible for sales, marketing and dis-

stations to add a record before going on it (continued on page 21) Stage, which highlights the youthful talent tribution of the operation.

COUNTRY RADIO SEMINAR HIGHLIGHTS — Some 620 registrants were drawn to the senior vice president/general manager, CBS/Nashville; Columbia recording artist Janie 14th annual Country Radio Seminar at the Opryland Hotel, providing a host of varied ses- Fricke; and Jack Lamier, Columbia national promotion director, Nashville. Pictured in the sions and an opportunity to mix business and education with personal interaction. The bottom row are (l-r): RCA recording artist Jerry Reed; Bob Heatherly, national country seminar also allowed disc jockeys and artists to meet one-on-one at the Artist/Attendee promotion director, RCA; Janet Fort, MD, WSM/Nashville; Tommy St. John; Columbia Cocktail Reception, as well as featuring 1 1 developing acts on the traditional New Faces recording artist Joe Stampley; Mrs. Joe Stampley; Joe Casey, vice president, promotion, Show. Pictured in the top row are (l-r): George Albert, Cash Box president and publisher; CBS/Nashville; Erv Woolsey, vice president, national country promotion, MCA; Stan Epic recording artist Ricky Skaggs; Jim Sharp, Cash Box Nashville vice president; Chip Davis, PD, WYAM/Altoona; Danny O’Brien, manager for MCA recording group The Peay, Skaggs' manager; Rich Schwann, Epic national promotion manager, Nashville; Younger Brothers; Tom Phifer, PD, KRMD/Shreveport; Michael Younger of the Younger Gary Wolf; EMI America/Liberty recording artist Michael Murphey; Mrs. Michael (Mary) Brothers; Roger Ramsey, regional promotion, MCA; and James Younger of The Younger Murphey; Mark Albert, Cash Box vice president/general manager; Rick Blackburn, Brothers.

20 Cash Box/March 12, 1983 )

COUNTRY COUNTRY COLUMN RABBITT GOES STRAIT AT THE RODEO — When Eddie Rabbitt got sick prior to his scheduled appearance on the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Feb. 27, some TOP 75 Ml LBUMS iast-minute shuffling by the show's promoters provided a double bonus, with George Strait filling in for the performer and Rabbitt promising a benefit show during 1984. Once a local physician pronounced him unfit to perform, Rabbitt promised Dick Weekley, in charge of talent coordination for the event, that he would not only Weeks Weeks who was On On appear next year, but that he would also interrupt his annual five-month hiatus with a 3/5 Chart 3/5 Chart benefit concert on behalf of the Houston Rodeo’s agricultural scholarship fund. ^MOUNTAIN MUSIC 38 Traditionally, Rabbitt has taken five l ARRY GATLIN & THE GATLIN ALABAMA (RCA AHL 1-4229) 1 53 months out of each year for relaxation on mind BROTHERS BAND Aalways my (Columbia FC 38135) 38 21 and to work on album projects, and his WILLIE NELSON (Columbia FC 37951 3 52 39 BIG AL DOWNING in 3 1984 appearance at the rodeo HIGHWAYS & BIG AL DOWNING Houston will mark the first departure HEARTACHES (Team TRA-2001) 39 RICKY SKAGGS (Epic FE 37996) 2 24 40 from his closely guarded seclusion in k1pONCHO& LEFTY AROUND the nine years since he enacted this MERLE HAGGARD/WILLIE NELSON KENNY ROGERS (LibetTy LO 51124) 41 35 policy. dis- (Epic FE 37958) 6 7 personal When Weekley 41 covered he had a “sick Rabbitt” on his AtHE BELLAMY BROTHERS REBA McENTIRE ^GREATEST HITS (Mercury/PolyGram SRM 1-4047) 43 35 hands, he quickly contacted Strait at his (Warner/Curb 9 23697-1) 7 29 42 San Marcos home, and, with just six GEORGE STRAIT (MCA-5320) 42 37 re- 6 THE WINNING HAND FAMILY REUNION — Connie Francis hours’ notice, the Texan agreed to per- KRiS KRISTOFFERSON, WILLIE I LEON EVERETTE united her producer of a few years ago, form in Rabbitt’s stead. Using a band NELSON. DOLLY BARTON AND o (RCA MHLI-8600) 49 2 Danny Davis, with Harold Shedd, producer BRENDA LEE (Monument JEG 38389) 5 16 that included labelmates James and I OLD HOMETOWN of her current singie, "There’s Stiil Few AwILD & BLUE w GLEN CAMPBELL A Michael Youngers’ bassist. Strait ap- JOHN ANDERSON (Atlantic America 90016-1) 48 2 Good Love Songs Left in Me," to celebrate parently was well-received by the es- (Warner Bros. 23721-1) 9 21 I WISH YOU WERE HERE her first country release on PolyGram timated 35,500 concert goers, since he 8 GOING WHERE THE TONIGHT Records. Pictured at the Music Mill Studio was invited to return to the rodeo next LONELY GO RAY CHARLES (Columbia FC 38293) 51 2 in Nashville are (l-r): Shedd, Francis and MERLE HAGGARD (Epic FE 38092) 8 17 [TOO GOOD TO HURRY year. Strait also opened The Lone Star, 9 JUST SYLVIA CHARLY McCLAIN (Epic FE 38064) 52 20 Davis. a new country night club in Middletown, SYLVIA (RCA 1-4312) 4 AHL 49 47 GREATEST HITS Ohio, halfway between Dayton and Cincinnati, March 4. Upcoming talent at the venue 10 JR’S ANNE (Capitol HANK WILLIAMS, MURRAY SOO-12110) 47 9 includes Bobby Mackey, March 10; Ed Bruce, April 16; and “Swingin’" John Anderson, GREATEST HITS 48 INSIDE May 27. (Eiektra/Curb 60193-1) 10 22 RONNIE MILSAP (RCA AHL 1-4311) 27 38 49 HONKYTONK MAN ALABAMA PLANS SECOND JUNE JAM — Following last year’s initial festival, which 11 FEELS SO RIGHT ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK attracted more than 27,000 to the band’s hometown, Alabama is planning its second ALABAMA (RCA AHL 1-3930) 11 103 (Warner Bros./Viva 9 23739-1) 33 9 annual June Jam at Ft. Payne, and officials with the Grammy-winning act expect to 12 IT AIN’T EASY 50 TWENTIETH CENTURY double last year’s attendance. Tickets have been priced at $15 for the June 11 bill, JANIE FRICKE (Columbia FC 38214) 12 22 DRIFTER which will also include Janie Fricke Lee Greenwood, with the net proceeds ear- 13 RADIO ROMANCE MARTY ROBBINS (MCA 27060) 50 3 and EDDIE RABBITT (Elektra 60160-1) 13 20 )m COWBOY marked for local charities. The 1 982 event raised over $21 9,000, which was distributed 14 WWII 0 MARTY ROBBINS to some 80 non-profit organizations in DeKalb County, including $40,000 to WAYLON AND WILLIE (Gusto/CBS P-15594) 67 2 Adamsburg School for a new gymnasium. (RCA AHL 1-4455) 14 21 ITHE DISTANCE MANDRELL ADDS NEW GUNS — For the first time, Irby Mandrell signed an act from fnBIGGEST HITS 0 BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET MARTY ROBBINS BAND (Capitol ST-12254) 70 2 outside the family for management through the Mandrell Management Co. when he (Columbia FC 38309) 20 12 53 MERLE HAGGARD’S picked up Compieat recording act The Cannons. Consisting of twin sisters Carla and 16 ANNIVERSARY — TEN GREATEST HITS Darla Cannon and older brother Larry, the group has already opened for such acts as MERLE HAGGARD (MCA-5386) 34 7 YEARS OF HITS the Oak Ridge Boys, the late Marty Robbins and Charley Pride. The group’s first GEORGE JONES (Epic KE2 38328) 16 18 54 KENNY ROGERS single, “Watch My Lips,” was produced by Eddie Kllray. Meanwhile, Barbara Mandrell 17 WILLIE NELSON’S GREATEST HITS GREATEST HITS (AND KENNY ROGERS (Liberty LOO 1072) 44 104 has been in Florida for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ spring training at the request of SOME THAT WILL BE) 55 Dodger catcher Steve Yeager. JOHN (MCA.5310) WILLIE NELSON CONLEE 45 48 CARLILE INKS WITH KILLEN — Door Knob recording artist Tom Carlile recently (Columbia KC2 37542) 17 67 56 signed with Buddy Klllen, allowing the Tree president to handle production chores for 18 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MERLE HAGGARD (Epic FE 37593) 53 71 RIGHT AND WRONG 57 THE FAMILY’S FINE, BUT the artist who was recently featured on the New Faces Show at the 14th annual Country EARL THOMAS CONLEY THIS ONE’S ALL MINE! Radio Seminar. Carlile was also nominated for New Male Vocalist of the Year by the (RCA AHL 1-4348) 18 26 DAVID FRIZZELL Academy of Country Music (ACM). 19 TRUE LOVE (Warner/Viva 9 23688-1) 54 36 SPRINGS, SEALS BENEFIT — Recent appearances by Steve Warmer and Vern CRYSTAL GAYLE 58 CONWAY’S #1 CLASSICS (Elektra 60200-1) 19 IS Gosdin have led to more than $15,000 in receipts for Russell Springs, Ky., and Easter VOL. II ^STRONG WEAKNESS CONWAY TWITTY (Elektra 60209) 58 8 Seals. Warmer performed Feb. 12 with Chet Atkins in his Kentucky hometown to THE BELLAMY BROTHERS 59 BOBBIE SUE benefit William Jay Hammond, the bandleader who first gave Wariner a job as a drum- (Elektra/Curb 9 60210-1) 21 12 OAK RIDGE BOYS (MCA-5294) 56 56 mer. Hammond had two recent heart attacks while his wife underwent surgery, and ^AMERICAN MADE 60 MICHAEL MARTIN more than $10,000 was raised for the ailing couple. Gosdin appeared at the Easter OAK RIDGE BOYS (MCA-5390) 22 4 MURPHEY Seals “Two-Step-A-Thon” Feb. 19 at Jacksonville’s Tappa’s, netting over $5,000 for 22 GREATEST HITS (Liberty LT-51 120) 57 27 the charity. tom roland DOLLY BARTON (RCA AHL 1-4422) 15 23 61 THE LEGEND GOES ON 23 LAST DATE THE STATLER BROTHERS EMMYLOU HARRIS (Mercury/PolyGram SRM-4048) 59 67 (Warner Bros. 9 23740-1) 23 18 62 LISTEN TO THE RADIO Country Radio 24 THE BIRD DON WILLIAMS (MCA-5306) 62 48

JERRY REED (RCA 1-4529) I AHL 24 15 63 AM WHAT I AM Seminar Panei 25 A TASTE OF YESTERDAY’S GEORGE JONES (Epic 36586) 63 3 WINE 64 FANCY FREE (continued from page 20) MERLE HAGGARD & GEORGE OAK RIDGE BOYS (MCA 5209) 64 3 program directors before attending the JONES (Epic FE 38203) 25 28 65 THE BEST OF JERRY LEE panel discussion, and he indicated that the LEWIS majority favored short lists. The vast ma- ^STRONG STUFF (Elektra 60191-1) 65 17 HANK WILLIAMS, JR. jority in the Top 50 markets preferred short- (Elektra/Curb 60223-1) 31 3 66 THE ALL-TIME GREATEST er lists, with that inclination slowly waning 27 MY HOME’S IN ALABAMA HITS OF ROY ORBISON (Monument KWG2784-38384-1) 66 2 until both short lists and long lists were PLAYTHE WINNING HAND ALABAMA (RCA AHL 1-3644) 28 140 28 DREAM MAKER 67 THIS DREAM’S ON ME favored evenly in markets 75-100. Since GENE WATSON (MCA 5302) 68 2 CONWAY TWITTY (Elektra 60182-1) 30 23 most of the stations surveyed were the #1 4 68 GREATEST HITS ACES 29 COME BACK TO ME country station in the market, O’Toole con- MARTY CHARLY McCLAIN (Epic FE 30313) 69 2 Jack Greene Wayne Carson ROBBINS cluded that “people should do what they (Columbia 33 69 WALK ON FC 37995) 29 Ronnie Reno Don Reno KT§ WE’VE GOT TONIGHT KAREN BROOKS want to do as long as it’s successful." (Warner Bros, 23676-1) 60 4 KENNY ROGERS (Liberty LO-51143) — 1 One of the difficulties with O’Toole’s sur- 70 GREATEST HITS EXCLUSIVELY ON 31 WAITIN’ FOR THE SUN TO vey is that it arbitrarily set 50 as the dividing JANIE FRICKE (Columbia FC-38310) — 1 SHINE 71 line between a short list and a long one, and RICKY SKAGGS (Epic FE 37193) 26 65 CLOSE UP EMH RECORDS LOUISE MANDRELL (RCA MHL1-8601) many people would feel that 49 records is a 32 INSIDE AND OUT 8601) — 1 SHOW PROMOTIONS long list, the size of LEE GREENWOOD (MCA-5305) 32 46 depending on the 72 SOUNDS LIKE LOVE market. 38 Music Sq East • Suite III • Nashville. 37203 33 TOM JONES COUNTRY JOHNNY LEE (Full Moon/Asylum 615 255.3009 (Mercury/PolyGram SRM-1-4062) 35 21 60147-1) — 1 Barry Mardit, program director at PERFECT STRANGER 73 FORTY 82 WWWW/Detroit, added from the floor T.G. SHEPPARD DAVIS MAC that in spite of claims by proponents _ (Warner/Curb 23726-1) 40 21 (Casablanca/PolyGram NBLP-7274) 61 4 CaOUR BEST TO YOU 74 THE BEST LITTLE of longer lists, short playlists have DAVID FRIZZELL & SHELLY WEST WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS not kept newer artists out of the large (Warner Bros./Viva 9 23754-1) 46 8 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK markets, noting that every station in the 36 PUT YOUR DREAMS AWAY (MCA-6112) 55 29 room had probably played at least two cuts MICKEY GILLEY (Epic FE 38082) 36 30 75 16TH AVENUE by such artists as Leon Everette, John An- 37 QUIET LIES LACY J. DALTON JUICE NEWTON (Capitol ST 12210) 37 42 (Columbia FC 37975) 72 33 derson, George Strait, Ricky Skaggs, Reba McEntire and Earl Thomas Conley.

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March 12, 1983

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I WOULDN’T CHANGE YOU IF I SAVE ME IT HASN’T HAPPENED YET LOUISE (RCA PB-13450) o COULD o® MANDRELL ® ROSANNE CASH (Columbia 38-03705) — 1 RICKY SKAGGS (Epic 34-03482) 3 12 AFTER THE LAST GOODBYE 68 EASIER THE ROSE ® GUS HARDIN (RCA PB-13445) SANDY CROFT (Anglesong ASB 1821) 55 13 o CONWAY TWITTY (Elektra 7-698S4) 4 12 35 BREAKIN’ IT 69 I CAN’T GET OVER YOU SWINGIN’ LORETTA LYNN (MCA 52158) BANDANA (Warner Bros. 7-29831) 62 14 o JOHN ANDERSON (Warner Bros. 7-29788) FOOLIN’ 70 LIVIN’ ON MEMORIES SHINE ON 0 JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ (Epic 34-03598) GARY WOLF (Columbia 38-03493) 74 3 GEORGE JONES (Epic 34-03489) RAINBOWS AND BUTTERFLIES f.ITTLE OLD FASHIONED DIXIELAND DELIGHT BILLY SWAN (Epic 34-03505) © KARMA 8 ALABAMA (RCA PB-13446) IF YOU’RE GONNA DO ME WILLIE NELSON (Columbia 38-03674) — 1 EVERYTHING’S BEAUTIFUL WRONG (DO IT RIGHT) IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT DOLLY PARTON/WILLIE NELSON VERN GOSDIN (Compleat CP-102) 46 4 ® MEL TILLIS(MCA-52182) _ 1 (Monument WS4 03408) 6 14 39 WHY BABY WHY 73 KEEP ON PLAYIN’ THAT WHEN I’M AWAY FROM YOU CHARLEY PRIDE (RCA PB.13397) 5 15 COUNTRY MUSIC e THE BELLAMY BROTHERS TOUCH ME (I’LL BE YOUR FOOL SIERRA (Musicom 52701) (Elektra/Curb 7-698S0) 10 9 ® ONCE MORE) 74 CAROLINE’S STILL IN GEORGIA I HAVE LOVED YOU, GIRL TOM JONES THE COULTERS (Dolphin DS 45003) o EARL THOMAS CONLEY (RCA PB-13414) 12 9 (Mercury/PolyQram 810 446-7) 50 TENDERNESS PLACE LAST THING I NEEDED FIRST ® KAREN TAYLOR-GOOD MESA THING THIS MORNING 41 HONKYTONK MAN {NSD/M1114) WILLIE NELSON (Columbia 38-03385) 1 15 MARTY ROBBINS (Warner/Viva 7-29847) 13 12 I THANK YOU DARLING 10 AIN’T NO TRICK C^ BILL ANDERSON (Southern Tracks ST101 4) LEE GREENWOOD (MCA-52150) 11 14 42 WHEN YOU’RE NOT A LADY JIM GLASER (Noble Vision NV-101) 20 17 77 COUNTRY MUSIC NIGHTMARE WE’VE GOT TONIGHT BOXCAR WILLIE (Main Street B954) O KENNY ROGERS & SHEENA EASTON 43 FAKING LOVE THOSE NIGHTS, THESE DAYS (Liberty P.B.1492) 14 7 T.G. SHEPPARD and KAREN BROOKS © DAVID WILLS (RCA PB-13460) (Warner/Curb 7-29854) 30 17 YOU DON’T KNOW LOVE THE PARTY’S OVER O JANIE FRICKE (Columbia 38-03498) 15 8 COMMON MAN JOHN CONLEE (MCA-5217B) © (EVERBODY’S GONE) HANGIN’ AROUND SAM NEELY (MCA-52194) THE WHITES (Elektra 7-69855) 17 12 IT TAKES LOVE REASONS TO QUIT t BIG AL DOWNING (Team TRS 10O4AS) IT’S A DIRTY JOB © BOBBY BARE & LACY J. DALTON MERLE HAGGARD/WILLIE NELSON 46 VELVET CHAINS $ (Columbia 38-03628) (Epic 34-03494) 18 9 GARY MORRIS (Warner Bros. 7-29853) 38 16 47 FRIDAY NIGHT FEELIN’ 81 HELLO MORNING IS FEELS RIGHT JANEECE(We8tW717) 82 4 TANYA TUCKER (Arista AS 0677) 16 17 VERN GOSDIN (A.M.I. 1312AA) WHO’S GONNA KEEP ME WARM IT’S WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR MY FIRST TASTE OF TEXAS ® FACE O ED BRUCE (MCA 52156) 19 8 PHIL EVERLY (Capitol P-B-5197) RONNIE DUNN (Churchill CE 94018) 93 2 17 IF HOLLYWOOD DON’T NEED 49 STILL TAKING CHANCES MICHAEL MURPHEY (Liberty P-B-146B) 83 REASONS TO BELIEVE YOU THE WRAY BROTHERS BAND DON WILLIAMS (MCA.52152) 2 14 MORE AND MORE (CIS Northwest Inc. CIS 3011-AM) 83 5 GONNA GO HUNTIN’ TONIGHT 0 CHARLEY PRIDE (RCA PB13451) 84 I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HANK WILLIAMS, JR. (Elektra/Curb 7-69843) 51 SOMEBODY’S ALWAYS SAYING LONELY AMERICAN MADE GOODBYE BOBBY BRIDGES (Roxy 3011) 84 10 OAK RIDGE BOYS (MCA-52179) ANNE MURRAY (Capitol P-B-5183) 41 17 COME AS YOU WERE JERRY LEE LEWIS (MCA-52188) — 1 SOUNDS LIKE LOVE 52 THE WAYWARD WIND ® JOHNNY LEE (Elektra/ Asylum 7-69848) JAMES GALWAY WITH SPECIAL GUEST i^1 YR’ 2 MO’ 11 DAYS DOWN ON THE CORNER SYLVIA (RCA PB.13441) WAYNE CARSON (EMH 0017) JERRY REED (RCA PB-13422) THIS COWBOY’S HAT HUNG UP ON YOU SHAME ON THE MOON ® PORTER WAGONER (Wamer/Viva 7-29772) ANNE LORD (Comstock COM 1700) BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND STORM OF LOVE THERE’S STILL A FEW GOOD (Capitol PB-5187) ® CHANTILLY (F& L 523) W love SONGS LEFT IN ME AMARILLO BY MORNING 55 TAKE IT ALL CONNIE FRANCIS (Polydor/PolyGram 810 087-7) GEORGE STRAIT (MCA-52162) RICH LANDERS (A.M.i. 131 1AA) 89 WHERE DO YOU GO YOU’RE THE FIRST TIME I’VE 56 UNFINISHED BUSINESS STREETFEET (Triple T-TT 2001) THOUGHT ABOUT LEAVING LLOYD DAVID FOSTER (MCA.52173) 90 I’M A BOOGER REBA MoENTIRE 57 THOSE WERE THE DAYS ROY CLARK (Churchill CR 94017) (Mercury/PolyGram 810 338-7) 29 7 GARY STEWART & DEAN DILLON 81 HUGGIN’, KISSIN’, LOVIN’ (RCA PB-13401) ALMOST CALLED HER BABY BY NOEL (Deep South A.G. 719) SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE 92 HOLD ME MISTAKE YOUNGER BROTHERS (MCA-52183) LARRY GATLIN & THE GATLIN BROTHERS DAVID ROGERS (Columbia 38-03517) 28 7 59 C.C. WATIRBACK (Music Masters. Ltd. MM-65-100 3-1004-52) LOVE GEORGE JONES/MERLE HAGGARD 93 SHE’S GONE TO L.A. AGAIN BORN TO ME (Epic 34-03405) 47 14 RAY CHARLES (Columbia 38-03429) 26 12 MICKEY CLARK (Monument WS4 03519) PERSONALLY I STILL LOVE YOU IN THE SAME 94 LONELY BROKEN HEART RONNIE McDOWELL (Epic 34-03526) 31 7 0 OL’ WAY CLYDE MOODY (Black Rose 8271) 94 MOE BANDY (Columbia 38-03825) 70 2 I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME 95 IF I JUST HAD MY WOMAN GLEN CAMPBELL 61 TENDER LOVIN’ LIES BOBBY REED (CBO 132) (Atlantic America 7-99930) 32 9 JUDY BAILEY (Warner Bros. 7-29799) 61 S 98 GOOD LOVIN’ BAD WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WYVON ALEXANDER (Gervasi SP 662) 62 ’TIL I GAIN CONTROL AGAIN OLD-FASHIONED LOVE CRYSTAL GAYLE (Elektra 7-69893) 48 17 97 THE NIGHT’S ALMOST OVER B.J. THOMAS (Cleveland Infl/Epic 38-03492) 33 S 63 SHADOWS OF MY MIND JACKY WARD (Asylum 7-69844) IF THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE LEON EVERETTE (RCA PB-13381) 51 16 98 LOVIN’ SOMEONE THINKING 64 INSIDE THE SCRATCH BAND (MCA-52165) KAREN BROOKS (Warner Bros. 7-29789) 34 7 RONNIE MILSAP (RCA PB-13362) 53 17 99 WON’T YOU BE MY BABY JOSE CUERVO YOU TAKE ME FOR GRANTED STEVE RICKS (Southwind SW 8203) SHELLY WEST (Warner/Viva 7-29778) 36 5 © MERLE HAGGARD (Epic 34-03723) 100 I’LL NEVER GET THROUGH FINDING YOU 66 HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE (MISSING YOU) JOE STAMPLEY (Epic 34-03568) 40 4 TENNESSEE EXPRESS (RCA PB-13423) 54 TERRI MILLER (Winner WN7482) 76

I ALPHABETICAL TOP 100 COUNTRY SINGLES (INCLUDING PUBLISHERS AND LICENSEES) I Livin' After The Last Goodbye (Fame/Rick Hall—ASCAP)34 Huggin', Kissing', Lovin' (Foxtail/Sirdale — ASCAP)91 On Memories (Galleon, Inc. — ASCAP) .70 Tenderness Place (Acuff-Rose Inc. — BMI) . 75 Ain't No Trick (House of Gold — BMI) 10 Hung Up On You (Atllor — PRO) 87 Lonely Broken Heart (Dream City — BMI) 94 Thank You Darling (Free Breez Inc./Stallion

Lovin' -- . . Almost Called Her Baby (Larry Gatlin — BMI) 25 I Can't Get (New Albany/Hoosier — ASCAP) 69 Someone (Colgems-EMI Inc. ASCAP) .98 Inc./Lowery Inc. — BMI) 76 Inc. Amarillo By Morning (Cotillion/Terry Statford/Admin. If Hollywood Don't Hall-Clement c/o Welk — BMI) . 17 More And More (Cedarwood — BMI) 50 The Night's Almost Over (Big Casey — BMI) 97 First by Cotillion — BMI) 23 If I Just Had My Woman (Muhlenberg — BMI) 95 My Taste (Tree/Newkeys/Sugarplum — BMI) 16 The Party's Over (Famous Corp. /Boo/Ensign American Made (Music City—ASCAP/Combine— If That's What (Gee Sharp — BMI) 30 1 Yr 2 Mo 1 1 Days (Shady Deli — BMI) 86 Corp./Guyaauta — ASCAP/BMI) 79 BMI) 19 If You're Gonna (Hookit/Blue Lake — BMI) 38 Personally (T ree/Five Of A Kiod/T ree Group — BMI)27 There's Still A Few Good Love (United •— Born To Love Me (Music City — ASCAP) 26 I Have Loved (Blue Moon — ASCAP) 8 Rainbows And Butterflies (Music City ASCAP) . .37 Artists/Llonhearted — ASCAP/Big Parade

Breakin' It (Music City, Inc. — BMI) 35 I Know What (Dream City — BMI) 84 Reasons To Believe (Hudson Bay ~ BMI) 83 BMI) 88 Caroline's Still In Georgia (Bibo — ASCAP) 74 I'll Never Get Through (Golden Horn — ASCAP) ..100 Reasons To Quit (Shade Tree — BMI) 14 The Rose (Warner-Tamerlane — BMI) 2

C.C. Waterback (Shade Tree — BMI) 59 I Love How (Screen Gems-EMi — BMI) 28 Save Me (Rare Blue Ino. — ASCAP) 33 The Wayward (Bibo/c/o ‘Welk Group—ASCAP) . . .52 Come As You Were (Dropkick — BMI) 85 I'm A Booger (Tree Inc. — BMI/Cross Keys — Shadows Of My Mind (Hermitage — BM!) 63 This Cowboys (Elektra Asylum/Brooks Bros.—BMI)53

Common Man (Lowerey Inc./Legibus/Captain Crystal ASCAP) 90 Shame On The Moon (Cooiwell/Granite — ASGAP)22 Those Nights, These Days (Sister John — BMI) . . .78 Inc. — BMI) 44 Inside (Lodge Hall — ASCAP) 54 She's Gone To L.A. Again (Combine Corp. — BMI) 93 Those Were The Days (Tree/Forrest Hills — BMI) .57

Country Music Nightmare (Column II Music — BMI) 77 In The Middle (Sabel — ASCAP) Shine On (Southern Nights ~ ASCAP) 62 72 4 'Tii I Gain Control (Jolly Cheeks — BMI) Dixieland Delight (Sister John, Inc. — BMI2 I Still Love You (Baray Inc. — BMI) 60 Somebody's Always Saying (Hall-Clement c/o Walk — ;Touch Me (ATV Music Corp. — BMI) 40

Down On The Corner (Jondora — BMI) . . It Hasn't Happened Yet (Bug/Bilt Adm. by World Wide BMI) 51 Unfinished Business (House of Gold — BMI) 56

Easier (Sawgrass/Duck Songs — BMI) . . — BMI) 67 Somewhere Down (Old Friands—BMI/Golden Velvet Chains (Cross Keys — ASCAP) 46 It's — Everything's Beautiful (Combine — BMI) . A Dity Job (Cross Keys/Treo Group Bridge—ASCAP) 68 We've Got Tonight (Gear — ASCAP) 11 Faking Love (Tree — BMI) ASCAP/Unichappell/VanHoy — BMI) 80 Sounds Like Love (Chappeli/Bibo c/o The Welk Whatever Happened To (Ole Friends — BMI) 29

Feels It . Right (DebDave/Briar Patch — BMI) Takes Love (Metaphor— BMI/Simile—ASCAP) . 45 Music Group ~ ASCAP) 20 When I'm Away (Rare Blue — ASCAP) ^ Finding You (Baray. Inc./Brandwood, Inc. — BMI) .32 It's Written All Over (I've Got The Music — ASCAP) 82 Still Taking Chances (Timberwolf — BMI) 49 'When You're Not (Coigems — EMI/Tiny Tiger —

Foolin' I — (Ace In The Hole — BMI) 36 Wouldn't Change (Peer Int'l • BMI) 1 Storm Of Love (Buzz Cason/Let There Be Music — ASCAP) 42 Friday Night Feelin' (Nub-Pub — ASCAP) 47 Jose Cuervo (Easy Listening/Galleon Inc.—ASCAP)31 A.SCAP) 54 Where Do You Go (Andgrarn — ASCAP) 89 Good Lovin' Bad (Fruit Jar — BMl/Golden Opportunity Keep On Playin' (Blackwood Inc. —BMI) 73 Swingin' (Anderson/Delmore — BMI) 3 Who's Gonna Keep (Money Honey/ April

