Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY Hot For Week Ending 6/29/68 Kansas Station Issues Cbuntry LP's Featuring Radio Personalities * STAR Performer -JP's registering proportionate upward progress this week. This Last Weeks m SALINA, Kan. -A country the State. In some instances. tion K000, Omaha, feels that Week Wee k TITLE, Artist, Label 8 Number Chet album featuring each of the crowds of 5,000 or more have these crowds also will buy the personalities of radio station necessitated more than one album, so the LP has been cut 2 HONEY 8 KFRM has been cut at nearby show. The shows are sold to in a Wichita recording studio Bobby Goldsboro, United Artists UAL 3642 (M); OAS 6642 (S)

Wichita and will be released on sponsors who, in turn, give tick- for sale not only to the live audi- 1 FIST CITY 6 the Lemac label. ets to customers. ences, but for distribution by Loretta Lynn, Decca Di 4997 (M); DL 74997 (S) Sanders, who also owns sta- Sound of Nashville. The 5,000 -watt station, which 3 3 HEY LITTLE ONE 14 has its executive offices in Wich- , Capitol T 2878 (M); ST 2878 (S) ita, its studio and sales staff 4 4 TOUCH OF SADNESS 8 here and its transmitter 10 miles Jim Reeves, RCA Victor LPM 3987 (M); LSP 3987 (5) south of Concordia, blankets Kansas and touches other States 8 BEST OF BUCK OWENS, VOL 2 10 fr Buck Owens 6 His Buckaroos, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2897 (S) with its country programming. Nashville Scene 6 6 The station is owned by Mac BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX 27 Sanders, former country music Continued from page 39 Kenny Roberts, Starday, has a Glen Campbell, Capitol T 2851 (M); ST 2851 (1) summer schedule which includes personality, and features an en- came up with some new money week -long stands at the Flame in 7 12 THE COUNTRY WAY 28 Charley Pride, RCA Victor LPM 3895 (M), LSP 3895 (5) tire staff of performers. and once more has begun sending Minneapolis and the Casino in Sanders operates a produc- its soldiers from Ft. Campbell, Ky., Ishpeming, Mich.... Jimmy New- 8 9 THE LEGEND OF BONNIE & CLYDE 9 tion office which features such to the Country Music Hall of man will squeeze in album ses- Merle Haggard. Capitol (No Mono); ST 2912 (S) artists as Jeanie Pearson, the Fame and Museum. Some eight sions this week in the midst of a cross- country tour, to be followed 9 10 THE ROMANTIC WORLD OF EDDY ARNOLD 4 Plainsmen Quartet (all part of bus loads a week are scheduled RCA Victor LPM 4009 (M); LSP 4009 (5) immediately by a 17 -day swing the staff), and a staff band in through June 30.. . Floyd Till- man, recuperating from a heart through Germany. 10 5 YOU ARE MY TREASURE 10 which the performers double or Jack Greene, Decca DI 4979 (M); 01 74979 (S) triple in brass. Wayne Pollard, attack, is still at Galveston County Bobby Bare will appear at the lead guitar player, is an an- Hospital, Texas City. . . Elton Alaska National Barndance in 17 JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON 3 nouncer; Gene Morris plays bass Britt has cut a short version of the Anchorage July 9 -14.. Margie 1 Columbia (No Mono); CS 9639 (5) "Jimmie Rodgers Blues" for more Bowes, George Kent and Tom T. and acts as station weatherman 12 13 HERE'S CONWAY TWITTY AND HIS LONELY BLUE BOYS 9 air play. new version, ob- Hall will star in a big festival Lee Nichols, who The Decca DL 4990 (M); Di 74990 (S) and salesman; tainable through Peer Southern, show on the city square in Sesser, is emcees the shows, program Ill. . Flatt & Scruggs have 13 15 TAKE ME JUST AS I AM runs 2 minutes 52 seconds. . . 