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U. S. Hip Acts Erupt Filmation, RCA Pop Speaks Soft, In U.K. in '70: Davis Pegging TV'er Carries Big Stick By IAN DOVE By MIKE GROSS NEW YORK Albums by bum chart where CBS artists - NEW YORK Pop music sweepstakes with four albums U. S. underground groups should held 11 positions. "I believe that To New Group - LP's" is getting softer. There's been each on Billboard's "Top be selling 50,000 to 100,000 in CBS is poised for the same kind By BRUCE WEBER "soft sound" creep- chart this week. The steady sales the U. K. by the start of 1970, of chart explosion in the U. K. a noticeable ing into the works of the hard of both Campbell's and Jones' predicts CBS president Clive J. that we are experiencing in the Filma- LOS ANGELES - rock groups and, even more LP's is attributed to the regular Davis. At present, sales average U. S. regarding underground TV tion, producer of animated dramatically, there's been a re- exposure they've been receiving about 10,000 per album, he said. music and artists. programs, and RCA are team- several months on their we have ex- surgence of sales and airplay the past "Contrary to many opinions, And this is-as ing again to spring another TV - TV shows. form for the "good music" artists. weekly network the U. K. market has neither had perienced in the U. S.-a berthed group for the record the com- artists, in The pop drift towards soft nor discarded the underground of music that changes market. The "good music" market place." dominating the music is also bringing program- movement," he said. "They are plexion of the Patterned after both the "Ar- fact, have been that under- many of the record ming and chart play to such on the verge of it. It is in the Davis believes chie" and the Monkees' series, shelves in with their re- and discount stores standards singers as Frank Sin- embryonic stage in Britain." ground groups, the Filmation-RCA effort will retail outlets of the contemporary markets around the coun- atra, Andy Williams, Tony Ben- Davis cited a current Record flection be pegged on the Hardy Boys, in key and social comment, have some stores, it's been nett, Dean Martin, Eddy Arnold, Retailer (Billboard's sister pub- scene a rock group formed for the try. In are cov- Ed Ames, and comparative new- in London) Top 30 al- (Continued on page 94) animated series, "The reported the shelves lication upcoming Jones comers, Engelbert Humperdinck Hardy Boys," debuting Sept. 6 ered with albums by Tom and little and O. C. Smith. on ABC-TV (Saturdays at 10:30 and Glen Campbell, else. Intrumentals, too, are once a.m.). again getting a share of the pop Radio Programming Forum to distribute at Campbell, a Capitol Records RCA plans action. Among the instrumental least two Hardy albums and an artist, and Jones, a Parrot Rec- Luring Foreign Registrants (Continued on page 94) ords artist, are pacing the chart (Continued on page 4) By CLAUDE HALL NEW YORK - Registra- sonalities. Indications are that tions for the second annual Bill- there will be a much larger board Radio Programming turnout of radio station man- Forum at the Waldorf-Astoria agers than a year ago. Among Hotel, June 19-22, are pouring the countries coming in are in from around the world and Peru, Canada, Brazil, Australia from a cross-section of the and Puerto Rico. United States. Virtually half of The first Forum drew about the registrations come from pro- 500 broadcasters to New York gram and music directors; the last June. Its roster of speakers other half from station owners, included such top radio men as general managers and air per- (Continued on page 8) City's San Remo Takeover By MARC MESSINA SAN REMO - San Remo's and of its owner manager Ezio City Council has voted to have Radaelli, had been in the wind the city take over control and for some time (Billboard, Feb 8). management of the San Remo San Remo has decided to re- the Festival. Italy's No. 1 annual call Gianni Rayera to run Les McCann's bestselling Atlantic album, "Much Les" (SD pop music event. festival. Rayera directed the Diana Ross and the Supremes, who can always be counted on their new- 1516), has spawned a hit single for the jazz pianist, "With seven years until he for a surefire hit, have another chart topper with move, which takes the event for These Hands" (Atlantic 2615). Les handles the vocal on The est single release, "No Matter What Sign You Are." Motown was replaced last year by Ezio the tune. The single is breaking in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, festival management from ATA, 1148. You don't have to read their horoscope to know that Radaelli, who had become a and Washington, New York and Los Angeles. the concessionaire company this driving soul beat release will add up to another top Miami, Baltimore majority stockholder in ATA. McCann will appear at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in June. which operates the San Remo seller for the girls. Advertisement Advertisement Casino where the event is staged, (Continued on page 80) (Advertisement)

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IIIII111111111111111I I I and Ben Nisbett of B. Feldman IIII I IIIII IIIIIIIIIII I to Stewart, Butler and Carter More than 200 members of Music Publishing here will be- the press attended the meeting come head of the MGM music that included a tour of Stax publishing firms in the U. S. Record Co., and a dinner -show Also, it was indicated that Decca Will Cover 'Country Side' by Rufus Thomas, the Bar -Kays, MGM Records will ultimately Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, move its headquarters from its Carla Thomas, the Knowbody New York City base to Culver With a Giant 2 -Month Promotion Else, Booker T. and the MG's, City, Calif., thereby effecting a and the Staple Singers. closer working relationship be- NEW YORK - Decca Rec- Monday (26) for an all -day in- ing aids which are available in tween the label and the film ords has designated June and doctrination seminar to familiar- quantity from all Decca branch- production center. July as country music months, ize them with the project. es. They include a "Decca -Land Rama Ramo in of the Country Giants" display Neither Kass nor Nisbett and will ride with a campaign In support of the "Decca - were available for confirmation. kit, containing a 36 -inch by 50 - theme of "Decca -Land of the Land of the Country Giants" Distrib Deals campaign, Decca plans an im- inch unit in color suitable for Country Giants." This marks the NEW YORK-The London pressive and extensive advertis- window or counter display; LOS ANGELES - Rama report concerning Ron Kass first time in Decca's 10 -year ing schedule in all media -print, acetate streamers, mounted lithos Rama and Remember Records moving to head MGM Records history of annual country mu- radio, and TV, supplemented by and special tape cartridge units. have entered into agreements Special and Ben Nisbett to head MGM's sic promotions that two months a heavy press campaign. mailing will also be made with Philips International for music publishing firms was in to disk jockeys. foreign distribution and GRT have been devoted to such a In addition to advertising line with recurring industry Full -color litho books spot- for world-wide tape distribution. plans, Decca has provided a rumors here. Some trade sources campaign. se- lighting the entire Decca coun- The labels will issue albums by ries of point -sale expected these appoinments to While emphasis will be placed -of merchandis- try catalog are now in the hands Vince Edwards, Jimmy Mason. be confirmed at this week's on the entire Decca country of the Decca sales force, for use Adam Wade, Jon Rogers, the MGM board of directors meet- music catalog, the promotion in contacting their respective ac- Invictas, and the Year 200 next ing to be held at Culver City. will be spearheaded by the re- counts. month. However, at press time an lease of 17 new albums by LP Features MGM spokesman denied knowl- Decca's country artists. edge of any appointments to be Artists represented in the new made at either the label or the album releases are Bill Ander- music firms within the near fu- Pappalardi as Tetra Unaffected son, Jimmie Davis, Jimmy Dick- ture. ens, Jack Greene, Jan Howard, Loretta Lynn, Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe, Jimmy Newman, Prod. By Cosby Split the Osborne Brothers, Webb & Artist Dot Slogan, Pierce, Jeannie Seely, Ernest NEW YORK-Felix Pappa LOS ANGELES The de- any rumors Tubb, Conway Twitty, Jay Lee - that Tetragramma- lardi, independent record pro- parture of Bill Cosby from ton is a Webb, and the Wilburn Brothers. one -act company, or ducer, has completed produc- Campbell, Silver, Cosby Corp. that it will fold. In addition to the new al- Comic Book tion of an album, which, for (now Campbell, Silver Corp.) The label is planning to re- bum release, Decca will meet the first time, will feature him- has not effected the creative lease 40 albums and 100 singles the burgeoning demands for self "officially" as an artist. The or financial structure of Tetra- in the year beginning June 1, cartridge, cassette and open -reel album, which features, in addi- grammaton Records, said Roy spanning rock, pop, folk and tape with the release of Push on LP's product tion to Pappalardi on bass, Silver, CSC president. soundtrack LP's. It has written 42 pieces of new country prod- Lesley West, formerly with the Tetra, originally established orders for $1.5 million to cover uct in this form, by many of Vagrants, to LOS ANGELES Dot is on lead guitar and record Cosby when he left its initial extensive album re- - the above -mentioned artists as using the slogan, "Funky & vocals, and N. D. Smart, for- Warner Bros. -Seven Arts Rec- lease -14 LP's-scheduled for well as Burl Ives, Kitty Wells, mer ords, released Freaky," to promote eight al- drummer with the Hello nine albums and June 1 release. Red Foley, Rick Nelson, Dinah People, will be as grossed $2.3 million last bums, and has devised an eight - known year- Tetra's new product includes Shore, Warner Mack, Buddy page comic book as a consumer Mountain. Pappalardi is under- its first-without releasing any two double -LP packages by stimulus. Holly, and