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oe!?c* NEWSPAPER A Billboard Publication The International Music -Record -Tape Newsweekly April 1, 1978 $1.95 (U.S.) Pickwick's Smith Will 250,000 See Broad Sales Base Chair IMIC Session Cal Jam Il And Growth Seen LOS ANGELES -C. Charles France; Peter Meisel, Intro Gebr. Smith, president of Pickwick Inter- Meisel, Germany; and Ralph Peer Set History national, will chair the session en- II, Peer -Southern, U.S. By PAUL GREIN titled "Harnessing The Computer: Other topics will include "The In- ONTARIO, Calif. -An estimated At NARM Confab Bar Coding, Newest Answer To In- dependent Label: Hope Of The Fu- 250,000 paying concertgoers ventory Control" at IMIC '78, the (Continued on page 78) crowded into the Ontario Motor By JOHN SIPPEL Billboard sponsored International Speedway here March 18 for Cal NEW ORLEANS -The record /tape industry presently has a far broader Music Industry Conference in Jam II to become the largest paying and different age group base than previously reckoned, atten,lee6-r'rARM's Venice, May 1 -4. audience in the history of U.S. rock 20th annual convention here learned. Population growth estimates project Other sessions firmed are New Brand Names No concerts and the largest rock even more optimistic sales plateaus Techniques In Talent Negotiations," crowd -paying or not -ever in Cali- as 1985 nears. Bar coding of albums chaired by Frederic N. Gaines, at- Lure For Discos fornia. Publishers is imminent and the sooner the bet- torney, Bushkin, Kopelson, Gaims The previous record -holder, Mull ter, all segments of the business re- By RADCLIFFE JOE & Gaines; "Bridging The Gap Be- claims Sandy Feldman, a copro- port. And audio playback makers tween East And West," chaired by NEW YORK- Primary equip- moter of the show, was the first Cal Syndicator Offer are pledging their continued cooper- Paul Drew, broadcast consultant. ment users of the four -year old, Jam in 1974, which drew 200,000 ation to the software industry. which By IS HOROWITZ & Panelists at that session will include multibillion -dollar disco industry paying attendees. also echoes its support. Des Brown, Chrysalis DOUG HALL U.K. have not yet fallen victims to the Most rock historians agree that Other points also emerging at last Michael Stewart, president, Inter - NEW YORK brand name syndrome. while upwards of 300,000 gathered -Music publishers week's meet: recorded music mer- world Music Group, will chair the are mulling a pilot offer from a sup- According to Billboard's 1978 at Woodstock in upstate New York chants and makers are maximizing panel "Movies And Music: Who plier pro- Disco Sourcebook annual survey, in 1969, more than 100,000 of them of format syndicated radio their advertising and merchandising Whom More ?" Needs "brand name," the yardstick most were gate- crashers. grams that would pay $6 a year for savvy, home video entertainment soft - Salvatore Chiantia, director, Na- American consumers use to deter- Another festival that year which each song transferred to tape. ware will sell through record /tape out - If set tional Music Publishers Assn., will mine quality in shopping, has yet to drew 300,000 fans occurred at the accepted, the proposal could lets (Billboard, March 25, 1978) and an industry -wide would chair the session "The Young Pub - manifest itself in the buying patterns Altamont Speedway near San Fran- pattern that more and more retail stores are using add well over $100,000 to videocassette to lisher Views The Present And The of disco equipment users. cisco, but the event, which was co- annually playback units buf- publisher income from this new rev- fer merchandising. Family -owned Future." Panelists will include Geof- The result is a highly competitive sponsored by the Rolling Stones and enue source. retail businesses, long the backbone frey Heath, Heath Levy, U.K.; Kuni market demanding constant innova- the Grateful Dead, was a free concert. Meanwhile, presi- Muri, Japan; Roland Kluger, Ro- tion, which is in turn manifested in And while 600,000 converged on Jim Schulke, of the industry, are on the upturn. dent of Schulke Radio Productions, Well- attended 'land Kluger Music, Benelux; Gil- the extravaganza of sound and light (Continued on page 46) c6nducted and bert Marouani, Les Eds. Marouani, (Continued on page 64) (Continued on page 78) (Continued on page 32) Tribunal To Set College Radio Rates By MILDRED HALL WASHINGTON -The Copyright traditional campus non -profit Royalty Tribunal has been asked to exemption for music use by college establish reasonable music use rates, radio stations, and in live campus based on student enrollment, for concerts, where an artist is paid for those college radio stations not cov- the performance. ered in present ASCAP and SESAC