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COIN MACHINE SEPTEMBER 21, 1968 SEVENTY -FOURTH Y R $1.00 PAGES 53 TO 63

The 7# International Music -Record Newsweekly 7 Montreux Disk Prize to Ford & Motorola in New British Decca's 'Electra' RCA in Drive By MIKE HENNESSEY Pact; Join By LEE ZHITO MONTREUX, -The don on behalf of CBS, and to British Decca recording of Rich- Peter Andry, Essistant manager DETROIT -The Ford Motor cartridge system and is ex- Motorola will jointly stage a ard Strauss' "Electra," starring of EMI's international artists de- Co. has extended its Stereo 8 pected to quash periodic rumors giant in -store car dealer promo - Birgit Nilsson and conducted by partment, on behalf of EMI player contract with Motorola's that Ford is considering other tion aimed at achieving the , won the gold London. Automotive Products Division tape systems. Ford's commit- broadest consumer exposure of trophy in the Montreux Inter- Gelatt Presides for another three years, and is ment appears certain to add the cartridge concept as yet at- national Record Awards, inau- In addition, the 10 -man in- joining Motorola and RCA in a significant impetus to the al- tempted at the automotive level. gurated here Sept. 10 during the ternational jury, presided over massive nationwide Stereo 8 ready burgeoning 8 -track mar- Display Center 23d Montreux Music Festival. by Roland Gelatt, associate pub- promotion campaign. Thus, ket. This will consist of a car Winner of the silver award lisher of Higt Fidelity which Motorola will continue to sup- In addition, Ford, RCA and showroom demonstration and was 's CBS is sponsoring the annual rec- ply 8 -track CARtridge play- display center spotlighting recording of Mahler's "Sixth ord awards in conjunction with backs for all lines in the Ford IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Stereo 8. Ford will make avail - Symphony" with the the festival organizers, unani- Motor Cc.. car family through able to all its dealers a promo - Philharmonic Orchestra and mously awards the diploma of the 1971 model year. COL. HANDLING tional package consisting of an the bronze award went to John honor for a significant contribu- The Ford -Motorola con- (Continued on page 68) Ogdon's EMI recording of Bu- tion to the art of recording to tract is seen as an important EPIC IN N.Y., N.J. soni's " Concerto" with the Leopold Stokowski, who was reaffirmation of the car manu- NEW YORK -The distribu- Royal Philharmonic under Dan- 8 (Con.inued on page 4) facturer's faith in the -track tion of in two key Disk Industry iel Revenaugh. New- The awards, in the form of markets, New York and ark, N. J., is being taken over plaques bearing replicas of the Records Aiding Biafra Castle of Chillon, where the Vending Firms Scramble to by the Columbia branch operation. In Newark, By FRED KIRBY presentation ceremony was held, back the were presented by Peter Usti- Columbia has bought nov to producer John Mordler Cobble Up jukebox Routes inventory from Apex- Martin. NEW YORK - The record Shortly, the same will be done industry pitched in with talent, on behalf of British Decca, to By BRUCE WEBER Malverne, Ernest Fleischman of CBS Lon- with the inventory of money and other assistance to -Large, pub- under the ARA corporate um- which handles the line in New aid the starving people of Bia- lic -owned operating firms are brella he include Nickabob York. The New York-New Jer- fra through Steve Paul, who re- Writers' Retreat scrambling to acquire music Sales Co., Visalia; Kings County sey combined markets total named his Scene the Biafra for routes. In the latest competition Amusement Co., Hanford; ABC about 14 per cent of the na- three weeks of weekdays. Set Up by Elektra to buy jukebox firms, Automatic Music Service, Fresno; Auto- tional picture. Other independ- Some of the top artists in the Retailers of America, Inc. matic Music Service, Fresno; ent distributors have been as- industry performed at the 218 - By ELIOT TIEGEL (ARA) has purchased six Madera Music Co., Madera, and sured that no additional changes seat West Side club, including LOS ANGELES - Elektra Southern companies Peterson Music Co., San Diego. are contemplated. Joan Baez, whose opening night and is `looking at 10 other (Continued on page 74) has created a commune -type (Continued on page 53) IIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUI IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIUIII environment, with a recording companies," according to ARA facility, in the wilderness of spokesmen. Paxton, Calif., as a creative re- "There are more acquisitions treat for artists and staff. in the talking-iegotiation stage," The facility is a former al- said Clyde Love, Nickabob coholics rehabilitation center in Sales and Kings County Amuse- the northern section of the State ment, ARA's initial acquisitions. above Sacramento. "We're trying :o keep pace with Frazier Mohawk, a staff pro- Servomation and other vending ducer is the staff a &r man companies already in the music there. It was his concept which field." (Continued on page 68) Music and games firms now Pocketdisc's Distrib Set By PAUL ACKERMAN - The distribu- tional drive ercompassing radio, tion pattern for the debut of the newspapers, point of sale ma- Pocketdisc here Sunday (22) has terial and ma: servicing. been set, with four types of out- The radio irive is a satura- lets being used. These are 1) tion campaig 1, including 100 traditional record shops; 2) rack spot announcements per week outlets; 3) route vending outlets on both KJR and KOL for the which have high teen -age traf- first three weeks, and 50 spot and Martin's Laugh -In," one and friend personify the two central char- The wild excitement of "Rowan the television comedy shows, fic, and 4) vending- racking lo- announcements per week for acters in 'Town and Country" (K- 13993), Wayne's moving of the most outstandingly popular funny released cations where the dealer serv- remaining 12 weeks of the in- new MGM single by the of "Honey." Wayne's has been captured in an outrageously ices his own equipment. troductory campaign. forthcoming MGM album, available mid -October, combines (FXS 15118) on Epic Records. (Advertisement) The 90 -day test is being Also set are three one -half the titles cf both his current hits, "Dreams of the Everyday backed by a $50,000 promo- (Continued on page 74) Housewife and Town and Country." (Advertisement: (Advertisement)

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But he's got a beauty of a new Colgems single. "I JUST CAN'T GET OVER YOU" c f w "TIME OUT" #66 -1029 See Peter in the new comedy series

"The Ugliest Girl in Town ' on ABC-TV, premiering this month. Hear him sing "I Just Can't Get OverYou" on the episode of October 3rd.

COLGEMS Produced by Carole Bayer and George Fischoff Manufactured and Distributed by RCA Decca Tunes in to TV Land NARAS to Pare Awards; Debuts -Ties in With Banana Splits Bidding by Craft; Elects Nasatir NEW YORK - Decca Rec- all areas of the current pop ords is stepping into the TV market. By MIKE GROSS sweepstakes through a tie -up Another facet of the series' NEW YORK -A reduction of was elected unanimously along ful qualities you brought to the with the Banana Splits, a new concept is that it will be flex- the number of Grammy awards, with Neely Plumb of Los job," said that he felt "great live- action contemporary sing- ible enough to spot that the introduction of nominating Angeles as first vice -president, to be a part of the organization ing and group who will fit into Decca's promotion by craft, and the election of Johnny Pate of as sec- and proud to be its head. I appear weekly in `The Banana push. Mort Nasatir as national presi- and vice- president, and Nash- believe we have taken some Splits Adventure Hour." The The series will be sold in- dent highlighted the annual ville's Buddy Killen as secretary. giant steps forward at this show is set for two years on ternationally through CBS and trustees' meeting of the Record Lou Busch was re-elected na- meeting and that the future will NBC -TV under sponsorship of the disk will be marketed over- Academy (NARAS) held Sept. tional treasurer. show that the actions we have the Kellogg Co. seas, accordingly. 7 -8 at New York's Berkshire Acceptance Speech taken are correct." The deal was arranged by The first album by the Ba- Hotel. In his acceptance speech, The steps include the reduc- William Hanna and Joseph Bar- nana Splits is planned for mid- Nasatir, who succeeds Pete Nasatir, after paying his re- tion of the total number of bera, of Hanna -Barbera Produc- October. King in the top NARAS spot, spects to King for "the wonder- Grammy Awards categories lions, creators of the series, and from 48 to 41; a new crafts Bill Gallagher, MCA vice- presi- nominations procedure which dent, Decca Division. will draw on the servesic of The show premiered on NBC- AtI Parley Racks U p Sl 0Million special panels compose of TV Sept. 7, and Decca is re- NARAS members within crafts leasing the first single by the and will, in some instances, Banana Splits . "Wait limit nominating to such craft In B i l l i n g s 34 r e Shown members; provisions for mem- Till Tomorrow" and "We're the Banana Splits" is the first cou- bers' signatures on both nomi- NEW YORK- Atlantic Rec- port of the label's distributors, and "History of Rhythm & ballots, p lIn Hating and final voting g' ords' LP Sales Pro- salesmen and promotionP men. , Vols. V and VI." and a proposed broadening of A major Ppromotion on the gram, which started June 14 at He also credited the many re- and hour -long series is under way Since the June releases, At- the Academy's educational its semiannual sales convention, tailers and rack jobbers who lantic -Atco has issued a number scholarship programs on with plugging wound up this week with a sales full took advantage of the pro- of top - selling LP's, including tional as well as local levels, Splitsp on 50 rack up that topped the $10 mil- motional and sales tools avail- cereal boxes in retail markets Julie Driscoll, Brian Augerg and with specialp emphasisp pplaced lion mark. able to them for the success of recog- across the U. S. Plans by Kel- the Trinity, Arthur Brown, Clar- upon an awareness and The program encompassed 34 the program. ence Carter and the on nition of cultural needs beyond logg for a Banana Splits Club, albums released by Atlantic in Well which will include an estimated over half of the albums the SGC label. (Continued on page 74) June, including LP's on the At- released by Atlantic in June six million teen -agers, is also lantic, Atco and Pompeii labels. under way. landed on the best -selling charts. According to Len Sachs, Two of the albums, "Time Decca will be tyingY g in with lantic's album sales and mer- Peace - The Rascals' Greatest CBS /Sony L a u n c h e d Hanna- Barbera, the Leo Bur- chandising8 chief, the success of Hits"Hits on Atlantic, and "Wheels nett Agency, for Kellogg, and the program was due to the sup- of Fire," by Cream on Atco, Ed Justin, of ILAMI, Screen have been certified by the RIAA i Gems licensing subsidiary. At ts4eeti n g n Tokyo for sales of more than $1 mil - Gallagher is counting on the lion. These two albums and NEW YORK -The new CBS "Tokyo has a population of "live" values of the Banana ABC Acqu ires 's June release, was launched at about 11 million and Osaka has Splits shown on the TV series in "Aretha Now," on Atlantic, were a meeting in Tokyo for 600 7 million," said Schein. "That's costume. There are actually 12 in August. Le-Bo Prod. the top -selling albums through- Japanese dealers about 60 per cent of the Jap- Banana Splits available for out L. Schein, president, the country during July and Harvey which "live" appearances. Gallagher WOODSIDE, N. Y. - ABC August. Other albums that con- CBS International, claimed that anese record market explained that there are four Records, which has been on a tributed to the company's big it was the first time a U. S. spends about $100 million a Banana Splits who are acrobats, buying spree during the past few sales featured , the record company had moved in- year. We are aiming for 10 per four who are actors and four months, has completed negotia- , the Iron Butter- to the Japanese market in such cent of that to start with. who., are singers. The indentity tions to buy Le -Bo Products Co., fly, Eddie Harris, the , depth. "In partnership with Sony we of the members of the group will Inc., a leading tape CARtridge the Buffalo Springfield, Wilson At present CBS /Sony has ad- be kept under wraps and hidden accessories firm here. Woodside Pickett, , the New ministrative offices in Tokyo an can bring our ideas of promo - beneath the costuming. is a suburb of New York. Le- York Ensemble, a fully automatic factory is 60 tion and selling to the Japa- The show's music will be Bo is noted for manufacturing David Newman, Ike and Tina per cent towards completion. nese market quickly." Previously handled by David Mook in co- cartridge and cassette display Turner, and such al- The factory will be situated be- CBS had a distribution deal ordination with Aaron Schroe- racks and carrying cases, head bums as "Super Hits Vol. II" tween Tokyo and Osaka. with Nippon- Columbia in Japan. der Music and Eddie Simon, cleaners, blank cassettes and car - who will co-ordinate the mate- ABC president Larry Dial as representative for Newton handled the deal with Mann Sets U p Co. M ove Decca. A number of writers Leslie Bokar, president, and have been assigned to the show Leslie Dame, vice- president, both Cameo OK for and the music will be aimed at of Le-Bo. Into P ro d u e t i o n, Mgt F e I d s NEW YORK -Herbie Mann and his orchestra will be the Counter Trade is expanding into the fields of Steve Marcus Quintet with Larry production and management Coryell, Roy Ayers, David New - Dot Eyes Seaway for - The Se- with his newly formed firm, curities and Exchange Commis- man, Jack De Johnette, Sonny Five Faces of Music Produc- Tolliver, and sion announced last week that it tions, Inc. The firm, which will man, ac Charles the Soul Ftes.lu Handling More Lines was ending its suspension of be run by Mann and John trading in common stock of Gibbs, will specialize in record In conjunction with the ap- LOS ANGELES -The Oper- right, "Help Yourself," Tom Cameo -Parkway Records, Inc., production, management and pearance of "The Music World ation of Seaway of Cleveland, Jones' current hit on Parrot. as of Saturday (14). Over -the- publishing. Already under man- of Herbie Mann" in nightclubs, is releasing Dot's company -owned independ- Famous has first refusal rights counter trading could resume agement contract are Steve Mar- One is a Mann ent distributorship, is being in the U. S. on all Ricordi's Monday (16) -but the cus, who records for Vortex; three albums. studied to determine whether copyrights. American Stock Exchange has Roy Ayers, who records for At- LP, "The Inspiration I Feel "; the label will become more in- decided not to allow resump- lantic, and the Soul , who Roy Ayers' "Stoned Soul Picnic" Burke hopes to begin landing "Count's volved in handling competing masters in territories where tion of the Cameo trading pend- record for A &M Records. and Steve Marcus' lines. EMI does not have to give ing a hearing on the question The first appearance of Mann Rock ." Mann produced the Seaway represents the Atlan- Capitol first refusal. In the of delisting the stock, says SEC. with his complete package, "The Marcus and the Ayers LP. tic stable of labels plus scores month that Nora Weiser has The Commission said its lift- Music World of Herbie Mann," On the publishing end, Mann of others and is the city's sec- operated a liaison office in Lon- ing of the ban followed issuance will be at New York's Village has set up Herbie Mann Music and top independent house don for Dot's music interests, of a public release by Cameo, Gate starting Tuesday (17) for (ASCAP) and Rupadia Music alongside Main Line. he has sent through four mas- and a proxy statement, in con- two weeks. With Herbie Mann (BMI). Several of Dot's other corn- ters, two of which have been nection with the scheduled meet- pany - owned distributorships refused, one which is being ing of Cameo stockholders, have handled other lines, but studied and one which has not Monday (16). The meeting was Crowell Collier Into Music according to label president yet been considered. called to vote on the proposed Arnold Burke, Seaway's ability The point, Burke said, is that acquisition by Cameo of assets to handle the Dot line plus the Weiser is establishing contacts and liabilities of Allen Klein & Orbit & Acquires Schirmer others will determine "whether with English producers, the Co., Inc., in return for 797,- NEW YORK - G. Schirmer, Rudolph Tauert, Schirmer's handling other lines makes first time Dot has had a resi- 000 shares of Cameo common. Inc., the 107 -year old music president and chief executive of- sense." In Burke's own mind, dent man in England. The SEC has cautioned in- publishing and printing house, ficer, and Rudolph Schirmer, he's just not sure. Seaway, the Burke helped establish ties vestors and broker -dealers to is being acquired by Crowell chairman, are supporting CCM's executive admits, does four with Barclay for Stax represen- consider carefully the facts re- Collier and Macmillan, Inc. acquisition of the company. times the gross volume on non- tation in France and Spain. Dot lated in the proxy statement and CCM now owns about 25 per Both have agreed to continue Dot product. is repped in France by EMI, the Cameo releases. In connec- cent of the 4,467 Schirmer in their posts. Burke has just returned rom by Hispavox in Spain. tion with future transactions in shares outstanding, has arrange- Acquisition of G. Schirmer a month's sojourn to New York Stax will enter the sound- Cameo stock, strict attention ments to purchase an additional will mark CCM's entry into the and Europe, where he has begun track derby for the first time must be paid to the securities 51 per cent, and has offered music field. CCM is a producer establishing "two -way streets" with the release of the Para- laws when advising and effect- to buy any or all of the re- and distributor of educational with overseas publishing and mount film, "Uptight," which is ing transactions in the stock. maining shares at the same price, materials and services. record companies. being scored by Booker T. and The Commission says its investi- $1,955 per share. Assuming all As a CCM subsidiary, G. Italy's Ricordi has given the MG's. gation of trading in Cameo shares are purchased, the total Schirmer will continue to oper- its first copy- (Continued on page 12) shares is continuing. price would be $8,735,000. ate autonomously.

Billboard is published weekly by Billboard Publications, Inc., 165 W. 46th St., New York, N. Y. 10036. Subscription rate: annual rote, $20: single -copy price, $1. Second class postage paid at New York, N. Y., and at additional mailing offices. SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD $ Liberty Buys M.S. Executive Turntable Music Buildup Maurice Hoffman has been appointed director, Epic Sales By Metromedia And Musical Isle and Distribution. He will be responsible for directing all activities related to sales and dis- of manager Ron- NEW YORK - The trend the exception of Epic, Okeh and Crossroads labels. to acquire tribution of manufacturers nie Bernstein, who has joined Hoffman joined in 1958 as rack - jobbing and distributing Is Under Wad the Handleman company. Mar- a district sales manager and has also served operations to ensure total pene- interest in contin- tin also has a large as a regional sales manager and national sales NEW YORK -The Metro. tration of key markets under last week. Latest develop- Miller Automatic Sales of Louis- manager within the sales department. Most media Music Division, ued of Tommy Va. is the acquisition by Lib- ville, which handles vending ma- recently, Hoffman was director, Epic, Okeh the direction ment its operatior erty Records of M.S. Distrib- chines. A purchase of this com- HOFFMAN and promotion. lando, is bolstering com- and Crossroads sales Coasts. The build -uF uting and Musical Isle, big Mid- pany is close to being * * * on both - pleted, Martin said. was primed by the firm's ac west distributor and rack Martin L. Weiss has been appointed to the newly created Broad. followed short- Martin added that he would tivity in two upcoming tion. The move at . Weiss will properties, "Zorba' ly after Liberty consummated engage in business ventures with post of director of special markets way musical and "Maggie Flynn," as well a; its purchase of Roberts Distrib- Chicago deejay Howard Miller. be based at Decca's New York offices and will development of utors in St. Louis (exclusively and one -half years ago report to Marty Salkin, the company's vice - in its continual One musical projects and pop prod. reported last week in Billboard). ABC Records purchased New president of special markets. Weiss' prime func- uct. Transamerican, Liberty's parent Deal in New York, Consoli- tions will consist of the development and ex- company, has thus solidified its dated Distributors in Seattle and pansion of the company's merchandising of Joining the Valando operatior is Sydney Korn distribution strength greatly in a Billinis in Salt Lake City. This Decca, Coral and Brunswick product in the in New York brief period of time. was followed by Capitol Rec- heiser, who recently resignec premium incentive, gift and awards areas. For his general manager's post al Another important recent ac- ords' purchase of Merco Enter- Weiss as director of Island. Another the past eight years, served Edwin H. Morris Music. Kron quisition was London Records' prises of Long for Columbia's Special Products Di- WEISS Martin's manufacturer -distrib merger was operations heiser will concentrate or purchase of Jimmy vision. Prior to this, he was advertising and sales promotion man- Broadway musicals Chicago distribution operation. the deal worked out by Hei- writers for independent licher Brothers of Milwaukee ager for Everest Records, following a previous three -year stint He'll be working in New York Martin, a pioneer Military and Johnny distributor, stated that London a n d Pickwick International with Columbia's advertising and sales promotion departments. with Frank Farrow. will retain its original staff, with about six months ago. Assisting Weiss in the new department will be Don Hobens, who has been appointed manager of operations, Decca Special Added to the staff in Lo; Products. Angeles were Sam Weiss anc * * Jerry Sybilrud. They will be * Valando 'Electra' Takes Award of Kama Sutra working with Artie Jerry Love named to general manager's post long-time Coast representative reporting to , president of Continued from page 1 to Mexican composer Carlos Records, for Sunbeam Music (BMI) anc Chavez for his CBS recording Kama Sutra. Love's operating program will be Valando Music (ASCAP), now present to receive the award. of his own six symphonies with "The Sounds of Tomorrow -Today on Kama in the Metromedia fold. At the same ceremony, the the orchestra he founded in Sutra" coupled with an open -door policy. For- 1968 Koussevitzky International Mexico City. Chavez received merly with Alpha Distributors, Love's career in- Recording Award was presented this award from the conduc- cludes his role as I.M. Flowers on the syndicated Olga Dayton Ruled tor's widow, Madame CBS -FM radio program. Love's involvement Koussevitzky, who had traveled from the states to make the with radio began with his programming of the No Bootlegger presentation. "Murray the K" show on the New York's WINS. MCA Kicks Off As a manager, Love guided the careers of producers Shadow Czech Praised NEW YORK -The Daytoi Morton and singer Jordan Christopher. Record Corp. has been clearer Commenting on the inaugu- * * * ral awards, Gelatt said he was of charges that it sold boot Country Month particularly pleased that all the Paul R. Wyatt has been named director of administration. legged or counterfeited records distinguished jurors were able Columbia Artists & Repertoire. In his new by Judge Simon Silver in Crim to be present for the ceremony, spot, Wyatt will be responsible for project final Court. Dayton, which con particularly Ivan Vojtech of budget allocations to a&r producers, as well as sists of two retail outlets, is Promo In U. K. , who had spent and owned by Robert Friedman. the release schedule for Columbia albums The New York District At 48 hours getting to Montreux music LONDON MCA Records singles. He will also direct the liaison with toney's office charged Fried - by a very devious route. It was and will handle the direc- Ltd, which handles American case publishing companies man in October 1967, with vio also gratifying that in the services relative to Colum- Decca, Uni, and Coral Records of each award, the selected re- tion of administrative lations of sections of the Gen product here, is launching a had had an absolute bia a &r activities. Recently Wyatt served as West eral Business Law which pro cording W YATT Month promo- majority on the first ballot. Coast studio Operations manager, CBS Records. hibits sale of bootlegged o tion in conjunction with the Oc- After the ceremony Peter Prior to joining CBS in 1964 he held posts as vice -president of counterfeited records. The clan tober WSM Birthday Celebra- Andry told Billboard "I think Standard Records Pressing Co. and manager /producer for Capitol involved several copies of at tion in Nashville and will intro- this is going to prove an ex- Records' Nashville office. album. "The Best of '67," or duce a country album series on cellent award since it is entirely * * * the ARP logo, with Los Angele! the MCA label in England. independent of the record in- James A. Arnold has been appointed vice-president of Action listed as the city of manufacture dustry and thus free from in- The record featured cuts o The month -long promotion Talents, all -rock booking agency. Arnold had then -current hits by Arethi here will include the release of dustry influences. The jury is been vice -president of Queen Booking and head extremely competent and pro- Franklin, , the Mon six albums featuring Bill Ander- of its department. At Queen, he worked Howard, Jack fessional people and I think kees, and . The son and Jan on dates for Aretha Franklin, , charge against the Daytor Greene, Kitty Wells, Ernest considerable prestige will come and Lo- to be attached to the Montreux the Dells, , James and Bobby stores was initiated upon s Tub, Conway Twitty, by Jac Holzman will be record awards. Purify and . Prior to complaint retta Lynn. The albums president of . backed by in -store streamers, Queen, Arnold was associated with General Artists Corp., Shaw Artists, and with Irving Feld Trial was held Aug. 21; the trade and consumer advertising, Judge rendered his decision las ARNOLD . . . Chris Shiffrin and a dealer promotion kit, ac- market and we are happy to be on several rock packages. week, clearing Friedman ant to Brian Brolly, manag- cording a partner in the growth of the has joined Ashley Famous Agency's New York office as an his two stores of violating the ing director for the label. English country music scene . . . agent in the Talent Department. Shiffrin recently was with the two sections and saying that the "Country music has become thanks to the strong catalog of Michael Hertig Agency in New York and before that with DA's office was unable to a major factor in the English American Decca." William Shiffrin Agency in Los Angeles. prove he had sold the LP's o * * * that he had known sale of the George Greenberg has been named East Coast artist relations LP's was prohibited. director for United Artists /Liberty and af- filiated labels. Greenberg will headquarter at the New York offices and work in conjunction Branch on Coast with Richard Oliver, who is based in California. Opened by Glob( Entering the record industry in 1958, Greenberg remained with Decca until 1960 when he joined LOS ANGELES - Globo Columbia Records' New York branch handling Albums, with headquarters it sales assignments. . . . William B. Minkin has New York, has opened up Globi been appointed national sales manager of the GREENBERG Albums West here at 1211 N consumer products division of Concord Electronics Corp. Western Avenue, and is ahead] in production, according to pres * * * ident Lee Halpern. Howarc Marvin Deane, vice -president of Tetragrammaton Records, Roseff has been named genera and Ron Debiasio, who guides the Campbell, Silver, Cosby manager of the West Coas Corp. (CSC) management division, have been appointed vice - plant; he'd been sales represent presidents of CSC. Also, William Hammerstein has been ap- ative of the New York operation pointed vice -president of CSC and named to the board of direc- Edward Houlihan, productiot the recording arm of CSC. manager in New York, will take tors of Tetragrammaton Records, similar duties at Globe Al Hammerstein headquarters in New York. over * * * bums West. Rubin has been set as national promotion director for Globe Albums, which startet Norm out as a small jacket -fabricat the United Artists Music group. Rubin, who joined the firm B. WILLIAMS, left, last year's winner of the American ing plant in the Bronx before WILLIAM recently as a promotion specialist, has a wide promotion back- Association's Ed Wynn Humanitarian Award, with moving to , is nov Parkinson Disease that includes assignments with the Bob Crewe operations, president, Stanley Adams, center, and Milt Gabler of Decca ground one of the giant jacket sup ASCAP Atlantic Records and the Big 3. pliers with coast -to -coast sery Adams will chair this year's award dinner for Duke Ellington, , Records. (Continued on page 8) ices, Halpern said. at the Americana Hotel, New York, Oct. 30. 1968, BILLBOARD 4 SEPTEMBER 21, Tbéi.nòre here thr meets the eve. lay OONXZI'I' TurnAround Me MRS. 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*Available in 4 -track and 8-track stereo tape cartridges ''Available in 4 -track reel -to -reel stereo tape R "GOLUMOIA -Et MARCAS REG. PRINTED R. U.S HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK IN Music Congress Unit Sounds Off On Cuts, & Billboard By FRED KIRBY NEW YORK - Recordings Mothers of Invention could not ances that held the interest on AUDIO RETAILING 40 are more important to contem- be duplicated in the concert hall. repeated listening. PANASONIC HAS entered the component field. porary classical composers than Salvador Ley, Guatemalan McClure countered that he live performances. This was one composer, asked about pianist often was so annoyed by the ac- of the controversial matters Glenn Gould's position that pub- tions and inattention of the au- CLASSICAL 28 brought up at the Technology lic concerts were not important dience at concerts he was unable CANTERBURY PILGRIMS. Deutsche Grammophon releases panel of the International Music and that recordings and TV film to hear the music properly. He album that inspired an upcoming Broadway production. Congress' "Music and Commu- were the only proper means of said he generally preferred to nication" program at the Barbi- reproducing music. listen to music on recording. zon Plaza Theater here on Audience Important Roger Wednesday (l1). Hall, noting, "There is COIN MACHINE WORLD 53 Mayer replied that other mu- no more provocative ARA HAS JOINED other publicly owned operating corn- and amplifi- sicians, such as violinist Isaac than Glenn Gould," explained panies, primarily involved in vending, in a competitive race cation also were discussed at Stern, felt that the audience was that recordings were "artificial" to acquire jukebox routes. length at the session, which was an important part of a perform- and provided a "totally different chaired by , ance. Mayer said that Gould was aural experience" from live per- president of the CBS /Columbia unique in being able formances. "They should be to- INTERNATIONAL 45 to produce Group. Roger Hall, RCA Red individual recorded perform- (Continued on page 74) RIO FESTIVAL. Worldwide lineup for the Third Seal a &r manager, detailed de- International Popular Song Festival in Rio. velopments in recording tech- nique. He envisioned the next major Krasnow Forms Blue Thumb MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 39 development being the use of NAMM PRESIDENT gives rosy picture in instrument sales. sight as well as sound, explain- To in ing, "Sight is an important to Operate Specialty Mart sound as the ear." Hall also LOS ANGELES -Bob Kras- ing, RADIO PROGRAMMING Krasnow says, with British -TV 18 stressed that recordings should now has formed Blue Thumb, producer- manager Bryan Mor- MUSICAL DATA on the season's TV shows, plus a report on not attempt to duplicate the con- a , to operate in the the latest station to switch to . rison and Al Schmitt already cert hall. "The tools of record- specialty market. The former cutting product. Morrison will ing are an art in themselves." Kama Sutra executive will re- be bringing a number of his TALENT 14 American critic Martin Mayer cord ethnic material of experi- British acts to the new label. noted that it was more difficult mental blues and foreign lan- Krasnow SERGIO MENDES BRASIL '66 Jose says he will analyze & and Feliciano to sell contemporary music re- guage derivatives. make up a power -packed entertainment package at Los the management behind an art- if they by Angeles' Greek Theater. cordings were not cut Krasnow's ist before signing any contracts. major artists. He pointed out first LP product re- lease, planned for Saturday (21), "The right management is the that it was almost impossible to encompasses a package of key because it ensures sustain- TAPE CARtridge 51 get most to put in po- major artists litical satire featuring folk singer ing power for its clients." NARM marketing roundup, plus latest details in deals and the work required to learn con- Artistic control will be given directions in tape CARtridge industry. Len Chandler and KRLA news- temporary scores. man Lou Irwin, both of whom to managers -producers and acts, He emphasized the value of Krasnow says. Each LP will of- recordings for the income and are featured on type of news broadcast (June 15, Billboard). fer a prize wrapped inside. The Breakout Singles 50 reputation of composers, where- political satire LP's visual gim- FEATURES Follow -up product will include Hits of the World 49 as, in prior centuries, composers mick is an air sickness bag. Stock Market Quotations 10 an album of Hot Country Albums 36 could make a comfortable living Japanese kabuki Krasnow will promote his prod- Vox Jox 23 music, Hot Country Singles 34 from the sale of sheet music. the original music used uct by mailing releases and Hof 100 70 in the Laguna (Calif.) art festi- CHARTS Cheaper to Make supplemental hype information New Album Releases 31 val's Mayer also feared that the "living portraits" show/ to the homes of 250 Top 31 record store Best -Selling Classical LP's 30 40 Easy Listening tendency would be to record and the Indo Double Quin- Top LP's 64 buyers and major market disk Best -Selling Folios 39 electronic music because it was tet which blends the classics with Best -Selling Jazz LP's 50 jockeys. to and jazz. Best -Selling R Albums RECORD REVIEWS cheaper produce did not Twenty -eight domestic distrib- &B 26 In addition to the political Best -Selling R &B Singles 24 Album Reviews ....32, 44, 69, 73 involve . "There will utors have been signed by Breakout Albums 50 Single Reviews 72 be a great economic pressure to satire LP, Krasnow is also re- Krasnow, who was Kama Sutra's leasing in his debut push . . . music on electronic program West Coast vice -president for devices. A counterforce has to titles by Capt. Beefheart and two years and before that had be mounted or we will have very His Magic Band, who formerly been with Warner Bros. a simi- Published Weekly by limited music in the future." recorded for Buddah, and an lar number of years. He has Billboard Publications, Inc. LP of W. C. Fields comments 2160 Patterson St., Cincinnati, O. 45214 Hans Sittner of Vienna's In- given tape duplication rights to Bfllboar' Tel.: Area Code 513, 381-6450 ternational Music Center cau- taken from a number of his General Recorded Tape and tioned that, while music formerly . overseas distribution to Liberty, EDITORIAL OFFICE: 165 W. 46th St., New York, N. Y. 10036. 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FA ATLANTICE BM! Pact Extended Executive Turntable Buddah Bowing Pushes to Up Rate Continued from page 4 'Disk Theater' NEW YORK-The present In commenting on the request Bill (Bunky) Sheppard has been named director of r&b Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) for higher radio rates, BMI promotion for Scepter Records. In the newly created post, radio contract, which expires president Edward M. Cramer Sheppard will supervise the label's promotion staff, working with Sept. 30, has been extended to said, "Our music continues to Chris Jones, Scepte'r's East Coast promotion man. Sheppard was Merchandiser Nov. 30, pending additional set new performance records. previously president of his own label, Bunky Records, for eight NEW YORK Buddah Rec- of all - meetings to negotiate BMI's re- Presently more than half years, and once owned Marks Record Distributors in Chicago. ords, with a motion picture pro- radio is quest for a higher rate. the music performed on He was also national promotion man for Vee Jay Records and duction company, Cinova En- In a letter to all radio sta- licensed by BMI. Our share of an independent producer. Sheppard's headquarters will be at terprises Inc., has started an tions, Elliott M. Sanger, chair- music used on television is also audio -visual experiment to mer- man of the All- Industry Radio at an all -time high. During the Scepter's main offices in New York, with all of Bunky's former artists to be produced on the Scepter -Wand label. chandise its albums. Music License Committee, last 12 months, 25 of the 39 in the metropolitan * * Five stores wrote, in part, "Sometime ago, single recordings which sold one * area will install a mini projector BMI notified us that it desired million copies, as certified by Jack Maher, director of creative services at MGM Records, occupying less than three feet an increase in rates, effective the RIAA, were of BMI music. has severed his connection with the company because of dif- of store space, on which three Oct. 1. Since then, we have Fifty -three of the 65 albums ferences of opinion with current management relative to adver- color films featuring hit Bud- been in discussion concerning similarly certified included BMI tising policy and budget cutbacks. dah singles will be screened. The the terms of a new license with music. Thirty -two of this year's Maher guided the firm's ad- vertising, packaging and merchandising growth through three of films last for three minutes each BMI representatives, but to date 48 Grammy Awards went to re- and can be played continuously. no understanding has been cordings of which BMI music the companys most successful years under Mort Nasatir. Among Maher's innovations were multi -media "We call them record thea- reached. was an integral part. BMI mu- audio visual presentations, ters and we think they will be "In order to enable the dis- sic won its eighth Oscar in the prerecorded spot announcements with production techniques, an audio -visual breakthrough in cussions to continue without past eight years. All of this the "Music Factory," a company -owned one -hour radio show on selling records," said Neil Bo- having to meet the Sept. 30 clearly demonstrates the ability 125 college outlets, and full -scale advertising campaigns which gart, Buddah's general manager. deadline, BMI has agreed to of BMI's affiliated publishers helped develop such artists as the Cowsills, Every Mother's Son "They are designed to build traf- varied offer stations a two -month ex- and writers to meet the and the MGM Boston groups. In addition to advertising and fic and create customer excite- tension of existing BMI licenses, music tastes of the American publicity, Maher was responsible for much of the Verve re- ment." without change in terms; i.e., public. We are confident that Stores involved in the project to Nov. 30. The committee rec- the negotiations will affirm packaging on the VSP label. Prior to MGM Records, Maher was with the agency of West, Weir & Bartel, which he a are: White's, Sayville, L. I., and ommends that yod accept this BMI's present and ever-growing joined after Y.; Stern's, 42d four and a half years Massepequa, N. offer. You must, however, de- importance as a major supplier on Billboard. St., New York and Paramus, cide whether to accept or reject of music that the listening pub- * * * N. J., and Billy Blake's, Port our recommendation. ' lic wants to hear and to buy." Bert Glassberg has joined the publicity department of Elektra Jefferson, N. Y. Records. Glassberg, formerly manager of foreign operations for After a four -week trial period, Atlantic Records, was art director of ESP -DISK' before that. He (Continued on page 68) 4 Firms Open on W. Coast also headed Pro Musica Nova out of Amsterdam. * * * IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII LOS ANGELES -West Coast Lorez Alexandria with Jim Bob Chilton has been named branch manager for World Wide Webb's "Didn't We" and saxo- record company representation Distributors, San Francisco. He joined Dot last February in sales DOORS' 'HELLO' has been increased by the open- phonist with Teddy Edwards' "Amen Cor- promotion in the Midwest, following three years with Liberty as ing of four companies: Pzazz a salesman in St. Luther STRIKES GOLD Records, Silvercloud Records, ner." Louis.... James, formerly with CBS, has joined the Campbell, Silver, Cosby Corp. as an associate Pulsar Records and O'Rett, a Silvercloud's backers are Ernie NEW YORK - The Doors' record production - publishing Freeman as president in con- producer. "Hello, I Love You" on Elektra company. junction with Guy Ward and * * * Records has been certified as a distributor Sid Talmadge. Ward million -seller by the Record In- is run by Paul Gayton, Lloyd Gelassen is leaving MGM, where he had been promo- Pzazz was named manager. First Association of America, a former Chicago producer, sales tion manager for the company's classical division which handles dustry artists. singles are by Lynne Randell the Deutsche Grammophon, Archive and Heliodor labels. He had according to Mel Posner, label who seems to favor jazz sales and promotion director. His first two releases spotlight and Nancy Ames. been national promotion manager the past three years and also Pulsar is headed by Irwin This is the group's second gold Garr, former ABC Records coast acted as advertising manager for all media, and was responsible disk for a single; they have had WW Sues Turtles vice -president who has set a for artists relations. He also functioned as liaison for press, radio, three million -dollar albums. distribution deal with Mercury dealers and distributors, regarding promotion, marketing and IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII LOS ANGELES - White for U. S. representation. Product display. Whale owners Ted Feigin and will be developed by independ- * * * Lee Lassef have filed suit ent producers. Dick Riendeau has been named (Canada), against their top act, the Turtles, Maria Tynes has formed Ltd.'s national sales manager, budget product, which includes in an attempt to halt any O'Rett and Shan Music (BMI) responsibility for the Pickwick and Disneyland lines and the new Turtles' move away from the and plans to form an ASCAP Capitol SN series of Canadian talent budget albums. Budget was label. in L. A. Superior company. On the O'Rett artist Suit formerly handled by Edwards, will on Court asks for a clarification of roster is Shirley Gunter, a top Gord who now concentrate °FWeleome ot RENO'SQ the terms of their contract. 40r &b singer. his position as advertising and promotion manager. * * * Paul Clark has been named Ontario division sales manager at PONDIIO A! Phonodisc, Ltd. Clark was formerly with Caravan . Reno's first new hotel in a decade. Giles Bedard has been set as promotion manager and new proj- Lose yourself in the lavish ects supervisor for Phonodisc's Eastern division headquartered luxury of early 19th Century in Montreal. Nevada. Elegantly furnished * * * rooms with color N. Reason- Dan Nolan has been set as head of the musical instruments ably priced for family budgets. department for Apex Records, Compo's Ontario subsidiary. Dancing nightly. Swimming. Nolan has been a musical instrument dealer for a number of Free parking. Be prepared for years. a Many Splendored Fling! SOFT * * * Jack Richardson, president of Toronto label, PONDEROSA! \D Nimbus, resigns the end of the month as radio -TV director of HOTEL / CASINO StiftE,S011 McCann -Erickson of Canada, after eight years with the agency, FOR RESERVATIONS CALL RENO (702) 786 -6820 to move into record production and a full - associated fields on 515 S. Virginia, Reno, Nev. time basis. * * * p1' J. J. Johnson has been named president of MBA Music, Inc., a production company dealing in music tracks for radio and TV. For the past two years, Johnson has been a staff composer, ar- ONE-STOP I300íß: ranger and conductor for MBA and was responsible for the com- mercials and spots for Chevrolet, Heinz, Kent, L&M, Canada Dry and Oldsmobile, among others. RECORD SERVICE * * * SEEPS George Metcalfe has joined the London office of Rogers, Complete line of Spirituals,

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REIGN LICENSEES CONTACT: PUBLISHER'S LICENSING CCRPORAT CN, 40 W. 55th STREET. NEW YORK 10019, (212) 581 -7370 Traut, MG Production Cos. Roger Williams Form Dunwich Ltd. Market Quotations For Fall Tour Merge, LOS ANGELES -Roger Wil- As of Closing Thursday, Sept. 12, 1968 CHICAGO Dunwich Pro- Destination Music (BMI) and liams, Kapp Records artist, - 1968 Week's Vol. Week's Week's Week's Net opens an 18 -city fall concert ductions and MG Productions Go -Mo Music (ASCAP), MG NAME High Low in 100's High Low Close Change have merged to form Dunwich Productions' publishing compa- tour in San Diego Sunday (22). Productions Ltd. The agreement nies, will merge with Dunwich's Admiral 251/4 161/2 276 19% 18% 19 +1 The tour includes appearances at six campuses, includ- was reached by , Dun - Yuggoth Music (BMI) and Dun - American Broadcasting 723/4 433/4 209 671/e 6514 651/2 -1 college ing Montana State University, wich president; and Jim Golden wich Music (ASCAP). A general Ampex 371/4 261/2 1597 35 32% 341/4 + 11/4 University of , Augustana and Bob Monaco, partners in professional manager will be Automatic Radio 251/4 153/4 227 193/2 161/4 173/4 + 3/4 College, Bowling Green State MG Productions. Golden was named shortly. Automatic Retailer Assoc. 106 723/4 285 105 991/4 101% + 17/e president of USA Records. University, Ball State University The "jingle" division will con- Avnet 431/2 20% 3156 361/4 301/2 30% -53/4 and Illinois State Teachers Col- In addition to Traut, Golden tinue the production radio of Canteen Corp. 33 201/2 230 251/4 25 251/2 - 1/a lege. and Monaco, the firm, at 25 and TV commercials in Chicago, Capitol Ind. 371/2 24 127 29% 267/e 271/2 - 1/4 East Chestnut Street, will have Hollywood and New York un- The concert dates are Boze- CBS 603/4 433/4 580 51 473/4 51 +21/2 the services, of music director der the supervision of Ed Cle- man, Mont., Oct. 11; Hibbing, Chic. Musical Inst. 38 241/4 133 321/4 29% 312 +21/2 Eddie Higgins, associate produc- land. Traut and his staff have Minn., 14; Duluth, Minn., 15; er- arrangers Skeet Bushor and produced the American Breed, Columbia Pic. 441/2 231/2 685 4174 393/4 40/4 - s4 St. Paul, 16; Normal, Ill., 18; Bob Schiff, and arrangers Bob , the Commonwealth- United 201/2 63/4 2643 19% 17% 18 -11/4 Champaign, Ill., 17 -19; Rock Ill., Reseger in Chicago and Shorty Mauds, the Will -O -Bees, the Consolidated Elec. 451/4 333/e 296 353/4 34% 351/2 + s/e Island, Ill., 20; Freeport, 21; Cincinnati, 22 -24; Cleveland, Rogers on the West Coast. New Colony Six and H. P. Love- Disney, Walt 77% 411/4 119 771/4 743/4 761/4 + 1/4 25; Dayton, Ohio, 26; Bowling craft. Golden and Monaco were EMI 71/4 41/2 589 51/e 51/2 51/2 + 1/2 Green, Ohio, 27; Flint, 28 -30; Mendes instrumental in establishing the General Electric 100 801/4 1590 88 843/4 86 +15,/a Hits Gold Chicago, 31; Grand Rapids, LOS ANGELES "Look Cryan Shames, the Bucking - Gulf & Western 661/4 387/e 1492 431/4 40% 40% -1 Vs - hams, the Flock, Michael and Nov. 1; Muncie, Ind., 2, and Around" by Sergio Mendes and Handleman 31 21 421 28 271/a 271/2 + 3/4 the Messengers, the Rivieras and Indianapolis, 3. Brasil '66 has been certified as Harvey Radio 331/2 153/4 67 291/4 261/4 29 +3 the Trolls. an RIAA gold album. The LP Kinney Services 893/4 553/4 62 773/4 763/4 771/4 - 1/9 award is for the Macke Co. 293/e 16% 203 27% 25% 273/a +13/4 White Whale in A &M group, which debuts in Myers Forms Aart MCA 531/4 43 145 49/2 483/4 49 - 1/4 Las Vegas at Caesars Palace Metromedia 45 341/4 433 443/4 423/4 441/2 + 11/e R &B; Buys Disk Thursday (26) with Jose Feli- LOS ANGELES -Aart Rec- MGM 50% 353/4 358 421/2 393/4 421/4 + 13/2 ciano. ords has been formed by Kenny LOS ANGELES White 3M 1193/4 81 858 1081/2 103 1031/4 -41/4 - The group will make its Eu- Myers, former general manager Whale Records has entered the Motorola 263 1261/4 1241/4 125 +31/4 ropean debut early next year, of Aota, a Dot subsidiary. Myers 1533/4 97 market with + 13/e with pianist leader Mendes set plans working with independent RCA 55 441/4 1251 481/2 463/4 481/4 the acquisition of a master from to solo with the National Sym- producers and is talent -scouting. Seeburg 331/2 191 1136 333/2 321/4 333/e + 3/4 Boo -Ga -Loo Records. + 1 phony Orchestra in Lincoln Cen- acts. His office is at 1717 North Servmat 591/2 35 315 513/4 49 51 The master, "Funky Four ter Nov. 30. Highland, Hollywood. Trans Amer. 703/á 431/4 671 73 701/4 71 + 7/2 Corners," by Jerryo, is the initial Transcontinental Invest. 233/2 133/4 1936 221/4 20 201/4 -11/4 stop in White Whale's attempt to Triangle 46 35 81 38% 371/2 38 - 1/2 diversify from its pop image. 20th Century -Fox 40% 241/2 695 353/e 331/e 331/2 -1 1/4 Ted Feigin, co -owner of White Vendo 323/4 231/4 99 28% 271/2 281/2 + 3/e Whale with Lee Lasseff, said he Warner Bros. -7 Arts 443/4 261/2 749 431/2 411/4 421/e + 1/e is looking for additional produc- Wurlitzer 251/2 18% 61 211/4 20 20 + 1/4 tion tie -ups in the r&b market. Whale also plans to add Zenith 651/2 50% 554 561/2 541/2 56 + 11/4 While several r &b sets to its roster. As of C losing Thursday, Sept. 12, 1968 Week's Week's Week's High Low Close OVER THE COUNTER* GRT Hits Peak Data Packaging Corp. 381/4 351/2 381/4 GAC 16 141/2 15 SUNNYVALE, Calif. -Sales General Recorded Tape 42 36 42 of $5,760,942 in fiscal 1968, re- ITCC 7 61/2 7 ended June 30, have been ported by General Recorded Jubilee Ind. 34 32 331/2 Tape. Earnings, according to Lear Jet 253/4 241/4 251/4 president Alan J. Bayley, were Merco Ent. 11 101/2 103/4 $401,924, a new high in the Mills Music 321/2 32 32 firm's three -year history. Earn- NMC 131/2 12 121/4 ings were $1.17 per share. Last Omega Equity Corp. 163/4 123/4 16 year, GRT's net sales were Pickwick Int. 2634 251/4 26% $1,867,856 with earnings of Telepro Ind. 23/e 21/4 23/e $88,053. Tenna Corp. 241/2 221/2 23

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Available o- RCA StereD 8 Cartrioge -ape RCR Room at the Top in Jazz Suite LOS ANGELES -Jazz Suite, over 1,667, pay a $500 mem- I he Mainstream Room books a private club designed to pro- bership plus a monthly $25 dues main headliners such as Oliver mote jazz by offering jobs to to keep the club going and to Nelson, Don Ellis, Count Basie, musicians showcased before en- enjoy jazz in two rooms, the O. C. Smith, Gerald Wilson, tertainment industry members, 285 -seat Mainstream Room and Carmen McRae, Buddy Rich is near its 2,000- member limit. the smaller Sessions Lounge, de- and the Modern Jazz Quartet. The club opened Aug. 19 with signed to book small groups and There are two shows, at .10 p.m. a nucleus consisting primarily of new and unknown jazz acts. and at midnight. There is no nor minimum in this room principals but von Baur, who is part- cover Gene although members pay for swelled from interest by the mo- ner with Dr. Joseph Noble in tion picture and related fields. drinks (as well as dinner, in an the club's management, books dining room). The who the talent, relying on recom- adjoining Mrs. Betty von Baur, Sessions Lounge plays jazz from with her hus- mendations of the members in manages the club 9 until 2 a.m., but the hours hand, Gene, says the pair ini- many instances. Among these to 4 a.m. The Ella will be stretched tially began contacting presidents members are Stan Kenton, acts as Red Fitzgerald. Neal Hefti, Herb room books such of record clubs with the idea Norvo, Marian McPartland, about forming a closed- to -the- Alpert, Jerry Moss, Mike Mait- Perry Lee, Willie land, Alan Livingston, Harry , public club devoted to jazz. The Bobo. The concept for this room able to sign up 200 Belafonte, , Burt Fred administrative manager, Ardmore & Baurs were is to allow members to 'jam' LEFT TO RIGHT are Marks, founders at $500 each. The club Bacharach, Bobby Darin, Lalo Beechwood, Ltd.; Len G. Wood, director of Ardmore & Beechwood, with the visiting groups. presi- operates from the old Roman - Schifrin, Willard Alexander, Al Ltd., and parent company, EMI; Seymour Stein, Doraflo Music Scale is paid to all the play- dent; Phil Greenop, professional manager, Ardmore & Beechwood, Ltd. off's restaurant building in Bev- Bennett, , Les Bax- ers, Mrs. Von Baur says. The erly Hills. Members, totaling ter and . first unknown act to be hired for the Sessions Lounge is the Lee Orlando trio from Denver. Everest's Gospel Budget Line A committee of founders listens to tapes or dubs of any acts it LOS ANGELES - Everest's tional albums, which will retail i is with before giving Gospel Budget Line has cre- for about $2.98. One basic de- unfamiliar You are cordially invited to a the green light for a booking. ated a low- priced Archive of sign appears on all the covers, A movie or TV producer may Gospel Music series from pur- which carry the notation "elec- he in one of the rooms, hear a chased masters. Eight albums tronically rerecorded to simu- group and decide to use that comprise the new release of late stereo." G A LA group in one of his projects. songs by the Swan Silvertones, A statement of purpose on the The exposure is before influen- Caravana, Staple Singers, Har- backliner explains that the series tial people. monizing Four, Highway C.C.'s, is meant to promote the works There are 350 members who Five Blind Boys of . of "pioneer" gospel groups "who B :n AY Argo Singers and Alex Bradford. have trudged the dusty country i}fl[ A monthly H live in New York. flyer keeps everybody abreast of The material, says president roads to spread and perpetuate upcoming attractions. The club Bernie Solomon, comes from the the gospel." has a 20 -year prepaid lease on catalogs of Pickwick and the Two years ago Solomon bowed ARTY se- the facilities. The founders' dues defunct Vee Jay lines. Solomon the Archive of Folk Music and regular membership dues says he has options on 30 addi- ries of old purchased, repack- provide a catchall of funds. The aged masters and there are now monthly dues go for talent sala- 28 titles in this catalog. OCTOBER ',12tai; Since Everest is principally a ries. Profits from food and bev- Dot Eyes Seaway erage go into a fund which classical specialist, Solomon will Continued from page 3 to Billboard will salute is administered by a founders' sign up new distributors han- group, and goes toward estab- The Bob Crewe -Charlie Fox dle the gospel material in mar- the 80th Anniversary of the lishing scholarship funds and score from the Paramount fea- kets where he has been selling other means to further jazz and ture, "Barbarella," will be re- directly to large classical stores. Juke Box Industry and its musicians. leased on the composer's own DynaVoice label, also distrib- Floyds As Writers 20th Anniversary of MOA uted by Dot. Two singles have A Doraflo Deal been pulled from the score, one NEW YORK-Each member by Crewe, the other by a new of the , British group with a SPECIAL ISSUE! group, the Glitter House... recording for Tower Records, On Catalogs In other soundtrack action, has been signed to individual NEW YORK-The Doraflo Dot has released "The Odd writing agreements ° with the Music group of catalogs will be Couple" and "Rosemary's Baby." Richmond Organization. handled in most of Europe and Future soundtracks plus regu- Pink Floyd has two albums the rest of the world by Ardmore lar pop product will be available on Tower, the second & Beechwood, the music pub- discussed at Dot's first national of which, "Saucerful of Secrets," lishing chain with headquarters convention planned for January contains six titles which come in London. Seymour Stein of on the West Coast. under the new publishing deal. Doraflo completed the deal last week with L. G. Wood of EMI (parent company of Ardmore & Beechwood), and Fred Mards and Phil Greenop of A & B. The agreement covers five years. Doraflo will be represented by A & B except in the U. S., th Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Japan, Benelux, . Italy and Israel. ABC to Cut Acts 1888 -1968 Live at Monterey NEW YORK -Bob Thiele, a &r director for ABC's Blues This significant event will be documented Way Records, will record the bya special report highlighting historic milestones, label's artists, B. B. King, Jimmy present accomplishments and future plans of this Rushing, Otis Spann and Mel Brown when they appear at the all- important segment of the music business. Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 21. TELL YOUR STORY TO! In addition, Thiele will also BilILoard's total circulation plus all the registrants record saxophonist Tom Scott for ABC's Impulse label when at the National MOA convention Oct. 11 -13 Scott appears at Monterey. TELL STORY IN! Dimension Tour re An issue that will be read and -read LOS ANGELES -The 5th Di- again and again! mension, Soul City artists, open a three -month tour in Columbia, S. C., Oct. 3. ADVERTISING DEADLINE - SEPT. 27th Other dates include Orlando, Contact your Billboard "Rep" NOW Oct. 4; Jacksonville, 5; Tampa. 6; Florida Atlantic University, 7; University of Akron, II; Notre Dame University, 12; Univer- sity of Mississippi, 22; Univer- Billboard sity of , 23: Georgia NEW YORK NASHVILLE CHICAGO LOS ANGELES LONDON W. 1 Tech. 24; Greensboro, 25; Bos- 165 W. 46TH ST 110 21ST AVE. 188 W. RANDOLPH 9000 SUNSET BLVD. 7 WELBECK STREET and the Georgia Insti- (212) 757 -2800 (615) 2441836 (312) CE6 -9818 (213) 2731555 486-5971 ton, 26, tute, 28. ...and under $2 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 12 SEPTEMBER Fred Astaire, Peru/a C/ark and Tommy Steele have re- invígorated the most near/yperfèct musical comedy score ofa//tíme. 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v7 FINIAN'S RAINBOW Original Motion Picture Sound Track WARNER BROS. - SEVEN ARTS, RECORDS INC. Talent Mendes Power; Signings Willows Have Roots; The Soul Support to Jimmy Nazz: Flare No Fire Bowen's Amos Productions with Feliciano Excites Warner Bros. -Seven Arts releasing NEW YORK Two young Rundgren. The latter's bluesy product. . John Bishop Trio - Boy" was a good num- LOS ANGELES Sergio Feliciano also displayed a and Dee Andrews Band to Tan- groups created varying impres- "Skinny - sions at the Cafe Au Go Go on ber for him. Bass guitarist Car- Mendes and '66 plus Jose comedic talent with imitations gerine Records. . . . John Sebas- tian to MGM as a solo vocalist, Wednesday (11). The Wind in son van Osten and drummer Feliciano, have created a of , Tiny Tim, Glenn having broken from the Lovin' the Willows had the elements Thom occassionally power -packed package of rhyth- Yarbrough, doing Coke commer- Spoonful. . George Harvey, and promise of being a winning joined in the vocals. mic excitement, which last Mon- cials. lead singer of a new group called unit, but were not together, Perhaps the most remarkable One Eyed Jacks, to Roulette. . while the Nazz was together, thing about the group was that, day (9) shook the Greek Thea- Mendes' second half hour in- Paul Wagner who is signed It's but lacked a distinctive quality. the on ampli- ter. troduced his newest members; to Cobblestone Records, not Paul despite emphasis While Mendes was the head- Warner as erratummed last week's The latter group was relent- fication, the vocals did cut drummer Do Um Romao, per- less in sound, but rarely showed through. "She's Goin' Down" liner, blind guitarist -vocalist Fe- column. . The Pentagle to liciano scored a resounding tri- cussionist Rubens Bassini and vo- Reprise which will distribute in the an individual flair. One such and "Back of Your Mind," from umph with his virtuosity on calist Karan Philipp. Resident U. S. and Canada. Group is based rare instance was in the con- their SGC debut album, were in England, but will make its Is Me ?" when and a soulful singing "Brazilians" are Sebas- cluding "Why It included in the set. But Nazz tian Nate and Lani Hall, an ex- debut tour here next month. . . lead guitarist Todd Rundgren failed to live up to the strong style. At times the applause to A &M, with produc- vocalist who is given sev- Pat Poor flashed his ability. promotion. from the sellout audience was cellent tion by the outside firm of Res- greater during Feliciano's turn eral solo spotlights. Dave Grusin Until then, the strongest asset The folk- flavored Wind in the nick and Levine. Poor recently quartet was than for the main attraction. led the orchestra behind Men - won a battle of the bands con- of the SGG Records Willows showed its lack of per- the singing of Nazz's organist, forming experience, but also Mendes played two instru- des. test in New York. . Pacific The music that Mendes plays Ocean to VMC Records. known as Stewkey, and by had good lead vocalists in Paul mentals ( "Sea Is My Soil" and Klein and Deborah Harry, and Things ") before intro- reaches all tastes. The rhythms "Favorite a unique pop musician in Ida nine - are entirely propulsive, heavily ducing Feliciano, whose Andrews. One of the instru- ran al- leaning on bossa nova patterns. number presentation Soars to New ments she played, a , is not ex- But Mendes does get a chance most 45 minutes. Mendes surprising these days, but a pertly played unamplified six - to dig into some funky piano patterns ( " ") which Heights at Rooftop Nightery is indeed unusual in a string guitar, with his manager pop group. the large contrasts nicely with his domi- Sid Gerrie conducting more than three years, though Organist Harris Wiener and string- accentuated orchestra. nant role as melody player and NEW YORK - Sarah group leader. Vaughan, a musical delight at her records have never left. bass guitarist Steve DePhillips In addition to his hit, "Light ED OCHS Three Portuguese songs are any altitude, topped an evening also contributed well in vocal My Fire," he offered "Califor- at the lofty Rainbow Grill, groupings. The intricacies of the nia Dreamin," and a number of among the titles offered in ad- toast Thursday (5), like a candle on seven -member group's arrange- songs not in his RCA LP. But dition to a traditional to Kaufman Expanding will "Black Orpheus," the latter a a mile -high cake. With celestial ments doubtless be mas- his guitar playing on "Mala- grace and a voice as earthy as tered as they perform more. guena" and "Zorba the Greek" weak exercise in banging cow- Into TV Production bells and drums. But the other hot jazz, Miss Vaughan toasted Among their better numbers really stood out. He turned "En- the best of both worlds atop NEW YORK -Lonnie Kauf- were four from their Capitol trance to Bilbao" into a triumph three songs -"Chova Chouva," "Upa Neguinho" and "Laia La- Rockefeller Center's rooftop man, who heads a personal man- debut album: "Moments Spent," of sound effects, offering hoof restaurant. agement and music publishing "The Friendly Lion," "Little beats, marching soldiers and daia"-are very exciting excur- People" and "She's Fantastic sions and difficult workouts From her plush perch Miss combine, is expanding into TV machine guns in his interpreta- for a and She's Re- the two American girl vocalists. Vaughan poured her thick liq- production. He is producing Yours." "Quite tion of the battle between the -oriented series for syndica- spectable Old Lady" with its ELIOT TIEGEL uid purr into "Look of Love," teen British and Spanish. "On a Clear Day," "I Had a tion this winter. changing pace was one of the Ball" and "A Most Unusual Kaufman also has brought in most intricate selections. Day." Dressed in a beaded yel- Tom Johnson as record pro- "Left to Do" was the best low crepe gown that skimmed ducer and talent scout for his song, as lead guitarist Peter the floor, sassy Sarah dotted her enterprises, and Paul Prown as Brittain and Miss Andrews forehead against the heat of the national promotion consultant. joined in the vocals. Drummer spotlights and tottered to and Sid Ascher is public relations Gil Fields was steady through- THANKS .. . fro with the sexy, sapping blues. adviser. out. FRED KIRBY "For Once in My Life" and * "What Now My Love" knotted her face with feeling, creeping God in * JEFFERSON AIRPLANE over the crowd in waves of The Children of compassion and . cold sweat. * Coy, calm and collected, Miss Talent Versatility Display Vaughan like a canary crooned his * RAVI SHANKAR or a cat on a fence, soaring NEW YORK -The Children temporary references in ASSOCIATION through the octaves with impos- of God displayed talent and ver- "Love Has Found You." The * sible ease. satility in their opening at the set included Vernon on har- * SEASONS Cheering on Miss Vaughan in Electric Circus on Tuesday (10). monica, and Silva and Moore her opening night of a month- The A &M Records quintet has using their feedback. Long in- * long stand were Louis Arm- four good vocalists, mainly in strumental passages showed the Chris Sigwald, quintet's ability as a balance for YOUNG RASCALS strong, , Eddy Ar- blues style, plus * THE nold and trumpeter Bobby Hack- a drummer to be reckoned with. the fine singing. FRED KIRBY * THE DOORS ett. Fabulous Sachmo rasped out In "Love Has Found You," his "Hello, Dolly," smash rhythm guitarist Gerry Moore Anka's Tour to * THE and "What a Wonderful World," took the vocal lead assisted by the top disk in England for six Eddie Vernon and lead guitarist weeks. Bennett added his "San Gil Silva. After alternating vocal Open on Oct. 11 for ONE -NITER grosses Francisco" classic, and Miss and instrumental sections, Ver- LOS ANGELES-, Vaughan tied a bow around the non, Silva and bass guitarist Tom RCA artist, opens a two -month, totaling a record breaking evening with a last chorus of Everett left the stage to Sig - 20 -city tour of the South, be- "I Had a Ball." And when the wald who maintained an intense ginning in Johnson City, Tenn., music had died down, the spell pace working two set -ups. As Oct. 11. of Miss Vaughan's "Misty" and the other four returned, the num- Other dates include Salis- "Trolley Song" lingered on like ber switched to "This Is Our bury, Oct. 12; Banner Elk, 14; $224,000 sweet soul jingles. With record- Time," with Moore as solo vo- Murfreesboro, 17; Raleigh, 19; ings on the Roulette and Mer- calist. Louisburg, 21; Buies Creek, 22; this past summer at cury labels, Miss Vaughan has In "Children of God," Silva all in North Carolina. Also Boca restored the visual excitement of was the vocal lead, while Raton, Fla., 24; Tampa, Fla., 25; her act lost to New Yorkers for Everett was up to date with con- Tallahassee, Fla., 26; Hatties- ASBURY PARK burg, Miss., 28; Baton Rouge, La., 29; Rustin, La., 30; and Natchitoches, La., 31. CONVENTION HALL Rusty Warren -Sexsational November dates include 1; Athens, NEW YORK -Jubilee artist Miss Warren works to a drum Monroe, La., Nov. behind her the Ga., 5; , 7; Wilson, Presented by Rusty Warren's Latin Quarter accompaniment- N. C., appearance on Wednesday (11) drummer underlines all her N. C., 8, and Greenville, MOE SEPTEE was, she said, her first time in jokes and patter with continu- Nov. 9. a New York cabaret. Judging ous rolls and cymbal work. He by her in- person albums, she doesn't merely punctuate the MOE SEPTEE, INC. varied her act . Basi- punch lines but feeds her all sex, her act ended with a senti- 1020 Broad St. cally it was advice to the love- the way through. mental monolog about love - Newark, N. 1. (2011 MA 3 -1815 lorn, sex- starved and, on one Production number, as such, with a single spotlight -similar Miss to Sophie Tucker's style. 1718 Locust St. occasion, the physically unen- was "Knockers Up" from dowed, delivered in a cynical Warren's album, which she in- Also in the Latin Quarter (215) PE 5 -7506 rasp and in the occasional rant formed the audience had sold show is Epic artist Vic Ven- of an old fashioned Bible Belt 3,500,000 copies. tura, a beefy singer. preacher. After all the tough talk about IAN DOVE 1968, BILLBOARD 14 SEPTEMBER 21, NiD4 S1[NC]` '91111 NAT E99 1007/157/ 1BYA1LW1[TLSDN lES A I I IL I [1 P