Wilma Burgess. stood to be considering the Cosby product, he said. Cosby and the Kingston Trio, a launching of the group via an The company's first-and triple -LP Product covered is by Fear To demonstrate the scope and original cast album of extensive tour of one-night con- only-Cosby product is a double Itself, Colours, Hamilton Street- importance of this promotion "The Great White Hope," and certs in major arenas and audi- LP, "8:15 and 12:15," to be re- LP's by Pat Boone, car. Count Basie, Teresa, Kossie campaign, Decca summoned its Biff Rose, toriums across the country by leased Sunday (1). "There will Murray Roman, Gardner. Kellie Greene and field force of branch and dis- Mark Slade, Ike midsummer. not be any additional product by the Cole. tricts managers to New York Summerhill, Elyse Weinberg, Cosby on Tetragrammaton. His Deep Windfall Music, production - Purple, Quatrain, Carol On the Paramount label, the (Cosby's) leaving has not dimin- management - publishing com- Burnett/Martha Raye and company has released a single ished our profit or growth pic- plex, in which Pappalardi is a "Che!" a soundtrack LP with teaming Buddy Killen and Bon- gle, "A Truer Love You'll Never ture at Tetra," Silver said, "but, partner with Bud Prager, is ne- a score by Lalo Schifrin. nie Guitar, the first time these Find (Than Mine)," Killen rather, it allows us more crea- gotiating a releasing deal for the Cosby and CSC, Tetra's par- two Nashville artists have ap- makes a transition from a&r album. The group will tive freedom." ent firm, will continue to partic- peared together. With this sin- man to vocalist. be co - More importantly, managed by Windfall, Shelly he feels, ipate in each other's enterprises, Finkel and Gary Kurfirst. the departure of Cosby dispels with the record company directly involved in television and film projects. 7 RCA SINGLES RIDE CREST 'Aspen Summer' Is The company owns 50 per Chart Seeks cent of the soundtrack publish- Off; Lack of Time ing rights to a five -film con- -15 ALBUMS ON 'TOP LP'S' Intl. Outlets tract with Warner Bros.-Sevep NEW YORK-"Aspen Sum- Arts, including two features NEW YORK-RCA Records is picking up a hot chart stride. mer," NEW YORK-Slim William- the contemporary music starring Cosby. A third film, The label is riding with three singles in the top 10 of Billboard's "Hot festival slated to be held for son, president of Chart Records, "Picasso Summer," has a score 100" chart this week, and also is represented by 15 albums in the two weeks in Aspen, has dispatched Carl Greenberg Colo., this (Continued on page 94) "Top LP's Chart." summer, has been called off to Europe on an extended six - Pacing the singles field for RCA, which has a total of seven (Billboard, May 24). A festival week trip to set up new inter- titles on the "Hot 100" chart are among the new groups that RCA has organizer cited lack of funds national distribution for the 1IIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIIIIItU11I1t111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111tt111111 been grooming for a pop breakthrough. The other RCA artists click- and lack of time as the princi- label. Chart, formerly dising on the singles chart are Henry Mancini, Perry Como, Paul Anka pal reasons for the venture be- tributed by RCA (see story in COSBY & MCA and Ed Ames. ing aborted. Country section) is to be dis- Of the 15 RCA albums on the "Top LP's" chart, two are manu- tributed independently, and IN DISK DEAL However, plans factured and distributed by RCA (the original soundtrack of are being Greenberg will establish foreign LOS ANGELES-Bill Cosby made for a one -day event, fea- "Oliver!" and the Monkees on Colgems and one by Elvis Presley is distribution in the countries he has signed a seven-year exclu- turing rock and folk acts, to on the RCA Camden line). The others, topped by the original Broad- visits. sive recording deal with MCA. he held during the week way cast album of "Hair" in the No.1 spot, are by Henry Mancini. of His trip will take him to It's not yet been determined July 22 in Aspen. for Charley Pride, Elvis Presley. Jefferson Airplane, Nashville Brass, the London, Paris, Brussels, Am- which of the disk companies in Guess Who. Friends of Distinction, Jose Feliciano, the Youngbloods, A Denver Pop Festival will sterdam, Copenhagen, Hamburg the MCA complex Cosby will Eddy Arnold. Ed Ames and Glenn Yarbrough. be held June 27-29 at the Mile Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Mi- record.

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Woodstock, SMulti-Mil. Co., Set Executive Turntable NEW YORK - Woodstock Lang will he administering Stills, Crosby and Nash; Johnny Ventures, Inc., a multimillion - the production of Woodstock Winters and others. Bud Katzel resigned as vice-president and general manager, dollar entertainment complex, Ventures' first major project, the Art Exhibit ABC Records, to become general manager of has been formed. It consists of the newly formed Avco Embassy Records, a the Woodstock Music and Art first annual Woodstock Music The art exhibit is being coordinated by Peter Leeds and division of Avco Embassy Pictures. The ap- Fair. a record label, a recording and Art Fair, which will be studio, management and puh-. held this year on Aug. 16-17 Howard Hirsch. Negotiations pointment is the first made by Hugo Peretti and are way to have the lishing firms as well as real near Woodstock, N. Y. An all- under Luigi Creator, who head the new music pub- estate holdings in Woodstock. star lineup of recording talent music festival made into a mo- lishing and record complex. Katzel will be in- tion picture, a TV and N. Y., the Bahamas and the will he presented, including special volved in the administration of the company as a record album. Virgin Islands. the Band from Big Pink; Blood, well as in heading the label's marketing activi- Vice-president Korn- In addition to John Roberts, Sweat and Tears; Canned Artie KATZEL ties. Katzel has worked with Hugo and Luigi feld indicated that Woodstock- president of the organization, Heat: Creedence Clearwater before-when he joined Roulette Records as director of pub- the corporate offices will he Revival; Tim Hardin; Richte Luvlin, the publishing wing of licity and as national sales manager. Katzel joined ABC vice-presidents Artie Kornfeld, Havens; Iron Butterfly; Jeffer- Woodstock Ventures, has more ending Joel Rosenman and Michael son Airplane; Janis Joplin; than 300 songs in its catalog, in 1966 as national sales manager and was appointed vice-presi- Lang. Kornfeld will head the Moody Blues: I.aura Nyro: and anticipates that 30 new dent and director of marketing in 1967. At the beginning of this music end of the corporation. Sly and the Family Stone; single record sides will be re- year, he was named general manager of the ABC Records leased within the next few division. months. Kornfeld is negotiat- * * * ing with major manufacturers Clicking Copyrights for distribution of Woodstock Jim Jeffries, formerly of WQZI, Atlanta, and WKNR, Detroit, Records. promoted from Atlanta to the Chicago market as district promo- Woodstock-Kalaparusha, the tion manager for Capitol Records.... Vic Frazier named na- Give RCA a Hot Hand personal management wing of tional promotion director, Ranwood Records. Working out of Woodstock Ventures, will be Nashville, he will co-ordinate programs with distributors and NEW YORK-Sunbury Mu- tor the label and publishing headed by vice-president Mi- their promotion force.... Scott Cameron joins Original Sound sic (ASCAP) and Dunbar Music wings through Jack Richardson chael Lang. Records as West Coast sales promotion director. He was pre- IBMI), RCA's music publishing and Al MacMillan of Nimbus Completing the Woodstock viously with KIST, a Santa Barbara, Calif., radio station. subsidiaries, continue to enjoy 9 Productions. The Canadian Ventures complex will he * * * expanding sales and success on operation has given the pub- 16 -track recording studio cur- the charts and via hot copy- lishers writers such as Randy rently under construction in Jeff Clark promoted to sales and promotion director, VMC rights by the Guess Who, Three Bachman and Burton Cum- Woodstock, and Woodstock Records. Terry Munford joins the label as pro- Dog De Mullins, Ed mings, who penned the hit tune, which is converting Night, Realty, motion director. . . . David Gooch, a former Ames and staff writer Harry as well as most of the songs properties adjacent to the stu- EMI producer, joins IMC Productions, Holly- Nilsson. in the "Wheatfield Soul" LP, dio, where artists can stay while wood, as a&r man. . . . Lynn Shults apointed Nilsson. who penned the score and Bonnie Dobson, who wrote recording. Records, for Otto Preminger's film "Mourning Dew" for Lulu. John Roberts, president of marketing assistant for Starday-King to co-ordinate special marketing "Skidoo." and sings the theme The Sunbury/Dunbar opera- the complex, is presently serv- Nashville, song in the "Midnight Cowboy," tion, headed by president Ger- ing on the board of two public projects and work with distributors and radio starring Dustin Hoffman, has, ald Teiffer, has also scored companies. In partnership with stations on behalf of Starday-King. Shults over the past 18 months, col- with foreign affiliate -owned Joel Rosenman, he operates entered the music business as promotion man SHULTS lected credits for tunes recorded melodies set to English lyrics Challenge International Ltd., a for the Acuff -Rose -Hickory Records complex by the Turtles, Monkees, Vikki private placement investment and recorded by American art- . L. J Phillips named assistant manager of inter- Carr, Harry Belafonte, Joe Fel- ists. Foreign -originated hits in- firm which, among other James B. Lansing Sound Inc., California, pro- iciano and Mary Hopkin. His ests, owns Media Sound Re- clude Ed Ames' "Who Will ducer of loudspeakers and associated elec- "Without Her" has been spot- cording Studios and provided Answer?" and Tony Bennett's tronic equipment. He will develop marketing lighted by Jack Jones, Andy "Yesterday I Heard the Rain." financial backing for the re- Williams, Herb Alpert, Glen cently released film "Greetings." plans and distribution patterns to fill sound