• SESAC) Last Thing I Needed (Nunn — BMI) 9 Take It All (Escrow/Plum Creek — BMI) 55 Rook — BMI) 48 Morning/Glen ..'1 Gonna Go Huntin' (Bocephus — BMI) 18 Little Old Fashioned Karma (Willie Nelson Co. ~ Tender Lovin' Lies (Music Corp. o! American Inc. — Won't You Be My Baby (Blackwood — BMI) 99 Hangin' Around (Refuge — ASCAP/Elektra/ BMI) 71 BMI/MCA Music-A division of MCA Inc.—ASCAP)61 Why Baby Why (Fort Knox — BMI) 39 Asylum — BMI) 13 You Don't (House Of Gold/Don King — BMI/KIng'sX — Hello Morning (Berdoo — BMI) 81 ASCAP) '2 Hold Me (Chip N' Dale — ASCAP) 92 You're The First (Maplehill/Hall-Clement Vogue Honkytonk Man (Peso/Wallet — BMI) 41 activity 24 Exceptionally heavy radio this week Exceptionally heavy sales activity this week c/o Welk — BMI)

How Long Will It Take (Hall-Clement c/o The Welk . . .65 ^ You Take Me For Granted (Shade Tree — BMI) tjyiusic Group — BMI) 66 EVERYBODY IS TAKING RONNIE McDOWELL’S

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EPIC RECORDS & CASSETTES COUNTRY R4DIO MOST/1DDED COUNTRY SINGLES THE COUNTRY MIKE YOU TAKE ME FOR GRANTED — MERLE HAGGARD — EPIC — 42 ADDS MORGAN MOVING ON — Chuck Morgan, late night disc jockey at WSM/Nashville, is IT HASN’T HAPPENED YET — ROSANNE CASH — COLUMBIA — 39 ADDS leaving to work with Larry Schmittou and the Texas Rangers baseball team. Morgan is LITTLE OLD FASHIONED KARMA — WILLIE NELSON — COLUMBIA — 30 assuming the position of director of sales in the marketing division. He will be dealing ADDS with the radio and TV network for the Rangers and will also do color for road games IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT — MEL TILLIS — MCA — 29 ADDS for cable TV. Schmittou, president of the Nashville Sounds minor league baseball NIGHTS, — THOSE THESE DAYS DAVID WILLS — RCA — 24 ADDS franchise, and Morgan previously worked together from 1978 to 1980 when Schmittou hired Morgan to perform the public address duties at the Nashville Sounds ballpark. MOST/1CTIVE COUNTRY SINGLES During his stint as host for WSM’s Music Country Network, Morgan made many numerous friends in the country music field, particularly the artists who have been his DIXIELAND DELIGHT — ALABAMA ~ RCA — 64 REPORTS guests on the program. Many of these artists will be visiting with him on Music Country AMERICAN MADE — OAK RIDGE BOYS — MCA — 59 REPORTS Network during his last days as host to l^\ SOUNDS LIKE LOVE — JOHNNY LEE — ELEKTRA/ASYLUM 52 bid him farewell. March 12 will be REPORTS Morgan’s last day to host the program. JOSE CUERVO — SHELLY WEST — WARNER/VIVA — 47 REPORTS Music Country Network is programmed YOU’RE THE FIRST TIME I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT LEAVING — REBA on more than 80 stations nationwide. McENTIRE — MERCURY/POLYGRAM — 46 REPORTS NEW REPORTER — As part of our ongoing profile of new Cash Box repor- ters, this week the spotlight falls on SINGLES REVIEWS WLAS/Jacksonville, N. C. Owned by Seaboard Broadcasting Corp., WLAS is 5,000 watts and is considered Onslow OUIOFMBCK County’s #1 country station. Sidney LOUISE CLOSE-UP — RCA artist Louise Popkin is general manager, Donna GENE WATSON WITH THE FAREWELL PARTY Mandreil stopped by WPLO/Atlanta and Martindale holds the position of sales Records, Decatur, Ga. recently BAND (MCA 52191) Clark’s manager, and Willis Williams serves as during her Southeast radio/retaii tour in You’re Out Doing What I’m Here Doing Without both program and music director. At support of her mini-LP, "Closeup." Pic- (2:30) (Desert Rose Music/Ski Slope Music — BMI) least three or four times a year, the sta- tured are (i-r): Harry Clark, Clark’s (B. Roberts, A. Frizzell) (Producers: R. Reeder, G. tion brings in Nashville talent and Records: Watson) Mandreil; and Johnny Gray, MD, provides its listeners with free country WPLO/Atlanta. club shows. T.G. Sheppard and Earl The first single from his new “Sometimes I Get Lucky" LP places Watson’s silky delivery atop a Thomas Conley are among those who have performed. WLAS is also actively involved pulsating rhythm section bolstered by a chunky in raising money with various promotions for non-profit organizations such as the guitar and keyboard licks reminiscent of Ramsey American Cancer Society and the National Kidney Foundation. Burkhart/Abrams in Lewis. Following two rather subdued singles, the Atlanta is used as consultant for the station, which has been country since 1971. The release of this snappy tune is well-timed for the station lineup is as follows: 6-10 a.m. is Gator, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. is Willis Williams, Terry onslaught of the invigorating spring season. Downing covers the afternoon from 2-6 p.m., Peggy Jones handles the mike from 6-10 p.m., and, finally. Music County Network is aired from 10 p.m. -5 a.m.

MACK IS BACK. . .AGAIN — Dallas/Ft. Worth listeners will now be able to hear legen- FE/TTURE PICKS dary country disc jockey Bill Mack, along with some of the biggest names in country music. Mack is joining KLIF/Dallas as “Goodwill Ambassador of Country Music." MICHAEL MURPHEY (Liberty P-B-1494) Mack, a recent inductee to the Disc Jockey Hall of Fame, will represent the station in Love Affairs (3:30) (Timberwolf Music/d’ Abo Songs, Inc. — BMI) (M. Murphey, M. d’ Abo) the community and be a regular part of KLIF’s Classic Country programming. Although (Producer: J.E. Norman) KLIF will be his home base. Mack will continue to be heard late nights on 250,000-watt XERF/Cuidad Acuna, Mexico (Cash Box, Jan. 22). MARTY ROBBINS (Columbia 38-03789) AWARDS GIVEN -- K95FM {KWEN)/Katz Broadcasting of Tulsa was recently award- Change Of Heart (3:07) (Warner-Tamerlane Publ. Corp./Rumble Seat Music — BMI) (R. ed two citations for superior advertising at Tulsa’s 16th annual Addy Awards Sharp) (Producer: B. Montgomery) ceremony. The radio station earned the citations for “The Office Party,” a 30-second BOBBY BARE & LACY J. DALTON (Columbia 38-03628) spot created for Dan Tisdal Photography, and for “Fifty Fishy Years,” a 60-second spot It’s A Dirty Job (2:58) (Cross Keys Publ. Co., Inc. /Tree Group — ASCAP/Unichappell that was created for White River Fish Markets. Both segments were produced by Scott Music/VanHoy Music — BMI) D. Cook, R. Van Hoy) (Producer: B. Sherrill) Yates, production director at KWEN. The Addy Awards, sponsored by the Tulsa Chap- ter of the American Advertising Federation, allows advertisers to enter their original JERRY LEE LEWIS (MCA.52188) works in a yearly competition. Come As You Were (2:25) (DropKick Music — BMI) (P. Craft) (Producer: R. Chancey) STATION CHANGES —• Buzz Barton is now the program director for KOCY/Oklahoma City. Barton, a 20-year veteran of Oklahoma City radio, previously GAIL DAVIES (Warner Bros. 7-29726)

held the midday air shift for sister station KXXY. . .Deborah A. Wieser has been named Singing The Blues (2:04) (Acuff-Rose Publ. Inc. — BMI) (M. Endsley) (Producer: G. director of publicity and advertising for the Wheeling Broadcast Co., which includes Davies) WWVA and WCPI radio stations. Jamboree U.S.A. and the Capitol Music Hall. Wieser J.D. CROWE AND THE NEW SOUTH (Rounder 4554) has been with the firm since September 1981, serving as secretary of the promotions

I Would Have Loved You All Night Long (3:28) (Tree Publ. — BMI) (G. Martin) (Producer: department . . . KSD/St. Louis has added Nancy Crocker to its station lineup. She is on Not Listed) the air from 7 p.m. -midnight. Crocker formerly was music coordinator at WIL/St. Louis. BILLY PARKER AND FRIENDS (Soundwaves SW-4699-NSD) juanita butler Who Said Love Was Fair (3:21) (The All American B-Flat Music Co. — BMI) (R. Gibson) (Producer: J. Gibson)

BUBBA TALBERT (Ranger VPMF-5734) PROGR/1MMERS PICKS Easy Catch (Time Not Listed) (Ranger Publ. — ASCAP) (B. Talbert) (Producer: W. WLAS/Jacksonville Must Believe In Magic — Mitchell) Willis Williams We Johnny Cash — Columbia NEW/IND DEVELOPING Tom Newman KGA/Spokane You Take Me For Granted — Merle Haggard — Epic

JIM GLASER (Noble Vision NV-102) Bill Jones WKSJ/Moblle Huggin’, KIssIn’, Lovin’ — Noel — Deep You Got Me Running (2:40) (Dawnbreaker Music South — BMI) (P. McGee) (Producer: D. Tolle) Janet Fort WSM/Nashville It Hasn’t Happened Yet — Rosanne Glaser’s “When You’re Not A Lady” was one of Cash Columbia the strongest independent releases to emerge in the last year, and his second Noble Vision single Ernie Hadaway WKMF/Flint Ruby Red — The Four Guys — covers a song first recorded by Gene Cotton in the Audiograph mid-’70s. Cascading guitar lines open to a seductive chorus, and Glaser turns in a strong rendition Rob Ryan KWEN/Tulsa American Made — Oak Ridge Boys — in this multi-layered production. MCA

Rick Cardarelll WSLR/Akron After The Last Goodbye — Gus Hardin /1LBUM REVIEWS — RCA Glen Garrett WCOS/Columbia Finding You — Joe Stampley — Epic AFTER ALL THIS TIME — Mel Tlllls — MCA 5378 — Producer: Harold Shedd — List: Bill Warren KLIC/Monroe Little Old Fashioned Karma — Willie 8.98 — Bar Coded Nelson — Columbia In his first hookup with producer Harold Shedd, Tillis latches onto a strong mixture of thumping, swing-tinged cuts and relaxed country ballads. Tillis’ vocal efforts are flawless, Rick Stevens KWKH/Shreveport The Party’s Over — Sam Neely — MCA punctuated by loping bass lines, cutting fiddles and sorrowful steel guitar, as well as oc- casional backing vocals from the Corbin Hanner Band and Waylon Jennings, providing a Al Twine WBXB/Edenton It Hasn’t Happened Yet — Rosanne fairly laid-back, 10-cut collection. Cash — Columbia

24 Cash Box/March 12, 1983 A C4SH BOX SPOTLIGHT Dear Mel, Congratulations And Welcome To

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State of Tennessee MCHARD rLT-TO-H LAMAR ALDCANDER GOVERNOR

Jan. 3, 1983 March 1, 1983 Mr. Mel Tillis c/o Cash Box Magazine Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Mel Tillis c/o Cash Box Dear W- . Nashville, Tennessee On behalf of the citizens of Nashville, I extend warmest congratulations to you on the occasion of your tribute in Dear Mel , Cash Box Magazine.

On behalf of the citizens of the State of Tennessee, I am pleased to be a part of this special tribute to you and As an entertainer, singer and outstanding representative of your very successful career. the music industry, you have become internationally renowned and a distinguished ambassador for your city and community. Since 1956, you have given to the people across the globe through your many talents as a songwriter, recording artist, Wherever country music is known and appreciated, your name and and actor. Just as each of us in Tennessee realize your talent are recognized as part of the musical heritage that abilities as a performer, the Country Music Association has continued to grow in scope and importance during the past and The Songwriters Hall of Fame publically recognized you years as one of our nation’s best in 1976. These honors were certainly long awaited and well deserved. We are appreciative of the many contributions you have made to your industry and your cotmunity and look forward to many years r 1 Tennesseans are proud to call you "one of our own". As of "Mel Tillis hits."

always , Mel , 1 send you my very best regards for much continued success and happiness. With every good wish, I am. - Sincerely yQflrs,A Sincerely, CHAMBER OF COMMEffcp ^Xl/e£cx$^njeyi y.t?a t4x Richard £« ton Lamar Alexander Mayor 'V LA/sm PAHOKEE RHF:ocp

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Bob Graham Pdhokee, Florida 33476 GOVERNOR January 10, 1983 January 11, 1983 Mr. Lonnie Melvin Tillis 1520 Demonbruen Nashville, Tennessee 37203

Dear Mel: Dear M-M-Mel; In Florida we like to point to all the things that make us a "magic" state— our climate, beaches, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you international cities, quaint rural localities and on your success in the music and entertainment field. The people exotic wildlife. We are the home of hundreds of of Pahokee are proud of your accomplishments. We are also proud festivals and special events, including your own of the fact that you still call Pahokee home, and that you take Orange Blossom Special at the University of Florida. time from your busy schedule to stop in and visit. We were especially proud when you returned for our 60th anniversary, having We like to think that that extraordinary quality is to go two nights without sleep to make the trip and keep your actually in the air, and we are proud to say that in schedule. We are proud of Pahokee and are beginning to turn the the midst of it all is the magic of Mel Tillis. corner of re-development which we think will make you proud to have your billboard welcoming people to Pahokee. Thus, it is a pleasure to join your many devoted Florida fans in congratulating you on the occasion I was vary pleased to hear recently of your future production marking your 25 years with the music industry. of a mini series based on " I take This Land". We of Pahokee will be glad to be of any assistance we can offer. Sincerely, I have attached a photo of your new sign which is erected on ^ each entrance to Pahokee. Thanks for you BG/vlk

Mr. Mel Tillis

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THE MAGIC OF

by Tom Roland In 1956. Webb Pierce recorded his “I'm Tired,” leading to a deal with Cedarwood 'I There is something mystical that exists be- Publishing for $75 a week. Tillis began churn- tween an entertainer and his fans, an energy ing out reams of material for Cedarwood that that moves in both directions between them. was covered by such country artists as Pierce, Some call it stage presence, some call it talent, Ray Price and Cal Smith, but his parallel still others call it magic. recording career was much less rewarding, as Somehow, a heavy dosage of that magic is he was unable to garner a solid hit with CBS. centered in the person of Mel Tillis, for he has "Looking back," he recalls, “it seems that the overcome what many might consider a han- way it turned out, Columbia was more or less dicap to become a major country singer, and a showcase for my songs, because Fd get his success within the genre has covered more covered on every record I put out, so I became than a quarter of a century. Tillis is a curious more or less a writer.” subject, because in spite of the fact that he writer, stutters almost incessantly during normal con- As a Tillis made substantial contributions to the repertoire of other artists, versation, given a microphone, he is trans- many with formed into one of the slickest and smoothest songs like “I Ain't Never” and “Tupelo Jail.” singers in country music. Country Even more substantially, he wrote "Detroit City” for Bobby Bare, a song that This is the point that separates him from has every other entertainer and has endeared him become a classic in the annals of country, to a steady legion of fans across the country, earning Bare a Grammy Award. The tune has been recorded at least for the magic of Mel Tillis lies in his ability to 15 times, by such artists as Bare, Tillis, candidly expose his weakness without self- Charley Pride, Carl Perkins, Walter Brennan, Tom Jones, Jerry consciously making a big deal of it. Reed and Dolly Parton. Long before he was an entertainer, Tillis "I used to get extremely grew up as a classroom comic and a football nervous when I wrote," notes Tillis. "I could player in high school at Pahokee, a town on always tell when the southeastern edge of Florida’s Lake I was going on a writing streak. I'd get extremely nervous, irritable, Okeechobee. After a year at the University of and I would in- Florida, he joined up with the Air Force, sulate myself from all outside interference.” During one of these sprees, which lasted week, where he honed his abilities as a comedian and a he wrote five songwriter before his military buddies as a songs, each of which was recorded later. member of The Westerners. Among them were “Un- mitigated Gall,” which During his Air Force stint, he dabbled with was recorded first by Carl songwriting, and after leaving the service, he Perkins; “Mental Revenge,” which eventually worked his way to Nashville, became a hit for Waylon Jennings; and "Ruby, Don’t where, at that time, such legendary producers Take Your Love To Town.” as Don Law, Paul Cohen and Steve Sholes The latter tune, a more subtle form of were running the show in Music City, and protest to the Vietnam War than the bulk of singers were in many respects a dime a dozen. war songs that were being written during the

"After 1 found out that they needed songs in- same period of time by pop writers, was re- stead of singers,” Tillis says, “I went back to corded by a number of artists as album cuts

Florida and wrote some songs and brought before Kenny Rogers finally released it as a them back up here. They turned out to be single. "I cut it first on an album,” Tillis

pretty good songs, so that way I got to meet recalls, "but I wasn't going to put it out (as a

Don Law.” single), not after my wife had told me it was

Cash Box/March 12, 1983 MT-5 the most morbid thing she'd ever heard." sion show. Comedy came to the forefront in overall status in the ranks of country perfor- parts mainly because I wanted to get some ex- Covered first by Jennings and Roger Miller in the series, and Tillis was an important part of mers. First, he signed with MGM, a point perience in that kind of business," he said,

1967, the song finally made it to the Top 10 of the humor, working along with Dolly Parton from which he began to emerge as one of the “and to meet the producers and directors and the country charts when it was released as a and the V\ agonmasters. top vocalists in country music. With songs see how' they were done. A lot of people said, '1 ^ single by Johnny Darrell later that same year During the same year, he formed the such as “I Ain't Never," “Arms Of A Fool," wouldn't have done that for just that little if^ and became a pop hit when Rogers & the First Statesiders. his own backing troop, named af- "SawmiH" and "Best Way 1 Know How," part,' but how areyou going to learn about it

Edition put it out as a single in 1969. Since ter his “Stateside" single. Tillis w as one of the Tillis was becoming recognized more for his you don’t get in there and do it? 1 certainly

then, it has reappeared in several Kenny first Nashville entertainers to use his own easy vocal abilities instead of his charac- didn’t do it for the money." Rogers albums, including his “Greatest Hits" band in the studio instead of the usual core of teristicallv humorous stance as a stutterer. In 1979, Tillis left MCA, a company he had compilation, and has earned sales ap- studio musicians, and the Statesiders have He also showed the first signs that he would been with since the mid-’70s, in favor of proaching the nine million mark. been instrumental in the recording of many of become a businessman, establishing the Elektra and Jimmy Bowen: during his

As a singer. Tillis bounced around through his albums, including a recently recorded Sawgrass Sabal publishing house that still ex- tenure there, he put out six albums, including several recording contracts during the early tribute to Bob Wills. ists today. The company today is valued at a greatest hits package and a duet LP with

and mid-'60s, joining Decca in 1962. Jumping Tillis became a familiar face and voice to over $1 million, and has produced such tunes Nancy Sinatra. But Tillis recently rekindled .

to Ric in 1964 and moving to Kapp several countrs fans through his association w'ith as “Beautiful You" for the Oak Ridge Boys, his association with MCA, and his first album j

months later. During the same period of time. \\ agoner, which went beyond his role as an "Lord. I Hope This Day Is Good" for Don since re-signing, “After All This Time," just Tillis traveled as a band member for Minnie employee of the television production. The Williams. “Dream Of Me" for Vern Gosdin, shipped, with Harold Shedd serving as Pearl, Pierce, the of Paducah and were fishing a dis- "Whiskey " for Stampley and producer. W ebb Duke two buddies, but major Chasin' Joe ^ "1 1^ Judy Lynn. agreement finally dissolved Tillis' part in the "Naked In The Rain" for Loretta Lynn. The felt like I w asn't getting the support that i

On his own recordings, Tillis quite naturally TV show . “Later on we realized just how stub- company has also had songs included in the deserved at Elektra," he says of the change. songs he written such sang the had — as “Burn- born each of us had been," he relates, "but Oak Ridge Boys' platinum "Fancy Free" “I may be wrong. 1 may not have given ing Memories," "Life Turned Her That you're talking about two Leos." album, as well as Alabama’s double platinum them the support that they expected olj^ Way" and “All Right (I'll Sign The Papers)" Actually, Tillis' dismissal became an impor- "Mountain Music." me. God knows. I'm a busy man, so I'm not

— developing his talents as a recording artist. tant step in the development of his profile as a Tillis' burgeoning career as a recording artist blaming Elektra, and I hope they don't blame

Alongside that development, he also began to national figure, for the very next day, Glen climaxed in 1976 when he was awarded the me; it just didn’t work. Most of my catalog is

come forward as a stage personality. Campbell called from Los Angeles to ask him trophy for Country Music Assn. (CMA) En- with MCA anyway. I was with Decca, and t

While Tillis had established himself as a to become a semi-regular cast member on The tertainer of the Year. Since then, Tillis has then 1 went to Kapp, and then MCA absorbed

still insecure about Caniphell Hour. show fairly but he I've got writer, he was somewhat Glen Good Time The gone unnoticed by the CMA, Decca and Kapp, so a tremendous _ his stutter, so when touring w ith Minnie Pearl, launched Tillis into nationwide prominence, doesn't feel like that is indicative of his catalog over there, and I’m glad to get back “1 he spoke as little as possible on stage, even and. once again, much of the show’s humor career's relative success or failure. think it over there." when he was given the spotlight to render a revolved around him. The scriptwriters had has a lot to do with the label that you’re on," And if Mel Tillis' assumptions are correct, few of his own songs. "1 just fell in love with tried to work his stuttering into the script, but he suggests. “You never see Hank Williams, v\e'll continue to hear from him for a long him immediately." Pearl recalls. "He was Tillis insisted that they ignore it and allow him Jr., win anything, and he's had five straight time, building on a foundation that was es- “1 young, thin, ambitious ... If 1 remember to do it naturally. may not stutter on the gold albums. 1 think it depends on how much tablished more than 25 years ago when he first <

correctly, he didn't even say 'thank you,' and word you write," he said. the label is pushing you at the time. Ricky left the service. “From my early years," he

he didn't much want to announce his num- In spite of his handicap, he was becoming a Skaggs certainly deserves it; he’s been around remembers, “I learned what not to do. I learn- . bers. but he did. After the show, we'd go to eat national phenomenon, although some probably 15 years, and Alabama 15 or 16 ed by watching the other guys. I've always

or something, and I'd say. ‘Now, Mel, talk.' I continued to hold his stuttering against him. years working the joints. They deserve it — it’s admired people like Eddy Arnold. Roy Acuff.

1 wanted to encourage him because was fond One viewer had written a letter to Campbell their time, and 1 get all the bookings I want.” Kitty W ells and Minnie Pearl, people like that

of him, and 1 knew that he could talk it he'd asking him to remove Tillis from the lineup, Following the award, Tillis has attempted who maintained a good image and were also

just put his mind to it. Then 1 found out I'd stating that his speech problems were a “bad to expand his career horizons with a strong in- good, good businessmen.

better not let him talk because the show was influence" on the younger generation. terest in the silver screen. He has appeared in "I'm an adventurous sort of guy. 1 like to -r onlv supposed to run about an hour and a Campbell defended his presence over the air- such films as W.W. And The Dixie Dance- know whtit's over the top of the hill. Then, i half." because he stutters too. I've watched to waves. saying, “just king.s. Every Which Way Bui Loose, Smoker so many people come J

By 1968, Tillis had become much more at doesn't mean that he shouldn't be on TV.” And The Bandit II and Cannonball Run, mostly tow n that had good chances and breaks and I

home in the spotlight, and Porter Wagoner Tillis career in it all. 1 In the early '70s, made some cameo appearances, to gain a better under- then lose can't see that happening to ^ “1 hired him for his nationally syndicated televi- changes that would significantly alter his standing of the filming process. took the me; it could, but I can’t see it," HIT SONGS WRITTEN BY MEL TILLIS TITLE RECORDED BY YEAR HonkytonK Song Charlie Walker 1965 Webb Pierce 1967 All The Time Bob Beckham 1962 Carl Perkins 1973 Kitty Wells 1963 Conway Twitty 1977

Jack Green 1967 1 Ain’t Never MeiTiilis 1972 Patti Page 1967 I’m Tired Webb Pierce 1957 Webb Pierce 1967 Ray Peterson 1961 George Morgan 1967 MeiTiilis 1970 Floyd Cramer 1967 Memory Maker MeiTiilis 1974 Marion Worth 1967 Mental Revenge MeiTiilis 1968 Charley Pride 1968 Waylon Jennings 1969 Larry Butler 1968 Nat Stuckey 1970 Jean Shepard 1968 Barbara Mandrell 1976' Hank Snow 1968 No Love Havel Webb Pierce 1959 Johnny Paycheck 1968 MeiTiilis 1970 Wayne Newton 1968 Gail Davies 1978 Boots Randolph 1968 One More Time Ray Price 1960 Bobby Lewis 1968 Bob Beckham 1960 Billy Vaughn 1969 Sherry Brice 1973 Norro Wilson 1969 Ruby Don’tTake Your Waylon Jennings 1967 Ella Washington 1969 Love To Town MeiTiilis 1973 Roger Miller 1967 Ann Murray 1973 Johnny Darrell 1967 Eddy Arnold 1981 MeiTiilis 1967 Burning Memories Ray Price 1964 Johnny Western 1967 Mel Tillis 1966 Kenny Rogers 1969 Crazy Wild Desire Webb Pierce 1962 Faron Young 1969 Detroit City Bobby Bare 1963 FlattS Scruggs 1969 Chariey Pride 1966 Ben Coulder 1969 Waiter Brennan 1966 Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass 1969 Tom Jones 1967 Lloyd Green 1970 Carl Perkins 1967 George Jones 1974 Soiomon Burke 1968 Carl Perkins 1974 Mel Tillis 1971 MeiTiilis 1975 Del Reeves 1974 Sawmill Webb Pierce 1964 Dolly Parton 1980 MeiTiilis 1976 Jerry Reed 1980 Biii Phillips 1979 Emotions Brenda Lee 1960 Snakes Crawl At Night Charley Pride 1966 MeiTiilis 1976 Porter Wagoner 1967 Heart Over Mind Ray Price 1961 TakeTime Webb Pierce 1962 Kitty Wells 1961 Ten Thousand Drums Cari Smith 1960 MeiTiilis 1968 MeiTiilis 1970 MeiTiilis 1970 Thousand Miles Ago Webb Pierce 1965 Billie Jo Spears 1970 MeiTiilis 1970 Mel Street 1973 Unmitigated Gall Carl Perkins 1967 Charlie McCoy 1977 Faron Young 1970

MT-6 Cash Box/March 12, 1983 to all my triends in the industiy

lor your help and support over the years and for giving me the opportunity

to enjoy a successful career

in the greatest business in the world. THE MAGIC OF Mel and Judy first met through his office. She had lost a job when a private airline she worked for folded, and a friend told her about an opening at Tillis’ office. “Who?” she had asked, when told of the position with Mel Tillis. "I grew up 30 miles from here (in

Gallatin), so I didn’t listen to country music:

the only person I knew' of in country music w'as Ernest T ubb.” At the time she was hired to work in the office, Tillis was in Alaska, and their first introduction was over the telephone on her first day. "He called, and he always says, ‘Is the mail in,’ ” she recalled. “I said, ‘No, he’s in Alaska’. Then he said, “Okay, who is

this? I'm Mel; is the mail in?’ It went downhill from there.” From the time that she began as a Tillis employee approximately 12 years ago, until they were married, Mel and Judy approached the ensuing bonds of matrimony with caution, refusing to take their vows until each member of the family had accepted her as their mother.

“If it hadn’t worked out with each child and myself having a good relationship, we would’ve never gotten married,” she insists.

