Bogart Resigns This Week's • As Buddah Fastest President Movers Buddah Records President Neil Bogart has tendered his resignation to the label's parent company, /1111GLE/ Viewlex Corporation. Together Midnight Train To Georgia--Gladys Knight with Art Kass, Bogart had headed Paper Roses--Marie Osmond up Buddah since its inception some Photograph-Ringo Starr six years ago. Bogart told R&R that, until he is released from his present contract Pop/MOR with the company, he can't Be-Neil Diamond seriously consider any further Crunchy Granola Suite-Percy Faith Leave Me Alone-Helen Reddy plans, though rumors have him in line for the presidency of MGM or slated to sign a special label deal RADIO fk. RECORDS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1973 Country Continued on Page 2 Volume 1, Number 3 We're Gonna Hold On--George & Tammy Sometimes A Memory--Jerry Lee Lewis FM ROCKERS BATTLE ON Paper Roses-Marie Osmond Amazing Love-Charlie Pride • Ratings War In Pittsburgh RLISUMS Goodbye Yellow Brick Road--Elton John Z's success is due to their strong market to be the most exciting in Pittsburgh's FM rockers fight on. Cyan-Three Dog Night the country, with the possible As reported last week, KQV's (100-150 miles) signal. exception of Miami. "Great Fantasy" giveaway has been As research head of WPEZ and "How could anybody interested answered by 13Q's upping of their one of two under-20-year-old in radio, having heard about what's Cash Call jackpot to $25,000. A personalities who came to Grateful Dead going on out here, not want to join talk with WPEZ's Bob Pittman Pittsburgh only a few months ago in on the action?" confirmed Stereo Z's participation from WDRQ, Pittman feels the Inaugurate in the foray as well. Stereo Z is running ,a 3-phase New Label "Ultimate Zip-Off" that involves In a move not without some call-ins, with listeners picking up precedent among major rock acts, $20, $50 or $100 bills, mail-ins the Grateful Dead have established where listeners list four friends and their own company, Grateful Dead their phone numbers, one of whom Records, to manufacture, promote is called and awarded $100 if he and distribute their recorded answers 'Stereo Z' to the question product. 'what station do you listen to?'; • The move follows the expiration and the Z-Man On The Street, who of the band's seven-year contract similarly awards cash for right with Warner Bros., a relationship answers. 13Q had been doing a frequently characterized by friction "Great Rip-Off", giving away LP's on both sides. and cash. As one of the first San Francisco The fierce competition extends bands to sign with a major label in even to logos and jingles. KQV 1966, the original five-man Dead started with the slogan "Music And received a comparatively large More", 13Q countered with "Music advance and contractual guarantees And Money", now WPEZ's Art providing considerable "artistic announcing "Music, Money And This was the scene at Tower Records in Hollywood last Saturday afternoon. The control". Subsequent recording The Most Winners". Pittman claims occasion? A DeFranco Family autograph party, what else? For the latest on their operations, however, proved costly Stereo Z dropped a HiLo contest in hit single, "Heartbeat," check the Audience Acceptance Graph on page tie. its final stages (with spots ready to for both the band and Warners, and it wasn't until later in the group's air and the package totally prepared) when 13Q premiered an WRC's 'Grease Man recording career that the situation unannounced HiLo of their own. stabilized. • KQV has been in the market the Garners Big D.C. Audience Grateful Dead label head and longest, with 13Q having made its longtime band associate Ron strides since last April. WPEZ, while He arrived from Syracuse five from the Deep South. "He pictures Rakow described Warner Bros. as similarly oriented in research to months ago to handle a 10-2 AM himself as a funny dirty old man," "fine people, but we didn't get the 13Q but running a considerably slot, he's either 22 or 23 years old, says Brother Love (Allen Smith), attention we deserve there, and for tighter format, has taken some and he masks his true identity by who precedes "The Big Greasy this reason we've gone and created audience from both KQV and 13Q. refusing photographers and One". our own means for getting the adopting what some have tagged music out to our audience. Pittman feels some degree of Stereo "He's getting plenty of response. "the strangest act in radio." He's "Essentially, Grateful Dead At first it was mostly negative, but "The Grease Man", and he's helped