NEWSPAPER $L25 ART Sen. McClellan Committee Questionnaire To Labels... NY Times Sets Music Publishing Co.; Murray Deutch President ...Restoring `Faith' In A Good Song (Ed). ...Oldies Are Goodies On The Charts ... Kip Cohen Heads A&R At A&M...BeII/Mickie Most Ties Ind 4 Acts BILLY PRESTON: LIVING IN H;GH 'CIRCLES' www.americanradiohistory.com "Just Don't Want to Be Lone1y.''45867 And neither did twenty of the hottest R&B and Top -40 stations in the country. It started-like many another R&B crossover hit-in Detroit. Ronnie Dyson's "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" went Top -5 at WCHB and WJLB.Then CKLW and WCAR picked it up for Top -40 play and the explosion began. And it's still going on. Seventeen more major stations are in on it solidly, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Little Rock, Dayton, Louisville, Jackson, Indianapolis, Richmond, and Annapolis. And the list grows daily. 'Just Don't Want to Be Lonely," from Ronnie Dyson to all his friends. Togetherness On Columbia Records www.americanradiohistory.com 1/!'1 THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY %iivii Vol. XXXV - Number 9/August 18, 1973 Publication Office/119 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019/Telephone: Judson 6-2640/Cable Address Cash Box, N. Y. GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Executive Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Vice President and Director of Editorial CHRISTIE BARTER Restoring 'Faith' West Coast Manager Editorial New York KENNY KERNER ARTY GOODMAN In A Good Song DON DROSSELL Hollywood RON BARON BARRY McGOFFIN Research For many music publishers today, their association with a writer MIKE MARTUCCI Research Manager who is also a performer is not merely an added dividend in the BOBBY SIEGEL area of exposure of material, it is, indeed, a matter of survival. Advertising Publishers who have been on top of the emergence of the writer - ED ADLUM artist as a dominant creative force in the middle sixties are cer- Art Director tainly no strangers to this evolution. This direction is attested to WOODY HARDING in the fact that the most successful of publishing operations are Coin Machine & Vending with extensive ties with the talented writer who also has ED ADLUM those Manager easy access to the recording studio. DON DROSSELL CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago There is, to be sure, a disenchanted aspect to the ever -strong Circulation search for the dual creative talent. This, of course, is the lessening THERESA TORTOSA impact of any attempts to see through the writer who has only his Manager writing talents to offer. Publishing exec Murray Deutch told us re- HOLLYWOOD CHRISTIE BARTER cently that a heavy burden is placed on the publisher who attempts 6565 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 525), Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (213) Hollywood 9-2966 to get coverage on a good song that has no place to go but NASHVILLE through the performing talents of others. Such songs, he ex- JUAN ITA JONES plains, are placed with contemporary performers and sometimes 806 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 Phone: (615) 244-2898 vague commitments to record them are never realized or, if they CHICAGO are, months and even years go by before a recording is realized. CAMILLE COMPASIO 29 E Madison St., Chicago, III. As for the pure M -O -R acts, the exec continues, they are no longer Phone: (312) FI 6-7272 recording on a continual basis and "how many times can you go ENGLAND DORRIS LAND after this kind of act." Happily, there are occasions when a writer - 3 Cork St., London WI Phone: 01-7342374 artist comes up with a fine song that not only succeeds via his ARGENTINA own performance, but is picked up by many artists, particularly MIGUEL SMIRNOFF for an album date. Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 "B" Buenos Aires, Argentina those seeking current hit material Phone: 89-6796 Yet, this still leaves the writer and writer only somewhat out -of -it CANADA with regard to obtaining coverage of his material. And we think this WALT GREALIS we believe 6 Brentcliffe Road, Toronto 17, Ontario, Canada is a sad -state -of affairs. We have stated in the past that Phone: (416) 425-0257 that many contemporary artists should be open to material other FRANCE than their own. Egos should be put aside at times when self -penned FRANK LIPSIK 5 Rue Alfred Dormeuil- 78 Croissy material may not be up to par and continuity of recording success Phone: 225-26-31 may be diminished. No fan of any contemporary act is going to put HOLLAND PAUL ACKET him (or them) down if they do "outside" material that, neverthe- Tharesiastraat 59-63, The Hague Phone: 837700 less, fits the act like a glove. ITALY And we would guess that music publishers have to renew their GABRIELE G. ABBATE in a no matter its origins. We realize that Viala A. Doria 10, 20124 Milano long -held "faith" song, be a long, hard BELGIUM "work" on a song that has no artist association can ETIENNE SMET task. We believe, however, that perhaps a lost "faith" in such Postbus 56, B-2700 Sint-Niklaas Phone: (03) 76-54-39 material contributes to the difficulty. AUSTRALIA So for the artist, we say, "Open your eyes to the wealth of strong PETER SMITH 40 Winters Way, Doncaster 3108, Victoria, Australia material you didn't write." And to the publisher: Get across to the JAPAN artist and his representatives the value of a good song in suc- Adv. Mgr. SACHIO SAITO cessfully reaching out to the recording fan. To the detriment of I-I1-2-Chome Shinbashi, Minato -Ku, Tokyo Phone: 504-1651 both, artists and publishers may be ignoring some basics in their Editorial Mgr. FUMIIYO TACHIBANA relationships. I-I1-2-Chome Shinbashi, Minato -Ku, Tokyo Phone: 504-1651 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $35 per year anywhere in the U.S.A.,, Published weekly at 34 N. Crystal St., E. Strouds- burg, Pa. by Cash Box, 119 West 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10019. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., U.S.A. and additional offices. Copyright l 1973 by The Cash Box Pubi'Ishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. 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