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rock and roll MAGAZINE hall of fame CASH TRADE 1993 COIN-OP THE inductees January 23, 1993 Newspaper $3.50 inah Washington ruth brown 1 VOL LVI, NO. 20, JANUARY 23, 1993 STAFF BOX GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher FRED L. GOODMAN Editor In Chief CASH CAMILLE COMPASIO Director, Coin Machine Operations RANDY CLARK Los Angeles Editor MARKETING THE MUSIC TRADE MAGAZINE MARK WAGNER Director, Nashville MILTPEm(LA) JONATHAN PLAHfLA) STAN LEWIS (NY) EDITORIAL INSIDE THE BOX MICHAEL MARTINEZ, Assoc. Ed. (LA) JOHN GOFF, Assoc. Ed. (LA) CORY CHESHIRE, Nashville Editor CX)VER STORY STEVE GlUFFRIDA (Nashville) BRAD HOGUE (Nashville) GREGORY S. COOPER-Gospel (Nashville) NEILALUMKAL, Assoc. Ed. (NY) Hall of Fame Inducts 1 CHART RESEARCH RAYMOND BALLARD, Chad Coordinator (LA) JOHN GILLEN (LA) Eleven inductees were added to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honor roll this week JOHN COSSIBOOM (Nash) ROBIN HESS (Nash) in Los Angeles—the first time in the Hall's eight-year history that the gala was thrown PRODUCTION in the City of Angels. Cash Box L.A. editor Randy Clark reports on the festivities in SAM DURHAM his West Coast column. CIRCULATION NINATREGUB, Manager PASHA SANTOSO —see page 6 PUBLICATION OFFICES NEW YORK 345 W. 58th Street Suite 1 5W New York, NY 10019 Phone: (212) 245-4224 Fax; (21 2) 245-4226 HOLLYWOOD And the Winner Is... 6464 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 605) Hollywood, CA 90028 Phone: (213) 464-8241 Fax: (213) 464-3235 'Tis the season for handing out awards. In addition to the recent Grammy nomina- NASHVILLE tions, NARAS has also named Natalie Cole as MusiCares Person of the Year. In 50 Music Square West (Suite 804) Nashville, TN 37203-3212 329-2898 addition, NARM has announced its Best Sellers for the past year. Phone: (615) Fax: (615) 320-5120 CHICAGO —see page 3 1442S. 61 St. Ave. Cicero, IL 60650 Phone: (708) 863-7440 BRAZIL CHRISTOPHER PICKARD Est. da Gavea, 611/BL.2/304 Rio de Janeiro - RJ 22.610 - Brazil Phone/Fax: (55-21) 322-2290 ITALY POP ALBUM CONTENTS MARIO DE LUIGI NUMBER “Music e Dischi’’ The Bodyguard COLUMNS Via De Amicis 47 201233 ONES Soundtrack Country Music 17 Milan, Italy (ARISTA) East/West Coast 6 Phone: (902) 839-18-37/832-79-37 Rhyme/Rap 11 JAPAN POP SINGLE R&B ALBUM Rhythm 9 SACHIO SAITO IniiieNews 7 2-F Fujishiro-Bldg. I Will Always Love You The Bodyguard Film/Vidoo/TV 12 4-ChorT)e, 30-4, Shinbashi Whitney Houston Soundtrack Minato-ku CHARTS (ARISTA) (ARISTA) Tokyo, Japan 105 Top 30 Rap LPs & Singles 11 Phone: 03 (5401)2065 Top75R&BLPs 9 Fax: 03 (5401) 2067 R&B SINGLE COUNTRY ALBUM Top 100 R&B Singles 10 Top 200 LPs 14 UNITED KINGDOM I Will Always Love You Chase 1 The MCK GREEN Top 100 Pop Singles 4 Whitney Houston Garth Brooks 18 8 Pebble View Walk Top 100 Country Singles (ARISTA) (LIBERTY) 19 Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk, NR31 9SG Top A Country LPs England Top 40 Gospel LPs 23 30 Black Gospel Singles 24 Phone and Fax: 0502-732040 COUNTRY SINGLE GOSPEL ALBUM Top Top 10 Soundtrack Albums 13 Faith CASH BOX (ISSN 0008-7289) is published Somewhere Other Than The Night We Walk By Top 10 Music Video Sales 12 weekly (except Chfislitias hofidays) by Cash Garth Brooks John P. Kee Top 30 Video Rentals 12 Box, 345 W. MSi Skeet Suite 1 5W, New York, (LIBERTY) (TYSCOT) NY 1 001 9 for $1 80 first dass. Copyright 1 992 DEPARTMENTS by George Albert. All rights reserved. News 3 Copyright under Universal Copyright RAP SINGLE DANCE SINGLE Convenlion. POSTMASTER: Send address Country 17 changes to CASH BOX, 345 W. 58lh Si Suite Wicked It's Gonna Be A Lovely Day Gospei 22 15W, New York, NY 10019 Machine 25 Ice Cube S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. Coin Qassifieds 27 (PRIORITY) (ARISTA) —— — — CASH BOX JANUARY 23, 1993 3 MCA Records ON has appointed Ron THE Oberman to the posi- MOVE tion of senior vice president, A&R. He comes to MCA from Columbia Records where he served as vice presi- Oberman dent, A&R, West Coast. Bob Burkett has been named president of the Geffen Foundation and executive vice president of public affairs of The Pictured at the recent press conference at the Universal Hilton in Los Geffen Company. For the past seven years, he Angeles announcing the 35th Annual Grammy Award nominations are (l-r): Lindsey Buckingham; Natalie Cole; Garry Shandling, host of the Grammy was the senior vice president of corporate affairs Feb. 24 telecast; Melissa Etheridge; and Michael Greene, NARAS presi- for Interscope Inc. Meanwhile, at Geffen dent. Records, independent producer Tony Berg be- PLUGS INTO HEAVEN: Reprise artist comes director of A&R. For the past six years he CLAPTON GRAMMY Burkett and rock legend Eric Clapton garnered nine Grammy