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NARAS Elects, Focuseson ProblemsNew Grunt/RCA Label The election of NARAS of-VP;Atlanta'sBillLower\ ficers plus focus on nationalSecond VP; Chicago's Paul Roe - `Barks' Up Storm totality, expansion and educa-wade Secretary; and Los An- tionhighlightedtheannualgeles' John Scott Trotter Trea- By MITCHELL FINK NEW YORK - Thingsare meeting of the National Boardsurer. David Leanse was desig- happeningquicklyatGrunt of Trustees the week -end ofnated National Executive Di- Records. It was less than two Sept.12inChicago's Drakerector. months ago that Record World Hotel. The national emphasis announced the formation of the The election of Wesley Rosefocused on several items: the Jefferson Airplane's Grunt la- as national President marks the creation of a national executive bel. Since then, the "baby" of first time that this office will be RCA is well on its way to a held by someone outside thecommittee tofacilitateinter - remarkable maturation. Academy's founding chapters ofchapter communications; plans The Airplane's first release, Los Angeles and New York.for the creations of VPs for "Bark"hasbeenaRecord The latter's chapter President,all chapters other than that of World cover pick, FM Report Phil Ramone, was elected First (Continued on page 60) Flashmaker of the Week, Al- bum Chartmaker of the Week Electric violinist Papa John Creachand this week finds itself as MGM Records to Distribute (center) has become the first art-Retail Report Salesmaker of the ist to sign to Jefferson Airplane'sWeek. A certified gold album new Grunt label, manufactured andwas a forgone conclusion, but Marcucci's New Label Bomar distributed by RCA. Papa John isthat goal was attained just one HOLLYWOOD - FormerHeart" and actually began label surrounded by Grunt personnel, in- week after the album's release. cluding Stan Monteiro, Marketing Thecreativepackaginghas Chancellor Records Presidentindependentdistribution so Head; Mike Lipskin, Grunt Pro- Bob Marcucci has made a deal commonplace now. Three caused quite a stir in the in- ducer; Chuck Seton, Grunt lawyer;dustry, and seems a likely can- with Mike Curb and MGM tomonths after Chancellor started and Bill Thompson, manager of the distribute his label, Romar Rec-they had Frankie Avalon and AirplaneandPresidentofthe didate when award time rolls ords, which is initiating activ-six months later Fabian also group's Afterthought Productionsaround. ity with three artists: Griffin,joined theroster. Corp. (Continued on page 60) Linda Starr and Gerard Belisle. The first release on Romar Marcucci primarily was out of the business when Chancel- willbeGriffin,athree-man London Unveils 'Today Sound' lor ended its distribution dealvocal rock group comprised of with ABC in 1961, an agree-Gary Duckworth, Mike Brady ment which was started withandGeorgeGreenonbass, At Staff Meeting in N.Y. JodySands'"WithAll My (Continued on page 62) NEW YORK - Entering itsand Terry McEwen, got going 25th year with a bang, Londonin the a.m. with a significant Records last week held its Sep- recap of London wax released Why WABC-AM tember staff meeting at thewithin the past six months. It Warwick Hotel and unveiled awas revealed that 15% of the superabundance of "Todaytotal volume business done by WaitsonNew Artists Sound" product. the London family - a term the station's Program Manager, The Tuesday(14)confab, stressed at the affair - was RickSklar."The reason wepresided over by label execs classical. wait on the airing of a newHerb Goldfarb, Walt Maguire (Continued on page 62) artist is because we're looking for a significant response from the national public," said Sklar.NMPA Reports on Surcharge, Freeze "I don't believe that all infor- A special report on how thepublications: seller's cost plus mation isderived from New current price freeze and importhis regular markup. York.Therefore,properre- surchargeaffectsthemusic Reprints and discounts, the searchisrequired.Unusual publishing industry has beenreport points out, should be re- positive patterns of records areissued to members of the Na-garded as frozen at price levels graphed. It's not a matter oftional Music Publishing Asso-prevailing during the 30 -day playing it safe, but more likeciation, announcesLeonardperiod prior to Aug. 15. Also, educated programming." Feist, Exec VP. publications which were out of ABC -AM has undergone "While there are some areasprint during the period, and Rick Sklar changes.Nonsense - screamingthat must await further clarifi-subsequently reprinted are by djs has died down. "We have cation," Feist said, "the reportfrozen at the same price as the NEW YORK-It's no secretto be a little more serious, and servesasthemost currentlast edition. in the industry that WABC-AM alittlelessplayfultoday,"available guidelines for meet- "There is a question on re- in New York is the last radioSklar continued."Viet Naming requirements of the newprintsalreadyprintedwith station to break a new artist.has changed things. Even theeconocim restrictions." higher prices before Aug. 15, Yet it holds the convincing rep-younger kids have become more During thefreeze, NMPAand the publishing industry is utation of being the icing onsophisticated." says, new and substantial re-attempting to get a favorable the cake. ABC's most important contri- visededitions,including im-ruling for these cases," Feist Record World discussed thebution to the breaking of newports, should be priced on thesaid. breaking of new artists with (Continued on page 62) same formula specified for new (Continued on page 16)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Lester Forms GMI Label Sally Kellerman And Production CompanyTo MCA Family NEW YORK-Veteran pro- and jazz product, and de- ducer Sonny Lester,after 15buts with aroster including 200 W. 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10011 years of successful indie pro-Jimmy McGriff, Thad Jones/Mel Areo Code (212) 765-5020 ducing for, among others, Decca, LewisJazzOrchestra,Junior PUBLISHER EDITOR IN CHIEF Capitol and United Artists, hasParker,JeremySteiganda BOB AUSTIN SID PARNES announced formation of his ownyoung guitarist from Baltimore, VICE PRESIDENT, ADVERTISING recording company, Groove Mer-O'Donel Levy. Negotiations for JOE FLEISCHMAN chantInternational,Inc.,and at least two name recording acts DOUG McCLELLAND/EDITOR , G.M.I. Records, Inc.have been completed with the DAVE FINKLE/ASSOCIATE EDITOR Lester will also continue toannouncement of singing set for Fred Goodman/Cbart Editor produce for UA under a currentthe first of the year. Company Gregg Geller/Assistant Editor contract. His label will be pri-has eight LPs completed for re - Mitchell Fink/Assistant Editor Mike Sigman/Assistant Editor marily involved in contemporary, (Continued on page 50) Ron Ross Assistant Chart Editor Michael Cuscuna/Jazz Editor Kal Rudman/Contributing Edit* Larry Newman/Art Director New Artists Figure Winnie Horton/Production On Metromedia Schedule Sally Kellerman Ron Levine/Advertising Sales WEST COAST Metromedia Records' fall re-gether," shown Saturday nights HOLLYWOOD-Twomonths JACK DEVANEY ago Danny Selznick from MCA's Vice President lease consists of four major al-on ABC-TV. The new package WEST COAST MANAGER bums, two by new artists. will be Bobby's fifth on Metro-feature division told Sally Kel- Tony Lawrence/West Coast Editor Heading the list is a new al-media. lerman that she shouldcall Charlene Groman/Editorial Assistant bum by Bobby Sherman, featur- Sergio Franchi will make hisMCA Records' President Mike 6290 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. 90028 ing songs from Bobby's newrecording debut on MetromediaMaitland with regard to record- Phone: (213) 465-6179 television series, "Getting To- (Continued on page 44) ing. Eddie Briggs/Country Report She did, and Maitland called 45-10 No. Arthur, Fresno, Calif. 93705 AcquisitionVPJoeSutton NASHVILLE Benton Single Aids Sickle Cell Foundation about setting up a demo session. JOHN STURDIVANT He did and though the rest is Vice President Brook Benton has recorded Atlanticis rushing out the SOUTHEASTERN MANAGER not yet history,it could very Chuck Neese/Southeastern Editor "A Black Child Can't Smile," asingle, with all proceeds to thewell have a substantial effect Sickle Cell Foundation. Benton Marla Ratliff/Editorial Assistant tune he wrote with Dr. Gerald on MCA's record company. Red O'DonneIVNashvIlle Report Deas and performed on the re-also is sending along pleas to The' word in the Tower is 806 16th Ave. So., Nashville, Tenn. 37203 cent sickle cell telethon. black jocks to play the record. good. "She deserves an excel- Phone: (615) 244-1820 lent shot," said VP Sutton the LATIN AMERICAN OFFICE other day whenRecord World TOMAS FUNDORA/MANAGER Sober Prof. Mgr. 16th Gold LP Raul Lemes/Assistant Manage( stopped bytofindout how Pilar Silva/Coordinator Errol Sober has been ap- RIAA hascertified "Andythis Oscar -nominated star of 1160 S.W. First St. pointed West Coast Profession-Williams' Greatest Hits" (Col-"MASH" and "Brewster Mc- Miami, Fla. 33130 al Manager of April/Blackwood umbia)ashavingachieved Cloud" happened into a record- (305) 373-1740 Dia-more than one million dollars (305) 379-7115 Music,announcesJoel ing studio. (305) B21-1230 (night) mond,April/BlackwoodGen- in sales. The album is Williams' (Continued on page 50) eral Professional Manager. 16th gold LP. ENGLAND NOEL GAY ORGANISATION London Distribs 24 Denmark St. London, W.C2, England Lennons and Friends at Cavett Taping Reed Label Phone: 836-3941 IN London Records hasacquired GERMANY PAUL SIEGEL American distribution rights to EUROPEAN EDITOR the new Greenwich Gramophone George LeVaye/Associate Editor Company label, recently formed Tauentzienstrasse 16, 1 Berlin 30, Germany by the British composer and Phone: Berlin 2115914 maestro Les Reed. New deal ITALY was announced in New York by MARIO PANVINI ROSATI Walt Maguire,London's VP Galleria Passarella 2. 20122 Milan (Continued on page 44) Phone:790990 FRANCE GILLES PETARD Cap Appointments 8, Quai de Stalingrad, Boulogne 92, France HOLLYWOOD - Capitol has Phone: 520-79-67 madethefollowingappoint- CANADA ments: LARRY LE BLANC 870 Milwood Rd. Apt. 42, Dan Davis to the newly -cre- Toronto 17, Ontario, Canada ated position of Album Packag- Phone: (416) 421-9260 ing Manager; James Mazza to CONSULTANTS Los Angeles District Sales Man- 801 CATO ager;LarryBinns becoming MORRIS BAUMSTEIN District Manager SUBSCRIPTIONS: ONE YEAR (52 ISSUES) U.S. AND CANADA-$30; AIR MAIL-$55; while retaining his Seattle Dis- FOREIGN-AIR MAIL $60. SECOND CLASS trictmanagingduties; Bill POSTAGE PAID AT NEW YORK, N.Y., AND AT John Lennon and Yoko Ono are congratulated by Dick Cavett after theValenziano to the position of ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES. DEADLINE: Artist Development Manager ; PLATES AND COPY MUST BE IN NEW YORK New York taping of the show to be aired Sept. 21. They are flanked by BY 12 NOON FRIDAY. Allan Klein, President of Abkco Industries, and Pete Bennett, Director Max Kendrick to the position of Published Weekly by of Promotions. John introduced some cuts from his new LP "Imagine,"ArtistDevelopmentManager, RECORD WORLD PUBLISHING CO.. INC. and Yoko did "Mrs. Lennon," from her new album "Fly." East Coast. VOL. 26, No. 1267

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Jaye P., Back Busier Than Ever CONCERT REVIEW will be released within the next few weeks. The LP, being record- ed with a four -piece rock band,Bee Gees Philharmonic Slicksters will feature her excellent ver- sion of Leon Russell's "A Song NEW YORK-Although I'd-Robin, the esthete; Barry, the for You" (currently number 92seen photos of Atco's Bee Gees, sex symbol; and Maurice, the on the Record World Top 100I'd never seen them in a person-clown. In tandem and between Singles Chart), as well as otheral appearance and so, on thethe songs, they're cute, rather contemporary material by suchway to the first of their threethanreal - sortofathree writersasCaroleKing andPhilharmonic Hall concerts lastSmothers Brothers. Stevie Wonder. But as thoughweek, Ispeculated. I tried to this weren't enough, the song-imagine how an English -born Get Record Sound stress, who always showed fineAustralian group would perform This is all effective, in a show- abilities as a comedienne, is alsowhosefirsthitsingle, "Newmanship -without -inspiration (as into television (she did a seg-York Mining Disaster1941,"opposed to someone like Elton ment of "Love, American Style"was about a middle-aged Ameri-Johnwhoseshowmanshipis Jaye P. Morgan, Record World'sfor ABC-TV), movie acting (shecan doomed in a mine cave-in;based on inspiration) way. And Mike Sigman. recently completed a film, "Allwho subsequently envisioned allcertainly no one can complain American Boy,"withJohnthe lights going out in "Massa- chusetts"; who had the poeticthatthey'renotgettingthe By MIKE SIGMAN Voight), talk shows(shere- sound of the records, because turnedrecently from London,vision of a man starting a jokethey are. (The group is backed NEW YORK-Jaye P. Mor-where she completed the pilotthat started the whole worldby the Whin Forest orchestra, gan,widelyrememberedforfor a new talk show with Gwenncrying; who revived the concepta string -heavy, contingent who many hits as a singer in the '50sDavis) and night -clubbing (she'sof nonchalance (in a definitelyare ably fused by Bill Sheperd.) (perhapsthebest knownis taking the rock band on a tourchalant time) in "Lonely Days,And the crowd isalso given "That's All I Want from You"),which will include an appearanceLonely Nights." treatments of all the biggest Bee isbackinthe entertainmentin ). For me, each of the Bee GeesGees hits. world and busier than ever. Asked about future plans, Jayesongs - cryptic, self-centered, The Bee Gees in person are As she explained in a visit toP. replied, "I never veryopulent, redolent of damp vel-talented and good, very good, Record World recently, "I leftfar in advance, so I don't reallyvet) - has held something ofbut I have a feeling that the show business for a few yearshave any long-range plans. ButChurchill'sobservationaboutBee Gees fan (this one, anyway) to take care of my family, butI was always mostly a singlesRussia, "a mystery wrapped inwould have liked just a little bit now I'm back with both feet inartist, and now I want to getan enigma." more in the way of heart and and doing many things that I'veinto doing more ." So after imagining all sortssoul. never done before." Considering her youthful, at-of stage personalities for them, Preceding the group was At- Jaye P.'s main concern righttractive appearance and vitality,I was quite surprised to findco's Tin Tin. Amiable guitarists now is to finish an album she isone can hardly doubt but thatthat, on-stage, the Bee Gees areand singers(they sit through making for the Beverly HillsJaye P. Morgan's revitalized ca-a slick pop trio, dressed tres their entire set), the boys, like label, a record which she hopesreer will be a success. la mode in suits (Barry Gibb inman createdin the image of a three-piece suit), long, button-God, have been created in the down collars and ties. Addition-image of the Bee Gees. This is ITA Joins RIAA to Combat Piracy ally, Maurice, Barry and Robinunwise in a couple of ways. One, NEW YORK-ITA has joinedware equipment manufacturersare,certainlytobe expected,it makes them seem like imi- forces, according to organiza-aswell, who, Finley pointeddifferent,but they seemed totators, and, two, it dilutes the tion's President Larry Finley,out, are being damaged becausehave polished their differencesBee Gees effect somewhat. with RIAA in combating tapethe inferior quality of piratedand transformed them into roles Dave Finkle pirating and counterfeiting. and counterfeited tapes is de- structive to tape machines. Finley is also looking to work Finley has already had talks with NARM too. independently with officials atWooden Nickel Skepner to MCA Finley told Record World lastgovernment agencies. He ex- week that ITA is setting asidepects to outline progress madeReleases Due Revamped Post a special budget for its anti -within the next few weeks. piracy campaign. Finley also announced that NEW YORK-Wooden Nickel HOLLYWOOD-David Skep- ITA, Finley said, is also en-Ampex and GRT have joinedRecords, formed three monthsner has been appointed Direc- listing the cooperation of hard-ITA. ago, has scheduled its first re-tor of Artists Relations and lease, to ship this month: "Da-Activities - arecentlyre- vid Patton" and "Stringvamped department - of MCA Certron Singleton Petition Dismissed Cheese." Records,Inc.,announces Joe RCA Records, which manu-Sutton, VP for Artist Acquisi- In Nashville's ChancerySingleton distributors and tions and Development. Court last week, Chancellor Nedamounts allegedly owed Single-factures and markets, plans an Lentz dismissed a petition filedton by the California tape du-extensive promotional campaign. Reorganized functions of the against The Shelby Singletonplicating company. The figureThe campaign willutilizeall department include concentra- Corp. by the Certron Corp. ofalso includes $125,000 in dam-forms of print and media adver-tion on television exposure for Anaheim, Calif., and refused toages asked by Singleton in thetising, both national and local.Decca-Uni-Kapp artists and the appoint a receiver for Single-shipment of supposedly defec-Additionally there will be ex-coordination ofallpersonnel ton's Nashville -based company.tive and below standard tapestensive use of in-store merchan-andpromotionalappearances In answers filed by Harlanto their distributors. dising material. of the labels' artists with MCA Dodson III for the Shelby Sin- Records'nationalfieldmen. gleton Corp., it was denied that Skepner's department will also there was any indebtedness to coordinateallconcerttours Certron and that in fact, Cer-Moodys Gold Melanie Writes Film made by the labels' performers tron was indebted to Singleton. The Moody Blues' new Melanie has written the musicand will oversee artist -related In additional litigation, Sin-Threshold album, "Every Goodand songs for "All the Rightpublicity.Skepnerhasbeen gleton counter -filed againstBoy Deserves Favor,"distri-Noises," English film starringwith various divisions of the Certron for $149,000, which in-buted by London, has been cert-Tom Bell and Olivia Hussey.parent MCA, Inc., company for cludes amounts allegedly owedified for a gold record award. Soundtrack is to be on Buddah.the past ten years.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com u DIALOGUE =III WORLD THE VIEWPOINTS OF THE INDUSTRY This page will be devoted each week to your opinions. We welcome letters on all subjects pertinent to our industry. Theremay be a time when your thoughts differ from ours editorially. You are welcome to express them here. Comfortable Climate Is Vital to Growth Of Buddah's New Acts Say Co -Presidents (Editor's Note: The following is an exclusive interview withTechnically, the most difficult kind is the artist who's had success Neil Bogart and Art Kass, co -Presidents of Buddah/Kama Sutraand goes cold for a while. It happens to everybody. Sometimes Records.) the cold periods are short, sometimes they go for years. You have to let the artist know that you have faith he'll come back. Kass: And they do eventually come back. Record World: Can you give a concrete example of promotion Record World: What special promotion techniques do you usefor a new artist? for new artists? Kass: It depends what you mean by "new." Ocean, Honey Cone, Little of Everything Curtis Mayfield, Edwin Hawkins, Sha Na Na, the Isley Brothers Bogart: Airto. He doesn't fit into any particular category. It -some of them had been around for a while and camehere to trywas too easy to say, "Ohfi yeah, he's jazz," but he's not only jazz. something "new." Others were "brand new." He's a little of everything. He's Airto, an individual. We had to Bogart: Most of the "new"artists today have been aroundget people to see him so they could understand where he's at. for years. Carole King, are two examples. One ofWe shopped around for a good room to showcase him in. We our "new" artistsare Gorgoni, Martin & Taylor-Chip Taylor,found the Plaza 9 room at the Plaza Hotel. We had clackers Trade Martin and Al Gorgoni. They've been super -successfulmade up- producers and writers and arrangers and sidemen. Chip and Al Record World: Castanets? produced James Taylor's first session in 1967. Or take Buzzy Bogart: No, clackers. Here's one. Don't clack it too loud. We Linhart; he's been a legend among musicians for nearly eightsent them out as invitations and when people RSVP'd, they'd years. I think the industry is depending more and more onrattle them into the phone. It gave you a mono headache. people who've had professional experience but don't decide to Record World: Was the party successful? step out as artists until someone gives them the confidence. Kass: We had about 350 people there. All the top newspapers Kass: That's where we come in. The first thing you have to doand magazines, radio stations. The Brazilian Embassy was there, is give an artist confidence, let him know you're behind him. It's too. difficult for an artist when he's first starting out. He worries Bogart: Airto performed; I feel he really impressed the people. about a lot of things. He's dependent on the label. SometimesHe's a percussionist; most of his instruments are native Brazilian you have to tell them, "Don't panic; we love you." You have toinstruments-he spent five months in the rain forest learning create a climate where an artist can feel comfortable so he'llhow to make and play them. do his best. For himself and you. Kass: He's toured with Miles Davis and played on the Weather Bogart: Sometimes an artist will surprise you with how togetherReport album. He's really fantastic. he is. Billy Withers is the perfect example. Record World: Did the party help? Hass: He surprised everybody. Bogart: We got almost an entire column in the Village Voice, and the radio people are into him now. He's known in New York Record World: So making an artist feel at home is the mostby the people who have power-radio and press-to start things important thing? moving. Did the party help? I would say yes-it showed we're really behind him and it let the people have a taste of what One of Most Important Things Airto is all about. Kass: We did the same kind of thing with Brewer & Shipley Bogart: One of the most important. You have to get to knowwhen we were building them. We took a busload of radio and the artist as a person. You'll know him faster if he's comfortablepress people to a dude ranch in Peekskill, Everybody relaxed, we with you. Everyone's an individual. Every artist has to have anall had a horseback ride- individual campaign. Buzzy Linhart, for example-we put him on Bogart: It looked like a posse. the road with Andy Schwartz [Buddah free -form promo man] and Kass: When we came back from the ride, Brewer and Shipley sent him to radio stations. Buzzy hauled out his guitar and sangsang. They were relaxed, so was everyone else. Everybody had a and killed everybody. Kass: Buzzy's comfortable anywhere. Other artists are onlygood time. It worked. comfortable in certain places, certain rooms, certain clubs. We Strongest New Artists try to help pick the clubs where he can be most comfortable. Bogart: Jim Dawson was on the road for years working the Record World: Who do you think are your strongest new coffeehouse circuit. That kind of thing deadens you after a while.artists? So we've helped book him into the Bitter End and Folk City Bogart: You can't narrow it down to one or two. We think because these are places-type of clubs-that he knows, that he'sthey're all going to happen. Ideally they should all break at once, familiar with, but he's not hassled by them. but it doesn't happen like that too often. Some of them will hit Record World: So you don't have a standard promotion programsooner but they'll all hit eventually. It takes at least a year and for new artists? two albums before an artist really begins to get close, unless it's Kass: We don't want to sign anybody who's "standard." Wea case of instant success, and that doesn't happen often. want the "exceptionals." Otherwise you can't grow and you Record World: Okay. Who are all the artists that are going to can't get excited. make it? Record World: What's the most difficult kind of artist to work Kass: Exuma-he just signed with us; Jim Dawson, Buzzy, with? Airto, Dust, plus some people we'll be introducing in the next Bogart: You mean technically or personally? few weeks. Record World: Well, either one, either way. Record World: Do you have a favorite artist? Bogart: Personally, it depends on how together the artist is. Bogart: Sure, the Express. Just kidding.

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MELANIE WDRID Talent on stage Saratoga Springs, N.Y. CONCERT REVIEW Without reservation, Melanie is Melanie the most creative, most magnetic SARATOGA, N. Y. - When a crowd young female performer embrac- applaudsunrecorded,justwritten ing the folk-rock scene today. Her Melanie Reveals material before the first full phrase is concert performanceSept.5at uttered, an explanation is in order. It theSaratoga Springs Performing seemsthatMelanie'sfanscouldn't Arts Center was enchanting for its New Maturity wait for the evening show-they sat style, simplicity and taste. In ad- inon her soundcheck and dutifully dition,herself -composedsongs learned each tune from her forthcom- are filled with deep feelings and SARATOGA, N. Y.-Melanie, ing Paramount -distributed Neighbor- melodic architecture which are far the big -eyed, beautiful lady who hood LP inside and out. above the hollow wastelands and is one of the most charismatic Yet come concerttime,Melanie surfacenoise produced by most was still hesitant about revealing the other youthful artists. performersaround,charmed songs,evenaftercrowdreaction All her attributes, the haunting her audience once againon showed total approval. No one can call wails, the inner storm she creates her over -confident, but timidityis a withherstrongstrumming on Sunday, Sept. 5, at the Saratoga large part of her charm. "Steppin' acoustic guitar, the powerful lyr- Performing Arts Center. Out With My New Man Tonight" ics, which are full of fantasy/real- seemedtoindicatethat charmis ity and hold out pertinent messages The Neighborhood artist sang changing form, however: it's her first and meaningstoyouth,enrap- woman-i n - the-raw-hadmouthin'-her- tured the audience with one out- tunes from her forthcoming al- man song, hut a most successful at- pouring after another. Tune after bum, as well as ones from past temptatchangingadreamy -eyed tune, "Beautiful People," "Good- Buddah label childinto a vamp about town. The bye Ruby Tuesday," "Tuning My recordings. The child has become an internationally Guitar," "Lay Down (Candles in crowd,nearly10,000strong, acclaimed singer and no doubt the the Rain)," among her oldies, rang grown-up side will follow suit. with finality of perfection. were captivated by such stand- Shouts for "Carolina," "Ruby The near -overflow audience of outsas"BeautifulPeople," Tuesday,""AlexanderBeatle"and predominately college students "NickelSong,""Brand New countlessotherswere answeredin echoed and mirrored her total in- kind song during a two-hour plus set volvement in the themes of pain, Key," "Ring the Living Bell," which continued out backstage when love,hope, peace,witha com- "Lay Down(Candlesinthe she was cajoledinto signing auto- munication of their own. Stamp- graphs and granting less specific audi- ing, stomping, applauding, yelling, Rain)" and her heart -tugging ences to the throngs who just would and by rushing to the stage, they rendition of the Stones' classic, not leave. And it's still good to know paid her homage ina scene so that she's more comfortable inthe reminiscent of the Garland phe- "Ruby Tuesday." roleofchanteusethanofPope. nomina, and made her sing encore Somehow, itworksbetterthat after encore. And her newer tunes, Throughout the performance, way. heard in public for the first time, as always, she touched the audi- F'.. created a similar impact. These in- cluded "A Brand New Key," "A ence with feelings of empathy LittleBitof Me" and"Living and love, but at this concert September 18, 1971 Bells." All have hit potential, and are cuts from her debut LP on there was a marked difference. Scherkeryk Enterprises -o w n e d For the first time, her fans saw Neighborhood Records, company Melanie as a woman, not a girl ; she owns and which is distributed by FamousMusic. The album, and her new works reflect her "Gather Me," will be released in growth nicely. about a month. ROBERT SOBEL Fred Goodman SEPTEMBER 18, 1971, BILLBOARD RECORD WORLDSEPTEMBER 18,1971

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com SIIVGLE PRODUCT WORLD VAN MORRISON-Warner Bros. -7518 -Atco--45 6834 MARK LINDSAY-Columbia-4 45462 WILD NIGHT CHANGES (PartI)(Miles Ahead, ASCAP) ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH (Viva Music/Wren Music, BMI) (New Caledonia / WB Music, ASCAP) Gone but not forgotten, the King lends With or without the Raiders, Mark is After brief absence, that unmistakable his unmistakble style to the firmly established as a soloist in the voiceis back, and in rare form. An classic. Jazzenthusiasts have known minds of the record -buying public. Had underground and pop natural. Rock and about him for years. Now, the rest of all the ingredients necessary. Pop to a T. rollflavor sure to please many fans. the world finds out. THE ELGINS-VIP-2506 (Motown) Listen for weepy sax. BERT KAEMPFERT & HIS ORCHESTRA- HEAVEN MUST HAVE SENT YOU (Jobete Music, BMI) STAY IN MY LONELY ARMS (Jobete Music, BMI) MANFRED MANN-Polydor-PD 14097 Decca-32875 Hit of1965, hit in England now. Still PLEASE MRS. HENRY (Dwarf Music, ASCAP) PROUD MARY (Jondora Music, BMI) BMI) sounds like "Where Did Our Love Go." PRAYER (Belinda Music, BMI) IN OUR TIME (Screen Gems -Columbia Music, Dylan'ssong with a heavy twist. And ic If you're in need of an MOR station Why not, it works so well. From the pens works. Mann will return to the charts theme song, this is it. Kaempfert lends of Holland -Dozier -Holland. Sure thing. his special touch to the Fogerty classic. with this super effort. Ably produced by CLARE-A&M-1299S Dave Hadfield. Good rocking music. Full production. Try it. SAUNDERS FERRY LANE (Two Rivers Music, ASCAP)

SISTERS LOVE-A&M-1292 Female blues vocalist has the sound that MIDDLE OF THE ROAD-RCA-74 0539 THE BIGGER YOU LOVE (Almo Music, ASCAP) will be important in 1972. Gruff yet TWEEDLE DEE TWEEDLE DUM (Sunbury Music, ASCAP) AND THIS IS LOVE (Jobete Music, BMI) mellow. Britisher sure to receive no- GIVE IT TIME (Sunbury Music, ASCAP) Group's emergence seems immenent, es- tariaty. Excellent recording. Delightfullittlemelody thatshould pecially since vocal is strikingly similar elevate this group right now. Just missed to . One could do far worse. THE STREET CHRISTIANS-PIP-8926 last time out. This one is right there. This makes it. Soft flip creates two mar- (Next Time You Think) THINK A JESUS THOUGHT Hit sound. (Distinctive Music, ASCAP) kets. TOUCHING HANDS (Mourbar Music, ASCAP)

Another in thelong line of Jesus songs, JEFF BARRY-Bell 45 140 GARY BONDS-Sky Disc-SD 641 (Polydor) and a beautiful one indeed. Has that top SWEET SAVIOR (Heiress, BMI) JOY TO THE WORLD (Part I)(Lady JaneMusic, BMI) The redeeming factor of that Troy Dona- JOY TO THE WORLD (Part II) (Lady Jane Music, BMI) 40 ring to it. Yes, Jesus is here to stay. hue film is this song, the title track. Although he's dropped the "U.S.," Gary Record is a winning effort.

Barry does it all on this record with help shows the form that leads to winners. TINA CHARLES-MAM-45 3614 (London) from Andy Kim. Chartbound? Yes. tune will live forever. Part BABY DON'T YOU KNOW ANYMORE

II the best bet. An r & b natural. (Anne -Rachel Music, ASCAP) DAVY JONES-Bell-45 136 JOE (Duchess Music, BMI) I REALLY LOVE YOU THE BEGINNING OF THE END- Funky vocalist should score withpop (Language Of Sound/Leslie Ann Gary Music, ASCAP) Alston-A 4599 (Atco) and r & b crossover. Deft production by Former Monkee hasn't forgotten for- MONKEY TAMARIND Gordon Mills should insure success. Nice mulato winning records. Current outing (Sherlyn/Funky Nassau Music, BMI) background vocals. Good record. buildsnicelywith grandproduction Following up "Funky Nassau is no easy elements. Pop and even M'OR. Listen. task, but this outing is fine, indeed. Great rhythms makes it an r & b natural. TRIANGLE-Paramount-PAA 0123 JUDGE AND JURY (First Love Music, BMI) JO MAMA-Atlantic-45 2832 Shake it out. time. MIDNIGHT MAGIC MAN (First Love Music, BMI) KEEP ON TRUCKIN' Strong vocal will get pop and MOR cross- (Portofino-Sho' Nuff-Walden, ASCAP) BULLET-Big Tree-BT 123 (Ampex) over. Has that familiar patter in the Group beginning to make waves with WHITE LIES, BLUE EYES (Kama Sutra,BMI) middle of the song. Always works. Nice latest LP. Expert lead vocalist with fine CHANGES OF MIND (Haslan,BMI) and easy rock and roll flip. background help will greatly enhance Ohartbound rock with combination of harmony and production. Destined for appeal. Keep on keepin' on. huge success. Group has what it takes. MAILER MACKENZIE BAND-Ampex-X 11037 Fine sound. RED ROVER (Big Seven Music, BMI) ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS- Aduplicate for Creedence Clearwater

Atlantic-45 2829 LOS PEKENIKES-Avalanche-36002 Revival. Not a bad way to sound. Rock- ARCHIE'S IN LOVE (Cotillion, BMI) BUCARAMANGA (Barnegat Music, BMI) ing tune should turn on listeners immedi- Established r & b group in fine form. ALADINO(BarnegatMusic, BMI) ately. Full guitar treatment. So fine. Rock and roll to a tea. Up front patter Full production complimented by haunt- can't help but please. Dance to a great ing rhythms. Will score heavily in Latin JOEY GREGORASH-Lionel-L 3219 (MGM) beat. A winner. markets. Fading vocals a plus. Check it DOWN BY THE RIVER out. (Cotillion Music, Broken Arrow Music, BMI) ROSE COLORED GLASS-Bang-B 588 DON'T LET YOUR PRIDE GET YOU GIRL

IF IT'S ALRIGHT WITH YOU (House Of Gold Music, BMI) WET WILLIE-Capricorn-C 8020 (Atco) (Dollar Bill Music, BMI) YOU'RE GOOD FOR ME (Metric Music, BMI) ROCK & ROLL BAND (No Exist, BMI) Already making it in Canada, Joey seems Enchanting production that builds beau- Title says it all. Fine first outing from destined to make it here with this Neil tifully. Neat harmonies with tight the group's first LP release. Already Young classic. Uptempo arrangement dif- and drum arrangement. Sounds a lot like achieving underground success, charts ferent and appealing. Bee Gees, if you please. seem like the next step.

FRONT PORCH-Jubilee-4 5720 OSIRIS-Sire-SI 354 (Polydor) OPEN ROAD-Laurie-LR 3575 WONDERFUL SUMMER (, BMI) I'LL BE GONE (Markari Music, BMI) SWEET WATERS(Murbo Music, BMI) Hit of a few years back is timed per- Down home blues from new group that BORNE BY A WOMAN (Murbo Music, BMI) fectly for the new fall season. Soft bal- should turn a few heads. Perfect blend- Lighthearted feel by a group that seems lad by mellow sounding group is an MOR ing to achieve top 40 and underground destined for big things. Soft with de- definate. Good pop chance. Listen and markets. Love those harmonicas. Listen. lightful harmonies. Exciting flip. Both reflect.

penned by Steve Burnett.

THE IMPRESSIONS-Curtom-CR 1964 (Buddah) JOHN HETHERINGTON-Uni-55301 INNER CITY BLUES (Make Me Wanna Holler) AL DE LORY & MANDANGO-Capitol-3196 HOME (Gil Music, BMII (Jobete Music, BMI) JESUS CRISTO (Belinda Music, BMI) HELLO (Gil Music, BMI) Triple crossover; pop, R & B, under- Latin -gospel beat that greatly praises Soft folk-rock from singer - ground. Under the expert guidance of Christ. Good choral arrangement. Don't pleasing to the ear. Pop and under- Curtis Mayfield, group's longevity is in- discount because of Jesus trend. Hand ground chances good. Easy tempo will sured. Fine record with full production. clapping time. Listen, Reflect and enjoy. appeal to many. Relaxing.

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THE HILLS OF INDIANA WACKERING HEIGHTS LONNIE MACK-Elektra EKS 74102. ThE WACKERS-Elektra EKS 74098. Here's another superior album from Looks likea whacking good quintet Lonnie Mack. There is a great deal of has come on the scene. Elektra does internal and external local color on the have a way of finding winners just package. That means, a glimpse of about as frequently as anyone else. The what Mack thinks deeply and what he lads obviously worship at the shrine of sees.Lonnie Mack andothers,like rock and roll, but the offerings they Carole King, supplied the tunes. bring are individual and funky.

CLOSER TO THE GROUND GET A WHIFF OF THIS JOY OF COOKING-Capitol SMAS 828. JUICY LUCY-Atco SD 33-367. Attitudes blowing in the wind are ar- Juicy is certainly the right adjective. ticulated by Joy of Cooking with re- The fellows have a sly way of taking markable savvy on their second and a riff and giving it a neat twist to get oh -so -tasty package. The title tune is extra attention. "Mr. A. Jones" sounds super-duper, and just about everything like a song that could step out as a that follows it is equally outstanding. single. There's a healthy helping of The group is keeping up mighty fine imagination on the package. work.

THEIR 16 GREATEST HITS THIRTY DAYS OUT THE GRASS ROOTS-Dunhill DSX Reprise 6450. C50107 (ABC) It's rather a surprise to find someone As explicit as a title could hope to be, writing in this liberated age, "A woman "Their 16 Greatest Hits" means "Soon- ain't a woman until she's with a man/ er or Later," "The Riveris Wide," But a man is a man all the time." But, "Midnight Confessions," "Wait a Mil- no matter. If Thirty Days Out don't be- lion Years," "Lovin' Things," "Things lieve in woman's lib, they do believe in I Should Have Said" and 10 other fa- making raunchy -fine music. They work miliar AM ear -stoppers. Nice future. their show. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH FROM HAIGHT-ASHBURY TO WOODSTOCK JONATHAN EDWARDS Vanguard VSD 27/28. Capricorn SD 862 (Atco). The title is another way of saying that Jonathan Edwards, who has rather a the package is a collection of bests. venerable name, does well by it with All the songs that any fan would ex- this poignant and appealing set of new pect would be here, but the fans prob- folk tunes. In this particular musical ably already have the tunes on other phase,when just about every male packages.Saleswillprobably come folkster who comes along sounds like from those catching up. James Taylor, Edwards manages not to.

MAGIC RARE EARTH-Rare Earth R527L STRING CHEESE (Motown). Wooden Nickel WNS 1001 (RCA). Rare Earth are growing and polishing String Cheese are an ambitious group and perfecting their sound. This album, and much of their ambitions are real- which comes right on top of their hit ized on this debut album. Some will "I Just Want to Celebrate" single, is say the group is pretentious and some their best to date.The fellows play will say esoteric, but there will be their instruments like crazy without many who will tune right in to their ever indulging themselves in them. abstract thoughts and shrewd playing.

HAPPY AND IN LOVE DO WAH NANNY THE SHIRELLES-RCA LSP 4581. EXUMA-Kama Sutra KSBS 2040. If fans really feel contentious, they Even though Exuma is supposedly go- might say that not every tune on the ing for a more commercial image, the albumisworthyofthelegendary sound of the islands is in these grooves. Shirelles, but most of the songs hit the And it's this and his intense delivery mark. There are good single bets here, of music he quite obviously feels that and there's even a gentle reminder in gives him his chance for commerciality. "Dedicated to the One I Love." Wel- Should help build fans. come back, girls.