re- Campbell, Lane Cantrell. Lulu quirements of acoustical consultants, recording and the New Christy Minstrels. studios and others in the sound field.... Song - Nilsson also wrote the music for World Pacific PHILLIPS writer -producer George McGregor signed with his singing and acting stint on Pop Carries Bill Craig Enterprises to represent his Gee Mac production com- "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" pany. Previously McGregor worked as staff producer for Golden TV show, and the music for a Recharges Its World and Sidra Records, Detroit.... Matt Polakoff, formerly forthcoming ABC-TV series, general manager with A&B Duplicators, joined National Re- "The Courtship of Eddie's Indian Line Father." A Big Stick cording Studios, New York, to head a new custom duplicating reel-to-reel using duplicating made by "These Eyes," a hit recorded NEW YORK World Pa- tridges, and equipment - Continued from page l by the Guess Who, has broad- cific Records has revitalized its Gauss Electrophysics. . . . Hugh Dallas, formerly with Tower ened the international aspects of Indian music line with upcom- LP's scoring in the current Bill- Records, has resigned as president, Hit Tunes Inc. . . . Rich the business, opening up Canada ing releases by Ravi Shankar. board chart are those by Percy Koch named assistant sales manager, Tape Distributors of and Indian spiritual leader, Faith, Ray Conniff, Henry Man- America, a division of Allstate Record Distributing Co., Chicago. Satya Sai Baba. cini, Ray Charles, Roger Wil- Formerly Midwest regional manager, Randleman Co., Koch will Mendes, Shankar, who is currently liams, Sergio Tommy report to sales vice-president Mort Ohren. in Garrett, Billy Vaughn, Boots McClure chalking up sales on his original * * * soundtrack album from the Randolph and Paul Mauriat. Academy Award winning film, Representing the soft music Robert T. McCarthy has joined Zenith Sales Co. as audio Pop Groove swing among the female singers manager. He was "Charly," will record a new al- products marketing formerly bum of original raga composi- are Vikki Carr and newcomer with Motorola Inc., Chicago, for seven years. NEW YORK-John McClure, Mary Hopkin. Records' tions for the label. His current John V. Wilson named radio marketing manager. Columbia director of And, further attesting to the Masterworks, is branching into LP is "A Morning Raga and He was manager, national accounts and special growing preference of soft mu- the contemporary pop music Evening Raga." Shankar has re- market sales, General Electric.... Janis Murray sic, is the quick rise of a new groove. McClure, who has pro- cently completed a concert tour group called Mercy with the named publicity director and public relations duced the recordings of Leon- of the U. S. single release of "Love (Can co-ordinator for Bizarre Records and for Neil ard Bernstein and Igor Stravin- A new release from Sai Baba, Make You Happy)" which has Reshen. She will also act as personal press sky, will produce the disks by who will visit Los Angeles in been followed up by two al- representative to Reshen as well as serve the McCARTHY the recently signed Chicago June, features an album of de- bums featuring the same group. interests of Reshen's business involvements in- group called the Flock. votional which songs and chants One album is on the Warner cluding Alive Inc., Anne Tansey, film produc- The Flock, a seven - man World Pacific will promote with Bros. label and the other on tion and co-ordination and New Dawn Artists group, is managed by rock a special press and distributor which released Sundi Records, Management, owned by Reshen and Zach Glick- music entrepreneur, Aaron screening and a film taken by the original single version. Russo, who owns the rock club, Richard Bock, general manager man. For the Bizarre label, Miss Murray will Kinetic Playground in Chicago. of World Pacific. handle press for the Mother of Invention, Linda IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIttIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillll Ronstadt, Tim Buckle, the Straight label, Alice JP Cooper group, and Captain Beefheart....Rose 5TH DIMENSION WILSON Saggio of Argus Distributors appointed vice- Harpsichord Strikes DISK -2 MIL. president in charge of sales, Spiral Records and Spiral Enter- prises. Ben Arrigo named head of national promotions, Gurtman NEW YORK-The Fifth Di- Brown Associates, in charge of public relations for the companies. New Notes in Music mension's Soul City recording Franklin Konigsberg appointed vice-president in charge of of "Aquarius/ Let the Sunshine TV packaging on the West Coast for Marvin Josephson Associ- CHAMPAIGN, III. - the in a condensed version on None- In" has topped the two million ates and Ashley Famous, now combined. He replaces Joel Cohen mark. The disk, which has been harpsichord, brought into promi- such Records, a recording that who has resigned to join Arwin Productions. Cohen will work nence late by such recording allows riding the top spot on the na- of for listeners to "partici- with Terry Melcher in an executive capacity to develop new TV artists as "Love Is Blue" creator pate" by controlling the volume tional best selling charts for the series and theatrical motion pictures. Paul Mauriat, received what knobs on the phonograph. past several weeks, served as a must he described as an unprece- The concert, a realization by prelude to the release of the * * * dented type of exposure here last avant-garde composers John group's new album of the same Harold Breacher, for the past two years head of operations week when seven harpsichordists Cage and Lejaren Hiller. both title. for United Artists TV in the U. K., Europe and Middle East, were accompanied by 249 vari- affiliated with the University of Gold records, commemorat- rejoins Ashley Famous in a top level executive post concentrating ing the Dimension's ous pieces of audio visual equip- Illinois here, was held in the Fifth suc- on film and TV packaging. He will be based on the West Coast. cess with "Aquarius," were pre- ment in a four -and -a -half- domed, 16,000 -capacity assem- Jon Merdin will head Action Talents' and broadcasting sented to the group on opening ... TV hour concert of computer -pro- bly hall. The composers worked was night, May 13. of their engage- activities. He previously on the research program staff of grammed music. nearly two years programming ABC's "Generation Gap," "The Dick Cavatt Show" and produc- The work, entitled the music by computers. using ment at the Royal Box of the Americana Hotel. tion assistant on Metromedia's WNEW-TV. . . . Mike Allen "HPSCHD." the computer -spell- as a base. Mozart's "Introduc- ing for harpsichord, is available (Continued on page 59) 4tIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlII1dI1111111NNNtlIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIII (Continued on page 6) 4 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Amerline to Certron For S6 Market Quotations Mil. Stock As & of Closing Thursday, 22, 1969 May LOS ANGELES - Certron of common stock outstanding 1969 Week's Vol. Week's Week's Week's Net NAME Nigh Low in Corp., blank tape manufac- for the fiscal year ended Oct. 100's Nigh Low Close Change turer and duplicator, has ac- 31, 1968. Admiral quired Amerline Corp.. Chi- For the three months ended 21s'e 15 205 19'í 181/ 191/4 - 1/4 cago, a subsidiary of Revlon, in Jan. 31, 1969, net sales of Cer- American Broadcasting 761/2 561 383 741/e 701/2 711/2 -11'/s exchange for about $6 million tron totaled $2.1 53,338 as com- Ampex 443h 32'2 899 43t/í 411/2 421/e -11/e cash and 50,000 shares of pared with $729,281 in the cor- Automatic Radio 413/4 201/e 929 391/4 353/e 373/4 - 1/4 Certron common stock. responding quarter a year Automatic Retailer Assoc. 1171/4 1001ií 275 1071/4 1031/2 1052/4 - 3/4 The companies had an- earlier. Net income in the first Avnet 361/2 173/4 1377 nounced an agreement in princi- quarter of the current fiscal year 193/4 181/4 181h -11/e Capitol Ind. 52 29 140 50% 49% 60 Unchg. ple for the acquisition on April was $235,884, or 17 cents per 30. share on the 1,429,633 average CBS 591/2 443/e 1356 591ií 551/e 553/4 -3 Amerline manufactures plas- number of common shares out- Chic. Musical Inst. 33% 243/4 30 26'í 253/4 261/e + 3/i tic products, with a major por- standing. The first quarter re- Columbia Pic. 42 292/4 453 35í/e 33 34% -1 its tion of $12.3 million sales sults reflect the operations of Commonwealth -United 242/4 12% 4604 143/4 131/. 13 Ve - Sí volume (year ended Dec. 31, Magnetic Tape Duplicators, Disney, Walt 863/4 69Ve 180 821h 80 821h -21/4 1968) coming from magnetic which was acquired for cash in EMI 8 Ve 6% 3878 8 7% 77/e - tape -related products marketed March 1968. General Electric 981h 85'4 1384 971/4 94 96 - Sí to the audio, computer and data Gulf 6 Western processing industries. 501h 281/ 1665 331/e 291/2 313/4 + 1/2 Handleman Certron (OTC) had sales of 483h 361ió 341 46 42 46 -2s"4 $5,566,314 and net earnings of Sales High Harvey Rodio 251h 19 24 211/4 20 20 -l'4 Kinney $667,081, or 60 cents a share on Services 391/2 281/4 964 35 3312 343/0 - 3)í the 1,147,318 number Macke Co. 291h 20 19 average At Wurlitzer 171/ 76 Ls 191/1 - 1/2 MCA 441/2 34 335 38% 351/4 352/e -21/2 CHICAGO-The Wurlitzer Metromedia 533h 35Sí 321 37% 351/4 3556 -11/2 20th -Fox Net Co. has registered record sales MGM 441ií 32 392 38 36% 363/4 -1 Down in Period and an increase in earnings for 3M 1121/4 94 776 1111/e 1071/2 1081/4 -21/4 the year ended March 31. Motorola 13314 102/ 438 1251/2 1181/4 1181/4 -7 NEW YORK-Net earnings Consolidated net earnings to- North Amer. Phillips 451/4 351/ 711 44% 421/4 44 -11/2 after taxes for 20th Century -Fox taled $2,157,948, including non- Pickwick Int. 65 40 146 63 601/2 611ií - 1/s Film Corp. for the first three recurring income of approxi- RCA 481/e 411/4 1566 47% 441/2 45% -1% months of 1969 were $2,464,- mately $300,000, equal to $1.75 Servmat 491/2 351/ 162 37 351/ 000 compared with per share. This compares with 35% -11/e the adjusted renna Corp. figure of $3,636,000 for the the preceding year's total of 622/4 46 372 601/2 531/1 60 - 1/4 Trans same period last year. $2,037,161, which also included Amer. 383/4 32 2077 36% 34 351/2 -1% Net earnings for the three non -recurring income of ap- Transcontinental Invest. 