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September 10, 1983 NEWSPAPER $3.00 We bring you the music that brings in your audience. Its true. BMI, the worlds largest performing rights organization, licenses the music audiences prefer. In every one of the last five years, the majority of the music on the charts was licensed by BMI. BMI is a non-profit-making organization, dedicated to meeting the needs of creators, publishers, and all users of music. We've always accepted and encouraged every kind of music. So, for over forty years, we’ve been making sure that you have the most uncomplicated, hassle- free access to all types of music. Bringing you more of the most popular music. Helping you capture a larger audience. That’s BMI. Wherever there's music, there's BMI. BOX MUSIC / COIN MACHINEdSH/ HOME ENTERTAINMENT ^HE INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY VOLUME XLV — NUMBER 15 — September 10, 1983 OISHBCK EDITORML It Doesn’t Make Sense Coming on the heels of the surfacing of what ap- “Pyro'^gnig ” and we should be able to seethatthis pears to be a feud between the Recording Industry was most likely due to a revolutionary advance in Assn, of America (RIAA) and the Electronic In- the field of audio hardware — the Walkman. An ad- GEORGE ALBERT dustries Assn. (El A) of it President and Publisher over the issue home taping, vance in the hardware field plainly helped boost the might be well worth it to examine the MARK ALBERT announcement sales of both cassettes and tape players. President and General Manager Vice last week that Def Leppard’s “Pyromania” has not That is how it should be. The hardware and J.B. CARMICLE only become PolyGram’s best-selling non- software industries are interdependent — neither Vice President, Administrator soundtrack LP ever, but also that cassettes outsold can exist on the scales they have become ac- JIM SHARP Vice President, Nashville vinyl in this instance. customed to without the other. When one RICHARD IMAMURA It has been reported that the EIA will not join in prospers, it should not be at the expense of the Managing Editor cross-promotions on the Compact Disc with any other. West Coast Editorial MICHAEL GLYNN. Audio/Vidao Editor record industry-related associations because of the Therefore, it seems clear that this current ap- MICHAEL MARTINEZ, Marketing Editor JEFFREY RESSNER intense fight being waged in Congress and the plication of the feud to the Compact Disc is nothing Research Supreme Court on the home taping issue, but tak- short of senseless. The Compact Disc will never get off KEN KIRKWOOD, Manager BILL FEASTER ing into account what happened with “Pyromania” the ground without hardware and software HARALD TAUBENREUTHER GREGORY D. LESCHISHIN just shows how self-defeating for all this kind of at- manufacturers working together. It is time to cast KEITH ALBERT titude can be. egotism aside — the home taping issue will be East Coast Marketing MARTIN BILLIG All we have to do is look at the fact that prerecor- resolved sooner or later by the government. There are East Coast Editorial FRED GOODMAN. Bureau Chief ded cassettes outsold vinyl in the case of a lot of other things that still need doing. JIM BESSMAN HARRY WEINGER CONTENTS Nashville Editorial/Research JUANITA BUTLER DEPARTMENTS LEE STEVENS Black Contemporary ANITA WILSON 27 ON THE COVER Classifieds 34 * Art Director Coin Machine 35 With her appropriately titled IP- LARRY Country 22 CRAYCRAFT “Album” at #43 bullet after 10 