F èi "1 kYSiS continued from page 29 EXECUTIVES ON THE MOVE Fireside Theatre- Butterfly Reel Epic - (contiued from page 43) Cecilio & Kopono - Columbia KJAK-FM - OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - John Michael Les Dudek - Say No More - Columbia Scott Appointments At Starwood - Eddie Choran has been named to the position of director of Walter Egan - Fundamental Roll - Columbia Most Active: entertainment at L.A.'s Starwood. His duties include research and booking of all entertain- KMOD-FM - TULSA, OK - Lelsa Johnson Atlanta Rhythm Section ment in the club/concert hall. David Knight is the director of PR and advertising. Knight, Most Active: The Kinks Rita Coolidge Pink Floyd who comes to Starwood from twelve years in the radio and record business, was most Jesse Colin Young Eagles recently general manager of Sutton -Miller Ltd., parent company of Shadybrook and Pablo Cruise Fleetwood Mac Sound Bird Records. Jackson Browne Emerson Lake & Palmer Marshall Tucker Band America Executives Promoted At DMA - DMA, midwest-based national booking firm, promoted Eagles Sea Level two of its top executives. Troy Blakely, who previously managed Mitch Ryder's groups Adds: Jethro Tull Detroit and The Detroit Wheels before joining DMA as a booking agent, has been named Walter Egan Fundamental Roll Columbia Adds: - - vice president, heading up the Iggy Pop - The Idiot - RCA Les Dudek - Say No More - Columbia college department. Whitey Stone was made regional direc- Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Arista Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer - A&M tor. He will oversee all midwest and Canadian bookings. Stone has been a rock concert Klaatu - Capitol The Band - Islands - Capitol promoter and booking agent in the Detroit area since 1971. Pousette-Dart Band - Amnesia - Capitol Walter Egan - Fundamental Roll - Columbia Richard Torrance - Bareback - Capitol Foreigner - Atlantic O'Harro To Graham Smith - Michael G. O'Harro has joined Graham Smith Associates, Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer - A&M WBLM-FM - LEWISTON, ME - Jose Dlaz Ltd. of New York City. He will continue with his position as director of Tramps and as presi- Bonnie Raitt - Sweet Forgiveness - WB Most Active: dent of the International Discotheque Association, the non-profit trade association for the Jeff Beck With Jan Hammer Live - Epic Emerson Lake & Palmer (C'est La Vie, Lend Your Love) Procol Harum - Something Magic - WB Jethro Tull (Cup Of Wonder. Whistler) discotheque industry. WOUR-FM - UTICA - Jeff Chard Jesse Colin Young (Higher & Higher, Drift Away) Paragon Acquires New Agent - Paragon Agency has announced the appointment of Ian Most Active: Ian Matthews (Just One Look, One Day Without You) Fleetwood Mac (Dreams. Second Hand News) Fleetwood Mac (Dreams) Copeland to the Paragon staff as special assistant to the president for foreign clients and Starz (Cherry Baby, Cool One) Roger McGuinn (American Girl) west coast coordination. Copeland, who has been associated as director and agent with Big Wah Koo (Phillistine Save Your Tears) Peter Gabriel (Solsbury Hill) the Nems Agency in London, will be based in the Macon office. Ian Matthews - (Just One Look, Times) Foreigner (First Time) Johnny's Dance Band (Best Days) Justin Hayward (Country Girl) Kirkpatrick To Universal - Fontaine Kirkpatrick was named vice president and studio Peter Gabriel (Solsbury Hill, Big One) Garland Jeffreys (Wild In The Streets, Cool Down) manager of Universal Recording Studios. Kirkpatrick joined Universal in 1972 as a part- Your Bryan Ferry (Tomorrow. In Mind) Joan Armatrading time production assistant. She was named studio manager last year following an executive Elliott Murphy (Just Another Story, Drive All Night) Pousette-Dart Band (May You Dance) Nils Lofgren (Came To Dance, Jealous Gun) Taj Mahal (Truckdriver's 2 Step) reorganization. Dickey Betts (Way Love Goes, Out To Get Me) Flora Purim (Nothing Will Be As It Was) Druckman Joins Beam - Scott Druckman has been retained as an independent consul- Roger McGuinn (American Girl, Dixie Highway) The Band (Right As Rain) Richard Torrance (Stay Young. Moonlight) Weather Report (Birdland) tant to work with Beam Junction artists. Druckman, who worked at T.K. Records in promo- Codo Belle (Airport, Survival) Eagles (Life In The Fast Lane) tion, will concern himself with press and disco promotion campaigns. Atlanta Rhythm Section(So In To You, Georgia Rhythm) Nils Lofgren Jesse Colin Young (Higher & Higher. Love On The Al Stewart Freiberg To Soundaround - Soundaround has announced the appointment of Mickey Wing) Martin Mull Freiberg as vice president of record company sales. Prior to joining Soundaround Jethro Tull (Whistler) Adds: Freiberg was an agent at ICM. John Miles (Stranger In The City. Manhattan Skyline) Passport - Iguacu - Atco Eagles (Life In The Fast Lane. Hotel California) Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Arista Cream Records Has Staff Additions - Cream Records has added Pam Shira as Bonnie Raitt (Runaway, Home) Bruce Cockburn - In The Falling Dark - True publishing administrator, Elaine Bolchini publishing administrative assistant, Andy Zane Bob Seger (Rock & Roll Never Forgets, Main St.) North/Island professional manager and Greg Gayton, Cream music publishing group Adds: Beach Boys - Love You - WB as general Gale Force - Fantasy Isley Brothers - Go For Your Gun -T -Neck promotion. Nina Carlin joins as marketing coordinator, assisting Don Graham and Paul Jack Bruce - How's Tricks - RSO Walter Egan - Fundamental Roll - Columbia Culberg. Tim Moore - White Shadows - Elektra Bonnie Raitt - Sweet Forgiveness - WB Ruby - PBR Intl. Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments - A&M Stoner -Townsend To Apostol - Apostol Enterprises, Ltd. has announced the appoint- Bob James 4 - CTI Les Dudek - Say No More - Columbia ment of Montrue Stoner -Townsend to the management organization. She will be in charge Robin Williamson - Journey's Edge - Flying Fish Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind - Atlantic of promotion, publicity and over-all artist development. Prior to her joining Apostol, Hoyt Axton - Snowblind Friend MCA John Lodge Natural Avenue London - - - -Townsend was national manager at London Records. Beach Boys - Love You - Reprise Lavender Hill Mob - UA Stoner assistant to the sales Jessica Southside Johnny & Asbury Jukes - This Time It's For Marvin Gaye - Live At The London Palladium - Tamla Warren has been promoted to the position of personal assistant to John Apostol. Her duties will include all liaison between artist and management, and tour coordination. Scaggs Albums in Wherehouse Sale Klein Joins Sparrow - Sparrow Records has hired Don Klein as promotion director. His background includes sales representation for radio stations KKUL and KLEC. Prior to join- (continued from page 7) "But we have clearly labeled it as a re- ing Sparrow, he was advertising coordinator for Acton House Publishing Company. vertised price than has appeared in the Los packaging. We think the new art work bet- Brightman Named At Jamboree Jerry Brightman has been named assistant to the Angeles area in several months. Lee ter reflects the 'Slow Dancer' concept. So in - general manager of Jamboree U.S.A., Inc. Prior to joining Jamboree U.S.A., Brightman Hartstone, president of the Wherehouse, that respect, we have been having served as manager of the Frontier Auditorium in Pekin, Illinois since January, 1976. He was refused to comment on the sale. somewhat of a push on the Boz catalog," a member of Buck Owens from 1973 to 1976 as a pedal steel guitarist and is a Wherehouse stores surveyed reported Oberman said. "Buckaroos" former member of the Jamboree U.S.A. staff band. individual purchase prices of LPs of $3.50 As of the first day of the sale, stores in several cases and $4.96 at one store. The throughout the state reported varying Villar To Peer -Southern - Edward Villar has joined Peer -Southern Organization in New radio ad stated that three of Scaggs albums degrees of customer response to the cam- York as controller and manager of business services. - "Silk Degrees," "Slow Dancer" and "My paign. Some said they expected the Holman Joins Triangle-Triangle Theatrical Productions, Inc., Chicago -based subsidiary Time" - were included in the sale. weekend to bring great results, but most of Madison Square Garden of New York, announced Terry Holman has joined the com- Some store managers, however, said said as of yet they had not seen an pany as a concert manager. He has been associated for the past four years with the they thought a fourth album, "Moments," overwhelming response. Blytham Ltd. concert division, Champaign, Ill., as a booking agent. was also subject to the three -for -$10 sale. It was also pointed out that the sale referred to any three Boz Scaggs albums, either Jobbers Fear Merchandisers Cutbacks three different titles, three of the same (continued from page 9) album or any other combination. they're worried about is if a customer buys one time, all that was done was to take Ron Oberman, director of west coast change over the past 12 months. While a record at Penney's for $4.99 or whatever umpteen thousand of John Denver or who- product management for CBS Records, Luska estimated a present-day 60 percent, sale price, and then walks down the street ever it was. The approach now is: 'We want said, "We have been actively selling the Boz he noted that the rack's percentage was to find the album for $3.99; he has a ten- to set up a promotion with you on a Denver closer to a I catalog since 'Silk Degrees' became such a 75-85 percent few years ago. dency to think that Penney's is ripping him or a John Travolta.' That's why think the Faraci hit. We have even re -packaged the 'Slow pointed out, "No question that off. So they lose their image to that par- decline will not be as severe as most people Dancer' album. there's been an increase in retail opera- ticular young consumer." think. Both the manufacturers and the tions, but that doesn't mean there has been On the other hand, the full -line retailers racks are becoming more merchandising a decrease in volume at the rack -jobbed are expanding because "they control their conscious.