IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Pick Show Tune Tied to GARLAND PKG. $ Pop Kornheiser CUT BY DECCA Mart: NEW YORK-Decca Rec- has the price of its "The NEW YORK Songs from longer make up seven or eight ords cut - Best package Broadway musicals must be "straight demos" of songs from of Judy Garland" -rec- taken out of the context of the the shows to submit to record to $5.98. The de luxe, two set had previously been shows for pop disk coverage. companies. "To get a pop play ord That's the opinion of Sidney these days," Kornheiser said, merchandised at the suggested Kornheiser, consultant for Music "a publisher must try to fit the list price of $9.98. 28, firm which publishes the show's songs into the pop mar- "The Best of Judy Garland" Sherman Edwards score for the ket's current needs as well as includes selected performances hit Broadway musical "1776." to come up with left -field cast- of songs originally performed Kornheiser, who has been ing ideas." by Miss Garland in such motion working on Broadway show As examples, Kornheiser cites pictures as "Meet Me in St. scores for more than 20 years, the recent GWP Records re- Louis," "The Harvey Girls" and said that a publisher can no lease of Debbie Taylor's "Mama left, Records with the "Good Morning "The Wizard of Oz." Look Sharp," and the upcoming OLIVER, singer on Jubilee Starshine" click, forms a new company to be known as Starshine James Earl Jones release on the Corp., with Lawrence Philips, center, business manager -attorney, and IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIp Interstate United Columbia label of "Molasses William Casg, Oliver's personal manager. and Rum," both songs from the Motorola Builds Acquires B & B "1776" score. Miss Taylor's disk, said Kornheiser, fits into the A New Facility DALLAS-Interstate United current soul -gospel groove, and Studio to Rise in Harlem Corp., Chicago, one of several using Jones, star of the Broad- CHICAGO - Motorola is national vending and service way play "The Great White -Seeks $$: Lack Job Aid constructing a 50,000 -square firms actively acquiring music Hope," is an example of left - foot facility in ')es Plaines, Ill., to house its Chicago distribution routes, purchased B & B Vend- field casting. Continued from page 1 interest include RCA, United ing and Music Co. here last The success of the Fifth Di- Artists, and A&R, whose Don complex now located on North week for an undisclosed sum mension's Soul City recording in the city would guarantee Frey is collaborating with Astral Pulaski Road. The new plant of money and notes. of "Aquarius/ Let the Sunshine $10,000 worth of their overflow on the venture as a consultant. will consist of five sections, will The acquisition involved nine In" from the score from "Hair" business to Astral each year. Near Completion include a pneumatic tube sys- branch divisions of B & B, con- has pointed the way for record "This," she said, "would Miss Jones said, "The project tem for processing orders, and sistine of four full -line vending companies to take songs out of amount to just over $800 a is finally at a point where it is will be ready for occupancy operations and five music and the context of the show for a month, which is a drop in the capable of completion as to Nov. 15, 1969. amusement operating companies. disk payoff. bucket for the large companies. financing and general planning It is, in fact, much less than the within three to six weeks, at cost of producing a single rec- which point construction can Film Division ord." begin. We have already ac- Of A&M Folded Publishers Rep Co. Set Miss Jones, who has been quired studio space in an ex- working overtime on this angle cellently located building at the LOS ANGELES - A&M has of her fund-raising drive, is con- corner of 106th Street and Park dissolved its motion picture di- fident that the big name com- Avenue, and are about just ready vision, A&M Productions, with By Amos Productions panies will support her venture. to go. Perry Leff departing to form She feels that they have nothing "The Small Business Admini- his own film company. LOS ANGELES-Amos Pro- WCPA operates fluctuates with to lose, and everything to gain. tration, which has watched the the in ductions has formed a pub- the amount of the weekly or "This company," she said, will A&M formed division lishers association to market monthly retainer. A larger re- development of the project with May 1968 to get into dramatic complement, rather than con- interest, now songs by out-of-town firms tainer is reflected in a smaller stands ready to feature films. The division had flict with the business of the lend its influence and name as Red Steagall, songwriter and mechanical rate. acquired several properties but already established houses." well as to guarantee 90 per former publisher, is a partner has had never got into filming. The Amos organization has So far, Miss Jones cent of a $300,000 bank loan its in the company and adminis- begun to concentrate on going meetings with many key figures to the project. The only quali- trator. out after songs and has desig- at most of the leading desk fication respecting this guar- Faith's 2 Covers Firms represented include nated Dick Burns, the a&t co- companies, and she reports that antee is that private funds be Combine Music, Blue Crest ordinator, as the publishing con- reaction to her proposal has invested and that the same bear Continued from page 10 to Music, Shelby Singleton's firms tact man. Burns' job is to visit been favorable. According a given ratio to the total capital made aware that there are two and the firms run by the Glasser publishers for material, not wait Miss Jones, those companies requirements. The ratio can he expressed covers available. Ertegun said Brothers. until they come to his company. which have already a little as 15 per cent, depend- that distributor orders were run- One reason for the creation ing on the source of the private ning four to one in favor of