MARCH 21, 1964 SEVENTIETH YEAR 50 CENTS Billboard The International Music -Record Newsweekly Radio -TV Programming Phono -Tape Merchandising Coin Machine Operating Capitol Tells Some Small Dealers, Buy From 1 -Stops HOLLYWOOD--Capitol Records Distributing far too small for it to economically service them is Corporation notifying selected small dealers it properly, and that it would be to the advantage will stop selling them Capitol -Angel product of both the accounts and the distributing com- Barbra Streisand and Sidney Chaplin because it has become increasingly difficult for pany these FUNNY GIRL' for dealers to acquire product from watch Jule Styne, at the CRDC to service accounts such as yours.' and is one -stops. piano, and lyri- cist Bob Merrill run through their suggesting that henceforth they buy from one - score for the new musical According to a CRDC spokesman, the sales stops in their area. Policy is effective March 20. about Fanny Brice, titled "Funny Girl," due to open on Broad- costs have been mounting, and the firm cannot Dealers are being informed of this change on a way March 22. Capitol Records will put the original cast economically have its salesmen make calls on al- market -by- market basis rather than in a nation- bum into the groove Easter Sunday (29) and marginal volume accounts. In servicing such deal- will rush the LP wide announcement. At press time. the cities into market by ers, CRDC has to extend to them all the middle of the following week. The show covered included Seattle, the benefits. Minneapolis, Milwau- including exchanges. returns and credit. is currently holding preview performances at the Winter Gar- kee and Kansas City, Mo. The cutoff notification The cost of keeping books on such small transactions when den, New York. is being issued in the form of a letter following coupled with the cost of sales calls, CRDC feels, staff meetings by CRDC vice -president and na- exceeds the distributor's profit. f tional sales manager Bill Tallant. accompanied A number of by Peter Goyak, assistant national sales manager. the accounts are geographically Service Problem distant from the distributor's branch, and, this BRITISH DISKS CRDC's position is that certain accounts are (Continued on page 6) TAKE TOP 10 POSITIONS AT HOME LONDON -For the first time in the history of charts, the COMPLETE FTC See Page 3 British Top 10 is now all- British. When this achievement was COVERAGE reached two weeks ago the first l4 disks in the hot 20 were home- made, a staggering result for manufacturers of the home product who are now selling their wares in greater quantities than ever dreamed of just a few years ago. But the British industry is still trying to grasp the full extent Trade of its new -found success in America. The Beatles already have Seeks places on their Solution for mantles for no less than six U. S. gold disks -one each for their two chart- topping LP's and one each for the million -selling singles "I Want to Hold Your Hand." "She Loves You." "Please Juke Box Please Me" and "Twist and Shout." Stereo Now everyone Dilemma here is wondering whether the Searchers, the Dave Clark Five, Dusty Springfield, the Swinging Blue Jeans and By AARON STERNFIELD Currently, virtually all of the stereo LP's. All this program- the Merseybeats -and the host of others who have found success 33 stereo product available to is NEW YORK- Representatives ming adult-oriented. here with the new trends-can rise to similar heights in America. operators comes through of leading record companies and two Pioneer in the adult stereo Several albums are being prepared by the hottest British acts with programs. The Music Operators U. S. juke box manufacturers to- programming concept is See - the market specifically in mind. gether with the Stereo Service. a joint effort of which president of the burg, maintains its own t111.111 Record One Stop Association. Rock -Ola, Rowe -AMI and program. Seeburg little LP's, met here Tuesday (10) to work Wurlitzer, orders stereo singles issued at the rate of about four out a distribution pattern which in five - packs and distributes a week, come with seven -inch would provide the nations them primarily through their color reproductions for display Will Aberbachs Buy Mills? music machine operators with own juke box distributors, al- on the juke box. The firm also a constant supply of adult though some one -stops handle releases its Artist of the Week NEW YORK -The Aberbach that the offer will be in the stereo singles and little LP's. the product. five -pack, with 10 sides from freres, Jean and Julian, are neighborhood of $5,000,000. the same stereo album, also preparing a buy for the giant The Aberbachs are aiming to The talks were designed to Each five - pack contains a complete with four-color dis- Mills Music catalog, according acquire "the whole works." This get the juke box manufac- four -color album re- miniature vlay. to reliable reports. would include