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KSFI pression in their five -week en- has rented the Kaleidoscope for gagement at the Hong Kong Jones' tear -jerker, "Delilah." He even plucks banjo on "Swanee." one year with a five -year op- Junk of the Ilikai Hotel. tion thereafter. Here is a combo with much The Sneakers mix Latin with swing, jazz with rock, and fool KSFI will spend approximately poise, personality and pizazz the $100,000 in renovating Kaleido- minute they walk on stage. Bev - around with country, too. Bev - erlee's crop of pops includes a scope, with 1,200 seats installed. erlee Brown is six feet tall in DENNY McLAIN, Detroit pitching ace, rehearses while recording his heels. Musically, she's a giant, splendid "Sunny," which shines IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII first album for Capitol Records at Tera Shirma Sound Studios in De- with a voice that is rich and and shimmers. troit. The group is called Denny McLain and the Detroit Tigers. fluid, reaching for highs and Sal Ricardo's solo saxophone Chi. lows with the greatest of ease. samplings combine blues with Office Opened She is best as a sex symbol, a pop -notably on "Ode to Billie By Ashley- Famous lark who makes the best out of Joe." Bassist Willie Sisneros has Philly Chamber Moves; Sets lyric. Hence, her "What Now, a comic time with "Act Natu- NEW YORK - Ashley -Fa- My Love," "The Impossible rally." Guitarist Al Zepeda, or- mous Agency has opened an of- 7 'Pops-to--Rock' Concerts Dream," and "It Must Be Him" ganist Chris Hamilton and drum- fice in Chicago to strengthen are emotive outings. mer Tom Cross always tune in, its representation of clients PHILADELPHIA - T h e 15 jazz musicians, the chamber Her duet with the leader -vo- too, from the upbeat "Cabaret" throughout the Midwest. Bob Chamber Symphony of Phila- group ventured into the popular calist- guitarist Sidro Garcia on to the "Come Back to Bonis, formerly with GAC in delphia, on the brink of folding music field for the first time "You Don't Have to Say You Sorrento." Chicago, will be in charge of after two years of existence, and was enthusiastically ap- Love Me" easily highlights the Comedy's also rampant on the newly opened office. He will alter its musical course plauded by the surprised audi- balladry. "The Ballad of Bonnie and will concentrate his efforts on completely to insure its future ence. Clyde," complete with strobe college concerts, as well as for conductor Anshel Brusilow Brusilow said a similar ar- lights and Keystone Kops - for work in the other areas of per- and its 30 regular members. rangement will be made for the Unsurpassed in Quality at any Price a slick flick effect. sonal appearances including Switching from the sedate Acad- Spectrum concerts with the ex- 11( WAYNE HARADA cafes, fairs and promotions. emy of Music concert hall with tra players from the rolls of its some 3,000 seats, the Cham- Local 77, AFM, here. Decision GLOSSY ber Symphony moves to the 17,- to use the Spectrum was reached Moment of Truth May 22 000 -seat Philadelphia Spectrum, by the orchestra's Board of Di- iPHOTOS new sports and entertainment rectors last week after recog EACH arena. nizing that its drive for $70,000 8 /2¢ IN 8x10 In St. Louis for Collegians Brusilow disclosed plans to in contributions had fallen con- 1000 LOTS give a series of seven "pops -to- siderably short of that goal. $12.45 per 100 NEW YORK -The national as a strictly jazz event, to in- rock" concerts featuring top Post Cards The "pops -to- rock" formula $49 per 1000 finals of the 1969 Intercollegi- clude the new categories. stars in those fields. Three of is only for Philadelphia. The or- 1,000 ate Music Festival will be held Six regional competitions get the Spectrum concerts have al- chestra, Brusilow said, has at Kuel Opera House, St. Louis, under way in March April ready been booked -each con- MOUNTED 8x10 COLOR and booked between 75 and 80 con- ENLARGEMENTS $175.00 May 22 -24. For the first time, to narrow the field for the trip cert having twin stars. Pearl certs across the country featur- 20 "x30" $6.50 3,000 Postcards folk and pop music groups will to St. Louis. Regional contests Bailey and are ing its regular 30'.'x40" $9.50 $120.00 join jazz groups to battle for are the Mobile, Villanova Uni- first in for October. Ella Fitz- programs. First concert of the Special Color the national championships of versity, Cerritos College, Little gerald plus Louis Armstrong new season will be Oct. 3 in Process college music at the TWA and Rock University, Midwest and have a March date; and Ethel East Hadley, Mass. Budweiser - sponsored event. Intermountain Festivals. Merman plus another name to Festival officials have expanded Entrance applications are now be set will come in December. the competition, which began being accepted for the 1969 Idea of presenting popular Susan Hayworth aplynçT competition. Applications and music concerts stemmed from oto9ropherr information are available to the concert in in 'Mame' Temple University Stars A Division of JAMES 1. KRIEGSMANN Mauriat Tour of collegiate groups from the In- July at the the Pal- 165 W. 46th St., N.Y. 36 PL 7.0233 tercollegiate Music Festival, Music Festival, at which LAS VEGAS -Caesars North America P. O. Box 1275, Leesburg, Fla. Chamber Symphony was the ace entertainment director Dave 32748. resident orchestra. Reinforced by Victorson has signed Susan Hay- NEW YORK -Paul Mauriat, worth to star in "Mame" which the French conductor who opens to the public Dec. 27 and scored with his Philips' record- Kaye Stevens a Fine Mixer will run six months. ing of "Love Is Blue," has been With the Broadway produc- tion following by six months set for his first North American NEW YORK-Kaye Stevens, moted the title song, "The Grass artist, started her Will Sing for You," from her "Fiddler on the Roof," Victor- by Leverett Wright VMC Records son's bookings for 1969 are fall- LITHOGRAPHED act at the Americana's Royal new LP. They also listened to a Concert Management. Mauriat ing in place. He has signed ON HEAVY KROMEKOTE Box, Sept. 5, with "Show Busi- Bob Dylan song, "Just Like a will make his Franklin for her local ORDER NOW -Send an original debut tour here ness," and bowed out with a Woman." Miss Stevens' refer- Aretha photograph (preferably 8x10) plus starting June 15. during April and mid -May of selection from "Mame." In be- ence to the Ritchie Havens' ver- debut, the wording you wish to appear be- 1969. In an unusual move, Victor - low picture. there were numbers like sion of this number didn't get tween son has paired Jose Feliciano on OR-Send for 8x10 sample print Traveling with an orchestra "As Long As He Needs Me" very far with the first nighters, and order forms -plus prices for show, bring- of 30 men, Mauriat will give to Be Happy," and proving perhaps that the under- the Sergio Mendes other size prints. and "I Want Feliciano back after just over 35 concerts in the middle - in between these was some com- ground hasn't quite made it to ing 500 _ __$17.50 Atlantic and North Eastern the world of the $5 cover having appeared with Bobbie 1000 - 27.75 All of -_ edy, some sentiment. Frank 2000 45.75 States, Canada, and as far West which proves that Miss Stevens charge. Gentry. and Additional 1000's 16.00 have also requested as Chicago. Cities definitely set knows where it's at working Comic Timmie Rogers com- Sinatra lover 2000) Victor - fot the spring tour include New nightclub audiences. pleted the bill, leaning on his Feliciano on their bills, SHIPPED WITHIN TEN DAYS York, Philadelphia, Richmond, "Oh Yeah" song- trademark for son says. POSTAGE PAID applauded the ;Payment Must Accompany Order) Boston, Hartford, Quebec, To- Her audience openers. He rattled off a bar- Sinatra is bringing in the Fifth ronto, Montreal, Chicago, Cleve- familiar, listened when she pro- rage of jokes, some predictably Dimension and comic Pat Henry PICTURES land, and a number of colleges dealing with race problems, in to his show which also marks t317 N. ROBBERSON and universities. good, old- fashioned slam -bang his reunion with the Harry James SPRINGFIELD, MO. 65806 style. His high spot was a sing- band, Nov. 22 of this year. GROUPS QUIT; ing- dancing tribute to the Bs' of Negro showbusiness-Bert Wil- Wright Busy Cutting RY ABOUT THAT! GROUPS SHIFT liams, Bill Robinson and Buck and Bubbles. IAN DOVE DALLAS -A tight schedule LOS ANGELES -A break- of recording sessions in Dallas out of personnel changes among for the remainder of September groups in recent weeks has re- 14 -City European has been set by veteran agent - sulted in leaving Tour by Charles p r o d u c e r Charles Wright. Ray Charles; Jeremy and the Among the artists slated to re- KIM WESTON'S PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Satyrs disbanding, and guitarist LOS ANGELES -Ray Charles cord under his direction for re- CREDIT LINE WAS INADVERTENTLY Larry Coryell leaving the Gary opens a 14 -city European tour lease on Ebb Tide Records be- OMITTED IN LAST WEEK'S BILLBOARD. Burton quartet. in London Sept. 21 -22. fore the country music conven- PERSONAL MANAGEMENT: The Ray Charles company Other dates include , tion in Nashville in October are owned the Raelettes name, so 25; 27; Jean Kendall, Bob Miller. MASTER ARTISTS LTD. Sept. 23; Oslo, Berlin, they replaced the female vocal- 29; Kenny Dunahee, Dianne Phil- 9255 SUNSET BLVD., SUITE 430 Hamburg, 28; Vienna, Mu- ists to retain the working ar- nich, 30; Stuttgart, Oct. 1; lips, Sunshine Ruby, Eddie Lan- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90069 rangement between Charles and Zurich, 2; Frankfurt, 4; Rot- drum and the Blue Angels, a PHONE: 213-274-9371 a backup group. terdam and Amsterdam, 5; Brus- group of four Indian boys from 8 Lawton, Okla. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII sels, 6, and Paris, -9. SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 1 6 FOR THE RECORD!

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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 I I TV's Signals on as New Season WVON'S BELL URGES ALL Brings Music Again Into Focus STATIONS TO FIGHT BIAS By CLAUDE HALL CHICAGO-All stations in all formats should get involved in promoting racial harmony, asserts Robert F. Bell, general manager NEW YORK-As the new day (24); it is produced by Van Saturday nights, you'll find of the Chess -owned WVON here and its two sister stations. TV season flickers onto the na- Bernard Productions. On NBC - "The Lawrence Welk Show" and "Too many broadcasters are leaving it strictly to the black sta- tion's TV screens during the TV, you have "The "The Hollywood Palace" on tions," he said. He called upon all stations to get into action, espe- next few days, it's quite obvious Show." The show bows Tues- A BC -TV and "The Jackie Glea- cially the general market stations. "If general market stations would that music is still one of the day (17) and opening night will son Show" on CBS. only participate we could do much more together," said Bell. "Can't major drawing cards and rec- feature Nannette Fabray and the Smothers & Sullivan three people do more than one ?" ord artists will have as much Osborne Brothers. Bob Finkle Sunday nights, CBS -TV again He suggested that a meeting between executives of radio sta- chance for exposure as in past is producer. 1 as the popular "Ed Sullivan city could be the first step toward co- operation. if Smothers tions in each seasons, not more. Winters Show Show" and "The Playing its own role in community involvement, WVON has Last year, the musical Show," while NBC -TV bowed spe- CBS -TV will again have the sent out 35 different taped airchecks of its own community measures cial was "in." This year there on Sunday (15) "The Beautiful "Jonathan Winters Show." It to radio stations. "Our public service announcements deal will be fewer. How- Phyllis Diller that will other probably gets into action Wednesday (25). Show" exclusively with what is happening in the hard core black ever, it's the stable regular Norm Crosby almost prime -time Gwen Verdon of Broadway mu- feature Chicago," Bell said. "But there's such an overlap of audience series that provide possibly the and the trio Curtain Calls, and areas of sical fame, guests on the first with many blacks listening to_ market stations, that unless best showcase. Here's how those show. Frank Peppiatt and John roo n for guest performers. get involved, there can never be a total opportunities shape up the Rowan and Martin and Sonny the general market stations for Aylesworth are co- producers. campaign." coming season. On Monday "The Kraft Music Hall" made and Cher guested on the open- night, CBS-TV again has "The its move Sept. 11 as a musical - ing show. Show," which hits variety series and Eddy Arnold the air again Monday (23) with co- hosted with Alan King and guest Jim Nabors singing two Don Rickles. Performing on the numbers-"There's a Kind of show were Arnold and Bobbie WGBS Revamping Night Life Hush" and "To Give." This Gentry. Gary Smith and Dwight show is produced by Burngood Hemion produce the show. MIAMI - WGBS, 50,000 - uation; Miami already has two But in the evening hours, Inc. and Bob Banner Associates. Thursday, "The watt giant, is being stirred back competing rockers and easy lis- there will be no holds barred On the same night, NBC -TV's Show" which leans heavier on to musical life by consultant tening stations that fare quite on the music and the station very popular "Rowan & Mar- music than perhaps any of the Bob Martin. And it looks as if well. So, Martin is changing will feature such groups as the tin's Laugh -In" returned. Pig- other shows, bows another sea - the musical life is going to be WGBS into a "Now" sounding Cream, the , and meat Markham of "Here r.on on NBC -TV Thursday (19), very hip at night. operation. During the day, the Bo Grumpus; these progressive Comes De Judge" tune fame, with Lena Home among the Martin is the former general music will range from uptempo rock groups will be mixed in guested on the first show, along guest performers. Greg Garri- manager of WKYC in Cleve- easy listening tunes presented in with jazz records, said Martin. with Los Angeles deejay Dick son produces and directs. Fri- land, and developer of the clas- a slick, smooth style to driving One of the albums that Martin Wittington. Co - producers are day, ABC -TV has "Operation: sical music package that NBC . But mostly the thinks sets the tone for today's George Schlatter, Ed Friendly Entertainment" which features has been featuring on their music will be that turned out by high -quality music is "Songs of productions and Romart Inc. guest personality hosts and top - owned -and -operated FM sta- groups, like the Harpers Bi- Innocence," by David Axelrod "The Red Skelton Show" will name performers. Chuck Barris tions for several years. WKYC zarre, , Fifth Di- on Capitol Records. "It's so continue to showcase a record- Shows Inc. produces. Show is was then and now a rocker. mension, Sinatra, and others clean; it's one of the exciting ing artist a show, as in years videotaped at military bases. But WGBS is a different sit- that are receiving constant air- things happening in music to- past, Tuesday nights on CBS - play on the "Good Life" format day." He feels that progressive TV. The show bows for the stations around the country (this rock, fast becoming a force on 18th year on network TV Tues- includes WHK, Cleveland; FM radio, can become even Hip Rock Daily Is WTAE, Pittsburgh, and WXYZ, more of a factor on AM if "we Detroit). can get WBGS off and run- "The present demographics of ning with it during the 7 -mid- 'Someone New' the station show a heavy por- night slot." Bowed: KMYR -FM tion of 50 years and older WGBS has been featuring people listening to WGBS. I've good music. "Basically, I'm just DENVER - KMYR - FM, tually to go fulltime progressive got to lower that age range," trying to restructure the pro- 100,000 stereo station here serves Talent Show -watt rock on the station, which Martin said. Thus, he will be gramming to modernize it . owned by Doubleday, has several major universities, in- aiming for 18 years and over to make it what's happening to- bowed progressive rock daily 7 cluding the Air Force Academy, with music. day." p.m. -6 a.m., reports new pro- the University of Colorado, the gram director Ed Mitchell. University of Denver, and even On NBC-TV Mitchell was brought in from the University of Wyoming. Be- NEW YORK -A TV show- the West Coast specifically to cause of this, Mitchell is setting Rock handle the station and do a up an advisory panel of college Sophisticated case for new talent-"Someone 7- midnight show. He was for- students to help him select mu- New " -premieres on Oct. 12 on merly on KMPX -FM in San sic. The station currently fea- WNBC -TV, the flagship station Francisco, one of the pioneers tures automated middle-of -the- Capturing Jazzmen of the NBC -TV operations. in this type of format, before road music during the day, but 'n' roll is Mack, Gerry Chester. This is the Singer Leon Bibb will emcee shifting to KPPC -FM in Los it has one of the strongest FM NEW YORK -Rock Angeles last November when it signals in that part of the coun- becoming so sophisticated that reason pop music - including the weekly half-hour show and was developing a progressive try, reaching a large part of the many jazz musicians are getting radio and TV commercials -is the format will feature young rock format. State and soon - via satellite into it. Ron Frangipane, a corn - becoming so good and so hard professionals or amateurs. A Mitchell said he hopes even- tower - the ski -resort area of poser and arranger, feels that to do live by the groups. Too, typical program, according to Aspen. jazz has been dying a "slow many of the progressive rock executive producer Joseph Mitchell is a former top 40 death" because it's too intro- groups these days are trained deejay; he worked on KFRC in verted. musicians." Michaels, may feature as many WHN Tests San Francisco. "But in those "But because rock is growing Frangipane, who has studied as five performers or as few as days, I began to feel that there more musically complicated, at the University of Rochester two. Leon Bibb will also per- Live Show had to be a new direction in jazz musicians are getting into it. and Julliard, has a Ph.D. from form. programming. When I joined People like Vinnie Bell, Joe Columbia University. As a mu- NEW YORK WHN, easy The show's search for talent - KMPX -FM, we soon had a sician, he's extremely flexible. listening station here, will try a good thing going. We had a Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllll He composes classical music, will focus on young people pilot live radio show Sept. 30 heavy staff of top people." does jazz and rock from New York, New Jersey, from 12:15 -1 p.m. If the pilot Mitchell was one of the people TO arrangements, and works as a and Connecticut. Channel 4 is goes over, the station will bow a affected by the strike at KPPC- DJ STEVENS sideman for pop and rock ses- planning weekly auditions. series of live radio specials. FM. BE GIVEN FETE sions. Robert Decormier will lead the The 45- minute pilot will be One of his current projects is called "'s Private NEW YORK -Music indus- di- house orchestra. The Mogg, an as orchestrator and music Party" and it will be taped on WHUC's Format try executives and recording rector for next season's "Billy electronic synthesizing machine location at the Americana artists are tossing a "going Budd" musical. which can duplicate nearly all Hotel's Royal Box, where Patti Goes Good Life away" party for deejay Gary As a sideman, he often does sounds, will be a part of the Page opens an engagement HUDSON. N. Y. Stevens Wednesday (18) at the three sessions a day; he once will -WHUC, band. Sept. 24. The performance -watt full -time station, has Americana Hotel. Tickets, ac- did 57 sessions in two weeks. a of act, but 1,000 not be replica her just updated its programming to cording to luncheon chairman He does arranging about twice instead a concert of current fa- Pete Bennett, may be obtained a week. Among the artists he's Show vorites the "Good Life" easy listening Trans -Lux as well as her hits. concept, said program director from either Joe Bogart or Frank worked for and with are the NEW YORK - Trans -Lux Bud Crayton. The station will be Costa at WMCA. Price is $20. Archives (the new Don Kirsh- launched produc- playing uptempo middle-of -the- All proceeds will go to the ner project), the Fuzzy Bunnies, TV Corp. has WMER -FM in Shift Westchester Youth Organiza- tion of a syndicated half -hour road records, as well as the , Stan Kenton, Buddy "That softer rock records. Air per- tion. Stevens, a personality the Rich, , the comedy -talk programs, CELINA, Ohio -WMER -FM years on WMCA, has Show," starring . has dropped classical music to sonalities include Scott Dennis, past four Happenings, , Bob- artists listening Phil Kelley, and Joe Ryan. resigned to set up a TV produc- by Vinton, and the Who. Show will feature guest program easy records, distribution firm in various topics. It reports music director Alan WHUC is slated to launch an tion and But he's also big in the com- discussing Geneva. was slated to bow Monday (16) Grey. The station serves a mar- FM operation within the next mercials world and is trying to in New York. ket of about 175,000. month; it will simulcast. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll (Continued on page 23) 18 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD ALL ABOARD

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Dimension, Liberty. BH: "Love Is Real," "Baby Come Back," Equals, RCA Vic- Watch Tower," Jimi Hendrix, Reprise. Joe Corning, Haet. BLFH: "The Sun tor. BH: "Revolution," Beatles, Apple. BH: "Love Heads," Colours, Dot. Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore," Fuzzie BLFH: "Quick Joey Small," Kasenetz BLFH: "No More Tears," Loading Zone, pro9rammin9 Bunnies, Decca. & Katz Sing Circus, Buddah. RCA. aids Lewiston, Phoenix, Ariz. Me. -WLAM -KRUX South Hill, Programming guidelines from key pacesetting radio Bob Ouellette stations, Va. -WJWS including Best Picks, Best Leftfield Picks, Biggest Happenings, Music Director & DJ Rhett Hamilton and Biggest Leftfield Happenings. BP: "Sweet Blindness," Fifth Dimen- Walker Bob Snowdon sion, Soul City. BLFP: "I Found a True Operations Program Director & Love," , Atlantic. BH: Manager "Those Were the Days," Mark Hopkins, DJ Apple. BLFH: "Alfie," Eivets Rednow, Gordy. BP: "Over You," Gary Puckett & Union BP: "I've Got Dreams to Remember," Gap, Columbia. BLFP: "Love Is Here," Redding. Atco. BLFP: HOT 100 Grand Rapids, , Ritchie Cordell, Columbia. Otis "Fire," BH: Jude" Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atlantic. Mich. -WGRD "Hey / "Revolution," Beatles, BH: "I Met Her in Church," Box Tops, Apple. BLFH: "Mom (Can I Talk to Mala. "Burning Fire," Arthur Conley, you ?)," Jan Rhodes, Blue. Iron Butter - Jay Walker Atco. BLFH: "May I," Bill Deal & Bowling Green, Ohio -WAWR Lynchburg, tly and Grassroots huge here! Canned Rhondels, Heritage. Air Personality Heat, Association, 1910 Fruitgum Co., Va. -WLLL Stones and Creedence Clearwater mov- ing fast. Robert Ladd BP: "Macaroni Mountain," Scarlet Let- ter, Mainstream. BLFP: "Chained," Jerry Rogers Music Director Marvin Gaye, Tamla. BH: "Slip Away," Clarence Carter, Atlantic. BLFH: "Time Music Director Spartanburg, BP: "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," Has Come Today." Chambers Brothers. Happenings, Puppy. BLFP: "Some Columbia. BP: You Got the Love," Professor Richmond, Va. S. C. -WHCQ Got It, Some Don't," Brenton Wood, Morrison's, White Whale. BLFP: "Sun- -WLEE Double Shot. BH: "Harper Valley PTA," shine Among Us," Etemity's Children, Sam Holman Hanover, N. H. -WDCR Tower. BH: "I Found a True Love," Billie Jo Spears, Capitol. BLFH: "Some Wilson Pickett, Atlantic. BLFH: "Fire," Ron Fraiser Music Director It, Got Some Don't," Brenton Wood, Paul Gambaccini Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atlantic. Assistant Program Double Shot. BP: "Tune Has Come," Chamber Broth- Music Director Director ers, Columbia. BLFP: "Isn't It Lovely," Robert Knight, Elf. Bpi: "I Say a Little BP: "Elenore," Turtles, White Whale. RP and BLFP: "Isn't It Lonely To- Prayer," Aretha Franklin, Atlantic. BLFP: "I Can See a Light," Good gether," Robert Knight, Elf. BH: "In- BLFH: "Pain," Nova's Nine, ABC. , DynaVoice. BH: " " / Milwaukee, dian Reservation," Don Fardon, GNP - "Revolution," Beatles, Apple. BLFH: Crescendo. BLFH: "Cinnamon," Darek. Denver, Colo. "Fire," Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Wis. -WOKY Bang. Wichita, Kan. -KEYN -KQXI Atlantic. Bob Barry J. Robertt Dark Tom Adams Jacksonville, Fla. -WAPE Music Director Music Director Program Director BP: "Down on Me," & San Antonio, Ike Lee BP: "One of the Nicer Things," Jim BP: "My Holding Company, Mainstream. BLFP: Tex. Special Angel," Vogues, Re- Program Director "Baby Come Back," Equals, RCA. BH: -KTSA Webb, Dunhill. BLFP: "That Kind of prise. BLFP: "Susie Q," Creedence "Quick Joey Small," Katz Orch. Circus, Woman," , Bell. BH: Buddah. BLFH: "Good Morning, Dear," Kahn Hammon "People," Tymes, Columbia. BLFH: Clearwater, Fantasy. BH: "I -2-3 Red - BP: "Over You," Union Gap, Columbia. "Things Go Better With You," April light, 1910 Fruitgum Co., Buddah. BLFP: "Billy Goat Run," Anna Black, , Hickory. Action records: Epic. BH: "Hey Jude" / "Revolution," "Fire," Arthur Brown (Atlantic); "Six - Music Director Fools, MGM. BLFH: "Time Has Come Today, Beatles, Apple. BLFH: "I Couldn't Man Band," Association (Warner Bros.); NM- Chambers Brothers, Columbia. Spell," Sam the Sham, "My Special Angel," Vogues (Reprise). BP: "Over You," Gary Puckett and the MGM. Union Gap, Columbia. BP: "My Special Angel," Vogues, Reprise. BH: "Hey Jude " Beatles, Apple. BLFH: "Lo Grand Rapids, Mich. -WCAU Mucho Que Te Quiero," Rene and Wilmington, Rene, ARU. Muncie, Ind. Del. -WAMS The Frizbee Kingston, -WERK Air Personality "17410117*or N. Y. -WBAZ Sarasota, Fla. -WYND Bob Hollands Tom Cochrun ley, Music Director BP: "Chained," Marvin Gaye, Tamla. Gary Davis John Dark BLFP: "Bang- Shang -a- Lang," Archies, Program Director, Music BP: "I Say Lt's Lonely Together," Robert Calendar. BH: "Hey Jude," Beatles, Ap- Director Personality Program /Music Director Knight, Elf. BLFP: "Do You Wanna ple. BLFH: "Indian Reservation," Don Dance," Love Society, Scepter. 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BLFP: "The Lights of BP: "She Still Comes Around," Jerry Dallas," Lonesome Rhodes, RCA Vic- Lee Lewis, Smash. BLFP: "Come on tor. BH: "Warm and Tender Love," ROCK Home and Sing the Blues to Daddy," Archie Campbell and Lorene Mann, Ray Corbin, Monument. BH: "Harper RCA Victor. BLFH: "Angry Words," Valley P.T.A.," Jeannie C. Riley, Plan- Stonewall Jackson, Columbia. tation. BLFH: "Love Me," Bobby N. IC. Albuquerque, M.- KUNM-FM Norfolk, Va. -WCMS AM -FM L. A. Woodworth Joe Happel Burbank, Program Director BP: "The Wife You Save May Be Your Calif. -KBBQ Own," Dianne Leigh, Chart. BLFP: BP: "Ball & Chain," Big Brother & "Alabama Wild Man," , RCA. Holding Company, Columbia. BLFP: Jeannie C. "Drunk Again," Butterfield Blues Band, Larry Scott BH: "Harper Valley P.T.A.," Elektra. BH: "In -a- Gadda -Da-Vida," Riley, Plantation. BLFH: "Back Up Iron Butterfly, Atco. BLFH: "Hey Music Director Girl," Barbara & Beverly, American Artist. Jude." BP: "She Still Comes Around, , Smash. BLFP: "Milwaukee, Here I Come," and Brenda Las Cruces, Carter, Musicor. BH: "Sweet Child of Odessa, Tex. -KOYL ...and under $2 Sunshine," Jerry Walace, Liberty. N. M.- BLFH: 'I Ain't the Worryin' Kind," E. L. Raskelley WGRD-FM Billy Ed Wheeler, Kapp. Station Manager Mike Reynolds BP: "Milwaukee Here I Come," George Jones -Brenda Carter, Musicor. BLFP: Program/ Music Charlotte, "Alabama Wild Man," Jerry Reed, RCA Director Victor. BH: "Harper Valley P.T.A.," N. C. -WWOK Jeannie C. Riley, Plantation. BLFH: BP: Pink Floyd, Tower. BH: "Light "Sounds of Good Bye," Tommy Cash, My Fire," Doors, Elektra. Good News for Men 45 to 64 Cloyd Bookout t'nited Artist,. Music Director, Personality Worcester, BP: "Milwaukee, Here I Come," George Jones and Brenda Carter, Musicor. Peoria, III. - Mass. -WORC HEART RESEARCH BLFP: "Harper Valley P.T.A.," Bobbie Martin, United Artists. BH: "Punish WXCL Me Tomorrow," Carl and Pearl Butler, Jeff Starr Columbia. BLFH: "Harper Valley DJ P.T.A.," Bobbie Martin, United Artists. Dale Eichor IS PAYING Personality BP: "Black Cat," Brian Augus, Atco. OFF BLFP: "Tuesday Afternoon," Moody BP: "Normally, Norma Loves Me," Red Blues, Deram. BH: "Telephone Blues," Sovine, Starday. BLFP: "Sing the Blues John Mayan, Immediate. BLFH: "Flood There is good news for U.S. men in their most pro- Chester, Pa.- to Daddy," Ray Corbin, Monument. in Houston," Savoy Brown, London. WEEZ BH: "Harper Valley P.T.A.," Jeannie C. ductive years of life 45 to 64. The Riley, Plantation. BLFH: "Baby Ain't - overall death That Love," Jack Barlow, Dot raie from cardiovascular diseases for this group is Lowell Howard down 7 °/o since 1950 due primarily to Program Director, EASY Personality a 52 °/o drop in the death rate from hyperten- BP: "Cry, Cry, Cry," Connie Smith, Philadelphia, sion and the heart disease it causes; RCA Victor. BLFP: "My Home Is the LISTENING Dust of the Road," Red Stewart, Bell. Pa. -WRCP a 24 °/o drop in the death rate from stroke. BH: Mamma Tried ( "Ballad From Kill- ers 3 "), Merle Haggard, Capitol. Don Paul BLFH: "Harper Valley P.T.A.," Jean- Atlanta, Ga. -WSB -Radio nie C. Riley, Plantation. Program/ Music Director, Personality Chris Fortson BP: "She Wears My Ring," Ray Price, Music Librarian Columbia. BLFP: "Alabama Wild Man," Jerry Reed, RCA Victor. BH: "Harper BP: "My Special Angel," Vogues, Re- Cincinnati, Valley P.T.A.," Jeannie C. Riley, Planta- prise. BLFP: "She Wears My Ring," 00 Ohio -WZIP tion. BLFH: "For the Good Times," Ray Price, Columbia. BH: "Hello, o Bill Nash, Smash. Hello," Tiny Tim, Reprise. BLFH: o "Timothy," Skeeter Davis, RCA. ,o Allan M. Peck O SO Music Director Dallas, Tex. -WFAA OSO Phoenix, Ariz. -KRDS BP: She Still Comes Around," Jerry 30 Lee Lewis, Smash. BLFP: "Help Me Johnny Nelson Charlie Vann Love You," Peggy Little, Dot. BH: zo Director Program Director .o "Harper Valley P.T.A.," Jeannie C. Program Riley, Plantation. BLFH: "Sounds of BP: Mel Carter, Bell. 0 BP: "Look Into Our Teardrops," "I Pretend," Goodbye," George Morgan, Starday. BLFP: "A Reason to Believe," Damita 195C 'S2 '54 '56 '5B 1962 Sales are on the Riley "P.T.A." Re- Chrispia St. Peter, Jamie. BLFP: "Warm Valley" far and Tender Love," Campbell Man, RCA. Jo, Ranwood. BH: "Turn Around, Look quests for Spears' "Harper at Me," Vogues, Reprise. BLFH: "Cate- outnumber Riley on the WZIP request BH: "There's No More Love," Carl John Hartford, RCA Vic- line. Regardless, we have two fine Smith, Columbia. BLFH: "I Like gory Stomp," county music artists on their way. Trains." Bob Luman, Epic. tor. Denver, Colo. -KGMC Calif. -KRAK Sacramento, Vann Only the heart attack death rate slows this trend; Flint, Mich. - Wayne WKMF Jay Hoff Program /Music Director it is up 5 °/o for men in the best years of business life. Station Manager, Program /Music BP: "My Special Angel," Vogues, Re- Your Heart Association is intensifying its pro- Jim Harper Director prise. BLFP: "Dance With Me Until Program /Music Tomorrow," Vicky, Philips. BH: "My gram of research, education and community service BP: "All Over But the Crying," Hank Way of Life," , Reprise. Director, Personality Williams Jr., MGM. BLFP: "Drinking BLFH: "Harper Valley PTA," Bobbi in an all -out effort to gain greater control over heart Champagne," Cal Smith, Kapp. BH: Martin, United Artists. An unknown, BP: "Leaves are the Tears of Autumn," "Big Girls Don't Cry," Lynn Anderson, Karen Karsh on Dunhill, is also get- altack and all other forms of cardiovascular disease Bonnie Guitar, Dot. BLFP: "I Like Chart. BLFH: "Harper Valley P.T.A.," ting some reaction here . as is the Trains," Bob Luman, Epic. BH: "I Jeannie C. Riley, Plantation. new "Tomboy." Our Al- -the #1 U.S. killer. Your contribution is a good Just Came to Get My Baby," Faron bum Pick of the Week: "Turn Around, Young, Mercury. BLFH: "You May Look at Me," Vogues. Great album! investment in your heart and business. Be Too Much for Memphis, Baby," Le- Roy Van Dyke, Kapp. more will live Waco, Tex. GIVE ...so -KAWA Mason City, Lubbock, Tex. Dallas Mich. -WUNN KDAV Johnny HEART FUND Program/ Music Tom Michaels Director 0 Ralph Paul Program Director Operations Wears My Ring," Ray Price, BP: "She Diamond. Manager Columbia. BLFP: "Johnny One Time," BP: "Tomboy," Ronnie Dove, . RCA. BH: "Mama BLFP: "L.A. Breakdown," Larry Tried," Merle Haggard, Capitol. BLFH: Marks, A &M. BH: "Fool on the Hill," BP: "What I'd Give to Be the Wind," Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, A &M. Roger Miller, Smash / "Jack and Jill," "In Love," , Capitol. SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 22 Radio -TV programming

Miami Beach, Fla. -WMBM Phil Lando, Cumberland, Md., WCUM, "Losing You," Gary Miami, Fla. - Sonny Gee Puckett & Union Gap, Columbia, WIOD Program /Music Director, Personality and "Ice in the Sun," Status Quo, Cadet Concept. Johnnie RADIO -TV JOB MART Yolanda BP: "Everyday I Have to Cry," Lata- Charles, Bluefield, W. Va., WKOY, more Brown, Sound Stage. BLFP: "Oh," "Nitty Gritty," Ricardo Ray, Al- Parapar Jay Lewis, Venture. BH: "I Ain't Got to Love Nobody Else," Mary Martin, legre, and "People," Tymes, Co- Music Director Bell. BLFH: "Please Open the Door," lumbia. RADIO -TV JOB MART Stop looking and hire experienced Ken Charles, Bontanic. This column is published for people P. D. with the way for today. Mar- I'd COUNTRY MUSIC: Lyle Reed, seeking positions as well as station ried solid 7 years. Pro. Now em- BP: "What Give," Roger Miller, managers seeking personnel. Rate is ployed. I can afford to wait but can Smash. BLFP: "Catch the Wind," Lana Fort Lauderdale, WIXX, "Cry, $5.00 per one half inch (app. 40 you. AM take charge P. D., have Cantrell, RCA. BH: "Help Yourself," Cry, Cry," Connie Smith, RCA, and words). A box number will be used pulled top ratings in Northeast. Tom Jones, Parrot. BLFH: "Music to protect the identity of the adver- Write Box 067, Billboard, 165 West Played," Matt Monro. Capitol. Best Cut "Merry Go Round," Gary Stewart, tiser. Send copy along with payment 46th St., New York, N. Y. 10036. on "Prevailing Hits" new Paul Mauriat Memphis, Kapp.. . Tommy Stone, Perrys- to: LP is "What a Guy." burg, Ohio, WMGS, "Applesauce," RADIO -TV JOB MART Tenn. Billboard -WDIA Lynn Jones, Capitol. . Dave 165 W. 46th St. I'm not the best that's why I try New York, N. Y. 10036 harder than the rest! 26, now em- Elliott, Homestead, Fla., WIII, ployed P. D. (Rock) DJ production Bill Thomas "Tolivar," Roger Miller, Smash, and news experience. Vet, married, Program Director and 3rd endorsed prefer Oklahoma, Kan- Norwich. "Man Child," Jimmy Nall, sas, Texas. Looking for a permanent Monument. . Ray Martin, POSITIONS home. Write Box 068, Billboard, 165 Conn. -WICH BP: "," Aretha OPEN West 96th St., New York, N. Y. Franklin. BLFP and BH: "I'm a Love Kansas City, Mo., KWKI, "Today 10036. Maker," Popular Five. BLFH: "If I I Started Loving You Again," Joe Bob Craig Didn't Love You," Profiles. Watch this Berry, Nugget, and "Sounds of 5000-watt, 24-hour modern music sta- one: "46 Drums & I Guitar," Carl Carl- tion in the heart of New England Program Director ton, Backbeat. Goodbye," George Morgan, Star - needs pro. Must be good and willing day.... John Trimble, Evansville, to work. Write Box 020, Billboard, BP: "Over You," Gary Puckett & 165 W. 46th St., New York, N. Y. STATION MANAGERS Union Gap, Columbia. BLFP: "Those Ind., WVHI, "Man Child," 10036. Were the Days," Mark Hopkin, Apple. Jimmy Nall, Monument, and "Ala- ARE YOU LOOKING BLFH: "When I Was a Cowboy," OTHER PICKS bama Wild Man," Jerry Reed, Harpers Bizarre, from LP's "Secret Life FOR PERSONNEL ? ? ?? of H. Bros. RCA Victor. . Don Karnes, B.," Warner H O T 100: Mike Reynolds, Garden City, N. Y., WTHE, "Take POSITIONS WANTED Las Cruces, N. M., K G R T , Two," Victor Lundburg, Buddah, ANNOUNCERS "Indian Reservation," Don Fardon, and "Jack and Jill, Jim Ed Brown, I am 21 years old, attend Fordham ARE YOU LOOKING GNP Crescendo, and "In- A- Gadda- RCA. . Lou Dark, York, Pa., University and will graduate from the School of Business (nights) in Washington, Da- Vida," Iron Butterfly, Atco. WNOW, "Jack & Jill," Jim Ed June, 1969. I am looking for a posi- FOR A BETTER , Ashtabula, Ohio, Brown, RCA Victor, and "I Hope tion involving radio programming. 1 D. C. -WWDC have an extremely proficient knowl- FUTURE ? ?? WREO, "Over You," Union Gap, I Like Mexico Blues," Dallas edge of the rock market, and have Columbia, and "Fire," from "Crazy Fraizer, Capitol. many creative ideas to offer to any Bob Raleigh employer. I also possess an E S P For as little as $5 (1 "2" ad) World of Arthur Brown," Atlantic. EASY LISTENING: Jay Mitch- like ability to pick hit records and Air Personality Dave Sturm, believe that I would be an asset to you can reach the people Tallulah, La., ell, Pittsburgh, Pa., WJPA, "Over any station. Write Box 065, Bill- BP: "Over You," Union Gap, Columbia. KTLD, "Angela, Marie," Coach- You," Gary Puckett & Union Gap, board. 165 W. 96th St., New York, who are looking for you. BLFP: "Those Were Good Days," man, Roulette, and "Lovin' Is Columbia, and "L. A. Breakdown," New York. Hopkins, "Harper Mark Apple. BH: Livin'," Five Americans, Abnak.... Larry Marks, A &M. . Tom USE Valley PTA," Jeannie C. Riley, Planta- Michael tion. BLFH: "Then You Can Tell Me." Scott, Hobbs, N. M., Blanks, Monroe, Mich., WVMO, BILLBOARD'S Eddy Arnold, RCA Victor. KWEW, "Beatles Single," Apple, "Magnificent Seven," Henry Man- One Jock in 115- station market with and strong radio background desires op- -TV MART "Piece of My Heart," cini, RCA Victor, and " portunity with professional top 40 RADIO JOB Big Brother, Warner Bros. . . . of Life," Frank Sinatra, Reprise. station in the top 50 markets. Tape and resume immediately on request. (Use the handy coupon on FCC First. Write Box 066, Bnlboard, 165 West 46th St., New York, N. Y. this page) Williamsburg, 10036. Va. -WBCI Pat Collins Music Director Vox Jox BP: "5 Card Stud," Dean Martin, Re- prise. BLFP: "Timothy," Skeeter Davis, By CLAUDE HALL RCA. BH: "Harper Valley PTA," Jean- nie C. Riley, Plantation. BLFH: "To- Radio -TV Editor gether," , RCA. Harry Harrison, WMCA deejay ence the programming of those mentioned later in this column, is two stations before FCC approval. going to WABC, it was learned at * * * press time. He'll replace Herb Donald A. Gunn is the new RADIO-TV JOB MART Oscar Anderson, who's going into president and general manager of RHYTHM AND ranching full time. Both are New WRIZ, Coral Gables, Fla.; he'd York stations. To replace Gary been general manager of the Stevens, incidentally, in the eve- Miami Beach Daily Sun. BLUES ning slot on WMCA, program di- Three of the top men in radio - An ad service for radio & TV personnel. rector Terrell Metheny Jr. is bring- Norman Wain, Robert Weiss, Reach the man who is looking for you. ing in Lee Gray from WKLO in and Joseph Zinglae-have just Louisville. bought WMCK in McKeesport Maximum exposure- minimum cost. Beaumont, Tex. -KJET * * * (Pittsburgh), Pa., and other ac- To make next week's issue, Joining the country music sta- quisitions are also under consid- William (Boy) Brown tion of KDAV in Lubbock, Tex., eration. . . . Terry O'Connor, mail your ad TODAY! Program Director is Rick Smkth; he'd been with seven -year veteran of New Eng- (All information confidential. WHO() in Orlando, Fla. . . land radio, has been promoted to BP: "Sufferin' City," Johnny Copeland, Box numbers will be used.) Atlantic. BLFP: "Please Wait," Masters Bruce Bagg, program director of program director at WNEB, Wor- of Soul, Capitol. BH: "Black and WTAX in Springfield, Ill., in now cester, Mass.; he'll continue his Proud," , King. BLFH: also handling the music afternoon air show. . WGPR "Broke Down," Pepper. for the Short Kuts, station as Bob Foster has de- has a new address: 2101 Gratiot, parted to work on a West Coast Detroit, Mich. 48207. . Mike station. The station could use Phillips is vacating KFRC in San

some country music records. . Francisco to become program di- Columbus, Ga. Bill Campbell joins WSBA, York, rector of KJR in Seattle. -WOKS Pa., on Sept. 16 for a 10 p.m.- 1 a.m. show. below (or enclosed separately) in the Ernestine * * * Run the copy shown Sophisticated Rock Radio -TV Job Mart. Mathis William Shirk Poorman has page 18 Music Director, DJ been upped to station manager of Continued from WERK in Muncie, Ind., and BP: "Where Do I Go," , weekend personality Steve (Mi- bring a "very new sound" to the Stax. BLFP: "You Got It," , field of advertising, Chess. BH: "Say It Loud," James chaels) Mong is now on the staff. to "bend, Brown, King. BLFH: "I Ain't Got to R. Esq. Holmes, president but not break the musical Love," Masqueraders, Bell. Monster is of the Society, rules." For example, on a Hamil- such an over -worked word that I some- has been times hedge in using it. . But there promoted to program ton watch commercial for TV, is nothing to describe the new Marvin director of XEXX, San Diego he took the sound of watches Gaye "Chained" ( Tamla), except Mon- (one of those stations with trans- ster . . . or maybe "smash "! and combined them with the mitter south . of the border). created watch - type music Bill Scott, who worked under the sounds. Over this, he put a full Denver, Colo. -WDKO name Bill Lehmann at WACK, Newark, N. Y., is now in the orchestration interpolated with Bob Allen 10 a.m. -2 p.m. slot at WHHY, electronic sounds to give the Montgomery, Ala. The line -up mental image of a watch. Music Director, Air Personality 'there now includes Don McGreg- "Hopefully, when people hear / BP: "Chained," Marvin Gaye. BLFP: or, Scott, program director Greg this sound, they'll automatically Check the number of insertions you wish: "Western Union Man," Jerry Butler. Warren, Kris McGwinn, and Larry BH: "Black and Proud," James Brown. think of the Hamilton watch." Glenn. One Issue Two Issues __ _ -Three Issues BLFH: "Don't Change Your Love," 5 Being so involved in record Stair Steps. sessions as a sideman and ar- (approximately 40 words) Stan Richards, one of the vet- COST: $5.00 per 1/2 inch per insertion is erans of this business, is looking ranger, Frangipane able to for a good program director job. use the newest sounds and mu- Amount enclosed: $___ -_ (Payment must accompany order) Galveston, Try him at 713 -781 -3891 and, if sic happenings in his commer- Tex. -KGBC that doesen't reach him, at 901- cials. Classical and symphonic Radio -TV lob Mart, Billboard, 165 West 46th Street, New York, N. Y. 10036 526 -2366. . . . Old buddy Ken music is being used by rock Steve -O- Draper points out that FCC ap- groups-"the thing is the groups NAME Donohoe proval of Atlantic States' owner- trying to expand the mind of the ship of WERE, Cleveland, and listener without the use of ADDRESS Music Director KFAC, Los Angeles, is pending drugs." Frangipane is using and that neither Atlantic States CITY BP: "Funky Judge," Bull & Matadors, - Toddle Town. BLFP: "Kidnapper," Burt Industries nor Programming db these same mind expanding Miller & Swing Kings, LA Louisian. (the Draper-Chuck Blore firm) musical effects in his commer- BH: "Say It Loud," James Brown, cials. for STATE & ZIP CODE King. BLFH: "Country Food," Plastic want to do or say anything that To go the sublimai Blues Band, Busy Bee. would imply an attempt to influ- approach. SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Rhythm & Blues

Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 9/21/68 BEST SELLING Rhythm &Blues SOUL SAUCE BEST NEW RECORD Singles OF THE WEEK: * STAR Performer -LP's registering greatest proportion ate upward progress this week. "I'M GLAD This Last Weeks on This Last Weeks on Week Week Title, Artist, Label, No. & Pub. Chart Week Week Title, Artist, Label, No. & Pub. Chart YOU'RE BACK" Billboar YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY 8 37 THERE WAS A TIME 2 Award Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Tamla 54169 Gene Chandler, Brunswick 55383 (Jobete, BMI) (Golo /Lois, BMI) GARY (U.S.) BONDS THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 5 27 FLY ME TO THE MOON 5 7 28 tr Aretha Franklin, Atlantic 2456 (Cotillion, BMI) , Minit 32048 (Almanac, ASCAP) (Botanic)

5 SLIP AWAY s 12 32 2 Û Clarence Carter, Atlantic 2508 (Fame, BMI) Q 0. C. Smith, Columbia 44616 (Russell- Cason, ASCAP) By ED OCHS 4 4 PLEASE RETURN YOUR LOVE TO ME . 6 Temptations, Gordy 7074 (Jobete, BMI) 47 BREAK YOUR PROMISE 3 SOUL SLICES: A special request for Fantastic Johnny C to 5 6 I CAN'T STOP DANCING 8 t:1 Delfonics, Philly Groove 152 Archie Bell & the Drells, Atlantic 2534 (Nickel Shoe /Bellboy, BMI) perform in England at the Martin Luther King Fund show in (Downstairs /Double Diamond, BMI) April 1969 has been made by John Abbey of Blues & Soul 30 30 LISTEN HERE 12 . . . 10 GIRL WATCHER 7 Eddie Harris, Atlantic 2487 (Hargrove, BMI) magazine. The Royal Family will attend the benefit. In two O'Kaysions, ABC 11094 (North State, ASCAP) weeks, blues magician . Chuck Berry closes down his 100 -acre out- 31 4 7 3 LOVE MAKES A WOMAN 12 31 HELP YOURSELF (To All of My Lovin') door amusement park in Wentzville, Mo., for the season, but when Barbara Acklin, Brunswick 55379 James & Bobby Purify, Bell 735 (Helios, BMI) the cold sets in Berry will be off for a hot winter's tour of Japan in (Jalynne/BRC, BMI) 32 36 (You) GOT WHAT I NEED 4 December. . . . Gary (U.S.) Bonds, of "Quarter to Three" fame, ß 17 HIP CITY -PART 2 4 Freddie Scott, Shout 233 (Double Diamond/ taped the Jerry Blavat show, Friday (13), in Philly and will appear Jr. Walker & the All Stars, Soul 35048 Downstairs, BMI) (Jobete, BMI) on the Peter Martin show and Channel 13's new "Soul!" show for 33 23 THE MULE 6 October. Now on the Botanic label after nine years on LeGrand, 11 SPECIAL OCCASION 4 James Boys, Phil -L.A. of Soul 316 his & , (Dandelion /James Boy, BMI) Gary plans to move from Norfolk on the strength of "I'm Glad Tamla 54172 (Jobete, BMI) You're Back" single, penned by him under his real name, Gary 34 14 I LOVED I LOST 9 10 2 YOU MET YOUR MATCH 8 AND Anderson.... Mercury is ready to bow a new r &b label.... Lee Impressions, ABC 11103 -Sound, BMI) Stevie Wonder, Tamla 54168 (Jobete, BMI) (Chi Enterprises, Atlantic's Caribbean licensee headed by Byron Lee, will