"He couldn't have done that, and I can under-

MEL’S FAMILY: stand that. I see other families where there’s been a divorce and both parents have gotten ADJUSTING TO LIFE married again, and the kids are between this one and that one where there are just real bad WITH A FAMOUS FATHER problems. But I think we took enough time in building the relationship between myself and

each one for it to work out. Every once in a

while something will come up where I get ’you’re the wicked stepmother’ and all that

studying communications at American Uni- but it doesn't last long.” by Tom Roland versity in Washington, D.C. During this next The w elfare of the children was not the only summer, she will be working with national concern that the pair had to contend with.

newscaster Ann Compton in the ABC News There is a farily sizeable age difference be- Personal life for an entertainer — especially department. Mel calls her “Fatima Gregory” one with the far-ranging business interests of tween Mel, 50, and Judy, 32, and, in spite of after a former local newscaster, but her his on-stage confidence, Tillis was worried Mel Tillis — is often a hectic one . . . and far parents suspect that when it comes time for that Judy would give him up for a man her from private. After Tillis leaves the stage, he is Tillis Enterprises to be turned over to another hounded by the usual barrage of autograph- own age. “If I had been the older one. I’d hand, hers will be the one that controls the seekers and admirers who want to speak with probably had been thinking the same thing,” company’s destiny. him on a one-to-one basis, and, oftentimes, his Nineteen-year-old Mel, Jr. (a.k.a. Sonny family gets pushed aside by those eager fans. Boy) is currently a freshman at the University Although his wife of four years, Judy, ad- of Florida. He is quite adept at a number of in- mits that each member of the family has faced struments, and his musical forte remains in some difficulty in dealing with his absence, his country. Although he is attending college at offspring seem to have gained a bit more in- the request of his parents, both of them seem dependence than children whose parents are mildly confident that he won’t complete a in more conventional professions, although four-year degree. Instead, he may turn to there exists a strong thread of musicianship work with the Tillis band, the Statesiders, on that was no doubt inspired in part by their the road, since he has spent the last few sum- father. mers as a "gofer” during his father’s tours. The oldest of the five, Pam, who is 25, is 1 The youngest Tillis, 1 -year-old Carrie, has signed with Elektra as a pop artist, preferring already said that she wishes to be a stage per- a brand of music her stepmother refers to as “a former, and, at every opportunity, she pre- cross between punk and rock.” Mel Tillis sents her routine to whoever will grant her at- easily admits that he has no expertise in the tention, occasionally gracing the stage with her area, and his wife suggests that their musical father in Las Vegas. She has been known to differences stem largely from that fact, cut tracks at the Music Mill during parties at coupled with Pam’s need to separate her iden- the studio, and her desire has, in some in- tity from thfe shadow of her father. stances, turned to jealousy. “We took her to “She could have made it five years ago in see Annie in New York,” said Judy, “and she country,” surmises Judy Tillis of daughter just hated that little girl because she had the Pam, who wrote Sandy Croft’s “Easier” part and Carrie didn’t.” single, "but I think she was afraid everybody would say, 'Your daddy got you that,’ and nobody could say that her daddy got her what she’s getting now, because not only does he not like the music, he doesn’t understand the music. He refuses to listen to the music,

because to him the song is the lyrics — music is

a story — and in what she does there is no story; there’s just loud. She’ll bring a tape where she’s done a demo or something she’s working on for the album, and he can listen to

about 60 seconds maybe, and then he’ll say, ‘I don’t have any idea what you’re doing there’ and just walk out.” Connie Tillis, the second of the five children, works on a daily basis at Mel’s office on Music Row in Nashville. Like her older sister, she is seeking a career in music as an entertainer, but she has chosen to remain within the context of country music and has begun doing demos for Tillis’ publishing interests, Sawgrass Music and Sabal Music, until the right opportunity develops. Cindy Tillis is “the intellectual one,” ac-

cording to Judy. Of the five kids, she is the only one actively pursuing a career outside the

realms of the music industry and is currently

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I .

“The most difficult part of having a famous father has been in separating the public and

private lives . . when even the fans can come between Tillis and his family.”

she says. "It's hard to understand that you don't love the age — I’d love him if he'd been 80 years old — it’s the person. To me, age has BEST nothing to do with it, and he knows that now.

But I think at the first it might have made him act crazy every once in a while, but not now.” With the amount of time that Tillis has had to spend on the road to further his career, he has missed out on much of the growth of his children — at least on a daily basis — and quite naturally he has a yearning to maintain WISHES their youth, and that desire manifests itself during the holidays or during the summer when the kids are home. “Sonny Boy used to love to fish and hunt,” she says. “Melvin and Sonny Boy, that’s all they did when he had any time off. Sonny Boy leans more toward females now, and it’s hard for Mel to understand that it’s not as much fun for him to go hang out with daddy. Now when he hangs out with daddy, it’s out on the road — where are the females? They’re out on the road.” MEL The most difficult aspect of having a famous father has been in separating the public and private life, and, in some cases,

even when the family is not separated by miles

of interstate and a booking contract, it can be separated by his fans. Once when Pam played the ill-fated Exit/In in Nashville, her parents came out to see the show, and Cindy, who had not .seen her father in several weeks, went to the club to meet her father. Instead of meeting her dad. however, she met with an unruly crowd of followers who refused to give her room. “There were so many people, and they can really be rude and not even know it,” said Judy. "It was like a wall between Cindy and her dad, and she couldn’t get to him, and the more she tried, the further those ladies pushed

her back. They figure it’s going to be their only chance to see him, and they’ll knock you down to do it.”

The entire family unit is housed on a 350- acre farm near Ashland City, a rural community north of Nashville, where they raise all of their own food, including vegetables, meat, poultry and eggs. Tillis grows his own berries and they make their own flour, and the property also includes several fishing ponds, a windmill and a smokehouse. It’s a perfect location to provide seclusion and shelter for a family that maintains its independence and an unusually low public profile.

Top: Mel, Judy and grandson Ben, Christmas 1981 at the family home near Ashland City, Tenn. (inset). Middle row (l-r): brother Richard, Your Mel, father Lonnie, mother Burma and sisters Imogene and Linda, 1956; Mel making a guest Friend appearance on Glen Campbell’s new television show, one of the many career demands his family has learned to cope with. Bottom row G-G-Glen (l-r): Judy and Mel on their wedding day in 1979; Mel, Pam, Cindy, Connie and Mel, Jr.; daughter Carrie on stage in Las Vegas; and Mel and Richard.

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and BM I awards for songs performed by such artists as Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn, Vern Gosdin and the Oaks; in fact, not one of the quintet was a Tillis cut. And, although Tillis’ current "In The Middle Of The Night" single was written by staff writer Bob Corbin, the new album, "After All This Time," contains product from several outside publishers, including Baray Music, Butler Music and Tribunal Music, among others. Obviously,

the company is not simply a springboard for Tillis cuts. In addition. Tillis owns two radio stations in Amarillo. KIXZ-AM and KYTX-FM. Tillis has applied with the Federal Com- munications Commission (FCC) to change the call letters of the latter station to KM ML, owing the abbreviation to his image as “M-M- M-Mel." He first acquired KIXZ in March Bob Younts 1979, w hen the signal was carrying a rock for-

mal that stayed near the cellar in the city’s wouldn't be surprised if in some instances we once-a-year Arbitron ratings. Thirty days don’t bend over backwards a little more tc)-^ prior to that year's survey period, Tillis make sure everybody else gets their crack." ' became owner and changed the format to Tillis' entire operation is headquartered in

country , and the station has finished §\ in the his office at the edge of Music Row, adjoining market ever since, posting a 17.0 share in the his memorabilia shop. Run by Cliff and Paul- ^ MEL TILLIS ENTERPRISES: latest book. ine Totty, the store is primarily geared He immediately changed the image of the the many tourists that invade Nashville each>ir MULTI-FACETED BUSINESS station, making it a promotion-minded chan- year, and Tillis has been known to appear in nel with its first endeavor being a free concert the store occasionally to sign autographs. -• featuring Tillis, W'illie Nelson and Glen S EMPIRE FOUNDED ON A SON Recently , he began selling his own brand of Campbell, which was carried live via the sta- molasses in the shop, Mel’s Molasses. The tion. The threesome also taped a television sorghum is produced on his farm in Ashland spot that was used extensively by the station to ^* City, Tenn., with a mill he had constructed allrticl listeners, and, once they sampled the there himself. Some 1.200 pints were manu- . outlet, many of them tuned in on a more fre- faclured during 1982, and Tillis expects to in-^ quent basis. pass up some hit songs, but I've been here crease that figure to 10,000 pints by the end of^ The station also sports a five-piece band, led by Tom Roland seven years, and so far we’ve been fortunate." 1983. Some rumblings of national distribution^ by program director Dugg Collins (Country haveeven emanated from Tillis’ headquarters. Much of the reasoning behind that Music Assn. Medium Market Disc Jockey of Mel Tillis has earned nol onl\ respect, but philosophy is an overriding coordinate his interests, Tillis has lured concern about the Year in 1978), which plays in the outlying To also a large sum of money through his efforts "wasting people’s lime." The Sabai/Sawgrass fringe areas on weekends during the spring appropriate professionals to manage each % in the music industry, starting first as a property, including his manager, 'j fold screens material for Tillis to listen to when he and summer, calling the entire stunt the KIXZ personal songwriter and later adding to that artist Younts. With other, capable is culling, and. knowing the situation from both Funhcindle Concerts. Bob the more j royalties and concert fees as a recording star businessmen specializing in those areas, Tillis i sides. Darrell does not want the company The stations have been positioned to com- and performer. And instead of squandering develop is free handle lo a reputation for pitching poor plement the other, each offering what the lo his music and business affairs^^ that income. Tillis has gone on to prudently material. "I don’t want lo waste anybody’s in his own manner. "I’ve got my own rules,” other lacks. The station is geared toward reinvest much of his earnings, establishing his AM lime." he says, "just like I he says. "I’m not knocking a that don't person has , want anybody the older listener, mixing 70% traditional own publishing house and office, along with wasting 9-5 job in his office in suit our time. You don’t go pitch a tape music with 30% current rotation, while the a and comes a and N purchasing several radio stations in Amarillo. full of songs artist is lo an or a producer; you get FM attempts to attract the younger well-learned about business and transac- On lop of that, he recently established Mel it I people to dow n lo usually two. It’s more important lo demographic with 70% current records and tions and the legal end, but hire Tillis f ilms, a production company that ex- how the is I take care of that. I in levis and dip of i me good song than how close 30% oldies. come my pands the artist's involvement in the visual think the song is lo the artist. You’re just snuff in my mouth, and when I want to know 1 medium. One of the difficulties one might expect to second-guessing them when you do that. As something, 1 call and ask somebody. That’s^; face with an artist-owned station is that of Tor manv . the alternate roles of entertainer long as the quality of the is style.” songs good, no playing his own music, but general manager my and businessman are too stark a contrast for matter who is listening, you’re not going to Richard Haines indicates that KIXZ treats And while Tillis' business diversions arc^ one individual, but Tillis has been able to hurl your reputation; they won’t mind listen- Tillisjusl like any other artist. “Mel will come varied, he maintains one guiding principle in ^ balance his artistic sensibilities with sound ing lo the next tape you pilch." up in rotation if he has a hit," he states. “It’s plotting his overall course; "I hate to start business instincts; in the process, however, his Last year, the company took five ASCAP the same for everybody, and, in fact, I anything and not finish it." songvv riling has taken a back seat. "I have to

balance it." he says. "If I don't, something has to give, and in this case, it's the songwriling.

I'm loo busv : lo do anv writing, you have to insulate yourself, and it's aw ful hard for me to insulate mv self these days with everything that I'm into." The most productive investments to date have been his publishing interests. Sabal

M usic (ASCA P). Sawgrass ( BM I) and Guava (STSAC). All three were named for plants in

Tillis' native Florida: sabal is a type of palm, tree, sawgrass is the proper name for the grass

that covers the area and guava is a tropical fruit. Run by Jimmie Darrell. Buddy Cannon, Jamev Ryan and Steve Nobles, the company represents nine staff writers who have penned such tuned as Tillis' "I Believe In You," the Oak Ridge Boys' "Beautiful You" and Alabama’s Air staff of radio station KIXZ-AM /Amarillo, Tex. Maggie Ward ”C hanges Coming On." In all. the publishing group has some 2.300 copyrights in the catalog, a relatively small number for a

publisher with nearly a dozen years behind it, but that can be attributed lo the selectivity ex- ercised by the firm’s executives. "1 believe in quality rather than quantity." maintains Darrell. "It just gels more and more confusing the more songs that you have. There's an un-

spoken thing, I feel, between a publisher and writer. When the writers bring your songs in and they’re looking for your approval on the song, to me, when you say you'll demo something, you’ve made a commitment to

that writer, and as far as he's concerned, it's

out of his hands and you’re supposed lo get it

cut lor him, I know we're probably going Totty lo Cliff Buddy Cannon, Jimmie Darrell, Steve Nobles

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he’s still on the road. I have toured and been this melee. When we got out to the you hear him on the radio, around just about everybody in our bus, they had emptied an entire Mel and he hasn’t let them change

business, and I don't know anybody dumpster into Duane's bed, including him. I can’t think of anybody who

who enjoys the road more than Mel a dead dog. We learned then that if hasn’t tried to go pop with some sort Tillis and the Statesiders. On Hallo- you plan to fool around with Tillis of a pop sound, but Mel just stays ween of '77, we did the Neewollah and the Statesiders, you'd better be right there, and I believe in my heart Festival in Independence, Kan. We prepared because you're going to get that that's what made him Entertainer

opened for Tillis, and we had decided it back in spades. of the Year and made him as big as he

that that night we would pull a joke on is. He's the most country guy 1 know, with his music and with the way he is. Tillis. Eight of us put some brown Porter Wagoner sheets over our heads, and when the Webb Pierce stage went dark out there, we ran Mel's honesty is probably his strong- across the stage making Halloween est suit on stage. When he was a I took Mel Tillis on tour with me, noises. Tillis wasn't ready for us at all, member of my show for a year and a and one place we played was in and he backed up and almost fell over half, Mel was known primarily as a Colorado, and Denver has that mile- one of us. It would have been a good writer, and ail he would do on stage is 1 high altitude. I told him when you go joke if we had just gotten off stage; but sing — he'd do one song and go right on that stage, you'd better walk out, there were so many of us and so many into another one. Mel is such a great * not run out, because you'll be out of of them on this small stage that the storyteller, and he's so honest when he breath, but he said, “Aaa-w-w P- guys got tangled up. The plug pulled stutters as he talks, that I told him, Pierce, you're just t-telling me that.” out of the sound system, and 'If you'll try that on stage, people will He didn't pay any attention to it; he everything went dead for about 20 love you for it.” He was afraid people just ran out there when he got in- minutes. We went back to the hotel would make fun of him, but he said he troduced, and he got out there and he 1 that night, and when we all got in the would try it one night, and he did, and Burt Reynolds was breathing real hard: “I should bus to leave town about 2:00 in the the audience just loved it. That was have listened to Webb Pierce. He said One of my best friends growing up morning, I guess Mel thought that great for him because it gave him a lot as a high school athlete was a star if you run out up here you'd be out of Duane (Allen) was the main author of of confidence in himself. That was the breath, and, folks, you're just going to athlete from Pahokee High School first time that I know of that he talked named Buford Justice. Years later, have to hold it for about five minutes on stage, and, since then, he's used his when I was contributing to the screen- while I get rested up. B-B-Besides my handicap — if you would call it that — play of Smoker & The Bandit, I helped stuttering, now 1 can't even sing.” to a great advantage. If you ask Mel’s make his name infamous by giving it opinion on something, if you don’t to Jackie Gleason’s character. Buford want an honest answer, it. Joe Bonsall don’t ask always used to say to me, “You’ve got to meet my friend Mel Tillis; he’s the The Oak Ridge Boys Ray Sawyer best singer you ever heard, and he’s One of the things that always im- going to be a big star.” Well, I’ve since Dr. Hook pressed me about Mel and his band, then met Mel Tillis, and, likeeveryone

no matter who he had in his The fact that he is still the same Mel else who ever met him, 1 fell in love

Statesiders, was that it was the most Tillis that I knew 20 years ago im- with him. He’s won-won-wonderful!

fun-loving bunch that I have ever met presses me about Mel Tillis. When Buford was r-r-right!

MT-12 Cash Box/March 12, 1983 Frank Sinatra and went for a stroll on the beach, and we hadn’t gone 20 yards when Mel Meh-Meh-Meh-Mel Te-Te-Te- spotted some sailboats for rent. I is th-th-th-the bes-bes finest cuh- Tillis think Mel convinced them that we cuh-cuh-cuh-country sing-sing-sing- knew how to run one. We hadn’t got- sing vocalist in the woh-woh-woh- ten about 30 or 40 yards from the woh United States. Sincer-Sincer- beach when the wind caught the sail Sincer ... I mean it. and blew the boat over, and we lost our hats and sunglasses immediately.

Burl Ives We finally got the hang of it, and Mel didn’t think the boat was going fast Mel Tillis is a guy who’s got an enough, so he pulled up the center- awful lot of nerve. We were in the piece. After turning over more times Bahamas back in the ’60s, and I was Richard Haines down there on rny schooner, and Mel than I can remember, my knees were Amarillo had a wisdom tooth impacted. There bleeding, and I had bumps and KlXZj faster I sing harmony than me, and scratches on my head where the sail were no dentists, but there was one It has been my privilege to work for love him. hit me, and we’d gone out so far we doctor there, and we went to him, but Mel Tillis during the last four years. couldn’t see the beach. We were he said he couldn’t do anything since He is not only a talented performer, finally brought back by some patrol, he didn’t have anything to numb it or Billy Swan but a fair and generous employer. any equipment to handle the job. So and the fellows in the boat said they’d take Mel said, "You got a pair of Seventeen or eighteen years ago I me out and show me how to sail Snuff Garrett pinchers?” and the doctor said yes, used to travel with Mel when he went the boat if I wanted them to. I just said vulgar first but he still needed something to numb to do different gigs on the weekends, something and jumped out of When I was doing my film. I’d the boat and swam in and laid on the I it. “You got any whiskey?” he asked, and mainly go because we were Every Which Way But Loose, met and Mel said, “I think we can get friends, and it was good for somebody sand for about 10 minutes. The Tillis in San Diego, and I’d picked two some.” Mel drank a good four or five he knew to be with him. Once, in margaritas and the salt water didn’t songs for the film that Td already had slugs and sat there and didn’t make a Florida, Mel was doing a movie — it mix too well, I guess. I haven’t sailed approved by Clint (Eastwood). I damn bit of noise, and the guy pulled was his first movie, I believe, Cotton with Mel since then. played them for Tillis and he said, “I Pickin' Pickers — songs, but them his w isdom tooth. 1 was amazed at the Chicken and we’d know you know good fortitude of this guy. He’s really a go hang out around Florida when he two ain’t worth a damn. I’ll just write for give the tough guy underneath it all — very had some time off On one of his off- two songs you and you sentimental and nice, but he’s days we went to St. Petersburg and publishing on them.” I said, “No, this first these or got guts. Here is this songwriter — a checked into a hotel and stayed up all is my movie, and you do can’t be in the film.” I played gentle and poetic man — and it was night. When morning came and the you So just like out of the old frontier days. shops around the hotel opened, we them again, and there was that cold went and bought some straw hats and feeling between a producer and an ar- shirts — the whole tourist thing — tist, and he asked, “I’ve got to do

and went to the bar. We were the first those or I can’t be in the movie?” I Jennings Waylon ones at the bar, being 9:30 or 10:00 in said, “That’s right,” and he said, Mel Tillis is the only guy who can the morning. We had some margaritas “Well, they sound better already.”

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Cash Box/March 12, 1983 MT-13 DISCOGRAPHY ALBUMS

DATE LABEL NUMBER TITLE PRODUCER DATE LABEL NUMBER TITLE PRODUCER

3/61 Columbia CS-8616 (Part of various artists album) Don Law 6/74 Harmony KH-31952 1 Ain't Never/Heart Over Mind Don Law 6/61 Columbia CS-8524 Heart Over Mind Don Law 9/74 MGM SE-4970 Me! Tillis’ Greatest Hits Jim Vienneau 6/64 Harmony KH-31952 Heart Over Mind Don Law 10/74 MGM SE=4987 Mel Tillis Featuring

5/66 Kapp KS-3493 Stateside Paul Cohen Best Way 1 Know How Jim Vienneau 12/66 Kapp KS-3514 Life’s That Way Paul Cohen 2/75 MGM SE-5002 M-M-Mel and the Statesiders Jim Vienneau 10/67 Kapp KS-3535 Mister Mel Paul Cohen 11/76 MGM IV!G.1=5021 BestOf MeiTiiiis Jim Vienneau 3/68 Kapp KL-1543 Let Me Talk To You Paul Cohen 11/76 MGM MG.1.5022 Welcome To Mel Tillis Country Jim Vienneau 3/69 Kapp KS-3594 Who's Julie Paul Cohen 11/76 MGM MG-2-5402 24 Greatest Hits Jim Vienneau 8/69 Kapp KS-3570 Something Special Paul Cohen 6/76 MCA 2204 Love Revival Johnny Virgin/ 11/69 Kapp KS-3589 Greatest Hits Paul Cohen MeiTiiiis 12/69 Kapp KS-3609 Old Faithful Paul Cohen 2/77 MCA 2252 Heart Healer Jimmy Bowen/ 3/70 Kapp KS.3639 Mel Tillis/Bob Wills Paul Cohen Johnny Virgin Love’s T 4/70 Kapp KS-3630 She'll Be Hanging 'Round Somewhere Paul Cohen 10/77 MCA 2288 roubled Waters Jimmy Bowen 6/78 MCA 2364 1 Believe In You 6/70 MGM SE-4681 OneMoreTime Jim Vienneau Jimmy Bown Are You Sincere 9/70 Harmony HS11170 The Great Mel Tillis Don Law 1/79 MCA 3077 Jimmy Bowen 6/79 MCA 3167 Mr. Entertainer 2/71 MGM SE-4757 Arms Of A Fool/Commercial Affection Jim Vienneau Jimmy Bowen Houston Coliseum 9/79 Gusto GT-0047 The Great Mel Tillis 6/71 MGM SE-4788 Live At Sam Jim Vienneau Various 11/79 Elektra 6E236 Me And Pepper 8/71 Kapp KS-3653 Mel Tillis’ Greatest Hits Vol. II Paul Cohen Jimmy Bowen 12/79 MCA 3208 M-M-Mel Live 7/71 MGM SE-4800 Living & Learning/Take My Hand Jim Vienneau Jimmy Bowen Elektra 6E271 Your Body Is An Outlaw 9/71 MGM SE-4806 The Very Best of Mel Tillis Jim Vienneau 3/80 Jimmy Bowen Elektra 6E310 Southern Rain 1/72 MGM SE=4841 Would You WantThe World To End Jim Vienneau 8/80 Jimmy Bowen 2/81 MCA 3274 The Very Best of Mel Tillis 6/72 Vocalion VL-3928 Walking On New Grass Jim Vienneau Jimmy Bowen 2-4091 The Best of Mel Tillis 1 4/81 MCA 9/72 MGM SE=4870 Ain’t Never/Neon Rose Jim Vienneau Jimmy Bowen 3/73 MGM SE-4889 Onstage, Live In Birmingham Jim Vienneau 6/81 Elektra 5E-549 Mel Tillis and Nancy Sinatra Billy Strange 9/73 MGM SE-4907 Sawmill Jim Vienneau 4/82 Elektra EL-60016 It’s A Long Way To Daytona Billy Strange 9/82 Elektra EL-60192 Mel Tillis’ Greatest Hits 11/73 MGM SE-4937 Let’s Qo All The Way Tonight Jim Vienneau Jimmy Bowen/ 3/74 MGM SE-49eO Midnight, Me & The Billy Strange Blues/Stomp Them Grapes Jim Vienneau 3/83 MCA 5378 After AIIThis Time Harold Shedd

MT-14 CashCa; Box/March 12, 1983 I SINGLES

DATf LABEU NUMBER TITLE 2/57 Columbia 4-40845 It Takes A Worried Man To Sing A 2/70 Kapp KJB-98 Heart Over Mind 9/75 MGM 14835 Looking ForTomorrows Worries Song She'll Be Hangin 'Round Somewhere Tennessee Banjo Man HonkyTonkSong 3/71 Kapp K-2121 One More Drink 2/76 MGM 14846 Mental Revenge

4/S7 Columbia 4-40904 Case Of The Blues 1 Could Never Be Ashamed Of You My Bad Girl T reats Me Good It's My Life 5/70 MGM 14148 Heaven Everyday 5/76 MGM 14850 Come On Home 6/57 Columbia 4-40944 Juke Box Man How You Drink The Wine Always Just A Memory Away

If You'll Be My Love 8/70 MGM 14176 Commercial Affection 5/76 MCA 40559 Love Revival

10/57 Columbia 4-41038 This Heart 1 Thought About You Gator Bar Take My Hand 1/71 MGM 14211 Arms Of A Fool 9/76 MCA 40627 Good Woman Blues 1/58 Columbia 4-41115 Lonely Street Veil Of White Lace You Can't T rust A Crazy Man Teen Age Wedding 4/71 MGM 14255 Take My Hand 12/76 MCA 40667 Heart Healer 6/58 Columbia 4-41189 A Violet And A Rose Life's Little Surprises it’s Just Not That Easy To Say No Song To Sing 6/71 MGM 14275 Brand New Mister Me 3/77 MCA 40701 Burning Memories 11/58 Columbia 4-41277 The Brooklyn Bridge Brand New Wrapper Golden Nugget Gamblin' Casino Finally 8/71 MGM 14303 Living And Learning 8/77 MCA 40764 IGotTheHoss 6/59 Columbia 4-41416 Sawmill Tangles Vines It’s Been A Long Time

You Are The Reason 11/71 MGM 14329 Untouched 12/77 MCA 40836 What Did 1 Promise Her Last Night

11/59 Columbia 4-41530 GeorgiaTown Blues 1 Went A Ramblin' Woman You Should Be In Movies

Till I Get Enough Of These Blues 1/72 MGM 14365 Anything's Better Than Nothing 4/78 MCA 40900 1 Believe In You

3/60 Columbia 4-41632 Loco Weed Then It Will All Be Over She Don't Trust You Daddy It's So Easy 3/72 MGM 14372 Would You WantThe World To End 8/78 MCA 40946 Ain't No California 11/60 Columbia 4-41863 Walk On By Things Have Changed Alot What Comes Natural To A Fool

Say 7/72 MGM 14418 1 Ain't Never 12/78 MCA 40983 Send Me Down To Tucson 3/61 Columbia 4-41986 Hearts Of Stone Burden Of Love Charlie's Angel That's Where the Hurt Comes In 10/72 MGM 14454 Neon Rose 6/79 MCA 41041 Coca Cola Cowboy

12/61 Columbia 4-42262 It I Lost Your Love It's My Love Cotton Mouth Party Girl 11/72 MGM 14472 Happyville 9/79 Elektra E-46536 Blind In Love 6/62 Decca 31445 How Come Your Dog Don't Bite Back To Life Black Jack. Water Back So Soon 3/73 MGM 14522 Thank You For Being You 1/80 Elektra E-46S83 Lying Time Again 1/63 Decca 31474 Don'tTell Mama Over The Hill Fooled Around & Fell In Love Half Laughing. Half Crying 6/73 MGM 14585 Sawmill 4/80 Elektra E-46628 Your Body Is An Outlaw 1/63 Decca 31528 Couldn't See The Forest For The Trees Mama's Gonna Pray Rain In My Parade It's No Surprise 9/73 MGM 14660 Let's Go All The Way Tonight 8/80 Elektra E-47015 Steppin’Out 2/64 Decca 31623 I'm Gonna Act Right In The Vine Whiskey Chasin'

It'll Be Easy 12/73 MGM 14689 Midnight. Me & The Blues 3/81 Elektra E-47116 Million Old Goodbyes 7/65 Ric 158 Wine Modern Home Magazine Louisiana Lonely Mr. Dropout 3/74 MGM 14714 Don't Let Go 6/81 Elektra E-47157 Texas Cowboy Night 5/66 Kapp K-764 Mental Revenge Why Not Do The Things They Say We Do After The Lovin’ Guide Me Home My Georgia Moon 3/74 MGM 14720 Stomp Them Grapes 8/81 Elektra E-47178E One Night Fever 8/66 Kapp K.772 Stateside Hang My Picture In Your Heart Dear TimeHasTreated You Well Home Is Where The Hurt Is 8/74 MGM 14744 Memory Maker 11/81 Elektra E-47247 Play Me Or Trade Me

12/66 Kapp K-804 Life Turned Her That Way Second Best Where Would 1 Be

If I Could Only Start Over 10/74 MGM 14776 You Are The One 2/82 Elektra E-47412 Long Way To Daytona

c 12/66 Kapp K-881 All Right 1 See Heaven In You Always You. Always Me

Helpless. Hopeless Fool 1/75 MGM 14782 Best Way 1 Know How 5/82 Elektra E-47453 The One That Got Away 12/66 Kapp KL-1514 Life Turned Her That Way Honey Dew Melon Why Ain't Life The Way It's Supposed To Be TheOld Gang'sGone 5/75 MGM 14803 Mr. Rights Mrs. Wrong 8/82 Elektra 7-69963 Stay A Little Longer 12/66 Kapp KJB-120 Life Turned Her That Way Just Two Strangers Dream Of Me Stateside 5/75 MGM 14804 Woman In The Back Of My Mind 2/83 MCA MCA-52182 InTheMiddleOfTheNight 5/67 Kapp K-837 Goodbye Wheeling Kissing Your Picture Even At Her Worst She's Still The Best At The Sight Of You 6/67 Kapp K-867 The Old Gang's Gone Survival Of The Fittest 2/68 Kapp K-905 Something Special

You Name it 5/68 Kapp K-941 Destroyed By Man

I Haven't Seen Mary In Years 8/68 Kapp KJB-122 Destroyed By Man MEL TILLIS Something Special

8/68 Kapp KJB-123 I Haven't Seen Mary In Years Lonely Girl 9/68 Kapp K.959 Who's Julie AND Give Me One More Day 1/69 Kapp K-986 Old Faithful Sorrow Overtakes The Wine 5/69 Kapp K-2031 These Lonely Hands Of Mine OVATION GUITARS Cover Mama's Flowers 4 5/69 Kapp KJB-124 These Lonely Hands Of Mine Old Faithful AN UNBEATABLE GOMBINATION 11/69 Kapp K-2072 She'll Be Hangin 'Round Somewhere Where Love Has Died 2/70 Kapp SPT K-2086 Heart Over Mind Lingering Memories 10/70 Kapp K-2103 Too Lonely. Too Long Memories MadeThis House

