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mode cunt N DEPARTMENT One Dollar D Trade: Getting Closer To Its Product? (Ed)... RCA Adds Direct Sales Organization To Augment Current Dist. In L.A.... Bill Graham Calls It Quits In Rock ... Avco Music Div. Shifts To Parent... Siemens, Philips Form Polygram Holding Company KAMA SUTRA, ARMED WITH HITS www.americanradiohistory.com one. "Where Would I Be." From "Edgar Winter's White Trash" feats ring Jerry la Croix. The album that Circus magazine said would ' establish a new superstar whose talent will bring his songs to millions of ears." The album that's on the charts with a bullet after only three weeks. But until the release of "Where Would I Be, the country's key FM stations played almost the entire album. And couldn't pick any one song as the single. .6-a9dr Now we've made their choice a pv o4hifLc, rjder E,r S S little easier. vioy. yn `viB . dC Which means that by this time .9, GPJ next week, people across the r 72, yY. r, Ffi country should agree on at least one thing: "Where Would I Be" from "Edgar Winter's White Trash." E 305 2' On Epic Records. www.americanradiohistory.com DIE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY ; VOL. XXXII - Number 46/May 8, 1971 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 IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL MARV GOODMAN Assoc. Editor ED KELLEHER ERIC VAN LUSTBADER KENNY KERNER EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING STAN SOIFER Advertising Manager Trade: Getting Closer ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES ED ADLUM, New York HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood WOODY HARDING At t Director COIN MACHINE & VENDING To 1 Product? ED ADLUM General Manager CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago LISSA MORROW, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. HOLLYWOOD HARVEY GELLER 6430 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (213) 465-2129 NASHVILLE JUANITA JONES 806 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 Phone: (615) 244-2898 There is a healthy, revived interest lie solely in cold numbers, no matter CHICAGO CAM',LLE COMPASIO in the trade in the aesthetic quality of how impressive they may be. This may 29 E. Madison St., Chicago, III. Phone: (312) FI 6-7272 recordings. What this all means is that be fine for the toothpaste industry, but record A&R it leaves a lot to be desired what is ENGLAND HOLLAND executives, whether or for DORRIS LAND PAUL ACKET otherwise, are taking a more personal considered today one of the most in- 3 Cork Street Theresiastraat 59-63 interest in and are displaying a greater fluential of art-forms-music on re- London WI The Hague Tel. 01-7342374 Tel: 837700 affection for the product they put out. cordings. The pride of being part of GERMANY ITALY One still hears, of course, talk about recordings one has greater intimacy CHRISTIAN TOERSLEFF GABRIELE G. ABBATE Viale A. Doria 10 with and respect be an in- 2 Hamburg 56 hit recording sales figures, but there's for should 20124 Milano Leuchtturmeg 30 more and more comment about their calculable aid in the very process re- Tel: 34-91-94-86 BELGIUM help a BRAZIL ETIENNE SMET appeal. It's as if the industry had re- quired to put record over in PEDRO FRAZAO Postbus 56 placed the phrase "monster sales" those number figures. B-2700 Sint-Niklaas VASCONCELOS DE Tel. (03) 76-54-39 with "moster This "softer sound, solo artist" Rua Frei Caneca, II, Apt. 13 sound." And that Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil AUSTRALIA Tel: 257-15-58 "sound" might have something to do trend also augurs well for the music PETER SMITH with it. As Cash Box has noted since publishing area. For we believe that ARGENTINA 40 Winters Way MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Doncaster 3108 the start of the year, there is a trend there is now greater attention being Victoria, Australia Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 "B" toward the "softer sound, the solo given material as it stands in the form Buenos Aires, Argentina MEXICO Tel: 89-6796 a SALVADOR ARREGUIN artist." Perhaps such sounds, more of song, rather than a work that CANADA ANTONIO SENS intimate, more melodic, more lyric stands up well only in the context of WALT GREALIS Tiber 100 - 7 y 8 Pisos RPM Mexico 5, D.F. conscious (as Cash Box pointed out in the performance of a particular act. 1560 Bayview Ave. Tel: 525-39-52 II -62-96 Many Toronto 17, Ontario the April 25 issue), strike a more heart- solo performers are not the cre- Tel: (416) 489-2166 JAPAN felt response than the hard rock ators of their own