273h 201/2 3496 27Sí 25 261/4 +1% Triangle months amounted to 31 cents proximately $300,000. equal to 37% 30 54 32 30 311/2 - 1/2 a share based on 8,006,108 $1.66. 20th Century -Fox 413h 311/2 1940 343/4 32% 321/2 -11/4 shares, the average number of Consolidated sales were $61,- Veneto 211/2 32% 115 233/4 221/2 221'h - 3/e shares outstanding for the 009,512, compared with $59,- Viewlex 351/2 241/4 217 33 30/ 321/4 + 1/e period. Per-share earnings for 852,329 for the preceding year, Warner Bros, -7 Arts 641/2 35 1011 55% 35 551/2 Unchg. last year's first quarter were 52 an increase of $1,157,183. Sales Wurlitzer 231/2 191/ were the highest in the 113 -year 53 201/2 191/ 191/4 - 1/4 cents based on 7,035,285 shares Zenith of stock outstanding. history of the company. 58 481ií 536 50% 491/4 493/4 Unchg. As of Closing Thursday, May 22, 1969 Triangle Registers Amos Enters Ties Week's Week's Week's Qtrly. Profit Hike OVER THE COUNTER* Nigh Lew Close With London Creative Management 15 131/2 141/2 NEWARK, N. J.-Triangle Data Packaging Corp. 241/4 233/4 24 Industries, Inc., has reported in- NEW YORK-Jimmy Bowen Fidelitone 51/2 4 514 creases in both net sales and in- has completed arrangements for GRT Corp. 281/ 26 28 come for the first three months overseas record distribution of ITCC of 1969. Amos Productions with London 16 141/2 15 Jubilee Net sales rose 26 per cent to Records and subpublishing with Ind. 331/2 32 32 $40,092,000, compared with the Burington-Palace Interna- Lear Jet 34 32 321/4 $31,846,000 for the similar pe- tional group of companies Lin Broadcasting 151h 13% 13% 1968. riod of Net income after through Mimi Trepel, London Marco Ent. 231/, 211/1 231/2 taxes totaled the $889,00( in Records director of foreign Mills Music 34 331/ 331/2 first quarter, or 44 cents per operations. Through negotiations Music Makers, Inc. 15 141/ 143/4 share up from $819,000, or 41 with Alice Koury, assistant man- Newell 271/ 261/1 cents per share in the first quar- 261/2 ager of London Records of Can- NMC 16 14 151/3 ter of 1968. ada, the Amos catalogs were Omega Equity 31/ 21/2 3V, secured for Dominion represen- Sam Goody, Inc. tation. 15 141/2 15 Peak Marks Are Telepro Ind. 23/4 2% 2% Reported by ARA Trans Natl. Communications 101/4 8% 93/4 Equipment Co., LOS ANGELES-ARA Serv- *Over-the-counter prices shown are "bid" (as opposed to "asked"). Neither the ices, Inc., has reported record - Craig Merger bid nor the asked prices of unlisted securities represent actual transactions. high tots* income, pretax in- HOLLYWOOD Rather, they are a guide to the range within which these securities could have come and earnings per share for - Craig Corp., the auto -home tape car- been sold or bought at the time of compilation. the six months ended March tridge and cassette player manu- 28. The above quotations compiled for Billboard by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, facturer, has agreed to merge Fenner IL According to board chairman Smith, Inc., member of the New York with Magnasync/Moviola Corp. Stock Exchange and all principal stock Davre Davidson, revenue rose exchanges. The latter makes to $276,775,000 and pretax in- firm studio equipment come increased to $13,823,000. for the movie and TV industries. Robert will Net income after taxes rose to Craig he president the $7,565.000, equal to $1.70 per of new Mag- Creative Sound nasync Craig Corp., Will Handle share, while operating profit effective date the merger, which margins increased to 4.99 per of still needs a vote Mark Prod., cent. of the stockholders Charity Product in June. Directors of the new firms will be Craig, Sydney LOS ANGELES - Creative pus Life Singers, Kip Landen, Disney Productions Rosenberg. and James E. Cross Sound Productions will distrib- John Webb, Dean McClure, from the Craig side, and Martin ute religious product by Mark and the Weatherford and Clair - Declares Dividend borne quartets. Stone and Harry Bluck, direc- Productions and Charity Rec- NEW hoard tors of Magnasync/ Moviola. Creative Sound's YORK-The of ords. Mark Productions, owned artist roster directors of Walt Disney Pro- encompasses the Brushmen, by Marlin Jones, is a four -year - ductions, at a special meeting Mogul) to Issue Dale Evans, Dan Harrison Monday (19). declared a quar- old firm while Charity has been Singers, Dr. William Bright, the terly dividend of 71/2 cents per Pride Song Folio in business one year. Spectrums of Sacred Sound, the Wedgwood, share, payable July I to stock- NEW YORK - Ivan Mogull Product will be distributed Emil Cadkin holders of record June 16. Music issue Orchestra, Dr. David L. Coop- Corp. will a Charley through Creative Sound's inde- Pride song folio. The folio con- er, Dona Klein and the Bethany pendent outlets which tains not only 15 songs from cover Men Quartet. AF Appoints Pine Pride's RCA singles and I.P's, 3,700 gospel product stores. A single by the Dan Harrison N E W YORK-Arthur Pine but also features photographs Initial product will carry the Singers, "Make America Proud Associates, Inc., has been re- and biographical background of two company's separate logos, of You," has been selected as tained by Audio Fidelity Rec- Pride. but future releases will carry the theme song for the syndi- ords to handle its corporate -fi- This folio follows Mogull's cated TV show, "World of both the Creative Sound and nancial public relations on a recent folios, the Feliciano Song Youth." Don McNeill, former national basis. Audio Fidelity Book and the Vogues. The folios second company brands. host of the "Breakfast C4ib" on became a public -owned com- are distributed by West Coast Among the artists on Mark ABC Radio, narrates the' song, pany in November. Publications. are Rev. Bob Harrington, Cam- written by Jack Fulton. MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD ZFirst with composers' Greatest Hits albums. This collection of great NN masterworks by the STRAUSS' HITS GREATEST HITS vol GREATEST Blue Danube Waltz, Pizzicato Polka. masters are mass appeal Jesu, Joy of Man s Desiring/A Mighty Fortress Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and more Tales From the Vienna Woods. and more albums. Even people ORMANDY with the most contempo- PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ORMANDY E. Power BIGGS Pablo CASALS PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA rary taste will be turned Walter Carlos with FaAm.sera"""n on by this important (Switched-On Bach) first. The albums are also ideal for chain stores and racked outlets. MS 7501/18 11 0104'/MQ 11011 MS 7502/18 11 0114/MQ 11021 CHOPIN'S MOZART'S Tchaikovsky's GREATEST HITS GREATEST HITSvoi i GREATEST HITS: Mnuite Waltz 'Military Polonaise aa:ludnq the theme froth Vera M.dgan. Don Ogv.nn, Minuet hooch. All., Tema. Nonage of F octavo Overture. 1812 Overture. Waltz of the Flower s. F. intirisie Impromptu and others Andoai.r. Andante Cantabile. and more Eugene Ormandy Andre Kostelanetz Eugene Ormandy George Szell BERNSTEIN ORMANDY Philadelphia New York Philadelphia Orchestra Cleveland Orchestra NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA Orchestra Philharmonic Glenn Gould Philippe Entremont PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Philippe Entremont Robert Casadesus Andre Previo

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I Walk The Line afford with our two, multiple artist GH ' % I Cant Stand It JOHNNY CASH THE CHAMBERS gift sets. They sell for a little more El Paso BROTHERS MARTY ROBBINS TakeALook than the price of one. s Release Me ARETHA FRANKLIN And judging RAY PRICE 805 Man With A Plan MOBY GRAPE from the past success of our gift sets CARL SMITH Woman, Woman North To Alaska GARY PUCKETT AND you can start ringing up those JOHNNY HORTON THE UNION GAP Little Black Book Louie Louie now! JIMMY DEAN PAUL REVERE AND sales right THE RAIDERS and more FEATURING MARK LINDSAY That's Lite/O C SMITH and more GP 9 GP 11

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MS 7086/ 18 11 0072/ MQ 972 I Hall of Fame singles check list. 6 Here are some of the best-selling 4-33034 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS 4.33116 PRICE, RAY Mack The Knife. Tin Roof Blues A Way To Survive. Touch My Heart singles of all in time check-list form. 4.33035 BENNETT, TONY D 4-33117 CLARK, BUDDY Use it as a handy inventory sheet or as Rags To Riches. One For My Baby Linda. A Dreamer's Holiday D 4-33036 BRUBECK, DAVE 4.33118 BUCKINGHAMS, THE an order form to send in to your local Take Five. Blue Rondo A La Turk Don't You Care. distributor. Another first designed for D 4-33037 DAVIS, MILES Mercy, Mercy, Mercy your convenience. Round Midnight. Solea n 4.33119 PRICE, RAY 4.33038 DAY, DORIS Danny Boy. I'm Still Not Over You It's Magic. Everybody Loves A Lover 4-33120 CASH, JOHNNY & JUNE CARTER Jackson. -Legged n 4-33001 MATHIS, JOHNNY 4-33039 FAITH, PERCY Long Guitar Pickin' Man Chances Are. It's Not For Me To Say Delicado. Swedish Rhapsody 4-33121 SIMON & GARFUNKEL Cl 4-33002 MILLER, MITCH 4-33040 FRIZZELL, LEFTY At The Zoo. Eakin' It March From The River Kwai. And Colonel Bogey. If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time. 4-33122 ROBBINS, MARTY The Yellow Rose Of Texas Morn And Dad's Waltz Tonight Carmen. Gardenias In Her Hair 4-33003 BENNETT, TONY D 4.33041 GRIFFIN, KEN D 4-33123 BYRDS, THE Because Of You. Cold, Cold Heart You Can't Be True, Dear. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star The 4-33004 HORTON, JOHNNY Bells Of St. Mary's My Back Pages The Battle Of New Orleans. 4-33042 MATHIS, JOHNNY n 4-33124 CASH, JOHNNY North To Alaska Misty. Maria Rossana's Going Wild. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes 4.33005 MITCHELL, GUY 4-33043 MORGAN, GEORGE 4-33125 FRANKLIN, ARETHA Singing The Blues. Heartaches By The Number. Candy Kisses. Almost Runnin' Out Of Fools. Cry Like A Baby D 4.33006 CASH, JOHNNY 4-33044 PRICE, RAY 4-33126 REVERE, PAUL, AND THE RAIDERS Don't Take Your Guns To Town. Release Me. Heartaches By The Number (Featuring Mark Lindsay) Five Feet High And Rising n 4.33045 ROBBINS. MARTY Steppin' Out. Jim Or Me -What's It Gonna Be?