The present problem is with music licenses negotiated with educators license coverage for a range of col- and the NECAA. lege radio stations, from small The new copyright law ends the (Continued on page 94) SESAC Campus License Draws Fire By ED HARRISON LOS ANGELES -A new contro- lege and Univ. Business Officers, versy has arisen in the continuing Assn. of College, Univ. and Corn- saga of campus performance royal- munity Arts Administrators and ties, this time between the educa- Assn. of College Unions- Inter- THE STATLER BROTHERS' "ENTERTAINERS ... ON AND OFF THE REC- Kris Kristotterson considers BILLY SWAN one of the finest songwriter/ is ORD." On Mercury Records and Tapes. SRM -1 -5007. (Advertisement) tional organizations and SESAC. national feel unreasonable. musicians around today, and Billy proves it on YOU'RE OK-I'M OK, his At the core of the controversy is The SESAC license was the first to A&M debut album. One of the original members of Kris's touring band, SESAC's blanket license which the be sent to the colleges. Accom- Billy will open the show this time out on the upcoming Kris & Rita Euro- NECAA, American Council on panying the license was a cover let - pean tour and perform his highly infectious new album. (SP 4686) ON Education, National Assn. of Col- (Continued on page 78) A&M RECORDS & TAPES. (Advertisement) (Advertisement) MICHAEL What lines like RANKS kind of man writes that? NF ïì A man whose world -view is different than most. NINES funnier, sharper- truer. "You threw me, you walked right up to me. Michael Franks. My follicles prayed it was true. Ask any of the host of people who came on Don't panic -we're Pure Organic, board for Art of Tea, Sleeping Gypsy and "Popsicle Toes." Or Melissa Manchester, Manhattan II No more Medicated Goo. Transfer and the Carpenters who've all recorded Now I've found me the perfect shampoo. Franks tunes. And it's you."* They'll tell you here's one man who really writes in Sea4n of Ina Pedeot Shampoo his own ticket. 1978 WarnerTanrrlane RAnen.np Corp and Mtseiewpp. Mud Co All Rights Reserved Used b permnaan Burchfield Nines. Michael Franks' best ticket yet. .!!n On Warner Bros. records and tapes. UK 3167 Produced by Tommy LiPuma. www.americanradiohistory.com a EN AB-12354 ` Fun with feet! .. WHA -KOO does it to your ears, too! Latest single is "Fabulous Dancer," from their es smash LP Berkshire. It's edge -of- your-seat 'n' roll. Wonderful for your a. rock ear /foot coordination. ON ABC RECORDS AND GET TAPES. Engineered by Ken Caillat. Produced by Ken Caillat for Big Wha -Koo Limited. Ferris A. Ashley, Executive Producer. R E C O R D S AA ABC DELIVERS TO43 www.americanradiohistory.com General News 3 Labels Find Color Disks Draw Attention, Sales Cost Factor Weakened By Technology Advancements By ROMAN KOZAK NEW YORK -Record com- Sparks and others have appeared on panies, rediscovering colored and colored disks. Releases by Meat pictured disks, are finding that color Loaf, Crawler, Bob Welch, the Jack - attracts attention and helps in sales. sons, Rufus, and others have been New advances in technology may turned into "Pic Disks" and have make colored disks almost as cheap proven to be very successful promo- and practical as black ones. tional items. Richardson Co. in Madison, "There are color records freaks Conn. a leading supplier of raw ma- out there who will buy anything if terials for record pressings, has de- it's in color," says Philip Page, label veloped a new clear polystyrene ma- manager for Visa Records, a new la- terial, P300A, which can be dyed bel owned and distributed by Jem any color. The company claims Records. P300A is as quiet as black vinyl, Jem distributes import and new comparable in price, and can be wave items, many of them appearing used for LPs as well as singles. on colored plastic. "We have had At the same time Fitzgerald -Hart- dealers tell us that anything that ley is marketing "Pic Disks" which comes out in color they will be able reproduce the cover art right on the to sell." disk. Because of their relative high Colored disks are not new, but costs the picture disks have so far there have been piobtëmswit them been used only -for promotional pur- in the past since they would be noisy - poses, but the company is working and would wear down fast. Black on bringing the new disks to the con- records have been of better quality sumer. because the graphite used to color In recent months releases by such them black, makes the record CULT FOLLOWERS -Fans of Columbia Records' Blue Oyster Cult scramble to have copies of the group's latest LP artists as ELO, Iggy Pop, Dave Ma- signed by members of the band at an autograph session in the Record World outlet at Long Island's Roosevelt Field son, Elvis Presley, Bebop Deluxe, (Continued on page 10) mall.