Billboard 1970-02-07
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FEBRUARY 7, 1970 $1.00 SEVENTY -SIXTH YEAR The International Music-Record-Tape Newsweekly COIN MACHINE PAGES 31 TO 35 New Sound Search MIDEM Pulls Teen Films Fade Rocks Across U.S. Heavy Advance As Disk booster By CLAUDE HALL By MIKE GROSS NEW YORK Search -The talent. Some stations are con- NEW YORK The record- dictions of the domination for a New Sound exploded na- ducting "battle of the bands." F orexor N ex tY ear - of ing industry's hopes that the rise movie and TV scores by inde- tionwide Monday (2) on 218 In Lansing, Mich., WVIC has of leading Top By MIKE HENNESSEY the young independent film pendent disk producers was 40 radio stations. been running teaser spot an- producer and the youth- Radio stations nationwide are oriented based on the idea that, Holly- be- nouncements about the Search. CANNES, France More film would help drive home wood, ginning to track down local Some - desperate to attract of the radio stations are than 50 percent of the com- the sales power of con- young viewers, would inject con- collecting tapes from local panies which participated in temporary pop music aren't be- temporary groups. music into films as Nearly all the radio MIDEM IV, the biggest and ing fulfilled. In point of fact, a boxoffice draw, and that con- stations will be naming winners most ambitious international many independent producers temporary music would Putney Bows in their become markets on or before record and music publishing who believed they could move an integral part of the film. March 25. All of the winning market staged so far, will par- into films, and even television, (Continued on page 10) $1G 'Synth' tapes should be in the Billboard ticipate in the 1971 event. on the mounting youth wave, office by the end of March. Undoubtedly the pop section are packing up to return to NEW YORK electronic The 50 -The semifinalists will be of the music market was a the recording studio. music field is being primed for named. Radio stations will be (Continued on page 70) The rationale Europe Sales a marketing jolt with the intro- notified by April 8. behind the pre- duction of a new electronic The 50 groups will receive voltage -controlled studio named professional advice on how to Champ -Poll Putney. The Putney, which make will a better recording -plus Disks Win Cultural Seat By MICHAEL WAY be sold at close to $1,000, as $50 worth of studio expenses, as compared with the commercial paid by the Tea Council of the PARIS - The area of the price range of $3,500 to $10,- USA, which is sponsoring the White House Plans Library world with the greatest record 000 for other synthesizers, is Search in cooperation with Bill- By PAUL ACKERMAN selling potential is Europe, ac- portable, self- contained (has its board Magazine. cording to figures recently re- own speakers and amplifiers), These professional - quality WASHINGTON - In rec- Assn. of America will pre- leased by the French Record can be played with batteries as tapes will be sent to Billboard ognition of the importance of sent the recordings and the rec- Industry's Information and Doc- a power source, is stereo -con- by April 24. The six top win - recordings as a means of com- ord playing equipment. umentation Center (CIDD). (Continued on page 78) (Continued on page 8) munication, entertainment, edu- Henry Brief, executive di- Announcing the results of his cation and culture, the White rector of the RIAA, and five first international survey, CIDD House is establishing a White members of the commission that secretary general Jacques Mas- House Record Library similar will select the recordings, laid son - Forrestier said Europe A&rR Studios Spinning Into to the White House Book Li- the groundwork for the Record heads the list with 45.6 percent Disks; Barsky Label's Head brary. The Recording Industry (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 6) NEW YORK -A &R Studios Ramone told Billboard that is entering the record business A &R is entering the record with its own label, A &R Rec- business "out of necessity to af- ords. The label will be headed ford an outlet for the abun- by Ed Barsky, president, with dance of creative production Phil Ramone serving as its cre- talent we have on staff." He said ative director. A &R Studios has that A &R Studios has at- tracted an impressive been in business for the past roster of outstanding producer - engi- 12 years and is the largest in- neers and, to make certain that dependent recording studio here. (Continued on page 8) Kapp Springs 'Now' Image By ELIOT TIEGEL LOS ANGELES - Kapp Initial groups brought to the Records is rushing towards