433007 FAITH, PERCY Singing The Blues. Big Iron I 4-33127 GORME, EYDIE The Theme From "A Summer Place" D 4.33046 VALE, JERRY Don't Go To Strangers. What's A Woman? The Song From"Moulin Rouge" Come Back To Sorrento. 'O Sole Mio D 4-33128 HARDEN TRIO, THE D 4-33008 FOUR LADS, THE D 4-33047 WALKER, BILLY Tippy Toeing. Husbands And Wives Moments To Remember. No, Not Much! Charlie's Shoes. Thank You For Calling D 4-33129 SMITH, O.C. 4.33009 LAINE, FRANKIE D 4-33048 MATHIS, That's Life. The Season Jezebel. Your Cheatin' Heart JOHNNY Wonderful! Wonderful!. The Twelfth Of Never 4-33130 MOBY GRAPE 4-33010 CLOONEY, ROSEMARY D 4-33049 WILLIAMS, ANDY Omaha. Hey Grandma Hey There. Come On -A My House Moon River. Days Of Wine And Roses 4.33131 RIP CHORDS, THE D 4-33011 SINATRA, FRANK n 433050 YANKOVIC, FRANKIE Three Window Coupe. Hey Little Cobra Nancy. 01' Man River Just Because. Blue Skirt Waltz D 4-33132 BUCKINGHAMS, THE 4-33013 ROBBINS, MARTY D 4.33051 DEAN, JIMMY Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song). El Paso. A White Sport Coat Big Bad John. Little Black Book Susan 4.33014 DAMONE, VIC 4-33052 SMITH, CARL 4-33133 THE UNION GAP On The Street Where You Live. Gigi Hey Joe! Loose Talk Woman, Woman. Young Girl 4.33015 MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR, THE 4-33053 MURAD'S o 433134 THE STATLER BROTHERS Battle Hymn Of The Republic. D HARMONICATS, JERRY Peg O' My Flowers On The Wall. Ruthless The Lord's Prayer Heart. Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White o 4-33135 SIMON & GARFUNKEL 4-33016 JACKSON, STONEWALL D 4-33056 MATHIS, Scarborough Fair/Canticle. I Am A Rock Waterloo. Mary Don't You Weep JOHNNY Small World. A Certain Smile 4-33136 CHAMBERS BROTHERS 4-33017 PRICE, RAY 4-33057 ACUFF, ROY Time Has Come Today. I Can't Turn You Loose Crazy Arms. Under Your Spell Again D Great Speckle Bird 1. Wabash Cannon Ball 4.33137 REVERE, PAUL, AND THE RAIDERS 4-33027 HORTON, JOHNNY 4-33058 TILLMAN, FLOYD (Featuring Mark Lindsay) Sink The Bismarck. When It's Springtime Don't Take It So Hard. Cinderella I Love You So Much, It Hurts. Slipping Around Sunshine In Alaska 4-33089 CASH, JOHNNY 4.33138 SMITH, O.C. 4.33028 RAY, JOHNNIE Ring Of Fire. It Ain't Me, Babe Little Green Apples. Isn't It Lonely Together Cry. That Little White Cloud That Cried 4-33090 WILLIAMS, ANDY D 4-33139 THE UNION GAP D 4-33029 DAY, DORIS Dear Heart. Almost There Lady Willpower. Over You Secret Love. Whatever Will Be, Will Be 4-33091 CASH, JOHNNY D 4.33140 LEE, MICHELE D 4 33032 MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR, THE Understand Your Man. It Ain't Me, Babe. L. David Sloane. I Didn't Come to New York The Star-Spangled Banner. America The Beautiful D 4-33092 STREISAND, BARBRA Q 4-33141 PAGE, PATTI D 4-33033 CONNIFF, RAY People. Second Hand Rose Gentle On My Mind. Little Green Apples 'S Wonderful. Say It With Music 4-33093 PRICE, RAY 4-33142 MATHIS, JOHNNY D 4.33060 BROTHERS FOUR, THE Burning Memories. A Thing Called Sadness Venus. Gina Greenfields. The Green Leaves Of Summer p 4-33094 PAGE, PATTI n 4-33143 SIMON & GARFUNKEL D 4.33061 DICKENS, "LITTLE" JIMMY Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. You Can't Be Mrs. Robinson. Old Friends. Bookends A -Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed. True Dear 4-33144 BENNETT, Take An Old Cold' Tater TONY 4-33095 BYRDS, THE Yesterday I Heard The Rain. A Fool Of Fools

D 4-33062 BENNETT, TONY Mr. I Tambourine Man. All Really Want To Do 4-33145 SANTAMARIA, MONGO I Left My Heart In San Francisco. D 4-33096 SIMON & GARFUNKEL Cold Sweat. Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay I Wanna Be Around The Sound Of Silence. Homeward Bound 4.33063 DI MUCI, DION 4-33146 BRYANT, ANITA Ruby Baby. Donna The Prima Donna n 433097 BYRDS, THE Try To Remember. My Cup Runneth Over Turn! Turn! Turn! To Everything There Is A 4-33147 BURTON, RICHARD 4.33064 DEAN, JIMMY Season. Eight Miles High The Cajun Queen. Steel Men How To Handle A Woman. Camelot 4-33098 REVERE, PAUL, AND n THE RAIDERS 4-33148 NABORS, JIM 4-33068 LAWRENCE, STEVE (Featuring Mark Lindsay) The Impossible Dream. Go Away Little Girl. More Kicks. Just Like Me Time After Time D 4-33149 SKELTON, 4-33069 WILLIAMS, ANDY 4-33099 BENNETT, TONY RED The Pledge I To You. of Allegiance. The Circus Can't Get Used Losing Hopeless The Shadow Of Your Smile. Who Can I Turn To D 4.33070 ROBBINS, MARTY (When Nobody Needs Me) 4.33150 SMITH, CARL Don't Worry. Devil Woman D 4-33100 DYLAN, BOB Deep Water. Foggy River Rainy D 4.33072 VALE, JERRY Day Women 2'12 & 35. Like A Rolling Stone n 4-33151 ROBINS, MARTY Pretend You Don't See Her. Innamorata 4-33101 CASH, JOHNNY I Walk Alone. It's A Sin I Walk The Line. D 4-33074 FLATT, LESTER, AND EARL SCRUGGS Orange Blossom Special D 4-33152 FLATT & SCRUGGS The Ballad Of Jed Clampett. Go Home 4-33102 CONNIFF, RAY Foggy Mt. Breakdown (Bonnie & Clyde Theme). Happiness Is. Like A Rolling Stone 4-33075 VALE. JERRY Invisible Tears D 4-33153 CASH, Old Cape Cod. If Ever I Would Leave You 4-33103 CYRKLE, THE JOHNNY Folsom Prison Blues. Daddy Sang Bass 4.33076 KING, CLAUDE Red Rubber Ball. Turn -Down Day Wolverton Mountain. Sani Hill D 4.33104 CONNIFF, RAY D 4-33154 STREISAND, BARBRA Somewhere, Funny Girl. I'd Rather Be Blue Over You 4-33077 PURSELL, BILL My Love. Lookin' For Love D 4.33155 Our Winter Love. I Walk The Line 4-33105 POZO SECO SINGERS BUCKINGHAMS. THE Kind of A Drag. Back In Love Again 4-33078 STREISAND, BARBRA I Can't Make It With You. Time Happy Days Are Here Again. My Coloring Book 4-33106 REVERE, PAUL, AND THE RAIDERS 4-33156 BUTLER, CARL & PEARL Don't Let Me Cross Over. Little Pedro 4.33079 GORME, EYDIE (Featuring Mark Lindsay) Blame It On The Bossa Nova. Can't Get Over The Great Airplane Strike. Hungry D 4-33157 SMITH, O.C. (The Bossa Nova) 4-33108 DYLAN, BOB Hickory Holler's Tramp. Honey 4-33080 BENNETT, TONY Just Like A Woman. I Want You 2-1200 PEACHES & HERB This Is All I Ask. The Good Life D 4-33109 CASH, JOHNNY Love Is Strange. United D 4-33081 CHRISTY MINSTRELS, THE NEW The One On The Right Is On The Left. 2-1201 PEACHES & HERB Green, Green. Today Boa Constrictor Close Your Eyes. For Your Love 4.33082 REVERE, PAUL, AND THE RAIDERS 4.33110 WILLIAMS, ANDY D 2-1202 PEACHES & HERB (Featuring Mark Lindsay) Music To Watch Girls By. In The Arms Of Love Two Little Kids. Let's Fall In Love Louie, Louie. Loure -Go Home 4-33111 REVERE, PAUL, AND THE RAIDERS We told you it would be the greatest 4-33084 MILLER, MITCH (Featuring Mark Lindsay) of Do -Re -Mi. The Children's Marching Song Ups And Downs. Good Thing the Greatest Hits programs ever. 4-33085 WILLIAMS, ANDY n 4.33112 GORME, EYDIE What else could you expect from The Hawaiian Wedding Song. Canadian Sunset What Did I Have That I Don't Have? If He Walked Into My Life Columbia -the company who makes it D 4-33086 GRIFFIN, KEN 4-33113 The Anniversary Waltz. Let Me Call You Sweetheart. ROYAL, BILLY JOE its business to be first with exciting Down In The Boondocks. I've Got To Be Somebody 4-33087 SANTAMARIA, MONGO innovations. After all, the biggest Watermelon Man. Fat Back 4-33114 JACKSON, STONEWALL Help Stamp Out Loneliness. Don't Be Angry should give you more -more of the 4-33088 SEEGER, PETE Little Boxes. Where Have All The Flowers Gone D 4-33115 SIMON & GARFUNKEL best in recorded entertainment. The Dangling Conversation. A Hazy Shade Of Winter Musically speaking, it's only right! "r4 R rakes 1WUIS RIG RRpnDRlii The Greatest Hits are on Columbia Records ADVERTISEMENT Tape CARtrid9e LEISURE TIME Stereo City's Franchise Plan on Road TIPS By EARL PAIGE by: Larry Finley CHICAGO - Stereo City, Manny Green has been named Franchisees are trained here "Our outlets will carry every- Inc., will use a $6,000 demon- franchise manager, and all ac- for four weeks. Training con- thing in tape, including open stration trailer to open a series tivities of the new program will sists of administration, installa- reel. There are many open reel of tape specialty stores across be coordinated from Stereo tion, parts and services and players being sold we want and There are many aggressive distrib- the U. S. this summer under a City's headquarters here. sales. part of this business," said national franchising program. utors in the Tape field and from The plan consists of: Inventory is handled through Levin. "As for records, television, auto mufflers or