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Cash Box/March 12, 1983 MT-15 sion players who usually lend a more reserved quality to a disc. But Tillis feels he is able to more closely re-create the record live when his band plays both his session dates and in the concert halls. He did that recently with his "Tribute To Bob Wills” album while between labels, but whether or not that project will ever

appear on vinyl is still questionable. The Statesiders have become proficient enough as "studio cats" that they have begun to branch out and do dates for other artists. Fiddle player Rob Hajacos has worked for both Charly McClain and George Strait in the studio, and he played on Chet Atkins’ forthcoming album; while the other fiddler, Kenny Sears, has cut some sessions with tracks with Ray Price, and keyboard player Dennis Pratt does some demo work for a pair of songwriters at Acuff-Rose. Not only does Tillis take them into the studio with him, he also takes his band members to play television shows like Hee Haw or Pop Goes The Country. “On the Tonight Show, he had to say, ‘Look, if you want me, you’re going to get my band, too,’ ” reflects Pratt. "He wanted the band to be with him, and they said, ‘No, we don’t need the band; we’ll just you to meet my new keyboard player, Dennis MEL & THE STATESIDERS; have Doc Severinsen and his band play a chart Pratt,’ ” recalls the Vermont native. “That’s or something,’ but he said, ‘No, ! want my how I found out I was hired, so I got my sister MUSIC, MERRIMENT band.’ Sometimes, he has to push to get it, but to come down and pick me up, drove to he does." Albany, got my stuff, closed down my apart- AND MUTUAL RESPECT "When Mel first came to town,” adds ment and moved to Nashville. You sort ofjust Statesider Franklin, "he did a lot of running become a part of the band; you never really get around with Roger Miller and Jerry Reed, and hired.”

he remembers struggling just to be heard in The band is one of the largest ensembles in those days. He was a back-up musician, and country music, and the 10-man configuration backdrop for Tillis’ performances. Part of that he made a vow to himself that if he ever got allows Tillis to match just about anything he by Tom Roland can be attributed to the unusual amount of into the position, he wasn’t going to be the puts on disc in the live format. Included in the freedom that Tillis allows the Statesiders on way some stars were.” Statesider lineup are two keyboard players — There are two distinct qualities that the road. Some entertainers restrict their The way Tillis handles new additions to the Pratt and Jim Garstang, a former DJ who has separate a Mel Tillis live show from the per- backing musicians with dress codes that apply group, they are indoctrinated into the band been a Statesider for seven years — and two fiddles. formances of other country entertainers; 1 ) his not only on stage but also on the bus, and until a subtle comment officially establishes Sears and Hajacos. Ernie Rowell, who uncanny ability to provide a strong mix of some maintain very strict policies about them as an official Statesider. Before Pratt has had several records as a solo artist on his music and humor, and 2) the Statesiders, his drinking on the day of the show or on travel joined the group, he was a member of a own Grass label (he also co-wrote Gene Wat- versatile backing band. days. jazz/rock fusion band in Albany, N.Y., where son’s "What She Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Tillis is unabashed by his stuttering, which Tillis, however, gives the band the latitude he was finishing up on a degree in music. He Her”), handles the bass, with Ty Corbett on is much more pronounced on-stage than off, to act as adults, making their own decisions as did. a recording session for someone else in drums. Brian Sterling handles six-string and his humorous poses and stories are en- to behavior on the road. “They’re all pretty Nashville and met Tillis, who invited him to chores with Paul Franklin on steel, and agreat hanced by the speech impediment, as his banter, good people in my group,” states Tillis. “I’m join the group for three days. When they ar- deal of variety is added with the presence of often directed at the 10-man backing unit, in- not saying they’re perfect, but they respect me rived in Warwick, R.I., Tillis introduced him Gore’s saxophone and George Beasley’s har-

termingles perfectly with a strong selection of and they respect their jobs, and they know to the promoter. “He said, ‘Oh, Larry, I want monica and percussion work. honky-tonk and western swing numbers, when they go on with me that if you’re stoned creating an impressive family-oriented you go home.” package of entertainment. "If there’s something he doesn’t like,”

Tillis’ gutteral vocal quality is, of course, noted band member Dennis Pratt, “he’ll just

the focal point for the show, and his smooth mention it once — like Paul (Franklin) forgot stylings adapt well to a variety of shadings, to wear his cowboy boots one night on stage; from the swing-tinged “Stay A Little Longer” he had on sneakers. Mel just walked over and

to “A Million Old Goodbyes,” a multi- said, ‘Where are your boots?’ That was all it layered sheet of sentiment wrapped with a wall took.” of steel guitar and fiddles. Respect flows both ways between Tillis and Tillis is quite at ease in moving from such the Statesiders: they respect his position as the serious pieces into lighter segments of a con- drawing card, and he respects their abilities as cert, where he may introduce harmonica musicians, enough that they are reportedly player George Beasley as a former Wyoming one of the best-paid road bands in Nashville. sheepherder, leading into a section in which He was among the first to use his road band in

Beasley displays his “clogging” skills while the studio, and, although the group is not in- playing a washboard with lightning speed and volved in each of his recording projects, they

clarity. Or he might turn the stage over to are utilized when a “live” sound is necessary. Johnny Gore, a sax player with a dry sense of Playing in a hall and playing for a master humor, who provides some bluesy scales in a session require different styles, and most rendition of “Danny Boy” before succumbing musicians, rather than giving their own band a to a mock nicotine fit. When Gore’s “addic- chance to sink or swim in the shut-in world of tion” is quieted with a fix, he blows cigarette recording, opt instead for the experienced ses- smoke through the horn as he finishes his number.

This sense of humor is spread throughout the entire band — with practical jokes flying left and right on the road. At 9 a.m. on a recent jaunt through Pennsylvania, for instance, the band members who were awake forced the remaining Statesiders to join the ranks of the living with an electrically distorted version of Top: Don McLemore, Tillis’ road the national anthem at obnoxious decibels. manager, keeps things running Contrary to what might be expected, even the smoothly. Above: Tillis, second from victims took the gag in stride, and that right, with his early back-up band. cohesiveness in itself is an indication of just Left: The Statesiders (1-r): Ernie how tight the Statesiders are as a working unit. Powell, bass; Kennis Pratt, "In my band, there is never an argument,” keyboards; Paul Franklin, pedal boasts Tillis. “They’ll kid each other, but steel guitar; Kenny Sears, Hddle; we’re just one big happy family as far as I can Brian Sterling, guitar; Robbie Ha- see.” jacos, Fiddle; John Gore, woodwinds; In concert, that camaraderie is displayed (kneeling) Jim Garstang, keyboards; through exacting tempos a distinctive and un- Ty Corbett, drums; and George dercurrent that unifies the emotional Beasley, harmonica-percussion. J

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WEA has released several albums by February, the record industry is in players. Apparently, Sony’s market doubt which for several years it more in- made the group through Interdisc. research in the U.K. shows that, with a 500 about the near future; and the 1982 sales teresting for the record buyer to adhere to Uruguayan chanteur Gervaslo won the pound price tag on its players, there figures, released recently by the local a budget album or even a cassette. Some ($800) 1983 Vina del Mar Song Fest, held in Chile, is a potential market of at least 250,000 Chamber of Record Producers, have not attempts to. lower the price failed when with Brazilian chanteur Marcio Greyck units in the first year. But total supplies helped to brighten the picture. Singles some labels did not agree to the reduction, getting the second place. The festival is from both Sony and Philips will be between sales plummeted to only 441,000 units for and, at this moment, there are companies sponsored by the Vina del Mar city and has the whole year, while albums and cassettes that have discontinued singles. 25,000 and 30,000 in 1983, and 70,000 in been held regularly for many years, attain- 1984. Both companies have learned where fell some percentage points in comparison TV promotion is also under scrutiny, its ing the status of the most important event to 1981: 2.89 million LPs (against 3.02 major launch flaws can occur from the CD high cost (when paid in cash) makes it too of this type in Latin America although launch in million in 1981) and 9.0 million (vs. 9.47 expensive for many types of albums, and TV Japan, the major problem being record sales of the tunes resulting from it stations are more reluctant the instant demand for software in Japan to make royalty have Rush, Loverboy Top been meager. For record company was higher than anticipated. agreements, which were the basis for many much execs, however, the trip to Vina is worth However, Philips is confident that with 600 ’83 campaigns in the past. On the other hand, Juno Nominations contracts with newcoming artists. RCA has disc titles in its software repertoire dealers have grown accustomed to ask by the reported signing Gervasio to a contract, TORONTO — Rush and Loverboy beat all of this year, about the screen backing to be applied to end volume will be large and Greyck belongs also to the company. nominees as they go head-to-head in four enough to satisfy demand. albums and will often lower their orders if categories for the 1983 Juno Awards. Both The EMI Music Latin American Group, no screen flashing is predicted. During groups are nominated for best album, best which gathered recently in Mexico City, has Virgin is releasing a follow-up single by November and December, the labels tried selected several artists single, best group and best composer In to be promoted Phil Collins this week, titled “And So To F.” short for records, campaigns many with priority the awards, which will be presented April by all the affiliated companies Collins, currently back working with 5 without good customer response. The and licensees in the area. at the Harbor Castle Hotel In Toronto by the Among these Genesis, recently had his first solo #1 in the leading TV plant in record merchandising, artists appear Argentinian rock star Juan Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and U.K. with “You Can’t Hurry Love” . . . Reply- ATC, is negotiating now deals that include Baglletto, Sciences. Carlos Mexican chanteur Luis ing to various ill-informed rumors cir- sure-fire aibums less valuable when LPs Miguel, Brazilian The following is a list of major nominees chanteuse Rita Lee and culating about London recently. The Clash are proposed. artist among the 16 categories: Spanish Dyango. The next gathering confirmed last week that they will remain a The economic situation, with monthly of Album of the Year: "Aldo Nova"; the committee will be held in Buenos three-piece unit. Their guest drummer, double digit inflation, will be of no help, and "Christmas Wishes," Anne Murray; “Get Aires. Terry Chimes, who has been with the the promise of elections in the second half Lucky,” Loverboy; “Signals,” Rush; and Indie label Vaiven, which directs most of group since last May, will not be joining. “I of the year is also difficult to evaluate from “Turn It Loud,” Headpins. its production to regional markets, has thought they the showbiz point of view. were mad when they phoned Single of the Year: “Eyes of A Stranger,” contracted kiddie artist Romlna, tango up five days before an American tour”, ex- chanteur Armando Laborde and orkster PayolaS; “Letting Go,” Straight Lines; “New London Firm Offers plained Chimes, “but it worked out really World Man,” Rush; "Working For The Jorge Dragone to long term contracts. well; we all had a great time. Now it’s time to Weekend," Loverboy; and “Your Daddy Producers’ Services Jose Lagarejos, manager of the company, get back to my own plans, which have been reported that tropical music group Don’t Know,” Toronto. LONDON — A new company. Jazz Robot neglected for the last nine months.” Added International LP of the Year; Maracaibo will also release an album The Clash’s “Business Prods., was recently set up offering the ser- Joe Strummer: “Terry put up As Usual,” Men At Work; “Four,” through the label. with a lot of pressure on the British vices of five prominent producers, all of and

Foreigner; “Freeze Frame," J. Geils Band; American tours, but I only saw him throw a whom have experience in the international RCA is releasing a new album by chan- Classics,” Louis Clark the tantrum once, is “Hooked On and market. teuse Sllvana dl Lorenzo, who has been which truly remarkable. London Symphony Orchestra; and This newly formed stable of record absent from the scene for some time. He snapped after six hours in a mini-bus “Physical," Olivia Newton-John. with everyone singing, “Terry Bern-ie, producers primarily interested in working Although the recording was done in and International Single of the living in perfect Year: “Abra- with new contemporary bands on an inter- Buenos Aires, the mixing took place at the harmony” to the tune of

cadabra," Steve Miller Band; “Da Da," ‘Ebony And Ivory.’ 1 thank Da national basis consists of: John McGeoch, Miami’s Criteria studios. A strong him for the Trio; “Eye Of The Tiger,” Survivor; “I Love laughs as well as the who was formerly a member of Siouxsie & promotional campaign on a national level drums.” Rock ’N’ Roll,” Joan Jett; and “Physical,” The Banshees, Visage and Magazine; has been scheduled. John Watts' second solo LP for EMI, Olivia Newton-John. Russell Webb, who was previously in the Italian chanteuse Rosanna Fratello “The Iceberg Model,” will be released Group of the Year: April Wine, Skids; Dan Van Patten, previously the visited Buenos Aires with Durium Records March 14. The album features 10 new self- Chilliwack, Loverboy, Rush and Saga. producer of several futuristic Los Angeles executive Ellzabel MIntangian. Fratello penned songs, including Watts’ current Male Vocalist of the Year: Bryan Adams, Berlin; bands, including Q and Simon visited radio stations and was interviewed single, “I Smelt Roses (In The Burton Cummings, Lightfoot, Gordon Phillips, production and engineer- whose on the TV program El show de la vida, aired Underground).” Murray McLauchlan and Aldo Nova. ing credits include work with Madness, PIL, by ATC. Her records are released here Female Vocalist of the Year: Jesse Haysl Fantayzee, Thomas Dolby and The through Sicamericana. Nile Rodgers of Chic will have his debut Burns, Joni Mitchell, Anne Murray, Carole Sex Pistols; and Michael Dee, who has Argentinian chanteur Jairo Is once again LP released in the U.K. this month on Pope and Shari Ulrich. been quite successful in the Scandinavian here. Although he lives in Paris, he has Mirage (through Atlantic), titled “Adven- Most Promising Group: Doug and the market. been coming to Buenos Aires frequently in tures In The Land Of The Good Groove.” Slugs, Headpins, PayolaS, The Spoons and All Jazz Robot business affairs are being The offering features eight new songs writ- Strange Advance. recent times. handled by Rob Atkin, managing director ten, sung and produced by Rodgers, who Most Promising Male Vocalist: miguel smIrnoff of Hub Music. Atkin was previously running also plays all guitars and synthesizer. Lawrence Gowan, Kim Mitchell, David his own management/publishing company Guest vocalists include Sarah Dash and Roberts, Leroy Sibbles and David Wilcox. United Kingdom and, prior to that, was A&R manager at Rachel Sweet, Frank Simms, David Most Promising Female Vocalist: Lee WEA Records in London. Atkin can be con- LONDON — The long-awaited U.K. launch Spinner, Eddie Martinez, John Wright, Aarons, Terry Crawford, Luba, Lydia tacted in London at 01-891-3146. of the Compact Disc (CD) occurs this week. Fonzi Thornton and Kenny Williams. Taylor and Mary Lu Zahalan. nick underwood INTERN>fflON/1L BESTSELLERS Argentina United Kingdom TOP TEN 45s Japan TOP TEN 45s 1 Olvidame Pimpinela — CBS — TOP TEN 458 1 Billie Jean — Michael Jackson - Epic 2 OJo' De TIgre — Survivor — CBS 1 HImItsu No Hanazono — Seiko Matsuda — CBS/Sony Too Shy — Kajagoogoo — EMI 3 Perdoname — Silvestre/Andrea del Boca — Music Hall 2 Sazanka No Yado — Eisaku Ookawa — Nippon Columbia Africa — Toto — CBS 4 Da Da Da — Trio — PolyGram 3 HIsame — Akio Kayama — Nippon Columbia Total Eclipse Of The Heart — Bonnie Tyler — CBS 5 Tenes Podrido — Me Los Locos de Amor — EMI 4 Midnight Station — Masahiko Kondo — RVC Tomorrow’s Just Another Day — Madness — Stiff 6 Donde Estas — Mocedades — CBS 5 HIsame — Mika Hino — Teichiku Change ~ Tears For Fears — Mercury 7 SI O No — Cris Manzano — Interdisc 6 Haru NanonI — Yoshie Kashiwabara — Nippon Columbia Love On Your Side — Thompson Twins — Arista 8 Che PIbe — Raul Porchetto/Leon Gieco — Music Hall 7 Medaka No Kyodal — Warabe — For Life Never Gonna Give You Up — Musical Youth — MCA 9 Entre La Espada Y La Pared — Manzanilla — Music Hall 8 Harukaze No Yuwaku — Kyoko Koizumi — Victor 9 Tunnel Of Love ~ Fun Boy Three — Chrysalis 10 Abracadabra — Steve Miller — PolyGram 9 Dramatic Rain — Junyichi Inagaki — Toshiba/EMI 10 Up Where We Belong — Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes 10 Pierrot — Toshihiko Tawara — Canyon Island TOP TEN LPs TOP TEN LPs TOP TEN LPs 1 Pimpinela — Pimpinela — CBS 1 Another Page — Christopher Cross — Warner/Pioneer 1 Business As Usual — Men At Work — Ep ic 2 17 Top Hits 1983 — various artists — PolyGram 2 Shyllghts Junyichi Inagaki — Toshiba/EMI — 2 Porcupine — Echo & The Bunnymen — k orova 3 En Conclerto — Pedro Pablo y — Music Hall 3 Frontiers ~ Journey — CBS/Sony 3 Thriller — Michael Jackson — Epic 4 En Argentina — Mercedes — Sosa PolyGram 4 Eve Only — Toshihiko Tawara — Canyon 4 Another Page — Christopher Cross — Warner Bros. 5 Pubis Angelical — Charly Garcia — SG/Interdisc 5 Momentos — Julio Iglesias — Epic/Sony 5 Night And Day — Joe Jackson — A&M 6 Roberto Carlos — CBS 6 HarunanonI — Yoshie Kashiwabara — Nippon Phonogram 6 Waiting — Fun Boy Three — Chrysalis 7 Exclusivo Para Disc Jockeys — various artists — Interdisc 7 Work Songs ~ Men At Work — Epic/Sony 7 Quick Step And Side Kick — Thompson Twins — Arista 8 Exltos Callentes — various artists — RCA 8 Urusel Yatsura Only You — Canyon 8 Money And Cigarettes — Eric Clapton — Duck 9 40° — Los Iracundos — RCA 9 Album — Nahoko Kawai — Nippon Columbia 9 Frontiers — Journey — CBS 10 Sandra MIhanovIch — Microfon 10 Invitation -- Shakatak — Polydor 10 Belle Stars — Stiff — Prensarlo —Cash Box of Japan — Melody Makers

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/1IRPMY ^ -%plail’ IS THIS LOVE? ~ Island Records is currently kicking around the idea of producing presents and syndicating a weekly hour-long program devoted exclusively to reggae music that

would be free of charge to any station adventurous enough to run it on a consistent basis. The show is to be hosted by Roger Steffens of Island and Hank Holmes, of Reggae Beat, a critically acclaimed show running on National Public Radio (NPR) outlet KCRW/Los Angeles^ Predictably, Island’s show would focus on its own recent reggae releases, as well as live concert excerpts, interviews with both prominent and obscure reggae figures, and live in-studio performances culled from the NPR grand prize show. Acts featured there would range from Johnny Osbourne and Burning Spear to l^^^erAWAY TO Ras Michael. Such rarities as the late Bob Marley’s “Selassie Is The Chapel” would ITALY VACAVON t»A/^ also be exposed on the show. Island is currently in the process of sending out demo tapes to stations across the country, and has reportedly received favorable responses from commercial stations in such major markets as Philadelphia, Miami, Phoenix, Seattle and Detroit. BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG — Bob Hattrik, who last spring left the GETTING AWAY — The first of two "Getaway To Italy” ski races, co-sponsored byXTRA national program director post at the ("Mighty 690”) and Yoplait yogurt, was held Feb. 12 at Echo Summit in South Lake Tahoe. Doubleday Broadcasting chain, has The winners of the promotion, currently running throughout Southern California, received DER FALCO — A&M recording artist been rahired as a consultant to the en- a weeklong vacation in Italy. Pictured at Echo Summit are (l~r): Don Janklow, Don Janklow Falco, who has earned the moniker “king of tire chain of AOR stations, which in- Prods.; Tim Hackett, director, creative services, XTRA; Richard Greene, attorney; Bob An- Austrian rap” for his “Der Kommissar" cludes WAPP/New York, WLLZ/- derson, marketing director, South Lake Tahoe Visitors Bureau; and Frank Geraci, sales single, recently dropped in at WNEW/New Detroit, WAVA/Washington, D.C., manager West, Yoplait USA. York. Pictured are (l-r): Richard Neer, PD, KPKl/Denver, KDWB/Minneapolis, WNEW; Jim Monaghan, MD, WNEW; KWK/St. Louis and, soon, Falco; Albert Cafaro, A&M Records, New WMET/Chicago. It is unclear whether Stations Look For Corporate York; Scott Muni, operations director, he will follow fellow consultant Lee WNEW; and Earle Bailey, WNEW. Abrams, foray into new music. SYNDICATION INDICATIONS — Narwood Prods, is producing a special tribute to Sponsors Of Local Talent LPs big bandsman Tommy Dorsey to air on its weekly MOR-oriented Music Makers series. by Larry Riggs their songs pressed onto an Elektra Hosted by Skitch Henderson, the music and interview show will outline Dorsey’s NEW YORK — Following the example of Records EP, which will be released in career through discussions with friends and people he worked with like Bob Crosby, May Starstream Prods, of Houston, which for or June. Artie Shaw and singer Connie Haines. The retrospective will air during the weekends two years has produced albums of un- “We were approached by WQFM to do of March 28 and April 4 . . . Speaking of MOR syndicators, Al Ham Prods., purveyor of signed local bands for nearly 1 00 AOR sta- this and we decided to it as a radio sta- the Music Of Your Life format, has formed a joint venture with Bob Banner Assoc, to do tions nationwide (Cash Box, Nov. 13, tion promotion,” said Burt Stein, vice presi- produce videos related to the nostalgia format. The first releases under this venture 1982), individual rock stations are begin- dent, promotion, Elektra/Asylum. “So we’ll are reportedly in the late stages of their development . . . Roiling Stone Magazine ning to look to local corporate sponsorship be putting out an EP In the late spring. We’ll Prods, has pacted with WRNO Worldwide to air its Guest DJ show. The New Orleans for their homegrown talent albums. The be servicing it to AOR and distributing a station is a shortwave outlet that broadcasts to the entire world, and the show debuted stations are seeking these corporate spon- few copies around the Milwaukee area, there Feb. 28 with David Palch and Jeff Porcaro of Toto kicking it off. Michael Sadler sors primarily because of the greater finan- and then we’ll see if a need develops, which of Saga, Marty Balln, formerly of Jefferson Airplane/Starship, and Jonathan Cain of cial resources available to produce the LPs it just might because the group Colour Journey fill the rest of the weekends in March . . . 20/20 Musicworld, the weekly music themselves and for the greater market ex- Radio’s song ‘Adrianna’ fits very magazine show produced by the Creative Factor, has signed oldies broadcaster Jim much into posure possible via co-promotions with the the new music kind of sound." Stein Pewter as a co-producer and writer. Pewter’s credits include writing and producing has sponsor. also made similar promotional discs with The Beatles —• Their Long and Winding Road, Gene Vincent, His Life and Music, and So far, most corporate sponsors have AOR outlet WMMR in Philadelphia. The Legend of Buddy Holly . . . Creative Factor’s newest endeavor, The American Beat been beer and soft drink bottlers who use Pabst had been similarly approached by Scene, will be hosted by KLOS/Los Angeles air personality Billy Juggs, and by the promotion to gain greater acceptance to sponsor Creative Factor staffer Shari Famous, and not by producers and writers Jesse Glenn WQFM the double album, and among the 18-24 demographic, their the company thought it would be worth Its and Tony Novak, as had been previously reported . . . Newsweek magazine has primary market. while. “We did it at 93Q because it its of its weekly radio magazine distributed to was a renewed sponsorship Newsweek FM , The albums are compilations of local hard rocker and had a good demogrphic — 120 college radio stations nationwide . . . And Ray Manzarek, keyboard player for The bands’ songs, usually selected through the 1 8-24 year-old beer consumer,” said Al Doors, will talk about how the band was formed with Jim Morrison on a Los Angeles contests sponsored by the radio stations. Guerrera, national special projects beach in 1966 on Watermark’s Soundtrack of the Ws show on the weekend of March The stations usually solicit tapes through manager at Pabst. "While you can’t really 12 and 13. The show will also have actor Lome Greene talk about the TV show on-air promotional spots; and then, their if Bonanza and a profile of ’60s recording group The Turtles. tell on a box by box basis this sells more air staffs and local concert promoters, beer, STATION TO STATION — Greg Solk has been named PD at Chicago AOR station we know that the hometown album regional record promotion people and has helped get in WLUP. Solk moves up from assistant PD and brings experience garnered at the sta- us exposure metro sometimes music critics judge the tapes. In Milwaukee, which is what we wanted. We’d tion since 1977, when it was a soft rocker. He replaces former vice president of a few cases, the winners of the contest get like it.” programming Tim Kelley, who turned down a promotion at the station because of the to repeat some sort of recording contract with a ma- Helps Local Scene proverbial philosophical differences with management and left to pursue his own in- jor label. Another station that has terests. At the same time, WLUP has hired air personality Jonathon Brandmeier away AOR used cor- One such station is AOR outlet is porate sponsorship to produce its from KZZP/Phoenix. He will do the morning drive slot vacated by Matt Bisbee, who WQFM own Milwaukee, which recently released the hometown album is in Atlanta. returns to weekend air and production duties. Brandmeier had recently created WKLS “We first double album of its kind under the decided to do a hometown album to help something of a stir when he left the Arizona AORer before his contract had expired . . . auspices of the Rabat Brewing Co. "The make our listeners aware of the In Dallas, Joe Folger has been named music director at modern rock outlet KEGL. He growing whole of doing this was to help local it brings programming and on-air experience from conventional AOR outlets purpose music scene and to nurture along, speed up the message of Milwaukee which was a good image for the station,” KBPI/Denver and KQRS/Minneapolis. Folger will also handle the station’s afternoon said Music,” said promotion director Alan Sneed, drive slot ... In rain-soaked Los Angeles, air personality Frank DeSantis has joined WQFM program director at WKLS. John Duncan. “It was a wonderful promo- just AOR station KLOS from crosstown soft rocker KNX-FM and syndicator Westwood “So we went to the local Coca Cola bot- tion and PR vehicle because it helped us tler and pitched him One. Rita Wilde from KEZY/Anaheim has also joined KLOS, and the two will handle on sponsoring the stroke an important segment of our album, which they did.” the station’s weekend shifts . . . KLOS’s AM sister, KABC, has selected the Sherman audience — the active music lovers. It also Unlike and Pabst’s album, Oaks Galleria as the site for the live auditions for its female sports personality (Airplay, WQPM the got us a lot of local television and “Hot’Lanta Cookin’ ” Feb. 26). The auditions will take place March 4-6, and the winner receives a contract to Home LP was sold newspaper coverage that we might not through the radio station for $4.93. “Coca earn a minimum of $25,000 annually . . . Top 40 station WNBC/New York is producing otherwise.” the a series of 20 one-minute tax tips hosted by award-winning investigative reporter have received Cola underwrote whole album, and the Costs Under Control proceeds were divided evenly David Horowitz. The spots will air during the station’s morning and evening drive between the station did not to Georgia broadcasts ... Up the street at AOR station WPLJ, Dorothy Venturini has exited the The have spend much Special Olympics and the Georgia the promotion mostly because of Multiple Sclerosis it music director post for “personal reasons.” She will be replaced by Lisa Tonacci, on Foundation, so was a Pabst’s role. “Pabst put up $25,000 for the very current WPLJ director of audience research. Tonacci will also bring to that job similar clean concept,” said Sneed. albums and probably another for experience garnered at WNBC and air time at AOR station WDHA/Dover, N.J. $1,000 WKLS plans to begin soliciting tapes for NETWORK NEWS — According to the newly released RADAR 26 ratings, both the promotional expenses like the two-by-two its next hometown album around the mid- posters put up in the local record stores,” dle of this year. RKO One and RKO Two networks showed significant gains of audience across all “We’re not going to start continued Duncan. "Since the album, which auditioning for the next demographics compared to RADAR 25. RKO One grew 22% in adults 18-49 and 20% in album yet, since sold for $5.93, was listed in the top five LP record sales adults 18+. The older-formatted RKO Two grew 49% in adults 25-49 and 33% in adults have been slow here like

sales in the city, I think that Pabst probably everywhere else, and some of the last 18+. . . . National Public Radio (NPR) has pacted with Meredith Broadcasting, operators of Georgia Radio News Services (GRNS), to share excess transponder recouped all their money except for the 500 albums are still unsold,” added Sneed. promotional albums they pressed.” space on the NPR satellite. The contract, which takes effect next May 1, will allow the While the three Milwaukee bands are Besides that, three of the bands on the statewide network to transmit its news, sports, weather and feature reports to 103 af- going to be included on an EP, one band on double album — Colour Radio, Bad Bay filiates via satellite. larry riggs the current WKLS album has been signed and the Dave Steffen Band — are having (continued on page 54)

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3 JOURNEY • FRONTIERS • — U2 • WAR • ISLAND COLUMBIA ADDS: WKLS, WOUR, WMMS, ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, WYFE, WHFS, KNAG, WBAB, KMET, WSKS, KNX, KSJO, KMET, WPLR, WNEW, WYFE. HOTS: WMMS, WMMS, KSHE, WBLM, KLOL, - WHFS. MEDIUMS: WBAB, KMET, WOUR, WKLS, WBAB. MEDIUMS: WNEW. PREFERRED TRACKS: New None. PREFERRED TRACKS: Year’s, Sunday, Two Hearts, 40. Separate. SALES: Just shipped. SALES: Good in all regions.