material, and must Adv. Mgr. FRANCE SACHIO SAITO sounds, and the trade can identify with seek out songs by others. Among the FRANK LIPSIK 1.11 2-Chome Shinbashi them more easily. solo artists who are involved in the ma- 5 Rue Alfred Dormeuil Minato -Ku, Tokyo 78 Croissy Tel: 225-26-31 We think this condition-perhaps terial they perform, their songs are Tel: 504-1651 SPAIN Editorial Mgr. not a tideswell as yet-harbors well for getting wider exposure by others who JOAQUIN MERINO FUMIYO TACHIBANA the business. For one thing, it brings may not be self-contained acts. Presidente Carmona, II I-11 2-Chome Shinbashi All in Madrid 20, Spain Minato -Ku, Tokyo the industry closer to the product it all, the industry seems to be Tel. 270-2915 Tel: 504-1651 sells. For there is a greater excitement on the brink of a new era of sounds and even sense of accomplishment that is bringing the trade closer to its SUBSCRIPTION RATES $30 per year anywhere in the when the industry can cite the product. That has to a U.S.A., Published weekly at 34 N. Crystal St., E. Strouds- beauty spark greater burg, Pa. by Cash Box, 1780 Broadway, New York, N.Y. of a recording along degree 10019. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., with its sales re- of concern for the success of U.S.A. and additional offices. sponse. There is something cold and not a Copye-ight :: 1971 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. piece of goods, but that of the All rigits reserved. Copyright under Universal Copyright Convention. aloof about the recording whose great recording admired for what it says, claim to fame, trade -wise, seems to not only what it does in terms of sales. www.americanradiohistory.com 1 JOY TO THE WORLD 34 I PLAY AND SING I'M COMIN' HOME 22 23 Dave Edmunds-MAM 3608 (Dist: London) 76 3 Dog Night -Dunhill 4272 (Dist: ABC) 1 1 Dawn -Bell 970 2 PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND 35 FRIENDS LOWDOWN -Columbia 45370 Ocean -Kama Sutra 519 (Dist: Buddah) 2 2 Elton John -Uni 55277 17 18 Chicago 3 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE 36 JUST MY IMAGINATION 69 C'MON Poco -Epic 10714 63 78 Jackson 5 -Motown 1179 3 3 Temptations -Gordy 7105 (Dist: Motown) 15 9 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM A MAMA &APAPA STAY AWHILE Ray Stevens-Barnaby 2029 85 Bells-Polydor 15023 5 15 Helen Reddy -Capitol 3027 46 54 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS 38 ME AND MY ARROW 71 LONELY FEELIN' War -United Artists 50746 73 80 Aretha Franklin -Atlantic 2796 7 25 Nilsson -RCA 250 41 44 IF DON'T KNOCK MY LOVE 72 L.A. GOODBYE Of March -Warner Bros. 7466 74 91 Bread-Elektra 45720 8 11 Wilson Pickett -Atlantic 2797 52 66 Ides 73 NEVADA FIGHTER 7 IAM. .. I SAID 40 18 Michael Nesmith -RCA 0453 75 83 Neil Diamond-Uni 55278 4 4 Alice Cooper -Warner Bros. 7449 21 21 THAT'S THE WAY I'VE ALWAYS CHICK A BOOM 41 NO LOVE AT ALL B. J. Thomas -Scepter 12307 25 14 Daddy Dew Drop -Sunflower 105 (Dist: MGM) 18 24 HEARD IT 42 THEME FROM LOVE STORY Carly Simon-Elektra 45724 84 93 IT OUT WE CAN WORK Andy Williams -Columbia 45317 26 10 75 ALBERT FLASHER Stevie Wonder-Tamla 54202 (Dist: Motown) 10 13 COOL AID Guess Who -RCA 0458 82 89 POWER TO THE PEOPLE Paul Humphrey -Lizard 21006 51 55 76 REACH OUT YOUR HAND John Lennon -Apple 1830 12 16 44 LOVE'S LINES. ANGLES & RHYMES Brotherhood Of Man -Dream 85073 (Dist: London) 80 86 11 ANOTHER DAY Fifth Dimension -Bell 965 27 12 HOT LOVE Paul McCartney -Apple 1829 6 7 45 TREAT HER LIKE A LADY T -Rex -Reprise 1006 88 54 65 LOVE HER MADLY Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose -United Artists 50721 HOUSE ON POOH CORNER Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -United Artists 50769 87 Doors-Elektra 45726 14 33 46 PUSHBIKE SONG Mixtures Sire 350 (Dist: Polydor) 44 49 79 13 QUESTIONS TIMOTHY Seatrain-Capitol 3067 81 87 Buoys -Scepter 12275 16 20 47 I THINK OF YOU Perry Como -RCA 0444 45 46 TRY SOME, BUY SOME BROWN SUGAR REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE Ronnie Spector -Apple 1832 oiling Stones -Rolling Stones 19100 (Dist: Atlantic) 28 53 Diana Ross -Motown 1184 60 THE COURT ROOM 15 WHAT'S GOING ON GIVE MORE POWER TO THE Clarence Carter -Atlantic 2801 Marvin Gaye -Tamia 54201 9 5 PEOPLE I'LL ERASE AWAY THE PAIN 16 SHE'S A LADY Chi -Lites -Brunswick 55450 64 76 Whatnauts-Stang 5023 - - 11 6 WOMAN Tom Jones -Parrot 40058 (Dist: London) JONES SHE'S NOT JUST ANOTHER NATHAN 8th Day-Invictus 9087 (Dist: Capitol) ME AND YOU AND A DOG Supremes-Motown 1182 69 - - HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH NAMED BOO 51 GOTTA SEE JANE THE NIGHT Lobo -Big Tree 112 (Dist: Ampex) 31 39 R.