Gospel 26 Circulation International 31 weeks on the chart and her "Every- THERESA TORTOSA, Manager Jazz 21 day People” debuting on the Pop Merchandising 16 PUBLICATION OFFICES Singles chart at #88 bullet, Joan NEW YORK Radio 19 1775 Broadway, New York NY 10019 Video 18 Jett can certainly say that she has Phone: 586-2640 (212) FEATURES found happiness in the profession Cable Address: Cash Box NY Coast To Coast 15 Telex: 666123 of her choice. A rock ’n’ roll fanatic Editorial 3 HOLLYWOOD Executives On The Move 14 since elementary school days in 6363 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 930) New Faces To Watch 8 Rockville Md., Jett now ranks Hollywood CA 90020 CHARTS (!), Phone: (213) 464-8241 as one of this country’s top stars, Top 100 Singles . 4 NASHVILLE Top 200 capable of selling tons of albums and drawing thousandsto her Albums . 32,33 21 Music Circle East, Nashville TN 37203 Black Contemporary Albums . Phone: (615) 244-2898 ...27 shows. Black Contemporary Singles . 28 CHICAGO Country Officially starting her professional rock 'n' roll career with the Albums . 25 CAMILLE Coin COMPASIO, Machine, Mgr. Country Singles trendsetting, all-girl group The Runaways in the early-'70s, Jett . 24 1442 S. 61st Ave., Cicero IL 60650 Gospel Albums 26 Phone: (312) 863-7440 has been pursuing the limelight with unmatched fervor ever International Albums, Singles 31 WASHINGTON, D.C. Jazz Albums 21 since. After a five-year, three-album career with the Runaways, EARL B. ABRAMS Jukebox Prog^rammer . 39 Jett moved on to record another LP, “Bad Reputation,” this 3518 N. Utah St.. Bock Album Radio Report . 20 Arlington VA 22207 time for Ariola in Germany, and then she really took off. Two Top 15 Midlines . Phone: (703) 243-5664 . 16 ~ Top 30 Videocassettes .18 albums for the late Neil Bogart and Boardwalk Entertainment 15 MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Top Video Games . 16 followed (“I Love Rock 'N Roll” went to #1), then in May of this Director ol South American Operations REVIEWS year, she revived her own label, Blackheart Records, in a deal ARGENTINA — MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Albums 6 with MCA Records. Lavalle 1569, PIso 4. Of. 405 Singles 8 1048 Buenos Aires. Argentina Talent 12 Cover photo by Mick Rock Phone: 45-6940 AUSTRALIA — ALLAN WEBSTER 3/57 Dickens St. Elwood Vic 3184, Australia BRAZIL — CHRISTOPHER PICKARD TOP POP DEBUTS Av. Borges de Mederlos, 2475 Apt. 503, Lagoa Rio de Janeiro, Brasil IF ANYONE FALLS — Stevie Nicks — Modern/Atco Phone: 294-8197 SINGLES CANADA — JAN PLATER 98 Geoffrey Street Toronto, Ontario. Canada. M6R 1P3 FLICK OF THE SWITCH — AC/DC — Atlantic Phone: (416) 537-1137 /1LBUMS ITALY — MARIO DE LUIGI "Musica e DIschl" Via De Amlcls.47 20123 Milan, Italy Phone: (02) 839-18-37/832-79-37 POP SINGLE POPABUM JAPAN — Adv. Mgr., SACHIO SAITO Editorial Mgr., KOZO OTSUKA SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS) SYNCHRONICITY 3rd Floor of Chuo-Tatemono bldg. 2-chome, 11-1, ShInbashI, Mlnato-ku, Eurythmics The Police Tokyo Japan. 105 RCA A&M Phone: 504-1651 i ,/ NETHERLANDS — CONSTANT MEIJERS i P.O.Box 1807 1200 BV Hllversum f B/C SINGLE B/C/1LBUM Phone: 035-19041 1 I SPAIN— ANGEL ALVAREZ COLD BLOODED il Lopez deHoyos 178, 5 CD THRILLER I Madrid — 2 Spain Rick James Michael Jackson Phone: 415 23 98 f Gordy/Motown Epic |! UNITED KINGDOM — CHRISSYILEY I 54A Cambridge Gardens London W10 England Phone: 01-960-2736 SARA RANDELL COUNTRY SINGLE COUNTRY /1LBUM Phone: 01-402-9338 i SUBSCRIPTION RATES $125 per year anywhere In I’M ONLY IN IT FOR THE LOVE THE CLOSER YOU GET ] the U.S.A. Published weekly by CASH BOX (ISSN 0008- John Conlee Alabama , 7289), 1775 Broadway. New York, N.Y. 10019. Printed in the U.S.A. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., MCA RCA I and additional mailing offices. f ®Copyright 1983 by the Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved, Copyright under Universal Copyright Convention, j POSTMASTER: I Send form 3579 to CASH BOX, 1775 JA2I GOSPEL f Broadway. New York. N.Y. 10019 IN YOUR EYES JESUS I LOVE CALLING YOUR NAME George Benson Shirley Caesar Warner Bros. Myrrh Eurythmics ) , September 10, 1983 Weeks Weeks Weeks On On On 1 SWEET DREAMS 9/3 Chan THE FALL 9/3 Chan 9/3 Chart THIS) 33 AFTER CAN’T SHAKE LOOSE (ARE MADE OF JOURNEY (Columbia 38-04004) 23 10 AGNETHA EURYTHMICS (RCA(RC PB-13533) 1 16 FALTSKOG YOU TAKE KISS THE BRIDE (Polydor/PolyGram 815 230-7) 76 3 2 EVERY BREATH © ELTON JOHN (Geffen 7-29568) 38 6 THE POLICE (A&M 2542) 2 15 69 WANNA BE STARTIN ^TELL HER NO SOMETHIN’ 3 MANIAC JUICE NEWTON (Capitol B-5265) 40 5 MICHAEL SEM8ELLO MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 34-03914) 51 16 —^ (Casablanca/PolyGram 812 516-7) 3 15 36 NEVER GONNA LET YOU GO llJUST BE GOOD TO ME Oputtin’ on the ritz SERGIO MENDES (A&M 2540) 32 22 THE S.O.S. BAND (Tabu/CBS ZS4 03955) 78 3 TACO (RCA PB-50727) 4 12 HmTELEFONE (LONG DISTANCE 71 SAVED BY ZERO Othe safety dance WlovE AFFAIR) THE FIXX (MCA-52213) 44 16 MEN WITHOUT HATS SHEENA EASTON (EMI America B-8172) 48 4 EVERYDAYI I WRITE THE BOOK (Backstreet/MCA BSR-52232) 6 12 HOLD ME TIL MORNIN’ COMES ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS FOR THE ® PAUL ANKA (Columbia 38-03897) 42 11 (Cclumbla 38-04045) 79 3 6 SHE WORKS HARD MONEY ^BIG LOG UNCONDITIONALI LOVE DONNA SUMMER ROBERT PLANT DONNA SUMMER (Mercury/PolyGram 812 604-7) 5 16 (Es Paranza/ Atlantic 7-99844) 46 5 (Mercury/PolyGram 812 677-7) 83 2 TELL HER ABOUT IT 40 LADY LOVE ME (ONE MORE 74 CHANGE 0 BILLY JOEL (Columbia 38-04012) 10 7 TIME) TEARS FOR FEARS (Mercury/PolyGram 75 8 I’LL TUMBLE 4 YA GEORGE BENSON (Warner Bros. 7-29563) 41 7 814 088-7) 5 CULTURE CLUB (Epic 34-03912) 8 12 41 HOT GIRLS IN LOVE @1LIVING ON THE EDGE JIM CAPALDI (Atlantic 81 3 9 CHINA GIRL LOVERBOY (Columbia 38-03941) 37 14 7-89799) DAVID BOWIE (EMI America B-8165) 9 15 COLD BLOODED 76 DO IT AGAIN (MEDLEY WITH JDON’T CRY ® RICK JAMES (Gordy/Motown 1687GF) 47 8 BILLIE JEAN) ASIA (Geffen 7-29571) 13 7 1^ 43 YOU’REDRIVINGMEOUTOFMY CLUB HOUSE (Atlantic 7-89795) 77 6 ^TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART MIND IF ANYONE FALLS BONNIE TYLER (Columbia 38-03906) 22 9 (Capitol 43 7 O' STEVIE NICKS (Modern/Atco 7-99832) — 1 —^ LITTLE RIVER BAND B-5256) fa(SHE’S) SEXY + 17 CEIburning down the house 78 COME DANCING JET STRAY CATS (EMI America B-8168) 18 6 vl!./ tST talking heads (Sire 7-29565) 50 6 THE KINKS (Arista AS 1054) 52 19 Hhuman nature lONE THING LEADS TO 79 OUR HOUSE MICHAEL JACKSON (Epic 34-04026) 15 8 ANOTHER MADNESS (Geffen 729668) 45 20 UiLAWYERS IN LOVE THE FIXX (MCA 52264) 58 3 :Ill TAKE AWAY JACKSON BROWNE (Asylum 7-69826) 16 10 BIG RIC (ScottI Brothers/CBS ZS4 04084) 89 46 ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IS KING 15 STAND BACK ELO (Jet/CBS ZS4 03964) 34 12 81 SHIP TO SHORE STEVIE NICKS (Modern/Atco 7-99863) 11 15 ISf fflDELIRIOUS CHRIS DeBURGH (A&M 2565) 82 16 (KEEP FEELING) FASCINATION PRINCE (Warner Bros.