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77 BRYAN ADAMS • CUTS LIKE A KNIFE • A&M 7 DURAN DURAN • RIO • HARVEST -= PLANET P • GEFFEN ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, WSKS, KSJO, WMMS, ADDS: None. HOTS: WNEW, KNAC, WMMS. WBLM, ADDS: WKLS, WOUR, KSHE, WMMS. WBAB, KMET, KSHE, WOUR. MEDIUMS: KNX, KMET, WPLR, WBLM, KLOL, WKLS, WBAB. MEDIUMS: WYFE, KNX, KSJO, WSKS, WYFE. KEZY. HOTS: None. MEDIUMS: KEZY. ^ KLOL, WKLS, WBAB. PREFERRED TRACKS: Title. KSHE. PREFERRED TRACKS: Hungry. PREFERRED TRACKS: Open. SALES: Moderate in all regions. SALES: Good in all regions. SALES: Just shipped.

— ART IN AMERICA 0 PORTRAIT 87 THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS • FOREVER • 150 THE FIXX • SHUTTERED ROOM • MCA NOW ADDS: None. HOTS: None. MEDIUMS: KEZY, WYFE, ADDS: None. HOTS: WYFE. MEDIUMS: COLUMBIA WNEW, KMET, WPLR, WBLM, WBAB. PREFERRED KNX, KSJO, KMET, WMMS, WBLM, KLOL, WBAB. PREFERRED ADDS: None. HOTS; WYFE. KNX, KNAC. MEDIUMS: TRACKS: Loot, Shy, Line, Art. TRACKS: Stand. KSJO, WHFS. WMMS, WBLM, WOUR. PREFERRED SALES: Fair initial response in Midwest. TRACKS; Open. SALES: Fair in West. SALES: Moderate to fair in all regions.

11 PAT BENATAR • GET NERVOUS • CHRYSALIS 27 GOLDEN EARRING *21 ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, KSJO, WPLR, WBLM, WKLS. 'CUT 69 RED RIDER • NERUDA • CAPITOL WBAB. MEDIUMS: KMET, WMMS, KSHE. PREFERRED ADDS: None. HOTS: KSJO. KMET, WBLM, KMGN, ADDS: None. HOTS: KMET, WMMS, WOUR. MEDIUMS: TRACKS: Anxiety, Little. KLOL. MEDIUMS: WPLR. WMMS. PREFERRED WYFE. WBLM, KLOL, WKLS. WBAB. PREFERRED TRACKS: Twilight, Devil. SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. TRACKS: Light. SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. SALES: Fair in Midwest

60 BERLIN • PLEASURE VICTIM • GEFFEN ADDS: None. HOTS: KNAG, WMMS, WKLS, WBAB. 34 SAGA • WORLDS APART • PORTRAIT 24 SAMMY HAGAR • THREE LOCK BOX • GEFFEN MEDIUMS: KEZY, WPLR, WOUR, PREFERRED ADDS: None. HOTS: WSKS, KNX, KMET, ADDS: None. HOTS: WYFE, KSJO, KMET, KSHE, WBLM, KSHE. TRACKS: Sex, Metro. MEDIUMS; WBLM. KLOL, WOUR. PREFERRED KLOL. MEDIUMS: None. PREFERRED TRACKS: Crazy, SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. TRACKS: Loose. Never, Title. SALES: Moderate to fair in ail regions. SALES: Moderate to fair in all regions. — MICHAEL BOLTON • COLUMBIA ADDS: WKLS, HOTS: WBLM, WSKS. KSJO. MEDIUMS: 5 BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND • THE WPLR, KSHE, WBAB. PREFERRED TRACKS: Open. 4 DARYL HALLS JOHN OATES 'HaO* RCA DISTANCE ‘CAPITOL SALES: Fair initial response in East. ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, KNX. WNEW. MEDIUMS: ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, WSKS, KNX, WNEW, KMET, KSJO. KNAC. WBLM, WBAB. PREFERRED TRACKS: WPLR, KSHE, WBLM, WOUR. WKLS. WBAB. MEDIUMS: ^ Family, One, Maneater, WYFE, WMMS, KLOL. PREFERRED TRACKS: Shame. — JON BUTCHER AXIS • POLYDOR SALES: Good in all regions. SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. ADDS: WKLS, KSHE, WNEW, WYFE. HOTS: None, MEDIUMS: KEZY, KSJO, WPLR, WBLM. PREFERRED TRACKS: Open. 86 SCANDAL • COLUMBIA — INXS • SHABOOH SHABOOH • ATCO SALES: Moderate in East. ADDS: None. HOTS: WNEW, KSJO, WPLR. WMMS, ADDS: WKLS, WOUR, KLOL, WMMS, WPLR, WBAB, KSHE, WBLM, WBAB. MEDIUMS: KMET. WOUR. KSJO, WSKS, WYFE. HOTS: None. MEDIUMS: WOUR, PREFERRED TRACKS: Goodbye. — TONY CAREY • ROCHIRE KLOL, WMMS. WPLR, KSJO. PREFERRED TRACKS: SALES: .Moderate in all regions. ADDS: None. HOTS: WSKS, KSJO, KMET, WMMS. Open. MEDIUMS: WYFE, KNX, KSHE, WBLM, WOUR, WBAB. SALES: Just shipped. PREFERRED TRACKS: Home Tonight. a THE STRAY CATS • BUILT FDR SPEED • EMI SALES: Fair initial response in Midwest. AMERICA ADDS: None. HOTS: WHFS. * 67 GREG KIHN BAND • KIHNSPIRACY • BESERKELY MEDIUMS: KEXY, KMET, KNAC, KSHE. WBLM, KLOL, WBAB. PREFERRED 20 ERIC CLAPTON • MONEY AND CIGARETTES • ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, WYFE. KNX, WMMS, WOUR, TRACKS; Strut. WARNER BROS. WBAB. MEDIUMS: KSJO, KMET. WPLR, KNAC, KSHE. SALES: Good to moderate in all ' ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, KNX, WNEW, KSHE, WOUR, WBLM, KLOL, WKLS. PREFERRED TRACKS: Jeopardy. regions. WBAB. MEDIUMS: KSJO, KMET, WPLR, WMMS, WBLM. SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. WKLS. PREFERRED TRACKS: Heart. — STYX • KILROY WAS HERE • A&M SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, WYFE, KMET, WMMS. KLOL, 2 MEN AT WORK • BUSINESS AS USUAL • COLUMBIA WKLS, WBAB. MEDIUMS: WPLR, KSHE, WBLM, WOUR. ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, PREFERRED TRACKS: Roboto. • KNX. WNEW, WPLR, KNAC, 13 PHIL COLLINS • HELLO, I MUST BE GOING! ATLANTIC WOUR. MEDIUMS: WYFE, KSJO, WMMS, WBLM, KLOL, SALES; Just shipped. WKLS, WBAB. PREFERRED TRACKS: Down. ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, WSKS, KNX, WNEW, KMET, Johnny. SALES: Good in all regions. WMMS, WBLM, WOUR, WBAB. MEDIUMS: WPLR, 23 TRIUMPH ‘NEVER SURRENDER ‘RCA KNAC, WHFS, KLOL. PREFERRED TRACKS: Care, ADDS: None. HOTS; WYFE, WSKS. KSJO, KMET, Hurry. WMMS, KSHE, WBLM, WBAB. MEDIUMS: KLOL. WKLS. SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. — MODERN ENGLISH • AFTER THE SNOW • SIRE PREFERRED TRACKS: Title. Way. ADDS: WKLS, WOUR, KLOL, WBLM, WMMS, WHFS, SALES: Good to moderate in a// regions. WBAB, WNEW. HOTS: WHFS. MEDIUMS: KLOL, 12 DEF LEPPARD • PYROMANIA • MERCURY WMMS. WBAB. PREFERRED TRACKS: Melt. ADDS: None. HOTS: WYFE, WKSK, KSJO, KMET, WPLR, SALES: Just shipped. 85 ULTRAVOX ‘ QUARTET • CHRYSALIS WMMS, KSHE, KLOL, WKLS, WBAB. MEDIUMS: WBLM. ADDS: KEZY. HOTS: KNAC. MEDIUMS: KEZY, WYFE, PREFERRED TRACKS: Photograph. WNEW, WHFS, WMMS, WBAB. PREFERRED TRACKS: SALES: in all regions. Good Reap, Hymn. 37 RIC • BEATITUDE • OCASEK GEFFEN SALES; Good to moderate in all regions. ADDS: None. HOTS: KEZY, WNEW, KSJO, KMET, WPLR, 59 DEXYS • • MIDNIGHT RUNNERS TOO-RYE-AY WMMS, WOUR. MEDIUMS: WHFS, WBLM, KLOL, MERCURY WKLS. PREFERRED TRACKS: Something, Jimmy, 81 VANDENBERG ‘ ATCO ADDS: KLOL. HOTS: WYFE, WPLR, KNAC, WHFS, Sneak. ADDS: None. HOTS: WOUR, WBAB. MEDIUMS: KEZY, WMMS, WBAB. MEDIUMS: KEZY, KLOL, WNEW, SALES: Moderate in all regions. KMET, WPLR, WMMS, WBLM, WBLM, WKLS. PREFERRED TRACKS: KLOL. PREFERRED Eileen. TRACKS: Burning. SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. SALES: Moderate to fair in all regions.

28 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS • LONG AFTER 66 THOMAS DOLBY • BLINDED BY SCIENCE • HARVEST • DARK BACKSTREET 22 NEIL YOUNG ‘ TRANS ‘ GEFFEN ADDS: None. HOTS: WYFE, KNX, WPLR, KNAC, WHFS, ADDS: None. HOTS: KNX, WNEW, KSJO, KMET, WPLR, ADDS: None. HOTS: WNEW, KMET, WMMS. MEDIUMS: WKLS, WBAB. MEDIUMS: WNEW, KLOL. PREFERRED WOUR, WKLS, WBAB. MEDIUMS: KEZY, WYFE, WMMS, KEZY. KNX, KSJO, WPLR, WHFS. WBLM, KLOL, WBAB. TRACKS: Blinded, Submarines. KSHE. PREFERRED TRACKS: Change, Lucky, Title. PREFERRED TRACKS: Mr. Soul, Little. SALES: Good to moderate in all regions. SALES: Moderate in all regions. SALES: Moderate in all regions.

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Weeks Weeks On On 3/5 Chart Ithriller 3/5 Chart 38 W MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic QE 381 1 2) 1 12 RICHARD "DIMPLES" FIELDS IlIONEL RICHIE (Boardwalk NB-33258-1) 38 15 ^ (Motown 6007ML) 2 22 I STEVE ARRINGTON’S Iall this love HALL OF FAME ^ DeBARQE (Motown 6012G) 3 20 (Atlantic 7 80049-1) 57 2 Itouch the sky 40 SKYYJAMMER ^ SMOKEY ROBINSON SKYY (Salsoul/RCA SA-8555) 42 17 (Tamla/Motown 6030TL) 5 7 41 BLUES IN MY BEDROOM FOREVER, FOR ALWAYS, LYNN WHITE MERRY JAMES GIRLS — Motown recording artist Rick James, who has brought such (Waylo/Peter Pan TAS 12121) 35 9 FOR LOVE acts as Teena Marie, his Stone City Band and Bobby M. to the Motown fold, recently unveiled LUTHER VANDROSS (Epic FE 38235) 4 22 ’’ lYOU AND I his most recent discovery, the Mary Jane Girls, who just released the single "Candy Man O'BRYAN (Capitol ST-12256) 52 2 1999 from their upcoming debut Motown LP, "All Night Long. ” Pictured are (l-r): Maxi Wuletich PRINCE (Warner Bros. 9 23720-1F) 6 17 IDONNA SUMMER and Cheri Wells of the group; James; Candi Ghent and Jo Jo McDuffie of the group; and 0 (Geffen GHS 2005) 49 32 ICOMPUTER GAMES (seated) Jay Lasker, president, Motown. P GEORGE CLINTON 44 BACK TO THE FRONT (Capitol ST-12246) 8 IS PETER BROWN (RCA AFL1-4604) 44 4 MIDNIGHT LOVE 45 HEARTBREAKER MARVIN THE RHYTHM SECTION GAYE (Columbia FC 38197) 7 17 DIONNE WARWICK (Arista AL 9609) 45 21 ic; TOO TOUGH IHEARTBEATS FUNKY LAMENT — If not for its totally hilarious lyrical thrust, the MCA Records debut ANGELA BOFILL YARBROUGH & PEOPLES Single from Sweet Revenge featuring BernIe Felton, an unemployed security guard, (Arista AL 9616) 9 8 (Total Experience/PolyGram TE-1- - would be uneventful, absolutely forgettable. Slick dance floor fare highlights “Fired, Igap band IV 3003) 1 ' but co-producer Laura lyrics (she also wrote the THE GAP BAND 47 AS ONE Laid Off, Terminated, Let Go,” Green’s (Total Experience/PolyGram TE-I- KOOL & THE GANG music) wiil make you laugh, cry or just wretch. There’s little lukewarm reaction in store 3001) 11 40 (De-Lite/PolyGram DSR 8505) 43 24 for this one. This funky version of the Reagonomic Biues, a pulsating rhythmic groove bPOWERLIGHT 48 ONE MORE MOUNTAIN woven around synth fills and metal-edged guitar riffs, is highlighted by Felton’s always F THE FOUR TOPS EARTH. WIND & FIRE (Columbia TC whiskey-tinged vocals, which are sometimes reminiscent of Sweet Pea Atkinson’s 38367) 23 2 (Casablanca/PolyGram NBLP 7266) 48 4 work with Was (Not Was). The song goes something like this: ”... TV set is broke, man GET LOOSE ISEAL IN RED it ain’t joke/ still they askin’ me to stay the course/ they even try to wreck my unem- EVELYN KING (RCA AFL 1-4337) 10 27 RUFUS (Warner Bros. 9 23753-1) 59 2 no

ployment check/ Ideas he gets out riding on his horse . . . Come 1984, won’t have to THE YOUTH OF TODAY 50 BLASTI right, I MUSICAL YOUTH (MCA-5389) 13 9 THE BROTHERS JOHNSON take no more/ — gonna exercise my gonna organize my fight/ won’t give up (A&M SP-4927) 51 13 Ion the one hope, gonna go out and vote/ and send a message he don’t want to hear, you’re fired, ' DAZZ BAND (Motown 6031 ML) 16 6 51 CASINO LIGHTS — iaid off terminated, let go.” There’s more, but, believe it, it either gets funnier or worse, RECORDED LIVE AT MON- depending on your perspective. The cut was produced by Green with Lamar Thomas PROPOSITIONS TREUX, SWITZERLAND THE BAR-KAYS for the in with Belkin-Maduri Organization VARIOUS ARTISTS and Sammy Lowe Good People Co. cahoots (Mercury/PolyGram SRM-1.4065) 15 18 (Warner Bros. 9 23718-1) 47 19 for Sweet City Records, distributed by MCA. The Elizabeth, N.C.-born Felton, who now |to the max resides in Brooklyn, met Green while on guard duty in the building where she worked. ^ CON FUNK SHUN 52 RIGHT BACK AT CHAI DYNASTY (Solar/Elektra 60176-1) (Mercury/PolyGram SRM-1-4067) 19 17 54 15 Aiways wanting to be a performer, the guard convinced Green to give him an audition, which prompted her to, ah, write “Fired, Laid Off, Terminated, The rest is THE BEST IS YET TO COME 53 S.O.S. Ill Let Go.” ) : GROVER WASHINGTON, JR. THE S.O.S. BAND history, after a fashion, and what the future holds for this novel record is left in the (Tabu/CBS FZ 38352) 33 16 (Elektra 9 60215-1) 14 14 hands of the nation’s unempioyed. CHAKA KHAN IKISSINGTO BE CLEVER In efforts to salute Black History Month (February) and also to CULTURE BEING SOMEBODY — (Warner Bros. 9 23729-1) 12 14 0 CLUB (Virgin/Epic ARE 38398) 62 3 highlight new artist Glenn Jones, RCA Records, in conjunction with KGFJ, will be THE RHYTHMS THE holding an “I Am Somebody” essay contest for Los Angeles area students. There will BLUES 55 WILD NIGHT ONE WAY (MCA-5369) 56 21 be six different prizes given out for the top compositions including a first prize of a $500 ZZ HILL (Malaco MAL 7411) 18 14 56 LEARNING TO LOVE U.S. savings bond; second price, RCA VCR; third prize, sports equipment; fourth prize, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RODNEY FRANKLIN $150 savings bond; fifth prize, $50 worth of RCA LPs of the winner’s choice; and sixth, a RAINBOW (Columbia FC 38198) 46 8 MELBA MOORE (Capitol ST 12243) 21 20 special plaque. The contest started Feb. 28, and winners wili be notified by March 11. 57 TWO OF A KIND than words, entries must be from students in the EARL KLUGH/B08 JAMES The essays must be no more 500 and 21 JANET JACKSON (Capitol ST-12244) SO 18 Los Angeles area. First through third winners wiil be presented their prizes at a special (A&M SP-6-4907) 22 20 58 NEW DIRECTIONS assembly, where they will also read the winning essays. The assembly will be broad- H20 TAVARES (RCA AFL1-4357) 61 25 cast live by KGFJ. Essays will be judged by staffers from both KGFJ, RCA Records and 1 ' DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES 59 THE MESSAGE members of local press. Glenn Jones’ “I Am Somebody” (the current single from his (RCA AFL 1-4348) 26 12 GRAND MASTER FLASH & THE “Everybody Loves A Winner” LP) buttons and posters will be given to the student 23 JUST AIN’T GOOD FURIOUS FIVE (Sugar Hill SH 266) 39 22 ENOUGH bodies at schools where the winners attend. RCA has made time buys to run in con- IKNOCKOUT junction with the contest. JOHNNIE TAYLOR MARGIE JOSEPH (HCRC HLP-20009) - 1 (Beverly Glen BG 1001) 24 20 EXPANDING D BLUES — The Cameron Organization, Inc., which represents blues 61 JUMP TO IT Waters, Willie Dixon, Mighty Young and the most un- 24 DON’T PLAY WITH FIRE ARETHA FRANKLIN (Arista AL 9602) 60 32 and R&B legends Muddy Joe PEABO BRYSON (Capitol ST-12241) 17 15 usual, undefinable Skafish, have opened new offices at 2700 Cahuenga Blvd. East 62 LET ME IN YOUR LIFE 25 LIVE AND LET LIVE MARLENA SHAW (4103), Los Angeles, Calif. 90068. Nancy Meyer, vice president for the company, will be AURRA (Salsoul/RCA SA 8559) 25 5 (South Bay SB-1004) 64 4 the cornerstone staff for the new office, which plans to become more active in music 26 WHAT TIME IS IT? 63 publishing, including working more closely with Watertoons Music, Hoochie Coochie THE TIME (Warner Bros. 9 23701-1) 27 26 (lmporte/12MP-320) 68 3 Music, Monona Music Company and Skafish Music. The company also plans to begin 27 EVERY HOME SHOULD work on book biographies covering the lives of Waters and Dixon. Telephone number HAVE ONE 64 SECOND TO NUNN PATTI AUSTIN BOBBY NUNN (Motown 6022) 63 23 for the new office is (213) 851-6228. (Qwest/Warner Bros. QWS 3691) 20 23 65 TANTALIZINGLY HOT NO PARDON FOR APARTHEID — The growing popularity of black American music in SUE STEPHANIE MILLS the Republic of South Africa, where apartheid racial policies reign supreme, has been (Casablanca/PolyGram NBLP 7265) 65 32 BOBBY RUSH (Lajam LJ 0001) 31 7 nipped in the bud in recent years by a more rapidly growing resistance by many black 29 TYRONE DAVIS 66 VISIONS OF THE LITE artists to accept bookings in the country. The African National Congress of South (Highrise HR SLAVE (Cotlllion/Atco 7 90024-1) 67 11 103) 29 12 Africa (ANC) has announced plans to honor those artists that have supported efforts to 67 LOVE’S ON SIDE 30 LIVING MY LIFE OUR halt apartheid (separatism) and oppression in South Africa. Citations are planned for GRACE JONES JERRY KNIGHT (A&M SP-5877) - 1 i Roberta Flack, Diana Ross, Barry White, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Phyiiis Hyman, (Island/Atco 7 90018-1) 28 14 68 LIVIN’IN THE NEW WAVE ANDRE CYMONE the Jacksons, Roy Ayers, Tony Bennett and Third Worid for refusing substantial con- 31 GREATEST HITS (Columbia FC 38123) 58 19 tracts to perform in the country. ANC also plans to recognize outspoken performers RAY PARKER. JR. 69 such as Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Ashford & Simpson, the Mighty Sparrow and (Arista AL 9612) 32 13 HIMSELF BILL COSBY (Motown 6026ML) 55 9 several others, who have publicly proclaimed they would not travel to the country until INSTANT FUNK V INSTANT FUNK 70 ALICIA apartheid is put to rest. One active member of the ANC, Sikhuiu Shange, a Harlem ALICIA MYERS (MCA-5181) 71 25 (Salsoul/RCA SA 8558) 36 S record retailer who is from South Africa, said that the ANC would be announcing a 33 SWEAT 71 WOLF series of dates when the presentations will be made. BILL WOLFER THE SYSTEM it for his (Constellatlon/Elektra 9 60187) 53 8 SHORT CUTS — Make four #1 bullets Michael Jackson as Epic Records LP, (Mirage/Atlantic 7 90062-1) 40 3 “Thriller,” produced by venerable boardman Quincy Jones, and the current single, 34 VANITY 6 72 ZAPP II ZAPP (Warner Bros. 9 23583-1) 72 32 “Billie Jean,” are topping the Cash Box Pop and B/C albums and singles charts. “Billie (Warner Bros. 9 23716-1) 30 24 Jean” unseats “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?” by Jackson’s labelmates Culture SILK ELECTRIC 73 WINDSONG RANDY CRAWFORD Club as the #1 pop single this week to make it a sweep . . . Alligator Records recently © DIANA ROSS (RCA AFL-4386) 41 22 (Warner Bros. 9 60142-1) 66 39 announced new distributors for the Northern California Bay Area. Formerly distributed 36 ALL THE GREAT HITS THE COMMODORES 74 ENCHANTED LADY by Pacific Records & Tapes in Oakland, the company recently moved to Back Room ENCHANTMENT (Motown 6028 ML) 34 15 (Columbia FC 38024) 73 17 Distributors of El Cerrito . . . The group Majesty recently signed with the HighRise En- 37 JEFFREY OSBORNE tertainment Co. Sam Brown is producing the six-member band’s first product, with a to FRICTION (A&M SP-4896) 37 39 CHOCOLATE MILK (RCA AFL-1-4412) 74 16 single due in March and an album In early April. michael martinez

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5 Weeks Weeks On Chart 3/5 Chart 3/5 ObILLIE jean 36 I BELIEVE IN YOU AND ME IflBAD TIME TO BREAK UP MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 34-03509) THE FOUR TOPS WILLIAM BELL (Kat Family/CBS ZS4 03502) 75 4 (Casablanca/PolyGram NB 2353) 36 9 I LIKE IT ^THIS IS YOUR TIME © CHANGE (RFC/ Atlantic 7-89883) 77 2 DeBARGE (Motown 1645) 37 LET LOVE SHINE YOU ARE SKYY (Salsoul/RCA S7 7045) 33 8 ^STICKY SITUATION LIONEL RICHIE (Motown 1657) THE WOMAN IN ME TYRONE BRUNSON (Believe In A Dream/CBS-ZS4 OUTSTANDING ® DONNA SUMMER (Geffen 7-29805) 42 8 03511) 78 2 THE GAP BAND MORNIN’ 71 IMAGINE (Total Experlence/PolyGram TE 8205) JARREAU (Warner Bros. 7-29720) 1 RANDY CRAWFORD (Warner Bros. 7-29801) 62 6 FALL IN LOVE WITH ME JUST GOTTA HAVE YOU (LOVER fn THAT’S THE WAY 1 FEEL ’BOUT EARTH. WIND & FIRE (Columbia 38-03375) TURN ME ON) ^ YOUR LOVE ©I’VE MADE LOVE TO YOU A KASHIF (Arista AS 1042) 51 5 RODNEY FRANKLIN (Columbia 38-03551) 79 3 THOUSAND TIMES 41 IT’S RAINING MEN A YOU AIN’T GOING ANYWHERE BUT SM0KEY ROBINSON (Tamla/Motown 1655) THE WEATHER GIRLS (Columbia 38-03354) 43 14 ™GONE OATOMIC DOG GOT TO FIND MY WAY BACK TO _ PHILIPPE WYNNE (Sugar Hill SH-795) 89 2 GEORGE CLINTON (Capitol B-5201) ® YOU PEREZ PRADO-TITO PUENTE 8 BETCHA SHE DON’T LOVE YOU TAVARES (RCA PB-13433) 47 5 ^ LATIN MEDLEY EVELYN KING (RCA PB-13380) NEVER SAY I DO JOE CAIN AND THE RED PARROT ORCHESTRA TOO TOUGH © CLIFF DAWSON & RENEE DIGGS (Zoo York WS4-03504) 81 3 © ANGELA BOFILL (Arista AS 1031) (Boardwalk NB-12-173-1) 52 4 I^HE’S A PRETENDER 10 KNOCKOUT 44 TOO HOT TO BE COOL HI INERGY (Gordy/Motown 1662) 82 3 MARGIE JOSEPH (HCRC WS 4 03337) EBONEE WEBB (Capitol B5181) 46 7 LOVIN’ YOU 11 PASS THE DUTCHIE TRY MY LOVING (GIMME JUST MARCUS MILLER (Warner Bros. 7-29768) 85 2 MUSICAL YOUTH (MCA-52149) ® ENOUGH) ffk TAKE THE SHORT WAY HOME KIDDO (A&M DIONNE WARWICK (Arista AS 1040) 86 2 © LAST NIGHT A D.J. SAVED MY LIFE 2529) 57 3 INDEEP (Sound Of New York, S.N.Y. 5102) 46 EVERY LITTLE BIT HURTS U) IF YOU WANNA GET BACK YOUR fnON THE ONE FOR FUN ELLIS HALL, JR. (HCRC HC7-31300) 49 8 ^ LADY DAZZ BAND (Motown 1659) NO STOPPIN’ THAT ROCKIN’ POINTER SISTERS (Planet/RCA YB-13430) 87 2 14 ARE YOU SERIOUS ® INSTANT FUNK (Salsoul/RCA S7 7041) 53 6 •^CHANGES TYRONE (HIghrlse DAVIS SHR2005) 48 YOU’VE SAID ENOUGH IMAGINATION (MCA-52174) 1 15 HEARTBEATS CENTRAL LINE (Mercury/PolyGram 76192) 48 7 80 OUR LOVE WILL STOPTHE WORLD YARBROUGH & PEOPLES DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ERIC MERCURY & ROBERTA FLACK (Total Experlence/PolyGram I TE 8204) €' (Atlantic 7-89931) 66 5 I’M ME I FREAKY CULTURE CLUB (Epic 34-03368) 58 s 81 SHE’S GOT TO BE (A DANCER) O’BRYAN (Capitol B-5203) JERRY KNIGHT (A&M 5 50 I’M SO PROUD 2519) 69 17 SEXUAL HEALING JOHNNIE TAYLOR (Beverly Glen BG-2004) 50 8 82 PAINTED PICTURE MARVIN GAYE (Columbia 38-03302) COMMODORES (Motown 1651) 35 16 TONIGHT I AM SOMEBODY ® © GLENN JONES (RCA PB-13435) 56 4 little red corvette WHISPERS (Solar/Elektra 7-69842) - 52 LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT PRINCE (Warner Bros. 7-29746) 1 fn MS. GOT-THE-BODY HOLDING ON FUNK SHUN (Mercury/PolyGram BEAT CON 76198) JACKIE MOORE (Catawba 1010) 1 SOUL SONIC FORCE (Tommy Boy TB-831) 54 7 20 SINCE I LOST MY BABY KEEP IT CONFIDENTIAL LUTHER (Epic 34-03487) 53 TAKE IT TO THE TOP VANDROSS NONA HENDRYX (RCA PB.13437) — 1 RUFUS (Warner Bros. 7-29790) 55 6 21 BAD BOY BODY MECHANIC 86 MAKE YOUR BODY MOVE RAY PARKER, JR. (Arista AS 1030) BOHANNON (Compleat CP-103) 76 4 ®-- QUADRANT SIX (RFC/Atlantic 7-89892) 59 7 SHE’S OLDER NOW 87 YOU AND 1 ® BETTY WRIGHT (Epic 34-03523) YOU CAN’T RUN FROM MY LOVE ® GOODIE (Total Experlence/PolyGram TE 8206) 32 12 STEPHANIE MILLS (Casablanca/PolyGram 810 336-7) 60 5 23 BABY, COME TO ME 88 LOVE ME RIGHT PATTI AUSTIN (Qwest/Warner Bros. OWE50036) I NOBODY CAN BE YOU ^ STEVE ARRINGTON'SARRINGTn^ HALL OF FAME ARETHA FRANKLIN (Arista AS 1023) 39 16 24 THE BEST IS YET TO COME (Atlantic 7-89876) 64 4 89 THE GIRL IS MINE GROVER WASHINGTON, JR.wIth PATTI LABELLE Gk HAVE IT YOUR WAY MICHAEL JACKSON/PAUL McCARTNEY V-Ti (Elektra 7-69887) (Epic 34-03288) 30 18 THE S.O.S. BAND (Tabu/CBS' ZS4 03527) 63 3 ‘TIL TOMORROW ® GIRL UP ON THE HILL MARVIN GAYE (Columbia 38-03589) ^WORKING THE TRAMMPS (Venture 1 CHERI (21/PolyGram T1 5024) 26 MIND UP TONIGHT 107) 65 3 59 DON’T EVER STOP CHASING 91 PUT IT IN A MAGAZINE MELBA MOORE (Capitol B-5180) SONNY CHARLES (HIghrlse SHR-2001) 45 24 DO IT ANY WAY YOU WANNA YOUR DREAMS FIELDS 92 WE’RE AT THE PARTY ® (Phllly World RICHARD "DIMPLES" CASHMERE 2009) (Boardwalk 029-5-5) 61 5 DISCO FOUR (Profile PRO-5016) 74 5 28 THE BEAT GOES ON 93 LOVE’S A MERRY-GO-’ROUND ORBIT (Quallty/RFC 7025) 60 GOT TO BE THERE CHAKA KHAN (Warner Bros, 7-29881) 38 19 JUICY (Arista AS 1032) 71 5 TRY AGAIN 94 BABY GETS HIGH © CAN I CHAMPAIGN (Columbia 38-03563) ONE WAY (MCA-52164) 68 4 PETER BROWN (RCA PB-13413) 80 9 30 WE DON’T HAVE TO TALK (ABOUT UNDERLOVE 95 ROCK THE BOAT FORREST (Profile PRO-5017) 97 2 LOVE) © MELBA MOORE (Capitol B-5208) 1 PEABO BRYSON (Capitol B-5188) 28 13 63 LIFE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL 96 SPACE IS THE PLACE CHECK IT OUT NEW YORK CITI PEECH BOYS JONZUN CREW (Tommy Boy 828) 88 9 ® DYNASTY (Solar/Elektra 7-69843) 34 4 (lsland/Atco 7-99926) 67 5 97 SUCH A FEELING 32 THE MESSAGE II (SURVIVAL) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART AURRA (Salsoul/RCA S7 7043) 83 12 MELLE MEL AND DUKE BOOTEE ® DIANA RICHARDS (Zoo York 70 3 WS4 03535) 98 ALL 1 NEED (Sugar Hill 594) 29 SO CLOSE SYLVESTER (Megatone 1005) 92 7 YOU ARE IN MY SYSTEM ® DIANA ROSS (RCA PB-13424) 73 3 99 ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH HAP- THE SYSTEM (Mirage/Atco WTG 7-99937) 41 WE’VE GOT THEE JUICE GIVE PINESS COME YOUR LOVE TO ME JST ATTITUDE (RFC/^iiamic(RFC/Atlantic 7-89879), 72 4 HOT CHOCOLATE (EMI © JANET America 8143) 91 9 JACKSON (A8M 2522) 40 Qi LOVE ON MY MIND TONIGHT 100 ALWAYS ON MY MIND ONE ON ONE Tcnjin’r ATi/^kie TEMPTATIONS (Gordy/Motown 1666) 1 SONNY CHARLES (HIghrlse SHR-2006) 90 8 © DARYLnARVI HHAIALLI & JOHN OATES (RCA PB-1 3421) 44 5 ALPHABETIZED TOP 100 B/C (INCLUDING PUBLISHERS AN D Lie

