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SINGLE COPY PRICE: 250 MUSIC BUSINESS Incorporating music reporter Vol.VIII,No. 40; May 9,1964 MILLION-$ TALENT BOOM New York Clubs Booking Best 40 1111 Names of All for Fair Visitors '.'NPIC(0111,MIjli By BEN GREVATT A MILLION DOLLARS worth of talent. That's the current story on the New York night club circuit as operators gear up to grab their share of the World's Fair sheckles being ploughed into the local economy by an estimated 35,000,000 visitors. The 1,000,000th visitor passed the turnstiles last week. Six of the major clubs right now are focusing on top head- LPII. Ets,.0,002 liners with five of these on the CHARTS & PICKS ZirSOVe.L distaff side. The lone male of eF Pop 100 . Page 21 Mid the group is Sammy Davis Jr., Pop LP's 24 whoopenedathree-week C & W 13 5rBSM stand at the Copa last week. Single Picks 18 of ',Wu BEYOND THIS, it's a battle Album Picks 22 of the blonds between Peggy Lee,holdingforthatthe - - . Americana's Royal Box andpartment, with Miss Lee tak- Patti Page, who moved intoing down $17,500 a week. In theWaldorf's Empire Roomaddition, she's got a suite of . He was just a delivery boy, but he caught his thumb ina last week. It's known that theher own and her entourage door during a recording session, and the screams that were taped Americana in particular is go-occupiesnineotherrooms made him a star . ." ing all out in the budget de - (nine!)in the high-rise hos- telry. In two other major estab- lishments, a pair of sister acts Opera Discs Have Helluva Year are holding forth with the McGuires coming off well in By BARRY KITTELSON arefined formula, which isRenata Tebaldi, Roberta Pet-their debut at the Plaza's Per- Recorded opera is in its hey-less obvious than it seems. ers and Anna Moffo broughtsian Room. A British group, day. For the first time in re- IN THE 50's,artistslikeglamor and attention to thethe Kaye Sisters, are headlin- cent recording history, com- RiseStevens,MariaCallas. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 ingattheLatinQuarter. panies can cut an opera (and Jonah Jones is at the Embers. mind you, the production costs BASIN STREET EAST, now generally exceed $50,000) and featuring the Treniers and the look forward to better than a "hip" hypnotist, Pat Collins, 50-50 chance to get into the Now Starts brings up its own big guns in black. the person of Ella Fitzgerald In the past with few excep- in mid -May, which will then tions, recording an opera was bring about a three way battle virtually a public service, or a of the top femme stars, with means for a large manufactur- the Misses Lee and Page still er to establish a well-rounded The Italian on the scene at that time. culturalimage.Today,it's The Village scene is jump- paying off. ing too, and has been particu- The climate has been build- larly since the recent college ing for the past fifteen years. Invasion spring vacation period. At that Operasingers have become time, the Serendipity Singers widely publicized figures (es- were pulling turnaway crowds pecially the women) and the See Page 30 at the Bitter End, and the club recording of a big selling vo- continues with healthy busi- cal album has boiled down to CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 REPRISElttlECORDS A SPECTACULAR SPRING album RELEASE SINAT CROSBY WA.F1ING LA' AND THE PENNSYLVANIANS f1111111,D PllEillElt IPPE MIREI NliongilEK FIRST TIMETOGETHER r 134N IN CONCERT JOE LOU MONTE'S GOLDEN HITS Popp, Si. taw blouseLuy Mai Si. ibel Of Arady OW Lemma 0.111rOKI Shutters ail Ma NUM When I Not/ Ni bl My km, IN CONCEPT, Oh Abor, ES ALIO. Rm.. Gistar rae-' PeNro s filet P.0.1 TOWN HALL THE WU De W.W.I, 9y GOLDEN haze ttr Cat.. HITS OF , LOU MONTE GREATEST HITS RUM TriE GREATEST FILMS ibER OM Mt WKS NM= FRANK SINATRA JACK NITZCHE BM N LiRIF LES BAXTER WERNER MUELLER GEORGE GREELEI MANUS HADJIDAKISM NELSON RIDDLE KEELY SMITH DOCK)0C, ALL NIGHT SINGERS REMARKABLE NEW "FOLK GROUP :OCAOC WHITE ON WHITE SHANCRI LA a==1CHARADE JAVA I WISH YOU LOVE Hits. 91.1964 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND MY TRUE CARRIE REAUTIPUL EISSIN' COUSINS THE SHELTER OF YOUR AR)OS reprise reprise 2 THIS IS THE BIGGEST TOUR EVER Beatles' One-Night DatesSelling Out 5Months in Frontof Shows Nothing has ever happened like it be- The way the promoters are pushing the However, now that the lads are proving fore. This is the opinion of astute trade-concerts are via a radio spot or two or athey can sell out the boxoffice months be- newspaper ad or two. And it works. Beatlesfore they come to town, many vet promot- sters about the forthcoming