nominations has produced albums for Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, Michael Penn, Wendy & Lisa, to cap the most successful year of his illustrious career. With his Squeeze, and many others. Reprise Records Unplugged Ip leading the field for Album of the Year, and single, has upped Michael Linehan to the post of vice "Tears In Heaven," a tribute to his late son, moving grabbing president of album promotion. Prior to his Record of the Year and Song of the Year nods, Clapton is favored promotion, he was national album promotion to take home multiple awards. Other leading contenders are Irish director, a position he held since the label's reac- Chieftains Victor), with five tivation in 1987. EastWest Records America band. The (RCA nominations; com- Berg poser Alan Menken, also with five; Menken's late collaborator, has announced a couple of appointments. Derek Oliver has been promoted to senior director of Howard Ashman with four; and Peter Gabriel (Geffen) and k.d. A&R. He had been director of A&R for Atco lang (Warner Bros. /Sire) with four each. since 1990. Also at the company, Peter One of the closest contests will be for Best New Artist which Rosenblum has been appointed manager of col- includes Chrysalis act Arrested Development, Mercury's Billy Ray lege promotion. He comes to EastWest from Cyrus, Columbia's Sophie B. Hawkins, rap act Kris Kross (Ruf- Elektra Entertainment where he worked in alter- fhouse/Columbia), and Secada (SBK). Bros, all native promotion. Lisa Frank has been Jon Warner leads Linehan labels with 47 nominations. promoted to senior director, artist rela- tions/promotion for Elektra Entertainment. Winners in all 80 categories will be announced during The Gram- Since 1989, she has been director, national CHR my Awards Show at the Shrine Auditorium on Wednesday, Feb. 24. promotion. RCA Records has named two to The show will be telecast on CBS from 8-1 p.m. (ET). Comic Garry 1 its A&R staffs. Peter Robinson has been ap- Shandling will emcee the proceedings. pointed manager, A&R, East Coast. Prior to join- MUSICARES THINKS NATALIE’S UNFORGETTABLE: ing RCA, he was an A&R rep with Giant The Foundation has six-time Records. Also, Melissa Komorsky has been NARAS named Grammy Award- Oliver winning singer Natalie Cole as the MusiCares 1993 Person of the slotted to be talent scout. West Coast. She was Year. She will receive the honor at the annual fundraising dinner most recently manager for Paul Raven and John Bechdel. ^ny Music has made several staff at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Fob. 20—one of the events changes. Christopher Austopchuk has been surrounding Grammy Awards week. appointed vice president, design. East Coast, Ms. Cole (Elektra) was named for her numerous philanthropic creative services. Since 1989, he has served as efforts ranging from the Natalie Cole Scholarship Award (which design director in the same department. Nancy trains and educates teachers who work with homeless children) to Frank Donald has become vice president, design. West her Apollo Theater benefit performance during last year's Grammy Coast, creative services. Since 1988, she's been week. executive art director. West Coast. Mark appointed director, business NARM’S BEST SELLERS: Liberty recording artist Garth Schwartz has been affairs at Sony. Most recently he served as busi- Brooks leads all comers with seven nominations for NARM's 1992 ness affairs manager. Epic Records LIK. Tod Best Seller Awards. The winners will be announced at the Elmore has been upped to the post of director of organization's 35th Annual Convention in Orlando, FL from alternative promotion for Atlantic Records. He March 6-9. Donald was national promotion manager in the same Some of the major awards up for grabs are: Best Selling Single department. MTV has promoted Linda Cor- "Achy Breaky Heart," by Billy Ray Cyrus; "Baby Got Back," by Sir radina to the post of senior vice president, news president the Mix-A-Lot; "End Of The Road," by Boyz II Men; "I Will Always and specials. She was vice of same department. Spencer Proffer has joined Love You," by Whitney Houston; and "Jump," by Kris Kross. Best Cherry Lane Music Publishing as executive Selling Recording (Albums) Blood Sugar Sex Majik by Red Hot vice president. He will be setting up a Los An- Chili Peppers; The Bodyguard soundtrack; Ropin' The Wind by Garth geles office and run the West Coast operations. Brooks; Some Gave All by Billy Ray Cyrus; Ten by Pearl Jam; and Proffer He comes to the company with over 20 years of Unplugged by Eric Clapton. experience in the record industry including Best Selling Music Video Achtung Baby-\J2; A Year And A Half stints at CBS Records and United Artists In The Life 0/-Metallica; Garth Brooks-Carth Brooks; Live At El Records.