11 8 STAY IN MY CORNER 14 35 38 1 LIKE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU 2 present a soul show in Kingston, Jamaica, starring Johnny Nash, King Dells, Cadet 5612 (Conrad, BMI) Jimmy Hughes, Volt 4002 (Ro -Gor, BMI) Curtis & the Kingpins, and the Sweet Inspirations.... King Curtis 12 9 I'VE NEVER FOUND A GIRL (To Love 41 PRIVATE NUMBER 3 and his group, received $10,000 and 15 round -trip tickets for his Me Like You Do) 11 & William Bell, Stax 0005 (East, BMI) Lisbon date a few weeks back. . . . , the "bubble Eddie Floyd, Stax 0002 (East, BMI) gum" music machine currently hot r &b -wise with the Impressions 43 OH LORD, WHY LORD 2 13 13 KEEP THE ONE YOU GOT ..... 5 Los Pop Tops, Calla 154 (JAME, BMI) and Cubie & the , will distribute Hugh Masekela's Joe Tex, Dial 4083 (Tree, BMI) new label, Chisa. . . . Georgia's State Rep. Julian Bond will be 34 SAY IT LOUD-I'M BLACK AND I'M - LIGHT MY FIRE 1 interviewed the premiere of Channel 13's "Soul!" show, Friday Jose Feliciano, RCA Victor 47-9550 on PROUD 2 (Nipper, ASCAP) (13), along with Patti LeBelle & the Bluebells and the Vibrations. James Brown & His Famous Flames, King 6187 (Golo, BMI) Barbara Acklin missed the taping when she missed the plane 44 I AIN'T GOT TO LOVE NOBODY ELSE 3 out of Pittsburgh. The show will be aired Saturday (26). . . . 15 16 GIRLS CANT DO WHAT THE GUYS DO 8 Masqueraders, Bell 733 (Press, BMI) , Alston 4001 (Sherlyn, BMI) A top soul reporter in New York (you know who you are!) will soon 40 40 BROWN EYED WOMAN 3 announce he's leaving his lofty post. . . . James Brown appeared 20 PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE 7 Bill Medley, MGM 13959 Rascals, Atlantic 2537 (Slacsar, ASCAP) (Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI) on the "Tonight Show" on NBC -TV, Wednesday (11) touching a few sore spots. The soul king has taped a "Match Game" date for 27 I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER 4 48 UNCHAINED MELODY 2 Aretha Franklin, Atlantic 2456 Sweet Inspirations, Atlantic 2551 the same network and a pilot for an upcoming network series. Brown (Jac/Blue Seas, ASCAP) (Frank, ASCAP) takes to the road again Friday (20) with three successive one - 24 DONT CHANGE YOUR LOVE 4 42 42 I WON'T DO ANYTHING 4 nighters in Evansville, Ind., Milwaukee and Lansing, Mich. On Lezii Valentine, Five Stairsteps & Cubie, Curtom 1931 All Platinum 2305 Sunday (22) Brown plays a giant concert in the Cotton Bowl in (Camad, BMI) (Gambi, BMI) Dallas. . In town this week: Jesse James, manager of Johnny 19 19 CAN'T YOU FIND ANOTHER WAY 43 45 I AM YOUR MAN 3 Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, C and Cliff Nobles-and now the Brothers of Love on Mercury. (Of Doing It) Gordy 7073 6 (Jobete, BMI) Jesse is the gent who saddled up "" hit with his group, Sam & Dave, Atlantic 2540 (East /Pronto, BMI) 44 46 WORKIN' ON A GROOVY THING though Cliff Nobles & Co. got the tag. . . . Jerry Butler will 20 18 (Love Is Like a) BASEBALL 11 GAME 10 Patti Drew, Capitol 2197 (Channel 5 Intruders, Gamble (Razor. appear on the new syndicated Donald O'Conner show 217 Sharp, BMI) (Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI) here) and Dick Clark's "Happening '68" late this month. . 21 12 SOUL LIMBO 11 FOOL FOR YOU 1 new series, Gold T - Mercury's disk "Golden Groups" and "Original Booker & the MG's, Stax 0001 (East, BMI) Impressions, Curtom 1932 (Caread, BMI) Soul," was pieced together by rock scholar John Sippel and Shelly 35 2 - HEY WESTERN UNION MAN 1 Tirk. . . . Inez & Charlie Foxx play the Virgin Islands Nov. 28- & the Pips, Soul 35047 Jerry Butler, Mercury 72850 (Jobete, 11 BMI) (Parabut /Double Diamond /Downstairs, BMI) 29.... Intruders set for the Apollo, Oct. -17. 23 25 FUNKY JUDGE 4 47 49 MESSAGE FFROM MARIA 2 * * * Bull & the Matadors, Toddlin' Town 108 Joe Simon, Sound Stage 7 (Downstream /Napac 2617 & Sue Lukey, president Sue Records /Flomar, BMI) (Cape Ann, BMI) SOUL CRUMPETS: of Appreciation Society, U. S. soul stars now touring Eng- 24 26 I CANT DANCE TO THAT MUSIC YOU'RE reports that - COURT OF LOVE 1 land include Ben E. King ( "They love him all over Britain "), with PLAYIN' 5 Unifies, Kapp 935 (Andjun, BMI) Mactha Reeves & the Vandellas, Gordy 7075 Ray Charles, , James & Bobby Purify, Lee Dorsey, (Jobete, BMI) - WHO IS GONNA LOVE ME? . 1 Inez & Foxx, Dee Dee Warwick, Shirelles and possibly , Scepter 12226 Charlie the 25 15 I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING 10 another Stax tour due soon. Ray Charles will be in England for Jackie Wilson, Brunswick 55381 50 50 TALKIN' ABOUT SOUL 3 two concerts only, tickets, says Sue, are "like gold dust." (T.M. /McCoy, BMI) Marvin L. Sims, Revue 11024 (Anchor, BMI) and Chris Shakespeare's Globe Show, the group backing Ben E. King, is just about the best in Britain, according to Sue. In addition to writing a newsletter and magazine, Sue is also a deejay in London. Big Promotion & Sue Records will soon be incorporated into John Abbey's Action Buck-Al in Merger label and will feature releases by Wilmer & the Dukes, Carl Carl- ton, Ernie K -Doe, Minnie Eeprson and Buddy Ace. . . . Roger St. PITTSBURGH- Buck -Al At- Pierre, promotion manager for Beacon Records in London, writes tractions will merge with Big that all signs are pointing to "more earthy forms of r &b." The Promotions of New York, Tues- time seems right, says St. Pierre, for such artists as John Lee Hooker, day (17) under the Big Promo- Jimmy Reed and Albert King as British rhythm and blues turns to- tions banner to form a new in- ward the true blue soul sound. Beacon is excited about Ram John dependent promotion firm, Holder from British Guiana, a Greenwich Village refugee aiming for headed by Herforth (Tiny) Blue the soul market with "Yes I Do." ... About the Dells' "Stay in My and Alan M. Leeds. Corner" hit, Dave McAleer writes from London that the song was Blue, former promotion man released as a single on Vee Jay some years back. McAleer adds that and road manager for such acts reissues of U. S. soul records have been moneymakers in England, as B. B. King and Walter Jack- including 's "I'll Do Anything" on Calla. Did you know son, and Leeds, ex- deejay and Otis Redding was half of the duo, the Shooters, who recorded on , are currently plug- the Trans World label in 1960? McAleer, a real soul scholar, is ging disks by the Constellations, trying to track down the identity of the other member. Do You Earls, and Johnny Gilliam, know? . Luc Tabara of Super -Soul magazine in France, writes whose personal management to salute "those obscure taskmen" who are highly responsible for BENNY GORDON, sitting second from right, joins the , will be transferred from Buck - the success of the major soul labels and groups. Tabare cites Stevie who split the disk chores with Gordon on his latest Wand release, Al to Big Promotions. Wonder's virtuoso harmonica solo on his instrumental "Alfie," and "Gonna Give Her All the Love I Got," on a recent stop at Billboard. Blue will head road tips his topper to Gene Kee, former arranger for , now The Soul Brothers have a chart climber of their own, "Horsing Around," promo- tion, while Leeds headquarters musical director of Stevie's touring orchestra. Honorable soul men- on the Scepter- distributed Newmiss label. Chris Jones, Scepter's East also go to band's 14 musicians, including Jimmy Wilkins on Coast promotion chief, standing, second from left, takes charge of the at Big's Pittsburgh office, 5416 tion the group on their New York stopover. Darlington Road. (Continued on page 26) 24 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD .... Age 14 FIRST H ... Attri ROTRI NG "COMPETITIONCOMPETITI # B. 588

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SOUL SAUCE's prediction of Holland-Dozier-Holland SD 8186 (S) grumblings and rumblings in Motown country came true last week 34 BEST OF THE IMPRESSIONS 2 1 TEMPTATIONS WISH IT WOULD RAIN ..18 ABC ABCS 654 (S) when the ace writing team caught a $4 million damage suit from Gordy (No Mono); 7072 (S) Motown and its publishing affiliate, Jobete Music. The suit cites 28 26 JAMES BROWN PLAYS NOTHING BUT SOUL 6 a failure by the team to deliver any work since the end of 1967. (Q 5 THE IMMORTAL OTIS REDDING 11 King (No Mono); 1034 (S) Atco (No Mono); SD 33-252 (S) But that's not all. News should break soon on a dispute-and 29 28 PLUG ME IN 8 possible break -between Motown and one of its top female stars. 4 3 FELICIANO 10 Eddie Harris, Atlantic (No Mono); SD 1506 (S) So stand by. Dennis Fordham of New Jersey writes: "I'd like Jose Feliciano, RCA Victor LPM 3957 (M); ... LSP 3957 (5) 30 31 FOR LOVE OF IVY 2 to see the term `rhythm and blues' changed to `soul,' which would Soundtrack, ABC ABCS OC 7 (5) put it in proper perspective." Fordham says that since rock 'n' 5 4 THE PROMISE OF THE FUTURE 16 roll has given way and country and western to &b Hugh Masekela, Uni (No Mono); 73028 (5) 31 32 VALLEY OF THE DOLLS 29 to pop, country, r Dionne Warwick, Scepter (No Mono); should be switched to soul.... Hob Records will celebrate its fifth 6 9 EASY 17 SPS 568 (S) anniversary Oct. 8 with a swank dinner -dance at New York's Nancy Wilson, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2909 (5) 32 33 A TRIBUTE TO COURAGE .... 2 Park Sheraton Hotel.... R &b signed to Dot: the Louis Brothers. 7 8 HICKORY HOLLER REVISITED 12 Rufus Harley, Atlantic SC 1504 (S) Who's tooting the hit horn for what: Effie Smith for Freddie o. C. Smith, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9680 (S) Scott's "You Got What I Need" on Shout. Roy Battocchio for Ann 33 40 PORTRAIT OF RAY 23 Duquesney's opener, "I Surrender," and an r &b- flavored Nancy 4 18 JAMES BROWN LIVE AT THE APOLLO, Ray Charles, ABC (No Mono); ABCS 625 (S) VOL 2 3 Wilson, "Peace of Mind" -both on Capitol. Mitch Manning for the King (No Mono); 1022 (S) 34 39 SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES Diplomats "I Can Give You Love" on Dynamo, produced by GREATEST HITS, VOL 2 31 9 6 THERE IS 19 Tamla T 280 (M); TS 280 (S) Charlie Foxx. Charlie Fach for the Brothers of Love "Yes I Am" Dells, Cadet (No Mono); LP 804 (S) on Mercury, produced by Jesse James, famous for the Philly "Horse" 35 36 TO RUSSELL, MY BROTHER, WHOM I hit. Chris Jones for Benny Gordon's "Gonna Give Her All the Love 10 11 TIME PEACE GREATEST HITS 11 SLEPT WITH 24 Rascals, Atlantic (No Mono); SD 8190 (5) Bill Cosby, Warner Bros. -Seven Arts (No Mono); I Got" on Wand. . . . Who's due: New tunes in the wings by WS 1734 (S) Alvin Cash, "Keep On Dancing" on Toddlin' Town, Vibrations, 11 10 LADY SOUL 31 "Overdosed" on Okeh, Archie Bell & the Drells, "Do the Choo Aretha Franklin, Atlantic 8176 (M); 36 29 HISTORY OF OTIS REDDING .. 38 SD 8176 (5) Volt 418 (M); S 418 (5) Choo" on Atlantic, Dee Dee Sharp, "What Kind of Woman" on Atco. . Though Cubie & the Five Stairsteps' new one makin' 12 12 20 37 37 LOOK AROUND 17 -up , A &M (No Mono); LP 3006 (5) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, A &M (No Mono); fire is "Don't Change Your Love," a birdie tells us their follow SP 4137 (S) will be "Your Love Has Changed. ". . . The Soul Stirrers and 13 16 ARE YOU EXPERIENCED 48 Violinaires were recently recorded live for Checker at a public con- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Reprise R 6261 (M); 38 42 TEMPTATIONS GREATEST HITS 93 . . RS 6261 (S) Gordy 919 (M); S 919 (S) cert held in DuSable High School on Chicago's South Side. George Hudson brings his Gospel U.S.A. show into the Apollo for 14 14 MAIDEN VOYAGE 8 39 45 DOIN' OUR THING 25 one week beginning Friday (13) starring the Clouds of Joy, James , Cadet (No Mono); LPS (S) T MG's, Stan (No Mono); 724 (S) 811 Booker & the Cleveland, the Gospelaires, the South West Choir and Clara Walker 15 15 STONED SOUL PICNIC 5 40 30 LIGHTHOUSE '68 8 & the Gospel Redeemers. . . . Remember to keep in touch with 5th Dimension, Soul City (No Mono); Jazz Crusaders, Pacific Jazz (No Mono); SCS 92002 (S) ST 20131 (S) SOUL SAUCE, your eye and ear of the soul world. * * * 16 7 ELECTRIFYING EDDIE HARRIS 28 - YOU'RE ALL I NEED 1 Atlantic 1495 (M); SD 1495 (5) dir Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Tamla TS 284 (5) MAKIN' SMOKE: Wilson Pickett, "I Found a True Love" 17 19 A DAY THE LIFE 48 HITS IN 42 44 DIONNE WARWICK'S GOLDEN - (Atlantic). . Otis Redding, "I've Got Dreams to Remember" Wes Montgomery, A &M (No Mono); PART 1 45 (Atco). . . . Ray Charles, "Sweet Young Thing Like You" (ABC). SP 3001 (S) Scepter SRM 565 (M); SPS 565 (5) . Robert John, "Don't Leave Me" (Columbia).... Carla Thomas, 18 13 COWBOYS TO GIRLS 11 43 48 TIGHTEN UP 18 "Where Do I Go ?" (Stax).... Bagdads, "Bring Back Those Doo- Intruders, Gamble (No Mono); SG 5004 (S) Archie Bell & the Drells, Atlantic (No Mono); Wopps" (Double Shot). . . . King Curtis & the Kingpins, "Harper SC 8181 (S) 19 21 IN A MELLOW MOOD 40 Valley P.T.A." (Atco). . . . Lattimore Brown, "Everyday I Have Temptations, Gordy 924 (M); S 924 (S) 44 41 UP POPS RAMSEY LEWIS 16 to Cry Some" (SS7). . Classics IV, "Stormy" (Imperial). . . . Cadet LP 799 (M); LPS 799 (S) 20 20 DOCK OF THE BAY 27 Mad Lads, "So Nice" (Volt) . Jimmy Hughes, "I Like Every- Otis Redding, Volt 419 (M); S 419 (S) 45 35 BEST OF 6 thing About You" (Volt). . . . Unifics, "Court of Love" (Kapp). Capitol (No Mono); SKAO 2948 (S) 2 24 FEELIN' BLUESY 18 Gladys Knight & the Pips, Soul (No Mono); 46 38 LOOK OF LOVE 4 S 707 (S) Stanley Turrentine, Blue Note (No Mono); BST 84286 (S) 22 22 TIME HAS COME 4 VANCOUVERS 1 Chambers Brothers, Columbia CL 2722 (M); _ BOBBY TAYLOR & THE CS 9522 (S) Gordy GS 930 (S) 23 17 THE MIDNIGHT MOVER 10 48 46 SOUL COUNTRY 4 Wilson Pickett, Atlantic (No Mono); Joe Tex,.Atlantic (No Mono); SD 8187 (S) SD 8183 (S) LOIN, 49 49 REFLECTIONS 21 24 25 WHEELS OF FIRE 6 & , Motown (No Cream, Atco (No Mono); SD 33 -244 (S) Mono); 665 (S) 1,11S11111 25 27 THE SOUL GOES ON 5 50 50 STEVIE WONDER'S GREATEST HITS 21 + Jerry Butler, Mercury (No Mono); SR 61171 (5) Tamla (No Mono); 282 (S) iltuN %M%1 iLMtlt%3À%)WS!! CALL IT R &B, ROCK OR SOUL IT'S ALL ,. 1Ißà1;hS1 'VW SHEILA WILKERSON BOBS IN "CAN YOU DO IT /BABY YOUR A JIVE CAT" LW productions D.J.'s Write for Copies music Recording Division of Hyannis Publishing PICIMMITS 622 Route 3A Cohasset, Mass. 02025 ickwickj3

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Pop cover art by "Das Rheingold" with Herbert Byron Goto and Henry Epstein-and the recent neo- classical move- von Karajan and the Berlin Phil- ment in pop circles -are mainly responsible for ABC's restoration harmonic continues DGG's program. "Ring des Niebelungen" cycle, Fronting for the classical longhairs and their serious interpret- following up the previous re- ers- Hermann Scherchen and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra lease of "Die Walkuese." The (Tchaikovsky and Rimsky -Korsakov), Arthur Rodzinski and the Lon- new set features Dietrich don Philharmonic (Dvorak), Erich Leinsdorf and the London Phil- Fischer -Dieskau as Wotan, Jo- harmonic (Mozart), and Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony AARON COPLAND, left, and Dr. Peter Menin, right, composers, attend sephine Veasey as Fricka, Oralia with pianist Reid Bibley (Grieg) -are hip covers keyed to the slogan: a luncheon at New York's Hotel Plaza Monday (9), which opened the Do ..inquez as Erda, Gerhard "Join the Now Generation! Be with it -with these pops of the classics Sixth Annual Music Congress. Also attending were Stanley Adams, Stolze as Loge, Zoltan Kelemen -in stereo!" second from left, president of ASCAP; Dr. Luther Evans, center, chair- as Alberich, Erwin Wohlfahrt as 'I Dig Tchaikovsky' man of the International Music Council, and Dr. Narayama Menon of Mime, Martti Talvela as Fassolt, India, president of the International Music Council. Menin also is Karl Ridderbusch as Fafner, Si- The cover art, including a couple of photos from someone president of the Juilliard School of Music. mone Mengelsdorff as Freia, named Champion Papers, are based on easily identifiable Robert Kerns as Donner, Don- themes. "I Dig Tchaikovsky" shows a drawing of a bearded motor- ald Grobe as Froh, and Helen cyclist performing a wheelie as an American flag flames from his Donath, Edda Moser and Anna back. The album contents are striped in the flag. "I Really Dig Reynolds at the Rhine Maidens. Dvorak" has a photo of a bare -chested mod muscleman tattooed a Karajan is conducting a new with the composer's name, while "I Dig Grieg" sports head -on Classical Notes production of the opera, which photo of a howling hippie. "I Dig Mozart" boasts a circus fat lady a button. is premiering at the Metropolitan wielding an "I Hate War" sign and wearing Mozart Pianists Vladimir Ashkenazy luncheon. Luncheon tickets are Opera Nov. 22, a Metropolitan New Generation Series and Gary Graffman, violinist $8.50 each. . Robert A. Opera Guild benefit. The pro- Sidney Harth, composer Roy Har- Uihlein Jr., president and chair- This "new" old grouping, the New Generation Series, offered ris, and Andre Previn, conductor man of the board of the Joseph duction will feature many of the on the low -price Music Guild line for $2.39 a disk, is a dandy device in chief of the Houston Sym- Schlitz Brewing Co., and Corne- singers who appear on the new to spark more mileage out of these timeless warhorses -and drive phony and principal conductor of lius V. Whitney, president and release. the old classical nags once more around the track. As a tonic, it is the London Symphony, will be the director of Whitney Industries, DGG also is issuing the first a bit of merchandising as nifty as a heart transplant, putting new life judges for the Houston Sym- Inc., have been elected to the stereo recording of the Brecht- into thèse old giants via posthumous promotion. It will even sell phony's Young Artists Competi- board of directors of the New Weill "Seven Deadly Sins" with classical music, in addition to promoting old catalog faithfuls and tion on Nov. 26 and 27. Prizes York Philharmonic. Gisela May, Peter Schreier and strains. And of $1,500, $1,000 and $500 each Leonard Bernstein's 50th birth- cashing in on the cross -pollination of pop and classical the Leipzig Radio Symphony un- as a lure for "good" music, the covers may well lead listeners into a plus appearances with the orches- day was celebrated at an Aug. der Kagel. Another first tra will go to the winning young 25 reception at the Brussels Hil- Herbert renaissance of awareness and appreciation of the classics. Even the musicians who will not reach their ton. The affair was hosted by in stereo is Schoenberg's "String earphone set, who plug the stereo effect directly into the brain, can 26th birthdays by Jan. 1. Appli- TWA, which, with the U. S. State Quartet No. 1" with the New "discover" and relish the moving, multi -level action of Tchaikovsky. cations for students of piano, Department, is sponsoring the New Vienna Quartet. Meanwhile, the current romance of pop and classical in the violin and cello must be post- York Philharmonic's European Karajan and the Berlin con- youth market, especially in the Beatle's Bach-rock, Geza Anda's marked by Oct. 15. Detailed infor- tour. Bernstein will be piano ac- tinue their Handel cycle, while recording of a Mozart piano concerto for the "Elvira Madigan" is available at the or- companist for baritone Dietrich mation Claudio Abbado and the New movie theme, and progressive experimentation by groups such as Ars chestra's offices in Jones Hall, Fischer -Dieskau in a benefit con- Philharmonia perform Tchai- Na- Nova and the New York Rock 'n' Roll Ensemble, will prove that in Houston. cert for UNICEF, the United ovsky. Completing the release is Kurt Herbert Adler, general tions Children's Fund, on Nov. 8 the merchandising game, ABC has insured itself a winner by cap- the first DGG album by guitar- director of the San Francisco op- in Philharmonic Hall. . . . Dr. turing all the tricks. ED OCHS era, will be honored by the City Lothar Klein, assistant professor ist Narciso Yepes, the first vol- of San Francisco and the San of composition and music theory ume of a series on "Spanish Francisco Opera Association at a at the University of Texas, is Guitar Music of Five Cen- testimonial luncheon, open to the spending a year in on a turies." The album features mu- D. C. Symphony Opens public, in the Garden Court of the Fulbright -Hays - grant. He will sic of Milan Soler Sanz, Sheraton Palace Hotel on Thurs- spend much of, the time on pre- Mudárra, Narvaez and Pisador. day (19). Several artists, including paratory work for an original op- soprano Leontyne Price and tenor era based on a student resistance Season With Wagner Jess Thomas, will participate in movement that opposed the Nazi illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll a special program following the regime in 1943 -1944. WASHINGTON -The Wash- premiere of Manuel Ponce's H. SOMER ON ington National Symphony's "Concerto" in the Feb. 25 -26 MERC. 1968 -1969 season opens with an pair with Mitchell conducting. STEREO Oct. 15 -16 pair with Howard The April 22 -23 program in- NEW YORK - The first Mitchell conducting a special cludes the J. S. premiere of stereo album devoted exclusively adaptation of Wagner's "Die Vaughn Williams' "Dona Nobis to the piano music of Scriabin Walkuere," produced by M. Pacem," with soprano Phyllis has been recorded by Hilde Robert Scott, the orchestra's Curtin, baritone Theodore Upp- Somer for Mercury with spe- managing director. Featured will man, and the choruses of Catho- cial release slated for late next be soprano Sena Jurinac, tenor lic and Howard Universities. month. The album is the first Ernst Kozub, soprano Gladys They will be joined by mezzo - cut by Miss Somer under her Kuchta, and bass Malcolm soprano Helen Vanni and tenor new contract with Mercury Rec- OF HUNGARY Smith. Salvador Novoa in Beethoven's ords. Violinist Henryk Szeryng will "Symphony No. 9." be the soloist in the American Other soloists for the subscrip- IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII tion season include pianists GRAND PRIX DU DISQUE Mischa Dichter, Van Cliburn, Eugene Istomin, Gina Bachauer, Claudio Arrau, Jeanne - Marie BRUXELLES 1961 German Cos. Offer Darre, Emil Gilels, Artur Ru- binstein, and Aaron Copland, MUSICA HUNGARICA who also will conduct; violinists A short history of Hungarian Music Special Subscriptions Isaac Stern, Edith Peinemann, on four discs in presentation box and ; cellist accompanied by an easy readable in- MUNICH -Five major Ger- log-Symphonies No. 1, 2 and 3 Pierre Fournier, and narrator terpreting book in English and Hungarian man record companies have an- by Tchaikovsky, by the U.S.S.R. Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. nounced special fall subscription State Symphony Orchestra, con- A Mozart Concerto Festi- 250 pp., richly illustrated offers as part of a classical sales ducted by Jevgenih Svetlanov val by Mitchell and the Na- accompanied and completed by a drive for the 1968 -1969 season. ($7.50) and the 11- string quar- tional Chamber Orchestra, with scientific apparatus LPX-SLPX 1214-17 Deutsche - Grammophon is tets of Shostakovitch ($14.75). Hans Richter-Haaser as piano launching its subscriptions with EMI -Electrola is introduc- soloist, is slated for the March Haydn: QUARTERS Op. 76 No. 1-6 the slogan "70 years of Deut- ing nine subscription sets, four 4 -5 and 11 -12 pairs. Subscribers Erdody Quartets sche -Grammophon." Highlights of which embrace operetta and also will get a free bonus concert Tatral Quartet LPX-SLPX 1205-7 from its six subscription offers light music and five of which on April 29 -30 with cellist are Mozart's "The Marriage of feature opera and concert music. as soloist. Figaro" Highlights are a complete re- Guest conductors for the Con- LISZT, KODALY and Contemporary Hungarian Music ($17.50), Wagner's "Rheingold," conducted by cording of Wagner's "Flying stitution Hall season will include First Recorded on ($14.50) Dutchman" for $12 and Verdi's Milton Katims, Peter Herman and Hector Berlioz' "Requiem" "Rigoletto," with Nicolai Gedda Adler, and Antal Dorati in addi- and Cornell MacNeil, for $10. tion to Copland. Dorati will lead -. RECORDS conducted by Charles Munch OUALITON ($9.50). Spearheading the Phonogram two pairs., Distributor: QUALITON RECORDS,. Ltd. Ariola -Eurodisc has three spe- subscription list is a set of the The series also will include 39-38 58th Street, WOODSIDE, New York cial offers, including two sets complete piano sonatas of Bee - performances by the Orchestre from the Russian Mqlodija cata- (Continued on page 43) (Continued on page 43) 28 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 411#1ctstatitz

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5 19 DONIZETTI: LA FILLE DU REGIMEN (2 LP's) 2 25 30 BACH ORGAN FAVORITES, VOL 1 14 Sutherland /Pavarotti /Various Artists /Royal Opera House E. Power Biggs, Columbia ML 5661 (M); MS 6261 (S) Orch. (Bonynge), London (No Mono); OSA 1273 (S) 26 13 LISZT: ARRANGED BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 5 19 Glenn Gould, Columbia (No Mono); MS 7095 (S) 6 6 SELECTIONS FROM 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 6 Philadelphia Orch. (Ormandy) /New York Philharmonic 27 28 BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE /LELIO (2 LP's) 3 (Bernstein), Columbia (No Mono); MS 7176 (S) Various Artists /London Symphony (Boulez), CBS (No Mono); 32 B1 0010 (S) 7 5 GLORY OF GABRIELLI 28 E. Power Biggs /Various Artists /Columbia (No Mono); 28 25 SATIE: PIANO MUSIC, VOL. 1 16 MS 7071 (S) Aldo Ciccolini, Angel (No Mono), S 36482 (S) Morze, nasze morze 8 3 MY FAVORITE CHOPIN 129 29 - HOROWITZ ON TELEVISION 1 SEA, OUR SEA Van Cliburn, RCA Victor LM 2576 (M); LSC 2576 (S) , Columbia (No Mono); MS 710G (S) The first Polish record of songs about 9 11 VERDI: ERNANI (3 LP's) 27 30 ART OF LAWRENCE TIBBETT 3 the sea. "Muza" XL 0426 - Price /Bergonzi /Various Artists/RCA Italiano Orch. RCA Victrola, VIC 1340 (M); VICS 1340 (S) (Schippers), RCA Victor LM 6183 (M); LSC 6183 (S) 31 31 SATIE: PIANO MUSIC, VOL. 3 18 10 16 R. STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA 8 Aldo Ciccolini, Angel (No Mono); S 36485 (S) Philadelphia Orch. (Ormandy), Columbia ML 5947 (M); MS 6547 (S) 32 32 NONESUCH GUIDE TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC 8 /Bernard Krause, Nonesuch (No Mono); 11 8 ROSSINI RARETIES 16 HC 73018 (S) Montserrat Caballe /RCA Italiano Opera Orch. & Chorus (Cillario), RCA Victor LM 3015 (M); LSC 3015 (S) 33 33 UP, UP AND AWAY 2 Boston Pops (Fiedler), RCA Victor (No Mono); 12 12 R. STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA 9 LSC 3041 (S) Chicago Symphony (Reiner), RCA Victor LM 2609 (M); LSC 2609 (S) 34 35 BEETHOVEN SONATAS 2 Artur Rubinstein, RCA Victor LM 2654 (M); LSC 2654 (S) 13 14 MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 1 3 New Haven Symphony (Brieff), Odyssey (No Mono); 35 34 MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 8 (2 LP's) 85 32 160286 (S) Various Artists /London Symphony (Bernstein), Columbia SLASK M2L 251 (M); M2S 751 (S) 14 7 BERG: LULU (3 LP's) 22 The Polish State Song and Lear /Fischer -Dieskau /Various Artists/Deutsche Oper Berlin 36 36 BERLIOZ: NUITS D'ETE 2 Dance Ensemble, Vol. 3 (Boehm), DGG (No Mono); 139 273/75 (S) Janet Baker /New Philharmonia Orch. (Barbirolli), Music : STANISLAW HADYNA Angel (No Mono), S 36505 (S) XL 0348 "Muza" 15 9 GOLDEN AGE OF OPERETTA (2 LP's) 26 Joan Sutherland /New Philharmonia Orch. (Bonynge), 37 - MENDELSOHN: MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM/ London (No Mono); OSA 1268 (S) SCHUMANN: SYMPHONY NO. 3 1 Philips /NBC Symphony & Women's Chorus (Toscanini), 16 37 ART OF ALEXANDER KIPNIS 4 RCA Victor VIC 1337 (M); VICS 1337 (S) Seraphim 60076 (M); (No Stereo) 38 - TCHAIKOVSKY: OVERTURE 1812 23 17 17 BERNSTEIN'S GREATEST HITS 66 Minneapolis Symphony Orch. (Dorati), Mercury MC 50054 New York Philharmonic (Bernstein), Columbia ML 6388 (M); SR 90054 (S) (M); MS 6988 (S) 39 38 BELLINI: NORMA (2 LP's) 16 18 18 J. STRAUSS: BLUE DANUBE 15 Suliotis /Cossotto /Del Monaco /Various Artists /Orch. (Karajan), DGG (No Mono); L'Academia di Santa Cecilia (Varviso), London (No Mono); 139 014 (S) OSA 1272 (S)

19 15 BERG: LULU (3 LP's) 15 40 40 SHOSTAKOVITCH: SYMPHONIES NOS. 2 & 3 Rothenberg /Meyer /Various Artists /Hamburg State Royal Philharmonic (Gould), RCA Victor (No Mono); Opera Orch. (Ludwig), Angel (No Mono); SC 3726 (S) LSC 3044 (S) W Dzien Bozego Narodzenia CHRISTMAS CAROLS Stanislaw Niewiadomski. Mixed choir cond. by Jerzy Kolaczkowski. "Muza" XL 0398 NEW ACTION LP's

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ROYAL FAMILY OF OPERA (3 LP's) . . . BACH: ORGAN MUSIC FROM SOISSONS CATHEDRAL . . . Various Artists, London (No Mono); RFO -S -1 (S) Maurice & Marie -Madeleine Durufle, Angel (No Mono); S 36507 (S)

TCHAIKOVSKY'S GREATEST HITS (2 LP's) ... Various Artists /Minneapolis Symphony (Dorati), Mercury (No Mono); SR 2 9126 (S)

W. Germany's First Gala Vienna Group On U. S. Tour BERLIN - West Germany's ner, Weber, Verdi, Mozart and NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.- College of La Miradia, Calif. Smetana. Vienna's Concentus Musicus, (1); Laguna Beach, Calif. (3); MONIUSZKO first gala of classical music will STANISLAW Artists appearing in the cham- Telefunken artists, begin a six - St. John's College of Santa Fe, be presented by the Arbeitsge- ber music night will be Jacque- week U. S. tour at Rutgers Uni- N. M. (5); Denver (6); Univer- POLISH RELIGIOUS SONGS meinschaft Schallplatte in the and Na- Daniel versity here on Oct. 9. sity of Colorado at Boulder (7); for solo voice, choir organ. House, Berlin. line du Pre, Barenboim. tional Philharmonic Choir cond. by German Opera the Trio di Trieste, Gustav Leon- Other October dates include Baylor University (8); Rice Uni- Antoni Sialinski. "Veriton" XV -705 Nov. 14 -16. hardt, Frans Brueggen. Anner New York University (11); Ken- versity (10); Tulane University The gala will feature opera, Bylsma, Claudio Arrau and the yon College, Gambier, Ohio (11); Harvard University (13); music Oberlin State - chamber and symphonic Juilliard String Quartet, per- (14); Cleveland (15); Amherst (Mass.) College; `-_ _ and will be shown on the Euro- forming works by Brahms, Co- (Ohio) Conservatory of Music University of New York at Al- All information;- order from vision network. The opera sec- relli, Schubert, Hugo Wolf. (17); Winston -Salem, N. C. (18); bany (15); Wesleyan University. tion will feature performances Haydn and Beethoven. Duke University (19); North Middletown, Conn. (17); and POLISH RECORD CENTER by Anna Moffo, Grace Bumbry, The symphonic night will Carolina State University (20); Smithsonian Institute, Wash- OF AMERICA Tito Gobbi, Gundula Janowitz, feature works by Beethoven, Birmingham (21); University of ington (18). 3055 North Milwaukee Ave. James King, Kurt Boehme, Ru- Haydn, Richard Strauss and Illinois at Urbana (22); Univer- Chicago, Ill. 60618 dolf Schock, Silvia Geszty and Prokofiev, played by Maurice sity of Nevada (24); University the Radio Symphony Orchestra Andre, Arthur Grumiaux, Mar- of California at Berkeley (25 when answering . . . TORONTO MUSIC CENTRE conducted by Robert Heger. tha Argerich and the New Phil- and 27); and University of Cali- Say You Saw It in 779 781 Queen Street West The concert will include works harmonia Orchestra of London fornia at San Diego (30). Toronto 3, Ont., Canada by Gluck, Richard Strauss, Wag- conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. Dates in November are Biola Billboard 30 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Kapp to Promote NewAlbum Releases A New 'Bloopers NEW YORK - Kapp Rec- ACTA LI GORDY ords' return to "The Best of Bloopers" album series, based AMERICAN BREED -Lonely Side of the City; EDWIN STARR -Soul Master; GS 931 on radio -TV producer Kermit A 38008 BOBBY TAYLOR & THE VANCOUVERS; GS 930 PEPPERMINT TROLLEY CO.; A 38007 Schafer's collection of on -the- GOSPEL KEY air goofs, will be marked by a ANGEL heavy advertising and merchan- BIBLE -AIRES QUARTETTE -The Lock Smith; dising campaign. BRAHMS: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2- Baren- GKS 1220 These are best selling middle -of- the -road singles compiled from Philharmonia (Barbirolli); S The new Bloopers LP has boim /New national retail sales and radio station air play listed in rank order. 36526 HELIODOR been updated to include new VICTORIAL DE LOS ANGELES-Songs of t Andalusia; SFSL 36468 topical material with a strong FOR ORCH. IN F- a a VERDI: RIGOLETTO MacNeil /Grist /Gedda/ STENHAMMAR: SERENADE á as well as a new . TV . - Stockholm Philharmonic (Kubelik); HS emphasis, N l., á Various Artists /Rome Opera Orch. (MOIi- featuring numbered TITLE, Artist, Label 8 Number 3oe nari-Paradelli); SCL 3718 25086 format 3 banded cuts for easy identifica- 3 3 7 r] ATLANTIC KAPP tion. Promotion plans include 1 1 4 THE FOOL THE HILL personal appearances by Schafer, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, A &M 961 a Fool; KS 3568 The Crazy World of ARTHUR BROWN; SD FREDDIE HART-Born (Comet, ASCAP) THE WAIKIKIS- Midnight Luau; KS 3575 a contest for unique and ef- 8198 5 BOB WILLS -Time Changes Everything; KS fective merchandising ideas and ®2 7 10 TO WAIT FOR LOVE 3569 (( , A &M 964 (Blue Seas /Jac, BUDDAH a new cover concept. J ASCAP) LIMELIGHT 4 6 8 MY WAY OF LIFE 5 1910 FRUITGUM CO. --1, 2, 3 Red Light; BDS 3 Frank Sinatra, Reprise 0764 (Roosevelt, BMI) 5022 BENGT HAMBRAEUS -Constellations 7 Inter- BJ Foster Into 3 3 1 CLASSICAL GAS 14 ferences; LS 86052 Mason Williams, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts [I CADET -CONCEPT MECKI MARK MEN; LS 86054 4 LOS ANGELES Bert 7190 (Irving, BMI) SANTUR. TUNBUK. AND TAR; LS 86057 - Messages From the STATUS QUO; LPS 315 VARIOUS ARTISTS- Ragas /Streams of Light/ Jacobs' BJ Enterprises has been 10 36 40 HARPER VALLEY P.T.A. 4 Three North Indian Rages; LS 86056 merged into Reb Foster Asso- Jeannie C. Riley, Plantation 3 CAPITOL (Newkeys, BMI) LONDON ciates, a management firm now 11 29 - MY SPECIAL ANGEL 3 owned by Reb Foster, Bill Utley BMI) ELLA FITZGERAL1P-3O by Ella; ST 2960 Vogues, Reprise 0766 (Viva, BUDDY FO'S New Hawaii; ST 2879 BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE/LE and Jacobs. Represented by (1)6 3 TURN AROUND, LOOK AT ME 17 MERLE HAGGARD -Mama Tried; ST 2972 CORSAIRE OVERTURE -L'Orchestre de la 4 the company are Steppenwolf, Vogues, Reprise 0686 (Viva, BMI) WANDA JACKSON -Cream of the Crop; ST Suisse Romande Ansermet); CSA 2101 DONIZETTI: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT - Jerry Quarry (who records for 2976 7 5 5 DON'T GIVE 10 GEORGE LINDSEY- Goober Singsl; ST 2965 Sutherland /Pavarotti /Various Artists /Royal - Liberty), the Standells, and Petula Clarkrk, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts 7216 BUCK OWENS BUCKAROOS Back Opera House Orch. (Bonynge); OSA 1273 v -Meanwhile (Duchess, BMI) at the Ranch; ST 2973 MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 23 & 24 Diana Quarry. TEX RITTER'S Wild West; ST 2974 -Curzon /London Symphony (Kertesz); CS 9 18 19 APRIL AGAIN 6 HOWARD ROBERTS' QUARTET -Out of Sight; 6580 9 Dean Martin, Reprise 0761 (Pamona, BMI) ST 2901 SCHUMANN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 3 & 4- PHILIPS SANDLER & YOUNG -The "In Person" Album; Vienna Philharmonic (Solti); CS 6582 5 2 2 DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME 11 ST 2961 STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA- 2nd INTERNATIONAL POP SONG FESTIVAL/ 10 Mama Cass with the Mamas & Papas, Songs of Innocence; ST 2982 Vienna Philharmonic Orch. (von Kara¡an); 3rd FESTIVAL OF BRAZILIAN POP MUSIC - Dunhill 4145 (Words & Music, ASCAP) STS 15083 The Sound of NANCY WILSON; ST 2970 Festival in Brazil; PHS 600 -273 13 14 18 HELP YOURSELF 5 Coche- MOZART: CHURCH SONATAS- Pierre 11 Tom Jones, Parrot 40029 (Famous, ASCAP) COLUMBIA (] LONDON reau; PHS 900 -185 (INTERNATIONAL) VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of 18 26 29 THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE 5 Portugal; PHI 414 12 Eddy Arnold, RCA Victor 47-9606 SONNY BRAZO -The New York Latin Scene, VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of EX 1921 (Acuff -Rose, BMI) You Gotta Turn Me On; THE QUEEN'S GUARDS; SW 99475 Japan; PHI 437 CHARLIE BYRD- Delicately; CS 9667 VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of 8 7 IMPOSSIBLE DREAM 11 RAY CONNIFF -Turn Around Look at Me; CS ASCAP) MELODIYA /ANGEL Russia; PHI 417 Roger Williams, Kapp 907 (Fox, 9712 VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of 5 El Estilo Impresionante De FRANK MERCADO; Rumania; PHI 424 21 25 WHO IS GONNA LOVE ME? KABALEVSKY: CELLO CONCERTO NO. 2/ EX 5220 VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of Dionne Warwick, Scepter 12226 BOCCHERINI: CELLO CONCERTO IN B FLAT PHILIPPE ENTREMONT- Moonlight Sonata; Switzerland; PHI 405 (Blue Seas /Jac, ASCAP) -Shatran /Leningrad Philharmonic (Kaba- MS 7175 VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of O 14 10 9 HALFWAY TO PARADISE 10 AT AN levsky/Jansons); SR 40065 MUSSORGSKY: PICTURES EXHIBI- Israel; PHI 421 15 Bobby Vinton, Epic 10350 (Screen Gems - SHOSTAKOVICH: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. TION /NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN -Phil. 2/ VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of Columbia, BMI) Orch. (Ormandy); MS 7148 OISTRAKH: SYMPHONY NO. 6- Moscow Holland; PHI 404 30 I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER 2 NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS /ARTHUR TREACHER Phil. (Kondraskin); SR 40064 - - VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of ( Julius Wechter & the Ba¡a Marimba Band, -Big Hits From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; STRAVINSKY: RITE OF SPRING -USSR Sym- jb) Argentina PHI 434 A &M 975 (Blue Seas /Jac, ASCAP) CS 9709 phony (Svetlanov); SR 40063 Treasures of VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical 17 17 20 SAN FRANCISCO -WEAR SOME PAGININI: GUITAR TRIO /HAYDN: GUITAR Greece; PHI 427 QUARTET-John Williams /Various Artists; MERCURY VARIOUS ARTISTS -Musical Treasures of FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR 6 MS 7163 Hungary; PHI 422 Paul Mauriat, Philips 40550 PROKOFIEV: CLASSICAL SYMPHONY / BIZET: CHUCK BERRY -From St. Louis to Frisco; VARIOUS ARTISTS-Musical Treasures of (Wingate /Honest John, ASCAP) SYMPHONY IN C -N. Y. Philharmonic SH 61176 Indonesia; PHI 436 12 12 15 ALL MY LOVE'S LAUGHTER 8 (Bernstein); MS 7158 PAT PAULSEN for President; SR 61179 Ed Ames, RCA Victor 47-9589 FRANKIE YANKOVIC -Polka My Way; CS VARIOUS ARTISTS -Decade of Golden Groups; PROJECT 3 (Canopy ASCAP) 9685 SRM 2 -602 24 32 32 THAT OLD TIME FEELING 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS-Golden Era of Dance & ENOCH LIGHT & THE LIGHT BRIGADE -The 19 Dean Martin, Reprise 0761 ( Pamona, BMI) Songs; SRM 2 -601 DOT Best of Hollywood; PR 5027 SD 29 38 - THE BIPLANE, EVERMORE 3 Era: The 40's Music of the Great Bands MONITOR RANWOOD Irish Rovers, Decca 32371 (Little Darlin', BMI) Created by FRANKIE CARLE; DLP 25877 JACK DE MELLO- Voices in Paradise; DLP ELISA GABBAI -From Israel: The New Beat; 21 27 30 BATTLE OF 6 RAY ANTHONY Now; R 8033 25884 MPS 608 21 Harpers Bizarre, Warner Bros. -Seven Arts FRANK SCOTT- Indian Lake; R 8035 JACK DE MELLO Remembers Kui Lee; DLP ANTON KUERTI- Piano Music of Mendelssohn; 7223 (Warden, BMI) LAWRENCE WELK SINGERS & ORCH.; R 8034 25885 MCS (C) 2128 22 31 - THIRTY DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER 3 JACK DE MELLO -The Wonderful World of 22 Robert Goulet, Columbia 44617 Aloha; DLP 25886 MONMOUTH - SERAPHIM (Bourne, ASCAP) MILLS BROS. & COUNT BASIE -The Board of 23 30 39 WALK IN THE PARK .... 5 DLP EVERGREEN BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. Various Directors Annual Report; 25888 9- Longet, A &M 967 Philharmonic (Cluyterts); 2 RITA MOSS -Just a Dream Ago; DLP 25889 Artists /Berlin (Great Honesty, BMI) WAIKIKI BRASS Visit Tijuana; DLP 25887 MILDRED BAILEY All of Me; MES 6814 S 60079 31 THE YANKEE DOLLAR; DLP 25874 MEYER DAVIS Plays Cole Porter; MES 6813 BEETHOVEN: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5- - - A DISSATISFIED MAN 2 MISS ; MES 6812 Gieseking /Philharmonia Orch. (Galliera); Vikki Carr, Liberty 56062 (United Artists, DR S 60069 ASCAP) PONCHIELLI: LA GIOCONDA- Callas /Cossotto/ 37 WHY CANT I WALK AWAY .. 2 MOTOWN C - - Various /La Scala Orch. (Votto); Artists I. , RCA Victor 47-9626 DAVE ROONEY TRIO Live at Diamond Lil's; SIC 6031 FOUR TOPS- Dreams; MS 669 (Valando /HLG, ASCAP) DR 3000 Yesterday's SCHOENBERG: TRANSFIGURED NIGHT /LOEF- DIANA ROSS & THE Sing & Per- SUPREMES FLER: A PAGAN POEM -Leopold Stokowski O 19 20 21 MONTAGE FROM HOW SWEET IT IS 9 form "Funny Girl "; MS 672 Symphony; S 60080 Lo Love Generation, Imperial 66310 DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES "Live" at (National, ASCAP) London's Talk of the Town; MS 676 O27 13 13 HANG 'EM HIGH 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS -In Loving Memory; MM SCG 21 Hugo Montenegro, RCA 642 Victor 47-9554 UnartHE , BMI) RAZZ; SD 5001 MURBO 28 15 17 T( MUSIC PLAYED (Was Ich SMASH 2ß Der Sagen Will) 10 Matt Munro, 2201 (Easy JOHN CACACAS SINGERS -The Sound Is All Capitol Listening, ASCAP) Around Us; SLP 6008 Look Inside the ASYLUM CHOIR; SRS 67107 16 9 6 AUTUMN OF MY LIFE 13 29 , United Artists 50318 MUSIC GUILD TAMLA (Unart, BMI) 34 RUNAROUND 2 DVORAK: THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY -Phil- MARVIN GAYE in the Groove; TS 285 - - harmonic Symphony Orch. of London MARVIN GAYE & TAMI TERRELL- You're All 3 0) Steve Lawrence, Calendar 63 -1005 (Razzie Dazzle, BMI) (Rodzinski); IDS 9903 I Need; TS 284 GRIEG: PIANO CONCERTO /PEER GYM* THE MARVELETTES- Sophisticated Soul; TS 35 - - CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY MIND .. 2 SUITES - Utah Symphony /Reid Nibley 286 Margaret Whiting, London 124 (Spanka, BMI) (Abravanel) IDS 9905 MOZART: THE JUPITER (41) & SYMPHONY TURNABOUT 32 - - MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE /NORWEGIAN NO. 40- Philharmonic Symphony Orch. of 3 WOOD 2 London (Leinsdorf); IDS 9904 MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 23 & 16 Alan Copeland, ABC 11088 RIMSKYKORSAKOFF: SCHEHERAZADE- Vienna -Klien /Orch. of Vienna Volksoper /Vienna (Bruin /Maclen, BMI) State Opera Orch. (Scherchen); IDS 9902 Symphony (Maag); TV 34286 TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 /ROMEO & 33 SOUL LIMBO 2 OVERTURE RAVEL Conducts Bolero- Grey /Ravel /Lamou- 33 - - JUILET- Vienna State Opera Orch. reux Orch. (Ravel); TV 4256 Booker T. & the MG's, Stex 0001 (East, BMI) (Scherchen); IDS 9901 MAHLER: SCHUMANN / WAGNER / BRAHMS / I'D RATHER BE BLUE OVER YOU The most recent single release LIEDER -Moreira /Various Artists /Innsbruck - - MUSICOR Symphony (Wagner); TV 34281 THAN HAPPY WITH SOMEBODY ELSE 2 by Trini Lopez (Reprise 0770) is C364 , Columbia 44622 version of the fam- SCHUMANN: SYMPHONIC ETUDES - uiomar the Mexican TITO RODRIQUEZ - Latino; MS 6048 Novaes; TV 34259 (Fisher /Bourne, ASCAP) ous Spanish classic "Mala- LOU STEIN -How to Play Honky Tonk Style 40 - - TOMBOY 2 guena." It is in this type of music Piano; MS 3163 UNITED ARTISTS Ronnie Dove, Diamond 249 (Melrose, BMI) particularly that Trini Lopez real- KAY TOLLIVER -A New Singing Star in Country Style; MS 3165 NOW 1 ly excels. His rendition of "Mala- AL CAIOLA -The Power of Brass; UAS 6666 - WHERE ARE THEY JIMMY ROSELLI -3 A.M.; UAS 6665 Robin Wilson, A &M 959 (Leeds, ASCAP) guena Salerosa" has an exotic NONESUCH and exciting sound which is very - OVER YOU 1 Li] VAULT Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, Columbia and nothing like the MORTON SUBOTNICK H distinctive, -The Wild Bull; 44644 (Viva, 71208 BMI) scores of other "Malaguena" re- VARIOUS ARTISTS -San Francisco Roots; LP 38 LOVE IS HERE TO STAY 2 cordings, which sometimes seem 119 38 - - to veer toward the field of opera. ODYSSEY Chris Montez, A &M 958 (Chappell, ASCAP) For an like Trini Lopez, VERVE /FORECAST BAREFOOT IN 1 artist DUKE ELLINGTON- Ellington -Strayhorn-Tchai- - Strawberry Alarm Clock, Uni 55076 only a guitar capable of matching kovsky: Nutcracker Suite /Ellington- Grieg: 39 THE PAUPERS Ellis Island; FTS 3051 (Alarm Clock Claridge, ASCAP) his own versatility will do. This Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2; 32 16 0252 is why he selects a Gibson -the ANDRE PREVIN & J. J. JOHNSON Play "Mack WILCO - - - I PRETEND 1 of professionals. the Knife "; 32 16 0260 Mel Carter, Bell 743 (Morris, ASCAP) choice PETE SEEGER-3 Saints, 4 Sinners & 6 Other (Advertisement) People; 32 16 0266 Sing Along With THE CELESTIALS; WSLP The Music of ALEC WILDER; 32 16 0262 1220

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PROKOFIEV: CLASSICAL RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF:. SONGS OF ANDALUSIA - SHOSTAKOVICH: VIOLIN STRAVINSKY: RITE OF SPRING - SYMPHONY /BIZET: SYMPHONY SCHEHERAZADE- London Sym- 9 Victoria De Los Angeles. Angel CONCERTO No. 2 /SYMPHONY USSR Symphony (Svetlanov). IN C -New York Philharmonic phony (Previn). RCA Victor SFSL 36468 (S) No. 6 -D. Oistrakh /Moscow Melodiya /Angel SR 40063 (S) (Bernstein). Columbia L5C 3042 (S) In this program of beautiful Spanish songs Philharmonic (Kondrashin). Yevgeny Svetlanov and the USSR Sym- MS 7158 (S) Melodiya /Angel SR 40064 (S) The sensuous and exotic "Scheherazade" from the Middle Ages and the Renais- phony offers a first -rate performance of Bernstein takes a couple of contrasting lives again in this sparkling recording by sance, Victoria De Los Angeles reigns su- Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" that is at pieces from a pair of contrasting composers the London Symphony with Andre Previn at preme. Dr. Jose M. Lamana has perfectly The popular , to whom -Prokoviev was born 16 years after Bizet the baton. Previn conducts with almost reconstructed the instrumental accompani- Shostakovich dedicated this work when it once electrifying and bursting with glori- died-that shows both the progress and intimate understanding of the score, and is ments for the selections, and they are the was premiered last year, is magnificent as ous stereo sound. He brings to it a new to De Los Kiril Kondrashin the Moscow tradition of the music. Prokofiev is, nat- capably aided by violinist John Georgiadis. perfect complement Miss Angeles' soloist with and vitality and assurance of direction, and urally, the more adventuresome and Bern- The accompanying pieces, "March" and glorious voice. Outstanding are "Como la Philharmonic. Kondrashin and the Moscow this recording find itself stein seems out to prove that his music is "Flight of the Bumblebee," are equally rosa en la guerta" and "Dime a do tienes also give a superior reading of the should quickly really part of the music of today. enticing. las mientes." "Symphony No. 6" to complete this pressing. at the top of the best seller lists.

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CLASSICAL CLASSICAL - LOW -PRICE CLASSICAL CLASSICAL LOW -PRICE CLASSICAL RACHMANINOFF: CONCERTO No. 3 f PONCHIELLI: LA GIOCONDA- THE WILD BULL- Morton Weissenberg /Chicago Symphony JOHN BROWNING PLAYS Callas /Cossotto /Various Artists/ SCHUMANN: SYMPHONIES Subotnick, Nonesuch (Pretre). RCA Victor RAVEL -RCA LSC 3028 (5) La Scala Orch. (Votto). Nos. 3 & 4- Vienna Philharmonic H 71208 (5) LSC 3040 (S) Seraphim SIC 6031 (S) (Solti). London CS 6582 (S) Morton Subotnick's stature as a composer Maria second of electronic music continues to grow and This album has three points of strength, Browning is in the great tradition of Callas' recording of "La this new commissioned by Nonesuch Gioconda" now is available at low price Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic are work, and together they mean good sales. The pianists; and he brings to these com- after an absence from the catalog. The Records, can only add to this stature. are new by right at home on this LP as they combine "The Wild Bull" for electronic-music syn- three points pianist Weissenburg, who positions of Ravel, a world of mood, poetry, lack of recordings this popular No. thesizer is a follow -up to the highly suc- is brilliant and dramatic; secondly, there artist helps make this three-record set a with authority and sensitivity. The 3 and brilliant technique. Ravel's piano mu- desirable item. Her performance is highly cessful) "Silver Apples of the Moon," also is the and finally, is a beautiful study in exuberance and skill. great Chicago Symphony, dramatic here. Miss Callas gets valuable a Nonesuch commission. This new composi- sic is colorful and exotic and receives The No. 4 delights with its simple, unhesi- the material, Rachmaninoff's "Concerto No. assists from Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Cap - tion recently received its New York pre- the Electric 3" provides a great vehicle. a great reading here. puccilli and No Vinco. tating force. miere at Circus.

