D — SCANDINAVIA ARGENTIN> DENMARK The recent price increase (10%, effective from December 1, 1 A Swedish language recording, “Sant ar Livet” (You Can Have Her), tops seemed to hurt record sales, according to several diskeries. Howeve the Danish charts tnis week. It is the first time in almost ten years that a happen because of the Christmas season. Thus, the real effect will i Swedish language recording has managed to become a bestseller in Denmark. in a couple of months. The general opinion is that sales will be as g Danish label Tono is changing its distributor in Sweden, it was reported. were before, and maybe even better. Cupol of Stockholm has taken over the Swedish distribution of this label as a Rodriquez Luque, head of Disc Jockey, has lots of news; Rosai result of the negotiations between Harry Larsen of Tono and Helge Roundquist records (Araya is Disc Jockey’s top seller) have been already of Cupol Records. Europe (by Palette) and will be put on sale by King Records in Ja Dick Annotico, international sales director of Liberty Records, in Copenhagen who had been Argentina’s top disk jockey until he stai’ted his owi to talk biz with the EMI people. He arrived here from Stockholm. EMI here return to the mike, in Mar del Plata. He will start a program Ss takes over distribution of the Liberty label in 1962. Sunday nights, on LU9. Disc Jockey’s sales manager, Mr. Porte A new LP with Karin Nellemose reading three well-known fairy tales by completed a tour of Brazil, Peru and Uruguay, where he visited H. C. Andersen has been released by Columbia. It is a recording in the Danish representatives, and studied the form of increasing the cooperati language. them and his company. Los Cinco Latinos have already finished their tour, and will st NORWAY of performances on Channel 13 (“Casino Philips”). In Jan. and ! Norsk A/S Philips has rushed out the Swedish Anita Lindblom recording of star their own show. “You Can Have Her,” in Swedish titled “Sant ar Livet (Such is Life).” The Luis Arriola Sirvent of Sicamericana reports very good sales of recording is released on the Fontana label. tember,” waxed by Billy Vaughn, in the province of Mendoza. T “Iwan Iwanowitsch,” very popular German song, now on the charts in been also recorded by Jose Carli of Columbia. This record is alri Sweden, has been recorded in Norwegian by Nora Brockstedt on Karusell. The market. tune is backed with “Stenka Rasin,” and old Russian folk song. Philips has released a new single by Fetiche, Peruvian songstress Metronome has rushed out Bobby Darin’s “Multiplication” on Atlantic here, cess in Argentina. The titles are “Fina Estampa” and “Tiempo.” the song from the motion picture “Come September” is expected to be a top are also part of Fetiche’s second LP. seller in a short time. Lucio Milena has finished the music for the film “Mate Cosido” £ Newcomers on records here are Bjorn and Bjorn, making their debut with it with his own orchestra. He will probably write the music for a : Norwegian versions of “Pepito” and “Amore Amore” on the Triola label. film, which will show Argentina’s main theatre and night club ar A Norwegian song, “Kalle Batsmann Fra Lillesand (Charlie The Sailor From After the success of “Escandalo,” Edami publishers is prepa Lillesand),” recorded by Jan Holland for Columbia here, has been doing very bolero feature; “El Loco.” Orfeo has already released the Javier S well in initial Christmas sales in Norway. and Odeon will record it by Fabio Etcheverry, Colombian singer Argentina. Another “strong” song is “Por un Mani,” which has SWEDEN Pepe Reyes (also for Odeon Pops) and is running very well. RCA has stai’ted the tour of a great campaign here in combination with Odeon is making efforts to have a good portion of the “Selectio Paul Anka in Feb. 1962. Anka, who becomes an RCA artist at start of 1962, While R(i!A and Columbia made good profit “mixing” national will have his first LP for his new label at the time of his visit. artists in special albums that received strong promotion, Odeon Polydor expects a lot from its just released “Sehnsucht Nach Samoa (Long- trouble getting authorization from some of the labels it represent ing b’or Samoa),” songstress Lolita. a German recording with the Austrian its artists in these selections. The “Favulozo,” Odeon’s newest I United Artists has rushed out an LP with the music from the film “Paris strong progress on this line; Del Shannon, Brenda Lee, Helen Shaj Blues,” very popular in Sweden at the moment. String-A-Longs are some of big names of this really powerful (sa New sheet music from Belinda (Scandinavia) AB includes “Latta Skyar Undoubtedly, this album will be a good help for all these