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MAGAZINE TRADE MUSIC THE 9 STAFF BOX GEORGE ALBERT President and Polisher ROBERT LONG VOL Ull, NO. #6, JUNE 23, 1990 Vice PresidentAJrban Marketing KEITH ALBERT Vice President/General Manager JIM SHARP Director, Nashville Operations PASIG CAMILLE COM j Director, Coin Machine Operations Marketing JIM WARSINSKE (LA.) MIKE GORDON (LA ) KEITH GORMAN Editor LEEJESKE BOX New York Editor THE MUSIC TRADE MAGAZINE KAY KNIGHT Nashville Editor Editorial KAREN WOODS, Assoc. Ed. (N. Y.j 8 KIMMY WIX, Assoc. Ed. (Nash.) ERNEST HARDY, Assoc. Ed. (LA) TONYSABOURNIN, Assoc. Ed., Latin (N. Y.) SHELLY WEISS, Assoc. Ed., Publishing (LA.) BERNETTA GREEN (NX) CONTENTS WILMA MELTON (Nash.) ALEX HENDERSON (LA.) 8 MUSIC PUBLISHING 1990 SPECIAL ISSUE Chart Research Interviews with26the movers and shakers of the publishing industry, and more, so much more. SCOTT M. SALISBURY 27 BY SHELLY WEISS Coordinator (LA.) 28 JOHN DECKER (Nash.) 30 C J. (War Flower)(LAJ 31 TERESA CHANCE (Nash.) 32 COLUMNS JEFF KARP (LA.) NATHAN W.(DXF) HOLSEY (LA.) 4 East Coasting / To long-box or not to long-box, that is the question, and Karen Woods has the answer. Production 4 London Calling / Chrissy Iley, Dusty Springfield and a whole shirtload of cats, plus a catty comment about the JIM GONZALEZ Beach Ball. Art Director 5 Faces On Top, by Ernest Hardy; Child's Play, by Alex Henderson; Doug Stone, by Kay Knight. Circulation New / NINATREGUB, Manager 6 Retail News / Retail for the visually impaired, by C.J. and Jeff Karp. CYNTHIA BANTA ; 7 Indie Focus / Hey, chief, that's indie, not in die, with Alex Henderson. Publication Offices Music Publishing / Not only did Shelly Weiss write this week's column, but Shelly Weiss did last week's column, NEW YORK 1 57 W. 57th Street (Suite 1402) and Shelly Weiss did the column the week before that. Just so's /ail'd know, you understand. New York, NY 1001 The Heavy Metals / Alex Henderson gets funky, sort of. Phone: (212) 586-2640 26 Shock of the New / It's Nitzer Ebb, but it's really not industrial, says Karen Woods. Really, it's not. Fax: (21 2) 582-2571 HOLLYWOOD On Jazz / Lee Jeske, the vice president of jazz (he goes to all the funerals) pops and bops and ooh mop a lops. 6464 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 605) Rhythm & Blues / Bob Long is Stoked, dude. Hollywood, C A 90028 Ernest is as outspoken as he wants to be. Phone: (21 3) 464-8241 Rap / Hardy Fax: (213) 464-3235 Cocinando / Cooking with Tony Saboumin, the Cantering Cuban. NASHVILLE Pop Reviews / Say hello to Eric, the half a page. 1300 Division St Ste. 202, Nashville TN 37203 Phone: (615) 244-2898 Fax: (615)259-2913 CHARTS CHICAGO 1442 S. 61st Ave., Cicero IL 60650 24 Top 200 LPs 863-7440 Phone: (708) 27 Top 40 Contemporary Jazz LPs BRAZIL CHRISTOPHER PICKARD 28 Top 75 Rhythm & Blues LPs Av. Rio Branco, 12372012 29 Top 100 Rhythm & Blues Singles Rio de Janiero—RJ 30 Top 40 Rap LPs 20.040—Brazil Phone: (021)222-4893/242-3315 31 Top 20 Puerto Rico Latin LPs Fax: (021)222-7904 33 Top 100 Pop Singles ITALY 36 Top 100 Country Singles MARIO DE LUIGI “Music e Dischi" Via De Amicis 47 37 Top 75 Country LPs 201233 Milan, Italy 38 Top 20 Country Indie Singles Phone: (902) 839-18-37/832-79-37 41 Top 40 Contemporary Christian Singles JAPAN Adv. Mgr., SACHIO SAITO Editorial Mgr. KOZOOTSUKA 2-chome, 11-1, Shinbashi, DEPARTMENTS Minato-ku Tokyo Japan, 105 34 Tickertape / The facts, the rumors, the lies, the deceptions, and Stiv is dead. No, for real, this time... Phone:504-1651 34 Executives on the Move UNITED KINGDOM CHRISSY ILEY 35 Country Flat 3, 51 Cleveland Street 41 Gospel London W1 P 5PQ England Phone:01-631-1626 42 Coin Machine 43 Classifieds CASH BOX (ISSN 0003-7289) is pub- liahed weekly (except Christmas week) by Cash Box, 157 W. 67th Street, Suite 1402 New York, NY 1001 9 for $150 first class. Copyright 1990 by George Albert All rights reserved. Copyright under Universal Copyright Convention. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to CASH BOX, 167 W. 67th Street, Suite 1402, New York, NY 10019. ASCAP salutes the “Silent Partner” of music. Publishers, you don’t often see them in the SPOTLIGHT BECAUSE THEY’RE ALWAYS MAKING SURE THE SONG IS THERE INSTEAD. