Conglomerate Picture: Viewlex Purchase of KS-Buddah Imminent; MCA-Westinghouse Merge • • • RCA- Ford Ink 3-Yr
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Conglomerate Picture: Viewlex Purchase Of KS-Buddah Imminent; MCA-Westinghouse Merge • • • RCA- Ford Ink 3-Yr. Tape Deal • • • Anti- Piracy Law Signed In Calif. ••• Willis To Manage New Victor Dept. • • • Ed Barsky Named Marketing VP At Tetragrammaton HUGH MASAKELA: STRIKES RICH GRAZIN' GROUND Int’l. Section Begins Pg. 59 TheGreat 4-446X6 O.C.Smith made it happen It was just one of eleven funky songs “Little Green Apples.” By O.C., of course I in Hickory Holler Revisited { cs 9680),the Then DJ’s began tossing “Little Green Apples latest O.C. LP. Well, as the album was all over the country. The result is another played, people started demanding more crisp O.C. single. * "COLUMBIA, MARCAS REG. PRINTED IN U.S A. LITTLE GREEN APPLES”/ ON COLUMBIA RECORDS® : — THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC-RECORD WEEKLY VOL. XXX—Number 2/ August 10, 1968 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 LEON SCHUSTER Treasurer IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL TOM McENTEE Assoc. Editor DANIEL BOTTSTEIN JOHN KLEIN MARV GOODMAN ALLAN RINDE EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER New York BILL STUPER New York HARVEY GELLER Hollywood WOODY HARDING Art Director COIN MACHINES & VENDING As the record industry its great enthusiasm, the future is ED ADLUM goes through but General Manager big annual convention season we hear where it’s going to be at. The youthful BEN JONES Asst. many words of encouragement, accom- larks, the joyful noises of the fickle CAMILLE COMPASIO Chicago LISSA MORROW Hollywood plishment, hope and perhaps a bit of generation hooked on sound. That’s hip-hip-hooray talk, all designed to in- where Columbia’s going to be, and CIRCULATION THERESA JORTOSA Mgr. still spirit right into the marrow of every where you’ll be also. Twenty years from CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD conventioneer . words aimed at giving today, music will probably do what it CAMILLE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER salesmen and promotion men a “come has always done. That is to provide 29 E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset Blvd. Chiccgo 2, III. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 out fighting” attitude about a given lullabies for the dreams of the young, (Phone: (312) FI 6-7272) (Phone: (213) 465-2129) company’s product. ballads for their girlfriends, and, most ENGLAND of all, anthems for their freedom. Dorris Land Occasionally, however, words com- •9a New Bond St. London, Wl, England posed for a convention presentation “There will be more vibrations. Kids Tel: 01-493-2868 have a much broader significance and believe in vibrations; it’s functional, ITALY CANADA a unique timeliness that make them healthy and educational. These vibra- VARIO PANVINI ROSATI LORI BRUNER Galleria Passarello 2 1560 Bayview Ave worthy of restating for the benefit of tions might have the answers mothers Milan (Italy) Suite 107 Tel: 790990 Toronto 17, Canada the entire record industry. Such words and fathers won’t tell them. Rock says ARGENTINA what some of today’s generation of GERMANY MIGUEL SMIRNOFF are those which Columbia’s Joe Norton, MAL SONDOCK Rafaela 3978. parents neglected to mention. Josef Raps Strasse 1 Buenos Aires, director of product coordination and Munich, Germany Tel: 69-1538 Tel: 326410 Terry Folkes, a copywriter, composed BRAZIL “But who knows, maybe tomorrow’s HOLLAND LUIS de M.C. GUEDES for a small segment of the product Rua Rego