WB / Reprise Steps Up Drive In Major Artist Deals. Col. Multi - Media Gift Giving Promo Its Most Exten- sive Yet . Do Kids Understand Rock Lyrics? La- bels Force Is- December 6, 1969 sue On Singles: Steppen wolf 751 Mgr ... RCA Underscores Premium, Disk & Tape OH Cash Bo,. 'Journals' In Anger, Sacher Posts . Chess Ex- pansion For 70's Keys Top Sales Confab . JUDY COLLINS: ELEKTRA-FLYING INT'L SECTION BEGINS ON PAGE 65 Karen young The Byrds."Easy Riderf America has been waiting for them both: When Peter Fonda asked Roger McGuinn, lead Byrd, to write the score and sing the title song for his film, it was no accident."Easy Rider" is about a new direction in America. The Byrds are a new direction in American music. Their new single, "Wasn't Born to Follow 4990, is also from the movie. And it's already number 1 They've also got a new album that's on KXOA in Sacramento, causing a lot of excitement. and number 16 on KFRC The Byrds. Bigger than riApyRos in San Francisco —"Easy ever. And ever setting Rider" country — and the trends. EAsY Eq spreading fast. On Columbia Records'9 BALLADARMSTRONGI,NJ ESUSOF" EASY A CLUDING:LIOPIINR/DERNOW A OILND INC 14 1' /NL SAMP IT'S 44 OVER , BABY BOLLULE IS JUSTALR/GFIT '!0.' • 41Ip",ip HC 1228 4-track reel-to-reel stereo tape 18 10 0810 8-track stereo tape cartr,dge 16 10 0810 stereo tape cassette • ', WI, 1,15 THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC-RECORD WEEKLY VOL. XXXI — Number 19/December 6, 1969 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 OSTRO W Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Erlitr)r in Chief EDITORIAL MARV GOODMAN Assoc. Editor ALLAN RINDE West Coast Editor JOHN KLEIN BOB COHEN BRUCE HARRIS EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER, New York Business Of Music HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood W OODY HARDING Art Director During The 1960's COIN MACHINE 8. VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager ED KELLEHER, Assistant CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago LISSA MORRO W, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD The business of making the music the catalyst for the birth of product, but CAMILLE CO MPASIO HARVEY GELLER business tick in time to a $1 billion who frequently was the mentor and 29 E. Madison St. 6430 Sunset Blvd. market virtually changed the indus- supplier of talent itself, the publisher of Chicago 2, III. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (312) Fl 6-7272 Phone: (213) 465-2129 try's shape during the 1960's. the material recorded—either as the The decade opened with the inex- writer himself or as the entrepreneur of ENGLAND a music publishing unit—and a man of DORRIS LAND orable course of rack influence on sales 3 Cork Street volume, largely through its ability to so many other directions that he intro- London, Wl, England channel regularly-priced product to duced the oft-abused word "complex" Te!: 01-734-2374 outlets never previously considered as to the business. Naturally, firms of this appropriate to the industry's non-bud- scope and size found themselves ripe ITALY HOLLAND get, non-cutout inventory. While this for acquisition. This took the form of MARIO PANVINI ROSATI PAUL ACKET Golleria Possarella 2 Theresiastraat 59-63 wholesaling revolution was taking place outright purchases of an indie produ- Milan (Italy) The Hague — and perhaps in view of it — there cer's entire operation or the formation Tel: 790990 Tel: 837700 came a vast influx of corporate interest of a producer-run label within the or- GERMANY ganizational structure of another rec- CHRISTIAN TOERSLEFF BELGIUM in taking part in the burgeoning eco- 2 Homburg 56 Etienne Smet nomic impact of record sales. Thus, ord company. Hugo Verrieststraat 87 Leuchtturmeg 30 Sint.Niklaas (mass) began the still unabated mergers- The wide penetration of recorded Tel: 24-91-94-86 Tel: (03) 76.48.80 and-acquisitions mania, which saw product, including the emergence of BRAZIL PEDRO FRAZAO key independent record and music the tape cartridge field as a medium of AUSTRALIA DE VASCONCELOS RON TUDOR publishing operations move into the exposure to the point that it was doing Rua Frei Caneca, 11, Apt. 13 8 Francis St., Soo Paulo, S.P., Brazil conglomerate picture of often non-mu- about 25% of industry sales by the end Heathmont, Victoria Tel: 239.40 18 Tel: 870-5677 sic oriented companies. Swept up, too, of the 1960's; the concentration of the ARGENTINA in this reflection of American business means of distribution and creativity in- MIGUEL SMIRNOFF MEXICO Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 SALVADOR ARREGU1N life as a whole were wholesalers them- to a