Product Corning to Market (Ed)
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Healthy Sign: More Product Corning To Market (Ed) ... Davis To Col/Epic Confab: Challenge Of 'Aggre- ssive Competition' ... Tyrell Label Thr Col ... Music Now Key In- August 8. 1970 gredient Of Allied Artistss s Film, TV Units ... Bell: Top 6 Mos. In Histo casábar ... Japan Surge On Soundtrack Product; King INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SECTION 'Definitive' 7 -LP Set ... Eurovision Changes 'TOMMY,' THAT'S WHO INT'L SECTION BEGINS ON PAGE 4 Pickettywitch The Manhattan Borough -Wide Chorus for The Friends of Music of New York City and their friends have a new hit single called "Hi -De -Ho:' (Their friends.) BLOOD,SWEAT& TEARS 3 Symphony For The Devil-Sympathy For The Devil Somethin' Comin' On/The Battle 40,000 Headmen/Hi-De-Ho/Lucretia MacEvil Blood, Sweat & Tears recorded "Hi -De -Ho" with 27 Junior High School students chosen from The Manhattan Borough -Wide Chorus for The Friends of Music (most of whom live in Ghetto neighborhoods). It isn't often that a single gets such tremendous air play and sales in only two weeks. It isn't often that you can look at the face of a kid and know that a recording session accomplished more than the making of a hit record. *Also available on tape. ON COLUMBIA RECORDS* iiiuAW iu iiAa HUMi=ii=iiäï /MIMI IIMU\MUM THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC-RECORD WEEKLY VOL. XXXII - Number 1/August 8 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 ED KELLEHER FRED HOLMAN ERIC VAN LUSTBADER EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA Healthy Sign: Less ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising Product Coming ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER, New York HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood WOODY HARDING To Market Art Director COIN MACHINE & VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager JON RAND, Assistant CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago LISSA MORROW, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. HOLLYWOOD HARVEY GELLER 6430 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (213) 465-2129 Preliminary product release sched- point in the year. In re -stating our be- ules for the fall and winter sales sea- lief, we would also make it clear that NASHVILLE new LP JUANITA JONES son ahead-particularly the those labels with the capacity to do so 806 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 news from the just -completed Colum- should still try and make available to Phone: (615) 244-2898 bia Records sales meeting in Freeport the record -buying public all kinds of (Bahamas)-indicate a healthy ap- LP product, not just those designed to CHICAGO CAMILLE COMPASIO proach to the industry's marketing of reach one segment (e.g. youth) of the 29 E. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Phone: (312) Fl 6-7272 its wares. public. But in limiting the amount of This view was described by Cash product in all markets being penetrat- ENGLAND ITALY in issue a DORRIS LAND BRUNO POZZA Box the June 20 as "less ed, these labels are better equipped to 3 Cork Street 5, Corso Europa product, more punch" philosophy un- merchandise an entire release, simply London Wl Milan All Tel. 01-7342374 Tel: 704691 der the editorial theme of "Making by being able to envelop each LP GERMANY HOLLAND LP's `Project' LP's." It's useful to re- around a more concentrated merchan- CHRISTIAN TOERSLEFF PAUL ACKET 2 Hamburg 56 Theresiastraat 59-63 mind the trade that the editorial that dising program. Assuming product Leuchtturmeg 30 The Hague week emphasized that "... easing the that has it "in the grooves" with re- Tel: 34-91-94-86 Tel: 837700 BRAZIL BELGIUM flow of LP's should be regarded not as gard to its market, each LP in the re- PEDRO FRAZAO ETIENNE SMET a retrenchment of industry goals in the lease can .be treated as a "project LP." DE VASCONCELOS Hugo Verrieststraat 87 Rua Frei Caneco, 11, Apt. 13 Sint-Niklaas (wass) face of economic downturns, but And obviously, getting product into Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil Tel: (03) 76.48.80 makes sense during any economic sit- the right "groove" is easier to come Tel: 257 15 58 AUSTRALIA ARGENTINA PETER SMITH uation, bust or boom." "The 'less by when the sources of product are MIGUEL SMIRNOFF 40 Winters Way product, more punch' blueprint," the not burdened or pressured into com- Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 "B" Doncaster 3108 Buenos Aires, Argentina Victoria, Australia editorial concluded, "is designed to ing up with tonnage rather than well Tel: 89-6796 MEXICO help guarantee LP's an increasing thought out LP