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NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER 08120 March 16, 1974 $1 .25 A BILLBOARD PUBLICATION EIGHTIETH YEAR The International Music -Record Tape Newsweekly TAPE /AUDIO /VIDEO PAGE 32 HOT 100 PAGE 64 o TOP LP'S PAGES 66, 68

Cable Ruling Caytronics Sets Bill Bans Interstate Traffic Net of 5 Branches May Pry Lid Appeal Across the U.S. By Pub Wins By HALL By JIM MELANSON By ROBERT SOBEL MILDRED interstate trans- On Copyright -Caytronics Corp., NEW YORK -A U.S. Appeals Court decision handed WASHINGTON -A bill to make the a misde- struck a heavy blow portation, sale or receipt of pirated recording WASHINGTON The Supreme manufacturer and distributor of down Feb. 28 in Oklahoma has - author- under Section 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code that Latin music product, has completed against those unlicensed duplicators claiming meanor Court's ruling last week import by Sen. William E. Brock (R., setting up a network of five branch ization under the compulsory licensing section of the has been introduced of distant stations by Cable TV sys- such commercial transfer offices throughout the U.S. Copyright Act. The opinion, filed in the 10th Circuit Tenn.). The bill would ban any tems does not make them liable for the Denver, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico or receipt for sale or profit of any recording without copyright payments under the 1909 Located in , Court, embraces Kansas, Oklahoma, and supports a consent of the original owner. The Brock bill (S. 3107) an earlier truce in the San Antonio, , and Miami, and Colorado, in addition to law, may prod fines of up to $ I,000 and up to one year in each Caytronics' branch will main- 1972 Appeals Court ruling in Arizona for the 9th Circuit, would provide standoff between Cable TV and at this time. tain sales and promotional staff, as which includes virtually all of the states, jail. The senator had no comment copyright interests that has held up (Continued on page 16) facilities, accord- (Continued on page 16) the Senate copyright revision bill for well as presi- (Continued on page 39) ing to Joe Cayre, the firm's dent. Looking at the over -all picture U.K.'s TV Ad BuysSoarto$7.5 Mil from the firm's corporate headquar- Charity Fete ters here, Cayre stated that the By HENRY LEWIS

I Staff Member) (Continued on page 26) Music Week into Hails Cook LONDON -In five years, ex- ing record sales comes from K -Tel, but more companies moved Pirie Scott in Arcade and Ronco, they also show small screen promotion, chief LOS ANGELES -A testimonial Carson penditures on television advertising the level of investment by those among them being A &M, Kinney, banquet honoring Billboard Publi- by U.K. record companies has shot Black Album Campaign record companies which have used Philips, Pye and Transatlantic. The cations, Inc. vice president Hal Cook up from zero to nearly $7.5 million a By EARL PAIGE TV advertising. next year, 1972, saw no great in- has been set for June 6 at the Beverly year, a figure based on rate-card cost to the information, it crease in the number of companies Hilton , with the music- appli- CHICAGO -Carson Pine Scott is of time buy. Now, record companies According was not until 1970 that record com- coming in -but it was perhaps the ance -radio -television (MART) using otherwise unavailable space in are spending more on TV than on panies made a serious stab at TV ad- most significant year, for it marked chapter of the City of Hope hosting. its main store. for a nine -day pro- press advertising. The money chan- Compared to today's out- the entry of K -Tel into the field. In The banquet was announced by motion through Saturday (16) of nelled into television as a method of vertising. the amount was paltry. Apple, all, K -Tel spent more than $2.3 mil- general chairman Stanley Gurtikov, soul and LP's with an inventory marketing comes mainly from the lay, Pye and DJM Records were the only lion worth of time promoting four who said the purpose of the banquet of 13,500 pieces including over 1,200 three major TV merchandising com- companies to use TV that year-with LP's. That year, Arcade and Ronco was to "honor an exceptional man gospel albums, said buyer Mary panies, K -Tel, Arcade and Ronco. spending the most at $3,000, also entered the field, while CBS, and, in turn, the industry in which Yoksoulian, who racks through This is revealed by figures from Apple re- out of a combined total of $6,750. Purple and the Stereo Collectors he holds a position of outstanding Lieberman Enterprises. the Media Expenditure Analysis The following year, the amount of Club were among other major leadership." Highlights cf the event will be the search firm and supplied by the Brit- into TV advertising be- spenders that year. Arcade spent Cook will receive the "SDirit of personal appearances of the Spin- ish Bureau of Television Advertis- money going considerably larger. Total more than $835,000, while Ronco Life" award, in recognition of "his ners and Staple Singers in the State ing. Although the figures show that came spent on promot- time-buy cost was still only $65,000 (Continued on page 56) (Continued on vage 6) (Continued on page 70) most of the money Leisure Wear Co. Expands Tie -Ins to Disk Retailers By JOHN SIPPEL -Landlubber leisure partments, is aiming for a total circu- wear, which hitched its marketing lation of over 3,000,000 with antici- wagon to stars two years pated record /tape retailer outlets. ago through correlative promotion Allen said he will offer the guide to involving youth wear retailers, is set both independent and chain retail to expand its tie -ins to U.S. record music stores. retailers. Allen, who has worked closely Joe Allen, ad and public relations with the Allman Brothers since director for the firm, based here, at- meeting them at the Watkins Glen tributes a 33 percent overall sales in- extravaganza two years ago, piloted crease to Landlubber's rock music a test album promotion in four image. Allen is currently firming up areas, when "Brothers and Sisters" a program to give away the firm's was released. Retailers gave away a national Rock Music Concert Guide free copy of the LP with a Land- monthly through record /tape out- lubber garment purchase. lets. Seeks Premium LP Jim Stafford's debut album "JIM STAFFORD" (SE -4947) promises to 1974 is the biggest year yet for . He sings his platinas The four -page 8 -by -II -inch four That campaign worked well follow his recent hit singles "SWAMP WITCH" and "SPIDERS AND SNAKES" "Greatest Hits" album on THE 10-IN DENVER SHOW on the ABC -TV color supplement, which now circu- enough so that Allen now is working to the top of the charts. Both singles are in the album. Singer-- network tonight along with his goirg- for-gold !ingle, "Sunshine On My lates 1,558,000 copies through 1,019 on a national tape and record pre - musician -comedian Stafford is currently on a nationwide college concert Shoulder." John has two other platirum albums. "" top youth clothing stores and de- (Continued on page 39) tour. "JIM STAFFORD," new, on MGM Records and Tapes. (Advertisement) and "Poems, Prayers and Promises" (Advertisement) (Advertisement)

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JOHN DENVER'S TAKE ME TO TOMORROW GREATEST HITS ncn VICTOR Take Me to Tomorrow; Isabel; Leaving, on a Jet Plane; Take Follow Me; Forest Lawn; As- Me Home, Country Roads; take me to tomorrow penglow; Amsterdam; Anthem Poems, Prayers and Promises; -Revelation; Carclina in My Rocky Mountain High; For Baby Mind; Sticky Summer Weather; (For Bobbie); Etarwood in As- john deliver Jimmy Newman; Molly pen; Rhymes and Reasons; Follow Me; Goodbye Again; The Eagle and the Hawk; Sun- shine on My Shoulders

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POEMS, 'RAVERS ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH AND PROMISES Rocky Mountain High; Mother Poems, Prayers and Promises; Nature's Son; Paradise; For Let It Be; My Sweet Lady; ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH Baby (For Bobbie); Darcy Far- Wooden Indian Junk; Gospel row; Prisoners; Goodbye Changes; Take Me Home, JOHN DENVER Again; Season Sui-e: Summer, Country Roads; I Guess He'd Fall, Winter, Late Winter, Early Rather Be in Dolorado; Sun- Spring (When Everybody Goes shine on My Shoulders; Around to Mexico), Spring and Around; Fire and Rain; The Box

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FAREWELL ANDROMEDA WHOSE GARDEN WAS THIS I'd Rather Be a Cowboy; Berk- Tremble If You Must; Sail eley Woman; 'lease, Daddy; Away Home; The Night They John Denver Angels Montgomery; Pare - ell Ar4remed a from Riv- Drove Old Dixie Down; Mr. er of Love; Rocky Mountain Bojangles; I Wish Could Have Suite (Cold Niguts in Canada); Been There (Wcodstock); Whiskey Basin ; Sweet Whose Garden Was This; The Misery; Zachary and Jennifer; Game Is Over, Eleanor Rigby; We Don't Live Here No More; Old Folks; Medley; Golden Farewell Androneda (Welcome Slumbers, Sweet Sweet Life, to My Morning) Tremble If You Must (Version II); Jingle Bells

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AERIE RHYMES & REASONS Starwood in Aspen; Everyday: The Love of the Peo- Casey's Last RI ie; City of New ple; Catch Another Butterfly; Orleans; Friends with You; 60 Daydream; The Ballad of Spiro Second Song for a Bank, With John Agnew; Circus; When I'm the Phrase "Maw We Help You Sixty -Four; The Ballad of Rich- Today ? "; Blow Up Your TV 'Denver-- - ard Nixon; Rhymes & Reasons; (Spanish Pipe Dream); All of Yellow Cat; Leaving, on a Jet My Memories; She Won't Let N Plane; (You Dun Stomped) My Me Fly; Readjustment Blues; Heart; My Old Man; I Wish I The Eagle and tae Hawk; Tools Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free; Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life (Sugacity)

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www.americanradiohistory.com General News `Godfather' Producer Set to Film R &B Industry Novel By PHIL CELORMINE NEW YORK -With Farrar, has scheduled shooting to start late banner, the screenplay was com- week by Lonne Elder III, Straus & Giroux set to publish May this summer. The film will be pro- pleted last for the screen. 30 "Number One With a Bullet," the duced by Albert S. Ruddy, whose who wrote "Sounder" this week. novel by Elaine Jesmer based on the last cinematic venture was "The Casting is set to begin an in- inner workings of a black artist ori- Godfather." "Music, of course, will play ented record company, Paramount According to Ed Palmer, a pro- trinsic role in this film," said Palmer. it's re- Pictures has acquired film rights and ducer who works under the Ruddy "We intend to portray soul as corded in studio sessions and per- TAPE anti -piracy legislation efforts paid off in Nebraska recently as Governor formed on stage, in concert. J. James Exon signed a new law. Looking on are Jack Silverman (left), vice Triples "There is tremendous interest in president of ABC Records & Tape Dist., Des Moines, and a member on the WS Music Income the behind- the -scenes process that anti -piracy committee of the National Association of Recording Merchandis- goes into making hit records. We ers and Nebraska Senator Wally Barnett, who worked closely with Silverman. Since '71; Multi -Aids Cited would like to channel that interest of By NAT FREEDLAND the record buyers into the movie NEWSMAKER LOS ANGELES -Warner Bros. gains only because it is this area theaters. Music has almost doubled its gross which is slowest in full payment. Ms. Jesmer, a singer as well, is annual income since Ed Silvers took "Even if we had a whole line-up of seeking a record and /or production Ampex Music's Davis over as president three years ago. chart hits our first year here, it would deal whereby she will record a tune With 1973 its most profitable year (Continued on page 39) herself, "Number One With a Bul- yet, net profits have also increased let," in an attempt to cross -promote Sets New Marketing over 55 percent. the book, record and film. She is Mechanical royalties took the big- ATI Trims now talking to Kenny Gamble and By EARL PAIGE gest jump for WBM in 1973 and sig- Leon Huff, who have expressed an TUCSON -As a self -confessed hi- very development of magnetic tape nificantly, 90 percent of these fees Roster & interest in writing and producing the fi buff, Tom Davis decided that one when he joined Enter - for record sales came from com- (Continued on page 48) of his first moves in taking over the prises following World War II, panies outside the Warner- Elektra- Ampex Music Division would be to Davis said this newest marketing ex- Atlantic family of labels. Accents 40 expand distribution of quadrasonic pansion by AMD will be very care - Forbidden by Warner Communi- NEW YORK -American Talent The Billboard Suite fully out. cations policy to reveal exact figures and stereo tapes into audio outlets thought International, Ltd., has streamlined at the through manufacturer reps. Davis, 52, the seventh in a family of his profits, Silvers explained that its talent roster, dropping 25 acts, to Interviewed at length in Chicago of 11 children (8 boys and 3 girls) mechanicals made WBM's biggest focus its activities on booking a ros- and then here at the International born in Ellendale, S.D., comes to the ter of 40 remaining acts. NAB Convention Tape Association, where he was music industry with obvious fresh Atl Kicks Off ATI executive vice president Ira sounding out reps and renewing ties insight and believes in added expan- Blacker explained 'he move as ne- Houston, March 17 -20 in the industry that go back to the sion of tape marketing and in attack- cessitated more by the company's in- Soul Explosion will be in the Shamrock Hotel ing a severe problem he quickly dis- dividual operation than by any mar- covered- returns. With 5 LP's ket conditions. "It wasn't done in Room 1354 "This has become a very, very ex- NEW YORK - terms of marketability. It's the matu- Sfax Affiliate pensive crutch and we've got to solve has kicked off its "Soul Explosion ration of an organization, a rela- this problem, especially with the '74" merchandising campaign with tively young one, to the point where very high costs of production and in- five new soul LP's, released as part we are no longer looking for those Okla. Pirate Regroups; Aims creasingly high cost of raw mate- of Atlantic's March album release. lesser acts." rials." Key product for the push are new In qualifying how acts were eval- Approaching the audio outlet dis- LP's from and the uated for the cut, he indicated that Ring Charged For Push tribution for tapes with a totally Spinners. Also included in the re- acts dropped were generally "bread Indie OKLAHOMA CITY -An unli- open mind, he said a new approach lease are albums by Melvin Van acts that were lower By CLAUDE HALL and butter" censed duplicating ring and partici- on returns may be one facet of the Peebles, Black Heat and Creation. priced but possessed little indication Records is pating individuals, based primarily MEMPHIS -Stax program. He is consulting with reps The campaign encompasses of greater audience potential. record effort in Norman, were hit with 27 counts launching a major and also with Ampex's industrial de- coordinated advertising, promotion will continue to represent ATI packaging and selling again through independent distribu- sign and advertising departments to and publicity strategies that will in- Faces with ; Rare of copying, tapes in a suit filed by the tion channels. Corporate manager come up with the "right" packaging corporate print, radio and television Earth; ; Hollies; pirated in federal dis- John Smith will spearhead the new and program. advertising, dealer point -of -sale Brian Auger; Weather Report; U.S. Attorney's office to make Truth Records, a trict court here last week. movement Razor /Blades aids, posters, window displays, bus Manfred Mann's Earth Band; Chris a major entity in the complaint lists as defendants Stax subsidiary, His premise: "There is a lot of cards and billboards. Jagger; Herbie Hancock; Elf; Uriah The pop music field. The Stax Records Joseph Burton Bodin, 61; William (Continued on page 35) (Continued on page 10) Heep; Billy Preston; Z Z Top; Bad - label will continue to be distributed Albert Bodin, 26; Joseph Linden finger; John Sebastian; Hawkwind; . Blanton, 37; Hemisphere Sounds by Funkadelic; Dramatics; Maxayn; is Gospel Inc., Broken Arrow Productions and Truth an outgrowth of War; Tim Buckley; ; Truth, which was a label dealing Concerts Aid Push LaBelle Co. Blanton is charged with (Continued on page 10) with . This label and ordering 190,000 labels for tapes others such as Respect Records and which were copied by W.A. Bodin Party Records, were not part of the On Prison Reform Gang Gets Gold and Broken Arrow Productions, and Columbia distribution deal. These ver, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Steve packaged by J.B. Bodin and Hemi- NOTRE DAME, Ind.- Prison re- NEW YORK -Kool & the labels have been turning out occa- and Oliver, all donating sphere and sold by Blanton and La- form advocate George Mische is Goodman has received its first gold sional releases. However, now new their talent, according to Gaye Gang Belle. Tapes were sold through non - coordinating a series of pop and for the single "Jungle pop music artists are being signed French of Toxey French Produc- record record outlets primarily. Twenty - rock concerts, used as a drawing Boogie." The tune is from the for Truth Records. Distributor in tions, Los Angeles. four top recording groups and indi- card for a prison reform symposium, group's current De -Lite Records Los Angeles will be Music Mer- venues. Mische, one of the Catonsville viduals whose tapes were pirated in both campus and public album, "Wild and Peaceful." chandisers. The first, held here at Notre Dame's (Continued on page 26) were included in the brief. First major releases on Truth, 12,000 capacity Athletic and Convo- Party, and Respect are expected cation Center, proved the first sell- soon. out ever for a talent event in that fa- Group One Starting Well cility. By ELIOT TIEGEL The initial benefit concert, pro- Trucker Assn. produce seven member totype for five others planned but as LOS ANGELES- the Kids family act for GRC of yet unfinalized, featured John Den- Danny Janssen and Bobby Hart's Rhodes Uses `45' Lobby newly formed independent produc- Atlanta; NASHVILLE -The independent tion company, Group One, has create the theme and incidental film truckers of America have formed Error Omits landed six assignments in its first music for a 20th Century-Fox their own , pressed weeks of operation. starring Peter Fonda; 25,000 initial cuts of a "lobbying Acuff Star The two have been writing songs (Continued on page 10) song," and plan to use the first re- LOS ANGELES -Due to a together for the past 18 months and lease "for lobbying purposes." composing room error, stars were are currently represented with Helen Gold for Jacks In something of an unprecented left off Roy Acuffs latest single, Reddy's charted number, "Keep on move, an organization called the In- "Back in the Country," on the Singing." NEW YORK -"Seasons in the dependent Truckers Coalition of Hot Country Singles charts in the Now, they have commitments to: Sun," a single on Bell Records by America has formed the ITCA label. issues of Mar. 2 and Mar. 9. record 20th Century's first hard Terry Jacks, has been .certified Miss M, Atlantic artist with the support of an estimated The single reached the number rock band; gold by the RIAA. The label has THE DIVINE Midler, receives her 1973 Bill- 800,000 potential members. 78 and 71 positions, respectively, recently released an album by Bette "It all started with the independ- during those weeks. This week, Jacks containing the hit, a Bill- board Trendsetter Award from Bill- Talent Editor Sam Sutherland ent truck shutdown," said Phil Cole- "Back in the Country" is at 65 on More Late News board No. I charted record now board its third week in that position. in the office of her manager, Aaron man, a Missouri driver who is vice the country charts. See Pages 50 & 70 in (Continued on page 41) Russo. single -copy price, $1.25. Second class postage Billboard is published week y by Billboard Publications, Inc., One Astor P aza, 1515 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036. Subscription ate: annual rate, $40; 720, Times Square Station, New York 10036. paid at New York. N.Y. and at additional mailing offices. Current and back copies of Billboard are available on microfilm from 3M /1M Press, P.O. Box Postmaster, please send Form 3579 to Billboard Publications, Inc., 2160 Patterson St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45214. Area Coda 519, 301 4450. 3 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

www.americanradiohistory.com General News More Superstars on Way Senate Committee Eyes Anti -Pirate Bill To E/A Geffen Pledges! By MARTIN HINTZ LOS ANGELES -David Geffen, eral unknowns signing too that I was practically incommunicado at MADISON, Wis. -The record in- Gortikov supported the Senate 31, says he is not worried about fol- have great hopes for." the office for several months be- dustry sent some top executives here bill aimed at a based lowing up the phenomenal success (As Part One of this story ran last cause of this. Feb. 25 to testify before a Senate tape company known as E.C. Tapes, committee in favor of legislation Inc. The bill provides a penalty for of 's first album for the week, Geffen's Elektra -Asylum had It would be impossible for Geffen six -month -old Elektra- Asylum la- that would become one of the tough- the reproduction for sale or profit of the top three positions on Billboard's to maintain a strong record corn - est anti - piracy laws yet. recorded sounds on tape, record disc bel, "Planet Waves," which has sold LP chart, making it today's hottest via his pany practice of spending or other material without the con- over a million units since January. record company.) minimal "Pirating is like promoting cancer time at the desk and hang- sent of the owner of the master copy. "This spring we will announce the Geffen brought off the coup of ing out with his artists as much as because the disease helps the doctors The is signing of three more superstar acts signing Bob Dylan to Elektra -Asy- possible, if E/A didn't have an out- and hopsitals," said Stanley Gorti- penalty a fine of up to whose contracts elsewhere have run lum by spending day after day at the standing management team. kov of the Recording Industry Asso- $25,000 or up to six years in prison. out," he promised. "We aren't ignor- Malibu homes of Dylan and the (Continued on page 16) Posner is E/A president, hav- ciation of America. ing new artists either, there are sev- Band, winning their confidence. He Mel ing started at the company 16 years ago as one of founder Jac Holzman's first employees. He said, "David keeps entirely aware of everything TurnEoble Most Labels Share Cut of going on at the company. But he Executive leaves day -to -day operations to the NARAS Awards' Pie '73 staff and concentrates on what he LOS ANGELES -The biggest label spread yet in the four -year com- does best, putting together combina- parison of Grammy awards occurred in the 1973 presentations made na- tions of talent." tionally Saturday (2). Twin Coast Operation Columbia, whose 19 awards dwarfed all others in the 1972 presenta- Posner is based at Elektra's origi- tions, again topped the list with nine awards. Atlantic was second with five, nal New York headquarters. E/A is while Tamla /Motown placed third with four. attempting to run a two -coast oper- SAUL BROOKS GALANTE The year -by -year Grammy awards have been as follows: ation with fully equal offices. "We HORNE feel it could be the best of two Label 1973 Total Label 1973 Total Larry Saul has been appointed vice president and general man- worlds, if it works," said Posner. ager of Capricorn Records. He had joined the company in April of Columbia 9 35 Mercury 2 "The company will be right there in 1973 as the company's general manager, based in Burbank, Calif. RCA 1 22 Bell 2 both the Los Angeles production Saul's duties include complete with Bros. Atlantic 5 16 Decca 2 center and the New York merchan- coordination Warner A &M 2 7 MGM 2 dising hub, close to Warner Com- Records on Capricorn's single and album releases.... Jim Brooks Ode 2 6 Little David 2 munications headquarters." has been named director of midwest promotion for Famous Music, Philips 5 Sussex 2 A major new executive move by as part of reorganization of the firm's promotional staff in the area. London I 5 Mega 2 Geffen was the hiring of promotion Most recently, Brooks directed national r &b promotion for Mer- Warner Bros. I 5 Chess 2 chief Steve Wachs from Bell. Both cury Records. Prior to that he was midwest regional promoter for Angel 2 5 2 Elektra and Asylum have been pri- Stax Records.... At RCA Records, Joe Galante has been ap- Enterprise 4 Buddah 2 marily album labels. But Wachs has pointed administration manager, Nashville. He will be responsible Tamla /Motown 4 4 Heartwarming 2 got to be credited as one of today's for a &r budgeting; scheduling recording studios; scheduling coun- Apple 1 4 DG 2 when foremost singles promoters, try product into the label's release schedules; and acting as a liaison Gordy 3 CTI 2 look chart record of Bell. you at the between country artists and product managers.... Also at RCA, ABC 1 3 Capitol 2 Geffen says he is not worried Polydor 3 MCA 2 about following up the phenomenal Elliot Home has rejoined the firm as manager, press and informa- UA 1 3 success of Dylan's "Planet Waves" tion. Most recently an account executive for Solters /Sabinson/ Labels receiving one Grammy during the four -year period included: album, which has sold a million Roskin. Home originally joined RCA in 1961. He left the label in Skylite; Epic, Fantasy, Dunhill, Scepter, Barnaby, Philly Groove, Black units since January. "This spring we 1972, when he was manager, rock music a &r, East Coast. He head- Forum, Prophesy, Hob, Uni, Mainstream, Philly Intl., Dot, Monument, will announce the signing of three quarters in New York. Blue Thumb, Paramount and Elektra. more superstar acts whose contracts elsewhere have run out," he prom- ised. "We aren't ignoring new artists either, and have several signings there too. Trade Turning Tide Geffen said there was no con- scious plan to release the new Dylan, and al- Vs. Pirates: Gortikov bums together in January. "I put out STRAUSS JEFFRIES FIELDS MUNAO NEW YORK -The music indus- Gortikov charged that for the an album when it's ready," he said. try, with the increasing cooperation most part pirates were not small en- "I don't believe in holding back re- Carol Strauss, formerly vice president and head of Gibson & of law enforcement authorities, has trepreneurs dealing in a penny -ante leases. What for? If a record is going Stromberg's New York office, has formed her own public relations on page 10) turned the tide of battle in its war business. He said, "The illicit dupli- (Continued firm, C.J. Strauss & Co. (see separate story in general news). Join- against unauthorized music dupli- cators have grown pretty big, and ing Ms. Strauss as a company staffer is Ann Cozzolino, also for- cators, Stanley Gortikov, president have been making a lot of money merly of Gibson & Stromberg.... Meanwhile, Susan Munao has of the RIAA, said here last week. from an enterprise created with mal- been named vice president and general manager of Gibson & In a progress report to the music ice aforethought to steal recordings, In This Issue and to capitalize on the creative ef- Stromberg's New York operation. She was formerly an account ex- industry, the RIAA executive ex- with the At Recording Corporation, Os- plained that the perils faced by the forts of the many factors of the in- CAMPUS 26 ecutive firm.... General pirate of getting caught, having sup- dustry who collaborated to produce CLASSICAL 46 car Fields has been appointed vice president, marketing, and Jim 40 plies and equipment seized, being the hit." COUNTRY Jeffries has been appointed national marketing manager. Fields, 52 slapped with fines and possible jail Gortikov said that the most criti- INTERNATIONAL most recently vice president of sales and merchandising for Bell JUKEBOX PROGRAMMING 63 well as the financial cal problem ahead was in making will responsible for record sales all product on both sentences, as LATIN 26 Records, be of drain of legal fees, have finally be- permanent the amendment against GRC and Aware labels. Jeffries, also formerly with Bell Records, unauthorized duplication which was MARKETPLACE 31 gun to challenge his potential prof- RADIO 28 as national promotion coordinator, before joining GRC this past added to the Copyright Law in Oc- its. SOUL 37 January, will be coordinating the firm's national promotional ac- tober 1971, and which is due to ex- Gortikov disclosed that the RIAA TALENT 18 di- pire at the end of this year. tivities.... Elzy White has been named national r &b promotion will, in the near future, make avail- TAPE /AUDIO /VIDEO 32 rector of Phonogram, Inc., replacing Jim Brooks. White, former able a law enforcement handbook He continued, "We had thought business consultant for the Ohio Players, will oversee regional r &b geared to educating all involved that a permanent copyright in sound FEATURES with antipiracy efforts, particularly recordings, which is part of a general Stock Market Quotations 8 personnel Ronald Patterson (east), Robert Gordon (southeast) in those states which have recently copyright revision bill now before VoxJox 28 and Tommy Young (southwest).... Additional changes in the pro- adopted new antipiracy laws. the Senate, would have already been motion department at Phonogram Inc. have Cliff Burnstein be- enacted. "The handbook," said Gortikov, CHARTS coming assistant national promotion manager, with responsi- "We have begun action to have "will be similar in organization to Best Selling Gospel LP's 39 bilities for the FM and college markets, and secondary Top 40 that law made permanent, well FM Action 63 one previously developed in con- as as stations; and Jimmy Randazzo, formerly special projects manager, to have more stringent penalties for Soul LP's.. 38 junction with the U.S. Dept. of Jus- filling a long vacant promotion manager slot for Cleveland, Pitts- violators written into it," Gortikov Hot Soul Singles 37 for federal enforcement." New tice added. Hot Country LP's 44 burgh, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester. Meanwhile, in the The RIAA executive noted that in Hot Country Singles 42 York office, Betsy Volck's role as director, East Coast publicity, has 1973 the U.S. Senate ratified an in- Hot 100 64 been expanded to include a &r duties, notably seeking out new tal- ASCAP Meet ternational antipiracy convention, Hot Latin LP's 26 ent for the label. 46 NEW YORK -ASCAP's semi -an- and was able to do so because there Top 50 Easy Listening * * * Hits of the World 58 nual East Coast membership meet- was a federal law on the books. He Top LP's 66,68 Pat Buttice has been named assistant promotion administrator at the New said, "if our current Copyright Law ing will be held March 27 She will work with the label's field report of is allowed to expire, not only would for Elektra /Asylum Records. York Hilton. The annual REVIEWS suffer, but the U.S. RECORD staff and function as a coordinator between promotion and other the president and treasurer will be our industry Album Reviews 48 in a label departments. Ms. Buttice was formerly with Bell Records... . read, and a resume of the Society's would be put position of having Singles Reviews 50 activities will be presented. to abrogate a treaty." (Continued on page 10) MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD 4

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Sales, John McCartney. 1 search Fellowship plaintiff record companies to have NEW YORK, N.Y. 10036, Astor Plaza, Area Code 212, 764 -7300. COOK sales and profits. Bureau Chief, Is Horowitz. JAPAN: 1694 Hiyoshicho, Kohoku -ku, Yokohama 223. Tel: at the City of Hope seized about $28,000 in pirated tapes The court held all defendants -61 -6605. 044 Bureau Chief, Hideo Eguchi. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005, 733 15th St. Medical Center, to be known as the and duplicating equipment, and au- liable and ordered $93,000 in actual N.W., Woodward Bldg., Rm 533. Area Code 202, 393 -2580. Bureau Chief, Mildred Hall Music, Appliance, Radio and TV In- thorized them to dispose of this ma- damages to be paid to CBS and dustry Fellowship in Cook's honor. terial in any manner they saw fit. $53,000 to Atlantic. Judge Mackey EDITORS MART officers include president Additionally, on the day before further ordered an additional CAMPUS: Sam Sutherland (N.Y.); CLASSICAL MUSIC: Robert Sobel (N.Y.); COPY EDI- Joel Friedman, secretary Arthur the trial's closing last week the de- $50,000 in punitive damages to be TOR: Robert Sobel (N.Y.); : Bill Williams (Nash.); CREATIVE TRENDS: Grobart, treasurer Harold Haytin fendant company named as the du- paid to CBS, $25,000 to Atlantic. Nat Freedland (L.A.); GOSPEL MUSIC: Bill Williams (Nash.); JUKEBOX PROGRAMMING: and vice president Gortikov. The plicator of the pirated tapes agreed During the trial it was Earl Paige disclosed (Chi.); LATIN MUSIC: Jim Melanson (N.Y.); RADIO & TELEVISION PRO- event will be held in the hotel's In- to an out of court settlement that in- that GRAMMING: Claude Hall (L.A.); RECORD REVIEWS: Eliot Tiegel (L.A.); SPECIAL ISSUES Julius Kessler, identified as the EDITOR: Eliot Tiegel (L.A.); INTERNATIONAL NEWS EDITOR: Robert Sobel (N.Y.); TAL- ternational Ballroom. cluded a permanent injunction president and chief executive officer ENT EDITOR: Sam Sutherland (N.Y.); TALENT (WEST COAST EDITOR): Nat Freedland Cook has been associated with the against further unauthorized dupli- of Playgirl Industries and Kesco (L.A.); TAPE /AUDIO /VIDEO: Earl Paige (Chi.); TAPE /AUDIO /VIDEO EASTERN EDITOR: record industry since 1974. He be- cation and the payment to plaintiffs Textile Co., had purchased dupli- Radcliffe Joe (N.Y.); TAPE /AUDIO /VIDEO WESTERN EDITOR: Bob Kirsch (L.A.). gan as sales manager for Vitacoustic of $150,000 in damages. cating equipment through Playgirl FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS Record Company, worked in execu- Proceedings concluded early last Industries and, through a series of tive capacities at Capitol, Columbia week in the Circuit Court for Cecil inter -corporate transfers, had had ARGENTINA: Ruben Machado, Lavalle 1783, Buenos Aires; ;'Jan Murray, 145 and Warner Bros. Records, founded County in a civil unfair competition the equipment installed in a build- Marshall St., Ivanhoe, Victoria 3079, Australia; AUSTRIA: Manfred Schreiber, 1180 Wien Record Source International which suit brought by CBS and Atlantic ing owned by Kesco Textile Co. XVIII, Kreuzgasse 27. Tel: 43 -30 -974; BRAZIL: Henry T. Johnson, Av. and Rio Branco 25, Rio de was acquired by Billboard in 1962 against: Deeds Electronic Janeiro. Tel: 233 -4977; CANADA: Marty Melhuish, 167 Roxborough St. W., Toronto, On- Co.; operated by Deeds Music. An adja- tario. Tel: 416- 924 -3661; CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Dr. Lubomir Doruzka, 14 Zeleny Pruh, 147 and was publisher of Billboard for a Deeds Music Co., Inc.; GAI Audio cent part of the building was oc- 00 Praha 4 Branik. Tel: 26.16.08; DENMARK: Knud Orsted, 32 Solhojvaenget, DK 2750 decade. of New York, Inc.; Jack Kessler, also (Continued on page 10) Ballerup, Copenhagen, Ballerup, Denmark. Tel: (07) 97.71.10; FINLAND: Kari Helopaitio, 01860 Perttula, Finland. Tel: 27.18.36; FRANCE: Henry Kahn, 16 Rue Clauzel, 75 -Paris 9 France. Tel: 878 -4290; GREECE: Lefty Kongalides, Hellinikos Vorras, Thessaloniki. Tel: 416621; HOLLAND: Bas Hageman, Hymnestraat 9, PO Box 392, Apeldoorn, Holland. Tel: 62735 and 71122 x 2852; HUNGARY: Paul Gyongy Derekutca 6, 1016 Budapest, Hun- 1973 GRAMMY CHAMPIONS gary. Tel: 45.46.45; IRELAND: Ken Stewart, 56 Rathgar Road, Dublin 6, Eire. Tel: RECORD OF THE YEAR R &B VOCAL PERFORMANCE, FEMALE 97.14.72; ISRAEL: Uri Alony, POB 28028, Tel Aviv, Israel. Tel: 23.92.97; ITALY: Germano SCORE FOR ORIGINAL Grammys tri the artists and a &r producer Master Of Eyes -Aretha Franklin (Single) CAST SHOW ALBUM Ruscitto, IL Guscio, Residenza 1 Cing Fo, Guanzate, Como, Italy. Tel: 93.60.66. MEXICO: (Certificates to the arranger, engineer and (Atlantic) Grammys to the composer and a &r pro- Enrique Ortiz, Nuelo Radie Mil, Insurguntes Sur 1870, Mexico 29, D.F.; NEW ZEALAND: J. songwriter) R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE, MALE ducer Killing Me P. Monaghan, c/o Box 79, Wellington; NORWAY: Espen Eriksen, Bestumveien 21 D, Oslo 2, Softly With His Song -Roberta Superstition- Stevie Wonder (Track) A Little Night Music. Composer: Stephen Flack. (Tamla Norway. Tel: 55.71.30; POLAND: Roman Waschko, Magiera 9m 37, 01 -873 Warszawa, Po- /Motown) Sondheim. A &r producer, Joel Dorn (Atlantic) R &B VOCAL PERFORMANCE BY DUO, A&r producer: land. Tel: 34.36.04; PORTUGAL: Fernando Tenente, R Sta Helena 122 R /c, Porto, Portugal, Goddard Lieberson (Colum- ALBUM OF THE YEAR GROUP OR CHORUS PUERTO bia) RICO: Antonio Contreras, 26 Gertrudis St., Santurce; RUMANIA: Octavian Ursu- Grammys to the artists and a&r producer All recordings on which the group receives lescu, Str. Radude la La Afumati nr, 57 -B Sector 2, Bucharest O.P. 9. Tel: 13.46.10, (Certificates to the arranger and engineer) artist billing on label are eligible even ALBUM OF YEAR, CLASSICAL Grammys 16.20.80; : Maria Dolores Aracil, Andres Mellado, 22, Madrid. Tel: 449.14.68; SWE- Innervisions -Steve Wonder. though the vocal may feature only one mem- to the artist and producer, certifi- A &r producer: Stevie Wonder (Tamla /Mo- cates to the engineer DEN: Leif Schulman, Brantingsgatan 49, 4 tr. 115 35 Stockholm. Tel: (08)629.873; REPUB- ber of the group. All nominations singles town) Midnight Train To Georgia- Gladys Knight Bartok: Concerto For . Pierre LIC OF S. AFRICA: Peter Feldman, 51 van Riebeeck Ave., Alberton, Transvaal; URUGUAY: Boulez conducting New York SONG OF THE YEAR ' & The Pips (Buddah) Philharmonic Carlos A. Martins, Martin Garcia 2108, Montevideo; U.S.S.R.: Vadim D. Yurchenkov, 14 Ru- A songwriter's award R &B INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE Orchestra. binstein St., Ap. 15 Leningrad, 191025. Tel: 15- 33 -41; WEST GERMANY: Wolfgang Spahr, Killing Me Softly With His Song (Atlantic) Hang On Sloopy- (Single) Producer: Thomas Z. Shepard (Columbia) Bad Songwriters= Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox (Columbia) 236 Segeberg, An der Trave 67 b, Postfach 1150. W. GERMANY. Tel: (04551) 14 28; CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE, NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR RHYTHM & BLUES SONG YUGOSLAVIA: Borjan Kostic, Balkanska St. 30, 1 1000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Tel: 645 -692. ORCHESTRA This category is for an artist or organized A songwriter's award Conductor's award group whose first recording was released Superstition- Songwriter: Stevie Wonder Bartok: Concert For Orchestra. Pierre Bou- MARKETING SERVICES during the elgibility period SOUL GOSPEL PERFORMANCE Bette Midler (Atlantic) lez conducting the New York Philharmonic -Dixie Humming- Orchestra DIRECTOR Of MARKETING SERVICES: Marty Feely (L.A.) INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT birds (Single) (ABC) CHART MANAGER: Candy Tusken (L.A.) An arranger's award for a specific arrange- COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE, OPERA RECORDING ment released on either a single or a track FEMALE Grammys to the conductor and producer; from an album Let Me Be There -Olivia Newton -John special plaques to the principal soloists SALES Summer in The City- . (MCA) Bizet: Carmen. Leonard Bernstein conduct- Arranger: Quincy Jones (A &M) COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE, ing Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Manhat- DIRECTOR OF SALES: Peter Heine (L.A.) ASSISTANT SALES DIR.: Steve Lappin (L.A.) ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING MALE tan Opera Chorus /Principal Solos: M. NATIONAL TALENT COORDINATOR: Bill Moran (L.A.); CONSUMER ELECTRONIC VOCALISTS Behind Closed Doors-Charlie Rich (Epic/ Home, J. McCracken, A. Maliponte, T. SALES: Ron Willman, Mgr. (N.Y.); CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING An arranger's award for a specific arrange- Columbia) Krause. Producer: Thomas W. Mowrey MANAGER: Murray Dorf (D.G. /Poly) (N.Y.). ment released on either a single or a track COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE BY from an album DUO OR GROUP CHORAL PERFORMANCE, CLASSICAL Live and Let Die -Paul McCartney & Wings. All recordings on which the group receives (OTHER THAN OPERA) INTERNATIONAL SALES Arranger: George Martin, (Apple /Capitol) artist billing on the label are eligible even Grammys to the conductor and choral di- ENGINEERED RECORDING though the vocal may feature only one mem- rector SPAIN: Rafael Revert, S.E.R. Ave. Jose Antonio 32, 2nd floor, Madrid 13. Tel: 23.28.000; (NONCLASSICAL) ber Walton: Belshazzar s Feast. Andre Previn An engineer's award From BENELUX, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, HUNGARY, POLAND, SCANDINAVIA, WEST GER- The Bottle To The Bottom -Kris Kris- conducting London Symphony Orchestra Innervisions- Stevie Wonder. tofferson, Rita Coolidge (Track) (A &M) MANY: Johan Hoogenhout, Smirnoffstratt 40, s- Hertogenbosch, Holland. Tel: 47688; Chorus and London Symphony Orchestra. Engineers: Robert Margouleff, Malcolm Ce- COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL Arthur Oldham (Angel /Capitol) FRANCE: Olivier Zameczkowski, 30 Avenue Bugeaud, 75 -116, Paris; Tel: 553.1068; ITALY: cil (Album) (Tamla /Motown) PERFORMANCE CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE Germano Ruscitto, IL Guscio, Residenza 1 Cing Fo, Guanzate, Como, Italy. Tel: ALBUM PACKAGE Dueling 93.60.66. -Eric Weissberg, Steve Instrumental or vocal JAPAN: Shigeru Kobayashi, JAC, New Grammy to art director. Certificates to de- Mandell (Track) (Warner Bros.) Ginza Bldg., 7 -3 -13 Ginza Chuo -ku, Tokyo, 104. Tel. Joplin: The Red Back Book. Gunther Schul- signers, photographers, illustrators etc. COUNTRY SONG 03- 571 -8748; Cable: ADCOMMJAPAN, Telex: j22745. MEXICO: Enrique Ortiz, Nceleo Ra- ler and New England Ragtime Ensemble where applicable A Songwriter's award dio Mil, insurgentes Sur 1870, Mexico 20, D.F.; PUERTO - (Angel /Capitol) RICO: Antonio Contreras, 26 Ger Tommy -London Symphony Orchestra/ Behind Closed Doors. trudis St., Santurce, Puerto Rico; VENEZUELA: Christian Roux, Radio Exitos 1090, Calle El Chambre Choir. Songwriter: Kenny O'Dell CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE Retiro, Qta. Vilma, El Rosal, Caracas, Venezuela. Art director. Wilkes & Braun Inc: (Ode/ INSPIRATIONAL PERFORMANCE INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST OR A&M) (NONCLASSICAL) SOLOISTS (WITH ORCHESTRA) ALBUM NOTES All nominations are albums Beethoven: Concerti (5) For And Or- PUBLISHING An annotator's award Let's Just Praise The Lord -Bill Gaither Trio chestra. Vladimir Ashkenazy (Solti conduct- God Is In The House-Art Tatum. (Album) (Impact /Heartwarming) ing Chicago Symphony) (London) PUBLISHER: LeeZhito BUSINESS MANAGER: Peter Heine (Onyx). Annotator, Don Morgenstern (Onyx) GOSPEL PERFORMANCE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Bill Wardlow JAZZ PERFORMANCE BY SOLOIST (OTHER THAN SOUL GOSPEL) INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST OR SPECIAL PROJECTS: Andrew Csida (N.Y.); PRODUCTION MANAGER: John F. Halbran This category is for a solo performance with All nominations are albums SOLOISTS (WITHOUT ORCHESTRA) (L.A.); PRODUCTION COORDINATORS: Ward Mechlin, Val Karches (Cincy }; PROMO- or without a group or band Release Me (From My Sin)-Blackwood (Scriabin) Horowitz Plays Scriabin. Vladimir God Is In The House," Art TION DIRECTOR: Jeff Bates (L.A.); CIRCULATION MANAGER: Jack Shurman (N.Y.). Tatum (Album) Bros. (Skylite) Horowitz (Columbia) (Onyx) ETHNIC TRADITIONAL RECORDING JAZZ PERFORMANCE BY A GROUP (INCLUDING TRADITIONAL BLUE) CLASSICAL VOCAL SOLOIST BILLBOARD PUBLICATIONS, INC. All nominations are albums All nominations are albums PERFORMANCE Supersax Plays Bird -Supersax (Capitol) Then And Now -Don Watson (United Puccini: Heroines (La Boheme, La Rondini, CHAIRMAN: R. H. Stegeman; PRESIDENT: W. D. Littleford; VICE PRESIDENTS: Maynard JAZZ PERFORMANCE BY BIG BAND Artists) Tosca, Manon Lescaut). Leontyne Price All nominations are (Downes conducting New Philharmonia) Reuter, Sales; Joel Novak, Circulation; Jules Perel, American Artist Group; Hal B. Cook, Busi- albums RECORDING FOR CHILDREN Giant Steps-Woody Herman (Fantasy) All nominations for (RCA) ness Publications; Warren B. Syer, Consumer Publications; CONTROLLER: David Luppert; are albums POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE, FEMALE Sesame Street Live -Sesame Street Cast. ALBUM NOTES (CLASSICAL) TREASURER: Larry Gatto; SECRETARY: John Ross; PRESIDENT, WHITNEY DESIGN This category is for pop, rock and folk. All Producer: Joe Raposo (Columbia) An annotator's award GROUP: Charles Whitney. PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS: Mort Nasatir. nominations are for singles COMEDY RECORDING Hindemith: Sonatas For Piano (Complete). PRESIDENT, MUSIC LABO (JOINT VENTURE): Ben Okano. Killing Me Softly With His Song -Roberta Spoken word or material Glen Gould. Annotator, Glen Gould (Colum- Flack (Atlant c) Los Cochinos, Cheech & Chong (Ode/ bia) POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE, MALE The microfilm edition of Billboard is available from the Kraus -Thomson Organization Limited, A &M) This category is pop, rock and folk SPOKEN WORD RECORDING ENGINEERED RECORDING (CLASSICAL) Route 100, Millwood, N.Y. An 10546. For details, contact Pamela Quiers, at the above address or You Are The Sunshine Of My Life -Stevie This category is for spoken word, documen- engineer's award call (914) 762-2200. Wonder (Single) (Tamla /Motown) tary or drama recordings. Nonmusical show Bartok: Concerto For Orchestra. Boulez New Philharmonia POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE BY DUO, albums are eligible. All nominations are for conducting York Or- chestra. Subscription rates payable in advance. One year, $40, two years, $70, three years, $90 in GROUP OR CHORUS albums This category is for pop, rock Engineers: Edward T. T. Graham, Raymond U.S.A. (except Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico) and Canada. Rates in other foreign countries and folk. All Jonathan Livingston Seagull- Richard Har- recordings on which the group receives art- ris (Dunhill /ABC) Moore (Columbia) on request. Subscribers when requesting change of address should give old as well as new ist billing on the label are eligible even INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION NARAS HALL OF FAME address. Published weekly. Second -class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional though the vocal may feature only one mem- Composer's award for an original compo- Body And Soul, Coleman Hawkins. Re- mailing offices. © Copyright 1974 by Billboard Publications, Inc. The company also publishes ber of group sition with or without lyrics with first gained leased December, 1939. (Bluebird) Amusement Business, Discografia Internazionale, Gift & Tableware Reporter, Industrial De- Neither Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say recognition as an instrumental Christmas Song, . Released -Gladys Knight The sign, Interiors, Merchandising Week, Record Mirror, The Architectural Forum, Music Week, Goodbye) and Pips Last Tango In Paris. October, 1954. (Capitol) (Soul /Motown) Composer: Gato Barbieri Whiteman with World Radio Television Handbook, American Rhapsody In Blue, Paul POP INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE ALBUM OF BEST ORIGINAL SCORE George Gershwin. Released 1927. (RCA/ Artist, High Fidelity, Modern Photography, This category is for pop, rock and folk. All WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURE OR Victor) Photo Weekly. Postmaster, please send AQp recordings are for either pure instrumentals TELEVISION SPECIAL West End Blues, . Released Form 3579 to Billboard Publications, Inc., MPA AB `\ or instrumentals with vocal coloring Composer's award August, 1928. (Okeh) 2160 Patterson St., Cincinnati, Ohio Also Sprach Zarathustra -Eumir Deodato Jonathan Livingston Seagull. White Christmas, Bing Crosby. Released (Single) (CTI) Composer: Neil Diamond (Columbia) October, 1942 (Decca) 45214. Area Code 513, 381 -6450. Vol. 86 No. 11 6 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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Thirty -two months ago, I ran this ad for myself, Black Bull Music, Inc., and Taurus Productions, Inc. Iiiirty-two months later we feel the same way. I wish to publicly express my total appreciation for the untiring efforts of Motown Record Corpor- ation; its President Ewan Abner; its Chairman Berry Gordy; and the whole Motown Family who made possible my Grammy Awards and who came to my aid and assistance when I was injured and in need. Stevie Wonder

www.americanradiohistory.com Financial News Earnings Rep OFF the Market Quotations SOUNDESIGN nine -months Year to As of closing. Thursday, March 7, 1974 Sales 85,826,000 80,727,000 Dec.31: 1974 1973 1972 Net income 4,071,000 Ticker 4,344,000 NAME P-E (Sales High Low Sales $88,039,000 High Low Close Change 574,070000 Per share .93 98 Net income 5,256,000 5,170.-000 TRANSCONTINENTAL MU- Per share 2.32 2.28 27 /a MCA INC. SIC'S sale to PICKWICK INTER- 7' Admiral 7.5 369 12% 12 12% % six- months (MCA Records) 41 19 ABC 9.1 676 25% 23% 25 1'/. Sales NATIONAL of inventory cer- 31,246,000 26,812.000 Year and 15% 41/2 AAVCorp. to 4.1 13 5% 51 51/. 164 Net income 1.660.000 2,058,000 151/2 Dec.31: 1973 1972 tain other assets is expected to result 3 Ampex 8.3 292 41/4 41 41/4 Per share Unch. .74 .89 8r/e 1% Automatic Radio Gross Revenues $417,784,000 $345,961,000 "in the receipt of substantial 5.8 50 21 2 21/4 - / Net income 25,633,000 20,863,000 20% 61 Avco Corp. 6.8 156 7% 711 71 20TH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORP. amounts of cash over the next sev- '/. Per share 3.06 2.52 15 6% Avnet 5.3 360 9s/. 9 (20th Records) 9% '/. Average shares 8,378,695 eral months," according to Omega - 2336 191 Bell 8 Howell 6.9 403 Year to 8,267,262 231/2 211 23 21/4 fourth -quarter 15'64 51 Capitol Ind. 9.4 575 151/4 15 151 Dec.29: 1973 a1972 Alpha, which - signed an agreement to 1 Revenues 158,399,000 116,836,000 52 24% CBS 10 683 341/4 31% 33% 1% Revenues $253,532,000 $203,350,000 sell TMC to Pickwick. Part of the Net income 7.981.000 5,883,000 14% 2% Columbia Pictures 179 31/2 334 3% y. Net before extra items 7.678,000 6,741,000 - Per share .95 .70 cash in the transaction will be used 3% 11/2 Craig Corp. 3.8 49 2% 2% 236 '/. Per share .90 79 Average shares 8,378,582 8,339,144 14 3 Creative Management 6.1 36 5% 511 5% Net income 10.749,000 7,808,000 to pay residual Transcontinental - 1 1231 351 Disney, Walt 30 7988 511/2 421/4 50% 6% Per share 1.26 91 Music liabilities. MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC 6 2% EMI 7.6 67 234 fourth-quarter INDUSTRIAL 2% 23A Unch. 74% 53%t (Panasonic) General Electric 17 2613 56 55/ 55164 Y. Oper. per share .13 .18 * * * - Year to 44% 21% Gulf + Western 5.3 744 261/4 251/4 25% % Net per share .09 .20 Nov.20: b1973 ABC RECORDS, a division 1634 6/ Hammond Corp. 6.3 78 811 a- Restated. 1972 of 81 81/4 Y. 421 5Y2 Handleman Sales $4.233,441,000 $3,525,061,000 American Broadcasting Companies, 6.3 180 8 734 8 % 2 1 CERTRON CORP. Net income 242,357,000 235,232,000 Harvey Group - 43 11/2 1'/. 11/2 Unch. reported higher sales and profits for 621/2 1st qtr. to Per share a2.44 2.36 24% ITT 6.8 5052 27% 24% 24% - 2% 401 5'/s Lafayette Jan.31: 1974 1973 a -Per American Depositary share. Each ADS the year ending Dec. 31, but ABC Radio Elec. 4.5 122 6/ 61/4 6% / 35% 14 Matsushita Sales $3.882.000 $3,608.100 represents 10 shares common stock. b- Dollar RECORDS & Elec. Inc. 1.9 1029 171/2 171 171/2 Unch. TAPE SALES, the 34% 21 Mattel Inc. Income 6.000 32,000 amounts translated at rate of 297 yen equals SI, rate - 546 31/4 3 3'1 - V. distributing wing, lost . Tax credit 3,000 26,000 on Tokyo foreign exchange market Feb. 8. The 1972 money. 32% 17% MCA 7.9 60 241 24 24 I. 171 71 MGM Net income 9,000 658,000 dollar amounts restated to reflect this rate rather TWENTIETH CENTURY -FOX 10 190 151/2 12% 1516 - ye 321/2 6% Metromedia Per share a.01 than 264 yen equals SI, the rate on Feb. 22, 1973. 5.5 172 8% 864 8% % FILM CORP. (20th Records) is of- 90 69 a -Based on income before tax credit. b -Equal to 3M 29 1452 77 75 76% 11/4 GATES LEARJET 48% two cents a share. CORP. fering to purchase up to two million 5 Morse Elect. Prod. 3.0 521 51/4 511 51/2 % (Lear Jet Stereo) 67% 401 Motorola shares of its outstanding common 16 1198 48/ 43/ 48 31/2 HANDLEMAN CO. 3rd qtr. to 39% 16% No. Amer. Phillips 5.9 102 22 21'64 211 1'64 3rd qtr. to Jan.31: stock for cash at a price of $8.50 each 1974 1973 571/2 11'4 Pickwick Int. 8.6 256 16 151 1534 Unch. Jan.31: 1974 1973 Sales $20,507,000 $16,042,000 to tendering holders. Lehman Bros. 8544 41/2 Playboy 5.9 158 51/2 5% 51 Unch. Sales $37.189,000 $32.476,000 Oper. net 1,663.000 933,000 45 161 RCA will 8.4 2115 20% 1934 20% Ye Net income 1,930,000 1.964,000 act as dealer /manager of the of- Per share 47 .26 57% 20'% Sony 22 2459 29'/. 27% 28% 11 Per share 44 44 Net fer. income 1,798,000 933,000 391 111 Superscope 5.5 424 231 22% 23 y. Average shares 4,392,382 4,427,982 Per share .51 .26 49 * * * 15% Tandy 13 862 25% 21 25 411 23 41 Telecor 5.1 96 51/4 4'/. 51/4 % 14% 21/4 Telex INTEGRITY ENTERTAIN- - 286 31 2% 3 Y. MENT (The Wherehouse), Los An- 101 1% Tenna - 34 21 2 2 1 321/2 81/4 Transamerican 77 1120 9% 91/2 91 Unch. geles, has a goal of opening 60 stores 20 101 Triangle 6.1 35 121/4 12'64 12'/. Y. in by June 1976. The 17 5 20th Century 9.8 2665 81 8% 8% 21 company already has opened 41 dis- 12 '/. Viewlex - 26 1.04 1.02 1.04 .04 50 9 Warner Communications count record -and tape 7.0 869 16% 1634 16% I. stores, with 201/4 6% Wurlitzer 67 21 7 7 7 Unch. 56% 23 Zenith five additional stores planned by 10 532 30'/. 28'/. 301 34 June 1974.... WARNER COMMU- NICATIONS (Warner- Elektra -At- As of closing, Thursday, March, 7, 1974 lantic Records) has agreed to sell ARE OVER THE VOL, Week's Week's Week's OVER THE VOL. Week's Week's Week's some National Kinney stock to a Eu- COUNTER'. High Low Close COUNTER* High Low CLose ropean holding company and cer- tain institutional investors. Under ABKCO Inc. 19 1% 1 11/4 M. Josephson 2 8 8 8 the agreement, 1 Bally Mfg. Corp. 689 37 35 361/4 Schwartz 11 Warner will retain Bros. 11 1 / t ':: million common shares of National Cartridge TV - 1/16 .05 .05 Wallich's Data Packaging 12 1/4 YOU 5 5 5 Music City - % Y. Kinney and would sell the balance Gates Learjet 219 6% 5 634 MNC Corp. - % % % of its interest, some 5 million shares, GRT - 11/2 1% 1% Seeburg 44 14 13 13 Goody for consideration of $8 cash per Sam - 11/2 1/ 11/2 Orrox 35 214 23A 2% Integrity Ent. - Ye 34 Ye Kustom 60 3'/. 2% 31 share plus $7.50 face amount of a Koss Corp. 53 91/4 READY 9'/. 91/4 Memorex - 3V. 3% 3% new preferred stock of a corporation to be formed by the purchases. *Over- the -Counter prices shown are "bid" (as opposed to "asked "). Neither the bid nor the asked prices of unlisted securities represent actual transactions. Rather, they are a guide to the range within which these securities could have been sold or bought FOR `Rachel' Costs at the time of compilation. The above contributed to Billboard by Bache & Co., members of the New York Stock RSO S682,000 Exchange and all principal stock exchanges.