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WITH PEN IN HAND DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES SOUL LIMBO- Booker T. & - A COLLECTION OF 16 ORIGINAL FUSION -Hello People. Philips Billy Vera. Atlantic "LIVE" AT LONDON'S TALK OF F The M.G.'s. Stax STS 2001 (S) BIG HITS Vol. 9- Various Artists. PHS 600 -276 (S) SD 8197 (S) THE TOWN- Motown MS 676 (S) Motown MS 668 (S) Booker T. carried his M.G.s to the top of When the team of Billy Vera and Judy Exciting and creative group attracted at- A top LP jackage. Much of the material was the Hot 100 with their smash instrumental Clay split, Vera turned up a solid Hot 100 Hot collection of Motown's singles hits that tention with their "Jerusalem" single and heard in their live recording from N. Y.'s "Soul Limbo," and now they've followed chart winner with his initial solo hit are sure to prove a long and healthy stock initial LP, and this second album venture Copacabana, but this one features a brighter, it up with a knockout album jammed full "." This debut LP should item. Included are the Supremes' "You should prove even more important. They sharper sound. Also spotlighted are some of driving instrumentals. They treat with hit with equal sales impact. He turns in Keep Me Hangin' On," Stevie Wonder's "I offer a diversified program with such gems new addi` ions to the club act, such as the their soulful treatments of "Hang 'Em first -rate readings of "The Son of Hickory Was Made to Love Her," the Four Tops' as "Anthem," "A Dream of Tomorrow" and medley cf "Thoroughly Modern Millie," High," "Since You've Been Gone" and new Holler's Tramp" and "Then You Can Tell "Bernadette" and Marvin Gaye & Temi "If I Should Sing Too Softly." Lou Futter - "Second Hand Rose" and "Mame" which numbers "Over Easy" and "Born Under Me Goodbye." His "I Can Remember" and Terrell's "You're All I Need." Add to these man's production, as well as the smooth comes off as strongly as does a salute to a Bad Sign." A sure for pop and "I've Been Loving You Too Long" are ex- another dozen hits, and you've got a vocal work of the group, is exceptional the Beatles. r &b buyers. ceptional. blockbuster. and highly potent.

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FROM ST. LOUIS TO FRISCO- THE ARCHIES- Calendar HERE THE JUDGE PEPPERMINT TROLLEY CO.- COME - OUTSIDE INSIDE -Blue Cheer. Chuck Berry. Mercury KES 101 (S) Shorty Long. Soul SS 709 (S) Acta A 38007 (S) Philips PHS 600 -278 (5) SR 61176 (S) Backed by a tremendous promotional cam- The pounding soul beat of "Here Comes the This new group offers a bright sound that Memphis magician Chuck Berry socks his paign, a TV cartoon series and a brand Judge," with its laugh- provoking humor- sometimes crosses to folk. This debut album In the style of their last album, the Blue down -homes blues 'n' rock mix into every new single "Bang- Shang -a -lang" b -w "Truck jumping groove. A dose of Berry on the ous lyrics, is a winner that will prove Cheer ring the halls with psychedelics. Driver" (both included here), the Archies includes Peppermint Trolley's hit single guitar is enough to spark memories of have everything going for them. And right- the sales draw for this album. But there's "Baby You Come Rollin"'Cross My Mind," The music is loud and raucous with all "Maybelline" and the early days of true fully sol They have a smooth vocal blend; also "Function at the Junction," "Here plus 10 other good numbers. "Put Your the flavoring that their fans love. Their blue rock. Berry's "The Love I Lost," the material is first rate, with other stand- "Little Fox," "Misery" and "My Tambou- Comes Fat Albert" and "Don't Mess With Burden Down," "Beautiful Sun" and "Trust" version of the Stones' "(I Can't Get No) outs being "Time for Love," "Hide and rine" could bring the great rocker back Seek" and "You Make Me Wanna Dance." My Weekend" to make this LP a high sales their latest singles are top cuts. "Fatal Satisfaction" smacks with inventiveness and to the pop scene with a terrific impact Should prcve an important stock item. value item. Fallacy" is a telling social commentary. freshness. and a new generation of rock fans. 32 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Country Music Promo Guns The Covered Wagon Circuit Cap. Aiming Pays off for Ellis' & Bell PADUCAH, Ky. -The Ellis example, the group was held They also Brothers and Johnny Bell, still over for one week. A t 1 u e R b b o n C o u n try played four consecutive nights on a covered wagon excursion the in Rolla, Mo. Prior to leaving ATLANTA In one of its with Lindsey's efforts it made it Opry" has its celebration, to Nashville, have - Music Association has from Denver Denver, only two bookings had strongest country promotions, the pick album for the week. Country sold nearly 2,000 records and ap- its massive convention, and the been made. The additional Capitol Records has aimed its The B o b b i e Gentry/Glen played 25 previously unsched- pearances not only have paid album is due for a re- entire music industry gathers for "Blue Ribbon Country" at radio Campbell uled bookings on their long trek. for the trip, but allowed the per- across lease late this month which the gala. The albums were sent stations and rack jobbers Moving into Kentucky and to formers to put money in the the nation. should give the promotion a to 1,280 radio stations who are members of the CMA. within 10 days of Nashville, the bank. The promotion, r u n n i n g strong boost toward the finish. entertain- Records were sold after each Blue Rib - The entire sales and promo- Rocky Mountain area month -long, includes expensive The timing of the their trip by appearance, and the original into the bon Country promotion was set tion force of Capitol is work- ers have supported display material shipped impromptu appearances fre- supply was nearly exhausted.. field to supplement the country to fall just before the big Nash- ing on the campaign, directed by at national country sales and pro- quently followed by paid book - The Ellis Brothers, with for - campaign. ville festivities in October, disk jockey Bell Ole motion manager Wade Pepper. ings. In Jefferson City, Mo., for mer KLAK Among the material is a floor which time the "Grand along to emcee the show, left rack which holds 50 rack new Denver June 15 via covered release albums and catalog al- wagon to publicize country mu-ma- bums. Another is a Country sic in that area. The other in ppiece for the Blue Ribbon Cine-Vox Banks on to jective was to obtain an ap- Country singles prepak. This pearance on the "Grand Ole prepak contains an assortment of 200 hits of the past by 21 Brin in the Syndication Bacon Originally scheduled to ar- artists with divider cards along estimated the program, but Cine -Vox says it has the ad- rive in August, the with the browser unit. Accept- NEW YORK Cine -Vox only narrates time of arrival now is Tuesday Inc.,- convinced will do time checks, weather and vantage of picking up new re- ance of this indicates that sev- Productions, integrat- (17). The extra bookings were eral accounts will move into the that "country music is what's and local commercials." leases immediately and ing them into the track so that the primary cause of the slow- standard country singles business happening," is in the early stages Benkoil explained that Cine- re- system of country stations often will be down, plus time taken to who have not merchandised of nationwide radio syndication. Vox has a copyrighted shoe the horses, etc. implementing these extras into serviced quicker this way than them before. Utilizing WSM's long - time Emery At Sherman State Park near There is also a counter dis- Nashville night disk jockey the track to personalize the serv- through normal channels. station. also picks up as much advance Chillicothe, Mo., the group en- play piece which is included in Ralph Emery, Cine -Vox is put- ice to every subscribing a group of school will become part of information as possible from the tertained the purchase of a box of the ting together five two-hour radio "Emery youngsters from Worthington, Blue Ribbon Country album shows weekly, featuring the the staff," Benkoil said. "He will labels so it can be incorporated local into track, with the Ohio, on a field study trip. The (STBB 2969). This LP includes modern country sound. Starting be identified locally with people, at first disap- the like." music added the minute it be- young two disks for the price of one with 15 stations, the firm plans products and pointed that the Ellis Brothers 100 by year's end, Although he talks freely about comes available here. Eventually for the consumer. to expand to to the did not perform contemporary in- "every station the artists whose music is being he plans to add interviews The September releases and ultimately all of rock, later were "converted" to eluded the Merle Haggard al- that programs country music." played, Emery will make no program. Emery provides or New the programming, and has the the modern country sound and bum, "Mama Tried," the Bucka- "We feel we can provide a reference to Nashville concluded the trip by buying He will, instead, hammer final say on selection. roos, Tex Ritter, Wanda Jack- c o m p 1 e t e service," explains York. The records are on hard on the identification with At present, Emery is hitting 75 records. son, and George Lindsey's first Maury Benkoil, general manager of the Sully label, which the Ellis Capital release, "Goober Sings." of programming and delivery, the local station on which he is hard on the "star" theory on page 36) Brothers own. WPLO here was so impressed by a real pro like Emery,. He not being heard. (Continued

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SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 33 Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 9/21/68

m u r Singles

* STAR Performer -Sides registering greatest proportionate upward progress this week.

i This Last TITLE, Artist, Label Weeks on This Last TITLE, Artist, Label Weeks on Week Week Number & Publisher Chart Week Week Number & Publisher Chart

1 MAMA TRIED ( "The Ballad From 38 40 I'M IN LOVE WITH MY WIFE 10 LLY David Rodgers, Columbia 44561 Killer's Three ") 9 Merle Haggard, Capitol 2219 (Blue Book, BMI) (Moss-Rose, BMI)

2 2 ONLY DADDY THAT'LL WALK THE LINE 11 - WHEN YOU ARE GONE 1 J im , RCA Victor 47 -9561 Reeves, RCA Victor 47 -9614 (Central Songs, BMI) (Tuckahoe, BMI)

40 43 LOVE ME, LOVE ME 7 c 5 HARPER VALLEY P.T.A. 5 Bobby Barnett, Columbia 44589 (Gallico, BMI) Jeannie C. Riley, Plantation 3 (Newkeys, BMI) 41 39 SHE THINKS THAT I'M ON THAT TRAIN 7 4 4 LOVE TAKES CARE OF ME 10 Henson Cargill, Monument 1084 Jack Greene, Decca 32352 (Husky, BMI) (Blue Crest /Hill & Range, BMI)

5 6 HAPPY STATE OF MIND 6 42 42 YOU'VE CHANGED EVERYTHING ABOUT Bill Anderson, Decca 32360 (Stallion, BMI) ME BUT MY NAME 10 Norma Jean, RCA Victor 47 -9558 (Pamper, BMI) 10 WE'LL GET AHEAD SOMEDAY 9 4 50 PUNISH ME TOMORROW 6 Porter Wagoner & , RCA Victor 47-9577 (Carreta, BMI) Carl & Pearl Butler, Columbia 44587 lE (Pamper, BMI) CAN OR IN THE BOTTLE 11 7 7 ON TAP, IN THE 44 47 WHAT CAN I SAY 6 Hank Thompson, Dot 17108 Arlene Harden, Columbia 44581 (Brazos Valley, BMI) (Blue Echo, BMI)

8 9 LET THE WORLD KEEP ON A TURNIN' 9 45 46 GOD HELP YOU WOMAN 4 Buck Owens & Buddy Alan & the Buckaroos, Jim Glaser, RCA Victor 47 -9587 (Glaser, BMI) Capitol 2237 (Blue Book, BMI) 46 45 THREE PLAYING LOVE 7 11 FLOWER OF LOVE 9 Cheryl Pool, Paula 309 (Four Star, BMI) Leon Ashley, Ashley 4000 (Gallico, BMI) 47 48 THE SOUNDS OF GOODBYE 4 Tommy Cash, United Artists 50337 10 8 YOU'VE JUST STEPPED IN (From 15 Stepping Out on Me) 48 51 RENO 3 Decca (Sure -Fire, BMI) Loretta Lynn, 32332 Dottie West, RCA Victor 47 -9607 (4 Star, BMI) EVERYDAY 11 3 DREAMS OF THE 49 52 THE SOUNDS OF GOODBYE 4 HOUSEWIFE 12 George Morgan, Starday 850 (Noma /SPR, BMI) Glen Campbell, Capitol 2224 (Combine, BMI) I 56 TO MY SORROW 6 26 FROM HEAVEN TO HEARTACHE 9 Johnny Duncan, Columbia 44580 ttr Bobby Lewis, United Artists 50327 (Adams, Vee & Abbott, BMI) (Singleton, BMI) 51 53 RAGGEDY ANN 5 13 13 AS LONG AS I LIVE 12 , Epic 10358 (Blue Crest/ George Jones, Musicor 1298 Hill & Range, BMI) (Glad /Zanetis, BMI) 52 54 BORN TO BE BY YOUR SIDE 7 14 12 IT'S A LONG WAY TO GEORGIA 11 Jimmy Dean, RCA Victor 47 -9567 Don Gibson, RCA Victor 47 -9563 (Vector, BMI) (Acuff -Rose, BMI) 65 JOHNNY ONE TIME 3 HEAVEN 15 15 14 ALREADY IT'S ( Willie Nelson, RCA Victor 47 -9605 David Houston, Epic 10388 ( Gallico, BMI) (Blue Crest /Hill & Range, BMI)

19 THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE 4 64 SOUTHERN BOUND 3 Eddy Arnold, RCA Victor 47 -9606 Kenny Price, Boone 1075 (Pamper, BMI) (Acuff -Rose, BMI) 55 57 LITTLE BOY SOLDIER 3 17 17 16 FOLSOM PRISON BLUES Wanda Jackson, Capitol 2245 (Tree, BMI) , Columbia 44513 (Hilo, BMI) 56 60 YONDER COMES A FREIGHT TRAIN 3 A LATER ON DOWN THE LINE 9 18 20 LITTLE BIT Jim & Jesse, Epic 10370 (Pamper, BMI) , RCA Victor 47 -9568 (Sea -Lark, BMI) 57 59 EVERLASTING LOVE 5 AT A 19 21 LOOKING THE WORLD THROUGH Hank Locklin, RCA Victor 47 -9582 WINDSHIELD 6 (Rising Sons, BMI) Del Reeves, United Artists 50332 (Passkey, BMI) 68 SWEET CHILD OF SUNSHINE 2 Jerry Wallace, Liberty 56059 (Attache, BMI) 20 22 HEY DADDY 6 , Capitol 2231 (Southtown, BMI) 69 WHERE HE STOPS NOBODY KNOWS 2 June Stearns, Columbia 44575 (Buckhorn, BMI) 21 23 BIG GIRLS DONT CRY 8 Lynn Anderson, Chart 59 -1042 (Yonah, BMI) 60 61 WALL OF PICTURES 6 Darrell McCall, Wayside 1021 (Back Bay, BMI) 25 I JUST CAME TO GET MY BABY 8 Faron Young, Mercury 72827 (Tree, BMI) 61 62 LOOK AT THE LAUGHTER 6 Wilma Burgess, Decca 32359 (Four Star, BMI) 29 IN LOVE 5 Wynn Stewart, Capitol 2240 (Freeway, BMI) 73 THE TRUE AND LASTING KIND 2 Bobby Lord, Decca 32373 (Contention, SESAC) 24 17 JUST BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN 13 Dolly Parton, RCA Victor 47-9548 63 63 I AIN'T THE WORRYIN' KIND 5 (Combine, BMI) Billy Edd Wheeler, Kapp 928 (United Artists, ASCAP) 28 UNDO THE RIGHT 8 Johnny Bush, Stop 193 (Pamper, BMI) 75 WONDERFUL DAY 2 Ray Pillow, ABC 11114 (Contention, SESAC) 26 15 HEAVEN SAYS HELLO 17 , Capitol 2155 (4 Star, BMI) 65 66 ME, ME, ME, ME, ME 5 Liz Anderson, RCA Victor 47-9586 35 NEXT IN LINE 6 (Greenback, BMI) Conway Twitty, Decca 32361 (Tree, BMI) 66 58 CRY CRY AGAIN 4 28 24 JODY AND THE KID 10 Liz Anderson, RCA Victor 47-9586 Roy Drusky, Mercury 72823 (Buckhorn, BMI) (Greenback, BMI)

29 27 I KEEP COMING BACK FOR MORE 11 67 67 DO YOU BELIEVE THIS TOWN 8 Dave Dudley, Mercury 72718 (Newkeys, BMI) Roy Clarke, Dot 17117 (Attache, BMI)

30 30 I STILL BELIEVE IN LOVE 7 68 70 AIN'T GOT THE TIME 2 , Decca 32357 (Stallion, BMI) Torn T. Hall, Mercury 72835 (Newkeys, BMI)

31 32 SAN DIEGO 8 - THERE'S NO MORE LOVE 1 Charlie Walker, Epic 10349 (Blue Crest/ Carl Smith, Columbia 44620 (Mayhew, BMI) Hill & Range, BMI) 70 72 BALLAD OF JOHN DILLINGER 4 32 33 HAPPY STREET 7 Billy Grammer, Mercury 72836 (Newkeys, BMI) Slim Whitman, Imperial 66311 (Singleton, BMI) 71 71 YOU MAY BE TOO MUCH FOR MEMPHIS, OF MY LIFE 11 33 31 AUTUMN BABY 4 Bobby Goldsboro, United Artists 50318 Leroy Van Dyke, Kapp 931 (Morris, ASCAP) (Unart, BMI) 72 74 LIKE A 2 BORN TO LOVE YOU 4 34 36 Flatt & Scruggs, Columbia 44623 Jimmy Newman, Decca 32366 (Witmark, ASCAP) (Minute Men, BMI) - I AIN'T BUYING 1 35 38 IT'S ALL OVER BUT THE CRYING 4 Johnny Darrell, United Artists 50442 Hank Williams Jr., MGM 4540 (Hastings, BMI) (United Artists, ASCAP)

36 37 ONE OF THESE DAYS 9 - I HOPE I LIKE MEXICO BLUES 1 Tompall & the Glaser Brothers, MGM 12954 Ittir Dallas Frazier, Capitol 2257 (Four Star, BMI) (Blue Crest /Hill & Range, BMI)

37 18 WHAT'S MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS - I'M GOIN' BACK HOME WHERE I BELONG 1 (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) 16 Buck Owens' Buckaroos, Capitol 2264 Jerry Lee Lewis, Smash 2164 (Gallico, BMI) (Blue Book, BMI)

34 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD apitol proudly announces Country Music Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 9/21/68

of WBAD, which is now pro- gramming full -time country music. He and Ray Kenneman have just done another comedy LP on Riot Nashville Scene Records. . . Snookie Lanson has just concluded his first Starday al- bum, Jack Jackson, who moved from film syndication department of the "Nashville Now. "... Charlie * STAR Performer -LP's registering proportionate upward progress this week. & Doris WSM to the Leon Ashley organi- J. Hal Smith company. . . Taylor, Stop artists from zation. now is working in the Van Temple has joined the staff the Norfolk, Va., area, are due This Last Weeks on back here for another session, Week Week TITLE, Artist, Label & Number Chart their third. . A Wednesday Billboard night WPLO Country Caravan in 3 D- I- V- O -R-C -E 8 ON CHARTS THE FIVE WILLIAMSON Atlanta drew about 2,000 people Award , Epic (No Mono); BN 26392 (5) to see Mac Curtis, John Fox, 1 A NEW PLACE IN THE SUN 19 Bobby Johnson & the Swinging EVERYWHERE BROTHERS HAVE A Glen Campbell, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2907 (S) Gentlemen. . . . Kenny Price taped an interview for the "Jerry c 5 JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON 15 H Wallace Show. "... Award winner Columbia (No Mono); CS 9639 (S) Elks Jimmy has a new release 6 THE BEST OF MERLE HAGGARD 4 "WALL OF I out on Goldband titled "Woman Capitol (No Mono); SKAO 2951 (S) in the Picture." T The Compton Brothers, Dot art- 5 8 BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX 39 Glen Campbell, Capitol T 2851 (M); ST 2851 (S) ists, depart Dec. 1 for a four - PICTURES" month tour of the Far East, in- "PLEASE MR. DEE JAY" 6 2 SWEET ROSIE JONES 9 cluding the long swing through Buck Owens & His Buckaroos, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2962 (S) Vietnam. . . . Mickey Newberry Darrell McCall -ALSO A HOT NEW RELEASE - has signed a new long -term con- 7 4 HONEY 20 EVERETT SYKES tract with Acuff -Rose Publications Bobby Goldsboro, United Artists UAL 3642 (M); UAS 6642 (5)

"YOUR LOVE GOES WITH ME" . Inc. . . Trini Lopez has been 8 15 THE ROMANTIC WORLD OF EDDY ARNOLD 16 added to those who will take part RCA Victor LPM 4009 (M); LSP 4009 (S) in the Music City Pro -Celebrity 9 9 MAKE MINE COUNTRY 18 GOLD STAR RECORDS Golf tournament Oct. 12 -13. . Wayside Records , RCA Victor LPM 3952 (M); LSP 3952 (S) EVERGREEN, N. C. A communications seminar, spon- (WRITE FOR D.J. COPIES) Dist. by Sounds of Music sored by the Radio Television 13 ALREADY IT'S HEAVEN 7 Belen New Mexico Council of Middle Tennessee, fea- inr David Houston, Epic (No Mono); BN 26391 (S) tures Dee Kilpatrick and Rick A/C 505 -864 -8596 Powell.... Nat Stuckey now has 11 17 GENTLE ON MY MIND 51 when answering ads . . . Glen T ST (S) Promotion by little Richie Johnson made the complete transition. He Campbell, Capitol 2809 (M); 2809 Belen, New Mexico Say You Saw It in not only has moved to RCA. but 12 16 HEY LITTLE ONE 26 A/C 505 -864 -8541 is being managed by Dick Heard Glen Campbell, Capitol T 2878 (M); ST 2878 (S) Billboard and booked by Joe Taylor. . . Billy Deaton brought Jerry Lee 13 14 BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY 7 Lewis to Dallas, and Warren Lynn Anderson, Chart CHM 1008 (M); CHS 1008 (S) Smith, Lee Harmon, Waylon Jen- 14 10 LORETTA LYNN'S GREATEST HITS 12 ATTENTION nings and others to different sec- Decca (No Mono); DL 75000 (S) tions of Texas. . . The "Pamper DISTRIBUTORS & DJ's Pamphlet," publication of the J. 15 7 ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE 15 Hal Smith publishing firm, is be- Jerry Lee Lewis, Smash (No Mono); SRS 67104 (S) ing incorporated into the "Renfro 19 A TENDER LOOK AT LOVE 8 "Jim McGraw" idlr Valley Bugle," a monthly publi- Roger Miller, Smash (No Mono); SRS 67103 (S) HAS SENT YOU HIS NEW cation originating from Smith's new enterprise. 17 18 HOMETOWN GUITAR 5 GOLD STANDARD RELEASE #265 , RCA Victor LPM 4017 (M); LSP 4017 (S) (PRODUCED BY ZEKE CLEMENTS) 32 COUNTRY GIRL 3 Syndication Bacon Dottie West, RCA Victor LPM 4004 (M); LSP 4004 (S) Continued from page 33 19 12 ONLY THE GREATEST 9 Waylon Jennings, RCA Victor LPM 4023 (M); LSP 4023 (S)

programming, assuming that 20 20 LEGEND OF BONNIE & CLYDE 21 their releases will be big within Merle Haggard, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2912 (5) a few weeks are after they 21 24 WILD WEEKEND 17 shipped. Thus, he feels safe in Bill Anderson, Decca DL 4998 (M); DL 74998 (5) instant programming of some- thing from Loretta Merle 22 23 A THING CALLED LOVE 11 Lynn, Jimmy Dean, RCA Victor LPM 3999 (M); LSP 3999 (S) Haggard, Waylon Jennings or someone of this stature. The 23 37 LIKE A MERRY -GO -ROUND 2 programming includes an oc- Liz Anderson, RCA Victor (No Mono); LSP 4014 (S) casional "oldie," and a once -an- 24 31 WITH PEN IN HAND 5 hour instrumental. Johnny Darrell, United Artists (No Mono); UAS 6660 (S) Mixing of the record into the 25 21 HEAVEN SAYS HELLO 9 track eliminates the danger of Sonny James, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2937 (S) a subscribing station not having 26 26 BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX 16 the record on hand. The track- Marty Robbins, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9617 (S) JIM McGRAW ing is being done at the Delta SINGS Studio here, in the Palace Thea- 27 29 JOHNNY CASH'S GREATEST HITS, VOL 1 23 Columbia CL 2678 (M); CS 9478 (S) "I'VE HAD IT" ter building. The Cine -Vox contract with 28 25 JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME 25 B/W Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton, RCA Victor LPM 3926 (M); Emery calls for eventual move- LSP 3926 (S) "MY MISTAKES" ment into TV shows and movies. "We feel there is a country 29 30 I LOVE CHARLEY BROWN 16 (ELIZABETH EVANS, WRITER) music market in all of these Connie Smith, RCA Victor LPM 4002 (M); LSP 4002 (S) PUBLISHED BY areas," Benkoil said. "But we 33 WHAT CAN I SAY 3 104r have to get it off the ground Arlene Harden, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9674 (5) JUNELLIN MUSIC CO. (BMI) with radio." 31 36 BEST OF EDDY ARNOLD 74 728 16th AVE SO., NASHVILLE, TENN. 37203 RCA Victor LPM 3565 (M); LSP 3565 (5) 32 11 TOUCH OF SADNESS 20 Jim Reeves, RCA Victor LPM 3987 (M); LSP 3987 (5)

33 28 PROMISES, PROMISES 35 Lynn Anderson, Chart CHM 1004 (M); CHS 1004 (S)

34 34 40 "CHOKE UP ON THE Charley Pride, RCA Victor LPM 3895 (M); LSP 3895 (S) 35 35 HERE'S FARON YOUNG 6 Faron Young, Mercury (No Mono); SR 61174 (S)

8 BALL" 36 38 BEST OF BUCK OWENS, VOL 2 22 Buck Owens & His Buckaroos, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2897 (S) 43 SOMETHING SPECIAL 2 Mel Tiflis, Kapp (No Mono); KS 3570 (S) Rod Hart 38 42 STORY OF BONNIE & CLYDE 18 Flatt & Scruggs, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9649 (S)

39 39 IN THE BEGINNING 3 DESTINED TO BE NUMBER Hank Williams, MGM (No Mono); SE 4576 (S)

SONGS OF PRIDE ... CHARLEY, THAT IS . 1 Charley Pride, RCA Victor LPM 4041 (M); LSP 4041 (S) 75 41 27 FIST CITY 18 Loretta Lynn, Decca DL 4997 (M); DL 74997 (S) Bookings and Records Distributed By: 42 22 KITTY WELLS' SHOWCASE 9 Decca (No Mono); DL 74961 (S) D.J. MUSIC 43 44 COUNTRY ON MY MIND 3 3215 EAST WILLARD Carl Smith, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9688 (S) thr I'M EASY TO LOVE 1 TUCSON. ARIZONA Stan Hitchcock, Epic BN 26408 (S)

PHONE: 602 -326 -7365 45 45 A TIME TO SING 2 Hank Williams Jr., MGM (No Mono); SE 4540 (5)

36 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD BIL L BOA RD SPOTLIGHT PICK THE GEORGE JONES STORY (2 LP's) Musicor M2S 3159 (S) A sure -fire sales winner in this hot package which features a two record set with color photos of Jones to boot. An exceptional marketing LP. CASH BOX ALBUM PICK THE GEORGE JONES STORY Musicor M2S 3159 (S) A great 2- record set that should prove to be a monster. In addition to two records, merchandising is aided with the inclusion of a Jones biography and a batch of action photos, both in color and black and white. Promises to be a sales gem. ?roduosd by Pappy Da ly

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S. F. Festival NAMM President Spotlights Young Sound S.heet SAN FRANCISCO - The M.usic Reports Sales Up young musical sound, combined with an exhibit of the artistic CHICAGO -A report from maintaining inventories has been talents of the under 20 set, was Info Jack Wainger, president of the rising the last few years and spotlighted here Sept. 3 in National Association of Music many dealers simply will not Union Square. Merchants (NAMM), indicates pay the higher interest rates. The occasion was the final that retail sales of new musical They're selling more than ever, event in the summer series of instruments are up sharply for but they're not buying as far Youth -Art Festivals, sponsored the first six months of 1968. In ahead. On a short -term basis, by the Student League of San by: Jude Porter addition, this could be the in- this situation could be felt by Francisco in various neighbor- and misinter- dustry's first billion -dollar year manufacturers hoods through he city. For 10 first of a weekly "fact the This is the if the present pace continues. preted as a slowdown at hours, beginning at 9:30 a.m., column" to keep you up- to -the- According to Wainger, figures retail level." professional singers and instru- minute on the latest "happenings" end of Guitar and drum sales, off with folk in the world of printed music . . compiled through the NAMM PRESIDENT JACK mentalists entertained a four - what's HOT and ON THE TOP in June show sales of all retail last year after soaring WAINGER. and blues musiic from a stage up 15 per cent year rise, were generally ex- near the east end of the SHEET MUSIC, PERSONALITY music stores set up and ALL -IN- over the same period last year, pected to be down a bit this park. MUSIC -BOOK FOLIOS end somewhere along the line. STRUMENT EDUCATIONALS! A "note- with increases being shown in year, although the slowdown The musicians included such make sales a "Also, with over 5.5 million worthy" roll -call to nearly every instrument cate- hasn't been as sharp as many rising talent as Andi Hardwick, profitable pleasure. gory. retailers anticipated. new sold in just the last Chris Lunn, Teresa Tudury, * * * * "Reports form our dealers "We simply had to face up four years, there are vast quan- Frank Ludwig, the Steve Fisher MERCHANDISING MAGIC . . . This around the country confirm that to the fact that it couldn't go tities of good used instruments Trio and an African dance group week's sheet music sales are setting is rebounding on forever," said J. W. Jenkins on the market as people trade by records! The lineup of sheets close- the industry led Kass Bonsieh. record strongly from the slight sales of the 14 -store Jenkins Music up for quality. This has effected ly resembles the current charts, and has the magic touch last year Co. chain. "With the help of new sales. . . . as we knew it decrease experienced of outstanding music. -the first increase in 21 years," the Beatles and other pop would. VALLEY P.T.A.," recorded has also slowed "HARPER said the NAMM president, who groups, guitar sales jumped The draft by Jeannie Riley, is NUMERO UNO! so, - heads the American from $34 million a year in 1961 sales to young people. Even We congratulate Jimmy Keys of New chain with 53 outlets. to $135 million in 1966. Drums most retailers seem to be sell- keys Music (Nashville, Tenn.) for a "Most dealers experienced followed about the same pat- ing guitars and drums at about great big giant -of -a- winner! Bows and the $12 million to $60 the same level as last year and if and Bravos, also, to a sparkling good first quarter sales tern -from neck and neck upswing has continued through million. Increases like these were it continues to hold up, 1968 new artist! Running excellent on the list is "HEY JUDE" the second quarter. Nearly all unprecedented in the industry will be still another Apple), "HUSH" these instruments." (The Beatles on of the major retailers are bull- and we knew there had to be an year for (), "THE FOOL ON THE ish about the rest of the year HILL" (Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66), and many anticipate new sales "FOR THE LOVE OF IVY" (Mamas & records will be set in 1968." Papas), List Price 85c ... and the ON Wainger's optimistic report is Thearle Festival to Spotlight super standards . . . "GENTLE WEXLER & CO., Chicago MY MIND," "HONEY," "BORN seconded by a number of DAVID APPLES" has developed a new FREE," LITTLE GREEN major dealers, including Robert wholesaler, "MY Talents of Brimhall, Williams Whitehall percussion and sales (O. C. Smith and Patti Page), head of the Paul A. Sinatra) and Schmitt, center and point -of- purchase dis- WAY OF LIFE" (Frank in was to acquaint teachers and DREAM" (Roger Schmitt Music Co. chain SAN DIEGO, Calif. - John play. The unit, contoured in the "THE IMPOSSIBLE new piano All SHEET MUSIC INSTI- Minneapolis. Schmitt's piano piano educator and dealers with this shape of a band shell, features a Williams). Brimhall, may order di- and organ sales are up 20 and method. Each session featured a finished back, enabling it to be TUTE . (dealers composer, will hold a piano MUSIC INSTI- 106 per cent respectively this lecture followed by a question placed against a wall or used as rectly from SHEET Raul Artiles, 1842 West workshop here Friday (20) at a display. TUTE, Att: year. This reflects a general and answer period. central Florida, the Thearle Music Festival in Avenue. Miami Beach, feeling that keyboard instru- (305-532-3383). ments are this year's strongest the Balboa Park Bowl. * * * * * performers. Brimhall will appear in con- BEST SELLING Following in the footsteps of the slower L.P. Best Selling Charts are the "The keyboards moved junction with Roger Williams last year because a number of new PERSONALITY FOLIOS. Topping uncertainties made people think and present "Music of Today - the sales lists from dealers, jobbers are twice before committing them- the Roger Williams Way." and racks across the country On Sunday, Brimhall will con- cos "GLEN CAMPBELL DELUXE selves to the purchase of a BEATLES duct 200 pianists, ages 8 -12, at SONG ALBUM," "THE major household item," said COLLECTIONS COMPLETE," "CREAM- WHEELS OF 100 . The group will ac- FOLIOS - VOCAL Schmitt. "Apparently, many of FIRE and DISRAELI GEARS," "MA- Williams in a the doubts have been removed company special (Alphabetically) SON WILLIAMS -PHONOGRAPH REC- and with the strong keyboard arrangement of William's "Born ORD" and "GARY PUCKETT AND sales, we're looking for at least Free." The event will he tele- Title (Publisher) THE UNION GAP SONG BOOK." All - publications a 10 per cent over -all increase vised by NBC. of these power packed Last week, Brimhall conducted BACHARACH -DAVID SONGBOOK (Cimino) carry the SHEET MUSIC INSTITUTE in sales this year." imprint (dealers may order from a series of workshops in all the JOAN BAEZ SONGBOOK (Ryerson) Manufacturers Raul Artiles at the above address). Lyon -Healy stores in the Chi- (Hansen) * * * * * As for reports from some in- BEATLES COMPLETE cago area and introduced the NEWS OF THE WEEK . . . BEST OF THE ASSOCIATION VOL. 2 (Beechwood) BEST strument manufacturers that ! ! new "Brimhall Piano Method," B R I M H A L L 1968 is not running up to ex- books one, two, three and four. BEST OF FOLK MUSIC (Hansen) Jobbers, dealers and teachers all pectations, Donald Ravitch, over America are tremendously ex- Appearing with Brimhall was CAMELOT VOCAL SELECTIONS (Chappell) Sherman Clay and Co. presi- Jack Coleman, music consultant cited about the newly published ALBUM BRIMHALL PIANO METHOD" dent, gave this explanation: for Hansen Publications and GLEN CAMPBELL DELUXE SOUVENIR "JOHN "There may be a slowdown (Hansen) (MOT 101 -Books 1, 2, 3 and 4), Walt Disney Music Co. at $1.50. To introduce in some production areas, but each list The purpose of the workshop COWSILLS DELUXE EDITION (Big 3) and properly familiarize musical for the most part it's a reflec- CREAM WHEELS OF FIRE (Hansen) educators with his latest, and by tion of an inventory situation, far, his greatest work, Brimhall is rather than a sluggish market. BOB DYLAN DELUXE SONGBOOK (Warner Bros. - conducting a piano symposium and "Because the industry had Seven Arts) workshop Friday, September 20th, Music Festival in San been riding the crest of the BOB DYLAN JOHN WESLEY HARDING (Big 3) at the Thearle drum fad the past Diego, California. Hundreds of guitar and and few years, huge inventories of ARETHA FRANKLIN (West Coast) teachers, students, dealers HITS 3) press have been invited. September these instruments were laid in GREAT GREAT (Big 22d, Brimhall will conduct 200 chil- -and in many cases inventories JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE AXIS BOLD AS LOVE dren on 100 pianos, as they ac- of other instruments were also (Cimino) company Roger Williams, in a con- somewhat out of proportion. As cert performance of "BORN FREE," the fad slackened last year, a IAN & SYLVIA NASHVILLE (Warner Bros. -Seven at the festival. Four additional Brim - lot of dealers found they were Arts) hall piano symposiums have been West Coast area, top -heavy in guitars and drums MEET THE TURTLES (Big 3) scheduled for the had made them September 24th -Seattle, Septem- and the lesson PHIL OCHS THE WAR IS OVER (Big 3) ber 25th -San Francisco, September more cautious in other instru- 26th -Oakland and September 27th PAUL & MARY SONGBOOK (Warner Bros. - ment purchases. PETER, -San Jose. "Additionally, the cost of Seven Arts) * * * * * THE GILL POP -MOD DRUM, a GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP (Hansen) All HANSEN Educational Books may a Free One -Stop biblical Mid- Eastern ceremonial HITS be ordered on Execs DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES GREATEST Phone Service from anywhere in the Beechwood drum, is now available from (Big 3) . Phone: AREA CODE Sorkin Music Co., Inc., The drum 800 -327 -4737. LOS ANGELES -Beechwood SIMON & GARFUNKEL BOOKENDS (Plymouth) is hand -made in Israel from pure * * * * * publishing has announced two SONGBOOK -BEST OF SIMON & Happy Music for ALL! administrative appointments. copper, and features an authentic * * * * * sheepskin head which is fully GARFUNKEL (Plymouth) Wyman Parker is handling the GOLD MARK ASSOCIATES responsibilities of general pro- tunable. A multi -colored, em- SONGS BY PAUL SIMON (Plymouth) VOCAL SELECTIONS (Chappell) PUBLIC RELATIONS fessional manager, while John broidered strap enables the SOUND OF MUSIC NEW YORK- BEVERLY HILLS File is in charge of internal op- player to hold the drum in the WE ARE THE DOORS (Music Sales) LONDON erations. required under -the -arm position. 39 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Audio Retailing Panasonic Enters New Sylvania Unit Component Field For Service Data BATAVIA, N. Y.- Sylvania quality assurance, for the Syl- NEW YORK - Panasonic, ter which offers listening pleas- has introduced a service device vania Electric Products Inc making its entry into the com- ure comparable to a fine FM utilizing two reel -to -reel micro- group, said technicians car ponent field, has introduced tuner. The suggested list is film cartridges and a desk top manually advance the film al three new FM stereo receivers, $279.95. reader unit which projects serv- the rate of 200 frames per sec- three new reel -to -reel tape re- Panasonic's nwe reel -to -reel ice literature on a 8 -inch by ond. The cartridges are indexed corders and several high fidel- recorders are the Interlude tape -off a focusing ity speaker systems. Console-Aire and Symposium. 101/2-inch screen. The new de- have on switch, Panasonic's SA -4000 is a pro- The Interlude, Model RS-763S, vice, according to Sylvania, will lever and a film advance -re fessional 160 -watt FM stereo is a 32 -watt component type increase service efficiency by verse knob. receiver that features fully au- professional home entertainment 75 per cent. The cartridges, sealed anc tomatic motor tuning coupled system featuring motor driven thus preventing soiling, tearing with precision manual motor includes Sylvania distributors, dealers automatic tuning. It service contractors will tuning. In addition, a preset and THE STOCKTON, Model Y1955SA, and or loss, are impossible to place reel-to -reel stereo record lease the unit. Sylvania has at memory master tuning system playback and an AM -FM is a new Admiral stereo console incorrectly, Dennis said. The exclusive Bull Horns present all its service data on allows the listener to pre -select stereo radio which permits di- featuring the unit operates on normal house- to five with sound system with a frequency one and a half cartridges, the up stations pushbut- rect recording whole listening. response from 30 cycles to hold current and weighs 11 ton ease. equivalent of 6,000 printed The model's suggested list is 15,000 cycles per second. The sheets. Enough space exists on pounds. Information Handling The $429.95. is $299.95. SA -70, a 90 -watt AM- suggested list cartridge two for another 2,000 Services, Inc.. Englewood, FM stereo receiver, employs the Colo.,. sheets of literature. is providing the unit for Syl- use of microscopic electronic CHICAGO- Features of the IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Ray D. Dennis, manager, vania. integrated circuits. Four such Console-Aire, Model RS -790S, devices perform the functions include continuous automatic or L. A. TICKET: previously handled by 20 tran- manual reverse with directional sistors and eight resistors. The lights, three -speed operation ELECTRIFIED suggested list is $349.95. with 4 -track stereo, a four head Highlighting the SA -60, Pana- system, two VU meters, pause LOS ANGELES - Compu- sonic's new 60 -watt AM -FM control, a four position digital ticket, which created the elec- solid -state stereo receiver, is tape counter and two 7 -inch tronic box office, has begun its broad band AM. While once oval dynamic speakers. Its sug- electronic ticket distribution considered impossible, drift -free gested list is $329.95. here at all Wallach's Music City AM reception is now insured by The Symposium, Model RS- stores. the use of a unique ceramic fil- 796, boasts continuous automa- Tickets to concerts, plays and tic reverse and dual capstan various sporting events may be drive, which eliminates audible purchased through Computicket or flutter. Other features in- installations. clude recording and playback in Under the system, patrons of both directions, three -speed op- Computicket locations can re- tion, simple lever operation, ceive electronic information of twin VU meters, four tape the best available seats in the heads and 90 KC recording price range of their choice on bias. The suggested list is the night of their choice and be $249.95. issued the actual tickets to be used at that performance. Within a few weeks, Compu- Institute Support ticket will be able to supply tick- THE SA -70 is a 90 -watt AM /FM ets to Broadway plays for trav- stereo receiver by Panasonic. The NEW YORK -The Institute elers planning to visit New component, with a suggested list of High Fidelity's (IHF) Dealer York. price of $349.95, boasts four Member program received a microscopic electronic integrated of last IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi circuits which perform func- strong nod approval the week from the Philadelphia SYLVANIA ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS has placed in operation the tions previously handled by 20 service industry's first microfilm system which instantly locates transistors and eight resistors. area's leading high fidelity deal- become affiliate members of the technical and service information on all home entertainment products ers. About half of the retailers institute under a new program ever produced by Sylvania. The Sylvania Service Parts Informatior present at a dinner in Philadel- approved last spring by the Center provides instant technical and service information to service. phia expressed a willingness to IHF's board of directors. men whether it be in the home or in the service shop.

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PANASONIC'S SA -60 is a 60 -watt MICROPHONES AM /FM stereo receiver. While the receiver features a unique ceram- FROM SHURE ic filter for drift -free AM recep- o tion, the FM tuner circuits in- HA?PENING corporates three field effect tran- sistors. The suggested list is $279.95.

SUPER DELUXE LOWEST COST An ultra -high quality, super- rugged A Unidyne through- and -through, yet microphone with a volume control priced under e45.00. Controls feed- right on the microphone. Already in back, "boomy" reverberation, and use by top groups. Unusually smooth, pickup of audience noise. Rugged die - wide -range response. Outstanding cast case. Excellent choice for begin- feedback and breath "pop" control. ning groups, or where budget is a THE INTERLUDE, Model RS -763S The finest Shure Unidyne micro - prime consideration. Fully service- by Panasonic, has suggested list phone -ever! able. price of $429.95. The 32 -watt Model PE548V $120.00 Model PE515 Only $42.50 home entertainment system, which features motor -driven auto- S H U R 51--1UFRE matic tuning, contains reel -to -reel stereo record and playback and an AM /FM stereo radio which UNIDYNE®IQ UNIDYNEc B permits direct recording while listening. All Shure Professional Entertainer Microphones are complete with carrying case, and extra- length (20 ft.) cable with connector attached. 40 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Audio Retailing Two New Consoles Join New Arvin Console; '69 Admiral Stereo Line 45 Player Corp. ent material. Each enclosure is CHICAGO - Admiral In- has added two new stereo con- a 4.7 -foot tube folded into a INDIANAPOLIS -Arvin including one featuring compact module. Admiral has dustries, Inc., has introduced a soles, slot -fed 45- the exclusive Bull Horns sound applied for a patent for the stereo console, a a five -band system, to its line of solid -state specially designed audio system r.p.m. phonograph, a five -tran- console stereo radio- phono- which has a frequency response portable radio and graphs. from 30 cycles to 15,000 cycles sistor AM table radio. C. H. Belzer Jr., stereo mar- per second. The console features FM/ -speed au- keting manager, describes the the new Ad- AM /FM radio, four The Stockton, record changer and new Bull Horn system as having miral console with the Bull tomatic length res- double, two -way, six -inch speak- two unique quarter- Horn sound system, features an The onant tubes in speaker enclos- FM stereo, AFC, ers. It lists for $169.95. AM -FM with 45- r.p.m. player lists ures, lined with sound absorb- separate bass, treble, loudness portable and low for $29.95 and utilizes six D cell and balance controls table radio list for mass tone arm. batteries. The $18.95 and is styled with a low Model Y1955SA also in- silhouette. The five -band port- cludes an automatic record able, called World Grabber, lists Scanning changer with 45- r.p.m. spindle, for $79.95. solid-state dual- channel ampli- fier, record storage com- The News partment and external speaker Norelco terminals. Its suggested list is Adds Robert Farris has been named $299.95. director of merchandising for the Y1941SA, Radio Line consumer products division of The Curtis, Model Motorola, Inc. Associated with is a new eight- speaker console WASHINGTON - Hynes Motorola since 1958, Farris pre- with two 1 2-inch woofers, two Bros., Inc., here, has been ap- viously served as director of ad- 31/2-inch tweeters and four fl- pointed distributor of Norelco vertising. . . . G. Lee Thompson inch mid -range speakers. It has radios in Washington. The firm, national mar- has been appointed an open list price. a major distributor of white ket development manager for Syl- vania Entertainment Products. goods, will handle only the radio Thompson was formerly market- Allied Radio line from Norelco. The demand ing manager of the Sylvania for FM, multi -band and short- Lighting Division, Danvers, Mass. Offers Training wave receiver prompted Hynes The responsibilities of the to negotiate the exclusive dis- newly created position of manager CHICAGO - Allied Radio tributorship of radios, according of Sylvania Entertainment Prod- Corp. has launched a training to President Bern E. Hynes. ucts training center have been program for hard -core unem- given to John Sheeran. Having ployed. joined Sylvania in 1959, Sheeran Forbes, manager for According to W. J. was previously plant vice -president of industrial rela- by 47 weeks of on- the -job train- Sylvania Entertainment Products, and electronics Smithfield, N. C., operation. Mean- tions for Allied, the program ing in mail -order while, Charles Elinsky has suc- will provide for a five -week ori- repair work. A total of 130 per- ceeded Sheeran at the Smithfield entation, pre- vocation and vesti- sons will be trained in the pro- RIVAL RECORD SUPERMARKET OWNERS, Merrill Rose (with glasses) plant. bule training program, followed gram. and Russ Solomon, measure Rose's Wabash Avenue store in Chicago. Anthony Addonizio has joined Solomon's Tower Records, San Francisco, was the subject of a recent Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. as article in Billboard. In Chicago, attending the National Association of public relations representative for Record Retailers tape and tape CARtridge convention, Solomon took Sylvania Electronic Systems. Prior the time to visit Rose and compare stores. The Rose Wabash outlet to joining Sylvania, Addonizio was consists of 6,000 square feet of space on two floors with approximately public relations assistant for Eff- 200,000 album titles displayed. Solomons San Francisco outlet enson, Nusbaum, Regan, a Boston features 18,000 square feet with 6,000 of it devoted to selling area. advertising agency. . . . Richard Hershey has been named man- ager of the sales promotion de- partment in Philco -Ford Corp.'s Reel -to -Reel Receives Lift consumer electronics division. Her- shey previously served as super- visor of sales training. From CARtridge: Rubenstein Richard Kudolla has been pro- moted to vice -president of Royal CHICAGO - The tape car- This opinion was voiced by Disc Distributing Corp., a tridge was the best thing to hap- Jules Rubinsten, national sales Chicago -based firm. . . . Zenith manager, stereotape division, (Continued on page 43) pen to reel-to-reel.' Greentree Electronics Corp., at the recent National Association of R e c o r d Merchandisers (NARM) tape and tape car- tridge convention here. "We're the only company concentrating on reel -to -reel, NEW said Rubinstein. "We found last VOLUME CONTROL year that the cartridge has MICROPHONES brought reels back into the mu- sic industry where they belong. FROM SHURE Cartridge introduction has gener- HAPPENING ated an over -all consumer inter- est in tape and all pre-recorded tape -regardless of configura- tion. "It's now the responsibility of tape wholesalers to eliminate the myth that the difficult sys- tems compete with each other. Each serves its own function - UNIDIRECTIONAL OMNIDIRECTIONAL each fulfills a purpose. The re- with volume control with volume control tailer who maintains stock in all Volume control version of the world - Excellent where you want to change configurations is not duplicating famous Shure Unisphere A, the most volume for announcements or con- his inventory any more than the widely used professional entertainer versational -level chatter between se- camera dealer who maintains microphone among rock -and -roll, lections. Also enables you to reduce multiple inventories by stocking country and western, and modern volume when feedback unexpectedly various film types. vocal groups. You can change the occurs. volume right at the microphone! Model PE53V $62.50 "In short, one doesn't elimi- Model PE585V $75.50 nate the other. The time has passed when tape was consid- S I-I U Ft ered an accessory. Tape can no longer be regarded as an acces- UNISPHEREp A SPHER-O-DYNE.., sory. It's a major part of our business, and our commitment reflect this." SHURE BROTHERS, INC., 222 HARTREY AVE., EVANSTON, ILL. 60204 should n 1968 BROTHERB, INC SHURE 41 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Audio Retailing

be a two -week shot at Chicago's in the night. All the KGMB disk , of Big Brother and Palmer House. Ho and the Ali s jockeys took part. . . . Steppen- the Holding Company spent her From The also will do a guest spot on wolf's Hawaii debut will be a two - Hawaiian holiday on a boat. . "Hollywood Palace. ". . . Mean- night dance -concert Saturday and Steve Logan, Hawaii -based enter- while, when Ho hums away, the Sunday (14 -15) at the Civic Audi- tainer who's signed to Warner Music Capitals Society of Seven (formerly known torium. John Herbert's Blue Phoe- Bros. -Seven Arts, is set for another as the Fabulous Echoes, on Re- nix, Inc., is sponsoring the dates. Mainland tour. Logan and His prise), will fill in at the Waikiki . Oscar winner Elmer Bernstein, Heros open Oct. 3 at Harrah's Ta- of the World 10 club. . Station KGMB had a a United Artists artist, guest -con- hoe for a month, followed by wild beach promotion Aug. 24. ducted the Honolulu Symphony days at Vancouver's Marco Polo at HONOLULU night Duke Kahanamoku's, and A beach party with local kids Orchestra's Starlight Concert Aug. starting Nov. 11. A three -week Don Ho's set for another Main- the Reprise star flies to Ana- was filmed for showing during 24. Next guest: Van Cliburn, Sat- date beginning Nov. 25 at Har- land tour. Monday (9) will be a heim's Melodyland. Following will "Muscle Beach Party" breaks later urday (14). rah's Reno also is on tap, with an eventual return to Las Vegas' Hotel Riviera. Walter Painter, who has worked on such shows as Don Ho's, 's, and Ann - Margret's, is assisting Logan in production of a new act. . . . Musician Ray Conniff, a frequent Island visitor, and bride, Vera Schmidheiny, honeymooned here after a Vegas wedding. . . Good local for "5 A.M.," the Columbia single by the Millenium. Reason: Its singer- composer, Sandy Salisbury, is a former resident. WAYNE HARADA rA0TI0N means PERPETUAL NEW YORK RCA's Jefferson Airplane are performing in Europe through Sun- day (15) date in Amsterdam. Other stops include Stockholm, Copen- SALES! hagen, London and Edinburgh. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 A &M artists, and RCA's Jose Feliciano open a one -week engagement at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre on Saturday (14). . . . Dick Noble started two weeks at the Playboy Club here on Tuesday (3). . . Atco's Bee Gees appeared on "Hollywood Palace" on Saturday HERE'S THE (14) with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca... . Cadet -Concept's Status Quo have a U. S. tour in the works. . Buddy De Franco HOTTEST and the Glenn Miller Orchestra play the Riverboat through Wednesday (18). ITEM TO APPEAR ON Capitol's Magnificent Men play No Strings, No Motor, Sayreville, N. J., on Wednesday THE PHONOGRAPH (18). . . . Ivan Mogull and Eddie No Magnets. tone Heywood, who has completed his CaM%'4Ny second Capitol album, have MARKET SINCE opened Roberd Music Corp. (BMI) at 40 E. 49th St. here. . . Sandy PLASTIC RECORDS! Duncan and Bruce Scott, the twins in "Your Own Thing, were married on Sept. 5 at the Little Church Around the Corner. . . The completely NEW and Original Rodney Dangerfield opened at the Living Room for two weeks. . . Mercury's Chicago Loop played one week at Arthur's through Sept. 8. ... Dave Lucas will score a new film "Equipment. ". . . Gil Melle is writing the score for the Uni- DUOTONE'S` versal film "World Premiere 'Act of Piracy.'" . New York's ecord-Ma tic WNEW radio Fred Astaire special on Sept. 6 featured "Sweet Sor- RECORD ALBUM HOLDER and AUTOMATIC SELECTOR row" and "Just Like Taking Candy From a PAT, PENDING Baby," which he penned YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. Suggested with Gladys Shelley. U.S. AND FOREIGN Reprise's Nancy Sinatra and Jack KEEPS ALBUMS CONSTANTLY AND NEATLY ON FILE ". List Price $9.95 Jones, RCA artist, were among the headliners of NBC -TV's "The Highlights of the Ice Capades of 1969," which was taped on Aug. 27 -28 in Atlantic City. The special will be aired on Feb. 16. . . . Steppenwolf, Dunhill artists, have taped "Playboy After Dark," the new TV variety show owned by the Playboy Club.... Carol Chan - ning is pre-testing her TV material on the nightclub circuit. She'll do two TV specials for ABC this sea- son.... Ivan Mogull Music Corp. will represent Johi Music Publish- o Flip First Album Forward. Rest e Remove Desired Album When Q Flip Next Album Forward. ing Co., Inc., newly formed pub- Will Follow Automatically. Exposed. Record -Matic Will Record -Matic Resumes Opera - lishing company of Jose Feliciano, Stop Automatically. tion. RCA artist. Gently push all Albums backward to start next run. SAN JUAN THE -Mat%c IS FULLY AUTOMATIC! Palito Ortega, Argentinian com- !ecord poser, motion picture artist and vocalist (RCA Victor Argentine) Brings Albums in Full View at the Touch of a Finger. just finished his first visit to Stops Automatically. Keeps Albums Consistently and Neatly "On File ". Puerto Rico. He played the Con - dado Reach Hotel and appeared D Always Easy to SEE and SELECT. on TV over WAPA, Channel 4. Ortega, with 15 LP's and six films to his credit, heads the Ask your distributor music publishing company, Edi- or write direct to: DUOTONE® COMPANY, Inc. 6875 S.W. 81st Street, South Miami, Florida 33134 torial Clanort, in Buenos Aires. He now visits Caracas, Bogota