concepts. It also fol- CANADA SALVADOR ARREGUIN WALT GREALIS ANTONIO SENS share of the leisure -time market." lows that this can lead to more crea- RPM Tiber 100 -7 y 8 Pisos It's satisfying to note that the cur- tive and concentrated merchandising 1560 Bayview Ave. Mexico 5, D.F. Toronto 17, Ontario Tel: 525-39-52 11-62-96 rent round of manufacturer sales and sales ideas in getting this product Tel: (416) 89-2166 JAPAN meets seem to be taking cognizance home to the consumer. FRANCE Adv. Mgr. FRANC G. LIPSIC SACHIO SAITO of the feelings conveyed by Cash Box Every label, of course, wants to be 32 Rue Du Moulin Joly 1-11 2-Chome Shinbashi at that time, especially at a time when in on the establishment of a Beatles Paris XI Minato -Ku, Tokyo Tel. 023-90-06 Tel: 504-1651 the industry usually puts its best -foot - or a Simon & Garfunkel or a Rolling SPAIN Editorial Mgr. forward in terms of "heavies" in antic- Stones. This can lead to a torrent of a JOAQUIN MERINO FUMIYO TACHIBANA Presidente Carmona, 11 1-11 2-Chome Shinbashi ipation of the industry's strongest new -act releases in the hope that Madrid 20, Spain Minato -Ku, Tokyo sales Interestingly, however, will stick. The future won- Tel. 270-2915 Tel: 504-1651 quarter. something labels aren't holding back all their ders on the disk scene may only be SUBSCRIPTION RATES $30 per year anywhere in the U.S.A., Published weekly by Cash Box, 1780 Broadway, New "heavy" acts for convention, but are created by their presence not as a York, N.Y. 10019. Second class postage paid at Lancaster, Pa. 17604 U.S.A. marketing them throughout the year. needle in a haystack, but as an act that Copyright © 1970 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. Thus, there aren't too many strong the label treats as a standout right All rights reserved. Copyright under Universal Copyright Convention. acts competing with each other at one from the start. 1 CLOSE TO YOU 34 MY MARIE 67 HITCHIN' A RIDE Carpenters-A&M 1183 Engelbert Humperdinck-Parrot 40049 (Dist: London) 27 29 Vanity Fare -Page One 21029 (Dist: Bell) 42 18 MAKE IT WITH YOU HAND ME DOWN WORLD BALL AND CHAIN Bread-Elektra 45686 31 52 Guess Who -RCA 0367 43 53 Tommy James-Roulette 7084 79 - SIGNED. SEALED, DELIVERED 36 PEARL 69 MY GIRL Tommy Roe -ABC 11266 30 35 I'M YOURS Eddie Floyd -Star 0072 71 74 Stevie Wonder-Tamla 54196 5 7 HI -DE -HO Blood 70 LONG LONELY NIGHTS SPILL THE WINE Sweat & Tears -Columbia 45204 49 - Dells -Cadet 75 81 Eric Burdon & War -MGM 14118 9 14 WIGWAM Bob Dylan -Columbia 45199 51 62 BLACK FOX 5 BAND OF GOLD Freddie Robinson -Pacific Jazz 88155 (Dist: Liberty) 85 Freda Payne-Invictus 9075 (Dist: Capitol) 2 3 39 ARE YOU READY? - Pacific Gas & Electric -Columbia 45158 72 COTTAGE CHEESE TIGHTER, TIGHTER 12 13 Crow Amaret 119 78 85 Alive & Kicking -Roulette 7078 8 9 JULIE, DO YA LOVE ME Bobby Sherman -Metromedia 194 53 69 RAINBOW O -O -H CHILD Marmalade -London 20059 83 Five Stairsteps-Buddah 165 4 6 41 LAY DOWN (CANDLES IN THE RAIN) LONG AS I CAN SEE THE LIGHT LAY A LITTLE LOVIN' ON ME Creedence Clearwater Revival -Fantasy 645 24 Melanie & Edwin Hawkins-Singers-Buddah 167 17 12 - Robin McNamara -Steed 724 (Dist: Paramount) 15 75 GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS, WAR LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR Creedence BOYS WILL Edwin Starr-Gordy -7101 18 28 'Clearwater Revival -Fantasy 645 BE BOYS Isley Bras -T -Neck 921 (Dist: Buddah) 80 87 IN THE SUMMERTIME I'VE LOST YOU Elvis Presley IT'S A SHAME Mungo Jerry -Janus 125 13 42 RCA 9873 60 - Spinners-V.I.P. 25057 (Dist: Motown) 87 89 11 MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME GLORY, GLORY Rascals 77 YOURS LOVE Three Dog Night -Dunhill 4239 7 4 -Atlantic 2743 54 64 45 EVERYTHING A MAN Joe Simon-Soundstage 7 2664 (Dist: Monument) 81 86 12 BALL OF CONFUSION COULD EVER NEED 78 DOWN BY Temptations -Gordy 7099 6 1 THE RIVER Glenn Campbell -Capitol 2843 47 51 Buddy Miles -Mercury 70386 84 95 13 THE LOVE YOU SAVE SLY, SLICK & WICKED 79 ONLY Jackson 5 -Motown 1166 11 10 YOU KNOW AND I KNOW Lost Generation -Brunswick 55436 50 62 Dave Mason -Blue Thumb 114 86 I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVING AMERICA, COMMUNICATE EVERYTHING'S B. J. Thomas -Scepter 12283 21 27 TUESDAY WITH ME Chairman Of The Board-Invictus 9079 15 OHIO Ray Stevens-Barnaby 2016 (Dist: Columbia) 59 78 81 BLACK Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -Atlantic 2740 14 15 HANDS, WHITE COTTON HUMMINGBIRD The Caboose -Enterprise 9015 (Dist: Stax) 82 88 IF YOU LET ME MAKE LOVE TO YOU Gene Chandler -Mercury 73083 61 70 82 IT'S YOUR LIFE THEN WHY CAN'T I TOUCH YOU GROOVY SITUATION Andy Kiim-Steed 727 (Dist: Paramount) Ronnie Dyson -Columbia 45110 19 30 88 94 B.