seat this column points out With one franchise already Market surveys to determine Stereo City's IBM electronic time to time covers, we're not interested. open in Sarasota, Fla., Stereo the best store location. Require- data processing facilities; all Our their accomplishments. stores will be specialty tape out- City is advertising for franchises ments include parking on three hardware and software is 100 in Fort Wayne, South Bend and per cent guaranteed. "The lets." sides; at least two installation do with Dick stores' be A Natural Idea Today's column has to Indianapolis, Indiana; Rock- bays, and a free-standing build- stock will kept clean Levin said the idea open- Company in ford, Ill., and Milwaukee. ing. Existing stereo specialty on a 90 -day basis," Levin said. of Stultz of Record Supply ing franchised tape specialty Physical stores can sign up, with Stereo Advertising, including mail- Orlando. Florida, who has proven characteristics of the stores was a natural one. "We City moving the facility if nec- ings and promotion, is specialty stores, promotion and coordi- had all our stores here report- himself to be one of the outstanding essary. nated from the Chicago offices. advertising and inventory con- ing on daily sales report forms merchandisers in the Tape industry. trol will be patterned after the No advertisements soliciting Fixtures, signs and tools are and all data coordinated on firm's four Chicago outlets, franchisees are placed until a supplied by Stereo City. Inven- IBM cards. We think we can On May 28th, Dick celebrates the said managing director Her- suitable location is found. tory will include both home and service out -of -State outlets just Supply bert Levin. All franchised out- Franchisees are screened and auto players, alarms and acces- as easily as our own here and 10th Anniversary of Record lets will have the same color must be capable of handling sories. Software inventory will can offer the advantages of our Company with a Champagne Party scheme and logo: Stereo City, installation and repair on equip- be geared to the individual centralized buying, promotion & Buffet at which he will entertain USA. ment; or willing to be trained. market's projected potential. and advertising. over 400 dealers and their wives. With Dick's fabulous affair for mer- Panasonic Bows Ampex Has chandising, he has developed a mer- 5 Cassette with Units chandising plan in conjunction By WAYNE HARADA 2 New Units Automatic Radio and NAL which will be presented at the 10th Anniversary HONOLULU Five stereo plete push-button - controls, pop- glewood, operates on either ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. Party. In the writer's opinion this cassette recorders, including an up cassette system, a noise sup- house current or batteries, but new automobile stereo -Two plan is so unique that it will be fol- auto -home unit priced at less pressor, two roller -bar volume comes with an AM/FM radio. cassette units, the Micro 40 and than $100, were unveiled here A single lever controls the oper- Micro 42, lowed and copied by distributors controls, a walnut wood -grain are now available Thursday (15) as 300 Panasonic ation for recording, playback, from Ampex Corp. They repre- throughout the country. cabinet. It retails for $109.95. distributors, dealers and execu- rewinding and fast forward. Re - sent the first recorder/players The Westwood, like the En- tail price is $99.95. offered by the company for tives assembled at the Hilton Last week a full truckload of Auto- Hawaiian Village. automobile use. matic Radio Playback Equipment The national convention The Micro 42, with a sug- Tapes arrived in Orlando- marked two anniversaries: the Muntz' Volume Release gested list of $119.95, is a slot and NAL fifth birthday of Matsushita loading, mono record, stereo and according to Dick Stultz he an- playback unit. The model in- Electric of Hawaii, which dis- ticipates sale of the entire contents tributes Panasonic products To Test Classical corporates a slide -out accessory Market tray, mounted of this truckload of merchandise. here, and the 10th year of on the underside of the unit, that operation of the Matsushita LOS ANGELES - Muntz gram. "A lot of the Muntz deal- holds extra cassettes and the remote Electric Corp. of America, Stereo -Pak is "experimenting" ers on the West Coast are set- con- In addition to Dick and his ten sales- with a concentrated trol microphone. which distributes the Japan effort to ting up classical departments for men who cover the State of Florida S. sell classical tapes. The dupli- Other features include fast product in the U. Among the the first time," Bohanan said. in that extends up to Macon, cator has released 15 titles forward, territory new tape products unveiled from College students seem to com- rewind, stop, play, the Angel library and is empha- eject, record, tone and two sep- Georgia, Dave Nager, Vice President were: prise a major portion of this sizing this merchandise in its arate volume controls. Also fea- The Englewood, an AC or buying audience. of Sales of Automatic Radio; Joe battery-operated auto -home cas- company -owned store in the San tured are a pilot light, record Muntz's own Cartridge City Spinale, Automatic Radio's National sette recorder featuring Pana- Fernando Valley. light, jacks for an earphone and store has opened a separate Manager, and the writer of ject, an automatic slide -in, pop- Muntz has offered classical the remote control microphone. Sales classical department as the over- up cassette system whereby titles in the past but never went The Micro 40 is a stereo play- this column, who will be represent all umbrella for the material, when the tape reaches the end, into a releasing campaign in- back -only unit which comes and the company suggests that ing NAL, will be present. it automatically pops up for volving 15 titles all at once. with mounting bracket, hard- its dealers follow suit. faster, simpler changing. The The company's over-all classical ware and demonstration tape. catalog is The $5.98 Dick Stultz is a man who fully rec- Englewood produces 21/2 watts small, with represen- Angel product is The suggested list is $99.95. of peak music power, and car- tation from such other lines as being purchased by the same As for summer promotion. ognizes the potential in the proper Command, Capitol, Nonesuch, person who buys classical al- Ampex is continuing its "Gift - ries a retail price of $99.95. distribution of playback units as Monitor, Westminster, Philips bums, so in essence the music at- ables" campaign which involves The Constellation and the and Mercury. tracts the established buff-not cassette units and software well as tapes. Dick first got into the latter with Orbitone, built-in Muntz is making its first ma- a neophite listener. The classical and offers dealers spot radio the tape business late in 1965, and AM/ FM stereo radio, utilizes jor classical merchandising ef- cartridge buyer is a quantity pur- commercials, advertising mats today tapes represent 4096 of his slide -rule and push-button con- fort with this product because chaser according to Bohanan. He and store merchandising pieces. trols. Both produce 20 watts of there seems to be a market for selects from six to 12 titles at a The promotion offers to con- volume, tape playback equipment peak music through new, ex- longhair composition in the 4 - setting. sumers a free microphone with represents 20% of his volume, and clusive "solar scoop" spherical track configuration. Bohanan says that an the increas- Micro 30 cassette recorder 40% of his volume is represented speakers. Suggested list price of National sales manager Don ing number of stores have dis- and $23.80 worth of stereo tapes in the Constellation is $149.95, Bohanan would like to develop covered there is a classical tape with the purchase of either the record field. for the Orbitone, $229.95. a monthly classical release pro- market. the Micro 86 or Micro 88 units. The Bridgeport features com- When he started in 1965 he had the foresight to assign one man to serv- Liberty Giving Kraco Into the Player Field ice tape accounts exclusively and today he has a well-rounded ,sales Cases New Look Auto- LOS ANGELES - Kraco representatives across the U. S. (KS -888) at $99.95; a 4 and 8 - staff of ten men who feature LOS ANGELES - Liberty Products, auto accessory manu- to handle