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42 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Audio Retailing i and Lima before returning to Nilsmen (Discofon) are scoring CLaSSIFIe MRRT Buenos Aires. He is already with "Solskenssang," a Swedish booked to return here next year. version of "Sugartown. ". . . Ray The Pan American Philanthropic Charles will give a concert in the PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Foundation (Cancer League) plans Stockholm Concerthouse, Sept. 23. PROMOTIONAL SERVICES ATTENTION, RECORD PRODUCERS, to stage a 24-hour marathon char- Meanwhile EMI has released his jingle producers! Send us your arrange- ity show in Puerto Rico in Jan- single ". ". . . The ments and we'll record it for you minus one on stereo or mono at lowest cost. uary 1969. Mario Moreno (Can - Shanes are leaving EMI to form OUTLETS: WE Masters recorded on 3 channels % inch. ATTENTION, RECORD RECORD PROMOTION AND Write tinflas), entertainment committee their own record company. . . . have the largest selection of 45 rpm NATIONAL We'll send you 14-inch masters. Publicity, Pressing. No job too small. you a sample. Cinema - Roger Wallis pro- oldies and goodies at 25e each, also re: us and we'll send chairman, will emcee the show Radio Sweden's major label LP listings at promotional Consultation; questions answered Audio, Inc., P. O. Box 1381, Romago, and over 100 entertainers from duced "Back to the City" by the prices. Send for free listings. All orders recording, publishing, distribution. Manila, Philippines. oc12 welcome. Apex Rendezvous, Inc., 390 Morty Wax Promotions, 1650 Broadway, . . Bar- Un 20 Latin American countries, Jackpots ( Sonet). Eddie Kings Highway, , N. Y. Un N.Y.C. CI 7 -2159. DEEJAYS! 6,000 CLASSIFIED GAG Europe and the U. S. are sched- clay, of Barclay Records, France, lines, $5! Above plus 5,000 clever re- to arrange for EVERYTHING! PRESSING, PROMO - marks, $9! Comedy catalog free. Ed uled to appear. Raphael, Tito was in Stockholm tion, national distribution. We give Orrin, Mariposa, Calif. 95338. no2 Puente, Roberto Ledesma, La the setting up of a Barclay office complete service to independent record Promotion Lupe, Linda Cristal, Marco An- Fred Baron of Pickwick companies. Call or write for free con - National Record here.... sultation and information. Prophet, (You Record it-We'll Plug It) PRESSING EQUIPMENT tonio Muniz, Joe Cuba, Tito Records was in Sweden to seek Inc., 373 First Ave., N. Y. 10010 (212) Network Un Music Makers Promotion Rodriguez, Andy Russell, Johnny methods of stimulating Pickwick 533 -6370. * * PRESSING EQUIPMENT - NEW AND 20 Years' Dependable Service used at exceptional savings. For profes- Pacheco, Machito, Graciela, Mig- Scandinavian sales. . Arne Bill GEAUGA RECORDS HAS OPENING service, write: Don for Singers and Bands. Records released Brite Star, Cleveland, Ohio sional consultation uelito Valdes, Sarita Montiel, of Bill Records and Music has press, Cities, Nashville, Gabor Enterprises, 4645 Delafield Ave., within 30 days. We will distribute Covering All Major N. Y. 10471. no2 Eddie and Charlie Palmieri, Jose taken over personal management and promote records coast to coast. Chicago, Hollywood, Etc. Riverdale, B, Geauga Records, Geauga Station DISTRIBUTION ARRANGED Fajardo, Myrta Silva, Los Panchos, of Hayati Kafe, currently scoring Aurora, Ohio 44202. tfn * * MAJOR RECORD LABEL CONTACTS and Belisario Lopez will head the with "Sant" (Things).... Former T.V. COVERAGE Buddy Hackett, Joey Kinch has started * NATIONAL RADIO & Latin group. artist Gunnar * BOOKING AGENT CONTACTS EMPLOYMENT SECTION Bishop, and Connie his own agency.... 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INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE ADVERTISING RATES has announced three 30; Rafael Kubelik and the International Exchange is open to all advertisers of foreign countries or special offers for this fall, in- Munich Bavarian Symphony on American advertisers whose service or sales message is specifically directed INTERNATIONAL a toward an international market. cluding complete recording of Nov. 12 -13, and Erich Leins- insertion. Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" dorf and the Boston Symphony REGULAR CLASSIFIED AD: $1.50 per line. Minimum: 4 limes per DISPLAY CLASSIFIED AD: $20 per inch. Minimum: 1 inch. Same frequency EXCHANGE ($13). The other sets are from on March 17 -18. discounts as above apply. the series "Das Alte Werk" and There also will be a series of SEND ORDERS & PAYMENTS TO: James Flatley, International Exchange Adver- most important of these is the six concerts at Lisner Audito- tising Director. Billboard, 165 W. 46th St., New York, N. 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Record Mitchell on Centre, Ltd., Nuneaton, England. tin The offers in all cases are programs are on Jan. 16 with NAME open until January 1969, and Adler conducting and Arrau as many sets are available at 50 soloist; Feb. 13, Copland con- ADDRESS per cent of the normal price. ducting; March 6, Mitchell con- Say You Saw It in The sets are most luxuriously ducting, Richter -Haaser soloist; CITY STATE & ZIP CODE packaged and contain illustrated and April 10, Mitchell conduct- PAYMENT ENCLOSED BILL ME Billboard booklets. ing and Perlman soloist. SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 43 Billboard SEPTEMBER Album Reviews = s * * ** 4 STAR * * ** Action SPECIAL MERIT PICKS FRENCH HARPSICHORD MASTERPIECES POPULAR * * ** - he typifies the charm and appeal of the Gustav Leonhardt. RCA Victrola VICS Band. In this package are DOC SEVERINSEN & STRINGS -Command 1370 (S) POPULAR such oldies as "South of the Border," RS 937 SD (S) RAVEL CONDUCTS BOLERO- Grey /Ravel /La- "Across the Alley from the Alamo" and RAY ANTHONY NOW -Ranwood R 8033 (S) moureux Orch. (Ravel). Turnabout TV Records some new material, as "Memory No. THE POWER OF BRASS -Al Cajola. United 4256 (M) BIG HITS FROM CHITTY CHITTY BANG 1." Fans will love this. Artists UAS 6666 (S) SCHUMANN / WAGNER / BRAHMS / BANG - New Christy Minstrels /Arthur OUT OF SIGHT -The Howard Roberts Quar- MAHLER: LIEDER -Moreira/Various Art- Treacher. Columbia CS 9709 (S) tet. Capitol ST 2901 (S) ists /Innsbruck Symphony (Wagner). Turn- A delightful new from the tal- CAMARATA CONDUCTS ented FINIAN'S RAINBOW about TV 34281 (S) Albums Sherman Brothers gets an equally -Camarata /Mike Semmes Singers. Vista GESUALDO: FIVE MADRIGALS /FIVE MO- delightful run through by the Christies and CLASSICAL STER 4034 (S) the added TETS -Deller Consort. RCA Victrola VIC attraction of Arthur Treacher. MECKI MARK MEN -Limelight. LS 86054 The title tune is spunky 1364 (M); VICS 1364 (S) * NATIONAL BREAKOUTS and alive and (S) could prove MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS Nos. 23 & easily an important single LOOKIN' THRU YOU -The Herd. Fontana 16-Klien /Orch. of Vienna Volksoper/ (in the vein of "Chim Chim Cheree "), and MARTINON: SYMPHONY No. 4/MENNIN: SRF 67579 (S) PERCY FAITH & HIS ORK -Angel of the Treacher to Symphony No. Chicago Vienna Symphony (Moog). Turnabout TV comes the fore with his treat- 7- Symphony (Mar- BUDDY ments LSC FO'S NEW HAWAII - Capitol ST 34286 (S) Morning . of "Chue -Chi Face" and "You Too." tinon). RCA Victor 3043 (S) 2879 (S) Columbia CS 9706 (S) Jean Martinon conducts the Chicago Sym- THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JAKE STAN KENTON'S "FINIAN'S RAINBOW"- phony in this important album of two first THACKRAY -Philips PHS 600 -275 (S) JAZZ * *** Capitol ST 2971 (S) recordings, including his own "Symphony JACK DE MELLO REMEMBERS KUI LEE The creative and inventive Kenton takes on No. 4 (Altitudes)." Both the Martinon sym- - WES MONTGOMERY MARCH 6, 1925 -June Dot DLP 25885 (S) * NEW ACTION LP's the score of the forthcoming film "Fin - phony and Peter Mennin's "Symphony No. 15, 1968- Riverside RS 3036 (S) VOICES IN PARADISE -Jack de Mello. Dot ian's Rainbow" plus a few other film 7" are contemporary without being far out TRANQUILITY -Ahmad Jamal. ABC ABCS DLP 25884 (S) pieces and the result is a crisp, bright and both are performed well on this LP. 660 (S) JULIE DRISCOLL /BRIAN AUBER & THE THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALOHA -Jack concept of the familiar material. Exceptional ERA: THE 40'S MUSIC OF THE GREAT de Mello. Dot DLP 25886 (S) TRINITY -Open . . . treatments of "Old Devil Moon" and the THE BEST OF LEONARD PENNARIO Album BANDS CREATED BY FRANKIE CARLE SUMMER MAGIC/THE PARENT TRAP/IN - Atco SD 33 (S) "Theme From Villa Rides" are among the 2- Capitol SP 8689 (5) Dot DLP 25877 (S) -258 SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS- Various standouts. With the same sales potency of the "Best Artists. Disneyland DQ 1318 (M) of . Volume 1" this beauty, of ex- ULTIMATE SPINACH -Behold & See ... MIDNIGHT LUAU -The Waikikis. Kapp KS 30 BY ELLA -Ella Fitzgerald. Capitol ST ceptional Pensarlo performances concerns MGM SE 4570 (S) 3575 (S) LOW PRICE JAZZ * *** 2960 (S) itself with the music of Rosza, Gershwin, JUST A DREAM AGO -Rita Moss. Dot DLP Ella comes back to the pop groove to Grieg and Rachmaninoff. The familiar pro- A PLACE 25889 (5) IN TIME -Dave Brubeck Quartet. BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING CO.... render 30 all -time great tunes in a re- gram is loaded with appeal for the pop buyer LOOK INSIDE THE ASYLUM CHOIR -Smash Odyssey 32 16 0248 (S) markable display of vitality and spark. as well as the classical buff. ELLINGTON Mainstream 56099 (M); S/6099 (S) SRS 67107 (S) - STRAYHORN - TCHAIKOVSKY: She romps, runs, scats, coaxes and flies NUTCRACKER SAN FRANCISCO ROOTS- Various Artists. SUITE /ELLINGTON - GRIEG: through these medlies, and makes them THE BEST OF CARMEN DRAGON Album 2- PEER GYNT SUITES 1 JOHNNY MANN SINGERS -This Guy's Vault LP 119 (S) & 2 -Duke Elling- all sound new and exciting. "Everything I Capitol SP 8687 (5) ton. Odyssey 32 16 0252 (S) in Love With You . . . Have Is Yours," "I Cried For You," "720 With material such as "All Through the ANDRE LOW PRICE PREVIN AND J. J. JOHNSON PLAY Liberty LST 7587 (S) in the Books," "Don't Blame Me" and Night," "America the Beautiful" and "Lady "MACK THE KNIFE "-Odyssey 32 16 0260 "All I Do Is Dream of You" are just a few. of Spain" given magical semi -classical POPULAR (S) treatments, Dragon has a winner here in a * * ** -Miles in the Sky . . . LAWRENCE WELK SINGERS & ORCH: package that includes the Prelude to "Car- THE ONE AND ONLY -RCA LOW PRICE Columbia CS 9628 (S) Ranwood R 8034 (S) men" and Debussy's "En Bateau." Aimed Camden CAL 2264 (M); CAS 2264 (S) A slightly Latin tempo permeates "To- at both the pop and classical programmer THE MUSIC OF ALEC WILDER -Alec Wilder FOLK * *** NILSSON -Aerial Ballet . gether" on this album by the Lawrence and buyer, this one should prove a topper Octet. (Sinatra). Odyssey 32 16 0262 (S) Welk Singers. All of the tunes are rhythmic RCA Victor LPM 3956 (M); LSP 3956 (S) for his "Best of" package. 3 SAINTS, 4 SINNERS & 6 OTHER PEOPLE - and fascinating. "Gonna Get Along With- COUNTRY **** Pete Seegar. Odyssey 32 16 0266 (S) out You Now" and "Secret Love" are two JIMI HENDRIX / - of the better cuts. BORN A FOOL- Freddie Hart. Kapp KS CHILDREN'S Flashing .. . 3568 (S) * * ** GOOBER SINGS! -George Lindsey. Capitol LOW -PRICE CLASSICAL A NEW SINGING STAR IN COUNTRY STYLE Capitol ST 2894 (5) WALT DISNEY PRESENTS THE GREAT COM- ST 2965 (S) -Kay Tolliver. Musicor MS 3165 (S) POSERS - Russell C. Potter / Camarata. Goober (otherwise known as George Lindsey) FRATERNITY OF MAN . Disneyland 3968 (M) really sings . and well, tool His album FRITZ KREISLER SOUVENIRS -RCA Victrola ABC ABCS 647 (S) debut is a well balanced program of CLASSICAL * * ** VIC 1372 (M) country- oriented material that will appeal MOZART: CHURCH SONATAS -Pierre Coche- INTERNATIONAL * * ** The Kreisler rich and mellow tone is the ORPHEUS . . . to both pop and country fans of "Andy reau. Philips PHS 900 -185 (S) -Ascending delightful key in this LP of recordings cut BIG BAND LATINO Rodriguez. Griffith Show" star. He's at his best with R. STRAUSS: TILL EULENSPIEGEL'S MERRY -Tito Musi- MGM SE 4569 (S) from 1924 through 1929. And the engineers cor MS 6048 (S) "My Way of Life," "Sweet Thang" and PRANKS Symphonie -Orchester Graunke have accomplished quite a feat in retain- - FESTIVAL IN BRAZIL Various "Good Morning Sunshine," and his smooth (Graunke), Vista STER 4035 (S) - Artists. ing most of the color and warmth and the SOUNDTRACK -Funny Girl warm of "Cotten Fields" is a Philips PHS 600 -273 (S) treatment virtuosity of Kreisler. Included are "Humor- EL ESTILO IMPRESIONANTE DE RANK Columbia BOS 3220 (5) winner, LOW -PRICE esque," "Tambourine Chinois" and "Gypsy MERCADO- Columbia EX 5220 (S) Caprice." RAGAS /STREAMS OF LIGHT /THREE NORTH SRC... INDIAN LAKE - Lawrence Welk presents CLASSICAL * *** Frank Scott. Ranwood R 8035 (5) INDIAN RAGAS-Various Artists. Lime- Capitol ST 2991 (S) BEETHOVEN: PIANO CONCERTO No. 5 light LS 86056 (S) Fine, mellow easy listening versions of such (" Emperor ")- Gieseking /Philharmonia Or. FROM ISRAEL: THE NEW BEAT -Elisa Gab - popular tunes as "Autumn of My Life," DIANA ROSS & SUPREMES- ( Galliera). Seraphim S 60069 (S) bai. Monitor MPS 608 (S) "Live" at D. W. Washburn," and "Hurdy Gurdy Man." CHILDREN'S on this album are SCHOENBERG: TRANSFIGURED NIGHT / THE NEW YORK LATIN SCENE, YOU GOTTA London's Talk of the Town . . . Superb piano stylings LOEFFLER: A PAGAN POEM -Leopold TURN ME ON -Sonny Brazo. Columbia Motown MS 676 (S) brilliant and satisfying. Excellent program- Stokowski Symphony. Seraphim S 60080 EX 1921 (S) ming material here for good music stations. WALT DISNEY PRESENTS THE GREAT OP- SANTUR. TUNBUK AND TAR -Limelight LS BOBBY TAYLOR & VANCOUVERS . . . ERAS & THEIR STORIES Vol. 2- Disneyland VERDI: OTHELLO (Scenes)- Martinelli /Jepson 86057 (S) WAIKIKI BRASS VISIT TIJUANA -Dot DLP /Tibbett /Metropolitan Opera Orch. (Pelle- INDIAN MUSIC -Uday Shenker Company. Gordy GS 930 (S) 25887 (S) 3970 (M) Here's a two- volume set for those adults tier). RCA Victrola VIC 1365 (M) RCA Victrola VIC 1361 (M) Bouncy brass work abounds in this blend Polynesian and pop rhythms. In and younger persons who want to get ac- PINK FLOYD- Saucerful of Secrets . . . of Latin, no Jack de Mello quainted or re- acquainted with the great Tower ST 5131 (S) serious chart contention, and his buglers relax into music making such as "Don Giovanni," "La Tray - with a South Seas ease, diving and dipping iate," "Aida" "Carmen" and "La Boheme." BLUE CHEER BEST -Outsideinside . . . effortlessly through "South of the Border," There's enough here to quench your thirst SELLING Philips PHS 600 -278 (S) "Strangers in the Night" and "Spanish and to make new friends for the opera. Eyes" as well as a resonant spell of Illustrated book tells the stories quickly tropical trumpeting that, with a little more and effectively. JIMMY SMITH -Livin' It Up .. . rock -ability, could become chart material. Verve V6 -8750 (S) WALT DISNEY PRESENTS THE STORY OF THE SOUND IS ALL AROUND US -John THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON- Disneyland VIKKI CARR -Don't Break My Pretty Cacavas Singers. Murbo SLP 6008 (S) ST 3977 (M) LPI versions of familiar fa- Teamed up with an illustrated color booklet Balloon . . . Lovely choral JlazzThIs Last Weeks an vorites like "Answer Me My Love,' "I'll Get in the LP jacket, this Disney version of Week Week TITLE, Artist, Label & Number Chart Liberty LST 7565 (S) Along Somehow," and "Willow Weep for the classic tale should prove highly suc- Me." The tone is pleasant and the pace cessful; it's slanted at the kiddie market 2 DOWN HERE ON THE GROUND 20 - Current Set of relaxing. Good programming material for and jammed full of excitement. Wes Montgomery, A&M (No Mono); SP 3006 (S) Standards . easy listening stations. 3 THE ELECTRIFYING EDDIE HARRIS 29 Dot DLP 25882 (S) Atlantic 1495 (M); SD 1495 (S) -Take Me Back to COUNTRY POLKA 3 1 PROMISE OF THE FUTURE 13 Laine . . Hugh Masekela, Uni (No Mono); 73028 (S) Country . ABC ABCS 657 (S) TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING -Bob Wills. 4 4 A DAY IN THE LIFE 51 Kapp KS 3569 (S) POLKA MY WAY -Frankie Yankovic. Co- Wes Montgomery, LP 2001 A&M (M); SP 3001 (S) MERRILEE RUSH -Angel of the Bob Wills is an institution. To many people lumbia CS 9685 (S) Here is the polka just as the buyer will Morning . . . 5 6 FELICIANO! 6 like it: happy, alive, foot- stomping, per- Jose Feliciano, RCA Victor LPM 3957 (M); LSP 3957 (S) Bell 6020 (S) formed by the polka accordionist king him- self, Frankie Yankovic. He'll barrel the 6 7 LOOK AROUND 27 REGIONAL BREAKOUTS PETER & GORDON -Hot, Cold & * listener over with his opener, "Polka Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, A&M LP SP 137 (M); 4137 (S) Custard ... Town (Cleveland)," or with "Red Lips OPEN MY EYES . . . Waltz," or with any of the other 10 tunes. 7 8 MAIDEN VOYAGE 9 Capitol ST 2882 (S) Ramsey Lewis, Cadet (No Mono); LPS 811 (S) Nazz, SGC 001 (Screen Gems -Columbia, 8 5 BEST OF WES MONTGOMERY 42 SOUNDTRACK -You Are What You BMI) (Detroit) Verve V 8714 (M); V6 -8714 (S) Eat... ALBUM REVIEW RANKING PEACE OF MIND . . . 9 10 BEST OF WES MONTGOMERY, VOL. 2 4 Columbia OS 3240 (S) Nancy Wilson, Capitol 2283 (Almo, STAR PERFORMER SPOTLIGHT Verve (No Mono); V6 -8755 (S) Cream of the week's new ASCAP) (Philadelphia) 10 13 HICKORY HOLLER REVISITED 3 BARBARA ACKLIN -Love Makes a releases in their respective categories. Albums which O. C. Smith, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9680 (S) Woman . FIRE . . . are expected to reach the Brunswick BL 754137 11 11 ARETHA NOW 9 (S) 5X5, Paula 302 (Sea -Lark, BMI) upper half of the Top LP's Aretha Franklin, Atlantic (No Mono); SD 8186 (S) chart, any position on Bill- 1910 FRUITGUM (Washington) board's special survey 12 15 BEST COMPANY - charts, OF LOU RAWLS 5 or have long term sales. 1, 2, 3 Red Light .. . Capitol (No Mono); ST 2948 (S) SUNSHINE AMONG US . . . Buddah BDS 5022 (S) CHART SPOTLIGHTS 13 14 Tower 439 LOOK OF LOVE 4 Eternity's Children, Albums which are expected Stanley Turrentine, Blue Note (No Mono); BST 84286 (S) (Crocked Fox, ASCAP) (New Orleans) to have sufficient sales to TONY BENNETT- Yesterday I Heard the reach 14 19 MILES IN THE SKY 2 the Top LP's chart or Rain ... have long term sales. Miles Davis, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9628 SMELL OF INCENSE . . (S) Columbia CS 9678 (S) F.O.B., Hip 8002 (Rhombus/ 15 16 LIVIN' IT UP Southwest 4-STARS 3 Moderate Jimmy Smith, Verve Halfpint, BMI) (Dallas -Fort Worth) sales potential (No Mono); V6 -8750 (S) albums which may not reach 16 12 SOUL BAG 10 Billboard's LP chart but MOM (Can I Talk to You ?) . Mongo Santamaria, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9653 (S) * * * * which Should have enough Singles Jan Rhodes, Blue 1001 (Arcola, BMI) sales activity to warrant 17 9 PLUG ME IN 11 (New Orleans) their being stocked by most Eddie Harris, Atlantic (No Mono); SD 1506 (S) dealers, rack jobbers and 18 one -stops handling that 18 THE BEST OF CANNONBALL ADDERLEY 2 * NATIONAL BREAKOUTS category. Capitol (No Mono); SKAO 2939 (5) More Album SPECIAL MERIT 19 17 UP POPS RAMSEY LEWIS 27 OVER YOU . New releases of outstanding Cadet LP 799 (M); LPS 799 (S) merit which Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, Colum- deserve ex- 20 20 MIDNIGHT CREEPER 2 Reviews on posure and which could have bia 44644 commercial success Lou Donaldson, Blue Note (No Mono); BST 84280 (S) within their respective categories Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 9/21/68 ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER . Pages 32, 44 & 73 of music. Jimi Hendrix Experience, Reprise 0767

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COUNTRY COMPOSER LYRICIST Rio Song Fest Opener TITLE CONDUCTOR SINGER Andorra: Romuald Serge Lebrail "Le Bruit des Vagues" ° ° ° Near; 35 Nations Enter Romuald Argentina: Litto Nebbia Litto Nebbia Schifrin; the United RIO DE JANEIRO -Rio is tore Cheantea, Andre Popp, comes Lalo "Seremos Amigos" Mario Tavares for its Philip Adler, BBC Director States, Elmer Bernstein; France, Los Gatos making final preparations A. C. International Popu- Bryan Willey, journalist Derek Paul Mauriat; Germany, Austria: Peter Horton Carl J. Schauble third annual Cidalia "Ja" ° ° o event, co- Johnson, writer Rex Reed, Don Weiland; Portugal, lar Song Festival. The England, ; sponsored by the Guanabara Black, Warren Beatty, Dinah Meireles; Peter Horton Shore, Lucho Gateca and Irving Switzerland, Geo. Vaomard; : Jean Vallee Jean Vallee state (Rio) Tourism Secretariat Mexico, Jose in Berlin. Chile, Jaime Atria; "Vivre plus Haut" ° ° ° and TV Globo, will be held Italy, Sergio the annex to Construction of sets is well Sabre Marroquim; Jean Vallee Maracanazinho - from Brazil, Sergio famed Maracana soccer sta- under way. A new feature of Endrigo and Canada: Paul Anka Paul Anka the Mendes. Other countries in- dium on Oct. 3 -6. the 1968 Festival will be a huge "This Crazy World" that will cluded on the jury, but who have Paul Anka director Augusto Mar - electronic scoreboard Festival tally votes cast not yet named members, are zagao has announced entries automatically Chile: Carlos Gonzalez Carlos Gonzalez jury. Spain, Peru, Russia and Czecho- Carlos Gonzalez from 35 foreign countries. by the 15- member "Te Quiero Tanto" The composition of the jury slovakia. Gloria Simonette Preliminary activities center on the international flavor Complete list in adjoining col- a national reflects Czechoslovakia: Karen Svoboda Jiri Staid! the Brazilian festival, of the festival. From Argentina umns. "Lady Carnaval" Karen Svoboda version of the larger one, sched- Karel Gott -29. A panel uled for Sept. 28 Pertti Reponen of Brazilian judges has spent Finland: Jaakko Salo "I'll Find a Place for Jaakko Salo two months screening 2,800 Me Someday" songs to select the final 20 that Danny will vie for the honor of rep- Hardy Francoise Hardy in the In- France Francoise resenting the country "A Quoi ca Sert" Frank Pourcel ternational Festival to follow. Francoise Hardy as Well -known artists such Germany D. Nefedow Vinicius de Moraes and Dory "Der Traum vom Fliegen" ° ° ° Caymmi have been eliminated Alexandra by in favor of material young, Greece: Gerassimos Lavranos Elpida Periclakis relatively unknown musicians. "If You Want to Come" Gerassimos Lavranos Attending the opening night Marinella of the International Festival will Holland: Andre Popp Cees Nooteboom be Sammy Cahn, Neal Hefti, "L'Oiseau qui c'est Perdu" Andre Popp Jimmy Van Heusen, Maurice Liesbeth List Jarre, , David Hungary: Janos Gyulai -Gaal Istvan Hajnal Rose, John Rowles, Robert "We Are Always in a Hurry" Janos Gyulai -Gaal Wise, Alfred Newman, Salva- Zsuzsa Koncz England: Peter Callander MARCEL RODD, center, founder of Britain's Saga label, meets Deutsche "Antonio" Mitch Murray Odeon, Parlophon Saga director Heinz Juergens, left, and producer Guenther Tilgert, to Anita Harris discuss plans to release Sega on the German budget market. Israel: Yohanan Zarai Mira Meir Switching to EMI "Bo'yi Elai" Yohanan Zarai Benny Amdursky Italiana in Italy Italy: Pino Donaggio Vito Palavicini Deutsche -Sago Sets "Non Domandarti" MILAN - EMI Italiana will Pino Donaggio now distribute the Odeon and Parlophon labels in Italy. This Jamaica: Alex Spyropoulos Patrick Budget durst "Waterfall" ° ° ° Campbell - follows the ending of an agree- 100 -LP Lyons ment between British EMI and Jimmy Cliff Carisch, which have distributed DUSSELDORF - Deutsche - Guido Born, Anita la Rose, Joe Japan: Hachidai Nakamura Mike Maki the labels since 1936. Saga is planning a big assault on Raphael, Beauty Milton, Don "Sayonara" Hachidai Nakamura Borris, Lotti Krekel and the Kyu Sakamoto The move involves Beatles the German budget line mar- ket with the release of 100 al- Blackbirds beat group. Luxembourg: Antoine Antoine product, inclusive of numbers ° 0 0 bum selling at between $1.25 -Saga was founded "La Vie est Moche" released until now by Carisch, Deutsche Antoine and $2.50. The company will al- by Rodd in 1964, originally and the first Beatles release un- Armando der EMI Italiana is "Hey Jude "! so be releasing seven singles. under the name Fidelity. "My Mexico: Armando Manzanero Manana" ° ° ° Manzanero "Revolution" on the Odeon la- Saga's founder, Marcel Rodd, most difficult job," Rodd told "Puedo morir flew from the U. K. to Germany "was finding the lmela Miller bel. Billboard, Dumont Michel Vaucaire to supervise the campaign right people to represent Saga Monaco: Charles EMI Italiana has purchased "Un Dimanche apres la Charles Dumont Carisch's Odeon and Parlophon which provides for an intensive in Germany. Now, in Heinz promotion effort to boost Saga fin lu monde" record stock. Carisch spokes- Juergens and producer Guen- Martine Baujoud man said that the company artists. ther Tilgert, I have found Bendiksen Heinz Juergens, director Norway: Arne would now devote more time Said them." "I Feel So Strong" ° ° ° to building up Italian repertoire of Deutsche -Saga, "We are seek- and set up a classical line. Ca- ing a strong sales organization Paraguay: Neneco Norton Humberto Rubin help build up our risch classical product would be which will Chart Tunes on "Yo Vi un Amanecer" ° ° ° marketed in early October with unknown artists and we are also Nino a simultaneous release of 200 going to give a chance to new Swedish TV Peru: Lucho Neves, Chabuca Granda, albums from masters of four talent." "Un Barco Ciego" Chabuca Granda C. Calvo international classical catalogs. Saga already has exclusive STOCKHOLM - Swedish Patricia Aspillaga ° ° ° contracts with Gaby Vesper, Television has launched a series Poland: Edward Urbanczyk Anna Jakowska of 20 weekly programs devoted "Old Fairytale" Edward Urbanczyk 01111111111111111111111111lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Nina Urbano Is to songs in the weekly Sven - Karusell's Holler sktoppen charts. Called "Chan - Portugal: Joaquim Luiz Gomes Antonio Jose BRUSSELS TOUR program is seen " Poema da Vida" Joaquim Luiz Gomes Dead at Age of 37 stoppen," the Iglesias as a tremendous boost to Madalena BRUSSELS -French singer - Alguero A. Guijarro STOCKHOLM - German - Swedish product and follows Spain: Augusto composer Michel Polnareff Klaus Holler, for the last "La Feria" Augusto Alguero (Disc'AZ), whose records are dis- born logically in the wake of the five years managing director of Salome Barclay, re- Swedish Radio's weekly program -Monk Owe Johanson - tributed here by died here Aug. Sweden: Owe Johanson cently completed a two -week Karusell Records, devoted to Swedish records. "No One Can Say" Monk 28 a nine -month illness. tour Belgium in which he after first program, shown Con's Combo of who was 37, leaves a The concerts at Holler, 6, new recordings Switzerland: Gerard Gray Gerard Gray played Ostend, widow and three young chil- Sept. featured Fexhe Leif Gus - "Dans cette Rue" ° ° ° Liege, Namur and le haut dren. by the Playboys with Cloche. taysson (Sweden Records); Tre Gerard Gray The funeral was held in Ham- Erdem Buri To coincide with the tour, Hits & En Miss (Mercury); Hoot- Turkey: Erdem Buri burg Sept. 2. the "Les Soleils d'Hiver" ° ° ° Barclay released on EP the new Klaus Holler became manag- enanny Singers (Polar); Streaplers (Columbia); Mari- Toulai Polnareff song, "Jour Apres ing director of Karusell when States: Nelson Riddle Norman Gimble Jour" (Day After Day), with anne Kock (Columbia); Corne- United Deutsche Grammophon bought and "Mary" lyrics by Jean -Loup Dabadie. lis Vreeswijk (Metronome), The 5th Dimension__ the Swedish company in 1963. (Cupol). Barclay will also release Two years ago, Ivan Nord- Agnetha Faltskog Venezuela: Maria Luisa Escobar Maria Luisa shortly a new album containing strom left EMI to become joint The Svensktoppen charts on "Tu Amor" ° ° ° Escobar 12 new Polnareff songs and managing director of the Karu- which the new program is Lita Morillo there will be further promotion sell company with Holler, who based is based on weekly votes Yugoslavia: Bojan Adamic Arsen Dedic for the album when Polnareff planned eventually to return to by listeners and has a strong "Adriana" Bojan Adamic makes guest appearances on Germany for a post with influence on record sales here. Arsen Dedic shows this radio and TV month. Deutsche Grammophon in Ham- "Chanstoppen" is produced by ° ° ° indicates Mario Tavares, the official Festival conductor. Lasse Gurell. nIII11111111111111111111I111IIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlI11111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII burg. 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{11111 New Line and Subscription Offers NORSK &NOR-DISC TO Introduced at Philips Conference COMBINE DISTRIBUTORS

LONDON -In a series of January at sharply reduced additional 10 per cent discount. OSLO -Norsk Phonogram A/S and A/S Nor -Disc will com- direct -to- dealer product presen- prices. In February they will Dealers were told at the con- bine distributions in one operation as from Jan. 1, 1969. Distribu- tations in London, Birmingham revert to full price. The offers ventions that there are now tion for both companies will be handled by Nor -Disc, with Frank and Manchester between Sept. comprise a complete set of nearly a half million cassette Larsen heading the operation. 9 and 13, Philips and its dis- Mozart's piano concertos on 12 players in the U. K. and more Norsk Phonogram is the Philips record company in Norway tributed lines, Liberty, Page LP's, four Mahler symphonies than 400 different cassette re- and Nor -Disc belongs to Deutsche Grammophon. In addition to One and Island, unveiled their on six albums, five Mendels- leases available, including about DGG labels, Nor -Disc also represents Decca, MGM and Barclay. full product. sohn symphonies on four al- 40 classical selections. Phonogram distributes the Philips labels and Pye product. Spearheading the Philips bums and a three -album set of Among the product that was "In Norway, where distribution and wholesaling are handled by sales drive are several new the record companies themselves," Nor -Disc's managing director lines, Albinoni's "Concerti A Cinque." spotlighted was a recording of new system improve our service sampler albums and major deal- These sets are being backed by a "Romeo and Juliet," to be re- Totto Johannessen said, "This will er retailers. discounts to boost musicas- $1.67 sampler album with tracks leased in November, as the first to sette turnover. one time in there was a plan for the five major Biggest innova- from all four collections. of a cycle of Berlioz recordings At Norway never tion is the introduction for the Customer discounts range by conductor Colin Davis, and record companies to pool their distribution operation, but this them are first time on the British market from $28 on the Mozart set to Joan Baez's first recording to materialized. Nor -Disc and Norsk Phonogram between of cut -price subscription offers. $4.58 on the Albinowi set. appear under the Vanguard estimated to have a 45 per cent share of the Norwegian record market. Four boxed sets of classical The company is also launch- logo here. {III I recordings are being offered to ing a new mid -price $3.35 the public between October and label, Fourfront, which will cover four categories of product -spoken word, organ, electronic Buying Hit Pie Launches and percussion and musica di- 'Careless' Writer Reed versa. This last -named category will include those types of re- In NY Talks cordings not covered by the By Pye's Benjamin other three categories. NEW YORK Les - Reed, Three other $1.67 LONDON -Pye chief Louis Referring to the publication British composer Not sampler -"It's Un- albums to promote full -price Benjamin hit out Friday (6) at for the first time, under Brit- usual" for Tom Jones, "There's catalogs have been scheduled record companies which buy ain's new Companies Act, of Pye a Kind of Hush" for Herman's - Line a folk sampler by the Spinners, masters and artists indiscrimi- Records' profits (Billboard, Sept. Budget Hermits -visited New York this a sampler for the Mercury nately. As a result, he claimed, 14), Benjamin said: "We were week for business discussions in- LONDON -Pye is introduc- Super Stereo Sound line and a chart performance was no very close to the million -pound volving his own material and ing a double album budget third promotion album for a longer a guide to profitability. profit bracket last year and I his own U. K. record label, line Stereo 2 retailing for new $3.35 Country & Western Benjamin told delegates at do not think I have to spell - - Chapter One. He flew back to $3.30 and has launched a spe- Winners series its own Pye's sales conference in Lon- out what our financial targets London Thursday (12) with cial incentive scheme with its for a horseshoe logo on the new don: "It is my sincere belief are for this and ensuing years." meeting with Frank Sinatra. U. K. van sales force. Mercury International that, as against the old days He added: "We have come Reed, best known Stereo for his label. when chart ratings indicated through a difficult year and are Next month the company work with Tom Jones and En- to its own direct At the same time Philips an- profitability, today the profit now at the beginning of per- will switch gelbert Humperdinck, revealed distribution in Northern Ireland, nounced a major drive to push factor does not follow the chart haps a more difficult one, but that he is now ° branching out giving Pye 100 per cent control up turnover of musicassettes. A entry. even at this stage it is rather more into film work. A French of all its distributing operations special sampler cassette featur- `This comes about for three stimulating to know that we are musical, "Les Bicyclettes De ing Latin artist Chaquito will reasons: the sales volume of a equaling last year's perform- in the U. K. and Ireland. Belsize," just completed, has six retail for $4.20, a saving hit single in the U. K. is down ance." These new developments were feature songs and background. of $2.40 to the public. Addition- whatever the reason might be- Benjamin said that the ap- announced at the company's themes by Reed. "The title song ally, dealers are national economy, budget, too sales conference and interna- will be the next Humperdinck being offered pointment of international di- special packs of 36 cassettes much airplay, too many records. rector Bridge reflected tional convention here Sept. 9. release, both in the U. K. and Geoffrey for the price of 30 and 24 However well we try to con- an At the meeting Warner Bros. - the States. It will be getting for "that integral part of our the price of 20. And, for two trol things, overheads continue future lies in international 7 Arts international chief Phil some heavy promotion in Octo- the months to Nov' 30, all to rise. And, by far the most sphere, Rose announced the capture by ber when Humperdinck arrives cas- due to the problems sette orders will receive an important, there are elements in which we all know surround the Reprise of former Verve group, to do a set of TV shows, in- the industry who tend to buy . Other cluding Ed Sullivan," he said. U. K. industry today. Whereas in hit artists or tapes regardless the old days our results for any speakers included Gil Friesen Also finished with a Reed of price. of A &M and Warner Bros. -7 is "Girl on a Motorcycle," (Continued on page 47) score Abonyi Forms "I personally have no inclina- Arts music chief Mike Maitland. starring Marianne Faithfull and tion to_see crawling The was attended Alain Delon. Tetragrammaton conference all over the charts and coming by delegates from 20 nations release the soundtrack and Paul Label, Distrib out with a red figure at the including Pye's U. S. representa- Mauriat, Cleo Laine and 10 Songs for Mi- TORONTO A new label, end of the year. Doing bad tive Irving Chezar, Leon Cabot reille Mathieu are doing mate- - Cobra, and a new distribution deals, we allowed it, could from Vogue France, J. J. Fin - rial from the film. if company, GE Record Distrib- for a short while, give us addi- Helsinki Fest sterwald from Deutsche Vogue Reed announced that "Deli- utors, has been formed in To- tional turnover, but I think and Gerry Oord from Negram lah," a million seller for Tom HELSINKI-Ten songs have ronto by George Abonyi, a busi- that, regardless of the fact we in Holland. Jones, had just had its 367th been selected from 48 to com- nessman, and Ed Swiatek, man- all like to have additional Pye's incentive scheme cover version recorded. "Yet pete in the final of the Autumn will ager of one of the Record Villa money coming in, security is give a top prize of two weeks Tom's version didn't get all that Melody contest, organized for stores here. somewhat more important. in New York to the salesman high in the American charts,. Finnish record companies by Or First releases on Cobra are "I firmly believe that a really achieving the greatest improve- which I can't understandj' com- Mainos-TV- Reklam Ab. two singles by a Jamaican rock solid record organization with ment in selling-in albums and mented Reed. In the U. K. Reed The 10 songs be group, the Virtues, "High Tide" a future before it should be will pre- EP's to dealers before Oct. 12. has Donna Magic, its subsidary and "Falling in Love." Also re- able to keep itself in profits sented to the public in a 50- Kevin Music, Les Reed Music The switchover to its own leased is a single by another without total reliance on its minute TV program Sunday (22) (which handles manuscripts (Continued on page 47) West Indian group now in To- chart positions each week. We and viewers will be invited to transcriptions and session ar- ronto, Jo Jo and the Fugitives, aim at the charts, but more and mail in their votes. Result of the rangements), and his own contest be with "Chips, Chicken and Ba- more it is self -evident that good will announced Oct. , Wessex Sound 10. nana Split." GE is distributing catalogs, good distribution and Studios. But I don't have any Cobra here, and looking for new strength of organization are the The jury which selected the Restage Remo one publishing company in labels. keys to success." songs for the final by listening the U. S.," he said. It is all done to unarranged demo records independently - we're not tied without knowing the performing down . . . yet. I think it's be- artists, consisted of Reino Back- Fest in N. Y.3 cause I haven't found the right Czech Singer's LP Heads man (EMI); Johan Vikstedt people. ( Discophon); Osmo Ruuskanen SAN REMO, Italy - The Reed himself has just signed (Finnlevy); Arto Helisma (Sca- San Remo song festival, Italy's a five year contract with Deram, Stern Music's New Issues nida Music); Christian Schwindt most important annual music a label controled by British MUNICH -Stern Music, the first six months of 1968, Stern (Love Records); Martti Piha event, may be restaged in New Decca, to produce albums by record division of the West Ger- Music increased its turnover by (PSO) ; Erkki Palli (Wester - York's Madison Square Garden, his own orchestra. Reed does a man illustrated weekly, "Stern," lund), and - following the in 16 per cent compared with the Rolf Kronqvist (Finn festival proper lot of music directing and ar- is releasing four new albums disc.) San Remo, Jan. 30 -Feb. 1, 1969. same period last So ranging work and arranged the this month to open the 1968- year. far Songs selected, with artists in Festival organizer Ezio Ra- Tom Jones smash, "Green Green 1969 campaign. 2,220,923 Stern albums have brackets; were: daelli, who is principal stock- Grass of Home." Spearheading the releases will been sold -an average of 18,- "Yli Rajojen" (Jorgen Peter- holder of ATA, concessionaires Reed will be the British jury be the first album produced in 500 sales per album. sen); "Kukkia Sinulle" (Seija Si- of San Remo Casino, is nego- member at the International West Germany by Czechoslova- Achterfeld added that sales mola); "Viimeinen Kerta" tiating to present the entire Popular Song Festival in Rio De kian singer Karel Gott (Poly - of the 100th LP in the Stern (Jarkko & Laura); "Tuntui Kaik- package of San Remo artists in Janeiro in September. Two years dor), "The Golden Voice of Music series, "Vergissmeinnicht ki Muuttuneen" (Anki); "Mies - New York in exchange for hav- ago he came in third do the con- ." -eine Stern -Stunde der Musik," Mies" (Martti Innanen); "Ka- ing the Benvenuti- Fullmer mid- test with "Gina" by Wayne The other albums are by Udo which had been the subject of teeni Tartuthan" (Inga Sulin); dleweight . championship fight Fòntana. Juergens (Ariola), Aretha Frank- a campaign in aid of the charity "Lainattu Lanni" (Katri Helena); staged in San Remo. Visiting New York with Reed lin (CBS) and Anna -Lena program of the second West Ger- "Nain On" (Kristian); "Miksi "At present were at the ne- was publisher - associate Bert (Metronome). man TV network, had enabled Leikit Vain" (Arto Vilkkor), gotiating stage," said Radaelli, Corri of Francis Day and Hun- Wilfried Achterfeld, editor of $200,175 to be given to the pro- and "Parasta Mielestani (Jarmo "but I am optimistic about ter. "Stern," said that during the gram. Sarjanen). reaching agreement." 46 SEPTEMBER -21, 1968, BILLBOARD International News Reports

revue will guest on the Joey Bishop show over the ABC-TV network Monday night (16). Pie Launches Feast or Famine in Vancouver: Squired by Capitol Records' local promotion expert Buzz Wil- bum, Billie Jo Spears made the area music shops, TV and radio stations and press stops last week Double Album Int'IRecord, Rada Plants Open to plug her new Capitol release, "Harper Valley P.T.A." Area cov- VANCOUVER-Two record ing contracts, "we prefer to have for Quebec, and will shortly an- ered included Cincy, Dayton, ,ressing plants have opened the industry's assurance of press- nounce its Ontario distributor. Springfield and Xenia, Ohio, and Budget Line of each other. ing orders if we can come up to In the Rada operation, sales Indianapolis. She also made a hop here within days Louis. While here, Billie the city, which is the mark, and we know we and marketing will be handled into St. Previously, Harding in Jo made two appearances on Bob the third largest record market can," says Kidd. by Forget, with charge of plant operation. Both Braun's "50 -50 Club" on WLW -T distribution in Ulster begins in Canada, had no pressing fa- Vancouver is situated to serve and the Avco Broadcasting four - Canadian and West Coast will be active in record produc- Oct. 2. The company will use :ilities. both city TV hookup. On Nov. 23, it has U. S. companies (only 145 miles tion. Harding, who was impre- as guest with its own vans. Previously, First in operation was Rada Miss Spears appears in- to Seattle) and it has been esti- sario for the Breath of Scotland WLW's "Midwestern Hayride. "' been distributed there by the Record Pressings, established by Symphola company. industry veterans Ralph Har- mated that it costs about 5 cents tours of North America, moved Her first Capitol album, "Harper dependent a for re- Guest speakers at the con- ding and Danny Forget in Lake per album to ship from Ontario to Vancouver from Toronto Valley P.T.A.," is slated in- 1. BILL SACHS included Cyril Simons, Park in the sub- to British Columbia. Both com- year ago. His experience lease Oct. ference City Industrial di- head of Leeds Music in the U.K., urb of Burnaby. panies hope that price and fast cludes managing the custom service may convince record vision of Arc Sound Ltd., the who also runs Pye's publishing Rada has also formed its own NEW YORK Simons Dara, a budget companies with pressing facilities pop music publishing field with company - Welbeck. labels: Rada, with record companies label for the company's own in Eastern Canada to have prod- BMI Canada, and sales Musart's Tony Aguilar will ap- criticized Raleigh Records and Quality with the National Mexican which set up publishing off- product, and Arda, a budget uct for western . distributors pear has been Festival and Rodeo at Madison shoots merely to collect royal- line for product from outside pressed in the west. Records. Forget, who Square Garden for eight perform- on hits and B sides without sources. Rada will also distrib- IRC is presently geared to in the construction field in Van- ties few ances beginning Tuesday (17)... any attempt to develop ute in British Columbia, and pressing only. "Our intention is couver for the past years, Anya's Street making headed Barrel Rec- Verve /Forecast's catalogs and promote songs over is setting up a network of in- to do what is best for the mar- previously has changed its name to Street. ket, one step at a time," says ords in Toronto, operated a re- group opened at Wheels on a period of time. dependent distributors across The Bevan criticized Kidd. "We are open to branch- tail record store, and was a Tuesday (10) for three weeks... . Agent Ian Canada for its own product and for losing in- distribution for other ing into any area of the industry salesman with Quality Records. Fred Weintraub's Fredana Man- record companies to handle to larger quar- in recording artists once labels. Rada also plans to open where we can fill a need." IRC executives are new to agement has moved terest ters, at 40 West 55th Street. The chart careers appeared to a Montreal pressing plant with- Rada has acquired Canadian the record industry. President their new quarters will house the Cam- be over. in a year. distribution of Waikiki Records Don Ferguson is a millionaire, Fredana pus Coffee House Circuit, 1 Robin Scott month is of 30 Hawaiian president of Collegiate Adver- Radio chief Also opening this with a catalog TV Ltd., Maximillian Produc- and Record Retailer editor International Record Corp.'s albums, 16 of which make up tising, a Canadian company es- tions, and Fredana's publishing tablished by Ferguson which Fredana Publishing, Graeme Andrews both stressed (IRC) pressing plant in the city's the initial release. Then will subsidiaries: support for Kerrisdale district. "Our whole also distribute Patrice Records, has merged with National Stu- Hawkness, and Serendipity Pub- their organization's . British industry is create a total rec- formed by Dick dent Marketing Corp. in the lishing. . . Robert H. O'Brien, the planned concept to a new label Goldwyn- indicated that in Vancouver," says in Hollywood. Masters U. S. Prior to joining IRC, Kidd president of Metro- chart and Scott ord industry Noel receive the first Kam - vice and -based Ara- was an independent marketing Mayer, will if the industry fails to find a Peter Kidd, -president from the Vancouver Homey Clinic Social Conscience producing this chart general manager of IRC. gon label will be initial releases consultant, following experience formula for Award at the Americana Hotel, the BBC is likely to move nearer "There is a lot of talent here, a on the Arda budget label. Rada in sales and marketing with on Dec. 6. V Records in Western Canada Steel, and con- Sugar Shoppe signed to a top 20 format. This would number of recording studios, has appointed Capitol's the industry here development of a total in- Winnipeg as distributors for ducted market research into the with Greengrass Enterprises, Inc. be a blow to but considers it more difficult dustry has been hamstrung be- Manitoba, Saskatchewan and potential of the pressing plant for personal management. . . . A which Records he now manages. baby girl, Karen Ann, to Jimmy to break new artists if radio ex- cause there were no pressing fa- Alberta, Trans -Canada and on cilities." Krondes of Bourne Music posure is heavily dependent Mrs. Krondes. . Mitch Ryder, top 20 placings. IRC has installed the latest Dynovoice artist, has retained model computerized Neumann Robed Fitzpatrick to represent his mastering equipment, latest From The business and personal interests RCA to Distribute plating equipment, and plans pending the outcome of his suit four presses initially, two U. S.- against Genius, Inc.; Saturday Nimbus in Canada built and two Swedish -made Music Capitals Music, Inc. and others. Jerome I. with provision 10 Meyers will continue as Ryder's TORONTO -The independ- for presses in the suit and will also in all. of the World attorney ent Toronto -based Nimbus label continue as his legal counsel... . will now be distributed in Cana- Rada has one pressing ma- Hugo Montenegro will score Elvis . . . and all fu- chine in operation, with three AMSTERDAM sique, Aug. 20. Phonogram Charro." da by RCA Victor, has released 20 new cassettes, in- Presley's next film "El ture single releases will be in others due later this month or cluding recordings by Blue Cheer, . . . Frank Bruno of the newly early in October, and will have Dutch singer Liesbeth List (Phil- opened Arranging Factory here stereo. ips) and the Louis van Dyke Trio the Swingle Singers, Manfred First of the Nimbus stereo its mastering done in Hollywood. Mann, and Paul was married Sept. 1 to singer (Artone) canceled a four -week tour Lois Shayne. . Philips' Four 45's is "Of a Dropping Pin," by Forget reports that the com- of the because of Mauriat.... Impala Music, Radio pany has contracts covering half Veronica's publishing company, has Seasons play the Empire Room , from Winnipeg. the political situation. . Paul of the Waldorf - Astoria for The group is recording an a million albums within the Acket's booking agency has set made a deal with Double Shot The group Records by which Impala will get Thanksgiving Week. album, "Wheatfield Soul," in next year, for record companies visits to Holland this . fall and 12 Dutch publishing rights of all up- will be featured on the Oct. New York this month. and in custom work. Word Rec- winter by Udo Juergens, Ray "Hollywood Palace." . . . The coming Double Shot releases. Upcoming next month is "The ords of Canada, - Charles, the Bee Gees, the World Cowsills, MGM artists, will have Canadian Double Shot product is produced owned division of the world's of Oz, the Doors, Jefferson Air- their first TV special aired on Mutual Understanding in Won- plane, Mothers of Invention, the and distributed in Holland by NBC on Nov. 23, with Timex as derland," an album produced largest religious record corn- Negram- Delta. . Negram has pany, will have its pressing Small Faces, Simon Dupree and sponsor. The group is featuring by Nimbus for CBS, featuring Spencer Davis. Dutch r &b released "Ups and Downs," by the the title song of "The Impossible by handled by Rada. Eddysons, in 15 countries. big band arrangements three group, Cuby and the Blizzards Years," a Christmas release, dur- top arrangers, Nimbus' Vice - Although contacts have been (Philips), will tour Britain Oct. BAS HAGEMAN ing their national fall concert tour. made within the industry in President Ben McPeek, Jimmy 3 -10. Other Dutch groups lined up . Heart & Soul Record Co. and with vo- both Canada and the U. S., for British tours are the Motions Body & Soul Co., both owned by Dale and Jerry Toth, IRC has not pitched for press- (Philips), Oct. 24 -27, and the Gold- CINCINNATI writer -producer Cathy Lynn, are cals by the Laurie Bower Singers, en Earrings (Polydor), Nov. 7 -17. with Turn - renamed the Mutual Under- Spangle merging International The Golden Earrings have also Jim Duff, formerly of Table Ltd. and Neva- Breed Music. standing. "Wonderland" and Records, is now with Andrus Pro- Benjamin Hits been signed for a special West . . Page Morton is cutting new "Pretty People," McPeek com- . ductions in Houston, Tex., where German TV show in October... . radio and TV commercials for positions, will be lifted from the Careless Buying Red Bullet sent its special TV he is serving as engineer and work- Chock Full O Nuts. ing on the production of c&w rec- LP for a single. film of Aretha Franklin to the United Artists' Bobby Golds- is second Ca- Continued from 46 ords. . Charles R. (Chuck) Nimbus the page Milan TV Festival.... Inelco re- boro is taping an ABC-TV spe- stereo leased a special sampler LP of the Strother, formerly associated with cial with for fall nadian label to swing to Avco Broadcasting and Scripps- 45's. Stone Records is releasing one year were primarily based works of Chopin by Artur Rubin- viewing. . Columbia's Big stein (RCA) complete with a book- Howard Broadcasting stations here, Brother & the Holding Company all but some country product in on U. K. trade, we must today has been named director of adver- not be totally reliant on this." let and discographical notes. . and Atco's Iron Butterfly ap- stereo. More than 80 singers from 25 tising add publicity for the Cin- peared at Hollywood Bowl Sept. Benjamin said Pye had re- cinnati Symphony Orchestra. At countries took part in the Inter- 6. . . . Marlene Ver Planck is mained "virtually untouched" time, Jane E. Schneider 8, and the White national Vocal Contest, Sept. 1 -7, the same taping a "Steve Allen Show" on Music Hall, Nov. during the vast turnover of at Den Bosch. has been promoted from public Wednesday (18) and Thursday House Inn in Baton Rouge, La., relations assistant to the position . Nancy Ames makes manpower in the U. K. industry Iramac has released the "Nuns' (19). . . . The house where Rex Nov. 12.. during the last two years. He Chorus" from Casanova and "Vilja of director of publications. Both Allen was born has been pur- her film acting debut in Universal claimed that his company's Song" on an EP by Christine Strother and Miss Schneider will chased by the Willcox, Ariz., International's "Light Show," which Deutekom.... On its Soul Sound work under the direction of Betty Chamber of Commerce and will stars Tony Franciosa. . . . The team spirit gave it the ability Stilz, public relations and sales Four Fuller Brothers recently to maneuver and adapt while label, Iramac has released "Driftin' be moved to a spected site in a Thru the Blues" by John Lee promotion director. new recreation area. The dedica- played the Concord Hotel in Kia- rivals were still "convening a . Hooker, who will visit Holland Beverly Hills Country Club, tion is slated for Oct. 5 during mesha Lake, N. Y. Florence meeting to discuss the record Henderson tapes a "Dean Martin next month. . . . CBS -Holland Southgate, Ky., just across the the annual "Rex Allen Days" cele- which is already in our presses tied in with the opening of the Ohio River from here, long one of bration.... Peter Ustinov is doing Show" on Wednesday (18) through and on our vans." UA film "The Graduate" by re- the nation's top showplaces, re- the libretto for Alexander Faris' Monday (23) for airing on Nov. Pye has recently set a deal opens Oct. 11 as Beverly Hills score to an operetta version of 7. . . . Capitol's Peggy Lee ap- leasing the original soundtrack re- Norman at Pitts- with EMI's World Record Club cording and special Simon & Gar- Dinner Playhouse. Dark the last Ustinov's "Romanoff and Juliet," pears with Zack have its world pre- burgh's Twin Coaches, Oct. 12 -19. and Benjamin reported that the funkel material. . . . Isaac Stern seven years, the new Beverly will which will in London next year. MIKE GROSS company was developing on a visits Holland from Sept. 27 -Oct. offer nightly package deals on miere 7 for concerts in Amsterdam and food and Broadway comedies. Epic's Jeff Beck Group, who number of other fronts, includ- will be Wednes- play the Fillmore East on Oct. ing cartridges Rotterdam. . CBS is mounting First offering "Any and cassettes, special promotion for its Leonard day." In charge of operation will 18 -19, appear at Philadelphia's racking, and custom pressings Bernstein catalog to tie in with be Milos Hamza, who has enjoyed Electric Factory next Oct. 25- his three -week U. S. as well as having a direct dates on their U. S. During stake the conductor's visit with the New success with a similar policy in 26. Other trip, Tribune Records' Noel Pear - in the retailing of records in Ike and , tour include Detroit's Grand Ball- York Philharmonic Orchestra for Atlanta.... page 48) the U. K. the Grand Gala du Disque Clas- Pompeii Records artists, and their room, Nov. 1, 2 and 3; Houston's (Continued on 47 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD International News Reports

be five more Ella Fitzgerald re- leases on the major jazz line... From The Ardmore & Beechwood has con- Riverside's Rights to cluded a deal with Seymour Stein Music Capitals to handle his Dorflo Music cata- log in Britain. Stein is the head of Polydor Except in U. S the Phoenix and Sire labels. Dor- of the World log for West Austr flo copyrights have previously HAMBURG -Polydor prod- Germany, Mike von Winter- new independ- uct manager and Switzerland and will relea Continued from page 47 Theatre. Another been handled here by United Art- feldt has acquired for Polydor ent, MCA, follows the same day ists Music. the first 10 Chess albums was the guest of composer at rights to the American Riverside son with its first sales convention, Tom Jones' music publishing Germany in October. Elmer Bernstein who will produce the Cumberland Hotel, where catalog for all countries outside an album featuring Irish folk sing- speakers will include label chief company, Valley, has acquired the U. S. In New York von Winte er Danny Doyle for release by Brian Brolly and marketing di- British catalog rights to material The deal was concluded dur- feldt met representatives of tl United Artists. . rector Peter Roddis. RCA and from the Ben Barton Music Cor- ing Winterfeldt's three -week visit International Music Consultatic played Dublin's Adelphi Theater MCA are both distributed here poration of America. This has pre- to America. Winterfeldt told of Deutsche Grammopho Sept. 5. . The Dixies' "Little by British Decca and their con- viously been handled here by Billboard that producer Bob Phillips, and has repertory di Arrows" is being released in Hol- ferences start three days of prod- Robert Mellin Music. It includes Thiele was planning to release tussions with MGM internation land and Germany. The group uct presentations and unveilings several Frank Sinatra early stand- manager Eric Steinmetz ai has a leading role in Irish Tele- to the Decca sales force which 30 albums a year, and added, ards including "All the Way" and is really Verve producer Edmund E vision's Christmas pantomime, will take in other distributed Polydor "The Riverside label Riding Hood," which will "Love and Marriage. "... coming to life again." wards. He also talked to Arth "Red labels, including Delyse, Major is releasing a single by Helmut also star Emmet Spiceland. . Minor and Chapter One. Decca While in the States Winter - Ripp and of Kan Zacharias titled "Mexico Melody" Buddah who, sa The Strangers' "I'm on an Island," itself has chosen its West Hamp- which BBC television will use as feldt attended the A &M orien- Sutra and cut here for Tom Costello's inde- stead recording studios in north tation meeting in Hollywood and von Winterfeldt, "have a catali will the theme tune for all programs pendent label, Target, soon London as the location to unveil on the Mexico Olympics. Four reported that the label planned which is ideal for the Germ be on sale in Norway. RCA its fall product. Meanwhile, years ago Polydor had a strong a big European push for the market." Radio One disk jockey David has announced that following Dun- seller by Zacharis, "Tokyo Mel- 1968 -1969 season. Sergio Men - Concluded von Winterfels Symonds was here on vacation... . hill's switch of licensee to EMI as Angela Byrne suc- ody," due to similar exposure des and Brasil '66 will fly to Ger- "The thing which impressed r Folk singer has here, RCA will continue to press the BBC signature tune for cover- Anthea as EMI's many for TV dates in October, most in the U. S. during n ceeded Joseph its Dunhill back catalog for six age of the 1964 Olympic Games. Irish press officer.... Noel Pear- months and will continue to sell and in the spring of 1969 Herb trip was the overwhelming pi . Polydor hosted a reception for son is negotiating to bring Diana off its stocks of the label for 18 Alpert will give concerts in Ham- dominance of rack jobbin to Dublin, Elektra's Doors at the Institute of Ross and the Supremes months until March 1970. Contemporary Arts building in burg and Berlin. This is something which sure Cork and Belfast later this year. Winterfeldt, must develop in Europe with writer Tommy MGM Oct. 1 is launching a London. The reception was filmed Polydor, reported Leading jingle which is making next so." wrote and More Each new series -VSP -of double al- by Granada TV, has also acquired the Chess cata- the year or Ellis "More the price of a featuring the Day," which is featured on Pa- bums retailing for documentary one LP- $4.38. The albums, which Doors and Jefferson Airplane. The tricia Cahills' new Rex single... . filmed both groups in Among the guests at the Westport will be issued in mono only- unit later most of them were recorded be- performance at London's Round- Kahauanu Lake Trio, Hula Hal Festival were the Johnstons, Shay HELSINKI Dancers, Genoa Keav Men, Maxie, fore the introduction of stereo - house. . . . Polydor will give Maiki Healy, Sweeney's Vickie Rodrigues Family, B and Royal come from the Verve and Clef Screen Gems -Columbia's new label Decca artist Vera Lynn, who Ii Dick and Twink the al- its own logo here from Oc- Kaiwa, Eddie Kamae, Gabby P Blues. The pop section was com- catalogs. The first six double SGC had two major hits in Finland 15 bum packages will include "Ella tober. Meanwhile the first single with "Aufwiedersehen" hinui, Danny Kaleikini, Pen pared by Larry Gogan. . The years ago Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter from the label is being put out and "Yours," is scoring here again Silva, Zulu, Sonny Chillingwoi Deep Set, whose single is "That's Atlantic by new and Herb Ohta. the Way Life Goes," have been Songbook," and will also feature on -"Floatin'," with "It Hurts to Say Goodbye." Louis Armstrong, Buddy Rich, British group, Vamp. . . . Paul A Finnish version of the song has The Ilikai Hotel's cabaret she booked for a week of Manchester Ryan, fall schedule was launched Sej KEN STEWART and Duke Elling- Ryan, brother of Barry been cut by Jarkko Lehti (Phil- club dates. duet, has 13 when Phyllis Diller and h ton with Johnny Hodges. Three with whom he used to ips). . Blue Master artist Inga further packages will be released joined the Carlin publishing com- Sulin has taken two tunes from husband, Warde Donovan, a LONDON Nov. 1. And among artists who pany as a plugger. His brother her first album for her next peared in the Pacific Ballroo: will be appearing in the series is recording one of his composi- single -"Eternally" and "Our Day Other artists due: Billy Eckstii Be My Friend," for Thursday (26); Louis Armstroi RCA is holding its first sales are Stan Getz, Gene Krupa, Big tions, "World Will Come. ". . . Top Voice art- convention as an independent Bill Broonzy, Cal Tjader and a future MGM solo release. ist Katri Helena has recorded Oct. 3; , Oct. 2 Wednesday (18) at the Rank Wes Montgomery. There will also GRAEME ANDREWS Finnish versions of "A Place in , Nov. 10; and K Starr, Nov. Makaha Rs the Sun" and "Tell Him. ". . . 24.... The new Mainosmusiikki com- ords singer Karol Kai leas pany has released its second single. Clark's, Waikiki, for six mont "Samantekevaa" (It's All the Same) at the Imperial Gardens in C ifomia. . Jimmy and An by Jarmo Jylha (Shokki). . . . Scandia artist Lasse Mortensson Murphy, A &M artists, return has recorded the first Finnish Gauguin Monday (16). . . Fi lowing a Japanese tour, Herb OE cover of "Up, Up and Away. ". . ANNOUNCING TWO EXCITING Kuoppamaki's follow -up to will take over Arthur Lymai Jukka Hoe his "Love Is Blue" success is "Il post at the Ilikai's Canoe n'y a pas d'amour heureux" for starting Monday (16). Lyman gc Scandia. KARI HELOPALTIO to U. S. . . . Warner Bros. Arts artists Beverlee & the Sues NEW PRODUCTS AT THE ers are doing sellout business HONOLULU the Ilikai's Hong Kong Jur finishing Thursday (26). Ted Herb Alpert, A &M ace, vaca- Tanaka's Tokyo Playmates will i (27), followed by 1968 PHOTOKINA, tioning here with his wife. . open Friday t Joey Bishop also due here this Brothers Kim, Oct. 15. 1 week for a vacation. . . Warren Steppenwolf appears Sept. COLOGNE, GERMANY, WESTERMANN STAND NO. G -11 /HALL 8 Marley, lead singer of Polynesia 14 at the Civic Auditorium. . '68, has returned from U. S.. Jimi Hendrix Experience have o where he recorded for Atlantic show Oct. 5 at the Honolulu 1 Records.... Steve Logan has cut ternational Center Arean. . . four tunes for Warner Bros. -7 Meanwhile, bids are still in Arts, and an album under the di- bring Aretha Franklin to Hawa ALSO rection of Sonny Burke. Dionne Warwick's December da UNIQUE Don McDiarmid Jr. lined up his is firm. Promerters are now a Hula Records stars in a "first" - gling for the local debut of Toi AND a USO -type tour, "Operation Bennett and Jose Feliciano, t Hula," conducted Sunday (8) at tween now and the winter holid EXCLUSIVE: Pohakuloa on the Big Island. season. . . And Dick Clark Pr About 1,000 members of Army ductions plan a Nov. 30 conci Reserve and National Guard units at the HIC, but no act has be attended the show, which featured .booked yet. WAYNE HARAE

