August 11, 1973
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RCMP SUMMER FESTIVAL COUNTRY Blood R, The new president of the Canadian Record- raids and legal action are the last resorts. Capitol Records of Canada is launching a ADDITIONS ing Industry Association (CRIA), Arnold CKSP SL CRIA recently adopted three priorities for "Summer Festival" of single releases by Gosewich, says that counterfeit tapes are the (Russ Mi the year, illegal tapes being one. Increasing Canadian artists. biggest problem for today's recording indus- CKOM SASKATOON Sweet Cc national interest in Canadian artists is Paul White, Director of A&R for Capitol try. Gosewich, quoted in the Globe and (Wally Cameron) Slippin' c another. Gosewich, who is also the president has just released new 45's by Anne Murray, Mail, estimated that the industry lost a mini- Slippin' & Slidin7Billy C. Craddock We Had i of Capitol Records Canada, quotes his own Edward Bear, Skipper, Tommy Graham and mum of $1.5 million retail sales last year Shotgun WillielWillie Nelson Meant to company's sales figures as one measure of in the next few weeks will follow up with because of the illegal tapes, most of which You've Never Been This Far/C. Twitty Silver Mc were smuggled in from U.S. sources. the increasing interest in domestic product. product by Bob McBride, Bill King, Flying Heaven on Earth/Sonny lames Slipping , Capitol's Canadian tapes and albums regis- Circus, Privilege, New Potatoes, Pepper Combating tape piracy is not an easy matter, tered a 25 to 30% gain over last year, and Tree, and, on the Daffodil label the latest CI VI VICTORIA CJGX Y( since prosecution tends to be very long and foreign releases of Canadian musicians are from A Foot in Coldwater. (Ron Robinson) (Ron Wa, involved. Prosecutors must establish copy- up tremendously. CRIA also feels that City of New Orleans/Mercey Bros. Don't Le right for each song on a tape, and this can be A special sampler album containing all Canadian media, broadcast and print, Here Comes My Little BabylPat Roberts Carry Me complex due to the many companies and of the latest Capitol singles will be sent should be educated to play up native per- You Can Always Come Backllody Miller Little An individuals involved in recording an album. to radio stations. formers so that the overwhelming U.S. media You've Never Been This FarIC. Twitty Eulogy' So far CRIA has obtained but one conviction Already released and picked by the trades Walk With Me JimmylArlene Harden flow doesn't become the only source of CKRM R for possession of illegal tapes. both in Canada and the U.S. is "Send Send A Little LovelAnne Murray information in Canada. In connection with (Ron Mu There are several other avenues open aside A Little Love My Way", Anne Murray's I Used It All On You/Nat Stuckey providing increased Canadian information, You Can from Copyright Act violations; these include CRIA has engaged Carleton Cowan Public song from the new Stanley Kramer movie Little Annie Brown1Dallas Harms Highway civil suits, police raids, warning letters and Relations Ltd. of Toronto for a variety of "Oklahoma Crude". CHEX PETERBOROUGH One Step personal inspections by CRIA. In fact, a p.r. projects. Capitol is also scoring heavily with its (Sean Eyre) Old Faiti civil suit or the threat of one can be more The third priority of CRIA is to make the French Canadian releases and plans a Mm -mm Good/Del Reeves My Last effective than the copyright charge. Maximum association more representative of the range strong line-up of album releases for the Touch the Morning/Don Gibson Old Bets, copyright fines are just $200 while in the of companies in the business. CRIA now fall. Redwood Hill1Creamcheeze Goodtime Band lust Wha four civil suits pending before the courts, consists primarily of record companies in Capitol of Canada was named "Top Canadian CKPC BRANTFORD You've A damage claims total $450,000 and a state- Eastern Canada. These are the "biggies" who ment of each defendant's profits from tapes Content Company of the Year" -- in RPM's (Vic Folliott) CFOX M produce, manufacture and distribute records Reader's Poll last year. Love is the Foundation1Loretta Lynn Little An sales. and represent 80 to 90% of the annual Blood Red and Goin' Down/Tanya Tucker The Prop $200 -million Canadian record/tape market. In one of the civil cases pending, there are Old Betsy Goes Boing/Hummers Old Bets However, there are other firms who special- ANNE MURRAY 33 plaintiffs and it is legal entanglements You've Never Been This FarlConway Twitty Redwooc ize in just one or two of the three functions, such as this that force the CRIA to lean HOMECOMING TOUR SET Reuben's Train/Eric Weissburg You Can and also record companies in the West that heavily to simpler methods of restricting Anne Murray will be returning to her native You Always Come Backllody Miller Am I Th, CRIA hopes to bring into the Association illegal tape marketing. Police raids have been maritimes for a six city tour. Leonard A Good Love/Bob Luman Spokane used, and CRIA information given to the fold. Rambeau, General Manager of Balmur Ltd. Mm -mm GoodIDel Reeves Slippin' RCMP has resulted in boosting recent raids made the announcement last week and The Prophet/Dick Damron Put Me L to a total of 96 in the last year. 76 of these Gosewich also revealed several other inter- added that this would be Anne's first major Little Annie Brown1Dallas Harms raids involved tape seizures (25,000 in all), esting bits of miscellany in his Globe and concert tour of the area since early 1970. Snowball/Humphrey and the Dumptrucks CKL W -f however, Gosewich says "it's safe to say that Mail interview. For one, Capitol's gross sales I'm Going Back to Loving/Tony White (Ron Fo if we have prevented the sale of 200,000 last year totalled $9.9 million. He claimed The two week Homecoming Tour which will Meant T tapes, three to four times that number were that 10 to 15% of this figure represented commence in early September, will see Miss CHSC ST. CATHARINES sold." music by Canadian artists. Another interest- Murray perform in the following centres: (Peter Darrell) C'mon h Sound T ing fact was the prohibitive cost of classical Fredericton, Moncton, St. John's, Sydney, Open Up Your Heart/Roger Miller Initially, suspected illegal tape sellers are Kids Stu albums (production costs $75,000 for a Charlottetown and Halifax. Exact dates will Come Early Morning/Don Williams I Recall multi -track orchestra as compared to be announced shortly. Ballad of Don MesserlDouglas Lewis QUEEN ELIZABETH II $15-30,000 for a pop album) and the note Little Annie Brown/Dallas Harms Would Y Shenand RECEIVES STOMPIN' TOM that classical has a maximum market share You've Never Been This Far/Conway Twitty of just 15%, making the field very risky PATTERSON UNVEILS Dakota the Dancing Bearllohnny Darrell CFAC C A crowd of some 2,500 people had indeed. Gosewich also noted that 8 -track NEW DETSON LINE Watergate Blues/Tom T. Hall (Larry l< gathered to greet the Queen and Prince tape represents ever-increasing shares of Bill Patterson, who recently resigned as Walk Wi, Phillip at a garden party at Government music sales.