handful of multi-direction giants Buenos Aires, Argentina ANTONIO SENS selves, so that as the 1960's came to all served to meet the needs of a true Tel: 89-6796 Tiber 100 — 7 y 8 Pisos Mexico 5, D.F. a close, a few companies—some of growth industry over the past decade. CANADA Tel: 25-39-52 11-62-96 WALT GREALIS them based in the music business, But, as Cash Box pointed out in its re- RPM others not—controlled virtually the en- cent editorial, "Age of Upheaval," the 1560 Bayview Ave. JAPAN challenge of the 70's might well be Toronto 17, Ontario Adv. Mgr. tire distribution pattern of records. Tel: (416) 89-2166 SHOICHI KUSANO Before the acquisition-and-merger the industry's ability to retain control Editorial Mgr. of its destiny in light of considerable FRANCE MORIHIRO NAGATA activity reached its peak, another force CHRISTOPHE IZARD 466 Higfashi-Olzumi —creative in origin, but profound in its shifts of management, much of it a 24, Rue Octave Feuillet Neirimaku direct consequence of corporate par- Paris XVI Tel: 870-9358 Tokyo impact on the conduct of the business —came on the scene and held sway ents who sometimes take their adopted SUBSCRIPTION RATES $25 per year anywhere in the U.S.A. over the majority of product (and hits) children for granted and cause con- Published weekly by Cash Box, 1780 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019. Second class postage paid at Hartford, Conn. 06105 flowing from label operations. This was fusion and inactivity at key contributors U.S.A. to the well-being of the music busi- Copyright 1969 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. 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Copyright under Universal Copyright Convention. influential of whom not only provided ness. • • • CashicncTOP100 or csi vu COME TOGETHER MIDNIGHT COWBOY WONDERFUL WORLD, BEAUTIFUL Beatles-Apple 2654 1 1 t-0,, ,tete & Tee her llA ',05rr4 42 51 • PEOPLE AND WHEN I DIE 35 I GUESS THE LORD MUST BE Jimmy Cliff -A&M 1146 79 — • Blood Swe irs-Columbia 45008 3 4 IN NEW YORK CITY 68 FANCY TAKE A LETTER MARIA Nilsson RCA 0261 36 40 Bobbie Gentry Capitol 2675 75 78 • B Greaves Atco 6714 4 6 SUNDAY MORNIN' 69 COWBOY CONVENTION NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE Oliver-Crewe 337 45 62 ,thio Express Buddah 147 71 84 • Steam Fontana 1667 7 10 A BRAND NEW ME YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON Nilson Pickett Atlantic 2682 81 — 5 WEDDING BELL BLUES Dusty Springfield-Atlantic 2685 49 59 POINT IT OUT ; ath Dimension Soul City 779 2 DON'T CRY DADDY -,,noky Robinson & Miracles Tamla 54189 LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Elvis Presley-RCA 9768 5‘, I'M SO GLAD I FELL FOR YOU Peter. Paul & Mary W13/7 Arts 7340 10 12 • 39 YOU GOTTA PAY THE PRICE David Ruffin-Motown 1158 FORTUNATE SON Gloria Taylor Silver Fox 14 43 52 73 SHE BELONGS TO ME • Creedence Clearwater Revival-Fantasy 634 9 9 40 SEE RUBY FALL Rick Nelson-Decca 732550 76 80 HOLLY HOLY Johnny Cash-Columbia 45020 41 44 WHEN JULIE COMES AROUND • Neil Diamond-Uni 55175 11 13 41 MIDNIGHT Cutf•Links•Decca 32592 85 — 9 ELI'S COMING s Yost & Classics IV Imperial 66424 46 53 75 VOLUNTEERS -tterson Airplane-RCA 0245 83 85 •ee Dog Night-Dunhill 4215 8 8 COLD TURKEY WINTER WORLD OF LOVE 10 SOMETHING Plar.,tic Ann Rind Annie 1R1 51 50 I Igeibert Humperdinck-Parrot 40044 89 — Beatles-Apple 2654 6 2 I'LL HOLD OUT MY HAND 77 LADY-0 YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, Clique White Whale 333 s2 bl Turtles-White Whale 334 82 88 • YESTERDAY EARLY IN THE MORNING I'M TIRED Stevie Wonder Tarnla 54188 14 18 Vanity Fare Page One 027 54 65 Savoy Brown-Parrot 40042 99 94 12 BACKFIELD IN MOTION WHOLE LOTTA LOVE 79 WALKING IN THE RAIN Mel & Tim-Bamboo 107 13 17 ecl Zeppelin-Atlantic 2690 58 68 80 HAPPY Jay & Americans-UA 50605 86 89 13 SMILE A LITTLE SMILE FOR ME KOZMIC BLUES Paul Anka•RCA 9767 87 90 iyalg Machine-Congress 6000 5 5 Jams Joplin-Columbia 45023 56 66 SOMEDAY WE'LL BE TOGETHER 81 I STARTED LOVING YOU AGAIN 47 JINGO Al Martino-Capitol 2674 84 86 Supremes-Motown 1156 21 29 Santana-Columbia 45010 37 37 82 GOIN' IN CIRCLES CHERRY HILL PARK • 48 TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS :sot Distinction-RCA 0204 80 23 Billy Joe Royal-Columbia 44902 20 24 Glen Campbell Capitol 2659 18 15 RUBBERNECKIN' 16 BABY I'M FOR REAL 49 UNDUN Elvis Presley-RCA 9768 ..,,onals-Soul 35066 16 20 '..."ho RCA 0195 26 28 84 DUBUQUE BLUES 17 BABY IT'S YOU Association•WB/7 Arts 7349 88 91 Dunhill 4206 12 7 50 MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC Marna Lass Dunhill 4214 25 27 85 DON'T LET HIM TAKE YOUR 18 DOWN ON THE CORNER LOVE FROM ME AIN'T IT FUNKY NOW PT.