THE LONDON -Last-minute cancel- lation of a stage musical, "Rachel A MLLIOAAo PUPL/CAT1O$ Lily Rosenbloom," which was The International planned to open in New York last Music-Record-Tape November, cost the Robert Stig- Newsweekly wood Group $682,000, it Billboard was re- vealed in the company's financial statement far 1973. The loss sustained on the show SUBSCRIBE SUSCRIBE (Continued on page 56) SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE F MCA's Music t;'45' Boosts Profit SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE LOS ANGELES -An "excep- Billboard 2160 Patterson Street Cincinnati, Ohio 45214 tionally strong performance by Please fill me in on your exclusive Radio -TV Programming coverage and authori- YOUR MCA Records and the music tative coverage of all phases of the international music industry first thing, every publishing business," among Monday. other profit centers, powered 1 year $40 3 years $90 new renewal MCA Inc into sales and earnings payment enclosed LIFE? records in 1973. bill me later The company cited records above subscription rates for Continental U.S. & Canada and music, the theatrical film di- Please check nature of business vision, Spencer Gifts and Co- 1. Retailers of Records, Tapes 6. Schools, Colleges, Libraries, FROM lumbia Savings & Loan oper- Playback Equipment Audiophiles COMING SOON ations for MCA's strong 2. Distributors, Operators, One - 8. Music Publisher, Songwriter, performance. Stops, Rack Jobbers Unions 3. Radio/TV Management & 9. Writers, Reviewers, Newspapers & YOUR FRIENDS AT Sales reached $417.8 million in Broadcasters Magazines 1973, up 2.1 percent, from $345.9 4. Mfrs. /Producers of Records, million a year earlier. Net income Tapes, Equipment itch was $25.6 million, or $3.06 a 5. Talent- Artists, Performers, Other share, up 22 percent, from the Agents, Managers (please specify) $20.8 million, or $2.52 a share, Name RECORDS reported in 1972. A SUBSIDIARY OF Lew R. Wasserman, chairman, Company Address 20TH -FOX FILM CENTURY over-all operations CORPORATION said MCA's City State & Zip were continuing at a "very strong =4411 pace" for 1974. Type of Business Title

8 MARCH 16, 1974. BILLBOARD

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www.americanradiohistory.com General News WB Tour Guide Covers Janssen/Hart Firm ExecutiveTurntable All But Open Gas Stations Nets Assignments Continued from page 4 By NAT FREEDLAND Continuedfrom page 3 Frank Smith has been named to the sales staff of Alpha Distribu- LOS ANGELES -A remarkably complete reference kit for road man- create Eddie Fisher's return to tors to handle tape departments of the Korvette chain in northeast agers working tours in the U.S. has been assembled by Warner Bros. artist recordings after three years; Pennsylvania. Smith was formerly with Columbia Records' Phila- relations and development department. The "Book Of the Road" covers 28 cut Sam Neeley's first single for delphia branch as a sales representative.... Tony Ruffino and top U.S. concert tour cities listing phones and addresses of all airlines, air A &M; Larry Vaughn have departed Concerts East to form Tony Ruffino cut the debut disk for Linda freight services, car rentals, bus, truck and limousine services, union locals, & Larry Vaughn Productions, Hempstead. Long Island, N.Y. They , halls and clubs. Carter, the current Miss World will be promoting concerts throughout the eastern seaboard. .. . Auditorium information includes seating, stage dimensions, house U.S.A. title holder. The Carol Atkins has been appointed A &M Records merchandising de- manager, crew chiefs and union stewards, equipment loading hints, light- hard rock group is a local sextet. The partment's print media coordinator. She was formerly ing equipment outline and location of main power source. Hotel informa- Rhodes Kids, who play print media Las Vegas buyer for tion gives room rates, distance from airport and auditoriums, room service regularly and will debut in University Stereo.... Mike Eisenkraft, formerly eastern and restaurant hours. Lake Tahoe this spring, are a teen -ori- sales manager for Billboard, has been appointed eastern advertis- Also included with the kit are a U.S. road atlas and a device for pin- ented act. The Fisher project marks ing director for Performance magazine, a weekly talent buying pointing highway distance between dozens of cities. Key field representa- the first time the singer has been on guide. He will be handling sales and various other publishing duties records tives of the Warner artist relations- development staff are pictured in a since RCA. Fisher is sched- throughout New England, eastern Canada, the mid -Atlantic states, uled to go into the studio here upon packet of "bubblegum trading cards" so first -time road personnel will eas- and . Eisenkraft remains headquartered in New York... . ily recognize them. his return from a South American Monroe Friedman has been named director of West Coast opera- Entire kit is packed into an impressive black vinyl attache case with ex- concert tour. Meanwhile the tandem has recorded the instrumental back- tions for Solters /Sabinson /Roskin, national publicity /public rela- tra pockets for travel papers, pad and pencils. The "Book Of the Road" it- tions firm. Making his headquarters in Los Angeles, Friedman self is looseleaf bound so it can be constantly updated. The kit comes with ing for the two songs, "This Is My in 1972 postcards so touring managers can report changes instantly. Song" (which they wrote) and "Ra- joined the staff as an account executive.... Harvey Ray has Bob Regehr, WB director of artist relations- development, said, "The mandi" an Italian hit for which they joined the staff of Reich & Bernstein, Inc., handling Sansui and usefulness of a kit like this has long been evident to us, since one of our wrote an English lyric. other audio specialty accounts in the New York metropolitan area. specialties here has been the building of major English acts by touring. And Sam Neeley was formerly on of course the management of many new artists just don't have any informa- Capitol and the two are retaining his tion about touring places like Hartford or Buffalo." country/pop flavor for his new

The kit took two months to prepare, with information from all Regehr's A &M . affiliation. The feature film field reps being collated by Jo Bergman in New York. Two thousand sets project is the seventh film they have were made, and requests for them have been coming in briskly from many worked on, but the first major pro- managers whose artists aren't on Warner Bros. duction. Several of the artists they are &b. working with are signed to Jim Benci VAN ORDEN BUTT ICE MENDELSOHN WB Wings' Profit Up Productions, notably Neeley and the as yet unnamed rock band. Benci, in Sonny Craver, president of Courtesy House Productions, has NEW YORK -The record, tape ven Ross, WCI chairman, said that turn, will promote their product. been named to coordinate distribution and promotion for Beverly and music publishing divisions of although the recorded music sales in Janssen /Hart have also formed Warner Communications, Inc. real- 1972 rose more rapidly than those of (Continued on page 50) Group Two, an ASCAP firm, with ized gross revenues of $235.9 million the industry, the divisions profit- a BMI outlet yet to be named. during 1973. The figure markedan ability lagged slightly behind 1972 increase of $21.4 million over the levels due to rising costs and com- Last year the team wrote six al- More Superstars on Way bum tunes for the Partridge Family, $214.5 million realized during 1972. petitive pressures. 4 bums out during 1974 and predicts did the musical theme for the weekly Continued from page The divisions' quarterly revenues year-end profit of some $35 million. National Basketball Assn. television to sell, the time of year it comes out were also up to $72.2 million during With only four LPs released so far program and wrote and produced doesn't matter." the three months ended Dec. 31, this year, E/A has already grossed WB Music Gets chart records with Austin Roberts. $1 Million Per Album? 1973, as compared with $62.7 mil- $7 million. They also produce two albums with Elektra and Asylum have con- lion during the same period of 1972. Some of the original Asylum art- Vikki Carr for Columbia, cut Terry sistently issued few releases and In commenting on the results, Ste- `Hotcakes' Rights ists have been critical successes who Williams first chart single and cut Geffen intends to continue this se- sell well, and Geffen says he NEW YORK -Warner Bros. Mu- four sides with the Williams Twins. lectivity. He plans on about 30 al- don't LITTLE sic has acquired print rights to the will continue to release their albums 7" - 33.s current Carly Simon "Hotcakes" al- whenever they put one together. On LP's bum on Elektra /Asylum Records. the other hand, he has junked many Klein Seeks Court Delay on completed albums without release. We also make big The publisher is rush -releasing a "Hotcakes" folio with songs by the "I just won't put out a record I don't LP's- 45's -8 tracks - artist contained in the album. Arbitration Rule on Stones believe in," he said. Geffen is expanding support of NEW York Allen Klein's "We cross -moved to stay the entry cassettes - the country operation founded by ABKCO Industries has asked the the because it is not a Md. Pirates Hit of judgment vice president Russ Miller under New York Supreme Court here to complete award," Klein said last Continued from page 6 Elektra. "I enjoy the music, love the delay ruling on an arbitrators' award week. Elements relevant to matters warmth of the artists involved and cupied by ALP Distributing Co., in its dispute with The Rolling in the initial award may be "discov- see no reason why we can't come out di4c- said to have been headed by Jack Stones on rights to certain masters ered" in the subsequent proceed- with our share of hits." However, Kessler, brother of Julius and the (Billboard, March 9) until a related ings, he maintained. Geffen has no intention of trying to owner of Deeds Electronic Co. opinion by a panel on title to copy- (Continued on page 50) specialized soul field. moEc'ri Both Kessler and ALP could not rights, now under break into the consideration by "I feel that this is the perfect size Write for Price List be served and were therefore not on an arbitration panel, is handed company for me," said Geffen. New York Office hand for the trial. down. ATI Trims Roster "I 160 East 56th St. (212) 966 -3185 Kessler (Fine) was indicted last The court was slated to consider would never want it to grow any big- Philadelphia Plant, December by a Federal Grand Jury Continuedfrom page 3 ger. Everybody is in constant contact 925 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia the original award Tuesday (5). That in Los Angeles, charged with evad- with each other and there's no need (215) MA 7 -2277 hearing has now been adjourned for Earth, Wind & Fire; Argent; Rory ing Federal income taxes. two weeks. to hold things up in bureaucratic Gallagher; Marvin Gaye; 10 cc; procedures." & The Mothers; Naza- Among Geffen's priorities for the reth; Tucky Buzzard; Little Fest; year are the raising of sales for Harry Savoy Brown; Mandrill; Blue Oy- Chapin, who is enjoying his biggest For Total Capability in Custom ster Cult; Status Quo; Eddie Harris; AM success yet with "W.O.L.D.," Graham Central Station; Silver - and English rock group, Queen, head; Kiss and Heartsfield. whose debut album sold 150,000 Mastering, Plating, Pressing, Printing Blacker concluded by noting that with practically no airplay. the roster pruning would enable ATI E /A's next releases will be an to "further benefit the remaining Eagles album, which Geffen says Compatible acts and give even more attention to flatly will move the hit act up to the this smaller and more select group." status of worldwide superstars, and an album by songwriting great Discrete Jimmy Webb ( "MacArthur Park," All Soul Explosion "Up, Up and Away ") who is singing Continued from page 3 with professional competence for 4- Channel the first time on record. Ms. Franklin will receive the most Geffen's suggested prescription support, via a special tele- Records intensive for the entire record industry is vision commercial, radio spots, full - simple -Selectivity. "Our returns av- page print ads in national maga- CONTACT: erage II percent, anything over 15 zines, bus posters covering New percent is unforgiveable," he said. JVC Cutting Center, Inc. York and Detroit, Los Angeles bill- RCA Bldg., Suite 500 board and special dealer displays. Sunset Boulevard (213) 467-1166 6363 Another television spot features When Answering Ads . . . J Hollywood, California 90028 Ms. Franklin, Van Peebles and The Say You Saw It in Billboard Spinners, to be used in major markets. 10 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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And that's just where we went. period from December 1972 to June 1973. As of June, 1973, the total number of paid Billboard Also up during this period was the subscription renewal subscribers was 33,631- that's 1,118 more subscribers percentage. 63.19% in June '73, over 60.86% in than we had in December 1972.` December '72. What do these figures mean to you? The figures don't lie. Even our Classified advertising As a Billboard advertiser, it means that you're reaching went up during this same period. the greatest number of music industry influentials in the Our subscribers are the heavyweights of the music one trade magazine that carries clout on an inter- industry. They made Billboard the leading music- record- national level. tape trade paper in the business. Maybe they figure And according to the June 1973 ABC Statement, there's only room at the top for one. Billboard's the one. Billboard's subscribers break down to retailers, distrib- Number one. The only place left to go is up. And that's utors, radio stations, manufacturers, talent, publishers, where we're going. writers, schools, government agencies and miscellaneous. For further information, contact a Billboard sales Each and every category increased over the six -month representative:

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www.americanradiohistory.com ToIenI Bearsville: In Business Again, On Modified Plan BEARSVILLE, N.Y. -While begin reconstruction, both neighbor and also assisted new artist Kat completion of design adjustments on ation, Marron has assembled a staff most recording studios thrive on bands, like 's Better McCord in recording her first LP for the system, which was designed by that includes Adam Taylor and Nick notoriety, Bearsville Sound, the pro- Days, the Full Tilt Boogie Band and Just Sunshine Records. Baron and Dahlstrom. With empha- Jameson, both Bearsville veterans, fessional recording facility built here Orleans, have been using the Barn Bearsville is also offering its own sis now being placed on balancing with chief maintenance engineer several years ago as the production and Studio "B" regularly, as have P.A. sound system to its artists, and the more relaxed atmosphere of the Ted Rothstein, and former Bears- center for Albert Grossman's the Fabulous Rhinestones, who re- may begin marketing that service community against the necessary ef- ville regular Mark Harmon, now Bearsville music and recording com- corded their most recent tracks there outside very shortly, contingent on ficiency demanded for open oper- freelancing. plex, has found itself in the curious position of being too well known. Jim Marron, who joined Bears- ville as studio manager last summer, explained how initial interest in the room, peaked by its unveiling dur- ing a period of popularity and high visibility for 's musical community, had faded. Most poten- tial clients learned that and Bob Dylan, both managed by Grossman at that time, were racking up long hours in the room, as were other Bearsville recording artist and Grossman interests. That, Marron noted, resulted in the widely -held and fairly accurate assumption that Bearsville was not really geared for open business, but existed rather as a private produc- tion operation for those artists. Grossman's broad range of activi- ties in Bearsville, near Woodstock, included enough variety -his inter- ests ranged from handling some mu- sic industry administrative duties from this sylvan spot, to setting up his own restaurant and cafe -to con- vince some observers that the studio was more a hobby than a serious business. Adding to the reduction in interest were initial sound leakage When it comes to "Gold Records," Westlake Audio has established problems, which led to a widely - a record of its own. Our professionally- designed and built held belief that the room itself was a poor facility. studios have been used to record more Gold records than As Marron explained, that leak -a any other studio builders! And that's why Westlake's transmission of bass sound through an exposed structural beam since cut so often referred to as "The Gold Record People." and effectively isolated to eliminate the leak -has continued as part of Today, it takes a lot more than finest instruments Bearsville's dubious legend. The and great music to earn a Gold Record. Westlake perpetual state of the room's larger main studio, Studio A, was a further provides a "package" including unequalled factor. skills and experience fir turn -key "gold reccrd" Macron's arrival at Bearsville has signalled a new building phase, installations: pre -planning, site evaluat_on, however, and that move is geared to acoustic design, construction, equipment selec- a more general trend toward re- building the Woodstock -Bearsville tion and supply, financ_ng, technical electronic community as a symbiotic produc- interface, training of personnel and studio manage- tion community. Marron, who headed up Electric Lady Studios in ment consultation. From 2 tO 24 track, for live record- New York as its president and ad- ing, mix down, remote ; ministrative head during its first years of operation, has applied a or mastering. g ', more "professional" studio man- ager's touch, with the smaller Studio If you're planning to build a ¢ ! B now in operation after a major professional recording studio, renovation program. Electric Lady designer John Storyk, whose other call upon the "Gold Record recent studio designs include the People " - WESTLAKE AUDIO newly- renovated Broadway Record- ing Studios in New York, provided a 6311 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, . new control room with quadra- California 90048 (213) 655 -0303. phonic monitoring and Tom Hid- ley/Westlake speakers, a full array of noise reduction and outboard equipment and full line 16 -track op- eration. Studio A is slated to receive a new design from Storyk as well. While B has been given acoustic boosts in the form of varied wall textures, the elimination of parallel surfaces and various measures designed to make acoustic adjustment flexible, Studio A remains a larger project. Westlake In addition to more carefully de- fined rate policies and Bearsville's Audio opportunities for artists to reside on "The Gold Record People" the studio site, other developments a recently completed second include "Innervisions ": Conceived, performed and produced by Stevie Wonder. Associate production, engineering, eiactronic music programming: studio facility, "The Barn," actually Bob Margouleff & Malcolm Cecil. Produced at Record Plant, Los Angeles; mastered at Kendun Recorders, Burbank, California, on Westlake Audio a small converted barn over the Monitors. Temla Release T -326L, a Motown Gold Record. mountain from the studio. Designed as a rehearsal facility, the room has rapid hook up facilities for the Bearsville remote truck, the Loca- tion Recorders van designed by Aaron Baron and Larry Dahlstrom, who are now part of the Bearsville operation. While the larger room has yet to

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The 5th International Music Industry Conference, sponsored Japan and the States, the generous help given us by the by Billboard Publications is going to be the music event of the committee will enable us to make IMIC 5 100% relevant to year. your needs. For four days in May, via forums, seminars and discussions, At a time when the whole industry is facing serious it will examine all the important issues concerning the industry. problems over commodity shortages, IMIC 5 will help you and Below you'll find the proposed agenda. others who attend share the load and help find solutions. This has been submitted for comment and approval to the In fact, IMIC 5 could well prove the vital factor not only International Advisory Committee helping us plan IMIC 5. in your business survival, but also in the survival of the whole Made up from top names in the industry in Britain, Europe, of the music industry as we know it.

PROPOSED PROGRAMME Hardware supplier to the world Day 3: Thursday May 9th A round -up of export in terms Day t Tuesday May 7th. Japanese trends Plenary Session. of radios, phonographs, tape and videocassette of Conference delegates Arrival Part 1. "Taking Stock - An old American Habit" players Welcoming Cocktail Party A major US recording executive with an Part 2. United Europe versus "Talent -Today and Tomorrow." international viewpoint A US and a European top executive present A special evening concert presented by a leading "Money, Morals and Management" contrasting views in the light of today's record company still to be named. The climate of the irdustry and how its image developments and conditions can be improved Concluding Forum: Anything Goes "A funny thing happened on the way to the market" Day 1: Wednesday May 8th. The Chairman presides and the floor is wide A fascinating in -depth report and review on Plenary Session. open for comments and questions on any aspect audio /video equipment Part 1. Official Opening that has gone before Part 2. The challenge retailing in America By a government official or Common Market of Luncheon representative A major record retailer tells of its pleasures and The guest speaker is Alistair Cooke. "Crisistime in Musicville? Not Again ?" perils A Producer's One of the top industry names will give his Challenge Make sure you don't miss IMIC 5. opinion on a subject that's the bottom line with An A &R man throws down the gauntlet about As you can see, IMIC 5 is going to be the today's multi -national companies the things that bug him with record companies music event of the year. Make sure of your place Part 2. "Market Research: Dog in the music manger" Industry Workshops: Rap Sessions: now by filling in the registration form below. A detailed look at the latest trends and 1. Creative Trends Two special offers for British delegates only. techniques in chart methodology and mass A discussion on innovation and fresh techniques If you're under 30 years of age, you can sampling of musical tastes with case histories attend IMIC 5 for a reduced fee of £50. But The worldwide crisis in raw materials 2. International Law and the Record Industry there must be at least one other person from Three industry experts talk about things to come A rap session for lawyers of all countries your Company who is registered at the full in the UK, Europe and the States engaged in the indistry rate. And we would also like a letter from your Industry Workshop Sessions: 3. The Art of Music Publishing Management stating that you are under 30. 1. International Marketing Trends For publishers of al. ages, shapes and sizes. Special saving for British delegates' wives or A panel of 8 -10 experts will take apart the care Optional Afternoon Events. husbands. and feeding of a product (A). The Presideits' Roundtable We have reduced the rate for those who 2. Raw materials outlook An open rap session on company management want to attend the social functions, but not Six experts discuss the current shortages - and with a panel of presidents and managing necessarily the business sessions, from £27.50 how to live with them or beat them directors past and present to only £14.00. This excludes the organised 3. Broadcasting Mini -Forum "Middle of the road Night" tours for foreign visitors. A panel of broadcasters, record promoters, A special evening concert featuring MOR music music publishers, managers and deejays discuss presenting top UK and European Favourites. For further information contact: to be decided the impact of radio /TV programming on the Details Karen Handford, Billboard Publications, music industry. And vice versa. 7 Camaby Street, London WIV 1PG. Optional Afternoon Events. 10th. Dar 4: Friday Mcy or Diane Kirkland, Billboard Publications, (A). Sound Management Plenary Sessions. 9000 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90069, USA. The many sides of the picture on the care and Part 1. Japan: or Mickey J Addy, Billboard Publications, feeding of talent in the industry "Inside today's music industry in Japan" 1 Astor Plaza, New York, N.Y 10036 (B). The Classical Conspiracy A major industry leader gives an overall picture How do we get them to like the stuff, let alone of this important mt:sic industry or Ben Okano, Music Labo, Atlantic Bldg. 4F. 20 -6, buy it? Emerging markets of the world Azabuiikuracho, Minato -ku, Tokyo, 106 Japan The Shape of Sound to come" A report on the growth of emerging nations and A special evening concert presented by a their interest in the record industry leading UK record company still to be named

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www.americanradiohistory.com General News Fedi. Piracy Bill 5,000 Tapes in Michigan Raid Posed In Senate DETROIT -A raid by FBI agents on a Berkley, Mich. store- Continued from page 1 ized sales in interstate commerce. front location last week yielded Legislative assistant on his staff The present federal antipiracy law 5,000 allegedly pirated tapes, and said it is aimed at the same practices protects only copyrighted recordings resulted in the arrest of John as the individual state antipiracy law. made on or after Feb. 15, 1972 (Un- William Giamane on charges of This means that both copyrighted less extended by new copyright copyright infringement. and non -copyrighted recordings legislation, this amendment will ex- Kenneth Haber, assistant U.S. would be protected from unauthor- pire Dec. 31, 1974). An omnibus attorney. said the arrest warrant crime bill by Sen. John L. McClellan was based on a previous seizure also includes a section to make of infringing tapes from the same GRT Locks Up record piracy a felony under the fed- company last November. eral code, with a penalty of up to Sire & Passport three years. But the McClellan crime bill section would apply to the pirat- SG -Col Films LOS ANGELES -GRT Music ing of copyrighted recording. Tapes has acquired an exclusive five Music Arm Set year tape license for Passport Brock hopes for faster action on the individual bill than he could get NEW YORK -The creation of a Records, a new label, and has ex- otherwise. The omnibus crime bill is combined Screen Gems and Colum- tended its exclusive license with Sire too complex and controversial for bia Pictures music department to MOONCHILD PRODUCTIONS had the party as Al Wilson's "Show and Records for five years. Tell" went over million any hope of early passage, and the handle technical music require- the mark recently. Helping share the cheer are (I. to r.) Passport is a joint venture be- Independent copyright revision bill (both are au- ments for television and motion pic- Promotion man Bruce Hinton, Arranger H. B. Barnum, Pro- tween Sire and Jem Records, and thored and sponsored by Sen. ture production has been an- ducer Jerry Fuller and Rocky Road Records President Marc Gordon. will focus on product from British McClellan) has only the slimmest nounced by Lester Sill, president of and European groups. Future re- chance of getting through this year. the music division of Columbia Pic- leases from Passport and GRT will tures, Inc. include "Remember the Future" The Brock bill was referred to the The new department, to be Appeals Court Rule from Nektar and Tucky Buzzard's Senate Judiciary Committee. Brock headed by Dick Berris out of the "Buzzard" is not a member of that committee. Burbank Studios, will oversee the licensing of all songs used in the mo- Upsets Pirates' Stand tion pictures and television shows and will also prepare music cue sheets Continued from page 1 fendants did not infringe and, in ad- dition, that Marks was guilty of anti- for distribution to performing rights Alaska and Hawaii. societies and television networks. trust violations, which would also The department will also handle The Oklahoma decision in sum- bar it from obtaining any relief. The contracts for musicians, singers and mary reverses a Federal court's find- Appeals Court decision read in part composers employed by the firm, as ings that a duplicator could not be that under the statute Magnetics well as the scheduling of recording sued for copyright infringement if may "use" the copyright composi- sessions. he complied with the so- called tions in a manner "similar" to that "compulsory license" provisions of made by the licensed recording com- the 1909 Copyright Act. In over- pany, which, the opinion said, Phillips Gains turning the lower court's opinion, "means that Magnetics may make its the Appeals Court, in a 3 -1 vote, own arrangements, hire its own mu- Nashville Verdict ruled that payment of royalties to sicians and artists, and then record. NASHVILLE -A federal court publishers did not constitute a de- It does not mean that Magnetics may here has ruled against MGM in a fense. use the composer's copyrighted suit filed nearly three years ago by The original complaint, filed by work by duplicating and copying the Hi -Lo Music and its owner, Sam E.B. Marks Music, charged Colo- record of a licensed recording com- Phillips. rado Magnetics, Sound Values Inc., pany. Such, in our view, is not simi- Judge Clure Morton ruled that the Magnetic Recorders Corp., Randy lar use." The court also ruled against plaintiff (Hi -Lo) is "entitled to relief Sherman and Harry Cummings Jr. the antitrust charge. for acts of infringement ... and with copyright infringement, main- The court also turned down the MGM is permanently enjoined from taining that Magnetics was making argument that duplication of record- further distribution of the record an unauthorized and unlawful use ings before 1971, the date that `Red Hot,' " recorded some six years of Marks -owned copyrighted musi- recordings were granted copyrights, ago. cal compositions. Magnetics denied was lawful. FORECLOSURE The judge further ruled that the charge, claiming it is authorized Two other cases are in the Federal MGM shall submit to the court at a to do so under the compulsory li- Appeals Court, according to Bob hearing on damages "a complete ac- cense provision, which states that a Osterberg of Abeles, Clark & Oster- AUCTION counting of the manufacture and tune licensed for recording can also berg, law firm which handled the sale of sound recordings" of this be licensed by another company Marks complaint originally. These FORMER tune. upon payment of a 2 -cent royalty. are an Alabama ruling in which the Harold Streibich, attorney for the Magnetics made such a tender but it lower court ruled for the publisher, plaintiff, said the matter then was was refused by Marks. and a case in New Jersey which FILLMORE EAST THEATRE settled out of court. The lower court ruled that the de- holds for the unlicensed duplicator. Fronting on Second Avenue at East 6th Street, N.Y.C. Air Conditioned with approx. 2650 seats plus four story office building on 19,764 sq. ft. plot Wis. PiracyBillBattleLooms MARCH 28,1974 AT 2 PM. Continued from page 4 legal and the legislation was de- judgement against the Milwaukee signed to drive his company out of firm. Rotunda of the County Courthouse The record industry representa- business. Ronald Piette, a Milwaukee law- 60 Centre Street, tives said that the "pirates" were tak- ing off profits from sales of top songs Heilman and his attorneys said yer representing , William A. Moran, Auctioneer recorded before February, 1972. the major companies were opposing said the industry needed legislation Alfred Norick, Referee Only state laws can protect their his operations because of its success. to protect its copyrighted material. Outstanding Mortgage Balance: Approx. $335,665 copyrights, they told the Senate In a recent court suit filed against He said that 16 states have adopted plus costs, disbursements, allowances, Committee on Industry, Labor, Tax- the tape company, Milwaukee legislation similar to that proposed in Wisconsin and that the U.S. Su- interest & tax arrears if any. ation and Banking. County Circuit Judge Robert Lan- However, David Heilman, Brook- dry found the practice of pirating preme Court had upheld the legisla- Further Information Contact: field, Wis., president of E.C. Tapes, "morally reprehensible" but that he tion. said that reproduction is proper and could find no legal reason for a Heilman said that since 1972, JOHN G. MALINO (212) JU 6 -4400 there had been a monopoly in the recording field, with overpricing of Loew's Theatre & Realty Corporation London 10cc Tour records. The music his company re- FULL COMMISSION TO REAL ESTATE BROKERS Promo On produces represents only about 10 NEW YORK -London Records is In each market where the group percent of the major firms' output, advertising, appears, London's field promotion *Subject to judgement of foreclosure and sale entered launching a national he said. merchandising and promotion pro- staff, working with Connie De and dated February 4, 1974 in Supreme Court of the public relations firm, will sat- State of New York, County of New York. Loew's Theatre gram for U.K. label act 10cc, coin- Nave's urate retail outlets, radio stations & Realty Corporation, Plaintiff against Richmore Realty ciding with the act's first U.S. tour. Goes Gold and newspapers with press kits and Corp., et al., Defendants. Index No. 7847/1973. the NEW YORK -"Half Breed," Focal points for the push are merchandising material. Promo- released in late an album by Cher Bono on MCA group's first album, tional tools will include T- shirts and Records, has received gold certi- '73 on Jonathan King's U.K. label, stickers keyed to the group's logo, fication from the RIAA. "Half and their second U.S. single, "Head- which dominates the cover of the Breed" contains the hit single of here to LP. Local radio and print advertis- line Hustler," just released the same name. coincide with the tour. ing has also been allocated. 16 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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ROBERTA FLACK Record of the Year KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG Prcdueea by Joel Dorn Best Pop Vocal Performance- Female KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG ¡ow, This 'arks the first tole that an artist nä6 i eL,eweu th n áv. tvc y3ars Inn

www.americanradiohistory.com ToIenI Nashville Brass Ties New on With MikeCurbGroup NASHVILLE -Danny Davis and relations director, and that Ed The Chods the Nashville Brass will team up Penny now will run his publishing COZY POWELL with the Mike Curb Congregation companies, Acoustic and Hank Wil- "Dance With the Devil " -89 on future shows, with a third act to liams Jr.. both BMI. The drummer of Chrysalis's Eng- be added later. lish rock band, Bedlam, is featured Davis thus departs from the Mas- on his own by producer ters' Festival of Music in which he Phila Spot in a pounding instrumental novelty had taken part with Boots Ran- reminiscent of the old Sandy Nelson dolph, Floyd Cramer and, occasion- "Let There Be Drums" standard. ally, Chet Atkins. Goes Rock Powell first established his reputa- The announcement, made by PHILADELPHIA- Valley Forge tion as Jeff Beck Group's drummer. Buddy Lee, said his agency would Music Fair in suburban Devon will Manager is Bob Adcock and booker book the Davis-Curb show, and the become a major center for pop mu- is Chrysalis Agency, both of Lon- announcement of the completion of sic concerts for the coming 1974 don. the grouping will be made shortly as summer season, with rock and pop soon as it is finalized. names overshadowing the straw-hat Lee also said that former Las theater productions traditionally Chrysalis Vegas publicist Herb Pickard is join- featured at this summer theater. Op- FOLLOWING THEIR recent live concert as part of WLIR -FM's concert series, ing his agency as a full -time public erated by Music Fair Enterprises, sponsored by Dr Pepper from Ultra -Sonic Studios, A &M's crack some the air- conditioned, hard -top arena U.S. Push smiles for members of the station staff and other friends. Seen from left are seats some 3,500 in the round. LONDON -The Chrysalis book- Jerry Love of A &M, , WLIR program director Ken Kohl, Dave The new season will be launched ing agency operation here is report- Cousins, WLIR music director Irwin Sirotta, A &M's Heavy Lenny Bron- G. Allman March 5 with "The Big Band Cav- edly placing an emphasis on U.S. stein and Chas. Cronk; seated in front are Strawbs Dave Lambert and Rod alcade," featuring Bob Crosby, Fred- acts for the coming year, highlighted Coombes. die Martin, George Shearing and by the firm'sinitial bookings for Bob Solo Tour Margaret Whiting. While the sched- Hope, set to make personal appear- ule is not complete, missing so far ances and several television book- Forest Opens New Firm MACON, Ga. - of are any of the Broadway musical ings this spring. the Altman Brothers Band embarks comedy hits that dominated the Also being negotiated is an Albert LOS ANGELES -Since David Civic. One package is country rock on a solo tour this Saturday (16), schedule in the past. Hall concert here for , Forest, 25, closed his booking with the New Riders and Com- backed by a full rhythm section, Already booked are the Bee Gees to be supported by the London Sym- agency last year after setting up the mander Cody, the other is a glitter strings, horns and a choir. with Daryl Hall and John Oates; phony Orchestra. entire 1973 stadium rock teaming of the New York Dolls The massive musical support is Cheech and Chong with Tower of Richard Cowley and Ken Ball of tour, he has founded an active con- and Silverhead. being utilized to maximize on stage Power; Victor Borge; Renaissance the booking division are keying their cert promotion organization, Fun Forest cleared a profit on Fun's impact for selections from Allman's with Forest Green; Deodato; Em- pitch to the relative availability of Productions. and is also managing first series of 15 concerts, which in- recent Capricorn solo album. The mett Kelly Jr.'s All -Star Circus; and fuel for acts touring in the U.K. Capricorn artist Elvin Bishop. cluded such inventive bookings as a tour is being produced by Joe Gan- Marlene Dietrich, making good her Other U.S. middle -of- the -road Fun Productions so far has con- Cheech & Chong sellout in the non, with independent producer cancelled concert dates from last acts booked by Chrysalis during the centrated on secondary markets in country citadel of Bakersfield. "Ex- and arranger Ed Freeman, who has season. past year have included Johnny the West, Southwest, and will con- perience is teaching us that some worked in the past with artists such Tentatively scheduled are Red - Cash, Liza Minnelli and Jack Jones. tinue to remain exclusively in this re- outlying cities are excellent concert as Tim Hardin, Tom Rush, Don bone with the Sons of Champlin; Chrysalis also remains very active as gion. But Forest this month enters markets, such as San Jose and Tuc- McLean and Capricorn's Livingston Isaac Hayes; Joel Grey and Redd a rock booking and management the competitive Los Angeles market son," he said. "But others aren't Taylor, set to conduct the orchestra. Foxx. operation. with two shows at the Santa Monica really worth working on."

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www.americanradiohistory.com Talent Trends Studio Track Cr!otÎve By SAM SUTHERLAND The Beach Boys, whose past pro- ranged, conducted and produced Bacharach is Back duction notoriety has estended to the television perennial's sides. such involvement as their state of the Chipetz reports that those tracks are art equipment haul to Holland for set for Stax, certainly something of a To Full -Time Writing the LP of the same name, have fi- switch for Douglas. ... Kenny nally completed their own non -port- Gamble has been working with the By NAT FREEDLAND able facility, Summer Skies Studios, Soul Survivors, who should burn LOS ANGELES -It comes as gests that they listen and read to the set to open momentarily in Santa clear through the mists of memory good news for lovers of fine contem- sound rather than just reading Monica. for "Expressway To Your Heart." porary popular music that Burt markings on paper. "People buying Prior to that date, Carl Wilson, Philly radioman Jimmy Bishop Bacharach, one of the world's most my records don't know what 7/s time former member Bruce Johnston and has been producing new sides with inventive melodists and arranger - is, they're accepting a total sound" Toni Tonitenille (the "Beach Girl" Barbara Mason for Buddah.... The producers, is back to full -time song - The public is a better judge of his who's participated on various ses- Young Professionals (Thom Bell's writing after a three -year period songs than he is, Bacharach feels. sions in the past) gave the room a brother Tony and Phil Hurtt) are during which he was mainly oc- Two of his standards which he never baptism by fire, recording backing finishing up the Persuaders' next At- cupied with TV specials, concerts expected to succeed are "What the vocals for Elton John's next one, lantic release.... MFSB were in last and the score of a disappointing mu- World Needs Now Is Love" and BURT BACHARACH recently completed at Caribou week, rehearsing for the upcoming sical film, "Lost Horizon." "Message To Michael." A record he Ranch in Nederlands, Colo. The NATRA convention in New York. Bacharach has been writing dur- and David made with Dionne War - arrangement and then get talked Beach Boys themselves are now us- ... Jerry Ross is producing Jay and ing these past months with a duo of wicke which never lived up to his ex- into producing the artist's album ing the room, working on their next the Techniques for Polydor.... Nor- unlikely lyricists. One is Bobby Rus- pectations is "Paper Mache." and get stuck six months in the stu- LP with Brian Wilson apparently man Harris, working with Alan Ru- sell, writer of pop- country hits from "I am determined that from now dio," he said. "I don't want to get back on the case. bens and Steve Bernstein, arranged "Little Green Apples" and "Satur- on I won't get into the trap of want- sidetracked away from my writing Meanwhile, the boys are report- and produced two tracks with the Vi- day Morning Confusion" to last ing to protect my song, so I write the and my family." edly receiving inquiries on the room brations for Chess /Janus. year's smash, "The Night the Lights from such distinguished potential * * * Went Out In Georgia." clients as Frank Zappa, Neil Young, Up in Seattle, Kaye -Smith Pro- The other partner is America's Maggie On the Move Chicago and Elton John. ductions has been jubilant at grow- greatest comedy playwright, Neil Si- * * * ing interest in their studio operations mon. The pair first made profes- there. If the Pacific Northwest seems Another new room, set to open sional contact during preparation of almost as remote as Africa, take note To Win U.S. Hearing this month, is the new ABC /Dunhill the Broadway hit musical, "Prom- that Warner Bros. Tower of Power studio complex in Los Angeles. Two ises, Promises," based on the Oscar - By BOB KIRSCH recently returned to cut their second new studios make up the facility, winning film, "The Apartment." LOS ANGELES -Spending six three and a half years ago and we LP for the label there, after their first which is adjacent to ABC's old stu- Interestingly, once Bacharach weeks on the road in this country as went over well, but so much hap- set for Warners, also recorded at dios on Beverly Blvd. The new completes concert obligations this an opening act after four years as a pened since then that we never got Kaye- Smith, proved heartening. rooms accommodate up to 40 artists month in Chicago and Las Vegas, headliner in Britain and Europe is back. Now things are coming to- Bachman-Turner Overdrive also at one time, while the old rooms will his next project will be to readapt- not an easy assignment, but this is gether. I like the album more than used the room to track their second continue operation with a capacity ing the "Promises, Promises" score what Scottish songstress Maggie Bell anything I've ever done, because I Mercury LP, as did Painter, who re- for up to 12 people. for a film. has set for herself and she says she is think Jerry was the first producer corded their first Elektra album ABC /Dunhill's director of engi- looking forward to the challenge of who ever brought my voice across on there. Even Bette Midler was report- Changing Partners neering Phil Kaye worked with ar- winning U.S. audiences. a record so people could hear me up edly in for some vocal overdubs, and Bacharach's exclusive lyricist chitect Jack Edwards in designing front. And I'm getting a chance to current sessions include dates for since 1958 when they had their first Ms. Bell brings a bagful of im- the new L shape addition, slated to tour. Brownsmith, and Ron hit with Perry Como doing "Magic pressive credentials to America. As receive wood paneling for extra am- Moments," Hal David, got restless former lead singer of the now - Gardner. "I've never had a hit single in Brit- bience. Facilities include two auto- during the past few years while defunct Stone the Crows, she has General manager George Toles ain, I've never had radio play and I mated custom consoles, offering 24 Bacharach was involved with per- won has been actively inducing stalwarts been a major star who the haven't been on TV," she continues. recording busses and 36 inputs, forming and orchestrating, and he Melody Maker Poll as best female from the L.A. community to stop by, "But I've been able to tour and I DEX noise reduction and other has begun collaborating with other singer in Great Britain the past two and thus far has played host to think this is what I have to do here to goodies. top composers such as Henry Man- years. She has a new LP produced Warners president Joe Smith, Jerry make it. I like to consider myself an * * * cini. Wexler which Fuller, Bob Crewer, Fame /UA's Bob by Jerry has already energized singer and this time we've At New York's Record Plant East, Another obstacle in continuing Skaff, Mercury's Denny Rosen - met with critical acclaim though it come prepared. At the Fillmore East a clutch of strong sessions has domi- the brilliant Bacharach -David part- was released only several weeks ago. crantz, Don Graham, The Osmonds, three years ago we got an encore and nated recent weeks' activity there. nership was that the lyricist has con- with Rod Stew- Chris Wright of Chrysalis, Marni And she has dueted we didn't know any more songs. This Yoko Ono has been in, mixing her tinued to live in New York's subur- art on his LPs, appeared on the Lon- Nixon (no relation), James Griffin, time it will be different." next LP, as has Eumir Deodato, ban Long Island while Bacharach, production LP of "Tommy" and Larry Knechtel, David Gates and don recording a new album for Kenya married to film star Angie Dickin- with Mad Dogs Jim Horn. toured 's Challenge of Opening Music, while Buddah brought in son, lives in Beverly Hills. One of the circus. * * * and Englishmen As for opening shows, Ms. Bell Sha Na Na to work on their next. two partners would have to stay at Ms. Bell comes to America with a says it is "fantastic. I've been a head- Edgar Winter has been in, finish- Quick takes: Among sessions un- the other's home during any ex- reputation, and fans are going to be liner for four years overseas and now ing der way or nearing completion are tended work period. up his next Epic album.... Also looking hard to see if she lives up to I have to prove myself all over again. for Epic, Thundermug have cut Three Dog Night's dates for their Bacharach says he doesn't care next Dunhill LP, it. She also comes at a time when I only have around 35 minutes, tracks for a new album there. being produced by whether melody or lyrics come first ... "gutsy" female vocalists are at a which means I've got to win the au- Jimmy lenner brought in tapes from Jimmy Ienner at the New York Rec- in his composition, or whether the ord Yoko also been minimum. dience quickly. I may be a star in Three Dog Night's new ABC /Dun- Plant.... Ono's song is put together bit-by -bit by the back at the Plant, mixing Britain, but I don't think I could ex- hill album for a quadraphonic her next team. Unlike many other song- Her current LP began to take mix pect to come here and headline. ... and, also for ABC /Dunhill's Joe Apple LP, as have Sha Na Na, re- writers, he won't give up on a song shape at the end of last year, when Buddah, Maybe I could, but I'm not cocky Walsh was in, working on his next cording for and Edgar Win- idea if it doesn't work itself out she came to New York to work with enough. You've got to get to know album. ter, overdubbing and mixing his within a few hours. He has spent up Wexler. "I had cut two albums al- people first and let them get to know Incidentally, the Plant has imple- next for Epic. ... Helen Reddy and to three weeks perfecting a melody ready," she says, "but we had re- you. Let's build a relationship first." mented a new move producer Tom Catalano have been to his satisfaction. jected both for a number of reasons. designed to keep its engineers' ears cooking even at the Burbank Studios in (where During his early days as a song- Then I spent a weekend with Jerry Ms. Bell is managed by Peter off-duty: Sony cassette players are else) Burbank, Calif., working on writer, when he spent a year getting and his wife. 'We went through Grant, who also manages Led Zep- being installed in her next LP for Capitol, expected in his first recording during the heyday around 250 songs, finally settling on all the engineers' pelin, but she hasn't used this to cars, to enable them to listen to fin- March. ... Richard Perry again of simplistic three -chord rock, Bach- 15 to cut. I'm a singer, not a song- build herself. "Peter found me sing- squiring MCA's Martha Reeves writer, so I have to depend on find- ished product outside the studio en- arach was at times forced to compro- ing in a pub in Glasgow and brought around several L.A. rooms, includ- ing material. But there is such a vironment. mise his musical ideas by a &r men me to London," she says. "I could ing return visits to Producers Work- wealth good things * * * who would offer him a disk if he of that it just have toured with Zeppelin a dozen shop and to Angel City Sound (more takes some delving to find them." made changes such as putting a times, but I didn't want it and nei- At Sigma Sound Studios in Phila- on that room later). John Schnee has three -bar phrase into a conventional Seeking Right Songs ther did Peter. I could have used the delphia, Harry Chipetz has offered been handled the lion's share of At other times, he was another progress fourbars. Her album is composed of a rather exposure but I wanted to do it on my report on Sigma's board duties for those dates. ... barred from the studio while one of strange mixture of songs, from J.J. own." new Studio A, located at Gamble - Elton John, whose predilection for his songs was being recorded. Cales "After Midnight" to Ringo's Huff and Thom Bell's headquarters. scenic production sites has taken Chipetz said the new room Don't Give Up "Oh My My" to a number of country Ms. Bell's close friendship with should him far afield from Trident, his "Too many potentially good songs such as "A Woman Left Rod Stewart actually resulted in one be ready to record next week. earliest base, has now been added to writers don't have the stamina to Lonely" and blues like "Queen of of the cuts, "Tradewinds," being on In the interim, Sigma's operative the list of acts recorded at Jim keep going through the early stage of the Night." the LP. "I was in Scotland visiting rooms have been hosting an unusu- Guercio's Caribou Ranch studio rejections," he said. "But I think my family over Christmas," she says, ally broad range of sessions, given complex near Nederland, Colo. anybody who has the ability and "A lot of the material is country," "and Rod was on tour with John their reputation as home base for the John and band just finished their spends time in a recording center she says, "and I'm not really a coun- Baldry. I stopped at the hotel to play "Sound of Philadelphia." Producer next MCA set there. Larry Fitz- and has a little luck will break try fan. The thing is, the words are so the cassette of the songs we'd done and arranger Bobby Martin brought gerald, manager of Guercio's prime perfect that I had to use them." through." and when we got to ` Tradewinds,' he jazz to the rooms, courtesy of Thad production targets, Chicago, even Bacharach believes in formal If Stone the Crows and Ms. Bell said it was one of the best things he'd Jones and Mel Lewis, whom Martin reported that John will be back in study for all musicians, feeling that had been such superstars in Britain, ever heard. I had to tell him it was is producing for Gamble and Huff's August to record the follow -up al- any professional vocalist should why hasn't she happened here yet? one of the songs we left off the al- Philadelphia International label. bum. Caribou will remain busy in know how to read a lead sheet. "The timing has to be right," she bum and he and John finally talked Martin also cut live sides with Monk that man's absence by hosting Chi- When studio bands complain about says. "It took Rod Stewart years and me into calling Atlantic and asking Montgomery there. cago themselves, as well as Sergio the many unusual time changes of- I wasn't looking for an overnight them to put it in place of something Mike Douglas was also in, work- Mendes, Earth, Wind and Fire and ten found in his melodies, he sug- thing. I was here with the Crows else." ing with Frank Hunter, who ar- possibly Three Dog Night. 20 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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www.americanradiohistory.com Talent TaIenI in Action YES k) country as a performer. his songs crossed LAURINDO ALMEIDA FOUR impact shared by the group members was as far back as the early r'n'r era when some over long before it became fashionable, and, JOHN MARTYN strong. of the members were associated with such with wider exposure. he could become a ma- Shelly's Manne Hole, Los Angeles Madison Square Garden. New York There has to be a tremendous future for groups as the Cadillacs and the Five Satins. jor star on all fronts. BOB KIRSCH A new concert attraction featuring - this symphonic -rock group. With the help of The professionalism In recent months. many of the English of the group is re- ist Almeida, saxophonist/flutist Bud Shank, such places as Muthers, a lot of good rock flected in its bands playing New York have demon- act, fast -paced, well- coordi- bassist Ray Brown and drummer Chuck music is coming from the South. nated, highly polished. Backed by the Big strated a theatrical sensibility. but few have EDDIE ZIP Flores made its domestic debut here Tues- BILL WILLIAMS Apple band, the group's carried it off with the sophistication and offerings included day (19). At the core of the quartet's presen- its chart panache which characterized Yes' two Whisky, Los Angeles riding single, "Quick, Fast, in a tation is soft jazz blanketed by Latin TÈRRY STAFFORD Hurry." Madison Square Garden concerts. Bobby Womack left his cascading lead tempos. Funkadelics, After the customary introduction of guitar on the stand except for once during MARTY MITCHELL Westbound, is an I I mem- The booking into the new Manne Hole is ber group Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite," they launched his non -stop set. Clearly he was out to prove Palomino, Los Angeles that merges some good funk with the first together for Almeida and Shank, the gimmickry of voodoo. Audiences refer into "Siberian Khatru" and then proceeded he can carry a show simply as a singer and Terry_ Stafford (Atlantic) first surfaced both of whom played the old Hollywood to the result as "far out" and seem to relate to flow through the remainder of their personality. He made his case too. some 10 years ago with "Suspicion," a gi- club separately. to the surrealism the effort seeks to connote. "Close To The Edge" album. This was fol- Womack's show slid one song into an- gantic rock hit. Then, like many who during The group is working out material during New Birth, RCA Records, which was also lowed by the four musical segments which other with only brief stops for applause. The the early '60's, he just as quickly disap- this engagement which will be included in a on the bill, was reviewed in the Dec. 15 is- comprise their latest Atlantic album. "Tales effect was almost like an upbeat soul cantata peared. new album being readied for an April re- sue. RADCLIFFE From Topographic Oceans." Listening to as Womack gyrated around the stage in a JOE lease to help herald its first East Coast con- Now he's back as a country singer and, the entire hour -and -a -half epic does require fringed jump suit. United Artists Records cert tour. Four labels are reported after the given a chance to do his own material, quite stern concentration and saintly patience on pulled out all stops for Womack's Valen- act. a commendable one. Stafford possesses a the part of the audience. but to trim it down tine's Day opening, with big red inflated good voice On the set caught for review. Brown was and an easygoing stage person- into selections would only detract from its valentines dangling in scores from the ceil- ality, and when off doing a TV show and was replaced by singing his hits, such as his grandeur, for it was during these four move- ing. Policy Spurs Stanley Gilbert. country cover of "Say Has Anybody Seen ments that the members of the group One of the most respected writer- singer- Sweet Almeida's acoustic six -string guitar is the My Gypsy Rose," "Amarillo By worked together tenaciously as a well-tem- in the soul crossover field. Wo- perfect inter -play instrument for the soft Morning" and the still popular "Suspicion," pered cohesive unit. achieving an unparal- mack is poised for making the widest pos- is a solid Amphitheater rolling notes created by Shank on sax and act. He does run into some trouble led totality of sound. sible impact. All he needs is a really distinc- when alto and regular flutes. The warms he ventures into more traditional ARLINGTON, -Because Particularly tasteful was Steve Howe's tive hit single for '74. up the audience with four solo numbers of country such as "Rolling in My Sweet of the success of its recently adopted solo during "The Ancient" Eddie Zip is the prototype Whisky open- Baby's Spanish extraction and then brings out the Arms," but one must also remember outside entertainment policy, and the percussion break which provided a ing act, loud, energetic, derivative and Six bass and drums on separate numbers, with that the man has basically been off the road brisk change of pace in the following move- quickly forgettable. This king of group pas- for 10 years. Flags Over Texas is investing Shank emerging 25 minutes into the set to Given the fact that he has had a ment, "The Ritual." Between Howe and ses through the club in platoons and proves in a new add fire to the same "Carioca Hills." long layoff and realizing that he is just be- $500,000 amphitheater de- bassist Chris Squire. a total of 12 a walking catalog of basic guitar riffs. to The two play several tunes originally re- ginning find his way in country, Stafford's signed to seat more than 4,000. were utilized to maintain subtlety and bal- NAT FRF.EDLAND performance here was corded for Pacific Jazz in the late 1950's, quite successful and "Last year," said general manager ance through the shifting moods. Both dis- he had little trouble winning over the often "Mood Antigua" (written as a two part in- Bob Freeman, "we adopted the slo- played a virtuosity which was exceeded only LINDA HOPKINS vention for guitar and flute with other parts critical Palomino crowd. With some more by the group's resilient three part vocal har- gan 'Entertainment Capital of Reno Sweeney, New York added) and Gershwin's "Prelude No. Two." material to call his own, he should have no monies. Texas' and presented more than 30 One of the classiest gospel /blues vocalists Of the seven tunes comprising the hour's difficulty retaining a solid foothold in the Even though they appeared to have lost a country field. 1974 on the market today, without a doubt, is set, Shank plays flute on five, turning to the name acts. In ... we plan to do good part of the audience during the course Marty Mitchell is an Linda Hopkins -as she so aptly proved in alto sax for more powerful sounds on "One I8- year -old with a much more." of the performance. an encore was de- powerful voice and her return to the club scene here. Note Samba" and "Carioca Hills." remarkable stage pres- Presented last season were, among manded. so the group returned with ence for someone his age. Experience seems Describing her performance as a "tribute The group goes to Venezuela for the '/e others, Bill Cosby, "Roundabout." which magnetically drew to be the only he , to Bessie Smith," Miss Hopkins dazzled joropo time on the lovely ballad "Cielo." thing needs to gain his own most of the sell out crowd to their feet. following, and his Mac Davis, Charlie Rich and the throughout -earthy and pure -and the re- With touches of classical music and modern set here showed him to be Opening the show was Island's John Mar- an accomplished song stylist already, espe- late Jim Croce. sults easily rubbed off on a packed house. A Latin jazz, the group is free to explore vari- lyn, whose club performances have been cially on ballads. Mitchell also records strong stage presence with a voice that ous marriages and combinations and their for Included in the plans of the new covered here recently. Martyn's musical Atlantic. BOB KIRSCH doesn't seem to want to quit are strong assets protean musicianship allows them to theater will be lighting and sound gifts seemed largely squandered in an arena for this artist, and she knows how to use achieve artistic success. ELIOT TIEGEL systems, rented this context, due both to the problems inherent year by the en- them to the fullest. in presenting a solo stand of this nature to POCO tertainment for a "whale of a lot" ac- Her material, as was her performance, VIC DAMONE/ such a hall. and to the need to compress his cording to Bruce Neal, public rela- was extremely balanced -on one hand mov- SHECKY GREENE FRAMPTON'S CAMEL broad range of styles into a 20- minute set. ing the audience into hand and foot MAGGIE BELL tions director. Martyn has yet to reach his potential au- Deauville Star Theatre stomping sessions, and on the other, bring- dience, and the choice of such opening slots. Deauville Hotel Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, ing them into quiet reflections of a bluesy before a crowd already impatient for Yes, love number. Theatric ability was there also, The Vic Damone-Shecky Greene show, Santa Monica seems an unlikely method of finding that Vegas, as Miss Hopkins, who recently completed direct from Las is an inspired combi- Poco has shifted its lineup somewhat audience. BARRY TAYLOR Puzzle Gets her role in the Broadway play "Inner City," nation of an expert crooner and an out- again, but this band remains one of the most rageously funny comedian. often verbalized moods to the audience. At Both Damone stable in the country rock field as their re- and Greene times, though, the chatter did draw out a bit are superb craftsman, perform- cent appearance here showed. The group Big Drive too much, leaving the crowd edgy for more ing with pride, professionalism and know - (reviewed here recently) retains their fine Palomino, Los Angeles music. Nevertheless, the overall package how and drew a tremendous response from harmony vocals and their pleasing instru- NEW YORK -Motown Records the Deauville Star Theatre's opening night For years, Willie has had to be termed a rousing success. mental sound, and remains a staple on the Nelson been one of audience. is planning a heavy advertising, the most respected and most song At present between labels (she recently rock circuit. recorded This was Damone's first Miami appear- public relations and tour support writers in country music. With his vast cata- left RCA), Miss Hopkins would do well to Frampton's Camel, headed by guitarist ance in eight years and his quality as a singer campaign for the group, Puzzle. The log of material, however, many have tended shy away from reflecting the talents of the Peter Frampton (formerly of Humble Pie late Bessie Smith. As well as she does handle seems to have increased with age. He ap- campaign will to forget that he is also an artist and per- and the Herd) ran through a set of hard rock be keyed to the the role, she is just too fine an artist in her pears more relaxed now than ever before former, and an extremely good one as his numbers that were predictable but received group's next release for the label, own right. JIM MELANSON and has more confidence in the range and first visit to L.A. in almost 10 years ahead. a strong response from the crowd. Frampton "Puzzle: The Second Album." Be- dramatic impact of his voice. He still has one is not a flamboyant Nelson has had the reputation being a performer, but he is a of of the greatest natural vocal instruments in sides a scheduled 11 -city tour fol- country rebel, but none of this showed BEE GEES solid one who provides a brand of simple the indsutry. He's still the good- looking Ital- lowing the release of the album, through his recent DARYL HALL & rock not as readily available today as it once during performance. ian boy whom to critics referred as "another was. His latest A &M album has been print buys have been bought for Rather, he proved to be a fine singer whose JOHN OATES BAND just re- Sinatra" 20 years ago, but has apparently leased. only problem was that he let his set run too consumer and trade press alike. Aver} Fisher Hall. N. Y. overcome the pseudo- Sinatra image forced The long. But the performance overcame by far highlight of the evening was opening Billboards and in -store displays In the last few years the Bee Gees have on him and now pleases himself. In doing so, this one faltering. Running through mate- act Maggie Bell, a star in England for years will be produced for Motown by grown in stature to such an extent that it is he pleases his audience. In uptempo num- with the now rial such as "Hello Walls," "Pretend I Never defunct Stone The Crows and hard to recognize the engaging ex -child bers like "Moment of Truth" and "Sing a Under Woods Direction. Mike Happened," "Good Lovin' Woman" and now out on her own, having recorded her prodigies in these poised and confident gen- Song" Damone's strong, powerful voice al- Lushka, Motown album sales the almost standard "Funny How Time first solo LP for Atlantic. Ms. Bell is a pow- man- tlemen. More striking even than the impec- most blasts the audience from its seats. His will Slips Away," he won the audience over im- erful vocalist backed by a fine group of Brit- ager, coordinate the efforts of cable performances or the variety of styles romantic tunes, "And 1 Love Her" and "The mediately. The material from his newest LP, ish session musicians and a three girl back- the label's sales personnel at each and moods in their luxurious two -hour set is Way We Were," create a soft, romantic ing trio, Thunderthighs. a country concept set, went over remarkably Through numbers tour city and Stan Lewerke, the realization of how great the Bee Gees' mood with perfect pacing and arrange- national well considering the newness of the product like Ringti s "Oh My My," "Caddo Queen" greatest hits really are. The group have ments. The total result is a highly enjoyable, album coordinator, will be respon- and the unfamiliarity of much of the au- and the closing "Ghetto," she provided an added to the repertoire of accepted pop mellow hour of songs in a style that is strictly sible for local television appear- dience with it. The highlight tune was cer- energy lacking in most female vocalists to- standards; they've ventured into an exclu- his own. ances. Graphics for tainly "It Ain't Supposed To Be That Way." day. Ms. Bell may have been opening this the campaign sively Bee Geeian style of oddball imagery Shecky Greene works hard at his craft and show, Nelson's prowess as a musician has also but she is an established and seasoned will be designed by Norman Seeff (hearing the unfathomable "Odessa" live after 27 years, his timing is superb. His ri- artist who been overlooked, and he showed himself to shows a great deal of potential for and Rod Dyer, Inc. was a rare treat); and they consistently pro- bald, off-color jokes, interlaced with Jewish be an excellent guitarist who can pick as well becoming a major star. BOB KIRSCH duce plain sentimental pop at its very finest. logic, are hilarious and the theatre audience as strum. In short, Willie Nelson is a true Whether it's "Words" or "Massachusetts" or loved him. SARA LANE overall talent. While he has been confined any of the others, everybody knows at least NATURAL FOUR, one Bee Gees song that has memories cling- WAKEFIELD NEW YORK CITY, Goulet Donates ing to it. Muthers Music FUNKADELICS The first half of the show was stark and Emporium Land in Tahoe TOP QUALITY Nashville, Tenn. NEW BIRTH minimally arranged, the hollow setting CARSON CITY, Singer serving to focus attention on the three broth- The "country-only in Nashville" myth Apollo Theater, New York Nev.- is ers' voices which, Heaven knows why, are may finally be coming to an end, and Black music, definitive, laid back, funkier Robert Goulet giving Nevada 10 acres 8X10 beautiful. With the second half came a me- Wakefield may be just the group to end it. than ever, continues to ride a crest of popu- of forested Lake Tahoe basin dium -sized orchestra, the harp and tympani Attired in garb ranging from medieval larity at New York's Apollo Theater where land worth about $300,000 to be pre- PRINTS and the familiar Bill Shepherd charts. The peasant (which strongly reflects their musi- New Birth, New York City, Funkadelics and served as a park. notes sounded just like on record, but with a cal mood) to tails with tennis shoes, the Natural Four have been rounding out a State parks chief Eric Cronkhite LITHOGRAPHED ON HEAVY GLOSS STOCK compelling immediacy that might not have successful week of concerts. Wakefield rocked " Muthers House" with an said Thursday (14) Goulet's action been expected. The genuine emotional force originality in music previously attributed Natural Four, opening act on the bill, is a BLACK & WHITE 8x10s of pure pop is a vastly underrated thing. only to English groups. quartet of Curtom Records artists, who, amounts to "one more little step 500 -- $22.85 1000 -- $35.00 The Hall and Oates Band, Atlantic With songs of beggars, thieves and way - though not yet quite honed to that fine point toward saving the Tahoe basin by recording artists, opened the bill with a set fairers. they created a trance among the au- of professionalism, show a tremendous keeping it underdeveloped." COLOR PRINTS that combined a good deal of technical ex- dience. At one point during a lengthy piece amount of potential. The site is on State Route 27, the pertise with a Moody Bluesisn seriousness of appropriately entitled "Psalm," the group The Natural Four is a visual act that relies Mt. Rose highway, about three miles 1000 -- $ 200.00 heavily on its sex appeal to help convey presentation. The trouble is that it takes used a 16th century chant that lent beau- its from Tahoe and profound material to stand up under that tifully to the musical story. message to its audience. But there is more to adjacent to an ob- SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES weighty attitude, while Hall and Oates' ma- Wakefield is a group of six, employing the the group than sex appeal and fancy chore- servation point along the road. terial is neither very deep nor very original. use of some 20 instruments during their act, ography. There is pleasing harmony too, as Attorney Coe Swobe, handling Their soaring, near-soul single "She's including two , a moog, guitar, drums, evidenced in their rendition of Carole the land transfer for Goulet, said Gone" was the only light moment. But the a variety of wind instruments, bass, organ, King's "Too Late Baby," and their new Goulet felt "indebted" to Nevada single, "Can This Be Real." set went down well with the audience, this and an original instrument they call an am- because he has derived a healthy in- 4p PICTURES being the era of reward for the professional phio. New York City, though a relatively new 1867 E. FLORIDA ST. craftsman. Some of us still miss the inspired Although at times there was some diffi- name, is comprised of a group of highly pol- come working in the state's casino - SPRINGFIELD, MO. 65803 amateur. NANCY ERLICH culty understanding their words. the lyrical ished performers, whose backgrounds reach hotels. 22 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

