Prof. Camillo Goes to Head of R&B Class by HANK FOX Showed to Columbia Records a &R Man Robin Mcbride
TALENT Prof. Camillo Goes to Head of R&B Class By HANK FOX showed to Columbia Records a &r man Robin McBride. Mc- NEW YORK - Is Tony Ca- Bride told him it was the pretti- millo a rhythm and blues pro- est song he ever heard, but it fessor? Not exactly, but the 38- was too classic. year -old chairman of the Alma Instead of writing, Camillo White College music depart- began analyzing records -some- ment in New Brunswick, N. J., thing he says most writers fail has just written, arranged, con- to do. Armed with a critical di- ducted and produced his first section of today's music, Camillo r &b song on Bob Crewe's New experimented with forms while Voice Records. The tune, "If continuing to do research. In SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS signs a recording contract with Decca Rec- ords as Lenny You Loved Me Baby," is also five months he has written five Salidor, left, Decca's national promotion and publicity director; Jerry Dorn, right, the first of five others from bal- major songs in the Petula Clark Hawkins' manager; and Dick Jacobs of Dec- ca's a&r staff look on. Hawkins' first single couples "All Night" with lad to Detroit sound which Ca- vein, r &b and straight pop. All "I'm Not Made of Clay." THE DISTANT COUSINS millo has written for Saturday five have been sold, with "If Music during the past five You Loved Me Baby" the first months. to be released. Larry Brown and Raymond Blood- says. "However, the organization Ph.D.
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