BMI) All I Need (WIrrIck — ASCAP/Paquet — BMI) 98 He’s A Pretender (Chardax — BMI) 75 Mornin’ (Aljarreau/Garden Rake/Foster Frees — 77

Always On My Mind (Screen Gems/Rose Bridge — Heartbeats (Total Experience — BMI) 15 BMI) 39 That’s The Way I Feel (Maicaboom — BMI) 72 BMI) 100 Holding On (Diamond Touch Unltd. /Arista — Ms. Got-The-Body (Val-ie Joe/Bee Germalne/Felstar The Beat Goes (Chris Marc-Cotillion — BMI) 28 Are You Getting Enough (Finchley — ASCAP) 99 ASCAP) 84 Pub. — BMI) 19 The Best Is Yet (Assorted — BMI) 24 The Girl Is Mine (Mijac BMI) Are You Serious (Content/Tiaura Ani Kiki — BMI) .14 I’m Freaky (Big Train — ASCAP) 16 Never Say I Do (Harrindur/Ensign — BMI) 43 — 89 Atomic Dog (Malbizi— BMI) 7 I’m So Proud (Mighty Three — BMI) 50 No Stoppin’ (Lucky Three — BMI) 47 The Message II (Sugar Hill — BMI) 32 The In Baby, Come To Me (Roadsongs Admin, by ALMO— I’ve Made Love (Bertam — ASCAP) 6 Nobody Can Be You (Konglather — BMI) 56 Woman Me (Warner-Tamerlane/Rashida/ Flying Dutchman/Sweet PRS) 23 On The One For Fun (J. Regg — Harmony — ASCAP) . . .38 1 Am Somebody (Spectrum VII/HIndu — ASCAP) .51 ASCAP/ Hey Skimo — BMI) This Is Your Time (Little Macho/Rock Your Socks — Baby Gets High (Minong — BMI) 94 I Believe In (Manhattan Island/Sandy LInzer — BMI) 36 13 One On One (Hot-Cha/Unichappell — ASCAP) 69 Bad Boy (Raydiola — ASCAP) 21 I Just Gotta (Music Corp. of America/Kashif — BMI) 40 BMI) 35 Our Love Will Stop (Teaincense/CBS Songs/Mystery 'Til Tomorrow (April/Bugpie — ASCAP) 25 Bad Time (Bell-Kat/Unichappell — BMI) 68 I Like It (Jobete — ASCAP) 2 Man/Right Tonight (Almo/Crimsco — ACAP) Betcha She Don't (Music Corp of America/ If You Wanna Get (ATV Corp. — BMI) 78 Song — BMI) 80 18 Too Hot To (Ebonee Kashif — BMI 8 Imagine (Maclen — BMI) 71 Outstanding (Total Experience — BMI) 4 Webb/Cessess — BMI) 44 Painted Picture (Walter Too Tough (Gratitude Sky/Pologrounds — BMI) .. Billie Jean (Mijac — BMI) 1 It’s Raining (Songs of Manhattan Island/Olga — Orange/Snousie—ASCAP) 82 9 Try Again (Walkin — BMI) Pass Dutchie . Body Mechanic (Kathy’s/Indulgent — BMI) 54 BMI/Postvalda — ASCAP) 41 The (Virgin/Hal Shaper — ASCAP) . 11 29 Try My Loving (Kiddo/J. — Keep It Confidential (My Own Pub Co./Jent — Perez Prado (Zoo York Recordz — ASCAP) 74 Regg/Almo/Southern Can I (Perk’s Duchess — BMI) 61 Noise — 85 Put It In (Pari-Wex/Sun Hill — ASCAP) 91 ASCAP/Hey Skimo — BMI) 45 Changes (MCA — ASCAP) 79 BMI/Urban ASCAP) Knockout (Mannish Kidd/Funtown — BMI) 10 Rock The Boat (Warner-Tamerlane/JIm Lane — Underlove (Music Corp. of America/Kashif — BMI) 62 Check It Out (L.F.S. Ill/Spectrum VII — ASCAP) . . .31 Last Night (Fools Prayer/Young Lions — BMI) .... 1 BMI) 95 Up On The Hill (Musrios/Davahkee — ASCAP) ... .90 Come Give Your (Satellite Ill/Richer — ASCAP) . . .34 Let Love Shine (Alligator — ASCAP) 37 Sexual Healing (April — ASCAP) 17 We Don't Have (WB/Peabo — ASCAP) 30 Do It Any Way You (Phllly World/On The Life Is Something (Citi Peech/Dez Bee — BMI) 63 She’s Got To Be (Almo/Crimsco — ASCAP) 81 We’re At A Party (Protoons, Inc./Eric Matthews — Move/SUJAA/Wizkid — BMI) 27 ASCAP) Listen To Your (Chappell/Pendulum — ASCAP) . . .64 She’s Older Now (Danbet — ASCAP/Native Songs — 92

Do You Really Want (Virgin/Chappell — ASCAP) . .49 Little Red Corvette (Controversy — ASCAP) 83 BMI) 22 We’ve Got The Juice (Science/Lab — ASCAP) 66 Don’t Ever Stop Chasing (On The Boardwalk/Dat Working Girl Looking For The Perfect (Shakin’ Baker/T-Girl Since I Lost (Jobete — ASCAP) 20 (Hygroton/LoPressor/Gerapete — (PRO) Richfield Kat — BMI/Songs Can Sing/Hense Forth — Canada) — ASCAP) 52 So Close (Rossville — BMI/Mel-Day — ASCAP) . . .65 58 ASCAP) 59 Is Place — You Ain’t Going Anywhere Love Me Right (Aprii/Uncle Ronnie’s — ASCAP) . .88 Space The (T.Boy/Boston (Blackwood — BMI) 73 Every Little Bit (Jobete — ASCAP) 46 Love On My Mind (Tuneworks/Big Stick/Careers — International ASCAP) 96 You And I (Total Experience — BMI) 87 Fall In Love (Saggifire/Yougoulei/ BMI) 67 Sticky Siuation (Band Of Angels — BMI) 70 You Are (Brockman — ASCAP) 3 You Are In (Science Wenekewa — ASCAP) 5 Love’s A Merry-Go-Round (Tricky Track — BMI) . .93 Such A Feeling (Red Aurra — BMI) 97 My Lab/Green Star — ASCAP) 33 Got To Be (Jobete/Glenwood — ASCAP) 60 Lovin’ You (MCA Music — ASCAP) 76 Take It To The Top (Shoi Shoi/Watsushi/Overdue You Can’t Run From (Frozen Butterfly — BMI) 55 (Perren-Vibes, 42 Adm. Warner You’ve Said Enough Got To Find Inc. — ASCAP) Make Your Body Move (Raydiola — ASCAP) 86 by Bros./Masterjam — ASCAP) . . ,53 (Warner Bros. /Copyright ^ave It Your Way (Interior Adm. by Irving — BMI) .57 Mind Up (Mighty M — ASCAP) 26 Take The Short Way (Gibb Bros./Unichappell — Control) 48 !

y BMCK CONTEMPORARY MOST/IDDED SINGLES MOST/1DDED/1LBUMS — BROS. MORNIN’ — JARREAU WARNER 1. HEARTBEATS — YARBROUGH & PEOPLES TOTAL EXPERIEN- WUFO, WKYS, KGFJ, KPRS, WDIA, WAMO, WBMX, WWIN, V103, WNHC, CE/POLYGRAM WRBD, WPLZ, WJMO, KMJQ, WLUM, WCIN, WYLD, KOKA, WTLC, WATV, KPRS, KUKQ, WWIN, WEDR, WRBD, WLLE, WGPR, WRAP, WSOK, WHRK WGPR, WLOU, WGCI, WRAP, WZEN 2. SEAL IN RED — RUFUS — WARNER BROS. LOVE ON MY MIND TONIGHT — TEMPTATIONS — GORDY/MOTOWN KPRS, WPAL, WAMO, WLLE, WGPR, WHRK WDAS, V103, WCIN, WKYS, WGIV, KDAY, WDIA, WBMX, WWIN, WLUM, 3. POWERLIGHT — EARTH, WIND & FIRE — COLUMBIA WTLC, WILD, WZEN WKYS, KDAY, WCIN, WRAP, WILD 3. YOU AIN’T GOING ANYWHERE BUT GONE -- PHILIPPE WYNNE — SUGAR HILL KGFJ, WPAL, WOKB, V103, WEDR, WNHC, WRBD, WLLE, WGPR, WSOK UNDERLOVE ~ MELBA MOORE — CAPITOL UP AND WAIL, WGIV, WOKB, WAMO, WBMX, WDAS, WRBD, WYLD COMING 5. -- IMAGINATION ~ CHANGES MCA WIND BENEATH MY WINGS — LOU RAWLS ~ EPIC KGFJ, WGIV, WPAL, WJMO, WCIN, KOKA, WGPR, WLOU

NEVER SAY I DO — CLIFF DAWSON & RENEE DIGGS — BOARDWALK CANDY MAN — MARY JANE GIRLS — GORDY/MOTOWN KOKA, WRAP, WZEN WDAO, WAIL, WNHC, WAWA, JUICY FRUIT — MTUME — EPIC 7. HOLDING ON — JACKIE MOORE — CATAWBA KGFJ, WJMO, WCIN, WLLE, WGPR, WILD, WLOU THIS IS FOR REAL — ARETHA FRANKLIN ARISTA BL/ICK PAD\0 HIGHLIGHTS V103 — ATLANTA -- SCOTTY ANDREWS, PD ~ #1 — DeBARGE KDAY — LOS ANGELES — JACK PATTERSON, PD — #1 — MICHAEL JACKSON HOTS: Michael Jackson, L. Richie, D. Summer, Earth, Wind & Fire, G. Clinton, S. Charles, Indeep, HOTS: Earth, Wind & Fire, L. Richie, indeep. Weather Girls, Dazz Band, Culture Club, Toto, Orbit, L. Vandross, Yarbrough & Peoples, M. Gaye, Gap Band, A. Bofill, D. Ross, Dazz Band, P. Austin, Commodores, Hi Inergy. ADDS: T. Brunson, Mary JaneGirls, Mtume, R. Parker, Jr., Temptations, N. Grace Jones, System, Champaign, B. Wright. ADDS: P. Wynne, Private Eye, State Of Grace, M. Miller, Hendryx, Cheri, Secret Weapon, D. Warwick. LP ADDS: Earth, Wind & Fire. S. Mills, Freedom Express, E. Hall, Jr., Con Funk Shun, D. Warwick, A. Jarreau, Temptations. Lanier & KGFJ — LOS ANGELES — GEORGE MOORE, PD ~ #1 ~ CENTRAL LINE Co., S. Bishop, F. Thornton. HOTS: System, Michael Jackson, Indeep, Earth, Wind & Fire, Cashmere, A. Bofill, R. Griffin, Hi Inergy, WIGO — ATLANTA — MIKE ROBERTS, PD — #1 — DeBARGE Dazz Band. ADDS: A. Jarreau, Michael Jackson, J. Moore, Imagination, A. Baker, C. Earland, HOTS: Michael Jackson, Musical Youth, M. Mel/D. Bootee, Soul Sonic Force. G. Clinton, L. Vandross, Starshine, P. Wynne, E. Grant. LP ADDS: R. Parker, Jr., Zapp, Temptations. L. Richie. Hall & Oates, A. Bofill. ADDS: T. Brunson, Champaign, Trammps, Kashif. LP ADDS: ZZ Hill. WEDR -- MIAMI — GEORGE JONES, PD WILD — BOSTON — CHARLES CLEMONS, MD -- #1 — MICHAEL JACKSON ADDS: Kiddo, Prince, F. Gearing, Visual, Fatback, S. Shelton, P. Wynne, B. Bland. LP ADDS: T. JUMPS: 8 To 4 — A. Bofill, 12To7 — Q. Clinton, 11 To 8 — DeBarge, 18 To 11 — Hall & Oates, 16 To 12 Brunson, Bohannon, Yarbrough & Peoples. —I. Osborne, 25 To 16 — R.D. Fields, Ex To 27 — Whispers, Ex To 28 — The Time, Ex To 29 ~ New WAWA — MILWAUKEE — JIMMY GOODTYME, PD — #1 — MICHAEL JACKSON Edition, Ex To — Kashif. J. 30 ADDS: Moore, Michael Jackson, Kiddo, Dazz Band, P. Austin, F. HOTS: S. Robinson, L. Richie, DeBarge, Q. Clinton, Dazz Band, A. Bofill, W. Bell, B. Wright, E. Thornton, Fatback, Arlana, Tempations, E. Hope. LP ADDS: Musical Youth, S. Arrington, S. Robinson, Mercury/R. Flack, Dynasty, Whispers, Bohannon, Little Milton, Con Funk Shun, Slave. ADDS: System, A. Bofill, Earth, Wind & Fire, Juicy. Brothers Johnson, Kashif, kleeer, Mtume, H. Ray, Lanier & Co., Dawson & Diggs, J. Henry, Jr. W WBMX — CHICAGO — LEE MICHAELS, PD — #1 — G. WASHINGTON, JR. WLUM — MILWAUKEE — JIMMY GOODTYME, MD — #1 -- MICHAEL JACKSON Earth, HOTS: Wind & Fire, G. Clinton, Indeep, Michael Jackson, S. Robinson, L. Richie, P. Brown, HOTS: S. Robinson, L. Richie, DeBarge, Earth, Wind & Fire, M. Joseph, A. Bofill, Indeep, Hall & Oates, Aurra, P. Bryson. Cashmere, Orbit, Yarbrough & Peoples, Goodie, Musical Youth, Dazz Band, Gen. B. Wright, Dazz Band, E. Mercury/R. Flack, Champaign, W. Bell, Bohannon, War. ADDS: Amuzement K-Cooke, A. Bofill, Zapp, Glenn Jones, New York Citi Peech Boys, Kashif, W. Bell, Janet Jackson, Park, Kashif, A. Jarreau, Temptations, Brothers Johnson, Mtume, Lanier & Co., Little Milton, W. Hart. Whispers. Cheri, B. Wright, Juicy. ADDS: Temptations. J. Henry, Jr., M. Moore, Fatback, Kiddo, A. r Jarreau. WAIL — NEW ORLEANS — BARRY RICHARDS, PD — #1 ~ MICHAEL JACKSON HOTS: Earth, Wind & Fire, Gap Band, DeBarge, Attitude, G. Clinton, Musical Youth, S. Robinson, Dazz — — RICHARD PEGUE, -- #1 — G. t WGCI CHICAGO PD CLINTON Band, O’Bryan, Soul Sonic Force, D. Summer, A. Bofill, Culture Club, System, Thompson Twins, 1 HOTS: Orbit, Michael Jackson, Hail & Oates, L. Richie, Musical Youth, Juicy, S. Robinson, Earth, Wind Weather Girls, Hall & Oates, Kiddo, Prince, Cashmere. ADDS: Janet Jackson, Tavares, T. Dolby, L. ' & Fire, Dazz Band, Yarbrough & Peoples, Kleeer, Glenn Jones, War, J. Chingus, S.O.S. Band, I Rawls, T. Brunson, Pointer Sisters, Dawson & Diggs, Visual, J. Geils Band, M. Moore. f Brothers Johnson, A. Bofill, Janet Jackson, G. Washington, Jr. ADDS: Fatback, Dynasty, State Of — -> f Grace, Ministry, Wolf, A. Jarreau. WYLD-FM NEW ORLEANS BRUTE BAILEY, PD — #1 — MICHAEL JACKSON HOTS: P. Bryson, Gap Band, Earth, Wind & Fire, S. Robinson, A. Bofill, Dazz Band, E. Hall, Jr., Con -- CINCINNATI BAILEY, #1 — WCIN — FRANK MD — INDEEP Funk Shun, Attitude, G. Clinton, Cashmere, DeBarge, Trammps, Kiddo, Hi Inergy, Champaign, B. HOTS: Michael Jackson, Cashmere, Madonna, Earth, Wind Fire, S.O.S. Band, S. Robinson, Dazz & Wright, Tavares. ADDS: A. Jarreau, Visual, M. Moore, Change, L. Rawls, Soul Sonic Force, Pointer Band, Musical Youth, B. Wright, L. Richie, L. Vandross, Centra! Line. ADDS: Imagination, D. Weaver, Sisters. B. Wilson, Love Exchange, E. Grant, Jackie Boy & Bad Bunch, Temptations, A. Jarreau, Trammps, -Kiddo, J. Henry, Jr., J. Moore. LP ADDS: Earth, Wind & Fire, O’Bryan. WRKS -- NEW YORK — BARRY MAYO, PD — #1 - MICHAEL JACKSON JUMPS: 17 To 10 — C-Bank, 22 To 12 — Earth, Wind & Fire, 19 To 15 — S. Robinson, 24 To 18 — A. WDMT — CLEVELAND — BOBBY MAGIC, PD — #1 — DeBARGE Bofill, 26 To 20 — S. Arrington, Ex To 25 — Whispers. ADDS: M. Gaye. HOTS: L. Richie, Michael Jackson, Dazz Band, A. Bofill, Earth, Wind & Fire, Hall & Oates, G. Clinton, C. Cross, S. Robinson, Culture Club, D. Summer, Kashif, One Way. Janet Jackson, Goodie, Indeep, Con WDAS-FM — PHILADELPHIA - JOE TAMBURRO, PD — #1 — INDEEP Funk Shun, System, M. Gaye, S. Mills. ADDS: Champaign, Cashmere, G. Kihn Band, Tavares, HOTS: A. Bofill, Michael Jackson, Musical Youth, Weather Girls, Earth, Wind & Fire, G. Clinton, Whispers, M. McDonald, Prince, Spyder D. DeBarge, M. Joseph, Gap Band, System, Four Tops, L. Richie, Dazz Band, Hall & Oates, S. Robinson, Soul Sonic Force, Kashif, P. Wynne, Culture Club. ADDS: New Edition, M. Moore, D. WJMO — CLEVELAND — ERIC STONE, PD — #1 — EARTH, WIND & FIRE Tavares, Warwick, Fresh Face, Temptatlons, C. Anderson, Blue Magic, W. Hart, C. Jones & Atlantis, Roundtree, HOTS: L. Vandross, G. Clinton, Soul Sonic Force, M. Joseph, Four Tops, Jonzun Crew, R. Crawford, E. King, Chocolate Milk, G. Kihn Band, Salsoul Orchestra. LP ADDS: S. Arrington, DeBarge. Skyy, Champaign, E. Mercury/R. Flack, A. Bofill, O’Bryan, Instant Funk. ADDS: Pointer Sisters, Imagination, J. Moore, Amuzement Park, A. Jarreau, Sugar Hill Gang. WAMO — PITTSBURGH — J.C. FLOYD, PD — #1 — L. RICHIE WGPR-FM — DETROIT — JOE SPENCER, PD — #1 — HOT CHOCOLAtE JUMPS: 16 To 7 — S. Robinson, 14 To 8 — R. Franklin, 23 To 9 — Earth, Wind & Fire, 19 To 16 — G. HOTS: Cashmere, G. Clinton, A. Bofill, Michael Jackson, O’Bryan, L. Richie, E. Webb, S. Robinson, J. Clinton, 27 To 23 — One Way, 34 To 24 — Kashif, 39 To 26 — Prince, 37 To 27 — Whispers, 36 To 31 — Knight, Kashif. ADDS: Imagination, Kool & The Gang, P. Wynne, N. Hendryx, A. Jarreau, L. Rawls, T. Glenn Jones, 35 To 32 — S. Arrington, Ex To 36 — Con Funk Shun, 38 To 34 — S. Mills. ADDS: A. ^Wilson, G. Howard, J. Moore, Fatback. LP ADDS: Yarbrough & Peoples, Rufus, Mikki, O’Bryan, Jarreau, M. Gaye, Change, Instant Funk, M. Moore, Forrest. LP ADDS: T. Brunson, Rufus, Ebonee Webb. Temptations.

WJLB ~ DETROIT — J. MICHAEL McKAY, MD WPLZ — RICHMOND — HARDY JAY LANG, MD — #1 — MICHAEL JACKSON HOTS: Janet Jackson, Earth, Wind & Fire, A. Bofill, P. Bryson, Cashmere, G. Washington, Jr., Dazz HOTS: Gap Band, O'Bryan, Yarbrough & Peoples, L. Vandross, A. Bofill, Earth, Wind Fire. Aurra, Band, A. Franklin, C. Khan, E. King, Michael Jackson, Skyy, DeBarge, S. Mills, L. Vandross, S. & DeBarge, Indeep, Culture Club, L. Richie, S. Robinson, P. Bryson, G. Clinton, P. Brown, C. Carlton, Robinson, L. Richie, A. Cymone. ^ Soul Sonic Force, Hall & Oates, Whispers. ADDS: A. Jarreau, M. Miller, D. Ross. J. Knight, Fatback, KMJQ — HOUSTON — FRED HENDERSON, PD — #1 — MICHAEL JACKSON One Way, T-Connection, S. Arrington, D. Fagen. LP ADDS: S. Robinson, Prince. JUMPS:10To7 — S. Robinson, 12 To 8 — A. Bofill, 15 To 12 — Dazz Band, 17 To 13 — O’Bryan, 18 To •— 1 5 Dawson & Diggs, 23 To 1 6 — Instant Funk, 22 To 1 8 — J. Taylor, 26 To 23 -- Kiddo, 28 To 24 — B. WKYS — WASHINGTON, D.C. — DONNIE SIMPSON, PD — #1 — MICHAEL JACKSON Wright, 29 To 25 — War, 37 To 28 — Goodie, 33 To 29 — Kashif, 34 To 31 — M. Mel/D. Bootee, Ex To HOTS: Earth, Wind & Fire, DeBarge, A. Bofill, L. Richie, Trouble Funk, Indeep, M. Gaye, Hall & Oates, 37 — Temptations, Ex To 38 — Whispers, Ex To 39 — Fatback. ADDS: Prince, A. Jarreau, S. Mills, S. Gap Band, P. Austin, Musical Youth, Weather Girls, S. Robinson. ADDS: A. Jarreau, Temptations, Arrington, T. Burrus & Transee, Zapp. LP ADDS: Instant Funk. Champaign, Brothers Johnson, Dreamgirls. LP ADDS: Earth, Wind & Fire, S. Robinson.

sugar hill strikes again

“YOU AIN’T GOING ANYWHERE BUT GONE’’ [SH-795]

- PHILIPPE WYNNE 7 ft

SUGAR HILL RECORDS 96 WEST STREET CASH BOX ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY 07631

51 Cash Box/March 12, 1983 Title, Artist, Label, Number, Distributor

Weeks Weeks Weeks On On On 3) 3/5 Chart 3/5 Chart 3/5 Chart 4)DTHRILLER WORLDS APART ALL THE 0 MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic QE 38112) GREAT HITS gge CBS SAGA (Portrait ARR 38246) CBS 28 20 COMMODORES (Motown 6028 ML) IND 58 15 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL GREATEST HITS 8 98 MEN AT WORK (Columbia NERUDA 8.98 ARC 37978) CBS 2 36 LITTLE RIVER BAND (Capitol ST-12247) CAP 36 15 RED RIDER (Capitol ST-12226) CAP 69 6 FRONTIERS EMOTIONS IN MOTION 898 @ JOURNEY (Columbia LOVE OVER GOLD 8.98 QC 38504) CBS 3 4 BILLY SQUIER (Capitol ST-12216) C/kP 35 32 DIRE STRAITS (Warner Bros. 9 23728-1) WEA 53 23

H20 8.98 BEATITUDE 0 DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES RIC OCASEK (Gotten GHS 2022) WEA 32 8 SINGLES — 45’s AND UNDERe 98 (RCA AFL1-4383) RCA 4 20 SQUEEZE (A&M SP-4922) RCA 65 14 5 THE DISTANCE LEXICON OF LOVE ggs 8.98 ABC (Mercury SRM-4059) POL 38 28 SPEAK OF THE DEVIL BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND OZZY OSBOURNE (Jet ZX2 38350) CBS 59 14 (Capitol ST-12254) CAP AEROBIC SHAPE-UP II 393 JOANIE GREGGAINS (Parade/Peter Pan PA 106) IND 44 12 THE SINGLES n 98 ^LIONEL RICHIE 8 98 ABBA (Atlantic 0 (Motown 80036-1-G) WEA 66 14 6007 ML) IND GREATEST HITS DAN FOGELBERG SCREAMING FOR T^RIO 8.96 (Full Moon/Epic QE 38303) CBS 42 18 0 DURAN DURAN (Harvest ST-12211) CAP 7 13 VENGEANCE JUDAS PRIEST (Columbia FC 38160) CBS 68 35 8 BUILT FOR SPEED 42 FOREVER, FOR ALWAYS, 8.98 75 STRAY CATS (EMI America ST-17070) CAP 6 38 FOR LOVE GREATEST HITS 8.98 LUTHER VANDROSS (Epic FE 38235) CBS RAY PARKER. JR. (Arista AL 9612) IND 70 15 9)IV 0 DAWN PATROL TOTO (Columbia PC 37728) CBS 9 48 8.98 AEROBIC NIGHT RANGER (Boardwalk NB-33259-1) IND 50 8 SHAPE-UP 898 JOANIE GREGGAINS (Parade/Peter Pan 104) IND 76 47 (10) ANOTHER PAGE 898 CHRISTOPHER CROSS HIGH ADVENTURE CUTS (Warner Bros. 9 23757-1) WEA KENNY LOGGINS (Columbia TC 38127) CBS 45 26 LIKE A KNIFE 698 BRYAN ADAMS (A&M SP-6-4949) RCA 93 4 11 GET NERVOUS ggs FAMOUS LAST WORDS 898 PAT BENATAR (Chrysalis FV 41396) CBS 10 17 SUPERTRAMP (A&M SP-3732) RCA 40 18 MORE JAZZERCISE 898 JUDI SHEPPARD MISSETT (MCA-5375) MCA (I^PYROMANIA LIVE EVIL 8 98 11 98 CREATURES DEF LEPPARD (Mercury 810 308-1 M-1) POL 13 5 BLACK SABBATH (Warner Bros. 9 23742-1 G) WEA 37 6 OF THE NIGHT 8.98 KISS (Casablanca NBLP 7270) POL 74 15

13 HELLO, I MUST BE GOING 898 SPECIAL BEAT SERVICE 898 ) MEMORIES PHIL COLLINS (Atlantic 80035-1) WEA 12 16 THE ENGLISH BEAT (I.R.S./A&M SP 70032) RCA 47 21 BARBRA STREISAND (Columbia TC 37678) CBS 86 8 (^JANE FONDA’S WORKOUT ALWAYS ON MY MIND WILLIE NELSON (Columbia FC 37951) CBS 49 50 RECORD I VANOENBERG 898 (Columbia CX2 38054) CBS HEARTLIGHT (AtCO 90005-1) WEA 91 12 NEIL DIAMOND (Columbia TC 38359) CBS 46 22 (fs) KISSING TO BE CLEVER }ALL THIS LOVE 8 98 CULTURE CLUB (Virgin/Epic ARE 38398) CBS 18 15 PONCHO & LEFTY DeBARGE (Motown 601 2G) IND 90 7 16 THE NYLON CURTAIN MERLE HAGGARD/WILLIE NELSON GAP BAND IV (Epic FE 37958) CBS 57 7 898 BILLY JOEL (Columbia TC 38200) CBS 16 22 THE GAP BAND (Total Experience/TE-1-3001) POL 85 40