www.americanradiohistory.com Talent Signings Cabaret Type Who /Where /When) Cafe -Show (All entries for WHO-WHERE-1+ HEN should be sent to Helen Reddy has re- signed with tract. Cooley is currently working Sam Sutherland, Billboard 1 Astor Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10036.) . The agreement is a with Warner's Nashville a &r direc- BOB LUMAN (Dot): Municipal Campus appearances by artists are Audito- long -term contract, effective with the tor Chips Moman, veteran Mem- Site Opens rium, Atlanta, Ga., March 16; Toronto, singer's next album release, "Love phis- Nashville producer, on his first incorporated into the listings below. Ont., Canada (20); Austin, Texas (22- Song for Jeffrey." During the past release for the label set for spring. LOS ANGELES -This city's first Artists appearing on campus are 23); Salem, Va. (29). with year, Ms. Reddy has enjoyed three attempt at a cabaret showroom since marked an asterisk. LYNYRD SKYNYRD (MCA): Barton Coli- Roulette Records has signed five - gold singles and two gold albums. the closings of the Coconut Grove seum, Little Rock, Ark., March 13; Keil man group, Dallas to the label. First *GREGG ALLMAN (Capricorn): Park Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo. (14); Jack- She received a Grammy Award in and Century Plaza Westside rooms Center, N.C., single release on Roulette is "Put the Charlotte, March 16; sonville State College, Ala. (20); Munic- 1973 and the American Music kicked off last week with Johnny Duke Univ., Durham, N.C. Fox on Easy." Capricorn (17); ipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Ala. (23). Award this year for best female pop ... Mathis and Ed McMahon, at the Theatre, Atlanta, Ga. (19 -20); Jai -Alai Records has signed Chris Christman vocalist of 1973. The artist originally Beverly Hilton. Fronton, Orlando, Fla. (23); Bay Front *BARBARA MANDRELL (Columbia): to an exclusive recording deal. A St. Derby Dinner Club, Hot Springs, Ark., signed with the label in 1970. Hotel's main ballroom, the Inter- Center, Petersburg, Fla. (24); Ma- single, "Apron Strings," precedes an rine Stadium, Miami, Fla. (25); Munici- March 14 -20; High School Auditorium, Isaac Hayes has re- signed with national Room, is being set as a April album debut. up pal Auditorium, Birmingham, Ala. (28); Wheatfield, Ind. (23). Enterprise Records, a division of the 1,350-seat cabaret with Hilton keep- Municipal Auditorium; , *' (Columbia): SUNY, Al- Stax Organization. The exclusive has signed its ing the drinks concession and no La. (29); Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville (31). bany, N.Y., March 15; Huntington. Park long -term artist contract marks a first American act to the label, Black food served. The Mathis show LYNN ANDERSON (Columbia): Felt For- Inn, Philadelphia (20 -24); National Sta- decade for Hayes with the Organiza- Sheep. The five -man rock'n'roll played 7:30 and, 10:30 nightly Mar. um, N.Y., March 16; Santa Anita Park, dium, Barbados (29 -31). Arcadia, Calif. (17); Roxbury Township band's JOHNNY MATHIS (Columbia): Playboy tion. Hayes has received gold for first single for Chrysalis, 4 -8. Auditorium, Succasunna, N.J. (30). Club, Great Gorge, N.J., March 29-30. each of his albums including the Os- which is Warner Bros. distributed, is Producer of the showcase is Mike BRIAN AUGER (RCA): St. Paul Theatre, car and Grammy- winning "Shaft" titled "Stick Around." ... Producer List's Marathon Productions here. Minn., March 14. ROGER MILLER (Columbia): Nugget, score. Johnny Bristol to MGM as an artist. List came up with the concept of BOBBY BARE (RCA): Petersburg, Ill., Sparks, Nevada, March 22 -23. Warner Bros. Records has signed He is currently cutting his first LP as simply renting the cabaret facility March 16. PATTI PAGE (Epic): Vapors Club, Hot BLUE MAGIC Manor, singer -songwriter Dennis to a singer -songwriter -producer. when -club names (Atlantic): B.G. Springs, Ark., March 26 -April 6. Cooley His big supper are Queens, N.Y., March 15 -16. ANN PEEBLES long -term, exclusive recording con- production credits include the Su- available. *DAVID BROMBERG (Columbia): Mother (London): Per- formance Center, Boston, Mass., premes, Stevie Wonder, Junior Marathon will book into the Bev- Blues, Dallas, Texas, March 11 -14; March 18-23. Walker and Gladys Knight. ... erly Hilton Bill Cosby with Ike & Annhurst College, S. Woodstock, Conn. (15); Felt Forum, N.Y. (16); PERSUADERS (Atlantic): Apollo . Melba Montgomery, Elektra -Asy- , Mar. 17 -20; the Four When Answering Ads . . Theatre, N.Y., March 29 -Apr. 4. lum, has signed for exclusive repre- Tops, Staples Singers and Deodato, Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Conn. (17); Great Southeast Music Hall, At- Say You Saw It in Billboard sentation with the William Morris April 14-18, and , June SHAWN PHILLIPS (A &M): Chicago, lanta, Ga. (19 -24); Stockton State Col- March 17. Agency in Nashville. 16-21. lege, Pomona, N.J. (27). JOHNNY SHERRY BRYCE (MGM): Council RODRIGUEZ (Mercury): Rio Grande Stock Show, Bluffs, Iowa, March 13 -14; Palo Hills, Ill. Mercedes, Texas, March 14 -17; Matches (16); Tampa, Fla. (25 -31). Trace Hall of Fame, Berklee Fest (Columbia): Corpus Tupelo, Miss. (23); Auditorium, Kansas City, Mo. (24). Christi, Texas, March 27; San Antonio, Texas (28); Dallas, Texas (29); Lake *TODD RUNDGREN ( Bearsville): Univer- On April 27 Charles, La. (30); Austin, Texas (31). sity, New Concord, Ohio, March 14; BOSTON -The Sixth Annual *CHAMBER BROS. (Avco): Univ. of Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, Pa. (15); Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 15; Mich- Gannon College, Erie, Pa. (16); Long Jazz Ensemble Festival for high igan Palace, Detroit (16); Inde- John Center, Scranton, Pa. (17); Ohio school stage bands, hosted by pendence Hall, Baton Rouge, La. (22); Theatre, Columbus, Ohio (21); Palace Berklee College of Music here and SUNY, Morrisville, N.Y. (29); Le- Theatre, Dayton, Ohio (22); Akron Civic ARE sponsored by the National Associ- Moyne College, Syracuse, N.Y. (30). Theatre, Ohio (23); Masonic Temple, ation of Jazz Educators, will be held BILLY COBHAM (Atlantic): My Father's Detroit (24); Univ. of Wise., Oshkosh Place, Roslyn, N.Y., March 27 -30. (27); , Chicago (28); at the Berklee campus on April 27. *DEEP PURPLE (Warner Bros.): War Me- Univ. Auditorium, Bloomington, Ind. "Festival '74" will include indi- morial, Syracuse, N.Y., March 18; Bos- (29); Shrine Mosque, Springfield, Mo. vidual band performances; improvi- ton Gardens, Mass. (19); Providence (31). YOU sation and arranging clinics; and Civic Center, R.I. (20); Univ. of Dayton, SAMMI SMITH (Mega): High School demonstrations of the latest playing Arena, Ohio (22); Dane County Arena, Gym, Streetsboro, Ohio, March 16. Madison, Wisc. (23); Amphitheatre, techniques, all conducted by Berk - SPINNERS (Atlantic): Chicago (24 -25); Coliseum, El Paso, Felt Forum, N.Y., March 23. lee's faculty of jazz educators and Texas (28); Tarrant County Center, Ft. READY veteran jazz players. The day -long Worth, Texas (30); Amarillo Civic Cen- *STATLER BROS. (Mercury): High program will culminate in an eve- ter, Texas (31). School Auditorium, Wenatchee, ning concert and competition, at BARBARA FAIRCHILD (Columbia): Wash., March 12; Palamino Club, Los Golden Horn, Atlanta, Ga., March 12- Angeles (15); Santa Anita Race Track, which awards including best band Arcadia, Calif. (16); Sports Show, Du- trophy, for excellence 14; Sam Houston Coliseum, Texas (15- FOR 16); Mary's Place, Calumet City, Ill. luth, Minn. (21 -24). plaques and tuition scholarships for (23); Kansas City Auditorium, Mo. (24); THE TEMPREES (Stax): Richmond, Va., study in music totalling $2,500 will Civic Auditorium, Mobile, Ala. (29); March 16. be presented. Coliseum, Memphis, Tenn. (30). TOWER OF POWER (Warner Bros.): FIRST CHOICE (Bell): Symphony Hall, Levitt Arena, Wichita, Kansas, March Newark, N.J., March THE 23. 14; Owen Fieldhouse, Norman, Okla. Buys FOGHAT (Bearsville): Auditorium, (15); Civic Center, Albuquerque, N.M. Utley Charleston, S.C., March 13; Civic Coli- (16); Civic Center, El Paso, Texas (17); seum, Knoxville, Tenn. (14); Civic Cen- Civic Center Arena, Tulsa, Okla. (20); Pinnacle ter, Roanoke, Va. (15); Academy of Mu- St. Paul Civic, Minn. (23). kf sic, N.Y. (16); Civic Auditorium, St. DIANA TRASK (Dot): Jaycees Rodeo, Paul, Minn. (18); N.E. Ill. LOS ANGELES -Pinnacle Art- Univ. Chicago Phoenix, Ariz., March 15 -16; Oru Tulsa, (19); Auditorium Theatre, ists Bill Utley is buying out co-prin- Chicago (20); Okla. (17 -18); London, England (21- Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, Mich. cipal Burt Jacobs. Utley said the 22); Bournemouth, England (23); Bris- (21); Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, Pa. tol, England (24); London (25); Scot- booking agency's principal client, (22); Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia Three Dog Night, is staying with land (27); Liverpool, England (28); (23); Warner Theatre, Washington, Manchester, England (29); Drury Lane Pinnacle. Jacobs and Utley were D.C. (24); Municipal Auditorium, At- Theatre, London (30). lanta, Ga. (27); Lauderdale Coliseum, managers of Three Dog with the (Columbia): Florence, Ala. (28); Municipal Audito- Fair- ;tì;' now-defunct Reb Foster Associates. grounds, Tulsa, Okla., March 16; Acad- rium, Columbus, Ga. (29); Youth Cen- F Jacobs will set up his own manage- emy C &W Music Awards, (25); Mem- ter, Miami, Fla. (30). ment here next month after re- phis, Tenn. (29); Mobile, Ala. (30). office ARETHA FRANKLIN (Atlantic): Apollo JERRY WALLACE (MCA): Municipal turning from a South American Theatre, N.Y., March 8 -13. honeymoon. Auditorium, Shawnee, Okla., March 14; DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES (Atlan- Convention Hall, Enid, Okla. (15); Bar- YOUR tic): Convention Center, Miami, Fla., tlesville, Okla. Civic Center, Bartles- March 22; Richard's, Atlanta, Ga. (25- ville, Okla. (16). 30). JOE WALSH & BARNSTORM (ABC/ TOM T. HALL (Mercury): Sam Houston Dunhill): War Memorial, Syracuse, Studio Coliseum, Texas, March 15 -16; Roch- N.Y., March 11; The Dome, Rochester, ester, N.Y. (22); Syracuse, N.Y. (23); N.Y. (13); Capite! Theatre, Passaic, LIFE? Scranton, Pa. (24); Coliseum, Mem- N.J. (15); Orpheum Theatre, Boston. Track phis, Tenn. (29); City Auditorium, Mo- Mass. (16); Bangor Auditorium, Maine bile, Ala. (30). (17); Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia Continued from page 20 HERBIE HANCOCK (Columbia): Trou- (20); Convention Center, Louisville, Ky. COMING SOON FROM At Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, badour, Los Angeles, March 19 -24. (22); Sports Arena, Toledo, Ohio (23); and Joe Simon have *FREDDIE HART (Capitol): Branding I.M.I., Flint, Mich. (24); Coliseum, both been in, recently completing Iron, San Bernardino, Calif., March 14; Evansville, Ind. (26); Mershon Audito- YOUR their next LP's for Polydor's Spring Stallion, Oxnard, Calif. (15); Paladium, rium, Columbus, Ohio (28); Grand Val- FRIENDS AT Hollywood, Calif. (16); College, Mer- ley State, Grand Rapids, Mich. (29); IN label. Brad Shapiro again produced. ced, Calif. (17). Dane County Coliseum, Madison, . Don was Davis also in, recording GEORGE JONES & Wise. (30).. Johnny Taylor for Stax. (Epic): Convention Auditorium, Hot WAR (United Artists): Reinhalle, Dussel- Also, kudos are in order for Springs, Ark., March 15; Coliseum, dorf, March 22; Musikhaller, Hamburg cul (16); (23); Tivoli, RECORDS Muscle Shoals' own , Jackson, Tenn. Nathan Golf Ar- Copenhagen (25); Olympia, , , Barry mory, Clarksburg, W. Va. (21); Stardust Paris (27); Jarhunderhalle, Frankfurt A SUBSIDIARY OF (29); Beckett, and engineer Club, Waldorf, Md. (22 -23). Stadhalle, Ludljigshavern (30). 20TH CENTURY -FOX FILM DOUG KERSHAW (Warner Bros.): Felt BARRY WHITE & LOVE UNLIMITED Jerry Masters, who received a CORPORATION Forum, N.Y., March 16; Villanova, Pa. (20th- Century): Sports Arena, Los An- Grammy nomination for their work (23); Lake Tahoe, Nevada (28 -April 10). geles, March 23. on the "Rhymin' Simon" LP re- CLEO LAINE (RCA): Masonic Audito- THE YOUNGHEARTS (20th Century): corded by there. rium, , March 21. Vancouver, March 7 -20. 24 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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KSDT -FM, U. of California, San RARE BIRD, Somebody's Watch- (LP): WFIB -AM both for Caytronics and its some Owned by the firm, the building Diego, La Jolla, Linda Clark ing, Polydor (LP): WDBS -FM STRAWBS, Hero & Heroine, A &M 1,200 accounts in the U.S. "The contains upwards of $700,000 in WUJC -FM, John Carroll U., Cleve- RETURN TO FOREVER Featuring (LP): WKDI -FM, UTR, WUVA- branches will allow us to service the product. While the warehouse at land, Tim Iacofano CHICK COREA, Hymn of The FM Latin industry better and should in- present has some 10,000 square feet of space, Cayre WCHP -AM, Central Michigan U., Seventh Galaxy, Polydor (LP): TOWER OF POWER, Back To crease our sales by approximately 30 said that plans call Mt. Pleasant, Bruce Mansfield WUSO -FM Oakland, Warner Bros. (LP): percent in 1974," said Cayre. for an additional 10,000 square feet of space being WFIB -AM, (WGUC -FM), U. of TODD RUNDGREN, Todd, Bears - WRCU -FM Formed in 1966, Caytronics is ex- utilized by opening Cincinnati, Ellen Roberts ville (LP): WECI -FM, UTR, MARTHA VELEZ, Matinee Weep- clusive distributor in the U.S. for up two more floors to product. WRCU-FM, Colgate U., Hamilton, WSRM -AM ers, Sire (LP): KSDT -FM RCA Records and CBS Records N.Y., Cott Thompson , Slow Dancer, Co- DAVID T. WALKER, Press On, Ode Latin product and has six labels un- WDBS -FM, Duke U., Durham, lumbia (LP): WFIB -AM (LP): KSDT -FM der its corporate umbrella. Multi- N.C., Bruce Babski TOM SCOTT & THE L. A. EX- CLIFFORD WARD, Home faceted in sound and market ap- WECI -FM, Eariham College, Rich- PRESS, Ode (LP): WECI -FM Thoughts, Charisma (LP): proach, they are Mericana Records, Latin mond, Ind., William Kates SEALS & CROFTS, Unborn Child, WUSO -FM Caliente Records, Pronto Records, a KLCC -FM, Lane Community Col- Warner Bros. (LP): WECI -FM, DAVID WERNER, Whizz Kid, license of Ariola Records of Ger- lege, Eugene, Ore., Dave Chance WEAK -FM, WSRM -AM RCA (LP): WUJC -FM, WUVA- many, Carino Records, Charro Scene WKDI -FM, Northern U., CARLY SIMON, Hotcakes, Elektra FM Records, and Nor -Mex Records. NEW YORK Dekalb, Sheri Reeser (LP): WUJC -FM, KZSU -FM JOHNNY WINTER, Saints and RCA product is sold under the Ar- The nightclub scene here got a WEAK -AM, Michigan BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, The Sinners, Columbia (LP): WEAK - cano label, while CBS product is State U., East shot in the arm as Bobby and Danny Lansing, Wild, The Innocent and The E AM sold under Caytronics Records. Jeff Smith Lopez' Chateau Madrid reopened KZSU -FM, Stanford U., Stanford, Cayre stated that Caytronics, via last week. Closed for renovations for Calif., John each local Jeanes operation, will increase its nearly two months, the club will now UTR, U. of promotional Toronto, Katherine and marketing efforts feature top Latin recording acts and Willson in that particular Concerts Aid Push market. He said dance bands five nights a week. WUVA -FM, U. of Virginia, Char- that a greater emphasis will be Wednesdays through Sundays. Ap- lottesville, Geoff Allan placed on radio and television ad- pearing on the opening bill were WSRM -AM, U. vertising, with of Wisconsin, On Prison Reform retailer tags, and that Mexican folk singers Miguel Aceves Madison, Saul Spivack in -store sales aids will be more read- Continued from page 3 Band said his group was first con- Mejia and Amalia Mendoza. Both WUSO -FM, Wittenberg U., ily available. Delivery of product to artists record for Nine in the much -celebrated trial of tacted about eight months ago by RCA. Springfield, Ohio, Alex Heck - accounts will be as close to over- Richard the Berrigan brothers for their draft Mische. Both McEuen and Ms. Nader's latest Latin music athom night service as possible, he said. concert, held * * * resistance activities, was imprisoned French said Mische's personal iden- at Madison Square The branches are geared to carry Garden March I, pulled in a full APPLE & APPLEBERRY, ABC some 23 months for his activities. At tification with prison reform and the 90 days supply of inventory and house -some 18,000 people. (LP): WEAK -AM present, he is excutive concept of the NCCJL were key fac- Featur- director of the range 2,000 to 5,000 square feet in BIG National Coordinating tors in pulling the concert -sym- ing a number of top Latin acts, in- STAR, Radio City, Ardent Committee space. A telex system will link each (LP): WUJC for Justice posium idea together. cluding Celia Cruz, Tipica '73 and -FM, UTR, WUVA- Under Law (NCCJL), branch with the home offices here. FM which receives Reform Movement Johnny Pacheco, the concert also all profits from the (See executive turntable for branch benefit Tickets were scaled at $6.50, $5.50 marked the first major concert ap- ROY BUCHANAN, That's What shows. manager appointments.) pearances here I'm Here For, Polydor (LP): and $3.50. The concert was followed for Mericana In assembling the current project, Records' WCHP -AM by a two -day symposium styled as a Also being offered by the net- Roberto Torres. His ap- Mische gained the free cooperation pearance prompted CARAVAN, For Girls Who Grow citizens' hearing for prison reform in work, according to Cayre, is a "one - a side attraction of Toxey French, of Indianapolis - stop to for the night, as Mericana Plump In The Night, London Indiana, chosen deliberately as the service rack jobbers who, if general based booking firm the Music Book, manager Ralph (LP): WFIB -AM initial focal point because of prob- they are carrying Latin product in Lew took to the stage and of Saxon Sound, a Nashville their accounts, can come to a central to present Torres with a gold disk for PAPA JOHN CREACH & ZULU, lems in the state, reported Ms. sound specialist firm. location his sales performance Playin' My Fiddle For You, French, who has volunteered to in their market for all Latin on the label. Grunt (LP): Toxey French, Margaret Ram- handle publicity for the event. product." Cayre stated that Cay- ... Meanwhile, Peerless Records in WCHP -AM, Miami WUSO -FM spacher and Ray Chenowith of The NCCJL includes among its sup- tronics would even buy product has released new LP product DEEP PURPLE, Burn, Warner Music Book, and Bill Vaughn of porters U.S. Congressmen Charles from competing labels, so as to have by Salinas, Los Gallos de Oro, Fer- nando Rio, Bros. (LP): WRCU-FM Saxon were all astonished that Percy, Edward Brooke, Birch Bayh, full -line product to offer the racks. and Los Freddy. Mische He DOOBIE BROTHERS, What Were could put the concert to- Frank Horton, Ronald Dellums, said that the company would not JIM MELANSON Once Vices Are Now Habits, gether in three weeks, said Gaye Herman Badillo, John Conyers, French. Warner Bros. (LP): WRCU -FM, Ralph Metcalfe, Shirley Chisholm, WECI -FM Interviewed at length prior to the William Green and former Rep. Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY for Week Ending 3/16/74 concert, John BOB DYLAN, Planet Waves, Asy- McEuen of the Dirt William Anderson. lum (LP): KZSU -FM ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, Billboard Hot On The Third Day, United Artists Kenton Heads Jazz Clinics Special Survey Lakin LP's (LP): KZSU -FM LOS ANGELES -Veteran band- Faculty will vary slightly with HAZEL & ALICE, Rounder (LP): leader Stan Kenton will again direct each campus, but the 19- member WDBS Copyright 1974 Billboard Publications. Inc No part of this publication may be reproduced. -FM three week -long jazz clinics de- Kenton Orchestra will instruct at stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means. electronic. mechanical . HEARTSFIELD, Mercury (LP): signed for both music students and each clinic. Other faculty, expected photocopying. recording. or otherwise. without the prior written permission of the publisher KLCC-FM educators on college campuses this to participate in one or more clinics, HOT TUNA, The Phosphorescent summer. will include Dr. Herb Fatnoe, direc- IN MIAMI Rat, Grunt (LP): WASU -FM Now in its 15th year, the Kenton tor of De Anza College bands; Hank TITLE- Artist, Label 8 TITLE- Artist, Label 8 HUMBLE PIE, Thunderbox, A &M "Jazz Orchestra in Residence" pro- Levy, director of the Towson State Number (Distributing Label) Number (Distributing Label) (LP): WCHP -AM, WECI -FM, gram will be held at Drury College, College Jazz Ensemble; Prof. Leon 1 RAY BARRETTO 6 WUVA -FM Springfield, Mo., June 16 -21: Tow- Breeden, director of the Lab Bands ROBERTO ROENA "Indestructible," Fania SLP00456 Apollo Sound #5," Fania 443 AHMAD JAMAL, Jamaica, 20th son State College, Baltimore, July at North Texas State U.; Dan 2 TITO RODRIGUEZ 7 TIPCA NOVEL Century (LP): KSDT -FM 21 -26; and California State Univer- Haerle; Ken Hanna, composer and "En La Soledad," TR 00700 -'Se Colo La Tipca," TR- 006005 EDDIE KIRKLAND, Front and sity, Aug. 11 -16. arranger for the Kenton Orchestra; Center, Trix (LP): WDBS 3 ROBERTO TORRES 8 LUIS GARCIA -FM During the first week at Drury, the Robert Curnow, Creative Worlds "El Castigador," Mericana MYS114 (Cay- "Cerca De Ti," Audio Latino ALS4000 MAIN INGREDIENT, Euphrates will tronics) program also offer a special cur- Records; Dr. Tom Ferguson, direc- 9 RAPHAEL River, RCA (LP): KSDT -FM riculum for educators, composer -ar- tor of bands and jazz studies at 4 CONJUNTO UNIVERSAL "Raphael," Parnaso LPS 1130 MAN, Back Into The Future, "Mantecado," Velvet 1471 United rangers and professional musicians, Memphis State University; and Phil 10 GRAN COMBO Artists (LP): WASU -FM believed to be the first held for pro- Rizzo. MOCEDADES " #5," EGC 005 MANFRED MANN'S EARTH fessionals in conjunction with such a During the past year, the Kenton "Eres Tu," Borinquen 1190 BAND, Solar Fire, Polydor (LP): program. The professional sessions Orchestra has held some 150 shorter WASU -FM will be run concurrently with the concert /clinics at U.S. campuses. IN LOS ANGELES MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, A clinic for students. The summer clinics are set to carry New Life, Capricorn (LP): Curriculum for seminars will in- a per student charge of $80 which 1 LOS FREDDYS 6 JUAN TORRES "Vol. #18," Musart 1619 WCHP-AM, WEAK -AM, clude individual and group instruc- covers tuition. Room and board "Quiero Ser Feliz," Echo 25109 2 7 VINCENTE FERNANDEZ WSRM -AM, WUSO -FM tion in all band instruments; con - charges will vary with each campus. LOS DIABLOS " #4," Musimex 5050 "La Misma," Caytronics 1359 JOHN MAYALL, The Best of, .cepts of jazz styles; rehearsal Professional clinic enrollment is also RUBEN Y MEMO Polydor (LP): WSRM -AM, techniques; jazz theory; and compo- $80, and both courses are secured 3 YOLANDA DEL RIO 8 "Pertenezco A TI," Arcano 3235 "Ruben Y Memo," Orfeon 12-38021 WUVA -FM sition and arranging for jazz en- through a $20 enrollment. KATHI McDONALD, Insane 4 MOCEDADES 9 WILLIE COLON Asy- semble. The curriculum for the pro- Applications and information are "Eres Tu," Borinquen 1190 "Lo Mato," Fania SLP-00444 lum, Capitol (LP): KLCC -FM fessional entrants will cover more available through Kenton Clinics 5 LOS BABYS 10 EDDIE PALMIERI , It's Too Late advanced subjects, incorporating 1012 S. Robertson Blvd., Los An- Amor Traicionero," Peerless 1699 "Sentido," Mango 103 (COcO) To Stop Now, Warner Bros. (LP): teaching techniques. geles 90035. 26 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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www.americanradiohistory.com Radio-TV ProoromminQ Ex -Comic Stages CoMarathon WCAU -FM Hints Ready To By PAUL JAULUS Mix SAN FRANCISCO -KSFO -AM Much of the material utilized on radio stations and from recording Talk With Melodies here recently aired eight hours of ra- the eight -hour comedy airing was studios. PHILADELPHIA -WCAU -FM, very prominent talk format station, may dio and record comedy co- hosted by culled from over 600 record albums, soon begin weaving in music into its format. It was learned at press time that The show was the inspiration comic Ronnie Schell and station air some of which had never been previ- of Allan Hotlen, program director, and promotion director Bill Soden, local mu- one time night personalities Jim Lange, Gene Nel- ously aired, and featured material club comic Al New- sician, have already cut jingles for the new sound of the station that is expected man, now program director the son, Dick McGarvin, John Gilli- by both contemporary and vintage of to emerge, slowly, over the next several weeks. San Francisco radio station. In land, Russ Syracuse, Pete Scott, artists. In addition, rare air- checks The move was premeditated by the hiring of Dick Clayton from WIP -AM, scheduling the eight -hour comedy Scott Beach, Rick Cimino and were uncovered for the show includ- Metromedia MOR format station in the city, and the addition of Long John marathon, Newman noted "Come- Bobby Dale. ing underground tapes from other Wade, air personality on WCAU -FM, an oldies format operation. dians are philosophers with punch It is expected that the move to music will not be extensive; hówever, topics lines. The only difference between will arise about music and that music will be played to demonstrate the topic. Lenny Bruce and Socrates is that Reason for the injection of music into the talk format is in order to lower the Lenny had funnier material -and demographic age of the listening audience. Vox lox his critics didn't have a thing about By CLAUDE HALL hemlock." Radio -TV Editor Response to the KSFO -AM eight KSTT-AM in Davenport, Iowa, Bob Murray (he was previously pro- hours of comedy drew over 300 un- needs a good morning personality gram director of WIBW -AM in To- solicited letters from Bay Area lis- for the Top 40 station. Talk to pro- peka, Kan.) 3 -7 p.m., and Skip teners requesting a repeat which gram director Steve McCloud, who Willis 7- midnight.... Doug James is Newman is now considering. assures me that the station pays doing the 6 -10 p.m. stint on WIBG- pretty good. ... Russ Roberts and AM, Philadelphia, and making Robert Wade will host a progressive about six personal appearances a rock and jazz show Saturday nights week in the market at high schools. Pro -Com Offers on WJMA- AM /FM, Orange, Va., Kids just getting into radio never re- and they need albums, plus all of the alize that an awful lot of an air per- Comedy Series biographical information they can sonality's job is off the air. PHILADELPHIA -Pro -Com As- obtain on artists, etc. ... Dr. Brock * * * (Grady Brock) is now doing a 6 -10 sociates headed by Long John Ralph Bledsoe, 215- 272 -1733, will p.m. show on WCFL-AM, Chicago. Wade, veteran air personality, has be going to college in Rhode Island He'd been at WNOE -AM, launched a new humor series into New Or- would leans. and like to get part -time work syndication. Called "Billy & the at a radio station in the area. Work Kid," * * * the series ranges from two -to- for low pay for the chance to learn. three minute programs and station is Buzz Bennett, contrary to reports, ... Bob Raleigh and Jay Randall are provided with five shows a week. hasn't yet gotten his hands on the now working at KULF -AM, Hous- Series can be purchased in 13, 26, 39 LEW WITZ of WCFL -AM is flanked by Lou Simon, vice president marketing, programming at KHOW -FM, Den- Marc Goldberg is looking for ton.... or one year segments. Wade said Phonogram /Mercury, and at right by Stan Bly, promotion ver. Station was still doing research manager of the la- a sports gig. Was at WRSD -AM in that the programs, all of which are bel during recent open house at the label's Chicago headquarters. on the market pending possible pro- Homestead, Fla. Call him at 305- directly related to the current music gramming changes a week or two 233- 3328.... Franklin Tooke, area scene, can be played more than once ago. ... Lee Abrams: Talk to Steve vice president of Group W, is semi - during a day's programming. Agnew, program director of KFMQ- retiring. He'll continue consulting RKO Launches FM, Lincoln, Neb. ... Lineup at the radio -TV chain. A former pro- Don Wade, a Seattle air person- New KFOR -AM in Lincoln, Neb., in- gram director of both WOWO -AM ality, is the key figure behind the cludes Bill Wood and Dick Perry 6 -9 in Fort Wayne and KDKA -AM in new show and does some of the a.m., operations director Jim Miller Pittsburgh, he started his radio ca- voices. Others taking roles in the Syndicated Specials 9 -noon, Greg Jackson noon -3 p.m., reer in 1935 at WOWO -AM. programs include John's wife, Rose- LOS ANGELES -RKO General WRKO -AM, Boston; WXLO -FM, * * * mary, and air personalities such as Radio has launched a new radio New York; WHBQ -AM, Memphis Gary Brooks of WIBG -AM in Phila- Al Arneson is working the morn- series called "Special of the Month" (all RKO General stations) and KBCA -FM Sets delphia and Joe Finnelli. Price of the that is available for syndication. CKLW -AM in Detroit. ing drive show at WNAM-AM., Nee- series is based on the radio station's nah, Wis., now under the name of AI Harvey Mednick and Mardi Nehr- rate card. Pro -Com provides mer- bass of the corporate programming Live Jazz From Kelly. He'd been doing weekends at chandising ideas for station's local KSTP operation of RKO General write -AM in Minneapolis.... John sponsors. New Syndication H. Kramer, program director of and produce the series, features L.A. Museum WHLO -AM, Akron, needs all the KHJ -AM, Los Angeles, air person- Co. Bows 5 Shows ality Charlie Van Kyke. Jon Ba- LOS ANGELES -KBCA -FM help he can get for a radiothon Mar. LOS ANGELES -The new radio New RADAR Study Set deaux engineers the series. will broadcast a series of concerts 15 -17 to benefit the Children's Hos- syndication firm ofJ.W.C. Corp. has from the California Museum of Sci- pital of Akron. All groups and artists For Radio This Spring First program in the series fea- been launched here. Five different ence and Industry starting March in the area about that time are asked tured music of Chicago and inter- programs are now ready for distri- 14. to please call him for an on -air stint. WESTFIELD, N.J. -The four views with two of the Chicago bution, according to executive vice The 24 -hour jazz station will ... Old buddy Jim Nettleton reports networks have commissioned Sta- group -Jim Panhow and Robert president Jack Gaines. broadcast live the 7 to 7:30 p.m. por- that Long John Wade will continue tistical Research Inc. here to conduct Lamm. That ,show was debuted on tion of the program which begins at doing his morning show at WCAU- the 10th in a series of RADAR (Ra- KHJ -AM Feb. 24. The special for Shows offered include a series of five- 6 and runs until 8 p.m. FM, Philadelphia, as well as the talk dio's All- Dimension Audience Re- March in the monthly series will be minute interviews with enter- Chuck Niles, the afternoon per- show daily on WCAU -AM. "As long search) studies this spring. The study an interview with Neil Diamond tainment people called "Las Vegas sonality, will host the broadcast with as he feels he can keep his eyes open. will measure individuals listening to and some of his music. Other artists With Love," plus four different half - the Leroy Vinnegar Quartet the first At any rate, while I'm not looking all radio as well as network affiliates recorded or include Bar- hour shows called "Dynamite Rock" act scheduled. for a morning man, I am looking for and network programs for ABC, bra Streisand, the Temptations, the and "Yesterday's Dynamite Rock," The series is being funded by the a good jock for some other areas. CBS, MBS and NBC. Study will en- Moody Blues, Stevie Wonder, Diana "Dynamite Country" and "Yester- music performance trust fund of Any takers ?" Jim programs WCAU- compass a week of daily phone in- Ross, Three Dog Night, Elton John, day's Dynamite Country." The half- musicians union Local 47. Concerts FM. * * * terviews among about 4,000 people. Paul McCartney, the Jackson Five, hour shows are hosted by Wayne planned for the second Thursday of , Gladys Knight, Kerry. The five- minute show is han- Just noticed in Chuck Dunaway's dled by Jerry Wayne. each month will spotlight small Rock N' Roll Roller Coaster tipsheet Marvin Gaye and Paul Simon. groups. that the next Texas Programming Country DJ's Aid Format of the show is that there is Meeting will be the weekend of June no host; the artist speaks informally 28, 1974, in Austin, Tex. Sure would Gasoline Waiters on topics not necessarily music -ori- like to attend that event this year. If ented; Van Dyke does only voicing. LOS ANGELES KLAC- you aren't getting the Roller - Paul Drew, vice 45 rpm RECORDS AM, country radio station here, president of pro- Coaster, might I suggest that you gramming for RKO Radio, is execu- BY MAIL last week put together a band of write for a sample copy from Chuck tive producer of the series al- KWIZ NEEDS A local musicians and went out to and at 8007 Westheimer, Houston, Tex. ready the first in the series All Original Artists entertain the people lined up has been 77042. aired on KFRC -AM, San Francisco; PRODUCTION WIZZ!!! 1949 th ru 1972 * * * at various gasoline stations wait- A ing for gasoline. note from Larry Lujack, The position is full -time pro- pop country rock WCFL -AM, Chicago: "I want equal The idea came from air per- Toccoa FM Goes soul big band sonality Jay Lawrence and music duction and part-time jock. space! I was almost moved to tears To Harder Sound Please do not apply if you're all -time favorites by the Metheny kid's glowing trib- director Carson Schreiber. They TOCCOA, GA.- WLET -FM has not a 6000 titles imposed upon a local doughnut pro! FOR CATALOG of ute to his father: I am also very switched to rock music shop to help provide refresh- during the Send complete tape and resume send $1.50 no cod's) proud of my father. He's in the day and progressive during the Caldwell, Idaho market and a credit ments and the band was called to: If AIR MAIL is desired for catalog night, according to music director to the agricultural industry there. I the Even and Odds. Schreiber U.S. and APO /FPO addresses, add SI 00 Jon Hughes. The lineup includes EARL L. TROUT, III International, add $1.50 thought everybody would like to said that if the gasoline shortage (payable in U.S. funds) owner Otto McDonald, Mike Mar- c/o read about it." continues and the lines continue, KWIZ, tin, Wayne Martin, and Hughes. 3101 W. Fifth St. RECORD SHOP the radio station may request aid * * * The AM affiliate is a 5,000 -watt Santa Ana, Calif. 92703 156 Centrai Avenue from major artists to join the en- Wayne has country music operation. The FM Albany, New York 12206. U.S.A. Mark become produc- tertainment committee and sign station had been MOR in tion director of KIRO -AM in autographs. the day (Continued on page 30) and rock at night.

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Continued from page 28 Shreveport is Bob Popa and lineup Anyone needing a good promotion Word is out that KSO -AM in Des turned on the radio Sunday (24) on the country station now has Popa man can contact him at 704 -523 Moines, Iowa, is going country. Pro- about 8:05 a.m. and Chuck Jackson 6 -10 a.m., Seattle; he'd been on the air 2 -6 p.m. Eric Price until 2 p.m., 5059. And, even if you don't want to gram director is Perry St. John; new was doing a fairly good show on Jonathon 2 -7 for the past four years. Bill Yeend, 6- Haze p.m., David hire him, how about calling and general manager is Guy Fowler. KIKX -AM. Time, name, and into midnight man, moves into Wayne's Stanley and Kenny Gilbert on week- cheering him up? Don't seem sensible to me because tune unannounced, then back an- slot and fill -in man Steve Montgom- ends. ... Paul Brian is the new * * * WHO -AM went full -time country nounce. Not much personality. After morning personality on WYEN -FM ery moves into Yeend's slot.... Wal- Tom Adams reports that Jim the other day. But Perry was hang- an Elton John tune, all he said was: in Des Plaines, Ill. He's just out of ter S. Tucker has been named gen- Beedle went to WJJD -AM in Chi- ing out at the country festival the "A big record for Elton John" and the service.... Lineup at WNCR- then went eral manager of KLPX -FM in Fort cago and "I'm moving, too. From 2- other day in San Antonio and pass- into a local commercial FM, the new country operation in that he did well. Worth; he'd been with Northeast 6 p.m. to 3-7 p.m. Same station. Best ing the word around.... Ken Steele, Jackson may not be Cleveland, includes program direc- black, but he was Radio Network, Syracuse, N.Y. ... I could do." ... Bill McLean has re- 717 -762 -9191, is looking for a per- using some soul in tor Ben Peyton 6 -10 a.m., Bob North, his voice, New general manager of WLTA- joined KAKE -AM in Wichita, Kan., sonality job; all -night is okay. Have fairly okay; he lost the soul is who doubles as production director, later and was white. FM in Atlanta, John M. DeHaven. to do the 2 -6 p.m. show. He was the five -plus years of experience in Top If you're going in mid -day, and Bo Wiley in after- to use the ballsy voice, He'd been national sales manager morning man on the station for 19 40 radio as personality and program you've got to the noon drive Rest of station is via syn- director. be consistent. Hank for Susquehanna Stations, New years 1948- 67.... Louis J. Maier - ... Bob Benson is out of Cramer did the which is dication from Drake -Chenault, Los news okay and intro'd the York City, the new owner of hofer, general manager of WKMC- WMAL-AM in Washington. .. . Chuck Angeles. Jackson show. the FM station.... Ted Anthony, * * * AM in Roaring Spring, Pa., reports Barry Richards is back doing a During the news, you 312 -766 -6440, is looking for a good dance show could hear (hah!) the teletype. I Robert W. Morgan called to say that his station is looking for an air for WDCA -TV in market position. Worked Chicago, Washington, that he and Don Imus were coming personality, as are several other area channel 20. Artists (Continued on page 38) etc. Good Top 40 personality wishing to get and up to break my leg. But they haven't stations. "We have need for news, on the show should willing to crack the mustard. production, programming, call him or Milt Grant at 202 -654- shown up yet. . . . Robert Cole, and en -. New Virginia AM -er 2600. Show tapes Thursday night * * * Hawaii, would you write Sam Bel - gineering or any combination and is aired Friday late Seeks DJ Bob (Al Evens) Evans, who'd been lemy here at the Billboard in Los An- thereof. The we includes WKMC- and Satur- Personnel day again. with WBLI -FM in Patchogue, L.I., geles? ... Bill Quay, WAME -AM, AM and other local stations. We ask * * * BLACKSBURG, Va. -WQDX- reports in from WCCC -AM -FM in Charlotte, air personality 6 -10 a.m., for good attitude, ability to take di- AM, a new daytimer at 710 on the Sam Holman is now head of Hef- Hartford, Conn. ... Tom Allen, op- reports that he's doing a weekly rection, maturity, respectable per- dial, will hit the air here May 1, ac- tal Broadcasting, replacing Dick erations manager for KBOX -AM in newspaper column for the local sonal habits, and some experience or cording to program director Bob Casper. For those of you who don't Dallas, is looking for a good morn- newspaper.... Fred Vail, promotion knowhow.'' WKMC -AM, itself, is Ashcraft. remember, Sam was one of the origi- ing drive personality. ... New pro- executive who hangs out in the deep looking for a man with family re- He was looking for air person- nal air personalities on WABC -AM gram director of KJOE -AM in South, is looking for a label deal. sponsibilities and who looks at radio alities last week. Station will be Top as a profession rather than a gig. in New York when it went rock years 40 in format, but with strong person- * * * and years ago.... William J. Struyk, alities. Signal of station will reach program director of WOOD -AM- several colleges in the area, Ashcraft Chuck Renwick, general manager FM in Grand Rapids, Mich., notes said. of WHN -AM, New York, and re- that the station has a very stable sponsible for its changeover to coun- staff. "Our turnover rate is low. try music, has been appointed ad- However, we are constantly looking More ministrative assistant to Jay Watson, for new people. If a bright, talented Radio -TV Programming vice president of the radio division young guy comes along who can of Storer Broadcasting. Replacing handle our type of MOR adult for- See Page 38 him as general manager of WHN- mat, we'll try to find a way to add ARE AM is Jack Kelly, former executive him to our staff. If we can't take him officer of Storer Television Sales, on immediatedly, we will keep in New York. In addition, Storer made touch with him until we have an Donald R. Hamlin, formerly general opening. I guess what I'm saying is sales manger of WDEE -AM in De- that the search for good people YOU troit, general manager of WGBS- should never stop." ENERGY! AM, Miami, following retirement of * * * veteran Storer executive Reggie So, driving into work, I catch Rob- Martin. ... KalaMusic, syndication ed W. Morgan on KIQQ -FM, Los You used have READY firm that produces programming for Angeles, and he does a rap to to pay about WQLR-FM in Kalamazoo, Mich., "this record being No. 93 on our between three and four and WOMC -FM in Detroit, will be playlist, coincidentally ... or per- thousand dollars for a in room 955 at the Shamrock Hotel haps not so coincidentally" and then good station ID series. FOR in Houston during the annual con- goes into "Backstabbers" by the vention of the National Association O'Jays. I'll give you half a guess Not any more. of Broadcasters March 17 -20. After which station has that particular fre- you visit the Billboard suite 1354, quency in Los Angeles. ... I sort of ENERGY! is the new power you can visit Steve Trivers and Bill goofed a bit about Ron Nickell; he's package from Imagineers. THE Wertz with KalaMusic. general sales manager of TM Pro- * * * gramming. The bulk of the sales for Fifteen cuts, just $800 Ev Wren, vice president of TM Productions are handled by my for most markets. KLAK -AM in Denver, has left to good buddies Jim Long and Jim And get this: $800 become a programming consultant West. Long is general manager of Our and start up his old production firm. TM Productions, Jim is senior vice package sounds better 144Øt4 ... Doug (The Greaseman) Tracht president. Quite an operation. than the ones from has departed WRC -AM in Wash- They're going to be in the Shamrock you- know -who. ington to do the morning show at Hotel, so after you visit the Billboard WPOP -AM in Hartford. Then, old drinking and radio discussion parlor For proof, write or call buddy Dan Clayton, who had been a la mode at Suite 1354, Shamrock, for a free demo: programming WRC -AM, is leaving you can meander down and talk to the station to become general man- the TM people and let them sell you imaGineers OF ager of WBBF -AM in Rochester, a $49,672.32 jingles package. The Image Building N.Y. Hey, Bob Klieve -do you re- * * * Medinah, Illinois 60157 member that station? Bob Shannon is the new program (312) 529-1001/529-1002 * * * director of KDWB -AM in Min- neapolis and Chuck Buell YOUR Steve (Steve Shannon) Nereahl is will be the new afternoon drive man at now doing swing shift and mid - KFRC- AM in San Francisco. -PERSONALITY ? night-2 a.m. at KSTP -AM in Min- KDWB -AM - needs neapolis; he'd been at WSPT -AM in another personality. Hal Mar- Hundreds of MOR and Top-40 remember Stevens Point, Wis. ... Chris Lane, tin (can't his real name personalities now use the Sulli- LIFE? van right at is Letter. EVEN IF YOU'VE country side of The Program Shop this second) really getting some big guns in at KFRC -AM... SEEN A COPY BEFORE, SEND radio syndication firm in Los An- FOR A FREE SAMPLE. Now Bob Raleigh is now doing 9 -noon at fea- geles, is the morning deejay at turing more info on more record KULF -AM in Houston; WOLD. Remember the tune by he'd been artists, for as little as $2.33 per at KNEW -AM in San COMING SOON FROM Harry Chapin? Well, NBC radio has Francisco.... month. Ran into Jane Ferguson last night; Jan Jeffries (WCRT) says a program on network and they de- "it's better she used to write for the than ever!" cided to track down the morning air Billboard YOUR FRIENDS AT when living in Boston; now she's in Don Sinclair (KSTN) says "For the personality at WOLD -AM and fi- first time here is a service that even IN national sales CBS nally found the station in Marion, for -FM radio out us small -market jocks can not only Los Angeles. She told Va. But the general manager told of me that Lee afford, but get far more than our Douglas is the new program them they would have to talk to director money's worth from." I of WOKY -AM in Milwaukee. Personalities at major stations in Chris Lane; the show was automated He's RECORDS married to another Billboard New York City, L.A., Philadelphia syndication. Program Shop seems to and Chicago it. writer-Marge Pettyjohn. Ah, also use For a A SUBSIDIARY OF be booming along. They do XPRS- but free sample write: these chicks get around. 20TH CENTURY -FOX FILM AM, the country station beaming CORPORATION * * * THE SULLIVAN LETTER from South of the Border Down 888 7th Ave. Room 400 Mexico Way and KBCM -AM in Tucson is a pretty interesting city New York, N.Y. 10019 Sioux City, Iowa, among others. and some decent radio exists there. I 30 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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By RADCLIFFE JOE in the music business, the Music So far, however, GRT has not had to CHICAGO -The move to compact cars forced by the gasoline shortage NEW YORK Tapes division of GRT Corp. is the pass any of the costs along to its cus- -The Videotape will result in a boom for car stereo as Americans will continue to demand lux- most familiar name, but the custom tomers. Producers Association has formed a ury features said dealers at the recent auto show here. national and international financial products division is also highly ac- Sales Philosophy Dealers also noted that buyers of 8 -track units in new cars are forced to buy tive in record pressing, custom tape -Our sales philosophy is the same credit rating exchange for the ben- blind, with no information available on features of units, while paying from manufacturing and distribution. for custom tape as it is for music efit of its members, according to $200 to $502 (on the Lincoln Continental), according to spokesmen at the 66th Headed by Dave Travis, the cus- tape," Travis said. "We are being Mort Dubin, chairman of the associ- Annual Automobile Show. ation's recently tom products division has the re- very selective as to who our accounts formed international Most car manufacturers consider the accessory as a luxury and offer it only board. (Continued on page 33) sponsibility for Mid -South Record are and we are looking for long term on luxury models, in the AM /FM/ Pressing, a Nashville facility which agreements with major firms. One REP CLOSEUP MPX plus 8 -track configuration, pressed the GRT owned Chess/ thing we are doing is trying to warn ll with four speakers. Chrysler, for ex- Janus family of labels as well as firms even further to watch out for ample, offers it on all full size cars, servicing such firms as Grateful shortages. I've made a mailing to all but not on compacts or sports mod- Dead Records and Original Sound. of the major firms who do not have Rep Sees Blank Tape els. Plymouth does not have the op- "GRT owns this plant," Travis their own pressing suggesting that a tion available at all as factory in- said, "and we have designed it to secondary source be lined up. This is stalled equipment. The Excaliber, a help penetrate the custom market. one way we may attract new custom- SKU, Not Accessory $16,500 handcrafted car, offers a We are actively seeking more busi- ers, but the main way is to get them Motorola stereo radio /tape combi- ness, and business has been on the to use us as their prime supplier." By GRIF R LOWRY (Continued on page 36) upswing. So far, we haven't had a Travis said that GRT looks at the LEAWOOD, Kan. -Blank tape EDITOR'S NOTE: William great deal of trouble with material custom pressing division as just as is big business for Bill Menezes. In Menezes & Associates, a five -man shortages. We are on allocation like integral part of the firm as the music one respect, Menezes is fortunate organization covering wide areas of everyone else, and we are running area, and pointed out that the firm is in his campaign to get tape sales the midwest, considers blank tape a Detroit In -dash three shifts." growing rapidly in this area. off the ground and stock keeping unit (SKU) in its own Travis said that the plant is press- What are some of the things that going. Roughly 75 right along with any other merchan- ing only records at the moment, but the custom product division is in- percent of his ac- Stall, Motorola dise and not as just an accessory it is not impossible that tape will be volved in now? counts are composed (Billboard Feb. 23). Major points manufactured there at some future "We are doing duplication for of high- fidelity spe- covered in this second installment are: Growth: Kusisto date. "We have a man running the firms that do TV and promotional cialty stores who Stores should stock five or six stock component By EARL PAIGE plant who is a former tape plant accounts, spoken word, educational brands from high end to low manager," systems. They are TUCSON Accommodating he said, "so we will be and sales training accounts," Travis $10 to $20 ticket sales are be- - said. "Spoken word is growing very the likeliest pros- safety devices will likely prepared if we decide to do any coming mare commonplace MEN EZES force De- rapidly." pects to make tape makers tape." Store personnel troit car to forego any expan- When sales meetings a genuine sales target, to realize the As far as the tape situation is con- the division does the dupli- should focus sion into in -dash car stereo even on only one or two potential. Menezes Associates also cerned, Travis said his division has cation for TV tape offerings, this topics though they realize its potential, ac- to get falls into custom's province because service automotive concerns, some cording to Oscar Kusisto, Motorola enough tape through calendar Consumers should be shown in- the firm does its own distribution. discount outfits and electronics executive, who Motorola's 1975 with no trouble and enough ner workings of mechanisms outlined paper inventory to last at least a "We are willing to duplicate for any chains. The firm also services dupli- vast expansion of its automotive The brand image of blank tape record label that does its own distri- firms to a year and a half. Costs are going up, is a growing factor cating and recording studios products division prior conven- especially on plastics, Travis said, (Continued on page 35) (Continued on page 34) tion here. Here for the International Tape Association 4th annual seminar, Ku- sisto said the Motorola division has 50 Schaak Units, No Limit on Expansion added executives, has taken over the By IRENE CLEPPER entire second floor of the Franklin Park, Ill. headquarters and started ST. PAUL -No grand openings, no sound rooms, no seasonal sales, no through some of Dad's books and papers. I came across Dale Carnegie's book work on a totally new research and tapes and records, no job- security for managers -all part of a super-sales mer- on How To Win Friends and Influence People and I can honestly say that it was development center on Mannheim chandising program that has brought St. Paul -based Schaak Electronics from a turning point in my life. It I changed the values put on different things." Road outside the plant, has made its one neighborhood store to a 48 -store (50 end this chain by the of year). Sales Jumped first deal with of Canada in The dynamo that powers this fast -growing is -old organization a 34- year That year -12 years ago -sales jumped 28 per cent, to $250,000; the next an effort to source more equipment double millionaire -Dick Schaak, whose life story reads like Horatio Alger, year, 20 percent, to $300,000. Before the end of 1967 he had opened a second for Japanese car makers and has set but, in truth, was inspired by Dale Carnegie. store and added up a sales volume of $800,000. April as the date of occupying the Schaak (pronouced "shock ") was a rowdy boy who lasted only one year at The chance that launched the chain was the offer of 900 square feet of new 175,000 sq. ft. car sound factory St. Thomas college. After he was expelled for fighting- repeatedly -he opted space in the Southdale shopping center, near Minneapolis. From a first year in Sequin, Tex., already set for more for Northwestern Electronics Institute "because my father had just bought this sales total of $267, it now produces $700 per square foot and the store has been expansion this year. TV parts shop." Despite a straight A average for 77 weeks of the 88 -week expanded to 1,575 square feet. course, Schaak dropped out. "I was sitting there in class and just suddenly real- Dayton- Hudson Properties, impressed with the figures, offered leases in He agrees with the premise that if ized that a career in electronics wasn't for me," Schaak says. "I walked over to other complexes and, from sales of $1.6 million and earnings of $52,000 from after market in -dash is so exciting, Detroit In Dad's shop and asked if he could use some help until college classes started four stores in 1969, Schaak Electronics racked up $9 million in sales and OEM -dash should offer equal potential. A second part of the again." He was there only a few weeks before his father died, at 46, of cancer. $290,000 profits from 15 stores in the fiscal year ending May 31, 1973. premise is that after market car When he found how little the business would sell for -about $10,000 - Projections are for $19 million to $22 million in sales in fiscal 1975. stereo manufacturers are romancing Schaak decided to try to keep it going to support his mother and 13- year -old new car dealers, who now look to car sister. He turned down the only offer he received: $7,500. With $1,100 in the It's probable that profit margins could go from the present 3 per cent to sound as a new profit area when big bank and $15,000 in accounts receivable, Schaak started to re- organize the 4 per cent and bring net profits into the range of $840,000. car sales are leveling off. business. When he became hard -nosed about collections and lost some ac- January 10, Schaak announced that he had purchased 27 Allied Radio Detroit OEM counts, he began shifting to retail TV parts for the handyman and assembling stores from the Tandy corporation which had been ordered by the Federal Thus, in view of the in -dash po- hi -fi kits into cabinets. Trade Commission to divest itself of the stores. "It's like starting in business tential and new excitement about But salesmen weren't calling on him and he didn't know why until one day all over again," Schaak declared gleefully during a Billboard interview. "The stereo on the part of car dealers, why a rep invited him to lunch and told him flat out that they all regarded him as a challenge is just what our management needs!" doesn't Detroit step up its own OEM "hot- headed young punk" and didn't want to do business with him. "I went Schaak Beadily admits that electronics never had an appeal for him, production? Kusisto said, "Detroit home feeling really low," Schaak recalls. "I was alone and started going (Continued on page 36) tends to lag in accessory products because of the stringent perform- ance quality they demand of sup- pliers and exhaustive production and marketing tests which tends to build an after- market. "Over the longer period, as more OEM sophisticated and high end production goes forward, costs tend to come down, and thus price to the consumer comes down. "But I believe government safety standards will play an important part in how far automobile manu- facturers can go in more auto sound. The government may force them to go either to air bags or safety belt ig- 'at nition locks and they may have a problem therefore with hang -on ac- of his father from whom he inher- DICK SCHAAK, 34, poses near photograph cessories, a problem in available normally located ited a small TV parts store. At right, open look of chain's space." shopping center units. (To Be Continued) MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD 32