THE GARY PUCKETT ALBUM INDELIBLY STAMPED GARY PUCKETT-Columbia C 30862. SUPER TRAMP-A&M 4311. Nobody has to speak up on behalf of Second album from a bunch of guys Gary Puckett's singing. He's got a mil- who want to line out that hard rack lion dollar set of pipes and he's got with a certain amount of nuance and some songs here up to his needs. "Gen- fun. The songs show a nice versatility tle Woman," which he co -wrote, sounds and should turn large segments of buy- like a single. There are also others, ers on. The cover is truly an eye-opener more familiar ditties to boost the sales. and should help impulse buying.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Cap A&R Reorganization HOLLYWOOD - Artie Mo-istrative duties in the depart- gul], VP A and R, announcesment. MONEY MUSIC a major realignment of forces Inaparallelcountry and within the A&R department: westernreorganization,Ken Al Coury has been appointedNelson, Executive Producer and an Executive Producer in theDivision VP of A&R, announces By HAL RUDMAN a&r department; Stan Silver-that Steve Stone has become a berg is now Director of Interna-Hollywood country & western tional Pop Repertoire, respon-producer and that Earl Ball has Station Check List sible for all acts which comebeen transferred to Nashville WABC/New York WPDQ/Jacksonville MU/Los Angeles to the label through EMI affil-to be a full-time in-house pro- WCFL/Chicago KGB/San Diego KRLA/Los Angeles iations as well as artists direct-ducer there. KIMN/Denver WFUN/Miami KILT/Houston ly signed to Capitol who record WRIT/Milwaukee WQAM/Miami WIXY/Cleveland outside the states; Chan Daniels In Nashville theofficesof WAPE/Jacksonville KXOK/St. Louis KLIF/Dallas has been appointed Director ofCentral Songs Music have been WBBQ/Augusta WOXI/Atlanta WIBG/Philadelphia merged with those of Capitol WKNR/Detroit WSAI/Cincinnati WFIL/Philadelphia A&R Marketing Services, com- CKLW/Detroit WHBQ/Memphis WRKO/Boston ing to Los Angeles from Newand Hap Wilson, formerly of WEAM/Washington KYNO/Fresno KQV/Pittsburgh York; Roz Schrank has addedTree International, will become WTIX/New Orleans KAKC/Tulsa KJR/Seattle co-ordination of A&R record-administrative director of both VI/LS/Chicago KFRC/San FranciscoWDGY/Minneapolis WYSL/Buffalo KYA/San Francisco KDWB/Minneapolis ing budgets to her other admin-organizations. WKBW/Buffalo KJRB/Spokane WCOL/Columbus, Ohio WOKY/Milwaukee WRNO/New OrleansWIST/Charlotte CHUM/Toronto WAKY/Louisville KINT/EI Paso Douglas Month at Columbia WMAK/Nashville WAYS/Charlotte Columbia Records has desig-McLaughlin; "By Any Means nated October for special con-Necessary,"acollectionof Tommy James #32 WCFL, 23 WAYS. centrationonproductfromspeeches by Malcom X; "Hoot- Chart KFRC, WRIT. On WIXY, WKNR, Douglas Records, a Columbia eroll ?" by WCOL, KXOK, WGST, WMAK. Custom Label. guitarist Jerry Garcia and San Delaney & Bonnie #35 WCFL. Chart Rick Blackburn, Epic/Colum-Franciscoorganist Howard WFIL, KILT, KHJ, KJR, WHBQ, KLIF. biaCustomLabelNationalWales; "Iron Man," by Eric On: WRKO, WRIT, WGST, KYA, KFRC. Sales Director, announced thatDolphy; "Steel," produced by Fifth Dimension Chart: WRIT, WCOL, effort will be centered on nineStefan Bright of Douglas A&R WAYS, WFIL, KILT, KLIF, WYSL. Big albums to be released or re -for release on the Epic label; Kal Rudman serviced during that month. and music from "El Topo" per- requests WMAK. On WIXY, WOKY. SaidBlackburn,"Ijikeall formed by Shades of Joy. Dawn #24 WAYS. On CKLW, WCFL, KILT, WCOL, WGST, Douglas product, each of these In support of this product, KGB. albums is especially significantColumbia has planned for theRaiders chart WCFL, WIXY, WOKY, KILT, WFIL, KJRB, from an artistic, sociological ormonth of October extensive ad- WCOL. New WAYS, KXOK, WMAK. political point of view. Theyvertising and in-store displays. James Taylor KILT, WFIL, KJR, WAYS, WGST. As an LP will be historical documents ofAs a marketing aid, a. sampler cut WHBQ, KAKC. this period." LP of excerpts from each album Cat Stevens chart KLIF, WCFL, KHJ, KILT. New WRIT, The Douglas albums selectedhap beenprepared.Douglas for concentration are: "What Ihas also produced aspecial WGST, WIXY, KYNO. On: WKNR, WFIL, WYSL. Was Arrested For," by Lennynewspaper spotlighting the al- Chicago WFIL, WIBG, KFRC. As an LP KAKC. Many Bruce; "The Last Poets" andbums, with commentary frommore will be coming. "This is Madness" by the Lastleading music critics and the Grass Roots went right on KHJ. Poets;"My Goal'sBeyond,"artists themselves, which will

by guitarist Mahavishnu Johnbe sent with the sampler. Lou Rawls is breaking out as a hit record. This was a strong week for it. Went to #7 CKLW with big requests. Jumped 24-9 WIXY. Chart KLIF and Purcell, Heller CPM Officers WDGY. New WTIX, WAYS. JerryPurcellhas beenfor the betterment of all aspects Lettermen went on a number of key stations WFIL, elected President and Seymourof show business, devotes much KLIF, WCFL, WOKY, KJR, WRIT, WBBQ. Heller VP of the Conferenceof its time to charitable pur-Coven exploded to #1 KLIF, #11 WTIX. Confirmed ofPersonalManagers,anposes, amongthemyearly 30-18 KJRB. On KILT, KDWB, WMAK, WCOL. organizationof120personalscholarships to deserving stu-Denise LaSalle very strong action this week. managers representing a ma-dents of the arts and "Man of 21-12 WTIX, 8 CKLW, 21-17 WAYS. Chart WHBQ, KLIF, jority of the creative and per-the Year" dinners with pro-WDGY. On KQV, WOKY. forming artists in show busi-ceeds to charitable institutions.Laura Lee smash in Detroit #11 CKLW, 9 WKNR. ness. It is for a two-year term. #20 WQXI, 22 KILT. New WIXY, WDGY, WIXZ in Miami. They succeed Sherwin DashNMPA On and Ken Greengrass. Jean Knight powerful follow-up record. Pic. WAYS. At the same time, it was an-Surcharge Right on WTIX. Chi-Lites. Outside of "Shaft" and , nounced that the new six -mem- (Continued from page 3) ber National Board of the Con- this is one of the biggest soul albums of the year ference would be composed of Regarding imports, the NM - in sales. The new single "I Want to Pay You Back" Purcell, Heller, Jess Rand andPA report notes that an im- is already getting strong sales. Mel Shayne, new President andporter may pass on a price in- Vice President of the Confer-crease during the freeze, but it enceofPersonalManagersmust be on a penny for penny Al Green #9 WAYS, 14 KYA, 13 KXOK, 15 KFRC. West,andRobertCoeandbasis and must not include Chart: KHJ, WCOL, WCFL, WFIL, KILT, KJRB, WYSL, Jackie Bright, new Presidentmarkups. The 10 percent sur-KLIF, KHJ, WIBG, KJR. New KQV, KAKC, KYNO, KGB. and VP of the Conference ofcharge, NMPA says, does notPaul Anka getting strong action at CKLW in Detroit Personal Managers East. apply to music which was given with good sales and good adult female requests. CPM, in addition to subscrib-duty-free entry by the Florence ing to its own code of ethicsand Beirut Conventions. (Continued on page 62)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CAMPUS RECORD REPORT Categories of College Stations By GARY K. COHEN cago, will be sponsoring a conference for college radio broad- casters in Chicago on Nov. 6 and 7. Stations in the Chicago area There are two main categories of college radio stations-FM(commercial and college) who are interested in attending should and carrier current. Indeed, the only difference is not whethercontact Walter at WLVC-FM, Loyola University, 6525 North the station is FM or carrier, but for the sake of explanation itSheridan Road, Chicago, Ill. 60626. It is the small meetings, or- is a good beginning. ganized by the college broadcasters themselves, that accomplish College stations that are FM are pretty much the same as allthe most. other FM stations-they are licensed by the FCC and they broad- cast with a regular transmitter. In other words, if you live in a metropolitan area, you can pick up the college station on cam-Letter to the Editor: pus and at your home. The only real difference is that some col- lege FM stations broadcast on an educational frequency, whichTo The Editor: means they can not have commercials. Stations that are carrier After writing to several record companies and getting little current broadcast,as the name implies,havetheirbroador no reaction, I began discussing my problem with some friends cast "current" "carried" through a power system-usually thein college radio. It appears that my problem, no classical music service, is also their problem. Too often I think promotion peo- building's power system. Since they are low power operations,ple automatically categorize college stations as purely popular they are not regulated by the FCC. And where FM stations maystations. This is unfortunate for all parties concerned, because be 5,000 or 50,000 watts, the carriers are 5, 10, or 25 watts ... classical music is very definitely back on the college campus. with transmitters in each building or dormitory .. or they may have one 50 watt transmitter whose power is split up among theRecord companies seem to be denying the college station the different buildings on campus. right to give their full line air play. We at WVBC would like FM's are subject to all FCC programming regulations; carriervery much to include a very substantial amount of classical mu- stations must keep their modulation within 200 feet (approxi-sic in our format this fall, but unless we are serviced, this format mately) of each transmitter, and are legally not even consideredwill have to be revised. radio stations by the FCC. To the record companies I have this closing note: look around This should give you a rough idea of the difference betweenand I think you will find that Bach is replacing in carrier current and FM stations. many instances. MICHAEL MULLEN Station News WVBC - Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02167 WSUA, station of the State University of Albany, has changed its address. Their new address is: WSUA, 1400 Washington Ave., astronomical fees,returns to Albany, N.Y. 12203. Please change your plates accordingly. EricBennett Tours U.K. play Carnegie Hall Oct. 9 in Lonschein is Music Director. two performances, Robert Far - The correct address for Utah State University's station is: Tony Bennett, currently tour- KUSU-FM, Utah State University, Logen, Utah 84321. Program non conducting. Julius LaRosa Director is Keith Hall. ingEnglandatreportedly MCs. WECC is a new station at Erie Community College, Main & Youngs Road, Buffalo, N.Y. 14221. Scepter Ups Integrity Corp. College Broadcasters Convention Walter Paas of WLVC-FM/WLUC, Loyola University in Chi -Internal Volume Year End Results NEW YORK-Throughits TORRANCE, CALIF. -In- international representative EdtegrityEntertainmentCorp., A COURSE OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE for Chalpin, Scepter Records hasownerandoperatorof13 signed with Capitol a new con-Wherehousediscountrecord THE MUSIC AND RECORDING INDUSTRY tract covering Scepter's licens-and tape stores, announces final A comprehensive basic course designed to aid established and ing in Mexico. results for the fiscal year ended aspiring artists and composers to properly exploit their talents, Sam Goff, Scepter Exec VPJune 30, 1971. and executives from the music, recording, motion picture and said, "Through Chalpin we have Audited figures for both sales broadcast fields to realistically deal with the complex practices concluded one of the heaviestand earnings were higher than international arrangements inthepreliminaryresultsan- of the music industry. Scepter'shistory.Sinceap- nounced Aug.23.Finalnet Subjects Include: pointing Chalpin our interna-sales were $3,238,056 with a net COPYRIGHT STRUCTURE, INCLUDING PUBLICATION, MECHANICAL RE- tional representative, a new re-income of $87,620 or $.08 per PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE RIGHTS LICENSING. spect for our product has be-sharebasedupon1,238,077 CONTRACT AGREEMENTS WITH MUSICIANS AND RECORDING ARTISTS come evident throughout theweighted average common UNION AGREEMENTS. world and it's quite likely assharesofstockoutstanding. PUBLISHER CONTRACTS. Chalpinnegotiates new con-Thiscomparestoonlysix PROBLEMS OF THE INDEPENDENT MASTER PRODUCER. tracts as they come up, we willmonths of fiscal 1970, when the RECORD AND TAPE DISTRIBUTION AND METHODS OF ACCOUNTING. receivealargerandmore company was in a formation MUSIC RETAILING. equitable share of the interna-stage. For the partial period of PROMOTIONAL PRACTICES. tional market." 1970 there were no sales, while ARTIST AND MANAGER AGREEMENTS AND CAREER PLANNING. a loss of $8,042 or $.01 per PROBLEMS ANDPOSSIBILITIES OF THE VIDEO CASSETTE. share was incurred. 12 - 4 hour meetings, Wednesday evenings 7:00 p.m. - 10:50 p.m., beginning Denver Gold Doubles Leon C. Hartstone, Chairman

October 6 RCA Records' John Denver of the Board and President of For further information write or telephone: has received his second goldIEC, indicated that the com- COLUMBIA COLLEGE record in a little over a month:pany is proceeding ahead of 925 No. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90038 Phone: (213) 851-0550 for his album "Poems, Prayersschedule with the expansion of and Promises." its Wherehouse chain.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Anka Sells Spanka The Re -Girth W. S. Pope Joins To Gordon Mills ASCAP Board For Over $500,000 Of rat Daddy ASCAP PresidentStanley Adams announced the appoint- LAS VEGAS - Paul AnkaAt Atlantic Records ment of W. Stuart Pope, Man- has sold his Spanka Music Co. aging Director of Boosey and to the Gordon Mills Manage- Hawkes, Inc.,tothe ASCAP ment and Music Co. for more Board of Directors. Pope will than $500,000. fill the unexpired term of Ru- Spanka holds copyrights to dolph Tauhert, President of G. more than 300 Anka composi- Schirmer, Inc., who resigned. tions, including "She's a Lady" and "My Way." Anka will write A native of Folkstone, Eng- exclusively for Mills and MAM land, Pope was educated at Boy Singers' School, London College for the next five years but he for Choristers and Royal Col- is only exclusive to Mills as a lege of Organists. He served writer and is free to do any- in the R.A.F. from 1941 to 1946 thing else he wants. in the Middle East and became Ankaiscurrentlywriting Managing Director of Boosey songs for Tom Jones' first film, and Hawkes, Inc., in 1964. He 15 "The GospelSinger."In I at Daddy ...Paul Johnson has served ASCAP as a member years, Anka has written over of the Society's Board of Re- 300 songs, has had 15 gold rec- By DAVE FINKLE no longer be innovative. Theview, as well as its Publishers' ords and over 109 versions re- challenge of radio was gone. IAdvisoryCommittee.Among corded internationally of "Mya NEW YORK-Old radio menwas bored. the notable composers whose Way."Ithas beenreportednever die. They just lose some "I'd been talking toJerryworks are published by Boosey that he has earned over $200,-weight. Wexler for a few years aboutandHawkesisthedistin- 000 on that song alone. Anka Remember WWIN's Fatdoing promotion, or just get-guished ASCAP composer, also has set up Paul Anka Pro-Daddy, who reigned, frequently Aaron Copland. ductions toi film a biography ofin royal raiment, over Balti-ting involved with records from Kahil Gibran, author of "Themore's R&B airwaves through-a company standpoint. He said Prophet." out the '60s? There were timesthat he didn't think my person- Gallagher, Mancini Resign when Fat Daddy tippedtheality was right for promotion, but I asked him to give me a At the same time, Adams cit- scales at 450 pounds. chance. He did, and now thingsed theresignation from the Caviano to London Well, Fat, alias Paul John-seem to be working out right. I son, is now alive, well and 275 Society's Board of William P. Underground Post pounds lighter working at At-seem to be finding acceptance.Gallagherof Famous Music lantic Records as a local pro-I'm trying to benefit from someCorp. and Henry Mancini, com- of the mistakes some promoposer. In New York motion man. men used to make when they NEW YORK - Ray Caviano Love That Image came up to see me. I refuse to Gallagher was appointed to has been named to spearhead say that everything isgreat,the Board of Directors in Aug- "I was in love with the Fat ust,1970,in his capacity as a new underground promotionDaddy image," Johnsontoldterrific if I don't think so. I'm and merchandisingeffortat not trying to make everybodyPresidentofFamous Music Record World last week, "and Corp. Upon leaving the publish- London Records, according toso I just kept eating and booz-. That's never going to Herb Goldfarb, Vice President, happen, and I'm not sure I wanting house, he offered his resig- ing.Finally,however,after nation to the Society's Board. Sales and Marketing. two heart attacks and a stroke,to like everybody. Maybe I'll go Caviano,I decided I had to lose weight.back into radio some day. May- Mancini, elected to the who until re- storesbe not. But for now this is whatASCAP Board of Directors in centlyservedAlsoI would go into wheretheyspecialized inI'm doing and I like it." April of 1967, sent Adams the a s Nationalclothes for fat men and even Johnson got into radio when,following wire: "Because of the SalesManag- at an induction center havingcontinuing and increasing con- erforRockthey didn't have clothes that would fit me." hispre -induction Army phy-flicts of my personal schedule Magazine, will "I went on my own diet -sical, he suffered the first ofwith that of my duties as a effectstronglimited myself to 1000 calorieshis two heart attacks. He hadBoard member of ASCAP, I re- new liaisona day - and pledged to stick tobeen working for his Master ofgretfullyaskthatthefull with all facetsit. For two months I didn't seeArts degree in English at theBoard accept my resignation. Ray Caviano of the under- University of Maryland at theMy association with the Board ground media.any change, but my wife said, `Keep going.' Then one night Itime, but decided, as a resulthas been a rewarding one per- Reporting directly to Goldfarb, of his set -back, to change hissonally.Everymemberof isexpected to openwas going out and I put on a Caviano suit I hadn't worn in a while.life completely. Knowing noth-ASCAP should be secure in the new channels of communica- ing about radio and being toldthoughts that theirinterests tion with all elements most in-When I buttoned the front but- ton, it was way out here. It wasby experienced radiomen thatare being administered with the volved with the exploitation of he didn't have the right per-utmost of integrity and honor." contemporary music. working. I couldn't believe it. When you've been fat, you can'tsonality,heperseveredand begin to believe that it's youeventually reached his formid- who's thin. I still stop at mir-able eminence - both profes-completely fail to recognize him New ITA Members rors and look as myself side-sionally and physically. when they run into him. ways. I'll never put that weight Now 175 -pounds slim, he likes "I'm the kind of person who Announced on again." the idea that he can go intodoesn't like crowds," said the any store and pick clothes heformer disc jockey, who has in- The 3M Company, Irish Mag- Not Deciding Factor netic Tape Company, P.R. Mal- likes right off the rack. A fel-spiredtheadulationofthe loryCompany andCelanese Johnson's weight loss waslow with a sly and erudite sensepopulation of at least one large Plastics ompany are the fournot the deciding factor in hisof humor and the manner of acity, "and I hate large parties. newest members to join the In-leaving radio, however. "I was hipintellectual (what,FatI find it's easier for me to relate ternational Tape Association,doing the best I'd ever doneDaddy?), he also seems to findto people on an individual basis. reveals Oscar Kusisto, Chair-when I quit," Johnson reported.amusement inthefact thatThat's what I'm doing. And I man of the Board of ITA. "I felt, however, that I couldtradesters he's known for yearslike the people I've met."

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com A SPECIAL ISSUE BREAKING NEW ARTISTS TOMORROW'S CHARTIVAKERS New Artists, And How To Break Them U Breaking new artists is not only a problem that the industrypresence of the tight playlist-even in secondary markets, occa- faces every day, it's a problem that will never be obviated. sionally-it is becoming a more thorny problem with each pass- Whereas one day, for instance, channels of easy and effectiveing release. distribution may be found, there will always be unknowns that What else? Well, the industry has been coming up with all need to be brought to the attention of the public. sorts of alternative approaches, some of them practical, some If this business depends on endless supplies of any one com-of them still being ironed out, some of them controversial and modity, it's new artists. Ironically, though the public craves newcontradictory. faces like some ravenous, insatiable giant, getting breaks for new Record World has always made a policy of welcoming new- artists, getting the right entepreneurs (of all sorts) to believe incomers through its doors-what better way to get an advance new talent is a continual brain-teaser. sense of what will be happening in the business? It's in this One traditional way of alerting the world to new recordingspirit that Record World has surveyed the industry to find out artists has been by obtaining airplay. Almost anyone connectednot only who will be the new faces in fall '71 and winter '72, with the business would declare that airplay is a sine qua nonbut also how they will be introduced to the consumer. in the life of any record personality. And now, ladies and gentlemen, may we present to you for the Securing airplay is difficult, however, and with the increasingfirst time on any disc.

Mort Hoffman: Lundvall on New Acts Breaking New Acts A Supplementary Tactics Major RCA Function The Columbia Method "New artistsare thelife- NEW YORK - Asked about blood of the future of our busi- his approach to breaking new ness, and one of our most im- artists, Bruce Lundvall, Direc- portant functions as a record tor of Marketing, CBS Records, company is breaking our new told Record World recently that talent."Thisstatementwas everything is geared to supple- made by Mort Hoffman, Divi- ment airplay. sionVP, Commercial Opera- tions, RCA Records, at RCA's Airplay and the getting of it recent marketing seminar in is self-explanatory; so Record Hollywood, Fla. World went right to finding out about these supplementary tac- Commenting further on RCA's involvement and inter- tics. estinnew talent,Hoffman Columbia has a handful up noted: "Once an act is signed its corporate sleeve. our creative efforts are brought Lundvall called attention to into play. what he feels is superior "in - Mort Hoffman (Continued on page 45) Bruce Lundvall (Continued on page 45) Breaking Records, Artists Atlantic Experts In Requires Flexibility at UM Good (Artists) Grooming 15 At A&M Records, the break- "Every radio play a product Whenever a new artist, groupAretha Franklin, Crosby, Stills, ing of a hit record and the com-receives is more or less a freeormanagerisconsideringNash & Young, Led Zeppelin, mercial establishment of a newcommercial,"hesays."Whilewhich record manufacturer toEmerson Lake & Palmer, Ro- artist are processes which re-most industries in this countryapproach, one firm that is al-bertaFlack,WilsonPickett, quire both flexibility and a con-have to spend thousands of dol-ways among the first to be con-Clarence Carter, Sam & Dave, centrated effort by everyone in-lars to get a couple of minutessidered is the AtlanticAtco-Co-Delaney & Bonnie, Iron Butter- volved, from graphics to the art-of airtime, the record industrytillion-Asylum family of labels. ist himself. need only successfully promote fly, Allman Bros., Buffalo One of the obvious reasons isSpringfield, Bee Gees, Cream, According to A&M's Adminis-a record and then receive divi-the firm's track record. The la- trative Vice President Gil Frie-dends far greater than the orig-bels have nurtured to promin-and many more. sen, a major point of concentra-inal investment." ence over the past few years However, a firm's track rec- tion is the area of radio airplay. (Continued on page 45) suchoutstandingartistsas (Continued on page 58)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Concentration A&M on Promoting Bell Magic Formula New Artists on AM Bell Records, during the pastwho has already had tremen- By HAROLD CHILDS Those are the only stations two years, has often seemeddous press exposure even be- we can really depend on in the to be in possession of virtuallyfore the release of his first al-NationalPromotionDirector,beginning. They reallystart a "magic formula" for break-bum and without a hit single. A&M Records things and let us get the feel ing new artists onto the charts. Merchandising meetings, both HOLLYWOOD - The diffi-on the record. One of the most Our queries about the ingre-formalandinformal,area important things in breaking a dients of that "formula" at thestandard part of try Bell rou-culties today in breaking AM singles are based primarily onnew record is getting it into Bell offices, currently being ex-tine with the flow of ideas com-the amount ofproduct thatprint so that people know you pandedtoaccommodatetheing from all sources. have the artist. rapidly growing label, resulted VP and General Manager Iryyou'refacedwithandthe in a one word answer that wasBiegel summed itthis way:amount of time it takes to break We depend a lot on album repeated over and over again"The most important job of aa record. cuts and our feelingsabout in every department-"concen-record company is to constant- It took A&M four months tofuture singles in well over 50% tration." ly come up with new talent. It'sbreak the Lee Michaels single,of our singles. We have 16 men Once a decision is made toalso in many ways the most"Do You Know What I Mean,"around the country working ex- behind a recording artist,lit-difficult job. There are manyand it started breaking in sec-clusively for A&M. If we can't erally the entire company joinscompanies that are getting byondary markets. We started itget a single on a major top 40 in to make the breakthrough.today on one or two establishedin first and secondary marketsstation from an album, then Bell President Larry Uttal spe-talents.Theyeitherhaven'tand our response and indica-we try and get on as an album cifically structured his companybeen able to solve the enormoustion came first in the second-cut only. Then we are able to for this kind of all-out effort.field problems or are unwillingary market. But they can beget some kind of play. Some- Almost everyone is concerned toundertakethecampaigndifficult, too. My assistant, Ed-times it seems easier to bring with either sales, publicity orneededtobring home newdie De Joy, works only second-a program director around to promotion. Since thereis nonames. At Bell Records, this isarymarkets,shippingthemplaying an album cut and that A & R department, that aspectso much a part of our operat-product and making about 40gives us an "in." The accept- of creativity which takes up soing philosophy that the effortcalls a day for us to tie thoseance of "Superstar" was immed- much time and attentionatwe put behind new people is al-markets up, make them awareiately fantastic. That was from other labels has been put asidemost a reflex action. What itof what's going on and make"The Carpenters" album and to permit full effort and atten-means is commitment and whatsure that they're getting thetherewerethosewho had tion on bringing in hits. is required is concentration." attention they need. doubts about it, but you always Bell Records today is spear- have that. The Carpenters, Car- headed by one of the most dy- ole King and Cat Stevens really namic promotion teams in theTomorrow's Chartmakers have almost guaranteed airplay industry. Under the direction at this point, but we still work of promotion topper Steve Wax, those records. the department's success withAt Warners Today Once in a while a top 40 sta- the Partridge Family, Dawn, Althoughit'sa well-knownviously drew raves only fromtion will end up picking the Dusk, Twiggy and the Stam-fact that patienceis the bestcritics and small cult. The al-single. With Joe Cocker's last peders,allcurrently on thepolicy for breaking new talentbum, which has brought New-single we wanted to go with charts and all within the pastthese days, when it often takesman a wider acceptance, "Randy "Black -EyedBlues,"andall year, has helped along withtwo or three albums to establishNewman Live," was originallythey would play was the flip, suchstalwartsasMountain,a new act, Warner/Reprise triesreleased as a promo album for"High Time We Went." the 5th Dimension and the Del- to help this process along withradiouse(anothersuccessful I thinkprogramdirector fonics to make the label a forceconcerted action in the form ofinnovation in the label's effortwould generally like to expose in both single and album sales.specific campaigns and promo-to break the artist). more new product and newer Under VP Gordon Bossin andtionsin behalf of tomorrow's Packaging is an often over-sounds. Sometimes it's difficult Oscar Fields, the sales picturemajor record acts. The resultslooked area in helping to getto get behind that and a lot of is much the same. Not onlyare not always immediate butnew acts off the ground. Thirtytimes we think that the major product, but back-up materialkeeping faith in new talent (andDays Out, new rock band onTop 40 stations are like stum- is in position almost instanta-veteran acts who are trying toReprise, have gained distinctionbling blocks. Record and radio neously. Because Bell has man-rebuild their following) has paidvia the unique way their first aged to maintain the cohesion people have to understand each of a small company even asoff in a number of cases. album has been packaged. Whatother. Warner Bros. innovated theappears to be the album cover In terms of tight playlists, it they grow, communication be-company -sponsored tour to bringis actually a color poster of a tween departments is excellent is getting more and more diffi- and the sales staffers quicklyexposure to new and emergingsteamship on the high seas-acult to break new singles on acts. It was in this manner thatdesign in keeping with the nau-top 40 stations. follow play with merchandise.Ry Cooder, Captain Beefhearttical motif of the group name. Gloria Sondheim, who directsand the Magic Band, the Doobie Warner Bros. has found that There are only a few records internalpublicrelationsforBrothers and Mother Earth wereit is possible in many cases forthat are added in a week and Bell Records, administers and there might be a hundred rec- brought to the public at a time"Tomorrow's Chartmakers"toords vying for those three posi- works closely in all PR areas,when regular showcasing ven-have been "yesterday'schart - such as pressreleases,bios,ues were closing across the coun-makers." With this in mind, ations. photos, itineraries and supply-try. new push tore-establishthe I see optimistic changes com- ing review copies. Interviews The latest Warner tour willBeach Boys in the vanguard ofinginthenext few years, arearranged, when possiblebring Randy Newman to theAmericanpopularmusichasthough. Radio will expand and television shows are set andmasses. Newman isa case inpaid off in the immediate suc-stations will get into more rec- sometimes tours are scheduledpoint of the Warner/Reprise pa-cess of "Surf's Up," their cur-ords and more types of pro- to give added exposure. tience policy. rent album rising on the charts.gramming. In our current pro- In many companies, publicity For whilehissongshave Labelle, as Patti LaBelle and themotion of AM singles we're pri- is regarded almost as an after-gained a wide audience throughBluebells, have built a strongmarily concerned with Carole thought. At Bell Records, theotherartistsinterpretations,r&b following over the years,King's "So Far Away"; "Moon use of public relations to devel-Newman is now emerging as aand are now in the process ofShadow" by Cat Stevens; Lee op the artist as a personalitymajor performer and record art-broadening their audience viaMichaels; the Carpenters and as well as a record talent is aist in his own right. It took threeWarner Bros. through progres-Humble Pie's "I Don't Need No primary concern. A casein Reprise albums to build a masssive exposure on radio personalDirection." We releasedthe point is Gideon, new to Bell,following for an artist who pre-appearances. (Continued on page 40)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Our list ofTomorrow's Chartmakersis smaller thanmost. Butmorerealistic. Patti Austin Mac Davis Bill Evans The Firesign Theatre Hampton Grease Band James And The GoodBrothers Madura John Manning Michaelangelo New Riders of the PurpleSage Warren Schatz On ColumbiaRecords

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com At Stax Capitol's Key: Union Crossing Over Means Of A&R, Marketing The dilemma of presentingJoy Wagon creates good will Breaking Through a new artist to the public andand solid audiences - which Staxreorganizeditsfield to the trade isin proportioncan't help but be reflected in force several months ago, elim-to the ever-increasing flow ofrecord sales." inating promotion men and cre-new groups and new albums. "Over the last six months," ating instead local reps whoReviewers complain there aren'tMogull continued, "and certain- were involved in activities be-enough hours in the week toly over the next six, a&r will be yond those of the normal promolisten to the product they re-attemptingtocut down the men. The Stax men becameceive;stores are understand-number of monthly releases so deeply involved in public rela-ably hesitant to stock productthat each album will have a without some advance demand.better shot. We're working to- tions, personal appearances by anapproximateratio artistsandotheractivitiesSo how does a record companyward go about making theirfledg- whereby new artists will be a aimed atcreatinga greater ofeach in lings distinguishable? smallerpercentage awareness of Stax artists Artie Mogull, Vice Presidentmonthly release, thereby giv- major markets. of A&R, feelsthatCapitol'sing them a better chance to be Publicity Major Role commitment to new artists isheard." Publicity plays a major rolea solid and effective one. "Dur- The development of a new Al Bell ing the past year we think Cap-artist after signing to the label, in the development of new Staxitol has broken as many newthen, is a .company -wide effort. MEMPHIS-At Stax, a labeloping careers meshes with theacts as any other record com-The close communicationof that is currently enjoying theto receive airplay in a localpany," he said. "For example, a&rmerchandising,creative most successful year in its his-area, articles are sent to thelook at Seatrain, Joy of Cook-services, promotion, sales and tory, "crossing over" is wherelocal publications. As the art-ing, Helen Reddy, Anne Mur-artist development is essential. it's at in creating new artists.ist's market increases, features BillValenzianofeelsthat begin to appear in national pub-ray, Leo Kottke, Ashton, Gard- Currently rocking up the sin- nerandDyke,McGuinness -personal appearances arein- gles charts with "Mr. Big Stuff"lications. Flint and Bloodrock. strumentalin the success of by Jean Knight, "What You See By recording product with "The major reason for thisfirst -album groups. "We have Is What You Get" by the Dra-built-in appeal for a large seg-has been the close relationshipfound that where artists have matics, "The Breakdown" byment of the buying public andbetween A&R and the Market-appeared in person, performing Rufus Thomas and rolling upby utilizing the most up-to-date well,salesincreasedramati- Staxing Division, headed by Brown the LP lists with "Shaft," "Mr. promotion techniques, Meggs.Thiscoordinationis cally," he opined. "Consequent- Big Stuff" and "Sweet Sweet -Records has shown a consistentparticularly noteworthy inas-ly, we are concentrating a great back's Baadasssss Song," Staxability to "cross over" the chartmuch as, today, it takes a min-deal of time and effort getting has an inordinately high per-hurdles and create new artistsimum our working in the centage of new names that arewith maximum initialimpactthree albums to break an artist,important halls and clubs all breaking through for them. and longevity. whereas these acts were brokenover the country. Where new According to Al Bell, Stax with their first albums. acts appear before live audi- Exec VP, the secret of the la- "This union between A&Rences, it's proven that a large bel's success is based on itsRenaissance Formed and marketing takes many fac-percentage of sales occur in "hard-won, carefully -structured ets. Bill Valenziano's artist de-these areas. Joy of Cooking, and thoroughly supported abil- HOLLYWOOD-Dallas Leo Kottke and Hoyt Axton are Smith and Abe Hoch announcevelopment department devotesgood examples, and there are ityto'cross -over'into everyformation of Renaissance En-itselftosecuringbookings, typeofradiostation,retail which are then heavily support-dozens of others." tertainment Corp. with offices Valenziano and hisassist- outlet and communications me-at 1407 N. La Brea Ave. ed by Allen Davis' merchandis- diawithour product.Very ing people with radio spot buys,ant, Jeannie Schoel, feel that a early in the game we came to The production -managementin-store displays and newspaperrecord company is more able to realize that this was essential.firm will handle the Five Manads. John Jossey's sales depart-do the groundwork for devel- If we were to create stars theyElectrical Band, Canadian rockment makes sure stock is avail-oping unfamiliar artists than had to appeal to every type ofgroup on MGM's Lionel label;able in the market." themajor bookingagencies. audience. At the time this wasTimber on Electra and David "A good example of our long-"The major agencies just don't regarded by many people in ourAckles also on Elektra. Smithterm aim to break new artistshave the time to book an un- industry as 'revolutionary.'and Hoch willproduce andand present them properly toknown, untriedgroup," Miss They couldn't believe that wemanage the first two groups,the public is the Joy Wagon,"Schoel said. "But because we were going to make and pro-while Ackles is being producedsaid Mogull. "The Joy Wagonare concerned and convinced, mote records that would getby in England. 20 -city tour is a costly promo-we can take the time and sup- every type of air play from The two partners willalsotion, and the planning and or-port theartists.It seems to soul to top 40 and good music.handle Prairie Madness, a Co-ganization of it were very com-work very well that way." "It wasn't easy to put to-lumbia group produced by Joelplicated. It was handled fully gether a team of executivesSill, plus Bobby Vee on Unitedin-house by Al Cowry. The Joy who both believed as we did Artists. Smith will produce Vee.Wagon is a first-rate tour withBreneman Rejoins RK0 and had the ability to followPair also have a productiongood quality acts-Joy of Cook-II BettyBrenemanhasre- through on those levels. Wheth-deal with Oliver, also on United ing,Leo Kottke and Joyousjoined RKO Radio as Music Co- er or not we were successful inArtists. Noise-and good music. Pricesordinator/Councilor, announces our goals, both in the studio on seats are set as low as pos-Ross S. Taber, VP, RKO Gen- and in the field, is a question sible. We believeinall theeeral. that the charts have answered acts; we feel the Joy Wagon is for us." Havens Festival Song something Capitol can be proud Richie Havens has recordedof, and the audiences will en-WB's Heavy Reorders At Root of Success the Bobby Scott -Danny Meehanjoy them tremendously. The tour At the root of the currentsong, "Think About the Chil-is designed to reach the people The heaviest reorder week in Stax success is the ever -reli-dren," last year's U.S. entry inwith our newer artists, as op-the history of Warner/Reprise able Memphis Sound, which hasthe International Song Festivalposed to sending them out toRecords occurred the five work- evolved and reached a broader -in Rio de Janeiro. It is set asmake money for anyone. Bying days before the Labor Day based audience without losingHavens' next release onhiskeeping ticket prices down andweekend, reports Warner Bros. its underlying vitality. Stormy Forest label. playing in accessible places, thePresident Mo Ostin.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com A FEW MONTHS AGO THESE WERE OUR CHARTMAKERS TO BE. (Please note howmanyof them already be.)

Steve Alaimo (Entrance) The Ebonys (Philadelphia International) Gideon Smith (Philadelphialnternational) Becky & The Red Pony (Barnaby)Edgewood (TMI) Steel (Epic) Elvin Bishop Group (Fillmore) Sarah Fulcher (TMI) Ronnie Stoots (TMI) Phyllis Brown (Barnaby) Grin (Spindizzy ) Tin House (Epic) CCS (RAK) Paul Hampton (Barnaby) Helen Wheels (Fillmore) Laurel Canyon (New Design) Roy Head ( TMI ) Edgar Winter's White Trash (Epic) Chapins (Epic) Peyton Hogue (Barnaby) Chase (Epic) Hot Chocolate (RAK) Bruce Cockburn (Epic) Jam Factory (Epic) Contraband (Epic) Mark James (New Design) CyMarr On (Entrance) Dick Jensen (Philadelphia International) Little John (Epic) Kris Kristofferson ( Monument) La Gruin (Epic) The Last Poets (Douglas) Barry Mann (New Design) Layng Martine (Barnaby) Mashmakhan (Epic) David Mayo (TMI) New World (RAK) Kenny O'Dell (Epic) Shuggie Otis (Epic) Billy Paul (Philadelphia International) Redbone (Epic) Vivian Reed (Epic) Rufus (Epic) Salt & Pepper (Epic) Rena Scott (Epic)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Elektra's Bill Harvey Pressure for Unready Act FM and Labels Must Creates Concert Problems By DAVE FINKLE door, but that's certainly a way Team on New Acts NEW YORK-Ron Delsener,to do it. You have to come down because their audience will be-the promoter who among manyon ticket prices. Maybe people comedisinterested.Breakingevenings has for a number ofmake a little less money, but new artists should be as impor-years produced the Schaeferat least the act gets seen." tant to FM radio as it is to rec-Music Festival in Central Park, "The other possibility," con- ord companies. A record com-calls breaking new acts thesetinuedDelsener, "which I've pany that only puts out rec-days "a serious situation." been thinking about lately,is ords by already proven artists "For a while now," Delsenerclosed circuit tv. Every city, and doesn't build for the futureexplained with a rather con-even secondary cities,has a with new artists will not sur-cerned look crossing his faceclosed circuit station thatis vive forever, but neither willlike a storm cloud over Woll-dying for programming. Per- a radio station that only playsman Rink at concert time, "forhaps acts could work out there. records by already establishedthe last two years or so, I'veMaybe a label that has a num- Bill Harvey artists." beengetting subtle pressureber of releases by new artists Harvey believes that recordfrom agencies and managerscoming out could arrange to General Manager of Elektracompanies and FM radio mustto use opening acts that they'rehave them go on closed circuit Records BillHarvey believesre-establish a firm working re-concerned with, whether thetelevision.It'ssomethingto that while FM radio was oncelationship, "for one feeds theact is right for the show or not.think about. in the vanguard of progressiveother and a beneficial relation-It's become very difficult for me "And maybe something could rock, now too many program-ship is important to the con- be worked out about agencies to be a creative promoter. This 'commissions. You mers are merely playing it sta-tinuedartisticandfinancialyearItriedasongwiter'ssplitting tistically safe and are no long-growth of both radio and theevening-one with Tom Paxtonknow agencies resent it if you er serving as essential cata-record company. In order toheadlining and one with Johnbook a headliner from them and lysts in bringing new perform-keep the listener and consumerDenver headlining. I put fourthen won't take one of their ers to the public. alive and interested there mustor five other acts on with them.other acts to open. They say, "AtElektra,"Harveyde- be a process of introducing newIt was the only way I could use`You're going to make money clared, "our business is break-talent." people I wanted to use. But thefrom our act, and yet you won't ing new artists. Since radio is Pointing to the example ofevenings didn't work out be-do us a favor.' Well, maybe the lone media catering to rock,what happens to record com-cause they were too long. Bysomething could be worked out it's the prime vehicle we havepanies that look at nothing butthe time Denver and Paxtonwith the other agency you book for exposing new artists to thethe charts, Harvey said thatcame on, the audience had al-from. The commission on the audience we know isthere."the profit motive should in noready sat through three or fouract could be split. It's confus- Harvey sees the current situa-way be a stumbling block tohours of songs. The performersing, but there's got to be some- tion in which both radio andcreativityandcontinuedwere all good, but the eveningsthing there. the recording industry suffer.growth. He feels that both radioweren't. "Record companies are aware "FM radio," he said, "must be-and record companies have to "I'm in the position now ofof the problem of breaking new gin once again to experimentrealize that ;they can make mon-putting on acts as favors toact. And they will be coopera- and stimulate the public as itey by being imaginative andpeople, sometimes acts I've nev-tivein many ways. Certainly did in its infancy. Now that FMinventive. er seen. Now, I'm the first onethe majors will. They'll co-op has become powerful, many sta- As it stands now, Elektra isto do favors for people. I'veads, because they realize that tions find themselves caught instrenuously seeking new meansdone so many favors over theany performance by an act has a competitive ratings race withof exposure for its artists. "Ayears, but I'd have to say thatgot to stimulate sales. When you AM and have fallen into thefew years ago," Harvey went50% of the time the acts don'tsee a label slug in an ad, you trap of becoming 'Top 40 under-on, "Elektra pioneered a freshwork out-maybe more thanknow that the label has some- ground' stations. Now, the sameapproach to the concert situa-50% of the time. I would saything to do with it. The pro- proven artists are played overtion by sponsoring a successfulthat agents, managers and art-moter doesn't put it there for and over, depriving newcomersseries of free concerts at theists would have to exercise morelove of Elektra Records. Some- of a valuable showcase." Aquarius Theater in Los Ange-common sense about when newtimes if an act wants a certain In an interview a while ago,les. Now, we are involved in anacts should be used. Acts thatamount of money and the pro- Harvey and Elektra's Vice Pres-even greater effort with a spe-have never played before largemoter doesn't have it, the label ident in Charge of Artist De-cial tour of eight West Coastcrowds, that don't have a rec-will put up the whole amount. velopment SteveHarrispro-cities we have preparedforord, that don't deserve to beThat's one way that things are phetically made the point thatthree new artists, Don Nix, Lon-there, are suddenly out thereopening up. the record company can onlynie Mack (who is a legend butand don't know what to do. The "But concerts these days are serve as a catalyst in gettingnew to today's rock audiences),audience senses it and the crit-a matter ofquantity. We've the new artist on a disc. Thenand Jeannie Greene. A low ad-ics sense it. proved that there's a market radio has the opportunity tomission of $1.50 will enable the "This has come about,offor low-priced tickets. Today really "create" new artists. superb artistry of these per-course, because of the demise ofis like McDonald's Hamburgers. "These days," Harvey con-formers to reach a very broadthe small clubs. Where does anYou have to bring ticket prices tinued, "FM radio-except foraudience they could not nor-act start out? Maybe we can godown. Price is a factor. Some- a precious few stations aroundmally reach through ordinaryback to the coffee houses andtimes when the prices are too the country-shows no enthu-channels. Even more important-the small clubs, butitboils high-six dollars a ticket, 12 siasm to break new artists. Theyly, this tour gives us an oppor-down to economics. A bookerdollars a couple, I take my name often only become deeply con-tunity to utilize our total mer-has an act and immediately heoff the ad. cernedwithanewartistchandising operation to its full-wants $300 for the act. Every- "Maybe there'sjustnot achieves a top 40 hit, which isest extent in a tightly controlledbody has to come down at bothenough humanitarianism in the a very backwards way of ap-situation." ends. No act wants to split thebusiness these days." proaching the problem. Instead Harvey also pointed to the ofbeingdiscriminating andincreasing importance of col-interested ear for our music,most deeply. Our Campus Pro- leading their audience, they arelege radio as a factor in break-especially for our new music.motion Department, headed by following the trends. It's timeing new artists. They are the future of the rec-Bob Brownstein, has become for FM to stop listening to the "In many ways," hesaid,ord industry. Through them wevery important to us, as it con- ratings and start listening to"college radiois now at thecan directly reach the peoplestantly keeps us in touch with the music. If they don't, they'repoint that FM radio was a fewwe'resellingto,thepeople the street level excitement of going tolose their audience,years ago. They provide a veryourmusiccommunicatesto the changing music scene."