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3 2 YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY 9 MY NAME IS JACK 11 10 LA BAMBOLA- *Patty Pravo 14 9 MONY, MONY -Tommy 9 - (Arc) -Mimo - (Buddah)- ARGENTINA James & Shondells (Major (Fontana) - Inc. Dacapo 12 IL BALLO DI SIMONE - Mareco, Minor) -Planetary -Nom (Bo - 4 4 I WILL WAIT FOR YOU (Courtesy Escalera a la Fama) Cordell) 10 FIRE -Crazy World of *Giuliano e i Notturni - Gentry & Ritchie - (Ri Fi) -Esedra Trini Lopez (Reprise) - 15 8 FIRE-'Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Track) Mareco, Inc. *Denotes local origin Essex 13 13 UN COLPO AL CUORE - Arthur Brown (Track) - Mina (PDU)- Duomo/ 5 - LONELY EYES -Candymen This Last Essex (Lambert) Ariston (ABC) -Mareco, Inc. Week Week 16 11 SUNSHINE GIRL Herman's Claude 6 8 I WILL ALWAYS THINK Hermits (Columbia)- 14 14 SE TORNI TU- 1 1 POR QUE YO TE AMO - ABOUT YOU -New - Monique (Mickie Most) FINLAND Francois (Fleche) -SIF Sandro (CBS) -Ansa 15 HO VISTO UN RE-Enzo Colony Six (Mercury) - 17 20 ARROWS -Leapy - 2 2 THE MUSIC PLAYED LITTLE (Courtesy of Stump Magazine) Jannacci (Arc) -Redi Home Industries (Alguien Canto) -Matt Lee (MCA) -Shaftesbury Development Corp. Monro (Odeon); *Willy Music (Gordon Mills) *Denotes local origin 7 10 ANGELICA -Wayne Newton 18 16 I PRETEND -*Des O'Connor (MGM)-Mareco, Inc. Martins (EMI) This Last 3 3 0 SOLE MIO /GIOVANNE, P(Columbia)-Maurice JAPAN 8 9 LOVE ME-Danny Williams GIOVANNE-Topo Gigio atricia (Norman Newell) Week Week (Deram) -Super Record Co. 19 18 HARD TO HANDLE-Otis EN LOYDA PASS (Polydor) 1 - MILLOINKAAN (Courtesy Original Confidence Co., Ltd.) 9 - AND YOU LET HER 4 4 DELILAH-Jimmy Fontana Redding (Atlantic) -Carlin SAMANLAISTA (A Man BY- Rogues (London)- (RCA); Tom Jones (Odeon); (Cropper Redding) Without Love)-*Freddy *Denotes local origin Super Record Co. Paul Mauriat (Philips); 20 13 DANCE TO THE MUSIC- (Philips) 10 THE BALLAD OF THE This Last - Mafasoli (Fermata) - 2 1 VANHA HOLVIKIRKKO Week Week GREEN BERETS -Sgt. Fermata (Direction) -Carlin (Sly (MAELAROKYRKA)-- Barry Sadler (RCA Victor) Stone) I 1 C- C- *Tigers (Polydor)-- 5 6 FELICIDAD FELICIDAD- Eero (RCA Victor) -Edition C- -Filipinas Record Corp. 21 12 KEEP ON -Bruce Channel Watanabe Los Iracundos (RCA) - Cado SILENCE (Bell)- Shapiro-Bernstein & 3 2 DELILAH- *Tapani Kansa 2 5 THE SOUNDS OF Relay -Simon and Garfunkel 6 5 YOUNG GIRL/WOMAN Co. (Dale Hawkins) (Scandia) -Scandia Music WOMAN-Gary Puckett 22 26 ICE IN THE SUN -Status 4 8 A MAN WITHOUT LOVE - (CBS) -Shinko SINGAPORE Unipn Gap (CBS) Quo (Pye)- Valley Music Engelbert Humperdinck 3 3 HOSHIKAGE NO WALTZ - and the *Sen Masao (Minoruphone) (Courtesy Radio Singapore) 7 7 ANY OLD TIME YOU'RE (John Schroeder) (Decca) -Valley AND 4 4 OTARU NO HITO YO- LONELY AND SAD - 23 17 I CLOSE MY EYES 5 3 TUULIVIIRI (MULINO A This Last Foundations (Music Hall) COUNT TO TEN -Dusty VENTO)- *Danny (Scandia) *Tokyo Romantica Week Week DE AMOR Springfield (Philips)- Carlin Scandia Music (Teichiku) 8 8 POEMA - 1 1 MONY, MONY -Tommy 5 2 CHIISANA SNACK-*Purple *Horacio Molina (CBS); (John Franz) 6 - JERUSALEM -*Carols James and Shondells Richard Anthony (Odeon); 24 19 DAYS -Kinks (Pye)- Darray- ( Scandia) -Scandia Music Shadows (Philips) -Shinko Carlin- -(Ray Davies) (KITES)-*Islanders 6 6 EMERALD NO DENSETSU (Roulette) *Elio Roca (Polydor)- 7 - LEIJAT 2 3 DON'T GIVE UP- Petula 25 31 CLASSICAL GAS -Mason (Scandia) -Scandia Music -*Tempters (Philips) - Edami Tanabe Clark (Pye) 9 TROTAMUNDO- Nicola Di Williams (Warner Bros.)- 8 HAN (HONEY)- *Markku - - 7 7 SHIANBASHI BLUES 3 7 HELP YOURSELF-Tom Bari (RCA) -Relay Rondor (Mike Post) Suominen (Polydor)- Sweden - Jones (Decca) PENAS-Herve 26 28 AMERICA -Nice (Immediate) Music *Takahashi Masaru and 10 - YO TENGO Coro Latino (Columbia) 4 2 YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY Vilard Mercury) -Chappells /Immediate 9 KAIKEN SULLE KERROIN - Express (Pye) - (Emerlist /Davjack) - (DU AR MIN KAR)- Columbia -Ohio 8 9 SHINJUKU SODACHI- 5 6 I PRETEND -Des O'Connor 27 27 VOICES IN THE SKY - Jarkko & Laura (Philips) (Columbia) *Moody Blues (Deram)-- 10 7 YOUNG GIRL -Union Gap *Tsuyama Toko /Ohki Hideo Clarke) (Minoruphone) 6 5 SON OF HICKORY AUSTRALIA Tyler Music (Tony (CBS) -Swedish Music HOLLER'S TRAMP -O. C. 28 34 I LIVE FOR THE SUN - 9 12 SIMON SAYS-1910 (Courtesy Modern ) *Vanity Fare (Page One)- Fruitgum Co. (Buddah) Smith (CBS) Immediate (Roger Easterby/ 10 10 HANA TO CHO- *Mori 7 9 LAST NIGHT IN SOHO- This Des Champ) Shin-ichi (Victor)-Ai Pro. Dave Dee and Co. (Fontana) Week FRANCE 8 4 (Columbia) 29 DREAM 11 11 KIRI NI MUSEBU YORU- BOY-Lulu 29 YESTERDAY'S - 9 DAYS (Pye) 1 MacARTHUR PARK- Richard Four Tops (Tamla-Motown) Kuroki Ken (Toshiba) - -Kinks *Denotes local origin 8 YOU'LL Harris (RCA) -Copy Cont. -Stein and Vanstock (Ivy 12 8 HOSHI O MINAIDE -*Ito 10 SOME THINGS 2 DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF Yukari (King)- Watanabe NEVER GET USED TO- Hunter) This Last Supremes (Motown) ME-Mama Cass (RCA) -Allans 30 23 MRS. ROBINSON -Simon Week Week 13 14 GIRL FRIEND -Ox (Victor) 3 DO IT AGAIN -Beach Boys 13 KUSHIRO 'NO YORU- and Garfunkel (CBS) I 1 RAINS AND TEARS 14 (Capitol) -Albert Patern (Simon and - - *Mikawa Ken -ichi (Crown) GREEN Aphrodite's Child (Mercury) 4 ORANGE AND THE - Garfunkel/Helle) (Continental) -Crown SPAIN Irish Rovers (Festival) -Essex 32 MARIANNE 15 18 THE DOCK OF THE BAY Wilde 31 C'MON - 2 2 VALSE D'ETE- *Adamo - 5 ABERGAVENNY -Marty *Grapefruit (RCA)- (Voix de son Maitre)--Pathe Otis Redding (Atlantic)- (Courtesy of El Gran Musical) (Philips) -Leeds Ardmore and Beechwood Marconi Taivo 6 IMPOSSIBLE DREAM -Jim (Derek Lawrence) BACK 16 TABIJI NO HITO YO- *Denotes local origin (CBS) -Southern Music 3 6 BABY COMME - - Nabors 32 46 HELLO, I LOVE YOU- Equals (Fontana) - Monica *Tokyo Romantica This Last 7 YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON- ( Doors (Elektra) -Campbell 4 3 PATITE FILLE DE Teichiku) Week Week Vanilla Fudge (Atlantic)-Belinda Connolly (Paul A. FRANCAIS MOYEN 17 20 JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - Preston - 1 1 DELILAH -Tom Jones 8 DEAR HEART -Mike Rothschild) *Sheila (Carrere) -Carrere Rolling Stones (T.ondon) (Spin)- Chappells SO WA NAITEIRU- (Columbia Espanola) 33 33 I NEED YOUR LOVE 5 8 MONIA- *Peter Holm 18 - TAIYO - 9 - BAD -Fleetwood Mac (Blue *Ishida Ayumi (Columbia) - Canciones Francis Day (Riviera) -Vogue 2 4 BRING A LITTLE LOVIN'- Merrilee Rush (State Side) -April Horizon) -Peter Maurice International Nichion 10 CLASSICAL GAS -Mason Williams SONO Akira *Los Bravos (Columbia (Mike Vernon) 6 5 A MAN WITHOUT LOVE 19 17 AI NO -*Fuse (W.B.)-Rondor HASN'T COME - (K in Watanabe Espanola)-Canciones 34 24 YOUR TIME Engelbert Humperdinck e)- Francis Day YET BABY- (Decca) -Sugar 20 16 TENSHI NO YUWAKU- *Mayuzumi Jun (Capitol) 3 5 GET ON YOUR KNEES - (RCA)-Carlin 7 POUR ETRE SINCERE - - *Los Canarios (Barclay- 35 25 LAST NIGHT IN SOHO - - *Herbert Leonard (Mercury) Ishihara BELGIUM *Dave Dee group (Fontana) Sonoplay)- Sympathy -Tulsa 4 2 HONEY -Bobby Goldsboro -Lynn (Steve Rowland) 8 4 PREND TOUJOURS LE (Walloon chart by courtesy of DREAM ON (Hispavox)- Canciones del 36 41 DREAM A LITTLE TRAIN POUR OUELQUE MALAYSIA Mundo Mousdque magazine) OF ME-Anita Harris (CBS) PART -*Gilbert Becaud -Francis, Day and Hunter 5 9 JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - This Last (Voix de son Maitre/ (Courtesy Radio Malaysia) Rolling Stones (Columbia Week Week (Mike Margolis) Dimension) -Rideau Rouge Espanola)-Ediciones Essex 37 47 WHEN THE SUN COMES ` 9 HEY JUDE- Beatles (Odeon) *Denotes local origin 1 3 RAIN AND TEARS SHINING *Long - Espanola THRU'- Tournier 6 6 FUNKY STREET-Arthur Aphrodite's Child (Mercury) John Baldry (Pye) - LA COLLINE This Last - 10 9 SIFFLER SUR Conley - ( Hispavox) 2 1 A MAN WITHOUT LOVE - Immediate (Tony Macauley) Week Week -* (CBS)-Sugar 7 MONY, MONY -Tommy Engelbert Humperdinck 38 30 UNIVERSAL-Small Faces (CBS) - (Decca) Music 1 1 HONEY -Union Gap James and Shondells (Immediate)-Immediate 2 3 I'LL LOVE YOU FOREVER 3 2 UNA CANZONE- Mireille (Columbia Espanola) (Marriott /Lane) TODAY - Canciones del Mundo- Mathieu (Barclay) 39 37 LAUREL AND HARDY (Columbia) 4 4 SIFFLER SUR LA COLLINE *Equals (President) -Kassner- 8 8 SIMON SAYS -1910 Fruitgum Dassin (CBS) HOLLAND 3 2 SON OF HICKORY Co. (Fonogram) -Ediciones -Joe () HOLLER'S TRAMP -O. C. Fontana S 9 UN PETIT SLOW -Marc 40 40 ELEANOR RIGBY -Ray Musicales Aryan (Markal) (Courtesy Platennieuws and Smith (CBS) 9 3 NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN Charles (Stateside)- 4 7 BABY COME BACK -Equals Blues 7 PETITE FILLE DE Radio Veronica) -Moody (Columbia 6 Northern (Stateside) Ediciones Essex FRANCAIS MOYEN 41 48 INCH ROCK Espanola)- - ONE - *Denotes local origin 5 HELP YOURSELF -Tom Espanola Sheila (Carrere) Tyrannosaurus Rex (Regal - Jones (Decca) 7 5 MONY, MONY -Tommy )-Cromwell This Last 10 10 HELULE, HELULE- James and Shondells (Vogue) 6 5 HERE COMES THE JUDGE Tremeloes (Discophon)- (Tony Visconti) Week Week -Shorty Long (Tamla- Ediciones Armonico 8 10 CHOO CHOO TRAIN-Box 42 41 ANGEL OF THE MORNING DI- KI- DI -KI- Tops (Stateside) I 2 DONG- DONG- Motown) -P. P. Arnold (Immediate) DONG -Golden Earrings 7 4 YUMMY, YUMMY. YUMMY 9 - CAMP -Sir Henry and -April (A. Oldham /J. (Polvdor)- Dayelow -Ohio Express (Pye) Butlers (Columbia) Cokell 2 1 ICH BAU' DIR EIN 8 MONY, MONY -*Surfers 10 8 JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - 43 42 YUMMY, YUMMY. YUMMY SCHLOSS- Heintje (CNR) - (Columbia) Malaga Fest to Rolling Stones (Decca) -Ohio Express (Pye) -T.M. -Viva re /BaSart 9 - -Union Music (Super "K ") 3 7 I'VE GOTTA GET A Gan (CBS) 44 - I'M -A MIDNIGHT MOVER - MESSAGE TO YOU -Bee 10 9 DON'T GIVE UP-Petula Annarita Spinaci BRITAIN Wilson Pickett (Atlantic)- -- Gees (Polydor) -Basart Clark (Pye) (Tom Drowd) 4 10 RAIN AND TEARS - MALAGA, Spain Annarita (Courtesy Record Retailer) 45 45 IMPORTANCE OF YOUR Aphrodite's Child (Mercury) - LOVE -*Vince Hall -Altona Spinaci of Italy took the $11,070 *Denotes local origin (Columbia)-Metric (Bob 5 3 TIMES WERE WHEN -Cats NORWAY Barrett) first prize in the 1st Interna- This Last (Imperial )- Conn elly /B a cart 46 A DAY WITHOUT LOVE - 6 6 FIRE-Arthur Brown (Track) (Courtesy Verdens Gang) tional Song Festival of Malaga, Week Week - *Love Affair (CBS) -Dick -Basart *Denotes local origin held here Aug. 31 -Sept. 1, with 1 21 HEY JUDE- Beatles (Apple) James (Mike Smith) 7 4 CALLOW-L'A -VITA- -(Apple)-Northern Music 47 44 WALK ON-Roy Orbison Ravmond Froggatt (Polydor) This Last the song "Il giorno dopo" writ- (George Martin) (MGM)-Acuff -Rose -Chapnell Week Week ten by Phaltan, Pagano and 2 1 GOTTA GET THE (Wesley Rose /Jim Vienneau) 8 5 DO IT AGAIN-Beach Boys 1 1 THINGS -Nancy Sinatra and MESSAGE TO YOU - 4R RED, RED WINE-Jimmy (Cabitol)- Francis Day Parosandi and published and re- *Bee Gees (Polydor)- - Vagabonds Dean Martin (Reprise) James and the 9 LADY WILLPOWER -Gary - corded by Belter. Abigail (Stigwood -Bee Gees) (Pye) -Ardmore and - Puckett and the Union Gap Belinda 3 2 DO IT AGAIN -Beach Boys Beechwood 2 7 ROMEO OG JULIE-*Inger Second prize of $570 went )-Immediate (Brian (CBS) Lise Andersen (RCA Victor) 49 35 MacARTHUR PARK- 10 9 HELP YOURSELF -Tom tp Los Gritos (Spain), who sang apon) (RCA)- Jones (Decca) -Holland -Sweden Music 4 4 SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Webb) 3 6 DELILAH -Tom Jones the Manuel Galvan song, - Carlin (Jim Music. Ben Cramer (Omega) (Decca) -Bendiksen Aretha Franklin (Atlantic) - 50 THE GOOD. THE BAD AND a mi tierra," also pub- Shapiro-Bernstein (Jerry - THE UGLY-Hugo 4 4 A MAN WITHOUT LOVE - "Vuelvo Wexler) Engelbert Humperdinck and recorded by Belter. Montenegro (RCA) -United -Bendiksen lished 5 7 HOLD ME TIGHT -*Johnn Artists (Hugo Montenegro) ITALY (Decca) also re- Nash (Regal Zonophone)- 5 5 BABY COME BACK- Equals Belter published and Writers Workshop (Jad) (Courtesy Musica e Dischi, Milan) (President) -Kassner corded the third prize winner, (Bell)-Shapiro-Bernstein & 6 2 VI SKA GA HAND I HAND "El Apartamento," written by Co. (Dale Hawkins) DENMARK *Denotes local origin -Gunnar Wiklund (HMV) 3 IN LOVE -Bendiksen del Rio and R. Sciam- 6 THIS GUY'S This Last Xavier WITH YOU -Herb Alpert (Courtesy Danmarks Radio) 7 3 SON OF HICKORY marella, sung by Ana Kiro, who (A &M) -Blues Seas/Jac Week Week HOLLER'S TRAMP -O. C. (Alpert/Moss) *Denotes local origin I 1 AZZURRO-*Adriano Smith (CBS)-Palace received $360. DAYS Celentano (Clan) -Clan R 10 MONY, MONY -Tommy 7 49 THOSE WERE THE - This Last The festival was emceed by (Apple)- 2 2 LA NOSTRA FAVOLA - James and the Shondells Essex (Paul McCartney) Week Week *Jimmy Fontana (RCA) - ( Major Minor)- Sonora TV announcer Marisa Medina, 8 5 HELP YOURSELF-Tom 1 1 LILLE SOMMERFUGL- Francis Day 9 - HELP YOURSELF -Tom guest artists were Manolo & Jones (Decca)-Valley (Peter *Bjorn Tidmand (Odeon)- 3 3 LUGLIO -*Riccardo Del Jones (Decca)- Edition Sullivan) Wilh. Hansen Turco (CGD) -Tiber Liberty Ramon (Vergara), Mikaela and 9 6 HIGH IN THE SKY-Amen 2 2 VI SKAL GAA HAND I 4 5 ANGELI NEGRI- *Faustro 10 8 MRS. ROBINSON -Simon Los Stop (Belter) 'and France's Comer (Deram) -Carlin HAND -*Keld Heick Lelai (Ri Fil -Southern and Garfunkel (CBS) (HMV) -Multitone 5 6 CINOUE MINUTI E POI- Johnny Hallyday (Fonogram). (Noel Walker) -MAS 10 10 ON THE ROAD AGAIN - 3 3 HELP YOURSELF Tom *Maurizio (Joker) Canned Hest (Liberty)- Jones ( Decca)- Dacapo 6 4 HO SCRITTO T'AMO Southern (Dallas Smith) 4 5 HURDY GURDY MAN- SULLA SABBIA -*Franco PHILIPPINES 11 14 DREAM A LITTLE DREAM Donovan (Epic) -Southern IV e Franco I (Stvle) -Dior This Last OF ME-Mama Cass (RCA) 5 4 BABY COME BACK - Equals 7 7 AVEVO UN CUORE -*Mino -Francis, Day and Hunter (President)-Kassner Reitano (Ariston)-- Colosseo. Week Week ADVERTISING IN (Lou Adler) 6 6 YOUNG GIRL -Union Gap 8 11 SIMON SAYS -1910 Fruitgum 1 1 -Tommy (CBS) -Sweden Music Co. (Kama Sutra)- Esedra James and the Shondells 12 22 JEZAMINE- Casuals Inc. BUSINESSPAPERS (Decca) -Mills (David 7 YESTERDAY HAS GONE- 9 8 NON ILLUDERTI MAI - (Roulette)- Mareco, Pardo) - Cupid's Inspiration (News), *Orietta Beni (Polydor)- 2 3 IT'S NICE TO BE WITH MEANS BUSINESS 13 15 LADY WILLPOWER -Union 8 7 THINGS -Nancy Sinatra and Tevere /Alfiere YOU-Monkees (RCA Gap (CBS)-Dick James Dean Martin (Reprise)- 10 9 DELILAH -Tom Jones Victor) -Filipinas Record (Jerry Fuller) Dacapo ( Decca) - Francis Day Corp. 49 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD JAZZ UP YOUR WORLD WITH WORLD PACIFIC JAZZ

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MERCY, MERCY / The Buddy MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR A PORTRAIT OF WES MONT- CHET BAKER PLAYS & SINGS WELCOME HOME / Richard Rich Big Band ST -20133 Jean -Luc Ponty ST -20134 GOMERY / Wes Montgomery Chet Baker ST -20138 "Groove" Holmes ST -20147 ST -20137 ADVERTISEMENT Tape CARtridge LEISURE TIME Philips in Canada Goes Cassette Duplicating TIPS By KIT MORGAN by: Larry Finley TORONTO Newest entry ministration, has been appointed for Philips tape recorders, said steadily, as the breakthrough - to add the into the tape duplicating field in product manager in charge of the new line includes the most that made it feasible After an absence of several months, -only units Canada is Philips Appliances, the operation. comprehensive range of cassette three new playback this column now returns to be read complement the four record/ Ltd., which is establishing cas- Three new playback-only cas- equipment available anywhere. to in the pages of this publication every playback units already in the sette duplicating and manufac- sette units are included in He credited the entry of most week. The only difference is that companies into the line. In introducing the fall line, turing facilities within the large Philips' fall tape recorder line, major music the column "heading" is changed cas- cassette field, so that more than Van Twist also said introduc- Philips complex in Toronto. including the first portable from "TAPE CARTRIDGE TIPS" to sette playback unit and the first 800 different musicassette selec- tion of EP cassettes with four D. H. Prentice, vice -president "LEISURE TIME TIPS." and general manager, sets No- stereo cassette change. R. J. tions are now available in Can- pop tunes can be expected towards the end of the year. vember as the target date for Van Twist, product manager ada with more being added In the weeks to come, we'll bring phase one of the program to you "inside" stories of all "LEISURE begin assembling product here, TIME" activities, although the first at the but adds "we are mercy weeks will concentrate on the availability of certain in New Uniform few of the A&M Dresses Pkg. industry and pieces of equipment." Expan- stereo tape /cartridge its allied fields. sion to phase two, actual dupli- LOS ANGELES-Since tak- lag is justified in offering a A &M is presently licensing its to PlayTape, which de- cating from the program master, ing over duplication and distri- quality product. library The formation of NORTH AMERI- is described by Prentice as "a velops its own packaging. The bution of its own tape car- Artwork for cassettes is of CAN LEISURE CORPORATION is a rush program," but no target 1, A &M has intro- company plans simultaneous re- tridges Sept. but the origi- giant step forward in the tape field, date is available for publication. new designed necessity smaller, leasing of tapes and LP's be- duced packaging as the initial activity of NAL is was reached a uniform quality ap- nal theme is retained. All music, cause "that's the key," Rosen- "Our decision to add on 8- track, cas- because of the rapidly increas- pearance to all its music prod- tapes and records are sold under blatt says. But this goal is about being concentrated ing sales of cassette recording ucts. the one concept by distributor six months away. A &M's engi- settes and the open reel configura- times and tion. At this time there are no and playback equipment and the The new packaging, explains salesmen. neering department and also 4- track. This resulting demand for pre -re- national sales director Ed Ro- Special order forms have been programs the cartridges plans for duplicating checks all the made after a survey corded musicassettes and blank senblatt, ties cartridges to album developed for field salesmen quality control decision was compact cassettes," said Pren- a more uniform fash- which allows them to transcribe music. of the market shows a definite drop covers in A own involvement tice, who estimates there will be ion. business for records and any of As &M's in percentage of sales of 4 -track All with tape grows, the company 250,000 cassette recorders and cartridges has the cartridge configurations. versus 8- track. Packaging for tapes and LP's will of necessity have to in- playback units in use through- been neglected, Rosenblatt says. A &M stereo same basic cata- crease its personnel in this area. NAL's 8 -track cartridges are being out Canada by the end of 1968. "Since we're in an impulse busi- now have the with only the music Rosenblatt has been working under the NAL "SUPER "There is an urgent need for ness and it has never been log number marketed 8 -track or with tapes for the past 15 NAL substantial Canadian duplicating neglected in records, why should source (LP, 4 and STEREO 8" label, and all cassette) prefix varying. months. a and manufacturing facilities it be neglected in tapes?" cartridges truly offer "SUPER which all companies in the mu- STEREO" sound. Cassettes and open sic industry can use." Since taking over control of 8 and cassette reel tapes also offer a "SUPER negotia- its 4 and -track Philips is at present duplication (through Magnetic QUALITY STEREO" sound. ting with several companies for Tape Duplicators) from Ampex Take CARtridges is custom cassette duplicating, and and ITCC, A &M has gone to a An innovation offered by NAL Prentice says these discussions black plastic casing with four - what is hoped will become the "are very promising in every re- color artwork on the front and standard of the industry. All labels, of the sys- spect. As originators back of the cartridge. A pro- NARM Spotlight including "end tabs" of cartridges, we have a special appeal; tem tective dust clip is another new are printed in "day-glo" ink, which we have all the experience of By EARL PAIGE and RON SCHLACHTER feature and the cartridge now reflects the light on an automobile Europe at our fingertips, and comes skin-wrapped. The rapid ex- and carrying cases. Carrying dashboard so that the cartridge can we will be in the vanguard of CHICAGO - A &M's own graphic depart- pansion of the tape CARtridge cases were also shown by Am- be more easily seen. All NAL "SUPER any new developments and im- prof- berg File and Index Co., which provements." ment designs the art for the car- market and mushrooming STEREO 8" cartridges are fitted with mate- its the scene among has a de luxe case listing at re- Philips' plan is to concentrate tridges, with the LP cover dominated a dust -cap and labels carry a printed up than is sellers during the tail for $4.95 that holds 10 car- solely on custom duplicating, rial blown larger buyers and warranty so that the consumer can cases. -to- person sessions at the tridges. with no involvement in dis- usual for cartridge person effect an exchange by sending the recent National Association of Word Records has just ven- tribution of cassette product. Preparation of special artwork cartridge directly to NAL for replace- for tapes slows down production Record Merchandisers (NARM) tured into cassettes with 15 ti- Donald M. Vale, who joined reported William Jelley, ment. with wide ex- somewhat, Rosenblatt admits, tape meeting here. tles, Philips this year on the national accounts sales man- perience in marketing and ad- but the company feels the time Aside from comments Another outstanding. NAL innova- 8 and the ager. Musical Tapes, a leading strength of -track is the introduction of the "20 importance of cassettes, manufacturer and distributor of tion growing and pack- most manufacturers were en- Latin America tapes, has intro- Top Hits -Country Western" thusiastic about the response duced Latin stereo cassettes, said age, which is a twin -pack, double Mfrs. Look to Teens man- length "SUPER STEREO 8" -track car- from rack jobbers in "person - Angel Tamargo, general to-person" meetings. ager. , West tridge and cassette to retail at the All Tapes Distributing, Inc., Coast manager of Stereodyne, price of a single album length car- For Year -End Spurt featured three displays: a bulk was at the convention "feeling tridge or cassette. This "Tennessee a bulk 12 By BRUCE WEBER open reel browser; the market." Sound" series consists of dif- 8 -track floor cartridge, and a Charles Peters, of Original ferent volumes, with each tape said he felt LOS ANGELES -Tape player manufacturers here are banking nine -tier open-reel step -up. The Sound Sales Corp., boasting such outstanding names as: a capac- the meeting was "a working on the teen -age market for an end -of- the -year sales spurt. 8 -track $90 display has Red Sovine, Minnie Pearl, George companies cartridges with a convention. More business has There's a rush by marketing directors at most major ity for 300 Flatt and Scruggs, Johnny aimed at young people, especially merchandising value of $2,100. been conducted than ever be- Jones, to plan equipment promotions and most of the greats of the after the economic effect they had on retail trade during recent J. L. Marsh, Inc., displays in- fore." Cash and Western field. The twin - "back -to- school" sales campaigns. cluded a multi -purpose browser, PlayTape, Inc., showed new Country The traditional summer lull at most retail outlets failed to a counter or wall unit and two radio -cartridge units for Volks- pack cartridge has a suggested re- materialize, and many retailers believe it was due to a summer surge floor models. A $165 floor wagens. Sapphire PlayTape I is tail list price of $6.95, and the of buying by teen-agers. model, CTR- 350 -D, has a ca- a combination AM radio and twin -pack cassette a suggested retail A study of inventory trends at White Front, Radio Shack, pacity for 350 cartridges. PlayTape unit. Suggested list is list price of $5.95. Montgomery Ward, and Sears revealed tape player sales were far Display cases that can ac- under $100. ahead of yearly expectations. commodate long play albums, Tele Pac introduced new 4 and Probably the most enthusiastic re- Player manufacturers are using radio, TV and newspaper adver- reel -to -reel tape, 4 or 8 -track 8 -track cartridges and a new ception at last week's NARM was tising to promote equipment, with a heavy emphasis on equipment cartridges and cassettes were cassette. In addition the com- NAL's announcement that distrib- Pac for giveaways through contests. shown by - Freedman Artcraft pany displayed its Rack utors would be given a guarantee rack (Continued on page 52) Engineering. Freedman's ap- peg -board merchandise for of at least a 90% delivery within proach, rack jobbers were told, jobbers. Company representa- 48 hours from receipt of their order Ray Stolzman, direc- is to provide a rack for stores tives were by NAL. All shipments within a A rack of marketing, and Roger reluctant to put in tape. tor radius of 1,200 miles of New York feature is the use of plastic fill- Cappello, sales manager. PAY MORE? City will receive truck shipments WHY ers that convert 4 and 8 -track Motown was the newest addi- compartments to cassette size. tion to the Muntz label line-up and beyond that area NAL will make Get Pfanstiehl's Taylor Electric showed dis- on Stereo-Pak 4 -track cartridges. all shipments by air freight. BLANK CASSETTES its line of "Tape Representing Muntz was Ed play cases from NAL will make its first shipments Topper" merchandisers. Ampex Michel, head of the firm's mu- 4 8. 8 TRACK on October 1. If you are a distrib - sic TAPE CARTRIDGES Stereo Tapes showed its three department. CASSETTES tier counter or floor rack ac- Caytronics Division of Swan utor who wants to get on the band- AT NEW LOW PRICES! commodating 120 cassettes and Industries featured a new wagon with America's hottest lines `=. tape WRITE FOR DETAILS! its cassette merchandisers which $49.95 8 -track player which op- with America's hottest new lists to dealers for $139.95 and erates on six D -cells or through company, contact the Tape Division holds as many as 480 packages. a car's cigaret lighter. On dis- of NAL at 1776 Broadway, New Tape cartridge accessory play at the Goodway table was York, N. Y. 10019- phone: (212) manufacturers included Reco- an FM multiplex unit at $49.95 265 -3340. North American Leisure which can turn any 4 or 8 -track CHEMICAL CORPORATION ton, which showed over 34 items Corporation is a subsidiary of Omega 3300 WASHINGTON ST. BOX 498 WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS 60085 tape cartridge player into a ranging from dust shields and Equities Corporation. WEST COAST: 10511.4 OXNARD STREET vAN NUTS. CALIFORNIA 91409 tape demagnetizers to splicers (Continued on page 52) 51 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Tape CARtridge NAL Acts on Fast Delivery Mfrs. Look to Teens for Yr. -End Spurt Policy; Rush Out 'Valley' Continued from page 51 stereo (less speakers) for $26.88 stereo cartridge player for and Sprouse -Reitz advertises a $69.97 and a portable tape NEW YORK -North Amer- whereby NAL guarantees 90 With low- priced player equip- Tonex all transistor tape re- player (plays 4 and 8 -track ican Leisure, as part of its new per cent of an order will be ment more available to the teen- corder for $9.99. tapes) for $89.97. policy of fast delivery, is rush- filled within 48 hours of receipt, ager, both the retailer and the Major retailers are also cater- With car -bound teen -agers ing out 8 -track cartridges, cas- or 5 per cent of the order will manufacturer are aiming adver- ing to the cartridge crowd, jamming freeway complexes,. settes, and open reel tapes of be free. Finley said that the ma- tising- marketing campaigns in whether they be in the White and teen -agers constantly on the the "Harper Valley PTA," LP by jor gripe of distributors with that direction. Front -type discount chain found go, Sears pushes 4 and 8 -track Jeannie C. Riley. Larry Finley, tape cartridge suppliers in gen- Specialty outlets also are among Southern California's auto stereos for $79.88, and chief of NAL, said that he re- eral at the Chicago meeting was coming in for increased busi- sprawling freeway communities, Grand Auto Stores, a five -store ceived the master on Sept. 10 slow delivery. ness. Although manufacturers or the May Co., a more con- chain in Sacramento, advertises will and ship the cartridges to always aimed equipment at spe- ventional 15 -unit department a 4 -track auto stereo player for distributors Monday (16). cialty stores. It has been only store chain. $29.88. is This is all part of a super - recently that they have achieved Other Displays Though price a big draw- speed service program at NAL. Scovill Buffs sales status in the player market. Most retailers display much ing -card, it is not the only con- The firm just hired Bill Bishop Now, manufacturers include of their product in the music sideration. Promotions play a as vice -president in charge of specialty shops in promotions. have dis- major role in gearing up to the department, but also market. production and music acquisi- Sprouse -Reits, a 16 -store chain; plays and a limited stock in the fast -paced youth tion to supplement service; Player Maker Kay Jewelers, a chain in Los automotive sections. PlayTape Player Bishop has been in charge of Angeles and Sacramento, and Just how big the player mar- The May Co. offers a Play - promotion and repertoire at LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. the Pep Boys, an automotive ket is in California is evident Tape player at $25.99, while Ampex. -Auricord Corp., manufacturer supply outlet, are all promoting from the upswing in business Bullock's promotes a Magnavox On Oct. 1, at the Chicago of 4 and 8 -track tape CAR - low -priced equipment from a this year. And next year, White cassette tape recorder for convention of the National Asso- tridge players and cassette play- variety of manufacturers. Kay Front, May Co., Sears, and $59.90. The Radio Shack, a na- ciation of Record Merchandisers, ers, has been purchased by the Jewelers is offering Arvin others, expect to carry an even tionwide specialty chain, offers NAL informed distributors of a Scovill Manufacturing Co. of equipment solid state stereo pho- larger inventory in players. a variety of equipment, includ- guaranteed fast delivery plan Waterbury, Conn. The cash nograph at $37.88; the Pep Promotions aimed at teen- ing a cassette recorder at (first reported in Billboard) (Continued on page 74) Boys feature a 4 -track auto agers are right to the point: $39.95, a tape recorder at White Front hits hard with cas- $24.95, and two portable re- sette tape recorders at $29.97 corders at $14.95 and $24.95. (blank cassettes at $1.65); Handy Andy, a three -store MGM's 2-track P 1 a yT a p e appliance chain in Sacramento player at $11.96 (tapes at promotes an RCA tape recorder Assembling our 8- and 4 -track cartridges is a bit $1.29); Sony portable tape re- for $28.88 and a cassette tape noisy. You press the upper half against the corder at $69.50; Concord's recorder for $34.88. lower half and they snap together. portable tape recorder at $19.75, The tape player market here, and Ampex 4 and 8 -track tape at least, has included and af- Turning screws is quieter - but time- consuming at $3.88 and $4.48. fected most people one way or and unnecessary. Nobody will need to get into The emphasis on youth at another, according to a spokes- this one again. You can easily if you White Front is not taken at the man at Craig Corp., a player - - be- want to. But the cartridge is absolutely jam -proof. expense of the young adult gen- manufacturer. Players have eration. For example: The store come part of the climate, espe- We'd be pleased to demonstrate what offers a Sony cassette recorder cially with the buying power of profit sounds like. for $99.50, a Webcor 8 -track the teen -agers. CARtridges Take NARM Spotlight Continued from page 51 Certrom Corp. has entered the budget 8 -track cartridge and stereo FM radio. The company cassette field, according to Jim is also offering an FM tuner for Neiger. The packages will list a suggested list of $29.95. for $3.95 on the Vivid Sound Borg-Warner's Cart -a -Tune, a label. self -contained battery -operated Industries, Inc., 8 car- Athena portable playing -track showed its Auto Butler tape tridges, was shown. Its suggested carriers which fits over the list is $39.95. hump contour in automobiles is making TelePro Industries and holds 12 cartridges. List available a two -foot window price is $4.98. streamer promoting the cassette. Aaron Wall, Roger Cappello The strong emphasis on and Raymond Stolgman showed 8 -track was a source of satisfac- a new 8 -track package that is tion for RCA personnel. Repre- easily rewound if tape spills senting the label were Ed from it, blank cassettes, head - Welker, Abe Amiri, Mort Bar- cleaning cartridges and cas- net, Jack Burgess, Ray Clark settes, and other blank tape and Buzz Willis. packages. Claude Brenan, Decca na- Le -Bo Products Co. displayed tional sales manager; Leo Re- its new line of tape cartridge fice, manager of tape sales; Ed- and cassette carrying cases. A ward Hurley, Eastern sales de luxe $9.95 model holds 15 manager, and Sam Passamano cartridges or 60 cassettes. A discussed Decca's new 4 and wood $11.95 de luxe case holds (Continued on page 74) 24 cartridges or 96 cassettes. Vince Tecchione, Vince Pel- COMPACT CASSETTES lellien, Wes Krebs, Bill Arling- ton and Ken Dugan represented Bellwood. One of its prime at- tractions was the Borg -Warner Cartable 8, a portable 8 -track player. Dugan said, according to warranty card information, - .. , uiAitu)mn 50 per cent of the customers

buying Borg -Warner p 1 a y e r s by TelePac were new tape buyers. All 17 parts (no skimping) - licensed by N.A.P. Made in U.S.A. International Tape Cartridge Pre -Loaded with our own Corp., New York, was repre- FIDELITAPE. 6 standard lengths. Pre -Leadered or unassembled for sented by James Tyrell, Vincent duplicators. Immediate delivery! Fsadni, Harris Rogers, Al Abra- Private labelling available skie, Jerry Geller, Paul Adams, Head Cleaners Allen Rosen, and President Jim For Rep. in your area contact: Data Packaging Corporation Elkins. The firm displayed new multi releases. 205 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts -label TELEERO Louis Drozen, Laff Records, INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED O Tel. (617) 868-6200 TWX 710 - 320 -0840 makers of FIDELIPAC® showed 12 new 4 and 8 -track Cherry Hill Industrial Center U.S. & Foreign Patents applied for. comedy releases selling for Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08034 $6.98. Phone: (609) 424.1234 52 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Coin Machine World ARA Joins Rush of Vending Firms New Equipment Buying Jukebox Operating Routes image of which steadily im- Continued from page 1 It is also becoming evident, note, that large, proved over the past two years. most observers 59) ARA, which has for some public -owned firms are no longer (Continued on page time had music routes in Hawaii, self -conscious about getting into thus joins Servomation, The the music operating business, the Macke Co., American Auto- matic Vending Corp., Automatic Rock -Ola Merchandising, Inc., and other Expect 250 at firms heretofore principally in- volved in vending but now ac- Sept. 19 Mass. tively acquiring routes. Goes Mod ARA's current annual sales Event in Auburn volume is running at the rate of CHICAGO -If its name is $425 million. Servomation's sales AUBURN, Mass. -Trade in- any evidence, the new Rock -Ola volume climbed over $200 mil- dustry leaders and more than jukebox is probably one of the lion for the fiscal year ended 250 operators and wives are ex- most unusual phonographs the June 29. Macke's sales are run- pected here Thursday night (19) Chicago manufacturer has pro- ning at the rate of more than for a convention of New Eng- duced. Called the Psychedelic $85 million. Another large firm, land coin machine operators. Money Grabber, the 160- selec- Interstate United Corp., which The event will be held at the tion machine has at least six expects to do well over $140 Sheraton -Yankee Drummer Mo- new features that vie for top million volume this year, has tor Inn, just off Exit 10 of the attention. Among them is a also recently acknowledged an Massachusetts Turnpike. burglar alarm. interest in music routes. Among industry leaders will One of the most difficult fea- probably The movement into music, be Bill Cannon, Music Operators tures to describe, but on among of America (MOA) president. the most outstanding, is the op- which is going kit that gives smaller, independent vendors as and Fred Granger, MOA exec- tional animation its ef- well as large national firms, utive vice -president. Russell the machine psychedelic continues to take the pattern of Mawdsley, MOA vice -president, fects and its name. -a- quarter pricing route acquisition. ARA is re- and Ray Barker, MOA director, The two- for Grabber allows two Rock -Ola- 160 -Selection Psychedelic Money tailing management of the ac- are local leaders arranging the kit, also optional, (Continued on page 61) Psychedelic Money Grabber is the center quired firms, which will be run event. Rock-Ola's new 160 -selection Among its at distributor showings around the country. as wholly owned subsidiaries. of attention optional, are burglar more outstanding features, some of which are Robert Snyder, presi- a two- for -a- quarter Love and alarm, powerized remote, three -way volume control, dent, AVC's Music Service, will removed reject housing, L -Pad control for remote play pricing kit, easily animation become division manager of Labels Double Space added amplification power, dollar -bill validator, speakers, higher- mounted speakers, ARA. Love, who was secretary- a wood grain look in the grill area, board, floating coin mechanism. a five - board and new National Rejectors treasurer of ABC, signed new display from previous models, The unit will accept remote control mechanisms year contract as division general For MOA Convention for cancel button, sound control but the new powerized control allows manager and will act as ARA's coin mechanism accepts nickels, dimes, and on /off switch. The by trouble shooter in the music Decca, London Other reasons for label inter- is a floating mechanism not affected CHICAGO- quarters and halves and will also field. are taking double est center on the participation at will credit five plays for two quarters. The unit and Liberty vibration and stereo receiver. Al Smith headed MOA of over 12 prominent one - Little LP's and features a transistorized Roy and booths at the Music Operators accommodate carried over from previous Automatic Music Service; Bar- of America (MOA) show here stop owners heading a special "Flip Top" servicing is another featured ney Seeburg directed Madera Oct. 11 -13. This will be the first (Continued on page 54) models. Music, and Herb Bernstein was time Decca has taken two president of Peterson Music. booths, said national sales direc- LONG? These men will continue to head tor Claude Brennan. Liberty is RECORD TOO Over 3 50 at their respective firms. a first -time exhibitor. Columbia, Most of the new music routes Epic, Monument and Stax are Programmers Show ARA acquired include amuse- other labels signed to exhibit. 'Hey Jude' Irks Empire by ment game equipment, consist- The increased interest By EARL PAIGE CHICAGO-More than 350 ing of pool tables, bowlers, gun labels in the MOA Music & coin machine world executives games and shuffleboards. Amusement Machine Exhibition Jude," the Jude' isn't the side on this rec- open house CHICAGO -"Hey pushing attended last week's The open competition now here at the Sherman House is Beatles' on Apple hit that runs ord anyway, we're Empire Distributing, Inc. The which is just as at among large national firms to attributed largely to the efforts 7 minutes and 11 seconds, caus- `Revolution,' highlight of the event was the acquire music routes is viewed of MOA president Bill Cannon, ing mixed reaction among juke- hot." unveiling of Rock -Ola's 440 by some trade leaders as evi- and recognition of the jukebox box programmers. "Operators Smith said that although "Hey jukebox. Five new import dence that operating companies industry. Decca, for example, are buying it like it was free," Jude" is printed on the top side amusement games were shown, have taken an optimistic view of is bringing in a $5,000 display said Eric Bernay, A-1 One -Stop, of the title strip, he has seen as well as the Computer Quiz the leisure activities market, and originally conceived for the Na- New York. Other one -stops and no attempts to put "Revolution" unit and a full line of Westing- how music and games routes can tional Association of Record route programmers checked last on the top. house vending equipment. capitalize on it. Merchandisers convention. week did not agree. Fred Rogers, Poplar Tunes, Attending: David C. Rockola, "We're holding off until we Memphis, said: "Operators are Dr. David R. Rockola, Donald normally." George see more requests," said Alvin buying `Hey Jude' Rockola, Ed Doris, Nissenbaum, Wonder Novelty, Mrs. Lela Collum, Star Music Hencker, Hugh Gorman and on 57) St. Louis. "If a recording that (Continued on page 54) (Continued page long plays while a location isn't crowded it doesn't make any dif- ference, but at peak playing 'COIN'CIDENTALLY hours a long record like `Hey Jude' can bite into the take." a Happy Part of Ken Kerr, Lucky Coin Ma- Jukebox chine Co., New Orleans, was worried that "Hey Jude" would 1967 Singles Sales Picture cut off prematurely on some jukeboxes. "I checked it out and All who produce and market sumption increased 5.6 per cent. it plays all the way through on singles should be taking a close outpaced only by the rack job- the new jukeboxes," he said. look at the role played by the bers' 7.7 per cent increase in "We had trouble on a long Bob jukebox consumer bloc during singles sales. Dylan record sometime ago. The the U. S. record industry's first Independent retailers (non - mechanics adjusted the boxes for $1 billion sales year -1967. racks), who as late as 1964 ac- it and then had problems with The final 1967 sales facts counted for 44.7 per cent of the other normal records." have just been published in Bill- singles market, have slipped to Many one -stop managers and board's 1968 -1969 International a poor third among wholesale jukebox programmers are corn- Buyer's Guide, and the figures singles consumers. The indies ac- paring "Hey Jude" and "Mac- show that the rack -jobbers are counted for only 24.6 per cent Arthur Park," a recent Dunhill the only consumer faction now of the singles market in 1967, a Record hit by Richard Harris consuming more singles at decrease of 9.8 per cent from that also ran over 7 minutes. wholesale than the jukebox in- 1966. The jukebox bloc had 30.5 ROCK -OLA MANUFACTURING CORP. has introduced a new background "I doubt if we sold a 100 of dustry. per cent of the singles market music system, Tape Top 440, in addition to its new 440 jukebox. The 'MacArthur Park,'" said Paul While singles in 1967 again last year. Racks accounted for system, which features tape disks, is manufactured by Casco Music amounted to a smaller share of 44.9 per cent. representative Jack Hopson is shown here demon- Smith, Royal Distributors, Cin- Systems. Casco cinnati. "We rack 22 stores and the total record market (16.8 Any doubts about the jukebox strating the equipment at a recent Rock -Ola distributors meeting in on page 54) New Orleans. it wasn't that big in stores. 'Hey per cent), jukebox singles' con- (Continued SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 53 Coin Machine News

Jukebox Happy A NEW CONCEPT Pari of 1967 IN TELESCOPES OPEN UP MANY Singles Picture NEW LOCATIONS Continued from page 53 bloc's singles buying power should be dispelled by the pre- POLITICAL HUDDLE. This is ceding figures. But the preceding Frank Fabiano, Fabiano Amuse- MIKE ment Co., Buchanan, Mich. (left), are even less relevant to the es- MUNVES poten- chatting with Sen. Philip Hart (D., timation of the jukebox's Mich.), who State and local CORP. BUSY PROGRAMMER. Shown in this series of pictures is Gordon tial singles influence than the Democrats recently honored as 577 Tenth Ave. following figures: Jukebox con- New York, N.Y. Larson, programmer at Sam's Amusement Co., Kenosha, Wis. The the author of a new county re- 10036 record library is maintained in neat compartments by sumption accounted for 42 per Fabiano is a enclosed doors. apportionment plan. (212) BR 9.6677 A hi -fi set under a counter allows Larson to hear new releases with cent of all singles sold by one - director, Music Operators of sufficient enough fidelity to judge how they will sound on jukeboxes. stop wholesalers in 1967. America. Jukebox operators are clearly the one-stop's No. 1 singles cus- tomer. As such, operators should be exerting the major influence on one -stops' buying, service and merchandising policies. The opinion is widely held that op- erators are not taking advantage of their buying power at the one -stop level, possibly because operators do not realize their A own bloc strength. Increased use of buying power leverage is urged by Music Op- NEW erators of America (MOA) presi- dent Bill Cannon. He has taken NEW ROCK -OLA his own colleagues to task much more than the one -stops (though the one -stops claim Cannon has ROCK -OLA 440 criticized then unfairly), point- MONEY GRABBER ing out that the jukebox indus- 440 try's bloc- buying might has been dissipated by lack of exercise. MONEY GRABBER Gilbert K. Kitt Joe Robbins At the root of the problem, Can- EMPIRE DISTRIBUTING, INC. non says, is perfunctory, unin- Hymie Zorinsky Chicago, Illinois 60622 spired, unprofessional program- H.Z. VENDING & SALES CO., INC. ming. Such can scarcely be con- Omaha, Nebraska 68102 strued as a criticism of one - stops. Current singles sales facts and trends also argue for reappraisal and perhaps extensive revision of habitual label policies, par- ticularly in the areas of a &r and sales promotion. For example. it is illogical that while the juke- box bloc is consuming 30.5 per cent of all singles that the labels should he allocating less than 5 per cent of their singles adver- NEW tising budgets to jukebox -ori- ented promotion. NEW ROCK -OLA It's time the jukebox bloc recognized that in singles con- sumption it is solidly No. 2. ROCK -OLA 440 When this happens, it is likely the record industry will begin 440 MONEY GRABBER to try harder to cater to the jukebox industry's needs. MONEY GRABBER

J. A. Wallace Norman Goldstein WALLACE & WALLACE MUSIC, INC. Record Too Long? MACHINE Oak Hill, West Virginia 25901 MONROE COIN Cleveland, Ohio 441 14 Continued from page 53 Co., Atlanta, said her firm bought 100 copies last week and did not consider the unusual length of the record. Oscar (Bucky) Buchman, Redisco, Bal- timore, said: "The time doesn't mean anything on this record. A. lu Ptacek Very few are objecting to the BIRD MUSIC DISTRIBUTORS, INC. time." , Kansas 66503 Bernay said: "The PsYMEDELicl operators grumble when they see how long the record is, but they're buy- ing it. On `MacArthur Park' the NEW operators waited until locations ce insisted on the record, but 'Hey V^O Jude' is another world: this is a ROCK -OLA hulk purchase record." Jo 440 N N c -S MOA Convention MONEY GRABBER Z a c a az o 5H! Continued from page 53 E Ó J panel on opening day. Label o NEW ROCK -OLA 440 executives will have a chance to zE question both one -stop owners LIJ and operators in what is sure to =Cm MONEY GRABBER he a free -wheeling session, ac- cording to MOA's Fred Granger. 54 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Our psychedelic money grabber

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NSM Consul 130, 128 Sel., 1967 No Avg. The Bluebook Flipper Games Valuation of Used Bally & Aces High 4P,9/6g 170 260 Band Wagon 4P, 5/65 155 235 Reconditioned Coin Machines Bazaar, 1P, 11/66 220 315 Big Day, 4P, 9/64 100 190 Blue Ribbon, 4P, 2/66 220 315 Bongo 2P, 3/64 80 170 NEW September 21, 1968 Bull Fight IP, 1/65 80 170 Bus Stop 2P, 1/65 100 190 Campus Queen 4P, 9/66 305 420 Capersville 4P, 2/67 385 510 ROCK -OLA The following average valuations, based on quotations ob- Cross Country, 4/63 30 115 tained Cue -Tease, 2P, 7/63 40 125 from selected, franchised distributors in key markets Discotek 2P, 9/65 150 245 throughout the U. S., are published only for the purpose of 1P, 5/68 400 495 440 Dogies 4P, 3/68 450 595 indicating general trends. The averages are unfit for applica- 50/50 2P, 8/65 140 230 tion to any specific buyer -seller situation. Fun Cruise 1P, 2/66 185 290 MONEY GRABBER Gold Rush 1P, 5/66 170 280 Grand Tour 7/64 55 140 Happy Tour, IP, 7/64 55 140 Victor Conte Harvest IP, 10/64 75 160 VICTOR CONTE SALES, INC. Jukeboxes Rowe Mfg. Hay Ride 1P, 11/64 85 170 Hottenanny Utica, New York 13501 1P, 11/63 25 115 G -200, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1956 No Avg. Loop- the -Loop, 2P, 10/66 260 350 Roc k -Ol a Mad World, 2P, 9/64 80 170 H -120, 120 Sel., 45 RPM, 1957 40 150 Magic Clock, 6/65 90 185 1455, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1957 No Avg. H -200, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1957 50 150 Monte Carlo, 1P, 2/64 50 125

1458, 120 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 No Avg. 1 -100M, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 50 175 Moonshot, 3/63 35 125 1465, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 50 150 Rocket III, 1P, 6/67 275 370 1 -120X, 120 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 65 175 1468, Tempo 1, 120 Sel., Sheba, 2P, 3/65 125 220 45 RPM, 1959 55 160 1 -200M, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 60 155 Six Sticks 6P, 4/66 270 375

1475, Tempo 1, 200 Sel., 1 -200E, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 60 165 Sky Divers Ip, 4/64 55 145 45 RPM, 1959 75 175 1-200E, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1959 90 170 Star Jet 2P, 12/63 50 135 1478 Tempo 11, 120 Sel., Surfers 2P, 1/68 375 475 J -120, 120 45 RPM, 1960 85 185 Sel., 45 RPM, 1959 70 170 Trio 1P, 9/65 120 265

1485, Tempo 11, 200 Sel., K -120, 120 Sel., 45 RPM, 1960 140 215 2 in 1 2P, 8/64 85 175 45 RPM, 1960 120 220 K -200, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1960 125 225 3 -in -Line 4P, 8/65 160 270 1488, Regis, 120 Sel., K -100, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1960 90 195 Wiggler 4P, 9/67 445 575 45 RPM, 1961 145 260 Continental 1, 200 Sel., Wild Wheels 2P, 3/66 200 300 1495 Regis, 20 Sel., 45 RPM, 1961 120 225 Surfers 1P, 1/68 No Avg. 45 RPM, 1961 180 285 Lyric, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1961 75 175 1493 Princess,100 Sel., Continental 2, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1962 185 285 33 & 45 RPM, 1962 120 225 Chicago Coin 1496, Empress, 120 Sel., Continental 2, 200 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1962 185 290 33 & 45 RPM, 1962 130 135 Beatniks 2P, 3/67 285 385 1497, Empress, 200 Sel., Rowe -AMI -JAL, 200 Sel., Bronco 2P, 5/64 85 175 33 & 45 RPM, 1962 205 315 33 & 45 RPM, 1963 165 280 Festival 4P, 1/67 345 450 408, Rhapsody, 160 Sel., Rowe -AMI -JEL, 200 Sel., Firecracker 2P, 12/63 50 135 33 & 45 RPM, 1963 285 400 33 & 45 RPM, 1963 220 330 Gunsmoke 2P, 5/58 No Avg. 404, Capri, 100 Sel., Rowe -AMI Tropicana JBM, Hula Hula 2P, 5/66 240 345 NEW 33 & 45 RPM 1963 250 360 100, 160, 200 Sel., Kicker 1P, 8/66 215 305 414, Capri 11, 100 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1964 355 500 Mustang 2P, 10/64 105 195 33 & 45 RPM, 1964 310 435 Rowe -AMI Diplomat, 200 Sel., Royal Flash 2P, 8/64 95 185 4145, Capri 11, 100 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1965 520 665 South Pacific 2P, 11/64 115 210 ROCK 440 Bandstand, 200 Sel., 1965 -66 No Avg. Sun Valley, 8/63 35 125 -OLA 33 & 45 RPM, 1964 325 418S, Rhapsody, 160 Sel., Music Merchant, 1966 -67, Twinky 2P, 9/67 365 470 33 & 45 RPM, 1964 360 485 200/160/100 Sel. No Avg. 424, Princess Roya1,100 Sel., Cadette, 100 Sel., 1967 -68 No Avg. 440 1964 Music Master Williams 33 & 45 RPM, 375 575 425, Grand Prix, 160 Sel., 200,160, 100 Sel., 2/68 No Avg. A -Go -Go 4P, 666 305 415 MONEY GRABBER 33 & 45 RPM, 1964 460 590 Alpine Club, 3/65 105 200 426, Grand Prix 11, 160 Sel., Apollo IP, 7/67 315 435 33 & 45 RPM, 1965 -66 565 715 Jupiter Beat the Clock 1P, 12/63 40 130 429, Starlet, 100 Sel., Beat Time, 2P, 400 120 Concord, 80/100/120 9/67 530 33 & 45 RPM, 1965-66 460 555 Big Chief 4P, 9/65 200 Sel., 1966/67 No Avg. 300 431, Coronado, 100 Sel., 100 Futura, 100 Sel., 1968 No Avg. (Continued 58) 1966 -67 465 610 on page 432, GP /160, 160 Sel., 1966 -67 665 850 433, C/P Imperial, 160 Sel., 1966-67 700 895 434, Concerto,100 Sel., 1967 500 675 437, Ultra, 160 Sel., 1968 No Avg. 436, Centura,100 Sel., 1968 No Avg. 345, Princess Deluxe, 100 Sel., 1968 No Avg. 440, Psychedelic Money Grabber, 160 Sel., 1969 No Avg. Wurlitzer

2100, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1957 25 145 2104, 104 Sel., 45 RPM, 1957 25 135 2150, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1957 40 150 2200, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 40 150 2204, 104 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 30 145 NEW 2250, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 45 165 2300, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1959 85 185 2304, 104 Sel., 45 RPM, 1959 70 175 2310, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1959 70 175 ROCK -OLA 2400, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1960 115 215 2404, 104 Sel., 45 RPM, 1960 90 115 2410, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1960 90 195 2500, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1961 180 285 440 2504, 104 Sel., 45 RPM, 1961 140 245 2510, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1961 140 245 MONEY GRABBER 2600, 200 Sel., 33 8, 45 RPM, 1962 230 350 2610, 100 Sel., Thomas Greco < Frank Greco 33 e. 45 RPM, 1962 210 320 Joseph Greco Jack Greco 2700, 200 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1963 320 435 GRECO BROS. 2710, 100 Sel., NEW ROCK -OLA 440 AMUSEMENT CO., INC. 33 & 45 RPM, 1963 340 400 2800, 200 Sel., Glasco, New York 12432 33 & 45 RIM, 1964 440 630 2810, 100 Sel., MONEY GRABBER 33 & 45 RPM, 1964 395 290 2900, 200 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1965 540 425 2910, 100 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1965 500 700 3000, 200 Sel., 1966 550 753 3010, 100 Sel., 1966 500 665 3100, Americana, 200 Sel., 1967 550 735 3110, Americana, 100 Sel., 1967 610 775 3200, Americana 11, 200 Sel., 1968 No Avg. 3210, Americana II, 100 Sel., 1968 No Avg.