12 director and songwriter; Jerry Thirteen confederated Indian tribes filmed "Operation Entertainment Rey Price, Columbia (No Mono); CS 9606 (S) Minschell, the news director, is have adopted Johnny Cash as an at Wichita Falls, Tex., for show- ing in late September. The 14 14 MAKE MINE COUNTRY 6 a singer; Billy C. Cole, staff honorary member. Cash, a mem- group Charley Pride, RCA Victor LPM 3952 (M); LSP 3952 15) announcer and songwriter, is a ber of the Cherokee tribe, headed currently is making its second go- round at a psychedelic club 15 16 I LOVE CHARLEY BROWN 4 singer; Abram Burnett, who airs a large contingent of country tal- in RCA LPM LSP (51 Los Angeles. . . . Bill Anderson Connie Smith, Victor 4002 (M); 4002 a Gospel show, does narrations ent that performed for the benefit of the American Indian in an Ok- has added a piano to the sound on other shows. of his Po Boys band. Bob Watts, 28 NEW PLACE IN THE SUN 7 lahoma City show. Buddy 1, Glen Campbell, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2907 (S) Sanders and his staff take a Killen has produced Paula ses- formerly of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., minimum of one show a month sions for Cheryl Poole and Gene has joined the group in Nash- 22 WILD WEEKEND 5 Bill Anderson, Decca DL 4998 (M); DL 74998 (S) and put it on the road. Using Wyatt, with promotion director ville. . Leroy Van Dyke has been signed by producer Enrique no talent outside his own organ Don Logan on hand. . Sandy Torres Tudela of Panamericana 18 19 39 ization, the group has played Rhodes of the Lonesome Rhodes), Glen Campbell, Capitol T 2809 (M); ST 2809 (S) Productions to star in a dramatic to capacity crowds throughou RCA Victor, has been writing songs through the Skeeter Davis firm, production. Gene Nash, his man- 19 20 EVERLOVIN' WORLD OF EDDY ARNOLD 22 Crestmoor Music. The girls were ager, will write the screen play RCA Victor LPM 3931 (M): 15P 3931 15) taken from an espionage novel. "discovered" by Skeeter.... Water- 20 21 BEST OF EDDY ARNOLD 62 town, S. D., had a Sherwin Linton He also will direct the film, sched- RCA Victor LPM 3565 (M); LSP 3565 (S) Day for the Minneapolis -based uled to start shooting in Lima. ATTACK A HEART (Reed) Welty, Peru, Nov. 4. 21 18 SKIP ROPE 17 artist. Quentin Hessen Cargill, Monument (No Mono); SLP 18094 (5) president of B -W Music, leaves Mickey Newbury has finished for Europe to talk to music people his first single and LP for RCA. 25 ANOTHER PLACE, ANOTHER TIME 3 there regarding sub -publishing The single features two of the Jerry lee Lewis, Smash (No Mono); SRS 67104 (S) rights and deals on masters... . songs he wrote himself.... Jim STROKE Mundy has signed a songwriters' 23 23 BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX 4 Marty Robbins, Columbia (No ,Mono); CS 9617 contract with the ASCAP firm of 151 Acuff -Rose, Milene. He also has 24 24 KING OF 4 Don RCA LPM LSP signed to record for Hickory... . Gibson, Victor 3974 (M); 3974 (S) HIGH BLOOD Jack Green's Jolly Giants now con- sist of Jimmy Dry, Don Lacey, 25 11 TAKE ME TO YOUR WORLD 21 Tammy Wynette, Epic LN 24353 (M); (IN 26353 (51 PRESSURE Billy Paris, Peewee Rigers, and Tommy Mitter, Greens new re- 26 26 CHANGIN' TIMES 14 lease is "Your Love Takes Care of Lester Flatt 6 Earl Scruggs, Columbia CL 2796 (M); CS 9596 (S) Me. The Tommy Cash United "... 27 27 PROMISES, PROMISES 23 Artist release, "The Sounds of INBORN HEART Lynn Anderson, Chart CHM 1004 (M); CHS 1004 (5) Goodbye" is set for immediate re- DEFECTS lease. Cash now is working long 28 27 WORLD OF OUR OWN 13 stretches on the road, booked by Sonny James, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2884 (S)