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com HIS MUSIC A WAY OF SOFTLY EXPLODINC AROUND YOU. His music has a way of creeping up on you, taking root and then exploding in your mind. Jonathon Round. More than a singer, he's a musical interpreter. The novel stresses and accents he puts on both vocal and musical passages make for startlingly unique listening. Even standards like Sympathy for the Devil take unexpected, hair-raising new twists. Jonathon Round: Rock, blues and drama. You've never heard anyone quite like him before. But you know you're gonna hear him again and again. Especially because his new single DON'T IT MAKE YOU WANNA GO HOME (W-186) is really rolling up hill. VAP WESTBOUND

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Motown: The Knack Total Support Builds And How They Keep It JanusNew Artists As the second decade of Mo- Motown's recent diversifica- in giving new acts wide -spread town's history as one of thetion, leading to such new labels exposure. Janus maintains ex- world's top record companiesas Rare Earth and Mowest, has tensive contact with its distrib- unfolds, a second generation ofbeen another principal factor utor promotion men to keep recording artists continues toin the spawning of new talent. them informed and enthusiastic capturethesoulofyoungIn addition to Tom Clay, Mow- about new talent. Americawiththesoundofest now boasts Lodi, a group There's no set formula for young America. Motown's new-with a single, "Happiness," as breaking a new Janus or West- est recording stars, backed bythe focal point for their new bound artist. Each one is an the entire organization, are al-album, "Lodi." individual project involving the ready producing music innova- most practical combination of tions that more often than not Vast Roster the aforementioned techniques. are being rewarded with gold As for the Rare Earth label, By keeping their artist roster and platinum. besides the phenomenal success selection, Janus is able to give The Undisputed Truth, whoof Rare Earth (the group), the each artist the type of individ- in the past few weeks havecompany boasts a vast roster ual attention necessary to make rocketedtothetopoftheof new talent which will make an impact on the record market. singlescharts with "Smilingitself known to the industry in Mary Schlachter But even more important than Faces Sometimes," are one ofthe coming months. There's R. techniques is the attitude with thetop new groups ontheDean Taylor, whose "Indiana NEW YORK-Less than twowhich Janus approachesthe Gordy label, and their many -Wants Me" was a top 10 hityears old, Janus Records hasbuilding of new talent. Every- faceted talents can be heardseveral months ago; Kiki Dee,proved itself a new label withone in the company becomes ontheir debut album, "Thea new female vocalist; the Rus-theabilitytoestablish newinvolved. Each department puts UndisputedTruth."Anothertix, who have justreleasedartists. Among the label's firstin long hours planning cam- new star on Motown's newesttheirsecondLP,"Bedlam";year tally of seven chart al-paigns and putting them into subsidiary,Mowest,isTom Stoney and Meatloaf, two per-bums and eleven singles wereoperation. Frequent staff meet- Clay, who just a few shortformers from the cast of "Hair"hits by the Detroit Emeralds,ings keep everyone abreast of months ago was just anotherwho will now be recording as aMungo Jerry, Funkadelic, Cissycurrent developments. disc jockey. Today, because ofduo; Impact of Brass, whoseHouston,Teegarden & Van - When the meetings break up his smash single, "What thenew LP is entitled "Down at theWinkle and several others. Thelate at night, Director of Mer- World Needs Now is Love," heBrassworks";Magic,a newmost recent breakthrough haschandising Stan Hoffman and is on the verge of a new kindgroup whose first album bearsbeen made by Denise LaSalleNational Sales Director Howard of recognition as a major re-their name; and My Friends, with"Trapped ByaThingSilvers have pages of notes which cording artist. His album, fea-one of the newest additions to CalledLove"onWestboundwill keep them busy for several turing the hit single, is alsothe Rare Earth label, whoseRecords, which Janus distrib-weeks. National Promotion Di- moving on the charts. first single, called "I'm An Easyutes. rector Denny Zeitler, National iMotown alsohas severalRider," has already attracted "The emphasis at Janus is onDirector of Promotion and Spe- "new" artists who have beenattention. quality rather than quantity.cial Projects Rich Sargent and successful in other phases of Finally,thereareDennisWe don't want a huge artistNational Director of R&B Pro- the record scene and are nowStoner, a soloist troubador whoroster at this point. Our policymotion Al Riley have afull soloists. Valerie Simpson, halfwillreleasehisfirst album,has 'been to sign only those art-schedule of cross-country phone of the Simpson/Ashford team"Dennis Stoner," in the fall;ists we believeinand thencalls and visits mapped out. Es- that produced and wroteso and Exit, a ,group made up ofgive them our total support,"mond Edwards, Vice President many hits for Motown's family rockandrollingAmerican said Janus President Marvinof A&R, will have to co-ordinate of superstars, has stepped outIndians. Schlachter. artist personal appearance sched- from behind the scenes with a For Motown and Rare Earth Total support for artists onules and arrange for test press- blockbuster album, "Exposed,"the name of the game in theJanus and Westbound Recordsings. Production Director Bob and the single, "Can it Wait '70sis Talent; new talent toincludes a full range of promo-Scerboisresponsibleforall Until Tomorrow." Eddie Kend-generate new success, sustain-tion, advertising and pr activ-printed material, including press ricks, an original member ofing a tradition that has alreadyities. Print advertising rangeskits and display aids. the world-famous Temptations,elevated an abundance of stars,from trade publications, con- And after everyone leaves, it's launchedanewcareeron once equally new and unknown,sumer magazines, especially thenot uncommonforPresident Tamla with his "All By Myself"to the status of superstar. Theunderground rock press and, inMary Schlachter to remain in album. And Bobby Darin, a pronames and faces are changingmanyinstances,localnews-hisoffice auditioning tapes of who has sold over 15 Millionbut thespecialquality thatpaper ads in conjunction withnew artists who may someday be singles, is also new to the Mo-separates tomorrow's chartmak-personalappearances.Radioreceiving the total support of town family. After spendingers from the rest isstill thespots are effective if an artistJanus Records. 18 months scoring the film "Thesame: talent. isreceiving some airplay on Vendor," Bobby has returned that particular station. to Motown's recording studios. Often, advance copies of new With the formation of HughOct. Grateful Month albums are sent to radio sta-Named at ESP Masekela's Chisa label (distri- Warner Bros. Records hastions, preceded or followed by NEW YORK-Bernard Stoll - buted by Motown), the talentsdesignated October as Gratefulpromotional material. The la-man, ESP -Disk' President, an- of many fresh South AfricanDead month. bel's promotion men make fre-nouncestheappointmentof artists are about to be exposed There will be a major mer-quent visitsto key stations.Tom Nash as ESP's National to America's ears and charts. chandising, advertising, promo-When schedules permit, artistsPromo Director. In addition to Masekela's own tionandpublicitycampaign also visit the jocks. Nash will be based at both group(whichalsoincludes focused on the Dead and their the 5 Riverside Dr. office and Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphusentire Warner catalog of six Important Tools the new ESP headquarters at Semenya, and will have an LPalbums-plus their seventh and On the retail level, point ofAcorn Hill House, an 80 -acre called "The Union of Southnewest,"GratefulDead,"a purchase displays are arranged,farm resort in the upper Cats- Africa" out shortly), the new doublepocketalbumtakenoften utilizing P.O.P. materialkill Mountains near Woodstock. label will also be releasing thefrom live records at Winter -supplied by the label. Pre -de-W. J. Weidenbacher has been LP "Letta," by South Africanland, Manhattan Center and thesigned ad mats and co-op ad-appointed Production Manager songstress Letta Mbulu. Fillmore East. vertising are important toolsof the firm.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Say, we're really moving Donny Osmond's new MGM single, "Go How about the Five Man Electrical Band's LP, "Goodbyes & But- Away Little Girl" (K-14285). And just wait 'tilhis new album terflies" (LRS-1100) on Lionel, and the upcoming single smash comes out! "Absolutely Right" (L-3220).

Have you been watching the Osmonds single "Yo -Yo" (K-14295) Richie Havens has a new Stormy Forest single, "Think About climb? And their album, "Homemade" (SE -4770)? Whew! The Children" (ST -660) coming up. And a new album on its way "The Great Blind Degree" (SFS-6010). Heavy.

Lou Rawls' single "A Natural Man" (K-14262) is a definite hit. Eric Burdon has teamed with Jimmy Witherspoon on an absolutely So's the album, "Natural Man" (SE -4771). fantastic new sing"Soledad" (K-14296). Watch what we do on that one.

We've got another winner with Heaven Bound's "He'd Rather MGM Have The Rain" (K- L4284). That's Tony Scotti's group, bythe way. Gee, you guys give good promotion. RECORDS

AmericanRadioHistory.Com Teamwork Roulette's Road to Hits Songwriter Dorff Now an Artist of showmanship and who isthereforeitisscrapped. Ex- willing to work hard and learnperience has taught us that it the true meaning of dedicationis cheaper to scrap a recording to his profession and still besession than to spend additional able to handle success withoutmonies trying to promote it- going off the deep end-andespecially with the high cost not a one-shot, overnight phe-of promotion today. nomenon. 3. However, when itisde- Once we at Roulette havecided at our staff meeting that found such an artist we looka certain record by a new artist for the following ingredients:has the potential of becoming 1. Creating an image for thea hit record, we then go about From left: Joe Maimone, Capitol's artist and maintaining that im-"selling" our believabilityin tradeliaison;StephenHartley Joe Kolsky age in the way he performs,our product to music directors,Dorff and Record World's Mike dresses and his general behav-program directors, distributors Sigman. By JOE KOLSKY and their promotional employ- ior in the eyes of the public. NEW YORK-Stephen Hart- Vice President, Roulette Records 2. Once we are convinced ofees. Some people say we try to his potential to become a star,"hype our product," but I pre-ley Dorff, a 22 -year -old compos- How we break new artists is fer to use the words "sell ourer who has been writing songs like asking someone if a partic-the three most important de- since he was four, now has his ular record is a hit or not a hit.cisions have to be made. Theyproduct." first record out as an artist. No one person or company canare: We start our selling off byThe Capitol single, "She Was give the answer with any de- a. Finding the proper songssending samples of our prod-a Sad Girl," was produced by gree of accuracy - any morefor him or her or them to re-uct (dj records) to those radioDon Carroll(of "Color Him than a person or company cancord-and then stations we feel can play thatFather" fame) and was one of be certain that any person or b. Assigning the right pro-particular type of record, de-the many projects discussed by group that they sign to a re-ducer, and pending on the format of theStephen ina recent visit to cording contract will eventu- c. Aspecificarrangerto radio station. All told, we haveRecord World. ally come up with a hit record.make the proper arrangementsix mailing lists: Top 40, r&b, Stephen is now writing ex- Before we can break a newwe all hope will become "the MOR, FM, College and c&w.clusively for the Bill Lowery artist, we at Roulette have tohit record." In addition, we send dj recordsPublishing Group and, in his determine that the person (male Many a recording session "goes to all our distributors, to theown words, "It's the best thing or female) or the group that wedown the tube" and is nevertradepapers,totherecordthat ever happenedtome." sign to a recording contractreleased because it is decidedsheets and music reviewers. (Over the past 18 months, he has the potential of becomingat our weekly staff meetings Now, to get down to the realhas written songs for Jackie an artist, one with lasting abil-thatthisparticularrecordbasics of how we break a newWilson and Turner Rice, among ity; one who displays a sparkdoesn't sound like a hit; andartist. There are many thingsothers.) And in line with what a company can do, such as haveseems to be today's trend to- a press party for press,dis-ward total involvement by mu- tributors,record dealers andsic men, he is also producing, radio personnel (all this oftenarranging, playing piano and HIT running into expenditures ofsinging, and is involved in one $10,000to$30,000 or more).way or another in no less than Andstillthe company isn'tsix songs which are due to be sure whether they have addedreleased in the near future. MAKERS an artist to their roster. For, Other plans for the Atlanta - unless this act has a hit rec-based artist who considers him- ord, whether it is an LP or aself primarily a composer in- OF single, his chances of becomingclude another single to be re- an artist are still very slim, de-leasedshortlyandpossibly spite the fact that he may bework on an album for Capitol. THE a great performer. Considering all the things the multi -talented Dorff is into, it So, we come right down toseems only a matter of time be- FUTURE the nitty gritty of all success-fore he breaks with a hit rec- ful record companies-the de-ord. velopment of a new artist with Brooklyn Al!stars Pigmeat Markham hit records. As I said before, all the ingredients that go intoCreation Train Credo Jewel Paula a record have to be just right-III LONG ISLAND CITY-Crea- Pat Benti the song, producer, arranger,tion Train, located here at 3240 Bobby Patterson and the artists performance. 33rd St., is a talent organiza- Paula Paula It is with this piece of waxtion geared to management, de- in our hands that we then pro-velopment and production of Violinaires Rev. C. L. Franklin ceed to do our job of selling.new talent. Like all selling, one must know Acts with staying power are Jewel Jewel his customers. Since a recordthe ticket at Creation Train, manufacturer rarely sells thewhich ispresently producing Fontella Bass Harolyn Montgomery actual record of a new artist"The Congregation of the Paula Ronn before itis exposed on radioWorld" byChristy.Another or tv,it behooves his promo-new performer with the firm is tional personnel (or salesmen) Kurz. to sell the station on the rea- Contact Your .A05'' 11) levee sons why they should be play- Nearest Jewel Dist. Gregory Starts Tour RONN ing this particular recording. DJ.'s write for samples on RECORDS In late September Poppy re- Station Letterhead Like all successful salesmen, cording 728 Texas Street Shreveport. La. 71101 thesepromotional artistDick Gregory Phone: 318.422-7182 personnelwill launch his fifth consecutive (Continued on page 37) year of college tours.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Just over a year ago, when there were over 250 artists onVA: An Abundance of Tomorrow's Chartmakers the label, being a United Art- ist was a very undefined dis- By MARTIN ROBERT CERF lease. tinction. Today, the undefined Product Development Group, In addition to the above art- distinction has become a dis- ists, UA also has some exciting tinct privilege :for being with jazz newcomers, recording on United Artists now means that George Gerdes is one of theplayedwitheveryonefromits Blue Note subsidiary. Most you're one of only 35 activenew breed of sensitive, dramat-Herbie Mann to Melanie to Peterecently Blue Note President artists on the label. This philos-ic singer -musician -.Seeger, while artists such asGeorge Butler has signed Ron- ophy of the label is not particu-His new album, "Obituary," ex-Bobby Goldsboro and BobbynieFoster and Bobbi Hum- larly new; it's simply a unifiedplores everything from a drunk-Vinton have recorded his ma-phrey, both of whom will be dedication to the few artists onen old woman in a San Francis-terial.Hissecondal b u m,making records in the near fu- the label. co saloon to a comedy of words."American Pie," chronicles histure. And branching out into Jamene Miller, whose new al-vast experience with authority.the pop market will be Bobby The renaissanceat Unitedbum isentitledsimply"Ja-Dory Previn, a multi -media tal-Hutcherson, Donald Byrd and Artists has been impressivelyamene," features highly spon-ent whose accomplishments in-Grant Green, whose "Vision" felt over the entire country intaneous material and guest ap-clude an Academy Award nomi-LP is already a success. And recent months, as UA has es-pearances by ,nationfor"ComeSaturdayfinally,the jazz -oriented new tablished Ike & Tina Turner,Ainsley Dunbar and Jerry Gar-Morning," will increase her fol-UA group Los Blues, a mixed Sugarloaf, the Nitty Gritty Dirtcia, among others. And the thelowing with an album tenta-ensemble of varying musical Band and the Cornelius Broth-Quintet, better known until nowtively scheduled for fall release.backgrounds, will be out with ers & Sister Rose as indelibleas the Sir Douglas Quintet, will Family will be on Americanan album in the coming months. figures in the recording indus-be releasing an album of theirchartssoonerthananyone Although many of these art- try. More recently, Bobby Rus-own material, "Future Tense,"thinks, as their latest single,ists have made records before, selland War have achievedattesting to their desire to play"In My Own Time," is currentlytheir unique positions as new their rightful stature with thenothing but straight rock andtop 5 in England. Bucky Wil-United Artists make them em- respective hits "Saturday Morn-roll. kin and Bobby Womack roundinentlyqualifiedas"Tomor- ing Confusion" and "All Day United Artists is proud of aout UA's bright new stars. Therow's Chartmakers." Music." Both have new albumsgroup of artists who have paidformer was the lead singer with scheduled for fall release. their dues and to the clock andRonnie & the Daytonas, who With the signing of new art-the public, and who can also behit with "G. T. 0." in the middleKool Records, Tours ists a relatively infrequent oc-appropriatelycalled"Tomor-'60s, and Bucky will have his De-Lite artists Kool and the curence, UA's few remainingrow's Chartmakers." These are:"Bucky Wilkin" solo album outGang were in New York last acts for the fall promise to beDon McLean, Dory Previn, Fam-shortly. Bobby Womack, whoseweek to record some new sides, of the highest order: Georgeily, Bucky Wilkin and Bobbytune "The Preacher" just missedaccording toPresident Fred Gerdes, Jamene Miller and the Womack. being a smash across the boardFioto. Currently on the charts Quintet. Each of these acts is Don McLean, an obvious topfor UA, has put all his creativewith "The Penguin," group is dramatically different from thecontender for the charts of thegifts together for an LP, "Com-preparing to begin a month- others. future has been around andmunication," for September re-long tour of the East Coast.

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TITLE, ARTIST, Label, Number, (Distributing Label) 63 ONE FINE MORNING LIGHTHOUSE Evolution 1048 THIS LAST WKS. ON (Stereo Dimension) 2 WK WK. CHART 50 53 EASY LOVING FREDDIE HART Capitol 3114 8 4 THE NIGHT THEY DROVE 51 53 GET IT WHILE YOU CAN JANIS JOPLIN Columbia 4-45433 5 OLD DIXIE DOWN EH 16 I'M COMIN' HOME TOMMY JAMES Roulette 7110 3 JOAN BAEZ 53 54 IS THAT THE WAY TIN TIN Atco 6821 5 Vanguard 35138 8 65 MacARTHUR PARK, PT.II FOUR TOPS Motown 1189 3 55 34 K-JEE NITELITERS/RCA 74-0461 9 2 2 GO AWAY, LITTLE GIRL DONNY OSMOND MGM 15285 8 D 69 HIJACKIN' LOVE JOHNNY TAYLOR Stax 0096 4 pi 5 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE BILL WITHERS 'Sussex 219 (Buddah) 11 57 57 HOW CAN I UNLOVE YOU LYNN ANDERSON, Columbia 4-45429 7 U 9MAGGIE MAY/REASON TO BELIEVE ROD STEWART ' 58 61 GIMME SHELTER GRAND RAILROAD Capitol 3160 4 Mercury 73224 10 59 60 FEEL SO BAD RAY CHARLES ABC 11308 5 5 1 SPANISH HARLEM ARETHA FRANKLIN/Atlantic 2817 9 60 62 YOU'VE GOT TO CRAWL (BEFORE YOU WALK) 8TH DAY 11 SUPERSTAR CARPENTERS A&M 1289 Invictus 9098 (Capitol) 4

7 7 I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE RARE EARTH 61 64 A NATURAL MAN LOU RAWLS MGM 15262 5 Rare Earth 5031 (Motown) 10 III 71 WOMEN'S LOVE RIGHTS LAURA LEE Hot Wax 7105 (Buddah) 3 8 8 WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN WHO 'Decca 32846 11 75 SPILL THE WINE ISLEY BROTHERS T -Neck 932 (Buddah) 2 1131 12 I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING PARTRIDGE FAMILY,' al Bell 130 8 64 68 THINK HIS NAME JOHNNY RIVERS United Artists 50822 4 10 3 SMILING FACES SOMETIMES UNDISPUTED TRUTH 65 67 GHETTO WOMAN B.B. KING ABC 11310 4 Gordy 7108 (Motown) 13 66 66 CALIFORNIA KID & REEMO LOBO Big Tree 119 (Ampex) 4 III 14 STICKUP HONEY CONE Hot Wax 7106 (Buddah) 9 67 70WHERE EVIL GROWS POPPY FAMILY London 148 8 12 6 UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY MI 83 NEVER MY LOVE 5TH DIMENSION Bell 134 3 Apple 1837 7 In 20SO FAR AWAY CAROLE KING 'Ode 70 66019 (A&M) 69 72 CAN YOU GET TO THAI FUNKADELIC Westbound 185 (Chess 'Janus) 3 MI 18 IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME STEVIE WONDER Tamla 54208 (Motown) 7 CHART A R OF THE WEER 15 16 TIRED OF BEING ALONE AL GREEN Hi 2194 (London) 9 70 - PEACE TRAIN 16 17 THE STORY IN YOUR EYES MOODY BLUES/Threshold CAT STEVENS 67007 (London) 7 A&M 1291 19 CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP MAC & KATIE KISSOON ABC 11306 10 El 21 RAIN DANCE GUESS WHO 'RCA 74-0552 8 Ell DELANEY & BONNIE Atco 6838 1 Eal 22 DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN LEE MICHAELS 'A&M 1262 El 85 GYPSYS, TRAMPS & THIEVES CHER Kapp 2146 (MCA) 2 20 10 WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET DRAMATICS/Volt 5048 (Stax) 11 El 99 I'M SO GLAD FUZZ Calla 179 (Roulette) 2 21 13 BANGLA DESH GEORGE HARRISON Apple 1836 16 74 14 MILITARY MADNESS GRAHAM NASH /Atlantic 2827 2 ED 55 YO-YO OSMONDS MGM 14295 3 87 SOME OF SHELLEY'S BLUES NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND 32 SWEET CITY WOMAN STAMPEDERS 'Bell 120 9 United Artists 50817 2 76 78 HANDBAGS & GLADRAGS CHASE Epic 5-10775 (CBS) En 30 MAKE IT FUNKY, PT. 1 JAMES BROWN Polydor 14088 6 2 77 79 ROLL ON NEW COLONY SIX Sunlight 1001 (Twinight) 25 26 SATURDAY MORNING CONFUSION BOBBY RUSSELL' 5 United Artists 50788 10 78 81 ALL MY HARD TIMES JOE SIMON Spring 118 (Polydor) 4

26 21 I AIN'T GOT TIME ANYMORE GLASS BOTTLE/ Avco 4755 10 79 82 PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY NEWCOMERS /Stax 0099 2 27 28 CRAZY LOVE HELEN REDDY 'Capitol 3138 10 80 93 RUB IT IN LAYNG MARTINE Barnaby 2041 (CBS) 2

28 15 TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS JOHN DENVER/RCA 74-0045 24 YOU BROUGHT THE JOY FREDA PAYNE Invictus 9100 (Capitol) 1 29 31 ALL DAY MUSIC WAR United Artists 50815 7 82 88 TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING ANNE MURRAY Capitol 3159 2

30 23 SIGNS FIVE MAN ELECTRICAL BAND Lionel 3213 (MGM) 19 al 108IT'S A CRYIN' SHAME GAYLE McCORMICK /Dunhill 4288 (ABC) 1 31 24 LIAR THREE DOG NIGHT Dunhill 4282 (ABC) 12 84 84 THAT'S THE WAY A WOMAN IS MESSENGERS/ Rare Earth ED 37 I'VE FOUND SOMEONE OF MY OWN FREE MOVEMENT/ 1532 (Motown) 2 Decca 32818 13 85 86 HE'D RATHER HAVE THE RAIN HEAVEN BOUND, MGM 14284 3 33 33 WEDDING SONG PAUL STOOKEY, Warner Brothers 7511 8 86 94 ONE TIN SOLDIER COVEN Warner Brothers 7509 2 34 35 MARIANNE STEPHEN STILLS /Atlantic 2820 7 En 134IT'S FOR YOU SPRINGWELL Parrot 359 (London) 1 35 38 STAGGER LEE TOMMY ROE ABC 11307 6 al 109 SHE'S ALL I'VE GOT FREDDIE NORTH 'Mankind 12004 (Nashboro) 1 41 THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE PERSUADERS Atco 6828 D 89 90 STONE OF YEARS EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Cotillion 44131 2 Eli 43THE LOVE WE HAD DELLS Cadet 5683 (Chess/Janus) 90 119 CHARITY BALL FANNY Reprise 1033 1 38 39 ANNABELLA HAMILTON, JOE FRANK & REYNOLDS Dunhill 4387 (ABC) 6 91 92 BLACK SEEDS KEEP ON GROWING MAIN INGREDIENT/ 39 36 HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART BEE GEES Atco 45-682414 RCA 74-0517 3 92 96 A SONG FOR YOU JAYE P. MORGAN Beverly Hills 9367 40 48 THE BREAKDOWN RUFUS THOMAS Stax 0098 6 3 al 130 MIDNIGHT MAN JAMES GANG ABC 11312 1 11:11 46 LOVING HER WAS EASIER KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Monument 8525 (CBS) 5 94 95 A PART OF YOU BRENDA & THE TABULATIONS Top & Bottom 42 42 SURRENDER Motown 1188 6 408 (Jamie-Guyden) 4

50 BIRDS OF A FEATHER RAIDERS Columbia 4-45453 4 95 106 I LIKE WHAT YOU GIVE NOLAN 'Lizard 1008 1 52 STOP, LOOK, LISTEN STYLISTICS Avco 4572 15 96 29 RIDERS ON THE STORM DOORS/Elektra 45738 13 45 45 CALL MY NAME, I'LL BE THERE WILSON PICKETT Atlantic 2824 6 97 100 BEND ME, SHAPE ME STORM/Sunflower 113 (MGM) 2 46 41 KO -KO JOE JERRY REED /RCA 48-1011 5 al 135 YOU SEND ME PONDEROSA TWINS PLUS ONE

Horoscope 102 (All Platinum) 1 47 49 ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Parrot 40065 (London) 5 99 102 SOLO BILLY SANS Invictus 9102 (Capitol) 1

48 51 TRAPPED BY A THING CALLED LOVE DENISE LaSALLE 100 91 THE YEAR CLAYTON DELANEY DIED TOM T. HALL Westbound 182 (Chess Janus) Mercury 73221 5

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GIVIN' IT BACK-Isley Bros.-T Neck RETURN OF DOUG SALDANA- FLASHMAKEROF THE WEER WHCN-FM/HARTFORD, CONN. IMAGINE-John Lennon-Apple Sir Douglas Quintet-Philips JAMES & THE GOOD BROTHERS-Columbia STREET CORNER TALKING-Savoy Brown- BLESSED ARE ...-Joan Baez-Vanguard LIVE-Yardbirds-Epic Parrot CLOSER TO THE GROUND-Joy Of Cooking- TRAFALGAR-Bee Gees-Atco WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA Capitol WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic IMAGINE-John Lennon-Apple LAZARUS-Blues Project-Capitol KU-FM/DENVER STREET CORNER TALKING-Savoy Brown- WW0M-FMINEW ORLEANS Parrot BARK-Jefferson Airplane-Grunt SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco CLOSER TO THE GROUND-Joy Of Cooking- CHARITY BALL-(Single)-Fanny-Reprise THE FOUR OF US-John Sebastian-Reprise Capitol FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic THE TIME TO LIVE IS NOW-Buzzy Linhart- FIRST GREAT ROCK FESTIVALS Of THE LOVING HER WAS EASIER-(Singlel- Kama Sutra 70'S-Columbia Kris Kristofferson-Monument WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE- GET A WHIFF OF THIS-Juicy Lucy-Atco Columbia FROM THE INSIDE LIFE & TIMES OF COUNTRY JOE & THE NICELY OUT OF TUNE-Lindisfarne-Elektra POLO FISH-Vanguard ONLY YOU KNOW & I KNOW-(Single)- Epic WHVY-FM/SPRINGFIELD, MASS. LIVE AT THE VILLAGE GATE-Larry Coryell- Delaney & Bonnie-Atco Vanguard PEACE TRAIN-(Single)-Cat Stevens-A&M A SPACE IN TIME-Ten Years After- LIVE IN CONCERT-James Gang-ABC VISIONS-Grant Green-Blue Note Columbia STREET CORNER TALKING-Savoy Brown- WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA TOP FM AIRPLAY THIS WEEK BLESSED ARE ...-Joan Baez-Vanguard Parrot BY THE GRACE OF GOD-David Rea-Capitol SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco CLOSER TO THE GROUND- CLOSER TO THE GROUND-Joy Of Cooking- WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA Joy Of Cooking-Capitol Capitol KPPC-FM/LOS ANGELES FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco HILLS OF INDIANA-Lonnie Mack-Elektra BARK-Jefferson Airplane-Grunt WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN- IMAGINE-John Lennon-Apple WBUS-FMIMIAMI BLESSED ARE ...-Joan Baez-Vanguard Traffic-UA LAZARUS-Blues Project-Capitol GIVIN' IT BACK-Isley Bros.-T Neck LIFE & TIMES OF COUNTRY JOE & THE AN ELECTRIC STORM-White Noise-Island HOOTEROLL?-Wales/Garcia-Douglass FISH-Vanguard -- IMAGINE-John Lennon-Apple SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco Epic NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE- WNEW-FMINEW YORK FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic Columbia GET A WHIFF OF THIS-Juicy Lucy-Atco SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco ANGEL DELIGHT-Fairport Convention- HOOTEROLO-Wales/Garcia-Douglass SURF'S UP-Beach Boys-Brother Island LIVE-Yardbirds-Epic DAVE VAN RONK-Polydor BLACK MAGIC WOMAN-Fleetwood Mac- WMMR-FM/PHILADELPHIA ONCE AGAIN-Barclay James Harvest-Sire WHO'S NEXT-The Who-Decca Epic SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco BACK STREET LUV-(Single)-Curved Air- JONATHAN EDWARDS-Capricorn VISIONS-Grant Green-Blue Note WB FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA DO WAN NANNY-Exuma-Kama Sutra FUNKY ROCK-Eric Mercury-Enterprise FOR LADIES ONLY--Steppenwolf-Dunhill I THINK WE'RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS- KSFX-FMISAN FRANCISCO JAMES & THE GOOD BROTHERS-Columbia Firesign Theater-Columbia LISTEN-Alan Bown-Island LAZARUS-Blues Project-Capitol CAHOOTS--Capitol LIVE-Yardbirds-Epic LIFE & TIMES OF COUNTRY JOE & THE WHIMS-FM/CLEVELAND CLOSER TO THE GROUND-Joy Of Cooking- Capitol SMASH YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL- FISH-Vanguard LIVE-Yardbirds-Epic BLESSED ARE ...-Joan Baez-Vanguard GIVIN' IT BACK-Isley Bros.-T Neck John Entwistle-Decca CLOSER TO THE GROUND-Joy Of Cooking- WILD NIGHT-(Single)-Van Morrison-WB NICELY OUT OF TUNE-Lindisfarne-Elektra HILLS OF INDIANA-Lonnie Mack-Elektra ONCE AGAIN-Barclay James Harvest-Sire Capitol WORKER'S PLAYTIME-B B Blunder- FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic LIVE AT THE REGAL-B B King-ABC WPLJ-FM/NEW YORK Polydor LIVE-Buddy Miles-Mercury LIVING BY THE DAYS-Don Nix-Elektra LIVE AT THE VILLAGE GATE-Larry Coryell- PEACE TRAIN-(Single)-Cat Stevens-A&M MEL BROWN'S FIFTH-Mel Brown-Impulse Vanguard SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco CAHOOTS-The Band-Capitol MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN-(Soundtrack)- 20 GRANITE CREEK-Moby Grape-Reprise JONATHAN EDWARDS-Capricorn WMAL- FM/WASHINGTON, D. 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ROCKERS --Alligator HILLS OF INDIANA-Lonnie Mack-Elektra Buzzy Linhart-Kama Sutra I THINK WE'RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS- REFLECTION-Pentangle-(Import) WILD NIGHT-(Single)-Van Morrison-WB WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA Firesign Theater-Columbia BY THE GRACE Of GOD-David Rea-Capitol WILD NIGHT-(Single)-Van Morrison-WB MADURA-Columbia CLOSER TO THE GROUND-Joy Of Cooking- MARY CALLED-Jeannie Green-Elektra Capitol PEACE TRAIN-(Single)-Cat Stevens-A&M CHARLIE DANIELS-Capitol WLIR-FMILONG ISLAND DAVE VAN RONK-Polydor WGLD-FriliCHICAGO FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA JONATHAN EDWARDS-Capricorn FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic GET A WHIFF OF THIS-Juicy Lucy-Atco FIRST GREAT ROCK FESTIVALS OF THE HARD ROCK COMEDY-Cheech & Chong- IN A PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER- 70'S-Columbia A&M Jimmy Smith-Verve FROM THE INSIDE-Paco-Epic HILLS OF INDIANA-Lonnie Mack-Elektra LAZARUS-Blues Project-Capitol JADE WARRIOR-Vertigo WMC-FMIMEMPHIS JADE WARRIOR-Vertigo JAMES & THE GOOD BROTHERS-Columbia MARY CALLED-Jeannie Green-Elektra AN ELECTRIC STORM-White Noise-Island LIVE-Buddy Miles-Mercury LIVE-Yardbirds-Epic BLESSED ARE ...-Joan Baez-Vanguard SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco LIVE AT THE VILLAGE GATE-Larry Coryell- MY GOALS BEYOND-John McLaughlin- BOOMERANG-RCA WET WILLIE --Capricorn Douglass FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic Vanguard NICELY OUT OF TUNE-Lindisfarne-Elektra HARD ROCK COMEDY-Cheech & Chong- 1 2 3-Keith Sykes-Vanguard DAVE VAN RONK-Polydor A&M JUDEE SILL-Asylum WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN-Traffic-UA LOOK AT YOURSELF-Uriah Heep-Mercury WACKERING HEIGHTS-The Wackers- KOL-FMISEATTLE PEOPLE'S PEOPLE-Andwella-ABC Elektra SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco BARK-Jefferson Airplane-Grunt WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN -Traffic-UA WPHD -FM/BUFFALO THINGS HAVE TO CHANGE-Archie Shepp- CLOSER TO THE GROUND-Joy Of Cooking- BARK-Jefferson Airplane-Grunt Impulse Capitol BLESSED ARE ...-Joan Baez-Vanguard UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS- HMS DONOVAN-(Import) Alice Coltrane-Impulse EAST OF EDEN-Harvest WRIF-FM/DETROIT IMAGINE-John Lennon-Apple FIRST GREAT ROCK FESTIVALS OF THE 1 IS FOR JUMP-Jo Mama-Atlantic 70'S-Columbia FUTURE GAMES-Fleetwood Mac-(Import) LIVE-Buddy Miles-Mercury HOOK FOOT-A&M IMAGINE-John Lennon-Apple HOOTEROLL?-Wales/Garcia-Douglass WPLO-FMIATLANTA PEACE TRAIN-(Single)-Cat Stevens-A&M INDELIBLY STAMPED-Super Tramp-A&M NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE- RAINBOW BRIDGE-Jimi Hendrix-Reprise CLOSER TO THE GROUND-Joy Of Cooking- LOOK AT YOURSELF-Uriah Heep-Mercury Columbia THE TIME TO LIVE IS NOW- SUN MOON & HERBS-Dr. John-Atco Capitol LOOKIN' BACK-Bob Seger-Capitol DYNASTY-Stan Getz-Verve Buzzy Linhart-Kama Sutra DAVE VON RONK-Polydor PILGRIMAGE-Wishbone Ash-Decca WE CAN BE EVERYTHING-John Simpson- EARTHQUAKE-A&M UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS- Perception FROM THE INSIDE-Poco-Epic REFLECTION-Pentangle-(Import) Alice Coltrane-Impulse

AmericanRadioHistory.Com New Talent Lifeblood of Record Industry charts each year. All of this goes along with the Says Elektra Artist Development VP Harris "It's -an interesting point tofact that each of these artists consider," said Harris, "that al--whose music two years ago public disinterested," saysmost seventy per cent of ourwould havebeenconsidered Steve Harris, VP, Artist Devel-releases since the beginning ofprimarily underground-is now opment, for Elektra Records.1971 have been by unprovenwidely accepted on middle-of- With the label for seven years,artists. The new artist is thethe-road radio, a further dem- Harris has worked in a numberlifeblood of the record industry.onstration of the fact that the ofdifferentareas,includingBreaking new artists should bedemographic breakdown of the promotion, publicity and spe-the chief concern of everyoneaudience has changed greatly." cial projects. involved in music." In Harris' view, part of the Elektra's philosophy is based Harris feels that in the pastprocess of building an artist on a desire to build artists whotwo years or so,the task ofdepends on the creation of an have longevity, and to makebreaking new artists has be-image and an identity for that their cycles as long as possible.come more comp'ex than it hadartist. Here, he feels, tv, rec- In meeting this challenge, Elek-been. "We know that about 90 ordreviews,interviewsand tra'sconcernisspecificallyper cent of record sales are thepublicity are the chief factors. with"Tomorrow'sChartmak-result of hearing a pieceof"Identity is one of the things Steve Harris ers." Keeping a tight releasemusic on the radio, whether itthat gives an artist real stay- schedule, putting out only rec-be AM or FM," he said. "Clear-ingpower,"heopined."At "Without the phenomenon ofords they believein,records ly then, the fastest way to es-Elektra, album coversarea new artists emerging allthethat have a reason for being,tablish an artist is through avery essential part of this ef- time, the record business be-Elektra gets about seventy-fiveTop 40 hit. But there is greatfort. Few people realize that comes stale and tired and theper cent of its releases on thedanger inrelying on Top 40even on a smash album, more alone, for it often creates one-people will see the cover than shot artists who make it withwill ever hear the record. Ev- Teamwork at Roulette one record and are never hearderyone who ever went into a from again." record store in the last four (Continued from page 32) But FM radio, he believes,years has seen the cover of must know their product-whatord,and wasinessencea has lost much of its effective-the Beatles'Sergeant Pepper' isit made up of - and just"black and white" record, ourness: "FM used to break rec-album, and even with the great where it will sell best. Abovepromotional department decid-ords and break artists. Nownumber of people who have all,they must be honest, pa-ed to do some more selling tothey only serve to sell recordsheard that album, more people tient and informative, and inthe pop top 40 radio stations.at a gradual pace. Constant FMhave seen the cover. At Elek- addition possess integrity andOnly this time they had addi-play these days won't break antra, Art Director Bob Heimall, determination.Whileatthetionalammunitiontomakeartist wide open, but will cre-following the ideal set by for- same time they must be ego-their job a little bit easier: theate an aura for that artist andmer Art Director and General maniacs because the end re-piece of wax they were takingcause the album to start to sellManager Bill Harvey, designs sults of satisfying these ego-around now already had publicslowly. But in the meantime,covers that give identity to the maniacs are hit records. acceptance and demand. Fur-the audience at large will bemusic as well as to the artists, Depending on just what thethermore, it was already on thebecoming familiar with the art-tying them and their music to product ingredients are, theser&b station's lists. (After eightist's work, and that will leadappropriate graphic images." promotional people must thenweeks it was top 10 on the r&bto the artist being sought after Harrisfeels that thegoal decide whether the recordis charts and had sold over 200,-by bookers. should not be overnight suc- strictly r&b, progressive rock,000 records. We then proceeded "Once the artist starts per- cess but lasting success. top 40 pop, MOR pop, c&w orto go after the small and medi-forming, heison theright"Building new artistsisthe bubble gum, or a combinationum market top 40 radio sta-road. By working regularly heway to build the future of the of two or three of these. Oncetions. Slowly, but surely, areanot only starts to make a realrecordindustry. We always this has been determined he isafter area fell in line and radioliving as a performer-whichneedtobe rejuvenated with ready to do his job. play kept increasing daily-asis especially important in thefresh sounds and ideas. In the Tobestillustratethis, I did sales of the record. Finally,case of groups that break upsportsfield-whichisreally guess I should explain in somewe expanded our promotionalwhen thereisno work-buta part of the entertainment in- detail our recent success withefforts to all the so-called bigalso begins building his owndustry - thereisalways a the female vocal group the Fuzztop 40 stations (the ones withaudience. At that point, it's justquest for new heroes, new stars, and their first record, "I Lovetight playlists)as well as toa matter of time till the rightnew stimuli for the audience. You for All Seasons." thecontemporary MOR sta-commercial vehicle-usually a(There was a need for Mickey Initially, our promo depart-tions that we felt could pro-top 40 hit - comes along toMantle to emerge after Joe Di- ment decided to go ofter playgram this particular kind ofbreak the artist wide open forMaggio'sretirement,justas at the r&b stations. Whereverrecord as well. It was truly athe mass audience. there was a need for Joe Na- the record was getting playedmonumental job;but perser- "But FM has already givenmathtoemergeafterY.A. the sales department immedi-verance won out and the Fuzzsuch an artist substance andTittle's retirement)." ately saw toitthat recordsrecord of "I Love You for Allsome kind of following. This In the record business, it is were sent to the distributor inSeasons" was on the pop charts isexactly what happened forwell known that success breeds that particular area to be surefor 20 weeks-and you can beartists like Judy Collins, Thesuccess. "A big hit artist," Har- that he couldfulfillthere-sure egos were flying all aroundDoors, James Taylor, Cat Stev-ris said, "no matter what label quests of the station's listenersthe office. ens and most recently, Carlyhe's on, is good news for the if they sought to purchase the Who will develop into an art- Simon.Therewasahugewholeindustry,becausehe record. So, you can see how im-ist and be our chartmakers ofgroundswell for each of thesebrings people into record stores portant it is for the sales andtomorrow isanybody's guess.artists long before AM radioand gets them excited, makes promotion departments of rec-However, with a little bit ofhad really come into the pic-them interested in buying rec- ord companies to work side byluck and a lot of hard work,ture.Butonce AMradioords, and fills clubs and concert side. we at Roulette hope the follow-stepped in, as with Carly Si-halls. But this holds true for Once the record showed in-ing names willbe included:mon's hit single,'That's Theradio as well. A big hit artist creasingsalesthefirstfewGeraldine Hunt, Castle Creek, WayI'veAlwaysHeardItmakes people turn on their ra- weeks after release (due pri-Tony Darrow, Harlem RiverShould be,' the artist immedi-dio. Without new hits by new marily to r&b radio play) andDrive, Hog Heaven, The Nextately became established as aartists,the audience becomes since this particular recordingMorning, Don Cooper and El-major entity, and not just an-disinterested not only in buy- wasn't an out-and-out soul rec-mo's Smokehouse. other artist with a hit single.ing but in listening."