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LIDO, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1957 No Avg. KD200, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1957 No Avg. 201, 200 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 140 240 161, 160 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 140 240 NEW 101, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1958 120 225 DH222, 160 Sel., 45 RPM, 1959 175 275 AQ100, 100 Sel., 45 RPM, 1960 190 300 AQ160, 160 Sel., 45 RPM, 1960 215 350 ROCK -OLA AY100, 100 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1961 240 355 AY160, 160 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1961 290 430 440 DS100, 100 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1962 295 415 DS160, 160 Sel., MONEY GRABBER 33 & 45 RPM, 1962 335 455 LPC -1, 160 Sel., 33 & 45 RPM, 1963 -64 510 650 Bob Portale LPC -480, 160 Sel., NEW ROCK -OL A 44 e PORTALE AUTOMATIC SALES 33 & 45 RPM, 1965 No Avg. Electra, 160 Sel., 1965 -66 670 875 Los Angeles, California 90015 SS -160, Stereo Showcase, 1966 -67 No Avg. MONEY GRABBER Phono Jet, 100 Sel., 1968 No Avg. Spectra, 160 Sel., 1968 No Avg. 56 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Coin Machine News Empire Shows Off New Headquarters

EMPIRE GIRLS. From left, Linda Stagner, Pat Kahler, Emily Morales, Pat Gordon, office manager Mrs. Caroline Weintraub and Helen Zudlewski. MIDWAY president, Marcine Wolverton (left), and Hank Ross flank Ross Scheer.

iw GILBERT KITT, president, Empire Distributing, Inc., Chicago (left) clowns with Rock -Ola vice -president Ed Doris and Rock -Ola president and founder David C. Rockola (right) during last week's open house at Empire. It's obvious the trio is discussing Rock -Ola's new Model 440, called the Psychedelic Money Grabber. POP Over 350 at Empire Show Continued from page 53 Boxing Machine, Arm Wrestler, and a a small Sega Periscope Fisher Art Ehler, all of Rock-01a; Judd model of the same FRANK SCHROEDER, Weinberg, D. Gottlieb; Frank large arcade Manufacturing Cc. (left), poses unit, Guided Missile and Fight- and Empire's OP: Schroeder, Fisher Manufactur- with Bernie Lazar er Pilot. Robbins ing; Nat Fredman, IEC; Marcine vice - president Joe Wolverton, Hank Ross and Ross Empire's new headquarters at (right). Scheer, Midway; Bill Herbord, 120 Sangamon encompasses Automatic Products and Mort 55,000 square feet. Empire has NEW ROCK -OLA 440 Secore, Chicago Coin. four branch offices which are Some of the new amusement also holding or have held show- machines exhibited included ings of the new Rock -Ola. MONEY GRABBER

MORT SECORE, Chicago Coin (right) and Mac Brier of Empire. NEW ROCK -OLA 440 NEW MONEY GRABBER ROCK -OLA Joseph H. Shaw ACE -HI DISTRIBUTORS 440 Lackawanna, New York 14218 MONEY GRABBER

MATT AND BETTY COCKRELL pose with Dave St. Pierre, Empire WLT vending division manager (right). o M ZnU a ITON v) c O .N D D o N m J NEW £ D N Z (r) O o Q) ROCK -OLA tQo WHICH JACK BURINS? There are two here, Jack Burns, Parish QZ? w 440 Music Co. (left), and Jack Burns, ROCK -OLA 440 Empire director of branch offices NEW MONEY GRABBER and fielld sales (second from left). With them are Hugh Gorman, GRABBER Rock -Ola, and Alan Kitt MONEY Bulk Vending News

ulation growth, was a basic rea- Everett Graff, is headed by pres- NEW VICTOR 77 Tell Graff Expansion Plans; son why blue -sky activity had ident Floyd Price. Milton Hamp- GUM & CAPSULE been stepped up in Texas. ton heads the West Coast office VENDORS Blue -Sky in Oakland, Bob Sunday man- Efforts ages the Seattle branch, _ A REAL SALES to Fight 'Blue Sky' "Blue -sky has been around for Jim Parker heads the Houston of- STIMULATOR DALLAS Graff Vending tors over most of the western years but we're just getting our - share of it now. We were virgin fices and Tom Coners is man- IN ANY Supply Co., with sales offices part of the U. S., parallels the ager here. LOCATION in Oakland, Calif., Houston and expansion of bulk vending gen- territory for promoters. A main is Beautiful eye - Seattle, will shortly expand into erally, Emms said. He also said reason the tremendous popula- catching tion growth, with cities such as design. Makes two other cities. A building in expanding population has in- merchandise one city has been acquired and creased the efforts of blue -sky Houston growing 10 times in irresistible. size. Convenient, a man is setting up a sales or- promoters. interchange- ganization there. Tom Emms, "The trend in bulk operating Agreeing with others in the Bulk able merchan- industry, Emms said very few dise display in charge of outside warehouses now is toward a more thorough panel. for Graff, said last week he servicing of smaller areas," people who are "blue -skyed," Vends 100 could not reveal the new cities Emms said. "This means there as he puts it, ever continue in Banter count gum, V, the business. "I know over V- I and V -2 capsules. Available at this time. are more opportunities for new of with 10, 50, 100, 252 or 500 coin The expansion of Graff Vend- operators because of the tre- 300 blue -sky sales in Texas last CHICAGO mechanism. year. We'll be lucky if we have Removable cash box for easy col- ing, which now has about 50 mendous growth in population. lecting. Large capacity. Holds 1800 employees servicing bulk opera- "We no longer talk to new 10 per cent of these people stay Wedding bells have been ring- balls (100 count), 575 V capsules, in the business." Emms did say ing out for three members of the 250 V -1 capsules and 80 V -2 operators in terms of their cov- local bulk vending community. capsules. ering a route from Dallas to that some of this best customers, with however, started out after buying Bob Kantor, Confection Special- PRICE .41 .00 Charlotte, or from San Antonio ties, his chom a blue -sky deal. saw daughter Jean, mar- to Waterloo, la. The square ried Sept. 14. Miss Kantor is a WRITE, WIRE OR PHONE "The blue sky approach is not MI Machines mileage covered by a vendor is Northwestern University student. GRAFF VENDING being drawn in. the correct one because it's based The wedding meant that Kantor SUPPLY CO., INC. on a get- rich -no -work philoso- missed attending the National 2956 Iron Ridge Road Ready for Location Vertical Expansion Dallas 47, Texas phy. I consider myself a good Vendors Association (NVA) direc- CC Champion Rifle 95. "Many vendors are expanding closer and have talked to a num- tors' meeting for one of the few times in his career. Harvard Metal Typer 145. legs of their routes, too. Where- ber of people who have gone as before they may have been for a blue -sky promotion. Their Mike and Carmella Sparacino's AMI 100 & 200 Sel. driving through a town and thinking is different. daughter Bess will be married GUARANTEED Wall Boxes 15. ea. would not take a location a "When I meet them and tell Oct. 5. Sparacino is NVA sergeant 16' United Thunder Bowler 295. block off their route, they're them the truth about bulk vend- at arms. His son Mario will grad- USED MACHINES United Polaris Bowler. 395. uate from Career Academy Sept. now looking around the corner, ing, I rarely fail to close a sale." 30 and will enter the television 16' United Futura . 195. so to speak. Some operators are Citing an example of how N.W. Model 49, 1C or 5t $14.50 broadcasting field. . . . Sam N.W. Deluxe, 16 or 56 Comb. 12.00 16' Chicago Coin Official 195. selling off portions, or legs, of former blue -sky victims do de- Schnayer's son was recently mar- N.W. 10 -Col. 10 Tab Gum Mach 18.00 Atlas se & St 100 Ct. Ball Gum 12.00 their routes to other operators. velop into full -time vendors, ried, too. Schnayer owns Circle R All Bowlers Shopped & Repainted Acorn 8 Lb. Globe 10.50 "We still have a few of what Emms mentioned a man who Vending here. you might call visited here week. "He Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bitter - MERCHANDISE 8 SUPPLIES Cable: LEM() `cross- country' last had operators, but they are the older just been taken for 10 machines, man, Bitterman & Son, Kansas Jumbo Queen, Call, Write or Cable City, Mo., a Pistachio Nuts, which cost him over I recently took vacation Red $1.03 operators." $1,000. that included stops in Las Vegas Pistachio Nuts, Jumbo Queen, Emms said the sold White .99 new pattern of him seven reconditioned and California. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Afgan Crown Red Lip Pistachio vertical expansion, as opposed to machines for $150, which nearly Nuts .72 Distributing Co. Boylan, Logan Distributing Co., Afgan Prince Red Lip Pistachio LewdOneS vendors developing tremendous doubled his route. This man will and their daughter were in Hawaii Nuts .69 Cashew, Whole .90 Exclusive Wurlitrer Distributor geographical areas, means that likely go on to become a success- recently. Eunice Blick, Logan Dis- Cashew, Butts .82 1311 N. Capitol Ave. many more operators can be ful vendor.' tributing, is back from a Colorado Peanuts, Jumbo .50 de- Spanish .32 Indianapolis, Ind. veloped. He also indicated that Graff Vending Supply Co., vacation. Mixed Nuts .60 Paul Crisman, White Midwest Baby Chicks .36 Tel.: MElrose 5 -1593 vertical expansion based on pop- formed by bulk vending pioneer Rainbow Peanuts .32 Corp., vacationed in Florida re- Bridge Mix .32 cently. Herb Goldstein, Oak Manu- Boston Baked Beans .32 Jelly Beans .32 facturing Co., Los Angeles, was Licorice Gems .31 a visitor in Chicago en route to M & M, 500 ct. .50 KING'S service for all Munchies, 16 -lb. carton, per Ib. .39 Philadelphia for the NVA direc- SweeTarts 38 S&p BIG PROFITS One tors' meeting. Mrs. W. R. (Ray) Greiner is working again at WRMI- Wrapped Gum -Fleers 4M pcs. $14.40 BULK VENDING MACHINE Wrapped Gum -Pal, 4M pcs. .. 14.00 COME IN SMALL OPERATORS FM after a long absence due to Rain -Blo Ball Gum, 2100 per ctn. 7.25 illness. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Paige Rain -Blo Ball Gum, 1800 printed filled per carton 7.50 MERCHANDISE -Leaf ball gum, wrapped gum, charms, visited the Greiners briefly over Rain -Bio Ball Gum, 5550 per ctn. 8.75 PACKAGES capsules, panned candies, bulk & vacuum packed nuts, ball Rain -Bio Ball Gum, 4300 per ctn. 8.85 point pens, combs, lc tab, Sc package gum, Sc & 10c vending the Labor Day holiday. Rain -Blo Ball Gum, 3550 per ctn. 8.85 pack candy bars. H. B. Hutchinson Jr., Atlanta Maltettes, 2400 per carton 8.40 Northwestern's SUPPLIES capsules V1 -V2, coin weighing scales, 15 Cartons minimum prepaid on all -Empty V- distributor and NVA president, Leaf Brand Rain -Blo Ball Gum. Model 60 counters & wrappers, stamp folders, decals, route cards, pad- sprained a tendon in his leg and locks, spray paints, machine cleaners & lubricants, paper cups Adams Gum, all flavors, 100 ct. .45 for hot nut venders & hot beverages. at press time last week was un- Wrigley's Gum, all flavors, 100 cí..45 produces more about attending Phila- Beech -Nut, 100 ct. .45 EQUIPMENT -All Northwestern bulk venders, cast iron stands, certain the Minimum order, 25 Boxes, assorted. profit per dollar wall brackets, sanitary & stamp venders, new & reconditioned delphia meeting. CHARMS AND CAPSULES. Write bulk venders of all kinds, parts for all bulk venders. for complete list. Complete line of Parts, Supplies, Stands, Globes, of investment Brackets. Malt this coupon for details and prices on the Northwestern Whether it's in a super- SUPER StXTY (illustrated), Vends gum- charms. Also ask for Everything for the operator. market or super service information on other Northwestern machines. SCHOENBACH CO. One -Third Deposit, Balance C.O.D. station, the Model 60 is NAME TITLE DEPENDABLE Manufacturers Representative an operator's profit pack- FAST SERVICE, Acorn - Amco Distributor IMMEDIATE DELIVERY COMPANY LOWEST PRICES age. Simple changes of the MACHINES on the New brush housing and mer- ADDRESS FROM LARGEST chandise wheel allow you INVENTORY IN Wduedstem to dispense all types of CITY STATE ZIP THE U.S. Fill in coupon, clip and moil to: ACORN popular items. The Model Send for GOLDEN prices and VISTA 60 T. 1. KING 8 COMPANY INC. illustrated This "all prod- 2700 W. Lake St. Chicago, III. 60612 CABINET Phone: 1312) 533 -3302 literature. uct" vendor is MACHINES truly the most versatile on IN STOCK the market. if your competition is Handles ball HOT -HOT gum, charms, k giving you location trouble . 10c CAPSULE MIXES capsules, all (all 250 per bag) nuts and any Monte Carlo $8.00 Indian Craft Rings 9.50 small bulk Asst. Items with Lighter 8.00 products with- you may find the answer to Precious Gem Rings 7.50 this Jewelry Mix 7 00 -8.00 out breaking problem by operating the most Jumbo Dice Mix 8.00 or crushing. advanced idea in bulk vending Jumbo Creepy Bugs 8.00 - Mini Books (3 per capsule) 8.00 the all new Victor Gold decora- - HOT Sc VEND ITEMS tive front (all 250 per bag) Asst. Economy Mix $4.25 panel. Mam- Bugs 5.00 moth capacity. Rings 5.00 Economy Ring Mix Available with lc, 5c, 10c or 25c SELECTOItflIA® (no front) 4.00 60 has the most foolproof Regular Deluxe Assmt. . 5.00 in Asst. Jewelry (Bangles & Mechanisms coin mechanism its field. Beads) 5.00 Extra -wide chute and inter- h CHARM MIXES & ITEMS Stamp Folders, Lowest Prices, Write changeable globe accom- 77- CONSOLE I From $3.50 to $24.00 per M. modates all sizes of With six different combinations to select Parts, Supplies, Stands & Globes. NATIONAL VENDING at- from to fit any of your locations. Everything for the operator. MEMBER MACHINE DISTRIBUTORS, Inc. products. Model 60's Will One -third deposit with order, tractive, modern design is vend a variety of merchandise and coin balance C.O.D. combinations-lc, 5c, 1Oc, 25c. sure to corner profits for CO. you any location. Wire, Front door operation saves 50% to 75% SCHOENBACH NORTHWESTERN -at service time. Bigger display, more profits. 715 Lincoln Pl., Brooklyn 16, N.Y. (212) PResident 2 -2900 CORP. write or phone for complete SALES a SERVICE details. See your distributor for information and 446 W. 36th St., New York, N.T. 10018 delivery date. (212) LOngacre 4-6467 when answering ads . VICTOR VENDING CORP. 5701 -13 West Grand Ave. Say You Saw It in CORPORATION _ 2893 Armstrong St., Morris, Ill. Chicago, III. (0639 \ Say You Saw It in Billboard Phone: WHitney 2 -1300 Billboard 58 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Vending and Coin Machine News

Bonanza 2P, 6/64 115 210 Get and hold Bowling Queen 1 P, 8/64 85 175 Buckaroo, 6/65 135 230 the best locations Central Park 1P, 4/66 185 280 with Cow Poke 1P, 5/65 105 190 The Bluebook Cross Town 1P, 9/66 250 365 Dancing Lady 4P, 11/66 250 365 Victor's Dodge City 4P, 7/65 200 300 Continued from page 56 Oh, Eoy 'P, 2/64 80 175 Flipper Pool 1 P, 11/65 115 210 Selectorania ° Ralooka 1P, 5/64 75 150 Flying Chariots 2P, 10/63 50 145 o 2P, 7/65 175 270 1P, 400 475 low High Pot Gold Funland 5/68 Pretty Bay 2P, 2/65 145 235 Gaucho 4P, 1/63 50 145 Big Daddy 4P, 9/63 45 135 Console giver Boat 1P, 90 175 Gigi IP, 12/63 70 160 Big Deal 1P, 2/63 35 125 San Fran:isco 2P, 5/64 100 190 Happy Clown 4P, 11/64 155 255 6 DIFFERENT STYLES Big Strike 1P, 11/66 160 265 Shangri -Le 4P, 5/67 395 530 Hi- Dolly, 5/65 180 270 Bowl -A- Strike, 12/65 150 250 Ski Club, 3/65 135 230 Hi -Score 4P, 6/67 425 575 Casanova 2P, 11/66 285 390 Pool 1P, 6/63 35 125 Ice Revue,l2 /65 160 260 Derby Day 2P, 10/67 310 445 Skill Soccer, 1P, 3/64 65 155 Ice Show, 1/66 165 260 Ding Dong 1P, 3/63 385 485 Stop & Go 2P, 8/64 115 210 King of Diamonds 1P, 1/67 275 356 Eager Beaver 2P, 4/65 150 250 Teacters' Pet IP, 766 145 235 Kings & Queens, 4/65 110 200 Ball 2P, 166 235 320 8 Tom -Tom 2P, 1/63 40 110 Majorettes 1P, 8/64 85 170 El Toro 2P, 8/63 60 160 Top Hand 1P, 5/66 185 295 Masquerade, 2/66 255 365 House IP, 165 265 ai :ull 3/66 Touchdown 1P, 11;67 365 485 Mayfair 2P, 6/66 250 345 2P, No Avg. Hayburner 8/68 Wing Ding IP, 12/64 100 185 North Star 1P, 10/64 95 185 Dis- 50 160 JOHN HALL, Miller- Newark leaf Wave IP, 7/64 Whoopee 4P, 10/64 155 250 Paradise, 11/65 195 310 Hot Line 1P, 9/66 235 330 tributing Co. salesman in Grand Zig -Zig 1P, 12/64 100 190 Royal Guard 1P, 1/68 385 485 Roger 4P, 1/68 425 545 Jolly Lady Luck 2P, 4/68 No Avg. Shore 2P, 9/64 125 215 Rapids, Mich., receives advice Jumpin' Jack 2P, 4/63 25 130 Sea Ship -Mates 4P, 2/64 115 210 Rowe International, Inc., 1P, 135 230 from Lucky Strike 8/65 Sing -Along 1P, 9/67 325 420 Magic City 1P, 1/67 270 375 Gottlieb plant manager Roger Hendricks Skyline I P, 1/65 110 200 Magic Town 1P, (a -a -b) 265 385 (right). Slick Chick 1 P, 4/63 50 135 Merry Widow 4P, 10/63 80 170 Bank -A -Ball 1P, 9/65 140 225 Subway 1 P, 10/66 (a -a -b) 175 285 Moulin Rouge 1P, 130 230 Top 1P, 1/64 70 160 6/65 Big Super Score 2P, 5/67 330 465 Sweet Hearts 1P, 9/63 65 150 Swing Along 2P, 6/65 60 150 "as -is" and "reconditioned" equip- George Miller III Thoro Bred 2P, 6/65 170 320 drastically Operating Routes World Fair IP, 5/64 65 150 ment varies-sometimes Shooting Gallery 1P, 5/68 No Avg. -from market to market due to OAKLAND, Calif. -George Spin Wheel 4P, 4/68 No Avg. strictly local conditions. Important Continued from page 53 No Avg. A. Miller, long -time industry Royal Guard IP, 1/68 variables include transportation Music route acquisitions by leader, has been ill recently. costs, labcr and parts costs and national firms, while more evi- He Nard Ellis, Music Operators Rally demand fcr a particular piece or type of equipment. Therefore Save 50% to 75% servicing time. dent here in the West, is cer- of America (MOA) secretary, door to fill & collect. Rally Girl 1P, 11/66 No Avg. value will regularly deviate Unlock front a re- local tainly not limited by geograph- who visited with Miller on West Club 2P, 4/67 No Avg. from the national averages pub- ical areas. cent trip to the West Coast, sug- Schuss 1P, 6/68 No Avg. Write -Phone for information Comics 4P, 5/68 No Avg. lished here. Such deviation should gests that friends send Miller get - than Meyer Gelfand, vice- presi- be considered the rule rather INC. well cards. on. LOGAN DISTRIBUTING, dent, The Macke Co., Cheverly, NOTE: All quotes for national the except Ill. 60622 Miller's home address is 5893 operative 1852 W. Division St., Chicago, Md., and president of National averaging are based on Phone. (312) 486 -4870 Asso- South Land Park Drive, Sacra- equipment, both "as -is" and "re- Coypright 1965, Billboard Publi- Automatic Merchandising cations, Inc. ciation, said recently: "We do mento, Calif. 95822. conditioned." The value of both have an interest in acquiring music routes where it makes sense for us to do so. It's a good business." "I'm interested in good music and cigaret routes anywhere they can be found," said Louis Golden, president of American Automatic Vending Corp., Cleve- land. Golden's company has re- cently acquired such firms as Southern Automatic Music Co., Louisville, and Toledo Music & Novelty Co., Toledo. elmon 00 t

Eliminate warping and breaking with new

by f!/J e`teA/ with honeycomb playfield THE OPEN RED CARPET HOUSE IS OUT and Every Hour everything's on the of the house Day at DAVID DAVID ROSEN'S ROSEN'S

The ONLY coin operated table with a playfield guaranteed for 5 years. Guarantee covers warpage and breakage for a period of 5 years to the original purchaser. Same quality as the REGENT: 100 Series 56'" x 101 "; 90 Series 52" x 911/2". 855 N. BROAD ST. *or call CE 2 -2900 and ischer we'll come over and get you FISCHER MFG. COMPANY, INC. TIPTON, MO. 65081 Phone: 816- 433 -5531 59 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Three ways to be In -like -Flynn with big earning locations

1 WURLITZER AMERICANA II PHONOGRAPH Here is the industry's finest example of Class created by a combination of cabinet design, construction integrity, stereo music and all- around superior engineering. Its earnings-, too, are in a class by themselves.

2 WURLITZER 5133 WALL SPEAKER Faithfully reproduces the marvelous tone of the Americana II AYERICANA II throughout any location. Its beautifully trimmed walnut finished wood cabinet houses a 61/2" high compliance woofer and a 3.1" cone tweeter, too!

3 WURLITZER PUBLIC ADDRESS MIKE KIT Here's the clincher ... it turns Americana II into a location - wide system for paging, making announcements, utilizing singing bartenders, or conducting song fests ... all for fun!

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Hotel, Chicago. Nov. 10- 14- National Associa- Nov. 13- Florida Amusement & District 1 meet- Oct. 19 - Missouri Automatic tion of Concessionaires, annual Music Association, Merchandising Association., an- convention and trade exhibit, Hil- ing, site to be announced, Pensa- Coming Events nual meeting, Plaza Inn, Kansas ton Hotel, San Francisco. cola. City. Nov. 12- Florida Amusement & Nov. 16- Montana Coin Ma- Oct. 27 -Coin Operated Indus- Music Association, District 2 meet- chine Operators Association, regu- Sept. 15- 16-National Vendors America, 18th annual convention tries of Nebraska, Prom Town ing, site to be announced, Jackson- lar meeting, site to be announced, Association, board meeting, Frank- and trade show, Sherman House House Motel, Omaha. ville. Wolf Point. lin Motor Hotel, Philadelphia. Sept. 15 -South Carolina Coin Operators Association, Charleston, \\ \ \ \ \\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\ \ \ \ \ \\\ \ \\ \ \ \.P/ S. C. / Sept. 19 - Massachusetts Coin p Machine Association and the West- I ern Massachusetts Music Guild, / greater New England convention, SPECIALS! Sheraton -Yankee Drummer Motor / Inn, Auburn, Mass. COMPLETE, AS IS Sept. 26 -28 -West Virginia Mu- ROWE 14 AMBASSADOR, COINMASTER, 40c -45c $ 40 sic & Vending Association, Heart / ROWE 14 AMBASSADOR, ALL COIN 70 I of Town Motor Inn, Charlestown, FAROWE 77 CANDY, COINMASTER 90 W. Va. ROWE 77 CANDY, 25c CHANGER 125 Sept. 27 -28 - Arizona Auto- STEELMADE 5290 CAN VENDER 400 matic Merchandising Council, an- SEEBURG E -2 CIGARETTE 35 nual meeting, Mountain Shadows, CORSAIR 30 CIGARETTE 40 AI FA Scottsdale. / ROWE 5K8 Single Cup COFFEE 245 Sept. 27 -29 -Music Operators of ROWE 5K9 Single Cup COFFEE 595 / New York, annual meeting, Homo - wack Lodge, Spring Glen, N. Y. / / Oct. 1- Missouri Coin Machine Council, Jefferson Hotel, Macon. TOP EARNINGS I Write for complete 1968 Catalog of / Oct. 8- Florida Amusement & ' Phonographs, Vending and Games. Music Association, district meet- ìt-I / ing, site to be announced, West IN Established 1934 Palm Beach. Oct. 9- Florida Amusement & Music Association, District 6 meet- EVERY TYPE OF LOCATION Cable: MUSIC COMPANY / ing, site to be announced, Miami. / " ATLAS Oct. 11- Illinois Coin Machine ATMUSIC- Chicago 6 -5005 Operators Association, board meet- EVERYWHERE 01 6,1 2122 N. WESTERN AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. 60647. ARmitage ing, Sherman House Hotel, Chi- cago. \\\\ \ \ \ \\ \ \ \` Oct. 11 -13 -Music Operators of

Rock -Ola Goes Mod Continued from page 53 --ON TO CHICAGO! plays for 25 cents, five for the second quarter, eight for the third and I 1 to 15 for the fourth quarter. The machine is also r available with a dollar bill vali- o . dator. s4 'J A new powerized remote vol- 1 IQ SN ume control has an on -off switch rr " for phonograph power, volume ï N, and cancel. The dial is illumi- nated. .1. rt a :i:. for three Another optional feature is 1, m: , ïun C the transistorized receiver, con- I V i1 Big Days of the sisting of two transistors and two tá .l I identical plug -in relays. ma The machine, called Model 440, also features new speaker ti 1 IN'B positioning for increased stereo i.t ti separation. ) ,1 il j !1 Other features, some of which 111II`I M OA are optional, include a torsion a 14 !!i li spring lid, a new National Re- 11 i ! jectors slug mechanism, an "L" Pill 1t_.1 pad control for the phonograph i1 11 I l II R` MUSIC speaker, allowing for graduated i or attenuated control without af- * 10 in fecting extension speakers, tran- AND sistorized amplifier, intermix t ''; I li sl-11 44 r!I changer handling 45's and Little * I i i LP's, an automatic money coun- iL si il ter and a common receiver ': system. A number of features in the it it Ir, 440 were introduced in a pre- mmniur AMUSEMENT ., vious model. These include the ... features of flip -top servicing and easy -view programming. Every important service and mainte- nance point can be easily st it 0 MACHINES t: tb+t reached by lifting up the top of ':. -----;' .rlaa the machine. EXPOSITION BUY! Friday, Saturday, Sunday - October 11, 12, 13 - Sherman House Hotel, Chicago METAL TYPERS Three Days of Exhibits and Special Events Vending Aluminum IDENTIFICATION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 DISC 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Exhibits Open to P.M. Exhibits Open A.M. 3:00 P.M. Exhibits Open 12:00 Noon Ladies' Luncheon 9:00 AM. 5:00 10:00 to P.M. Seminar on One Stops WHY! 3:30 P.M. to 4:45 11:30 A.M to 1:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Cocktail Hour P.M. 1. LIFE -TIME INCOME 5 00 P.M. to 6:00 Luncheon & Membership Meeting Seminar on Games Tournaments 7:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. Gala Banquet & Show TROUBLE -FREE 2. Suites Open in Evening OPERATION Hospitality Suites Open in Evening Hospitality 3. ONLY 18 "x18" STANOARD Ill ARVARD Exhibitors from around the world -th? U.S., France, Italy, Germany, Japan- representing all METAL TY PER Inc. facets of the coin -operated music and amusement industries and allied industries. 1318 N. WESTERN AVE. CHICAGO 22, ILL. EV 4 -3120 MUSIC OPERATORS OF AMERICA 228 N. LASALLE STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60601

SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 61 The Step Ahead Rowe AMI Music Master Only jukebox with a built-in stool pigeon. New Music Master has exclusive Rowe Alarm System. A burglar alarm that's loud as a fire siren! Goes off if the cashbox door is tampered w.th in any way. It's gas -operated. No batteries, no electrical system. And it's standard equipment. Here's another big feature. Revolutionary RoweVue. Automatically displays full color slides, at 15- second intervals, on a bright 6" x 9" screen. A real attention grabber. Slide sets available. Girls, sports, record personalities, scenic America, and more. Other Music Master exclusive features: Change -A -Scene front panels New 2 Wire Systems for remote volume and cancel control New, simplified Dollar Bill Acceptor 3-in -1 programming (Change from 200 to 160 to 100 selection) Patented Stereo Round sound Easy "Lift -Off'' front door

See your Rowe distributor for all the money -making details. Rowe international, inc. A SUBSIDIARY OF TRIANGLE INIDUSTRIES, INC. 75 TROY HILLS RO., WHIPPANY, N. J. 07981 Coin Machine News

waged. Background music com- panies, usually an irritant to Las Vegas Operators jukebox locations, also offer New Equipment competition, but on a smaller scale. Fight Club Competition "Tourists are noine to stay in the plush hotels and show- By BRUCE WEBER rooms," claims Smith. "They're not going to rush out to cock- LAS VEGAS - Competition Southern Nevada is discour- tail lounges and bars to hear from free lounge shows at hotels aging, according to Smith. jukebox music. That's why lo- here, a $50 annual machine li- "The jukebox industry is cation owners have got to stop catering to hotel dropouts." cense fee and a 3 per cent sales caught between two conflicting tax are worrying local jukebox worlds -live entertainment and When operators program entertainment on records," con- away from the tourists areas, he operators. tends another jukebox operator. says, the music is usually a mix- The effects on the jukebox "Casinos, with their live enter- ture of sounds, with emphasis industry are multifold. Keen tainment, are a full -blown mid- on jazz. "The locals play the competition has developed be- night party." jukebox," says Smith, "but the tween hotels and jukebox loca- Because Las Vegas is a 24- concentration, stupidly, is on tions, both vying for customers. hour resort, operators must pro- tourists." In either case, the lure is enter- vide 24 -hour service on equip- Also hindering the growth of tainment. ment, another expensive over- the industry is a machine tax in the city of Las Vegas and with head. Because locations have both "In order to compete jukeboxes blaring non -stop, says neighboring counties of $25 per lounge shows in hotels," says the Smith, the equipment takes a machine every six months and Steve Smith, of Music Service, beating. a 3 per cent sales tax (State- Inc., "jukebox locations along wide). the Strip are offering a free juke- Jukebox locations away from box." the Strip do well, but the action "The scene for a jukebox op- is on the Strip, and that's where erator here is maddening," says Hotels offer entertainment the live entertainment vs. re- Smith, "and it's not likely to get without exorbitant expense. corded music war is being better." "That has been the major prob- lem," adds Smith. "To keep pace with the live entertainment ELECTRIC SCOREBOARDS .. 2 Models 0 scene; jukebox locations put the OVERHEAD MODEL NEW SIDE -MOUNT MODEL

box on unlimited play without , (Natural finish hardwood ( Walnut Formica finish- pay." cabinet) easy to clean) Two- faced. Scores 15 -21 Scores 15 -21 and /or 50 0 To complicate the situation, pts. Also 15 -21 Chicago Coin -Two -Player Flipper Game / and /or 50 pts. too, coin machine locations get Ln 5D pts. only. A9n SO F.O.B. Chicago.. I V7 F.O.B. Chicago..$L 't7- the equipment at "reasonable / This newest two -player flipper game from Chicago Coin called Playtime EACH has rental rates," asserts Smith. "Lo- model also these feature;: A includes the Chicago firm's new match number feature, called Top Hat to 1- player or 2- player by simple cation owners feel they have to BILLIARD SUPPLIES plug switchover. Also 2 for 25C on this game. When three similar numbers line up in the three windows play. Easily serviced. give free 'play on the jukebox Professional quality Billiard / at the bottom of the backglass, bonus values are scored. Other fea- "Came Over" light flashes on at to draw customers away from Cloth- green, blue and gold. end of game. tures: action holes kick the ball from side to side as it rolls down the the casinos and showrooms and 21/4" 15 Belgian numbered Large metal coin box -holds $500 in dimes. playfield; two side lanes score a special when illuminated; ball saver into their cocktail lounges." and 2M," Cue Balls. Set...$19.95 Terms: 1/3 dep., bol. C.O.D. or S.D. P closes the flippers to keep ball in action; automatic ball lift; three Although the picture changes 57" Cues-str., $2.95 ea., $33 dz. thumper bumpers; illuminated ball count and game over next to in downtown Las Vegas, where 00 57" Jointed Cues $7.50 up MARVEL Mfg. Company IHeath and A.B.T. Coin Chutes. I shooter; three individual coin chutes for 5 -cent, 10 -cent and 25-cent, there are a limited number of 2845 W. Fullerton, Chicago, Hl. 60647 Complete line. Write for new list. Phone and adjustable for three or five -ball play. locations, the over -all scene in (312) 342 -2424 __ \ b N OWWW_W___ \\ \' b II CNEicWóago Coin's 2- Player CjPlaytime

KEY LOCK FOR CONTROL AVAILABLE TOP HAT SCORE FEATURE

When 3 Similar Numbers Ap- pear, As Ball Leaves Playfield, Bonus Values Are Scored! Top SHE COMPACT MECH- Hat Score Drums Are Stepped Up ANISM IS COMPLETE- ENCLOSED LY IN IMMEDIATE By Hitting Playfield Targets. FRAMEWORK OF THE LIFT GATE ITSELF. d- DELIVERY THIS KEEPS ALL This item is a must WORKING PARTS OUT F to handle your machines. OF WEATHER AND TROUBLE FREE. ACTION SCORE D E S I G N E D FOR Bottling Companies Amusement Companies Canreen Service Appliance Stores Oil Companies Utility Companies Material and Many -Many Others. FEATURE ELECTRIC HYDRAULIC POWER UNIT, RUNS ONLY WHEN LIFTING. Action Holes Kick Ball From Side ONLY ONE CONTROL LEVER TO OPERATE. To Side For Repeating Action A MODEL TO FIT EVERY PICKUP TRUCK BOX OR UTILITY BOX. Scores. BUILT -IN RELIEF VALVE PREVENTS OVERLOADING. (Will lift up to 900 lbs.) And High No cutting or welding required to install this Hydraulic Lift Gate. Anyone Service 00 COMPLETE WOODBINE, IOWA BALL easily. $390 NCLUDES ED EXCISE TAX SAVER ... Available at your Phonograph or Coin Operated Machine Distributor, Closes Opening Between 2 Flippers or contact WOODBINE MFG. CO., Woodbine, Iowa, for name of nearest 2 SIDE LANES TOMMY GATE Distributor. ILLUMINATED "BALL COUNT" and 3 INDIVIDUAL SCORE SPECIAL "GAME OVER ", Next to Shooter WHEN LIT COIN CHUTES BUMPERS 5c- 10c-25c 3 THUMPER

Mfrs. ALSO IN STAGE COACH MELODY LANE of PRODUCTION: STARFIRE PROVEN CHICAGO COIN MACHINE DIV. PROFIT MAKERS *SEE IT ON DISPLAY Since CHICAGO DYNAMIC INDUSTRIES, INC. MOA -BOOTH 413 1931 7' 1725 W. DIVERSEY BLVD., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60614

SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 63 re

FOR 4i, WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 21, 1968

TAPE TAPE PACKAGES PACKAGES AVAILABLE AVAILABLE STAR PERFORMER -LP's on chart 15 weeks t Awarded RIAA seal for sales of or less registering greatest proportionate 1 Million dollars at manufacturer's upward progress this week. ®off- level. RIAA seal audit available LIJ manufacturers. NA Not Available and optional io all 3 Ñ N_ S ARTIST - Title - Label & Number v 3 - ARTIST - Title - Label & Number 25 40 43 BILL COSBY -To Russell, My Brother, Whom I 7 1 1 DOORS-Waiting for the Sun Elektra (No Mono); EKS 74024 (S) Slept With Warner Bros. -Seven Arts (No Mono); WS 1734 (S) 11 2 RASCALS Peace /Greatest Hits 2 -Time 17 31 44 DEAN MARTIN- Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 Atlantic (No Mono); SD 8190 (S) Reprise (No Mono); RS 6301 (S) NA NA NA 10 4 3 JOSE FELICIANO -Feliciano! 52 54 45 DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES- Greatest Hits RCA Victor LPM 3957 (M); LSP 3957 (S) Motown (No Mono); MS 2 -663 (S) Band 11 3 4 CREAM- Wheels of Fire 66 47 46 BEATLES -Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Atco (No Mono); SD 2 -700 (S) Capitol MAS 2653 (M); SMAS 2653 (S) 23 38 SPIRIT 13 5 5 JOHNNY RIVERS-Realization 47 Ode Z12 -44003 (M); Z12 -44004 (S) Imperial (No Mono); LP 12372 (S) 21 48 48 MOODY BLUES -Days of Future Past

29 6 6 STEPPENWOLF . Deram DE 16012 (M); DES 18012 (S) Dunhill (No Mono); DS 50029 (S) 27 49 49 OTIS REDDING -The Dock of the Bay 57 8 7 JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE-Are You Experienced? Volt 419 (M); S 419 (S) Reprise (No Mono); RS 6261 (S) 4 55 50 BEE GEES -Idea NA -253 (S) 28 10 8 SOUNDTRACK -The Graduate Atco (No Mono); SD 33 Columbia (No Mono); OS 3180 (S) 33 50 51 SOUNDTRACK -The Good, the Bad & the Ugly United Artists UAL 4172 (M); UAS 5172 (5; 42 7 9 CREAM- Disraeli Gears Atco 33 -232 (M); SD 33-232 (S) y 11 58 52 SOUNDTRACK-2001 Space Odyssey MGM (No Mono); SIEE 13 ST S( ) NA 7c 22 11 10 SIMON & GARFUNKEL- Bookends Columbia (No Mono); KCS 9529 (S) 15 53 53 TOM JONES-Fever Zone Parrot (No Mono); PAS 71019 (S) 20 12 11 HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS -Beat of 25 70 54 GLEN CAMPBELL-Hey Little One the Brass Capitol (No Mono); ST 2878 (S) A &M (No Mono); SP 4146 (S) 33 57 55 JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE-Axis: Bold as Love 11 9 12 ARETHA FRANKLIN - Aretha Now Reprise (No Mono); RS 6281 (S) Atlantic (No Mono); SD 8186 (S) 15 56 DON RICKLES -Hello Dummy! NA 56 4 33 13 BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY- Warner Bros. -Seven Arts (No Mono); WS 1745 (S) Cheap Thrills 57 TEMPTATIONS-Greatest Hits Columbia (No Mono); KCS 9700 (S) 93 51 Gordy (No Mono); 919 (S) 13 14 MASON WILLIAMS - 14 EDDIE HARRIS- Electrifying Warner Bros. -Seven Arts (No Mono); WS 1729 (S) 24 44 58 Atlantic 1495 (M); SD 1495 (S) NA 29 16 15 GLEN CAMPBELL- Gentle on My Mind 18 41 59 DELLS-There Is Capitol (No Mono); ST 2809 (S) Cadet (No Mono); LP 804 (S) NA 32 25 16 CHAMBERS BROTHERS -The Time Has Come 10 65 60 OTIS REDDING -The Immortal Columbia CL 2722 (M); CS 9522 (S) * )f Atco (No Mono); SD 33 -252 (S) 15 17 17 JOHNNY CASH Folsom Prison NA -At 46 68 MAMAS & PAPAS-Farewell to the First Golder) Era Columbia (No Mono); CS 9639 (S) 61 Dunhill (No Mono); DS 50025 (S) 9 19 18 DONOVAN-In Concert NA NA BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD Time Around Epic (No Mono); BN 26386 (S) 6 M 62 -Last Atco (No Mono); SD 33 -256 (S) 10 21 19 IRON BUTTERFLY -A- Gadda -Da -Vida -In 4 84 63 MIKE BLOOMFIELD, AL KOOPER, STEVE STILLS Atco (No Mono); SD 33 -250 (S) - Super Session 11 20 20 VANILLA FUDGE-Renaissance Columbia (No Mono); CS 9701 (S) Atco (No Mono); SD 33 -244 (S) 20 46 64 MONKEES -The Birds, the Bees & NA 39 15 21 GLEN CAMPBELL -By the Time I Get to Phoenix l.J Colgems COM 109 (M); CDS 109 (S) Capitol T 2851 (M); ST 2851 (S) 132 63 65 SOUNDTRACK -Dr. Zhivago 16 22 22 HUGH MASEKELA -Promise of a Future t, MGM (No Mono); 1 SE -6ST (S) Uni (No Mono); 73028 (S) 43 61 66 OTIS REDDING -History of 29 13 23 SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL '66-Look Around Volt 418 (M); S 418 (S) A &M (No Mono); SP 4137 (S) 14 79 67 QUI(CKSIoLVNR MESSENGE2R90SE(R11ICE NA NA NA 66 24 JEFFERSON AIRPLANE -Crown of Creation RCA Victor LSP 4058 (5) 8 73 68 ORIGINAL CAST-Hair 31 30 25 CANNED HEAT- Boogie With the NA RCA Victor LOC 1150 (M); LSO 1150 (S) Liberty (No Mono); LST 7541 (S) 7 80 69 BAND -Music From Big Pink 98 26 26 SIMON & GARFUNKEL- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary NA Capitol (No Mono); SKAO 2955 t.., & Thyme 31 71 70 SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES -Greatest Columbia CL 2563 (M); CS 9363 (S) Hits, Vol. 2 5 34 27 JEFF BECK-Truth NA NA NA NA Temla (No Mono); TS 280 (S) Epic (No Mono); BN 26413 (S) 41 59 71 PAUL MAURIAT & HIS ORK- Blooming Hits 18 18 28 TEMPTATIONS-Wish It Would Rain Philips PHM 200-248 (M); PHS 600 -248 (S) Gordy (No Mono); 7072 (5) 46 82 72 SOUNDTRACK- Camelot 54 23 29 VANILLA FUDGE Warner Bros. -Seven Arts (No Mono); B$ 1712 (S). Atca 33.224 (M); SD 33-224 (5) 72 43 73 CREAM-Fresh 79 27 30 DOORS Atco 33 =206 (M); SD 33ß06 (S) Elektra (No Mono); EKS 74007 (S) 15 85 74 AMBOY DUKES-Journey to the Center of the Mind 31 24 31 ARETHA FRANKLIN -Lady Soul Mainstream 56112 (M); 5/6112 (S) Atlantic 8176 (M); SD 8176 (S) 184 75 75 SOUNDTRACK -The Sound of Music 47 32 32 DOORS- Strange Days RCA Victor LOCD 2005 (M); LSOD 2005 (S) Elektra (No Mono); EKS 74014 (S) 38 45 76 -Wild Flowers 12 52 33 SOUNDTRACK-Wild in the Streets Elektra (No Mono); EKS 74012 (S) Tower (No Mono); 5099 (S) 19 69 77 GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP-Young Girl Columbia (No Mono); CS 9664 (S) 16 37 34 ANDY WILLIAMS -Honey NA Columbia (No Mono); CS 9662 (S) 51 74 78 WES MONTGOMERY -A Day in the Life A &M (No Mono); SP 3001 (S) 23 28 35 BOBBY GOLDSBORO -Honey United Artists UAL 3642 (M); UAS 6642 (5) 21 67 79 WES MONTGOMERY -Down Here on the Ground A &M (No Mono); LP 3006 (S) 17 35 36 RAY CONNIFF & THE SINGERS-Honey NA 92 80 BLUES BAND -In My Own Columbia (No Mono); CS 9661 (S) * Dream 62 37 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK -Man Without Love Elektra (No Mono); EKS 74025 (S) *57C Parrot (No Mono); PAS 71022 (S) 25 89 81 IRISH ROVERS- Unicorn Decca DL 4951 (M); DL 74951 (S) 14 39 38 GLEN CAMPBELL -A New Place in the Sun Capitol (No Mono); ST 2907 (S) 45 76 82 DIONNE WARWICK-Golden Hits, Part 1 Scepter SRM 565 (M); SPS 565 (S) 19 29 39 RICHARD HARRIS Tramp Shining -A 10 Dunhill (No Mono); DS 50032 (S) 83 83 RAMSEY LEWIS- Maiden Voyage Cadet (No Mono); LPS 811 (S) 24 36 40 NANCY SINATRA /LEE HAZLEWOOD -Nancy & Lee 52 72 84 FOUR TOPS- Greatest Hits Reprise (No Mono); RS 6273 (5) Motown (No Mono); MS 662 (SI 82 42 41 SIMON & GARFUNKEL- Sounds of Silence NA 191 85 CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN Columbia CL 2469 (M); CS 9269 (5) * Track -Atlantic SD 8198 (5) 5 60 42 5TH DIMENSION-Stoned Soul Picnic NA 18 91 86 MAMAS & PAPAS -Papas & Mamas Soul City (No Mono); SCS 92002 (S) Dunhill (No Mono); DS 50031 (S) Compiled from National Retail Stores by the Music Popularity Chart Department and the Record Market Research Department of Billboard. 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ARTIST - Title - Label & Number 67 118 127 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK-Release Me * 3 97 87 PETULA CLARK -Petula Parrot PA 61012 (M); PAS 71012 (S) Warner Bros. -Seven Arts WS 1743 (S) 40 127 128 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK -The Last Waltz * 15 102 88 0. C. 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NA NA NA NA Columbia (No Mono); CS 9597 (S) Liberty LST 7568 (S) 9 112 112 INTRUDERS- Cowboys to Girls * 2 174 153 PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS- NA Gamble (No Mono); SG 5004 (S) Something Happening 15 113 113 EDDY ARNOLD -The Romantic World of NA NA NA Columbia CS 9665 (S) RCA Victor LPM 4009 (M); LSP 4009 (S) 60 154 154 VARIOUS ARTISTS-Super Hits Il 77 114 COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH - Together Atlantic 501 (M); SD 501 (S) Vanguard (No Mono); VSD 79277 (S) * 2 175 155 PETER, PAUL & MARY-Late Again * 3 130 115 DEAN MARTIN -Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Warner Bros. -Seven Arts WST 1751 (5) Reprise RS 6320 (S) 40 147 156 HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS-Ninth 34 115 116 SOUNDTRACK-Walt Disney Presents the Story & NA NA A &M (No Mono); SP 4134 (S) Songs of the Jungle Book 4 158 157 NANCY WILSON-Best of Disneyland 3948 (M); SD 3948 (5) Capitol (No Mono); SKAO 2947 (S) * 4 144 117 GRATEFUL DEAD- Anthem of the Sun 3 159 158 BEACH BOYS -Best of the, Vol. 3 Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (No Mono); W5 1749 (5) Capitol DKAO 2945 (S) 140 119 118 ORIGINAL CAST -Man of La Mancha * 2 197 159 LETTERMEN -Special Request NA NA Kapp KL 4505 (M); KS 5505 (s) Capitol ST 2934 (5) 1 - 119 PERCY FAITH & HIS ORK -Angel of the Morning NA NA () 44 160 160 MONKEES- Pisces. Aquarius Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. * Columbia CS 9706 (5) Colgems COM 104 (M); COS 104 (5) 8 120 120 EDDIE HARRIS-Plug Me In * 1 - 161 CLIFF NOBLES & CO.-The Horse Atlantic (No Mono); SD 1506 (S) Phil- L.A. -ot-Soul LP5 4001 (5) 24 121 121 LETTERMEN-Goin' Out of My Mind NA 7 162 162 JERRY VALE -This Guy's in Love With You NA NA NA Capitol (No Mono); ST 2865 (5) Columbia (No Mono); CS 9694 (S)

