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PAUL ANKA/HIS BABY'S COME A LONGWAY Musical Fads (Ed) RCA UK Cönference ` 7 Steady Success, B Watching The Economy RIAA Hits 3e Mechanical`'' Farrell Pubs Best Season Ever E -C Tape, Pres. Gß.,:4 4n Piracy 49tio American-Sang Festive Winners Announced F"COLUMBIA."* MARCAS REG P2INTrDiNU.S.A jc11974 CBS Inc. Earth, Wind & Fire has sold over two million albums; two are gold, headed for platinum; they've appeared as headliners before more than one million people, on 150 dates in the last nine months; they broke the all-time attendance record at the Capitol Center in Washington, D.C. by drawing 38,000: in nearby Richmond and Baltimore they drew an additional 27,400; 19,000 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia; 14,000 in Denver; and over 900,000 more in cities all across America. So we're more than pleased to re- lease Earth, Wind & Fire's brand-new single: `Devotion ",oa=s On Columbia Records Produced by Joe Wissert and Maurice White THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY VOLUME XXXVI NUMBERBOX 18 14. 1974 CASH- -September I President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Executive Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Vice President PHIL JAFFE Vice President and cash box editorial Director of Advertising West Coast ED ADLUM Managing Editor Musical Fads Editorial New York The industry often looks to fads or trends to infuse itself with a refreshing ARTY GOODMAN MICHAEL DAVID sense of excitement. Musical fads can be defined as certain forms of pop Hollywood music that are thrust into the limelight with little prior warning. Such a fad may DAVID BUDGE RON BARON not be the wave of the pop music future, but it may influence the general BEAU EURELL direction of the pop music scene. Such fads of more or less recent vintage Research include calypso in the late 50's, folk music and bossa-nova in the early 60's and MIKE MARTUCCI Research Manager today's return, thanks largely to the film "The Sting," to the sounds of ragtime. Art Director It's entertaining to observe that many fads, whatever their duration in terms WOODY HARDING in the marketplace, no means the result in Coin Machine of excitement are by of innovation ED ADLUM - Manager musical style, but in fact hark back to older forms of pop music. This always CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago may Circulation presents the industry with intriguing possibilities that what be considered THERESA TORTOSA "old hat" today can through one means or another be lifted from obscurity into Manager what can be a dominant excitement in the world of music, whatever its PUBLICATION OFFICES life Which is to say that it is as to predict what musical idiom from NEW YORK -span. difficult 119 West 57th St., N.Y., N.Y. 10019 it is Phone: (212) 586-2640 the past can suddenly become relevant as to predict what future sound will Cable Address: Cash Box N.Y. along to catch fire in the industry. CALIFORNIA come 6565 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 520) fads, Hollywood, Ca. 90028 Needless to say, musical as mentioned before, do endow the industry Phone: (213) 469-2966 with a sudden burst of sales energy, drawing traffic into stores in numbers to NASHVILLE give a lift to recording sales. There are pitfalls to fads and that is in JUANITA JONES general - 1511 Sigler St.. 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The birth of a fad never calls much CANADA attention to itself - it just happens and, in a flash, the industry, for better or WALT GREALIS 6 Brentclifte Road worse, gives it all it's got. Toronto 17, Ontario. Canada Phone: (416) 425-0257 FRANCE FRANK LIPSIK 5 Rue Alfred Dormeuil, 78 Croissy Phone: 225-26-31 HOLLAND PAUL ACKET Theresiastraat 59-63, The Hague Phone: 837700 ITALY GABRIELE G. ABBATE Viale A. Doria 10. 20124 Milano BELGIUM ETIENNE SMET Postbus 56, B-2700 Sint-Niklaas Phone: (031) 76-54-39 AUSTRALIA PETER SMITH NUMBER ONE 40 Winters Way. Doncaster 3108 , SINGLE OF THE WEEK MAU MAUI Victoria. Australia (. E4AdI«INGN hit= CANT GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE. rr JAPAN BABE Adv. Mgr.. SACHIO SAITO ß.E..-.,... 1-11-2-Chome Shinbashi. Minato -Ku, Tokyo BARRY WHITE -20th Century Phone: 504-1651 K-k Writer: B. White s Editorial Mgr., FUMIYO TACHIBANA Pub: 1 -11 -2 -Chorre Shinbashi, Minato -Ku. Tokyo Sa-Vette/January/BMI Phone: 504-1651 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $40 per year anywhere in the U.S.A. Published weekly by CASH BOX, 119 West 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10019. Printed in the U.S.A. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y. and at additional mailing offices. ALBUM OF THE WEEK ,,,., Copyright r 1974 by The Cash Boa Publishing Co. - A4 Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright under Universal FULFILLINGNESS' FIRST FINALE ß Copyright Convention. STEVIE WONDER ,N , POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to CASH BOX, 119 West C7}h C1 NoW V,,, I N V inn 70 / Tamla T633251 CASH BOX TO31OOSNGLES CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF 9/78/31 STEPPIN' OUT (GONNA 9/78/31 67 ROCK THE BOAT 9/78/31 YOUR LOVE, BABE BOOGIE TONIGHT) Hues Corporation (RCA 0232) 54 45 Barry White (20th Century 2120) 6 10 Tony Orlando and Dawn (Bell 601) 46 57 68 SUGAR LUMP Leon Heywood (20th Century 2103) 74 75 2 I SHOT THE SHERIFF PAPA DON'T TAKE NO MESS Eric Clapton (RSO 500) 1 3 69 SECOND AVENUE - PART I Tim Moore (Small Rec. Co. 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