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THIS LAST WKS. ON 43 22 STEPHEN STILLS 2/Atlantic SD 7206 11 wit CHART c130 NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE Columbia (30888) 1 45 32 SO LONG BANNATYNE GUESS WHO RCA LSP 4574 6 co 58 TRAFALGAR BEE GEES Atco SD 7003 2

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2 2 EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR MOODY BLUES 53 45 INDIAN RESERVATION RAIDERS Columbia C 30768 14 Threshold THS 5 (London) 54 46 YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND ANDY WILLIAMS Columbia KC 20797 5 3 3 WHO'S NEXT THE WHO Decca DL 79182 7 55 48 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM HELEN REDDY Capitol ST 76212 4 4 EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY ROD STEWART ARETHA'S GREATEST HITS ARETHA FRANKLIN Atlantic SD8925 1 Mercury SRM 1-609 15 C3 57 60 SURRENDER DIANA ROSS Motown MS 723 9 5 5 RAM PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY Apple SMAS 3375 18 6 7 CARPENTERS A&M SP 3502 11 58 61 THE LONDON HOWLIN' WOLF SESSIONS HOWLIN' WOLF 7 8 SHAFT ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Enterprise ENS 25002 (Stax Volt) 5 Chess CH 60008 (Chess Janus) 8 59 49 BURT BACHARACH A&M SP 3501 14 13 MASTER OF REALITY BLACK SABBATH Warner Brothers WS 2562 4 60 31 CHASE Epic E 30472 18 9 11 THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY SOUND MAGAZINE Bell 6064 5 19 10 6 MUD SLIDE AND THE BLUE HORIZON JAMES TAYLOR 61 51 CARLY SIMON Elektra EKS 74082 Warner Brothers WS 2561 21 62 68 GODSPELL ORIGINAL CAST Bell 1102 2 11 9 AQUALUNG JETHRO TULL Reprise MS 2035 20 13 SURF'S UP THE BEACH BOYS Brother RS 6453 (Reprise) 3 12 10 JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Decca DXA 7206 46 64 64 THE SKY'S THE LIMIT TEMPTATIONS Gordy GS 957 (Motown) 19 13 15 DONNY OSMOND ALBUM MGM SE 4782 11 65 66 NATURALLY THREE DOG NIGHT/Dunhill DS 50088 (ABC) 42 14 14 SILVER TONGUED DEVIL AND I KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Monument Z 30697 (CBS) 10 66 61 CURTIS LIVE CURTIS MAYFIELDCurtom CRS 8008 (Buddah) 17 D20 A SPACE IN TIME TEN YEARS AFTER Columbia KC 30801 5 LEI 17 FIRST GREAT ROCK FESTIVALS OF THE SEVENTIES 16 12 STICKY FINGERS ROLLING STONES COC 59100 (Atlantic) 20 VARIOUS ARTISTS Columbia G3X 30805 2 17 11 WHAT'S GOING ON MARVIN GAYE Tamla TS 301 (Motown) 14 68 69 WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE TOM CLAY Mowest 103-5 (Motown) 3 18 16 POEMS, PRAYERS AND PROMISES JOHN DENVER RCA LSP 4499 18 69 70 THIRDS JAMES GANG ABC ABCS 721 21 19 19 ALLMAN BROTHERS LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST CAPRICORN SD 2-802 (Atco) 9 70 71 FREEDOM MEANS DELLS Cadet CA 5004 3 KING CURTIS LIVE AT FILLMORE WEST Atco 33-359 2 20 21 ARETHA LIVE AT THE FILLMORE WEST ARETHA FRANKLIN 4/398 Atlantic SD 7205 17 72 72 PEARL JANIS JOPLIN Columbia KC 30322 35 26 BARK JEFFERSON AIRPLANE GRUNT FTR 1001 (RCA) 3 73 74 IT AIN'T EASY JOHN BALDRY Warner Brothers WS 1921 9 F3 3 31 5TH LEE MICHAELS A&M SP 4302 26 74 53 MR. BIG STUFF JEAN KNIGHT Stax 2045 6 13 23 24 BLUE JONI MITCHELL Reprise MS 2038 94 BLESSED ARE . . JOAN BAEZ Vanguard VSD 6570 2 24 18 L. A. WOMAN DOORS Elektra EKS 75011 21 76 18 ABRAXAS SANTANA Columbia KC 30130 52 12 25 23 B. S. & T. 4 BLOOD. SWEAT & TEARS Columbia KC 30590 89 ONE FINE MORNING LIGHTHOUSE Evolution 3007 26 21 TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN CAT STEVENS A&M SP 4280 37 (Stereo Dimension) 21 28 FIREBALL DEEP PURPLE Warner Brothers RS 2654 4 18 76 °SIBIU/ Decca DL 75285 12 Ea 82LIVE IN CONCERT JAMES GANG ABC ABCX 733 2 79 54 MAYBE TOMORROW JACKSON 5 Motown MS 723 21 29 30 4 WAY STREET CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG /Atlantic SD 7205 23 80 57 SONGS FOR BEGINNERS GRAHAM NASH Atlantic SD 7205 16 30 41 HOT PANTS JAMES BROWN, Polydor PD 4054 3 81 83 CHICAGO IIIColumbia C2 30110 13 31 34 ONE WORLD RARE EARTH Rare Earth RS 250 (Motown) 11 82 84 CHAPTER TWO ROBERTA FLACK/Atlantic SD 2-704 34 32 33 JUST ASI AM BILL WITHERS Sussex SXBX 7006 (Buddah) 6 83 85 RAY STEVENS' GREATEST HITS /Barnaby Z 30770 (CBS) 3 33 25 TARKUS EMERSON. LAKE & PALMER Cotillion SD 7204 16 84 50 IFI WERE YOUR WOMAN GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS 34 38 THE MOTHERS AT FILLMORE EAST-JUNE 1911 Soul SS 371 (Motown' 15 MOTHERS OF INVENTION Reprise MS 2024 6 85 87 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Cotillion SD 9040 (Atlantic) 33 35 35 WHAT YOU HEAR IS WHAT YOU GET IKE & TINA TURNER 86 59 11-17-70 Uni 8903 (MCA) 19 United Artists UAS 9953 12 87 88 CRY OF LOVE JIMI HENDRIX Reprise MS 187 10 62 ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK ED116 ME AND BOBBY McGEE KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Monument Parrot XPAS 71048 (London) 2 Z30817 (CBS) 1 37 29 BEST OF THE GUESS WHO RCA LSP 1004 25 89 63 I'M JUST ME CHARLEY PRIDE RCA Victor LSP 4574 11 56 GIVE MORE POWER TO THE PEOPLE CHI-LITES ' 90 91 DEATH WALKS BEHIND YOU ATOMIC ROOSTER Brunswick BL 754170 4 Elektra EKS 74094 11 39 43 GOLDEN BISQUITS THREE DOG NIGHT Dunhill DS 50098 (ABC) 31 105 SOUL TO SOUL ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Atlantic SD 7207 1 40 40 LEON RUSSELL AND THE SHELTER PEOPLE 92 93 MANCINI CONCERT HENRY MANCINI & HIS ORCHESTRA Shelter SHE 8903 (Capitol) 19 RCA LSP 4542 5 41 42 UNDISPUTED TRUTH Gordy G 955 (Motown) 6 93 97 THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY Bell B 6050 17 94 96 LOVE IT TO DEATH ALICE COOPER Warner Brothers SP 4302 26 CHARTMAKER OF THE WEEK 95 95 VIKKI CARR'S LOVE STORY Columbia C 30662 11 96 75 SWEET BABY JAMES JAMES TAYLOR Warner Brothers WS 1887 81

97 103 BARBRA JOAN STREISAND Columbia KC 30792 1 - IMAGINE 98 19 LOVE LETTERS FROM ELVIS RCA LSP 4530 15 JOHN LENNON 99 90 RAINBOW FUNK JR. WALKER & THE ALL STARS

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com `Talent Will Out'at Stereo Dimension Records By LOREN BECKER not to have to hire interpretersnewspaper ads reinforced a ma-falling back on the amount and President, Stereo Dimension who would maintain second orjority of personal appearances.quality of the work we do for Records third hand communication.Vita_ly important to our workthem. For example, the first al- We're never unavailable to ourwith both these groupsisa bum by Game, a Florida -based The future of the music in-recording artists and we intendtelevision exposure campaign.group, did not take off on that dustry lies in the well-roundedto stay that way. We retainedanindependentscale but did create public in- career development of new art- Our staff's musical tastes arefilm production and distribu-terest that givesusabase ists. Like the recording artisteclectic.We especiallydon'ttion company to create promo-from which to build a carefully who complains that his albumwant to get locked into a par-tionalfilmsforeach group.coordinated campaign for their isn't even in stores in his hometicular kind of sound. This at-These films will be shown onsecond album, to be released town, one of our central con-titude, combined with keepingover 200 major television out- in October. cernsis the problem of mar-a personalized size, means lim-letsthroughouttheUnited In conjunction with the re- keting product by performersiting our artistrostertoa Statesand Canadareachinglease of Richard Sarstedt's first who aren't yet inthe "star"workable number whom we'remillions of home viewers in the category.It's album in the U. S. we've initi- becoming morevery enthusiastic. We can lis-months ahead.Our worldli- atedajoint promotion cam- and more difficult to break anten to a range of people andcensees also have been suppliedpaign with United Artists Mu- act through personal appear-select from any area. This alsowith 16mm color prints so thatsic, publisher of "Another Day ances and concert tours alone.means having to utilize moreexposure will be world wide.Passes By," the title song of A record company now has theavenues of publicity and pro- Outside public relations ex-the album, and the first single responsibility of seeking newmotion than if we were cater-perts are used for our new acts.release by Sarstedt. The empha- exposure outlets for their art-ing to one specific audience. WeWho works on what act is de-sis hereis not only his per- ists. are constantly stretching ourtermined partly on the basis offorming but his superb song - At Stereo Dimension we'vebudget and our imaginations. how enthusiastictheyfeel writing talents (and those of been carefully selecting what For two of our rock groups,abouttheperformer.Thishis brother Peter Sarstedt.) we consider to be the best ofLighthouse and Steel River, webrings in additional expertise, Broken Barrier the new talent with an eye to-carefully backed up promotionexcitement and another point of Theindustryhasrecently ward how our point of view ontours, developing an overall ex-view. For example, we've beenseena major barrier broken running a company and devel-posure program and makingvery successful with a numberdown. With the successes of oping careers meshes with thesure the details were not neg-of projects initiated by Tomor- needs of the performer. Melanie, Carly Simon and Car- lected(just sending a grouprow Today, including the tours oleKing, the limitation that We are remaining relativelyout is not enough). We workedfor Steel River and Lighthouse.used to be placed on the artis- small-by choice! With the fi-carefully with the managers, One very fortunate develop-tic ranges considered saleable nancialbackingofLongines concert promoters and distrib-ment with Lighthouse was theby female singers no longer ex- WitnauerandWestinghouse, utors. Product was in the storesspeed with which their first al-ists. Our "liberated" catalogue we have the assets of a majorwhere the group appeared. Con-bum for us became a hit. Usu-includes some very special la- company, but we want to main-certed radio advertising (one- ally it takes much more time.dies. Martha Radclyffe's style tain a size that allows us tominute spots)as well asin- We have to be committed to combinesfolkandcountry, work closely with theartist,store autograph sessions andstaying with a group and not (Continued on page 41)

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KOKO RECORDS, Distributed by Stax Records Inc., Memphis. U.S.A. AmericanRadioHistory.Com At Mercury uantity of Quality to Jewel John Lee Hooker and Memphis Tomorrow's Chartmakers Slim. Jewel is becoming a major power in gospel music and ser- Key to Business Today mons. Newly signed artists are The guiding philosophy atda Lee Eager was introduced in Rev. C. L. Franklin, Rev. Clay Mercury Records has alwaysa duet recording with Butler Evans, Rev. C. L. Moore, Brook- been that the key to today'scalled "Is It Real What I Feel," lyn Allstars, Meditation Sing- business lies in developing to-and additional exposure for her ers and the Fantastic Violin- morrow's chartmakers. and the group will come via aires. Success through the yearsmore scheduled personalap- StanLewis,Presidentof has come with many so-calledpearances with Butler plus a Jewel Records, was asked the "left -fielders" such as the Sing-barrage of press kit mailings, reason for this influx of big ing Nun, the Swingle Singers,local and syndicated TV show - names to his label: "We have the Mystic Moods, Paul Mauri-casings and careful planning of always taken great pride in our atandothers,butnotby releases. relationships with our artists. chance.Morerecently,the A trio from England who got Stan Lewis We felt that this meeting of emergence of Chuck Mangione, together in Persia where they the minds concerning a&r and the spread to diverse audiencesmade a demo and sent itto SHREVEPORT, LA.-Jewelthe importance of dj relations of Buddy Miles and the super -Vertigo is considered a likelyRecord Corp. recentlyhasand promotion from all angles stardom of Rod Stewart havechartmaker for the near future.signed the largest number ofwas reapingitsgreatest re- been achieved by careful plan-Jade Warrior is gaining atten-newartistsinJewel-Paula-ward in record sales and grat- ning, dogged belief in the art-tion in England and other Euro-Ronn history. They are not newified artists. ists' innate talent and the com-pean countries. They recentlyto the industry or the general "However, time has proved panys ability to aggressivelywrote and recorded for "Badpublic, but are some of the big-there is more. In conversations bring that talent to the atten-Man's River," a James Mason -gest names in the soul and gos-with almost all of our new art- tion of the trade and the recordGinaLollobrigidafilm,andpel fields. ists they commented on rap ses- buying public. wrotetwo30 -minuteballets The newly pacted soul artistssions among entertainers after Faith in the future of an art-which are currently being per-are Buddy Ace, Roscoe Robin-concerts, etc., where Jewel art- ist calls for building momen-formed in England. Their firstson, Bobby Patterson, Sunny -istsalmost always had only tum and a flow of product thatalbum on Vertigo is being pro-land Slim and Fontella Bass.good things to say about label will, in time, merge talent andmoted along with the reportsForcomedy,there'sveteranoperations and our open lines material to arrive at a momentof their activities in Europe. Pigmeat Markham. of communication for sugges- ofripening when theartist In Guy Fletcher the company Additionally, negotiationstions and opinions. The new "happens." For example, Rodsees a top 40 artist with endur-have been concluded allowingartists said that after hearing Stewart's current million -dollaring potential. Fletcher has writ-blues albums from France tothis so often they wanted to LP is his third album for Mer-tenforElvisPresley,Cliff be released on the Jewel labeldiscussseeing how we look cury. It exploded upon release,Richards and the Hollies. Hisfor American blues fans. Thefrom the inside. And thus ne- but only after the groundworkwriting ability, along with hisfirst two to be released are bygotiations began." and momentum of the earlierattractive physical appearance releases had paved the way.and voice, have led the com- Similarly, the company's beliefpany to go all out. The FletcherInfinity Active Funk on Tour in Uriah Heep, whose first twodrive is being spearheaded by NEW YORK-Infinity Rec- NEW YORK- Grand Funk LPs reached the charts, shouldthe publicity department with ords,independentproductionRailroad will commence a 31 - reap rewards as their third al-mailings to teen -oriented pub-company, announces new prod-day coast -to -coast U.S. tour in bum goesintoreleasewithlications,trans -Atlantic pressuct for the fall to include al-October which is expected to praise from previewers. interviews and extensive circu-bums by Aliotta Haynes Jere-grass more than $1.5 million for Predictionsfor Mere u r ylation of photos and reprints ofmiah and Angus and a singlethe Capitol Records trio, an- chartmakers of tomorrow wouldBritish press material. by the Birchwood Band. nounces their manager -produc- include long-time country fa- Once total belief in an artist er Terry Knight. vorite Tom T. Hall, who hasis at hand, road trips, rap tours, Additionally,VinnyTesta, publicity mailings, close coor-Infinity President, is producing Set to open on Oct. 2 when been gaining wider audiences theDetroit -basedSprinkwell Grand Funk will make their and crossing into pop. dination with personal appear-with Pink Unlimited. Their al-firstappearance of the tour At the recent NATRA con-ances and selective merchan- from second base of the 65,000 ventionMercuryshowcaseddising aids and promotional tie-bum will be released on the ins can be undertaken to makeParrot label. Testa has pro-seat Atlanta Braves Stadium, Peaches, a quartet of girls reg- duced several singles with Fri-the group will move on to make ularly singing background forthe chartmaker's tomorrow 22 appearances in 21 states in- Jerry Butler. Lead singer Bren-come that much sooner. jid Pink and an album is in the planning stage. cluding a festival -type concert under the stars in the 85,000 seat Cotton Bowl. Welcome to the Concentrating on LP Steppenwolf is refusing all concert dates for the balance ofA&M on AM CONGR 11-1:GATION the year to create a new ABC/ Dunhill album. The first solo (Continued from page 26) of the LP by the group's leader, JohnHumble Pie single a month ago Kay, also will be developed overand the album won't be out the next four months. V VORLUo v a until next month. A&M hasprimarilybeen We've been expecting you Redbone Member Ill known as an album company Redbone has cancelledall and a company that breaks new Recorded by Written by dates for September becauseartists and brings them around. KERTS lead guitarist Lolly Vegas isRight now we're gearing our CHRISTY CICHY suffering a hand infection, ac- cording tothe Epic group'spromotion force to think sin- CREATION TRAIN . . . THE TRACKS OF THE FUTURE personal manager, Warrengles, and that makes for more Winston. excitement.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Ellen McDwaine Heads Big Breaking New Artists: New Act Boom at Polydor A Job for FM Radio By STAN GARRETT all in the ears and heart and MI For Polydor, Inc., the yeardent whom Peter Siegel also Music Director, KZEL-FM guts. If the music doesn't make 1972 will begin on a resoundingdiscovered and produced. His Eugene, Ore. it in one (preferably all three), note: the company is preparingalbum, "Shoot of the Moon," we believe it just doesnt make to release Ellen Mclllwaine'sis a trip to the country with We believe that what standsit. We strive every day to open debut album. a goodtimey feel. should stand after a test. A test of fire in front of the listening uptoandto open up new Peter Siegel first saw Ellen Otherup -and -cornerswho sounds. in a Holiday Inn near Wood-have had albums released re-public. On its own merits, not stock, her hometown. Siegel im- hype from the company, not jive What's this sound I hear in centlyareEdwinBirdsong,from the jock. An artist makesmy brain? Anyone can make mediately summonedhertoRandallsIslandandBobby New York and commenced work it with what he's got. A change,music. Everybodyisastar. Gosh. Thus far the most suc-a fresh approach, a new appeal.What we work with is already on her album. They are nowcessful of Polydor's new artists readying the disc toward com- All things are equal until prov-recorded and in one sense past - isthe soul/rock group Man-en differently. The ones that dotense music. To keep changes pletion for special release im- drill,now working ontheir mediately after the first of the rise to the proverbial top docoming we must find new ex- second LP. so on their own. All we do ispressers of their music or bore- year. dom will set in. Stagnation and Meanwhile, Polydor ispre- Also, in addition to the Mor-transfer the plasticized sound - paring a huge promo campaigndicai Jones LP, there are threewaves into the ether.(That'seventually the smell that lin- to launch her album. Mattersmore Link Wray albums in thenot all we do but that's essen-gers around the dead and dying. were given a large boost whencan. Each will feature a differ-tially what we do basically.) If FM doesn't expose the new, Ellen did a week at the Bitterent singer, as was done with We are not responsible forwho will? Any programmed sta- End in July to raves. The criticsMordicai. One each will comenor responsive to bad music ortion needs impetus from the noted her excellence in bothfrom Link, his brother Dougjive hustles. A new artist hasoutside before they will move voice and guitar playing. Asand Billy Hodges, and will bea place on our air if he wantsoff their playlists. (I'm talking yet untitled, her record will releasedoverthisand nextit. Good or bad, he'll get on-about a philosophy or policy, range from Africanjazztoyear. the first time. After that hisnot the spasmodiceffortsto calypso to country to rock. survival depends on his crea-break a record before someone tive force and appeal. The audi-else does. I'm talking about giv- More New Talent Beach Boys Tour ence gets what they want anding the as -yet -unknown their Ellen, however, is not alone we give them what we want. It's due, not about wall plaques.) Inconjunctionwiththeinteraction. That's the name ofThere should be a definite mes- in the new talent department atheavy response to their recent- Polydor. Forthcoming debut al- our game. sage in FM. It's called Free- ly released "Surf's Up" album, The judgments we make ondom. Freedom on all levels of bums include: Ron Cornelius,the Beach Boys begin an East- MordicaiJonesandCharlie records and music and musi-operation. Otherwise there has ern tour Sept. 23 at Boston ciansare honest(hopefully)been no changeatall,only Brown. Music Hall. Cornelius,a former studio and intelligent (hopefully). It'smore rock and roll. musician who played on "Self Portrait" and "New Morning"Stereo 11 for , and "Songs of Love and Hate" for Leonard (Continued from page 39) The Hits Keep On Rolling Cohen, has gone solo. His LP iswhile her material can be per- titled "Tin Luck" and he also isformed by artists of any cate- receivingthebenefitsofa gory. Our newest talent addi- large-scale promotion. tion, Nanette Natal, has an ex- NEW COLONY SIX Mordicai Jones, a member ofceptionally broad spectrum of the Wraymen since 1959, is ac-ability. She has a unique ex- tually the guest singer on theciting style combined with a Sunlight 1001 second Link Wray album, yetmarvelously textured voice. She "Roll On" theLPistitled"Mordicaiplays great guitar,isa sea- Jones." Mordicai does all thesoned performer and writes ma- singing as Link lays back andterialI would rank equal to New L.P. From concentrates on guitar, dobro,Bob Dylan's or James Taylor's. steel guitar and bass. This, ofHere again, our promotion ef- course, was recorded in the fa-forts are concerned with her mous Shack Three -Trackinoverall career. CHUCK Accokeek, Md. Charlie Brown's secondal- The problems with develop- and bum for Polydor is being read-ing new artists, as we all know, ied, "Portrait of a Glad Man." are magnified by the large num- The record sets the stage forber of singles and albums re- a new softer direction in theleased weekly, by the limita- career of this artist who hastions of radio exposure dictated MARY PERRIN performed in over 300 perform-by tighter and tighter format ances of "Hair" as the guitar-programming and by the grow- ist in the house band. Promo-ing difficulties of today's "Life Is A Stream" tional apparatus will also ac-United States distribution pat- company thereleaseof thisterns. Sunlight SLP 1 album. Being able to properly expose Those new to the label whonew talent to the publicre- saw their albums released inquires ingenuity, tenacity, en- August are Gary Kuper, Ban-thusiasm, carefulplanning, TWINIGHT RECORDS TWINIGHT RECORDS chee,UncleChapin,Barclayhard work and lots of luck. As SUNLIGHT RECORDS 166 E. Superior St., JamesHarvestandB. B. the saying goes, however, "Tal- Chicago, 111. 60611 Blunder.Allare hard rockent will out" . . . and we're (3121 664-9119 groups with the exception ofhappy so long as it's our "tal- Kuper, another Woodstock resi-ent."

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com MCA Philosophy Is `Seeing is Buying' Philosophy Total Commitment Sparks Label -Sponsored Tours By MICHAEL SHERMAN begin to assume a major role. By GREGG GELLER on a 20 -date tour of college based markets. A few key dates MCA Records Aside from airplay, which is NEW YORK-Extensive air- obviously of paramount impor-play and rave record reviewsare planned in larger facilities When it comes to the break-tance at this stage, every ef-are not enough to break a newin large cities. ing of new artists, MCA Rec-fort is made to bring the artistact anymore. With this fact of UA Bowl Concert Scores ords operates within the frame-"up -front" to the point wherelife in mind, record companies work of a very basic philoso-people'sinterestisarousedhave gotten into the business Though not strictly compar- phy: no artist,regardless ofenough to provide motivationof promoting concerts and con-able because it was a single his musical direction, is signedto, at the very least, listen tocert tours for their new actsconcert and not a tour, United to Decca, Kapp or Uni unlesswhat the artist has to say. Theand veteran artists in need ofArtists Hollywood Bowl show all involved feel that the artistaccomplishment of this end rep-additional exposure. withSugarloaf,Nitty Gritty has the potential for becom-resents the hurdling of perhaps FirstdiskerytotestthisDirt Band, War and Canned ing a monster. the most difficult barrier. method was Warner Bros./Re-Heat performing, fits roughly As Joe Sutton, VP for Artist Although a first album (orprise withitsCaptain Beef-into this concept. The July con- Acquisitionand Developmentsingle)bya new artistisheart-Ry Cooder tour last win-cert, at which a 99 -cent admis- put it: "Realities dictate thattreated as though itis poten-ter. The firm followed this sum-sion was asked, proved an enor- we can't possibly be right alltial "gold," the long-range con-mer with its Mother/Brothersmous success and more such the time, but we do believe thatsiderationsare always borneshow, featuring Mother Earthprojects are planned. if we are committed to an art-carefully in mind whenever anyand the Doobie Brothers, which One of the pioneers in this ist in every sense of the word,moves are made.Nothing isencompassed upwardsof27 area was Elektra Records, who people will react to this com-done with regard to the initialcities, in some of which labelsome years back sponsored a mitment by giving our productreleases of a new artist if it isartists John Baldry and/or La-series of free concerts at the a fair hearing. The day of shot -felt that in so doing, the futurebelle joined the tour. Aquarius Theater in Los Ange- gunning artists is a thing ofis in any conceivable way be- Morerecently,Paramountles. Now the label also is set- the past as far as MCA is con- ingjeopardized.Says MCARecords has sponsored an eight -ting up a tour of eight West cerned." Records' President J. K. "Mike"city tour by Smoke Rise, per-Coast cities for three new art- The first step in what mightMaitland: "It's always incredi-forming their rock opera, "Theists,Don Nix, Lonnie Mack be termed a flexible game planbly exciting when a new artist,Survival of St. Joan." In mostand Jeannie Greene, at a low involves the fostering of genu-such as Elton John, breaks outof the cities performances wereadmission of $1.50. ine enthusiasm about a poten-immediately, but this kind oftied in with local radio stations, Recording acts seem to need tial"chartmaker" within theimpact is usually the exceptionbeing run for charities of theto be seen to be bought, so to MCA Recordsfamily; theto the rule. We look to the fu-station'sdesignation. speak. If that's the case, it can "spreading of the word" (and,ture inall our plans and if This month Capitol Recordsbe anticipated that more com- obviously,the"sounds")to things happen for a new artistis backing the Capitol Joy Wag-panieswillbecome involved those who will play some parton his first outing, we are natu-on, featuring Joy of Cooking,in promoting the personal ap- in the breaking of the artist.rally thrilled, but if they don't,Joyous Noise and Leo Kottke,pearances of their act. we are neither disappointed nor Creating Identity discouraged." Thehextphaserevolves Once positivereaction hasDiMartino Expands about the creating of an "iden-been registered with a new art- HOLLYWOOD-A. Di Mar-wing to the production firm is tity" for the artist in the con-ist'sproduct, the entirefield tinoProductions,Inc., an- to be known as Jonas Manage- sciousness of industry peopleforceisimmediatelymadenounces re -location and expan-ment. Also joining the company and record -buyers. During thisaware of what is happening onsion to 6365 Selma Ave. is Mike McCoy, who will be time each and every availablea national scale, and attempts In April of 1971, Di Martinoserving in the dual capacity as device and tool is utilized, theare then made to filter this re-entered into a world produc-VP in charge of the Video Tape criteria being good taste andactiontoeverylocaloutlettion deal with Decca, Ltd., ofDivision and asoverseer of a total awareness of what willwhether it be a radio station,England and London Recordsspecialprojects. McCoy was bebeneficialtoaparticulara record dealer or the media.in the Untied States, with allformerlywiththeNickSt. artist. It is at this stage of theIn conjunction with this phase,product to be released on theNickolas Management Com- game thatpromotion,sales,advertising and merchandisingLondon label. The first releasepany. Heading up the r&b de- creative services and publicitycampaigns are mounted with anunder the new deal is "Buck-partment is Marvin Reese, who eye to enlarging the initial pos-wheat." Also scheduled for im-currently manages Genie itive reactions. mediate releaseis"Kentucky Brown. All You Mothers- At this point, added supportExpress." Currently in produc- Auggie Di Martino, VP is in Hide Your Daughters is given by MCA to the artisttion is an album and single bycharge of the publishing divi- and his management with re-Joy, featuring John Gummoe.sion which includes Sicum Mu- gard totheartist'spersonalAlso on the artist roster forsic, ASCAP, and Ten -Hi Music DICK SLICK exposure to the public. Di Martino Productions is Kentand Honeysuckle Music, BMI. is coming! Says Maitland, "What it all Morrill,whosefirstalbum, The entire publishing complex really boils down to in the final"The Dream Maker," has justwill be administrated by John analysisis an attitude whichbeen released on Cream. Gummoe andNitaGarfield. THE WALL OF MUSIC might best be summed up by Joining Di Martino Produc-Composers now employed by saying that at MCA Records wetions as VP in charge of thethe pubberies are Kent Morrill don't sign a new artist unlessmanagement division is Jonasand John Gummoe. we honestly feel we can't live Hardy, formerly associated without him." with Three Dog Night. The new GepBragglia,VP -General Manager in charge of admin- producer, signed the artist. istration will join De Martino Dante at Scepter RonDante'sfirstsingle, Oct.1.Relocating from New Scepter Records has signed"That'sWhatLifeIsAll York to join Di Martino is Carl an exclusive long-term contract Pellegrino, who will serve as with Ron Dante, former leadAbout," is being released thisroad manager for Buckweat. singeroftheArchies.Ron week. It was produced by RonCouncil for the corporation is Dante is managed by Dick Ros-Dante in association with JohnPaul Migdal. CPA and account- SNOdV3M 11V enthal.JohnWalsh,ScepterWalsh. ing: Alan Zusman.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Initial Audience ReactionRon De Blasio Crucial: Chrysalis Mgmt.Management: A New Biz By RON ROSS and the promoters. We grease HOLLYWOOD - "There'sWilson'slabel,LittleDavid. the wheels." more business in the streets to-The two -man firm is also han- The new British act attempt- Despitetheorganizationalday than in the office. Nobodydlingsinger -actressChelsea ing to break the lucrative Amer-wallop that Chrysalispacks,calls anymore. You have to goBrown, folksinger Biff Rose and ican market is in a class by it-the public is still the final test. tothe variousagencies andthe group Southern Comfort, self. The English rocker has "Ithink the most importantcompanies," said personal man-plusanAustraliansinging - relatively few artistic preten-thing in breaking a new act isager Ron De Blasio, formerlywriting duo Burton and Cunico. tions : what you see is what youthe initial audience reaction,"manager of Bill Cosby and Tiny Formerlyinvolvedinfea- get, and with the Beatles and contends Sutton. "The audienceTim. De Blasio is now in busi-tures and TV, both De Blasio the Stones as examples, even remainsthemost importantness with Jeff Wald and the twoand Wald are now heavily com- the least familiar group usuallyjudge, so far as we're concerned.see management as an entirelymitted to the music scene. "De- has aflair for showmanshipThe ultimate success of a bandnew business today. cisions are faster in the music that helps to create excitementis judged on its record sales "Now you can exchange in-business," explained De Blasio. and publicity from the first. more than anything else, andformation with other managers"There is more fluidity. Besides, Perhaps the greatest advant-in that respect the record com-about groups, clubs, dates orthere's no business anymore in age an English band may havepany can make or break evenanything. You couldn't do that films.Another thingisthat the best of groups, as well asuntil recently. The new breedrecord companies don't control over its American counterpart artists as the studios often did isaself-confidencederivedadding the extra effort that canof manager isdifferent. He's from months and sometimesbring a group to a new peakyounger and,likehisclient,and that makes it easier for years of experimentation andof popularity." aware," De Blasio noted. managers." hard-wonacceptanceinthe An outstanding case in point De Blasio spent eight years mother country, where singlesis Ten Years After, whose firstat the William Morris Agency,Identity, Service are a must and rough edges areColumbia LP is riding high onas did Wald, and also booked quickly polished smooth. the charts and who were onetalent for Mr. Kelly's in Chi-Prize Qualities of Chrysalis' first clients. "Incago at one time. Both men also There are unique problems, workedfor NASHVILLE --With nine of spite of a tremendous following Campbell/Silver/their12actsbeingrelative however, that plague even thefor their live act, Ten YearsCosby in Beverly Hills before most ready of new artists, and teaming up. newcomers, Prize Records con- helping to mitigate these spe-After has never had a gold al- centrates its efforts on creating bum.Tomakebackwhat "The main problem when youidentifiable music sounds for cial hassles is Chrysalis, estab- goindependent,"hepointed lished several years ago in Eng-they've spent to insure that a each artist and extensive serv- `Space in Time' would be justout, "is money and establishing land by Chris Wright and Terry yourself. ice to secondary and small mar- Ellis as the compleat manage-right, Columbia has done a fab- Comparativelyfewket radio stations. ulous job with ads in local pa-managers have left major agen- mentcomplex,designedto cies 'because of the financial "A lot of these stations have guide the potential "monster"pers along the tour, radio spots, to buy copies of records by the art work and a concentration from their first club date to ment firms usually get clientsbig name artists, but they can't their first gold record. The com-that bespeaks a real faith in afford to buy records by the the group." who have reached one plateau pany roster speaks for itself : and have to go higher and "wenewartists,"reasonsPrize Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Ten guide them to that next level."President Joe Gibson. "Their Years After and Savoy Brown Exciting Band? Yes listeners constitute most of the are only the most notable of Cited Carlin, Reddy country record buyers so they their associates to have taken For the future, Sutton looks He cited clients George Car-are just as important to us as the U. S. by storm. to Atlantic's Yes to carry onlinand singer Helen Reddy.primary market stations." the Chrysalis tradition of theCarlin was, allegedly, fired off Prize is increasing its mail- No small part of this successhighestqualityyieldingthethe Playboy circuit because ofing list every week. story is due to the care withgreatestprofits."Theyhaveunnecessary pressures on his Selection of material for the which Chrysalis sees its groupsspent some three years in Eng-act by the management. This ( Continued op page 44) throughtheirtoursinthisland polishing their act," Sut-alsohappenedtoCarlinin country. As DerekSutton,ton enthused, "and are an ex-Vegas and De Blasio is now Chrysalis' representative in thetremely exciting band visually,booking Carlin personally and states, told Record World, "Ifas well as being tunefull andhas set him for select clubs, you believe in the group, youwell -structured musically. Be-concerts and rock festivals. A DICK SLICK can work with it. You've got tofore extremely partisan crowds,Carlin comedy album, produced get behind your act full-time.such as in the Yale Bowl withlive at the Cellar Door in Wash- will grow onyou! It'spossible tosellvirtuallyGrand Funk, they have risen'ngton, will soon be out on Flip anything, but we try to react toadmirably to the occasion, and the music first and let busi-were received very well. This ness follow." typifies,Ithink, the attitude with which new English groups Extensive Business tour America." "You only have two bites off The "business" that Chrysal- CATHY LYNN the apple," as Sutton putsit. winner of six gold records is does is extensive, including a"If you don't make it in two has now written and produced music publishing company, atries, your third tour is a very promotion company, an agencydicey affair, and if you don't "Lonely Am I" theme from the movie andarecordcompany,allmake itthen, you've thrown "Toys Are Not For Children" geared for maximum manage-away$50,000." Asobering ment effectiveness for the com-thought for a bunch of young plex' own groups. "We covermen contemplating a journey the field," Sutton says modest-across the big pond. Yet with Hit Makers ly."In this country, we areactslikeProcol Harum, Yes Music Corp. TERRY BURRELL primarily a management firm, sings and a new folk duo, Tir Na Nog 330 West 58th Street and we serve as a communica-undertheircapablewings, Penthouse "B" "Lonely Am I" tionsliaison with groups onChrysalis is one reason why so New York, N. Y. 10019 tour. We connect the agent, themany new and exciting faces 212-765.7696-7 from the Original manager, the record companyspeak the King's English. 212-586-1120 Soundtrack Album

