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08120 NEWSPAPER TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE A Billboard Publication The International Music -Record -Tape Newsweekly September 25, 1976 $1.50 C'right Bill Near Goal nei $ Store Sears Turns Over For Buffalo In House & Senate NEW YORK -A $1.3 million By MILL)RED HAL1, record retail shop. believed to he the `Select' Stores Tu WASHINGTON -The copyright largest in the world, will go into op- Cleveland Video revision bill zipped through the eration in Buffalo, N.Y., during the House Rules Committee by unani- first week of November, according 2 to Leonard Silver, president of For LPs Is a mous vote Wednesday (15) and is Racks Discotheque expected to reach House floor action Transcontinent Record Sales, which By JOHN SIPPEL no later than Thursday (23). will operate the shop. LOS ANGELES -Sears "is study- $500,000 Pilot' On the Senate side, spokesmen for The store. which will be called the Industry Issues ing a new concept" in administering predict Record Theater, is the newest of 21 its more than 600 record /tape /ac- By RADCLIFFE JOE the copyright leadership smooth and fast action through con- record retail outlets operated by cessory departments nationally by NEW YORK -A $500,000 video ference committee, to reconcile the Transcontinent, one of the nation's Face Airing At using Lieberman Enterprises and discotheque. believed to be the first House and Senate bills, followed by largest record rackjohbers. It will J.L. Marsh to rack LPs in some select of its kind in the country, has been an approving vote under the spon- cover 18,000 square feet of space in stores. established in Cleveland by The sorship of Sen. John L. McClellan downtown Buffalo. NARM Conclave Sears had established Searrac. an Last Moving Picture Company as a (D- Ark.), chairman of the Senate The Record Theater will stock in -house rackjobbing division. some pilot project for similar Operations (Continued on page 14) (Continued on page 10) NEW YORK -NARM convenes years ago to service departments around the nation. its first mid -year convention Mon - with album product. The club, also called The Last Betamax Programming Test For L.A. .i,15 ( 2u) against the backdrop of the Sears record /tape /accessory de- Moving Picture Company, is headed industry's traditional fall promo- partments currently receive album by Hamilton Biggar Ill, who also By STEPIIEN TRAIMAN tional onslaught of new product and product from company warehouses Chicago. Los Angeles and Phila- operates the Mad Hatter Disco- NEW YORK -Sports World Cin- alone video deck attachable to any merchandising campaigns. in delphia. It's believed that the Sears theques in Boston, Tampa, Mil- ema of Salt Lake City hopes to tv. according to Gary Ewing of the Those who bear the brunt of the test program, if successful, would waukee, Cincinnati, Atlanta and launch the first prerecorded soft- Utah firm. effort to sell through to the con - eventually phase out the in -house Cleveland. ware market test of Sony Betamax A supplier of Super 8mm film sumer what promises to be a bumper warehouses, which would then be The disco, which has eliminated video programming this fall in the cassettes and 1/4-inch U -Matie video- seasonal crop of first -line records taken over by the two rackjobbing Los Angeles area. cassettes to ski areas, resorts and now and tapes will gather at the Conti- elaborate lighting designs and most organizations. conventional fixtures from its decor, It would he the first such offering discos. Sports World Cinema will be nental Plaza Hotel in Chicago for a depends almost exclusively on video of both purchase or rental programs offering approximately 37 hours of three -day meet to examine the cur- The switchover from in -house to for effect. Equipment in the club in- in the 'h -inch Betamax format that programming at an under $ 100 pur- rent state of the business and to outside rackjobbing of albums cludes two video cameras, three pro- was bowed by Sons., first in a con- chase per hour, or at a suggested grapple with problems affecting would he a most gradual one, it's /Om/jiff/eel un page 54) sole and subsequently in a stand- (Continued on page 10) (Continued on page 24) (Continued on page 14) Blockbusting Acts Spark i_ td"-' Fall Season Album Output LOS ANGELES l -he recording IFPI, Italian Groups industry's fall season offers con- inners richness of product with Tee Pi racy Campai gn blockbuster artists being released now and during the ensuing months. rg By IS