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS. AUTHORS & PUBLISHE , CASH BOX JUNE 23, 1990 LONDON CALLING VERSY: Now that we have (grudgingly) accepted the WISHIN’ AND HOPIN’: Dusty Springfield gargles her latest single, "Reputa- there are still a compact -disc as the musical format of the present and the future, tion," from the album of the same name. Half the album is Pet Shop Boys- few problems that need to be ironed out, the most important of which is packag- produced techno moody, nostalgic and sad. The other half's more of a disco blast. concern but an ing In arc era where 'he environment is not just a popular Although on the single she breathlessly sings, "I Don't Care What They're imperative one, the long- box packaging of CDs has come under fire, to the extent Whispering," she tells me, "Of course I care. I'm fragile glass that's easily 6" x 12” tlrat there is now an organization dedicated solely to banning the shattered. But I've come to terms with my own vulnerability after all these years. packaging. According to information released by the Ban the Box coalition, as of I've learned to say that I won't put up with a situation if it's hurting me. I stayed this kind of April 1 of this year, the U S. is the only country in the world that uses in Los Angeles for 15 years because I was bom with the American dream that units packaging. It also states that CD sales in this country will exceed 250 million everything in America is wonderful. And when it turned out not to be, I still clung this year. to the dream, thinking tomorrow it will be better, tomorrow it might rain. It never That's a lot of cardboard. Think about the last time you bought a CD: you tore was. It never did. Now I know how to move on." off the shrinkrap, ripped the CD out of the box, and tossed the box in the trash. I don't know about you, but even though most of the CDs we receive in this office are not in long-boxes, the volume of useless cardboard generated by those that are is pretty frightening. The point is, long-boxes are unnecessary. They were designed mainly to prevent theft and to provide more interesting packaging. The packaging part is a lot less important than the impact tons of useless trash is going to have on the wastestream. As far as theft goes, the Ban the Box organization has the following recommendations for display systems that serve the same function, without the wasted resources required to produce long-boxes. The first is a reusable plastic frame that locks the jewel-box into the top portion, where it's easily viewed by cus- tomers, and fits into the type of bins many record stores are current- ly using. It also makes product readily available on the sales floor, in the same way records and CDs are now. The coalition is recommending that all record companies contribute $.20 for every compact disc sold in the past six Dusty Springfield months toward purchasing the frames. The frames would then be distributed to retailers during the first few months of 1991, and by April 1, 1991, ultimately all She moved on to Amsterdam because it was the place nearest to London that CDs could then be shipped in shrink-wrapped jewel-boxes. In addition to, or in she could view from afar and still know what was going on, and because her place of, the plastic frames, other suggestions are a "stepped" display case, which beloved cats would not need to be quarantined. After 18 months she took the would also allow sealed jewel-boxes to be kept on the sales floor, by virtue of the plunge, coming back to Britain and making a home in the lush countryside of racks themselves and the storage space underneath the display units. Two more Buckinghamshire, near where she was bom. suggestions would have CD booklets used as display items—in one case housed "Sometimes I can just listen to a stream or look at a field of com and it makes in reusable plastic frames, and in the other in wall-mounted flip-racks. The CDs me cry," she says. "I'm still a very emotional person." and the jewel-boxes in the first case would be stored behind the counter, and the Springfield still wears the blackened eyes and 20 tons of mascara of her '60s booklet added at the time of purchase. In the flip-rack system, the jewel-box and heyday. "I had a phase in Los Angeles of going for the natural, tanned look. But the booklet are displayed; the CD is replaced in the jewel-box at the time of I felt like an old leather handbag. Now no one ever sees me withou t my make-up, purchase. not even room service." Several New York City record stores are using both of the latter systems to good Not that she really needs all that protection. She's breathy and nervy, but she's advantage. Not only do they save on the expense and waste of the long-box, but looking better than ever, very thin.