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Monument Basics For Cartwheel Flips Over New Artists By RON CHANCEY enough to be in his position and Breaking New Artists )irector of A&R, Cartwheel hope he likes the next one. We Records never try to pressure a dj. After By TEX DAVIS one that's best for the artist. all, he know his market better National Promotion, They immediately go to work We feel that we have threethan we and quitepossibly, Monument Records on the phone and get work forcustomers to satisfy with each their hot, new star. one of our releases might not Breaking new artists? Management, meant i m e,record release: The disc jockey,fit his particular format. "It's basic, said Fred Foster,works out a black and whitethe distributor and the individ- When the product seems well President of Monument Rec- ual record buyer. received, we follow it with pro- campaign with all the trades. The disc jockey is our firstmotional mailings and trade ad- ords. .. half a page ... A full page and most important customer,vertising tolet them know "That's right," said Ray Pen-a quarter page ... everyweek nington, A&R chief for country because without him, we can'twe're serious. A jockey hates for a month. .every otherreach the other two. We areto play a record that the public product for Monument Records.week . .all for the best possi- So, here are the basics. ble exposure. constantly checking with mu-can't buy; so, we make haste It all starts with finding a If he's big enough and smartsic directors to make sure weto supply distributors in the voice, a body and a good dis-enough and humble enough byare providing adequate service.markets where we are receiving position. Most of all a good dis-now, we can call a press con-When we have a new release,airplay. position. You mix themup, ference to get stories they canwe check by telephone to get It's not easy to hit with a stir well and out comes a per-write to tell the world abouthis opinion of the product andnew artist. But it can be done former. You teach him, youhim. We invite the members ofto ask if he will program it. with good product, good com- groom him, work with him tothe press to see his first few If the answer is yes, we callmunication with thedjand bring out his best, commercial-shows, with fingers crossed. in a few days to check audiencefast service to the distributor ly and professionally. Then you With all this happening, it'sresponseandpossiblelocalto insure that the consumer will look for material, his ball of wax in his worldchart action. not leave the record shop empty The right song isa hardthat he's always wanted. If he If the answer is no, we givehanded because the product was thing to find most of the time.works it right, he's the winner.him credit for being intelligentnot in stock. It'slike looking for a needle If not ...well, he tried, we in a haystack. You're looking fortried, but our effort died. You the perfect marriage of manknow the boss was right. . . Nugget Strikes Gold with New Artists and his music. And, you knowit's all basic. Ha! how hard it is to find the per- GOODLETTSVILLE, TENN.producttothemarketplace fect marriage. Right? -In the last few months Nug-after the airplay. As an ex- Session time findsall edgesLondon/Reed get Records has done well withample, Howard's currentre- worn thin. But thenin the two new artists, Harlan How-lease, "Uncle Sam," was in rec- studio all is forgotten. Every- (Continued from page 24) ard and Carl Trent. In bothord stores simultaneously with body does their best and thefor Pop A&R. London is alsocases, the artists are writersthe release of the promotional hell with it. U.S. and Canadian distributorof their own material. copies to radio stations. Now we have the makings offor Reed's Chapter One label. It would take several pages arecord and,after working Greenwich Gramophone is ex-to list all of the hit songs How- diligently to mix it to the bestpected to focus heavily on pro-ard has written, among themMetromedia Schedule of our ability and opinion, wegressiveundergroundstyledhis own recording of "Uncle master it. Then it's pressingmaterial. Named to superviseSam, I'm a Patriot." Trent, al- (Continued from page 4) time followed by the call of thecreativeoperationsisTonythough relatively new on thewith his latest LP, scheduled shipping department. Send themReeves,untilrecentlybasswriting scene, has had somefor release in the early fall. out to all corners of the coun-guitarist with Colosseum.success with a Patsy Sledd rec-James Late, a country -rock art- try. Of course, you have toReeves' initial production forord, "Bring Your Love Backist who was discovered while make sure the trades get theirthe firm is a rush album re-to Me," followed by his ownworking attheFulton Fish copies for their opinions thatlease titled "Windy Daze," byrecording of "Caterpillar Man"Market, now has his first album could be good, bad or just so-so.Open Road. Reeves also handledand his current chart record,on Metromedia out. The Late If it's a smash you'll knowproduction of "Wide Open N -"Woman I Need Your Love." album, entitled"Fulton Fish about it in two weeks. If it'sAway," by the Danish band Careful forethought is of theMarket," was originally sched- a hit you'll know about it in aDay ofPhoenix.Releaseisessence before each recordinguled for release during the sum- month. And, if it's a bummerrounded out by an album bysession to insure the best prod-mer, but was delayed in order ...well! Samurai. uctpossible.Harlanispro-to ship in time for the antici- Let's say it's a hit. Again, we duced by Fred Carter, Jr., andpated demand of returning col- roll up our sleeves and go to Don Davis, both men of experi-lege students. work. We must get the perfor-Plans Tumble Forth ence as musicians as well as in mer primed for the mass attack production. Metromedia is also featuring of the human race, mentally Of course, cutting the session a British artist in its fall sched- and physically. We must tell is only the beginning of a hitule, Russell Dean. His new al- him and show him that he record. A promotion plan is setbumisa highly -orchestrated hasn'tchangedandcannot up as follows: work. change in the eyes of his peers First, Nuggett writes to as Metromedia intends to give and hispublic. He was just many radio stations as possibleall four albums complete pro- plain lucky, and don't forget it. informing them of new releases.motional support. We work with him on stage Our national distributor, P.I.P. presence, find a routine he can also mails promo material and follow,get him dressed the records, while Carl Dean and way we feel will show him off Hal Charm team for promotionPrize Qualities to best advantage. Above all, and sales. In addition, Nugget(Continued from page 43) get the sound in public as close encouragesartiststodoas as you can to his hit record. much of their own promotion asnewer artists is slanted toward Tumbleweed Records President station programming needs with You can, but it takes work andLarry Ray (center) discusses planspossible.In cases of Harlan perseverence. for the Oct. 1 release of CanadianHoward and Carl Trent, bothemphasis on uptempo selections The record is shooting up theartist Arthur Gee's (right) first al-artists engage George Cooperto assure good air exposure. A charts now and we're all ready bum with producer Marc DamerstIII of Country Collage for addi- planned growth program laid for fun and money. Agentson the steps of the Denver head-tional promotion. have been calling for his body.quarters. Tumbleweed is a subsid- One of the most importantout for each artist is reviewed We get together to pick theiary of Famous Music Corp. factors is to be able to get theand updated quarterly.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Col Supplementary Tactics A & M Artist Flexibility (Continued from page 22) (Continued from, page 22) The strategy which goes intoit comes to marketing concepts ternal company product aware-ample of other measures labelattempting to get airplay re-and image -creation. ness." He said that everyonehas used. mains secondary to choosing the "The role of a strong publicity at the company is called upon Lundvall also feels that thereright record to promote and todepartment is not merely to gar- for input on any given artistshouldbere-examinationof layingthefoundationfora ner volumes of press coverage and that hiring is done on theliner notes as a vehicle forgiven artist's eventual audiencefor acts," states A&M's public- basis of an individual's abilitybringing new artists to the con-acceptance. ity and marketing expert Bob to contribute information; or,sumer's attention. He noted that "The several people involvedGarcia. "I feel our role is also as Lundvall put it,"basicallya great deal of buying is stillwith picking a single for releaseone of funneling information to we want employees to be fansimpulse buying and that infor-may all have different ideas asevery corner of the company, and collectors" and "we wantmation given on albums canto what should be done," ex-from the president to the foreign them to have a product aware-only help sales. "We find thatplains Friesen, "so unless it isdistributors to the agents, about ness and a commercial aware-buyers at the college level," heabsolutely obvious as to whichthe artists so that we have no ness." said, "are practically demand-song by which artist has com-artist on the label who gets lost "I'm not talking about hiting all the information they canmercial potential, it is sometimessimply because no one knows singles now," Lundvallsaid,get. And we have also found that the fancy package is notbetter to hold off and wait forwho or what he is." "because if you break a single, advice from radio programmers. Graphics head Roland Young then you've broken an artist.that meaningful to these sameA premature or wrong decision buyers." and ad manager Barbara Taylor I'm talking about albums, and in this area can ruin the ground-work very closely in print ad- every album that goes out of Currently CBS campaigns arework laid for a forthcoming al- being mounted around, among vertising, and have separate re- here goes out as a project. There bum by a new performer. It cansponsibilities in the areas of al- is a plan behind every albumothers ,new artistsJackleave a bad taste in the dj's Schechtman, New Riders of the bum and poster graphics and that leaves this building." mouth and he will not be open toradio advertising, respectively. Purple Sage, Boz Scaggs, Chase,the album when itarrives Extra Fillips Cymarron, Edgar Winter' s a "The art of image -creation is White Trash and Madura andmonth later." very individualized," says Young. Lundvallnotedthatthesenew -to -CBS artists Ten Years Both Still Required Legwork "Graphics cannot be done apart plans, extended to established from the mood created by the After, Ian and Sylvia and Kris A&M's promotion department, artists as well as to new artists, Kristofferson. product and the intent of the but that among the extra fillips headed by Harold Childs, hasgiven artist. To properly intro- "We support all artists' ap-had a fair amount of success in accorded new artists was strongpearances,"Lundvall duce a new artist, you have to de- emphasis given them in com- noted,recent months with product fromtermine what aspect of them is "and as for tours, we don't haveLee Michaels andCarpenters, pany's new Playback subscrip-any going right now, but we'll going to be theinitialfocal tion record and magazine. Play- neither of whom can be consid- probably have some before theered new artists. Still, both re- point. Is it going to be sexuality, back, which has been in exist-fall is over." intellectuality,mellowness,or ence for just a few months now quired the careful pre -hit leg-what?" -too short a time, according "I'd say, in breaking an art-work that made itpossible to ist," Lundvall concluded, "youbreak their current product. Miss Taylor adds, "Ad cam- to Lundvall, to assess its suc-have to be unsuccessful more paigns are often products of in- cess ("membershipisstill Working in tandem with the than you're successful. And youpromotion people at A&M areter -departmental coordination. growing")-includes music andhave to be prepared not to give For instance, we try to work information on new artists and those in publicity, sales, graph- up. We keep pulling singles outics and advertising. Their workads into tour promotion when goes out monthly to members. of an album we believe in." possible, and there is always the With the info sent out is a interrelates very closely whenfactor of airplay tempering the questionnaire that, Lundvall re- Baez. Singing his own songsvalue of advertising. Ads alone ported, is getting response from he has a lot to say. cannot break an artist." 60% of the membership-"andHoffman/RCA Boomerang Finally, the sales department, we don't throw them out." (Continued from page 22) headed by Bob Fead, must work Columbia is also hailing new Ledbyex -VanillaFudge-erto see that product is available artists on itsrecord sleeves, "We have to get into the art-Mark Stein, Boomerang isawhen and where it's needed to which, in case anybody hasn'tists, find out who they are, whatheavy unpretentious band. meet potential demand. noticed, are now print -covered.they are, what they and their "Ifeveryoneisdoinghis Lundvall said that the contentsmusic are about. Dando Shaft part," concluded Friesen, "there of the sleeve are changed every "AndourcreativeeffortsDando Shaftisan Englishis a much greater chance that month and that since "we knowfind all our departments, mer-group, recorded on RCA's Neonsome of the effort is going to that records can lie around forchandising,marketing,adver-label. Their vocals and arrange-pay off. That includes the artist a while, we try to make all thetising, promotion and publicity,ments are FM oriented. himself ; he must try to take ad- articles timely but not so top-gettingtotallyinvolvedand vantage of his access to concert icalthat they're meaningless committed.Thenitbecomes Swampwater audiences and he must make two years later." our mission to bring these tal- viable records. If a 100% effort Swampwater is a Cajun rockis extended by everyone, half of Lundvallalsosaidthat aents to our varied and diverseband that is immersed inits number of special samplingsaudiences. Each act, by its ownethnic swampiness. it is bound to pay off in the long have been tried on college cam-individuality, affords a special run. That doesn't mean that the puses. Samplers containing cutsform of promotion. This is theString Cheese other half is invalid or wasted. by new artists have been passedway we try and launch the art- It just means that you have to out-sometimes handed out onist,individually, with an eyeString Cheese, another Woodendo everything possible to get thoroughfares, sometimestowards the style and feel ofNickel act, have their first al-any results at all." slipped under doors, sometimeshis talent." bum out in September, along given away at record stores. with DavidPattonandthe Here is some new talent atSiegle/Schwall Band. Danny Lee and the Children of "We've measured it," LundvallRCA: Truth come out of the country said, "and it's worked." Stark Naked with strong Jesus Rock. David Patton Pursuing New Media Minus the Car Theives, StarkPhil Cody Pattondebutsonthenew Naked debuts with RCA in the Lundvall said that the wax-Wooden Nickel label, manufac-near future with a rock and rollDebuting on the Kirshner la- ery is continually pursuing newtured and marketed by RCA.album. bel, Cody uses a guitar and media for exposure on new art- Davidisa singer -songwriterDanny Lee and the lyrics to add a new dimension ists. Flex records inserted inwhose songs have been record-Children of Truth to folkmusic. FM -oriented, this consumer magazines are an ex-ed by Ian & Sylvia and Joan artist has college appeal.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Thompson Forms Sunstoned LOS ANGELES - Billent television program develop- 101 Thompson,Presidentofthement and production and inde- Beautiful People Company andpendent road management and THE S1NGLF_S CHART personal manager ofCapitol concert production. artist Larry McNeely, has an- Thompson has a wealth of nounced the formation of Sun - experienceinalltheabove stoned Productions in conjunc-areas. In recent years he was 150 tion with McNeely. road manager for the First Edi- The new Organizationwill tion,servedas manager and SEPTEMBER 25, 1911 devote its energies and talentroad manager for the Smothers THIS LAST in the areas of independent rec-Brothers and most recently was WK. WK. ordproduction,thedevelop- road manager and producer of ment of new artists, independ-Glen Campbell's concerts. 101 101 BREEZIN' GABOR SZABO-Blue Thumb 200 (Tracebob/Unart, ASCAP) 102 110 DAY BY DAY HOLLY SHERWOOD-Carousel 30057 (Bell) (Valando/Cadenza, ASCAP) 103 103 SUMMER SIDE OF LIFE GORDON LIGHTFOOT-Reprise 1035 ALPHABETICAL LISTING (Early Morning, ASCAP) 104 104 I'M JUST ME CHARLEY PRIDE-RCA 47-9996 (Tree, BMI) SINGLES CHART 105137 CO -CO THE SWEET-Bell 126 (Chinnichap/Rak, BMI) PRODUCER, PUBLISHER, LICENSEE 106 107 SWEET SOUNDS OF MUSIC BELLS-Polydor 15209 (White Dove, BMI) 107 44WAITING AT THE BUS STOP BOBBY SHERMAN-Metromedia 222 (Wally, ASCAP) 108 118 I CAN'T GIVE BACK THE LOVE I FEEL FOR YOU VIKKI CARR-Columbia 4-45454 A NATURAL MAN Michael Lloyd MIDNIGHT MAN James Gang & Bill Szymczyk (Jobete, BMI) (Beresof sky/HebbUnitd.,BMI) 61 (Pamco/Home Made, BMI) 93 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE Booker T. Jones MILITARY MADNESS Graham Nash 109- WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY DAWN-Bell 141 (Pocket Full of Tunes, BMI) (Interior,BMI) 3 (GivingRoom, BMI) 74 ALL DAY MUSIC Jerry Goldstein NEVER MY LOVE Bones Howe 110 111 THE SONG IS LOVE MARY TRAVERS-Warner Brothers 7517 (Pepamar, ASCAP) (Far -Out,ASCAP) 29 (Warner/Tamerlane, BMI) 68 ALL MY HARD TIMES John Richbourg NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN 111 122 MONKEY SPANNER DAVE & ANSIL COLLINS-Big Tree 125 (Ampex) (Lowery, BMI) 78 Norbert Putnam, Jack Lothrop (Canaan, BMI) 1 (Interglobal, ASCAP) ANNABELLA SteveBarri(Dunbar, BMI) 38 ONE FINE MORNING J. lenner GOD SAVE US ELASTIC OZ BAND-Apple 2809 (Maclen, BMI) ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE Gordon Mills (C.A.M./U.S.A., BMI) 49 112 113 (MCA,ASCAP) 47 ONE TIN SOLDIER Mundell Lowe 113 115 LORD HAVE MERCY BLACK OAK ARKANSAS-Atco 6829 A SONG FOR YOU Reeves & Doerge (Cents & Pence, BMI) 86 (Mar)u/Far Fetched, ASCAP) (Skyhil I,BMI) 92 ONLY YOU KNOW AND I KNOW BANGLA DESH George Harrison & Phil Spector Delaney & Bonnie (Irving, BMI) 71 114 125 BLUE MONDAY DAVE EDMUNDS-MAM 3611 (London) (Travis, BMI) (Harrisongs,BMI) 21 PART OF YOU, A Woods & McCoy BEND ME, SHAPE ME Weiss & Camillo (One Eye Soul/McCoy, BMI) 94 115 120 I DO ALL MY CRYING IN THE RAIN SOUNDS OF SUNSHINE-Ranwood 912 (Helios.BMI) 97 PEACE TRAIN Paul Samwell-Smith (Bon -Ton, ASCAP) BIRDS OF A FEATHER Mark Lindsay (Irving,BMI) 70 (Lowery,BMI) 43 PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY Allen Jones EID 148 NEW JERSEY ENGLAND DAN & JOHN FORD COLEY-A&M 1278 (Cold Zinc, BMI) BLACK SEEDS KEEP ON GROWING Si Ivester, (East/Memphis, BMI) 79 Simmons, McPherson (Ingredient, BMI) 91 RAIN DANCE Jack Richardson for Nimbus 9 117 117 ZOO DE ZOO ZONG TWIGGY & FRIENDS-Bell 115 (Maribus, BMI) 40 BREAKDOWN Tom Nixon (East/Memphis, BMI) (Cirrus/Sunspot/Walrus-Moore/Dunbar,BMI) 18 118 105 1234 LUCKY PETERSON-Today 1503 (Perception) (Catalyst, ASCAP) CALIFORNIA KID & REEMO Phil Gernhard REASON TO BELIEVE Rod Stewart (Ensign,BMI) 66 (Koppelman-Rub in,BMI) 4 119 112 (UNTIL THEN) I'LL SUFFER BARBARA LYNN-Atlantic 2812 (Crazy Cajon, BMI) CALL MY NAME, I'LL BE THERE RIDERS ON THE STORM Bruce Botnick Crawford & Shapiro (Walden, ASCAP) 45 & The Doors (Doors, ASCAP) 96 120-I WANT TO PAY YOU BACK CHI-LITES-Brunswick 55458 (Julio -Brian, BMI) CAN YOU GET TO THAT George Clinton ROLL ON Sanctuary Prod. (New Colony, BMI) 77 (Bridgeport,BMI) 69 RUB IT IN Ray Stevens (Ahab, BMI) 80 GLORY, GLORY BYRDS-Columbia 45444 (York & Alexis, ASCAP) CHARITY BALL Richard Perry SATURDAY MORNING CONFUSION Snuff Garrett OM (Braintree/Tinkle, BMI) 90 (PixRuss,ASCAP) 25 122 114 WE'RE FRIENDS BY DAY WHATNAUTS-Stang 5030 (All Platinum) (Cambi, BMI) CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP Mike Dalton SHE'S ALL I'VE GOT Jerry Williams Jr. (Intersong,U.S.A.,ASCAP) 17 (Williams/Excellorec, BM!) 88 123 127 CHILD OF MINE-MERILEE RUSH-Scepter 12329 CRAZY LOVE Larry Marks SIGNS Dallas Smith forRenaissanceProd. (Screen Gems/Columbia, BMI) (Warner Bros./Van Jam, ASCAP) 27 (4Star, BMI) 30 124 126 WALK EASY MY SON JERRY BUTLER-Mercury 73241 (Butler, ASCAP) DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN Lee Michaels SMILING FACES SOMETIMES Norman Whitfield (La Brea/Sattwa, ASCAP) 19 (Jobete, BMI) 10 EASY LOVING George Richey (Blue Book, BMI) 50 SO FAR AWAY Lou Adler BABY, I'M YOURS JODY MILLER-Epic 5-10785 (Blackwood, BMI) FEEL SO BAD Joe Adams (Arc/Playmate, BMI) 59 (Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI) 13 GET IT WHILE YOU CAN Paul Rothchild SOLO Pat Cusimano (Gold Forever, BMI) 99 FREEDOM COMES, FREEDOM GOES FORTUNES-Capitol 3179 (Maribus, BMI) (Hill& Range/ Ragmar, BMI) 51 SOME OF SHELLEY'S BLUES William McKuen GHETTO WOMAN Michel & Zagarino (Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI) 75 127 132 OLENA DON NIX-Elektra 45746 (Deerwood, BMI) (Pamco/Sounds ofLucille, BMI) 65 SPANISH HARLEM Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, I'D LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLD TEN YEARS AFTER-Columbia 45457 GIMME SHELTER Terry Knight (Abkco, BMI) 58 SPILL THE WINE R.,0 & R.I sley (Chrysalis, ASCAP) GO AWAY, LITTLE GIRL Rick Hall ArifMardin (Progressive -Trio,BMI) 5 (ScreenGems -Columbia,BMI) 2 (Far Out, ASCAP) 63 129 129 JESSICA BLOODROCK-Capitol 3161 (Fancy Space, BMI) GYPSYS, TRAMPS & THIEVES Snuff Garrett STAGGER LEE Steve Barri, BMI) 35 (Peso, BMI) 72 STICKUP Greg Perry & General Johnson 130 131 GOODBYE MEDIA MAN, PT. 1 TOM FOGERTY-Fantasy 661 (Woodmont, BMI) HANDBAGS & GLADRAGS Rand & DeStocki 11 (Gold Forever, BMI) 131 116 COLOUR MY WORLD CHICAGO-Columbia 4-45417 (Aurelius, BMI) (Lovely, ASCAP) 76 STONE OF YEARS G. Lake (TRO-Toral, BMI).. 89 HE'D RATHER HAVE THE RAIN Scotti & STOP, LOOK, LISTEN Thom Bell 132 138 GOT TO GET OVER THE HUMP SIMTEC & WYLIE-Mister Chand 8005 (Mercury) Oliver with Lloyd(CoIgems, ASCAP) 85 (Bell Boy/Assorted, BMI) 44 (Cachand /Techbob, BMI) HIJACKIN' LOVE Don Davis (Groovesv iI le, BMI) 56 STORY IN YOUR EYES, THE Tony Clarke HOW CAN I UNLOVE YOU Glenn Sutton (TRO/Chesire,BMI) 16 133 139 I DON'T NEED NO DOCTOR HUMBLE PIE-A&M 1282 (Lowery,BMI) 57 SUPERSTAR Jack Daugherty (Renleigh/Baby Monica, BMI) HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART (Skyhill/Relbon,BM!) 6 Bee Gees & Robert Stigwood SURRENDER Ashford & Simpson (Jobete, BMI)42 LOVE LETTERMEN-Capitol 6315 (Maclen, BMI) (Casserole/Warner-Tamerlane, ASCAP)..... 39 SWEET CITY WOMAN Mel Shaw (Corral, BMI) 23 EEO- I AIN'T GOT NO TIME ANYMORE Bill Rama TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS 135 141 TAKE YOU WHERE THE MUSIC'S PLAYING DALLAS-Marina 501 (Trio, BMI) & Dickie Goodman (Leeds, ASCAP) 26 Milton Okun (Cherry Lane, ASCAP) 28 I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE Rare Earth & TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING 136 140 HEY WILLY HOLLIES-Epic 5-10754 (Maribus, BMI) Torn Baird (Jobete, BMI) 7 Brian Aherne (Alma, ASCAP) 82 I LIKE WHAT YOU GIVE Gabriel Mekler THAT'S THE WAY A WOMAN IS Mass Prod. - DO I LOVE YOU PAUL ANKA-Buddah 252 (Spanka, BMI) (Lizard,ASCAP) 95 (Stein & Van Stock/Positive, SCAP) 84 I'M COMIN' HOME Tommy James & Bob King THINK HIS NAME Johnny Rivers El- VALERIE CYMARRON-Entrance 7502 (CBS) (Press, BMI) (Big Seven, BMI) 52 (Music Pushers, ASCAP) 64 I'M SO GLAD Carr-Cee Prod. THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE 139 142 BANG A GONG T REX-Reprise 1032 (TRO-Essex, ASCAP) (Jamf/Fercliff/Sharieff, BMI) 73 Poindexter Brothers (Cotillion/ I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING Win or Lose, BMI) 36 140 144YOUR MOVE YES-Atlantic 2819 (Cotillion, BMI) Wes Farrell(Screen Gems -Columbia) 9 TIRED OF BEING ALONE Willie Mitchell, IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME Stevie Wonder 141 123 BREAKDOWN PARLIAMENT-Invictus 9095 (Capitol) (Gold Forever, BMI) Green(Jec,BMI) 15 (Jobete,BMI) 14 Al IS THAT THE WAY Maurice Gibb & TRAPPED BY A THI I NG CALLED LOVE 142 143 WITHOUT HER NILSSON-RCA 74-0524 (Rock, BMI) Billy Lawrie (Casserole, BMI) 53 CrajonEnt. (Ordena/Bridgeport, BMI) 48 IT'S A CRYING SHAME Lambert & Potter UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY 143 124 CAN'T IT WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW VALERIE SIMPSON-Tamla 54204 (Motown) (Trousdale/Soldier, BMI) 83 Paul & Linda McCartney (Maclen, BMI) .... 12 (Jobete, BMI) IT'S FOR YOU Pink Unlimited & Vinny Testa WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET Tony Hester 20 (Maclen,BMI) 87 WEDDING SONG Jim Mason & Ed Mottau 144128 GENTLE WOMAN GARY PUCKETT-Columbia 4-45438 (Blackwood /Pee Gee, BMI) I'VE FOUND SOMEONE OF MY OWN Joe Porte (SongbirdsofParadise, BMI) 33 (Mango/Run-A-Muck, BMI) 32 WHERE EVIL GROWS Terry Jacks 145 133 WEAR THIS RING DETROIT EMERALDS-Westbound 181 (Chess/Janus) K-JEE FuquaIIIProd.(Rutri, BMI) 55 (Gone Fishin', BMI) 67 (Bridgeport, BMI) KO -KO JOE Chet Atkins (Vector, BMI) 46 WOMEN'S LOVE RIGHTS W. Witherspoon LIAR Richard Polodor (Mainstay, BMI) 31 (Gold Forever, BMI) 62 146 - FRIENDS OF MINE McGUINNESS FLINT-Capitol 3186 (Gallagher/Lyle) LOVE WE HAD, THE Stepyn & Barksdale WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN Lambert, Stamp, 37 (Chappell/Butler,ASCAP) Cameron (Track,BMI) 8 147 TRY MY LOVE ON FOR SIZE CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD-Invictus 9099 (Capitol) LOVING HER WAS EASIER Fred Foster YEAR CLAYTON DELANEY DIED, THE 41 (Gold Forever, BMI) (Combine,BMI) Jerry Kennedy (New Keys, BMI) 100 MacARUTHUR PARK, PT.IIFrank Wilson YOU BROUGHT THE JOY Holland -Dozier -Holland 148 I WASN'T THERE ROY "C"-Alaga 1007 (Johnson -Hammond, BMI) (Canopy,ASCAP) 54 (Gold Forever, BMI) 81 MAGGIE MAY Rod Stewart (MRC Music, BMI) 4 149 121 HERE I GO AGAIN/LEAVE MY MAN ALONE RAELETTES-Tangerine 108 (ABC) MAKE IT FUNKY James Brown Prod. YOU SEND ME B. Massey (Higuera, BMI) 98 (Dynatone, BMI) 24 YOU'VE GOT TO CRAWL Greg Perry (Tiger, BMI) MARIANNE Stephen Stills & Bill Halvorsen (GoldForever, BMI) 60 (Goldhill, BMI) 34 YO-YO Rick Hall (Lowery, BMI) 22 150 - EVERYTHING'S ALRIGHT YVONNE ELLIMAN-Decca 32870 (Leeds, ASCAP)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CLUB REVIEW 101 Newman Special at Troubadour HOLLYWOOD -A specialhim as one of the "it's about NE ALBUM CHART treat occurred recently(7-14) time" geniuses in this field. at the Troubadour in the person Opening thehill was Mer- of Randy Newman, songwritercury's Ian Matthews, formerly 150 supreme. of the group Matthews' South- Newman isfar from a newern Comfort. His voice is much face and his personal introspec-akin to 's with a dy- SEPTEMBER 25, 1971 tion and, often, cynical view ofnamic softness and a batch of songsthathavean THIS LAST life is exceptionally penetrating. inherent WK. WK. One thing thatisclear about loveliness. Newman is that he is an inti- His superlative backup group, 101 101 CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY/Columbia GP 8 mate performergiventoan alsooffering somefine,tight 102 102BOOKER T & PRISCILLA/A&M SP 3504 abundance of very funny asides harmonies,is:Bob Ronga on 103 104 MUDLARK LEO KOTTKE/Capitol ST 682 and a devoted group of fans are, bass; Andy Roberts and Rich- ard Thompson on guitar. Thomp- 104 106 right now, his mainstay as a CHRISTIAN OF THE WORLD TOMMY JAMES/Roulette SR 3001 liveartist.Whethersoulfully son hasbeen with Matthews 105 81 BYRDMANIAX /Columbia KC 30640 gifting us with his "I Think It'ssince the Fairport Convention 106 107 EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING DONNY HATHAWAY/Atco SD 33-332 Going to Rain Today" or hisdays and also wrote "Genesis 107125YES ALBUM/Atlantic SD 8283 sensitive outlook about obesityHall," a good song with an eerie in "Davy, The Fat Boy," New -beauty that provided a pleasant 108 65HAMILTON, JOE FRANK & REYNOLDS/Dunhill DS 50103 (ABC) man's voice is captivating-if hebalance to the set. 109 113 MAGGOT BRAIN FUNKADELIC/Westbound WB 2007 (Chess/Janus) hit all the notes written, it would Tony Lawrence 110 92HANGING IN THERE HUDSON & LANDRY/Dore 324 be a grave disappointment. He 111 112SOMETIMES I JUST FEEL LIKE SMILING BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND/ maintains a special soul while Elektra 75013 singing and playing his magnifi-Gleit Win VP 112 110 C'MON EVERYBODY ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA Camden Cal 2518 cent creations. The fact that his NEW YORK - Sol Gleit, a mostrecentWarnersalbum, 113 118 YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND JOHNNY MATHIS/Columbia C 30740 former VP of Merco Enterpris- "Randy Newman Live,"ishis es, has joined Win Records, Inc., 114 114 MARY MARY TRAVERS/Warner Brothers WS 1907 first to sell significantly labelsas a Vice President. 115 115I WON'T MENTION IT AGAIN RAY PRICE/Columbia G 30510 El-FOUR OF US JOHN SEBASTIAN/Reprise MS 2041 111 122HOME GROWN JOHNNY RIVERS/United Artists UAS 5532 THE ALBUM CHART 118 123 BLACK OAK ARKANSAS/Atco SD 33-354 119 80 SUMMERTIME HERB ALPERT A&M SP 4314 ARTISTS CROSS REFERENCE

20 SOMEDAY WE'LL LOOK BACK MERLE HAGGARD & THE STRANGERS/ ALICE COOPER 94 JEAN KNIGHT 74 Capitol ST 835 ALLMAN BROTHERS 19 GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS 84 HERB ALPERT 119 LEO KOTTKE 103 121 117 HOW HARD IT IS BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY/ LYNN ANDERSON 129 KRIS KRISTOFFERSON 14, 88 ATOMIC ROOSTER 90 JOHN LENNON 42 Columbia C 30738 BURT BACHARACH 59 LIGHTHOUSE 77 JOAN BAEZ 75 HENRY MANCINI 92 SUMMER OF '42 SOUNDTRACK/Warner Bros. WS1925 JOHN BALDRY 73 MARK -ALMOND 139 B3 SHIRLEY BASSEY 135 JOHNNY MATHIS 113 123 120 CAROLE KING: WRITER/Ode 70 SP 77006 (A&M) BEACH BOYS 63 CURTIS MAYFIELD 66 BEE GEES 46 PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY 5 124119 THEM CHANGES BUDDY MILES/Mercury SR 61280 BIG BROTHER & COUNTRY JOE McDONALD 143 THE HOLDING COMPANY 121 McGUINNES FLINT 137 125 126 ROCK ON HUMBLE PIE/A&M 4301 BLACK OAK ARKANSAS 118 LEE MICHAELS 92 BLACK SABBATH 8, 48 BUDDY MILES 124 126 132 NATURAL MAN LOU RAWLS/MGM SE 4771 BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS 25 JONI MITCHELL 23 BOOKER T. AND PRISCILLA 102 MOODY BLUES 2 127 127 SHE'S A LADY TOM JONES Parrot XPAS 71046 (London) JAMES BROWN 30 MOTHERS OF INVENTION 34 VICTOR BUONO 133 GRAHAM NASH 80 128 129WORLD WIDE GOLD AWARD HITS, VOL. 2 ELVIS PRESLEY/ BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND 111 NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE 44 RCA SM 6402 BYRDS 105 OSIBISA 78 CARPENTERS 6, 49 OSMONDS 51, 140 VIKKI CARR 129 131 YOU'RE MY MAN LYNN ANDERSON/Columbia C 30793 95 DONNY OSMOND 13 CHASE 60 PARTRIDGE FAMILY 9, 52, 93 130 110 GREATEST HITS SLY & FAMILY STONE/Epic KE 30325 CHICAGO 87. 101 FREDA PAYNE 150 CHILITES 38 ELVIS PRESLEY 98, 112, 128 131 137 COME BACK HOME BOBBY GOLDSBORO United Artists UAS 5516 TOM CLAY 68 RAY PRICE 115 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 145 CHARLEY PRIDE 89 132 134 GASOLINE ALLEY ROD STEWART Mercury SR 61264 CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG 29 RAIDERS 53 KING CURTIS 71 RARE EARTH 31 HEAVY VICTOR BUONO/Dore LP325 DEEP PURPLE 27 LOU RAWLS 126 MB DELLS 70 HELEN REDDY 55 JOHN DENVER 134 135 LOVE STORY ANDY WILLIAMS/Columbia KC 30297 18 JOHNNY RIVERS 117 DOORS 24 DIANA ROSS 57 135 128 SOMETHING ELSE SHIRLEY BASSEY/United Artists UAS 6797 8TH DAY 149 JOHN SEBASTIAN 116 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER 33, 85 ROLLING STONES 16 136 141 SIGNS FIVE MAN ELECTRICAL BAND/Lionel LRS 1100 (MGM) FIVE MAN ELECTRICAL BAND 136 LEON RUSSELL 40 ROBERTA FLACK 82 SANTANA 76 137 140 HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUTHY BABY McGUINNESS FLINT 'Capitol ST 794 ARETHA FRANKLIN 20, 56 SHA NA NA 147 FREE 138 CARLY SIMON 61 LIVE FREE/A&M SP 4306 FUNKADELIC 109 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE 130 E3 MARVIN GAYE 17 SOUNDTRACKS: 139 108 MARK-ALMOND/Blue Thumb BTS 27 NIKKI GIOVANNI 146 SHAFT 7 GODSPELL 62 SOUL TO SOUL 91 140 142 ONE BAD APPLE OSMONDS/MGM SG 4724 BOBBY GOLDSBORO 131 SUMMER OF 42 122 GRAND FUNK RAILROAD 47 STEPPENWOLF 148 141 146 LIVE AT THE REGAL B. B. KING/ ABC ABCS 724 GUESS WHO 37, 45 CAT STEVENS 26 HAMILTON, JOE FRANK & REYNOLDS 108 RAY STEVENS 83 142 143WHERE I'M COMING FROM STEVIE WONDER/Tamla TS 308 (Motown) MERLE HAGGARD & THE STRANGERS 120 ROD STEWART 4, 132 EDDIE HARRIS & LES McCANN 100 STEPHEN STILLS 43 143 144WAR! WAR! WAR! COUNTRY JOE McDONALD Vanguard VSD 79315 DONNY HATHAWAY 106 PAUL STOOKEY 50 ISAAC HAYES 144 BARBRA STREISAND 97 144 145 TO BE CONTINUED ISAAC HAYES/Enterprise ENS 1010 (Stax) JIMI HENDRIX 87 JAMES TAYLOR 10, 96 HOWLIN' WOLF 58 TEMPTATIONS 64 145 141 COSMO'S FACTORY CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL/ HUDSON & LANDRY 102 TEN YEARS AFTER 15 HUMBLE PIE 125 THREE DOG NIGHT 39, 65 Fantasy 8402 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK 36 MARY TRAVERS 114 JACKSON 5 79 IKE & TINA TURNER 35 146148 TRUTH IS ON ITS WAY NIKKI GIOVANNI/Right On 05001 TOMMY JAMES 104 UNDISPUTED TRUTH 41 JAMES GANG 28, 69 Jr. WALKER & THE ALL STARS 99 147 121 SHA NA NA Kama Sutra KSBS 2034 (Buddah) JEFFERSON AIRPLANE 21 THE WHO 3 148 149 JETHRO TULL 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS -ROCK FESTIVAL 67 STEPPENWOLF GOLD Dunhill DKS 50090 (ABC) ELTON JOHN 86 VARIOUS ARTISTS -SUPERSTAR 12 149 124 8TH DAY/Invictus ST 7306 (Capitol) TOM JONES 127 ANDY WILLIAMS 54, 134 JANIS JOPLIN 72 BILL WITHERS 32 150 150 CONTACT FREDA PAYNE/Invictus SMAS 7302 (Capitol) B.B. KING 141 STEVIE WONDER 142 CAROLE KING 1, 123 YES 107

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Chess: 'The Label With The Oldest New Talent' THE R&B VtORLD NEW YORK-What, one mayadvantages of the blues is that SINGLES CHART ask, are Howlin' Wolf and Mud-every five years a new audience dy Waters doing in a specialdiscovers it." SEPTEMBER 25, 1911 issue on "Tomorrow's Chart - WK. WK. makers?" Despite the length Attractive Packaging THIS LAST and distinction of their record- But even though blues has a 3 STICKUP Honey Cone-Hot Wax 7106 (Buddah) ing careers, both artists havesteady market, Chess is deter- long been relegated to the "lim-mined not to take it for grant- 5 THE BREAKDOWN Rufus Thomas-Stax 0098 ited" blues market. The reason-ed. They make sure their blues 6 MAKE IT FUNKY, PT. 1 James Brown-Polydor 14088 ing of many in the music indus-albums are attractively pack- 4 4 TIRED OF BEING ALONE Al Green-Hi 2194 (London) try was that blues artists couldaged, informatively annotated 10 IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME Stevie Wonder-Tamla 54208 (Motown) never make the charts. priced.That andreasonably 6 7 THE LOVE WE HAD Dells-Cadet 5683 (Chess/Janus) But now, in these enlightenedwas the reasoning behind their times,it'spossible for evenverysuccessful two -for -the - 7 1 SPANISH HARLEM Aretha Franklin-Atlantic 2817 8 9 TRAPPED BY A THING CALLED LOVE Denise LaSalle-Westbound 182 abluesartistto become aprice of one series. Chess has (Chess/Janus) chartmaker.B.B. King hasalreadyreleasedalbumsby doneit consistentlyfor theMuddy Waters, Lou Donaldson, 11 THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE Persuaders-Atco 6826 past two or three years. JohnEtta James and the Soul Stir- 10 12 CALL MY NAME, I'LL BE THERE Wilson Pickett-Atlantic 2824 Lee Hooker has recently foundrers. Forthcoming releases will 11 2 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE Bill Withers-Sussex 219 (Buddah) new fame. And a few weeks include John Lee Hooker, Howl - 12 13 WOMEN'S LOVE RIGHTS Laura Lee-Hot Wax 7105 (Buddah) ago, at the age 61, the legend-in' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Bo Did- HIJACKIN' LOVE Johnny Taylor-Stax 0096 ary Howlin' Wolf had his firstdley, Little Walter and many 15 chartrecord.His"Londonothers. 17 A NICKEL AND A NAIL 0. V. Wright-Back Beat 622 Howlin' Wolf Sessions" entered Many blues artists have nev-®20SHE'S ALL I'VE GOT Freddie North-Mankind 12004 (Nashboro) the Record World charts at 78er had the benefit of a full- BLACK SEEDS KEEP ON GROWING Main Ingredient-RCA 74-0517 with a bullet and has now soldscale promotion and publicity 16 18 over 150 thousand copies. campaign before. When Muddy 17 8 SMILING FACES SOMETIMES Undisputed Truth-Gordy 7180 (Motown) "We promoted and publicizedWaters began performing 18 19 A PART OF YOU Brenda & the Tabulations-Top & Bottom 408 Uamie-Guyden) Howlin' Wolf as extensively asagain earlier this year after 19 21 FEEL SO BAD Ray Charles-ABC 11308 if he were a totally new artist."recuperating from an automo- 20 14 1234 Lucky Peterson-Today 1503 (Perception) said Chess President Marvinbile accident Chess backed himEll25YOU'VE GOT TO CRAWL (BEFORE YOU WALK) 8th Day-Invictus 9098 (Capitol) Schlachter. "In fact, to the ma-with airplay from his "They 26 YOU SEND ME Ponderosa Twins Plus One-Horoscope 102 (All Platinum) jority of today's record buyers,Call Me Muddy Waters" album he is a new star. One of theand the publicity department 23 24 ALL MY HARD TIMES/GEORGIA BLUE Joe Simon-Spring 118 (Polydor) set up major interviews. A con-Ea 28 GHETTO WOMAN B. B. King-ABC 11310 cert at the JFK Center for the 25 22 TAKE ME GIRL, I'M READY Jr. Walker & the All Stars-Soul 35084 (Motown) Performing Arts in Washing- 29 A NATURAL MAN Lou Rawls-MGM 14262 ton, D.C., on Sept. 25 is among I WASN'T THERE Roy "C"-Alaga 1007 the benefits of the new empha-ED 31 GI GI sis Chess has placed on Muddy. 32 HOT PANTS I'M COMING COMING -Brownstone 4203 (Polydor) and The success of his currentECI35 BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER Eddie Floyd-Stax 0095 album has brought Howlin' 30 23 (UNTIL THEN) I'LL SUFFER Barbara Lynn-Atlantic 2812 Bernice Banks Wolf more publicity in the past GIVE THE BABY ANYTHING THE BABY WANTS Joe Tex-Dial 1008 (Mercury) 10 weeks than he's received inErn 36 103 48I'M SO GLAD Fuzz-Calla 179 (Roulette) Hodges -Sawyer the previous10years. Poor health has prevented him from 33 34CAN YOU GET TO THAT Funkadelic-Westbound 185 (Chesslanus) Management making all the personal appear-Ea 43MacARTHUR PARK PT. II Four Tops-Motown 1189 ances he's being offered nowa- SPILL THE WINE Isley Brothers-T-Neck 932 (Buddah) 1697 Broadway, N.Y.C. days, but when he comes into 45 New York for a Sept. 24 con- 36 NEVER MY LOVE 5th Dimension-Bell 134 Suite 201 cert he'll be busy with inter- 37 39 LOOK WHAT WE'VE DONE TO LOVE Glass House-Invictus 9097 (Capitol) (212) 489-8876 views and a tv appearance or SLIPPED, TRIPPED & FELL IN LOVE Ann Peebles-Hi 2198 (London) (Motown) two. 39 40 I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE Rare Earth-Rare Earth 5031 Exclusively on YoungSophistication 40 41 S.O.S. Winfield Parker-Spring 116 (Polydor) What has made it possible131 47 PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY Newcomers-Stax 0099 SWEET RECORDS for these bluesmen and many 42 46 DADDY LOVE Gigi-Sweet 5-001 others to become "rock and roll 43 44ALL DAY MUSIC/GET DOWN War-United Artists 50816 Upcoming New Single From YOU BROUGHT THE JOY Freda Payne-Invictus 9100(Capitol) stars" is the increased sophis-reZI tication of young record buy-co53 BREEZIN' Gabor Szabo-Blue Thumb 200 GI GI ers. In the absence of any dom- THAT'S THE WAY I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE PercySledge-Atlantic 2826 inant trends, many musiciansCa 1552 (Avco) That Is Hit Bound! and listeners are going back 47 42MISS JACKSON'S DAUGHTER Randolph Walker-Lawton to the roots. The blues has been 48 49 HIGH SCHOOL GIRL Milky Way -4 Star Radio RR333 an inexhaustible source of in- 49 50 IT'S IMPOSSIBLE New Birth-RCA 74.0520 "DADDY LOVE" THAT'S THE WAY A WOMAN IS Messengers-Rare Earth 5032(Motown) spirationtogenerationsof 50 52 young singers and guitarists. 51 16 I LIKES TO DO IT People's Choice-Phil. L. A. of Soul (Jamie-Guyden) Sweet S-001 52 54 DO IT (THE FUNKY DANCE) Dave "Baby" Cortez-Sound Pac SPM 1001 Having sat through count- 53 57 GROOVIN' OUT ON LIFE Frederick II-Vulture 5002 (Lizard) Watch It Smash The Charts! less British and American in- I WANT TO PAY YOU BACK Chi-Lites-Brunswick 55458 terpretations of the blues, au- Bernice Bank's diences are ready for the real DON'T TURN AROUND Black Ivory-Today 1501 (Perception) thing. Recently, many rock art- 56 -BEND ME, SHAPE ME, Henry Shed-Cream 118 single to be released shortly ists who've earned big money 57 37 I LIKE WHAT YOU GIVE Nolan-Lizard 1008 58 -IF YOU WANT ME TO KEEP ON LOVING YOU Sonny Green-United Artists 50836 in the music biz are sharing a 59 38 GOT TO GET OVER THE HUMP Simtec & Wylie-Mister Chand 2004 (Mercury) (Continued on page 501 60 27 WEAR THIS RING Detroit Emeralds-Westbound 181 (Chess Janus)

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Charlie Watts), "Hooker and 11 FREEDOM MEANS Dells-Cadet CA 50004 (Chess/Janus) Heat," Memphis Slim's "BlueEl 9HOT PANTS James Brown-Polydor 4054 It has also been said that Memphis" and several others. whenshewasworkingon In the works is a collaboration 6 4 JUST AS I AM Bill Withers-Sussex 7006 (Buddah) "Brewster," LouAdler,pro- between Chuck Berry and the 10 GIVE MORE POWER TO THE PEOPLE Chi-Lites-Brunswick Bt. 754170 ducer of the film, worked with Rolling Stones. El 12KING CURTIS LIVE AT THE FILLMORE WEST-Atco SD 33-359 her for months to help her de- It just goes to prove that velop vocally. even blues can show a profit if 9 6 THE SKY'S THE LIMIT Temptations-Gordy GS 957 (Motown) "In today's market you don't it'smarketedproperly.For 10 7 UNDISPUTED TRUTH-Gordy G 955 (Motown) many years, Chess has been want to look silly by capitaliz- 11 8 MR. BIG STUFF Jean Knight-Stax vs 2045 ing on a name but when people noted for its blues artists. The hear product that's the answer," way things are going now, it's 12 13 CHAPTER TWO Roberta Flack-Atlantic SC 1569 also the label with the oldest said Sutton. "new" talent in the music busi- 13 5 CURTIS LIVE Curtis Mayfield-Curtom CRS 8008 (Buddah) ness. 14 14 TRUTH IS ON ITS WAY Nikki Giovanni-Right On PR 05001 Lester Forms El 21 MAGGOT BRAIN Funkadelic-Westbound 2007 (Chess/Janus) TC in LA 16 17 IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN Gladys Knight & the Pips-Soul SS 731 (Motown) GMI Label 17 18 (Continued from page4) TC Management is opening WHAT YOU HEAR IS WHAT YOU GET Ike & Tina Turner-United Artists 9953 an office in Los Angeles. Martin 1113- ARETHA'S GREATEST HITS Aretha Franklin-Atlantic SD 8295 lease in1971,with five addi- Pichinson, VP, will be leaving 19 15 BREAKOUT Johnny Hammond-Kudo KU -01 (CTI) tionalalbumsscheduledfor for LA Sept. 13 to make the January,1972.Initial release of necessary arrangements. 20 23 ONE WORLD Rare Earth-Rare Earth RS 520 (Motown) three singles and four LPs is 1311 26LONDON HOWLIN' WOLF SESSIONS-Chess CH 60008 planned for October. al - SAGITTARIUS MOVEMENT Jerry Butler-Mercury SR 61347 Negotiations for international BREAKOUT distribution have been completed 23 22SURRENDER Diana Ross-Motown MS 723 with RCA to handle the line ALAGA 24 16 RAINBOW FUNK Jr. Walker & the All Stars-Soul S 7326 (Motown) globally in all areas but the U.S. 25 20 and Canada.Lesteralsoan- RECORDSAL -1007 DONNY HATHAWAY-Atco SD 33-360 nounced plans for an interna- Eel 46WANDA ROBINSON-Perception PLP 18 tional concert tour of major jazz 27 19 SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASS SONG Soundtrack-Stax STS 3001 artists with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra already set for 28 25 SECOND MOVEMENT Eddie Harris & Les McCann-Atlantic SD 1583 a tour of Russia and Europe in 29 29 EXPOSED Valerie Simpson-Tamla TS 308 (Motown) March,'72. 30 31 NOW Four Tops-Motown 675 Domestically,thelabelwill distributeindependentlywith 31 27 MAYBE TOMORROW Jackson 5-Motown MS 735 distribution being set up by Ery 32 33 THEM CHANGES Buddy Miles-Mercury SR 61280 Bagley who moves into the com- 33 34 OSIBISA-Decca DL 75285 pany as Vice President and Gen- eral Manager, in addition to his 34 35 MELTING POT Booker T & the MG's-Stax 2035 posts as VP of Vision Produc- 35 28 CONTACT Freda Payne-Invictus SMAS 7302 (Capitol) tions,Inc.,and theirrelated publishingcompaniesinthe 36 38 LIVE AT THE REGAL B. B. King-ABC ABCS 724 overall corporate set-up. Bagley. "I WASN'T 37 30 WHERE I'M COMING FROM Stevie Wonder-Tamla TS 308 (Motown) formerly Marketing Head of the 38 39 Blue Note, division of United VOLCANIC ACTION OF MY SOUL Ray Charles-ABC ABCS 729 Artists,relates that the com- THERE" El 44NATURAL MAN Lou Rawls-MGM SE 4771 pany in addition to assigning AL 1007, 40 41 B. B. 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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Big Perception IssueGrease Band CLUB REVIEW IN NEW YORK- Perception Records has embarkedon itsOn Tour Lettermen Score at Fairmont Hotel most extensive release schedule.aNEW YORK-They're billed Current: "Portrait of Jenny"as the "weirdest rock group in SAN FRANCISCO by Dizzy Gillespie; "We Can Be - Witheasy to close one's eyes and just the country," but according tothethrustoftoutingpoprecollect. Everything" by John Simson;their members, "we're basicallygroupscenteredaroundthe "Black Ivory" by Wanda Rob-sort of a folk group." In anyBeatles, the Stones, Grand Funk Opening with "Up, Up and inson; and "The Giants" whichevent, Columbia's Hamptonor Led Zeppelin, the LettermenAway," the Lettermen tend to features Dizzy Gillespie, BobbyGrease Band is definitely a tal- utilize the best of a pop -orient- Hackett and Mary Lou Wil- have quietly established an im-ed repertoire including "Love ented, funny act whose recentpressive record for Capitol Rec-is a Many Splendored Thing," liams. In addition, a specially- appearance at New York's Gas-ords. From their firstsingle, priced jazz double pack haslight Cafe brought an excellent"The Way You Look Tonight,""How Can You Mend a Broken been prepared which features response. Heart" and a dazzling version albums by James Moody and to the extreme enthusiasm con-of "MacArthur Park." Each has Dizzy Gillespie. Bruce Hampton and his co-cerning their newest, John Len- a chancetosolo with Gary non's"Love,"theLettermen Slatedforrelease:"And hortschattedwithRecord picking "Windy" and Tony do- Proud of It" by J. J. Jackson;World last week, and althoughhave accounted for total LPing "It's Too Late." Jim did a "Bartel" by John Bartel; "Heri-it was usually difficult to tellsales exceeding 25 million dol-concise but proper intro before tage Hum" by James Moody;when they were serious (Brucelars and their first album, "A"It'sImpossible."Thehar- "Pendulum"; "Would"; "Ourclaimed that his major musicalSong for Young Love," was onmonies are lush and full, al- influence lay with Johnny Unit-the national charts for over a Future" by Little Lucky Peter- year. ways tight with the kind of son; "The Brockingtons," andas), the following facts were blending so difficult and so im- "The Ebony Godfather" by Joegleaned: they have their first The Lettermen opened for aperative for a top vocal group. Thomas. album out on Columbia, "Mu-two-week stand at the FairmontBut the Lettermen are a top sic to Eat," from which a singleHotel here last week (10), andvocal group with their tailored may soon be released, and theytheir staying power is obvioustuxedoes only complementation MMI Retained are currently on an East Coast to the impressive results. Ernie tour which will include stopsas are the reasons. Jim and Lettermen, Inc., has retained Gary Pike and Tony Butala areHeckscher's Orchestra, in resi- in Boston, Maryland and Newall dashing gentlemen with thedence at the Venetian Room, the services of Music MarketingYork as well as their home supplied able backing. International, town, Atlanta. kind of subtle confidence and recording, mar- stage presence that surely sat- Tony Lawrence keting and sales organization One's general reaction to theisfy without vulgarly going for formed by Buzz Wilburn. MMIHampton Grease Band seemsfalse adulation. Just as impor- will personally handle all theto be that although it's impos-tant is the fact that the trioUR Names Lider sible to tell when they're kid-never performs a number less The promotion of Dorothy promotion and marketing ofding, there's a lot of good mu- Lettermen product in conjunc- thanit sounds on an album.Lider to National Credit Man- sicthroughoutallthe jokesThus, when they encored withager for United Artists Rec- tion with Capitol Records. and put-ons. "Goin' Out of My Head," it wasords, Inc., has been announced.