www.americanradiohistory.com T Rep Rap by Shure Brothers currently being planned, Thomas Sullivan, prepared in a month in advance. Customers Packer Sales of Scottsdale, Ariz., will sell Arthur J. Hudson has been appointed ucts in specific territories, Ave., Evanston, Ill. 60204. Jr., executive vice -president, reports. The are placed at tables within the conference the Glenburn /McDonald line of automatic sales rep for Fidelitone's replacement Inc., 222 Hartrey for trade conferences include members and manufac- hall, and are approached by manufacturers, turntables in Arizona and southern Nevada. needle and audio accessory lines, Hiram A. Harlan will also be responsible with Morgan handling con- turers from Mich., Ind., N. and S. Dak., Mo., a reverse of the normal arrangement. The The firm is headed by Jerry Packer. Prince, vice -president, announced. show activities, sumer hi -fi shows. John Phelan has been Ill. The Midwest conferences are is not on selling, but on ironing out * * * * * * la., and emphasis named product coordinator with the firm. unique, Sullivan said, in that computerized problems, so there are no exhibits. Accom- Tecnimat, Inc. of Fort Lee, N.J., and William Harlan and Lottie Morgan have * * * three days schedules of meetings between modations are made for last- minute ap- Ossman Components Sales Corp., will rep been promoted to sale and promotion re- specific customers and manufacturers are pointments. the Amilon of cassette tape transports in sponsibilities of existing distributor prod- The 1975 Midwest dmr Conferences are southern N.Y., northern N.J. and Upstate New York respectively. Ossman, who will handle the line in upstate N.Y., is head- quartered in Rochester, N.Y. It also main- tains branches in Syracuse, Kingston, Buffalo and Vestal. * * * Jack McCaughey, in business since 1949 as Jack McCaughey Co., 5239 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo. 64110 (816) 523 -8569, is looking for a short line of promotionally priced electronics for tobacco distributors, discount operations, and catalog showroom accounts on flyer and traffic promotions of non -catalog items. Jack covers Mo., Ka., la.. Neb. and s. Ill. with Dave Stussi and Bob O'Neill. * * * Techniques of merchandising the e. Pa., s. N.J. and Del territory was cited by president Meet The Family Rex DePillis as a major reason why DePillis Associates, 15 Tanner St., Haddonfield, N.J. 08033 (609) 428 -3800, was awarded the U.S. Pioneer "Rep of the Year" award for the eastern marketing area. The firm services audio independent and chain stores, calling on every branch store and offering personal services such as prob- lem solving, expediting of orders and parts, and 24 -hour phone service. Salesmen attend new store openings, and work on the floor with store salesmen for special sales. Swiss Performance We Repeat DePillis said he works to get a well repre- sented line in the stores, and offers sales builds meetings with dealers. A current program Electro Sound's new ES -505 Electro Sound involves sales personnel from seven Frank- professional, high speed audio lin Music stores, who are attending sales series recorder /reproducers and learning from DePillis Asso- systems. breakfasts have a heritage of classic tape duplicating ciates about the product and how to make a The ES -6000 is our 240 ips sale. "Sales people need to be sales oriented design and precision as well as technically oriented in the audio version. Long lasting, DePillis said. performance. They've been field." versatile hardware. DePillis remains optimistic about 1974, engineered specifically for despite shortages. "We are looking forward broadcasters, recording to a very good year, and have hired an addi- We're noted for sophisticated tional man, Iry Tanebaum, to help handle studios, and other state -of- the -art designs that the volume we expect," DePillis said. His firm also reps Pioneer of America, BIB ac- professional users. produce a finished tape of cessories, and Capital blank tape. European or American unquestioned high quality. * * * - pays off in no other machine has more That's what Recent appointments at Jensen Sound operating profits for our Laba include the appointment of Al Hob - significant "Operator wanger as national sales manager, automo- The ES -505 customers. tive speaker sales group, Chicago; and Wil- Engineered" features. liam F. Coulter Co., Inc., 6033 Berkshire, Disappearing headgate, built - Sound is the Dallas, Tex., 75225, as reps for mobile And Electro speaker products covering Tex., Okla., Ark. in audio oscillator, optical only single source for and La. motion sensing, continuous loading racks, QC Hotwanger has been sales administration duplicators, manager, export sales manager, and mobile bias monitor, differential disc reproducers, mastering products manager for Jensen since 1971. He brakes, optional edit third and is now responsible for speaker systems for devices, cartridge cars, boats, trailers and mobile homes. reel, fully lighted controls cassette winders and splicers. * * * and much more . Whether you duplicate Webb Electronic Sales has added Design Acoustics to a line that includes over 30 ma- The ES -505 is available in retail music, broadcast jor electronic firms, and 800 dealers, in Ka., 1/4" or 1/2" versions, with one, Mo., Neb., la., and n. Okla. and Ark., Tim syndications, or "spoken Grojean, vice- president, reports. two or four channels of word" cassettes, we have a electronics in console, system for you. After all, the portable or unmounted the TV Tape Exchange giants who pioneered configurations. pre- recorded tape industry, Continued from page 32 Performance specs -we as well as those just joining it, Establishment of the international are using Electro Sound credit rating exchange is part of or beat the best! sweeping organizational changes in- And at American prices. The ES -6000 systems in 30 countries. stituted in a move to keep abreast of what Dubin calls the rapid growth of the videotape industry. The restructuring program in- cludes the appointment of three re- gional presidents located in New York, Los Angeles and Canada. These presidents will be elected to ELECTRO SOUND serve one year terms, and will auto- CA 94086 matically, upon their election, be- 725 KIFER ROAD, SUNNYVALE, TELEX: 346324 LECTROSND SUVL come members of the association's (408) 245-6600 board of directors. The association originally had a single president. Al- ready nominated for the presidency of the New York chapter of the VPA are Will Roth and Jim Hartzer. Dubin, first president of the four - year -old VPA, will serve for three years in his position as international chairman of the board. 33 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com Tope /Audio/Video ITA SPEECH Knauer Blasts Consumerism Lag NEW YORK -The consumer dustries Association, and its Con - consumers. She added, "The E1,'. is electronics industry has been sumer Electronics Group for its re- sending a loud and clear signal that warned that it faces Federal legisla- jection of a plea by her office to its Consumer Electronics Group tion to ensure that consumer corn- establish an industry -wide con - does not want the scrutiny of outside plaints are heard and looked into, sumer panel to mediate complaints. eyes and ears." because the industry has failed to Ms. Knauer pointed out that such The consumer advocate added adopt self-regulations. mediation panels had successfully that this attitude on the part of the The warning came from Virginia existed in other industries such as EIA was inviting a crackdown by Knauer, President Nixon's advisor major appliances and home build - Congress and or the Nixon Adminis- on consumer affairs, in a speech de- ing. Yet, she added, it was vetoed by tration. 4)41 livered to the annual conference of the EIA shortly after the idea was Spokesmen for the EIA /CEG re- the International Tape Association broached several months ago. jected Ms. Knauer's charge that the (ITA) held recently in Tucson, Ariz. Ms. Knauer's interpreted the organization was closing its door on PANASONIC's RS 862 4- channel, 8 -track player with FM /AM /FM stereo ra- Ms. Knauer's warning came as EIA /CEG action to mean that the the consumer, and pointed out that dio offers 2 VU meters, Quadruplex circuitry, sing along features and four she took a swipe at the Electronic In- organization was closing its doors to it was felt the best approach to con- matching 2 -way walnut speakers for $399.95. sumer satisfaction was through the efforts of individual companies, and that mediation may serve only to de- lay resolution of complaints. Jack Wayman, staff vice president IF YOU HAD of the CEG elaborated by saying that his organization was examining the problem of complaints arbi- A KING tration, and that the legislation to which Ms. Knauer alluded, the 8TRACK recently introduced Consumer Con- TAPE troversies Resolution Act, may very well be the solution to the problem. NORTRONIC's QM -6 Cassette In- SPLICER II, spection and Cleaning Kit at $9.90 Rep: BlankTapeSKU includes spray tape /head cleaner, BIGSTON introduces its (D -300 cassette head cleaner, inspection cassette recorder at $69.95 featur- YOU'D BEGETTING Continued from page 32 mirror and maintenance brush. ing sliding volume and tone con- who buy Maxell master tape from Cleans foreign and domestic record- trols, VU meter, 3 digit tape OVER 1800 the company. Privately, the rep ers. counter, automatic shut -off and doesn't feel most discount stores ejection and built -in condensor are willing to give blank tape the mike. SPLICES space and sales attention needed to sell it in volume. FROM A $1.83 In educating retailers on tape - merchandising how -to, Menezes bears down hard on the importance ROLL OF 1/4' FOIL, of demonstrating the difference be- tween high -quality and low -quality. BE RID OF DIES He handles only one line but en- courages retailers to go with a multi - line policy, as many as five or six. THAT GET His point on this is that only by stocking several brands can a re- tailer demonstrate the difference in CLOGGED UP various qualities. He also feels it is important for a dealer to be able to WITH ADHESIVE, satisfy the demand for various quali- ties of tape, low -end as well as high - end. But he is emphatic that the cus- HAVE A SPLICER tomer who has bought a $500 recorder shouldn't be sold a low - BUILT quality tape because it will prevent THAT'S him from capitalizing on the quality of the unit. LIKE TEAC's deluxe auto -reverse play stereo, reel -to -reel tape deck at $649.50. A Show Guts This three motor, four head model, 4300 features 7,inch reels and records in "The most important step in sell- four track two channel stereo. ing good quality tape is simple," the MACK TRUCK, rep said. "It involves salespeople being prepared to break open a cas- AND HAVE PAID sette and show the customer the in- ner working mechanism of the tape. I can't over stress the value of show- JUST $1175. ing the customer the inside secrets - the quality of the stainless steel roller, the precision plastic protru- sions, the way all the parts are engi- neered so there is no rattle. This is METRO SOUND introduces the see - for-yourself selling and it has MS211 Micro Mini FM Auto Radio immense impact. The dealer who Converter. The converter includes LE -BO's tape cases feature walnut follows this routine of breaking open IC circuitry, AFC, AM -FM selector base, dust cover with removable the cassette is on his way to making switch and is small enough to fit in hinge, blue interior. Four color dis- this category big business." an average sized ashtray. play card is also furnishad. Sales meetings which dwell exclu- sively on selling tape are part of the Menezes dealer educational format. ORDER IT NOW. A recent such seminar held at the Are you getting those Higi Profit, Crown Center Hotel, in Kansas City, EontEiehl PLUS Sales available with Fast Movint included the salespersonnel of Audic Cables, Co'nectors, Speake- Wires, Adapters and Plugs' CALL 617-568 -8771. World Radio Corporation, a mul- hole cable, tiple store chain with branches over Nebraska and Iowa. &connector/ KING "I have any number of accounts Now available from the same dependable source that makes SAME DA./ who have taken cognizance of the SHIPMENTS of PFANSTIEHL Needle, Phono Cartridges, Tape and Accessories. Write today on your lette-head for details of Special World leader in tape tailoring systems potential of tape and done wonders Introductory Offer. with this category. For example, we King Instrument Corporation. had an audio specialty store account Kane Drive, Hudson, Mass. 01749. U.S.A. in Lincoln, Nebraska that never sold 330D WASHINGTON ST. / BOX 49E tape before. He might have had a pkundidd WAJKEGAN. ILL. 60085 Telex 94 -8485. few tapes lying around the cash reg- ister but sales were almost zero. (To Be Continued) 34 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com Tape/Audio /Video NEWSMAKER Orrox Buys CMX OPELIKA, Ala. -The Orrox Tape DuplicaEor Ampex Music's Davis Corp. has acquired CMX Systems in By ANNE DUSTRON a move designed to broaden the Or- rox base in the professional video After expanding capacity by 50 Bill E. Smith has joined Audio - Sets New Marketing recording industry, according to percent last year, Troy Machinery, Video Concepts, Inc., Washington, William Orr, executive vice presi- Rockaway, N.J., manufacturers of D.C., as production supervisor of all Continuedfrom page 3 when Ampex took over its own mar- dent of the firm. silicone rubber and plastic pinch phases of studio operations. AVCon good music that can be sold -by that keting of video recorders. Davis set CMX is the Emmy -award win- rolls, has put off long -range plans, produces records, syndicated radio I mean good quality music -and a up the Los Angeles district office, ning, California -based joint- venture including doubling capacity again programs, and single screen and lot of very sophisticated equipment. became national sales manager, left company of CBS and the Memorex this year, because of shortages, pres- multimedia presentations. It's only logical to bring it together briefly to form his own video tape Corp. which developed comput- ident Edward Joyce, reports. "We provided we have the right pack- distributing firm but was lured back erized systems for editing video- are sitting on supplies now, waiting Webtek Distribution aging, the right program." one and a half years later and stead- tapes. The transaction was settled for a pattern to emerge in the next ily worked up the management Adds Midwest, East in electronic for an undisclosed sum of cash. two or three months, to facilitate A UCLA graduate framework: corporate national sales engineering, one- According to Orr, the acquisition planning," Joyce said. LOS ANGELES -Webtek offi- manager, vice president marketing, time ham radio op- of CMX is another step in Orrox's Joyce warned that pyramiding of cially began midwest and eastern vice /general manager erator and trans- president long -range program aimed at broad- orders could create a situation such distribution of pre -cut .magnetic audio /video communications divi- mitter technician for ening the capabilities and applica- as happened in 1967 -8, when sup- tape splices for cassettes and 8 -track sion, group vice president. a Pasadena radio tions of videotape. He added, "CMX plies suddenly became available and cartridges last week (I), with distri- Following the reorganization of station while at col - technology in systems, equipment the tape cartridge industry found it- bution originating from Chicago. Ampex in 1971, Davis was one lege, Davis went of and software meshes well with the self with 12 months' supply on hand. Prior to last week, all magnetic into commercial avi- four men named as vice presidents hardware capabilities of Videomax "It's starting to happen in steel, with marketing (Davis' tape splices and products were avail- ation electronics ini- of divisions: job), and Barger (two Orrox subsidiaries). the move to smaller cars making video products manufacturing, available for users. able only from the firm's main plant tially and spent a "The market served by all three more steel other video products r &d and finance. "A stronger dollar may reverse the in Los Angeles. hitch as a naval radar laboratory companies is the same, thus sales ef- A heavy smoker until IO years ago trend of increased export business, Chicago plans also call for the ad- technician before opening a record- forts can be coordinated to good ad- when he quit cold one morning at which risen 200 in the dition of a complete sales office for ing studio in Los Angeles just prior vantage. We expect the acquisition has percent bedside, Davis relaxes by playing last three years, and is anticipated to all tape related products, including to joining Crosby Enterprises. At to add significantly to our gross sales chess and enjoying hi -fi (he just set 50 if the capac- custom cassette liners. The Chicago the time, Crosby was sole distributor and profits during fiscal 1974," Orr rise another percent, up a full quadrasonic system in his requirements is there," he facility was previously used only for for Ampex recorders. said. ity to meet California home that now has to be added. manufacturing. As varied as is his background, his moved). Orr also said that joint efforts of involvement at Ampex over 20 years Though calm and soft -spoken, all the Orrox companies are ex- is even more complete. Moreover, Davis will answer the phone after pected to go a long way toward mak- the new involvement with audio hours in the suburban Chicago plant ing videotape more economical and dealers will not find Davis unknown with a brisk, "Davis here." He said more practical in application. in that market sector. One of his spe- of taking calls when the staff has cial projects for Ampex president gone home, "If someone goes to the Cassette Services Art Housman was that of closing trouble of dialing for me, the least I audio down Ampex's consumer can do is respond to that effort." Bolster Duplicating hardware division. This was done in He believes his forte is manage- such an orderly, well -planned man- ment, basically motivating large NEW YORK -Cassette Services, The ner that the firm received con- numbers of people and what he has Inc., has expanded its facilities to in- gratulatory letters from dealers, been doing most for 10 years. But he clude cassette duplicating, accord- many of whom were helped in in- said, "Chicago will be no great suc- ing to David Sykes, the firm's na- ventory balancing and more of cess because of any individualized tional sales manager. whom actually were allowed to re- expertise of mine, but because of Sykes said his firm was now spe- In -Line turn merchandise. what all of us will be doing in con- cializing in the duplication of short The warranties of Ampex con- cert." runs of original lectures, instruc- sumer recorders, in fact, are still in While he agrees that Ampex lost tional courses, educational pro- effect for shelf life, and the firm one of its great strengths when it got grams and other original material regularly receives warranty cards out of manufacturing, he believes designed and produced for mass dis- Welder. from consumers. Davis had to un- too that it has gained strength. He tribution. tangle myriads of contracts with pointed to the professional audio, Sykes said, "Our advantage is that Japanese manufacturers during the professional video, blank tape and we can provide small runs of a single period of phase -out and continue to now the music division. He credited piece to 500 pieces, rapidly, econom- keep dealers satisfied, he pointed William Slover, who has left the ically and of excellent quality. out. company, as putting AMD in its Long Experience present profitable position. GRT Tape Mfr. Bid The difficult task came after many Davis' job now is, "To make AMD years with Ampex dating from 1954 fly" Continued from page 32

bution, since all I really do is manu- ITVA Eyes Mu facture," Travis said. sic Copyright "We are strictly custom, which NEW YORK -A special discus- niques," "graphics and set designs," means that we do not market and we sion on music copyright problems, and lighting for color and mono- do not distribute. There are some and a panel discussion on the state chrome production." The work- cases, however, where do a bit more of the art of videocassette and video- shops will run thrice on Tuesday, than simply manufacture. For ex- disk players will highlight the four - April 20, and twice on Wednesday, ample, with Records day annual conference of the Inter- April 24. and Original Sound, we drop ship national Industrial Television Asso- Wally Briscoe, senior vice presi- the product to their distributors as ciation (ITVA) scheduled for April dent of the National Cable TV Asso- well as manufacture." 21 -24 at Chicago's Palmer House ciation which will be meeting in Chi- In the spoken word area, Travis Hotel. cago in conjunction with the ITVA, said that "sales training is one of the There will also be five revolving will be the featured ITVA luncheon most rapidly growing fields. For ex- workshop sessions based on the speaker on April 23. ample, we are currently doing the Another part of our great Automated System. theme, "Back To Basics," and cov- Briscoe is expected to talk about duplication for a large pharmaceti- Our In Line Welder takes cassettes from the ering such subjects as, "evaluation the coming interface between cable cal operation. In this industry, they and improvement of programming," and industrial TV. Thomas Valen- have to send out material every time conveyor belt, automatically advances them to the "management and cost effec- tino will head the discussion on mu- a new drug or medication is devel- welding station where they are welded and ejected tiveness," "videotape editing tech- sic copyright problems. oped, so you can imagine the vol- onto the packing surface. ume. We are also doing a lot with in- ternational communication. We can Our advanced modular electrical and also do in -house production if a electronics components make for less down -time company simply gives us the script and big savings on maintenance costs. TELEDAPTER LISTEN TO and not a master. We will even write If you'd like to know what creative the script if needed, provided they TELEVISION IN engineering can do for you, send for our free 40. come up with a comprehensive out- # .. STEREO WITH line." brochure, or call TELEDAPTER Ampex Tape Promo Connects easily with any television and feeds through any stereo amplifier system producing a LOS ANGELES -Ampex Corp. is simulated stereo sound that greatly enhances all TV programming. Great for watching concerts and movies. Hook -up instructions and service warrantylncluded. For TE -200 send check, money offering retailers a spring promotion Shape Symmetry & Sun, Inc. order or mastercharge number at $16.95 each, postage paid. Available to dealers in caselots- line. write for prices. on its 20/20+ cassette Systems Design Division STUDIO SPEAKER CUBES The offer includes three 90 -min- Used by several major recording companies for studio monitoring LTX -90 speakers are perfect ute cassettes for the price of two. The Biddeford Industrial Park. Biddeford, Maine 04005 207 -282 -6155 cubes measuring 71/2 x 71 x 71/2-Walnut cabinet weighs 8 pounds each -power 35 watts -10 oz. magnets. LTX -90 speakers per pair are $39.95 plus $2.75 shipping -10 day money back guarantee. manufacturer's suggested list price International Respresentanvee: Send check, or money order or Mastercharge number to RHOADES NATIONAL CORP., Dept. B1. Audiomatic Corp., 1290 Ave. of Americas, N.Y., N.Y. 10019 USA for the package is $8.98. The units Phone 212- 582 -4870 Telex: P. O. Box 817, Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075. Cable Audiomatic, 12 -6419 DEALERS WRITE FOR COMPLETE CATALOG. are designed for hanging or coun- tertop display. MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD 35

www.americanradiohistory.com Tope /Audio /Video NO GREEN CHEESE 13 Kenwood Line Additions NEW YORK watts Radio Shack Moon Acres -The Kenwood per channel of RMS power quencies and extended high fre- Corp. has introduced 13 new prod- and a list of $299.95; the KR -3400, quency recording and reproduction. ucts including six stereo receivers, with 22 watts per channel of RMS The units also feature a rede- two Store Manager Incentives Dolbyized cassette decks two power and an introductory price tag signed control panel that shies away automatic turntables and three of $219.95. from conventional piano NEW YORK -Radio Shack au- According to Elfman, the Okla- key styl- speaker systems. All the receivers incorporate an ings, and, instead thorities claim to have acquired homa Science and Arts Foundation takes the eject, The units, all of which will be AM /FM radio, direct coupling be- stop and pause controls and 849,000 acres of lunar property for received the title to the moon after its posi- available by this summer, were un- tween amplifier outputs and speak- tions them above the keys use as sales incentives to its store annexation by the city council of in distinc- veiled at special dealer and dis- ers, a low noise pre -amp section and tive -styled bars. managers. Oklahoma City in 1965. tributor meetings held in New York, a tuner section, which according to The units, Meanwhile Radio Shack opened models KX -910 and Bernie Elfman, Radio Shack's re- Chicago and Los Angeles. Kenwood technicians, was designed KX -710, also incorporate 25 new shops throughout the automatic tail sales promotion manager, nego- U.S. The receiver line, designated to give the units exceptionally high level control, during the first two months automatic tape selec- tiated the purchase of the moon of this "Maxi" because of what Kenwood performance characteristics. tion for optimizing year. The new outlets are equalization for property for an undisclosed sum located in officials call their impressive size, In addition, the models KR -7400 all types New York, of tape, automatic memory, from the Oklahoma Science and California, Oregon, New power and performance, range from and the KR -6400 feature a "tape Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and automatic shutoff. Introductory Arts Foundation, and its wholly the 63 watts per channel KR -7400 through circuit" which permits tape - prices on these units are $299.95 and owned subsidiary, the Kirkpatrick Michigan, Massachusetts, Ohio, . with an introductory list price of to -tape dubbing through the units' North Carolina, Washington, $249.95 respectively. Planetarium. $519.95, to the 16 watts per channel dual tape system, while permitting The KP -5022, with Georgia, Utah, and Oklahoma. direct drive KR -2400, budget -priced at $219.95. simultaneous play of any other pro- lists for $299.95, while KP -3022 with The lunar soil will be divided into The company has also begun ex- In between are the KR -6400, with gram source. dual motor, professional 100 -acre parcels and will be panding into western Europe under belt drive, 45 watts per channel of RMS power The two Dolbyized cassette decks lists for $249.95. awarded as sales incentives to Radio the name of Tandy International with a list price $449.95; the KR- added to the Kenwood line, both Rounding out Shacks' more than 2,500 store man- Electronics which already operates the line were three 5400, with 35 watts per channel of feature ferrite core record /play new speaker systems, the KL -77, agers throughout the U.S., Canada, stores in England, Australia and RMS power with an introductory list heads with precision micro gap that South America and the Caribbean. Belgium. KL -55 and KL -44 with list prices of of $379.95; the KR -4400, with 25 permits optimum control of bias fre- $129.95, $89.95 and $69.95. Car Stereo COMPACTS TO Buick offers it on all models, with working on changes that will allow size cars, and only 20 percent in the Installation by car dealers is pre- the AM /FM /MPX 8 BUOY PLAYERS and -track at 8 -track units to fit all models. smaller cars. Cost is $361. ferred by many under -35 buyers be- $363 most popular in the Riviera Continuedfrom page 32 Three factory installed models are Two car manufacturers who fol- cause of the greater variety of units luxury sports car. About 80 percent offered by Pontiac: an AM with 8- low the under -35 buyer of sports and offered, nation as standard equipment, the of Electra models are sold with tape/ track, $215; AM /PM and 8- track, compacts with tape options are Ford Datsun offers the Hitachi AM/ only car to do so. radio units, while the demand in $267; and AM /FM /MPX and 8- and American Motors. Ford in- FM /MPX plus 8 -track at $183.95, or other models like the Apolla and track, $263. All units are made by cludes the option in the Pinto and the Clarion at $199.95. Fiat has the Century runs about 25 percent. Delco, with the cartridge opening lo- Mustang, with a three -speaker in- option only available in the new Spi- Buick offers a Delco unit, in either cated behind the radio dial. Speak- stallation at $378 for the AM /FM/ der X 1/9 sports coupe, with two or the stereo radio /tape or AM plus ers are on front and rear decks. MPX and 8 -track tape Philco model. four speakers, in either AM /FM tape, at $260. do you Again, the demand is in the luxury While American Motors offers the plus 8- track, or AM /FM /MPX plus Dodge does not offer the model and sports models, and not the econ- option on the compact. Gremlin, the 8- track. A spokesman at Fiat pre- need 8 lubricated tape, on all cars; for example, the Chal- -track omy cars like the Ventura. sporty Javelin, and the 2 -door Mata- dicted that in the next three years, as lenger will cassette tape, C -O's or loaded not accommodate a Mercury- Lincoln is able to sell its dor, sales only amount to 20 percent, the fuel situation stabilizes, the price bulky tape /radio unit. A spokesman four cassettes? speaker tape unit with AM/ with most buyers getting their tape of gas will be 65 to 70 cents per gal - Get in touch with EMPIRE at Dodge said that the company is FM /MPX in 40 percent of its full and radio units in the after -market. Ion. MAGNETIC INDUSTRIES - the one stop for all your duplication or blank loading 50 Schaak Units, No Limit on Expansion requirements at LOWEST PRICES. Continued from page 32 BILLBOARD: Is there an average he can move on to another store. As canee of the "Newfangler" buttons store in the chain size, sales or for personnel but "I totally enjoy business." Or- -in recruitment, we hire a your salesmen wear? H. MANN operation? lot of satisified customers! ganization and motivation are key Each SCHAAK: Newfanglers are EMPIRE MAGNETIC INDUSTRIES SCHAAK: Two shopping center store manager hires his own person- 545 Allen Rd., Woodmere, N.Y. 11598 words with him. To find out how people who have more newfangled stores are doing $700 per square foot, nel. We have been fortunate in Phone (516) 420 -8558 they've unlocked such marked suc- the ways of handling customers. All is number Miami, Florida- Flagler Plaza Bldg. cess, Billboard asked but the average $450 per square of qualified people who Newfanglers work here. some questions The 4100 W. Flager Street and Dick Schaak didn't withhold foot. stores range from 2,500 to seek out Schaak's to work for. We BILLBOARD: Okay, what are Phone (305) 448 -9038 any answers. 3,000 square feet. We feel that the don't run any ads. some newfangled ways? smaller store is right for us. We don't BILLBOARD: You have indi- SCHAAK: They all fall into the want stores so large that, even with cated that sales and motivational category of "professional selling." I 25 people in them, they look empty. programs are a special interest of go around Saturdays visiting the TRACKMASTER There's an excitement about yours. What do you do in the way of stores to be sure that our people are crowded -with -people stores. Since sales training and motivation? selling, not clerking. For example, if puts your tape production IMPORTANT DATES we are a specialty store chain, we a customer asks for a battery, the on a fast track Sales Training Show & Demonstration have only a certain amount of prod- SCHAAK: We have no clerks - salesman should tell him about alka- Full line ucts. When you repeat what's on dis- only sales professionals. There are line batteries. We're not pressuring PARSONS play, you limit your turnover. Saturday morning meetings in each the customer to buy them, but they a TRACKMASTER BILLBOARD: Where are Schaak store. These are taped and the tapes are better and the customer has a Products stores located? are reviewed here at headquarters - right to know about mercury and al- SCHAAK: North Dakota, Min- both for ideas and for any sugges- kaline batteries. People don't under- DISPLAY AT nesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, tions that we might make. There are stand everything about electronics- MIAMI, FLORIDA Missouri, Illinois and Nebraska. monthly factory meetings at a cen- and we shouldn't wait for the ques- BILLBOARD: Will you stop at 50 tions to give them the answers. 3/25 & 26 tral location- usually a restaurant or A cus- stores? WINDER -MODEL PL 501 Quality Inns hotel or , with dinner included. tomer should be told that a record No Limit for 8 -Track Cartridges 7500 Biscayne Blvd. BILLBOARD: How do you find cloth will prolong the life of a Phone: 305 -757 -0616 SCHAAK: We don't see any limit, out whether the sales training is needle. but, with 50 stores at the end of this working? BILLBOARD: Should the sales- year, we'll be resting for two years. SCHAAK: Sales figures are, of man advise about quadrasonic? ATLANTA GEORGIA We're planning everything perfectly course, one indication. The sales- SCHAAK: Three years ago, we & 29 3/28 for this expansion -so we'll spend man has a quota to measure against. held a Sound Odyssey, completely Atlanta Town House two years correcting everything that And managers are not paid to devoted to Quad Sound. We do this Motor Inn just didn't go perfectly! - manage to motivate when something new comes on the 100 -10th Street, N.W. -but and set an market. But, as EXERCISER -MODEL PE 304 Phone: 404-892-6800 BILLBOARD: When did Schaak example. If a manager isn't one of far as advocating one for 8 -Track and Quad Tapes go public? the top two salesmen in the store in system over another, our job is to SCHAAK: In 1971. two out of every three months, he's merchandise; it is the manufac- COLUMBIA BILLBOARD: You have three put on probation. If he continues to turer's job to manufacture the SOUTH CAROLINA franchised stores -do you plan lose out in the sales competition, he equipment. Their engineers are 3/30 & 31 more? may be transferred to another store much better qualified than we are to Carolina Inns SCHAAK: No, that's not the di- or reduced to salesman status. judge what makes a good system. 937 Assembly St. rection we'll ga. These were cases BILLBOARD: If a manager has We have a selection of all three. CD- Phone: 803 -779 -7100 where we had exceptionally good to compete against his salesmen to 4 is selling best. We sell enjoyment, managers -who wanted to be in hold his job, wouldn't he tend to hire entertainment -and you can defi- business for themselves. We didn't less than top- drawer salesmen? nitely sell quadrasonic sound on VERIFIER -MODEL PV 800 want to lose them, so we let them SCHAAK: No. The store has a that basis. The excitement is there. Information on line: have the stores! quota to meet, so if the store person- BILLBOARD: You don't sell rec- complete BILLBOARD: Where do your nel isn't cutting it, there has to be a ords and tapes. Why not? Duplicators PD400 & 401 Blank & Write: Cartridges Supplies - managers come from -how do you change. Also, the store manager gets SCHAAK: We sell blank tape. recruit? a bonus on his salesmen's good pro- That's all. We don't want to confuse PARSONS, INC SCHAAK: Each manager has the duction. the public. We are specialists, not 31 Olney, Cherry Hill, N.J. 08003 responsibility of training the assist- "Newfangler" general line mass merchandisers. Phone: 609 -424 -1078 ant manager to replace him, so that BILLBOARD: What's the signifi- (To Be Continued) 36 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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personified by Jethro Tull, and Procol Harum, 0 %YID Mk MAIM has quietly grown to be one of the few companies in the world r.ww,-.-.Vu..,ad by OM MA»MINS which can boast success in every sphere of the music indus- OlESOOp s "°:.. , try. iirrñ. Chrysalis is involved in the areas of management, agency, PalelM11Ñ91AnO M1Mt MAVixg concert promotion, publishing, tour servicing and, more Alvin Lee 11lM»- recently, as a record company in its own right. Through this %ANOYTkv! MINMO.» 10!'SLM:MR broad spectrum of activities, Chrysalis represents -in one area or another -a wide range of artists from David Bowie to Johnny Cash, from Liza Minnelli to Joe Cocker and from Jack Jones to . The company started five years ago although its roots were formed in 1967 when its founders, Terry Ellis and Chris Wright, formed the Ellis- Wright Agency which initially oper- Chrysalis' "Tommy" ated from a London apartment. Today the Chrysalis group of companies is a multimillion -dollar concern with offices in Lon- don, Los Angeles and New York. From its roots as an agency, primarily booking college en- tertainment, Chrysalis soon entered the management field with Ellis managing Jethro Tull and Wright the group that be- came known as Ten Years After. Through experiencing the frustration of being managers with up and coming acts whose Leo Sayer enthusiasm was falling upon the deaf ears of record and pub- lishing company executives, Ellis and Wright- recognizing the validity of the maxim "do it yourself " -conceived the idea of a group of companies involved in every aspect of music and a Robin Trower group which would give them total control of the artists they managed. Thus Chrysalis came into existence in 1968. "In 1967 the first Ten Years After album was released and

Terry and I ran down to various record shops and found it had sold out," Wright recalled. "The record company had only pressed a few copies -it was the first album by an unknown group as far as they were concerned. "But we knew a market existed because of their live ap-

pearances and I still maintain that record could have gone to number one if the records had been available. The situation was similar in the case of Jethro Tull. They already com- manded a large audience interest in the autumn of 1968, but no one would sign them for recording. So we did it ourselves." As Ellis and Wright became increasingly more involved in management, they brought in Kenny Bell and Richard Cowley to run the agency division, giving Ellis and Wright more time to

concentrate on their management activities, on which the iii::lliH " liiiiiiii reputation of Chrysalis was initially built in America. That early reputation was earned because of the Chrysalis management philosophy which Terry Ellis defines as "not just Rainbow Theatre Procol Harum taking care of the business side of things but being involved as an objective observer in every aspect of the artists work. Above all we only work with artists whose talent we respect and we go out of our way to dispel the myth that rock musi- In England the label has, from its formation, been suc- of a breakthrough with our first major cover of a Leo Sayer cians grow up with, that it is only possible to have a short pe- cessful. Originally known as an album orientated label, it has song -'The Show Must Go On' -by Three Dog Night." riod of success. We have set out to extend our artists careers more recently made a breakthrough as a singles label with a The Chrysalis agency in London represents as broad a through the belief that if they have the talent to entertain at number one hit from Leo Sayer and a Top Twenty hit from spectrum of artists as the publishing company does. Aside 21, then they will still have that ability at 51." . from the Chrysalis Records and Management acts, the agency Wheel, Yes; Emerson, Lake The success of this philosophy is evident with Ten Years The emphasis that Ellis and Wright have put on the record represents Cat Stevens, Stealers King The After and Jethro Tull who both came into existence as groups company of late has meant that Chrysalis has now become and Palmer; Roxy Music, Joe Cocker ard Crimson. also represents American touring artists including under the guidance of Ellis and Wright and who are now each more a cohesive unit based around the record company agency Van the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jo Jo in their seventh year. Further evidence comes with the contin- rather than a management- agency orientated organization as Johnny Cash, Morrison, uing success of Procol Harum who have been managed by it was in its formative years. Gunne and the German act Can. Chrysalis for past years and who have been in exist- Growing up alongside the agency has been Chrysalis Pro- the four "We were basically a management company with fingers ence for eight years. motions, the division of the company responsible for promot- in several other pies. Now we are a really cohesive unit revolv- ing prestige concert appearances throughout the United With the Chrysalis label established throughout Europe, ing around the record company," Wright continued. "We are Ellis and Wright's was to launch the label in Amer- Kingdom. In England Chrysalis also operate the London in a strong position today because we have as our background equivalent of the Fillmore Theatres. The Rainbow Theatre, in ica. This was achieved eighteen months ago through a deal what many other companies are trying to create. A number of with Warner Bros. which meant that Chrysalis had then be- the two years it has been running under the control of Chrys- record companies have started agencies because live expo- has a world -wide record label. alis, has become Europe's premiere rock venue and come sure is the key to selling records." "There is no independent English company with a suc- staged most of the prestigious rock events taking place in Eu- Before launching the label in America, Chrysalis had al- cessful U.S. operation," Ellis remarked. "I see that as a chal- rope. ready established a New York base in order to provide tour lenge of the same level as we faced when we began Chrysalis. Immediately following its reopening with Deep Purple, the management services for their British acts. Chrysalis Artists Eighteen months ago the Chrysalis label appeared in every Rainbow staged two concerts from Joe Cocker, three shows Services Inc. started off by servicing concert tours by Savoy in with country other than America. I never saw it as a possibility to by David Bowie, Procol Harum's only concert England Brown, Jethro Tull and Ten Years After. have just a label in the U.S., it had to be an effective company. a symphony orchestra, and appearances from Stephen Stills, America is the largest market in the world and the most im- The Chrysalis operation in the U.S. expanded in 1972 the Four Tops, the Kinks, Ten Years After, the Osmonds, portant financially to any artist. when the company launched its own publishing operation in Slade and Yes. The Rainbow was also the setting for what America. The British publishing company was formed three all- "In that market I feel you must work hard every day to many people considered to be the rock event of 1972 -the years earlier with the initial purpose of publishing the copy- keep a label with strong identity. I would not ask an artist to be star performance of Lou Reizner's production of "Tommy," rights of Jethro Tull and Ten Years After. It has now grown to Clay- on Chrysalis in the United States unless I could guarantee which featured Peter Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Merry that to him. a full scale publishing setup with approximately 2,000 copy- ton, Richie Havens, Stevie Winwood, Ringo Starr and Rod rights in its catalog. Although reflecting the music of the Chrys- "It was a big step opening up in the U.S. and a major corn - Stewart among its cast. mitment of time, money and energy. However, I'm very glad alis label, the publishing operation -like the whole group of companies -also represents a wide range of artists, both that we made the move and I feel very strongly that we have already made a considerable impact." American and English, varying from David Bowie to Steeleye CONTENTS Span to Shel Talmy's Hush Music. As supporting evidence, Ellis cited a No. 1 and a No. 3 al- How Chrysalis Has Grown C -2 bum in the States by Jethro Tull, and a Top Twenty album by Ellis explained the reason for opening the New York pub- Chrysalis' Operation in America C -4 Procol Harum. lishing office. "I feel it is a publishing company's responsi- U.K. Label in Singles Market C -6 "1974 will definitely be the year when Robin Trower bility to get recordings of its catalog and I simply did not be- Publishing Exploiting Potential C -8 emerges as a major artist in the United States and Steeleye lieve that the publishing houses would be effective for us London's Rainbow, Europe's Showcase C -10 Span are on the verge of making their breakthrough. We've through an administration deal. It has been a long hard Concerts With Artists in Mind C -11 just signed our first American act, Black Sheep, about whom struggle but producers are finally beginning to realize that we Agency: Important Cog in Wheel C -22 The Management C we are very excited." have writers with hit songs. We have recently made something Philosophy of -24 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD C-1 www.americanradiohistory.com Chrysalis: From Its Birth to Its World Involvement today TERRY ELLIS and CHRIS WRIGHT met whilst in competi- tion with each other as agents booking college entertainment. They had each been introduced to music as a potential career whilst at university and this common background led them to join forces in 1967. They started business in the bedroom of Ellis' apartment in Shepherds Bush, London, and after a year operating as the Ellis- Wright agency, founded the Chrysalis group of com- panies which now, five years later, is a multimillion -dollar concern with offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. Chrysalis can already claim to be one of the most successful independent companies in the world with probably the most meteoric rise. It is also one of the few who can boast a suc- cessful involvement with every area of music. Ellis' interest in music took positive shape during his time as a student at Newcastle University, where he studied math- ematics and metallurgy, and also acted as social secretary, booking campus entertainment. He gained his Bachelor of Science degree, but was already partially convinced that he wanted to get into music as a career. "I spent six months working with a London agent, much to the dismay of my family," Ellis recalled. They couldn't un- derstand why I was wasting my degree in that way, and as the six months weren't all that successful, I began to wonder whether they might not be right. Terry Ellis and Chris Wright "So I took an organization and methods job in industry for a year, and ran an agency on a part time basis, dealing with agement organization and then the Chrysalis label in 1969, - are concerned, the Chrysalis philosophy is clear and une- plus the concert the colleges. After that year, I decided I definitely wanted to go promotion and publishing divisions. A further quivocal. frustration, the difficulty of finding a suitable into music. That was in 1966, and three months later I met London venue, "We aim for a nucleus of superstars, but we never want to Chris. We were in competition in our college booking busi- encouraged Ellis and Wright to acquire the lease of the Rain- have more than we can comfortably and efficiently handle. bow Theatre which they have kept alive ever since. The nesses but he wanted a London base, and I was feeling that only thing that counts in the music business is success, handling just the college circuits was limiting. Consequently in The Chrysalis organization today revolves around the and you're only as big as your biggest artist at any one point in the summer of 1967 we formed the Ellis- Wright agency." record company. Each of the other divisions of the group is time." After gaining his Bachelor of Arts degree from Manchester strongly established as one of the leaders in its field thus pro- Wright is pleased with the progress and development of University, Wright continued running the blues club he had viding top flight back up for the record company. the Chrysalis organization and all its ramifications. started whilst university social secretary. He worked out of a "We are in a strong position today because we have as our We are basically a management company with fingers in local agents office and started booking acts for college and background what many other companies are trying to several other pies. Now we are a really cohesive unit revolving university entertainment generally in the northwestern area create," continued Wright. "A number of record companies around the record company." of England. have started agencies because live exposure is the key to sell- An important regular date in the Chrysalis calendar is the Consequently he met and booked the group which was ing records." Monday morning meeting. All the civisions and interests of later to become known as Ten Years After and one of the cor- After many years of continually swapping roles, Ellis and the organization are represented at the meeting, which for- nerstones of the Chrysalis success story. A year later Ellis and Wright have recently defined separate positions for them- mulates policy, reaches decisions and sorts out problems and Wright had become very involved with management. Ellis with selves. Wright becoming managing director and responsible difficulties. Jethro Tull and Wright with Ten Years After. They had begun for the English group of companies and Ellis president and re- "Everybody who works at Chrysalis is given scope and can to experience the frustration of managers with up and coming sponsible for the American companies in the group. communicate freely with everybody else. We have no rigid de- acts whose enthusiasm often falls on the deaf ears of record "We are most fortunate," Wright explained, to have an marcation lines, and no one gets reprimanded for doing

Alvin Lee Ian Anderson Gary Brooker and publishing company executives who hear the same story extraordinarily strong team of executives. Being a young com- something because it isn't his job," Wright continued. "If all too often. pany we have attracted the most talented and ambitious someone is doing something which we think isn't a good idea In 1967 the first Ten Years After album was released, young men in the industry and it is these people who we see to we can stop them. On the other hand, if we do think it's a good and Terry and I ran down to various record shops and found it be the springboard for our future development. The key men idea, we encourage them." had sold out," Wright recalled. The record company had only are our other directors: Doug D'Arcy, who is responsible for Wright foresees change as inevitable as time passes. The pressed a few copies -it was the first album by an unknown our sales and creative areas; and Terry Connolly, our financial organization's ambition though remains constant: "to be a group as far as they were concerned. But we knew a market director; in America we have our vice president Derek Sut- better record company, a better agency and a better promo- existed because of their live appearances, and I still maintain ton." tion company, and to be able to break new groups. that record could have gone to number one if the records had Wright cites the signing of Steeleye Span to the Chrysalis "There will be an eventual change of image," Wright been available. The situation was similar in the case of Jethro label two years ago as an important step in the growth of added, "and I can envisage us having a m -o -r act -but not a Tull. They already commanded a large audience interest in Chrysalis. It was the first time, he said, that Chrysalis had manufactured one. Some of our present acts will probably the autumn of 1968, but no one would sign them for record- signed a band to the label which wasn't also managed by move into the m -o -r category in time, although the thought ing. So we did it ourselves." Chrysalis. won't have crossed their minds yet. Ellis and Wright conceived the idea of a group of com- "We needed to prove that what we can do for our own acts, "I don't care what Chrysalis is known as providing we're panies involved in every aspect of music, giving them total we can also do for others. We couldn't hope to have a strong always known and recognized as a quality company." control of the careers of the artists they managed. Thus agency, for instance, if we didn't give the same attention to Ellis is also emphatic about the quality image. "We were Chrysalis was born in 1968. both outside acts and our own. -No one who works in the only ever interested in artists with talent. It simply happened The organization took shape through Ellis and Wright rec- agency is involved in management, and the agency operates that when we became involved with music, the talented artists ognizing the validity of the maxim "do -it- yourself." Kenny Bell to the advantage of independent managers. It's just as impor- were playing blues and founding the progressive era. We and Richard Cowley joined Chrysalis to run the agency division tant to the people in the agency to work for an outside band therefore became tagged with an 'underground' reputation which gave Ellis and Wright more time to concentrate on their like Yes as it is for one of our own." which we've never really felt ourselves. There has been a tend- management activities. Wright maintains that shrewd, judicious management is ency to categorize us with particularly heavy music, drugs, Perception of the emerging rock market and confidence in the key to artists' success, and that there are far more good long hair and albums but I'm sure that this ended with Leo their own judgment led logically to the formation of a man- artists than good managers around at present. Where acts (Continued on page C -10) C-2 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com THE PLEASURE HAS BEEN OURS

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CHRYSALIS, an established music complex in England, company to go out on his own. Sutton confessed that "Ron's made its initial plunge into the American market in February, departure is a personal loss to me. The first year would have 1970, opening an office in New York. Derek Sutton, because been terribly difficult without a man of his capabilities. And I of a past association with Terry Ellis, was asked to set up the learned a great deal from him. We are now changing our direc- operation. tion with the departure of Ron and increased presence of The initial reason for Chrysalis having an American out- Terry. We will intensify our search for American artists -both post was to provide tour management services for their Brit- established and new. ish acts. "Few English managers," pointed out Sutton, "knew "We are aggressively exploring the singles market this where to play in the U.S. at that time. And even after a few year. Michael Papale, our National Promotion Director, was al- visits, they still needed a home base in this country through most single -handedly responsible for Robin Trower's album which to carry out the daily liaison with record companies, success. If we had had more staff, I'm sure that the single, press, agencies, etc., and maintain credit and billing serv- "Man of the World," would have taken off. In our direction ices." changes the first thing we did was to triple our promotion Chrysalis Artist Services, Inc., located at 360 E. 65th strength. We have hired Greg Kimmelman and Fred Mancuso, Street, started off by servicing concert tours by Savoy Brown, and now we've got a great team!" Jethro Tull, and Ten Years After. "Later, we did tours for Fam- In the U.S. singles market, Chrysalis started 1974 off with ily, and Chicken Shack. They were not successful," admitted the Cozy Powell smash hit, "Dance with the Devil," which be- Sutton. came an American favorite, and had good chart action. The The New York office handled two tours for , record was released earlier in England, and was on top of the and then imported Yes, a group in its second year of exist- charts for several weeks. ence. The tour management service was beginning to flourish "The Company," Sutton said, "is now trying to build an in the States. association with Mickey Most, starting with 'Dance with the After seven secretaries had "found the pace too exacting Devil,' which he produced." Most has artists on the Rak label or my mode of working unacceptable," Linda Steiner (then in England, and has had numerous top chart hits there. Dignam) became Sutton's assistant in the office, In his official capacity as head of Chrysalis in the States, "and now is my second right arm." In July, 1973, she was Sutton signed his first American act this year, a group called named Office Manager for the Chrysalis New York Companies Black Sheep, out of Rochester, New York, for whom he has while Sutton became Vice -President of Chrysalis Records. Derek Sutton high hopes. The first single from the five -man "Ms. Steiner," he explained, "handles the day-to-day run- band is "Stick Around," which will be released shortly. more and more responsibility. I run the companies here with ning of our New York office. Although, I can't think of a suit- "The Company," Sutton admitted, "has always been direction from them." able title, I'd be lost without her." known as an album company. Cozy's single is the first Ellis, however, will be spending more time in the States, "In 1972," Sutton continued, "our publishing became Chrysalis single not culled from an ablum. The second will be "as much time as his management activities with Jethro Tull available. The Almo deal ended, so we decided to start our Black Sheep's single. (But we will release a Black Sheep album will allow." Sutton noted it has been difficult generating ac- publishing operation and began learning the ropes." if the single takes off)" tion without the physical presence of either of the principals, In its ever -increasing expansion, Chrysalis hired Mary In his move to continually keep Chrysalis growing on the especially Ellis. "We have to draw on his (Ellis') drive and Goodman last May, as Professional Manager for the Chrysalis West Coast, Sutton' has named Donna Siani as Sales and Pro- imagination and his personality and his ear. No one else can Music Publishing Companies in the U.S., weaning him away motion Coordinator, a promotion from her secretarial post. really make the decision as to what is, or is not a from Wes Farrel. record for The new junior executive "has drive, initiative, experience and Chrysalis. "He's dynamic, personable, likable, and knows the pub- intelligence. We'll make good use of those qualities this year, It's impossible for him to do an effective job from England, to help make this a major record company." due to the communication difficulties." Sutton is actively seeking a premise for new offices. The One of the few executives who spends time on the road Chrysalis office is presently located on the seventh floor of the with a group, Sutton admitted, "I've toured a lot with Procol 6922 Hollywood Boulevard building. It commands an expen- Harum and Ten Years After, learning what this country (U.S.) sive view of Los Angeles, but now it is time for the Company to is all about. I've been in every performance hall, and met ev- seek new quarters. ery concert promoter, major and minor. Now, I'm meeting ra- The hectic Sutton schedule finds him in the Hollywood of- dio station people to see what they need, to help make their fice three weeks of every month, one week in New York and lives easier in terms of programming, information and special accompanying Procol Harum on their U.S. tours. During those products." cross -country trips, he attempts to visit both radio stations Procol was one of the first groups to play "live" for WPLJ- and concert locations. It's a must," explained Sutton. "We've FM in New York, and their 1973 "taped live" from the Holly- got to get down to street level -find what changes we must wood Bowl was a resounding success on the King Biscuit make to compete in this market place." Flower Hour. The schedule is a grueling one which sees him putting in "Now," said Sutton, "we are seeking other methods of ex- many hours a day, far more than most employees or execu- posing our acts, including television, which has become a ma- tives. jor force in rock music." Donna Siani In his capacity as Vice President of the record company, Publishing Wing and Tour Service Division, Sutton is "the lishing business. Mary has a good ear and has placed several buck stopper." "I take full responsibility for these companies.

of our songs." I know where the principals are trying to take them." Sutton noted that 1974 started by having "The Show Must The amiable, knowlegeable Sutton, confessed to no presi- Go On" covered. "The song is a smash single in Great Britain, dential aspirations with any company. "My job is the safest as performed by the writer, Leo Sayer. Three Dog Night has and most rewarding position to hold. The duties are similar to recorded it here. It's our first major Chrysalis cover," Sutton Secretary of State. I don't seek the limelight, but I don't deal

proudly stated. in anonymity. I don't want to be on stage. After all," he The Sutton -Chrysalis -Hollywood story goes back to August laughed, "you never hear of an assassinated Secretary of 1972, when Wright and Ellis asked Sutton to fly to Los Angeles State!"

with them. "On the way there, I found they were to negotiate a

record deal. I learned a great deal from watching lawyers thrashing out all the angles between Warner Brothers and Chrysalis." Shortly after, a major announcement was made that Warners would distribute Chrysalis product in the United States. The first release was a No. 1 album for Jethro Tull group, and a Top 10 single, "Living in the Past." These were followed by albums by Steeleye Span, Wild Turkey, Tir Na Mike Papale Nog, Procol Harum, Robin Trower and Bedlam. "That first year of operation," Sutton said, "established a firm base for Steeleye Span, a traditionally English group." The electric folk group toured America several times, each tour showing them off in a stronger light. Chrysalis was rewarded last year with the Stereo Review Al- bum Award for Steeleye Span's "Parcel of Rogues." "The major achievement of 1973 was Robin Trower, as far Linda Steiner as initial record success." Trower and his group played con- certs and night clubs cross -country, to outstanding reviews This man behind -the- scenes started his music concert ca- and public acclaim. reer in England, where he and Ellis "ran all the dances at the Sutton spends much of his time with Procol Harum when University for three years." From there, Ellis went to London they are touring. "We have found that it is essential to have to put together an agency. Sutton got his Master's Degree in one responsible manager for each of our groups -I'm it for geophysics, and went to Canada to work in the oil industry. "I Procol!" It was Sutton who was the man behind the group's spent three years in the geophysical exploration industries extremely successful 1973 promotional campaign for the seeking oil and uranium." While in Calgary and Vancouver, "Grand Hotel" album, a promotional concept and execution however, he kept his hand in the music field by working with which won the Philadelphia Art Directors Association's Gold local concert promoters. Medal. In November, 1969, Sutton received a call from Ellis who For Sutton, it is a personal satisfaction, seeing the com- said he was thinking of opening a New York office. Sutton, pany grow and prosper. In the States, he is the dominant "turned down the invitation, flat." Following a Christmas holi- Chrysalis figure. An imposing, impressive 6'4 ", 200 -pounder, day trip to England, however, Sutton was prevailed upon once Sutton admitted, "I take the responsibility for getting every- more by Ellis, and this time changed his mind. thing done in America. This involves always being the "man in The year 1974 started off with a major personnel change f the middle," making decisions with other people. I work at the Chrysalis Records office. Ron Goldstein, General Man- closely with Terry and Chris, and over the years have assumed ager, since late 1972, announced his decision to leave the Mary Goodman C-4 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com kl) CONGRATULATIONS CHRYSALIS.

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DOUG D'ARCY began working for Ellis and Wright in 1968; On" and Steeleye Span's "Guadete" both in the Top Ten si- subsequently he became a director of the group and is now multaneously. responsible for the administration and direction of Chrysalis D'Arcy feels the single now is as important to the music in- Records in the United Kingdom. dustry as it was ten years ago, "It can't be ignored any more, D'Arcy, like Wright, studied at Manchester University, and it is unfortunate that it was largely ignored for a while. It graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. In fact, seems to me to part on two levels. As the strongest promo- he succeeded Wright, as social secretary of the university, tional device for an album and as an entity in itself. We have booking acts for the Campus entertainment. begun a major breakthrough as a singles company. We are "I'd always been interested in rock music, it's a way of life confident of a consistent hit singles pattern over the forth- and I'm happy that it should be so. First I was a fan, I'm still a coming year. Part of our emphasis on singles led us to an fan. I think it is very important in maintaining freshness and agreement with Scratchy Records, run by Alan Seiffert and vitality in my approach to the industry." He continues, "I met John Gayden. This is purely a singles company, that has their Chris again when I came down to London and he offered me a job with what was then the Ellis /Wright agency, booking acts for colleges and universities. I spent a year doing this, before I decided I wanted to get involved in other areas. Now, I am ex- clusively concerned with the Chrysalis label." Doug D'Arcy In his administrative role, D'Arcy supervises the co- ordina- tion of the Chrysalis label's We activities. are constantly de- Records will be recorded as something more than a formula veloping our organization to cope with more complex de- company. "I'd like to think that we have got something new to mands, both in the domestic market and internationally." He offer the record industry. Maybe it's a question of attitudes. If analyzed the activities of the company in three basic areas, we can be judged over a ten year period, I hope we will be creative services, sales and manufacturing; finance adminis- found to have our own corporate identity. I am a great admirer tration. of -both Atlantic and Tamla Motown Records. Atlantic, be- The focal point for the Chrysalis personnel involved in cause of the way in which they have, over a period of time, these three areas is the product meeting held every Monday brought black music into the white market, and in doing so, morning and attended by the senior executives. From this have influenced other companies' a &r approach and brought meeting the release schedule is decided and issued. in new styles into record production, and Tamla Motown for The finance and administration is the responsibility of their sense of identity. Whenever I pick up a Tamla Motown Terry Connolly, our Financial Director, and to whom our Prod- record and play it, I have the feeling that it could be on the uct Co- ordinator reports. The Product Co- ordinator's function Tamla Motown label. is simply to co- ordinate all releases via the release schedule "In terms of our company, the stable of artists that we and inform all parties of the production of deadlines. Leo Sayer have is broad based, and represents in my opinion, a unique "In the creative area," D'Arcy continued, "Royston blend of talent. This is the context in which the company oper- Eldridge is responsible for the initiation and supervision of ates, and the interaction between various artists is a creative sleeve designs, advertising campaigns and press activities. one. For example, in terms of production, Ian Anderson has We consider careful planning to be a major factor in this area. been recently working with Steeleye Span, Matthew Fisher, ex-

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An integrated, visual campaign, with all the components Procol Harum organist, has just completed the second album properly co-ordinated, is essential to creating the maximum from ex- Procol Harum guitarist Robin Trower, entitled amount of attention on a release. In fact a third of our re- 'Bridge of Sighs,' and that combination has been an ex- leases in 1973 were charted here in the U.K. tremely fruitful one. It is not merely a question of being a com- "We take very great care to ensure that our sleeves reflect own label in the U.K., with their product released on the Chry- pany in which artists are allowed to develop their music and the personality of the artist and their record in a graphic man- salis label in the rest of the world. personality, but also a question of intuitive response to situ- ner. It is obviously the starting point for any merchandising "Radio promotion in Britain is limited, despite the advent ation. campaign, and it is therefore essential that the highest stand- of commercial radio on a local basis. It will be a year or so be- "We felt some time ago that the role of the producer was invention ards of and professional techniques should be ap- fore this becomes highly effective. It is to the credit, therefore, being neglected, and have searched rigorously outside the plied. In terms of the press office, the recent appointment of of Chris Stone, who is responsible for Radio Promotion, that company as well as within for the kind of producers that would Chris Briggs will enable us to extend our communications we have the new Steeleye Span single 'Thomas The Rhymer' complement and encourage the artists. Felix Pappalardi, flow." breaking at the moment. Chris Thomas and Ken Scott are just a few of the notable pro- D'Arcy explained that on sales the and manufacturing "It is, in fact, becoming common to regard Europe as a ducers with whom we have been involved. A recent situation area, one of the demanding issues of the last few months had whole in terms of radio promotion, using Holland for example, arose in which we had a young Scottish singer called Frankie been the problemscreated by the shortage of pressing capac- as a breakout market for the rest of Europe, including the Miller, who we felt would feel more at home recording in Amer- ity and the limitations of the three -day week. He explained, U.K. Radio Luxembourg is an important medium in this ica. We contacted Alan Toussaint and arranged for Frankie "We have a Production Manager who is responsible for sense, since it covers most of Europe. Miller to go over to New Orleans, where they rehearsed and liaising with our suppliers for sleeves, pressings, etc. It is es- "International sales are obviously of great importance to recorded an album which we will be releasing shortly. The re- to remember an sential album is something that people keep us and we have a full time international liaison department sults speak for themselves." in their collection over a period of time and that wherever pos- headed by Rod Duncombe. We have plans in the future to Asked about future plans, D'Arcy says, "We are ambitious, sible, manufacturing standards should be rigidly adhered to. have a European office, based in Europe, which will help us we always have been and still are. This obviously takes more time, but our deadlines are de- further to co-ordinate releases and promotional activities. "There is nothing so satisfying as signing an artist or signed to allow for this. We were able, despite the crises, to "We do, in the meantime, make major efforts on a re- group and sticking with them for two or three albums over two supply close to a million singles, prior to and over the Christ- gional level to compensate for the limited amount of broad- years or longer, seeing them develop and succeed as you mas period, when we had Leo Sayer's "The Show Must Go casting available, by supporting the appearances of our art- thought they would and could." ists in concert or in clubs. On this level, liaison with promoters and managers is very important. Chrysalis is a company with management experience, and we are therefore able to offer the right kind of support and co- operation to the managers, since we understand their point of view and their needs. This experience has enabled us to achieve the most effective use of promotional budgets and marketing strategy. "A &r is the heartbeat of any record company. It is the re- sponsibility of Chris Wright, assisted by our a &r Co- ordinator, Roger Watson, and our policy is, I think, a simple one. We look to sign good music, whether it is in single or album form, solo artists or groups, it can be five, fifteen or fifty years old. We are quick in spotting talent, and we are justly proud of that. Our product has mostly been in a specific contemporary area, so far, but we are not restrictive in our outlook, and indeed, we have been discussing a classical project." Developing the same theme, D'Arcy hopes that Chrysalis Wild Turkey MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com Doesn't time fly!