of the firm is to seek out songs funds." the non -nude cover. for West Coast artists, especially FRED FOX ASSERTS Commenting on the need for for the stable of names which a black -owned -and -operated re- Putting the new cover to- Amos Productions records for its cording studio in the city, Miss gether delayed the album pro- clients. Is Price Jones said it would open doors duction by two to three days, Amos also operates its own Theater Paying and offer positions previously he said. Both covers would also with the same name closed to black engineers, ar- be available in the tape version for which it has begun an ag- rangers, songwriters and mu- of the LP. gressive campaign to go to the For 'Immorality' Plays sicians. publisher for material. Associated with Miss Jones on would have Terms by which West Coast NEW YORK - "The lower- tion of their success, the project are Horace Ott, ar- a fraction of vice-president of Inter- Publishers Association (WCPA) ing and demoralization of pub- achieved small ranger, who has worked with Tyrell, their acceptance if they had national Tape Cartridge Corp.; works with firms are generally lic tastes with emphasis on sex , Dionne Warwick been produced today. He added. as well as leading artists like for a fixed fee plus a share of and its forms of perversion is and other leading entertainment "How much poorer we would , Johnny Mathis, the mechanicals on each record inhibiting the writing and pro- personalities; Chris Jones, na- be in the musical theater with- Peter, Paul & Mary, Jimi Hen- obtained. An example of one duction of more substantive and tional r&b promotion director out such great musical produc- with Scepter Records; Jimmy drix Experience and others. working relationship is $125 a higher quality plays which will tions as 'Brigadoon,' 'The Sound week plus half a cent mechanical. the years." endure through of Music,' 'My Fair Lady,' That's the opinion of Fred Fox, The idea for the formation 'West Side Story,' 'Fiddler on head of Sam Fox Music, pub- of the publishing firm belongs the Roof,' and 'Man of La Tone Into TV Production- such Broadway show to Amos president Jimmy Bowen. lisher of Mancha,' which have reflected scores as of La Mancha" Once the company gets going "Man the progressive nature and good- and in Disk Production it plans soliciting accounts from "Brigadoon." ness of man, rather than his Expands New York and European small It is questionable, said Fox, evil side and the bizarre inter- - Tone Distributors through Atco Records, and Span- who cannot to companies afford whether the great musicals of pretation of life." has entered the TV production ish albums by Vicky Roig, Juan open a Los Angeles office. the past two decades which According to Fox, there is no field and is also expanding its Legido, and Germain Garcia for The fee system by which have endured without diminu- record production arm-Marlin encouragement for writers to the Tone Latino label. Marlin write and producers to produce Productions. Part of the expan- I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I( I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Productions also just finished great musicals approximating the sion, according to president caliber of these six outstanding, Henry Stone is a new 8 -track the soundtrack of "The Grove," PHI LA. permanent musicals. recording studio next door to starring Rita Hayworth, which CONTRACT GIVES the plant. features Steve Alaimo singing It's Fox's belief that the ac- distribution the title tune. Alaimo, besides cent on sex and the economic The TV production arm has producing for Marlin, is signed ORCHESTRA TOP MINIMA factors that have increased the wrapped up 52 half-hour color to the recently formed Mylstone PHILADELPHIA-Philadelphia Orchestra musicians will re- increased the shows-"Stars Over Miami"-in cost of production, Management firm Stone created ceive minimums of $16,040 next season, the highest minimum pay price of tickets and is pricing Spanish, and is already on the in conjunction with Herb Myers. of any symphony orchestra musicians in the U. S. under terms of the musical play out of the mar- air in New York, Corpus Chris Other acts managed by Myl- a three-year contract agreed upon on Monday (14). ket, are turning producers and Hollywood, Miami, and Puerto stone include the Mercy and The new pact will increase the minima to $16,560 in 1970-71 writers away from the musical Rico. Clarence Reid. and $17,080 in 1971-72. The minimum for the 1968-69 season was play. The record production wing $14,350, with $2,000 in recording fees and $12,350 in salary. The "Unless," said Fox, "the has scored with several chart Writing for the publishing recording fee figure will remain the same. moral values and standards records, including disks by the wings of Sherlyn Music and The second highest paid orchestra in the country will be the change drastically for the bet- Mercy, Kane's Cousins and Kimlyn Music are Jack Sigler Boston Symphony, with members getting $16,000, of which $1,000 ter, and a way can be found to Clarence Reid. Other action in- Jr., Clarence Reid, David Brown, will be in recording fees. Both the Philadelphia and Boston record overcome the rising cost of cludes an LP starring John Lee Bobby Birdwatcher and Willie for RCA. The New York Philharmonic is third in salaries with production, it is quite likely that Hooker for Stax, a Jerry Wil- Clarke. $15.040 minimum pay, including $1,000 in recording fees. The we will be plagued with the liams single for Cotillion, sin- Just signed to record for Mar- Philharmonic records for Columbia. The Philharmonic and the Boston type of pathetic trivia which is gles by , George & lin is the rock group Magic, will he in the final years of their contracts next season. being presented to the public Gwen, and J.P. Robinson to be which is being produced by Al- today." released on the Alston label aimo and Brad Shapiro. 70 JULY 26, 1969, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com