Records exists to allow the Dead to now people are beginning to come boost Top 40 WRC's total audience deal with people they can deal with around. Ile takes sonic getting used from 17 to fourth in the personally. They're quite concerned on the inside.... to. EDITORIAL 2 Washington, D.C. market. with having control over all aspects R&R TOP TWENTY .5 The Grease Man's mystery "When I talk with kids on the of their recorded product, from ROCK ALBU MS 7 identity provides the kind of high phone ," Smith explains, "they creating the music to the STATION PROFILE 14 think he's a real old cat, exactly PARALLELS 9 profile personality that provokes manufacture of quality sound COUNTRY MUSIC 14 audience reaction. He rumbles what he portrays himself as. He recordings to the merchandising." FCC nightly in a dark guttural tone that sounds like he's from the At present, the operation POP/MOR 19 suggests some aging swamp-dweller Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 6 Page 2 R A DIO ik REC O R DS October 19, 1973 R&R: The Future Initial acceptance to R & R has been overwhelming, and all of us are deeply gratified that you have found us to be serving your needs from the beginning. Both radio and the record industry in general continue to grow and change, daily. As a publication based on reporting those changes, R & R is not immune to development and revision of its own. For this reason, we solicit your comments on the magazine and will continue to welcome your suggestions. We've already begun structuring changes to expand and improve R & R. In The Rock Section: We're expanding the rock parallels in order to cover more records each week. We'll enlarge the size of the boxes in parallels 1-3 in order to list more repokting stations. We'll begin graphing more records on the Audience Acceptance Graph. A new full page will be devoted to listing corresponding stations' Helen Reddy is presented with "The Los Angeles District Number One Award" adds, to enable you to see, at a glance, "new" activity at each station. by KHJ jock Charlie Van Dyke, -in honor of "Delta Dawn" 's No. 1 position on KILI. Presentation was made at a luncheon at the Villa Capri in Hollywood. In The Rock Album Section: We're expanding the Rock Albums page to list more LP's. Added notations will reflect the level of airplay on each individual album, so you can easily tell which are the hottest albums. She's Not Impressed - In The Country Section: The Country section will be expanded further to include a With 13Q's Contest "Country Composite" which will note the week's "most added" records based on the cumulative reports of our corresponding stations. ...It happened at 9:30, Thursday has gone bananas. They're giving Corresponding stations will also be listed individually with their morning, Oct. 11. In Pittsburgh, the fruit away on the new adds, to enable a quick reading of each station's activity regarding 13Q's Mike Dineen made an air...WBBM-FM of Chicago giving new product. on-the-air call to jock Jack away "three-packs up albums", and Our chief objective remains the same: to supply you with the Armstrong at home, to tell not the usual giveaway-type LPs; most comprehensive, best coordinated presentation of factual Armstrong he led in a the 3-packs are comprised of the information. These changes, which will take place over the next six station-conducted straw vote to new Stones, Elton John, and Art issues, are designed to assist you in keeping pace with the daily and pick Agnew's successor. Armstrong Garfunkel. Listeners are going crazy weekly changes that continue to shape contemporary radio. The was asleep, and when Dineen at the chance of winning the city's information you read in R & R on Friday isn't made available to you pressed Jack's girlfriend for a top three albums every hour...Salt Lake City's KRSP is running an in other publications until Monday. That's important. comment, he got it: "Fuck off!".... "All The Hits All The Time —Bob Wilson NEWSHAWK HAKIM Sweepstakes", giving away all the ...UA's Jack Hakim won $25 for hits and a 15-day trip to Europe.... a news tip from Detroit's CKLW. KGB CHARITY CAPER Bogart Seems he'd just heard of Agnew's resignation (Wednesday, Oct. 10). ...San Diego's KGB has gone into Continued from Page 1 the record business, producing an excellent charity promotion in an with Warners. LP, The KGB Homegrown Album. "I may not be let out of my Radio Rout Station asked listeners to write and contract here," he said, "so I might RADIOS RECORDS record their own tunes about San and informed Bill Hennis as soon as Friday, October 19, 1973 Diego.