HOROWrr'Z Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr. MONTREUX -A drive to cut Diana Ross, Freddy Fender, Bach - back runaway tape piracy in Italy, man- Turner Overdrive, Barry currently estimated to account for at White, Led Zeppelin, Earth, Wind & least 25` of all sales of recorded Fire, the Jacksons, Tammy Wvnette, product in that country, will be Sly Stone, ZZ Top, Bay City Rollers, launched next month with the sup- Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, Al port of the International Federation Green, Paul Anka, War, Donald of the Phonographic Industry Byrd, James Taylor. Funkadelics, (IFPI). Harry Chapin, Vladimir Horowitz 1'0 '* `+ 41 .0 iV Stephen Stewart, director general and Cleo Laine -Ray Charles are - I .y of the IFPI, said here last week that among the sales- stimulating artists Buckacre, a talented group of Illinois country rock musicians, makes its Continuing their fruitful collaboration with Curtis Mayfield which last his organization has earmarked that dealers will he offering to cus- MCA Records debut with "Morning Comes," recorded in London under year yielded the smash "Let's Do It Again," The Staples do it a second $40,000 as seed money for the cam- tomers. the aegis of producer Glyn Johns. Buckacre is Darrell Data, pedal steel time in Pass It On, their debut Warner Bros. album. BS 2945. super em- rhythm guitar and vocals; Dick Hally, bass and vocals; Les Lockridge, lead paign, a sum that is to he matched by The record industry's (Advertisement) and rhythm guitar and vocals; Alan Thacker, lead, rhythm, slide guitar, the Italian Record Assn. 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On A &M Records & Tapes fû Produced by Quincy Jones for Quincy Jones Productions SP 3705 www.americanradiohistory.com 3 Generol News FIRST GLOBAL MEET Hickory In Interdependence Is WEA Growth Is Middle Of Stressed By Arista Big Change SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -The inter- Convention Topic NASHVILLE- Hickory Records dependence among various depart- ments, introduction of individual By MIKE HENNESSEY is making a dramatic about -face in Largest Russian its direction as Wesley Rose, presi- budgets for each of the eight re- MONTREUX -In five years dent, has signed a distribution gional marketing managers, estab- WEA International has grown to a agreement with ABC Records, inked Stadiums May Be lishment of a distributor advertising point where the U.S. companies Mickey Newbury to ABC /Hickory fund and the importance of input and their foreign affiliates now and now plans to double the roster Opened To Clark from within and outside the com- cover almost 90% of the world's and depart from his traditional pany were key topics at the first an- record markets. country-only attitude to seek across - By GERRY WOOD nual Arista Records sales /promo- held at the This claim was made by WEA the -board chart activity. TULSA -The largest potential tional convention Er- Camelback Inn. here, Sept. 8 -12. international president Nesuhi Jerry Rubinstein, chairman of the audience of any U.S. musical show tegun at the group's first inter- board of ABC Records, and Rose touring Russia could be awaiting a here national convention held worked out the deal for ABC to dis- 1977 Roy Clark Show concert swing Sept. 8 -10. tribute all new Hickory product in through the Soviet Union now being Dominant factor of the conven- the U.S., Canada and most of the finalized through negotiations be- 28 tion, attended by delegates from world, effective immediately. An tween Jim Halsey and Ivan I. Yelise- countries, including the managing Nesuhi Ertegun: more chart rec agreement on Hickory's past catalog yev, deputy director of Gosconcert. directors of all WEA's wholly might be made in the future. ords than expected. Halsey plans a November trip to owned affiliates,--was the evidence Newbury, who wrote and re- the U.S.S.R. to hammer out final de- of growing creative "cross pollina- the last two years there has been a corded the hit single "American Tril- tails, including his insistence that tion" among the various WEA much greater receptivity in Amer- ogy" and has written other hits, will some of the concert dates utilize the companies. ica for music originating in other distributed worldwide by the be large sports arenas that have never Said Ertegun: "It is really excit- countries. In Brazil, for example. ABC label under the pact. been used by American music enter- ing to see the creative energy in this where our WEA company is only Singles and LPs by Don Gibson, tainers.