HERE COMES THE NIGHT sss 17 SPRING SESSION M REACH 10.98 898 BARRY MANILOW (Arista AL 9610) IND 51 14 MISSING PERSONS (Capitol ST-12228) CAP RICHARD SIMMONS (Elektra E160122F) WEA 78 41 18 RECORDS THE BEST IS YET TO COME 898 QUARTET 898 GROVER WASHINGTON, JR, FOREIGNER (Atlantic 7 ULTRAVOX (Chrysalis B6V 80999) WEA (Elektra 9 60215-1) WEA 52 14 41394) CBS 113 2 (59)NIGHT AND DAY SCANDAL ' 898 TOUCH THE SKY gsa JOE JACKSON (A4M SP-4906) RCA 21 25 (Columbia FC 38194) CBS 94 6 SMOKEY ROBINSON (Tamla/Motown 6030TL) IND 54 - 7

MONEY AND CIGARETTES 898 GET LUCKY FOREVER NOW ERIC THE PSYCHEDELIC CLAPTON LOVERBOY (Columbia FC 37638) CBS 56 70 FURS (Duck/Warner Bros. 9 237773-1) WEA 23 4 (Columbia ARC 3826) CBS 89 22 TROUBLE IN PARADISE 898 WINDS OF CHANGE 21 FRIEND OR FOE RANDY NEWMAN (Warner Bros, 9 23755-1 WEA 60 6 gge ) JEFFERSON STARSHIP (Grunt BXL1-4372) RCA 75 20 ADAM ANT (Epic ARE 38370) CBS 19 20 DAYLIGHT AGAIN 8,98 DECEMBER 8.98 22 TRANS 898 CROSBY, STILLS & NASH (Atlantic SD 19360) WEA 43 35 GEORGE WINSTON (Windham Hill C-1025) IND 81 12 NEIL YOUNG (Ge«en GHS 2018) WEA 22 8 TOO TOUGH 898 I CAN’T STAND STILL 898 NEVER SURRENDER 898 ANGELA BOFILL (Arista AL 9616) IND 63 8 @ DON HENLEY (Asylum EL-60048) WEA 61 28 TRIUMPH (RCA AFL1-4382) RCA 25 7

ON THE ONE 8 98 24 THREE LOCK BOX 898 DAZZ BAND (Motown 6031 ML) IND 64 6 HOOKED ON CLASSICS II: SAMMY HAGAR (Geflen GHS 2021) WEA 24 12 CAN’T STOP THE CLASSICSg gs TOO-RYE-AY 8 98 LOUIS CLARK conducts THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC (25) THE YOUTH OF TODAY 8 98 KEVIN ROWLAND & DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS ORCHESTRA (RCA AFL1-4373) RCA 83 33 MUSICAL YOUTH (MCA-5389) MCA 27 9 (Mercury SRM-1-4069) POL 79 5

I WE’VE GOT TONIGHT ^ge 26 COMBAT ROCK ) PLEASURE VICTIM 698 KENNY ROGERS (Liberty LO-51 143) CAP — 1 THE CLASH (Epic FE 37689) CBS 20 40 BERLIN (Getten GHS 2036) WEA 72 5

) SIDE KICKS @CUT EVERY HOME SHOULD 698 THOMPSON TWINS (Arista AL 6607) IND 116 4 GOLDEN EARRING (21 T1-1-9004) POL 30 15 HAVE ONE 898 PATTI AUSTIN (Qwest/Warner Bros. QWS 3691) WEA 55 16 HIMSELF 28 898 LONG AFTER DARK 8 98 BILL COSBY (Motown 6026 ML) IND 84 14 TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS 62 THE EVER POPULAR (Backstreet BSR-5360) MCA 26 17 TORTURED ARTIST EFFECTbsb TWISTING BY THE POOL 499 DIRE STRAITS (Warner Bros. 0-29800) WEA 108 @ POWERLIGHT TODD RUNDGREN(Bearsville 23732-1) WEA 62 8 3 EARTH, WIND & FIRE (Columbia TC 38367) CBS 48 2 CHAKA KHAN ) ggg AMERICAN MADE 8 98 (Warner Bros. 9 23729-1) WEA 71 30 MIDNIGHT LOVE OAK RIDGE BOYS (MCA-5390) MCA 77 4 14 MARVIN GAYE (Columbia FC 38197) CBS 31 17 MIRAGE TWO OF A KIND 898 898 EARL KLUGH/BOB JAMES FLEETWOOD MAC (Warner Bros. 9 23607-1) WEA 67 35 (Capitol ST-12233) 31 AMERICAN FOOL 898 CAP 87 19 JOHN COUGAR (RIva RVL 7501) POL 29 45 SOMETHING’S GOING ON ago ASIA 8.98 FRIDA (Atlantic 80013-1) WEA 73 18 (Getten GHS 2008) WEA 98 50 32 1999 10.98 PRINCE (Warner Bros. 9 23720-1F) WEA 33 17 I BLINDED BY SCIENCE sga GREATEST HITS gss THOMAS DOLBY (Capitol MLP-1 5007) CAP 82 6 33 OLIVIA’S GREATEST HITS MELISSA MANCHESTER (Arista AL 9611) IND 129 4 VOL. 2 898 KIHNSPIRACY gge PROPOSITIONS 898 OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN (MCA-5347) MCA GREG KIHN BAND (Beserkley/Elektra 9 60224-1) 88 2 WEA BAR-KAYS (Mercury SRM-1-4065) POL 100 18 ..

Weeks Weeks On On 3/5 Chart 3/5 Chart HOOKED ON SWING 2 ssa CATS 1698 169 CHARIOTS OF FIRE 898 LARRY ELGART and his MANHATTAN SWING COMPLETE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK MUSIC BY VANGELIS ORCHESTRA (RCA AFL1-4589) RCA 124 4 RECORDING (Geffen 2QHS 2031) WEA 146 3 (Polydor PD-6335) POL 171 74 THE NIGHTFLY 898 WILLIE NELSON’S GREATEST 170 LIVE AND LET LIVE 898 DONALD FAGEN (Warner Bros. 9 23696-1) WEA 97 20 HITS (AND SOME THAT WILL AURRA (Salsoul SA 8559) RCA 177 3 SHOWTIME 898 BE) 171 CATS 8 98 THE J. GEILS BAND WILLIE NELSON (Columbia KC 237542) CBS 135 78 SELECTIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY (EMI America SO-17087) CAP 99 15 CAST RECORDING (Geffen GHS 2026) WEA 136 WORD OF MOUTH 8 98 17 6.98 HEAVEN TONI BASIL (Chrysalis EV 41410) CBS 104 21 172 FINESSE 898 (Virgin/Arista AL 6606) IND 121 5 JOHN KLEMMER 137 WHAT TIME ISiT? 8 98 (Musician/Elektra 9 60197-1) 173 4 105 CAROL HENSEL’S EXERCISE & THE TIME (Warner Bros. 9 23701-1) WEA 118 26 WEA DANCE PROGRAM—VOLUME 3 8 98 WILD & BLUE 898 STEVE ARRINGTON’S HALL OF (Vintage/Mirus VNI 30004) IND 106 13 @ @ JOHN ANDERSON (Warner Bros. 9 23721-1) WEA 150 2 FAME 898 106 THE ART OF FALLING APART 898 139 SIGNALS 898 (Atlantic 7 80049-1) WEA SOFT CELL (Sire 9 23769-1) WEA 117 4 RUSH (Mercury SRM-1-4063) POL 112 24 174 DAVE GRUSIN AND THE NY/LA 107 QUIET LIES 898 140 OH, NO! IT’S DEVO 898 DREAM BAND 898 JUICE NEWTON (Capitol ST-12210) CAP 111 42 DEVO (Warner Bros. 9 23741-1) WEA 126 17 (GRPAIOOI)IND 174 3 108 IT’S HARD 8 98 141 HEARTBREAKER sss 175 ON MY OWN TWO FEET 8 98 THE WHO (Warner Bros. 9 23731-1) WEA 92 26 DIONNE WARWICK (Arista AL 9609) IND 119 21 PAUL BARRERE 109 HOOKED ON SWING 898 (Mirage/Atlantic 7 90070-1) WEA 176 3 YOU AND I 898 LARRY ELGART and his MANHATTAN SWING @) O'BRYAN (Capitol ST-12256) CAP 161 2 176 RADIO ROMANCE 898 ORCHESTRA (RCA AFL1-4343) RCA 109 55 EDDIE RABBITT (Elektra 9 60160-1) WEA 179 19 143 A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS 698 110 LIVING MY LIFE 898 (JIve/Arista VA 66000) IND 139 43 177 ROBERT HAZARD 598 GRACE JONES (Island/Atco 7 90018-1) WEA 101 14 144 TUNE UP WITH THE HITS (RCA MXL1-8500) RCA — 1 f 111 PETER GABRIEL 898 LINDA FRATIANNE (Columbia FC 38379) CBS 145 7 178 INSTANT FUNK V 898 INSTANT FUNK (Salsoul SA 8558) RCA — 1 (Geffen GHS 2011) WEA 96 24 145 JANET JACKSON 6 98 112 MEN WITHOUT WOMEN 898 (A&M SP-6-4907) RCA 141 20 179 TO THE MAX 898 CON FUNK SHUN (Mercury SRM-1-4067) POL 178 18 LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL 146 SILK ELECTRIC 8 98 (EMI America ST-17086) CAP 115 18 DiANA ROSS (RCA AFL1-4384 152 21 1 80 4 6.98 il3! STRONG STUFF 898 147 THE JOHN LENNON FOREIGNER (Atlantic SD 16999) WEA 181 3 hank WILLIAMS, JR. COLLECTION 998 181 SWEAT 8 98 (Elektra/Curb 9 60223-1) WEA 127 3 THE SYSTEM (Mirage/ Atlantic 7 90062-1) WEA 186 2 (Geffen GHSP 2023) WEA 138 16 114 GREATEST HITS ess 182 HANK WILLIAMS, JR.’S KENNY ROGERS (Liberty LOO-1072 114 126 148 WILD THINGS RUN FAST 8 98 JONI MiTCHELL (Geffen GHS 2019) WEA 142 17 GREATEST HITS 8 96 115 DON’T PLAY WITH FIRE 8 98 149 JACKI SORENSEN’S AEROBIC (Elektra/Curb 9 60193-1) WEA 180 23 PEABO BRYSON (Capitol ST-1 2241 ) CAP 105 15 DANCING 898 183 UTOPIA 8 98 ii^^ NEW GOLD DREAM (Network/Elektra 9 60183-1) WEA 158 23 JACKI SORENSEN (LakesIde/MIrus LSI 30005) IND 149 7 (81-82-83-84) 6.98 184 AN OFFICER AND A SIMPLE MINIFNDS (VIrgin/A&M SP-6-4928) RCA 133 3 SHUTTERED ROOM 898 THE FIXX (MCA-5345) MCA 144 22 GENTLEMAN 898 116 THE SINGLES 1969-1973 898 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (Island/Atco 7 90017) WEA THE CARPENTERS (A&M SP-3601) RCA 132 4 BELLA DONNA 698 STEVIE NICKS (Modern/Atco MR38-139) WEA 153 8 185 IF THAT’S WHAT IT TAKES 8 98 118 FEELS SO RIGHT MICHAEL MCDONALD (Warner Bros. 9 23703-1) WEA 164 29 LUCKY 898 ALABAMA (RCA AHL 1 3930) RCA 120 105 - r MARTY BALIN (EMI America ST-17088) CAP 1 186 HOOKED ON CLASSICS 898 CALL OF THE WEST e 98 ATF LOUIS CLARK conducts THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC © WALL OF VOODOO ORCHESTRA (RCA AFL1-4194) RCA (I.R.S./A&M SP RCA 136 5 AFTER THE FIRE (Epic FE 38282) CBS 172 2 70026) 187 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS’ 120 CODA 8 98 DIG THE NEW BREED 8 98 LED ZEPPELIN (Swan Song/Atco 7 90051-1) WEA 95 13 THE JAM (Polydor PD-1-6365) POL 140 8 MOUSERCISE 798 THE WINNING HAND (Disneyland 61516) IND — 1 121 GET LOOSE 8 98 KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, WILLIE NELSON, DOLLY 188 GREATEST HITS 8 98 EVELYN KING (RCA AFL1-4337) RCA 103 27 PARTON AND BRENDA LEE DOLLY PARTON (RCA AHL1-4422) RCA 169 23 (Monument JWG 38389) CBS 156 7 122 NOW AND FOREVER 898 189 THE GETAWAY 8 98 AIR SUPPLY (Arista AL 9587) IND 123 39 156 THE RHYTHM & THE BLUES 8 98 CHRIS De BURGH (A&M SP-4929) RCA — 1 ZZ HILL (Malaco MAL 7411 160 7 123 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 190 REMATCH 898 MUSIC SAMMY HAGAR (Capitol ST-12238) CAP 168 7 RAINBOW 898 JUJU 898 @ KING SUNNY ADE (Mango/Island MLPS 9712) IND 167 2 MELBA MOORE (Capitol ST-12243) CAP 122 18 191 BLACKOUT 8 98 124 ESCAPE 158 IT’S ALRIGHT 898 SCORPIONS (Mercury SRM1-4039) POL 184 51 YOKO ONO (Polydor PD-1-6364) POL 147 12 JOURNEY (Columbia TC 34708) CBS 131 84 192 STEEL BREEZE 698 125 HERE TO STAY 159 DONNA SUMMER 898 (RCA AFL1.4424) RCA 185 25 (Geffen GHS 2005) WEA 166 32 SCHON & HAMMER (Columbia FC 38428) CBS 125 7 193 NEBRASKA 126 ANNE MURRAY’S GREATEST 160 EYE IN THE SKY 898 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (Columbia TC 38358) CBS 163 23 THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT (Arista AL 9599) IND 151 39 HITS 898 194 JUST AIN’T GOOD ENOUGH 898 161 898 JOHNNIE TAYLOR (Beverly Glen BG 1001) IND 188 17 (Capitol SOO12110) CAP 134 158 BRANIGAN LAURA BRANIGAN (Atlantic SD 19288) WEA 148 28 195 CASINO LIGHTS — 127 GET CLOSER 8 98 RECORDED 162 NOT THE 8 98 LINDA RONSTADT (Asylum 9 60185-1) WEA 102 22 BOY NEXT DOOR LIVE AT MONTREUX, SWIT- PETER ALLEN (Arista AL 9613) IND 170 3 128 NO CONTROL ZERLAND 898 163 LOVE WILL 8 98 EDDIE MONEY (Columbia FC 37960) CBS 128 36 TURN YOU AROUND VARIOUS ARTISTS (Warner Bros. 9 23718-1) WEA 191 19 KENNY ROGERS (Liberty LO-51124) CAP 155 34 129 TOOTSIE 8 98 164 196 STATES OF EMERGENCY 898 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK QUARTET TAXXI (Fantasy F-9617) IND 162 8 HERBiE HANCOCK (Columbia 23875) CBS 154 7 (Warner Bros. 9 23781-1) WEA 143 4 C 197 BREAK OF DAWN 898 165 CHICAGO 16 898 130 GUTS FOR LOVE FIREFALL (Atlantic 80017-1) WEA — 1 CHICAGO (Full Moon/Warner Bros, 9 23689-1) 157 39 GARLAND JEFFREYS (Epic ARE 38190) CBS 130 7 WEA 198 RIT/2 8 98 166 12 HITS VOL. II GREATEST LEE RITENOUR (Eiektra 9 60186) WEA 197 16 131 VANITY 6 898 NEIL DIAMOND (Columbia TC 38066) CBS 159 42 i (Warner Bros. 9 23716-1) WEA 107 24 199 SUCCESS HASN’T SPOILED ME 167 TYRONE DAVIS eos 132 ANNIE (Highrise HR103) IND 165 7 YET 8 98 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (Columbia JS 38000) CBS 110 43 RICK SPRINGFIELD (RCA AFL1.4125) RCA 200 51 HEARTBREATS 698 133 COMPUTER GAMES 898 YARBROUGH & PEOPLES 200 THE JAZZ SINGER 8 98 GEORGE CLINTON (Capitol ST-12246) CAP 137 15 (Total Experience TE-1-3003) POL NEIL DIAMOND (Capitol SWAV-12120) CAP 190 19 ALPHABETIZED TOP 200 ALBUMS (BY ARTIST)

A Flock of Seagulls 143 Chicago 165 Foreigner 18,180 Kiss 79 Parsons, Alan 160 Summer, Donna 159 ABBA 73 Clapton, Eric 20 Frida 65 Klemmer, John 172 Parton, Dolly 188 Supertramp 45 ABC 39 Clash 26 Klugh/James 97 Petty, Tom 28 System 181 Gabriel, Peter Ill Adams. Bryan 77 Clinton, George 133 Led Zeppelin 120 Prince 32 Taxxl 1% Gap Band 83 Aerobics (Fratianne) 144 Collins, Phil 13 Lennon, John 147 Psychedelic Furs 87 Taylor. Johnnie 194 Gaye, Marvin 30 Aerobics (Greggains) 40,76 Commodores 68 Little River Band 35 Thompson Twins 93 Golden Earring 27 Rabbitt, Eddie 176 Aerobics (Hensel) 105 Con Funk Shun 179 Little Steven 112 Time 137 Grusin, Dave 174 Red Rider 69 Aerobics (Missett) 78 Cosby, Bill 94 Loggins, Kenny 44 Toto 9 Hagar, Sammy 24,190 Richie, Lionel 6 Aerobics (Sorensen) 149 Cougar, John 31 Loverboy 54 Triumph 23 Haggard & Nelson 50 Ritenour, Lee 198 After The Fire 153 Crosby, Slills & Nash 56 Manchester, Melissa 99 Ultravox 85 Hall & Oates 4 Robinson, Smokey 53 Air Supply 122 Cross, Christopher 10 Manilow, Barry 51 Utopia 183 Hancock, Herbie 164 Rogers, Kenny 92,114,163 Alabama 38,118 Culture Club 15 McDonald, Michael 185 Vandenberg 81 Hazard, Robert 177 Ronstadt, Linda 127 Anderson, John 138 Davis, Tyrone 167 Men At Work 2 Vanity 6 131 Heaven 17 104 Ross, Diana 146 Ant, Adam 21 Dazz Band 58 Missing Persons 17 Vandross, Luther 42 Henley, Don 90 Royal Philharmonic Orch ... 91,186 Allen, Peter 162 de Burgh 189 Mitchell, Joni 148 Wall Of Voodoo 119 Hill, Z.Z 156 Rundgren, Todd 62 Arrington, Steve 173 DeBarge 82 Money, Eddie 128 Warwick, Dionne 141 Instant Funk 178 Rush 139 Def Leppard 12 Moore, Melba 123 Washington, Grover . . 52 Asia 98 ^ Aurra 170 Devo 140 J. Geils Band 70 Mousercize 187 Saga 34 Who 108 Jackson, Janet Murray, Anne 126 Scandal 86 Austin, Patti 61 Dexys Midnight Runners 59 145 Williams, Hank . . , 113,182 Balin, Marty 152 Diamond, Nail 49,166,200 Jackson, Joe 19 Musical Youth 25 Schon & Hammer 125 Winning Hand 155 Bar-Kays 100 Dire Straits 70,95 Jackson, Michael 1 Nelson, Willie 48,135 Scorpions 191 Winston, George 89 Dolby, Jam Newman, Randy 55 Seger, Bob Barrere, Paul 175 Thomas 66 154 5 Yarbrough & Peoples , 168 Basil, Toni 136 Duran Duran 7 Jefferson Starship 88 Newton, Juice 107 Simmons, Richard 84 Young, Nell 22 Benatar, Pat 11 Earth, Wind & Fire 29 Jeffreys, Garland 130 Newton-John Olivia 33 Simple Minds 116 Berlin 60 Elgart, Larry 101,109 Joel, Billy 16 Nicks, Stevie 151 Soft Cell 106 SOUNDTRACKS Black Sabbath 46 English Beat 47 Jones, Grace 110 Night Ranger 43 Springsteen, Bruce 193 Bofill, Angela 57 Fagen, Donald 102 Journey 3,124 O'Bryan 142 Springfield, Rick 199 Branigan, Laura 161 Firefall 197 Judas Priest 74 Oak Ridge Boys 63 Squeeze 71 An Officer And 184 Bryson, Peabo 115 Fixx 150 Khan, Chaka 96 Ocasek, Ric 37 Squier, Billy 36 Annie 132 Carpenters 117 Fleetwood Mac 64 Kihn, Greg 67 Ono, Yoko 158 Steel Breeze 192 Cats ,,.134,171 Casino Lights 195 Fogelberg, Dan 41 King Sunny Ade 157 Osbourne, Ozzy 72 Stray Cats 8 Chariots Of Fire 169 Fonda, Jane 14 King, Evelyn 121 Parker, Ray 75 Streisand, Barbra 80 Tootsie 129 CmSSIFIEDS

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Epic, but ironically, nothing has been heard national "Rock To Riches” contest spon- don’t want to take a chance on a group they did it in light rotation because the sound- from them since,” said Sneed. sored by Miller Beer, released by have not heard.” quality of the albums did not compare with While Sneed and WKLS produced the Starstream. "It’s a tradeout when you go Interestingly enough, Church has come that of commercial albums.”

first album by themselves, and Coca Cola with Starstream,” said Madges. "They take to fee! that corporate sponsorship for a It is currently difficult to predict whether only sponsored the venture, Sneed does the headaches away, but you give up ab- hometown album might not project the corporate sponsorship of hometown-^ not recommend that every radio station un- solute control — you have to use their proper image. “Listeners can recognize albums will go on. In the past two years, dertake such a massive project. "If you recording studios, their distribution corporate sponsorship, which tends to Starstream has grown from a handful of

know what you're doing, then you can do it methods and their public relations at- overcommercialize the album, and they stations to over 100 and is currently trying

less expensively than Starstream,” he said. tempts. But overall, it’s been worth it prefer that it have a less commercial to promote a similar hometown singles "Their cost per unit is higher, and they do because they also put the album out in character,” he said. "The idea may still promotion with urban contemporary sta- a turnkey job, but they take away a lot of the cassette form.” have some credibility in some markets, tions under the auspices of Budweiser

headaches like taking care of the releasing While the number of stations using cor- and maybe it still does here, but not right Beer. However, at the same time, stations and distribution and the copyright stuff, so porate sponsors to finance their hometown now.” like WDIZ are not planning to continue they can free the radio station to do the albums appears to be on the rise, there is Unlike the other station programmers producing albums.

promoting. The only reason why I did it also evidence that it is dying out at stations

myself is that I have a lot of contacts in that are not using them, partly because of

Nashville, where I got the album recorded the current recession in the record in- C04ST TO C04ST

and mastered.” dustry. “We’ve done them in the past, but I (continued from page 12) similar A sentiment was echoed by don’t think we’ll do them again, at least not who suffered a painful arm injury during last year’s American tour, as well as a busted leg overseas, was hit in the chest by a high velocity pellet from a C02-powered gun last Dealers Design New Store Fixtures week, causing him to spit up blood and inflicting a hairline fracture to his ribs. “It’s a (continued from page 19) Mundorf. Me added that video product conspiracy,” exclaimed the accident-prone ex-Dead Boy, who added that the recent

video and electronics product such as would be displayed with the variety of injury will in no way hinder plans for a new LP due early summer . . . Mike Matthews, hardware, computer software, videodiscs product on the pegboard walls. formerly with Faulty Products, has gone into the Indie promo field, specializing in new

and accessories,” said Stark/Camelot’s music acts. Me can be reached at (213) 851-3883 . . . The sixth annual Bay Area Music Record Bar’s Cappelletti said that for- Awards, aka “The Bammies,” were presented March 2, and the big winner was Eddie mer accessories fixtures, emptied by the Parallel Imports Money, who scooped up honors for Best Album, Best Male Vocalist and Outstanding i slat-wall accessories displays, were being (continued from page 6) Bay Area Musician of the Year. Other victors included Jefferson Starship (Best Group), converted into closed video game fixtures tion of a position has taken before. Grace Slick (Best Female Vocalist), Con Funk Shun (Outstanding Bay Area Black CBS for use in all stores. “We’ve been clearing our imports with Contemporary Group), Huey Lewis & The News (Outstanding Bay Area Club Band), Computer Centers them for a long time. We really don’t focus Tommy Tutone’s “867-5309/Jenny, Jenny” (Best Song) and Steei Breeze’s self-titled At the Mastings chain headquartered in on parallel imports anyhow. We’re more in- LP (Best Debut Album). The awards were given out at San Francisco’s Civic Amarillo, Texas, vice president of retail terested in new and developing acts and Auditorium, where guests also grooved to the sounds of Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bruce Shortz has designed a new fixture bringing in titles that are out of print here.” Darlene Love, Greg Klhn Band, Romeo Void and Bobby McFerrin during short sets in for the computer centers about to be tested Jem recently signed an agreement with between presentations . . . Last licks: The China Club, artsy music hang-out for the in four stores. “The fixture is made to look WEA International to be the exclusive dis- cheeky chic, has begun serving neo-Oriental lunches from 1 1 :30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. The like a desk with a computer and monitor on tributor and importer for any WEA Inter- club/restaurant, loaded with exquisite art deco ambience, is located at 8338 West top and back hardware stock locked away national titles not available here on Warner Third Street in West Mollywood. inside,” said Shortz of his “one to show, Bros., Elektra/Asylum or Atlantic Records. Gross! projected that such exclusive many to go" piece. “Above it we have a bookcase arrangement of software. It’s a arrangements are the wave of the future. ON J4ZZ real soft-sell type of approach that says to ’’Companies will realize that it’s the customer, ‘This could be your home!”’ (continued from page 13) beneficial to license an official importer instead of policing the entire market,” he Like several dealers, Shortz noted that THIS ’N THAT — New York’s Jazz Forum club played host to its own special benefit >> said. "It just becomes a bureaucratic fixtures were often modified in appearance shows last weekend, with a plethora of artists turning out to aid the downtown loft.

nightmare otherwise, and it also permits to fit in with regional color and material Among those appearing were Red Rodney, Dewey Redman, Lou Donaldson, George the licensee to develop the product instead themes. Other dealers were setting off Coleman, JakI Byard, Sonny Fortune, Tony Scott, Major Holley, Louis Hayes, Ciifford

of just trying to compete against six or eight special sections and fixtures in their new Jordan, Al Foster and Barry Harris . . . Dave Brubeck returned to Oberlin College

other importers. This is the same thing that stores to highlight new artists. Among Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of his “Jazz At Oberlin” concert and record . . . U.K. companies are doing to protect them- these were George Balicky, merchandising Dexter Gordon recently celebrated his birthday with a live broadcast from New York’s selves from cheap parallel imports cutting vice president at the Pittsburgh-based Village Vanguard, carried over Newark radio station WBGO. The tenorman made the

into their market.” National Record Mart chain, who said that date in style, decked out in a blue velvet tux . . . Washington D.C.’s JAM Records has Mowever, Grossi added that the impact new stores there were getting expanded inked Les McCann. First release, scheduled for April, will be “The Longer You Wait”

of parallel product in the U.S. hasn’t been sections and fixtures for new artist product. . . . Former Creative World and Music Matters employee Lynne Burrell has formed the anywhere near as great as the impact in Marry Suttmiller said that new Gol(J Circles Alaska Jazz Society in Anchorage. First sponsored program featured saxophonist Britain. “The total amount of imports in the music departments were either installing TV Lanny Morgan and vocalist Mike Campbell at Anchorage’s Tiki Cove Restaurant. And jazz isn’t U.S. never exceeds two or three percent,” screens for MTV hookups in their new who says universal? The society can be contacted at (907) 274-8927 . . . he said. “The great majority of import titles music sections, or were having space Pianist McCoy Tyner is now being represented by United Entertainment Complex, Ltd. here are not parallel, and they generally ready for such facilities when those The company’s number is (212) 753-7000. fred goodman sell less than a thousand copies each. hookups became available.