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THE PUBLISHING arm of the Chrysalis organization is good collection of their money and good accounting as well as Chrysalis Music, formed in 1969 with the initial purpose of good promotion and exploitation of their output. We're regu- publishing the copyrights of Jethro Tull and Ten Years After larly adjusting our overseas deals to obtain the best percent- and a logical extension of the growing success achieved at ages for them." that stage by the record label and management company. He believes that music publishers have been considered to Its general manager is Nigel Haines, who operates this di- be rather second -class citizens until recently, with the record vision of the Chrysalis combine with a staff of three, including companies claiming most of the glory for successes often ini- newly- appointed professional manager Bruce Maclean. tiated by a publisher's perception and persistence. Talent Haines has a legal background, having trained as an attorney hunting is a major part of his activities. originally but finding the of contemporary music and the "The principal method of finding and signing new acts is entertainment industry too strong to resist. He spent two listening to tapes submitted for our consideration," he dis- years at Essex Music, working in the copyright department closed. "We all listen -not just the publishing division -and there and then specializing in contracts and other legal de- we all express our opinicns. I also rely on personal contacts tails, and joined the Chrysalis organization in his present ca- with groups and managers, and much of my time is taken up pacity just over a year ago. by seeing bands perform. You can also find new talent We have about 2,000 copyrights in our catalogs now, 90 through word of mouth, and there are many bands which percent of them recorded, and earning income," said Haines. start building a good name and reputation before anybody "Obviously the publishing operation reflects the Chrysalis la- signs them up." bel's music, and we're constantly looking for new writers, and Haines and his colleagues regard each writer -performer as encouraging and nurturing them when found to the point of an individual investment for Chrysalis Music, without indulg- recording. All our writers at present are also performers or po- ing in the practice of paying out inflated advances. tential performers." "We believe in giving the right kind of money to the right This fact, coupled with the highly individual and person- kind of writer," he declared. "One of the most rewarding alized nature of their compositions, presents some problems things of all in this business is to find a young writer, put him in broad publishing terms. In recent years the progressive on the staff payroll, and help him to develop his full poten-

music vogue has been almost exclusively centered on writer - tial." performers, and only rarely are other artists sufficiently inter- The nature of the Chrysalis copyrights means that their ested and impressed to record material specifically identified performance earnings are not high at the moment. Haines David Bowe already with the act who wrote it in preference to concentrat- would like to see more avenues of exposure available in radio ing on their own copyrights. Haines recognizes this difficulty, and television, but added that the advent of Capital Radio last work the catalog and get covers. We spend a good deal of time and is endeavoring to rectify it. year in the commercial field is helping. servicing our sub -publishers with material and details of the "I've been trying to introduce more middle -of -the -road Overseas markets are proving lucrative for Chrysalis Mu- artists concerned, and we meet them here in London in con- ference every material, and by that I mean m -o -r in its most modern sense. sic, notably the United States and Germany, but Haines said year." We have to prove ourselves as publishers by obtaining cover that so far Australia and Japan were virtually untapped in Since joining Chrysalis Music, Haines has acquired repre- versions, and this seems to be the sensible way of doing it." publishing terms. He pays close attention to the foreign as- sentation of the American Castle Hill Music catalog and Shel Haines is acutely conscious of the role Chrysalis Music pect of the publishing operation. Talmy's Hush Music, and was involved in the negotiations al- should play in behalf of all its writers. "We like working with overseas affiliates who understand, lotting sub publishing rights for the world outside the U.K. We try to do a publishing job rather than merely a bank- like and appreciate the catalog. We don't want publishers who and Eire for Blanedell Music, the company which handles ma- ing one. We try to give the best service possible to our writers, act as collecting houses for royalties, but people who will really terial by Leo Sayer, Adam Faith and Dave Courtney. Among his recent signings are Bob Sergeant, who is recording for RCA produced by Mick Ronson, Brian Protheroe, No Man's Land, Karass, and ex- Nirvana member Patrick Campbell Lyons, who has releases on Bell and Worldwide. As well as publishing top moneyspinners such as Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Procol Harum, Robin Trower, Steeleye Span, and Leo Sayer, Chrysalis still has publishing rights to David Bowie's material, and Haines is looking forward to increasing U.K. representation rights for American material. "We will be setting up a separate department specifically to handle the American catalogs," Haines disclosed. "It will be a unique service." He emphasized that Chrysalis Music is not solely depend- ent on its sister Chrysalis Records for obtaining copyrights, and the publishing operation has its own record production unit called Moth. Chrysalis Records gets first refusal on Moth output, but he stressed that Moth is not merely a clearing house for unwanted product. "Some of the product we may produce and acquire might be unsuitable for the Chrysalis label, so it is a natural thing for us to have our own production company to enable us to place material with other record labels. "We're always looking for new ways to exploit our material, and we're working on a novel idea in this direction right now. The business is Shel Talmy, Jon Rowlands, Hugh Murphy, Nigel Haines and Roger Watson changing frequently, and coming back is the singer who is looking for songs to record rather than writing his own." Chrysalis Aids Hush and New Acme

THE CHRYSALIS publishing division is administering the handles all our publishing affairs, removing that worry from music publishing interest of the Hush and New Acme publish- my shoulders." ing and production enterprises. The principals of Hush are Rowlands added that this co-ordination has already paid noted record producers Shel Talmy and Hugh Murphy and off this year, particularly in the case of Shepstone & Dibbens Jonathan Rowlands, associated in the past with stars such as who have won placings in the American, Belgian, French and Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Rod Stewart and Tim German charts. Other promising writing and artistic talents Rose, who runs the business side. on the Hush and New Acme rosters include Laurie Styvers, John McBurnie The Hush group is two years old, and was founded by and Mandi Wilson. Associated with Talmy and Murphy. Its link with the Chrysalis organization is Murphy and Rowlands in the New Acme operation is Tom the result of a determination to concentrate and streamline Parker, who is also a director. Current Acme projects its efforts in the music field. are two Charisma LPs, one featuring the Doggerel Bank group and the other Sir John Betjeman, the British Poet "We're proud to be with Chrysalis for two reasons," ex- Laureate. Sir John has recorded an LP of his own poetry set to plained Rowlands. "One is that we've got a decent publishing music by Jim Parker, brother of Tom entitled "Betjeman's deal at last. The second reason is that in the Banana Blush " -released March 8th. world, Chrysalis and its affiliates have such a good name and Tom Parker reputation. is co- producing an album by a group called Ferret with Hugh Murphy under the title of "Taking It For a "We reappraised our last two years, and decided to get Trot," and Murphy has just produced a new single by String really into the music business by recording only artists who Driven Thing entitled "This One's For You" and an LP by Jack are already working, and who have managers, agents and The Lad, both for Charisma. Other Murphy recording activities equipment. Part of this entailed getting a direction in our pub- are "Can I Have My Money Back ?" by Gerry Rafferty and the lishing activities, and bringing together under one representa- "Shady Lady" single by Shepstone & Dibbens. tive all the hundreds of copyrights which Shel, Hugh and I Shel Talmy's current and forthcoming recording produc- have acquired or been associated with over the years. tion schedule centers on Foresight (for Warner Bros.), South "After the 'deal' is made most production companies fall Africa's John Weddepohl, Coven from the States, and the Alex down on follow- through with record companies and artist Harvey Band. Which all means that there is plenty for Row- managers. My function is to co- ordinate our continuing re- lands to co- ordinate, plenty for Chrysalis to look after in pub- sponsibilities and interest in the artist and product with the lishing terms, and still plenty of scope for new material from various labels and managers whilst Nigel Haines of Chrysalis writers with the right talent. Ian Anderson C-8 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com The crowds and the Krauts love Chrysalis To all at Chrysalis congratulations to your 5th anniversary handshakes and kisses

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www.americanradiohistory.com London's Rainbow... Europe's Showcase LONDON'S RAINBOW THEATRE was re- opened by Chry- salis in the summer of 1972. The re- opening itself was head- line news in Britain's music press at the time for it was wel- come news for the rock business which had suffered two major blows almost simultaneously when the Rainbow, under its original management, had dosed and the Royal Albert Hall banned rock groups, leaving London without a major venue possessing the facilities to present rock properly. During its short existence under previous management, the Rainbow had established a reputation as the rock venue in London. After it closed, Chrysalis acquired the lease and the Rainbow was opened to the public again on June 30th 1972 when it presented two shows from Deep Purple. Since the Rainbow has been running under the control of Chrysalis, its reputation has grown from strength to strength. It is now, as the British newspaper Melody Maker recently de- scribed it, "Europe's premier rock theater," and has been the venue for most of the prestigious rock music events in Eu- rope. The theater itself has long been a part of the London mu- sic scene. In 1965 staged their Christmas show there when the theater was known as the Astoria and, under that name, the theater was also a regular London venue for visiting American jazz bands. The theater opened as the Rain- bow in November 1971 with three days featuring the Who and also presented major American attractions like , , Melanie, Mountain, Poco and Alice Cooper. Among the big name British groups to appear at the Rainbow during that time were the Faces, Yes, Pink Floyd and Humble Rainbow Theatre Pie. "The original company who ran the theater operated as Rainbow staged two concerts from Joe Cocker, three shows July, Van Morrison returned to Britain for the first time in sev-

the sole promoters, presenting all the shows themselves. Un- by David Bowie, Procol Harum's only concert in England with eral years, to make his return at the Rainbow. A further high - fortunately, this proved to be disastrous financially," ex- a symphony orchestra, and appearances from Stephen Stills, spot was one of three London appearances by Liza Minnelli. plained Kenny Bell of the Chrysalis agency division and the The Four Tops, The Kinks, Ten Years After, the Osmonds, The prime consideration that Chrysalis had in mind when company executive mainly concerned with the running of the Slade and Yes. The Rainbow was also the setting for what they re- opened the Rainbow was that there would be a good Rainbow. We feel the Rainbow is the only venue of its kind many people considered to be the rock event of 1972 -the all - venue in London to present rock music and the company have this side of the Atlantic where not only are rock artists wel- star performance of Lou Reizner's production of "Tommy," made a sizable capital investment in the theater. The original come but every member of staff is specifically hired with a which featured Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Merry Clay- Granada setting of the Rainbow (a classic theater design in view to providing every requirement an artist could want. Art- ton, Ritchie Havens, Stevie Winwood, Ringo Starr and Rod Britain) has been renovated and added to. The Granada set- ists enjoy playing the Rainbow and it's become known in the Stewart among its cast. ting continues throughout the theater to the stage surround rock music field as Europe's showcase." Last year the Rainbow continued to present the cream of itself with its turreted castles and intricate pillar and fascia The Rainbow's reputation can be quickly judged by a the rock acts from England and the United States. Among the work. glance at the list of acts who have appeared there in the two 1973 highlights were concerts by two of rock's recluses. On With a capacity of 3,000, it was also essential year spell that Chrysalis have operated the lease. The list January 13 was persuaded by Pete Townshend that the stage lighting and sound systems were of the highest reads like a Who's Who of the entertainment business. to make a rare appearance which the press dubbed "Clap - quality and to that end some of the most complex and pow- Immediately following its reopening with Deep Purple, the ton's Comeback," again featuring an all star cast, and then in erful equipment available has been installed at the Rainbow, making it a historic looking but technically advanced theater. World Involvement Continued from page C -2 Sayer with whom we have unquestionably the most exciting artist of 1974 and a number one single." Ellis is one of that Seventies breed, the transatlantic com- muter. Since the inception of Chrysalis, he has spent six Chrysalis months of each year in the U.S.A. He has become one of the better known figures in the American rock scene due to his management of Jethro Tull. "There is no independent English company with a suc- cessful U.S. operation," Ellis remarked. "I see that as a chal- lenge of the same level as we faced when we began Chrysalis. you're Eighteen months agò, the Chrysalis looking label appeared in every country other than America. I never saw it as a possibility to have just a label in the U.S., it had to be an effective company. America is the largest market in the world and the most im- f'iF" portant financially to any artist. ,t,, "In that market I feel you must work hard every day to keep a label with strong identity. I would not ask an artist to be on in I/1 Chrysalis the United States unless I could guarantee Po' that to him. "It was a big step opening up in the U.S. and a major com- \1\ mitment of time, money and energy. However, I'm very glad - `« 113 that we made the move and I feel very strongly that we have / ' already made a considerable impact." r As supporting evidence, Ellis cited a No. 1 and a No. 3 al- ,., bum in the States by Jethro Tull, and a Top Twenty album by `f Procol Harum. It') .., "1974 will definitely be the year when Robin Trower emerges as a major artist in the United States and Steeleye ca Span are on the verge of making their breakthrough. We've just signed our first American act, Black Sheep, about whom we are very excited.

"We started our publishing arm in New York because I feel a publishing company's responsibility is to get recordings of its catalog and I simply did not believe that the publishing houses with hundreds of thousands of titles would be effec- tive for us through an administration deal. It has been a long hard struggle but producers are finally beginning to realize that we have writers with hit songs. We have recently made rudolf siezak something of a breakthrough with our first major cover of a Leo Sayer song -'The Show Must Go On' -by Three Dog Night. "All in all our biggest problem in the United States, as it musilverlag gmbh - hamburg has been in England, is that of image. Radio program direc- tors find it very hard to understand why a company with so much success with album artists should be aware of the sin- gles market. I am, however, quite convinced that by the end of this year that will be just as historic a misunderstanding in the United States as it already is in England." C-10 MARCH 16. 1974. BILLBOARD

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CONCERT PROMOTION is an active part of the Chrysalis group's functions and grew out of the group's early special- ization in the areas of management and agency. Its primary objective was to provide an effective nation- wide service, promoting at prime venues throughout Britain for the Chrysalis management groups Ten Years After, Jethro Tull and Procol Harum. As it was the brainchild of Terry Ellis and Chris Wright, in their managerial roles, the promotion di- vision obviously placed great emphasis on being artist ori- entated. Under the guidance of Wilf Wright, the promotion division expanded from purely servicing the Chrysalis management

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Liza Minnelli Ppy F'tL acts to promoting tours for all the acts handled by the Chry- salis agency. Wilf Wright explains that Chrysalis with their firm belief in the maxim -"do it yourself" -felt that they could pro- mote their artists concerts better than anyone else. Initially, individual managers at Chrysalis had promoted their own acts but Wright set up the concert division in order to centralize that activity. we our own )1 In the early days just promoted management artists and we were the first people in England to promote a nationwide concert tour as such as opposed to the old fash- ioned package tour. We then extended the promotion division and made it available to any artist the agency handled." hdt4 1 In the nine months that Wright headed the promotion divi- sion he promoted tours from Cat Stevens, Black Sabbath and King Crimson as well as Chrysalis' own headline acts. Wright then moved over to head the recently redefined Chrysalis management operation and Adrian Hopkins was brought in to take charge of concert promotion. Hopkins took over thirteen months ago after operating as an independent promoter and agent during which time he had booked a lot of Chrysalis acts. The offer to head the con- cert promotion division was a direct result of this earlier asso- ciation. Hopkins' duties involved the initial wheeling and dealing to secure acts for British appearances and then organization of the venues and of the ancillary legistics necessary for the successful promotion of a tour. Under Hopkins' guidance the division has again grown, he has expanded the service to over- seas acts.

"I deal direct and I buy dates off other agents," Hopkins explained. "I negotiate with the agents and managers and

record companies of the acts I am after. Once I have secured

the act I put together a tour which takes in the key venues the group needs to play.

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www.americanradiohistory.com Agency: Important Cog in the Wheel THE AGENCY division is a thriving part of the Chrysalis or- ganization, and has been headed for the past five years by Kenny Bell and Richard Cowley, who now have four other agents and bookers working under their supervision in the of- fice. Bell started in the music business on the performing side of the footlights, playing trumpet and leading his own big band in a residency at the California Ballroom, Dunstable, un- til a throat condition obliged him to end this role. He went into rock management, and then spent three years in agency work with Terry King, followed by a spell at the West One Entertain- ments division of EMI, before meeting Richard Cowley and forming Universal Attractions with him. Cowley began as a booker working with Malcolm Rose be- fore joining forces with Bell in Universal Attractions, which op- erated for three years until 1968 when Chris Wright and Terry Ellis invited him and Bell to merge resources with them and look after the agency side of the embryo Chrysalis organiza- tion. The Bell- Cowley duo function with a mixture of energy, en- terprise and enthusiasm which reveals no signs of blase complacency or any tendency to rest on their already substan- tial laurels. Indeed, they are both at pains to impress upon people that they never ever linger nonchalantly around the of- fice waiting for the big offers for the big Chrysalis acts to roll in automatically. They rate new blood as the essential life blood for the continuing health and prosperity of the business, and are ceaselessly searching for promising new prospects while maintaining a first -class service of representation and effort in behalf of the stars already on the books. "We look after our important artists individually between us," explained Bell. "We're responsible to the managers of the acts. It's not a straight split between us. Richard may have some particularly strong contacts in one territory useful to the acts I'm looking after, and vice versa, and we play it by ear and assist one another on this basis." last year The success of the Agency has contributed to the overall success of the whole Chrysalis organization. "' "It's (like cogs in a wheel," amplified Cowley. "If one cog fouls up, the wheel doesn't revolve properly. Kenny and I are involved all the time. We go to clubs, and we follow up recom- mendations. We'll send a new act to Manchester for nothing if need be, providing the date and the exposure are right be- cause an agency must always be breaking new acts. People will always need entertainment because it's part o1 life." Chrysalis Represents CHRYSALIS AGENCY has exclusive agency representation of: Bedlam, Procol Harum, Bert Jansch, Ralph McTell, Cat Ste- vens, Robin Trowel', Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Roxy Music, Eno, Ruby, Frankie Miller, Stealers Wheel, Groundhogs, Steel - eye Span, Hudson Ford, Strawbs, Jethro Tull, Stray, Joe Cocker, Stray Dog, Jonesy, Strife, King Crimson, Ten Years Af- ter, Leo Sayer, Tir Na Nog, P F M (Italy), Wild Turkey, Charlie and The Wide Boys, Yes, The Winkies. TOURING ARTISTS from the U.S.A.: Leo Kottke, Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea, Jo Jo Gunne, Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen, Johnny Cash, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage. MahavishnuOrchestra. Van Morri- son, Can (from Germany).

Kenny Bell and Richard Cowley

The agency division of Chrysalis is quite autonomous in its operation," emphasized Cowley. For instance, if we book a Warner Bros. act, it's the Chrysalis agency doing the book- ing and not Chrysalis Records." They represent 90 percent of the artists on the books ex- clusively, and handle bookings for the remaining 10 percent. "Evenings and weekends we go to see new acts or attend gigs by artists we're already handling," Cowley continued. We get more of a buzz from breaking a new act than prac- tically anything else because that's the name of the game and the acid test for any agency. "You need to sign the right acts and then handle them the right way. When you look at a new act and listen to them, you have to ask yourself if you can see them topping the bill at the Rainbow Theater or Madison Square Garden. There has to be some magic there. Roxy Music had it, and so did Leo Sayer when we went to see him in a rehearsal room at Brighton. "We took on Leo Sayer, who was completely unknown at the time," added Bell. "Richard thought he had what it takes. We thought the same about Roxy Music when we heard them in a cellar at Covent Garden. Of course, you can be wrong about acts, and we can make mistakes like anyone else. New prospects are normally recommended to us by people we know in the business, and if we value the judgment of the recommender, we'll go and see anybody, no matter who they are or what they dp. Everybody has a bad night occasion- ally, and we'll go and see them again if we think they've got something." "I can remember the soul era and how some people got hurt when that bubble burst because they had concentrated on soul acts to the exclusion of everything else. We want to branch out and broaden our activity by getting into the m -o -r field, variety, cabaret and TV. For instance, we're helping to launch Brian Ferry of Roxy Music into a solo career in addition to his work with the group, and we brought Johnny Cash over Johnny Cash MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD C -22

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www.americanradiohistory.com but then we were asked to promote a concert tour for Black Sabbath and the success of that venture led us into forming a Defining the Philosophy of full time promotion organization available to all the artists handled by the agency. We were the first people in England to promote a concert Management tour as such as opposed to the old fashioned package tour.

What I did was to centralize that organization in Chrysalis be- cause we felt that we could do the job than anyone else. THE REPUTATION of Chrysalis in the United States of better During the nine months I spent coordinating Chrysalis promo- America was initially built through its management activity. tions we set up successful tours for Sabbath, Cat Stevens and The careers of Jethro Tull, Ten Years After and Procol Harum King Crimson as well as our own management acts Jethro have blossomed in the hands of Ellis and Wright. Tull, Ten Years After and Procol Harum. Terry Ellis explains the Chrysalis management philosophy time I moved into management we had already as not just taking care of the business side of things but "At the started to build up a roster of artists which we have sub- being involved as an objective observer in every aspect of the in number we felt however much artists work. Above all we only work with artists whose talent sequently cut because that we believe in those people it was to concentrate on we respect and we go out of our way to dispel the myth that important a select few. It would not be fair to manage an artist unless rock musicians grow up with, that it is only possible to have a your to short period of success. We have set out to extend our artists you could devote 100% of time management." careers through the belief that if they have the talent to enter- Wright defines his role as being an independent figure tain at 21 then they will still have that ability at 51." within Chrysalis who the artist can relate to in terms of the The success of this philosophy is evident with Jethro Tull company. "One of the biggest things for me," he went on to and Ten Years After who both came into existence as groups explain, "was to get the artist over the fear that they are just a under the guidance of Ellis and Wright and who are now each part of a vast organization. Once you have established the in their seventh year. Further evidence comes with the contin- right relationship between yourself and the artist you can uing success of Procol Harum who have been managed by then utilize all the facilities the company has to offer." Chrysalis for the past four years and who have been in exist- Wright, who gained invaluable experience through touring ence for 8 years. America with Jethro Tull and Ten Years After is an absolute Although best known as a management company Chry- believer in the ability of his artist. In talking about Robin salis is with that field of activity. At one time we had built up a Trower and Frankie Miller he went on to say, it has always large stable of artists but had difficulty devoting the amount been my firm conviction that Robin and Frankie are destined of time to each of them that they deserved," explained Chris for huge success. At one time both of them had worked to- Wright. "Management is a very personal and time consuming gether but it became obvious that the talents of the two was commitment. A management relationship can hardly work if too big for one unit and that it should be separated to allow you and the artist are not really close friends. Your relation- Wilt Wright each of them to fullfil their own musical identity. ship must be such that you can become greatly involved in ev- "With Robin particularly the success he has gained already ery aspect of the artist's life both public and private. tainment through time he spent as social secretary at Hull confirmed our belief that his decision to leave an established You must physically be with the artist at every notable University. His first contact with Ellis and Wright was through band was a correct one and that the period of time waiting to event: every interview, every photo session; you must be in booking Ten Years After and Tull at Hull. On leaving university find the right musical formula has been worthwhile. and out of the studio when they are recording and supervise Wright came to London and joined the Chrysalis agency divi- "It is my belief that talent can never be manufactured and tours to the extent sometimes of being at every concert. sion where he specialized in booking into the emerging college that it must exist naturally within an artist and I see it as my

"Terry manages Jethro Tull and I manage Ten Years After and universities market of the time. job to mould those talents into a presentable image for the and Procol Harum although Derek Sutton has always been Wright feels that the eighteen months he spent within the public: to channel the energies of the artist in the right direc- very involved with Procol when they are in the States. We ob- agency was an important period of time for him. Agency expe- tion. viously, of course, do not have the time to devote to the per- rience has become something of a training scheme for Chry- "Very often the artist will have the ideas but not know the sonal management of other artists although we have always salis and most of the company's executives have agency expe- best way to put them across, either on stage or on record, it is

wished to have a management company with a number of rience. for this reason that I have placed such importance on the rap- managers getting the benefit of our experience. Unfortu- "We had realized that what we missed in the overall organ- port between the artist and the manager. It must be a rapport nately, there are very few young executives interested in man- ization was the facility to promote concerts, at that time Chry- which allows the manager to offer advice, to the point of criti- agement, so we have reduced our roster down to two, Robin salis management had promoted their own artists and this cism in every aspect of the artist's work. It has to be a two -way Trower and Frankie Miller, who are managed by Wilf Wright." was arranged by individual managers themselves. We wanted relationship where the artist can listen to the advice you give Wilf Wright joined Chrysalis shortly after the company was to expand and so we set up what was to become the promo- and be willing to act upon it because of his belief in the man- founded, he had previously been involved in campus enter- tion division of Chrysalis. Initially this was for our own artists ager."

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*STAR Performer -singles registering great- By LEROY ROBINSON d est proportionate upward progress this week N Lwl N LOS ANGELES -Well, now that ÑC.% ÿ U TITLE, TITLE, ARTIST TITLE, ARTIST e ARTIST we've had two groups of music o (Writer). Label & Number (Dist. Label) (Publisher, Licensee) e (Writer). Label & Number (Dist. Label) (Publisher, Licensee) (Writer), Label & Number (Dist. Label) (Publisher, Licensee) a 9 g a awards -the Grammy and its pains- DOCTOR taking attempt to become mean- LOOKIN' FOR A LOVE -Bobby Womack 52 3 TSOP- m. F.S.B. 67 57 12 WITCH BUMP- Chabukos (H. Miller, R. McCoy, D. Matthews), (J. W. Alexander, Z. Samuels), United Artists 375 (K. Gamble, L. Huff), Philadelphia International ingful, and the American Music Mainstream 5546 (Lifestyle, BMI) (Nags, BMI) 7-3540 (Columbia) (Mighty Three, BMI) Awards which is meaningless from 34 39 1 SOUND YOUR FUNKY 68 u 10 IF IT WERE LEFT UP TO MIGHTY LOVE, PART 1- Spinners the outset, and only serving ME -Sly 8 The Family Stone to re- (1.B. Jefferson, B. Hawes, C. Simmons), HORN -K.C. & Sunshine Band (S. Stewart), Epic 5-11060 (Columbia) Atlantic 45 -1006 (Mighty Three, BMI) (H.W. Casey, C. Reid), I K 1003 (Sherlyn. BMI) duce Grammy to a more mean- (Stoneflower, BMI) YOUR HAIR Temptations ingless position -it's time for Black 12 BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED 35 24 14 LET DOWN- (N. Whitfield), Gordy 7133 (Motown) (Stone 69 75 CHAMELEON - Herbie Hancock Music and its acts to continue its TO ME- Gladys Knight & The Pips Diamond, BMI) (P. Jackson, H. Mason, B. Maupin, H. Hancock), (I. 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Parks), Motown 1286 6 3 13 I'LL BE THE OTHER TIME - Millie Jackson (Jobete, ASCAP Stone Diamond, BMI) fact) that, aside from the many ma- (Millie Jackson, Brad Shapiro), Spring 144 (Polydor) WOMAN -Soul Children jor contributions Black (Gaucho /Belinda /Double AkShun, BMI) 73 73 ONE WOMAN MAN -Lawrence Payton of Music art- (Homer Banks, Carl Hampton), Star 0182 (L. Perry, P. Townsend), Dunhill 4376 (ABC) (Columbia) (East /Memphis, BMI) ists, little or no other music made 39 25 17 CAN THIS BE REAL - Natural Four (ABC /Dunhill /Rall, BMI) (L. Hutson, M. Hawkins, 1. Hutson), Curtom 1994 very much difference in 1973. 1 5 10 WE'RE GETTING CARELESS WITH (Buddah) (Aopa /Silent Giant, ASCAP) 74 78 THAT'S HOW HEARTACHES ARE To support our claim, we can start OUR LOVE - MADE -Jerry Butler 40 29 11 THAT'S WHAT THE BLUES IS (Don Davis, Frank L. Johnson), (B. Raleigh, B. Halley), Mercury 73459 with the most recent award shows Stax 0193 (Columbia) ALL ABOUT -Mbed King ( Phonogram) (Sea Lark, BMI) (1. Strickland, B. Patterson), Stax 0189 (Columbia) that supposedly reflected the opin- 75 79 PEPPER BOX-The Peppers 8 6 16 JUNGLE BOOGIE -Kooi & The Gang (East /Memphis/Rogan, BMI) ions of the peer group (the Grammy) (Keel & The Gang /R. Bell), De -Lite 559 (P.I.P.) (P. Arpadys, M. Camises), Event 213 (Polydor) (Delightful /Gar, BMI) 41 30 12 IF IT'S IN YOU TO (New York Times, BMI) and of the public (the AMA), where DO WRONG- Impressions 76 82 TOUCH AND GO -AI Wilson the obvious winners in both in- 20 6 OUTSIDE WOMAN Bloodstone (L. Simon, A.J. Tribble), Curtom 1994 (Buddah) - (J. Fuller), Rocky Road 30076 (Bell) (Harry Williams), London 45 -1052 (Julio -Brian, BMI) stances are (Fullness, BM) exponents, as well as (Crystal Jukebox, BMI) 42 31 14 STOP TO START -Blue Magic components, of the music form YOU MAKE ME FEEL this 10 13 10 THAI'S THE SOUND THAT LONELY (1. Grant, A. Felder), Atco 6949' writer heralds week to week. (W.M.O.C.T./Six Strings, BMI) BRAND NEW -Stylistics The ex- MAKES -Tavares (T. Bell, L. Creed), Arco 4634 (Mighty Three, BMI) ponents we're speaking of are Stevie (J. Bristol, J. Dean, J. Clover), Capitol 3794 43 32 12 THERE'S GOT TO BE RAIN IN 78 81 TIN PAN ALLEY -Little Milton (Bushka, ASCAP) YOUR LIFE (To Appreciate Wonder and Roberta Flack, who (Robert Geddins), Stan 0191 (Columbia)_ 11 8 13 PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER-Mays The Sunshine) - Dorothy Norwood (Four Star, BMI) captured major honors from the (D. Norwood), GRC 1011 (K. L. Huff), Philadelphia International Gamble, 79 65 LIFE IS A SONG WORTH AMA, repeated at the Grammys, 73535 (Columbia) (Mighty Three, BMI) (Silver Thevis /Act One, BMI) SINGING Johnny Mathis and were joined accurately so by 44 48 11 SWEET DAN -Betty Everett - (T. Bell, L. Creed), Columbia 4-45975 12 9 15 SEXY MAMA- Momenb (Johnny Watson), Fantasy 714 (lowat, BMI) Three, Gladys Knight and The Pips. Out- (H. Ray, A. Goodman, S. Robinson), Stang 5052 (All (Mighty BMI) Platinum) (Gambi, BMI) 62 3 MIGHTY MIGHTY -Earth, Wind 8 Fire side of that trio were 80 85 IT'S BAD FOR ME (there other * (M. White, V. White), Columbia 46007 such exponents passed over for 13 14 10 I WISH IT WAS ME -Tyrone Davis (Sagifire, BMI) TO SEE YOU -Betty Wright ob- (Leo Grahas), Dakar 4529 (Brunswick) (P. Sawyer, G. Jones), Alston 4620 (Atlantic) vious reasons) music had 5 little going (Julio-Brian, BMI) 46 53 NEWSY NEIGHBORS -First Choice (Jobete, ASCAP) (Al Felder, Norman Harris), Philly Groove 183 (Bell) for it in 1973; a fact, mind you, we (Silk /Six Strings, BMI) 81 88 IF YOU AIN'T GOT 19 8 THANKS FOR SAVING MY LIFE -Billy Paul were fully aware of all year long, but (K. Gamble, L. Huff), Philadelphia International NO MONEY-Willie Hutch 47 35 12 LAST TIME I SAW HIM -Diana Noss (W. Hutch, R. Hutch), Motown 1287 was in need of the peer group 73538 (Columbia) (Mighty Three, BMI) (M. Masser, P. Sawyer), Motown 1278 and (Jobete, ASCAP) (Jobete, ASCAP) fans voting to make it stand up as 15 10 14 I LIKE TO LIVE THE LOVE -B.B. king 82 86 I'M YOURS - (D. Crawford, C. Mann), ABC 11406 (American 48 40 15 WISH THAT YOU WERE truth as well. (S. Johnson, D. Carter, B. Johnson), Hi 45 -3260 Broadcasting /DaAnn, ASCAP) MINE -Manhattans (London) (Jec, BMI) But even with the accuracy in vot- (W. Lovett), Columbia 4-45971 (Blackwood/ 16 11 10 YOU'RE SO UNIQUE -Bily Preston Nattahnam, BMI) 83 91 (It's Gonna Be) A LONG LONG ing the correct winners, there is still (Billy Preston, Joe Green), A &M 1492 (Irving/ WINTER -Linda Gifford W.E.P., BMI) 49 51 6 WHEN THE FUEL RUNS the inaccuracy when extending ac- (), Paramount 0269 OUT- Executive Suite (Famous) ( Curtom, BMI) knowledgements to viable elements 17 15 9 YOU SURE LOVE TO BALL- Marvin Gaye (Harris, Felder, Sigler), Babylon 1111 our music. (M. Gaye), Tamla 54244 (Motown) (Jobete, ASCAP) (Golden Fleece/Mighty Three, BMI) 84 92 TIGHTROPE -June of Namely, the gross and (W.1. Morrison), Eastbound 619 (Chess/Janus) harmful crime committed by the 18 18 9 I JUST CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY 50 55 4 GOIN' DOWN SLOW -Bobby Blue Bland (Bridgeport, BMI) (J.D. Odom), Dunhill 4379 (ABC) (St. Louis, BMI) MIND -Four Tops American Music Awards with the 85 83 I'M FALLING IN LOVE (I Feel Good All (D. Lambert, B. Potter), Dunhill 4377 68 4 SWEET STUFF-Sylvia absolute disregard for the only music (ABC /Dunhill /Soldier, BMI) Over)- Fantastic Four * (H. Ray, S. Robinson, A. Goodman), Vibration 529 (A. Hamilton, N. Toney), Eastbound 620 indigenous (All Platinum) (Gambi, BMI) to America, Jazz. How 19 21 8 IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME-New Birth (Chess /Janus) (Bridgeport, BMI) any award for "American (Baker, Wilson), RCA 0185 (Dunbar /Rutri, BMI) 52 38 15 SOUL POWER -Maceo 8 The Macks Music" 86 84 I'M INTO SOMETHING I CAN'T (J. Brown), People 631 (Polydon) (Dynatone/ (Continued on page 38) 42 4 HONEY PLEASE, CAN'T Belinda / Unichappell, BMI) SHAKE -Paul Kelly (Paul Kelly), Warner Brothers 7765 (Tree, BMI) YA SEE -Barry White 53 43 17 LIVIN' FOR YOU -A1 Green (Barry White), 20th Century 2077 (Al Green, Willie Mitchell), Hi 45 -2257 (London) I BELIEVE -The Ebonys /January, (Sa -Vette BMI) (Jec /AI Green, BMI) (E. Drake, I. Graham, J. Shirl, A. Stillman), Philadelphia International 7 -3541 (Columbia) 27 6 MY MISTAKE WAS TO LOVE 54 58 15 WHAT IS HIP -Tower of Power (Cromwell, ASCAP) Warner YOU -Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye (S. Kupka, E. Castillo, D. Garibaldi), 88 94 THIS HEART -Gene Redding (Pam Sawyer, G. Tones), Motown 1269 Brothers 7748 (Kuptillo, ASCAP) D (D. Potter), Haven (Jobete, ASCAP) Lambert, B. 7000 (Capitol) * 76 3 POWER OF LOVE -Martha Reeves (ABC /Dunhill, BUI) (Gamble, Huff, Simon), MCA 40194 (Blackwood/ 22 16 15 TRYING TO HOLD ON TO MY 0 D C] Gaucho /Belinda, BMI) 89 93 I NEED YOU MORE -Sarah Vaughan WOMAN- Lamont Dozier (R. McCoy, H. Miller, G. Holley), Mainstream 5553 70 2 HEAVENLY -The _ B. (M. Jackson, J. Reddick), ABC 11407 * Temptations (Lifestyle, BMI) DI J (Bullit Proof, BMI) (N. Whitfield), Gordy 7135 (Motown) (Stone Diamond, BMI) 90 95 FUNCTION AT THE JUNCTION- Energy 23 17 14 LOVE'S THEME -Lae Unlimited (F. Long, E. Holland), Shout 302 (Web IV) 57 49 FAST, IN A York Orchestra 16 QUICK, HURRY -New City (Jobete, ASCAP) `Thom Bell, Linda Creed), Chelsea 0150 (RCA) (Barry White), 20th Century 2069 (Assorted /Bell, BMI) 91 100 I DON'T NEED NOBODY (SA -Vette /January, BMI) 58 50 8 THROUGH THE LOVE IN ELSE -Lou Courtney 24 28 8 JUST DON'T WANT TO BE (L. Courtney), Epic 511088 (Columbia) MY HEART - Sylvers (Emalou /Ragmar, BMI) LONELY -Main Ingredient (Leon Sylvers Ill), MGM 14678 (BarrettFreedmanEli), RCA 1974 0205 (Ingredient, BMI) Lion ASCAP) 92 98 DON'T START LOVING ME (If You're (Dotted /Sylco, GRAMMY Gonna Stop) -Veda Brown AWARD 45 4 TOUCH A HAND, MAKE A 59 61 7 SHE CALLS ME BABY -1. Kelly 8 Premiers (K. Smith), Star 0194 (Columbia) WINNERS (Gary Knight, Gene Allen), Roadshow 7005 (Stereo FRIEND - Staple Singers (East /Memphis, BMI) (H. Banks, R. Jackson, C. Hampton), Stan 0196 Dimension) (Screen Gems, BMI) (JRP, -BMl) (Columbia) (East/Memphis, BMI) 93 97 WHERE THE LILLIES BEST Pop Vocal 71 4 AND I PANICKED -The Dramatics (Jimmy Roach), Volt 4105 (Columbia) GROW- Sidney Joe Quails Performance by a 33 7 KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY -Leon Haywood (Groovesville, BMI) (C. Davis, C. Scott, K. Davis), Dakar 4530 (Leon Haywood), 20th Century 2065 (Brunswick) (Julio -Brian, BMI) Duo Group (Jim Edd, BMI) 61 67 7 LOVING YOU -Johnny Nash or Chorus (M. Stevenson), Epic 5-11003 (Columbia) 94 96 YEAR OF DECISION -Three Degrees 27 23 11 FIRST TIME WE MET Independent ki:.:.. - (Mikim, BMI /Cayman, ASCAP) (K. Gamble, L. Huff), Philadelphia International (C. Jackson, M. Yancy), Wand 11267 3539 (Columbia) (Mighty Three, BMI) BEST R &B Vocal (Scepter) (Butler, ASCAP) 62 47 14 WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO -Isles Bros. (Isley Brothers), T -Neck 72252 (Columbia) 95 99 2 ONE BRIEF MOMENT -Timmy Thomas Performance by a 37 6 I WOULDN'T GIVE ( Bolliva, ASCAP) (T. Thomas), Glades 1719 (T.K.) (Sherlyn, BMI) Duo Group YOU UP- Ecstasy, Passion I Pain 63 69 5 PARTY BUMP, Pt. 1- Gentlemen 8 Their 96 1 CARRY ME -Joe Simon or hor is (Barbara Gashins), Roulette 7151 (Big Seven, BMI) Ladies (P. Mitchell, E. Shelby), Spring 145 (Polydor) DIRECTION -MANAGEMENT (McGruder, Steinber, Cowell), Jean 731 (Alithia) (Muscle Shoals, BMI) 29 22 14 JOY-Isaac Hayes (Sound Ideas, BMI) (Isaac Hayes), Enterprise 9085 (Columbia) 97 CAN YOU HANDLE IT- Graham Central SIDNEY A. (Incense /East /Memphis, BMI) 64 54 15 I'D RATHER BE (Blind, Crippled & Station SEIDENBERG Crazy) -o.V. Wright (L. Graham), Warner Bros. 7782 (198F0E, None) 30 26 11 I TOLD YOU SO- Deffonics INC. (C. Hodges, D. Malone, P. Carter), Backbeat 628 98 1 LEAVE YOUR HAT ON - (William Hart), Philly Groove 182 (Bell) (Nickel 1414 Avenue o1 (ABC /Dunhill) (Jec, BMI) (R. Newman), Chess 2148 (Chess /Janus) Shoe, Wadau, New Outlook, BMI) the Americas 77 3 WHO IS HE AND WHAT IS HE TO (Warner Bros. /Randy Newman, ASCAP) New York, N.Y 41 5 WILLIE PASS THE WATER -Ripple YOU -Creative Source 99 1 HEY BABE -The Janes 10019 (Dee Ervin, Ruth Robinson), GRC 1013 (B. Withers, S. McKenney), Sussex 509 (Not Listed), Mercury 72458 ( Phonogram) /Divident, 12121 421 2021 (Act One BMI) (Interior, BMI) (Landry/Unichappell, BMI)

32 36 1 SAME BEAT -Fred Wesley & The JB's 66 56 16 I MISS YOU -The Dells 100 1 YOUR FUNNY MOODS -Skip & The Casuals (James Brown), People 632 ( Polydor) (Tony Hester), Cadet 5700 (Chess /Janus) (Ri. Williams, J. Purdie), D.C. Intl 5003 (Dynatone /Belinda, BMI) (Groovesville, BMI) (Dimetri, BM)

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www.americanradiohistory.com Radio-TV Programming Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY for Week Ending 3/16/74 Vox Jox Continued from page 30 "Hello, Love" got a good push. Price might prove a boon to radio oper- said it was going to be a big hit for ations. Has eight monitor muting LP's. thought that sort of thing went out Hank. Good record, too. Glad to see switches which help prevent feed- with the Civil War. Jackson's pro- Hank back with a good one. back from Copyright 1974. Billboard Publications, Inc. No part of this publication may studio mikes and direct be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by duction was superb; voice okay * * * feed switching which bypasses the any means, electronic. mechanical. photocopying, recording, or otherwise. overall. No personality. I'm one of without the prior written permission of the publisher. KCEE -AM, Tucson, was a mess. bus assignment and output sections, those types who believe in person- Following a Leroy Holmes tune, the permitting the console to be used for ality radio. Hope Chuck read the Ca- air personality (who in the hell he production work while the station is *STAR Performer -LP's registering sey Kasem article a week ago. greatest proportionate upward prog- was on the air. If you're interested in s ca he wasn't saying and after hear- ress this week Y * * * ing a little of the show I couldn't more information, talk to Don Slack, ex o ex TITLE 3 3 TITLE took over the morning blame him for hiding) national marketing manager. ... 3 Jay Price said: "That .r Artist, Label & Number Artist, Label & Number show on KHOS -AM at 6 a.m. and he brings the time around to 13 minutes Just talked to Rick Carroll, program a (Dist. Label) I° (Dist. Label) really put some good empathy into after 7." Gah. That brought me al- director of KKDJ-AM in Los An- 2 8 LOVE IS THE MESSAGE 31 33 10 LOVE'S MAZE the weather and later rapped some- most "around" to turning the dial. geles, and, in regards to my coverage MFSB, Philadelphia International KZ Temprees, We Produce XPS 1903 thing about the Wildcats and a PSA Had front and back spots around a of the promotion men's meeting in 32707 (Columbia) (Columbia) bit. His show was good smooth; record for a local firm, last week's issue, he says that Mikel and meaning that 1 18 SHIP AHOY 32 29 20 JOY not as tight as McKay, but then the whole shebang would have to be Hunter of KMET -FM, Los Angeles, O'lays, Philadelphia International KZ Isaac Hayes, Enterprise McKay cut up a bunch of tunes a logged as a commercial. Music is the one who accused Biggie 32408 (Columbia) ENS 5007 (Columbia) little too much. Frankly, I've always tepid. MOR can be the most beautiful Nevins, program director of KFI- AM, Los Angeles, of playing all the 3 3 12 1990 33 37 4 MAKOSSA MAN thought the ideal morning show (but format in town; KCEE -AM wasn't Temptations, Gordy G -966V1 Manu Dibango. Atlantic SD 7276 damned tough to accomplish) would even the best station in its own stiffs. Whups! My apologies! (Motown) be to be very tight until around 7 building -poor selection of music * * * 43 2 KOOL JAll 4 5 13 THE PAYBACK Kool 8 The Gang, De-lite DEP 4001 a.m. and slowly taper off toward 8 overall, no personality, very little to Phil Gardner, 219-485 -7683, is a James Brown, Polydor P02-3007 (P I. Pl a.m. Slow down slowly. Price han- offer a listener. damned good personality; person- dled a bit about postage increases 7 HEAD HUNTERS 44 3 EUPHRATES RIVER * * * ality- prone. Good for a morning 8 very excellently. Lord, but at 6:50 Cetec Inc., a subsidiary Herbie Hancock, Columbia KC 32731 Main Ingredient, RCA APL10335 of Com- show; call him if you have an open- a.m., Ted Brown was there with a puter Equipment, Los Angeles, has ing.... WLYV -AM in Ft. Wayne, 9 5 RHAPSODY IN WHITE 36 22 13 POWER OF LOVE Campbell Soup commercial (re- come with a up new Model 1204 1 Ind., is going country, I heard. ... Love Unlimited Orchestra, Jerry Butler, Mercury SRM -689 corded, of course). The phone call Audio Control Console aimed 20th Century T -433 ( Phonogram) pri- WIRE -AM in Indianapolis just got one, Ted. At 6:56 a.m., Hank Snow's marily at TV stations, but which some Johnny Mann jingles via the 7 6 12 UNREAL 37 21 9 BLACK EYED BLUES Joseph P. Cuff firm in Los Angeles. Bloodstone, London XPS 634 Esther Phillips, Kudu KU 14 (CTD WIRE -AM program director Bill Robinson flew into Los Angeles to 8 10 16 STONE GON' 38 39 5 EBONYS Barry White, 20th Century T 423 Philadelphia International work on them himself. ... Richard KZ 32419 (Columbia) Lynn Farr has been named general 9 4 12 LIVIN' FOR YOU manager of KFIN -FM in Jones- Al Green, Hi ASHL-32082 (London) 39 40 8 KEEP YOUR SOUL boro, Ark. He'd been manager of TOGETHER 13 6 LOOKIN' FOR A Freddie Hubbard, CTI 6036 KHIG -FM in Paragould, Ark. LOVE AGAIN KFIN -FM should be on the air Bobby Womack, United Artists 49 2 THE MAN about the time you read this. UA LA 1996 Leroy Hutson, Curtom CRS 8020 (Buddah) 11 7 29 UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF Love Unlimited, 20th Century T 414 41 34 27 TO KNOW YOU IS Awards Point Up TO LOVE YOU 12 15 22 ITS BEEN A LONG TIME B.B. King, ABC ABCX 194 New Birth, RCA APL 10285 R 42 35 14 NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS &B's Advances 13 11 20 IMAGINATION Ike 8 Tina Turner, United Artist VA- Continued from page 37 Gladys Knight 8 The Pips, Buddah LA180-F BDS 5141 should exclude jazz is beyond this 43 50 19 BLACK 8 BLUE 14 16 31 INNERVISIONS Harold Melvin 8 The Blue Notes, KZ writer. and because of that oversight Stevie Wonder, Tamla T 326 L Philadelphia International 32407 it was beyond this writer's plans to (Motown) (Columbia) attend and support such an insult to 44 45 5 DO YOU HAVE THE TIME Black Music, and American music in 15 18 12 SHOW AND TELL Al Wilson, Rocky Road RR 3601 Younghearts. 20th Century T-427 particular. (Bell) It is beyond us as well as to why 45 47 6 UNBONDED 16 17 13 OUT HERE ON MY OWN Chambers Brothers, Avco 11013 another awards show, especially one Lamont Dozier, ABC ABCX -804 that put jazz and blues, the roots for BOOGIE DOWN all the music awarded for greatness, 17 19 27 LET'S GET IT ON Eddie Kendricks, Tamla T 330V1 Marvin Gaye, Tamla T (Motown) back another 100 years. And at a 329 VI (Motown) time when Donald Byrd, a sterling 47 42 9 HARD COIN' UP jazz artist, had overcome and "Black 18 12 23 WILD 8 PEACEFUL Little Sonny, Enterprise ENS 1036 Byrd," showed that jazz and rhythm Kool 8 The Gang, De-lite DEP 2013 (Columbia) (P.I.P.) and blues is really one with his al- 48 46 17 ROCKIN' ROLL BABY bum. And when Grammy was fi- Stylistics, Avco AV 11010 1K( 23 41 HEAD TO THE SKY nally able to get at least one eye half Earth. Wind 8 Fire, way open in recognition the in- Columbia KC 32194 LET ME IN YOUR LIFE of Aretha Franklin, Atlantic SD 7292 novative form. 28 6 BLUE MAGIC Over the years, the Atco 7038 50 53 4 GENESIS underplaying Soul Children, Stan STS 3024 of jazz music as a viable part of our (Columbia) 21 26 47 I'VE GOT SO culture is something most jazz fans MUCH TO GIVE 51 56 18 DIANA AND MARVIN have accepted, albeit we definitely Barry White, 20th Century T 407 Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye, did not agree. Then, in recent years Motown M803V1 (this one in particular) Grammy be- 22 20 10 BACK FOR A TASTE OF YOUR LOVE 52 54 3 SYLVERS II gan to reflect on our music heritage Syt Johnson, Hi XSHL 32081 Pride PRD 0026 (MGM) and came up with such notables as (London) Coleman Hawkins, who was placed 53 58 28 3 +3 23 24 12 PRESS ON in the Hall Of Fame along with Isley Brothers, T -Neck KZ 32453 David T. Walker, Ode (Columbia) Louis Armstrong. And, too, there SP 77020 (ABM) were the nominations of two de- 54 SOME SINGIN' IT OUT ceased giants of jazz, Art Tatum and 24 25 7 CHECK Maxine Weldon, Monument KZ -32588 Clifford Brown, which was odd but Tavares, Capitol ST 11258 (Columbia) accepted humbly. Then, along 25 14 12 LAST TIME I SAW HIM 55 36 26 MAIN STREET PEOPLE comes the so- called American Music Diana Ross, Motown M 812V1 Four Tops, Dunhill DSX 50144 Awards with awards allocated to Pop, Soul, and Country and West- 26 27 15 HIS CALIFORNIA ALBUM 56 59 2 FULL CIRCLE Bobby Blue Bland, Dunhill Leon Thomas, Flying Dutchman FD ern. Maybe if jazz music were a DSO 50163 (ABC) 10167 (RCA) product out of Japan it might have been accepted as American. 27 31 17 WAR OF THE GODS 57 41 13 SUPERFUNK Billy Paul, Philadelphia International Funk Inc., Prestige Anyway you look at it, there is a KZ 32409 (Columbia) PR 10071 (Fantasy) great misuse of truth in America - the incidents in Washington reflect 28 30 8 ITS ALL IN THE GAME 58 48 20 THE DELLS Tyrone Davis, Dakar DK 76909 Cadet CA 50046 (Chess /Janus) that fact -and there is a taking for (Brunswick) granted all that has been provided 59 60 2 THE MG'S by the natives of this land. And be- 29 32 9 LADY LOVE Sfax STS 3024 (Columbia) Mason, Buddah BDS 5140 there is also an unwillingness Barbara cause 60 LOVE, TOGETHERNESS & to give credit where it is due, no mu- 38 5 GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION DEVOTION sic award is going to mean very Warner Bros. BS 2763 ABM SP 360' much until it does happen. 38 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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Copyright 1973. Billboard Publications, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, On Revision of Copyright Law stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means. electronic. mechanical, photocopying. recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Continued from page 1 performance liable for copyright ing distant signals (Los Angeles pro- c gramming into Farmington, New Y nearly a decade. This, in turn, could fees. As always, the high court urged 86 Mexico, in this case) plus such activ- TITLE, Artist, Label 8 Number give the condemned revision bill at Congress to legislate modern law for ;ó ities as program origination, made least a miniscule chance of passage this modern technology. the systems equivalent to broadcast in this Congress, even if the odds are Dissenting opinions by Justices 15 REVEREND W. LEO DANIELS service, so for Sermon -Build Your Own, Daniels 1001 (Jewel) a thousand to one, some onlookers William O. Douglas and Harry A. and liable copyright E. fees like broadcasters. A federal Ap- believe. (Billboard Jan. 12, Feb. 2) Blackmun (Chief Justice Warren Burger also dissented) scored the peal Court agreed with CBS last 19 INEZ ANDREWS Sen. John L. McClellan, chairman Lord Don't Move That Mountain, 226 (ABC) March, but only narrow issue of the Senate Copyrights Subcom- majority decision for allowing "acts on the of piracy" against copyright owners. of imported stations. The Court felt mittee, said last week that the court 15 ARETHA FRANKLIN AND that CATV origination of programs, decision in the CBS -Teleprompter Douglas, in typically strong lan- Amazing Grace. Atlantic SD2906 use of microwaves et al, did not put case "does not change his intentions guage, said the CATV users were re- a cable systems into the broadcaster 4 19 JAMES or his position." His intention is to producing copyrighted work, not 7 CLEVELAND class. Give Me A Clear Heart, Savoy 14270 move ahead with the revision bill in by license of the owner, "but by The copyright revision would the Senate as soon as feasible (hope- theft." bill Justice Douglas pointed out that a allow CATV pickup of TV stations' 5 13 SHIRLEY CAESAR fully getting it to the full Judiciary The Invitation, HBX 2160 copyrighted material, Committee this month). His position Cable TV system can pick up distant on payment of city network programming without a compulsory licensing fee. The stat- on the issue is reflected in his bill, 6 3 11 PILGRIM JUBILEE SINGERS which makes Cable TV liable for payment, and compete for a local utory fees would be set on a sliding Don't Let Him Down, Peacock PLP 193 (ABC) audience with a local TV station that copyright fees for the TV pro- scale rate, based on the size of the has to pay copyright fees to air the system's revenues and how many 7 4 15 SENSATIONAL NIGHTENGALES gramming it picks up, but provides It's Gonna Rain, Peacock legislative safeguards against show. He also trounced the court for distant city stations it imports for its PLP 175 (ABC) in "making" exorbitant charges. effect copyright law paying subscribers, via the multi- which is a matter for Congress to channel cable service. The fees 8 11 5 ANDRAE CROUCH & THE DISCIPLES Copyrights Subcommittee coun- Hallelujah, Jesus Is The Answer, Light LS 5602 handle. would be a sel Tom Brennan is still cautiously subject to later review by In the CBS -Teleprompter case, Copyright Tribunal established un- pessimistic about chances of a revi- 9 6 15 DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS the network had argued that import- We Love You Like A Rock. Peacock 178 (ABC) sion passing this year, but he does der the bill. see highly improved chances for an 10 9 19 BEAUTIFUL ZION CHOIR earlier negotiation of the massive I'll Make It Alright, Myrrh SP 6514 (Word) CATV stumbling block issue. Leisure Wear Co. Welding The court's decision has left al- 11 8 15 REVEREND C.L. FRANKLIN most nothing to be gained by movie The Eagle Stirs Her Nest, Jewel 0083 and TV film producers and broad- Youth Appeal Through Rock casters 12 10 5 ERNEST FRANKLIN for delaying the revision's Continued page 1 from coming There's A Leak In This Old Building, Jewel LPS 0063 progress, since the ruling provides issue. Getting record /tape company support will no protection under the present 65- mium. He intends to offer the enable him to record /tape program only through carry his guide circulation free into 13 12 11 THE RANCE ALLEN GROUP year -old copyright law. Big groups Gospel Truth GTS record retailers, 2701 (Columbia) of copyright owner and broadcast retailers who would be guide cir- he said. culators. He emphasized that the Allen admits he got the idea for interests who were backing delay, 14 24 15 BROOKLYN ALLSTARS concert guide's the national rock concert itinerary Too Close To Heaven. now have no reason for doing so. present circulation is Nashboro 7114 format from Shelly The Cable TV interests, with a already about 40 percent through Finkle and Jim stronger bargaining position, still record departments of stores which Koplick, co- promoters at Watkins 15 15 11 JAMES CLEVELAND Glen, with Trust In God. Savoy 14302 have little reason to delay because also carry Landlubber in their lei- whom he worked closely. sure wear Their advance ticket Senator McClellan is sticking to his sections. All clothing store sale showed a copies are personalized with the sizable mail order from the west 16 14 5 INSTITUTIONAL RADIO CHOIR original decision to make CATV sys- One More Day, Zanzee SALT' 2600 coast, indicating tems liable for copyright in the bill store's name stripped in on page one. the intense interest Clothing departments pay $.015 for in major concerts. (S. 1361). It is likely that the rates 17 28 15 ANDRAE CROUCH will be at or near those already in the guide copies. The guides carry com- The Harvard Coop here, one of I Don't Know Why, Light LS 5546 (Word) bill, although Cable interests will plete-as- possible national concert the nation's largest campus retail probably bargain for lower fees. itineraries for the month and high- outlets, for instance, takes 18,000 18 27 19 BROOKLYN ALLSTARS I've Got My Ticket, Jewel LPS 0067 If a CATV truce speeds action on light new best albums. copies of the guide monthly. Just Pants, the Senate side, it will also help on Allen intends to broaden the a national franchised chain guide editorially, because he hopes out of Chicago, is the largest single 19 17 11 ISAAC DOUGLAS 8 THE BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY CHOIR the House side. The House -passed Why Can't I, Creed 3045 ( Nashhoro) user revision bill of 1967 lost its CATV to help liquidate cost of the ex- of the guides. panded monthly with record adver- (For the history of how Land- section in a floor fight, and extensive - 1 JAMES CLEVELAND /HAROLD SMITH MAJESTICS lubber its Lord, Help Me To Hold Out, Savoy MG 14319 hearings were expected on that issue tising. He already has heard from built marketing program on rock music when S. 1361 reached the House Jeff Markoff of Columbia House and rock radio, see the about a supplement insert in a forth- next issue.) 21 18 19 RANCE ALLEN Copyrights Subcommittee. Agree- That Will Be Enough For Me, Gospel Truth GTA 1204 (Columbia) ment between the parties, reflected in the Senate bill, would eliminate 22 32 11 DELOIS BARRETT & THE BARRETT SISTERS need for those hearings -although a WB Music Income God So Loved The World, Creed 3035 few other issues, such as record per- Triples formance royalty (if it in the 23 - 1 JAMES CLEVELAND remains Down Memory Lane, Savoy MG 14311 Senate bill) would probably call for Since '71; Multi -Aids Cited some hearings on the House side. Continued from page 3 our catalog, even though the $200- 24 19 11 THE ANGELIC CHOIR Getting back to the Supreme Hold The Light, Savoy 1001 $250 we charge per use is far higher Court's landmark decision, the ma- take over 18 months for payment in than the average $50 fee of most jority ruling in the 9 to 3 vote was full," he said. "So naturally the first 25 25 5 BILLY PRESTON other publishers." Gospel In My Soul, Peacock PLP 179 (ABC) written by Associate Justice Potter area in which we showed sharply in- Branch Sheet Drive Stewart. Justice Stewart also ruled in creased profits was our expanded Among the new projects Silvers 26 21 15 REVEREND C.L. FRANKLIN the earlier 1968 Fortnightly case, print marketing, followed the sec- Heard It Through The Grapevine, Chess CH73 (Chess /Janus) has on the drawing board for 1974 is that local Cable TV pickup of TV ond year by a boost in performance the marketing of print music at programs was not liable under royalties from ASCAP and BMI." 27 - 1 JAMES CLEVELAND record retailers through the W /E /A I'll Do His Will, Savoy MG present copyright law. Last week's Contributing to the overall profit- 14284 Distributing branches. "All we need decision overturned a 1973 Appeals ability were overseas companies at the branches is warehouse space," 1 JAMES CLEVELAND /SOUTHERN Court ruling that would have made owned by WBM in England, Ger- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY said Silvers. "We will have our own CHOIR Cable TV systems liable for copy- many, France and Austria. Set up I Told Jesus To Change My Name, Savoy MG 14322 salesman at each branch and are right fees on imports from distant between two and three years ago, now preparing 1,500 rack units to go cities. each WBM overseas branch is a 16 19 ISAAC DOUGLAS & THE NEW YORK CITY CHOIR into record stores. That's where the A Little Higher, Creed In a stunning blow to CBS and profit maker which is empowered to 3036 ( Nashboro) really big print sales have to be." copyright owners, the majority held make its own deals although sub -li- 30 20 5 JAMES CLEVELAND AND THE GOSPEL GIRLS that Cable TV pickup does not con- censing of all material is automati- Trust In God, Savoy 14302 stitute a "performance" of a copy- cally traded with the home office. Audiofidelity, righted work which would properly Silvers points up the independ- 31 22 5 JAMES CLEVELAND & THE STAN LEE CHORAL ENSEMBLE be liable under the 1909 law, even ence of his operation by explaining Enja in Humble Yourself, Savoy 14313 though both Cable TV and tele- how copyrights from the galaxy of Deal vision were undreamed of. Instead, writer- artists signed to the WEA la- NEW YORK- Audiofidelity 32 26 19 REVEREND MACEO WOODS En- God Save Your People, Gospel Truth GTS 2106 (Columbia) the court majority found that the bels are an "insignificant" portion of terprises has entered into an agree- CATV systems merely "enhance" or the rights WBM owns. ment with Enja Records, European 33 - 1 THE PEOPLE'S CHOIR OF OPERATION PUSH extend the reception of a TV signal, Another area of climb in royalties jazz label, for national distribution. It's Gospel, Gospel Truth GTS 2720 (Columbia) and have no "creative function" in for 1973 was in use of the standard The initial release will consist of doing so. pre -rock copyrights amassed by three albums featuring Charles Tol- 34 35 15 SHIRLEY CAESAR SINGERS Gel Up My Brother, Hob 2144 (Scepter) The opinion said neither the dis- Warner Music over the decades. liver, Chick Corea, Peter Warren tance involved in the Cable service, Much of this is attributable to in- and Dollar Brand. AFE is preparing 35 33 15 THE JAMES HERNDON SINGERS nor the competitive business factors, creased TV and film synchro- a promotion campaign to support Also 1017 make the CATV pickup a broadcast nization. "This shows the value of the new affiliation. MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD 39 www.americanradiohistory.com Country Music Academy of Country Music Sets Nominees for Awards LOS ANGELES -The Academy of Country Music has set nominees for its ninth annual awards show, set for network telecast over ABC -TV Mar. 28, 1 1:30 p.m. -2:00 a.m. The show will be taped Mar. 25 at the John Wayne Theatre at Knott's Berry Farm. Roger Miller will host the show and artists include Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker, Tom T. Hall, Charlie Rich, Donna Fargo, Roy Clark, Conway Twitty, Freddie Hart and DoupKershaw (Billboard, Mar. 9). Complete list of nominees by cate- gory follows:

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR Roy Clark (Dot) Anne Murray (Capitol) Charlie Rich (Epic) Charlie Rich (Epic) Loretta Lynn (MCA) Johnny Rodriguez (Mercury) Johnny Rodriguez (Mercury) Donna Fargo (Dot) Merle Haggard (Capitol) Merle Haggard (Capitol) (RCA) Marty Robbins (MCA) Mel Tillis (MGM) Barbra Fairchild (Columbia) Tom T. Hall (Mercury) Susan Raye (Capitol) Conway Twitty (MCA)

VOCAL GROUP AND /OR DUET Brush Arbor (Capitol) Chaparral Bros. (unsigned) Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn (MCA) CONWAY TWITTY becomes honorary Chief of the Choctaw Nation. Left to Statler Bros. (Mercury) right are Bob Ellison, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Mayor W.P. Lerblance, Hart- Dolly Parton á Porter Wagoner (RCA) shorne, Okla.; Twitty; Harry J.W. Belvin, chief of the Choctaw Nation.

