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AUDIO FIDELITY Dean Wort, LP deal: buy-8-get.l-free, plus one stereo spectacular demo at $6 with the purchase of eac ,cross two catalog records. No termination date announced. TI CARIB ehet Buy 10 -get -1 -free on entire LP catalog. 100% exchangeable. 80-60.690 billing. No expira rr B date. Anyt COLPIX i9 Me hiPol 8 Nina Simone albums on a buy -4 -get -1 -free deal. Expires: May 16; new Chad Mitchell L on -3 a buy -get -1 -free basis. Expires: June 26. Rest of catalog offers 20 free for every 100 pus p You chased. 2G. Expires: June lnl Bu

el . DECCA-CORAL-BRUNSWICK oPel code Part 3 Of VIP Program: incentive program on all vocal LP's. See local distrib for detail Expires: May 29. Hon C NEW YORK-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy accepts the first copy pd Mo of MGM's new album, "The Kennedy Years," from label president Arnold NASH BORO tu.. Maxin who obtained exclusive license for the Buy -7-get -1 -free on entire catalog including new LP's. 100% exchangeable. No expiratic pie package from the John F. date has been set. You t Kennedy Library in Boston. You V The special set includes three LP's, two of which contain excerpts from ORIGINAL SOUND a l Let the late President's speeches and press conferences, while the third is a narration of the Kennedy LP catalog available on a buy -i0 -get -1 -free basis. 100% exchangeable. No expiration da 1 Tide Years by Chet Huntley. set. try Litt Looking on during the presentation are Alan Cartoun (far left), exec vice president of the Longines-Wittnauer Watch Company, distributors for REQUEST M Russ the album, and Larry Finley (far right), director of special and premium Kier for MGM. LP catalog available on a buy -10 -get -2 -free basis. Described as a limited -time offer. sales if Up Substantial proceeds from the sale of the album are being turned over to SMASH & FONTANA IdAll0 the John F. Kennedy Library. dbye 8 LP's. Expires: May 30. d Golly TAMLA-MOTOWN-GORDY no Get b All LP'a available on a buy -0 -get -1 -free basis. Described as a permanent program. Dolly Avalon To Do Artist, Facility f. Bobbi UA Flick Expansion At Nugget VEE JAY n By Lc lire, discount on I.1"s. het Wo NEW YORK-Frankie Avalon, re- GOODLETTSVILLE, TENN Nug- .+er lt - I º, Fa get Records, dealing solely in country "' cently inked to United So Artists Records, music products, Proi will star in a flick from the label's has completed its ex- uy Lone pansion program, Over parent company United Artists Pic- which includes new The Year Music Lost Epic Records Bows tures. Flick, "I'll Take Sweden," co- artists, recording equipment and ware- house and shipping space. starring Bob Hope and Tuesday Weld, A Pulitzer Prize 4 Classical LP's, 3 Tapes Me Qu Ray Butts, who will go before the cameras this sum- set-up the new Me Sol equipment, has also joined the organi- NEW YORK-There was no Pulitzer NE\\' YORK-Epic Records has a mer, with Edward Small producing. Prize music written by an American nounced the release of four classic He'll sing several songs in zation as head engineer in charge of Bones the film. in the past in u Nugget Sound Studios, open to all year the opinion of the albums and three classical tapes. Child, music operations. committee of the annual awards for The LP entries are Beethoven M Donna achievement in the arts. liest Nis Just signed Symphony No. 5 in C Minor a Homer, to the diskery are Dick This year's Pulitzer Prize winners THE EXCITING NEW Flood, bowing with "Blue, Blue Party" Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C Maj r Me Do and "Same were named last week, with the music (Jupiter) by George Szell and t ALBUM Ole Cheatin' You" and the category not represented. CHART CONTENDER new duet of Tee & Bob, debuting with Cleveland Orchestra; the "Don Ju A few days following this develop- Fantasy" and "Hungarian Rhapso FROM "Keep On Loving You" and "Who MERCURY Will It Be." ment, Pulitzer Prize-winning com- No. 10" and Bartok's "Improvit The Nugget label and equipment poser Howard Hanson expressed "sur- tions" by pianist Charles Rose were prise" at the omission. Perhaps the Haydn's String Quartets No. 14 a lnnol purchased from the original country is too owners in Tampa, Fla. in the fall of big to be adequately 16 by the Julliard String Quarte covered by the Pulitzer committee, 1 Hf% 1962 by Lonzo & Oscar, the Grand Ole "Rhapsody" by the Cleveland Pc Opry performers, and their manager, Hanson observed. Orchestra conducted by Louis La Jack Logan. The composer soon to leave his post To be issued on tape are Mozar EBANIi 4'/!/I1\'I!/Il;!'1101,1k as director of the Eastman School of Symphony No. 33 in B Flat Maj the po The entire operation was moved to Music, listed a number of -works that Divertimento No. 2 in D Major, by t ull Goodlettsville ( a suburb of Nashville) he believed deserved recognition. Cleveland Orchestra with Geot hom These on a farm owned by Lonzo & Oscar. include Peter Mennin's Seventh Szell; Moussorgsky's "Pictures At Philac Symphony, Louis Mennini's Second Exhibition" and Beethoven's "Sy residel Not only do the two live there with Symphony, Bernard Rogers' Japanese their families, but phony No. 5" also by the Clevela tDccee; Logan also owns Dances and a piano concerto by Louis Orchestra. currer, adjoining property where he resides Kirchner. with his family. Vee-Jay Buys Included in the operation are a Tobias Brothers subsid label, Clark, the Lonzo & Oscar Fame Master Chad MG 20901 SR 60901 Music Co. and the Lonzo & Oscar Lose Their Dad HOLLYWOOD-Jay Lasker, Vee-: Includir, Country Music Show. A talent bureau NEW Records vp, has purchased a mas single i, Lou `tp YORK-Max Tobias, 93 year from the Fame label. Deck, "St I m is also in Don't Wanna Be A Coolin', No the works. old father of the songwriting Tobias Away" by Jimmy will Loser S It's Gotta Be Foolin' Boys Hughes, You Somothing Won Logan heads -up all the firms and is brothers, died last week in Hollywood. main on Fame and be handled nati derlul also A&R man for the two labels. ally by Vee-Jay. Initial reaction es plus You Besides his sons, he is survived by That's Name It from the South, where The Way The Danny eight grandchildren and 13 great- Charlo Ball Bounces and her racer Houston and New Orleans have Leave Me Alone hit: That's Tr. grandchildren. current big action, the label said. Don't Call Mn Way Boys A, Sweet Tooth Promo CHICAGO-Ralph Ergas, manager of A Gold Disk For Los Cinco Latinos the disk division of RCA Victor Dis- tributing Corp., this city, has a novel ACCORD' promotional gimmick going in con- FOREMOST IN FINE RECORDING junction with Al Hirt's newly re- leased LP, "Cotton Candy," as well as STEVE ALAIMO other Victor LP catalog items. Dealers are HAS A HOT NEW SINGLE being advised that for every 75 LP's purchased on a sub- "FADE OUT - FADE IN" mitted order form they will receive From UpComina B'.ay Mulcal free a deluxe "Instant Kotton Kandy" machine and vendor's stand. Starring CAROL BURNETT This includes all of the accessories, W ABC 10553 and a supply of "carnival theme" balloons. statio ng Artists Among the Victor recording stars eluded in this promotion, along with 41110°'_ aeee 1 Al Hirt, are: Perry Como, Chet NEW YORK-Los Cinco Latinos, Columbia Records' hot group lureted Atkins, Harry tins, are shown receiving their from Ar, Belafonte, Eddy Ar- most recent gold disk from Peter to stet; Rougemont, the label's vice president égrout nold, Elvis Presley, Hank Snow, and of European operations. Curre Tr FULL- COLOR FIDELITY appearing at New York's Chateau Madrid' the group several original cast has a new LP tag R 110 albums. "Mochas Gracias!" D `esDdingn 28

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