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iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ New Novelty (Continued from page 20) sneezing long enough to tell us Johnny Nash’s “Looks Like The End Of The World’’; Paul Anka’s “Summer’s Gone’’ and Steve Lawrence’s “Come Back Silly Girl” are going great. And, The Shadows’ slicing of “Apache,” which is ,

#1 in England, is beginning to show signs in these parts. . . . Vee-Jay’s Abner ( hied himself to for a quick business trip. The diskery is jumpin’ as usual with Jimmy Reed’s “Hush Hush” and Dee Clark’s “You’re Looking

Good.” . . . The big three out of Music Distribs this week, according to Jack Solinger, are Nina Simone’s “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And y Out”; Tommy Edwards’ “Blue Heartaches” and Marvin Rainwater’s “You’re Not Happy Till I’ Cryin’.” Julie Riskin, MGM’s promotion manager, will be

in Chi for a few days this week. . . . Bob Spendlove is predicting another big one for Dinah Washington. Her latest “Love Walked In” is getting the hit treatment from deejays. Other Mercury clicks are Patti Page’s “I Need Y'ou” ) and a new one by local boy Eddie Bell & The Bellairs called “The Masked Man.”

. . . Bob Luman, soaring the charts with “Let’s Think About Livin’,” made the «

deejay rounds here last week squired by Summit’s Jack White. . . . Danny Driscoll will be doing the same for Myrna March who is due in town the latter \ part of the week. Her current single “Don’t Be Angry” is picking up steam.

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LOS ANGELES:

Everyone at Warner Bros. Records elated with the reaction to the Bob Lu-

man deck, “Let’s Think About Living,” now climbing all national charts. . . . George Morte, at Sun State Distributors, reports lots of interest on a new

World Wide slice, “Glow Worm,” featuring the Back Room Boys. . . . The Youngster’s waxing of “Dreamy Eyes” on the Empire label, which made noise several years back, has been re-released and is already hitting in the So. Calif. ^

area, according to Lennie Warren. . . . Arranger-conductor Don Ralke, busy

with the backstopping chores for the next Joanie Sommers single. . . . West ; Coast music biz people busy planning an outing to be held in Palm Springs

Oct. 2 & 3. . . . Bob Crewe in town for a “Dan Raven” TV show, also signed for 2 pictures by Columbia. Accompanied by Stan Hoffman, Crewe is busy making the deejay rounds with his current Warwick effort “To Every Girl, To

Every Boy.” . . . Loni Coleburn, Crystalaire Records pactee, at the Oaks Hotel,

Oaji, for a limited singing stint with Richard Blalock’s Ork. . . . Donna Records getting solid air-play in several areas nationally with Bobby Swanson’s “Tom ^

ROTS-A-RUCK And Suzie.” . . . David Kapralik, Director of Artists Relations and Promotion for , here from New York to supervise and arrange the tele- recording session for Hannah Dean’s newest pairing “So Little Time” b/w

by “Itty Bitty Love.” . . . Pianist Roger Williams preparing a 30 day, 16 city concert trek of the and Canada, which kicks-off 9/28 in Tucson.

. . . has acquired the sound track rights to composer ’s score for “Spartacus,” starrer, and will release an LP

of the score to hit the market early next month. . . . June Jackson, accompanied Grant Evans by The Jackaels, out with waxing “That Look In Your Eye” (Storm). / Singing duo, Billie and Cliff, debut on Challenge with two folk type ballads “Living Up To My Name” and “The Gun, The Gold And The Girl.” ... The b/w Fleetwoods looking to continue their current string of hits with two new items

on Dolton, “Dormilona” b/w “The Last One To Know.” . . . Sheb Wooley stir- ring-up action in several areas with M-G-M offering “The Taste Of Ashes.” TO SHY TO SAY .... Comics Rowan and Martin pacted by producers Lester Sill and Lee Hazel- wood to a wax contract with their Trey Records label. Initial package is en-

titled “At Work With Rowan and Martin.” . . . A1 Stewart, of Aldo Record Distributing Co., reports he has a big one in Dobie Gray’s “Delia,” on the

Stripe label, which is snaring hefty deejay play in So. Calif. : . . Actor-singer John Raitt’s first novelty album, “The Songs The Kids Brought Home From

Camp,” just out on the Warner Bros, banner. . . . Conductor-composer Johnny Mann, and actress Lori Nelson, recently announced their engagement in Holly-

wood. . . . Liberty Records’ folk singing duo. Bud and Travis, on an 8 city West Coast p.a. tour plugging their multiple LP cut live at the Santa Monica Civic

Auditorium earlier this year—“Bud and Travis in Concert.” . . . Songstress

Margaret Whiting, getting set to wax another package for Verve, currently v,

on a 10 day cross country tour appearing at U.S. Air Force bases. . . . Kenny

Miller making his debut nite club stint at Ye Little Club, Beverly Hills. . . . 24- year-old singer, Jerry Holmes, pacted to an exclusive recording deal by RCA-

Victor. . . . Jimmy Jones headed for possible two-sided action on his new

M-Gr-M pairing “EE-I EE-I OH!” b/w “Itchin” For Love.” . . . Gil Bogus has

joined the sales force at Diamond Distributing Co. . . . Rudy Marini now

broadcasting his KRKD show nightly from Dolphin’s of Hollywood. . . . Modern Distributing tieing in promotion for the “Song Without End” original Soundtrack album with the local opening dates for the movie.

HERE AND THERE: PHILADELPHIA—Cosnat’s Jerry Ross sez big things are happening with Arr. & Cond. by ABIE BAKER Dodie Steven’s “No” (Dot), the Olympics’ “Shimmy Like Kate” (Arvee), the Fendermen’s “Don’t You Just Know It” (Soma), the Drifters’ “Save The Last Dance For Me” (Atlantic), Billy Vaughn’s “Sundowners” theme (Dot) and 111 8th Ave., N Y. that the most talked about LP line in town is Time’s “Series 2000.” . . . New lines over at Bob Heller’s Flying distribs include Orchid with Vince Castro’s “You Never Believe Me,” Apache with Big Jesse’s “Rugged,” Advance with PROMINENT Tel. RECORDS INC. OR5-5411 (Continued on page 24)

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