MOST PROMISING FEMALE VOCALIST Olivia Newton -John (MCA) (Asylum) Faron Young & Manager Debbie Hawkins (unsigned) LaWanda Lindsey (Capitol) Sharon Leighton (Jan -Mar) Buy Publishing Catalogs

MOST PROMISING MALE VOCALIST NASHVILLE -Faron Young and Involved in the purchase are Dorsey Burnett (Capitol) his manager, Billy Deaton, have Ramblin' Rose Music (ASCAP); Little Joe Shaver (unsigned) Ron Steagall (Capitol) purchased five more publishing Pawny -Rose (SESAC); Peppermint "Broke Down And Alone" Ronnie Milsap (RCA) catalogs in order to be "in cont8n- (BMI); Woodshed Larry Booth (unsigned) Music (BMI); Danny Michaels (unsigned) tion with major publishing firms." and Poke Sallet Music (BMI). Already b/w "Brand New You, Same Old Me" owners of three corn - The catalogs were purchased by panies: Court of Kings (BMI); Jer -Mar from the Hubert Long es- MCA 40197 SINGLE RECORD OF THE YEAR Faron Young Music (ASCAP) and "Behind Closed Doors " -Charlie Rich (Epic) tate last year. All of the catalogs are If We Make It Through December" -Merle Hag- Smokey Music (SESAC), the pair gard (Capitol) active, and each has well -known "The Most Beautiful Girl " -Charlie Rich (Epic) made 100% purchases through the "Satin Sheets " - Jeanne Pruett (MCA) -Mar copyrights. Pawny -Rose was co- "The Americans'-Byron MacGregor (West- Jer Investment Co., owned by bound), Gordon Sinclair (Avco), Tex Ritter Jerry Chesnut and Lamar Fike. owned by Roy Drusky, while Pep- (Capitol) These catalogs were originally a part permint was co -owned by Isam of the Hubert Long publishing em- Long, brother of the late Hubert SONG OF THE YEAR pire. Long. "Behind Closed Doors" (Kenny O'Dell) "If We Can Make la Through December" (Merle Haggard) "Most Beautiful Girl In The World" (N. Wilson, B. Sherrill, R. Bourke) "Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine" (Tom T. Hall) "Why Me" (Kris Kristofferson)

ALBUM OF THE YEAR "Behind Closed Doors" (Charlie Rich) "I Love Dixie Blues' (Merle Haggard) "Love Is The Foundation" (Loretta Lynn) "Introducing Johnny Rodriguez" (Johnny Rod- riguez) " Woman / Man" (Loretta Lynn /Conway Twitty)

COUNTRY MUSIC NITERY OF THE YEAR Palomino Club (North Hollywood) Brandin' Iron (San Bernardino) Cal's Corral (Los Angeles) Nashville Beach (Long Beach) Nashville West (El Monte)

NONTOURING BAND Sound Co. Rebel Playboys Tony Booth Band Tennesseans Band Palomino Ryders

TOURING BAND Brush Arbor Strangers Nashville Brass Staresiders HILLMAN HALL, left, has Buckeroos signed exclusively with Buckhorn Music Publish- Storytellers ing. Kris Kristofferson, whose first home was with Buckhorn, stopped by to Heartbeats congratulate Hall and Marijohn Wilkin, president of Buckhorn. BASS Jack Armstrong Billy Graham Larry Booth Curtis Stone Celebrity Game James O'Ratferty FIDDLE Bill Armstrong Goes National Doug Kershaw Don Rich NASHVILLE -A country mu- REACH OUT Johnny Gimble Tokyo Matsu sic celebrity game has been put on the market here by Bud AND TOUCH THE STEEL GUITAR Swindle, its originator, and will Red Rhodes CLOUDS IN THIS J.D. Maness be sold, among other places, at Bobby Boyd Buddy Emmons the Country Music Hall of Fame STARS' HOME ATOP Lloyd Green and at Opryland. ONE OF NASHVILLE'S DRUMS The game features a trip to Jerry Wiggins HIGHEST HILLS! Danny Lane Music Row, replete with various Archie Francis pitfalls and /or accelerations. 6,000 square feet of luxury, Buddy Harmon Bill Adam One can, for example, collect a Mediterranean style, 5 bed- royalty or pay travel expenses, rooms, 6 baths, recreation Al Bruno get involved in a road show or a room, library, banquet sized James Burton talk show, can even the Danny Michaels or tap dining room, living room, Roy Nichols bank for a gold record. Don Rich each with fireplace. Kitchen Featuring the Nashville sky- has everything. Call Betty PIANO is with a line, the game played Bernow, 352 -6430 or Jean Roscoe Horton single die and with cards drawn Floyd Cramer Quillen, 834 -2766. Charlie Rich from the game board. Glen Harden Hargus Robbins 40 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com Country Music Trucker Assn. Eyes Last Shows at Ryman Set Opry Country Disc Promotion Continued from page 3 Gil Milani, a writer -artist from Records; Nixon to Visit Debut Franklin, Ky., who wroted and re- NASHVILLE -For the first time those who will be in the audience is show outgrew each of its previous president of the coalition. "Jerry corded "American Life's Dream" at in its 48 year history, the "Grand Ole President Richard Nixon, who has homes. Todd went to Washington to get the RCA Studios here. Opry" had to give a special matinee accepted an invitation to attend. The The new Opry House, which will some relief for the independent driv- The initial 25,000 records are go- performance in the wintertime to ac- invitation -only list also includes sev- seat some 4,500, retains all of the at- and simply got sold out. Nothing ing to truck stops across the nation ers, commodate the overflow crowds eral senators, congressmen and gov- mosphere of the past, has improved, but we're going to which already have agreed to place seeking admission. ernors of various states. have the greatest mass movement the record in their jukeboxes, and to The new house is a $15 million in country music radio stations, some The tremendous for tickets through music ever seen this structure and can best be described country." of whom have promised to program came despite the fuel crisis, and was the song. believed related to the fact that there as having class. C/W MEET WILL SHERMAN Todd, now president of the coali- The 2,514th consecutive weekly a his home in The record will be used to lobby are thousands who want to see the tion, held meeting at broadcast of the world's oldest radio South Roxana, Ill., and decided to in Washington, and to increase the show in the old Opry House, which membership of the coalition "until now is in its final week. The program show will be opened by Roy Acuff, organize the drivers. Almost imme- the "King of Country Music," and diately 20,000 truckers signed up, we finally have all 800,000 mem- moves this week to the new structure bers," according to Coleman. at Opryland U.S.A. an Opry regular since 1937. paying an initiation fee of $15 and first There also will be a promotional After playing to a sell -out on Fri- The three hours of the grand dues of $5.00 a month. opening will be broadcast nationally was to campaign. Milam will do a series of day night (3,200), the show was sold - This money used primarily over a special radio network, begin- The inde- interviews all over the nation on out twice for Saturday night. Nearly put the session together. ning at 6:30 p.m. (CDT), and the en- pendent truckers contracted with country stations, and will appear at 1,000 still were unable to get tickets, truck stops which bear an emblem so "Opry" manager Hal Durham tire six hours may be heard on indicating they are playing the quickly assembled a show consisting WSM -AM. record. The word also will be spread of Bob Loman, Charlie Louvin, The new Opry House actually is through citizen band radios, accord- Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, the the seventh home of the "Opry," but the first structure specifically de- AD KORP I ing to Coleman. Carlisles, Roy Acuff, the Four Guys signed and built for the The writer- artist is donating all and Del Wood. This group enter- show. The THE NATION'S NEWEST LABEL royalties and performing rights to tained for two hours on Saturday af- the coalition. Bobby Williams, an- ternoon. COI. Thanks J. Collins other leader in the group, will head The combined shows meant a The More Than 450 Country, MOR and Rock the promotional campaign. weekend audience in excess of Visits Nashville Radio Outlets Currently Spinning Other releases already are being 10,000. Unknown to the audience, NASHIVLLE -Air Force Col. J. WILL SHERMAN BLUES, BOOZE AND pressed, and will be distributed as some of the performers were playing Quincy Collins, a prisoner of war in soon as the first one has run its the old Ryman Auditorium (the Viet Nam for eight years, will visit "LOVE THE WAY I DO" course, Coleman said. original name of the aging structure) here this week to pitch some BABY ON MY MIND of the Pubi.iBMI With a touch of bitterness, Cole- for the last time. The last show will songs he wrote while confined. Maingate DMI300A BY be next Friday night, man said another well -known coun- but some of the Col. Collins, who also was director ON try artist who is famous for his truck members will be on the road at that of the famed P.O.W. Choir, DONNIE ROHRS wrote songs refused to cooperate with the time. his songs with a bamboo stick on toi- DEL -MAR RECORDS, INC. 840 W. Front St. group. Or, at least his manager did. President Slated let paper, his only devices while im- 214/2274699 Covina, Cal., 91722 "We will pull everyone his However, nearly all 62 regular prisoned. Box 237 -Lancaster, TX 75146 (213) 966-1227/967-5202 of records out the members of the cast will be on hand The officer For Additional DJ. Copies, Please Write. of truck stops and will call on several Still need distributors in some states send them back to Nashville," for the grand opening of the new publishers here, he since many of his Dl copy? lust write us said. house next Saturday (16). Among songs are country oriented.

T T Makes His Television Dramatic Debut On "DOC ELLIOT" "Gold Mine "episode

ABC -TV Wednesday,March 13 Representation: Charles "Fuzzy "Owen [805] 871 -5490

MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD 41 www.americanradiohistory.com Country Music Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY for Week Ending 3/16/74 Billboard Nashville Scene Hot Country Singles" By BILL WILLIAMS Copyright 1974. Billboard Publications. Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system. or trans- written per- Danny Davis tells this story on mitted, in any form or by any means, electronic. mechanical. photocopying. recording. or otherwise, without the prior himself. He went through two mission of the publisher. * STAR Performer -Singles registering greatest proportionate upward progress this week. recording sessions and a show be- N q d Á fore glancing down and discovering L eJ N U N f..1 he was wearing one black shoe and 0 U TITLE TITLE -Artist 3 cp TITLE -Artist -Artist 3c (Writer). Label 8 Number (Dist. Label( (Publisher. Licensee) A ; O (Publisher. a- (Writer), Label & Number (Dist. label) (Publisher, Licensee) one red shoe. He says he was dis- (Writer). Label & Number (Dist Label) licensee) iL J 0 tracted by his pretty little daughter, 82 3 SILVER THREADS AND GOLDEN 13 THERE WONT BE ANYMORE - Charlie Rich 35 41 7 LISTEN -Wayne Kemp Tara, and that accounts for his prob- (Charlie Rich), RCA 0195 (Charles Rich, BMI) (Jay Marshall, Ray Grill), MCA 40176 NEEDLES -Linda Ronstadt (Blue Echo, ASCAP) (J. Rhodes, D. Reynolds), Asylum 11032 lem. ... Charlie McCoy tapes the 4 9 THERE'S A HONKY TONK (Central Songs. BMI) Midnight Special this week, to be ANGEL - Conway Twiny 36 23 15 TONIGHT SOMEONE'S aired next week. Appearing with (Troy Seals, Danny Rice), MCA 40173 (Danor. BMI) FALLING -Johnny Carver 80 2 RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA -Hank Williams 1r. (B. Braddock. 1. Glimer), ABC 11403 (Tree, BMI) (T. White), MGM 14700 (Combine, BMI) him will be the Barefoot Jerry 3 3 11 SWEET MAGNOLIA BLOSSOM-Billy 'Trash" Craddock 37 33 11 CHIP, CHIP -Patsy Sledd 70 75 9 LITTLE MAN -Logan Smith group, formerly known as Area Code (Rory Bourke, Gayle Barnhill) ABC 11412 (J. Barry, C: Crawford, A. Resmick) Mega 203 (L. Smith), Brand X 678 (Points West, BMI) (Chappell, ASCAP /Unichappel, BMI) 615. Roy Clark hosts the show... . (Viva, BUI) Mac Sargent and Pat Turpin, long 4 5 10 WOULD YOU LAY WITH ME (In A Field 71 77 4 ORLEANS PARISH PRISON - Johnny Cash 38 24 14 WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE -Bill Anderson (House Of Cash, Of Stone)-Tanya Tucker (D. Feller), Columbia 4-45997 BAI) time friends of Billy Walker, were (Pee Wee Maddux, Marion Carpenter, Pete McCord), (David Allen Coe), Columbia 445991 MCA 40164 (Gulf Stream /Singing River, BMI) married last week in the balcony of (Window Captive, BAI) 72 78 3 LORD, HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON -Doyle Holly the Grand Ole Opry House while the 8 10 MIDNIGHT, ME & THE BLUES -Mel Tillis 39 26 15 SOMETIME SUNSHINE -Jim Ed Brown (L. Morris), Barnaby 5030 (MGM) (Jerry House), MGM 14689 (Sawgrass, BMI) (James Coleman, Johnny Wilson), RCA 0180 (Yearbook, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, in (Sing Me /Backyard, ASCAP) BMI Pana, ASCAP) rehearsal, played on stage. ... One 6 7 13 I LOVE YOU, I LOVE 4 HELLO TROUBLE- Lawanda Lindsey the more YOU -David Houston & Barbara Mandrel) 40 27 10 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RANDOLPH 73 81 of unusual benefits was (E. McDuff, O. Couch), Capitol 3839 (Blue Book. BMI) (D. Walls, M. Wilson, S. Lyons), Epic 5 -11068 SCOTT - Stotler Brothers held here to aid a parochial school (Columbia) (Algee, BMI) (H. Reid, D. Reid), Mercury 73448 (Phonogram) (ABC) which needed repairs. Taking part (American Cowboy, BMI) 74 83 5 SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDER -John Denver 7 6 13 DADDY, WHAT IF -Bobby Bare (Denver, Kniss, Taylor) RCA 0213 were (Hal Silverstein), RCA 0197 (Evil Eye, BMI) (Cheery Lane, ASCAP) Ricci Mareno, Bobby Lee 41 . 29 14 RED ROSE FROM THE BLUE SIDE OF Trammell, Jean Steakely, Jim Gla- 12 10 WRONG IDEAS -Brenda Lee TOWN- George Morgan Dickey Lee (Shel Silverstein), MCA 40171 (Evil Eye, BMI) (Betty Jean Robinson, Hank Snow), MCA 40159 87 4 I USE THE SOAP - ser, Gillespie, Black, RCA Jerry Charlie (4 Star /Hank's, BUI) (David Gates), 0227 (Jipahulu, ASCAP) Susan St. Marie, The Country Cav- 11 8 BABY DOLL- Barbara Fairchild (J. Crutchfield, D. Earl), Columbia 4-45988 1 42 31 15 WHEN I GET MY HANDS 89 2 JUST ENOUGH TO MAKE aliers, and D.J. Fontana and his (Duchess, BMI) T7 ON YOU -Diana Trask ME STAY -Bob Luman Nashville (J. Epic 511087 (Columbia) Swingers. 10 2 12 ANOTHER LONELY SONG -Tammy Wynette (Norris Wilson, C. Taylor, Diana Trask), Dot 17486 Weatherly), (Keca, ASCAP) The Gross Brothers are looking (B. Sherrill, M. Wilson. T. Wynette), Epic 5 -11079 (Famous) (Al Gallico /Algee, BMI) (Columbia) (AlgeezAltan, BMI) for a label to release a song recorded 43 39 9 I CHANGED MY MIND -ally Walker MY PART OF FOREVER- HAS MY a year ago. The song was written by 11 9 11 LOVING YOU CHANGED (Conway Twrtty), MGM 14693 (Twiny Bird, BMI) (J. Foster, B. Rice), Epic 511090 (Columbia) LIFE-Coed Rogers (Jack & Bill, ASCAP) Ron Good, who died of a heart at- (Jerrry Foster & Bill Rice) Atlantic 45-4012 44 50 11 YOU'RE MY WIFE, SHE'S MY tack a few weeks later. ... Hillman (Jack & Bill, ASCAP) WOMAN -Charlie Lewin 78 84 6 TELL ME A LIE -Sammi Jo Artists 368 (B. Wyrick, B. Buckins), MGM South 7029 12 10 12 THAT'S THE WAY LOVE (D. Wilkins, A. Broughton) United Hall, brother of Tom T. Hall, has (Little David, BMI) (Fame, BMI, , ASCAP) signed exclusively with Buckhorn GOES - Johnny Rodriguez (S.D. Shafer, L. Frizzell), Mercury 73446 (Phonogram) 45 54 5 I NEVER GET THROUGH 79 86 4 WHAT A WAY TO GO -Del Reeves Music Company. ... Marty Martel (Blue Crest, BMI) MISSING YOU -Bobby Lewis (1. Chesnut), United Artists 378 (Passkey. BMI) and his Midnight Special are an ex- 13 15 8 TWENTIETH CENTURY (Arthur Kent, Frank Stanton, Bitt Collie), Ace Of Hearts 0480 (Golden Horn, ASCAP) 80 85 7 MAMA'S GOT TO KNOW tended tour through the west, re- DRIFTER -Marty Robbins (Marty Robbins), MCA 40172 (Mariposa, BMI) HOW-Doug Kershaw turning to Nashville at the end of 65 4 AT THE TIME -lean Shepard (Doug Kershaw), Warner Bros. 7763 (Tree, BMI) March. ... Shorty Lavender and his 25 6 THE CRUDE OIL BLUES - (Bill Anderson), United Artists 384 (Stallion, BMI) R. Hubbard). RCA (Vector, BUI) staff landed their first the (Jerry 0224 HONEYMOON FEELIN' -Roy Dark booking at 59 3 IS IT WRONG Hellard, Paxton), Dot 17498 (Famous) 15 14 13 A LOVE SONG -Anne Murray (R. G.S. (For Loving You) -Sonny James (Coustic. BMI) Satellite Club in Lincoln, Neb., (D.L. George, K. Loggias), Capitol 3776 (W. McPherson), Columbia 4-46003 placing Joe Stampley there.... Don (Portofino /Gnossos, ASCAP) 82 79 5 THANK YOU FOR THE FEELING -Billy Mize Adams set for an Atlantic session this 16 17 13 WAKE ME INTO 61 4 YOU NEVER SAY YOU LOVE ME (Johnny Slate, Red Lane, Larry Henley), week.... Ray Griff is going wild as a LOVE -Wilma Burgess & Bud Logan ANYMORE -Nat Stuckey United Mists 372 (Tree, BMI) (R. Lane, R. Poder. T. McKeon), Shannon 816 (N.S.O.) (Gayle Barnhill, Johnny Christopher), RCA 0222 writer. He currently has material on (Tree /Cross Keys, BMI) (Unichappell /Easy Nine, BMI) 83 92 3 SILVER THREADS AND GOLDEN seven albums on the Billboard A THING ABOUT YOU BABY/ NEEDLES - Charlie McCoy 21 5 I'VE GOT NEVER GO AROUND 49 57 5 I'LL (J. Rhodes, D. Reynolds), Monument 8600 (Columbia) charts. CHML -AM, TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER - ... Hamilton, MIRRORS -Lefty Frizzell (Central Songs. BMI) (Tony Joe While). RCA 0196 (Swamp Fox /White (S.D. Shafer/L. Frizzell), ABC 11416 (Blue Crest, BMI) Ont., is about to debut a country mu- Haven. ASCAP) sic show, hosted by John Murphy. 84 90 3 SPIDERS AND SNAKES -Jim Stafford 18 20 9 WHEN YOUR GOOD LOVE WAS 68 3 THINGS AREN'T FUNNY (1. Stafford), MGM 14648 (Kaiser /Boo /Gimp, ASCAP) It's scheduled weekly from 6:30 to MINE- Barvel Felts ANYMORE -Merle Haggard 10 p.m. on Saturday, Murphy has (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice), Cinnamon 779 (M. Haggard), Capitol 3830 (Shade Tree, BMI) 85 94 2 BORN TO LOVE & SATISFY -Karen Wheeler (Jack & Bill, ASCAP) (B. Rice, J. Poster), RCA 0223 (Jack & Bill, ASCAP) been a country music broadcaster 51 55 5 I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE 19 16 9 RAINBOW IN DADDY'S EYES -Sammi Smith YOU'RE GONE -Willie Nelson 2 COUNTRY BUMPKIN -Cal Smith for some 20 years in various Cana- (Dallas Frazier, Sanger Shafer), Mega 204 86 95 (Willie Nelson), Atlantic 3008 (Willie Nelson, BMI) (D. Wayne), MCA 40191 (Tree. BUI) dian markets. Artists can pre -tape (Blue Crest, BMI) interviews by calling (416) 549 -2411. 20 22 7 HOUSTON (I'm Comin' To 52 56 9 MARLENA -Bobby Goldsboro NO CHARGE -Melba Montgomery Dot's Pat Roberts performed the See YOU) - (B. Goldsboro), United Artists 3718 (H. Howard), Elektra 45883 (Wilderness, BMI) (David Patch), Capitol 3808 (Pen In Hand/Unart, BMI) national anthem and appeared at (Kayteekay /Humdmar, ASCAP) STORMS OF TROUBLED TIMES -Ray Price 53 47 8 AMERICANS -Teo liner (J. Weatherly), Columbia 446015 (Keca. ASCAP) half -time festivities at a Seattle Su- 32 4 HANG IN THERE GIRL -Freddie Hart (Gordon Sinclair), Capitol 3814 (Conestoga, BUI) personics game before a crowd of (Freddie Hart), Capitol 3627 (Blue Book, BMI) 89 91 3 I GAVE UP A GOOD I JUST HAD YOU ON MY YOU WERE 54 60 10 13,000. The team annually honors 28 5 (Jeannie Marie) MORNING -Red Steagall MIND -Sue Richards A LADY -Tommy Overstreet (R. Steagall, S. Linard), Capitol 3825 (Willex. ASCAP) country music. The Hank Wil- (Sue Richards), Dot 17481 (Famous) (Ensign, BMI) ... (Moreno, Charlie Black), Dot 17493 (Famous) liams Jr. show broke all records at (Ricci Moreno, SESAC) 55 49 12 TURN ON YOUR LIGHT (And Let It 90 93 3 SHE STILL COMES TO ME- Henson Cargill Lynchburg, Va., despite four inches (D. Feller), Atlantic 4016 (Vector, BAI) 30 6 (We're Not) THE JET Shine) -Kenny Price of snow on the ground. Some 4,000 SET George Jones & Tammy Wynette (R. Pennington), RCA 0198 (Dunbar. BMI) - Miller (B. Braddock), Epic 5-11083 (Columbia) (Tree, BUI) 91 REFLECTIONS -Jody showed up, grossing $20,000, with (R. Lane, R. Porter, N.B. Johnston),-Epic 511094 76 4 SEASONS IN THE SUN -Bobby Wright 45 4 A VERY SPECIAL LOVE SONG -Charlie Rich (Columbia) (Tree, BMI, Cross Keys, ASCAP) 1,500 turned away. The Buck (Rod McKuen, Jacques Brel), ABC 11418 ... (B. Sherrill, Narro Wilson), Epic 511091 (Columbia) (E.B. Marks, BMI) Starr and the Country Outlaws (Algee, BMI) 92 SOMETHING BETTER -o.8. McClinton (M. Kosser, R. Vanhoy), Enterprise 9091 (Columbia) group consists of three brothers: 37 4 I'LL TRY A LITTLE HARDER -Donna Fargo 69 4 J. JOHN JONES -Marie Owens (Tree, BMI) Buck and Mike Starr, (Donna Fargo), Dot 17491 (Famous) (Billy Ray Reynolds. K. Phyllis Powell), MCA 40184 Tony, and (Prima Donna, BMI) (Claremont House, BMI) Tiny Tackel and Roy Jordan. They 93 LAST OF THE SUNSHINE 26 13 15 I'M STILL LOVING YOU -Joe Stampley LADY -Murray Kellum 58 64 7 LOVELY COWBOYS -Eddy Raven were discovered by Faron Young (Glen Sutton, George Richey), Dot 17485 (Murray Kellum, Sonny Ladet), Cinnamon 777 (E. Raven), ABC 11421 (Milene, ASCAP) and brought to Nashville. Booked (Famous) (Flagship /AI Gallico, BMI) (Toast, BMI) 34 6 IT'S TIME TO CROSS THAT 94 96 2 YOU BET YOUR SWEET LOVE -Kenny O'Dell by One Niters, they are on the verge 59 62 8 CLAIM ON ME- George Hamilton Iv (K. O'Dell), Capricorn 0360 (Warner Bros.) BRIDGE -Jack Greene (Lee Clayton). RCA 0203 (Resaca, BMI) of a recording contract. ... Johnny (Ben Peters). MCA 40179 (Ben Peters, BUI) (House Of Gold, BMI) Cash is set for four weeks in Nevada 63 67 7 SUPERSKIRT- Connie Cato 42 6 HELLO LOVE-Hank Snow (R. Hellard, Gary S. Paxton), Capitol 3788 95 98 2 WHISTLE STOP -Roger Miller more a (Betty Jean Robinson, Aileen Mnich), RCA 0215 this year, one than year ago. (Acoustic, BMI) (R. Miller), Columbia 4 -46000 (Roger Miller, BMI) ... Good things are happening to (Four Star, BMI) Merle Kilgore. He has finished a 36 6 I'M LEFT, YOU'RE RIGHT, 73 3 WE SHOULD BE TOGETHER -Don Williams 96 97 3 WALKIN' IN TEARDROPS -Earl Richards (A. Reynolds), (MI 36 (lack, BMI) (B. Emerson, 1 Emerson), Ace Of Hearts 0477 SHE'S GONE - on records, written (Golden Horn, ASCAP) musical and pro- (B. Taylor, S. Kesler) Mercury 73452 ( Phonogram) 74 2 SOME KIND OF WOMAN -Faron Young duced by Alex Zanetis, he was se- (Hill & Range, BMI) (J. Peppers, T. Cash), Mercury 73464 ( Phonogram) 97 99 2 I'M FREE -Stan Hitchcock THE VIOLIN, THE SWEETER (Coal Miners, BMI) lected for the Burt Reynolds film, itr 38 7 THE OLDER (J. Foster, B. Rice), Cinnamon 782 THE MUSIC -Hank Thompson (Jack & Bill, ASCAP) and has done two national commer- 7 BOTH SIDES OF THE UNE -Josie Brown (Curley Putnam), Dot 17490 (Famous) (Tree, BUI) 63 58 (Marion Frances), RCA 0209 (Ma -Ree, ASCAP) cials, one of which was given an 98 100 2 BOB, ALL PLAYBOYS 31 35 10 TRACES OF LIFE -tonzo & Oscar , award..'. GRC has rushed the Moe (Paul Huffman, Joane Kelly), GRC 1006 64 70 6 LET THE FOUR WINDS BLOW -lack Reno AND ME -Dorsey Barnette 3829 (ATV, BMI) Bandy single, "I Just Started Hatin' (Hardtack /Act One. BMI) (D. Bartholomew, A. Domino). United Artists 374 (C. Williams), Capitol (Travis, BMI) Cheatin' Songs Today," which is 40 6 GUESS WHO -Jerry Wallace 99 BITTER THEY ARE, HARDER (Max Powell), MCA 40183 (Four Star, BMI) 65 71 5 BACK IN THE COUNTRY -Roy Acuff getting advance rave reviews. THEY FALL -Larry Gatlin ... (Eddy Raven), Hickory 314 (MGM) (Milene, ASCAP) Bob Eubanks of American Manage- 33 18 ll SNAP YOUR FINGERS -Don Gibson (L. Gatlin), Monument 7-8602 (Columbia) (G. Martin, A. Zanetisi, Hickory 312 (MGM) (First Generation, BMI) 66 72 6 DON'T STOP NOW -Sherry Bryce ment has announced the signing of (Fred Rose, BMI) (Sherry Bryce), MGM 14695 (Sawgrass, BMI) 100 WELCOME HOME -Peters & Lee Barbara Mandrel) for exclusive rep- 34 19 14 I'VE JUST GOT TO KNOW- Freddy Weller (1. Dupre, S. Beldone, B. Blackburn), Philips 40729 (B. Emerson, J. Emerson), Columbia 445968 88 2 SMILE FOR ME -Lynn Anderson resentation in all fields, and sim- (Phonogram) (Bello, ASCAP) (Golden Horn, ASCAP) iTf (R. Bourke), Columbia 4.46009 (Chappell, ASCAP) (Continued on page 44) 42 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com Once again he'; been named "Best Country Male Vocalist of the Year:` This time the hcnor comes from The American Music Awards. While they were at it, the AMA also named Charley's album, "Sweet Country;" the 'Album of the Year :' And the rew Number One country album today is "Amazing Love: By Cha-ley Pride. Amazing. nen Records and Taies

www.americanradiohistory.com Counl:ry Music Billboard Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY Winn Flays Hot for Week Ending 3/1b//4 Country TV NASHVILLE- Network tele- vision producer Bob Winn charged (ountrg LP's here last week that "Nashville musi- cians are prostituting themselves," Copyrigh 1974. Billboard Publications, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced. stored in a retrieval system. or transmitted, in any form or by any means. electronic, mechanical. settling for what he calls third and photocopying, recording. or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. fourth rate TV shows. * Star Performer -LP's registering proportionate upward progress this week Referring to network shows now ARTCO RECORDS AND 'APES featuring country music, Winn Y = 5006 ÿU called them a "pile of garbage." 3 eo TITLE -Artist, Label 8 Number (Distributing Label) Winn made it clear he was referring to the "Music Country U.S.A." series on NBC, which has slipped to 2 47 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS -Charlie Rich, Epic PE 32247 (Columbia)

54th position in the ratings out of 62 4 5 A LEGENDARY PERFORMER, Vol. 1 -Elvis Presley, RCA CPL10341 shows. Winn, who last year produced the 3 1 10 LET ME BE THERE -Olivia Newton-John, MCA 389

first "Opryland" show, said he also 4 6 10 FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE LAST HARD TOWN -Tom T. Hall, Mercury is disappointed with the recent SR 1.687 ( Phonogram) Music Hit Country Parade show. 5 3 10 WE'RE GONNA HOLD ON- George Jones & Tammy Wynette, Epic NE 32757 "I was shocked at the quality," he (Columbia) said. "More and more it makes the 6 7 10 SOUTHERN ROOTS /BACK HOME TO MEMPHIS -Jerry Lee Lewis, Madison Avenue people think the Mercury SRM 1690 (Phonogram) only things that can come out of here 7 8 16 NEW SUNRISE -Brenda Lee, MCA 373 are Eddy Arnold dance routines." Winn was here with game show 8 5 11 BOBBY BARE SINGS LULLABYS, LEGENDS AND LIES -Bobby Bare, RLA CPL-2.0290 MC Monte Hall, who is recording a soundtrack fora TV special taped at 9 11 AN AMERICAN LEGEND -Tex Ritter, Capitol 11241 Sea World in Orlando, Fla. 10 10 I REMEMBER HANK WILLIAMS -Glen Campbell, Capitol SW 11253

11 9 AMAZING LOVE -Charley Pride, RCA APL10397 Nashville 18 I'M STILL LOVING YOU -Joe Stampley, Dot DOS 26020 (Famous) 13 15 THE UPTOWN POKER CLUB -Jerry Reed, RCA APL 10356

14 17 FASTEST HARP IN THE SOUTH -Charlie McCoy, Monument KZ 32749 (Columbia)

Scene 22 THE ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR -Roy Clark, Capitol ST 11264 Continued from page 42 16 12 THE MIDNIGHT OIL- Barbara Mandrel!, Columbia KC 32743 ilarly for Marty Robbins. The much -awaited album done 17 20 BEAN BLOSSOM -Bill Monroe, MCA 28002 by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, is 18 13 ROY CLARK'S FAMILY ALBUM -Roy Clark, Dot DOS 26018 (Famous) just released. It should be a collec- tor's item. ... It's official now: Con- 19 16 WHERE MY HEART IS- Ronnie Milsap, RCA APL10338 way Twitty is a chief of the Choctaw 20 19 ALL ABOUT A FEELING -Donna Fargo, Dot DOS 26019 (Famous) Nation, which includes the Choc- "I get so many requests for LETTER TO A TRUCKER'S WIFE." ... "I think 32 KID STUFF -Barbara Fairchild, Columbia KC -32711 it will go all the way." taws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Semi- Itr Billy Cole noles and Cherokees. His Indian WHO Des Moines Iowa 22 14 IF YOU CAN'T FEEL IT, (It Ain't There)- Freddie Hart, Capitol ST 11252 Host of Country Music U.S.A. name is Hatako- Chtokchito -A- which 23 26 KINDLY KEEP IT COUNTRY -Hank Thompson, Dot DOS 26015 (Famous) This new single release "LETTER TO A TRUCKER'S WIFE" by Gene Davis Yakni- Tolia, means "Great is way over due. It's making the request line outdo itself. I think it's great. Man of Country Music." ... Diana 24 27 SONG AND DANCE MAN -Johnny Paycheck, Epic KE 32570 (Columbia) Billy Parker Trask will return with Danny KVOO Radio 25 21 SHADES OF STEEL -Lloyd Green, Monument KZ 32532 (Columbia) Tulsa, Oklahoma Thomas to the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in June. ... The La France 26 29 KENTUCKY SUNSHINE -Wayne Kemp, MCA 369 Consistently one of the most requested songs on my show. Sisters have signed a contract with Charlie Douglas 27 23 CAN I SLEEP IN YOUR ARMS /LUCKY LADIES- Jeannie Seeley, MCA 385 WWL Radio Pompeii Records in Texas following New Orleans, La. their appearance at the Louisiana 34 RED, WHITE & BLUE (Grass), GRC 5002 IT'S A HIT! NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. Association of Fairs and Festivals. 29 IT'S A MAN'S WORLD -Diana Trask, Dot DOS 26016 (Famous) Bill Mack ... Linda K. Lance, overcoming a 25 "All Night Show" WBA Radio bout with anemia which forced can- 48 JOLENE -Dolly Parton, RCA 0473 Fort Worth, Texas cellation of some of her dates, is 31 33 JUST ANOTHER COWBOY SONG -Doyle Holly, Barnaby 15011 (MGM) The wife of every truck driver will be deeply moved by this song, LETTER TO back and going strong. She'll tour A TRUCKER'S WIFE. this summer with Roy Drusky. 32 35 ARMS FULL OF EMPTY -Buck Owens, Capitol ST 11222 Bob Jackson WIL Radio Tucker, felled by the flu, had 33 24 CLINGING TO A SAVING HAND -Conway Twitty, MCA 376 St. Louis, Mo. to cancel her first date ever. Stone- Sometimes when a D.J. plays a record for the first time, it seems to have that wall Jackson took it over, just 24 44 MY THIRD ALBUM -Johnny Rodriguez, Mercury SRM 16999 (Phonogram) hit sound, then when the request line lights ups, that proves it. LETTER TO A TRUCKER'S WIFE has that sound. hours after signing with the Buddy 35 36 THE FARMER -Porter Wagoner, RCA APL 1 -0346 Larry Scott Lee Agency. ... A test market KLAC Radio HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN -Jody Miller, Epic RE 32569 (Columbia) Los Angeles, Calif. sampling of the new Don Frost 36 40 record was done in Columbus, Ohio, Our most requested record .... THERE WON'T BE ANYMORE -Charlie Rich, RCA APL10433 Dennis Rainwater and WMNI -AM said the response KEBC was 38 28 SAWMILL -Mel Tillis, MOM SE 4907 Okla. City overwhelming. ... Skeeter Davis, currently on tour in Africa, IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER -Merle Haggard, Capitol ST -11276 reports great success with her RCA concerts. She has with her an evan- 40 42 THE LEGENDARY LEFTY FRIZZELL -ABC ABCX 799 gelist Lowery, who gives named Bill 41 46 FULLY REALIZED -Charlie Rich, Mercury SRM 27505 (Phonogram) a sermon at the conclusion of her show. She also is carrying a writer 42 30 COUNTRY SUNSHINE - Dottie West, RCA APL1.0344

and photographer with her. ... 43 39 GREATEST HITS VOL. 1- Connie Smith, RCA APL10275 Doug Kershaw has been added to the March 16th country show in New 44 47 THE PILGRIM -Larry Gatlin, Monument KZ-32571 (Columbia)

York, headlined by Lynn Anderson. 45 31 LOVE IS THE FOUNDATION- Loretta Lynn, MCA 355 BACKED WITH HAULIN' STEEL 5 AFrrB'B Jeannie C. Riley returns to her 46 38 YOU'VE NEVER BEEN THIS FAR BEFORE /BABY'S GONE- Conway Twitty, native Texas, opening at the - MCA 359 rock Hotel ASSOCIATED RECORDING ARTISTS OF AMERICA, LTD. in Houston.... Bob Cady again is president of Del -Mar 47 1 WOULD YOU LAY WITH ME -Tanya Tucker, Columbia KC 32744 : PO BOX 12044 OKLAHOMA CITY OKLA (405) 5282284 Ber t,t` Records. He had been out of action 48 1 SHE'S GOT EVERYTHING I NEED -Eddy Arnold, MGM 4912 for the past two years after an auto accident. He now is in the process of 49 1 HAPPY HOUR -Tony Booth, capitol ST-11270

lining up distributors for his re- 50 43 4 TOO MANY MEMORIES -Bobby Lewis, Ace Of Hearts 31002 (Golden Horn) leases. Country music singer Betty Amos seems to be doing well with her novel, "Wayward and Searching." RCA's Jim Ed Brown, had her first Virginia legislature has passed a res- Interest already has been expressed showing as a new member of the olution praising native son Charlie by a producer for movie rights. Betty Tennessee Art League. . Del McCoy for his accomplishments in is already working on her second Reeves and Stan Hitchcock the field of music. ... Songwriter novel, to be published by Aurora. swapped benefits for hometown Phyllis Hiller of Nashville is teach- She also has formed a six -piece, all - schools; Del was on Stan's show in ing a course geared for teachers and girl band, called the Nashville Kitty Dickson, Tennessee, and Stan on children at Holy Name College in Kats. ... Becky Brown, wife of Del's in Centerville.... The West Oakland, Calif. this summer. 44 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com Country Music_ Kris &O'Dell Receive Top Writer Award NASHVILLI Kris Kristoffer- son and Kenny O'Dell, both The couple that Grammy Award winners, continued their string of conquests by taking top honors in the annual Nashville Songwriter's Award presentation. lives on the charts Kristofferson was named Song- writer of the Year, elected by mem- bers of the Nashville Songwriter's is once again Association, and O'Dell won the runner -up award. Certificates of outstanding winning achievement in songwriting went to yourhearts, the following writers: Bill Anderson, Rory Bourke, Billy Sherrill, Norro Wilson, Dolly Parton, Merle Hag- with a countrywide gard, Tom T. Hall, Don Earle, Nick Nixon, John Volinkety, Jim Owen, Becky Bluefield, Conway Twitty, Billy Joe Shaver, Ben Peters, Irwin tour, Levine and Russell Brown, Boud- leaux and Felice Bryant. Principal speakers at the event, With new bits held last Tuesday at the Sheraton South here, were MGM's Mel Tillis and Billboard's Bill Williams. galore, BMI Suit Vs. and three red-hot Md. Station NEW YORK -Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) has filed a copyright in- fringement suit Feb. 25 in the U.S. albums for starts. District Court in Maryland against station WEBB, Baltimore. The suit alleges that copyrighted songs were GFo performed on the station without he authorization and in violation of the fGoE4 A,,__ r4 U.S. Copyright hq y Y Act. Rll^MNOin9. The action against the station, 4s °r9ysw)The ,aOh which is owned by J.B. Broadcasting WcS Wre e of Baltimore, Ltd., is the latest move Ocee Csa ms by BMI in its crackdown on sub- KE 32757 OndsOn9 scriber stations which allegedly are delinquent in paying performance fees (Billboard, March 2). Acts Entertain Ga. Penitentiary Aa2¡ng .. - )S ATLANTA -A pair of GRC acts was utilized in what was described p4 Of je as "the first in a series of recreational Tre programs" for the inmates of the At- ay¡Orherhrante d to Wfa lanta Federal Penitentiary. Ylye,ìOrd The leading act was Red, White & KE 32562 Blue (grass), a country group. Ap- pearing also were The Counts, also of GRC, playing predominantly jazz and r &b, and Hydra, recently signed with Capricorn records. The three acts performed before a crowd of more than 2,000 at the prison auditorium. The program was sponsored by Richards', an out- standing club here. Label Added By Green Menu NEW YORK -Green Menu Mu- sic Factory, Inc., a management, publishing and independent pro- duction firm here, has expanded its KE 3?745 operation to include a label, Green Menu Records. The company issued George its first single last week, a coupling of old favorites performed by Henry and Tammy. Jerome's Banjos. Jerome, Green Menu president, On said he is currently organizing a net- work of independent distributors to and Tapes handle his line, with Beta Records Distributors here the first to be named. The company will produce its own material as well as issue se- lected leased masters, and plans to release up to 10 singles during its first year. Album product will hinge on the success of singles penetration, Jerome said.

MARCH 1 R 1471 R11 I RCIARPI 45 www.americanradiohistory.com Billboard Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY for Week Ending 3/16/74 Copyright 1974. Bill- Classical Music Top50 board Publications. Inc. No part of this publication may be roproduced. stored in a retrieval sys- tem, or transmitted, in any Approach, means, Policy form or by any CRI, in Broader electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Sales Volume ListenIn9 tho publisher. Looks to Fortify By ROBERT SOBEL NEW YORK -Composers Record- And on a national basis, CRI hired and motive of several composers, best selling middle -of- the -road singles compiled from These are ings Inc., long a conservative staple Larry Sockell as its field sales repre- which had no central point or direc- national retail sales and radio station air play listed in rank order. in the classical field, is taking a sentative. This has resulted, accord- tion.to attract the buyer, Somer said. broader policy approach on various ing to Somer, in widening direct pat- A new departure for CRI was the re- levels. These include a wider distri- tern of dealing with retailers. The lease in December of a children's firm has also added Tower Records record featuring "The Pied Piper of 2 TITLE, Artist, Label & Number (Dist. Label) (Publisher, Licensee) bution system, a more modern pack- aging concept on some items, and on the coast and Kimmara in Chi- Mamelin" which, according to will by addi- Somer, is selling extremely well. 1 3 7 SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDER bolder repertoire moves. cago and be handled John Denver, RCA 0213, (Cherry Lane, ASCAP) tional Discount stores. "We're not abandoning our con- Hoping to capitalize on the 2 1 8 SEASONS IN THE SUN servative policy by any means," Also, to reach a wider youth au- Terry Jacks, Bell 45432 (E.B. Marks, BMI) "Exorcist's" commercial value and stated Jack A. Somer, vice president, dience, CRI product is being made 3 2 12 LAST TIME I SAW HIM the George Crumb popularity, CRI who joined CRI in September. "We available through the Jazz Com- Diana Ross, Motown 1278, (Jobete, ASCAP) recently issued an LP featuring still are a conservative label and will poser's Orchestra Assn.'s distribu- 4 5 8 DARK LADY Crumb's "Black Angels (Thirteen Cher, MCA 40161 (Senor, ASCAP) tion service. "This is a deal which we remain so, dedicated to the record- Images From the Dark Land)," 5 4 12 I LOVE ing the American con- feel is important because it puts CRI exposure of which is headlined in the Warner Tom T. Hall, Mercury 73436, (Phonogram), (Hallnote, BMI) These new albums into the hands of a buyer temporary composer. Bros. film. CRI backed the album 6 15 4 A VERY SPECIAL LOVE SONG thrusts will just be an adjunct to our whom we did not reach with any real Charlie Rich, Epic 5-11091 (Columbia) (Agee, BMI) with a promotion mailer keynoted to main policy." depth previously," Somer said. As 7 6 14 LOVE'S THEME Crumb's original recording. "Male - 2069, (Sa- Vette, January, BMI) In field CRI part of its slight shift in repertoire Love Unlimited Orchestra, 20th Century the of distribution, detto" by Kenneth Gaburo, which entered into a deal with Sam stance, CRI will record "larger 8 7 14 MY SWEET LADY will be released shortly, is still an- Cliff De Young, MCA 40156, (Cherry Lane, ASCAP) things" on one record rather than Goody's distribution firm, SMG, in other example of CRI's broadening 9 10 18 ERES TU /TOUCH THE WIND October, for the New York area. the grab -bag of selections in style Mocedades, Tara 100 (Famous), (Radmus, ASCAP) base with more non -academic reper- from previ- 10 8 14 LOVE SONG toire. Other departures Anne Murray, Capitol 3776, (Portofino /Gnossos, ASCAP) ous releases are "The Bewitched," a 11 19 4 THE LORD'S PRAYER dance -satire by Harry Partch and a Mead, A &M 1491, (Almo, ASCAP) on Sister Janet RCA Promotion recording of Andrew Imbrie's Sym- 12 14 8 STAR phony No. 3 with the London Sym- A &M 72508 (Hudsonbay, BMI) Stealers Wheel, phony Orchestra, Harold Faberman 13 9 22 THE WAY WE WERE Film Score Series Barbra Streisand, Columbia 4 -45944 (Colgems, ASCAP) as conductor. Covers for all three NEW YORK -Hot sales on With the Wind,' the Max Steiner 14 18 11 BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON have been more commercially de- Lou Christie, Three Brothers 402 (CTI), (Famous, ASCAP) "Casablanca- Classic Film Scores of score." signed, heightened by brighter col- said the campaign would 15 13 7 HOUSTON (I'm Comm n' To See You) Humphrey Bogart" and release of Maher ors and more appealing artwork. Glen Campbell, Capitol 3808, (Kayteekay, Hudmar, ASCAP) "Gone With the Wind -Classic Film be launched with trade advertising Somer said that CRI also plans to 16 12 13 LIFE IS A SONG WORTH SINGING Score by Max Steiner" has and consumer advertising in the Johnny Mathis, Columbia 4- 45975, (Mighty Tree, BMI) its output from 14 to some 20 prompted RCA Records to launch a Schwann Catalog, step up 17 16 13 YOU'RE CRI is wholly -sub- nationwide advertising and promo- and the National Lampoon. releases per year. Ringo, Apple 1870, (Capitol), (Viva, BMI) Records sell for $5.95 sug- tion campaign on its Red Seal Clas- There are posters and mounted sidized. 18 11 12 I SHALL SING gested list price. Garfunkel, Columbia 4-45983, (Warner- Tamerlane, Caledonis Soul, BMI) sic Film Scores series. covers, stickers, illustrated divider 19 23 5 MOCKINGBIRD Announcement was made by Jack cards showing the seven albums in Carly Simon & , Elektra 45880, (Unart, BMI) Maher, director of Merchandising, the series, radio and TV spots, I50 20 17 13 DADDY, WHAT IF who said: "The classic film series and 400 -line ad mats and other mer- Salabert to BMI) Bobby Bare, RCA 0197, (Evil Eye, which now numbers seven albums, chandising tools. 21 43 2 I'LL HAVE TO SAY I LOVE YOU IN A SONG The theme of the campaign is Mark Birth Jim Croce, ABC 11324, (Blendingwell /American Broadcasting, ASCAP) has been one of the most successful in recent years. "You Must Remember This," the 22 20 7 IN THE MOOD Red Seal projects Bette Midler, Atlantic 7270, (Shapiro /Bernstein, ASCAP) Sales on `Casablanca,' the album of first line of "As Time Goes By" Of Poulenc most famous song 23 31 5 THERE WON'T BE ANYMORE Humphrey Bogart movies, were (Casablanca), NEW YORK -Editions Salabert, Charlie Rich, RCA 0195, (Charles Rich, BMI) title from the Bogart motion pictures, more than double any previous music publishers, is preparing a bro- 24 21 18 SHOW AND TELL in its initial release, and it promises and there will be a special order Road 30073 (Bell), (Fullness, BMI) chure marking the 75th anniversary Al Wilson, Rocky form covering the seven titles cur- to be the biggest seller of the series. of the birth of Francis Poulenc on 25 26 6 FOOLS PARADISE Also, we have just released `Gone rently available in the series. Don McLean, United Artists 363, (Nor Va Jak, BMI) Jan. 7. In addition to the biograph- 26 28 7 THE ENTERTAINER ical and critical information, the Marvin Hamlisch, MCA 0174, (Multtmood, BMI) brochure will include Salabert's ex- 21 32 3 BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME catalog of the Poulenc Gladys Knight & The Pips, Buddah 403, (Keca, ASCAP) tensive oeuvre comprising all facets of the 28 30 3 LOVING ARMS Classical Notes Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge, A &M 1498, (Almo, ASCAP) composer's work. Also planned is a 29 39 2 TSOP relinquish chief conductor post of current discography. M.F.S.B., Philadelphia International 7.3540 (Columbia), (Virgin, ASCAP) Angel recorded a rediscovered It was re- Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra This year will also see the publica- A LIE concerto by Max Bruch. 30 36 4 TELL ME 1966. of the first in a series Sami Jo, MGM South 7029, (Fame, BMI/Rich Hall, ASCAP) corded in London, with Antal Dorati in June, which he held since tion by Salabert . to of Poulenc choral works having both 31 33 3 NICE TO BE AROUND conducting and with Nathan Twin- .. Cleveland Orchestra tour Maureen McGovern, 20th Century 2072, (Fox Fanfare, Almo, BMI, ASCAP) ing and Martin Berkofsky doing the Latin America in April 1975. The English and French texts, the 32 27 6 TAKE CARE OF HER /I'VE GOT A THING ABOUT YOU BABY piano-playing honors. To complete tour, which will be for two weeks, "Chansons Francaises." This series Elvis Presley, RCA 0196, (George Paxton /Swamp Fox, White Haven, ASCAP) the album, a second side of previ- will involve Mexico City, Caracas, will eventually culminate in the 33 38 5 MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS de Sao Paulo, and publication of the entire Poulenc Maria Muldaur, Reprise 1183 (Warner Bros.), (Space Potatoe, ASCAP) ously unrecorded piano music by Rio Janeiro, taped in Los Buenos Aires. Music director Lorin choral catalog with texts in both lan- 34 1 KEEP ON SINGING Bruch has just been Helen Reddy, Capitol 3845 (Pocket'Full Of Tunes, BMI) Angeles by the two young American Maazel will conduct. guages. 35 47 2 SKYBIRD artists. Release is planned for May. Bridge, ASCAP) Neil Diamond, Columbia 4-45998, (Stone Pianist Andre Watts received a 36 1 HOOKED ON A FEELING in Blue Swede, EMI 3627 (Capitol), (Press, BMI) standing ovation after a concert The Violoncello 37 34 5 FREE AS THE WIND Belgrade. ... Engelbert Humperdinck, Parrot 45. 40077, (London), (Soultown, BMI) Society of New York named Paul 38 45 3 PIANO MAN Tobias winner of its triennial Gregor , Columbia 45963, (Home Grown /Tinker Street Tunes, BMI) Piatigorsky Award. ... The date of 39 46 4 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN the concert opener in the Cincinnati Sammy Davis, Jr., MGM 14685, (Robbins, ASCAP) Symphony Orchestra's 1974/75 8 40 1 HELP ME Joni Mitchell, Asylum 11034, (Crazy Crown, BMI) p.m. pops series has been changed to with 41 1 ONE HELL OF A WOMAN fit in Ella Fitzgerald's booking Mac Davis, Columbia 46004 (Screen -Gems Columbia /Songpainter /Sweet Glory schedule. She'll appear Sept. 15 BMI) rather than Oct. 13. ... Toronto 42 50 2 WATCHING THE RIVER RUN Symphony off on one of longest and Loggins & Messina, Columbia 46010, (Jasperville /Gnoss /Portafino, ASCAP) most extensive tours in its history. 43 49 2 I'M A TRAIN Albert Hammond, Mums 7 -6026 (Columbia), (Leeds, ASCAP) The orchestra, under direction of 44 40 4 MUSIC EYES guest conductor, Kazimierz Kord, Heartsfield, Mercury 13449, (Phonogram) (House of Living, ASCAP) will cover 16 European cities over 45 1 OH MY MY four weeks. Live and taped reports Ringo, Apple 1872 (Capitol), (Braintree, BMI) from various stops on tour will be 46 37 8 W.O.LD. Harry Chapin, Elektra 45874 (Story Songs, ASCAP) broadcast over three Toronto radio 47 29 7 JESSICA stations: CFRB, CMFI -FM, and Allman Brothers Band, Capricorn 0036 (Warner Bros.), (No Exit, BMI) CBL-FM. 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main emphasis again placed on his ebullient vocals. Soul pro- FARON YOUNG -Some Kind of a Woman, Mercury 1 -698. anything and here he almost does it. Ballads, uptempo (al- SpSElight grammers may need prodding, but progressive jocks will lead The old master has a bunch of good ones here. Chief of these most Jerry Reed Style), a little Latin rhythm and just excep- the way once they've heard Allan Toussaint's funky "Her- are "My Woman's With Child," "Please Change the Subject" tional work throughout. B.W. STEVENSON -Calabasas, RCA APL1 -0410. The cules," the lovely title track or the literally ecstatic "Let It and "I Can't Get the You Out of Me." Faron is one of the best Texas vocalist hits his stride with this most impressive Happen." Stark album graphics prove an added plus for dis- ballad singers ever and this offers an outstanding collection. Spotlight-the most outstanding of the week's releases; picks-pre- package for there are strong efforts toward gospel, clean play. dicted for the top half of the chart in the opinion of the reviewer; recommended -predicted to hit the chart among the lower half posi- rock and . "Look For the Light" is gospelish; KENNY PRICE -Turn on Your Light and Let It Shine, RCA 1- tions; review editor: Eliot Tiegel; reviewers: Nat Freedland, Bob of is rock and "We Had It All" "Little Bit Understanding" MICK RONSON -Slaughter on 10th Avenue, RCA 1 -0353. 0435. Kenny Price really turns on when he performs and he's Kirsch, Claude Hall, Bill Williams, Sam Sutherland, Is Horowitz, Jim work. Los borders on country folk, a John Denver type Bowie's guitarist works up an intriguing first set, including a in great voice. As noted by Ray Pennington, Kenny can sing Melanson, Bob Sobel, Phil Gelormine, Eliot Tiegel. an Angeles sidemen add powerful rhythmic support and fairly straight version of "Love Me Tender" and a rocking led by Linda Ron - outstanding chorus of funky voices, "Only After Dar." Ronson is a brilliant guitarist and has done stadt, provide another nerve tingling ingredient. "Living some marvelous arrangements here. The only real criticism is It Day By Day," in addition to a sweeping vocal feeling, that several of the cuts drag, particularly the nine minute Billboard's Recommended LP's has some tasty horn effects. It is a standout production. "Pleasure Man /Hey Ma Get Papa," which would have been in This LP is the most significant Stevenson has released more effective in shorter form. Still the LP is far more cred- his short career as a nationally known artist. With the ible than most efforts from band members going solo. Zep, early Humble Pie and other U.K. landmarks. But Fen - proper exploitation, this LP could be a massive seller; it's pop in pop and rock nelly stands on his own with support from Argent's Bob Hen - that good. All the infectious ingredients AL STEWART -Past, Present and Future, Janus 1LS 3063. are blended perfectly here. rit and Jim Rodford. Try the title track, the rolling "Shine A (GRT). Exceptionally well done set from long time British folk BUFFY SAINTE- MARIE Buffy, MCA 405. Ex- folkie tries for a - Light" and "Dark Night," sweetened with Rod Argent's star. Stewart has a pleasing voice to go with his writing tal- identity, but only succeeds in confusing the matter. new mellotron. ents, particularly on cuts such as "Old Admirals" and the "Sweet Little Vera" is the most commercial effort in terms of nine minute "Nostradamus," a striking story of a 16th cen- arrangement, instrumentation and simplistic lyric. "Star tury prophet done at differing tempos and featuring excellent Boy" showcases her sweet, thin voice. LES VARIATIONS - Moroccan Roll, Buddah BDS 5601. This guitar work from Stewart. Stewart is not quite rock and not powerful, new band from France sparks its Buddah album de- quite folk, and is certainly one of the more refreshing voices THOMAS JEFFERSON KAYE -First Grade, ABC Dunhill DSX- but with a raw mixture of straightforward American rock 'n' to come along in sometime. 50142. Vocalist can be gruff and gravelly and rough, but he's roll, splashed with interesting touches of Moroccan and -Live Rhymin', Columbia PC best presented softly on "American Lovers." Kaye, the pro- French influence. The four member group drive hard on "I 32855. The comparatively reclusive Simon delighted concert ducer is handled well by a &r man Gary Katz. "Shine the Don't Know Why" and the title cut, "Moroccan Roll," but also goers during last year's tour with a balanced program of his Light" is a prime example of a true blending of pop with a knows how to slow it down with colorful tunes such as "Leslie best material, from both his stint with Garfunkel and his more country sound. Lust" and "All I Want to Know." Set was cut in Paris and recent solo ventures. Now we have this recorded chronicle of mixed in New York and Memphis. Could happen. the tour, complete with Simon's musical companions Uru- BRIAN AUGER'S OBLIVION EXPRESS -Straight Ahead, RCA bamba and the Jessy Dixon Singers. There are rough edges to APL1 -0454. Multiple keyboard virtuoso Auger continues de- the vocals, occasional sound problems but enough good mu- EARTH, WIND & FIRE -Open Our Eyes, Columbia KC veloping his rock -jazz- Latino explorations with utmost taste MIKE VERNON- Moments of Madness, Sire SAS 7410. The sic (nearly 55 minutes) and personal warmth to point toward 32712. The latest from this progressive soul/rock unit sus- and feeling. LP consists of five long cuts, all excellent in de- funkiness of the rhythms on this British import almost belies strong sales. Best moments come with the haunting solo ver- tains both the broad stylistic base and the spiritual thematic velopment and inventiveness, with no draggy sections. Per- the blueness of the eyes of the artist. Mike Vernon, who wrote sion of "" and, with Urubamba, a solid reading core that has made their past work proof positive of the fect FM programmer. A word of boo for tacky execution of a the music and lyrics, produced the albums and plays many of of "Duncan," as well as a rollicking "Loves Me Like A Rock." band's potential. Produced by leader Maurice White and loe fine cover design concept. the instruments heard, has creditably married the rich black Wissert at Caribou Ranch, the new set offers some Sly, funky rhythms of Philadelphia and Detroit with the commercial pop ELVIS PRESLEY -Good limes, RCA CPL1 -0475. It hasn't excursions into pure rhythm ( "Mighty Mighty" and the RAINBOW CANYON -Rollin' In the Rockies, Capitol ST- 11272. sounds of the Beatles and the Stones to give the album broad been too long since RCA released a historical package of vin- quieter elegance of "Fair But So Uncool ") as well as more Clean controlled rock from this new quintet which can sound appeal. May well be a sleeper. Cuts include, "Night Out," tage Elvis and now here's the latest featuring slow ballads conventional gospel -edged tunes like "Devotion" and the vocally expansive ( "Take You Down ") or reminiscent of "Stoney Ground," "Don't Bulldog Me" and the title tune. "Take Good Care of Her," high pitched hip swayers "I Gota title tune. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on "Invisible Song." Feelin' In My Body" and full bodied tear jerkers like "My Boy." There's a sad tinge in Presley's voice which gives the NATURAL FOUR, Curtom, CRS 8600. Leroy Hutson is fast TUCKY BUZZARD -Buzzard, Passport PPS 98001. Bill Wy- works an emotional coating. The addition of J.D. Sumner and becoming to Curtom artists what Kenny Gamble and Leon man's proximity as producer makes new sense with each out- soul the Stamps lend a legitimate gospel quality to such tunes as Huff are to Philly International acts. On this album which he ing by this increasingly tough, powerful unit, dominated by "Talk About the Good Times." The latter tune has some has produced, arranged and penned most of the selections, Jimmy Henderson's vocals and Terry Taylor's slashing guitars. & HOWLIN' WOLF- London Revisited, Chess bouncy two- handed piano playing. The LP shows the multi- honing the Natural Four, from Oakland, Calif., into a chart If their live performances on the upcoming Deep Purple tour CH 60026. (GRT). Traditional blues by two stout veterans ac- faceted vocal skills of the headliner. riding product with outstanding potential. The foursome en- can approach the fire here, expect new progressive accept- companied by a number of top British sympathizers produce hances the over -all package with harmony and rhythms that ance. Sample "Run In The Mornin'," a raw, hard rocker, enjoyable moments. But nothing significantly new. Waters is Wolf's Killing GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS -Claudine Soundtrack, Bud - are soulful and stylish. Recommended cuts include "Things "Hanging On In There" and the more adventurous mood voice infinitely smoother than Wolf's. "The dah BDS 5602 ST. Film music is all the more better for the Will Be Better Tomorrow," "Love That Really Counts" and the shifts of "Near To Me." Floor" has a jumpy feeling. Waters' "Hard Days" is medium inclusion of this fine pop act which sings Curtis Mayfield's current chart product "Can This Be Real." tempoed sadness. score. The Makings of You" and "Hold On" are solid ballads JERRY LaCROIX -The Second Coming, Mercury SRM -1 -701. which allow Gladys to get her soul into the material. The Pips (Phonogram). Vocalist-saxophonist works in a funky manner, are strong in their role of cushioning Gladys' performance. crossing the soul /rock river on a ferry which is in constant BLACK HEAT -No Time To Burn, Atlantic SD 7294. Black Mayfield's lyrics are clearly defined and help explain the do- motion. You Girl" shows off his gritty voice and his fine Heat's seven members burn vinyl on this new r &b entry for mestic travails which are inherent this in story. blues inspired band. Atlantic. Driving percussion work is accented by the sterling use of , flutes and woodwinds. The band's rhythm JACK JONES -Harbour, RCA APL1 -0408. A lovely ballad LP JOHN DENVER -Beginnings With the Mitchell Trio, Mercury section cooks from the opening "No Time to Burn" through- with production by Rick Jarrard, puts Jones in a comfortable SRM 1 -704. Good set of folk material from Denver's early out on "Rapid Fire" and up until the final piece "Times Have setting. His high level of excellence guarantees ample radio days with the old folk trio. Material is vintage 1965, at the tail Changed." Joel Dorn and Jimmy Douglass produced. programming material. "It Didn't Come Easy" is a smooth CHARLIE RICH-Very Special Love Songs, Epic 32531. end of the hootenany period, with good versions of Phil Ochs' sample of Jones' mastery of lyric interpretation. His phrasing These really are very special songs, as only Charlie Rich can "That's the Way It's Gonna Be" and "Get Together." Inter- and intonation are flawless. He is able to communicate the deliver them. There are at least six good singles possibilities esting for collectors. lyricist's most in -depth and delicate meaning, whether sing- in the LP, plus his hit single and a standard. The hottest jazz

ing softly or stretching out. For an interesting example of property in the business today, he won't begin to cool down DIGBY RICHARDS, RCA VPL 1 -0001. Pretty set from singer - clever utilization of various percussive undercoatings listen to with this one. songwriter in the rock easy listening vein which is so popular MICHAL URBANIAK- Fusion, Columbia KC 32852. A mercurial instrumental mix, with Urbaniak's violin "Would You Say I Love You" with Jones doing the vocal over- today. Cuts such as "A Little Piece of Peace" far above the contemporary spiced dubs and swinging mightily. CHET ATKINS, MERLE TRAVIS -The Atkins -Travis Traveling norm for a debut set. and soprano reeds, two keyboards and sensual vocal tracings