the nine model line of track compatible unit with matic Radio and NAL tapes, as well Stereo -Tape has redesigned its facturer, is expanding into the auto players. Kraines said a na- speakers (KS -408) at $109.95; as handling other lines of equipment player field with a line of auto tional warranty program will be and a auto cassette unit with 8 -track and cassette cases to and tape. Dick says the reason for feature a black front instead of cassette and 8 -track units. established for new warranty speakers and microphone (KS - the tremendous percentage of tape white. The graphic switch is de- Since its first involvement with stations, with a warehouse 999) at $129.95. signed to allow the cartridge's players in January, Kraco has planned for the Midwest area Kraines said the company is and equipment is because he be- four-color artwork to stand out introduced an initial line of five to supplement an existing facil- introducing four models at the lieves in personal service to the more. units, and is offering four more ity at the company's 180,000- consumer electronics show in dealers as well as all the assistance The 8 -track cartridges now models in June, including an 8 - square-foot complex in Comp- June. he and his organization can give offer a reprise of the front track combination auto/home ton. Kraines said the company will cover them in promotion. artwork plus complete unit. Working with Kraines in eventually enter the home play- programming information. de- The Compton -based company veloping the player line is Hy er field, probably in 1970. The cassette packs now fea- plans to expand its dealer op- Sutnick, national electronics Kraco also has developed a We'll be looking forward to meeting ture the title and the artist: pre- eration to include spe- electronic sales manager. four-color contemporary pack- Dick Stultz's dealers at the Gold viously the artist had greater ciality outlets to supplement an The Kraco line includes a aging concept for impulse buy- Key Inn, Orlando, Wednesday, May graphic impact. The back space established auto stores network, ing, said Kraines. The units are is given to program sequencing. straight 8 -track (KS -700) at 28th, from 10 in the morning until said Larry Kraines, sales vice- displayed through a "window" president. $69.95 (list); an 8 -track with The new black casing now in the shipping box, with a styro- 10 at night. speakers (KS -800) at $79.95; a blends with the company's black Kraco also will set up a dis- foam cushion protecting the de luxe 8 with outer cardboard holder. tributor network of about 60-70 -track speakers hardware. MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 15 Tape CARtrid9e SPECIAL RCA's Two Jet Stereo Widens Distrib Net SER VICE LOS ANGELES-Jet Stereo, line Irom Lancaster, a Motor- Francisco operation will he distributor New Caddies of Lear Jet home ola distributor, and Afco Dis- "Clean Sweep," a trade-in gim- for and auto players in Southern tributing, which handled the mick to promote Lear's Jetstar 4 NEW YORK-RCA Records California and Las Vegas, is Lear auto line. and K -track compatible unit is introducing two, larger Stereo now handling the line exclu- Jet Stereo is planning to open (Al 19) at $89.95-$99.95. Jet 8 Tape Cartridge caddies-one Subscribers sively in California. a warehouse sales facility in Stereo will give consumers $20- tor the home and one for auto- Phil Costanzo, $40 a mobiles. Jet Stereo San Francisco, with marketing - on 4 -track trade-in for in president, is expanding the deal- merchandising campaigns for- Lear's 4 and 8 -track compatible [he home caddy is of brown er network in Northern Califor- mulated at the company's office unit. leatherette, trimmed in Floren- nia to more than 2(X), and has here. Ronald Osborne, formerly The month -long promotion tine gold with self clasp. It is in Great Britain initiated a promotion/advertis- with the Motorola distributor- includes advertising, both co-op the form of a bound -hook with ing campaign on radio/TV to ship in San Francisco, will di- and factory, in community and a vacuum formed insert to pro- stimulate dealer-consumer ex- rect Jet Stereo's six -man North- metropolitan newspapers and in vide an individual space for and citement in the Lear line. ern California operation. store retail promotions. cartridge and to make handling With Lear pulled the home unit Initial promotion for the San much of the Lear proof the cartridge easier. It holds Europe motions geared to the young up to IO cartridges, and has a adult market, Costanzo will take list price category of $5.95. television time on teen -type pro- The car caddy, which carries .If you are a subscriber Stimler to Organize a Tape, grams, including "Boss City" 21 cartridges and is named the and "Groovy," where Jet Stereo "21," is of olive leatherette with to any one of these uses portable 8 -tracks ($49.95 stainless steel trim, self clasp BILLBOARD publications Videotape Cartridge Combine and $79.95) as contest give- and twin handles. It has a list aways. price category of $10.95. NEW YORK-Optronics Li- home use devices. He felt that Amusement brary Corp., V.T.R. Corp., and the nation was gearing for a Business Waterbearer Films Inc. form major explosion in consumer use of videotape products and that ITCC Bows 'Super Goodies' the nucleus of a new tape Optronics would be ready CARtridge and videotape car- when it came. American Artist tridge complex now being or- Promotion on 'Great Oldies' Waterbearer Films will be in- ganized by Iry Stimler. NEW YORK Internation- Lion is volved in production of films - the latest in a series of al Tape Cartridge Corp. (ITCC) ITCC campaigns which Stimler, director of special and short subjects for use by had cen- Billboard is launching a "Super Goodies" tered around country music and projects and tape for MGM theaters, TV stations, and VTR promotion consisting of "great soul. ITCC will supply dealers customers. First product is a Records, leaves the record label oldies" culled from its catalog. and tape merchandisers short starring the Edwin Haw- with High Fidelity June 1 after eight years (see The campaign, which will be store banners and kins Singers which will he dis- full color spearheaded by 20 4 and 8 - Executive Turntable). tributed by the Walter "Super Goldies" posters. Reade track titles, will run through May The new tape and videotape Sterling theater chain. V.T.R. As part of the "Super Gold- 31. Artists represented include ies" High h'idelit,y/ firm, backed by a group of will specialize in tape cartridges promotion, ITCC has re- Dio & the Belmonts, the Kings - 'Musical for the present. leased three special cartridges 1nerie« Wall Street investors, is ne- In addition, men, the Turbans, the Skyliners, Stimler will as on its ITCO label containing gotiating for distribution for a act a consult- the Dimensions, the Five Satans, line of 12 cassette and 8 -track ant through a firm known as some of the "classics" of rock the Olympics, Jimmy Clanton. 'n' roll music. Entitled "16 pieces Merchandising cartridges, according to Stimler. Merchandising Economics Con- Maxine Brown, the Shirelles, Four have been produced and sulting Corp. in the music field or Gold, Volumes I. 2 & 3," 11Eek Gene Pitney, Gary, (U.S.) these cartridges the rest are in production. for Wall Street firms and other include "Land Bonds, the Lemon Pipers, Ohio of 1,000 Dances" by Cannibal financial interests. He expects to Stimler said that Optronics Express, Cannibal and the Head- and the Headhunters, "Rhythm hire a staff within the next few will engage in buying rights for hunters, and the Platters. of the Rain" by the Cascades, an Modern audio and visual products for weeks. The "Super Goodies" promo "So Fine" by the Fiestas, among Photography others. Vend AN UNBEATABLE NAL Opens 3 payment for your new Wings in New or renewal subscription MINI -8 -TRAC K can be made direct Policy Plan to our London office: ery TAPE PLAYER . NEW YORK-North Ameri- can Leisure Corp. is opening TELLTIME LTD. AT A NEW LOW ... LOW ... PRICE!! hranch sales offices with ware- 7 Carnaby St. house facilities in Los Angeles, FOR CAR - BOAT - CAMPER or PLANE London WI, England Dallas and Atlanta to expedite its new high-speed product delivery policy. According to NAI. president Larry Finley, this policy assures customers of a 24 - STOP FLYING BlählD hour fulfillment of orders.