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Artists de la Semana DESDERINcoNN.ALUESTRO (Artist of the Week) elegante, le tocO actuar en una plazaen la cual su nombre ya era escuchado, y al llegar al hotel habia un grupo de admi- radoras de Marco, las cuales (This column appears first in. Spanish and then in English) creyeron que el amigo que iba bien vestido eraelesperado By TOMAS FUNDORA

Marco Antonio Vazquez, y ,cual Estin siendo distribuidas en Miami, copias no seria su sorpresa que las pirateadas de la grabaciOn "Canta Raphael" admiradoras fueron donde el ha del sello UA Latino ... Vendran comoartistas manifestarle que le dijera a su invitados al II Festival de la CanciOn Latino- amigo Marco que les firmara americana de Nueva York, los integrantes del un autografo. Estes anecdotas duo Juan y Juan, en lugar del ya anunciado desde todo punto de vista muy Helene. Juan y Juan fueron seleccionados este tristes, hicieron de Marco un aflo por Record World como el "Duo del Afio" artista que basa sus composi- Tomas Fundora . . . Comofue prometido, el espectaculo pre- ciones en hechos de la vidasentado por Jerry Massucci en el "Cheetah" de Nuevo York fu6 Marco Antonio Vazquez real y es justamente esa par-espectacular. Mas de 4,000 bailadores colmaron el lugar, despues ticularidad, que ha hecho quede haber sido rechazados en la puerta Inas de 3,000 por la capa- MEXICO-El creador de "Te (Continued on page 54) cidad del lugar. Actuaron entre otros artistes Fania, Johnny Vi Llorando," uno de los recor- Pacheco, Larry Harlow, Willie Colon y Ray Barrette. El evento dados grandes exitos en Mexi- fue grabado y filmado a pleno color. . .Actuarin Los Sonor's co, es el fiel reflejo del artista en Chicago durante esta semana. Con estas presentaciones ini- que nace con la mesica en el ciaran una jira por Estados Unidos .. .Debute exitosamente alma. Marco Antonio Vazquez Carlos Lico en el "Quid" de Mexico. Su nuevo exit° es "La Barca Barreiro, capitalino por naci- de la Soledad." miento se forjo y ha llegado a \WALD Chivirico Davila va pegando fuerte en Puerto Rico y Nueva la mispide que ostenta, gracias LATINAMERICAN OFFICE York con su interpretaciOn de "Hay que Vivir a ese gran sentido de supera- TOMASFUNDORA/MANAGER el Momento" en el sello Cotique, en produccien Raul Lemes/Assistant Manager Ralph Lew . . . Aumentan notablemente las chin que late en su ser desde Pilar Silva/Coordinator pequefio. Su vide pasada fue 1160 S.W. First St. yentas del nuevo "album" de Cornelio Reyna muy dura como nos cuenta, y Miami, Fla. 33130 que Royalca ha puesto a la yenta. . .Jose sus primeros trabajos los rea- (305) 373-1740 Garcia Jr., hijo de nuestro fraterno Pepe Gar- lize como "Talon," interpretan- (305) 379-7115 cia, acaba de fundar la Latin American Produc- do las canciones que le solici- (305) 821-1230 (night) tions en Los Angeles, que se dedicara a la rep- taran. MEXICO resentacien de artistes y lanzamiento de nuevas VILO ARIAS SILVA . . actuation de Andy Wil- Su vida artistica esta llena Xola #62 Depto. 404 producciones . La de recuerdos, y a propesito de Colonia Alamos, Mexico 13,D.F. .luan and Juan liams en el Hollywood Bowl el pasado 27 de estos, nos relata Marca, que en SPAIN Agosto fue muy aplaudida. El momento imper- sus inicios su popularidad ha- MARIANO MENDEZ DE VIGO sionante, fue cuando el astro norteamericano interpret() "Love bia ido en crecimiento por toda Virgen del Fresnedo, 1 Story" en Espafiol. Fue una "Noche Latino" inolvidable ...Tony larepublica,mits no asisu Madrid 17, Spain Pabon acaba de grabarle a la Orquesta Her- ARGENTINA economia, por lo tanto vestia RICARDO KLEINMAN manos Lopez que actuan en el Hipocampo Night modestamente. En uno de sus Figueroa Alcorta 3080 Suite 10H Club de Puerto Rico. La grabacien sale en el tanto.s recorridos, en los cuales Buenos Aires. Argentina sello Rico. Al mismo tiempo, me anuncia Tony era siempre acompailado por un URUGUAY el proximo lanzamiento de un nuevo "elepe" de CACHOVALDEZ intimo amigo el cual si dispo- la Protests ...Lanzara Audio Latino el mes Corrientes 1585 nia de recursos economicos y Tercer Piso - Of. 12 proximo el primer "elepe" de las laureadas porsupuestamentevestia muy Buenos Aires, Argentina Trillizas de Oro de Argentina, en produccion de Ben Molar para Fermata ...Celia Cruz se lute en su interpretaciOn de "Caonero" en un nuevo ('arlos Lico "release" Tico. Trae al dorso "La Bikina." Tam- bien en Tico, va logrando impacto La Lupe con reCAYTRON ICS su interpretation de "El Malo." Se estrenara a principios de Octubre en Nueva York y Puerto Rico, la pelicula "Simplemente una Rosa" inter- pretada por Leonardo Favio. Como quiera que UNritt of se incluyen cinco de los temas de su nuevo tlacinia "elepe" titulado "Vamos a Puerto Rico," en este A Bark pelicula,lapromotionrecibidaproducira buenos dividendos ... AlvaroArango, de Co - discos, Colombia, de visita en Guatemala. .. Muy bueno el "long playing" que Rico Records acaba de poner a la yenta, interpretado por la !. La Nueva Onda de Las Trillizas excelente trompeta, Pedro Rafael Chaparro, que Si Te Agarro De Oro forme parte indisintamente de las orquestas de Chelo Silva Jacinto Antonio Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Machito, Tito Rod- CYS 1266 A CYS 1272 A riguez, Ricardo Ray y otras. Acompana a Chaparro el vocalista Leo Gonzalez ...Zambia Recordspusoa la yenta el nuevo long CaytrOrliCS Corp.240 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y.._. (Continued on page 53) .::-:-..-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:::»x»:-:-:-:-:»x»:-):-:-:-:-:-:-:»:-:-::-::-:-:-:-:-:-:-::

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com DESDE NUESTRO LATIN AMERICAN (Continued from page 52) 8°ALBUM PRODUCT playing de Xiomara Alfaro,titulado"In TheseIBelieve." Modernos arreglos de milsica santera. Canticos de la genial Xiomara a sus santos lucimies... Vendiendo bien el "album" de LA NUEVA MA DE Johnny Albino interpretando a Hector Flores Osuna... SandroJACINTO ANTONIO- Caytronics CYC 1266. al Madison Square Garden de Nueva York en Octubre 9 y 10.Muy buena la interpretation de "Ahora iTriunfara! . . . Muy buena la interpretation de "Consorte-Si" con posibilidades de exito. Muy Guaguance" y "Sin Llave y sin Candado" de Willie Rosario ybuenos arreglos orquestales, interpreta- Orquesta, en nuevo "release" del sello Inca ... Exitos lanza estachin y ejecucion. Jacinto Antonio pu- semana el larga duration de Dany interpretando su exit° "Tediera dar un golpe en el mercado inter- . . i Hasta la Amo de Noche to Extrafio de Dia." . Y ahora, nacional.Tambien"PorTontoTe prexima desde Nueva York! Perdi," "El Necio," "Caminando Jun- tos," "Que Tal Mi Amor," "Tus Manos" A bootlegged copy of the album "Canta Raphael" on UA Latino y "Encuentro." is being distributed in Miami.. . Juan &Juan will attend the Jacinto Antonio could make it big with "Ahora Si." Also on II Festival of the Latin American Song of New York. They willthis superb package: "Caminando Junto a Ti," "Que Tal Mi replace Heleno from Argentina. Juan & Juan were named byAmor," "Miseria," "Comiendo Una Manzana," others. Arrange- Record World Duo of the Year. .. On Aug. 26, there was a spectacular happening at the Cheetah in New York. Fania Recordsments by Cardenas, Icasto, Bacharach and Capp. presented the Fania All -Stars while recording live and filming "LOS D1NAMICOS" the whole event. There were almost 4,000 people in the Cheetah PACHECO/BETANCOURT- while another 3,000 had to be turned away at the door for lack of Fania SLP 00402. room inside. For those who were inside, it was an unforgetableLa voz de Justo Betancourt y el tumbao night. Johnny Pacheco, Larry Harlow, Willie Colon, Ray Barretode Johnny Pachecho. Gran combination and all of the other artists under contract to Fania performed quevendersbien!"ConlosPies ... Los Sonor's will tour the states. They will perform in ChicagoCamino," "Td y Td Guarapo," "Soy el this week ... Carlos Lico debuted at the Quid in Mexico City.Mismo," "Mango, Piña y Maranon" y His new hit is "La Barca de la Soledad." "No Te Enojes." Chivirico Davila is selling in Puerto Rico and New York "HayIn Pacheco and Betancourt... groovy! Auother album onFania que Vivir el Momento" on Cotique, produced by Ralph Lew ... that will make it big. "Matanzas," "Lo Que Quiero es Gozar," Royalcoisselling his new album, "Echale Sentimiento," by"Fugalo," "Tu Mal Comportamiento," more. Cornelio Reyna ... Jose Garcia, Jr. is creating a new enterprise in Los Angeles to represent artists and the production of new ANGELICA MARIA recordings .. .Andy Williams' performances at the Hollywood RCA 11MS 1912. Bowl last week were superb. He received an ovation performingLogra impacto Angelica Maria con ar- "Love Story" in Spanish ... TonyPabon just recorded an albumreglos de Chucho Zarzosa, Magallanes y by Orchestra Hermanos Lopez, who are performing at the Hipo-Chucho Ferrer. "Que Viva la Buena campo Night Club of Puerto Rico. This album will be releasedVida," "Yoque no VivoSinTi," by Rico Records. Tony isalso announcing a new album by"Amiga," "No Soy Magdalena" y "Los Orchestra La Protests, which will be released shortly ... Audio Anos Locos." Latino will issue next month an album by Las Trillizas de Oro Angelica Maria performs at her best on this album. "Yo que from Fermata, Argentina . . . Celia Cruz sings "Caonero" b/wno Vivo Sin Ti," "Un Corazen Grande," "No Soy Magdalena" "La Bikina" in a new single via Tico this month. Also from thisand "Ruiseiior." label, La Lupe is starting to move her performance of "El Malo" "YOU SOY PARA TI" . . Leonardo Favio . A film titled "Simplemente una Rosa" by ROSARIO DE ALBA-Peerless 1585. will be exhibited next month in Puerto Rico and New York. Four SeluceRosario,"La Baladistade of the themes that Leonardo sings on his new LP, "Vamos aAmerica" en "Yo Soy Para Ti," "Un Puerto Rico," are performed in this picture, which will providePoco de Amor," "Aeropuerto Interna- great promotion for this album ... Alvaro Arango from Codiscos, cional" y "Sin Td Amor" contenidas en Colombia, is visiting Guatemala . . . Another album on Ricoeste album conjuntamente con un reper- Records that could make it big is a new one they just releasedtorio balanceado. Arreglos de Maldo- by the great player Rafael Chaparro, who used toper -nado, Molina, Neri y Prais. form with the orchestras of Tito Rodriguez, Machito, Tito Puente Rosario de Alba is moving internationally. Here she renders and Ricardo Ray. Leo Gonzalez is the vocalist on this album"Yo Soy Para Ti," "Esta Plegaria," "Dime Ya," "La Cigarra" and titled "Este es Chaparro" .. .Zambia Records from New York released a new album by Xiomara Alfaro titled "In These I"Quiz& Quiza, Quiza." Superb arrangements. Believe." Great arrangements and ditto performances by Xiomara .. . Johnny Albino performing themes by Hector Flores Osuna ISMAEL, KAKO Y CHEO SIGUEN EN PUNTA . . . is selling nicely. It is a Starbright's release . . . Sandro will perform at the Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 9 por MIGUEL ESTIVILL and 10 ... "Consorte"b/w "Sin Llave y sin Candado" by Willie OSE -CHEO_ FELICIANO Rosario and his Orchestra on Inca label could make it ... Exitos will release next week an album by Dany in which they included his international hit, "Te Amor de Noche Te Extrafio de Dia." Next week we will be reporting from New York.

Celia at Chateau Budd on Broadway NEW YORK-Latin singingII HerbBernstein,personal "JOSE (CHEO) FELICIANO" "LO ULTIMO EN LA star Celia Cruz opens at Bobbymanager toJulie Budd,an- AVENIDA" and Danny Lopez' Chateau Ma-nounces that Julie will make SLPA-8890 Ismael Rivera con her Broadway stage debut this drid on Thursday evening, Sept. Kako Y suJrquesta fall in "Wild and Wonderful," SLPA-1215 30, along with La Zambra Fla-set to open at the Lyceum The- menco Group. ater on Nov. 9. N.Y. Dist.: SKYLINE DISTRIBUTORS, 636 10th Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10036

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ras" "Amor, Lucha y Esperan- Record World in Argentina Artist of Week za" realize una colecta en pro - de una escuela, y le pidieron By RICARDO KLEINMAN provechado cantante,deubi- (Continued from page 52) que cooperara actuando a ,bene- O La nueva productionlocal carse entrelosfavoritosdel ficio. Como no lo podia hacer anuncia un posible hit en lapublic° argentino. 'Roko acabasus discos sean unanimementepor motivos de compromisos ya versionhechaporPinturade firmar contrato con el sello aceptados. adquiridos,obsequi6sufiel Fresca para la RCA del temaMicrofon, despues de una ra- Ahora tengo mi sastre par-compariera- su guitarra -para de Gerard "Butterfly." pida incursion en el elenco deticular,nosdice con muchaque sea rifada. Pero su popu- RCA y Philips. satisfaction. laridad,ha crecido tanto en La aparicion de Roko y "La estos momentos, que la espera- Pasion De Un Hombre" le abre "QuieroSer Yo Como El Viento" por Luz de Mercurio, Marco, pertenece aladis- da rifa no se neve a cabo por todas las posibilidades a este quera Peerless de Mexico, desdehaber decidido sus admirado- excelente, y hasta ahora desa-reactualiza a este buen grupo que un ario atras "matara" conmucho tiempo atras y esti, muyras, que la guitarra quedara a gusto como el lo manifiesta,como trofeo para el club. "Quiero Ir A Bariloche." siempre encontre apoyo, alien - Ya casi se han terminado lasto y su proyeccien ya dej6 los H ultimas escenas del film "Vuel-limitesnacionales para tras-:CORNELIO REYNA vo A Vivir Vuelvo A Cantar"poner las fronteras; como que RECORDS protagonizado porSabu,queesta proyectada una promociOn Mexico's Most Prolific ocupa esta semana el segundo Composer -Vocalist Singing 12 PRESENTA por Europa. puesto en el ranking de yentas Recuerda con gran carifio su of his Greatest Songs. con "Cuando Necesito Amor." 7-k-7-1 La presencia de Sabu en Mon-primera creation "Creo" y sus tevideo (Uruguay) los dias 20otros exitos "En Mi Libro" y y 21 de agosto motive una de"Tu Primer Pecado." las recepciones mas nutridas y Los trofeos, por otra parte calurosas realizadas en los al-no se han hecho esperar, y timos arios a un idolo de la can -tiene entre su ,coleccie "El Dis- den popular. Mas de tres milcometro" 0 veces consecutiva- "fans" se apiriaron en el Aero-mente), "El Calendario Azte- puerto Internacional de Carras-ca," "El Heraldo," "El Disco CHAPARRO co (Uruguay) para recibir conde Oro de Hollywood"ymuchos "Echale Sentimiento" Bego BG-1084 Rico SLP-703 banderas y ,carteles al "Prin-mas. cipe"Saba.Ya fue contratado En la acualidad, tiene 11 dis- Una Nube Ololiuqui para una nueva incursion encos grabados de larga dura- Puerto Rico Montevideo, donde realizara so- Estoy Loco Triste Y Viejo Malanga Murio tion, realizados todos ellos por Yo El Cantinero lamente actuation ante las Ca- elsello Peerless y entre sus Por Ultima Vez maras de TV Canl 4 Monte- Que Se Junten Nuestros Brazos animas interpretacionesfigu- Ya Me Gusta Tu Carino Calypso Caleno carlo. ran "Mi Ruego," "Antes que Ya No Llores Ritmo Cubano Chango NietoyHoracia Gua-sea Tarde" y el tema que co- Otra Vez Me Cal rany,dos destacados folkloris-mienza a ser hit en todas las Don Quijote Me Sacaron Del Tenampa tas, se disuptan la primacia enradiodifusoras "Ya No Puedo Que MO Lleve El Tren Guagualenco materia folklorica con sus ver-Ma." Esa Mujer Guajira Mami siones del excelente tema "Gui- Su guitarra,la cual es su Que Se Vaya Mi Vida trra Vino Y Rosas." Las opinio- mas querida compariera, esel I11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ElBarrio nes my divididas, pero los doscomplemento en el cual encuen- Cornelia Reyna Ritmo Nuevo con yentas muy ,solidas. tra un refugio en cads una de '7u Traicion" Apoyado por una curia pub-sus presentaciones. Los aplau- D/W Rico Records licitaria, la orquesta dePaul sos y las muestras de admira, "Una Vez Me Cal" Dist. Exclusively By 595 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx, N. Y. Andersonespera poder realizarcien no lo han cambiado, y su ayuda al projirno esta latente Royalco International Corp. muy buenas yentas del "Con- 1414 = Neliz Record Dist. siempre, como lo demostrO en West Poplar St. Cerra 624, Santurce, P.R. cierto Numero Uno de Tchai- San Antonio, Texas 78207 sureciente jira por Ciudad Tel: 512-734-5053 kovsky." Juarez. Su "club de admirado- 6MHHOWOHNUMUUMMIWWWWWIMMUMMIHMHOMMOMR. 1 I 111111,11111111111111111111111111311111111111111111111111111111g

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CONCERT REVIEW rTHE JAZZ JAZZ Coryell Big woRup LP CHART In Boston By MICHAEL CUSCUNA BOSTON-Even though Bos- 1. SHAFT Labor Day weekend at Slugs in New York'stonseemeddesertedduring SOUNDTRACK-ISAAC HAYES- lower East Side was the scene of a great musi-Labor Day weekend, the Jazz Enterprise ENS 2-5002 (Stax) cal event. Ornette Coleman presented some ofWorkshop was full to capacity 2. SECOND MOVEMENT his new music. to witness the return engage- EDDIE HARRIS & LES McCANN- He regrouped his original quartet of morement of Vanguard artist Larry Atlantic SD 1583 than 10 years vintage: Charlie Haden on bass, Coryell. Jazzisone form of audio communication that 3. CHAPTER TWO Ed Blackwell on drums and Don Cherry on ROBERTA FLACK-Atlantic SD 1569 trumpet. Added were trumpeter Bobby Brad -seems to be getting across to Michael Cuscuna ford, who has worked with Ornette in the past more and more people,and 4. TO BE CONTINUED and who now records his own band for Flying Dutchman, andCoryell's Sept. 5 performance ISAAC HAYES-Enterprise ENS 104 (Stax) tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman. Like the personnel, the musicwas a perfect example of this. spanned all eras of Ornette's creativity. Everyone was cooking Coryell'sperformancewas 5. THEMBI beautifully and respectfully interpreting Ornette's music as onlytight and well organized, but -Impulse AS 9206 (ABC) they can. his excellent guitar playing was The reason for this expanded and star-studded band was not where it stopped. With Mike 6. SUGAR Ornette's preparation of his first Columbia recording session,Mandell on electric piano, Har- STANLEY TURRENTINE-CTI CTI 6005 which took place the following week. If the record approachesry Wilkinson on drums, Mervin what I heard at Slugs, it will be a monster. Bronson on bass and newcomer 1. BACK TO THE ROOTS Steve Marcus on reeds, the high RAMSEY LEWIS-Cadet CA 6001 (Chess Janus) Another significant concert was the John Coltrane Memorialquality of music was perfected. at New York's Town Hall on Sunday, Sept. 12. Despite the ri- Larry recently released an 8. BITCHES BREW diculously high ticket prices, a good -size crowd came out forindependent album on the Fly- MILES DAVIS-Columbia S 30455 this happening. The concert opened with Elvin Jones' band withing Dutchmanlabelentitled "Barefoot Boy," and along with 9. WEATHER REPORT special guest Chick Corea. The group played well with saxopho- Columbia G 30661 nists Joe Farrell and Frank Foster complimenting each otherthat he will soon be releasing beautifully. Next came McCoy Tyner and his quartet. He playeda live album recorded at the 10. JACK JOHNSON some of his older pieces as well as new tunes. Sonny FortuneMontreux Jazz Festival which MILES DAVIS-Columbia S 30455 was featured on alto and soprano saxes. willalsobe ontheFlying After the first intermission, bassist Jimmy Garrison came outDutchman label. 11. BREAK OUT to perform a breathtaking solo bass improvisation. At the con- There's no doubt that lovers JOHNNY HAMMOND-Kudo KU - 01 clusion of his short encore, he was surrounded by Archie Shepp'sof Coryell's music will increase 12. BAREFOOT BOY eight -piece band (four rhythm and four bass) with tuba playerin number after his Boston en- LARRY CORYELL- Howard Johnson and drummer Beaver Harris. They launchedgagement, as shown in the sales Flying Dutchman 10139 (Atco) into a rhythmically and melodically infectious piece, on whichof his new record. 13. CURTIS LIVE everyone took a good, spirited solo. As the band left, Shepp in- Martin Snider CURTIS MAYFIELD-Cur tom CRS 800d troduced pianist Cal Massey and vocalist Joe Lee Wilson. They (Buddah) performed Massey's "Dr. King, The Peaceful Warrior," which is on Shepp's newest album. CLUB REVIEW 14. SAN FRANCISCO After a second intermission, Pharoah Sanders brought out an BOBBY HUTCHERSON & HAROLD LAND- Blue Note BST 94362 (United Artists) expanded version of his group with Leroy Jenkins on violin. Their set was too long and too free to build any interest. Finally,Elvin at Best 15. EGO Alice Coltrane emerged on stage with her regular quartet, plus TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME- NEW YORK - Since the Polydor 24-4065 a tamboura player and a full 15 -piece string section. On organdeath of John Coltrane, Elvin and harp, Mrs. Coltrane played material from her two most re-Jones, who was the drummer in 16. NATURAL BLACK INVENTIONS: cent albums, illustrating the beautiful, mystical direction thatColtrane's immortal group, has ROOT STRATA her music has taken. been in and out of many config- RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK- A lone, but rewarding concert, it was a rich musical tributeurations of jazz talent. He has Atlantic SD 1578 to the late John Coltrane. always been the definitive jazz 17. THE ISAAC HAYES MOVEMENT drummer, but his groups have Enterprise ENS 1010 (Stax) Milestone Records has just signed pianist McCoy Tyner to anever achieved the recognition long-term contract. The company will soon issue an interestingor sustained the level of ability 18. ZAWINUL concert from the late '40s, featuring Charlie Parker and Lesterthat they should have. He has Atlantic SD 1579 Young, among others. They may also reissue some of the jazzalways sounded good, but never 19. OSIBISA albums that appeared on Audio Fidelity in the early '60s. as good as he sounded with the Decca DL 75287 Elvin Jones Quintet last Thurs-

On the heels of signing Ornette and Mingus, Columbia hasday (9) at Slug's. 20. MEMPHIS TWO STEP The difference seemed to stem HERBIE MANN-Embryo SD 531 just signed drummer Jack DeJohnette's new group Compost, which is managed by Chrysalis Productions. DeJohnette has twofrom the newest member of the 21. IN BERLIN albums of his own on Milestone and has been Miles Davis' drum- group, pianist Chick Corea. Cor- Flying Dutchman FS 10142 (Atco) mer for several years now. ea'selectricpianoprovided Columbia seems to be serious about their ventures into blackenough instrumental drive and 22. LIVING BLACK music. It would be nice if they'd get with their international melodicqualitytobalance CHARLES EARLAND-Prestige PS 1569 Jones' fantastically intense per- department and issue some of their superb foreign records suchcussion work. The set, which 23. UNIVERSAL as the Miroslav Vitous disc with John McLaughlin on CBS/Sony in Japan or the late J. B. Lenoir's blues album on German CBSconsisted of two extended jazz CONSCIOUSNESS - pieces, was received very well ALICE COLTRANE- or Ornette Coleman's "Chappaqua" on French CBS. Impulse AS 9210 (ABC) by the large audience, and if the group continues to perform 24. THE BLACK CAT to concentrate on the primaryat this level, Blue Note's Elvin GENE AMMONS-Prestige PS 1569 GRT Concentrating 1 areas ofitsbusiness-prere-Jones Quintet will be one of the finest jazz groups around. 25. TJADER II GRT Corp. has divested it-corded music tapes and phono- CAL TJADER-Fantasy 8406 self of its non -music activitiesgraph records. Mike Sigman

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com RECORD WORLD kc... inirERNaTUNaL ENGLAND GERIVIANY By RON McCREIGHT By PAUL SIEGEL SINGLE EXPORT TIP OF THE WEEK "MICHAEL UND ROBERT"-Freddy-Polydor U.K. Picks of the Week for U.S. SINGLE IMPORT TIP OF THE WEEK "BANGLA-DESH"-GeorgeHarrison-Apple SI NGLE SLEEPER ALBUM. TIP OF THE WEEK "CALIFORNIA SUNDAY MORNING" "I WILL RETURN" "OLD MAN RIVER"-Peter Lagger-Philips The Brotherhood of Man Springwater Publisher: Hillier/Palace Music Publisher: Jig Saw Music II BERLIN-Screaming headline of the week Deram Records Polydor Records out of Hamburg was "2,000,000 German Marks Paid for Manuela," a hot selling record artist ALBUM on Telefunken-Decca, now bought by the new giant record company, BASF.Other record "WELCOME TO THE CANTEEN" execs now worried about how to hold on to Traffic theirartists,especially following the news that BASF has also landed Hildegard Knef Paul Siegel for an unreported vast sum, and that Peter Alexander has been offered a million .. . Hope Jerry Thomas III LONDON-Abrighter year ahead for Philips was predictedway out on the Capitol Tower in L.A. finds out why this dj is by Managing Director Fred Marks at their annual sales meetingno longer receiving Capitol releases ... GunterIlgner & Friedel held on Sept. 10. Certainly Philips product is showing signs ofBerlipp of Electrola/EMI have a hot new artist called Bob Law- great potential, underlined at the surprise closing of the confer-rence on Columbia with his new "Co -Co" single. .Kurt Feltz, ence when Marks introduced Paul Jones and Ted Cooper, whokey lyricist and producer, has a new Peter Alexander single, played three tracks from Jones' new album to be issued by"Ich will dir helfen" (I want to help you) . . UweLencher, Philips on their contemporary label Vertigo in October. A newformer editor of Automatenmarkt here, now in the saddle of new budget line was also announced by marketing man Roy Tempest,job as head of Antenna Public Relations for Polydor. He has a a low price "This Is" series. Another impressive deal was con-great new promo idea called Funk (Radio) top plugs. Leading firmed at the meeting: an agreement for Philips to issue allthe pack is Italy's Rita Pavone. Nice going, Uwe. product from David Paradine Records under the David Frost Nancy Wilson to guest on the new ZDF Udo Jiirgens show .. Presentslogo.FirstBritishartist under the dealisto beThe Flippers, award -winning group in Germany on Bellaphon announced shortly, but already top American jazz pianist BillyRecords, Frankfurt, surprised me by recording a tape as intro Taylor has been signed and his first album, "OK Billy," has justfor my RIAS dj shows called, "Zwischen Broadway and Kur- been issued. fiirstendamm" ... Show Editor-in -Chief Dieter Liffers, vacation- The Liberty/UA U.K. set-up scoring heavily with visitinging, and one of his key gal reporters for Das Goldene Blatt (The American group Creedence Clearwater Revival's record salesGold Paper), Ruth Lerm, has her wide-awake blue eyes on show which should be boosted even further after their two royalbusiness happenings ... PeterHahne, record and music vet at Albert Hall concerts later this month. United Artists BritishNDR (Hamburg radio station), has a fine feel for great music act If are also steadily increasing in popularity with their third ...Thank you, Katja Ebstein, for your photo for my office, but album currently gaining good sales. If also headline the nextnext time bring along the girl in the photo and your latest UA Big Ear promoted Sunday concert at London's Lyceum on Sept. 26 disc. .Vicky, Philips star of stars, off soon to Japan on tour along with Armada. The last of these concerts is staged the ...Robert Reinhard of BASF at Ludwigshafen, keeping the following week (Oct. 3) featuring Wishbone Ash and new Actnewspaper press wires hot with news on Romeo ...Riidiger Burnt Oak. Future rock concerts at the Lyceum will be heldPiesker, long-time music buddy with appreciation for good music, midweek limited to three shows per month. the producer of Peter Lagger, great vocalist at Philips.. . Pleasing to hear the glowing reports of MCA's Osibisa'sGlinter Noris of Electrola has some hot LPs on the market. We American tour after the predictions made in this column severalhere in Europe appreciate the recent Johnny Mathis "Dialogue" months ago. It has now been reported that the band will return ... GusBackus, a favorite with the kids, has a new Polydor to the states in October for their second nationwide tour andsingle, "Candy Girl," which should win him some female votes will stay for at least two months this time. in Manhattan. .. Cindy &Bert are up for bigtime with their Staff changes at Kinney this week with, first of all, Europeansingle, "Ich fand eine Hand" for BASF. That should please their Manager Clive Selwood leaving the company to concentrate onformer producer, Friedel Berlipp, who found and got them going his own Dandelion Records (distributed by Kinney) and manage- ... Dj powerhouseDieter T. Heck has a new single, "Kiiss Noch ment of Radio One djs John Peel and Pete Drummond. Promotionein Stuck Holz ins Feuer" (Put another log on the fire), which man Mike Willis also leaves to set up independently, althoughcould be a duet for Perry Como & Miss Germany ...Dr. Laci he will continue to be involved with Kinney product in the con-Veder of EMI, Europe, off on biz tour with mighty thoughts on temporary field from time to time. Further announcement from the record industry . . .Congrats to Kinney, who have signed the company is that the recently signed Donovan's first albumDione Warwicke. I suggest just that one TV show in Germany for Kinney will be issued in December featuring songs from his will put her on charts here ...Marion Maerz sounds like money recently completed "Pied Piper" movie. in the bank for Sigi Loch's Kinney group here ...Sigrid Wohldt, of Loewen Automaten (jukeboxes) in Berlin, likes "Dragin' the From Los Angeles, he flies toLine" with Tommy James. This gal has an uncanny feel for a hit Uttal Visits Orient theOrient for a three-week ... Dr.Miiller-Blattau of Chappell in Hamburg moving into the aLarryUttal,Presidentofschedule of meetings and toursautumn season shortly with loads of standard hits from the great Bell Records, currently in LosatCBS/SonyRecords,Inc.Chappell catalogue. Angelesmeeting withWest (Tokyo),Electric & Musical Coast staffers, will be meetingIndustries, Ltd. (Hong Kong), its subsidiary labels in South with the heads of Bell Records' EMIRecordsPrivate,Ltd. RPM A&M Licensee licensees in Tokyo, Hong Kong(Singapore),andotherFar RPM has been named soleAfrica, effective Nov. 1, reports and Singapore. East cities. licensee for A&M Records and IJerry Moss, A&M President.

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REX-Ariola HOT CHOCOLATE-Rak A&R head, will handle PR for MLS ... Pollu- 9. SWEET -HITCH HIKER 9. SOLDIER BLUE CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL- tion Probe set the first in a series of concerts BUFFY ST. MARIE-RCA Bellaphon to benefit their cause. On Sept. 16 Dee Higgins, 10. JERUSALEM 10. WHAT ARE YOU DOING SUNDAY DALIAH LAVI-Polydor Tom Northcott, Doctor Music, Everyday People DAWN-Bell (Through the courtesyof "HIT SHOW" re- and Brave Belt appeared at Toronto's Varsity porters in GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZER- Stadium . .. Lighthouse were presented with LAND) Larry LeBlancRPM Gold Leaf Award for their "One Fine McTell to U.S. RADIO LUXEMBOURG TIPS: Morning" LP by the premier of Ontario, William Davis ... John 1. CO -CO THE SWEET-RCA Watts named Editor of RPM Weekly...Dolly Parton & Porter London's Ralph McTell will 2. MONIKA Wagoner checked into London's Western Fair for three shows ULLI MARTIN-Philips open at New York's Bitter End ... Quality Records will distribute the Montreal-based Crescent 3. VOR UNS LIEGT DIE GANZE WELT Sept. 29 -Oct. 4, just as Para- ROMEO & RIZ ORTOLAN! ORCH.-BASF St. label in Canada. First to bow on the label will be Mill Supply mount is releasing his album with a single "Ezmerelda" b/w "Granny's Kitchen" ... Namaro stateside, "You Well -Meaning RIAS, BERLIN HOT SHOT: CHE SARA Entertainment hosted a reception/luncheon for Joy Brittan at Brought Me Here." JOSE FELICIANO-RCA Toronto's Sutton Place Hotel. Kenny Roger and the First Edition begin a cross -Canada tour in November. Opening at the Queen Elizabeth Auditorium in Vancouver on Nov. 2 the group moves to Calgary's Jubilee (9), Saskatoon's Centennial Auditorium (10) and the Centre of the ITALY Arts in Regina (11) . .. New single forApril Wine is "Listen Mister" on Aquarius . . . A&M rush -releasing a newTundra single titled "Fit to Kill," produced by Harry B. Hinde Produc- . "The None- By MARIO PANVINI ROSATI tions .. Nonesuch will issue a two -record set titled such Explorer: Music from Distant Corners of the World" .. . 's LP is catching on fast in the West. Particularly E MILAN-We want to devote the opening ofthe "Some Sweet Day" cut. . . Salome Bey appeared on the this column to one of the most talented artistsWayne & Shuster comedy special singing Gilles Vigneault's "Mon on the Italian music scene, Fausto Cigliano.Pays" and another Canadian song "Hit the Nail on the Head" . . . His name is well known by the Italian public,MCA Records (Canada) held a media reception and cocktail party although he never appeared on the charts. Heat the Royal York Hotel for Kapp's Sonny & Cher ... Chelsea is a favorite with both older and younger gener-Wind return to the studios to record a follow-up to "I'm Goin ations. Together with Mario Gangi, his guitarBack." Songs included will be "Same Old Feeling" by Fergus teacher, a great classic guitarist and professorHambleton and "Only a Friend" by Rich Dodson of the Stam- M. P. Rosati at the Music Conservatory of Naples, he haspeders. At the same sessionLinda Lanewill re-record an old recorded five albums on the Rare label devoted to classical piecesRonettes hit titled "(The Best Part of) Breakin' Up" . .. GRT of Neapolitan traditional music. Itisa master work whichgroup Joshua have completed tracks for upcoming LP. Their required long and patient research. The five albums, distributedinitial single "Throw a Rope," produced by Harry B. Hinde by SIF in a series called "Napoli Concerto" (Naples Concert),Productions, has had strong airplay across the country . . . are entitled "Ancient Naples," "Romantic Naples," "The NaplesRick Neufeld and Donna Ramsay, Astra artists, will be perform- Love," "Naples, Sun, Moon and Sea" and "Naples Concert." ing at the annual Association Convention held in Recently we selected the disc "We Shall Dance" recorded by Nashville. .. "Yo -Yo" by the Osmonds is a smash here... for Phonogram as "Import Pick of the Week":Atomic Rooster played to a capacity crowd at IKerrisdale Arena the Italian public agreed with our choice. They picked the samein Vancouver ... "Wedding Song" by PaulStookey broke at #28 disc which immediately entered the charts. The same recordon CKLG ... JoniMitchell entertained at the Mission Pleasure has been declared the winner of the Italian jukes -box contestFaire in Vancouver .. .Bearsville's Lazarus well -received at a "Festival Bar." By the way, it has been announced by Phono-Riverboat date ... Seals andCroft for Massey Hall, Toronto, on gram that Demis is going to participate to the next Light MusicSept. 24 ... "I Believe In You" by A&M'sRita Coolidge is a big Festival of Venice, presenting, in this international contest, hischart item in the West (CKXL 2, CHED 10, CKOM 12, CJME 26) new song, "Fire and Ice".. .Enzio Radaelli is organizing theand is moving eastward . .. off for two weeks third edition of his "Cantaeuropa," the Europe "singing tour."as a result of a car accident ... New Springwell single on Parrot This edition, called, according to Radaelli, "The Travelling Festivalis "It's for You" recorded at Eastern Sound. of the Disc," will start on Nov. 15 - 30. It will be carried by a special traincalled "Cantaeuropa Express" which willpass through 16 countries in Europe, bringing with it 15 Italian singers.Bull at K. City `Nanette' on Stanyan Sandy Bullwill make his HOLLYWOOD-Stany a n first New York appearance inRecords has acquired the rights theWildwood ParkPavilion,threeyearsattherecently totheoriginal1925 London Kaye Ork Travels Dayville, Conn., and will con-opened Upstairs Club at Max'production of "No, No, Nan- Sammy Kaye and his Orches-clude their first lap with a pre -Kansas City on Park Avenue tra begin an Eastern and Mid -Christmas date Dec. 17 at theSouth one show per night atette,"announces Wade Alex- West states swing Oct. 2 atLogan Tower, Boston, Mass. 11:30 p.m. Sept. 15-19. ander, General Manager.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Follow Thru Chart Name of GameAtlantic Good Grooming By CLIFF WILLIAMSON wraps it up except to say, finally, (Continued from page 22) Director of A & R, Chart Recordsthe most important thing is fol- At Chart Records we havelow through. Yes, we do all oford is based, partially, on itswith managers and agents as always believed in concentratingthe things mentioned tohelp modus operandiinmerchan-well as with the artist person- on all of our artists, not just theexpose our new artists; but wedising both artists and record-ally to be certain that every new or unknown artists or thealso try to keep up the flow ofings. The Atlantic family boastspossibility for exposure is ex- established hitmakers. information aboutallof ourone of the strongest teams ofplored. Television, radio, trade We try to give the same at-artists to the media so that hope-execs in the business and isand consumer press are con- tention to all of our people. How-fully their careers will continuetherefore well equipped to han-stantly being contacted so that ever, in the context of establish-to grow. dle all the ins and outs of sales,each is immediately aware of ing a new member of the Chart At Chart, follow through ispromotion, publicity and pro-every new artist'sexistance. "family," we do take a degreethe name of the game. duction. The firm does well withWhenever there is a nibble of of care in making sure of their all the varied and kaleidoscopeacceptancein any area that exposure to the mass media of pieces that must fall in placeis zeroed in on in a coordinated, broadcasting, i.e. radio. Itinera-Weiss 'Shapes' between the point when the art-vigorous followup. ries are coordinated with bookers ist is signed and when the re- The newly signed acts on the andthisinformationisdis-New Deals cordingsandtheperformerAtlantic-Atco - Cotillion- Asylum persed to broadcasters so that NEW YORK -Larry Weisshave been accepted by the rec-labels,likeRasputin's Stash, they will be aware of the ap-is back after a 10 -day stay inord buying public. J.Geil's Band, Donny Hatha- pearances of our artists in theirHollywood and meetings with way, Tin Tin, Beginning of One market. This is done so thattop record executives including Ever -Active Friday (on the Prophesy label,) hopefully they will get a chanceRick Sidoti, General Manager At Atlantic the network ofThe Persuaders, Judee Sill & to see the artist and becomeof Sunflower Records. His trippromotion men are ever -activeJo Jo Anne (on Asylum), Jon- familiar with them. We get thewas made to coincide with theand always communicating withathan Edwards, Wet Willie and artists' name infront of thepromotion being done on hiseach other as well as those ofCowboy on the Capricorn label broadcaster by cutting promo-latest production, "Bend Me,every department within theand many others all receive cus- tion spots for stations that re-Shape Me" by Storm on Mackfirm. It is not unusual at thetom-made promotion and mer- quest them, and by having ourDavid's Sunflower label. company to see each field pro-chandising benefits. artists come by the office when Weiss consummated severalmotion man come to the N.Y.C. The company is also prepared they are in Nashville and callproduction deals while in Loshome office to attend a meetingto tackle specialized projects stations. We also try to involveAngeles. He is currently com- todiscuss and improvise onsuch as the soon -to -be -released the artist in promotion of him-pleting two sides with a grouphow a particular new record issoundtrack LP of one of last self by having him drop notes tocalled Candida, one of whichto be promoted. Likewise, theyear's No. 1 TV shows "All in the djs of various stations thathe wrote. This is a co -produc-home officesales departmentthe Family," or the recording they may have visited or talkedtion with Tony Camillo, whowill gather all its regional salesof the dramatic adaptation of to. This is done to let the broad-also co -produced and arrangedmanagers to meet and come upthe best-selling book "The Sen- caster know that the artist and"Bend Me, Shape Me," and itwith innovative ideas on salessuous Woman." In these cases we at Chart consider their helpis set for release on Sunflower.merchandising. The publicitythe firm will expand its promo- the most important part in mak-He met with Harold Berkman,department, while leaningtions to focus additionally on ing a hit record. who asked him to produce aslightly more toward workingthe TV and literary community. Trade ads are used toex- session with April Stevens andwith the artist than with theWith the new hit movie and al- pose new artists and their rec-Nino Tempo for his Marinarecordings, routinely reacts tobum "Soul To Soul," Atlantic ords on not only theirinitiallabel. the functions of each other de-worked closely with Cinerama release but on just about each Weiss met with Wes Farrellpartment. Releasing to coordinate promo- new release that is on the Chart and Tom Catalano in Califor- Each department holdsitstions with the film's openings or Sugarhill labels. That aboutnia. He wrote three songs forown informal meetings so thatand the release of the album. theupcoming Rock Flowerseveryone knows what each oth- If the family of labels feels album, being produced by Far-er person is involved in so thatthat they don't have allthe 16 Track rell for the Barnum & Baileyeveryindividualcontributespieces that must fit together in label, the titles being "Shakepersonally to the department.order to successfully promote Recording Studio It, Wake It," "You're My KindThen, the heads of each depart-anartist,they simply won't of Music" and "Mother You,ment meet twice a week so thatsign the artist. The firm will for sale or lease-all or part Smother You." All three willthe mechanics of the Atlanticnot sign an artist who may wind Los Angeles' newest and most beco -publishedbyFarrell'soperation are always well oiled.up sitting on the shelf because attractive - most attractive Every Little Tune music com- there is no one to produce him, pany and Weiss' ASCAP firm, New Set of Problems or because his music is in an deal to experience party for Larry Weiss Music, Ltd. Tom era in which the company has appointment call: Catalano has just recorded two Alltheaboverepresents,chosen not to tread. When At- ofWeiss'songswithJohnhowever, how well the organ-lantic signs a new artist he and (213) 271-5703 Rowles for his upcoming Kappization can run on a routineallassociated with him can album, one of which, "Sayingbasis. Where the magic devel-know that the company is pre- Goodbyes," will be the album'sops is in specialized cases, likepared to offer a professional title. thechallengeofpromoting,custom job of promotion in ev- As a writer, Weiss has thepublicizing and selling an un-ery area, and that his record- AVAILABLE current Cissy Houston releaseknown artist. It would be naiveings will have had every artistic RECORD COMPANY on the Janus label, "Darling,to suggest that thereis onebenefit poured into it. Take Me Back." He also hasproper way to attack this chal- FINANCIAL & ADMIN. EXEC. Gene Pitney's next release andlenge. From Atlantic's perspec- Solid experience inall phases of the an upcoming record with Samtive each new artist representsRooney Starts Schools record business - artist negotiations, Dees on Chess. a completely new set of distinct recording, manufacturing, marketing, ly original problems to over- Mickey Rooney has formed publishing and finance.In touch with Webb on Tour come. When the company signedMickeyRooney'sTalentown today's talent and product Experience Roberta Flackit arranged aUSA, Inc., to teach creative arts as exec VP of indie and chief financial Jimmy Webb has been set forsix -city promotional tour, hav-to children from three to 16. officer of major record company. Write: a nine -campus college concerting her perform at a cocktailThe first will open Sept. 23 at RECORD WORLD, P.O. Box 109, tour, kicking off Oct. 7 at No.reception in each city before234 Washington Ave., Belleville, 200 West 57th St., N.Y., N.Y. 10019. MontanaCollegeinHavre,press, deeays and dealers. TheN.J. A totalof50schools Mont. company works verytightlyaround the country is planned.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com §9G0 $200,000 Bonus to 3 Dog LOS ANGELES - Makingtion. Fun turned to temporary deadline with barely ahalf- panic, at least for the manage- q)RL-E, The M.O.R.Charthour to spare, Three Dog Nightment firm, when mechanical de- delivered tape oflays further stalled album com- its next album, "Harmony," topletion. What looked like a late SEPTEMBER 25, 1971 ARG/Dunhilllast week andWednesday delivery began look- THIS LAST qualified for a $200,000 bonusing more like maybe Thursday. WK. WK. which label President Jay Las- The lastrecording session 1 4 SUPERSTAR CARPENTERS-A&M 1289 (Skyhill/Delbon, BMI) ker paid on the spot. ended finally on Friday morn- 2 2 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE BILL WITHERS-Sussex 219 (Buddah) (Interior, BMI) The delivery dash resulteding at 4:30 a.m., and the seven - 3 1 THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN JOAN BAEZ-Vanguard 35138 (Canaan, ASCAP) when a heavy concentration ofmember group joined producer 4 6 UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY-Ppple 1837 concert appearances and tele-Richard Podolor in a dash to (Maclen, BMI) visionguestshots,includingthemasteringlab.Some12 5 15 SO FAR AWAY CAROLE KING-Ode 70 60019 (A&M) the premiere episode of CBS -hourslater,thetapewas (Screen Gems/Columbia, BMI) TV's "Glen Campbell Show,"finished and placed in the wait- 6 8 SWEET CITY WOMAN STAMPEDERS-Bell 120 (Coral, BMI) 7 3 CRAZY LOVE HELEN REDDY-Capitol 3138 (Warner Brothers/Van Jan, ASCAP) delayedandalmostdisinte-ing Brink's armored truck for 8 14 ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK-Parrot 40065 grated thegroup's recordinga cross-town dash from Holly- (London) (MCA, ASCAP) schedule. By contractual stipul-wood, about a 10 mile distance. 9 13 I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING PARTRIDGE FAMILY-Bell 45-130 (Screen Gems/Columbia, BMI) ation, receipt of a master tape The truck arrived at 4:36 10 5 WEDDING SONG PAUL STOOKEY-Warner Brothers 7511 by ABC Dunhill by 5 p.m. Fri-p.m. to a waiting contingent (Songbirds of Paradise, ASCAP) day Sept. 10, qualified the actof label executives and mem- 11 17 ALL MY TRIALS RAY STEVENS-Barnaby 2039 (CBS) (Ahab, BMI) -whose six previous LPs wentbersofthepress. With an 12 10 WHERE EVIL GROWS POPPY FAMILY-London 148 (Gone Fishin,' BMI) to gold-for the $200,000 bonus. 13 12 GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL DONNY OSMOND-MGM 14285 armed guard standing by, man- (Screen Gems/Columbia, BMI) As the time approached andagersBillUtleyandBurt 14 9 SPANISH HARLEM ARETHA FRANKLIN-Atlantic 2817 (Progressive/Trio, BMI) no problems loomed, the group's Jacobs presented the tape to 15 7 CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP MAC & KATIE KISSOON-ABC 11306 managers, Reb Foster Associ-Lasker. Lasker presented the (Intersong, U.S.A., ASCAP) 16 16 LOVING HER WAS EASIER THAN ANYTHING I'LL EVER DO AGAIN ates, decided to dress up thecheck to Utley and Jacobs. KRIS KRISTOFFERSON-Monument 8525 (Skyhill, BMI) (momentand madearrange- All adjourned to the ABC/ 17 18 AMANDA DIONNE WARWICKE-Scepter 12326 (Screne Gems/Columbia, BMI) ments for the tape to be trans-Dunhillstudio,where "Har- 18 21 TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING ANN MURRAY-Capitol 3159 (Almo, ASCAP) ported from the mastering lab 19 26 IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME STEVIE WONDER-Tamla 54280 (Motown) Uobete, BMI) mony" had its first public air- 20 22 ALL DAY MUSIC WAR-United Artists 508156 (Far -Out, ASCAP) to the label via Brink's armoreding prior to release sometime 21 - NEVER MY LOVE FIFTH DIMENSION-Bell 45-134 truck. in late October. 22 25 K-lEE NITE-LITERS--RCA 74-0461 (Rutri, BMI) Lasker, meanwhile, also en- 23 37 CALIFORNIA KID & REEMO LOBO-Big Tree 119 (Ampex) (Ensign, BMI) 24 24A SONG FOR YOU ANDY WILLIAMS-Columbia 44543 (Skyhill, BMI) joying the drama of exchange 25 28 KO -KO JOE JERRY REED-RCA 48-1011 (Vector, BM') as the day approached, secretlyBeach Boy Wins 26 29 ANNABELLA HAMILTON, JOE FRANK & REYONLDS-Dunhill 4287 (Sunbury, ASCAP) had the$200,000 check pro- 27 27 MY DAYS OF LOVING YOU PERRY COMO-RCA 74-0518 (Roncom, ASCAP) cessed through accounting and5 -Year Draft Fight 28 11 CHOTTO MATTE KUDASAI (NEVER SAY GOODBYE) SAM KAPU- Anthem 5100 ready for immediate presenta- (United Artists) (Rachel, BMI) A federal court reversed it- 29 20 HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART BEE GEES-Atco 6824 self Sept. 20 and granted Carl (Casserole/Warner Tamerlane, BMI) Wilson of the Beach Boys per- 30 - EASY LOVIN' FREDDIE HART-Capitol 3114 (Blue Book, BMI) 31 34 HOW CAN I UNLOVE YOU LYNN ANDERSON-Columbia 4-45429 (Lowery, BMI) `Beautiful' Session mission to carry out a "most 32 - I'VE FOUND SOMEONE Of MY OWN FREE MOVEMENT-Decca 32818 unique alternative service pro- 33 35 I'LL BE WITH YOU VOGUES-Bell 45-127 (Razzle Dazzle, BMI) gram under the U.S. Selective 34 31 BEGINNINGS CHICAGO-Columbia 4-45417 (Aurelius, BMI) Service Act. The Court action 35 19 IF NOT FOR YOU OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN-Uni 55281 (MCA) (Big Sky, ASCAP) 36 23 I'M LEAVING ELVIS PRESLEY-RCA 47-9998 (Presley/Oten, BMI) ended five years of legal wrang- 37 -THE SONG IS LOVE MARY TRAVERS-Warner Brothers 7517 (Paramar, BMI) ling between the musician and 38 33 WHERE YOU LEAD BARBRA STREISAND-Columbia 4-45414 his draft board. (Screen Gems/Columbia, BMI) 39 -FREEDOM COMES, FREEDOM GOES FORTUNES-Capitol 3179 (Maribus, BMI) Under the order of Federal 40 - I DO ALL MY cRYING IN THE RAIN SOUNDS OF SUNSHINE-Ranwood 912 Circuit Judge Harry Pregerson, (Bon -Ton, ASCAP) Wilson will be allowed to sat, isfyhisdraftobligation by performingwiththeBeach Handleman Quarter Sales Increase Tony Bennett who flew over from Boys at prisons, hospitals and HandlemanCompany,De- July 31, 1971, sales rose to $22,-London to record his latest single "How Beautiful is Night," takes aorphanages. In delivering his troit,has reportedincreased304,000, compared to the $21,-break at the Columbia Studios with oral ruling, the judge made par- sales and earnings for the first945,000 reported for the same ticular note of the need to pro- period a year ago. Net income Chappell writer Bob Farnon quarter ended July 31, 1971, ac- (right) and the publishing :Om- vide some sort of entertainment increased to $1,318,000 or $.30 pany's Nick Firth (left) and Buddy cording to David Handleman,per share versus the $1,196,000 Robbins. Bennett and Farnon willfor prison inmates, saying en- President. or $.27 per share reported lastrepeat their SRO Albert Hall con-tertainment is certainly in the For the first quarter endedyear. cert at Carnegie Hall Oct. 9. national interest. A Real Nice 17th Annual ABC Clambake