Show, RCA 1 -0419. If you love good guitar by two of the great- from Urszula Dudziak marks this debut here by the Polish BOZ SCAGGS -Slow Dancer, Columbia KC 32760. Scaggs' est in this business, this is for you. And you get all sorts of unit. Group's sleek ensemble style could garner both progres- maverick vision has brought him even more decisively into bonuses. While picking, the two tell some of the background MICHAEL FENNELLY -Lane Changer, Epic KE 32103. Former sive and jazz airplay from devotees of Mahavishnu and the mainstream of contemporary r &b styles with this latest of their lives, they do some singing, they do some pop bal- mainman for Crabby Appleton, Fennelly sets forth on a decid- Weather Report; accordingly, there's even singles -length title masterwork, produced by soul veteran Johnny Bristol and lads, some uptempo country, a little boogie, and everything edly heavy- rocking course that seems charted toward Eng- track for those too cautious or hurried to sample the richer given a lush, ethereal presence through H.B. Barnum's anyone could want. Great , too. This one could land in its influences: zooming metalic guitar leads, wailing pleasures of tunes like "Good Times, Bad Times" and strings. It's Scaggs who really dominates here, though, his sell for centuries. vocals and some stunning tunes offer a mix that recalls Led "Seresta." Motown, Bell Novel Set on Black Record Session Duel LOS ANGELES - Motown Co.; Film to Start Rolling Records is a party in two recent law- Continued from page 3 "Obviously, there are going to be suits at Superior Court here. The la- guessing games played regarding the bel is seeking $1,500 from Bell song for her. She would like to see identities of the book's protagonists. Records, allegedly unpaid for a the single out before the novel. I think that's healthy." she said. loanout of Motown writer -producer "Number One With a Bullet" has However, both she and Palmer Ron Miller to produce three Shirley already stirred up some controversy claim the work is strictly fiction and Jones songs last April. In turn, Bell when lawyers representing Motown not based on any particular individ- has countersued for $11,000 alleg- Records sought to approve the gal - ual or record company. edly gone over -budget at the ses- lies prior to the publication date sions. Jan. 26). Farrar, Straus & Ms. Jesmer was paid a $6,000 ad- (Billboard, In a separate case, Motown is refused the request. "Mo- vance after submitting five chapters Giroux being sued for $14,600 by Tuesday must assume that it is the only to the publisher. It took her eight town Publications, a Chicago -based black record label in existence," months to complete the book and black- interest newspaper supple- stated Ms. Jesmer, active for eight marks her first novel. Bantam Books ment. Plaintiff claims the sum is un- years in public relations work for a has already acquired the paperback SUTTON, vice president of Chrysalis Records, center, inks the label's DEREK paid for an April 1971 full -page ad number of popular black artists be- rights. The hardcover edition will act, Black Sheep, as the group's producer, Stuart Love, left, and first Yank for a Diana Ross TV special. fore writing the book. sell for $8.95. Mary Goodman, right, professional manager of Chrysalis, look on. 48 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com ahit! "The Show Must Go On?U from 3 album "Hard Iabor ,eor.

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www.americanradiohistory.com Billboards MARCH 16, 1974 \umber of singles reviewec leCopyright 1974 Billboard Picks.. Publications, Inc No part of this publication may be reproduced this week 117 Last week 105 stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical , photocopying. recording or otherwise. without the prior written permission of the publisher HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUENOTES Weak For JACQUI VERDELL -He's Mine (3:43); producer: Gene RONNIE MILSAP -Pure Love (2:19); producers: Tom Col- óó -I'm You (3:22); producer: Gamble, Huff; writers: K. Gamble, L. Barge; writer: J. Verdell; publisher: East, Memphis, BMI. Re- lins and Jack Johnson; writer: ; Briarpatch/Pi- Huff, C. Gilbert; publisher: Mighty Three, BMI. Philadelphia spect 2505. (Columbia). A Roberta Flack sound -alike who has Gem (BMI); RCA 0237. This tune from his most recent album c'n7n Pop Intl 3543 (Columbia). This song crosses the soft and gutsy the confidence and skill to credibly interpret a ballad. is its title song and the lyrics are exceptionally clever. His fields with Melvin and his associates melding their voices on delivery style also is outstanding. Flip: no info available. this tale of masculine weakness when it comes to the right woman. Flip: Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love GLORIA SCOTT -What Am I Gonna Do (3:15); producer: BARBRA STREISAND -All Is Fair In Love (3:50); producer: writers: Back) (3:28); writers: K. Gamble, L. Huff; info the same in all Barry White; Vance Wilson, Thomas Anderson; pub- JOHNNY DUNCAN -The Pillow (2:39); producer: Billy Tommy Lipuma; writer: Stevie Wonder; publisher: Stein & other categories. lisher: Va -Detta, BMI. Casablanca 0005. (Warner Bros.). Soul Sherrill; writer: Johnny Duncan; Algee (BMI); Columbia 4- Van Stock /Black Bull, ASCAP. Columbia 46024. Barbra lends vocalist handles this ballad well with a fine production sec- 46018. A tender ballad with sharp lyrics and a fine, soft her magnificent interpretive skill and her beautiful voice to onding her effort. melody. Duncan continually gets better, and this is one of his this broad picture of life, of fate and chance. It's from her No. recommended best. Flip: no info available. 1 LP. Perhaps the best interpretation and presentation of Wonder's wonderful tune. Flip: no info available. -Honey Bee (2:58); producer: Paul Leka BETTY SWANN -Fall In Love With Me (2:50); producer: for DCA; writers: M. Steals, M. Steals, M. Ledbetter; pub- SAUNDRA RUCKER-The Prisoner's Song (3:11); pro- Money Prods.; writer: B. Swann; publisher: Jobete, BMI. Abet lisher: Dramatis, BMI. MGM 14706. A stomping, buzzing ar- ducer: Fred Foster; writer: Guy Massey; Shapiro, Bernstein LOVE UNLIMITED -Under the Influence of Love (3:18); 9455 (Nashboro). rangement sets the climate for the vocalist's adequate vocal (ASCAP); Monument 8601. This is one of those left field producer: Barry White; writers: Barry White, Paul Politi; pub- range. picks, but it's a beautiful version of the ancient song, with lisher: Fox Fanfare, Very Own, BMI. 20th Century 2082. A special credit to Bill Justis. She's had the talent for a long grandiose orchestral setting sets the tone for this moving, Z.Z. HILL -Am I Groovin' You (3:07); producer: Matt Hill; time and now it comes out. Flip: "Kiss It Away"; producer: flowing vocal effort by the girls. This is a well integrated vo- writer: Z.Z. Hill; publisher: Unart, Hillwin, BMI. United Artists ANDERSON BROTHERS -I Can See Him Loving You (2:35); same; writer: Shel Silverstein; Evil Eye (BMI). (CBS). cal /instrumental production which sounds better with each 412. producer: R. Dahrouge for Ballack- Dahrouge Prod.; writer: R. play. Flip: no info available. Dahrouge; publisher: Access, BMI. GSF 6914. Everybody

sings well on this recollection of a tender sexual moment. RUFUS -Tell Me Something Good (3:30); producers: Bob JERRY LEE LEWIS -Just A Little Bit (3:05); producer: Huey AL GREEN -Let's Get Married (3:16); producers: Willie Monaco, Rufus; writer: S. Wonder; publisher: Stein & Van Meaux; writer: D. Gordon; Conrad (BMI); Mercury 393. From Mitchell, Al Green; writer: Al Green; publisher: Jec, Al Green, Stock, Black Bull, ASCAP. ABC 11427. his "Southern Roots Album," it's as rock as it is country, but PHANTOM -Calm Before The Storm (3:26); producer: BMI. Hi 45 -2262 (London). Al concedes that he's got to stop it's Jerry Lee in an outstanding production job by Huey Phantom; writer: Phantom; publisher: Gear Pub., ASCAP. fooling around and tie the knot. That's the key message, done Meaux. Flip: "Meat Man"; producer: same; writer: Mack Vick- WIWAM BELL -Gettin' What You Want (Losin' What You Got) Capitol 3857. A Jim Morrison -type vocalist creates a sound Tree with zest and simplicity, but wrapped up neatly in a soul ery; (BMI). (3:29); producers: William Bell, Al Jackson; writers: W. Bell, that will probably appeal to some radio programmers because package with a brief taste of some female background voices. R. Hanson, J. McDuffie, E. Gordan; publisher: Azrock Publ., of its novelty angle. Flip: no info available. South Memphis, BMI. Stax 0198 (Columbia). recommended BEL-AIRES -Seven Days (3:33); producer: Robert Banks; JIMMY JONES I Knew Then (What I Know Now) (3:31); recommended -If writers: P. Gay, C. Banks; publisher: Brut, Reticent, Taugem, A. J. producer: Eyeball; writers: Williams, Jones; publisher: ASCAP. Brut 817. (Buddah). Soul group speaks of a breaking RONNIE SESSIONS & PATTY TIERNEY -You Say The Sweetest Banana Peel, BMI. Capitol 3849. relationship in terms of how much time it has to do its busi- Things (2:07); producer: Jimmy Bowen; writers: S. Linzer, D, DAWN featuring I TONY ORLANDO -It Only Hurts When Try ness. to Smile (3:27); producer: Hank Medress, Dave Appell; Appell; Tridem ( ASCAP) & Fine Arts (BMI); MGM 14712. TOMORROW'S PROMISE- That's The Way It Will Stay (327); writers: E. Levine, L. Brown; publisher: Levine & Brown, BMI. producer: Phi -Mar Prods.; writer: Melvin Matthews; pub- Bell 45,450. BRIAN SHAW- Friend Named Red (2:11); producer: Ray Pen- lisher: Astronomical, BMI. Capitol 3855. nington; writers: Sam Weedman, Gene Taylor; Dunbar (BMI); RCA 0230. LEON RUSSELL -If I Were a Carpenter (2:38); producer: JOE QUARTERMAN AND FREE SOUL-I'm Gonna Get You Denny Cordell; Leon Russell; writer: Tim Hardin; publisher: (2:54); producer: J. Quarterman for Free writer: J. Soul; Quar- Country JOE DOUGLAS -Hello (1:56); producers: Robin Hood Brians Hudson Bay, BMI. Shelter 40210 (MCA). publisher: terman; Access, Free Soul, BMI. GSF 6915. & Randy Fouts; writer: Doug Badon; Sunnybrook (BMI); Swamp Fox 712. DOTTIE WEST -Last Time I Saw Him (3:00); producer: TODD RUNDGREN -A Dream Goes on Forever (2:21); pro- Billy Davis; writers: Michael Masser, Pamela Sawyer; Jobette ducer: Todd Rundgren; writer: Todd Rundgren; publisher: TERRY STAFFORD- Captured (2:13); producer: Earl Ball; (ASCAP); RCA 0231. Dottie takes this pop hit and makes it re- Earmark, Screen Gems, Columbia, BMI. Bearsville 0020. writers: Rory Bourke & Eddie Rabbit; Home, S.P.R. (BMI); At- live under the genius of Billy Davis. She is singing at her best (Warner Bros.). lantic 4015. and she still makes it come off country. Flip: no info available. FirsTime Aroud TOMPALL GLASER -Texas law Sez (1:51); producer: Tompall Glaser; writer: Judy Riley; Fifteen Years (BMI); MGM 14701. MARTY ROBBINS -I'm Wanting To (2:48); producer: Marty elrlifi,5Ak Robbins; writers: Ronny Robbins, Karen Russell; Mariposa LARRY WEISS- Rhinestone Cowboy (3:05); producer: CARVER Lullabye (2:37); producer: Ron (BMI); MCA 40172. Another soft ballad in the traditional Rob- JOHNNY -Country Larry Weiss; writer: Larry Weiss; publisher: 20th Century, writers: B. Mann, C. Weil; Screen Gems -Columbia bins style, sung, as always, with feeling. That's all it takes for Chancey; House of Weiss, ASCAP. 20th Century Fox 2084. Neil Dia- and Summerhill Songs (BMI); ABC 11425. SouI re* a Robbins hit. Flip: no info available. mond sound -alike shows great poise and professionalism; tune is quite catchy. KENNY O'DELL -Let's Go Fmd"Some Country Music (2:30); ISLET BROTHERS- Summer Breeze (Part 1) (3:05); pro- DIANA TRASK -Lean It All On Me (2:47); producer: Norris producer: Kenny O'Dell; writer: Kenny O'Dell; House of Gold ducers: R. Isley, O. Isley, R. Isley; writers: J. Seals, D. Crofts; KEN LYON & TOMBSTONE -Sing Song City (3:04); pro- Wilson; writer: Josh ; Al Gallico (BMI); Dot 17496. (BMI); Capricorn 0038. publisher: Dawnbreaker, BMI. Tneck 2253. (Columbia). Last ducer: Mike Lewis, Stewart Wiener Ent.; writer: K. Lyon; pub- One of the most soulful singers in the country business, year's pop hit is given a soft soul rendition this time around lisher: Blackwood, BMI. Columbia 4- 46017. Inventive, adven- Diana has another winner. This will supplement her smash TONY DOUGLAS -His and Hers (2:25); producer: Don Logan; and the Brothers do a convincing job. It's a nice change for turous production combining soul, rock and Indian successes on the stage and should enhance her great career writers: Tony Douglas, C. Jennings, O. Couch; Big D. and Glad them. Flip: no info available. ingredients helps launch this promising act. even more. Flip: no info available. (BMI); Paula 395.

Ms. Strauss Clark Catalog Klein Seeks Delay Forms Agency Getting Famous Continued from page 10 ExecutiveTurntable ABKCO's publishing contract Continued from page 10 NEW YORK -Carol Strauss has Special Drive with the Stones terminated Aug. 31, formed C. J. Strauss & Co. here as a NEW YORK -The Famous Mu- 1971, and ABKCO has withheld Hills -based Alva Records.... Paul Van Orden has been named public relations agency specializing sic Corp. has launched a special payment of royalties to the Stones general manager of General Electric's audio electronics products in contemporary arts publicity. Ini- sales and merchandising program to claiming that the latter failed to turn department. He was formerly marketing manager of the same de- tial projects include public relations promote the entire Dot /Famous over all tunes written prior to that partment.... James P. Tann has joined Motorola, Inc. as business coordination for national tours by catalog of entertainer Roy Clark, in- date. Some $700,000 has been manager, advanced products group, consumer products division. the Jefferson Starship, Stephen cluding his newest release, "The En- bonded by ABKCO to cover royal- He will assist the group in developing new approaches in tech- Stills, Melisa Manchester and tertainer." ties due as per a statement dated nology, manufacturing, marketing, and financial managment... . Aerosmith. The promotion, which will run Feb. 15, 1974, Klein said. C. J. Strauss & Co. is also manag- through March 22, is based on the Clarify Rights Also at GE, Ivan Mendelsohn has been named national accounts ing publicity for the Bottom Line theme "Entertainer of the Year" and The initial award, it was empha- manager for GE audio electronics products, eastern region. He Theater -Cabaret, recently opened was designed to celebrate Clark's sized, clearly confirmed that masters headquarters in New York.... David Horowitz has joined Rogers, here. receipt of this year's Entertainer of and re- recording rights are separate Cowan & Brenner Public Relations as vice president. He was for- Ms. Strauss outlined the firm's op- the Year award, sponsored by the entities, and that ownership of one merly Los Angeles manager of Solters /Sabinson /Roskin.... Larry erations as national in scope, but Country Music Association. does not necessarily carry with it Jaffe, former advertising director of Talent- Booking Directory, has specialized creative services and to Andy Miele, According vice ownership of the other. But the founded an independent advertising service in Los Angeles... . consultation on New York -based president, marketing, Famous Mu- panel held that the Stones could not Fred Marks has been named marketing manager of Walt Disney events is being stressed. sic, the Clark promotion will be sup- be prevented from recording live Productions music division, U.K. He will be responsible for both During her former association ported by an array of merchandising material in al- concerts containing music in the U.K. A re- with Gibson & Stromberg (see Exec aids, a number of 30- second TV bums transferred to them by recordings and publishing and Europe.... Turntable), Ms. Strauss handled spots on "Hee Haw" and other se- ABKCO, providing the tapes were alignment in the parts and accessories division of Zenith Radio that firm's New York office and lected programs, so- called "traffic - used for film background or refer- Corporation has caused the following changes: Richard H. Quast is worked on projects including the stopper" prepackaged window dis- ence and not for records. a now manager of operations; Wendel J. Camp has been named to Rolling Stones' tour, the Pointer Sis- play kits for participating dealers, as Albums relinquished to the the newly- created position of manager, order entry: and Roy F. ters' Roseland party and Yevgeny well as pocket -sized folders of Stones were "Sticky Fingers," "Exile Robertson has been named to the newly- created post of manager, Yevtushenko's poetry reading at the Clark's catalog and die -cut easel - on Main St." and "Jamming with inventory control. Felt Forum. backed counter displays. Edward." (Continued on page 70) 50 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com International News M.O. Discount Deal by Paper Beatles Still Clearing Up $$ Problems, Says Apple Mgr. Won't Affect Stores: Manager LONDON -The suggestion in the anxious that at this stage there High Court last week that the Bea- should not be a fiercely contested to the U.K. the arrangements bums to the public than we can a LONDON- Supplies Explaining tles are on the point of settling their series of issues which could exacer- Sun, Hall said that dealer," he said. retail trade of the new Elvis Presley made with the business differences was premature, bate tempers and perhaps make a will would place a bulk Hall stressed that RCA had im- "Legendary Performer" album the newspaper Apple general manager Bernard settlement more difficult. mail - order once the 28 -day offer had run ported 25,000 copies of "Legendary not be affected as a result of a Brown said this week. offered by its course and then RCA would ar- Performer" from America and this An order appointing a receiver order discount deal being He said: "It's far too early to say range for a special pressing either supply had not yet been exhausted. was made in March 1971 in the Sun newspaper. anything. To suggest the Beatles are was given by the here or in America. The company Geoffrey Bridge, director of the McCartney's action for the legal This assurance on the point of clearing up their was not responsible for taking back BPI, which has also been consulted break -up of the group. company's marketing manager problems and may get together Hall, following complaints returns, had not delivered any by the GRRC, said that he had ex- A High Court judge had then ex- Brian again is far too premature. Record records so far to the Sun, which had pressed concern to RCA about the pressed grave doubts about the wis- made by the Grammophone "The legal people are entitled to yet to place an order, and had not moneyback offer which could en- dom of the appointment of ABKCO Retailers' Committee. "We feel that their opinions but we really can't say negotiated terms below the dealer courage buyers to pirate their own Industries, run by Allen Klein, to in a time of shortage, all quantity what will happen." no more control the tape manage the group. supplies should go to retail estab- price. "We can copies before returning the During the hearing, Thomas price at which the Sun offers the al- record. lishments only and not to outside Bingham QC, for the receiver look- Justice McGarry was told last the associ- sources," commented ing after Apple, said: "Happily, it is week that Lennon, Harrison and ation's secretary Harry Tipple. He much hoped that the partners are on Starr, along with Apple and other also noted that the GRRC regarded the point of resolving their differ- parties, had started High Court pro- the the Sun's offer, at $1.40 below Austrian Printers to ences. ceedings against ABKCO. a recommended retail price, plus "The receiver. is told the parties ABKCO had started proceedings as money -back guarantee, constitut- had every hope that a final overall in America against the group. ing unfair competition to the retail Form Intl Operation settlement will be capable of Thomas Bingham QC said there was trade. "It could be that the uncon- achievement -and shortly." a "welter" of litigation proceedings will ditional moneyback offer be VIENNA -The Austrian Printers year, all Styria booksellers in The judge, Mr. Justice Megarry, in the States and in England in recording the LP abused by people and Publishers House Styria, Graz, Austria, West Germany and Swit- said: "A degree of harmony has which the validity of ABKCO's it," added car- and then returning is about to form an international AV zerland, will sell programme been restored to the Beatles in this claim for commission was very much Tipple. enterprise including the production tridges. Main emphasis will be on limited sphere." in issue. Hall explained that RCA had not leasing cartridges with or without and trade of AV carriers. On the application of the receiver No relief is sought against been aware of the Sun's policy of re- Dr. Gottfried Kellermayer, the players. and manager of the group's multi- ABKCO, which was represented in funding money to dissatisfied cus- also aims at new AV Group will, after three Styria -Audiovision million- dollar business, Apple court last week, in McCartney's tomers at the time the deal had been and photo trade, as well years, include shareholders of the the electric Corps, the judge made orders by partnership action. I agree," said made. "It looks bad, publishing and insurance branches as mail order. Kellermayer said his consent which will assist the receiver Andrew Leggatt, QC, for Hall, "and if we were to become in- firm has about 2,500 subscribers for as well as the public and banks, in conducting the affairs of the Bea- McCartney, said it was hoped any volved with the Sun again we would heading for a three mio DM in the the first year. tles' partnership. settlement would be worldwide. Last certainly ask for that to be omitted." of audio- first phase. To check the efficiency The court heard that McCartney, week's orders by consent related to 85 students About a year after formation, the visual courses at schools, Lennon, Harrison and Starr were the conduct of the receivership. second phase is supposed to in- underwent tests. They were in- Atl Bows Pop corporate more publishing houses structed by 11 video lessons on Data and banks at home and abroad at a processing. An overwhelming 90 Laskys Audio Chain in Label in U.K. capital stock of seven mio DM. The percent said they were happy with capital need for the first five years is the results. LONDON -Atlantic managing Meanwhile West Germany's ZDF director, Phil Carson, has an- said to be about 70 mio DM. U.K., Into Disk Retailing Dr. Kellermayer said intensive tv channel public rights corporation nounced the launch of a pop label, LONDON -Laskys, the leading some of its items are marked down hardware tests favored the U- Matic- has predicted the new AV systems Antic, the brainchild of Atlantic a &r U.K. audio retail chain, which in by as much as 40 percent under nor- Video will have become a self -supporting man Dave Dee who has been ap- cartridge system by Sony, but 1972 merged with one of its biggest mal recommended retail prices Styria sees Philips' medium of worldwide significance - pointed label manager of Antic, a -Audiovision rivals, G.W. Smith & Co., is moving there will be no price- cutting on VLP as an alternative. by the late 1970s. post that he will fulfill alongside his into record and tape retailing. record and tape product. own pro- This would be significant because After completing their In a pilot scheme, the company Laskys said it wants to a other Atlantic responsibilities. it could end the current monopolies offer formation duction schedules for autumn this will initially start selling product in "complete sound service" to its cus- The motive behind the by tv stations. At- three new stores the firm will be tomers the two sides of Antic has been the feeling that Otto -Versand, one of West Ger- and although of opening within the next two or three lantic needed a specialist pop label many's leading mail-order houses, the recorded music industry have Mobile Studios months in London's Oxford Street, traditionally always been kept well aimed specifically at releasing the has equipped its outdoor service or- Kingston and Southend. If this type of pop record currently making ganization with portable Super ex- apart, vehemently believes records Spurred by tension of Laskys activities proves tapes can be sold alongside the U.K. charts. Atlantic U.K. was Eight Fairchild daylight projectors. and to American -oriented popular with its customers, the hardware. felt be an AV shows, according to president Workweek Curb firm's entire chain of shops The new London store is due to company and the singles on Atlantic Guenter Nawrath, will support sales -at work- present, there are 24 -will eventually next month will stock, in were American angled. To reach the LONDON -The three -day promotions. The next step would be open and it in- start selling records and tapes. addition to records and tapes, over British pop charts was felt more ing week has brought about an videodisks in catalogs. beneficial to put product on a sepa- creased use of mobile recording fa- The record and tape departments 3,000 audio items from the ranges of rate label and treat it as such. cilities. Ronnie Lane's mobile in the new London, Kingston an every major hardware manufac- The first release on Antic, delayed recording studio, Island and the Southend shops will be operated turer. because of the current crisis, will be Manor have all reported increased Benedetto to Brazil through a deal Laskys has signed on April 1. It will be "See You Later use of their respective mobiles. As NEW YORK- Vittorio Benedetto with Record Merchandisers. Each (Little Baby Love)" by Smiffy. This mobile studios are already licensed of CAM visits Brazil March 15 -28 to department will stock around 1,200 will be followed at two week inter- to operate off large generators built coordinate production affiliations titles and will carry records, cassettes Eire Posts vals by "Silver Boy," by Cherrie Van into them, compulsory cutbacks in for CAM and to meet with local and cartridges. Gelder Smith; "Miss Lucy" by On- electrical consumption or even recording and music industry execu- Although Laskys success has been Euro Entry kinsmok and "Hoodoo" by the power cuts can have no effect on tive Benedetto can be reached at the founded on the firm's remarkable DUBLIN -"Cross Your Heart," Crash Brothers. All four artists are them. El Dorado Hotel in Sao Paulo, Bra- price advantage over ordinary High with words and music . by Paul Dave Dee discoveries. zil. Street stores -the firm boasts that Paul Lambert, business manager Lyttle, is Ireland's entry for the 1974 of the Lane Studio, says that record Eurovision Song Contest and will be companies and studios have ex- sung in Brighton by Tina on April CBS and VEB pressed increased interest in using a 16. This follows the result of the first mobile recording studio and are postal vote for the National Song Firm in Tie contemplating more live albums. Contest, which was screened by NEW YORK -CBS Records LMS is fully occupied until the RTE television. Another first was Int'l has signed contracts with end of March on a six-week session the choice of just one singer, Tina, to VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, be- with Led Zeppelin who are using the sing all eight songs in the final. coming the first American record mobile at their country home to "Cross Your Heart" received company to enter into licensing record an album for release later this 16,685 votes, with the runner -up, "Is agreements in East Germany. year. Since the beginning of the year Liom E" receiving only 5,044. Tina VEB Deutsche Schallplatten di- the mobile has also been used to was voted Ireland's leading female rector Harri Koltzsch and CBS record Rory Gallagher for his forth- singer in the latest "New Spotlight" Records Int'l president Walter coming "Live in Ireland" album and magazine poll. She was formerly Yetnikoff concluded the deal last to record 's new work lead singer with the Real McCoy but week after more than a year of based on Jules Verne's "Journey to left the band to start a solo career negotiations. the Centre of the Earth" at its Royal following a road accident last year. VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Festival Hall debut. Her most successful disk has been "I plans an initial release of five Past glories for the mobile now in- Don't Know How to Love Him." CBS LPs, including a country clude Eric Clapton's live album, the Paul Lyttle used to be a member sampler, greatest hits collections Who's the Read- of the Chips, then moved on to form by Andy Williams, Johnny Cash "Quadrophenia," ing Festival live album, the Rain- DURING A VISIT to Lyon, France, on his national tour, Pathe- Marconi singer his own group, The Lyttle People, and Louis Armstrong, and an al- bow presentation by Lou Reizner of Julien Clerc was presented with five gold disks for sales of his records in but has since rejoined the re- formed bum by French artist Danyel Chips. "Cross Your Heart" Gerard. "Tommy" and a forthcoming album France. With Clerc, left, are Pathe- Marconi director general, Michel Bonnet, will be by Free. and singer Firancoise Hardy. issued on Polydor. 52 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com Lv. l~

www.americanradiohistory.com Canadian News UA Opens Own Canadian Branch From the Music Capitals TORONTO -On Jan. 17. 1972, at least in a break -even situation." Bobby Goldsboro, Don McLean, United Artists Records opened its Allan Matthews indicated that a Ike & Tina Turner, and the Nitty own branch in Canada with Stan number of records have been broken Gritty Dirt Band? of theWorld Kulin as president and Allan Mat- in this country, then funneled into Said Matthews, "We have taken TORONTO thews as director of promotion. The the U.S. the emphasis off pushing the Cana- Cabin Lew has been appointed Central Station appear on the same label had previously been distrib- "A record that we have out now dian aspect of the material we re- promotion representative for UA show. On March 29 they will appear uted by MCA in this country. A re- by Katja Ebstein, called 'The Star of lease. Americans are not impressed Records in Vancouver. Lew also at London Arena in Ontario with view of the company's last two years Mykons,' is doing very well here. We with the fact that a Canadian record works for Johnston Appliances, Iggy Pop and Elephant's Memory. reveals that they have made good have weekly product meetings at becomes a hit in Canada because of UA's British Columbia distributor. The group will give a special two - strides in sales and the development which we review all product from the CRTC rulings. Most people tend Jim Fotheringham has been hired as hour concert at the Flinn Theatre in of Canadian acts on the label. companies all over the world with an to think that because of the 30 per- promotion representative at Thomas Burlington, on Thursday Kulin expounded the company's eye to picking up masters from other cent ruling here, it is easy to make a Rathwell in Winnipeg, UA's Mani- (21). Mahogany Rush's second al- philosophy. "From the outset, we labels. John Pozer, who heads our Canadian record a hit and, there- toba and Saskatchewan distributor. bum will be called "Child Of The believed that it was important to set publishing department, was in fore, it loses a lot of credibility in ... CKWX in Vancouver, has Novelty." ... MCA Canada's up a good distribution network, MIDEM this year. We picked up their eyes." changed its format to uptown -coun- Croamcheeze Good-Time Band will try, effective the middle of March, appear at Toronto's Horseshoe Tav- whether it be independently or Ebstein at that time." Kulin added "In Canada we all -owned branches. Pozer came to UA in November of reported Tom Peacock. CKWX is a ern on Thursday (14) at which time a through company know what we aren't. We aren't Records opened its Selkirk Holding's company with a press reception will be held for the As it turned out, Capitol 1973, when the company Americans. The philosophy we try to in Ontario and two publishing companies, United 50,000 watt clear signal. CJVI in band. ... Chuck Azzarello is no handles our product keep in mind when marketing a and the Maritimes; Thomas Artists Music (Canada) Ltd., a Victoria, also a Selkirk station, has a longer at CHLO in St. Thomas, On- Quebec record is that music is universal. If a Ltd. in Manitoba and Sas- CAPAC company, and Unart Music country format and is doing well tario. ... "Sundown" is the new Rathwell song is number one in Germany Acklands in Alberta; (Canada), listed with BMI. At that with it. ... WEA Music in Canada single from Gordon Lightfoot's latest katchewan; then I think that it has potential any- was announced that the com- has released a single by Mood Jga LP also entitled "Sundown." .. and Johnston Appliances in British time it where in the world. Rather than with panies' functions would include the Jga, "Mood Jealousy." The single Joni Mitchell dropped by the El Ma- Columbia. We are very pleased playing up the fact that any record results that we are getting from acquisition and representation of has only been released in Canada, combo to catch a set of Bonnie the we produce is Canadian, we just try set Canadian writers as well as the Ca- and WEA has started a major cam- Bramlett's while she was in Toronto. this -up. to make good records and I think to handle of copyrights paign to break it in this country with Afterwards, she dropped in to the "We felt that we wanted nadian administration that that speaks for itself when we the planning of from other countries. Pozer was ap- an eye to stimulating interest in the Imperial Room of the Royal York our own promotion, take it to a music director." releases and the search for Canadian pointed to head the publishing and song worldwide. The band will ap- Hotel to see Tony Bennett who was talent. We do our own mailings so a &r departments. Continued Matthews, "To say pear in Toronto in March.... Bad - appearing there. She was introduced that we have our finger on where the UA's Canadian roster includes that a record is Canadian is in most finger will play at the Victory to the audience by Bennett. ... records are going and, more impor- Mike Graham, Alexandre Zelkine, cases a complete turn -off. People Theatre in Toronto on March 29 for Elektra recording artists Painter tant, whether they have actually Abraham's Children and the Davies tend to become over -critical with the SRO Productions. were in Toronto recently to tape a gone out. Sisters. David Wiffen was originally product and pull it apart, telling you RCA Canada has obtained a new segment of the CTV show "Roq" "We are committed to finding and signed to United Artists in the U.S. how the record should have been 30- minute radio show on John Den- with Mike Steele and host Terry Da- developing Canadian talent. Be- but his contract is being transferred produced." ver. Interested stations can call their vid Mulligan and meet with Toronto cause of our size we feel that we can to the Canadian company. local RCA representative.... Mau- press. Wayne Dion of CHAM in handle six Canadian artists and do Are there any special problems One of the labels latest Canadian rice Solway has returned from a tour Hamilton talked to the band on the them justice. Overall, this policy has that the company runs into in the acquisitions is Karl Erickson, whose of Australia and the U.S. where air. been successful. Even though we promotion of the Canadian talent on latest album "I Am Next" has re- great interest was stimulated in his can't say we are making great sums the label rather than some of their ceived good critical praise across the album, "The Violin." ... Good of money with Canadian acts, we are other more established acts such as country and strong airplay. Noise Records and Andre Perry held a press reception at the Park Plaza Musimart Hotel in Toronto to introduce their act, The Hotel Orchestra to Toronto press and media people.... Yehudi Bows Label Menuhin will appear at Montreal's MONTREAL -Musimart Ltd., Place des Arts on April 16 and 17. one of Canada's leading independ- Included in his performances will be ent record importers and distribu- Bartok's "2nd Concerto for Violin tors since 1947, have launched a new and Orchestra," a work that is avail- label called Sting Records with the able through Polydor in Canada on first product to be ready in the the Mercury Golden Imports Series. middle of March according to Jack RECORD . Vancouver -based group, Sun, Inhaber, the director of marketing who has just replaced their injured and sales. The label will work closely drummer, are ready to set out on a with independent producers con- SHACK tour of Western Canada. Dates were centrating on Canadian content. booked by Dennis Compo and Tom Added Inhaber, "An important Lowest Prices For Records & Tapes Nellis of the NBA booking agency. phase in our operation will be the Order Via TELEX: 62632 U.W. The band has just had a record re- emphasis placed on producers with leased on SGM Records entitled track records." "Trying All Alone." A color video- tape has been recorded for use in the Mike Kordupel, the national pro- All 45 RPM Records promotion of the act. motion director, said that Sting Montreal group Mahogany Rush Records will kick off the label with attracted more than 2,000 each night three singles releases simulta- neously. per 520 each to two concerts held at Saint -Denis record for less than Theater in Montreal on Feb. 15 and Musimart distributes Fantasy N. Box Lots 16. The band will headline a show Records in Canada and the U.S: on Saturday (16) at the 4600 -seat based label has listened to some of In Box Lots 5 or more per Masonic Temple in Detroit. The Sting's new masters and are consid- 5 25 per box number Chambers Brothers and Graham ering them for U.S. distribution. Minimum Order 100 Records -No Oldies list) Fete Cites RPM Publisher LP's $2.95 and up ($5.98 TORONTO -Members of the Ca- phy; country singer Carroll Baker; Tapes 8 Track & Cassette $3.99 ($6.98 list) nadian music industry turned out in and Terry McGee of Columbia Rec- force on Feb. 19 to honor Walt ords, reviewed the last 10 years of LARGE USERS CALL OR CABLE FOR SPECIAL BOX PRICES Grealis, the publisher and editor of RPM. Billboard's Steve Lappin flew RPM Music Weekly, on the occasion in from Los Angeles and expressed Shipped Same Day Air Express of the publication's 10th anniversary his best wishes on behalf of the pub- at a $25 a plate banquet held at To- lication. Pierre Juneau, the chair- Huge Inventories of All Labels ronto's Inn on the Park. Approxi- man of the CRTC, was unable to at- mately 300 guests attended a cock- tend but sent a video -tape of his Specialists in Rock, Soul, Gospel, Jazz, Pop & etc. tail party which was followed by the speech. banquet at which various speakers, Bobby Curtola greeted the crowd including MC Ron Newman; Mel and toasted RPM before leaving for ALL ORDERS C.O.D. Shaw of Music World Creations and his engagement at the Hillcrest Shipped F.O.B. Destination manager of the Stampeders; Harold in Hamilton. The banquet was Moon, former head of BMI Canada; planned, without the knowledge of Paul White of Capitol Records - Walt Grealis, by a committee that RECORD SHACK CORP. EMI; Bruce Davidsen of IPC Pro- called themselves "The Tenth Anni- 2132 Second Ave., New York, N.Y. 10029 motion Consultants; record retailer versary Banquet Committee," and of Glenda Roy, RCA; Lori In U.S.A. Call (212) 369 -8600 Sam Sniderman; Stan Klees of consisted RPM; Ed Preston of RCA Ltd.; Sjef Bruner, Polydor; Alex Sharpstone, TELEX 62632 U.W. Franken of the Canadian Radio and CFTR, Toronto; Vic Wilson, SRO Orders accepted 7 days a week -24 hours a day. Television Commission; Allan Productions; Terry McGee, Colum- Slaight; Vic Wilson; Johnny Mur- bia, and Johnny Murphy, RCA.

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LONDON hoping to put more fizz into its sales while the group are touring the U.S. Fred Marks, former managing di- by teaming up with soft drinks giant Most music papers will carry adver- rector of Phonogram and inter- Pepsico in the first joint venture be- tisements for the album and three national vice -president of Fantasy, tween Pepsico and a major record TV shows to be screened on BBC 2 has been appointed marketing man- company. MfP has released the on March 20, 27 and April 3 under ager of Walt Disney Productions "Non -Stop Party Record" compris- the title "Steeleye Span's Electric music division in London. He will ing 20 tracks, mostly covered ver- Folk." MARTIN THORPE have responsibility for records and sions of hits, lasting 50 minutes, and music publishing activity in the supported by extensive promotion at PARIS U.K. and Europe. In addition to re- record outlets, liquor stores, food Barclay has announced an agree- porting to Gus A. Zelnick, managing shops and pubs. ment with Ken Glancy of RCA to director of WDP and European su- Paul Robinson Enterprises has handle all Charles Aznavour's 1 pervisor, Marks will also answer linked with Moose music, produc- recordings in English for the U.S. In directly to Jimmy Johnson, presi- tion and publishing. Robinson En- effect, this is a wide opening for Az- dent, and Phil Sammeth, vice- presi- terprises will market and merchan- navour English releases in America. dent of Disney -Vista Records. dize material from the Moose Music ... Mireille Mathieu has been in- vited Piaget KENJI SAWADA, seated centre, was voted Japan's top male artist in 1973 Reporting to Marks will be Tony Group. ... Due to musical differ- by French watchmaker will ences, Tony Visconti is no longer to to star at a special gala at St. Moritz, and recently paid a visit to Polydor International head office in Hamburg to Owttrim, who continue in his Bolan. discuss his launching as an international star. Also present were, seated, left present capacity as manager of the produce Marc ... Ronco to commemorate the firm's cente- to right, Shin Watanabe, president of the Watanabe Production Co., of Tokyo, U.K. records division. Marks, whose chief Tony Goldston is convalescing nary. ... For a month, the Bobino Music will Japan's largest promotion and production company, and Misa Watanabe, the experience before joining the record at home after a spell in Westminster Hall present a song and company's vice president; standing, left to right, Giichi Itagaki of Watanabe industry, was in films as a senior ex- hospital. ... EMI is launching its laughter program featuring top Productions, Akira Nakamura, head of Watanabe London, Dr. Werner Vogel- ecutive of the Hoyts theatre chain in own paper, Music Talk, a fort- French singers and comics.... RCA sang, president of Polydor, Wolfgang Arming, also of Polydor, and Michihiko Australia, will visit Burbank and the nightly, 5,000- circulation giveaway has released a Sylvie Vartan LP Disneyland Disney World to be edited by Monty Smith. called "Je Chante Pour Swanee." It Ikeda, Sawada's producer. Sawada's latest hit, "Miserareta Yoru" is a hit in and cen- Paul Robinson Music has was recorded a television Japan and is due to be produced in English and French for international re- ters this month before making a tour con- during program Sylvie." lease later this year. of European licensees. cluded a deal with top Swedish gui- "Top a ... Lydia There may be no more new record tarist Janne Schaffer for the master Verkine's first record, released by shops opened in Oxford Street be- of Schaffer's instrumental album Barclay, is an album comprising cause of the astronomical rents called "Janne Schaffer," which has songs written by herself. ..Chi Col- charged by property companies. reached number one in Sweden... . trane followed a recent visit to Paris This is the forecast of Laurie Krieger, German Easy Listening star Bert with a CBS album "Let It Ride." .. . managing director of the Harlequin Kaempfert is to give two concerts at German singer Mary Roos is mak- chain, speaking after the opening of the Albert Hall on April 22. They ing a name in France. She has ap- a new 1,500 square feet store in Ox- will mark his stage debut and follow peared several times on television, ford Street recently. negotiations by Polygram promo- and CBS has now released an album "I feel that is the last record shop tion man Chris Peers which began of 12 songs in French. ... David Es- to be opened in the street," he said, 10 months ago. Great Western Festi- sex was recently in Paris to promote "The rentals being asked nowadays vals will promote the concert. ... two singles, "Rock On" and are telephone figures." Queens Park Rangers' soccer team "Lamplight," released by CBS. ARE Krieger now has two Oxford captain, Terry Venables has re- HENRY KAHN Street shops 50 yards apart, and corded, "What Do You Wanna plans to open four more shops -at Il- Make Those Eyes at Me For ?" on ford, Winchester, Basingstoke and Decca with a team single to follow. `Rachel' Costs YOU Kingston -within a month to bring ... Henry Hadaway has signed a la- the strength of the Harlequin chain bel distribution deal with Discobel RSO $682,000 up to 50 shops. SV, Belgium's major independent Said Krieger: "When we had six distributor. The arrangement is for Continued from page 8 shops we thought we had a lot. Then the release of Hadaway's Satril dented the group's profits, which as READY we had 12 and wondered how we Records product in Belgium and a result moved up by $200,000 only would cope. Now I suppose we shall Luxembourg under the Satril logo on the 1972 figure to $3.3 million keep going until it gets too much of a and label. ... CBS custom labels pre-tax. Amount available for distri- headache to expand further." ... manager Greg Edwards hosted a re- bution to shareholders was down by FOR Chairman Louis Benjamin, manag- cent edition of Top Of The Pops.... $400,000 to $1.3 million and a final ing director Walter Woyda and in- Revival Records is to distribute the dividend of 7.25 percent is proposed, ternational director Nick Hampton Merrymakers label world -wide... . bringing the total to 12.75 percent. visited Paris for talks with Vogue's Extensive plans have been drawn up According to chairman Robert Leon Cabat last week, regarding by Chrysalis Records for the promo- Stigwood, receipts from the film THE Pye's plans to set up European com- tion of Steeleye Span's just released "Jesus Christ Superstar" are ex- panies. ... Music for Pleasure is new album, "Now We Are Six" pected to amount to not less than $24 million by the end of September, of which RSG profit will amount to about $2.1 million -of which TV Spending Soars $80,000 was taken into last year's figures. Continued from page 1 Among other TV advertisers last Stigwood reports that the RSO la- spent about $600,000 that year. year were A &M, Apple, Bell, B &C, bel is continuing to expand and that Last year saw record companies CBS, Charisma, DJM, GM Records, a number of releases by existing and like EMI, which spent $300,000, par- MCA, Majestic, Matrix, Mooncrest, new artists are planned for the fu- ;tìft ticipating. Phonogram also used TV Philips, Pinnacle, Carsette, Pye, ture. In view of the current economic time, as did Polydor. In all, last year, Rolling Stone Records and Warner climate, no profit forecast for the ÓF some 25 record companies jumped Brothers. current year was made. on the TV promotion bandwagon - more than three times the number using TV the year before. YOUR It was last year that really saw big money being spent on TV advertis- ing, with K -Tel spending by far the most. By November the company LIFE? had bought about $3 million worth of time in TV promotion. In Novem- ber, last year alone, K -Tel spent about $500,000 on TV promotion of its albums. Meanwhile, Arcade COMING SOON FROM spent about $1.7 million and Ronco about $ l.3 million up to that month. YOUR AT However, last year saw other FRIENDS record companies spending more on IH TV promotion, with Bronze at about $27,000 and B &C at nearly $12,500 among them. In November, RCA splashed out more than $25,000 on RECORDS TV advertising, bringing its yearly A SUBSIDIARY OF TV expenditure to more than 20TH CENTURY -FOX FILM $42,000: Multiple Sound Distirbu- NEW YORK writer /producer Peter Anders signed a longterm production deal CORPORATION tors' Tempo Records did a one -off with the Motown U.K. production company. At the signing are, left to right, advertising campaign costing it Dave Valente, professional manager of Jobete, London; Peter Anders and about $62,000 for that month. Trevor Chruchill, Motown U.K.'s a &r director. 56 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com HAROLD LAf1DEY presents THE

Thank you Karen & Richard for making your first ever British Tour the biggest in the United Kingdom since the Beatles You'll be happy to know you grossed $250,000 at 9 dates and we returned a further $250,000 to many thousands of your disappointed fans who were unable to see you. Please hurry back to us soon.