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AROUND Notre Dame Will Host AMOA THE ROUTE by Camille Compasio Executive Development Program CHICAGO — After two years of research and instructors. Frank Schulz, who is in charge of sales study the AMOA Executive Committee has The agenda for the April session will cover and marketing at Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp., come up with a totally revitalized Notre Dame five major subjects, among which is “The reports a very encouraging increase in seminar, which is tailored to meet the current CEO: Critical Issues for the 1980’s”, conduc- phonograph sales over the past two needs of operators and is geared to the top ted by Dr. David Norburn, who is a member months which, hopefully, indicates that management executives of operating com- of the Notre Dame faculty and a Senior Lec- 1983 could see a significant pick-up in panies. The new Executive Development and turer in Business Policy at the London jukebox activity. “Music appears to be Certification Program, sponsored by AMOA Business School. Dr. James Gaertner, a CPA, turning around,” said Frank, stressing and conducted by the College of Business Ad- who conducted the AMOA 1 98 1 Cost of Do- (continued on page the stability of the jukebox as a prime fac- ministration at the University of Notre Dame, 56) offers a bold new concept, specifically tor of consideration in today’s buying designed to provide comprehensive, advanced climate. “Over the long run, the jukebox AGMA Board Sets training in business for experienced executives is a steady earner which can stay put in a in the coin machine business. location and be profitable for a longer Goals, Increases The course, to be held at Notre Dame Un- period of time.” Rock-Ola’s current iversity, will be conducted on four consecutive Budget For 1983 sellers include the 488 and 481 (160- days, twice a year for two and a half years. The selection) models and the 476 furniture 1983 sessions will take place April 24-27 and CHICAGO The Amusement Game style machine. The factory is also enjoy- Nov. 13-16. The AMOA Education Commit- Manufacturers Assn. (AGMA) held its most ing success with its “Nibbler” video tee is developing a certification designation recent board meeting in February at the Fair- game, as Frank pointed out. It’s been (such as CPA's do for Certified Public Ac- mont Hotel in San Francisco, and established garnering excellent collection reports countant) for persons completing all five ses- its programs and directions for 1 983 by raising its dues, increasing its budget and hiring ad- and, needless to say, is still in production. sions in sequence. Registration fees (at S300 for each four-day ditional staff. Rock-Ola is currently readying its next session) are being assessed on a two session As an indication of the manufacturers’ video game, slated for release in the near basis, meaning registrants for the April course commitment to the coin-operated industry, future. must also submit payment for the November the members of the AGMA agreed to commit Ben Rochetti has his post as departed sessions. increased resources to their trade association director of sales at Stern Electronics, Inc. Dr. Gerry Sequin, chairman of the Univer- for services of value to distributors, operators and will shortly announce his new affilia- sity of Notre Dame College of Business Ad- and the industry at large. The new budget tion with an Illinois-based firm. ministration, designed the program and each levels set for 1983 AGMA activity also indi- Dateline Los Angeles, home of C.A. course will be taught by experts in the respec- cate an increased level of direct participation manufacturers in industry issues. Robinson & Co., where we spoke with tive subjects of instruction, with Notre Dame by (continued on page 56) University being the primary source for (continued on page 56)

CONTENTS Industry Calendar Industry News

Jukebox Programmer . . Manufacturers Equipment INDUSTRY NEWS

AROUND Will As an addendum to the 10,000 item “Wico Wico Unveil The Source" catalog, published by the com- Computer Kinetics THE ROUTE Nationwide pany in Oct. 1982, a 32-page supplement will Arcade feature more than 300 new products, now Games Ruled Legal (continued from page 55) Promotion Drive available to the coin-op industry. Among the executive vice president Ira Bettelman, items included are electronic parts and com- By Chicago Court fC who will be traveling to Chicago for the CHICAGO — Wico Corporation, the Niles, ponents for video games and vending CHICAGO — Computer Kinetics of 111. -based designer, manufacturer dis- well billiards ac- Westlake Village, Calif, announced that it has March 25-27 AOE convention. In com- and machines, as as pool and tributor of parts and accessories for the coin cessories. sued the city of Chicago for denying licenses menting on the upcoming trade show Ira machine industry, will announce its plans for a An engineering supplement, designed to ac- for its"MonteCarlo Blackjack and “Draw-5 said, "It will be interesting to observe the nationwide promotional campaign for ar- commodate the O.E.M. market, lists some 35 Poker" games. According to the company, tho- atmosphere at AOE and, on the cades at the March 25-27 Amusement products designed and manufactured by Wico city of Chicago indicated that it believed the manufacturing level, if, to see in fact, new Operators Expo (AOE) at the O'Hare Expo — including trackball and joystick game con- games to be gambling devices and, therefore, product is introduced.” He told us he is Center in suburban Chicago. trols, illuminated push buttons and coin doors would not issue licenses for their operation. curious as to the frame of mind operators The firm will reveal details for an “assertive for video games. An array of best selling J.P. Nelson, chairman of Computer will be in when they attend AOE, promotion and merchandising campaign products, featured in both supplements, will Kinetics Corporation, said, “We decided that

designed '83. it suspecting that the attitude will be one of to help build traffic in arcades be on display at the Wico booth at AOE was time to distinguish our amusement nationwide," according to Gordon Goran- Wico Corporation, founded by chairman Poker and Blackjack games from those that much more caution than was in evidence son, Wico president. The campaign is Max Wiczer in 1940, operates sales and dis- have actually been designed to be gambling^ at AMOA. Two schools of thought are described by Goranson as "innovative and tribution centers in California, New Jersey, devices. currently prevailing in the industry, Ira aggressive, in line with Wico's traditional Georgia, Nevada and Texas, and inter- “Nearly all poker and blackjack games now said, one being that the light at the end of y leadership role in the industry.” national offices in Japan and Taiwan. An IBM on the marketplace have features that allow the tunnel is close by about 45 to 120 Promotional programs have been 4341 on-line computer system links all dis- the location to pay-out and to use the machine days, w ith the “astute” observers feeling developed, he said, to provide operators with tribution centers to provide Wico with im- for gambling purposes,” he continued. “Com- that the industry hasn't even begun to see proven and tested techniques to build their mediate access to inventory levels, product puter Kinetics games, on the other hand, do the light and that 1983 will be a difficult business and foster goodwill in the com- data and delivery times. Thirty-seven sales not have these features but do provide year in coinbiz. munity. Targeted public relations and adver- representatives also serve Wico customers legitimate adult entertainment. We felt the> tising programs are planned to support the throughout the U.S. and Canada. city had no right to deny issuance of licenses A number of key manufacturers Cash promotions, which will be tested in key cities Drawing on its experience as a key for our machines simply because they were Box spoke with expressed guarded op- this spring. A national roll-out is anticipated manufacturer of parts and accessories for the poker or blackjack games. timism about their participation in AOE, for mid-summer, according to Goranson. coin-operated amusement industry, Wico “Law enforcement authorities should in- -f which is not to cast any poor reflection on Wico's commitment to coin operators will recently introduced a line of “Command Con- vestigate the features of the game to determine the show — the consensus being that be further strengthened at AOE, he added, by trol" arcade-quality joystick and trackball if it can be used as a gambling machine by the AOE has indeed emerged as an impor- the introduction of two supplements to its controls for consumer use with home video location,” Nelson added. “Gambling product catalog. machines have meters to monitor pay-outs, tant trade function but the present state 1983 games and personal computers. knock-off switches, and means of adjusting of the marketplace has created a reluc- AGMA Board Increases Budget For 1983 the payoff percentages. Computer Kinetics tance to unveil new products at this time. (continued from page 55) machines have none of these features. Our ports of infringed games. This international As one manufacturer put it, "We'll be machines do well on the basis of the entertain- Staff additions are being made in two im- activity is in addition to the domestic showing our current hit piece but are not ment they provide to the tavern customers.” portant areas. Eirst, a director of communica- programs already underway. certain whether we'll have any new Split Ruling tions will be hired to direct and coordinate a During 1983, AGMA will become involved equipment ready for premiere at the con- The Circuit Court of Cook County, public relations program designed to capture, in more public events generating goodwill for vention.” As of this writing, AOE expects Chicago, HI., heard the case and ruled that promote and increase the image of the amuse- the industry and will be working very closely a record attendance and a record Monte Carlo Blackjack is a game of skill and, number ment game industry with a variety of with distributors and operators in the pursuit therefore, an amusement device; while Draw-< exhibitors of at this year's show. audiences, i.e., governmental officials, the of tho.se projects around the United States. 5 Poker is a game of chance and is, therefore, a The annual AMOA Notre Dame media, the public at large. Secondly, a Significant Step gambling device. The ruling stated further seminar, which will be coming up shortly, manager of legislative affairs will be hired, The February board meeting was a signifi- that the Tax Emblems were improperly denied whose primary responsibility will be the coor- cant step in the history of the manufacturers has been restructured to meet the present the plaintiffs with respect to the Monte Carlo dination of state and local legislative activities association; it marked the turning point of the needs of operators. The course, Blackjack game but were properly denied the and .serve as a central clearing house for infor- manufacturers efforts to join together for the designated as the "Executive Develop- plaintiffs with respect to the Draw-5 Poker mation and transfer of knowledge and ex- benefit of the industry. In its short history, it ment And Certification Program,” will game. periences between and among jurisdictions. has now grown to a budget, staff and service be held at Notre Dame University in con- Computer Kinetics announced that it Piracy Problem level comparable to most other manufactur- junction with the Department of Con- would appeal the decision denying the tax em- In the continued pursuit of its copyright ac- ing trade associations. blem for the Draw-5 game, but is pleased that tinuing Education will and be presented tivities, has broadened its interest to increased level of ac- AGMA In announcing this the Monte Carlo Blackjack game has been ap- twice a year for the next two and a half the international arena. The U.S. Commerce tivity, president Joseph Robbins also proved. years in two four-day sessions. Initial Department has extended an invitation to reiterated the desire of the manufacturers and course for this year will be held April 24- AGMA to participate in a trade mission to its trade association staff to fully cooperate Notre Dame Set To Host Taiwan to discuss international piracy of 1 27, with the fall session slated for Nov. with other trade associations in the industry AMOA Executive Program video games in an effort to solicit 13-16. Further information be cooperation and state associations in the industry to pur- may ob- (continued from page 55) ^ by the Taiwan government in preventing ex- sue the common goals desired by all. tained by contacting the AMOA office at ing Business Survey for the association and is (312) 654-2662. involved in updating it this year, will conduct session on “Preparation and Presentation of State Association News: Amusement & a Basic Financial Statements.” Music Operators Assn, of New Jersey, at a "Entrepreneurship,” which will explore the recent meeting, elected a new slate of of- 01LENQ4R associated with the development problems ficers for 1983 and also engaged the lob- and growth of small firms, will be conducted bying firms of Holt and Ross, Inc. and March 25-27: Amusement Operators annual convention; Concord Hotel by Dr. Sue Birley, a visiting professor in Notre y. Expo, O’Hare Expo The Joseph Katz Company to represent Center; Chicago. Keamesha Lake, N.Y. Dame's College of Business Administration the state group's interests in legislative April 7-10: Florida Amusement Vending and a lecturer in small business at London

June 9-1 1 : Illinois Coin Machine Operators matters. New officers of the organization Assn., state convention; Curtis Hixon Business School. Dr. Birley's special interest is Assn.; state convention; Holidome; are James Cuccio, president; Frank Man- Haii; Tampa. in the area of small business firms. Another Spingfield. American dia, Jr., vice president; Diann A. Minero, subject will be “The Changing April 8-10: North Dakota Coin Machine Economy During The 1980’s: The Basic secretary-treasurer; Carol Kane, Operators Assn.; state convention; June 9-12: Amusement & Music Oprators Macroeconomic Framework”, conducted by corresponding secretary and Art Seglin, Kirkwood Motor Inn; Bismarck. of Tennessee; state convention; The Dr. Edward Trubac, a professor and chair- executive director. Group also has a 12- April 22-24: NAMA Western Convention Peabody; Memphis. man of the Finance and Business Economic member Board of Trustees . . . Assn.; annual convention; Anaheim, Dept, in the College of Business Administra- Pennsylvania Amusement & Music Calif. June 16-18: Ohio Music & Amusement tion. He has served many companies as a con- Machine Assn, has a new address as Assn.; annual exposition; Hyatt sultant in economics and has lectured and April 22-24: follows: P.O. Box 15027, Harrisburg, Pacific Amusement Operators Regency Columbus; Columbus. conducted seminars for businessmen in all Show; trade show; Disneyland Hotel; Hunter, a Pa. 17105. All correspondence is to be areas of the country. Dr. Richard Anaheim, Calif. Oct. 28-30: of Business Law in the College of directed to this location. Info pertaining Amusements Music Operators professor Assn.; annual exposition; Business Administration at Notre Dame Un-> to the state group's April convention or April 30-May 1: Pennsylvania Amusement The & Music Rivergate; New Orleans. iversity, will conduct a session of “Business its mini-school program may be obtained Machine Assn.; state conven- Law: Contracts.” tion; Greater Pittsburgh Merchandise by calling the PAMMA’s temporary the seminar Mart/Expo Center; Monroeville. Oct. 13-16: NAMA National Convention; Persons interested in attending office in at coordinating Columbus (800) annual convention; McCormick Place; may contact the AMOA office for further 421-21 17 or (614) 221-8600. May 20-22: Music and Amusement Assn.; Chicago. information at (312) 654-2662.

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BALLY MIDWAY PINBALL Rally-X (2/81) MACHINES Gorf (4/81) MANUFACTURERS Wizard of Wor (6/81) BALLY Omega Race (8/81) Flash Gordon (2/81) EQUIPMENT Galaga (11/81) Eight Ball Deluxe (4/81) Kick-Man (1/82) Ms. Pac-Man (2/82) Fireball II (5/81) Embryon, w.b. (7/81) Bosconian (2/82) Fathom (8/81) Tron (8/82) Medusa (10/81) Solar Fox (8/82) Centaur (10/81) A compilation of music and games equip- Blueprint (11/82) Elektra (12/81) ment (new and used) with approximate CENTURI Vector (2/82) Route 16 (4/81) Mrs. Pac-Man Mr. & (5/82) production dates included in most cases. Pleiades (7/81) Rapid Fire (5/82) Swimmer (10/82) Spectrum (8/82) Speakeasy, 2-pl. (9/82) ELCON Ms. Pac-Man Mini-Myte (2/82) Eliminator (12/81) Diversions booth size (9/81) GAME PLAN Bosconian (2/82) Turbo (1/82) Coney Island (3/80) Bosconian Mini-Myte (2/82) 005(1/82) GAME PLAN Super Nova (4/80) Tron (8/82) Eliminator 4-player (2/82) Shark Attack (5/81) Lizard (6/80) Tron Mini-Myte (8/82) Zaxxon (4/82) GAMETECNIKS Solar Fox (8/82) Turbo Mini-Upright (5/82) GOTTLIEB Tri-Pool (1/82) Solar Mini-Myte Zektor (8/82) Forcell(1/81) Fox (8/82) Satan’s Hollow (10/82) Subroc 3-D (8/82) Pink Panther (3/81) GDI Blueprint (11/82) Pengo (10/82) TheThief(4/82) Mars (6/81) Blueprint Mini-Myte (11/82) Tac/Scan (10/82) Volcano (8/81) Slither (8/82) Super Pac-Man (11/82) Buck Rogers (12/82) Black Hole (10/81) Burger Time (11/82) Super Zaxxon (12/82) GOTTLIEB Haunted House (2/82) Domino Man (12/82) Monster Bash (12/82) New York, New York (3/81) Devil's Dare (4/82) Baby Pac-Man, pin/vid (12/82) Star Trek (2/83) Caveman Pin/Video (5/82) SEGA/GREMLIN Bump ‘N’ Jump (2/83) Star Trek, cockpit (2/83) Rocky (8/82) Carnival Spirit (9/82) CENTURI SIGMA Space Firebird Punk (11/82) Phoenix(1/81) LauncherZ(12/81) Astro Blaster (4/81) Q*bert’s Quest (2/83) Route 16(4/81) Rolling Star Fire (12/81) Frogger (11/81) Zaxxon (5/82) Route 16 Elite )4/81) STERN STERN Pengo Pleiades )7/81) (1/83) NineBall(1/81) Berzerk (1/81) Vanguard )9/81) Free Fall (2/81) The End (3/81) STERN Challenger (11/81) Lightning (4/81) Scramble (4/81) TheEnd(1/81) The Pit (3/82) Split Second (7/81) Super Cobra (7/81) Berzerk (2/81) Loco-Motion (3/82) Catacomb (9/81) Moon War (10/81) Scramble (5/81) D-Day (3/82) Viper (11/81) Turtles (11/81) Tunnel Hunt (7/82) TAITO AMERICA Orbitor I (4/82) Strategy X (11/81) Swimmer (10/82) Crazy Climber (5/81) Jungler(2/82) WILLIAMS Time Pilot (12/82) Zarzon (5/81) Frenzy (5/82) Jungle Lord (4/81) Qix (10/81) Tazz-mania (5/82) Pharaoh (7/81) CINEMATRONICS Armor Attack Tutankham (7/82) THOMAS AUTOMATICS Solar Fire (9/81) (5/81) Solar Quest Dark Planet (11/82) Triple Punch (6/82) Barracora (10/81) (10/81) Jack The Giantkiller Lost Tomb (2/83) ON Boo Chu (7/82) Hyperball Pin/Video (2/82) (4/82) Naughty Boy Bagman (2/83) Cosmic Gunfighter (7/82) (5/82) WILLIAMS Defender (2/83) DATA EAST TAITO AMERICA Defender (4/81) Warlok (2/83) Explorer (9/82) Space Invaders T rimline (2/81 Burger Time (11/82) Crazy Climber (3/81) PHONOGRAPHS VIDEO GAMES Bump ‘N’ Jump (2/83) Crazy Climber Trimline (3/81) Zarzon (5/81) (upright) DYNAMO Zarzon Trimiine (5/81) Centuri 2001 Lil Hustler(12/81) Colony 7 (7/81) Lowen-NSM Consul Classic EXIDY Colony 7 Trimline (7/81) Lowen-NSM Prestige ES-2 AMSTAR Spectar(1/81) Moon Shuttle (8/81) Lowen-NSM Festival Moon Shuttle Trimline Lowen-NSM 250-1 Laser Base (7/81) Venture (8/81) (8/81) Qix Rock-Ola Grand Salon II Console Mousetrap (12/81) (10/81) (9/80) ATARI Qix Trimline Rock-Ola 484 (11/80) Victory (2/82) (10/81) Asteroids Deluxe (4/81) Lock ’N Chase (10/81) Rock-Ola 481 Max 2 (1/81) Pepper II (6/82) Asteroids Deluxe Cabaret (4/81) Grand Champion (12/81) Rock-Ola Deluxe (10/82) Centipede Whirly Bucket non-video game (11/82) (6/81) Alpine Ski (3/82) Rock-ola488 (10/82) Centipede Cabaret Hardhat (12/82) (6/81) Wild Western (5/82) Rock-ola 476, furniture model Red Baron (8/81) GAME PLAN Electric Yo-Yo (5/82) Rowe R-85 (10/80) Red Baron, sit-down (8/81) Intruder (2/81) Kram (5/82) Rowe Jewel Tempest (10/81) Tank Battalion (3/81) Space Dungeon (7/82) Rowe R-87 (10-82) Tempest Cabaret (10/81) Killer Comet (4/81) Jungle King (9/82) Seeburg Phoenix (12/80) Dig Dug (4/82) Megatack (9/81) Jungle Hunt 0 1/82) Stern/Seeburg DaVinci (7/81) Dig Dug Cabaret (4/82) King And Balloon (10/81) Front Line (12/82) Stern/Seeburg VMC (11/81) Kid Kangaroo (6/82) Enigma II (10/81) VMI Startime Video Jukebox Gravitar (8/82) Kaos (11/81) THOMAS AUTOMATICS Wurlitzer Cabarina Pole Position (12/82) Triple Punch (6/82) Wurlitzer Tarock Millipede (12/82) GAMETECNIKS ON Boo Chu (7/82) Wurlitzer Atlanta Liberator (12/82) Tri-Pool (1/82) Holey Moley (9/82) Wurlitzer Silhouette Quantum (12/82) Xevious GDI UNIVERSAL USA (2/83) RedAlert(10/81) ZeroHour(1/81) POOL TABLES BALLY/MIDWAY Slither (8/82) Space Panic (1/81) & FOOSBALL Deluxe Space Invaders (1/80) GOTTLIEB Cosmic Avenger (8/81) Galaxian (4/80) Lady Bug (12/81) New York, New York (2/81 Irving Kaye Silver Shadow Extra Bases (5/80) Reactor (7/82) U.S. BILLIARDS Irving Kaye Lion’s Head Space Encounters (8/80) Q*bert (12/82) Quasar(4/81) Dynamo Model 37 Space Encounters Mini-Myte (9/80) Beezer h/83) Dynamo-The Tournament Foosball (5/82) Space Zap (10/80) WILLIAMS TS Tournament Eight Ball Space Zap Mini-Myte (10/80) Stargate( 10/81) NAMCO AMERICA U.B.I. Bronco Pac-Man (11/80) Trax Sweet Licks (4/82) Make (10/81) Valley Cougar Pac-Man Mini-Myte (11/80) Robotron 2084 (3/82) Valley Tiger Cat Bumper Pool (6/82) Rally-X(2/81) NINTENDO Moon Patrol (8/82) Valley Cougar Cheyenne (8/82) Rally-X Mini-Myte (2/81) Donkey Kong )9/81) Joust (10/82) Gorf (4/81) Donkey Kong Jr. (8/82) Gorf Mini-Myte (4/81) Popeye (12/82) CONVERSION KITS Wizard of Wor (6/81) ROCK-OLA COCKTAIL TABLES Bally Midway, Pac-Man Plus (12/82) Wizard of Wor Mini-Myte (6/81) Warp-Warp (9/81) Intrepid Marketing, Enxore Retro-Kit Omega Race (8/81) Eyes (1/83) Omega Race (7/82) AMSTAR Mini-Myte (8/81) Phoenix Data East, Burgertime Omega Race sit-in capsule (8/81) SEGA/GREMLIN Sega, Tac/Scan (9/82) Galaga (11/81) Astro Blaster (3/81) ATARI Sega, Monster Bash (11/82) Galaga Mini-Myte (11/81) Pulsar (4/81) Asteroids Deluxe (4/81) Sega, Super Zaxxon 0^83) Kick-Man (1-82) Space Odyssey (7/81) Centipede (6/81) Stern, Lost Tomb (2/83) Kick-Man Mini-Myte (1/82) Space Fury (7/81) Tempest (10/81) Universal, Lady Bug Ms. Pac-Man (2/82) Frogger (9/81) Dig Dug (4/82) Universal, Mr. Do

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1 BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG 1 1 WOULDN’T CHANGE YOU IF 1 COULD 1 1 LIKE IT PRETENDERS (Sire 7-029840) RICKY SKAGGS (Epic 34-03482) DeBARGE (Motown 1645) 2 HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF 2 THE ROSE 2 BILLIE JEAN DURAN DURAN (Capitol B-5185) CONWAY TWITTY (Elektra 7-69854) MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 34-03509) 3 BILLIE JEAN 3 EVERYTHING’S BEAUTIFUL 3 YOU ARE MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 34-03509) DOLLY PARTON/WILLIE NELSON (Monument WS4 03408) LIONEL RICHIE (Motown 1657 MF) 4 WE’VE I’VE GOT TONIGHT 4 LAST THING 1 NEEDED FIRST THING THIS 4 MADE LOVE TO YOU A THOUSAND ^ KENNY ROGERS AND SHEENA EASTON (Liberty B-1492) MORNING TIMES ^ WILLIE NELSON (Columbia 38-03385) SMOKEY ROBINSON (Tamla/Motown 1655 TF) S DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ^ ME 5 SWINGIN’ 5 ON THE ONE FOR FUN CULTURE CLUB (Epic 34-03368) JOHN ANDERSON (Warner Bros. 7-29788) DAZZ BAND (Motown 1659MF) 6 YOU ARE 6 WE’VE GOT TONIGHT 6 LAST NIGHT A D.J. SAVED MY LIFE LIONEL RICHIE (Motown 1657MF) KENNY ROGERS AND SHEENA EASTON (Liberty B-1492) INDEEP (Sound Of New York, S.N.Y. 5102) 7 ONE ON ONE 7 REASONS TO QUIT 7 KNOCKOUT DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES (RCA PB-13421) MERLE HAGGARD/WILLIE NELSON (Epic 34-03494) MARGIE JOSEPH (HCRC WS4 03337) 8 STRAY CAT STRUT 8 IF HOLLYWOOD DON’T NEED YOU 8 FALL IN LOVE WITH ME STRAY CATS (EMI America B-8122) DON WILLIAMS (MCA-52152) EARTH, WIND & FIRE (Columbia 38-03375) 9 MY KIND OF LADY 9 SHINE ON 9 ATOMIC DOG ^ SUPERTRAMP (A&M 2517) GEORGE JONES (Epic 34-03489) GEORGE CLINTON (Capitol B-5201) 10 ALL RIGHT 10 DOWN ON THE CORNER 10 TOO TOUGH CHRISTOPHER CROSS (Warner Bros. 7-29843) JERRY REED (RCA PB-13422) ANGELA BOFILL (Arista AS 1031) 11 BREAKING US IN TWO 11 GONNA GO HUNTIN’ TONIGHT 11 PASS THE DUTCHIE JOE JACKSON (A&M 2510) HANK WILLIAMS, JR. (Elektra/Curb 7-69846) MUSICAL YOUTH (MCA-52149) 12 SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART) 12 DIXIELAND DELIGHT 12 ’TIL TOMORROW JOURNEY (Columbia 38-03513) ALABAMA (RCA PB-13446) MARVIN GAYE (Columbia 03589) 13 BABY, COME TO ME 13 STILL TAKING CHANCES 13 GOT TO FIND MY WAY BACK TO YOU PATTI AUSTIN (Qwest/Warner Bros. QWE50036) MICHAEL MURPHEY (Liberty B-1468) TAVARES (RCA PB-13433)A' 14 I’VE GOT A ROCK ’N’ ROLL HEART 14 YOU DON’T KNOW LOVE 14 THE BEAT GOES ON ERIC CLAPTON (Warner Bros. 7-29790) JANIE FRICKE (Columbia 38-03498) ORBIT (Quality/RFC 7025) 15 GOODY TWO SHOES 15 WHEN I’M AWAY FROM YOU 15 MS. GOT-THE-BODY ADAM ANT (Epic 34-03367) THE BELLAMY BROTHERS (Elektra/Curb 7-69850) CON FUNK SHUN (Mercury/PolyGram 76198) _ 16 MR. ROBOTO 16 AIN’T NO TRICK 16 TONIGHT STYX (ASM 2525) LEE GREENWOOD (MCA-52150) WHISPERS (Solar/Elektra 7-69842) ^ 17 BEAT IT 17 AMERICAN MADE 17 BETCHA SHE DON’T LOVE YOU MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 34-03759) OAK RIDGE BOYS (MCA-52179) EVELYN KING (RCA PB-13380)

18 PASS THE DUTCHIE 18 1 HAVE LOVED YOU, GIRL 18 I’M FREAKY MUSICAL YOUTH (MCA-42149) EARL THOMAS CONLEY (RCA PB-12414) O'BRYAN (Capitol B-5203) 19 JEOPARDY 19 BREAKIN’IT 19 SO CLOSE GREG KIHN BAND (Berserkley/Elektra 7-29848) LORETTA LYNN (MCA 52158) DIANA ROSS (RCA PB-13424)

20 1 DON’T CARE ANYMORE 20 ’TILL 1 GAIN CONTROL AGAIN 20 BAD BOY PHIL COLLINS (Atlantic 789877) CRYSTAL GAYLE (Elektra 7-69893) RAY PARKER, JR, (Arista AS 1030) 21 SHAME ON THE MOON 21 YOU’RE THE FIRST TIME I’VE THOUGHT 21 COME GIVE YOUR LOVE TO ME ^ BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND (Capitol B-51 87) ABOUT LEAVING JANET JACKSON (A&M 2522) REBA McENTIRE (Mercury/PolyGram 810 338-7) 22 DON’T TELL ME YOU LOVE ME 22 HEARTBEATS , NIGHT RANGER (Boardwalk NB-1 1-171-7) 22 JOSE CUERVO YARBROUGH & PEOPLES (Total Experience/PolyGram TE8204) 23 TWILIGHT ZONE SHELLY WEST (Warner/Viva 7-29778) 23 SHE’S OLDER NOW GOLDEN EARRING (21/PolyGram T1103) 23 COMMON MAN BETTY WRIGHT (Epic 34-03523) JOHN CONLEE (MCA-52178) 24 AFRICA 24 SINCE 1 LOST MY BABY TOTO (Columbia 38-03335) 24 FINDING YOU LUTHER VANDROSS (Epic 34-03487) 25 CHANGE OF HEART JOE STAMPLEY (Epic 34-03558) 25 ONE ON ONE* TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS (Backstreet/MCA BSR-52181) 25 FEELS RIGHT DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES (RCA PB-13421) 26 DOWN UNDER TANYA TUCKER (Arista AS 0677) 26 OUTSTANDING MEN AT WORK (Columbia 38-03303) 26 WHY BABY WHY THE GAP BAND (Total Experience/PolyGram TE 8205) . 27 EVEN NOW CHARLEY PRIDE (RCA PB-13397) 27 YOU ARE IN MY SYSTEM* BOB SEGER (Capitol B-5213) 27 AMARILLO BY MORNING* THE SYSTEM (Mirage/Atco WTG 7-99937) ^ 28 I’M ALIVE GEORGE STRAIT (MCA-52162) 28 MIND UP TONIGHT NEIL DIAMOND (Columbia 38-03503) 28 SAVE ME* MELBA MOORE (Capitol B-S180) 29 DREAMIN’ IS EASY* LOUISE MANDRELL (RCA PB-13450) 29 MORNIN* STEEL BREEZE (RCA PB-13427) 29 HONKYTONKMAN JARREAU (Warner Bros. 7-29720)^ 30 YOUR LOVE IS DRIVING ME CRAZY MARTY ROBBINS (Warner/Viva 7-29847) 30 BABY COME TO ME SAMMY HAGAR (Getfen 7-29816) 30 C.C. WATERBACK PATTI AUSTIN (Quest/Warner Bros. QWE50036) GEROGE JONES/MERLE HAGGARD (Epic 34-02405) F-

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