The photo above was taken at Milt Israelof's 17th Annual ABC Records landers, although some came from as far away as California. Israelof Sales clambake recently in Rehobeth, R. I. Guests are mostly New Eng- I is shown with Fox, the ABC mascot.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com NARAS Meets, Elects Officers 80coAsTcApERs (Continued from page 3) the president; increase infi- piracy, the Trustees vowed to nancial allocations to the newerlend their individual efforts to chapters; the formation of newthe elimination of the practices By TONY LAWRENCE NARAS chapters in such citiesinvolved and instructed Execu- HOLLYWOOD-MCA Records VP Joe Sut-as Detroit, Memphis, San Fran-tive Director Leanse to work ton and his wife Patti became the proud parentscisco,Toronto,Londonand closelywithothergroups. of a baby boy named Bobby. He's already beenwherever major recording ac-Trustee Danny Davis noted that inked on Decca for an album, singles andtivityis taking place; and aduringarecently completed desire to create ways of makingstate fairengagement he options . ..After turning down offers from a Motown subsidiary and the Rolling Stones la-membership more attractive towalked through the fair bel, Mike Gershman now has his group Lookingyoung recording talent. grounds to discover two booths Glass inked with Columbia for what insiders The Academy's increased in-offering bootlegged tapes of his Tony Lawrencesay is a lot of loot. The first LP is due in Janu-volvement in educational andRCA recordings. ary on Epic, and in the meantime the group and Gershman areculturalaffairswasunder- Recognizingtheneedfor scored byitsearmarking ofadditional funds to finance the based in Woodstock...Lydia Woltag upped to account executive $32,500 for the further imple-Academy's expanded activities, with Gibson and Stromberg's rock -pub -house here. .Not true as reported elsewhere that the Sandpipers are breaking up.mentation ofits NARAS In-the Trustees voted to investi- They're over recording for A&M on La Brea right now to dispelstitute program. gate the possibility of a pre- Category Wording Changed mium record built around past such a rumor ...Concert Associates' Larry Vallon called to re- port this his group (which he manages with Craig Wald) Turn- Some of the funds for theGrammy Winners, and formed quist Remedy has changed their moniker to Railroad Gin, a slangInstitute will be coming froma new fund-raising committee the Academy's annual televisionof Atlanta's Bill Lowery, Chi- expression out of the 1930s in the midwest for loco weed. show. In connection with thecago's Dick Schory, Los An- . ..Holdup: Linda Poco set for Carnegie Hall Dec. 7, 8 & 9 Grammys themselves, the Trust-geles'DavePell,Nashville's Ronstadt's new album for Capitol being delayed for re -mixing.. .ees assigned additionalcate-Mary Reeves Davis and New Breach City! David Frye rumored to be cutting another albumgories to the jazz and classicalYork's John Hammond. They but probably not for Elektra...Jim Roberts and Richard Greenefields. At the same time, theyalso appointed members to the from Seatrain are conjuring up a Biblical notion to evolve as achanged the wording of the already -existingfinancecom- 20 -minute cut for kids on their next album ...Face Lift: Mc-"Contemporary" categoriestomittee. Included are Atlanta's Guiness Flint, currently out with one of the most brilliant singles "Pop, Rock, andFolk," andMeuriceLeFevre,Chicago's of the year, "Friends of Mine," will have a new look when they eliminated "Contemporary SongLoren Binford,Los Angeles' play here in two months in so much as they lost Benny Gallagherof the Year" because of numer-Bill Cole, Nashville's Bill Denny and Graham Lyle but added guitarist John Bailey and pianistous past duplications amongand New York's F. M. Scott III. composer Dixie Dean ... Don'tbe surprised if former musicmannominations with "Song of the The Trustees also agreed to Ron Kass, now with Harry Saltzman's film -TV empire CDF,Year." the publication of a Grammy starts to aim the company towards the disc biz as well ... Mott During discussionof tapeAwards Book. the Hoople have purchased a 'Caraivari which, contrary to popular belief, is not an Italian dessert (thank you, Miss Henske!), but a portable theater which seats 2000 for those up and coming boon - dock dates . ..John Simon in town thumping his "We Can BeGrunt 'Barks' Up Storm Everything" album on Perception .. .Oliver to Nashville this week cutting an LP for UA with Scotty Turner producing ... (Continued from page 3) Ruckus City: Uncle Sam has barred Freda Panye's million -selling "Bring the Boys Home" from all Far East Network (AFRTS) sta- "Bark" appears to be just aworking on up-and-coming proj- tions . . . But Where Was Jeanette MacDonald: A long, lowbeginning. According to RCAects right now. After all, this bow and tip of the hat to one of Capitol's finest, Lew Segal, forRecords President Rocco Lagi-is partly his baby, too." the super -fun press junket at the Fairmont in Frisco to catchnestra, "This is an incredible As for the future product, the Lettermen. It couldn't have run any smoother and all con-feeling we're experiencing. I'vewe're toldtoexpect a Paul cerned couldn't have been more gracious. Fellow rock scribenever seen people work togetherKantner/Grace Slick album in John Gibson and his lady Sandy stole the show, however, deckedlike this. All concerned makeNovember, with another Kant- out in their Delmonico best and drawing admiring eyes in thesuggestions and all concernedner "Starship" LP to follow. lobby . . Sorrowful Parting Dept: Seven -member group Poefollow through. RCA is elatedPapa John Creach has a forth- is no longer with Uni though the sound was great and the promiseto be distributing, marketingcoming album, with none other affirmed. It seems the group wasn't pleased with their Whisky dateand promoting Grunt product."than Stan Monteiro aiding with a couple of months back and decided to split up leaving the Stan Monteiro, Grunt's Direc-. will combine company with one fine album ... Mr.Firstnighter Con Mertontor of Marketing, added, "In all livetracks with studio work told me the other night at the Big Black opening that Brucemy years in the industry I'vefor a January release. Donaldson, Cherokee's organist (Merton manages same) who wasnever had feelings like this." Newer Grunt acts include a in a serious motorcycle accident some weeks ago, is back on his He continued. "All artists andfemale groupcalled Aceof feet and the group reactivates very soon ... Didja Know Dept.?:musicians share equally in roy-Cups, a singer -songwriter Jack David Ossman of the Firesign Theater used to sit next to Kris alties,andcompleteartistic Bonus,Jorma'sbroterPeter Kristofferson in Freshman English at Pomona College .Col- control of everything belongsKaukonenandtwogroups umbia has signed Blue Oyster Cult, known down South as Oystersto the artists." Black Kangaroo and One. Rockefeller until a few months ago. It should be noted that other Stan disclosed that "10% of Ruthann Friedman was given the BMI Award this week forGrunt hierarchy consists of Air-all profits from Grunt product her song, "Windy," having been played one million times on theplane manager Bill Thompsonwill be funded strictly for char- air ... Richie Podolor let it be known that the doors to his Ameri-as head of Business Affairs.itable purposes." can Recording Studio are now closed except for Three Dog NightAugie Blume isin charge of Laginestra summed up RCA's and Steppenwolf sessions. Formerly he had rented out availableA & R and Related Creativepositionbest:"Grunt's early time... Leon Russellsaying nay again but this time to any gigsServices. Diane Gardiner con-success is being complemented over the winter months asit's sabbatical city for him . . tacts press while Mike Lipskinby the successes of other RCA Desde Nuestos?: "Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen" opens inheads production and engineer-distributed labels such as Fam- Buenos Aires next week . . . Basing Street West Prexy Lizaing. ily, Wooden Nickel, Neon and Williams says that her English rock group Bronco will only play SaidMonteiro:"AlthoughKirshner. We'll encourage new- California dates .. Coming Attractions: A "Dialogue" withMarty Balin is no longer wither labels as we go along. In the Steve Barri who, with Jimmy Haskell, is now polishing up singlethe Airplane, he's definitely in-meantime, we couldn't be more product for Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and the Grassroots. volvedwiththelabel.He'spleased."

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Mercede Label Formed BOOK REVIEW The formation of a new rec-Herb Rosen in the East, Pete cord company, Mercede Rec-Wright and Howard Bedno inThe Unforgettable Nat Cole ords, was announced this weekthe Mid -West and Tony Rich- Maria Cole's "Nat King Colefoundedthecountry'sfirst by John & Dee Mercede. Mer-land on the West Coast. - AnIntimateBiography"Negro finishing school. Next to cede is president of Frank Mer- The newly -established adver-(William Morrow, New York,the Coles themselves, Aunt Lot - cede & Sons of Florida, Inc., atising department of Mercede $5.95)is, like a certain recenttie,whileperipheral,isthe realestatedevelopment firmRecords is currently developingbest-selling novel, a succinctlybest -drawncharacterinthe based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. a program of trade and con-toldlove storyin which thelittle tome, stubborn and dis- "We are entering into a diver-sumer advertising on a nation-major character comes to anapproving of the divorced Cole sificationprogramwiththewide scale. The new record com-untimely hospitalfinish.Butat the start but dynamic and, establishment of Mercede Rec-pany has also enlisted the ser-that-as Buster Crabbe says onwhen thechips were down, ords, as well as our new musicvices of South Florida pr firma TV commercial-is where theready to help the Cole family. publishing enterprise,"statedbased in Fort Lauderdale andsim-u-larity ends. She seems worthy of her own Mercede, noting that the newheaded by Dan Moss. Mrs. Cole's book is sans trea- book. companies will also be located The Mercedes have named in Fort Lauderdale. cle. It's a warm, modest, illus- Cole's death six years ago their music publishing companytrated account of her marriagefrom cancer was an early and Prior toits arrival on thePower ofMuslicPublishing, Florida scene, Frank Mercede to one of the world's best andtragic demise for a truly irre- with the name now registeredbest -loved balladeers, the long-placeable man and artist. But & Sons was in the construction -with BMI and the firm now in development business for over timeCapitolRecordspacteehe had had the kind of rich operation. Billy Wells has been (there is a com-full life few people outside of 30 years in Connecticut, and thethe mostprolificwriterfor company isstillin operation pletediscography - 1943-65).fantasy are ever allowed. There Power of Music, having sub-Aidedbyfree-lancewriterwere five lovely children, the there. In its South Florida oper-mitted some 200 songs to date. ations, the firm is engaged in Louie Robinson, Cole's widowrespect and admiration of the the construction of office build- "We have every hope of suc-reveals nothing to shatter hisworld and a devoted wife who ings and apartment complexes,cess in our new venture into tht public image of sincere, taste-remembers it all proudly. Her and the development of shop-recording field," noted Mercede,ful gentleman and artist-ap-memories are worth sharing. ping centers and land subdivi-"and we have formulated plansparently his only real failing Doug McClelland sions. for the construction of our ownwas his gullibility. Recounting The first two single releasesrecording studios in order tothat he too often was an easy betterserveour needs andtouch, she is tougher on her-Graham Readies under the new label will be production." self, admitting she made ene- sentto27topdistributorsfacilitate Book, Music Folio across the nation within the MercedeRecordswillbemies after their marriage in next three weeks. operating from offices in Mer-1947 by drawing more tightly BillGraham,whoclosed In addition to the local mencede East, anofficebuildingon the pursestrings her hus-both Fillmores East and West in the field working for theerected by Frank Mercede &band never really cared about.thispastsummer,hasan- distributors, Mercede RecordsSons of Florida and located at Cole's beginning is portrayednounced that a publishing deal has retained theservicesof2727 East Oakland Park Boule-as one of classic "Jazz Singer"has been negotiated with Athe- such independent promoters asvard in Fort Lauderdale. conflict. The son of a poor Ala-neum Press for the release of a bama minister, 'he disappointedbook tentatively entitled "Bill his father when he became aGraham's Story of the Fillmore Acquires Mills Hits Williams at Basing jazz pianist, then leader of theYears." Graham will begin writ- NEW YORK-Southern Mu- HOLLYWOOD - Liza Wil-King Cole Trio and, finally, aing the tale shortly with a col- sicPublishing hasacquiredliams has assumed the presi-pop solo artist of internationallaborator. publishing rights on the newdency of Basing Street West,renown. Mrs. Cole gives the lie In addition, Graham has li- Mills Brothers Paramountfollowing resignation of Walterto those who would call the gentle -natured censed the rights to a music single, "Strollin' ". The Broth-Wanger Jr. for health reasons. Cole "Unclefolioentitled"LiveatFill - ers flew in from Denmark to Tom,"notingsomeofthemore," which will contain mu- participate in promotion which breakthroughs he achieved forsic by various artists who per- includes a special film clip per-Brothers Two Suit his race in night clubs and tele-formed at the Fillmores over forming "Strollin' " and distri- vision. According to his wife,the years. Warner Brothers Mu- bution of straw hats and canes. RichardRodgers,Dorothyan occasional entertainer her-sic expects to go to press with VaughnHortonandKennyHammerstein,William Ham-self, one of the few people everit immediately. Haynes wrote tune. merstein and Phillip Zimet, as abletorile him was Harry executors and trustees of theBelafonte, who infuriated her estate of Oscar Hammerstein II,husbandwhenheallegedlyDeMarco Writes Novel Mike Does Mery deceased, Tom Jones and Har-tried to tell him how to per- vey Schmidt and Big Sky Mu-form. Arlene DeMarco, youngest sic,all members of ASCAP, member of the five singing De - have filed suit for copyright in- Joined Capitol Early Marco Sisters, has written her fringementagainstBrothers Cole, it is shown, was amongfirst novel, "Triangle," which Two, 1175 Peachtree St., N.E.,the first artists to join Capitol hasashow businessback- Atlanta, Ga., alleging that theirRecords, formed during a war-ground. New American Library copyrightedsongs wereper-time shellac shortageinthepublishes in October at $5.95. formedattheestablishmentspring of 1942 by Glenn Wal-Thrush alsoispreparingto without authorization. lichs, Johnny Mercer and Bud-return to performing. The songs involved are "Mydy DeSylva. That summer a Favorite Things" by Richardlong musicians' strike was ef- Rodgers and Oscar Hammer-fected. The stories behind sev-Tiny Starts Label stein II, published by Richarderal of his hits are included, Tiny Tim has gone into the Rodgers, Dorothy Hammerstein,notably the "B" side phenom-recording and publishing busi- 11(.31's Michael Allen wasamong William Hammerstein and Phil-enon "Nature Boy," written byness with his own label, Vic - some time-honored names when heip Zimet as executors and trust-hippie precursor Eden Ahbez-Tim Records, and Vic -Tim Pub- appeared on the Mery Griffin CBS - TV network show recently. Mich-ees of the estate of Hammer-but what everhappenedtolishing. Thefirstrelease on aelpluggedhiscurrentalbum, steinII; "Try to Remember"him? Vic -Tim will be Tiny singing "Something Special." Shown leftby Jones and Schmidt, pub- The Boston -born, motherless"Why Did They Have to Die toright:Michael Allen, Woodylished by Jones and Schmidt;Mrs. Cole was raised with careSo Young." Brite-Star Promo- Herman, Rosemary Clooneyand and "Lay, Lady, Lay" by Bobin North Carolina by her AunttionsofNashvilleand Tex Griffin. Dylan, published by Big Sky.Lottie, a strong-willed lady whoClark will handle promotion.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Rick Sklar on New Artists MONEY MUSIC (Continued from page 3 (Continued from page 16) talent in their nightly segmentRick started in radio in the '50s called "Sneak Preview." Un-at WPAL in Patchogue, N.Y. In On WDGY and WMAK. released recordings are aired.1959 he joined WINS as, of all Kris Kristofferson #28-19 WOKY. Chart KDWB, WCOL, Swithchboards light up accord-things, a promotion man. The WRIT. New: WFII, KXOK. ing to the tastes of the listener.following year WINS elevatedLayng Martine smash in Houston #10 KILT. Chart Some of the new artists airedhim to programming. After aKLIF, WBBQ. Good requests WMAK in Nashville on "Sneak Preview" have gonebriefstintat WMGM, ABC on to be giant sellers. Chair-hired him, first to handle pro- Gayle McCormick broke in Dallas 27-19 KLIF. Chart men of the Board (Invictus),duction and Community Serv- KJRB, WMAK. New: KDWB, WDGY, WGST. Ocean(Kama Sutra), Dawnices, and then another elevation Les Crane immediate strong phone response at KQV (Bell), the Carpenters (A&M)to PD, which brings us to the and CKLW. New: WTIX. and Lobo (Big Tree) are justpresent. Humble Pie broke in Cleveland 40-17 WIRY. New: a few. In summation, Sklar stated: WOKY. "We're happy with the re-"There are many obstacles in The Sweet action in Detroit at CKLW and WKNR. sponse that we've been gettingthe way of new artists, but, Lighthouse broke in Cleveland 30-14 WIRY. 25-15 with 'Sneak.' It's worked wellmore often than not, the goodWCOL. Chart: CKLW, WMAK, WRKO, WRIT, KJRB. On KJR, for a few years and Idon'ttalent finds its way to the top. believe a more elaborate sys-The more demanding the sys- WIBG, WYSL. tem is needed," remarked Sklar.tem, the better the talent. As New Colony Six #10 WCFL, 19 KHJ, 21-14 WRIT. longastherearestations New: WIRY. Started in '50s around the country that jump Anne Murray #17 KLIF, 12 WYSL. Chart: WCFL, As to some background of thequickly, we're happy to sit back, WRIT, KJRB. man promotion experts find soresearch and wait." Springwell strong in Detroit at CKLW and WKNR. increasingly difficult to reach, Mitchell Fink Broke to #16 WBBQ. Chart: WCOL, WYSL. New WOKY.

London Unveils 'Today Sound' Just Us #24-19 KILT.On WOKY. (Continued from page 3) Four Tops 23-18 KFRC.Chart: KHJ, KILT, WCFL. ON: KXOK, KGB, WYSL. Getting special attention Itwas revealed,too,that from the company is the newpress kits will also now be a Freddy North chart CKLWand WKNR. New: WAYS. Big Tom Jones Parrot double al-regular item whenever London R&B sales. bum, "Tom Jones Live atlaunches a new artist. Ten Years After went to#21 WRKO. On as an LP Caesar's Palace," as well as the KHJ and WKNR. latestLondon packagefrom Heaven Bound broke to #20 WCFL. Mantovani, "To Lovers Every-Shorewood Pact Chase WDGY reports good action. where U.S.A." London also in- i)usk chart KQV, KFRC and KYA. troduced "Thin Lizzy," "From eat CKLW and WKNR. Here on InIt Gets Rough," WIRY. New KXOK. Hildegard Knef ;and "Poppy iinlingahgeFnilDIA:MFACIPtion INDGY Chart KLIF. Seeds," the Poppy Family. The #20 WIRY. On: big one from MAM was "Gil- Fanny_ chart WCFL, KJRB. Broke to bert O'Sullivan Himself." KDWB. Specialattentionalso was James Gang chart WTIX, WBBQ. given to the bonus pak two -rec- Freddy Hart big pop in Houston #6 KILT. Big pop in ordsets:"Frank Chacksfield Dallas #6 KLIF. Chart WIXY, KJR, WRIT, WOKY. Plays EbbTide,"phase4; Nite-Liters keeps on rolling 14-8 KQV, 29-15, KYA, "Thru the Years," John Mayall, 21-10 WCOL, 30-25 KFRC. New: KLIF. London; and "The Best of Wil- Don Nix on as LP cut WCFL, WTIX. lie Mitchell," Hi. Phase 4 stereo Persuaders is now a solid hit #12 WABC. Smash at releasesare "Fiddler on the CKLW. #4 WAYS. Strong at KQV. Chart: WIXY and Roof," with Robert Merrill and Gerry Prochaska(left), General Manager of Shorewood Packaging WKNR. On WFIL, WYSL, WHBQ. Molly Picon ; and "A Tribute to of Canada, is shown welcoming EdTommy Rowe #13 KILT, A KHJ, 6 KJR, 13 WCFL. Chart Satchmo," the London FestivalIngram as Shorewood's new Gen- Band conducted by Eric Rogers. WIXY, WOKY. New KLIF. eralSales Manager. Ingram, anRufus Thomas #7 WAYS, 20-16 WQXI. New KXOK. The London c'assical release11 -year veteran in the recordpack- follows: "Un BalloinMas- aging business, came to Shorewood Tom T. Hall c&w giant. Chart KILT. Sales WOKY. chera," Renata Tebaldi, Luci-from Modern Album of Canada Peter Nero sales starting WOKY. ano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes; where he was sales manager. He Jam Factory on Epic. Top 10 WYSL. "The Rape of Lucretia," Janetwill be responsible for spearhead- Fortunes new KLIF, WCFL, WDGY, WBBQ. Baker, Heather Harper, Ben-ing the growth of direct board Shorepak, Unipak and special con- Staple Singers newest R&B hit. It sounds strong jamin Luxon; "Highlights fromstruction jackets in Canada. and we feel this will be the next R&B record to CamalleriaRusticanaandI cross pop successfully. Pagliacci," Elena Souliotis, Tito Gobbi, James McCracken,Marcucci/MGM Pilar Lorengar, Robert Merrill;(Continued from page 3) That record isscheduled farducer for Miss Barrett's three "Schubert and Schumann Lie - October. Third on the listis syndicated specials: "Rona Bar- der," Werner Krenn;"Pianoguitar and drums and theirGerard Belisle, a young singerrett Looks at Oscar," "... Looks Music of Liszt," Pascal Roge;single, "In the Darkness," isfor whom Marcucci is now seek-At Sex Symbols" and ". .. Looks "Bruckner Symphony No. 3 inbeing produced by the team ofing a producer. Belisle was for-At Hollywood in the '70s." Cur- D Minor,"ViennaPhilhar-Marzano and Calvert of "Sweetmerlyleadsinger withtherent plans also call for three monic, Karl Bohm;" Hindemith:Mary" fame. The single is duegroup Bigfoot. more specials next year with Mathis der Maler/Lutoslawski:shortly. In addition to his new recordone probably focusing in on the Concerto for Orchestra," L'Or- The second release will be by label,Marcucci manages hisGrammy Awards and the mu- chestre de la Suisse Romande,Linda Starr, a black singer pro-three artists, Molly Bee, Sidneysic business. Miss Barrett used Paul Kletki; and "Prima Donnaduced by Clarence Paul who hasJordan (a girl singer) and Ronato promote records in New York in Vienna," Pilar Lorengar. done some Motownproduct.Barrett. He isassociate pro-some years ago.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CLUB REVIEW Instant Replay On Yoiks! Dan Hicks and Hot LicksDecca's Patchett & Tarses recorded just themselves and, Clicks at Gaslight with an hour of tape, proceeded to re -write. The total recording NEW YORK - Yoiks! Blueton fan inadvertently invited time was somewhere around Thumb's Dan Hicks and his Hotto a party for Noel Coward. two hours and the album was Licks opened at the Gaslight Since nonsense is the order edited for a week to tighten last week, and what to makeof the appearance, Hicks, who, things up. At an estimated cost of it! in talking to the crowd avoids of around $5,000 and an initial The group, led by the un-inflection as if it carried a fatal pressing of 25,000 records, "In- strung Hicks, who lookslike, disease, writes lyrics that don't stant Replay" is now beginning and plays at looking like, annecessarily make sense and he to show its promise. Already on Adam's Apple, recalls summerand the group sing them as if many FM stations in the coun- band sounds of a past thattheaudience'sunderstanding try,it has been picked up by probably never existed, and atall the words is therefore not major Top 40 stations in places the same time the group takes like Pittsburgh and on station necessary. WNEW-FM in New York City. off, not that much differently Audienceswanttoknow than Guy Marks does in his re-what's going on, however,if markable"Loving YouHas Others on Album only todifferentiate between Patchett & 'Parse-. Made Me Bananas" routine, thethe songs. Gestalt isn't enough Along with Jay (Tarses) and music of by -gone, more naive,to sustain an evening, not even Patchett (Tom) on the album and, at the present, seeminglya set. By TONY LAWRENCE sillier musical periods. are: H. B. Barnum, Jerry Dex- "Where'stheMoney,"'By HOLLYWOOD-I rememberter, Lynn Johnson, Lee Weaver The four -man, two -girl con-Hook or By rook." "How an Ithe first time I saw Patchett &and, doing a marvelous job as glomerate, recall and spoof mu-Miss You When You Won't GoTarses. The year was 1966 andthepereinnial nagging wife, sic that sounds, usually simul-Away" were among the songsthey had just opened in LondonIris Ranier. "Of all the people taneously, like Glen Gray andintroduced and then deliveredwith Marlene Dietrich at thewe heard read since we wrote his Casa Loma Band, the Trioin tight yet garbled and ulti-Talk of the Town. It was an un-the album, Iris understood our Los Panchos, the Carter Fam-mateely (to me, anyway) self-usual night in that Miss Diet-brand of humor almost better ily, the Andrews Sisters, Lam-defeating fashion. rich did the funniest routinethan anybody. She's very hip bert, Hendricks and Ross, Spike Also,it's been a couple ofabout sportcasters I'd ever seen even thoughsheprobably Jones (himself a spoofer), Inamonths since I've been to theand then Patchett & Tarsesdoesn'tdigfootball,"said Rae Hutton, Dorothy Lamournew Gaslight, and during my(also known as P&T) came outPatchett the other day over a and you name it. This total re-hiatusthestagehasbeenand did a brilliant array of WWsnack at Chasen's. callitriveting becausethemoved to one end of the room.II songs, the most provocative While the boys (Patchett & group is young, and the girls,This was wise, since the oldofwhichdealtwithration especially, look as if they would Tarses) would like to do any- setup was undeniably awkwar4.stamps. thing (live or on TV only folks) draw a blank on the name JoniNow, however, the first row of James. It's been a lot of years andtohelp promote therecord, seats is about 12 feet from theJay(Tarses)and& Tomthere is no immediate plan for Although the sextetisthestage, all but obliterating the(Patchett) are still on top eventhe immediate development of kind that inspires fanatical fol-effect of intimacy the room hasthought they dropped the rationan immediate live act as a re- lowers, one wonders whetheralways seemed to have. Now thestamp song some years back.sult of the probable immediate they may not be telling a jokeaudience watched the perform-They have released an albumsuccess of "Instant Replay." that the general public will finders as if across a de -militarized for MCA on Decca called "In- Right now Patchett & Tarses itself not in on-the public be-zone. Not good for vibrations. stant Replay." The album, orig- coming rather like a Red Skel- are concentrating more on writ- Dave Finkleinally designed as a day-froming. They wrote the Jackson 5 start to finish-at a footballTV special on ABC, "Goin' Back game, is a series of 18 sketchesto Indiana," and they were reg- CONCERT REVIEW running from 24 seconds to fiveulars on NBC's summer show, minutes in length. The idea was"Make Your Own Kind of Mu- brought by their manager Ber-sic" where they first introduced nie Brillstein in one page formtheir Howard Hardsell satire. A Slyly Unique Evening to MCA VP Joe Sutton who im-For the fall they are currently mediately set the project in mo-writing "The Funny Side," also NEW YORK - Madisontheir new album, "One World."tion. Since the album's releasefor NBC, being produced by Square Garden was hostto Their hot single, "I Just Wantboth Patchett & Tarses haveSam Persky and Bill Denoff in- three groups last week, all into Celebrate," was the one that beenbothpleasedandim-volving five couples every week made theaudience beg forpressed with Sutton's enthu-and how they look at a typically the same category: rhythm andmore, though. siasm. "We showed it to a fewmundane problem such as milk- other people but Joe had by far blues. After an hour delay, cool Sly ing reindeer. Not bad for two Invictusartist Ruth Cope-Stone came on stage talkingthe best and most interestingguys who met by chance during land opened the show with herabout "You do your thing anddeal," said Tarses just the othera flashfloodin Oregon and dayover a milkshakeatsuddenly found each other help- impersonation of Grand Funk'sI'll do mine!" So he did justScanda. Mark Farner. She's beautiful,that and "Thank You," his first ing the other save the original sings well, has a pretty goodsong, seemed to be more of a It took P&T three weeks tomanuscript of George Jessel's group behind her and the audi-warm-up than a rehearsed tune.write the material. They firstHello Mama routine. ences love to look at her. She'sAs the night wore on, the songs O.K. grew better, the room became When Rare Earth, from thehotter and the audience leftpeople. He's working on a newning, but Epic's Sly Stone was label of the same name, played,their seats to dance. album, but no new songs werewhat brought these people to- the crowd became so excited Unusual! Sly's been playingplayed this time. gether and he will keep them over the jumpy music that thethe same songs for four years, Rare Earth was definitely thecoming as long as he's perform- screams became ear -shattering.but his three -night engagementhottestgroupat Madison ing. He's unique! Most of their songs were offwas sold out to over 60,000Square Garden this Sept. 8 eve- Martin Snider

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com RECORD VIORLD COMM CMA Members Elect RCA Console to Hall of Fame RCA Records donated the Hall of Fame members Eddy Top 5 Nominees original Studio B console to theArnold and the late Jim Reeves, RCA artists, recorded many of The members of the Countryist: Merle Haggard, Ray Price,Country Music Hall of Fametheir biggest hit records Music Association have selectedCharley Pride, Jerry Reed andin ceremonies at the Museumthrough the "board." The con- via secret written ballot theConway Twitty. on Wednesday, Sept.15. Thesole also claims all but two of top five nominees in 10 cate- Vocal group: Carter Family,console had been used for twoElvis Presley's million sellers, gories of excellence for the pastHager Brothers, Osborn Broth-decades to produce hundres ofand hundreds of others by such year. ers, Statler Brothers and Tom -country music hits. artists as Jerry Reed, Al Hirt, The name of the winner inpalland theGiasers.Vocal CharleyPride,DottieWest, each category will be revealedDuo: Johnny Cash and June HarryJenkins, Divisional Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, on Sunday Oct. 10, when CMA's Carter;CharlieLouvin andVP and head of RCA CountryHank Snow,etc., and Bobby Fifth Annual Awards Show will Melba Montgomery; PorterDivision, New York; Chet At-Goldsboro's "Honey." DollyParton;kins,Divisional VP of RCA, be presentedliveover NBCWagoner and Nashville; and Wally Cochran, "The late Steve Sholes, also a telvision. ConwayTwittyandLoretta Lynn; Tammy Wynette andManager -Artists Relations andHall of Fame member, was the The nominees in contention Operations,Nashville,repre-original driving force behind for the CMA Awards are: En-George Jones. RCA's push into country mu- Instrumental Group: Bucka-sented RCA at the presentation. tertainer of the Year, Merle Chairman of the Country Mu-sic," stated Mrs. Walker. "We Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Charley roos,Danny Davisandthe know he would be very proud Nashville Brass, Po Boys, the sicFoundation Frank Jones Pride,JerryReed,Conway and Executive Director Mrs. Joand grateful, as we are, that Twitty; Single Record (AwardStrangers and the Wagonmast- Chet Atkins, Harry Jenkins and ers. Instrumentalist: Chet At-Walker expressed gratitude to to artist, plaque to producer), the RCA officials for the gener-RCA have chosen the Hall of "AmosMoses,"JerryReed,kins, Roly Clark, Floyd Cramer, Fame as the permanent depos- Boots Randolph and Jerry Reed.ous contribution of the console RCA; "Easy Loving," Freddie whichisvaluedatapproxi-itory for this equipment which Hart, Capitol; "Help Me Make The winner of the Hall of (Continued on page 65) It Through the Night," SammiFame Award will also be namedmately $75,000. Smith,Mega; "When You'reon the show. The top five nom- Hot You're Hot," Jerry Reed,inees for 1971, selected by a RCA; and "Rose Garden," Lynngroup of 200 members of the Anderson, Columbia. panel of electors, are: Chet At- Album of the Year (Award tokins,OwenBradley,Jimmie artist,plaquetoproducer) :Davis, Art Satherly and Kitty 80NAsHvELEREPORT "Help Me Make It Through theWells. Night," Sammi Smith, Mega; Tennessee Ernie Hosts "I Won't Mention It Again," Ray Price, Columbia; "A Tri- Tennessee Ernie Ford will By RED O'DONNELL bute to the Best Damned Fiddlefor thethird year host the Player inthe World," MerleAwards Show which will be pre- Keeley Smith's "Your Love" on RCA is her first single in four years ...As of next Satur- Haggard, Capitol; "Whensented by Kraft Foods for the Grand Ole Opry House. Pre- day there'll be a "Porter Wagoner Blvd." in You're Hot You're Hot," Jerry West Plains, Mo., Porter's home town which is Reed, RCA; and "Rose Garden,"senters and/or performers on the honoring him on that day-with a day ... The Lynn Anderson, Columbia. show will be:Bill Anderson, Lynn Anderson, Chet Atkins, Statler Brothers, only half of whom are broth- Song of the Year (Award to ers, harmonize on the Billy Graham Crusade compose r) :"CoalMiner's Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, . weekend Daughter," Loretta Lynn; Roy Clark, Merle Haggard, Jan next Friday in Dallas . The past "Easy Loving," Freddie Hart;Howard, Sonny James, Loretta Red O'DonnellDottie West, Ferlin Husky and Loretta Lynn "Put Your Hand in the Hand,"Lynn, Bill Monroe, Dolly Par-were hospitalized in Nashville, Dottie for corrective abdominal Gene MacLellan; "I Rememberton, Charley Pride, Jerry Reed,surgery; Ferlin and Loretta for fatigue. Ferlin and Loretta have theYearClayton DelaneyJeannie C. Riley, Earl Scruggs.resumed work; Dottie'll be sidelined until mid -October, at least Died," Tom T. Hall; and "WhenBen Smathers & the Stoney . ..Dr, Elkin Rippy, the physician -in -residence on Music Row, You're Hot You're Hot," JerryMountain Cloggers, the Stone -celebrated a birthday last Monday and some of his patients sur- Reed. mans, Conway Twitty and Por-prised him with a party. He's as popular with the music industry Female Vocalist: Lynn An-ter Wagoner. folks hereabouts as a cool drink on a hot day . .. 26 -year -old derson,LorettaLynn,Dolly The show will contain twoBrenda Lee, celebrating her 22nd year as a professional enter- Parton,SammiSmith,andspecialproductionnumbers.tainer, commented: "I've had a lot of adjustments to make, a Tammy Wynette. Male Vocal- (Continued on page 65) (Continued on page 66) COUNTRY PJr\S OF THE WELK