Intruders 112 Steve Miller Band 144 Paul Revere & the Speedway 108 A -Z (LISTED BY ARTIST) Irish Revers 81 Moby Grape 97 Raiders 153 Thomas Crown Affair 185 Don Rickles 56 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Iron Butterfly ....19, 124 Monkees 64, 160 2001 Space Odyssey 52 Buckinghams 172 Deep Purple 98 Johnny Rivers 5 Brass ..11, 105, 156, Jefferson Airplane 24 Hugo Montenegro 101, 193 Wild in the Streets 188 Buffalo Springfield .... 62 Donovan 18 .... Smokey Robinson & the 33 Amboy Dukes 74 & the Doors 1, 30, 32 Jack Jones 197 Wes Miracles 70 Spanky & Our Gang 142 Ed Ames 106, 135 Montgomery 78, 79, 189 Animals 165, 166 Bob Dylan 137, 138 Tom Jones 53 Diana Ross & the Spirit 47 Anda /Camerata Academica Paul Butterfield Blues Electric Flag 111 Anita Kerr/Rod Mckuen/ Moody Blues 48, 95 Supremos 45, 104 Steppenwolf 6 of the Salzburg Band 80 Percy Faith & His Ork 119 San Sebastian Jim Nabors 170 Sandpipers 191 Temptations ..28, 57, 150 Mozarteum 140 Byrds 93 Jose Feliciano 3 Strings 129 Cliff Nobles & Co. ....161 Monge Santamaría 184 Ten Years After 133 Eddy Arnold 113 Glen Campbell 21, 38, 54 Fever Tree 195 Lettermen ...121, 134, 159 181 Simon & Tiny Tim 122 Association 177, 190 Canned Heat 25 5th Dimension ..42, 107 Gary Lewis & the Original Garfunkel ....10, 26, 41 Jerry Vale 162 Burt Bacharach 96 Johnny Cash 17 Four Tops 84, 164 Playboys 152 178 Frank Sinatra 94 Vanilla Fudge 20, 29, 131 Joan Baez 89 Chambers Brothers .... 16 Aretha Franklin 12, 31, 180 Hair 8 Nancy Sinatra /Lee Ramsey Lewis ....83, 147 Various Artists Band 69 Ray Charles 176 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Man of La Manche 118 Bazlewood 40 Super Hits 154 Beach Mamas & Papas....61, 86 Boys 158 Petula Clark 87 Terrell 175 Peaches a Herb 196 Small Faces 200 Super Hits, Vol. 2 103 Beacon Street union 183 187 Bobby Goldsboro ..35, 141 Dean Martin 44, 115 peter, Paul & Mary. ..155 O. C. Smith 88 Ventures 148, 182 Beatles 46, 92 Judy Collins 76 Robert Goulet 198 Al Martino 126 Wilson Pickett ....91, 171 Soundtracks Vogues 143 Jeff Beck 27 Ray Conniff Singers 36, 167 Grateful Dead 117 Hugh Masekela 22 Gene Pitney 194 Camelot 72 Dionne Warwick 82, 90 Bee Gem 50 Bill Cosby 43, 168 Arlo Guthrie 99 Johnny Mathis 100 Gary Puckett & Union Walt Disney Presents Julius Wechter 8 Baja Big Brother & Holding Country Joe & the Eddie Harris 58, 120 Paul Mauriat & His Gap 77, 146 the Story & Songs of Marimba Band 173 Company 13 Fish 114 Richard Harris 39 Ork 71, 109 Quicksilver Messenger the Jungle Book 116 Andy Williams ..34, 136 Mike Bloomfield /AI Cowsills 130 Jimi Hendrix John Mayall's Blues Service 67 Dr. Zhivago 65 Mason Williams 14 Kooper /Steve Stills 63 Cream 4, 9, 73 Experience 7, 55 B reakers 151 Boots Randolph 123 For Love of Ivy 192 Flip Wilson 149 Arthur Brown 85 Creedence Clearwater Engelbert Sergio Mendes & Rascals 2, 139, 145 Good, Bad & Ugly 51 Nancy Wilson ....110, 157 James Brown & His Revival 174 Humperdinck 37, 127, 128 B rasil '66 23, 125 Lou Rawls 163 Graduate 8 Stevie Wonder 102 Famous Flames 132, 169 Dells 59 Impressions 199 Roger Miller 179 Otis Redding ....49, 60, 66 Sound of Music 75 Tammy Wynette 186

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Compiled from National Retail Stores by the Music Popularity Chart Department and the Record Market Research Department of Billboard. as Elektra Sets Back -to- Nature 8-Track in High Ford Retreat for Writers, Staff

Continued from page 1 come into the regulation studio. And Motorola R enew Pact The Paxton project involves Continued from page 1 car dealer to receive his choice pler cartridges of RCA product, prompted Elektra president Jac Elektra leasing the land on a of the type of music he feels plus such point -of -sale mate- Holzman to initiate the experi- long -term basis with an option RCA Stereo 8 player, prepack of best suited for his location), a rial as car top tents, display ment. to cancel every six months. eight RCA tape cartridges (each year's supply of monthly sam- boards, full - color brochures, An initial complement of 10 Newly signed country bluet and other sales aids. artist -writers at present resides singer Lonnie Mack is at pres- Ford is tying in an incentive at the outpost, Holzman said, ent at the commune, spending sales program for its 400 f ac- here on a 10 -day visit. a week rehearsing. "He'll influ- tory sales representatives to sell According to Holzman, two ence the people there and its dealers on taking the pro- groups which have been work- they'll influence him," Holzman motional package in a company- ing out at the commune are says. "By changing people you wide drive to increase the sale ready to make their recording can generate whole new ideas.' of Stereo 8 players in its cars. debuts. The executive of the 16-year- The salesmen who meet their Holzman hopes to record old label also believes this ex- quotas will receive prizes of some material at Paxton once periment will help reduce the portable players and tapes as his 4 -track equipment is in- spiraling cost of recording. part of the push. stalled in one of the buildings. The RCA unit used for dis- Initially, sessions featuring art- play and demonstration pur- ists who have been woodshed - Buddah Disk Theater at Paxton will be done in poses in the car showrooms will ding Continued from page 8 be a home model. The reason Elektra's modern Los Angeles op- for this is twofold: (1) To show facility, which became fully sales figures will be checked says the prospective buyer that the erational last July. Holzman the previous month, tc new acts have against Stereo 8 playbacks are avail- that most of the determine the number of mini able for home purposes as well some kind of recording knowl- projectors to be installed in other as car use; (2) the showrooms edge, so they can handle the retail on outlets. Plans at present will have the playbacks in con- recording equipment. But are for 33 more of the units by tinuous operation as an atten- major projects, a staff engineer December and full national dis- tion grabber for car shoppers. will make the track. tribution in 1969. The drive will continue Paxton was selected, Holz- "Although Buddah is featured through October and Novem- man explains, because it is on the units at present it is not ber. J. P. McClowery, Ford totally isolated from any large an exclusive, deal. We feel that Motor Co.'s options program city. The concept behind the any company's records on these manager, who is putting to- wilderness outpost is that this projectors will help sell all rec- gether the promotion, estimates kind of setting can be extremely ords. They will help get custom- that the top 2,000 of Ford's conducive to free -form creativ- ers into the stores," commented 6,000 dealers will participate. ity. Bogart. McClowry said the promotional The studio facility is basically Involved in the experiment package, valued at $250, will to allow the artists to get their with Buddah and Cinova s presi- be sold to car dealers for $100. ideas down on tape before they dent Ken Bateman, is Sol Gleit, vice -president of operations for Merco Enterprises. The initial More will the more five stores are Merco- serviced. On the trial run the Kasen - LIVE you GIVE etz -Katz Singing Orchestral Cir- cus, the Five Stairsteps and AePICKWICK SERIES Cubie and the 1910 Fruitgum ...and under $2 HEART FUND Co. are all featured. 68 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD Billboard Album Reviews SEPTEMBER 21, 1968 Ttw Ek>ard d DirectorsDirect ««: I I MM ` Y IrIUS 11 t I h !< 4i.,

POP POP POP POP POP SURE LOOKS REAL - 3 A.M. -Jimmy Roselli. DECADE OF GOLDEN GROUPS - THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE "IN PERSON" ALBUM - Eden's Children. ABC United Artists UAS 6665 (S) Various Artists. Mercury ANNUAL REPORT -Mills Bros. & Sandler & Young. ABCS 652 (S) SRM 2 -602 (S) Count Basie. Dot OLP 25888 (S) Capitol ST 2961 (S) Jimmy Roselli has to be one of the most Eden's Children are very much in tune with his pri:d two -LP set actually harmo- flexible singers on the contemporary scene today's sound in this album. The trio A pleasing combination and a nicely con- Subtle comedy, wonderful, lively pans mire than the decade of its title -his poise and capabilities on the Italian the ceived album. Brother. M Its and Basie's men (guitar- bass -drums) should crash through, angirg -rom the Gay ords' 1953 "From nizing and a 20- minute whirl around the musical front are legend and his legend recent Man - jell together and spin out some of the old with the fine instrumental work fine :ane the Gras e" to the as a U. S. performer will grow with this especially There are Mills hits, ( Be Arouno ") some familiar world with "Bill Bailey" make this LP an red IMaan "The Mighty Quinn." "I'll excellent LP. He's also flexible in pacing, backing up and separating the vocals. In the Platters. Other artists Basie material ( "Blue and Sentimental ") hree numbers by exciting one. The talented duo know how To drifting from the bouncey "Let's Get Away to the title song, good cuts include Dian-loads, Spanky and Our and some quality present day numbers addition sere ars the From It All" to the slow, mellow "If I ( Mind Easy go- and -he MindoenJers, , "Sunny," "Gentle On My "). pour it on without putting you on. Prob- "Come When I Call," "Awakening" ;erg, instru- Had You." Other tunes include "Out in the Cuts, Penguins, Del- Vikings, ing relaxed album with enough "Things Gone Wrong." 'rogg , Crew happy. ably thq¡r best album. Cold Again" and "But Not for Me." tic< Inc the

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POP POP PO' POP GOLDEN ERA OF DANCE FILM FESTIVAL ELLIS ISLAND -The Paupers. IN L011NG MEMORY- FOREIGN - LONELY SIDE OF THE CITY - & SONG- Various Artists. & His Verve /Forecast FTS 3051 (S) Va-ious Artists. Motown Frank Chacksfield The American Breed. Mercury SRM 2 -601 (S) MM 642 (M) Orchestra. London SP 44112 (S) Acta A 38008 (S) The Paupers' latest try could spring them loose and bring them into quick chart con- Here's a collection of good oldies that's he Motown crew pays tribute in song to The combination of Phase 4 sound and sure to attract much sales attention. In The American Breed drop out of the rock tention. Their seamless blend of styles - Ars. Loucye G. Wakefield, Motown vice - the on -rock vein, they represent some of Chacksfield's brilliant concepts of popular school with a new mellow group sound. hard rock, and country -make rresident and sister of Berry Gordy Jr. the the best of the past decade. Dinah Wash- film music never misses and this gem is Gone is the "Bend Me, Shape Me" rock riff them a threat in any market, while he music is gospel, with groups such as on ington's "What a Difference a Day Made," as the soft sell creeps into he group's potent tuneweaving or Adam Mitchell liana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robin - no exception, Among the "musts" for buyers "Kiss of Fire," the Har- musical vocabulary. Smooth and rack - South Down Road," "Julliana" and "An- "Georgia Gibbs' on & the Miracles, the Four Tops, and From monicats' "Peg 0' My Heart" and Dusty is his treatments of the "Theme flavored, "Love Is Just a State of Mind," other Man's Hair on My Razor," a country Aart'ha Reeves & the Vandellas delivering Springfield's "The Look of Love" are just Elvira Madigan," and the fiery "Zorba the "Walls" and "River of No Regrets" signal spoof, make them a powerhouse rock group. heir musical bereavement. Stevie Wonder, of the 22 classics included in this the change and possibly a lengthier, chart - Mitchell's "Cairo Hotel," a folk rock gem, four Aarvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips Greek." The much recorded "Allie^ is deluxe edition. durable career as crooners. is a standout. also add their notes to the tribute. superbly performed. MOVIE xadi;,d0.1.tht,EldnYtKxtf C frtlá'ÉuAmF sírtt, - HITS'68'69 #AeiarlsEJDxt.ixtrrt THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR . frlr{NStJIT MINO . ,

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COUNTRY CLASSICAL CLASSICAL POP POP MEANWHILE, BACK AT MOONLIGHT SONATA - BRAHMS: PIANO CONCERTO OF HOLLYWOOD SIGNALS THROUGH THE GLASS - THE BEST - Philippe Entremont. Columbia No. Barenboim/ New The Light John Stewart & Buffy Ford. THE RANCH -Buck Owens' 2- Enoch Light & MS 7175 (S) Philharmonia (Barbirolli). Brigade. Project 3 Capitol ST 2975 (S) Buckaroos. Capitol 2973 (5) Angel S 36526 (S) PR 5027 SD (S) ST John Stewart teams up with a new partner, Entremont offers another collection of short the combination produces a A combination of vocals by members of the Nith a program as varied as the films they Buffy Ford, and piano masterpieces that will quickly prove This is the second coupling for these two sounc and some of the Buckaroos as well as some carousing in- represent, Enoch Light has a highly potent fresh, commercial in a few months, in a continuation today. strumentals by the group itsellf. Don Rich an important stock item and appeal to pop artists aroduction here. "Hang 'Em High," "Lullaby most creative material around Stewart of performing Brahms' piano works. And it on guitar on "Spanish Moonlight "; and classical buyers. The selections, in- From 'Rosemary's Baby'" and "Mrs. Robin - penned the numbers which artist James shines again excites and entices for its Doyle Holly's vocal of "You Let Me Down" once ion" from "The Graduate" are but three of Wyeth labels an "exceedingly sensitive cluding Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 6," sheer splendor and the tremendous effort portrait of contempo- is superb, as is his "Woman Truck D: vin' the lush, yet powerful instrumentals. His in- and compassionate in C Minor," and Dvorak's by the veteran conductor and the brilliant Fool." Rich then scores on vocal of "Pitty Chopin's "Etude erpretation of "Now,' based on Mozart's rary America." "Mucky Truckee River" and young pianist. Enough cannot be said of and Got a Letter From "Humoresque," are familiar and well -bal- 'Piano Concerto No 21," and featured in "Holly on My Mind" alone should garner Pitty Patty" "I the efforts, too. Home." Much good stuff here. anced in the program. orchestra's ' Elvira Madigan," is a gem. tape sales.

ALBUM REVIEW RANKING Piar o Caorcrrto 1Yo.2-, hr C frzur(lf 1:P. $11, STAR PERFORMER SPOTLIGHT . CLII*PO,ITÚ ()J?zT,{?R' . Cream of the week's new s f,oXrdor. SyYrt_3ny &c hest releases in their respective IS?'1:9J1rJTiA°T'BSZ, categories. Albums which are expected to reach the upper half of the Top LP's chart any position on Bill- board's special survey charts, or have long term sales. CHART SPOTLIGHTS Albums which are expected to have sufficient sales to reach the Top LP's chart or have long term sales. 4 -STARS Moderate sales potential albums which may not reach Billboard's LP chart but CLASSICAL CLASSICAL CLASSICAL +r COMEDY * * * * which should have enough .uro sales activity to warrant BERLIOI: SYMPHONIE MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS THE HEART OF THE SYMPHONY - PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT - their being stocked by most FAN7ASfIOUE /LE CORSAIRE Nos. 23 & 24- Curzon /London Various Artists. Mercury Mercury SR 61179 (S) dealers, rack jobbers and one -stops handling that OVERTUIRE- L'Orchestre de la Symphony ( Kertesz). Lordon SRM2 9128 (S) Suisse Romande (Ansermet). CS 6580 (5) A timely album, to say the least -Paulsen's category. London CSA 2101 (S) The third is this series of Mercury's "Best bid for Presidential honors has been well SPECIAL MERIT has a steady following, is loaded with as much sales New releases of Clifford Curzon of" category documented via the Smothers Brothers TV outstanding and L'Orchestre de la making his pressings good for long -range potential as the previous releases, "Ballet" merit which deserve ex- shows, and also Paulsen appears as Candi- Suisse Romande offer a fine romantic treat- rather then immediate sales. This album and "Piano Concerto." Once again, the posure and which could have ment of Berlioz' familiar "Symphonie Fan- is a fine one as Curzon ably performs both artists are varied and include such as date on their live concerts. There should commercial success within Paul Paray and their respective categories tastique" here and a fine introduction in concertos under the stylish direction of Antal Dorati, Stanislaw be a ready made audience for this ac- "Le Corsaire Overture." A bonus LP of a Istvan Kertesz. The London Symphony, as Skrowaczewski, and the works feature the of music. count of Paulsen's campaign as a Simple rehearsal of the "Symphonie Fantastique" usual, is excellent. "Concerto No. 24," best of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and adds to the attractiveness of this package. especially in its last movement, is a gem. Schubert, among others. Saviour of America's Destiny. SEPTEMBER 21, 1968, BILLBOARD 69 FOR WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 21, 1968

STAR PERFORMER -Sides registering * greatest proportionate upward progress this week. Record Industry Association of America seal of certification as million selling single.

34 36 36 DOWN AT LULU'S 33 80 ALL ALONG THE fi á L Ohio Express (Kasenetz -Katz Assoc.), Buddah 56 r7 WATCHTOWER 1 Jim) Hendrix Experience !Simi Hendrix), Reprise 0767 ^á TITLE Artist (Producer), Label L Number ; á is 37 37 39 SPECIAL OCCASION 34 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 6 67 67 75 BAREFOOT IN BALTIMORE 4 (Smokey- Cleveland), Tamia 54172 61 Strawberry Alarm Clock (F. Slay 8 Bill Holmes), 25 21 19 Uni 55076 7 SEALED WITH A KISS 140 HARPER VALLEY P.T.A. 5 35 Gary Lewis 8 Playboys (Snuff Garrett), 80 Jeannie C. Riley (Shelby S. Singleton Jr.), Liberty 56037 I MET HER BIINeCHURCH 2 E Plantation 3 MaIa 12017 19 10 10 STAY IN MY CORNER 13n 1 1 PEOPLE 36 GOT TO BE FREE ... .10 Dells (Bobby Miller), Cadet 5612 72 74 79 DOWN HERE ON THE GROUND II 69 Rascals (Rascals), Atlantic 2537 Lou Rawls (David Axelrod), Capitol 2252 4 16 9 9 I CAN'T STOP DANCING .... 10 HEY JUDE 2 31 Archie Bell 8 the Drells (Gamble -Huff), 70 76 84 THE WEIGHT 40 Beatles (George Martin), Apple 2276 Atlantic 2534 The Band (John Simon), Capitol 2269 46 8 50 'HIP CITY -PART 2 13 14 HUSH Walker 8 The 7 71 78 78 MY WAY OF LIFE 4 Jr. All Stars (Lawrence Horn), 11 Deep Purple (Derek Lawrence), Tetragrammaton 1503 6 C1P9 Soul 35048 Frank Sinatra (Don Costa), Reprise 0764 5 7 12 1, 2, RED 3, LIGHT 49 52 53 WHO IS GONNA hLOVE eME 79 CHAINED 2 (Kasenetz -Katz Assoc ) 9 * 50 11 - Marvin Gaye (), Tomba 54170 Duddah 54 3 3 3 LIGHT MY FIRE 9 44 44 65 THE SNAKE 6 73 73 82 FLY ME TO THE MOON 60 Al Wilson (Johnny Rivers), Soul City 767 73 Jose Feliciano (Rick Jarrerd), RCA Victor 47.9550 L Bobby Womack (), Minit 32048 28 32 34 THE EYES OF A NEW YORK ¡---j 74 77 77 UNCHAINED MELODY 4 2 2 .. 11 41 14 141 I Sweet inspirations (), Atlantic 2551 4 Steppenwolf (Gabriel Mekler), Dunhill 4138 WOMAN B.J. Thomas (Chips Moman), Scepter 12219 11 17 18 75 75 81 PRIVATE NUMBER - 70 cgi)58 66 66 75 Judy Clay B William Bell (Booker T. Jones), 4 IN- A- -DA -VIDA 5n Sergio Mendes 8 Brasil '66 (Sergio Mendes, GADDA Iron Butterfly (Jim Hilton), Afro 6606 4 Herb Alpert 8 Jerry Moss) I I Stax 0005 23 30 42 I'VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE 33 33 51 GIRLS CAN'T DO WHAT THE 76 80 89 THAT KIND OF WOMAN 40 43 GUYS DO 16 Merrilee Rush (Tommy Coghill 8 Chips Moman), TO YOU 6 8E Bell 738 Bee Gees (Robert Stigwood), Ateo 6603 Betty Wright (Brad Shapiro 8 Steve Alaimo), Alston 4569 77 99 FOOL FOR YOU 3 6 20 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 60 77 - 10 92 6 Aretha Franklin (), Atlantic 2456 SUZIE Impressions (), Curtom 1932 Cree ence Clearwater Revival (Saul Zaentz), 3 27 51 71 TIME HAS COME TODAY 70 Fantasy 616 78 83 88 DON'T CHANGE YOUR LOVE. 50 * Chambers 78 Brothers (David Rubinson), 56 59 80 Five Steirsfeps 8 Cubic (Curtis Mayfield), Columbia 44414 PIECE OF MY HEART . 4 Curtom 1931 * Big Brother 8 the Holding Company, Columbia 44626 38 89 t_Cir) REVOLUTION 2 46 47 49 BROWN EYED WOMAN * GENTLE QNben - - Beatles (George Martin), Apple 2276 8 (al db'[grcapltol 5939 46 Bill Medley (Bill Medley 8 Barry Mann), MGM 13959 17 18 29 SLIP . 11 81 89 100 13 AWAY ... NATIARAOarY 2 lDColumbia Clarence Carter ( 8 * Staff), Atlantic 2508 66 72 BABY, COME BACK (AT rot 44590 * Equals (President Records Prod., RCA Victor 47 -9583 3 23 25 I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER .... 6 91 14 14 tr FOR THE ILOVE OF IVY ' ' '41.51; Aretha Franklin (Jerry Wexler), Atlantic 2456 48 50 67 HELP YOURSELF s apas (Lou Ader), Dunhill 48 Tom Jones (Peter Sullivan), Parrot 40029 4 60 81 FIRE 82 82 90 THE MULE ...... 4 Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Kit Lambert), 3 43 43 43 GIVE A'DAMN 82 The James Boys (Jesse James), Phil L.A. of Soul 316 Atlantic 2556 49 Spanky 8 Our Gang (Scharf /Dorough, Edel), 8 Mercury 72831 83 85 87 DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO.. 4 36 60 83 (15)18 GIRL WATCHER 42 42 44 I CAN'T DANCE TO THE Bobby gee (Dallas Smith), Liberty 56057 O'Kayslons (North Sfate Music), ABC 11094 6 50 MUSIC YOU'RE PLAYIN' 7El 85 87 THEN YOU TELL ME GOODBYE 3 7 8 8 YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY 9 Martha Reeves 8 The Vandellas (Deice Richards), - Marvin Gaye 8 Tammi Terrell (AshfordSimpson), Gordy 7075 Eddy Arnold (Chet Atkins), RCA Victor 47.9606 Tamia 54169 54 56 63 TO LOVE 86 88 3 4 35 46 * WAIT FOR 40 - SHOOT 'EWindÿ)m ON THE ROAD AGAIN 7 Herb Alpert (Herb Alpert Jerry Moss), ABM 964 Tié(fEsyry), Steed 710 Canned Heat (Dallas Smith), Liberty 56038 53 53 59 MORNING DEW 7 POOR BABY 2 itr 57 62 MY SPECIAL ANGEL 3 Lulu (Mickie Most), Epic 10367 oowsills (Wes Farrell), MGM 13981 - Vogues (Dick Glasser), Reprise 0766 u 40 40 41 I'VE NEVER FOUND A GIRL 20 22 24 DO IT AGAIN 9 Do) 9 - - - 4ckett-jTom Dárv9)V/Illamíc 2558 1 20 ...... (To Love Me Like You Beach Boys (Beach Boys), Capitol 2239 111 Eddie Floyd (), Sfax 0002 HORSE - Clint NoSies & Company (Jesse James), 2 X52 64 74 MIDNIGHT srCO (NeFESSIONSSill4i44 OVER - Gap 1 Phil -L.A. of Soul 318 - 8 the (Jerry Feller), 40 v ckett Union Columbia 44644 0 91 91 LIGHT MY FIRE ...... 21 12 12 6 (You Keep Me) ON . HANGIN' 17 55 57 62 LISTEN HERE 10 Doors (Paul A. Rothchild), Elektre 45615 22 Fudge (), Vanilla Atco 6495 Eddie Harris (Joel Dorn), Atlantic 2487 98 - - HO }DnyMsh 2 9 5 4 HELLO, I LOVE YOU 12 61 65 68 THE WEIGHT 5 (Johnny Nash a Arthur Jenkins), Doors (Paul Rothchild), Elektre 45635 Jackie DeShannon (Charles Greene 8 Brian Stone), JAD 207 Imperial 66313 29 29 37 TUESDAY AFTERNOON 92 93 93 THE FUNKY JUDGE Bull 8 The Matadors (SherrelCross Prod.), 5 24 .(Forever Afternoon) 10 63 84 STREET FIGHTING MANendon 909 Toddlin' Town 108 Moody Blues (Tony Clarke), Deram 85028 3 45 49 58 I WISH IT 96 THE BIPLANE, EVERMORE 3 11 5 SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE ..26 WOULD RAIN .... 50 - - 20 Gladys Knight 8 The Pips (N. Whitefield), Irish Rovers (Charles Bud Dant), Decca 32371 Cream (Felix Pappalardi), Atoo 6544 Soul 35047 SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS 4 47 48 57 SIX BAND 26 27 32 MAGIC BUS 7 L MAN Fever Tree (Scott 8 Vivian Holtzman), Uni 55060 Who (Kit Lambert), Deceit 32362 Association (Association), Wern er Bros: 5 Arts 7229 - - THERE WAS A TIME 1 41 45 69 64 79 oeven Gene Chandler (Carl Davis and Gene Chandler), LITTLE GREEN APPLES 6 /It 83 HEY, WESTIERNmbYettfOFNAeraMANs 4 Brunswick 55383 0. C. Smith (Jerry Fuller), Columbia 44616 - - BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS 1 21 15 15 LOVE MAKES A WOMAN ...HO 68 69 76 DOWN ON ME Harpers Bizarre (), Warner Bros- 4 Seven Arts 7223 Barbara Acklin (Carl Davis 8 Eugene Record), 61 Big Brother 8 the Holding Company (Bob Shad), Brunswick 55379 Mainstream 662 THE CHOICE 1 59 61 72 (The Lament of the Cherokee) 62 63 70 WORKIN' ON A GROOVY O'Jays (George Kerr), Bell 737 61 INDIAN RESERVATION 4 El THING 8 Don Fardon (Miki ballon), GNP Crescendo 405 1 Patti Drew (Corone Prod.), Capitol 2197 ELENORE 22 16 13 CLASSICAL GAS 14 Turtles (Chip Douglas), White Whale 276 Mason Williams (Mike Post), Warner -Bros I I 84 90 5 PEst 3 Seven Arts 7190 Ill O thetimipéñ (g ik TR. ), Toower 719 TOMBOY 1 31 60 - SAY IT LOUD (I'm Black and Ronnie Dove (Phil Kahl 8 Bill Justis), Diamond 249 71 I'm Proud) 3 65 86 BREAK YOUR PROMISE 4 Delfonics (Stan and Bell), Philly Groove 152 I LOVE YOU MADLY James Brown 8 His Famous Flames Fantastic Four (Mike Hanks), Ric Tic 144 (James Brown), King 6187 69 70 85 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING in 15 14 11 TURN AROUND, LOOK AT ME. 15 THERE TO REMIND ME 4 COURT OF LOVE 1 Vogues Reprise 0686 - (Dick Glasser), Dionne Warwick (BacharachDavid), Scepter 12226 Unifics (Guy Draper), Kapp 935

HOT 100-A TO Z- (Publisher -Licensee) BUBBLING UNDER THE HOT 100

All Along the Watchtower (Dwarf, BMI) 66 Hey, Western Union Man (Parabut /Double Diamond/ People Got to Be Free (Vassar, ASCAP) 2 101. I'VE GOT DREAMS TO REMEMBER Otis Redding, Atco 6612 Downstairs, BMI) 60 Piece of My Heart (Webb IV /Ragmer, BMI) 45 Baby, Come Back (Piccadilly, BMI) 47 102. MESSAGE FROM MARIA Joe Simon, Sound Stage 7 2617 Barefoot in Baltimore (Alarm Clock Claridge, Hip City -Part 2 (Jobete, BMI) 38 Poor Baby (Pocket Full of Tunes /Akbestal, BMI) 86 Status Quo, Cadet Concept 7006 ASCAP) 67 Hold Me Tight (Nash, ASCAP) 90 Private Number (East, BMI) 75 103. ICE IN THE SUN Battle of New Orleans (Warden, BMI) 95 Horse Fever (Dandelion /James Boy, BMI) 88 Revolution (Maclen, BMI) 12 104. I AM YOUR MAN Bobby Taylor & the Vancouver', Gordy 7073 House That Jack Built, The (Cotillion, BMI) 10 Biplane, Evermore, The (Little Darlin, BMI) 92 San Francisco Girls (Filigree, BMI) 93 105. SMELL OF INCENSE Southwest F.O.B., Hip 8002 Born to Be Wild (Duchess, BMI) 7 Hush (Lowery, BMI) 4 Say It Loud -I'm Black and I'm Proud (Colo, BMI) 31 SALLY HAD A PARTY Flavor, Columbia 44521 Break Your Promise (Nickel Shoe /Bellboy, BMI) 64 ,Alta Can't Dance to That Music You're Playin' Sealed With a Kiss (Post, ASCAP) 35 Eyed 46 107. SWEET BLINDNESS 5th Dimension, Soul City 768 Brown Woman (Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI) (Jobete, BMI) 50 Shape of Things to Come (Screen Gems -Columbia, Chained (Jobete, BMI) 72 Can't Stop Dancing (Downstairs/Double 108. PEACE OF MIND Nancy Wilson, Capitol 2283 Choice, The (My /Bay -Wes, BMI) 96 Diamond, BMI) 37 Shoot 'Em Up Baby (Unart/Joachim, BMI) 85 109. MONTAGE (From How Sweet It Is) Love Generation, Imperial 66310 Found a Classical Gas (Irving, BMI) 30 True Love (Cotillion/Tracebob /Erva, BMI) 87 Six Man Band (Beechwood, BMI) 58 110. ALMOST IN LOVE Elvis Presley, RCA Victor 47.9610 Court of Lore (And(un, BMI) 100 Love You Madly (Ric Tie, BMI) 99 Slip Away (Fame, BMI) 13 Met Her in Church BMI) 68 111. APPLE CIDER People, Capitel 2251 Do It Again (Sea of Tunes, BMI) 20 (Press, Snake, The (Marks, BMI) 40 Say a Prayer (Jac Seas, ASCAP) 14 OPEN MY EYES Naze, SOC 001 Do What You Gotta Do (Rivers, BMI) 83 Little /Blue Special Occasion (Jobete, BMI) 34 112. Wish Would Rain (Jobete, BMI) 113. LOVE HEALS Colours, Dot 17132 Don't Change Your Love (Caned, BMI) 78 It 59 Stay in My Corner (Conrad, BMI) 36 n- Last- Cotillion, Itasca, BMI) 114. HARPER VALLEY P.T.A. Bobbi Martin, United Artists 50443 Down at Lulu's (Peanut Butter /Kaskat, BMI) 33 a- Gadda -Da -Vida (Ten 42 Street Fighting Man (Gideon, BMI) 57 to 115. MEDLEY: YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEDLIN' /YOU'RE Down Here on the Ground (Warner Bros -Seven ye Gotta Get Message You (Casserole, BMI) 9 Sunshine of Your Love (Dratleaf, BMI) 25 a Vivian Reed, Epic 10382 Arts, BMI) 69 've Never Found Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) Susie Q. (Arc, BMI) 44 MY SOUL 8 INSPIRATION (East, BMI) 63 116. WHAT'S EASY FOR TWO IS HARD FOR ONE Marvelettes, Tamla 54171 Down on Me (Brent, BMI) 61 That Kind of Woman (Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI) 76 117. SWEET YOUNG THING LIKE YOU Ray Charles, ABC /TRC 11133 (Lament of the Cherokee) Indian Reservation Then You Tell Me Goodbye (Acuff -Rose, BMI).. 84 Elenore (Ishmael /Blimp, BMI) 97 115 YOU GOT THE LOVE Professor Morrison's Lollipop, White Whale 275 (Acuff -Rose, BMI) 29 Theres Always Something There to Remind Me Eyes of a New York Woman, The (Press, BMI) 41 119. (I Can Feel Your Love) SLIPPING AWAY Barbara Mason, Arctic 142 Light My Fire (Doors) (Nipper, ASCAP) 89 (Blue Seas /Jac /Rose Jungnickel, ASCAP) 65 Fire (Track, BMI) 120. OH LORD, WHY LORD Los Pop Tops, Calla 154 15 Light My Fire (Jose Feliciano) (Nipper, ASCAP) 6 There Was a Time (Golo, Lois, BMI) 94 Fly Me to the Moon (Almanac, ASCAP) 121. DO THE BEST YOU CAN Hollies, Epic 10361 73 Listen Here (Hargrove, BMI) 55 Time Has Come Today (Spinmaker, BMI) 11 Fool for You (Camad, BMI) 122. PUFFIN' DOWN THE TRACK Hugh Masekela, Uni 55085 77 Little Green Apples (Russell -Cason, ASCAP) 27 To Wait for Love (Blue Seas /Jac, ASCAP) 51 i 123. HELLO, HELLO Fool on the Hill, The (Comet, ASCAP) 8 Tiny Tim, Reprise 0769 Love Makes a Woman palynne /BRC, BMI) 28 Tomboy (Melrose, ASCAP) Ste, 124. BIRMINGHAM Movers , Forthe Love of Ivy (Wingate /Honest John, ASCAP) 81 Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon) (Essex, "123" 1700 Magic Bus (Essex, ASCAP) 26 A Platt Columbia Funky Judge, The (Downstream/Napac /Flomar, ASCAP) 24 125. IKE ROLLING STONE 8 Scruggs, 44623 Midnight Confessions (Little Fugitive, 21 BMI) 91 'BMI) Turn Around, Look at Me (Viva, BMI) 32 126. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE/NORWEGIAN WOOD Alan Copeland Singers, ABC 11088 Morning Dew (Nina, BMI) ANYMORE Fuzzy Desee Gentle on My Mind (Glaser, BMI) 79 52 127. SUN AIN'T GONNA SHINE Bunnies, 32364 The Mule (Dandelion /James, (0MI) 82 Unchained Melody (Frank, ASCAP) 74 128. DESTINATION ANYWHERE Marvelettes, Tamla 54171 Girl Watcher (North State, ASCAP) 16 My Special Angel (Viva, BMI) 19 Weight, The (Jackie DeShannon) (Calla, ASCAP).. 56 129. (Till I) RUN WITH YOU Lovin' Kama 251 Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do (Sherlyn, BMI) 43 Spoonful, Sutra My Way of Life (Roosevelt, BMI) 71 Weight, The (The Band) (Csllee, ASCAP) 70 130. PER -SON -ALLY Bobby Paris, Tetragrammaton 1804 Give a Damn (Takyz, ASCAP) 49 Who Is Gonna Love Me? (Blue Seas /Jac, BMI) 39 131. ISN'T IT LONELY EIF 90019 Naturally Stoned (Cedarwood, BMI) 80 TOGETHER Robert Knight, Harper Valley P.T.A. (Newkeys, HMI) 1 Workin' on a Groovy Thing (Screen Gems- 132. THOSE WERE THE DAYS Mary Hopkins, Apple 1801 Hello, I Love You (Nipper, ASCAP) 23 On the Road Again (Lawn, BMI) 18 Columbia, BMI) 62 133. BANG- SHANG -A-LANG Arenies, Calendar 63.1006 Help Yourself (Famous, ASCAP) 48 1, 2, 3 Red Light (Kaskat, BMI) 5 (You Keep Me) Hangin' On (Jobete, BMI) 22 134. DON'T BOGART ME Fraternity of Man, ABC 11106 Hey Jude (Maslen, HMI) 3 Over You (Viva, BMI) 54 You're All I Need to Get By (Jobete, BMI) 17 135. CINAMMON Lerek, Bang 558 Compiled from national retail sales and radio station airplay by the Music Popularity Dept. of Record Market Research, liiiboara. Roy Orbison sings Ofbison. 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LAST WEEK Sp9tIi9 Singles 122

This record is predicted to reach the TOP 40 EASY LISTENING Chart (C ;KO :Le] Z.1 ;Z4) I Eel : I Ilk (s] ;hPZò Spotlights Predicted to reach the top 20 of the HOT 100 Chart CREAM -WHITE ROOM COUNTRY (Prod. Felix Pappalardi) (Writers: Bruce -Brown) (Casserole, BMI) -Hot on the heels of their top ten smash, "Sunshine of Your Love," group comes on strong with a solid, driving rocker with equal sales potential. Flip: 'Those Were the Days" (Casserole, BMI). Atco 6617 Spotlights Predicted to reach the top 20 of the HOT COUNTRY SINGLES Chart

SONNY JAMES -BORN TO BE WITH YOU Il CC ;WO k1:1 Cel: (Prod. Kelso Herston) (Writer: Robertson) (Mayfair, ASCAP) -The exceptiona I Don Robertson 1 rhythm ballad and James' fine vocal performance prove Spotlights Predicted to reach the top 60 of the HOT 100 Chart perfect musical marriage, and should quickly replace "Heaven Says Hello in the No. 1 spot on the country charts. Pop buyers will want thi one also. Flip: "In Waikiki" (Marson, RCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS -DO THE CHOO CHOO MARLENA SHAW - BMI). Capitol 2271 (Prod. Gamble -Huff) (Writers: Gamble -Huff) (World War Three /Double LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE Diamond /Downstairs, BMI) -Group has a new dance, backed by a heavy rock (Prod. R. Evans) (Writers: Mann -Weil) (Screen Gems, BMI) -Miss Shaw turns beat that should quickly carry them high on the Hot 100. Powerful in an exceptional performance of this winning Barry Mann -Cynthia Weil followup to their "I Can't Stop Dancing" hit. Flip: "Love Rain Spotlights Predicted to reach the Will rhythm ballad. Destined for a high spot on pop & r&b Flip: On You" (Cotillion charts. "Anyone Can Move a Mountain" (St. Nicholas /Video Craft, ASCAP). CHART HOT COUNTRY SINGLES Chart Cadet 5618 * DONOVAN- LALENA STAN HITCHCOCK -The Phoenix Flash (Green Grass, BMI). EPIC 10388 (Prod. Mickie Most) (Writer: Leitch) (Peer Int'I /Hi- Count, BMI)- FREDDY CANNON -SEA CRUISE Beautiful and intriguing original ballad proves an exceptional change of CLAUDE KING The Power (Writers: Smith- Vincent) (Ace /Lancer, BMI)- Cannon attracted attention - of Your Sweet Love (Gio -Mac, BMI; pace from his recent "Hurdy Gurdy Man" winner. Loaded COLUMBIA 44642 with program- with his recent revival of "" and this powerful ming and sales appeal. Flip: "Aye My Love" (Peer Int'l/Hi-Count, BMI). updating of the Frankie Ford hit of the past has even more sales Epic 10393 NAT STUCKEY- Plastic Saddle (Acclaim, BMI). RCA VICTOR 47.9631 potential. Flip: "She's a Friday Night Fox" (Cannlynn, BMI). We Make Rock and Roll Records 1604 HERMAN'S HERMITS JIMMY DICKENS- Someday You'll Call My Name (Acuff -Rose, BMI) - DECCA 32384 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN MY LIFE GLORIES -NO NEWS MAC WISEMAN -Got Leavin' on Her Mind (Jack, BMI). MGM 13986 (Prod. Mickie Most) (Writer: Young) (Kangaroo /Inquiry/Hi- Count /Noma, (Prod. Bob Yorey) (Writer: Ruffin) (Yorey, BMI) -With a definite Detroit - BMI)-The Hermits should bounce back to a high spot on the best oriented sound the group should quickly blast onto the Hot 100. Per- JOHNNY SEAY -Three Six Packs, Two Arms and a Juke Box (Tree, BMI) seller formance is filled with excitement and a charts with this smooth easy -beat ballad featured in their "Mrs. could easily prove left -field COLUMBIA 44634 Brown" film. Flip: "Ooh She's Done It Again" (Man -Ken, BMI). MGM 13994 smash. Flip: "Oh Baby That's Love" (New Image, BMI). Date 1642 DOTTIE LOU -A Bunch of Love (Newkeys Music, BMI). STOP 192 ETTA JAMES -YOU GOT IT *APRIL FOOLS -THINGS GO BETTER WITH YOU (Prod. Wayne Carson) (Writers: Thompson- Thompson) (Table Rock, BMI) KATHY DEE -The Shadow of a Girl (Weldee, BMI). DECCA 32372 (Prod. Rick Hall) (Writer: Covay) (Cotillion, BMI) -Etta James follows up - Infectious easy beat number that gains with each hearing should quick) her "I Got You Babe" chart rider with a hard hitting rocker that should establish the smoothly blended group as top sales winners. Perfect L. E. WHITE & THE BOBWHITES -Papa Sing Me a Song (Music Cih quickly prove a hot sales item in pop and r&b for markets. Flip: (No in- all programming formats. Tunes, 8Ml). MUSIC CITY 102 formation Available.) Cadet 5620 Flip: "You Won't Be There" (Barton, BMI). MGM 13976 WILLIE MITCHELL -UP HARD E MILLER BAND-LIVING IN THE U.S.A. (Writer: Miller) (Beaik, BMI -Make it three winners in a row for the rod. Steve Miller & Glyn Johns) (Writer: Miller) (Ohio River Valley soulful instrumental sound of Mitchell. Driving follow up to his "Prayer Songs, BMI) -Culled from their forthcoming album this steady rocker Meetin'" should go even higher on the Hot 100. Flip: "Beale Street has all the sales potential to make it big on the charts. Powerful Mood" (Jec, BMI). Hi 2151 vocal workout by the group. Flip: "Quicksilver Girl" (Ohio River Valley Songs, BMI). Capitol 2287 NANCY WILSON -PEACE OF MIND RHETTA HUGHES (Prod. David Cavanaugh) (Writer: Woods) (Alamo, ASCAP)-A groovy new - (s] 'Z211 beat and sound for the exciting stylist is this easy rocker to follow in the YOU'RE GOING WITH HER -WHEN IT SHOULD BE ME steps of her recent hit "Face It It's Girl, Over." Flip: "This Bitter (Prod. & ) Earth" (Play, BMI). Capitol 2283 (Writer: Armstead) (Colfam, BMI) - Powerhouse soul sound with appeal for pop and r &b markets should hit the charts with impact and establish Miss Hughes as a hot singles seller. *ELVIS PRESLEY -ALMOST IN LOVE Flip: "Gimme Some of Yours -I'll Give You Some of Mine" (Colfam, BMI). Tetragrammaton 1505 (Writers: Starr -Bonfa) (Gladys, ASCAP) -Smooth ballad, penned by Luiz R&6 Bonfa, and featured in Presley's newest film, "Live a Little, Love a Little" should hit hard and prove a solid programmer and sales item. MOON PEOPLE -LAND OF LOVE Flip: "A Little Less Conversation" (Gladys, ASCAP). RCA Victor 47 -9610 (Prod. Morty Craft) (Writers: Jacabeck -Marin) (Peek -a- boo/Slew, BMI) - Funky Latin beat in the Mongo Santamaria vein that really breaks it up in Spotlights Predicted to reach the PETER, PAUL & MARY the middle. Top discotheque item is loaded with programming and sales appeal. Flip: "Revolt" LOVE CITY (Postcards to Duluth) (First Date /Slew, BMI). Speed 004 TOP 20 of the TOP SELLING R &B SINGLES Chart (Prod. Albert B. Grossman & Milton T. Okun) (Writer: Stookey) (Pepamar, REJOICEI- GOLDEN GATE PARK ASCAP)- Culled POPULAR FIVE a Love Maker (Peer from their "Late Again" LP, this intriguing folk -flavored (Prod. Steve Barri) (Writers: Brown -Brown) (Wingate, ASCAP) -Good -I'm Int'l, BMI). MINIT 32050 rhythm news ballad has all the earmarks of a hit. First rate performance ando group sound and exceptional rhythm ballad material makes this initial JO ARMSTEAD -I've Been (Colfam, 707 production work. Flip: "Yesterday's Tomorrow" (Pepamar/Warner -Sevarts, outing a hot sales prospect. First rate Steve Barri production work. Flip: BMI). GIANT ASCAP). Warner Bros. -Seven Arts 7232 "Sonora" (Wingate, ASCAP). Dunhill. 4158 SARI 8 SHALIMARS -No Reason to Doubt My Love (Wellmade, BMI). VEEP 1290

LESTER YOUNG- Funky, Funky Horse, Part I (Lurobin, ASCAP). UNITY 2704

BILLY WADE -I Can't Help It Baby (Japon /Pamco /Yvonne, BMI). ABC 11119

Spotlights Predicted to reach the Spotlighting new singles deserving special attention of programmers and dealers. CHART R &B SINGLES Chart

*WAYNE NEWTON -Town and Country (Prod. Jim Vienneau) (Writer: Russell) DYKE AND THE BLAZERS -Funky Bull (Part 1) (Prod. Art Barrett) (Russell- Cason, ASCAP)- Newton follows up his "Dreams of the Every- (Writer: Christian) (Drive -In/Westward, BMI) -The "Funky Walk" group day Housewife" with a smooth new Bobby Russell ballad. MGM 13993 comes on strong with this solid rocker with a driving vocal chorus. Original Sound 83 TROGGS-Surprise Surprise (I Need You) (Prod. Larry Page) (James, BMI) - BILL DEAL 8 THE RHONDELLS -May I (Writer: Williams) (Rhinelander, Driving rocker gets an equally driving workout by the Is "Love All *BROOK BENTON-Do Your Own Thing (Prod. Leiber & Stoller) (Writers: BMI)- Infectious vocal work and arrangement are hit ingredients in Around" chart winners. Fontana 1630 Leiber- Stoller) (Trio, BMI) -The familiar theme backing the popular this groovy rock item. Heritage 803 shoe commercial serves as an exceptional label debut for Benton. SANDPEBBLES - (Prod. Teddy Vann) (Writers: Addrissi- Cotillion 44007 THE LEMONADE CHARADE - (Prod. Tony Moon) (Writer: Addrissi) (Tamerlane, BMI) -The Association hit gets a solid soul Curtis) (Viva, BMI) -The Sonny Curtis rhythm ballad gets a workout that's loaded with pop and r &b appeal. smooth Calla 155 BOB CREWE -An Angel Is Love (Prod. Bob Crewe) (Writers: Crewe -Fox) and commercial treatment by the good new group. Bell 742 (Ensign, BMI) -Crewe offers a first rate vocal performance with this *JIMMIE RODGERS-The Lovers (Prod. Allen Stanton) (Writer: McKuen) original rhythm material co- penned with Charles Fox. DynoVoice 928 AUSTIN ROBERTS -Mary and Me (Prod. Steve & Bill Jerome) (Writer: (Almo, ASCAP) / Today (Prod. Allen Stanton) (Writer: Sparks) (Miller, Roberts) (Ampco, ASCAP)- Performer-composer Roberts could ASCAP)- Rodgers offers two beautiful ballads culled from his easily "Child ROY ORBISON- Heartache (Prod. Wesley Rose & Jim Vienneau) (Writers: prove a winner the time of Clay" LP. First is penned by Rod first out with this easy -beat ballad outing. McKuen, the flip by Randy Orbison -Dees) (Acuff -Rose, BMI) -Good original rhythm ballad with an Sparks. ABM Philips 40560 976 outstanding performance by Orbison. MGM 13991 JERRY-0-(Funky) Four Corners TOKENS -The B Boat Song (Prod. Tokens) (Writers: Arkin-Darling- BALLADS -I Love You (Prod. Willie Hutch) (Writer: Hutchinson) (Mikim, (Prod. Jerry Murray) (Writers: Murray - Payton- Jones) (Athoy /Boo-ga- loo /Lovelane, BMI)- Marking his White Carey) (Marks, BMI) -The Tarriers' calypso of the 50's gets a fine BMI) -Group broke through on the Hot 100 with "God Bless Our Whale debut, Jerry -0 hits hard with this driving rocker. White Whale rhythm revival by the smooth group. Warner Bros. -Seven Arts 7233 Love" and follows it up with this strong blues ballad. Venture 625 282 GARY (U.S.) BONDS NOVA'S NINE -Pain (Writer: Mann) (Pamco, CRYAN' SHAMES-Greenburg, Glickstein, Charles, David Smith 6 Jones -I'm Glad You're Back (Prod. Jerry Williams Jr.) BMI)- Steady rocker with (Writers: Williams- powerful vocal work is loaded with appeal. (Prod. Jim Golden) (Writers: Guillory- Fairs) (Destination, BMI)- Clever Anderson- Harrison) (Lonstan, BMI) -Bonds is back, sales ABC 11127 and he really works it on out rock material with a psychedelic- oriented treatment has much sales and with this powerful rocker. Botanic 1002 PAZANT BROTHERS -Skunk Juice (Prod. Ed Bland) (Writer: Bland) (Mill - programming appeal. Columbia 44638 *HENRY JEROME 8 ORK -Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Prod. Henry Jerome) bridge /Osmund, BMI) -Soulful instrumental with a funky rock beat (Writers: Sherman- Sherman) (Unart, BMI) -The film theme gets a should prove a discotheque must. RCA Victor 47.9634 *JIMMY ROSELLI -You Are Mine (Canto Alla Vita) (Prod. Henry Jerome) bouncy polka (Writers: treatment by Jerome and has much jukebox appeal. Panzuti- Panzuti- Grayson) (Mitchell, ASCAP) -Roselli's rich and United Artists 50441 powerful voice is perfect for this beautiful new ballad from Italy. United Artists 50338 CHARLES BRUTUM McCLAY -When I Was a Young Man (Writer: Rose) (Blackwood, BMI)- Newcomer with intriguing material should *PAT BOONE- September Blue (Prod. Peter DeAngelis) (Writers: Shuman - attract much attention. Epic 10391 DeAngelis) (Damian, ASCAP) -Smooth, easy beat ballad with a timely All records submitted for review should be ad- *BOBBY SCOTT -Star (Prod. Jimmy Wisner) (Writers,: Cahn -van Heusen) lyric gets a commercial treatment : by Boone. Good programmer. Dot 17156 (20th Century, ASCAP)-Scott turns in a swinging treatment of the dressed to Record new Cahn -van Huesen film theme. Columbia 44640 Review Department, Billboard, RICHARDO RAY -Nifty Gritty (Prod. Neil Galligan) (Writer: Chase) (Gallico, HASSLES -4 O'Clock in the Morning (Prod. Good Time People Music) 165 W. 46th Street, New York, N. Y. 10036. BMI) -Latin dance item with a rock flavor should prove a discotheque (Writers: Joel -Dizek) (Unart, BMI)- Intriguing rock ballad with top and jukebox must. Alegre 4024 production work and vocal treatment by the group. United Artists 50450 72 SEPTEMBER 21, 1968,. BILLBOARD Billboard Album Reviews SEPTEMBER 21, 1968

POP POP SOUNDTRACK POP POP MESSAGES FROM THE FIN IAN'S RAINBOW SPECIAL OCCASION- THE CRAZY WORLD OF - the Miracles. STATUS QUO -Cadet Concept Soundtrack. Warner Bros. - PREVAILING HITS -Paul Smokey Robinson & ARTHUR BROWN- Tamla TS 290 (5) LPS 315 (S) Seven Arts BS 2550 (S) Mauriat & His Orch. Atlantic SD 8198 (S) the debut of the PHS 600-280 (S) Talented Smokey Robinson -and his Mir- This exciting LP marks At last! "Finian's Rainbow" has been Philips Arthur Brown indeed presents a "Crazy acles-tags his latest Motown LP after Status Quo, whose "Pictures of Matchstick brought to the screen, and the score hasn't onstage, but a weird bluesy one. is climber, but Men" and follow -up "Ice in the Sun" are World" suffered a bit. This superb track recording That "Love Is Blue" conductor- arranger his "Special Occasion" chart U. S., strong chart rockers. Heavy guitar work In this first album released in the contains every beautiful number from the back with another sure fire sales item the soul flows on with more chart luster strong tip the Status Quo, while compelling Atlantic has a winner as Brown's and the cast (Petula Clark, Fred that's possibly his best to date. The hits from his "Yester Love" and "If You Want" off show, patterns boost "Elizabeth Dreams" singing, screeching and word painting are just perfect include a bouncy "Mrs. Robinson," a soft hits. And if that isn't enough, Smokey rhythm Astaire & Tommy Steele) ahead of the should catapult this disk to big sales. The a adds a penetrating version of "Yesterday" and "Technicolor Dreams" far in their roles. This is definitely destined and subtle "Honey" and fiery "Elilah," "Fanfare -Fire Poem -Fire" is an- and top listening with "Give Her Up." rock class. The group's "Spicks and Specks" combination to be one of the most important sound- among others. This k sure to prove of Put a a gem on this opening first rate as is his version "I and other Mauriat giant and keep him riding Both the pop and r &b markets will make stars as rock track albums of the decade, should Spell on You." "Fire" also is a single. prove an immediate success. high on the best seller charts. room for Smokey. album.

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THE BEST OF THE SOPHISTICATED SOUL IN THE GROOVE - YESTERDAY'S DREAMS TURN AROUND LOOK AT ME- - - IMPRESSIONS-ABC Marvin Gaye. Tamla Ray Conniff. Columbia The Marvelettes. Tamla Four Tops. Motown ABCS 6534 (5) TS 286 (S) TS 285 (S) MS 669 (5) CS 9712 (S) ABC wraps up business on the fabulous The popular Marvin Gaye is very much With their hit single as title, the Four Impressions with this powerful package of Uptempo, swinging vocalizations of "Turn act, and the girls This is a sophisticated "In the Groove" with this set, which in- Tops here have a highly polished collection the group's recent hits. Featuring the group's Around Look At Me," "MacArthur Park," the Morning" are at their best here with a package of cludes his new single "Chained." Among with new dimensions given standards such latest "I Loved and I Lost," this tribute to "Mrs. Robinson," "Angel of Must the other 11 cuts is a different, but first - as "Once Upon a Time" and top material of Curtis Mayfield's tunemaking also stars and more big hits will make this album smart tunes. Typical are "My Baby both with radio rate reading of "I Heard It Through the today, such as "'Daydream Believer" and "Can't Satisfy," "Amen," "People Get an immediate favorite Be a Magician," "You're the One for Me and customers. It's Grapevine." "You" and "Change What You the Time I Get to Phoenix." "A Place Ready" and their big "We're a Winner" stations record store "By Bobby" and "The Stranger." Good produc- the other top uptempo in the Sun" and "Never My Love" are hit. Now on the Curtom label, the Im- another beautiful album in a long line of Can" are among among the other fine cuts. pressions LP will stir up the charts. similar albums. tion enhances the album. cuts.

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COUNTRY COUNTRY COUNTRY COUNTRY COUNTRY TEX RITTER'S WILD WEST- BLUE RIBBON COUNTRY - TWO OF US- CREAM OF THE CROP- Capitol ST 2974 (5) 9r MAMA TRIED -Merle Haggard. Various Artists. Capitol JUST THE Jackson. Capitol Capitol ST 2972 (S) STBB 2969 (S) & Parton. Wanda Porter Wagoner Dolly This album is not only a collector's item, ST 2976 (S) this miss being a giant? They're With the album's title tune currently at How can RCA Victor LSP 4039 (S) but a historical collection of musical paint- all here from Jonny James' 'It's the Little the No. 1 spot on the singles chart, Wanda is one of the most polished of of the old Wild West. It will be Things" and "" to ings Haggard is assured of a hot- selling album. and Parton have proved a hot performers, and on this package she lends Glen Campbell's "Gentle on My Mind" and Wagoner most noted for its updating of the Western The other selections are well paced and combination for the singles charts, her talent to a variety of great tunes. "Phoenix" right on through to Wynn sales as Tex Ritter among the best are these smooth Haggard LP built around Chier There are Curly Putman's "Little Boy classic "High Noon," done Drinker Stewart's "It's Such a Pretty World To- and their second treatments of "Little Ole Wine On to Nothin'," "The Soldier," 's "The Hurtin's does it now in live performances. Fans day" and 's "Ode to Billie singles hits "Holdin' Me," "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Green, of the Street" and "We'll Get All Over" and Merle Haggard's "Swinging and Joe." Add to the above other hot country Dark End will also enjoy his "The Wayward Wind" Green Grass of Home." Exceptional is to prove a hot Doors." These illustrate the quality of ma- such as Jean Shepard, Buck Owens, Ahead Someday" sure a g000d singles bet is "The Sunny Side artists terial. Buffs will like the package. and "Dusty Skies." got a hit album. piece of album product. of My Life." Merle Haggard and you've

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