artists (What A Sky)” with lyrics in Swedish by Adele, and “Kom Snart Igen (My Fermata has acquired the rights of “Irma la Douce,” the mu£ Friend The Sea),” Swedish lyric by Ben Hur. that has been represented at the Embassy Casino of Buenos Aire Publisher Lennart Reuterskibld back from biz visit in Germany. Publisher success. Felix Stahl preparing to leave for United States he plans to be in where New Columbia has reopened the “Entre” series, after six years of s York for biz talks during the first half of Jan. releases are records by the New York Philharmonic Orch, Marel Helge Roundquist, head of Grammofon AB Cupol, back from biz visit in Oslo Lucio Milena. and Copenhagen. He has signed contract with Danish Tono as Swedish distribu- According to latest statistics, the number of TV sets in Buenc tor for this label. increased to 840,000. As the estimated audience per set is 4.1, 1 Almost everybody in the Swedish record biz Dec. for a lunch at met 8, Ham- audience is now 3,500,000 viewers, an all-time record for public en burger Bors. It the local was magazine Show Business which invited the pro- in Argentina. ducers and of all also A&R men record companies to this lunch, at which While the rest of the world is looking with interest at the Twis members of the press and several company presidents were seen. musicians and artists don’t seem very much interested. Some pi Commercial station Radio Nord, operating from ship outside Swedish a already collecting Twist material for release, but it seems that i' water,10. had to stop its activity a couple of days recently and enter Swedish long time to make the rhythm popular. The main trouble is territory seeking refuge as a result of a hax’d storm. According to Swedish yet; the only one existing ( Checker’s records are not released here law, the authorities would have had the right to confiscate the ship if it entered is Columbia’s “Bailando el Twist” by the Mexican group Los Teer Swedish territory in any other situation than an emergency. However, the au- CHILE thorities considered the situation as “an case” the emergency and by now ship The Vina del Mar III Song Festival is awakening big interest a is back in international water and is broadcasting again. and writers in Chile and other countries. There will be an internat ing of artists and publishers and representatives of recording c Denmark's Best Sellers other Latin American nations. The jury of the Festival (compi Sigall, Ricardo Garcia, Izidor Handler, Tomas Eastman, Sara Vi 1. Sant ar Livet (You Can Have Her) (Anita Lindblom/Fontana) Sweden guita de Rodriquez, Valentin Trujillo and diskery reps Hern Nouzeilles and a Philips rep) is alre \ Music Camilo Fernandez, Ruben 2. Little Sister (Elvis Presley/RCA) last details of the event. Belinda (Scandinavia) AB on the , 3. I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door (Eddie Hodges/Cadence) Belinda (Scandi- The latest craze among Chilean teen artists is to sing old Chile “1 navia) AB in English. This movement was started by Danny Chilean with 4. Romeo (Petula Clark/Pye) Wilhelm Hansen Musikforlag of the biggest hits nowadays. Now, Peter Rock has recorded 5. Violetta (Ray Adams/Fontana) Stockholms Musikproduktion Rojo,” with a new arrangement. This waxing seems a hit-to-be, 6. Mandalay (The Four Jacks/Odeon) released by RCA in the States. Thus, USA record fans will be at 7. How Wonderful To Know (The Clifters/Philips) Wilhelm Hansen Musik- Chilean singer in English, for the first time. forlag Marty Cosens and Baby Bell are coming to Santiago. Both Arge 8. La Paloma (Dario Campeotto/Sonet) Winckler-Produktion will stay in Chile for a couple of weeks. Cosens will perform at F 9. Cinderella (Paul Anka/ABC-Paramount) Bens Music AB and the Carioka Theatre. Michael (The Highwaymen/United Artists) Multitone Sell' 10. Norway's Best Sellers Argentina's Best 1. Y Los Cielos Lloraron (And The Heavens Cried) (Rag 1. When The Girl (Cliff Richard/Columbia) Stockholms Musik- In Your Arms Vilar (Columbia); Ronnie Savoy (MGM); Raul Lavie (RC produktion Farres (Disc Jockey). 2. Michael (The Highwaymen/United Artists) Multitone 2,3. Escandalo (Pham-Edami) Roberto Yanes (Columbia); Rc 3. Walking Happiness (Helen Shapiro/Columbia) Musikforlag Back To Norsk (Disc Jockey); Javier Solis (Orfeo); Los Chapanecos, 4. I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door (Eddie Hodges/Cadence) Belinda (Scandi- (Odeon Pops); Marco Antonio Muniz, Antonio Prieto navia) AB Abriles (Philips); Raul Verdier. 5. Putti Putti (Jay Epae/Mercury) Musikk-Huset A/S 2,3. Presumida (High Class Baby) (Aberbach—Fermata) Tei 6. Big Bad John (Jimmy Dean/Philips) Columbia); Johnny Tedesco (RCA) 7.