a label to launch the contemporary contemporary image. Johnny image are the Jamestown Re- Musso, Kapp's newly appointed union, Jelly Roll and Guess & general manager, has already Abner. Garfield, who carries beefed up the label with new the title of Kapp's executive groups, and he's due in New vice president, revealed that Dot artist Roy Clark, currently riding high with his new The Allman Brothers Band, whose ATCO album (33 -308) (The York this week with Harry Gar- MCA is interested in buying a single "Then She's A Lover" drawn from the album The Capricorn series) is a best seller, now have their eyes on the field and Gil Rodin, MCA ex- top name act for Kapp. MCA Everlovin' Soul of Roy Clark" (DLP 25972) is in store for HOT 100 Singles Chart. Their new single, "Black Hearted Woman" (Capricorn 8003), released this week, will be another ecutives overseeing Kapp, to followed that procedure in sign- untold success in the future. March will be "Roy Clark screen the label's hit for the exciting, new exponent of "Swamp Music." The artists' roster ing Neil Diamond and Bill Month," past album product to be by a joined new album Allman Brothers Band is currently on a national tour extend- and further develop the con- Cosby to its Uni label last year. and backed national temporary look. by multimedia advertising and promotion. ing from the Fillmore East to the Fillmore West and many (Continued on page 78) (Advertisement) important clubs in between. (Advertisement) ( Advertisement ) BN 26499 BN 26525 INTRODUCING Argent BAT McGRATH & DON POTTER including: A INCLUDING: NEW YEAR'S Liar Schoolgirl JEFFERSON GREEN Like Honey Freefall / Stepping Stone YOUR KIND OF MAN 'THE PARADE lVOLbaION I CHOSE TO LOSE /SOMEONE TAKE ME HOME THREE DISTINCT MUSICS. A REVELATION ON EPIC RECORDS. vr INCLUDING: g. SUNDOWN MAN COFFEE SONG /THE HAWK 300 POUND FAT MAMA i LOVE LIGHTS EPIC ". Marta Reg. T.M. PRINTED IN U.S A ncn VICTOR Kentucky Rain /My Little Friend RC/1 VICTOR ELVIS.;,,.., My Little Friend Kentucky Rain #47-9 Records cn and Tapes General News WBAtI Set -Ups A &M's Staff -Keyed Promotion Staying uo Wins Artists & Influences People LOS ANGELES - One of cluding Joe Cocker, Lee Mi- Atlanta, Birmingham, Shreve - By LEE ZIUTO the distinct advantages of not chaels, Sergio Mendes, Herb Al- port); and Ernie Campagna Spooky Tooth, Jimmy Cliff, (Hartford, Boston, Philadelphia, NEW YORK Mike Mait- 1969's Top LP's chart 18.4 being a gigantic record com- pert, - or Blodwyn Pig, Burt Newark, Washington, Baltimore, land's sudden resignation as percent of all the LP chart ac- plex is that it gives the inde- Bacharach, company time to pro- Quincy Jones, Dillard & Clark, Albany & Buffalo). president of Warner Bros. Rec- tivity, and a No. 1 position on pendent ords and the appointments mote and evaluate every re- and George Benson. "Promotion must take a more of both the singles and albums academic and Mo Ostin as his successor and charts during the year with lease - whether it be a single Sharell said that the A &M business -like ap- setup is corn- proach," said Sharell. "There- Joe Smith as the firm's execu- 16.7 percent of the years' ac- or an album. That's the opinion such that the and the practice of Jerry Shar- pany's promotion men in the fore, A &M has been hiring pro - manager (see ell, national promotion director field have plenty of time to motion men with good academic Executive Turn- Ashley told Billboard that will no vefeT the for A &M Records, who gears hear, evaluate and promote as backgrounds and with at least autonomous Mo Ostin will report to him just his operation to the question, thoroughly as they can all of two years of college training." operation of the as Maitland had done previously. Warner-Repriseo labels and "If I were an artist, what would A &M's releases. Their duties are much the the anything, Ostin is WrerAtlantic group of firms within "If going to I want done for my record ?" At present, A &M's field staff same as at any other record have the same degree of direc- numbers 13: Warner Bros., Inc.,r within According to Sharell, this Bill Able (Cleve- company, except for one major structure. tion and authority as Ahmet question has been answered cor- land- Pittsburgh), Ron Brooks difference, said Sharell. said Ted Ashley, (Atlantic Records presi- board chairman and chief exec- rectly in past several months (Miami), Bobby Cortez (New "In addition to being academ- utive officer of Warner Bros., (Continued on page 78) for more than a dozen artists in York), Terry Daily (St. Louis), ically prepared for their work, Inc., in an exclusive Billboard Ed De Joy (Baltimore -Wash- they are totally involved and interview.