Buddy . Lee.. Carlton Haney, 29 29 THE STORY OF BONNIE & CLYDE 6 long -time promoter, now is writing Flatt 8 Scruggs, Columbia ;No Mono); CS 9649 (S) songs and handling his own rec- ord company.... George Riddle, 30 31 BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE 2 GOLDIE WINN having switched labels to Blue Porter Wagoner, RCA Victor LPM 3968 (M); LSP 3968 III Valley, has come out with his first HAS A WINNER 31 30 JUST BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN 9 song with that company called Dolly Parton, RCA Victor LPM 3949 (M); LSP 3949 IS) "It's Your Life," written by Har- "DRINK AWAY YOUR lan Howard. Tommy Hill did the 32 35 THE MANY COUNTRY MOODS OF WARNER MACK 6 production.... Cathy Cass, Way- Decca DL 4995 (M); OL 74995 (S; HEARTACHES" side Records, and comedian Rod bw/ 42 ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER WORLD 2 Harris, have combined talents for It Jerry Wallace, Liberty (No Mono); LST 7564 (S) a stage show. Harris is on the "IT'S NOT THE WAY Q - THE BEST OF BOBBY BARE, VOL 2 Natural Sound label. . Bun RCA Victor LPM 3994 (M); LSP 3994 (S) IT USED TO BE" Cahn is a new advertising repre- on sentative for Country Magazine, 35 32 NIGHT ON THE TOWN WITH BUCK OWENS' BUCKAROOS 8 BONNIE RECORDS and will be located in the Bill Capitol (No Mono); ST 2902 (5) Hudson offices. Buck Owens BRITE -STAR PROM. 36 39 YESTERDAY, TODAY & OSBORNE BROTHERS 5 209 STAHLMAN BLDG. entertained for three- and -a -half Decca Dl 4993 (M); Dl 74093 (S) NASHVILLE, TENN. hours of uninterrupted music at Dancetown USA in Houston, in a 37 37 MR. NASHVILLE 3 Lloyd Green, Chart CHM 1006 (M), CHS 1006 (5) Billy Denton show. . Charley Pride played to capacity houses Brite Star's Pick Hits ... Brite Star's Pick Hits . 38 38 THE LAST GOODBYE 4 in Houston, Waco and Tulsa. . Dick Miles, Capitol (No Mono); ST 2925 (5) Another movie is about to start If I Lose You Tomorrow -Hank Thompson (Dot) shooting on Happy Shahan's Al- 39 41 SING ME BACK HOME 24 Something Bad on My Mind -Timi Yuro (Liberty) Merle Haggard, Capitol T 2048 (M); ST 2848 (5) Blue Skies -Tommy Finch (Cobra) amo Village near Brackettvilte, Tex. BH.I. WILLIAMS 45 SOUND OF A HEARTACHE 3 A Morning -Young Rascals (Atlantic) la Beautiful Johnny Bush, Stop (No Mono); SP 100029 (S) These Ole Hard Times -Bob Miller (Edd Tide) This Boy and Girl -James Bowens (Roosevelt Lee) 41 43 BODY AND MIND 2 Save It- Solomon Burke (Atlantic) Norma Jean, RCA Victor LPM 3977 (M); LSP 3977 (S) Cole (Northland) Love Is Here to Stay -Cathy 42 34 ORIGINAL THEME FROM BONNIE & CLYDE 7 Drink Away Your Heartaches- Goldie Winn (Bonnie) Flatt 8 Scruggs, Mercury MG 21162 (M); SR 61162 (S) Watthin -Billie Miller (Northland) There Must Be a Place- Lyrics (J. W. J.) COUNTRY SOUL 1 Gonna Move On- Warner Mack (Decca) Johnny Paycheck, Little Darlini ID 4010 (M); SLD 8010 (S) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 44 44 BEST OF BEN COLDER 2 Star Promotions, 209 Stahlmau SEND YOUR RECORDS FOR REVIEW TO: Brite MGM E 4530 (M); 5E 4530 (5) Bldg., Nashville, Tenn.. For Dee Jay service Distribution Arrangements -Star Ad Pb!:c Relation Service ... Press Release Service ... see Brite IF MY HEART HAD WINDOWS 1 in Today's Billboard Cleu. Mart. George tones, Musicor (No Mono); MS 3158 (S) Brite Star's Pick Hits ... Brite Star's Pick Hits .. 44 JUNE 29, 1968, BILLBOARD

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