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l 19359 li 82791 COUNTRY MUSIC 1 986 COMING SOON TO CASH BOX Week in, week out, CASH BOX presents the most comprehensive and authoritative coverage of Country Music. Year in, year out, the CASH BOX annual CMA issue brings industry acclaim as the most authoritative source for information. This year, in step with Country Music's spectacular impact on radio, television, films and records. CASH BOX presents the ultimate salute to NASHVILLE. COUNTRY MUSIC 1 986 It's the perfect vehicle for your advertising message Reserve ad space for bonus distribution in Nashville during COUNTRY MUSIC WEEK Advertising deadline, October I, 1986 Issue date, October 18, 1986 RESERVE YOUR AD SPACE FOR BEST POSITION NOW! CONTACT: J. B. CARMICLE TOM McENTEE SPENCE BERLAND It (212) 586-2640 (615) 244-2898 (213) 464-8241 CASHBOX \ITERNATIONAL MUSIC/COIN MACHINE/HOME ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY VOLUME L—NUMBER 1 2—SEPTEMBER 6, 1986 “Hey . Let’s Start ASHBOX Our Own Record Company.’’ )RGE ALBERT By Larry Rosen nt and Publisher Question: Can two musicians start a record company and make and of course, Dave Grusin. At this point, the independents had lost tK ALBERT esident and Managing Editor the venture profitable? all their major labels, and they said to us, “We need you.” After NCE BERLAND Answer: Yes. many meetings, we felt this was a good marriage. esident I’m happy to say, at GRP Records this is the case. After working Three Years Later. CARMICLE together as musicians, then producing albums together for “third 1 must say, it can be done. The opportunities are there for cre- esident party” record companies, and then a venture called “Artista/GRP ative people coming from either the music side or the business side ERT LONG Records”, Dave Grusin and I had come to the point of taking the to create their own entity and become successful. The opportunities r Black/Urban Marketing plunge. This is the case for every musician/producer in the musical exist today, the same as in 1983 when we started GRP, but in an H ALBERT category called JAZZ, or JAZZ FUSION, or maybe JAZZ/POP ever-changing form. The opportunity for the entrepreneur who •r, Charts and Research or also known as JAZZ/FUNK or now known sometimes as NEW takes the time to examine the music, the technology, the market- :DI NEHRBASS AGE — to become frustrated with the major label that is financing, place and create his or her own business has never been better. We The Music Times marketing and selling your creative product. live in a world of rapidly changing home enter- \ WAITE, Research Director And when this frustration begins to build, the tainment technology. This must be the focus. ch HZAP logical (or maybe not so logical) idea surfaces Over the past decades major record compa- HOLMES III . let’s start our own record nies have built gigantic corporate bureaucra- HAYMES “Hey company.” cies. They are very slow in understanding igeles Editorial »RY DOBRIN Needless to say, one must be either crazy change. Creatively they are always behind. BERK or a dreamer. We chose to be dreamers and They need small creative companies who are £N PADGETT moved ahead. in touch with the “street” to create and break brk Editorial There. ideas . only see it working, 5KE, Bureau Chief The Opportunities Were new when they )RIO In 1982 major companies were suffering and can gear up, do they move like monsters in McENTEE financial set backs and as usual the first to go that direction. No doubt they have enormous Nashville Operations was “Jazz”. “It’s not going to sell tonage, power, and they must look to their survival by lie Editorial/Research who needs it?” was heard. This presented a wonderful opportunity selling the Mega Platinum Album. But while in this mode they ID F D’ANTONIO for start jazz artists. completely miss events happening around them. They still WELLE us. We could now a company with some major major E HANSEN Next Opportunity . Digital Technology. focus on music for 12-year-olds, even though we are experienceing a CATION OFFICES Since we have been recording digitally since 1979, we were very demographic shift to a more mature audience. They resist techno- ORK in tune with the emergence of the compact disc marketplace. Real- logical change, because they want to keep the status quo, even 38th Street (Suite 5D) izing the benefits of digital recording most convinced the though and better delivery systems are in place. k, NY 10019 we were new 212) 586-2640 CD, which delivers this superior sound quality to the consumer, We have just broken through the “Digital” barrier. The compact Jdress: Cash Box NY tion would become a major factor in the storage and delivery of music. disc success story is only the first step. R-DAT is waiting in the wings, REGUB, Manager Distribution, the Third Opportunity. and it will create a major technological shift from analog cassettes to WOOD We met with the independent distributors, who were already digital audio tape. The video area is wide open for a new audio/visual nset Blvd. (Suite 930) familiar with our past product, ie: Earl Klugh, Noel Pointer, Patti product for the home to be developed. The opportunities are many od, CA 90028 213) 464-8241 Austin, Lee Ritenour, Angela Bofill, Tom Browne, Dave Valentin ... it just takes a crazy person or maybe a dreamer to make it happen. 6711051 CASBX UW ILLE Circle East, Nashville TN 37203 >15) 244-2898 TOP POP DEBUTS 30 E COMPASIO, Coin Machine, Mgr. SINGLES 25 OR 6 TO 4 — Chicago — Full Moon/Warner Bros. 51st Ave., Cicero IL 60650 112) 863-7440 NGTON, D C. 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POSTMASTER: Send address #1 Peter Gabriel #1 Madonna > Cash Box, 330 W 58th Street, New York, N Y Geffen Sire NEWS ;; New Payola Probes Reporter mimimi LOS ANGELES — According to a report in eral major record companies, and t t ' Daily Variety, federal investigations into Miami probe could have somethin; lo'v possible music industry links with organized with the assault of Don Cox, a Mi li crime and/or “payola” have been launched who was beaten severly after he sj l-» ; in Cleveland, Miami and Philadelphia, mak- widespread payola on an NBC newsc 4 | ing a total of six Grand Jury investigations March. , - nationwide, including Los Angeles, New The report is unconfirmed at pre' ti York and Newark, NJ. and federal justice officials are forbii e report that the Philadelphia in- that have not The said speak about cases yji at quest has subpoenaed documents from sev- gressed to the prosecution stages. , j i r RIAA To Make D.C. Move An) Seek Future President NEW YORK — The Recording Industry As- bracing international as well as dijii sociation of America will move its opera- arenas. In addition to House and Ser Mb tions York City to Washington, son, consistent contact from New has proved i ! e E D.C. by early 1987 and will seek a “presti- with the Administration, Special Tra, gious political specialist” as its future presi- resentative, Commerce, Treasury, j ^ will dent. The new RIAA chief succeed Justice, Copyright Office, Copyrigh !q0 MCA HITS THE WALL—Leeds Levy, president of MCA Music Publishing, has an- Stanley M. Gortikov, president since 1972, ty Tribunal and National Endowm t nounced the signing of the group Wall Of Voodoo to a worldwide, co-publishing agreement. who will become chairman of the board un- the Arts. are: Moreland; til his expected retirement in or 1989. is 5 Pictured in the Los Angeles office (back,! to r) hied Leukhardt; Mark Bruce 1988 “The move also expected to ] Moreland; Mike Gormley, manager; Chas Gray; Levy. (Front), Rick Shoemaker, vice- The decision to relocate, long under con- RIAA to enhance its relations with si e sideration, was made in a Los Angeles meet- egation and various caucuses,” G t ing by RIAA’s Executive Committee. The added. “In addition, we can more s action is subject to expected validation by expand our involvement in import t the full Board of Directors.

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