Beatles tour. chance. Five months before the tour hits theroadfans apparently can't get rid of theirers are screaming for another theirmoney fast enough, and the orders areThey are calling GAC and begging for in August, promoters are selling out pouring in. In New York, where Billdates. It's too late for some of them, for one night stands to thearmies of Beatles most of the dates are filled, from Cali- fans. Grummann of Limelight Productions is In Toronto, The Maple Gardens sold outpromoting the show at the Forest Hillsfornia to New York and including Canada. L.I. Tennis Stadium August 28-29,re- There appears to be little doubt today its tickets to the Beatles Septembershow that The Beatles tour will gross over$2 in just a few hours. In New Orleansmailports are that both shows are already orders only in five days amounted to asold out too. million. For their end The Beatles stand a $12,000 advance. In Detroit, promoterArt Promoters are paying a guarantee ofchance to take out $1 million. Seats are Sheridan sold out the Liverpool Ladsfirst$20,000 for weekday nights and $25,000scaled at $3, $4, $5, with most of the orders show, has half sold the second, and is try-for weekend nights or 60 per cent of thefor the $4 variety. ing to convince the boys and managernet receipts, whichever is greater. These Beatles manager Brian Epstein arrived Brian Epstein and GAC to let themdo afigures mean that a promoter has to grossin New York from London last Friday to third show. (P.S. They won't). close to $50,000 to break even. At firstlook over the tour scene, and to watch an- this scared a lot of veteran promoters, who Promoters are finding The Beatles the Beatles andother act of his, Gerry and The Pacemak- most saleable item since ElvisPresley. were trepidatious about The ers, on the Sullivan TV show.All bookings According to GAC spokesmen who areconcerned as to whether they would be as hot in August -September as they havefor The Beatles tour are okayed by him, booking the four even Elvis didn'tsell out wherever he is. this far in advance. been in January -February -March. The Track(Beatles, of course) IsBig from the sound track sometime in May.Beatles to co -publish the songs from the As if Capitol Capitol of Canada,Swan picture over here. VeeJay and Swan, were notenough withAnd then in July or so Capitol might re- boys' firstlease the sound track single. This agreement is expected to be con- The Beatles, the track of the United Artists Music is negotiating somecluded soon. The tunes in the picture will movie, "A Hard Day's Night,"will be is- be penned by the boys. sued on United Artists Records.Unitedsort of publishing arrangement with The Artists Pictures is distributingthe lads' movie here. As of now United Artists Recordsis not sure what it will get onthe sound track. No one is sure if the boyswill sing six or eight or ten songs in thepicture. But un- der any circumstances itshould be a hot track. UA execs expect tosell as many as a million copieswhen it is released. AND WHEN it will bereleased is an- other uncertainty. Themovie is expected to be issued in August.UA, like any other record company would liketo get it out a few weeks before thepicture opens, like sometime in July. UA does not have rightsto issue any singles from the track. THIS RIGHT appears to belongto Capi- tol Records. It can be expectedthat Capi- tol will issue anotherBeatles' single not 2nd Pirate Station Radio Caroline-the "pirate" radio station set up on board a ship off Britain's EastCoast -has a new rival, named "Mi Amigo." The latter has OLD BOYS: Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring com- dropped anchor a few miles parenotesatrecordingsessionofblockbuster from "Caroline" and plans to Reprise Album, "America, I Hear You Singing" start beaming music to Eastern which also features Bing Crosby. England this month. MUSIC BUSINESS, MAY 9, 1964 3 IT'S THE NET THAT COUNTS Year's Rosier in Profits THE YEAR 1964 could markones getting more. Epic Rec- the end of "profitless prop-ords followed the Columbia erity for the record industry."Route last fall, after due de- At leastitcouldfor thoseliberation-andwithoutany firms who have been gettingprod from Columbia Records. more for their product fromKings Records a few months their distributor and sub -dis-ago also picked up the Colum- tributor customers than theybia lead and cut out its dis- used to, and for those distri-counts to sub -distributors and butors who arecharginga others. Although King's gross better price than formerly tobillings have suffered, it is un- their rack, one stop and deal-derstood thatits net income er accounts.