Freitas, flailing, wailing, squealing, taunting PAUL ACKET 289— 3*. andar presentation Columbia made at its just Thereslastraat 59 63 Sao Paulo, SP challenges may not be at all the way The Hague concluded Puerto Rico convention. Al- Tel: 837703 MEXICO we predict them. You really can’t pre- ENRIQUE ORTIZ though they refer to Columbia, the FRANCE Insurgentes Sur 1870 dict the next twenty years of recorded CHRISTOPHE IZARD Mexico 20, D F.. Tel: 24-65-57 eloquent words make a much more 24, Rue Octave Feuillet, entertainment with any degree of ac- Paris XVI Tel: 870-9358 important statement about the entire JAPAN curacy. The fickle generation won’t al- Adv. Mgr. SCANDINAVIA record industry’s role in the world we SHOICHI KUSANO low it. They’re enjoying today too much. SVEN G. WINQUIST Editorial Mgr.: will live in tomorrow: Kaggehelmsvagen 48, MORIHIRO NAGATA But we can predict and guarantee the Stockholm-Enskede, 59-46 466 Higfashi-OIzumi Sweden. Tel: 85 Neirimaku, energy, faith, confidence, and determi- 122 40 Tokyo “During these past few days, you nation with which Columbia will attack AUSTRALIA BELGIUM have listened to and seen the past and JOS BAUDEWIJN the future. We’ll believe in the next RON TUDOR present of Columbia Records. You’re 8 Francis St., Lindestraat 19 Heathmont, Victoria Lokeren generation of sound, as we do this one all that this year marks the Tel: 870-5677 Tel: 09 78 31 76 aware and others past. New stars will be born. SPAIN twentieth anniversary of Columbia’s The industry will continue to grow. And JOSE MARIA INIGO introduction of the modern Lp—and Avda. de Jose Antonio 32, Madrid 1 3, your market will continue to grow. We Spain. how this technological innovation has Tel: 222 1181 are in the business that keeps us young, changed a million dollar business into and it is the young that will keep us in a billion dollar industry. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $25 per year anywhere in the U.S.A. to Published weekly. Second class postage paid at New York, business. The future belongs the N. Y. 10001 U.S.A. “We look upon the past with pride young and to us. Columbia Records Copyright © 1968 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright under Universal Copyright Con- and we participate in the present with Twenty/Twenty vision for the future.” vention. 3 Cash Box—August 10, 1968 -V^ 1 ashBoxTOPlOO 35 EYES OF A NEW YORK 68 PRAYER MEETIN' CLASSICAL GAS CJ WOMAN Willie Mitchell-Hi 2147 74 81 * Mason Williams- Warner Bros. 7190 5 5 B. J. Thomas-Scepter 12219 38 42 69 MY NAME IS JACK 1 3i LOVE MAKES A WOMAN Manfred Mann-Mercury 72822 64 68 1 HELLO I LOVE YOU Barbara Acklin-Brunswick 55379 43 52 Doors-Elektra 45635 6 7 I'VE GOTTA GET A J 37 HITCH IT TO THE HORSE # MESSAGE TO YOU 3 HURDY GURDY MAN Soul 315 40 43 — — Fantastic Johnny C-Phil LA of Bee Gees-Atco 6603 :l Donovan-Epic 10345 4 4 ' 38 SLIP AWAY 71 FOOL ON THE HILL PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE Clarence Carter-Atlantic 2508 42 55 Sergio Mences & Brasil '66-A&M 961 — — f* Rascals- Atlantic 2537 10 28 3< KEEP ME HANGIN' ON y YOU CAN'T YOU FIND 1 5 TURN AROUND, LOOK AT ME Vanilla Fudge-Atco 6590 60 75 • ANOTHER WAY The Vogues-Reprise 0686 8 10 — 40 DREAMS OF AN EVERY Sam & Dave-Atlantic 2540 82 6 STONED SOUL PICNIC DAY HOUSEWIFE SPECIAL OCCASION 5th D.mension-Soul City 766 7 9 — Glen Campbell-Capitol 2224 44 46 # Smokey Robinson & The Miracles-Tamla 54172 — BORN TO BE WILD 1, 2, 3 RED LIGHT i Co.-Buddah 54 50 59 1 LOVED & LOST • Steppenwolf-Dunhill 4138 12 51 1910 Fruitgum £ Impressions-ABC 11103 83 89 LADY WILL POWER 42 FACE IT GIRL, ITS OVER 75 MR. 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