W KENNY PRICE, "CHARLOTTE FEVER" (Window Mu -I%MURRAY KELLUM, "TRAIN, TRAIN (CARRY ME JERRY REED, "KO -KO JOE." As always, Jer- ...1 sic, BMI). Kenny sings what he does AWAY)" (Glen Campbell/Young ry's albums are a delight. There are the best; an uptempo self -penned Ron-IL World,BMI).FellowColumbia -Epic op bright self -penned things like "Ko Ko Joe" ny Light production. Excellent lead artist Freddy Weller co -wrote Mur- and "Love is a Stranger to Me" plus the and steel work. Kenny's lyrics and ray's follow-up tohis "Joy to the .4 Reed stylizations of standards like "Early melody should prove a winner. RCA World." A solid setof lyrics. MorningRain"and"You'llNever Walk 48-1015. Epic 5-10784. Alone." For kicks, try airplay on the Earl Jarrett -Jerry Reed anti -smoking novelty, "An- other Puff." (Cut 2, side 1). RCA LSP 4596.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Fan Fair Plans Announced 80 COUNTRY SINGLES Twoimportantannounce-Fan Fair plans are the result ments concerning the First In-of efforts by the Committee to PUBUSHERS UST ternational Fan Fair have beenencourage fan club groups to made by the Fan Fair Co-spon-participateinthefair,thus sors WSM, Inc., and the Coun-making it a beneficial and en- A SONG TO MAMA Billy Sherrill LEAVIN' AND SAYIN' GOODBYE Jerry Kennedy try Music Association. tertaining event for all fans (House of Cash/Oak Valley, BMI) 42 (Tree, BMI) 7 AFTER ALL, SHE USED TO BELONG TO ME LOVE'S OLD SONG Jerry Crutchfield The Committee hasissuedand boosters of country music. Jim Vienneau (Hank Williams, Jr., BMI) .... 26 (Duchess,BMI) 31 ALL I WANT TO DO Billy Carr LOVIN' HER WAS EASIER Jerry Fuller the statement that space will Some of the outsanding events (Jack & Bill, ASCAP) 59 (Combine,BMI) 24 be provided free of charge toalready scheduled for the three- ANOTHER NIGHT OF LOVEBillySherrill MAY OLD ACQUAINTANCES BE FORGOT (Young World/Center Star & Equinox, BMI) 72 Henry Hurt (Brothers Two, ASCAP) 53 fan club groups for their useday program are LP tapings. ARE YOU REALLY LEAVIN' BABY Jerry Bradley MOUNTAIN WOMAN Bob Millsap in displaying promotional items.numerous live presentations by (Green Grass, BMI) 65 (Wheel, ASCAP) 67 BACK THEN Larry Butler (Duchess, BMI).... 30 MUDDY BOTTOM Owen Bradley Also, the decision to set asidethe biggest names in country BE A LITTLE QUIETER Bob Ferguson (ouse of Bryant, BMI) 58 (Owepar,BM!) 23 MY BLUE TEARS Bob Ferguson (Owepar, BMI) 28 anafternoonforfanclubmusic, syndicated TV show tap- BRAND NEW MISTER ME Jim Vienneau NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE groups to hold business meet-ings and a bluegrass spectacu- (Sawgrass Music, BMI) 10 Lee & Reynolds (Metric, BMI) 54 CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA Danny Davis NO NEED TO WORRY Johnny Cash ings was made inthe jointlar. & Chet Atkins (Tree, BMI) 14 (Henson, SESAC) 29 CHARLOTTE FEVER Ronny Light (Window, BMI) 70 ONE NIGHT OF LOVE Bob Montgomery & meeting of CMA and WSM offi- The site for the first annual COUNTRY GIRL WITH HOT PANTS ON Bob Goldsboro (Pi -Gem, BMI) cials. event which will be held on Don Gant (Milene, ASCAP) 36 OPEN UP THE BOOK Ken Nelson (Lowery, BMI)47 DON'T HANG NO HALOS ON ME PICTURES Jerry Kennedy (House of Cash, BMI) 15 The space to be provided to April 12, 13, and 14, 1972 will be Cliff Williamson (Rose Bridge, BMI) 60 PITTY PITTY PATTER Earl Ball the Nashville Municipal Audi- DREAM LOVER Ron Chancey (Hudson Bay Music, (Blue Book, BMI) 4 the fan club groups will be Hill& Range/Screen Gems -Columbia,BMI) 50 PLEDGING MY LOVE Owen Bradley used at their discretion for dis-torium. Inquiriesregarding EASY LOVIN' George Richey (Blue Book, BMI) 66 (Lion/Wemar, BMI) 41 EVERYTHING BUT LOVE Billy Sherrill QUITS Owen Bradley (Stallion, BMI) 1 playing pictures, posters andspace for display items should (Algee, BMI) 75 RED DOOR Don Law Prod. (Acuff -Rose, BMI).. 56 be directed to Fan Fair, Atten- FLY AWAY AGAIN Jerry Kennedy (Addel, BMI) 16 other promotional material re- GOOD ENOUGH TO BE YOUR WIFE Shelby S. RINGS Jim Glaser (Unart, BMI) 27 lated to their favorite artists.tion Bud Wendell. P.O. Box 100, Singleton,Jr.(Belwin/Mills, ASCAP) 37 ROLLIN' IN MY SWEET BABY'S ARMS 17 GOOD LOVIN' Billy Sherrill (Algee, BMI) 21 Ken Nelson (Blue Book, BMI) These two additions to theNashville, Tenn. 37202. HANGING OVER ME Owen Bradley (Tree, BMI) 46 SATURDAY MORNING CONFUSION Snuff Garrett (Pix-Rus, ASCAP) 38 HELLO LITTLE ROCK Earl Ball (Sawgrass, BMI) 51 HERE COMES HONEY AGAIN George Richey SIX WEEKS EVERY SUMMER Jerry Bradley Brio,BMI) 61 (Marlon, BMI) 49 (Con RCA Console to Hall of Fame HERE IGO AGAIN Owen Bradley SHE'S LEAVIN' Bob Ferguson (Tree, BMI) 64 (Contention, SESAC) 9 SWEETIE Owen Bradley (Page Boy, SESAC) (Continued from page 64) HITCHIN' A RIDE Glori-B. Prod. (Intone, BMI)73 TALK IT OVER IN THE MORNING HOLD TO MY UNCHANGING LOVE Walt Haynes Brian Aherne (Almo, ASCAP) 69 has played an instrumental roleand continuetosupport the (Moss -Rose, BMI) 63 TELL ME NOT TO Brewer Prod. cause of country music and the HONKY TONK STARDUST COWBOY Larry Butler (Red Coach, BMI) 62 in the development of country (Jack & 42 Bill, ASCAP) THE CHOKIN' KIND Buddy Killen music and the NashvilleMuseum. During the summer HOW CANIUNLOVE YOU Glenn Sutton (Wilderness, BMI) 34 (Lowery,BMI) 8 Sound." months the label has partici- THE LAST TIME I SAW HER Al DeLory I DON'T KNOW YOU (ANY MORE) Ricci Moreno (Warner -Tamerlane,BMI) 22 Frank Jones, on behalf of thepated in an all-out campaign to (Shenandoah/Terrace, ASCAP) 11 THE MARK OF THE HEEL Joe Allison Foundation, thanked theoffi- promote the Museum by Pur- I GET LONELY WHEN IT RAINS Harold Bradley (Central Songs, BMI) 18 (Jack & Bill, ASCAP) 74 cials and RCA Records. Joneschasing 24 billboards around THE MORNING AFTER Joe Johnson IWANNA BE LOVED COMPLETELY (4 -Star,BMI) 35 also pointed out that RCA's as-the city containing a picture of Owen Bradley (Page Boy, SESAC) 57 THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE Jack Blanchard sociates have always supportedthe Hall of Fame. IWILL DRINK YOUR WINE (Blue Book, BMI) 45 (Hall-Cement/Birdwalk, BMI) 19 IWONDER WHAT SHE'LL THINK ABOUT MY THE NIGHT MISS NANCY ANN'S HOTEL FOR LEAVING Owen Bradley (Blue Book, BMI).. 13 SINGLE GIRLS BURNED DOWN ************************ I'D RATHER BE SORRY Don Law Prod. Ray Pennington Mouse of Cash, BMI) 39 UA Audio -Visual (Buckhorn,BMI) 2 THE TWO OF US TOGETHER Wesley Rose & IFI HAD YOU Scott Turner (Passkey, BMI) 43 Don Gant (Acuff -Rose, BMI) 55 IF THIS IS OUR LAST TIME Owen Bradley THE YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED Presentation Hit (Blue Crest, BMI) 20 Jerry Kennedy (Newkeys, BMI) 6 IF YOU THINK THAT IT'S ALL RIGHT WHAT A DREAM Jim Vienneau (Berkshire, BMI) 68 HOLLYWOOD-The audio- Glenn Sutton (Grenn Grass, BMI) 40 WEST TEXAS HIGHWAY Bob Ferguson visual presentation shown at I'M GONNA ACT RIGHT Jerry Bradley (Wren/Heavy,BMI) 48 (Cedarwood, BMI) 33 WHEN HE WALKS ON YOU Jerry Kennedy the United Artists Records na- IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE Biff Celli, (Blue Crest/Hill & Range, BMI) 12 tionalsales meet on Friday, (Bummer', Vico & Conn, ASCAP) 25 WHEN YOU'RE TWENTY-ONE IWO Wilson JUST AS SOON AS I GET OVER LOVING YOU (Dejab, BMI) 52 Sept. 10, proved to be one of Larry Butler (AlGallica, BMI) 71 YOU'RE LOOKING AT COUNTRY Owen Bradley the best and most effective yet KO -KO JOE Chet Atkins Vector, BMI) 32 (Sure -Fire,BMI) 3 seen. Instead of showing the stock CMA Elects still photo of the artist or al- Ovation Sets bum coverasa track was GLENN SNOWSNOW (Continued from page 64) played, the film pulsated with One will pay tribute to blue-New Albums abstract impressions a n d and The COUNTRY AMERICANS grass music and will feature Dick Schory, President ofpsychedelic effects. Produced by have a HIT! and it's Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, theOvation Records ,has an-Dick Hendler, UA's Creative Di- Stonemans and Ben Smathersnounced that the label has re-rector of Advertising, with the "MADE IN U.S.A." and the Stoney Mountain Clog-leased the following albums foraid of two young Hollywood gers. Porter Wagoner and Dollynational distribution : film makers, James Parks and -* Parton, Bill Anderson and Jan "Paul Horn and the ConcertBob Hammer, the presentation Ensemble"; "Another Step For- Howard and Conway Twitty also contained a few out -of -con- ...a left field smash! and Loretta Lynn will performward" by Joe Morello; "Dick (Cash Box-Sept. 4, 1971) in a special number highlight-SchoryatCarnegieHall";text shots guaranteed to keep ing famous vocal duos "Laura," produced by Kenneththe audience alert. "Every American should hear The third and final ballot inHandler;"The Don Tweedy After the showing, VP Mike the elections will be mailed byChorus and Orchestra"; "Pos- 4( MADE IN U.S.A." the accounting firm of Ernst &sum River," produced by LennyLiptonintroducedEliBird, Ernst on Sept. 23. Kerley;"SidewalksTalking"Product Manager, who stressed Jack Stapp, President of Treeby Hollins and Starr and pro-UA's selectivity in developing !International, and IrvingducedbyNormChristian;new artists aad cited the facts D.l.'s write: Waugh, President of WSM, Inc.,"Vibe - Brations" by Bobbythat the label had dropped over Christian; "Dick Schory-Mov- KANGAROO RECORDS areCo-chairmenofCMA's 200 artists in the past year and in'On With His Percussion 302 East Dewey Street Awards Show Committee. JoePops Orchestra";"The Jazzhad released 73 albums in the Cates isExecutive Producer, San Gabriel, California 91777 Walter Miller will direct theViolin of Joe Venuti-Once Morefirst six months of 1971 in con- show and Chet Hagan will write With Feeling,"produced bytrast to 200 issued in the same Phone: (213) 288-5435 the script. (Continued on page 66) (Continued on page 66) 4--Ii-V4-4-444LY-K-1444t-K-K-K*****-114

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com ATI: Another IVASHVILLE REPORT (Continued from page 64) Arm of Record Companylot of ups and downs along the way. But I have neverregretted NEW YORK-Jeff Franklin,don't play the same marketsgrowing up in this business. If I had gotten into performingfor President of American Talentover and over again. "We don'tthe money, I probably would have quit during the 10 yearsthat International, and Ira Blacker,neglect the grass roots states,I nearly starved to death before I had a hitrecord, or before Vice President (with Sol Saf-which most agencies have for-anyone knew who I was" .. Gardner -Webb College of Boiling fian) of the firm, talked to Rec-gotten," Blacker said. "AlbumsSprings, N.C., confers honorary Doctor of Humanitiesdegree ord World recently about theirbreak in secondary markets andon Johnny Cash next Tuesday(28). Just call him Dr.John R. growing multi-facteted agency,so do acts." Cash! putting a stress on breaking "Also," Franklin said, "if you Birthdaying: Pearl Butler, Gwen Collins, Ott Stephens,Mike new talent. put an act back into the sameHight, Lynn Anderson, Bob Jennings and MartyRobbins . . . Blacker explained that whenmarket, in a hurry, you don'tSlim Whitman on tour of England and Ireland.(Avoid Belfast, the agency supplies a headliner sellany new albums. FollowSlimbo). Slim's "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" on Dotlabel a winner. on a rock bill of three acts,the sales pattern on the newWritten in 1936 by Billy Mayhew. (Who had thebig pop record they demand the right to placeRod Stewart album and youoriginally of the tune? The Mills Brothers or the InkSpots?) ... one of their new acts in thefollow his tour. On Stewart'sAsked if he had his life to live over would hemake any changes, opening spot. new tour, 80% of the marketsRCA's Chet Atkins said: "Sure. I thinkalmost anybody would. were new. There are a lot of dull spots and a lot ofmonotonous moments "What promotershaveto I'd like to erase. I'd definitely want to get abetter formal educa- understand," he said, "is that "We also go in for personal educated, as far each new act we take on-andcontact," Blacker said. "We'retion. There is no such thing as being overly we're very selective - meansnot departmentalized. Many ofas I'm concerned. A personshould never quit trying to learn. us are personal friends of theHowever, I'm sure I would want to be amusician; a guitarist" losing money. Putting a new act Singer Marguerite Pizza will be inNashville Monday (20) on tour costs us about $5,000.acts we handle. We want every . .. auditioning a pianist to appear with her in concerts ...A pro- It's an investment for us. So ifnet-whether big or small-to promoter told me we're going to lose money, youfeel that they can come up hereducer, a song publisher, a talent agent and a can bet that we want to loseand see us whenever they want. (separately and without my asking) thatbusiness in the music And everybody here right downfield appears to be on the upswing-after along, hot, down sum- it in the best way possible. If Reckon with whom Jennie C. Riley isgoing to team on we put an act on a bill,it'sto the secretaries sees everymer ... Fre- because we think it belongs onact we sign." her MGM duets? LeRoy Van Dyke booked for Las Vegas' .Elvis Presley alleged to have his that bill. After all, we have to "We feel that we have to ser-mont Hotel Oct. 22 -Nov. 4 .. Hollywood home up for sale. He's asking$450,000. ..George act in the best interest of build- vice acts," Franklinsaid. Canada most of the ing an act. We're not just com-"We're funny that way. We'llHamilton IV, who has been in England and mission -mongers. The only dutygo out on the road and see anysummer, performs Wednesday(22) at Gregg County Exposition ..Jim Ed Brown officially anagenthas,accordingto It gives us a chance to& Livestock Show, Longview, Texas . act. opened his Jim Ed Brown Enterprisesoffices last week. New agency contracts with artists,critique an act, and we'll tell business and fan club isto act in the best interestthem the truth.If we thinkfacilities house his music publishing Beckey Pritchett is his Gal Friday ...Stan Hitchcock of the artist. We feel we wantthey're staying too long, we'll Hawaiian to do that." tell them so. If we think theytakes off ;inearly October for two weeks tour of "Onethingwe'realwayscan't do a 70 -minute set, we'llIslands. tell them so. We don't just see Roy Clark, who has missed few datesduring his career, re- ready to do," Franklin append- cently almost kept two final dates withdestiny on the same day. ed, "is to find a second linean act when they get to New County (Ohio) Fair, Roy was act if we don't think we haveYork." Booked to appear at the Loraine about to leave his Maryland home tofly his Cessna 310 to the one that is right for the bill. "What makesusdifferent Only Roy's instant action We'll go to another agency for date, when lightening struck the house. from other agencies," Blackerprevented it from burning to theground. In the skies later that an act of we have to. We always said, "is that we're interested trouble, forcing him into an make sure we have approvalin direction, not just commis-day, Clark's plane developed engine emergency landing at Erie,Pa.-unhurt. He finally managed to of the act, however, no mattersion -mongering. We lookto delayed curtain-and a sigh who selectsit.If a promotertour,to get publicity,tobe get to Loraine with only a slightly asks us who we're putting ananother arm of the record com-of relief. opening act for, we always tellpany." him, 'We're putting the act on Woloshin, Inc. Initial job was the bill for you. We're building for16radiospots and oneUA Audio -Visual you an opening act."' 30 second television commer- ATI, according to Franklin cial. Presentation and Blacker, adhere to a num- Lee Canaan Enterprises, a (Continued from page 65) ber of other practices as well new talent agency, hasopenedperiod of the previous year. -both for new and old artists. at 2 Pennsylvania Plaza, New Bird introduced other mem- For instance, they believe that York. Canaan is also the pro-bers of his Product Develop- no act should be booked 52 prietor of the Revelation Sup-ment Group; Marty Cerf, Bill weeks of the year. "You can per Club in Bay Ridge,Brook-Roberts and Dan Bourgoise who kill an act that way," Franklin lyn. meet and evaluate reasons for said. "What we do is find themIN Gary McFarland, composer The firm of Nancy Love As-signing new talent and explore work to keep them busy whenof "America the Beautiful-Ansociates, Inc., has been retainedareas of exposing them through they're not being exposed. WeAccount of Its Disappearance,"by National Talent Service, Inc.,advertising, merchandising and get a number of our artistswhich won a Grammy, has beena New York -based film,lecturepromotion. producing jobs, for one thing."signed by Cannon to write theand live arts organization. NTS, Right now ATI is taking caremusical score to their new filmheaded by John A. Friede, Pres- of business for Rod Stewart,"Who Killed Mary Whats'er-ident and Chairman; John Lol- SmallFaces,SavoyBrown, name?" starring Red Buttons,los, VP -Production and Creative Ovation Albums BuddyMiles,DeepPurple,Sylvia Miles and Alice Playten.Director; and Frank Brunetto, (Continued from page 65) Fleetwood Mac, John Baldry, Aarons Management hasSecretary -Treasurer, specializes theDoors, AtomicRooster.added Steve Alsberg to the staffin the production and distribu-Dick Schory and Marty Gold; Michael Gateley and Al Kooper,as a personal manager. tion of entertainment material"The Songs and Singings of among others. A major campaign has gottento the college market. Okie Duke," produced by Dick Don't Neglect Grass Roots underway by State Farm Insur- Jerry Ross of Malverne Dis-Schory and Ron Steele; and Franklin and Blacker alsoance with all music production tributors was married on Sept."Get Off in Chicago," produced make sure that their artistsgoing to Sid Woloshin of Sid 12. by Harvey Mandel.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com R(DO couNTRy EZDALBUM PRODUCT By MARIE RATLIFF and CHUCK NEESE HE'S SO FINE JUDY MILLER-Epic 30659. Jody Miller has both of her latest sin- gles on this album, "He's So Fine" and STATION CHECK LIST the new one "Baby I'm Yours." Pro- WINN, Louisville (Jim Miller) KRAK, Sacramento (Jay Hoffer) assembled KFDI, Kichita (Don Powell) WMQM, Memphis (Art Scott) ducerBillySherrillhas KB OX, Dallas (Art Keller) WQYK, Tampa (Don Dee) tunes like "Good Lovin'," "You've Got a WUNI, Mobile (Johnny Barr) WMGS, Toledo (Jeff Rice) Friend," "Don't Throw Your Love to KJEM, Oklahoma City (Jay Perkey) WCNW, Fairfield (Fred Slezak) the Wind," "A Woman Left Lonely," WGMA, Hollywood, Fla. (K. C. Jones WRFD, Columbus (Bill Preston) of Woman," KFRD, Houston (Tom Miller) WXCL, Peoria (Dale Eichor) "Make Me Your Kind KLAK, Denver (Con Schader) WFCG, Franklinton, La. (Rick Diggs) "Don't Be Cruel" and "I'm Gonna Write a Song." So fine indeed. ======AilammpAGommultin DAVID HOUSTON'S GREATEST HITS, Volume II Marty Robbins is racing toward a hit with "Early Epic 30602. Morning Sunshine." It's the hottest of the new When they said "Hits," they meant it. entries this week. Listen to this line-up: "Have a Little Running a close second is David Houston and Faith," "Wonders of the Wine," "Baby, Barbara Mandrell's "We've Got Everything But Baby," "I Do My Swining at Home," Love." It's a pick at KJEM and KFRD, strong at "Already It's Heaven," "Nashville" and WCNW, WUNI, WXCL, KLAK, WGMA. David's single "Where Love Used To Live." effort "Home Sweet Home" is heavy, too, but the flip "Maiden's Prayer" is this week's pick in Wichita. Sessioning Interstate Conway and Loretta predictably hot in all markets. Did you know that the voice singing the harmony In Nashville To Nashville part on the new Johnny Paycheck single is none Bill Sizemore, Interstate Tal- other than the "Honky Tonk Stardust"Cowboy" Bill ent Agency Prexy, announces Rice? the establishment of the agency offices in Nashville. Interstate's Sonny James is super -heavy everywhere. rosterboastsartistsRonnie Dove, Bobby Vee, Johnny Tillot- Dick Curless is taking the lead with "Snap Your son and Ray Peterson. Fingers" at WINN, KFDI, WUNI, WQYK. Soul singer Ruby Winters is Newest pulse ratings show WXCL is the leading represented by ITA as well as adult station in Peoria and seven counties. Gigi and Gerri Jackson, a sister WCNW pick: Becki Bluefield's "Saturday Town." act, which is a segment of the George Jones' "I'll Follow"You" leading up the sophisticated Ronnie Dove Re- charts in the South and Midwest. Contention Music l'rexy Ted Har- vue. Sizemore manages allof Ben Peters and Don Tweedy have formed Jungle ris meets with SESAC's new manthe acts excepting Johnny Til- Corporation of America with offices at 812 16th in Nashville Bob Thompson, Col-lotson. umbia artist Lynn Anderson and Simultaneously, Sizemore Avenue South In Nashville. hubby producer Glenn Sutton. The O. B. McClinton's Enterprise release "Country statedthatBearpawMusic, scene was Lynn's album session atwhich he also heads, will main- Music, That's My Thing: is climbing in Louisiana. Columbia's million dollar Nashville tainNashvilleoffices.Frank Jack Reno is "Hitchin' a Ride" on many charts, studio complex. Myers has been appointed pro- particularly in the Midwest. fessional manager. Brian Collins heavy in the Wichita market. ITA and Bearpaw Music were 1000 -watt 100% country WDWD is getting lousy Cap Re-signs Merle previously located in Baltimore, promo service. Add them to your mailing list -- To Long -Termer Md. The Nashville offices are 110 North Main, Dawson, Ga. 31742. located in Suite 216, 806 16th Connie Smith's "I'm Sorry If My Love Got in Your Merle Haggard, whose "OkieAvenue So. Building. Way" breaking in Toledo. from Muskogee" and "Fight- ingSideof Me" have been Duane Dee coming on strong in Dallas and Peoria. certified gold by the RIAA, has Bobby Bare moving in Memphis. signed a new, long-term con-New Neal Agent Dr. Phillip Levitan in Music City last week tract with Capitol Records. II NASHVILLE - The Neal looking for material to record a "middle of the Pact callsforfivealbums Agency, Ltd.,is developing a road, modern country" album on Nashville club and six singles to be releasednew agent to handle youthful favorite Ronnie Prophet. Pacemaker Productions' in each two-year period, accord-attractions, R. Jason Neal, son Levitan has plans for a Nashville office opening ing to Ken Nelson, Division VPofSonnyNeal, VP ofthe soon but in the meantime material could be sent A&R. agency. to 326 Edgewood Avenue, Smithtown, N.Y. 11787. Bob Yarbrough has hit in Mobile. Jerry Smith's instrumental "Gear Jammer"

Dickey Lee still building very strong in all areasplaylisted in Denver. with his version of "Never Ending Song of Love." James Allen's "Haven't You Heard?" being heard KBOX is leaning heavily on Billy Mize's "Blowin' in Columbus. on Cold Ashes." Freddy Weller forging ahead on "Another night of Ray Sanders attracting attention with his "All I Love" in Dallas, Toledo and Denver. Ever Need is You" at WUNI, KLAK. Red Lane picking up play at WQYK, WMGS.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com THE COUNTRY figoCOUNTRY ALBUM CHART aWORLD SINGLE PRODUCT SEPTEMBER 25, 1971 THIS LAST WKS. ON WK. WK. CHART ROGER11'..4 SIWINE- Burnaby Z57-2046 1 1 THE SENSATIONAL SONNY JAMES-Capitol 804 8 IT'S COLD IN TULSA (Cedarwood, BMI) 2 2 YOU'RE MY MAN LYNN ANDERSON-Columbia 30793 9 3 3 I'M JUST ME CHARLEY PRIDE-RCA LSP 4560 10 A TYPICAL AMERICAN BOY (Cedarwood, BMI) 4 5 I WON'T MENTION IT AGAIN RAY PRICE-Columbia 30510 16 Heavy uptempo hard country outing for "Sovie." Roger came 1E11 9 SOMEDAY WE'LL LOOK BACK MERLE HAGGARD-Capitol ST 835 5 close with "Cullman" some time back and if the label chooses

7 THE LAST TIME I SAW HER GLEN CAMPBELL-Capitol 733 8 releases carefully, he'll hit big.

1 4 BEST OF PORTER WAGONER & DOLLY PARTON-RCA LSP 4556 9 8 8 RUBY BUCK OWENS & THE BUCKAROOS-Capitol ST 795 12 JUNE STEARNS-Decca 32876 9 6 MAN IN BLACK JOHNNY CASH-Columbia 30550 14 YOUR KIND OF LOVIN' (Wilderness Music, BMI) 10 17 I WONDER WHAT SHE'LL THINK ABOUT MY LEAVIN' CONWAY TWITTY- Decca DL 75292 5 ANOTHER (Moss -Rose Publ., BMI)

III 13HE'S SO FINE JODY MILLER-Epic 30659 3 Vic McAlpin's protegee sounds really good on this Harlan Howard 12 10 POEMS, PRAYERS AND PROMISES JOHN DENVER-RCA LSP 4499 11 piece. Country shuffle with strings and voice make the Owen m 24TAMMY'S GREATEST HITS, VOL. 2 TAMMY WYNETTE-Epic 30733 3 Bradley production a commercial item. 14 15 I'VE GOT A RIGHT TO CRY HANK WILLIAMS, JR.-MGM SE 4174 7

1121 18LONESOME SAMMI SMITH-Mega M31-1007 7 STONEY EDWARDS-Capitol 3191

1131 22 PICTURES OF MOMENTS TO REMEMBER STATLER BROTHERS-Mercury 613496 ODD JOB DOLLAR -BILL MAN (Central Songs, BMI) 17 16 WHEN YOU'RE HOT, YOU'RE HOT JERRY REED-RCA LSP 4508 23 THE FISHIN' SONG (Central Songs, BMI) 18 11 HAG MERLE HAGGARD-Capitol 735 25 This cut is from Stoney's "Down Home in the Country" album 19 20 SILVER TONGUED DEVIL AND I KRIS KRISTOFFERSON-Monument 30679 6 produced by Capitol's new man inNashville Earl Ball. Good 20 30 TODAY MARTY ROBBINS-Columbia 30816 2 airplay contender. 21 12 THE INCREDIBLE ROY CLARK-Dot 25990 10 22 14 I WANNA BE FREE LORETTA LYNN-Decca 75282 19 BILL ANDERSON & IAN HOWARD-Decca 32877 Le 28PITTY, PITTY PATTER SUSAN RAPE-Capitol ST 807 5 DIS-SATISFIED (Stallion Music, BMI) 24 19 ROSE GARDEN LYNN ANDERSON-Columbia 30411 40 25 21 LEAVIN' AND SAYIN' GOODBYE FARON YOUNG-Mercury 61354 8 KNOWING YOU'RE MINE (Stallion, BMI) 26 25 GWEN (CONGRATULATIONS) TOMMY OVERSTREET-Dot 25992 10 27 27 It's been a while since we've heard from Bill and Jan. The duo CALIFORNIA GRAPEVINE FREDDIE HART-Capitol ST 593 6 wrote their own release with the help of Jan's son, Corky. Fancy 9 34 GEORGE JONES SINGS THE SONGS OF LEON PAYNE-Musicor MS 3204 3 steel work throughout. 29 29 JERRY CLOWER FROM YAZOO CITY (Mississippi Talkin')-Decca DL 75286 18 30- KO KO JOE JERRY REED-RCA LSP 4596 1 RED LANE-RCA 74-0534 31 31 TOUCHING HOME JERRY LEE LEWIS-Mercury 61343 14 32 32 HOW MUST MORE CAN SHE STAND CONWAY TWITTY-Decca DL 5276 22 SET THE WORLD ON FIRE (Tree Publ. Co., BMI) 33 23 WELCOME TO MY WORLD EDDY ARNOLD-RCA LSP 4570 9 THEY DON'T MAKE LOVE LIKE THEY USED TO (Tree Publ., BMI) 34 33 GLEN CAMPBELL'S GREATEST HITS-Capitol SW 752 24 35 26 PATTI PAGE-Mercury SR 61344 From the same pens that produced "The World Needs A Melody," 9 comes Lane's follow-up. Material is okay but doesn't have the Ea 39CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA WAYLON JENNINGS-RCA LSP 4567 2 37 37 impact of its predecessor. ONLY A WOMAN LIKE YOU NAT STUCKEY-RCA LSP 4559 6 38 36 NEXT TIME IFALL IN LOVE HANK THOMPSON-Dot 25991 12 39 35 JEANNIE C. RILEY'S GREATEST HTIS-Plantation PLP 13 12 JIM KANDY-Edsel G-922 40 45 SUPER COUNTRY DANNY DAVIS & NASHVILLE BRASS-RCA LSP 4571 4 THE POWER OF THE NEON (Jack Music, BMI) 131158 DAVID HOUSTON'S GREATEST HITS, VOL. 2-Epic 30602 2 YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (Passkey Music, BMI) - IN SEARCH OF A SONG TOM T. HALL-Mercury SR 61350 The label says "Every Record a Collectors Item." Production is 43 44 THE AWARD WINNERS TOMPALL & THE GLASER BROS.-MGM 4775 4 nice on the Kent Westberry-Hall Harbour song. Bob Webester 44 38 DID YOU THINK TO PRAY CHARLEY PRIDE-RCA LSP 4528 23 produced. 57 I NEED SOME GOOD NEWS BAD BOBBY BARE-Mercury 61342 2 46 47 BABY, YOU'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES CHARLIE LOUVIN & JOHN L. SULLIVAN-Shoe Records 1975 MELBA MONTGOMERY-Capitol 808 7 47 51 ONE SWEET HELLO ERNEST TUBB-Decca 75201 4 A LITTLE PIECE AT A TIME (Central Songs, BMI) 48 41 HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT SAMMI SMITH-Mega M31-1000 47 49 SNAP YOUR FINGERS (Fred Rose Music, BMI 42 FOR THE GOOD TIMES RAY PRICE-Columbia CS 39106 55 Beautiful production work and Sullivan's vocal work is super 50- LIVE AT SAM HOUSTON COLISEUM MEL TILLIS-MGM SE 4788 1 pleasing. John L. produced and Hank Levine arranged. 51 53 I.AWANDA LINDSEY'S GREATEST HITS-Chart CHS 1048 3 52 40 WE SURE CAN LOVE EACH OTHER TAMMY WYNETTE-Epic 30658 19 53 43 HONKY TONKIN' MERLE HAGGARD'S STRANGERS-Capitol 796 9 BONNIE FERGUSON-Metro Country 2007 54 46 MARTY ROBBINS' GREATEST HITS, VOL. III-Columbia 30571 20 HOW CAN ANYTHING SO WONDERFUL BE SO WRONG 55 48 COMIN' ON COUNTRY DICK CURLESS-Capitol ST 792 6 56 59 THE WORLD NEEDS A MELODY RED LANE-RCA LSP 4576 3 (Ensign/Aquila, BMI) 51 49 SOMETHING SPECIAL JIM REEVES-RCA LSP 4528 15 ANYONE'S ARMS BUT MINE (Famous Music, ASCAP) - WILL THE REAL DAVE DUDLEY PLEASE SING DAVE DUDLEY- Good vocalist with afine Clyde Beavers song. Metro Country Mercury 61351 1 Records is distributed by Nashville's Starday-King complex. 59 52 KNOCK THREE TIMES BILLY "CRASH" CRADDOCK-Cartwheel 193 20 60 55LOVE LETTERS FROM ELVIS-RCA LSP 4530 11 61 54 JUST ONE TIME CONNIE SMITH-RCA LSP 4534 13 HANK LOCKLIN-RCA 48-1014 - THIS IS JERRY WALLACE-Decca DL 75294 1 LOVE THE DEVIL OUT OF ME (Sawgrass, BMI) 63 60 THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER WENDY BAGWELL-Canaan CAX 9789 31 SOFTLY (Blue Echo Music, BMI) 64 56 MONSTERS JERRY LEE LEWIS-Sun 124 6 - MY BABY PACKED UP MY MIND AND LEFT ME DALLAS FRAZIER- Cute Lorene Allen/Jim Owens uptempo/Jerry Bradley production.

RAC LSP 4569 1 Hank handles this material as well as he handles the ballads. 66 61 WILLY JONES SUSAN RAPE-Capitol ST 736 26 67 58 PARTS OF LOVE JUDY LYNN-Amaret 5011 7 68 63 HOME COOKED JIMMY DEMPSEY-Plantation PLP 14 11 SUPER PROMOTIONS IS 69 67 FROM ME TO YOU CHARLEY PRIDE-RCA LSP 4391 35 70 62 ALWAYS REMEMBER BILL ANDERSON-Decca DL 75272 21 71 64SIMPLE AS I AM PORTER WAGONER-RCA LSP 4508 22 BRITE STAR 72 66 WE ONLY MAKE BELIEVE CONWAY TWITTY & LORETTA LYNN-Decca 75271 32 Complete record promotion and distribution services 73 68EMPTY ARMS SONNY JAMES-Capitol 734 24 BRITE STAR PROMOTIONS 74 70 BEST OF ROY CLARK-Dot 25986 28 728 16th Ave. So. Nashville, Tenn. 31203 (615) 244-4084 75 69 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A LADY JOHNNY DUNCAN-Columbia 30618 8

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Cu)THE COUNTRY SINGLES CHART

SEPTEMBER 25, 1911 THIS LAST WKS. ON WK. WK. CHART

0. do3QUITS BILL ANDERSON-Decca 32850 10 El 5I'D RATHER BE SORRY RAY PRICE-Columbia 4-45425 8 YOU'RE LOOKING AT COUNTRY LORETTA LYNN-Decca 32851 9 6 4 4 PITTY PITTY PATTER SUSAN RAPE-Capitol 3129 11

5 1 EASY LOVIN' FREDDIE HART-Capitol 3115 14 6 2 THE YEAR CLAYTON DELANEY DIED TOM T. HALL-Mercury 73221 12

10 LEAVIN' AND SAYIN' GOODBYE FARON YOUNG-Mercury 73220 8

Ei 12 HOW CAN I UNLOVE YOU LYNN ANDERSON-Columbia 4-45429 6

9 9 HERE I GO AGAIN BOBBY WRIGHT-Decca 32839 12 10 11 BRAND NEW MISTER ME MEL TILLIS-MGM K14275 9

in 17 I DON'T KNOW YOU (ANYMORE) 1 49 A SONG TO MAMA 5 TOMMY OVERSTREET-Dot 17387 133 THE CARTER FAMILY- Columbia 4-45428 12 8 WHEN HE WALKS ON YOU 10 JERRY LEE LEWIS- 43 36 IFI HAD YOU 10 Mercury 73227 BOBBY LEWIS- United Artists 50791 13 7 I WONDER WHAT SHE'LL 51 HONKY TONK STARDUST THINK ABOUT MY LEAVIN' 12 CONWAY TWITTY-Decca 32842 COWBOY 5 BILL RICE-Capitol 3156 14 16 CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA 8 WAYLON JENNINGS- 52 I WILL DRINK YOUR WINE 6 RCA 48-1003 BUDDY ALAN-Capitol 3146 El 22 PICTURES 6 53 HANGING OVER ME 4 STATLER BROTHERS- JACK GREENE-Decca 32863 Mercury 73229 54 OPEN UP THE BOOK 4 co 26FLY AWAY AGAIN 6 FERLIN HUSKY-Capitol 3165 DAVE DUDLEY-Mercury 73225 62 WEST TEXAS HIGHWAY 2 ga 27ROLLIN' IN MY SWEET GEORGE HAMILTON IV- RCA 45-276 BABY'S ARMS 4 BUCK OWENS-Capitol 3164 - HERE COMES HONEYAGAIN 1 SONNY JAMES-Capitol 3174 18 20 THE MARK OF A HEEL 11 HANK THOMPSON-Dot 17385 23 DREAM LOVER 15 BILLY "CRASH" CRADDOCK- 19 21 THERE MUST BE MORE TO Cartwheel 196 LIFE FIRE HYDRANT #79 9 71 HELLO LITTLE ROCK 3 JACK BLANCHARD & MISTY WYNN STEWART-Capitol 3137 MORGAN-Mega 615-0031 73 WHEN YOU'RE TWENTY-ONE 2 Eri 25 IF THIS IS OUR LAST TIME 8 CLAUDE KING-Columbia 4-45441 BRENDA LEE-Decca 32848 60MAY OLD ACQUAINTANCES 21 15 GOOD LOVIN' 12 TAMMY WYNETTE-Epic 10759 BE FORGOT 5 COMPTON BROS.-Dot 17391 22 18 THE LAST TIME I SAW HER 12 GLEN CAMPBELL-Cnoitol 3123 103 61 NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE 2 DICKEY LEE-RCA 48-1013 31 BE A LITTLE QUIETER 6 5 PORTER WAGONER-RCA 48-1007 55 57 THE TWO OF US TOGETHER DON GIBSON & SUE 24 24 LOVIN' HER WAS EASIER THOMPSON-Hickory 45K1607 ROGER MILLER-Mercury 73230 ED 63 RED DOOR 3 Ea 37 IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE 7 CARL SMITH-Columbia 4-45436 SLIM WHITMAN- United Artists 50806 57 59 I WANNA BE LOVED 5 AFTER ALL, SHE USED TO COMPLETELY SWEETIE En 32 WARNER MACK-Decca 32858 BELONG TO ME 5 4 HANK WILLIAMS, JR.- 65 MUDDY BOTTOM MGM K14277 OSBORNE BROTHERS- Dacca 32864 Ell 40 RINGS 3 I WANT TO DO 2 GLASER BROTHERS- C]66 ALL MGM K14291 BRIAN COLLINS-Mega 615-0038 DON'T HANG NO HALOS ON ME 3 28 13 MY BLUE TEARS 11 60 67 DOLLY PARTON-RCA 47-9999 CONNIE EATON-Chart 5138 2 46 NO NEED TO WORRY 4 68 SIX WEEKS EVERY SUMMER JOHNNY CASH & JUNE DOTTIE WEST-RCA 48-1012 CARTER-Columbia 4-45431 64TELL ME NOT TO 4 30 30 BACK THEN 8 BUD BREWER-RCA 48-1009 WANDA JACKSON-Capitol 3143 72 HOLD TO MY UNCHANGING 31 33 LOVE'S OLD SONG 8 LOVE 2 BARBARA FAIRCHILD- JEANNIE PRUETT-Decca 32857 Columbia 4-45322 - SHE'S LEAVIN' 1 8IS 47 KO -KO JOE 3 JIM ED BROWN-RCA 45-272 JERRY REED-RCA 48-1011 65 70 ARE YOU REALLY LEAVIN', 42 I'M GONNA ACT RIGHT 4 BABY 2 NAT STUCKEY-RCA 48-1010 PAT DAISY-RCA 48-1005 RY WALLACE 34 34 THE CHOKIN' KIND 9 66 75 FOR THE KIDS 2 J DIANA TRASK-Dot 17384 SAMMI SMITH-Mego 615-0039 DECCA 75294 43 THE MORNING AFTER 6 67 69 MOUNTAIN WOMAN 3 JERRY WALLACE-Decca 32859 HAROLD LEE-Cortwheel A198 36 41 COUNTRY GIRL WITH - WHAT A DREAM 1 HOT PANTS ON 8 CO CONWAY TWITTY- cones the nehit single LEONA WILLIAMS- MGM K14274 Hickory 45K1606 69 74 TALK IT OVER IN THE 37 14 GOOD ENOUGH TO BE MORNING 2 YOUR WIFE 13 ANNE MURRAY-Capitol 3159 JEANNIE C. RILEY- 70 - CHARLOTTE FEVER 1 R Plantation PL -75 KENNY PRICE-RCA 48-1015 38 19 SATURDAY MORNING 71 - JUST AS SOON AS IGET CONFUSION 13 OVER LOVING YOU 1 BOBBY RUSSELL- JEAN SHEPARD-Capitol 3153 United Artists 50788 72 - ANOTHER NIGHT OF LOVE 1 39 44THE NIGHT MISS NANCY FREDDY WELLER- ANN'S HOTEL FOR SINGLE Columbia 4-45451 GIRLS BURNED DOWN 5 73 - HITCHIN' A RIDE 1 TEX WILLIAMS-Monument 8503 JACK RENO-Target T13-0137 40 48 IF YOU THINK THAT 74 - I GET LONELY WHEN IT RAINS 1 IT'S ALL RIGHT 7 LEROY VAN DYKE-Decca 32866 JOHNNY CARVER-Epic 5-10760 75 - EVERYTHING BUT LOVE 1 41 28 PLEDGING MY LOVE 12 DAVID HOUSTON & BARBARA 70 RECORD WORLD SEPTEMBER 25, 1971 KITTY WELLS-Decca 32840 MANDRELL-Epic 5-10779

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