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On Columbia Records s A .so nvniinbifi on 8-tmrk .stomo tnno rnrtritdoo 3 VOL XXXI - Number 29/February 14, 1970 Publication Office / 1780 Broadway, New York, New York 10019 / Telephone: JUdson 6-2640 /Cable Address: Cash Box, N Y, GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL MARV GOODMAN Assoc. Editor ALLAN RINDE West Coast Editor JOHN KLEIN NORMAN STEINBERG ED KELLEHER EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Good Idea: Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER, New York HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood Light HARDING Making WOODY Art Director COIN MACHINE & VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager Of Classical Music BOB COHEN, Assistant CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago LISSA MORROW, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. HOLLYWOOD HARVEY GELLER 6430 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (213) 465-2129 NASHVILLE JUANITA JONES 806 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 What to do about classical music? The is in merchandising. Phone; (615) 244-2898 approach It's rather odd that this statement has CHICAGO And merchandising with the same CAMILLE COMPASIO to be made about an area of the mu- kind of freshness of approach as one 29 E. Madison St., Chicago, III. Phone: FI 6-7272 (312) sic business that was a pioneer sound would use in the pop section. Colum- ENGLAND heard on recordings back at the turn bia Records, for example, is offering DORRIS LAND 3 Cork Street, London, Wl, England Phone: 01-734-2374 of the century. Yet today it’s seem- a charming collection of classical .” ingly a stepchild of the giant enter- works under a “Best of . tag, an ITALY HOLLAND BRUNO POZZA PAUL ACKET prise it helped father. Sales in clas- approach well-worn in pop, but rather 5, Corso Europa Theresiastraat 59-63 sical music are said to be as low as novel for the classics. Capitol Records, Milan The Hague Tel: 704691 Tel: 837700 5% of the total volume of the record in promoting both its pop anc| clas- business. Surprising isn’t it when we sical product (on Angel) has some- GERMANY CHRISTIAN TOERSLEFF BELGIUM learn from Broadcast Music Inc.’s thing going called “The New Spirit,” 2 Hamburg 56 Etienne Smet (BMI) annual report of symphonic wherein both fields are teamed in Leuchtturmeg 30 Hugo Verrieststraat 87 Tel: 34-91-94-86 Sint-Niklaas (wass) music that classical music remains spreading the sound gospel of the Tel: (03) 76.48.80 a great concert-going pastime among company. Also, London Records BRAZIL PEDRO FRAZAO Americans and symphony orchestras utilizes a pop merchandising approach DE VASCONCELOS AUSTRALIA abound in cities where one might sup- for the classical LP’s that appear on Rua Frei Caneca, 1 1 Apt. 1 , RON TUDOR Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil pose a low cultural level for this kind its familiar phase 4 line. 8 Francis St., Tel: 239.40 18 Heathmont, Victoria of music exists. All this may recall RCA’s now clas- Tel: 870-5677 ARGENTINA sical LP, “Classical Music for People MIGUEL SMIRNOFF There is some ray of hope for an Who Hate Classical Music,” of the Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 "B" MEXICO Buenos Aires, Argentina SALVADOR ARREGUIN upsurge in classical sounds on record- mid-50’s. The meaning inherent in Tel: 89-6796 ANTONIO SENS ings, we feel. The basis for our opti- the title was that it was RCA’s belief Tiber 100 — 7 y 8 Pisos CANADA Mexico 5, D.F. mism is a merchandising approach by that the word “classical music” was WALT GREALIS Tel: 25-39-52 11-62-96 a number of labels that shows an in itself a phrase to frighten off poten- RPM obvious awareness of the integration tial buyers of this music. The truth 1560 Bayview Ave. JAPAN Toronto 17, Ontario Adv. Mgr. of musical forms — rock into jazz, is, of course, that rare is the music Tel: (416) 89-2166 KUSANO SHOICHI blues into pop and, as it’s increas- fan who cannot delight in many clas- FRANCE Editorial Mgr. FRANC G. LIPSIC MORIHIRO NAGATA ingly evident — rock into classics sical works, whether they be sprawl- 32 Rue De Moulin July 466 Higfashi-OIzumi and vice-versa. The point these labels ing with melody or sparkling in “sound- Paris XI Neirimaku Tel. 023-90-06 Tokyo are making, we observe, is not that buff” orchestrations. classical music can only sell when With a merchandising approach SUBSCRIPTION RATES $30 per year anywhere in the USA., Published weekly by Cash Box, 1780 Broadway, New York, N.Y. riding on the coattails of some other that makes light, so to speak, of clas- 10019. Second class postage paid at Hartford, Conn. 06105 U.S.A. “hot” sound, but that classical music sical music, perhaps it can be taken Copyright © 1970 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright under Universal Copyright Convention. in its purest form can be “hot,” too. more seriously by more record buyers. 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