not only the great turers and their distributors out production for display on the Thus far, the rapprochement pop catalog of Mills, but also of the record business and to juke box. and Five Both programs have demon- title strips. is in the initial stages, and pres- the educational and standard shift the responsibility to the albums are strated that a market adult represented in each for ently the Aberbach attorneys material, plus the record manufacturers and stereo foreign hold- one - five -pack, with selections taken programming exists, and are in the process of crystalliz- ings. stops. from best- selling and spotlight (Continued on page 48) ing their offer. It is reported (Continued on page 41 What are the top SALES IMPACT STATIONS in Boston, Philadelphia and Houston? See Radio Response Chart In Radio -TV Section Closed- Circuit TV Fees Up for Grabs By PAUL ACKERMAN-MIKE GROSS potential for the remuneration to composers and pub- As far as publishers are concerned, two rights arc lishers and that the money NEW YORK -A major break -through in perform- accrued would be dis- concerned, the synchronization right and the per- tributed directly, in the same manner as BMI handles formance ance rights payoffs developed late last week as Billboard right. The BMI move for 1 per cent of the its payoff on concert performances. was going to press. The major break -through came as gross puts the performance problem in perspective but a result of the closed -circuit telecast, featuring the Judge Burton said that the closed -circuit TV deal the synchronization problem, which right now is up to Beatles. shown Saturday- Sunday (14 -15) in more than is "significant and new and a departure from previous the individual publisher, is still up in the air. 100 theaters around the country. What was most operational procedures." it's still too premature to esti- Some publishers feel that the synchronization rights importantly established was that BMI will be paid on mate what the over -all take will be but it's antici- should be between $2,000 and $2,500 per song. There demand for I per cent of the gross take of the show. pated that there will be about 500.000 viewers around are others, however, who are willing to agree to a $100 The I per cent of gross will be distributed directly to the country paying a $2.50 top to see the Beatles. per shot fee. the authors and publishers involved. At press time. a Leslie Gore, the Orlons. Frankie Lymon and the Tymes. What's developing is what amounts to a "closed - spokesman for ASCAP said that copyright organization The closed -circuit TV show, produced circuit" fight between publishers. No rule of thumb was still looking into the situation. under the banner of National General Corporation's Theater has been developed on what a performance is worth. Judge Robert J. Burton, BMI president, said that Color- Vision, headed by Eugene V. Klein, has initiated One music publisher stated, "It's like block- bustin'. this new area of closed -circuit TV offered an enormous precedental studies in the pop music areas. (Continued on page 4) www.americanradiohistory.com Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrreat single! the "The Pink Panther Theme" PINK PANTHER1CV&"1A.' Teat R BAD Until Wok Gun J. Film sw. TOMN.R i011,1.1 d ( ,.4 /W "It Had Better Be Tonight" #8286 HENRY MANCINI from the album of Mancini's romping new score RCA Victor 1-1 Copyrighted 14: www.americanradiohistory.com . 21, 1964 MANCH BILLBOARD 3 Historic FTC Trade Conference uumnlxtxnnxuuou AUDIT CHARTS, KILL ARMADA, HARM Map Educational PAYOLA, BILLBOARD'S Campaigns on New FTC Rulings PUBLISHER SUGGESTS WASHINGTON -Hal B. Cook, publisher of Billboard, Kintner to Steen Sees called for auditing of all popularity charts in a proposal before ARMADA PREXY the FTC Trade Practice Conference. Cook suggested that all Prep pop charts, whether produced by a trade paper, radio station or Brief LAUDS EFFORTS Rules Boon any other similar media, be audited by a certified public ac- OF EXECS countant, thus assuring the industry of responsibility, honesty In Lay Lingo ORG To Industry in chart WASHINGTON -Amos Hei- and integrity compilation. WASHINGTON The full text of Cook's statement follows: -The hoard licher, president of the Amer- WASHINGTON -Cecil Steen of the American Record Mer- ican Record Merchants Industry popularity charts: Any trade paper, business pub- and Dis- and Jules Malamud, respectively chants and Distributors Associa- tributors Association, termed the lication, radio station or other media who take upon themselves president and executive director tion at a meeting here Thursday Federal Trade Commission's of the National Association of the responsibility of compiling so- called best -selling or most - (121 approved plans for an edu- Practice Conference, held here Record Merchants, here for the requested record lists (popularity ratings) be required to submit cational campaign designed to Friday (13).