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27 18 ROCKIN' ROLL BABY -Stylistics 7 ALGO MAS -Camilo Sesto (Ariola) BRITAIN (Avco) -Gamble -Huff BELGIUM (Arabella) SWITZERLAND (Courtesy: Music Week) 28 44 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE - (Courtesy Of Belgium Radio & TV) 8 1,2,3 -Patii Andion (Philips -F) (Canciones (Courtesy Of Radio HITPARADE) -Denotes local origin *Candlewick Green (Decca)- SINGLES del Mundo) This This Last Belsize (Chas Peate) 9 ANGIE-Rolling Stones (Hispavox) (Essex) SINGLES Week Week Week 29 32 WILL YOU COME BACK TO ME- 10 IL MIO CANTO LIBERO -Lucio Battisti This Aretha Franklin (Atlantic) -Jobete 1 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL -Charlie Rich (RCA) Week 2 DIRTY OL' MAN -Three Degrees 1 2 JEALOUS MIND- * London (G. Wexler /A. Mardin) ALBUMS (Magnet)- Magnet () 30 23 DANCE WITH THE DEVIL -'Cozy 3 IS EVERYBODY HAPPY -Jackpot This 1 KANSAS CITY- The Les Humphries Powell (Rak) -Rak (Mickie Most) 4 THE AIR THAT I BREATHE -Hollies Singers (Decca) 2 1 DEVIL GATE DRIVE - *Suzi Quatro Week 5 DON'T BREAK THIS HEART (RAK) -Chinnichap /RAK (Mike 31 30 MY CHO- CA-CH00- *Alvin Stardust -Jack Jersey 1 BAND ON THE RUN -Paul McCartney & 6 MIS 2 TEENAGE RAMPAGE-The Sweet (RCA) Chapman /Nicky Chinn) (Magnet) -Magnet (Peter Shelley) WONDERFUL -Wallie Tax Wings (EMI) 7 JE T'AIME JE T'AIME CHERIE -James YOU TO WANT ME -Lobo 3 3 THE AIR THAT I BREATHE -*Hobbies 32 25 LIVING FOR THE CITY -Stevie 2 RINGO- Ringo Starr (EMI) 3 I'D LOVE (Polydor) -Rondor (Ron Richards) Wonder (Tamla Motown) -Jobete Lloyd 3 HABIA UNA VEZ UN CIRCO- Gabi, Fofo & (Philips) London (Stevie Wonder) 8 DYNAMITE -Mud Milike (Movieplay) 4 7 YOU'RE SIXTEEN -*Ringo Starr 4 NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS -Ike & Tina Turner (Apple) -Jewel (Richard Perry) 33 49 SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS' ROOM - 9 OH LONESOME ME -The Walkers 4 PER LE MEU AMIC -Joan Manuel Serrat 10 JAMBALAYA -The Carpenters (United Artists) 5 5 REBEL REBEL -*David Bosie Brownsville Station (Philips) -R. (Edigsa) ALBUMS 5 HONEY NO (RCA) -Mainman /Chrysalis (David Mellin (D. Morris) 5 BRAIN SALAD SURGERY -Emerson, Lake & -Middle Of The Road (RCA) This Bowie) 34 24 TEENAGE RAMPAGE -*Sweet Palmer (Ariola) 6 DEVIL GATE DRIVE -Suzi Quatre (RAK) Week 6 8 REMEMBER -*Bay City Rollers (RCA) -Chinnichap /Rak (Phil 6 FOREVER & EVER -Demis Roussos 7 SCHOENES MAEDCHEN AUD ARCADIA- (Bell) -Mews (Bill Martin /Phil Wainman / Chinnichap) 1 JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR/ (Philips) Demis Roussos (Philips) Coulter) 35 - EVERLASTING LOVE- Robert Knight SOUNDTRACK 7 DONDE EL AGUA-Patxi Andion (Philips) 2 40 GOLDEN HITS -Various Artists 7 4 WOMBLING SONG- *Wombles (Monument) -Peter Maurice (Buzz 8 Y SI CANTO TRIST -Lluis Llach 8 STAR STAR - (Rolling Carpenters (CBS) -Batt Songs (Mike Batt/ Cason /Mac Gayden) 3 THE SINGLES 1969-1973-The (Movieplay) Stones) 45 FUNKY NASSAU of the 4 GREATEST HITS OF DEMIS ROUSSOS (EMI) Belfry Prod.) 36 -Beginning 9 BEATLES 1967 -1970 9 PHOTOGRAPH -Ringo Starr (Apple) 5 BURN -Deep Purple 8 15 BILLY, DON'T BE A HERO- *Paper End (Atlantic)- Copyright Control 10 TODO POR NADA & ALGO MAS -Camilo Lace (Bus Stop)- Intune (Mitch (A. Marlin Prod.) Sesto (Ariola) 10 TCHIP TCHIP -Cash & Carry (Barclay) Murray /Peter Callender) 37 WHO'S IN THE STRAWBERRY PATCH 9 11 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL - WITH SALLY -Tony Orlando & DENMARK /KPM Dawn (Bell) -A. Schroeder (Hank Charlie Rich (CBS) -Gallico (Courtesy Of I.F.P.I) Medress /Dave Appell) (Billy Sherrill) This 10 17 JET- *Paul McCartney & Wings 38 43 JUST MY SOUL RESPONDING - Week Bleak Year Forecast (Apple)- McCartney /ATV (Paul Smokey Robinson ( Tamla 1 (LP) FOREVER & EVER -Demis Roussos McCartney) Motown) -Jobete London (Philips) IN THE *Enton 11 28 CANDLE WIND- (Smokey Robinson /Willie Hutch) 2 (SINGLE) GOODBYE MY LOVE -Demis John (DJM) -DJM (Gus Dudgeon) For the Philippines YOU WON'T FIND ANOTHER FOOL Rousses (Philips) (Intersong) 12 16 IT'S YOU- *Freddie Star (Tiffany) - 39 33 ME Seekers 3 (LP) BURN -Deep Purple (Purple/ EMI) London Tree (Dave Christie) LIKE -*New By OSKAR SALAZAR (Polydor) -Tic Toc London 4 (SINGLE) NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS -Ike & 13 10 MA HE'S MAKING EYES AT ME- (Tommy Oliver) Tina Turner (United Artists/ EMI) MANILA -Unless the delivery of services such as recording and press- Lena Zavaroni (Philips) -Feldman 5 (LP) SOUND '74 -The Les Humphries biscuit and the supply and cost ing. (Tommy Scott) 40 48 JAMBALAYA-Carpenters (A&M)- Singers (Decca) of 14 NEVER GONNA GIVE YA UP & Karen 14 -Barry Acuff-Rose (Richers 6 (SINGLE) DO THE YO- YO- Walkers (Philips) crude oil are put back to normal, the The energy crisis now prompts White (Pye)- Schroeder (Barry Carpenter) (Intersong) music in Philip- businessmen to increase salaries and White) -record industry the 41 34 GALLOPING HOME -*London String 7 (LP) KANSAS CITY -The Les Humphries 15 12 LOVE THEME -Love Unlimited pines is facing a bleak year. wages of their staff. The soaring Chorale (Polydor)- Weekend Singers (Decca) Orchestra (Pyle) -A. Schroeder 8 (LP) NON STOP DANCING '74 -James Last The impending slump can mean costs of services and labor also are (Barry White) 42 37 WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME (Polydor) Melanie hitting them. 16 6 TIGER FEET -*Mud (Rak) - TOMORROW- 9 (SINGLE) INGA KATINGA -Gasolin (CBS) death to minor companies and to -Screen Gems All is not depressing, however. Chinnichap /Rak (Mike Chapman/ (Neighborhood) 10 (LP) PLANET WAVES -Bob Dylan (Asylum) firms with highly diversified inter- Nicky Chinn) (P. Schekeryk) 11 (LP) JEG VENDER MIG I SENGEN -Niels The Philippines' GNP, per capita in- 17 9 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE ests but lacking of facilities for 43 MA- MA -MA- BELLE -*Electric Light Skousen (Polydor) WORLD -*Lulu (Polydor)- - come and literacy are fast shooting Orchestra (Warner Bros.)-Carlin/ 12 (SINGLE) HAMMOND POPS 10 -Klaus recording and pressing. Mainman (David Bowie) up. Electrification the Sugartown (Jeff Lynne) Wunderlich (Telefunken) of whole -*Hudson Ford The cost of pressing of singles has 18 20 BURN BABY BURN 13 (LP) NOW & THEN -The Carpenters (A &M) country, wider urbanization and Ford A LITTLE LOVIN' -Neil Sedaka (A&M)- Hawkana (J. /T. 44 35 14 (SINGLE) VASCOMAT LIZA -Sebastian more than doubled. This is aggra- /Warner Bros. stabilization of the peso are taking Allom /R. Hudson) (Polydor)- Kirshner (Harvest /EMI) (Morks Musikforlag) vated by the fact that retail prices of HAPPINESS IS ME & YOU *Gilbert (Neil Sedaka) 19 19 - 15 (LP) UBERALL AUF DER WELT- Freddy place. Political stability is the big O'Sullivan (MAM) -MAM (Gordon records have remained stationary. 45 - SEVEN SEAS OF LOVE- *Queen Breck (BASF) factor. Mills) (EMI)- Feldman (Ray Thomas The Philippine Assembly of Williams (CBS) 20 13 SOLITAIRE -Andy - Baxter /Queen) Kirshner /Warner Bros. Record Producers (PARP), the most *Cilia 21 27 AFTER THE GOLD RUSH -*Prelude 46 38 BABY WE CAN'T GO WRONG- NEW ZEALAND important body of the industry, is re- Glitter Ailing Black (EMI) -Grenyoko /Vineyard (Dawn) -Warner Bros. (Fritz (Courtesy of N.Z.B.C.) luctant to deliver a new price in- Fryer) (David Mackay) SINGLES Cancels Tour 22 26 SLIP & SLIDE- *Medicine Head 47 - LISTEN TO THE MUSIC -Doobie This crease, cautious that the buying (Polydor)-Biscuit/ Feldman (Tony Bros. (Warner Bros.) -Warner Week public might again shy away from LONDON -A tour of Rhodesia 1 YOU'RE SIXTEEN -Ringo Ashton) Bros. (red Templeman) Starr the products. Its price increase ex- by Gary Glitter, which was the sub- 23 22 ALL OF MY LIFE -Diana Ross (Tamla 2 SKYDIVER-Daniel Boone 48 31 HIGHWAYS Motown) -Jobete London (M. OF MY LIFE -Isley Bros. 3 BABY BLUE -George Baker Selection periment of May of last year did not ject of a High Court hearing in Lon- (Epic)-Carlin (Isley Randall) Bros.) 4 GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD -Elton prove successful. A month after the don, has been called off because the 24 I GET A LITTLE SENTIMENTAL John - 49 42 LOVE ON A MOUNTAIN TOP- May increase, PARP effected a price singer is ailing. OVER YOU- *New Seekers Robert Knight (Monument) -KPM 5 BIG NORM -Ebony ( Polydor)- Mustard /Carlin (Tony (B. Cayson /M. Gayden) 6 SORROW -David Bowie decrease- singles from P3 to P2.50 A statement on behalf of the Bell Macaulay /Tommy Oliver) 7 YOU WON'T FIND ANOTHER FOOL LIKE and albums from P25 to P21 (before artist stressed that the tour had been 25 50 SCHOOL LOVE -Barry Blue (Bell) - 50 46 THE SHOW MUST GO ON- *Leo ME -The New Seekers ATV (Barry Blue) Sayer (Chrysalis)- BlanedellI 8 TAKE ME HIGH - the May increase, a single cost P2 cancelled "purely because Gary was 26 21 TEENAGE DREAM -*Marc Bolan Compass (Adam Faith /Dave 9 EVERYONE KNOWS- Bulldog's Allstar and an album cost P18). unwell." A goodwill visit, not involv- (EMI) -Wizard (Tony Visconti) Courtney) Goodtime Band Small companies, usually being ing concerts, will be made when 10 PHOTOGRAPH -Ringo Starr 11 LENA LOOKIE -Kenny Rogers & The First serviced by major companies in their Glitter recovers and a tour will be ar- Edition pressing needs, are anxious over ef- ranged for "the near future." 12 LET ME BE THERE- Olivia Newton -John fecting a new price increase. The In a High Mr. Jus- 13 JAMBALAYA -The Carpenters Court hearing, 14 THE PEACEMAKER -Albert Hammond contention is the price of singles in tice Plowman cleared the Musicians' 15 BE -Neil Diamond the Philippines is not proportional to Union of allegations that it had tried Continued from page 31 the price of albums. It is a common to stop the tour. The judge said that SOUTH AFRICA practice here to cull and release six although a cancellation message (Courtesy of Springbok Radio) singles from an album of 12 cuts. sent to the tour promoters was an an- SINGLES Thus for the current album price of ticipatory breach of contract, the This Week P21, the proportional price for sin- union had played no part in the mat- 1 THE PEACEMAKER -Albert Hammond gles should be, as advocates of this ter beyond answering questions RaDIO-Tv maî (CBS) (M.P.A.) proposal uphold, P3.50 instead of about the artist's position under 2 PHOTOGRAPHI -Ringo Starr (Parlophone) (Tro Essex) the prevailing P2.50. union rules. The union had banned POSITION WANTED 3 RING RING- Bjorn, Benny, Anna & Frida The pressing cost for singles has members from appearing in Rho- (Sunshine) (Breakaway) more than doubled -from 55 cen- desia and South Africa because of 4 LITTLE JIMMY- Gwyneth Ashley Robin (MVN) ( Laetrec) tavos to 120 centavos. For albums, allegedly racial discrimination and EXPERIENCED COUNTRY JOCK looking for the right station and 5 OF YOUR LOVE -Jody the cost leaped to.. P5.50. Costs of suppression of free trade unions. GIVE YOUR RECORD ( market to settle down in. I'm mar- Wayne (Plum) Laetrec) other services like recording, print- ried, young and hard working. Ex- 6 SORROW -David Bowie (RCA) (Clan) The judge dismissed an applica- A CHANCE perienced in production and public ing and promotion have become affairs. Have been M.D. and am 7 IF YOU NEED ME- After All (Reprise) tion by the Queen's Hotel, of Salis- TO BE HEARD! presently assistant M.D. and all (Laetrec) prohibitive, too. Very little profit or bury, Rhodesia, for a temporary or- night man at the number one station 8 CHARLY -Sean Rennie (Nitty Gritty) in town. Will relocate. Have first none at all is left to small companies. der preventing the union from phone. Call (703) 563 -2676. Write (Ardmore & Beechwood) BRITE -STAR Howie Moon, Apt. B-15, 3533 Fern - 9 THE TIPS OF MY FINGERS -Peter Vee To survive, these companies must attempting to induce Glitter to break cliff Ave., Roanoke, Va. 24017. 3/18 (Bullet) (Plymouth) 1) Concentrate on LP production; 2) his contract. Glitter, who had been 10 NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS -Ike & Tina Turner Complete record promotion and (United Artists) (United Artists /Clan) Select single productions; 3) Cut made a party to the application al- distribution services. down staff and overhead; 4) Halt ex- POSITIONS OPEN though the tour promoters sought no pansion and diversification; 5) Re- order against him, was awarded his Masters Leased SPAI N lease slow -moving artists from con- costs of the hearing. (Courtesy Of "El Musical ") Program Direction: The require- SINGLES tracts. Plowman said that the union de- Sessions Arranged ments for this position are MOR Nashville programming experience. Masters This Major companies, on the other nied forbidding Glitter to perform degree, intelligence, creativity, imag- Week ination. The rewards:. professional hand, can alleviate their plight by in Rhodesia or raising the issue of Send all records for review to: and financial growth, creative ex- 1 LA ESTRELLA DE DAVID -Juan Bau pression,. excellent working environ- (Zafiro) ,(Minos /RCA) pushing their other areas of busi- segregated audiences, nor had any ment. Send photograph with resume 2 48 CRASH -Suzi Quatro (EMI) (Southern) nesses- broadcasting, publishing of threats of disciplinary action or BRITE STAR PROMOTIONS to Box 612, Billboard, Radio -TV Job 3 HELEN WHEELS McCartney & Wings Mart, One Astor Plaza. New York, -Paul pop magazines, motion picture (EMI) ( Armonico) sanctions been made. He added that 728 16th Ave. S. N.Y. 10036. 3 23 4 PHOTOGRAPH -Ringo Starr (EMI) booking and exhibition, tape servic- Glitter had been assured by the Nashville, Tenn. 37203 5 LA DISTANCIA -Roberto Carlos (CBS) ing and duplication, artist booking, promoters that he would not be ap- Cali. Nashville (615) 244 -4064 When Ads . . . 6 GOODBYE MY LOVE, GOODBYE -Demis Answering TV and stage productions, operating tin Roussos (PMlips -F) (Canciones Del pearing before segregated au- Say You Saw It in Billboard Mundo) jukeboxes and extending primary d iences. 58 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD www.americanradiohistory.com ce: hard work did musical i -t.

www.americanradiohistory.com Sassetti, leaders in the music field since 1848

The "Casa Sassetti" was estab- lished in 1848 in a fashionable street of Lisbon, to sell music scores, pi- anos and other musical instruments..

It was founded by Joao Batista Sas- setti, born in 1817 with a deep pas- sion for music which forced him to work in this field. Originally, the "Casa Sassetti" -the company's first name -was therefore the fruit of artistic rather than commercial vo- cation.

Notwithstanding, Joao Batista Sas- setti left a sizable fortune to his heirs, when he died in 1889 at his palace of Cova da Moura . . .

Soon after its opening the small but cozy shop became a meeting point for the leading musical personalities of the time, who played a remarkable role in the development of that art in Portugal.

Since its very beginning, "Casa Sas- setti" engaged in a publishing activ- ity which won it widespread reputa- tion and high praise; it launched the best Portuguese artists of all times, namely the great composer and pi- anist José Viana da Mota, shown in the picture, who won international repute.

Sassetti also played an important the pianist and world known composer published by Sassetti Tonicha, one of "Zip's" artists, in 1971, represented Portugal at the Dublin Eurovi- role in the development of light mu- sion Song Contest. sic in Portugal, launching the Portu- guese and world hits of the time. From Portuguese "fado" to the fox- Sassetti- forerunners of prestige in the trots of the gay twenties, from the first tangos to its efficient and spe- cialized work in the sound track of the most important films of the early Portuguese music market in 1973. times of Portuguese cinema. When the Portuguese Republic was pro- In spite of its glorious past and a tra- to meet the requirements of a In 1973, the company, which led the In this field, particular relevance claimed in 1910, Sassetti were the dition of modernism kept during its quickly developing market. In fact, Portuguese market for classical mu- should be given to the light music first to publish the new National An- 125 years of life, Sassetti did not turn progress boomed over the last three sic signed in 1973 the largest con- "Zip" brand, which triggered a them. to the past alone; quite the contrary, years and Sassetti established itself tract ever in Portugal, worth eight whole new movement attracting it found the right balance betHeen as one of the firmest, most effective million U.S. $ at retail prices. In the some of the best Portuguese per- Sassetti's tradition of being first in prestige and dynamism and became and competitive companies. Its light music market too, Sassetti formers and singers, like Tonicha, the musical field together with its one of the leading companies on the modern management and highly proved itself an active and enterpris- who won Portugal's TV song contest background in the Portuguese so- Portuguese market. skilled administration, executive ing concern; amongst its artists, the for the "Zip" brand and represented cial and historical scene originated and production musical and lyrical company ranks some of the most fa- Portugal in the Eurovision Song tradition of permanent modernism in This dynamic tradition justified its staff is engaged in an all -out effort to mous, winners of Portugal's top Contest at Dublin. a small country far from modern mu- concern to equip itself with the nec- renew the music publishing busi- prizes and trophies over the last The "Zip" brand was originally con- sic and history. essary human and financial means ness in Portugal. three years. nected with one of the most popular programmes on Portuguese TV, in trN'iiTrnr5YDE Suc 1969 and 1970, which quickly jumped to a position of great in- fluence and prestige, and became a favourite of the Portuguese public. --1DO D° 501\ Notwithstanding its background, Sassetti does not lead the records DE MUSICA NTONIO MENANO market in the light and classical mu- sic fields alone. It insisted in keeping alive its cultural tradition and in 1971 launched a new series -"Disco Fa- lado" -which brought to the public the names and the work of the best POL Portuguese poets and authors. N D A group of great actors and "di- A seurs" recorded for this series works from the Portuguese Medieval MOLLY Poets and Luis de Camoens to the contemporary Portuguese poets. "Art for art's sake," a motto of the founder of Sassetti, was not forgot- i ten. FOX TROT CE EDUAR DO ALTER DE SOUSA

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Since its beginning, Sassetti ordered from known artists the covers for their publications. These two covers, in typical 20's style, were designed by The "Zip" gimmick and brand of Sas - famous artists of the time. setti's light music records.

www.americanradiohistory.com Sassetti's monumental work- An Anthology of European Music Sassetti firmly established itself in the Minstrels to Beethoven" and in Portugal, during a cocktail party the classical music market in Portu- "From Beethoven to modern times "; which gathered all VIPs of the mu- gal with a work of a size, importance even by international standards, it is sic, arts, press and radio worlds. and prestige which is in itself a unique undertaking in the history This initiative will be completed with enough evidence of the company's of classic records. the publication of "A History of Mu- initiative and boldness. sic" and "A Guide to Music Listen- The first part of this collection "From ers," thoroughly illustrated, pub- An Anthology of European Music in- the Minstrels to Beethoven," corn - lished with the co- operation of the cludes a total of more than 200 prising a total of 110 records, was best Portuguese and foreign ex- records, divided in two parts -"From launched with an enormous success perts.

Mr. Francisco Granadeiro Chairman of the Board Organizers of Jazz and Classic Music Concerts As part of its cultural promotion program, Sassetti contracts the best artists in the world to play in Portugal, in order to give to the public a better idea of the quality of the artists and the records. Artists like Steve Lacy and the Allan Silva Quar- tet have already performed in Portugal and the Paris Orches- tra will soon be giving a concert in Portugal's best theater.

Mr. Marques de Almeida General Manager From a glorious past to modern premises Apart from its modern premises divide the space available in a ra- head offices, Sassetti has two of the tional and ) way and to im- best record shops in Portugal; one prove the work conditions of all those by one of the young- of these is the only shop in Portugal employed est and of the oldest Portuguese mu- with a top quality hi -fi auditorium. sic publishers. In fact, music makes The size of Sassetti's premises the atmosphere, but atmosphere made it possible for the company to also helps to make music.

Tradition alone does not keep the company alive; progress and up -to- date methods are also necessary -as Mr. Pinto Prezas in Sassetti's computer, the brain be- Mr. Joao Viegas Financial Manager hind the music of our time Operations Manager

Who's Who in Sassetti Staff A team of qualified and up to date experts guarantees the success and The auditorium of one of Sassetti's record shops, unique in Portugal! good operation of a large size corn - pany like Sassetti.

Mr. J.M. Guaraiado Miss Manuela Quitério Assistant Operations Manager Secretary

\f- as8i Sociedade portuguesa de música e som, SARL Av. Corselheiro Fernando de Sousa, 25 A /B- Lisboa -1 Portugal Telefores: 65 60 94/5/6/7/8 View of the record shop at Rua Nova do Almada, not far from the place where the Mr. Carlos Gil P.O. Box 1415 Lisboa 1 original Sassetti shop was established in 1848. Manager

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www.americanradiohistory.com Billboard FM ktion picks Jukebox Programming MFR. CLOSE -UP These are the albums that have been added this past week to the nation's leading progressive stations.

BABYLON, N.Y.: WBAB -FM, Kathy Cunningham PRINCETON: WPRB -FM, Daisann McLane PROVIDENCE: WBRU -FM, Dick Wingate Phaseout; BALTIMORE: WKTK -FM, Joe Buccheri Wurlitzer DALLAS: KAFM -FM, Loretta Angeline SAN JOSE: KSJO -FM, Douglas Droese DENVER: KBPI -FM, Frank Felix TEMPLE: KYLE -FM, George Bruce EUGENE: KFMY -FM, Janice Whitaker TOLEDO: WIOT-FM, Dave Loncao Operating Business NEW ORLEANS: WNOE -FM, Lee Armstrong TORONTO: CHUM -FM, Benjy Karch NORFOLK: WOWI -FM, Larry Dinger UTICA, N.Y.: WOUR -FM, Tony Yoken & Steven Huntington PHILADELPHIA: WMMR -FM, Dennis Wilen VALDOSTA, Ga.: WVVS -FM, Bill Tullis Profitable: Rolfing By EARL PAIGE CHICAGO -The jukebox oper- asked if perhaps jukeboxes were AMBOY DUKES, "Journeys & Migrations," Mainstream WBAB -FM NATIONAL LAMPOON, "Missing White House Tapes," Banana: WMMR FM ating business is profitable and large being made too well and thus not APPLE & APPLEBERRY, ABC/Dunhill: KFMY -FM, WKTK -FM OREGON, "Distant Hills,' Vanguard: WPRB FM. WOJR FM, WOWI FM operations that are diversified in being replaced often enough. HOYT AXTON, "Life Machine," A&M: KFMY -FM ANN PEEBLES, "I Can't Stand The Rain," Hi: WPRB-FM vending and games also will con- "Operators tell us that they're BADFINGER, Warner Bros.: KYLE -FM POINTER SISTERS, "That's A Plenty," Blue Thumb: KFMY -FM, WBAB -FM, tinue to flourish, said R. C. Rolfing, never made well enough." KAFM -FM, WBRU -FM Operator Growth BALLIN' JACK, "Live & In Color," Mercury: WKTK -FM, WBAB -FM board chairman, Wurlitzer Co., RARE BIRD, "Somebody's Watching," Polydor: KYLE -FM, KAFM -FM which is discontinuing its domestic Reminded that Music Operators BARNABY BYE, "Room To Grow," Atlantic: WBAB-FM the national jukebox LOU REED, "Rock 'n Roll Animal," RCA: KAFM -FM, WNOE -FM jukebox manufacturing after 40 of America, MAGGIE BELL, "Queen Of The Night," Atlantic: WPRB -FM, WOUR -FM, years and following recent innova- operators organization, continues to KBPI -FM. WOWI -FM, WMMR FM, KSJO -FM TODD RUNDGREN, "Todd," Bearsville: WIOT -FM, KAFM -FM, KFMY -FM tions in tape and 4- channel units. flourish, Rolfing said he does see a BOZ SCAGGS, "Slow Dancer," Columbia: WBRU -FM, WVVS -FM, WKTK -FM, TERJE RYPDAI, "What Comes After," ECM: WOWI -FM Wurlitzer will sell outright or liq- contradiction in operator growth WOUR -FM, KAFM FM TOM SCOTT & THE LA. EXPRESS, Ode: KFMY -FM uidate its domestic jukebox manu- and sales of jukeboxes. , "Living & Dying In r/4 Time," Dunhill: KFMY -FM SEALS & CROFTS, "Unborn Child," Warner Bros.: WNOE -FM facturing operation, he said, but "The good operators with big BUTTS BAND, Blue Thumb: WOWI FM, WNOE -FM PAUL SIMON, "Live Rhymin'," Columbia: WVVS -FM Deutsche Wurlitzer in Europe will routes and who are in vending and making money and will CARAVAN, "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night," London: WBAB -FM BUFFY ST. MARIE, "Buffy," MCA: WOWI -FM, KBPI FM, CHUM -FM continue to manufacture jukeboxes games are and vending equipment. Affected in continue to make money, but I don't RAY CHARLES, "Come Live With Me," Crossover: WMMR -FM JIM STAFFORD, MGM: KFMY -FM the move are 40 domestic Wurlitzer feel they are making money off CHICK COREA & RETURN FOREVER, "Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy," Polydor: HUMBLE PIE, "Thunderbox," A &M: KFMY -FM almost all are phonographs alone." He said he be- WIOT FM distributors, "though KEITH JARRETT, "Yawuh," Impulse: CHUM -FM operators," Rolfing noted. lieves MOA's big surge in its recent PAPA JOHN CREACH, "Playin' My Fiddle For You," Grunt: WIOT -FM ERIC KAZ, "Cul -De- Sac," Atlantic: WMMR -FM Jukebox sales accounted for an es- shows has come from expánsion of , "Way Down Yonder," Kama Sutra: KAFM -FM, WNOE- EDDIE KENDRICKS, "Boogie Down," Tamla: KSJO -FM timated 15 percent of overall Wur- the games business. FM in KISS, Casablanca: CHUM -FM litzer volume in the current year. Wurlitzer innovated develop- BOBBY DARIN, "Darin 1936- 1973," Motown: KSJO -FM In noting that the board pondered ing a tape cassette jukebox two years JERRY LA CROIX, "Second Coming," Mercury: WVVS -FM, KAFM FM, SPENCER DAVIS, "Lain' In The Back Street," Mercury: WVVS -FM, WBAB- ago and more recently in showing a WOUR -FM the decision to quit making juke- FM boxes for a long time and that juke- quadrasonic model. The firm also KATHI McDONALD, "Insane Asylum," Capitol: WOUR -FM, CHUM -FM BROTHERS, Were Vices Are Now Habits," Warner a grow- developed and marketed a limited DOOBIE "What Once MADURA, "Madura li," Columbia: WIOT -FM box manufacturing "is not Bros.: WNOE-FM, CHUM -FM, KAFM -FM, WIOT -FM ing business," Rolfing laughed at edition of a nostalgic model juke- HERBIE MANN, "London Underground," Atlantic: WVVS -FM, WKTK -FM THE 11th HOUSE WITH LARRY CORYELL, Vanguard: WKTK -FM, WBRU-FM, one point in the interview when box. MANFRED MANN, "Solar Fire," Polydor: CHUM -FM, WNOE -FM, KAFM -FM WMMR -FM, WOWI -FM MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, "A New Life," Capricorn: WIOT -FM MICHAEL FENNELLY, "Lane Changer," Epic: WKTK-FM, WBRU -FM, WOUR- FM JOHN MAYALL, "Best Of," Polydor: KYLE -FM KAFM -FM, KYLE WVVS -FM PETER FRAMPTON, "Something's Happening," A &M: WBRU -FM, WVVS , "Tailface," Columbia: -FM, FM, WMMR -FM. KSJOFM, WBAB -FM, WPRB -FM VAN MORRISON, "It's Too Late To Stop Now," Warner Bros.: KSJO -FM, What's Playing? ARETHA FRANKLIN, "Let Me In Your Life," Atlantic: CHUM -FM, WBRU -FM, WKTK -FM, KFMY -FM recent purchases and KBPIFM, WMMR FM, KSJO -FM, WOUR -FM MOUNTAIN, "Twin Peaks," Windfall: KYLE -FM, CHUM -FM A weekly survey of current and oldie selections getting top play. BARRY GOLDBERG, Atco: WOWI -FM, WPRB -FM, WOUR -FM STRAWBS, "Hero & Heroine," A&M: WIOT -FM ATLANTA: MIXED PURCHASES "There Won't Be Anymore," Charlie Rich GOLDEN EARRING, "Moontan," Track (Import): WVVS -FM, WOWI -FM, DRIVEN THING, "The Machine That Cried," Charisma: WMMR FM. STRING Love." Tom T. Hall KBPI -FM, WOUR -FM, WBAB -FM, WKTK -FM Lela Griped)" "I WPRB-FM, WBAB -FM Star Musk "Would You Lay With Me (In A Field of HERBIE HANCOCK, "Headhunters," Columbia: WNOE -FM 739 Lambert Dr. N.E. Stone)," Tanya Tucker, Columbia TOOTS & SVEND, "Yesterday & Today," A &M: WVVS -FM (409)873.3038 BO HANSSON, "Magician's Hat," Charisma: WPRB FM, WOWI FM 45991 TOWER OF POWER, "Back To Oakland," Warner Bros.: KYLE -FM, WKTK- "Touch A Hand, Make A Friend," Staple "That's The Way Love Goes." Johnny EDDIE HARRIS, "E.H. In The U.K.," Atlantic: CHUM -FM FM, WIOT FM Singers, Ateo 0196 Rodriquez, Mercury 73446 ALEX HARVEY BAND, "Next," Vertigo: WMMR -FM "Eres Tu (Touch The Wind)." Mocedades "Daddy. What If," Bobby Bear, RCA 0197 TUCKY BUZZARD, "Buzzard," Passport: WVVS -FM "There Won't Be Anymore," Charlie Rich Ideas," Brenda Lee. MCA40171 HOTSPUR, Columbia: KYLE -FM "Wrong "Mockingbird." Carly Simon On Tables," Ronnie VINEGAR JOE, "Six Star General," Island (Import): WBRU -FM "The Girl Who Waits HOUND DOG TAYLOR, "Natural Boogie," Alligator: WOUR -FM "I've Got To Use My Imagination." Gladys Milsap, RCA 0097 WOWI -FM ELLIOT MURPHY, "Aqua Show," Polydor: KYLE -FM EUGENE WALLACE, "Book Of Fool," ABC /Dunhill: Knight and The Pips, Buddah 393 "Jolene," Dolly Parton, RCA 0145 "The World Of Make Believe," Bill ANNE MURRAY, "Love Song," Capitol: KFMY -FM JOHNNY WINTER, "Saints & Sinners," Columbia: WIOT -FM Anderson, MCA 40164 Spinners FINDLAY, OHIO: POP AND COUNTRY "The Great Mail Robbery." Rex Allen Jr. PURCHASES "No Charge," Melba Montgomery Paul Hoppe Findlay Musk Co. 45840 1637 Tiffin Ave. MUSKOGEE, OK: POP PURCHASES . (419) 4228145 George Sevier "One Hell of a Woman," Mac Davis, A L J Vending Inc. Columbia 46004 1221 Baltimore 74401 4228145 BubblingUnderThe HOT 100 "Hooked On A Feeling." Blue Swede. EMI (918) 3627 "Mockingbird," Carly Simon "Let Your Hair Down." Temptations, "Eres Tu (Touch The Wind)." Mocedades Gordy 7133 "Jet." Paul McCartney /Wings "Stop To Start, Blue Magic. Atco 6949 "Rock On." David Essex 101 -US AND THEM, Pink Floyd, Harvest 3833 (Capitol) 109 -WHEN I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES, Santana, Columbia 45999 Country "Seasons In The Sun," Terry Jacks 102 -YOU MAKE ME FEEL BRAND NEW, The Sylistics, Avco 4634 110 -SAXAPHONES. Jimmy Buffett, Dunhill 4378 "Honky Tonk Nighttime Man." Merle "Sunshine On My Shoulders," John Denver 103 -POWER OF LOVE, Martha Reeves, MCA 40194 111 -WILLIE PASS THE WATER, Ripple, GRC 1012 Haggard, Capitol 3830 Pop Spinners 104 -DID YOU NO WRONG, J. Geils Band, Atlantic 3007 112 -THIS HEART, Gene Redding, Haven 7000 (Capitol) PORTLAND: POP PURCHASES "Seasons In The Sun," Terry Jacks 105 -SILVER THREADS AND GOLDEN NEEDLES, Linda Ronstadt, Asylum Cathy Seabolt 113 -YOUR FUNNY MOOD, The Casuals "Sunshine On My Shoulder." John Denver 11032 A k A Amusement Co., Inc. 114 -IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT, Stories, Kama Sutra 588 (Buddah) 14324 S.E. Stark St. 106 -I TOLD YOU SO, The Delfonics, Philly Groove 182 (Bell) (503) 255-7206 115 -LET'S GO, LET'S GO, LET'S GO, The Chambers Brothers, Avco 4632 107 -WHO IS HE, AND WHAT IS HE TO YOU, Creative Source, Sussex 509 "Seasons In The Sun." Terry Jacks 108 -THE FIRST TIME WE MET, The Independents, Wand 11267 (Scepter) 116 -MADELAINE, Stu Nunnery, Evolution 1088 GREENFIELD, MASS: COUNTRY "Dark Lady." Cher PURCHASES "Jet," Paul McCartney /Wings Tim Strohm) "Bennie and The Jets," Elton John Musk Mohawk Arkansas, Atco 435 Deerfield St. 01301 "Jim Dandy." Black Oak (413) 774 -4351 6984

Bubbling UnderThe Top LP's

Blue Note LA 142 (United Art- 201 -MERLE HAGGARD, If We Make It Through December, Capitol 209 -BOBBI HUMPHREY, Blacks and Blues, ST11276 ists) CR 9000 202 -STEALERS WHEEL, Ferguslie Park, A &M 4419 210 -RAY CHARLES, Come Live With Me, Crossover 2738 (Warner Bros.) 203 -HANK CRAWFORD, Wildflower, Kudu KU 15 (CTI) 211 -LEO SAYER, Silverbird, Chrysalis BS 204 -JOHN MAYALL, The Best Of, Polydor PD 2 -3006 212 -HENRY GROSS, A &M SP 4416 205 -MALO, Ascension, Warner Bros. BS 2768 213 -SUZI QUATRO, Bell 1302 206 -ESTHER PHILLIPS, Black Eyed Blues, Kudu KU 14 (CTI) 214 -MONTROSE, Warner Bros. BS 22400 & THE L.A. EXPRESS, Ode SP 77021 (A &M) 1 207- FIRST CHOICE, Armed & Extremely Dangerous, Philly Groove 1400 215 -TOM SCOTT \ (Bell) 216 -DON SEBESKY, Giant Box, CTI 6031/32 JUKEBOX programming booster Les Montooth of Peoria, III. showed off prize MCA 391 a 208 -AHMAD JAMAL, Jamaica, 20th Century T 432 217 - SILVERHEAD, 16 & Savaged, birthday present when he addressed past Neb. meeting. 63 MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD

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1 1 10 SEASONS IN THE SUN- Terry lacks 34 20 14 YOU'RE SIXTEEN - Ringo 68 66 5 IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME -The New Birth (Terry lacks), J. Brel, Rod McKuen, Bell 45432 BELL (Richard Perry), Richard & Robert Sherman, Apple 1870 (Capitol) SGC (Fugua Ill), Baker, Wilson, RCA 0135 HAN

2 2 11 Kendricks ENERGY CRISIS Dickie Goodman BOOGIE DOWN -Eddie 35 35 7 '74- 82 THE LOCO -MOTION -Grand Funk Railroad (Frank Wilson, Leonard Canton), F. Wilson, L. Castor', A. Poree, (Dickie Goodman, Phil Kahl), Rainy Wednesday 206 (Todd Rundgren), G. Goffin, C. King, Capitol 3840 SGC Tamis 54243 (Motown) SGC 36 43 WE'RE GETTING CARELESS WITH 70 73 MUST BE LOVE -James Gang 6 9 DARK LADY -Cher LOVE Johnnie Taylor OUR - T. (James Gang), J. Cook, Atco * (Snuff-Garrett), John Durrill, MCA 40161 Bolin, 6953 HAN (Don Davis), Don Davis, Frank Johnson, Star 0193 (Columbia) SGC

10 8 SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDER -John Denver 47 JUST DON'T WANT TO BE LONELY -The Main Ingredient 71 78 STAR BABY -Guess who (Milton Okun), Denver, Kniss, Taylor, RCA 0213 CRIT (Silvester, Simmons, Gooding), Barrett, Freeman, Eli, RCA 0205 BB (Jack Richardson), Burton Cummings, RCA 0217 HAN

5 3 17 THE WAY WE WERE - Barbra Streisand 58 I'LL HAVE TO SAY I LOVE YOU 72 I JUST CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY MIND -4 Tops (Marty Faith), A. Bergman, M. Bergman, M. Hamlisch, Barri, Dennis IN A SONG -Jim Croce (Steve Lambert, Brian Potter), B. Lambert, Columbia 4 -45944 SGC B. Potter, Dunhill 4377 (Cashman 8 West), J. Croce, ABC 11424 B -3

8 7 Simon 8 James Taylor MOCKINGBIRD -carry 39 25 18 LET ME BE THERE - Olivia Newton -John MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS -Maria Muldaur (Richard Perry), Inez 8 Charley Foxx /James Taylor, Elektra 45880 B -3 (Bruce Welch, John Farrar), John Rostill, MCA 40101 SGC (Lenny Waronker, Joe Boyd), D. Michtern, Reprise 1183

1 4 15 JUNGLE BOOGIE -tool & The Gang 40 44 11 W.O.L.D. -Harry Chapin A TRAIN -Albert Hammond (tool & The Gang), Ronald Bell, tool 8 The Gang, (Paul Lelia), Harry Chapin, Elektra 45874 WBM I'M (Roy Halee), A. Hammond, M. Hazelwood, Mums 7 -6026 De -Lite 559 (P.I.P.) SGC 53 4 TOUCH A HAND MAKE A FRIEND - Staple Singers (Columbia) MCA (Al Bell), R. Banks, R. C. Hampton, 8 5 19 ROCK ON -David Essex Jackson, Stax 0196 SGC (Jeff Wayne), D. Essex, Columbia 4 -45940 75 HOUSTON (I'm Comin' To See You) -Glen Campbell 42 45 I'VE GOT A THING ABOUT YOU BABY /TAKE (Jimmy Bowen), David Paich, Capitol 3808 SGC 9 7 19 SPIDERS AND SNAKES -Jim Stafford GOOD CARE OF HER-Elvis Presley (Phil Gernhard 8 Lobo), Jim Stafford, David Bellamy MGM 14648 HAN (not listed), T.J. White, RCA 0196 HAN TOUCH AND GO -AI Wilson (Jerry Fuller), J. Fuller, Rocky Road 30076 (Bell) SGC 14 6 JET -Paul McCartney & Wings 43 46 I'LL BE THE OTHER WOMAN -Soul Children (Paul McCartney), McCartney, Apple 1871 (Capitol) HAN (Al Jackson, Homer Banks, Carl Hampton), Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, Stax 0182 (Columbia) SGC 77 THAT'S THE SOUND THAT LONELY MAKES- Tavares (Johnny Bristol), J. Bristol, J. Dean, J. Glover, Capitol 3794 SGC 11 13 10 ERES TU (Touch The Wind) Mocedades - 65 014 MY MY -Ringo Starr (Juan Carlos Calderon), Juan Carlos Calderon, Tara 100 (Famous) CPI (Richard Perry), V. Poncio, R. Starkey, Apple 1872 (Capitol) SGC 78 WATCHING THE RIVER RUN- Loggins & Messina (Jim Messina), K. Loggins, J. Messina, Columbia 46010 WBM 23 5 BENNIE & THE JETS -Elton John 55 LET IT RIDE- Bachman-Turner Overdrive * (Gus Dudgeon), Elton John, Bernie Taupin, MCA 40198 WBM (Randy Bachman), R. Bachman, C.F. Turner, NEW EN'a Mercury 73457 )Phonogram) SGC DANCING MACHINE -The Jackson 5 H. D. Fletcher, W.D. Parks, Motown 1286 SGC * 17 10 COME AND GET YOUR LOVE- Redbone (Hal Davis), David, (Pat 8 Lolly Vegas), L. Vegas, Epic 5-11036 (Columbia) BB 56 TELL ME A LIE -Sami Jo (Sonny Limbo), B. Wyrick, M. Buckins, MGM South 7029 SGC new ire' (I'VE BEEN) SEARCHIN' SO LONG -Chicago 21 5 HOOKED ON A FEELING -Blue Swede (James William Guercio), J. Pankow, Columbia 46020 HAN A Dylan (Bengt Palmers), Mark James, EMI 3627 (Capitol) HAN 47 52 4 ON NIGHT LIKE THIS -Bob (Bob Dylan), B. Dylan, Asylum 11033 ALF 81 85 UNBORN CHILD -Seals & Crofts 15 11 16 LOVE'S THEME -Love Unlimited Orchestra 51 THANKS FOR SAVING MY LIFE -Billy Paul (Louie Shelton), J. Seals, Warner Bros. 77)1 WBM (Barry White), Barry White, 20th Century 2069 CPI 48 (Gamble -Hutt), K. Gamble, L. Huff, Philadelphia International 73538 (Columbia) 82 SHE- Southcote 16 19 13 TRYING TO HOLD ON TO (Hilly Leopold), B. David, Buddah 399 HAN MY WOMAN- Lamont Dozier 49 30 11 AMERICANS -Byron MacGregor (Peter Scheermier), Gordon Sinclair, Westbound 222 (M. Jackson), M. Jackson & J. Reddick, ABC 11407 SGC (Chess/Janus) SGC/HAN 83 GOIN' DOWN SLOW -Bobby Blue Bland (Steve Barri), J.D. Odom, Dunhill 4379 (ABC) 17 18 10 SEXY MAMA -Moments 50 34 10 DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO (S. Robinson, H. Ray, A. Goodman), H. Ray, S. Goodman, S. Robinson, SKYBIRD -Neil Diamond Stang 5052 (All Platinum) SGC (Heartbreaker) - Rolling Stones (Jimmy Miller), M. Jagger, K. Richard, Rolling Stones 19109 (Atlantic) (Torn Catalano) N. Diamond, Columbia 45998 HAN 22 11 MY SWEET LADY -Cliff De Young BM (Gil Rodin, J. Musso), John Denver, MCA 40156 WBM ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND -Think 51 38 17 LAST KISS -Wednesday W ( Stallman 8 Susser), L. Stallman, B. Susser Big Tree 15000 (Atlantic) (John Dee Driscoll), W. Cochran, Sussex 507 HAN 19 9 17 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME MIGHTY MIGHTY -Earth, Wind, & Fire (That's What I'm Gonna DO)- Aretha Franklin 63 4 HONEY PLEASE CAN'T YOU SEE -Barry White 86 (Joe Wissert 8 Maurice White), M. White, V. White, Columbia 46007 SGC (Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin), Stevie Wonder, C. Paul, M. (Barry White;, B. White, 20th Century 2077 CPI Broadnax, Atlantic 45-2995 SGC 53 39 22 SHOW AND TELL -AI Wilson HELP ME -Joni Mitchell (Jerry Fuller), Jerry Fuller, Rocky 31 THE LORD'S PRAYER - Sister Janet Mead Road 30073 (Bell) SGC (NOT LISTED) J. Mitchell, Asylum 11034 (Martin Erdman), A. Strals, ABM 1491 INK 49 12 ABRA -CA- DABRA -De Franco Family NFw ENTNw 54 OH VERY YOUNG Stevens (Walt Meskell), Martin, Meskell, 20th Century 2070 SGC -cat 21 24 8 MIGHTY LOVE, Pt. 1 -The Spinners (Paul Samwell-Smith & Cat Stevens), C. Stevens, ABM 1503 SGC (Thom Bell), B. Jefferson, B. Hayes, C. Simmons, Atlantic 3000 67 4 MY MISTAKE WAS TO NEW ENTRY DANCE WITH THE DEVIL -Cozy Powell LOVE YOU -Diana Ross Si Marvin Gaye 22 12 14 A LOVE SONG -Anne Murray (Mickie Most) P. Dennys, M. Hayes, Chrysalis 2029 (Hal Davis), F. Sawyer, Motown (Brian Ahern), D.L. George, K. Loggins, Capitol 3776 WBM G. Jones, 1269 SGC NEVI ENTRY 6 HOMELY GIRL -The Chi-Lites THE SHOW MUST GO ON -Three Dog Night 23 26 8 THERE WON'T BE ANYMORE Charlie Rich 56 59 - (Eugene Record), Eugene Record, Stan McKenney, Brunswick 55505 SGC (Jimmy lenner), L Sayer, D. Courtney, Dunhill 4382 WBM (none listed), Charlie Rich, RCA 0195 SGC

57 54 12 LIFE IS A SONG WORTH SINGING -Johnny Mathis 91 96 2 PEPPER BOX -The Peppers 32 5 BEST THING THAT EVER (Thom Bell), T. Bell, L. 4.45975 Creed, Columbia (Sforzando Sirocco), P. Arpadys, M. Camison Event 213 (Polydor) HAN HAPPENED TO ME- Gladys Knight & The Pips KEEP Reddy (Kenny Kerner, Richie J. 86 2 ON SINGING -Helen Wise), Weatherly, Buddah 403 SGC 92 80 5 BEYOND THE BLUE Christie (Tom Catalano), D. Janssen, B. Hart, Capitol 3845 B-3 HORIZON -Lou (Tony Romeo), Robin, Whiting, Hapling, Three Brothers 402 (CTI) HAN 42 TSOP -MFSB 61 7 I WISH IT WAS ME- Tyrone Davis (none listed), K. Gamble, L. Huff, Philadelphia (Willie Henderson), Leo Graham, Dakar 4529 (Brunswick) SGC 93 79 1 QUICK, FAST, IN A HURRY -New York City International 73540 (Columbia) BB `Thom Bell), Thom Bell, Linda Creed, Chelsea 0150 (RCA) BB 74 4 TUBULAR BELLS -Mike Oldfield 26 29 9 ROCK & ROLL HOOCHIE KOO -Rick Derringer (Mike Oldfield), M. Oldfield, Virgin 55100 Atlantic TMK (Rick Derringer, Bill Szymczyk), Rick Derringer, Blue Sky 7.2751 94 94 3 BEST THING THAT EVER (Columbia) SGC 71 4 PIANO MAN -Billy Joel HAPPENED TO ME -The Persuaders (Michael Stewart), B. Joel, Columbia 45963 (The Young Professionals), J. Weatherly, Attu 6956 27 15 13 PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER -The O'Jays (Gamble -Huff), K. Gamble & L Huff, WOULD YOU LAY WITH ME 72 5 95 98 2 MR. NATURAL -Bee Gees Philadelphia International 73535 (Epic) BB (In A Field of Stone) -Tanya Tucker (Arif Mardin), B. Gibb, R. Gibb, RSO 408 (Atlantic) (Billy Sherrill), David Allen Coe, Columbia 45991 SGC 28 16 15 I LOVE -Tom T. Hall (Jerry Kennedy), T. T. Hall, Mercury 73436 ( Phonogram) CHA 96 HEAVENLY -The Temptations JOLENE -Dolly Parton 63 60 (Norman Whiffield), N. Whitfield, Gordy 7135 (Motown) SGC (none listed), Dolly Parton, RCA 0145 SGC 36 4 A VERY SPECIAL LOVE SONG - Charlie Rich (Billy Sherrill), B. Sherrill, N. Wilson, Epic 5 -11091 SGC 76 YOUR CASH AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT TRASH -Steve Miller 97 99 3 MUSIC EYES -Heartsfield Yf (Tom Geving, Heartsfield), none listed, Mercury 73449 ( Phonogram) Band 37 7 LOOKIN' FOR A LOVE -Bobby Womack (Steve Miller), C. Calhoun, Capitol 3833 B -3 (Bobby Womack), J.W. Alexander, Z. Samuels, United Artists 375 SGC 98 88 THERE'S GOT TO BE RAIN IN YOUR LIFE OUTSIDE WOMAN Bloodstone 31 33 11 STAR- Stealers Wheel 75 - (To Appreciate the Sunshine) - Dorothy Norwood (Mike Vernon), H. Williams, London 1052 SGC (Marlin McNichols), D. Norwood, (Leiber /Stoller), Joe Egan, UM 1483 HAN GRC 1011 69 6 SHE'S GONE -Hall & Oates 32 28 15 I LIKE TO LIVE THE King 99 NEW ENTRY ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK -Bin Haley A The Comets LOVE -B.B. (Arif Mardin), O. Hall, 1. Oates, Atlantic 2993 CHA (Dave Crawford), D. Crawford, C. Mann ABC 11406 HAN (NOT LISTED), J. DeKnight, M.C. Freedman, MCA 60025 77 VIRGINIA (Touch Me Like You Do) -Bill Amesbury 33 27 11 LAST TIME I SAW HIM -Diana Ross (Amesbury, Gilliland), William Amesbury, Casablanca 0001 100 91 5 THE CRUDE OIL BLUES -Jerry Reed (Michael Masser), M. Masser, Pam Sawyer, Motown 1278 SGC (Warner Bros.) B-3 (Chet Atkins 8 Jerry Reed), Jerry R. Hubbard, RCA 0224 SGC

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I V8 r,1 & RAB Y i. 125 124 A'2 OEM) IAfMISTS) Billy Cobham 41 Grand Funk Railroad 127 Paul McCartney & Wings 8 Pink Floyd 34, 103, Spinners Alice Cooper 67 Grateful Dead 80 Mahavishnu Orchestra 163 Pointer Sisters 134 Jim Stafford 190 Gregg Allman 24 Commander Cody 131 Al Green 44 Main Ingredient 121 Elvis Presley 60, 119 Ringo Starr 29 Allman Brothers Band 63, 169 Chick Corea 185 Tom T. Hall 159 Manfred Mann 153 Queen 165 Cat Stevens 138 America 196 Creative Source 187 Herbie Hancock 15 Dave Mason 87 Redbone 189 Rod Stewart 197 Bachman -Turner Overdrive 31,88 Jim Croce 10,21,50 Eddie Harris 171 Johnny Mathis 170 Lou Reed 73 Strawbs 164 Reddy 77 Badfinger 168 Deep Purple 45, 111, 166 Isaac Hayes 65 Harold Melvin & Bluenotes 158 Helen Barbra Streisand 1 The Band 107 John Denver 4,37 Hot Tuna 152 M.F.S.B. 23 Charlie Rich 14, 53 Stylistics 132 Beach Boys 100 Deodato 182 Humble Pie 82 Bette Midler 49, 102 Smokey Robinson & Miracles 97 Tavares 177 Beatles 115, 137 Rick Derringer 27 Isley Brothers 78 Steve Miller Band 28 Rolling Stones 69, 143 Temptations 30, 123 Black Oak Arkansas 72 Neil Diamond 51, 154 Terry Jacks 150 Joni Mitchell 2 Linda Ronstadt 54, 118 Tower of Power 176 Ross Black Sabbath 11 Doobie Brothers 89, 64, 156 James Gang 162 Mocedades 192 Diana 94 Marshall Tucker Band 70, 157 Bloodstone 112 Lamont Dozier 142 Billy Joel 43 Van Morrison 117 Diana Ross / Marvin Gaye 145 David T. Walker 199 Blue Magic 173 Bob Dylan 3, 135 Elton John 9, 124 The Mothers 110 Todd Rundgren 79, 91 Joe Walsh 106 David Bowie 139 Earth Wind &Fire 116 Eddie Kendricks 84. 161 Mountain 160 Santana 104 War 108 Bread 85 Electric Light Orchestra 57 B.B. King 130 Maria Muldaur 38 Seals & Crofts 48, 81, 128 Barry White 26, 55 David Bromberg 167 Emerson Lake & Palmer 19 Carole King 147 Anne Murray 101 Carly Simon 5,184 The Who 42 James Brown 58 David Essex 32 Gladys Knight & The Pips 22, 86, 194 Graham Nash 46 Paul Simon 183 Paul Williams 178 Jackson Browne 90 Firesign Theatre 176 Kool & The Gang 35 National Lampoon 179 Simon & Garfunkel 144 Al Wilson 96 Brownsville Station 174 Roberta Flack 99 Leo Kottke 71 Nazareth 188 Frank Sinatra 151 Edgar Winter Group 126 Roy Buchanan 155 Fleetwood Mac 146 Kris Kristofferson 191 Rick Nelson &Stone Canyon Band 200 Slade 180 John Winter 66 Jimmy Buffett 186 Foghat 36 Led Zeppelin 52, 74 New Birth 62 Grace Slick 148 Wishbone Ash 141 George Carlin 109 Aretha Franklin 105 John Lennon 149 Olivia Newton.John 56 SOUNDTRACKS /ORIGINAL CASTS: Bobby Womack 95 Carpenters 25 Garfunkel 195 Lettermen 198 O'Jays 13 American Grafitti 18 Stevie Wonder 33, 133 Mike Oldfield 7 The Sting 17 Harry Chapin 61 Marvin Gaye 75 Gordon Lightfoot 39 Yes 6 J. Geils Band 113 Loggins & Messina 40, 175 Tony Orlando & Dawn 114 Sunshine 59 Chicago 68 Jesse Colin Young 83, 193 Cheech & Chong 47, 98 Genesis 136 Love Unlimited 12,16 Billy Paul 120 Jesus Christ Superstar 172 Were 20 Z.Z. Top 92 Climax Blues Band 129 Graham Central Station 140 Lynyrd Skynyrd 93 Ann Peebles 181 The Way We

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Winner Of Two Grammys

"NEITHER ONE OF US" 'MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA" Best Pop Vocal Performance Best Rhythm & Blues Performance By a Duo, Group Or Chorus By a Duo, Group Or Chorus 1974 1974

The Buddah Group

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I nsidelrock ExecutiveTurntable during Buck Owens tour of Japan.... Barry White's Los Continued from page 50 Angeles performing debut at the Sports Arena March 23. ... Following her only New York recital of the season, soprano Leontyne Price was feted at the St. Regis Hotel. RCA president Kenneth Glancy was on hand for con- gratulations.... Last week in Atlanta, GRC's Red, White & Blue(grass) and the Counts held a benefit perform- ance for the inmates at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. DAVIS WHITE RUNDGREN With Capricorn's Hydra, the three acts played before a captive audience of 2,000. STAR STREAKERS: Rumors abounded prior to Frank Sinatra cancelled out of a three -day Caesars BASTIAANS SASS Todd Rundgren's concert last week before 7,000 students Palace return in Vegas, but added an extra night to his at the University of South Carolina that a "streak -in" already two day, two performance date at the Nassau Howard E. Bonner has joined Admiral Corporation as vice -pres- had been scheduled at showtime. Rundgren, eyeing sev- Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. ident, engineering- electronics division, leaving his position at eral strategically placed uniformed officers, said he'd be Texas Instrument Corp. as program manager. Prior to that, he was to in the demonstration -after the show. True to glad join chief engineer at Philco Corp.... Koss Corporation has added his word, the Wizard, joined by fellow artist M. Frog, led R. as engineer, a newly created post. The a group of 50 streaking students across the University's Cedric Bastiaans chief campus. Both Rundgren and Frog record for Bears - Dutch born engineer has been involved in sound reproduction de- ville Records. velopment, first with Philips Phonographic Industries, the Nether- Columbia's Mac Davis is set to star in an NBC -TV lands, and most recently, as manager of special devices research, summer music- variety series beginning July 11. "The Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh.... Edward P. Reavy, Jr., Mac Davis Show" will be the summer replacement for PRICE NILSSON PLANT vice- president and general manager, consumer products division, "The Flip Wilson Show," which will not return in the Motorola, Inc., announced the appointment of Dr. Andrew R. Sass rock journal, fall. Davis' series runs eight weeks.... Prior to his success Readers of Circus Magazine, consumer as director of technology. Dr. Sass was most recently with the IBM on 20th Century with his Love Unlimited Orchestra and have voted Led Zeppelin top in three catagories: Best manager for Jen- Lead Singer, group's Robert Plant; and Best Corporation.... Chuck Wendt, former product singers, Barry White's past professional assignments in- Group, Best Sound speaker line, has been promoted bricklaying, carpentry and hairdressing. ... Joel Lead Guitarist, group's Jimmy Page. More than 20.000 sen Sound Lab's General cluded will Grey talking to Jimmy Nederlander about a one -man ballots were tabulated. The band is currently in the stu- to advertising and promotion manager. His new duties involve show at the Palace in New York this fall.... Orchestra dio working on their sixth Atlantic album. him in market planning, product design and merchandising. re- three old Jane Powell albums, conductor Sam Donohue hospitalized with cancer at MGM releasing * * * Washoe Medical Center, Reno, Nevada. ... Vidicom thanks to her popularity on Broadway when she took Systems spending more than $250,000 to restore and to over the Debbie Reynolds role in "Irene." ... Sir Lew Sol Schildhause, formerly chief of cable television for the Fed- refurbish the 45- year -old Beacon Theater on Broadway. Grade has optioned "Donkey Hootie," a 90- minute eral Communications Commission, has joined the law firm of Far- recording in London Christmas special to be produced via A.T.V. in London Mahavishnu John McLaughlin row, Cahill, Kaswell & Schildhause. And at 20th Century Music, Lamm with Michael Tilson- Thomas. The pair will collaborate for simultaneous airing in Great Britain and the U.S. in Marks has been appointed director of professional activities. He is on an album with the London Symphony Orchestra... . December, 1974.... Tonsilitis cut short piano man Billy Leonard Bernstein's Mass was televised on New York's Joel's Max's Kansas City date. Buzzy Linhart and Elliott an experienced writer /producer and has been a publishing execu- NET station to raise money for the public- sponsored Randall replaced. At the club a week before, Maria Mul- tive with Schroeder and Damont.... James W. Hawn has been network. daur hopped on stage to join funky fiddler Papa John named Capitol Records district sales manager for Cleveland. He RCA releasing "Daybreak," a new single by Harry Creach for a song.... Jay & the Americans, with 19 con- replaces Mike Mathewson, who has left the company. Hawn was Nilsson from the forthcoming motion picture "Son of secutive chart records under their belts, are seeking a most recently Capitol's special accounts manager, Boston. Dracula" starring the artist and Ringo Starr who, with recording deal. ... The Rick Nelsons expecting fourth former Beatle buddy George Harrison, assists on backup stork. ... Listen, New Jersey rock foursome, completed playing. ... Associate musical conductor Phil Fradkin an album claimed to have taken several years to develop. will tour with the musical "Gypsy" prior to its Broadway Group is taking the product now to the majors.... Chap- premiere in September. Latest in the long line of Gypsys pell Music has entered into a co- publishing agreement is Zan Charisse, the niece of Cyd Charisse.... Reports in- with Steve Metz Ltd. Metz produces for Musicor, Avco dicate Russ Ballard leaving Argent after next American and Phonogram. He is also co -owner of Wednesday tour.... Producer Terry Melcher's first effort as vocalist Morning Music. will be on Reprise.... Gene Fletcher Brownell, Los An- A new department specializing in the exploitation of geles music photographer, held a Grimey Awards Cere- film music has been formed by Morty Wax Promotions. mony to compete with the Grammys.... Sonny Carver's Wax represents film music from "The Way We Were," SADOWY CASHIN SIN DE LAR Courtesy House Productions setting up nationwide dis- "Papillon," "The Sting" and "Serpico." Neal Whitton is tribution for Alva Records. ... Over 8,000 turned away general manager. Artie Fisher has been named executive assistant to Morris Levy, president'of Adam VIII Ltd. Fisher, formerly with Columbia Rec- ords as assistant to the vice president of special products will be in- R &B Push volved in packaging albums for the firm, which is a direct television Chi Chain Slates marketer of concept album packages.... Bob Esposito has joined ental rugs to patio furniture. Each sic" soul and was gathered through the Screen Gems -Columbia Colgems Music as professional man- Continued from page 1 fall, a classical records event is held, working with label representatives ager, East Coast. Making his headquarters in New York, Esposito St. store, 117 radio spots of 60 -sec. the idea for the present soul and Ms. Yoksoulian and her staff. but was previously general manager of Neighborhood Music Corp. .. . duration on four stations and print focus was to do something different, Representative titles: "His Cali- Joseph Sadowy has been appointed eastern regional sales manager ads in three newspapers. she said. fornia Album," Bobby Blue Bland products division of the Sony Corporation of into the and "Memphis Unlimited," O.V. for the consumer Styled as an in -depth inventory Taking consideration traffic in other Wright (Dunhill); "To Know You Is America. He succeeds James Unoki, who has been named general event "Soul Explosion" rather than heavy she said the featured 36 items to Love You," B.B. King and "Out manager of the international division of Sony Corporation, Tokyo. one based on price, the merchandise areas, will be stocked at the Evergreen There on My Own," Lamont Dozier In his new post, Sadowy will be responsible for the marketing of will be predominantly $3.97 (regular Plaza CPS store too. (ABC); "Give Me Something Real," radios, hi -fi components, stereo music systems, and television sets $5.98) with a spread from $1.99 cut- Stock will be situated with the ad- Ashford & Simpson and "Graham 13 eastern states. He was most recently sales manager for New outs to $5.97 packages. There will be in vertised merchandise separated and Central Station" (Warner Bros.); no tape and no 4- channel product. York's metropolitan area.... Thomas H. Cashin has been named all other merchandise alphabetical "Looking for Love," Bobby Wo- senior vice president, marketing, for GTE Sylvania, Inc. Cashin CPS twice yearly utilizes what Ms. by artist, except the gospel product. mack, "Black & Blue," Bobby will be responsible for corporate marketing plans, policies and pro- Yoksoulian calls "swing space." This Radio Spots Humphrey and "Big Time Love" grams and their implementation in Sylvania's seven operating time, the space is switching from ori- the sale is Steve Cornelius Bros. & Sister Rose (UA); Coordinating He will be responsible for the distribution services di- Salsberg, advertising director of Lie- "Payback," James Brown (Polydor); groups. also berman, one of the largest inde- "Mighty Love," Spinners and "Let vision, which operates 22 centers throughout the U.S. GIVE YOUR RECORD pendently owned rackjobbing firms, Me in Your Life," Aretha Franklin * * * A CHANCE and Dennis Sinclair, Lieberman (Atlantic); "New Birth" and "Eu- Chicago branch manager- manager. phrates River" the latter by Main In- Charles R. Miller has been named field sales training manager TO BE HEARD! Salsberg said he is buying gredient (RCA); "Big Bad Bo," Bo for TEAC Corporation of America. Joining the firm with retailing WVON-AM predominantly 7 -11 Diddley (Chess) and "Della vs Dra- experience from both Pacific Stereo and Dow Sound City stores in BRITE -STAR p.m. but will use two spots between matics" (Cadet); "I've Got Work to California, Miller will be responsible for a major portion of a forth- midnight and 3 a.m. He is using run Do," David T. Walker and "Tom coming TEAC tape training program and will work with dealers on Complete record promotion and Express" (Ode); "Be of schedule on WJPC -AM, WBMX- Scott & L.A. educational programs for consumers.... Dennis Turner has been distribution services. is What You Are," Staple Singers AM and WSDM -FM. He spend- -Fischel Agency, Beverly Hills. He ing $3,000 in radio spots. Print ads (Stax); "Joy," Isaac Hayes (Enter- named vice president of Heller Masters Leased appear in the Sun Times, Daily De- prise); "Sextant," Herbie Hancock will head the firm's concert division. Also, joining the firm's book- fender (Chicago's main black news- (Columbia); "Love Is a Message," ing agency are Gary Bongiovanni and Mark Hyman.... Richard Sessions Arranged Nashville paper) and the Dowtown News. A MFSBV (Philadelphia Inter- Landy has resigned as a member of BMI's performing rights staff. 6 to "Living for You," Al will . Send all records for review to: Sun Times full page ran Mar. national); Remaining in publishing, Landry announce plans shortly... kickoff the event. Green (London): "Giant Box," Don At Jason Management, the talent management arm of Michael "Hedzoleh Sounds," BRITE STAR PROMOTIONS Hours will be regular 9:15 -5:45 Sabeky (CTI); Thevis Enterprises, Tim Hicks and Ed Glenn have been appointed p.m. Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat. and 9:15- Hugh Masekala, "Unsung Heros, 728 16th Ave. S. as road managers.... Lee Gabler has been appointed head of the 7 p.m. Mon. -Thurs. Jazz Crusaders and "That's a Nashville, Tenn. 37203 Agency. Gabler, se- Pointer Sisters (Blue television department at International Famous Call: Nashville (615) 244 -4064 Salsberg said merchandise was Plenty," with last four titles adver- who had joined the firm nine years ago, will be responsible for all tin lected both from the standpoint of Thumb) r pop cross -over titles and "more ba- tised on WSDM only. talent in firm's television activities. MARCH 16, 1974, BILLBOARD 70

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