r The opening of the branch sales offices is the first step to- minimmissaw ward implementing the high- speed delivery plan, Finley said. These offices, when equipped with warehouse facilities and fully stocked, will be able to provide 24 -hour air delivery on all NAI. tape product to customers within their territories. Until such time when these facilities will he supplied with in-depth stock, each Suggested Retail Price -$29.95 branch office will teletype orders to NAL's New York headquarters, and product will HERE'S WHAT EVERY 8 -TRACK OWNER WANTS: he air -shipped to the accounts from here. 1-Fine Tuning 6-Die-Cast Chrome Front Finley appointed Alan Lan- 2-12 Transistors 7-Dust Protector Cartridge Door dau to head the Los Angeles branch, Al Hawkins in Dallas. 3-10 Watts Per Channel 8-Manual Change Selector Button and Harris Rogers will head 4-Automatic Start 9-Tiltable Mounting Bracket the Atlanta operation (see Exec- MAGNETIC utive Turntable). TAPE DUPLICATION Channel Changer Most AND PACKAGING 5-Automatic 10-Fits Glove Compartments As reported in last week's Billboard, Finley now owns 100 FOR COMP INFORMATION CALIFORNA AUTO RADIO, INC. per cent of NAI. following his REGARDING OWE SERVICES WRITE buy-out of the 55 per cent in- AUDIO PHYSICS, INC. 12229 SO. WOODRUFF AVE., DOWNEY, 90241, CALIF. 16449 VANOWEN terest in his company, previous- VAN NUTS CALIF. 91406 TEL: 213-923-9847 CABLE: CALARAD ly owned by Omega Equities PHONE i 2131 7I12J61R Corp. 16 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD But soon the days of sand and shovels, Gave way to the mysteries of life. Then I noticed she was changed, And 1 looked at her through different eyes.

4, monument record corp. monument is artistry , Tape CARtrid9e Norelco Study: Male Is Buying Boss; Dept. Stores Sales Key Tape Happenings

NEW marketing the purchaser derived from the This pattern also has shown YORK-A LOS ANGELES-Hitachi has and play or stop. Motorola's con study of tape recorder buyers data: The "composite" buyer is little change during the past opened a production facility in sumer products division has named add users, and their preferences, male, married, over 25, earns three years. Tokokawa to manufacture stereo- Lee Distributing, Chicago. as the conducted by the Norelco more than $10,000 annually, However, Semmelink said, phonic equipment, including hi-fi Rochester, N. Y., distributor for Home Entertainment Products and lives in a major urban cen- two-thirds of all brand deci- sets, players, components, speak- consumer products.. . . Realtone, Division of North American ter, Semmelink said. sions are made before shopping. ers, and phonographs. . Telex, Jersey City, N. J., will unveil Minneapolis, is 8 - Philips Corp. revealed that men He reported that department He attributes this, in part, to introducing an seven products at the Consumer track home stereo cartridge re- Electonics Show. They are: cas- are making the purchasing de- and radio/TV stores share top strong advertising and promo- corder/player at $189.95. Russ sette recorder with AM/FM radio cisions, and that the large per- spot as leading retail outlets for tional campaigns intended to in- Molloy, consumer products sales (model 7843) retails at $99.95: an centage of sales are being made tape recorders-each with 20 form and presell the consumer. manager, said plans are to in- 8 -track player with AM/FM in department and radio/TV per cent. They are followed by He cited Norelco 's heavy ad- troduce additional 8 -track units. stereo radio (model 4488) at stores. discount stores at 12 per cent vertising investment "designed to . . . Bell & Howell is offering a $139.95: a monaural cassette unit The study, dealing with re- and appliance stores at 9 per strengthen the brand name and cassette tape player kit, featuring (model 7620), record/playback, at corders priced $50 and up, also cent. Audio speciality, camera, generate traffic and sales for a Roadrunner cassette player, six $49.95: a cassette recorder (model documents the recent popular- music and jewelry stores trail. dealers." batteries and earphone. Also in 7609) at $34.95: an AM/FM the kit are two tapes with stories, stereo modular unit with speakers ity of self-contained systems, ac- This order has remained fairly About 50 per cent of the travel facts, behavior - constant over the last three tips, sing (model 4370) at $89.95: AM/FM cording to Wybo Semmelink, time, the husband does the along songs and games, a travel stereo modular unit with years although department speakers vice-president in charge of the shopping-almost twice as fre- booklet and a pre-recorded tape (model 4356) at $69.95, and stores lost division. Semmelink noted cas- five points last year, quently as the wife. The third bonus offer. The package sells for a AM/FM stereo table radio while settes and cartridges-including radio/TV gained three, most important shoppers as $38.88. The Roadrunner cassette (model 4332) at $59.55. AIWA 4- and 8 -track equipment-ac- and discounters lost three. "other adults," with features touch control for fast to bolster its line with additional teen-age forward, counted for 42 per cent of all Only One Store boys, girls and family drop -in cassette loading cassette and automotive units this follow- summer, with tape recorder sales in 1968; Regardless of where the tape ing in that order. special emphasis on cassette products. . Toshiba this compares to 17 per cent in recorder store is, 60 per cent of A further breakdown disclosed Muntz Deal With America has expanded its Los 1967. Additionally, cassettes the buyers shop only one store, that more than 70 per cent Angeles branch to larger of- comprised two-thirds, and port- Semmelink observed. Eleven of all tape recorders are self - Audio Fidelity fice quarters at 1800 Beverly able 88 units per cent, of all per cent will visit two stores; purchase. The remaining are Boulevard. The company's former 1968 cartridge -type sales, he NEW headquarters will he as 20 per cent shop three or four; gifts, of which 40 per cent are YORK - Muntz has retained added. the service department for home and the remaining 9 per cent for teen boys, 14 per concluded a deal with Audio cent for entertainment and calculator prod- Semmelink drew a profile of will visit five or more stores. wives and 12 per cent for teen Fidelity Records to manufac- ucts. Takuzo Sakamoto is the Los girls. ture and distribute the AF cata- Angeles manager for sales and The male influence service. is main- log of 4 -track cartridges. It's a tained in the home; husbands The Stereo Magic division of Xv,Y,tY.tv.tY.tW,''",r,tv.t non-exclusive contract. are the principal tape recorder Eastern Specialties Corp., Mount users, while teen boys use the AF expects a release of its Arlington, N. J.. is introducing an cartridge tuner to equipment almost as much as product by Muntz early in the AM complete JOIN THE REVOLUTION wives. a line of universal plug-in radios fall. for use with all 4 or 8 -track tape players. It lists for $19.95. Other. new products are a 2.5 amp AC / DC power supply for use with a Sports Education Cassettes line of tape players and a flat Unlock your cartridge and cassette cases to those extra chrome speaker (DES-I(Xl) at . . . Jim Flora is TEAC's summer sales profits with the very best $9.95. Push Bell Cr sales representative in Michigan --- merchandising concepts this side of heaven. Howell Units and Toledo, Ohio. He'll headquar- SKOKIE, 111.-Bell Howell ter in Plymouth. Mich. Roberts, & cassette package is being pro- Los Angeles, has added three sales is promoting cassette its players duced by Nightingale -Conant, representatives for its tape re- this summer with a series of Chicago. corder and audio accessory lines. sports education cassettes. Two additional summer pro- Roy O'Donnell Co. of Denver, covers Colorado, The initial offering, "Julius motional products are cassette Idaho, Montana, Boros' Professional Golf Les- kits, the "Road Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Runner," fea- Texas, Utah and Wyoming. Sam- sons," is being test -marketed in turing a player and two tapes Philadelphia, uel Frankel of Bala -Cynwyd, Pa., Miami, Chicago with stories, travel facts and handles Delaware, New Jersey, and Los Angeles. The 13 sepa- sing-along games, all set to orig- (southern) and Pennsylvania (east- rate lessons, which are supple- inal music, and "Record -All," ern). Connor & Associates of mented with a 40-page booklet, a $59.95 cassette player/re- Northern California covers Nev- can be purchased on two ada (northern) and Northern Cal- cas- corder with a 30 -minute blank Ask your MODERN / FLAIR 30 tape rep, or your settes ($14.95) or on one cas- ifornia.... Pat Cominsky moves cassette. tape distributor or rack jobber about the new look sette ($9.95). to Baltimore as sales manager for The company is introducing Philco Distributors, with William of FLAIR 30, or even write for a free sample. It The series, available only McGourley succeeding Cominsky through Bell Howell, will five cassette recorder/players at is worth your time because FLAIR 30 is, to put it & be as sales manager in Philadelphia. sold in conjunction with the the Consumer Electronics Show modestly, America's biggest sound buy today company's hardware line. The in June. a complete line of promotionally priced cartridge & New Bulletin Is cassette tapes. Espo Out by RIAA Develops Machine to NEW YORK-An updated version of the RIAA bulletin, Cut Label "Standards for Magnetic Tape Work on Pkgs. Records," containing revisions approved Feb. 17, is now avail- CHICAGO - Manufacturers labeling machines, the Cassette and duplicators of prerecorded able free upon request to the 60, an a smaller Cassette 20, cassettes can avoid excess in- Record Industry Association of which ventories of software caused by will handle up to 6,000 America, I East 57th Street, the necessity of having to label cassettes per shift. New York, N. Y. 10022. packages in large quantities. A new machine that automatically labels both sides of a cassette simultaneously has been RCA Ships 250,000 Copies So it shouldn't be a total loss, why not be on the developed by Espo Engineering profit wagon with our fast selling groove series: Corp. here, allowing manufac- to Distributors turers to label product as it is Of Catalog needed. 12 ORIGINAL ARTIST OLDIE HITS NEW YORK - More than Victor, Red Seal, Camden, Col - The pressure -sensitive labeling 250,000 copies of "The Stereo gems, Calendar, Buena Vista, machine will handle up to 36.- 8 Story," RCA's 130 -page full - Chart, Diamond, Gamble, Cre- 000 cassette per s e v e n -hour color Stereo 8 catalog, were scendo, White Whale and Pres- shift. shipped to distributors in its first tige. In addition to the titles, the Don Esposito, vice-president, month of release. According to catalog also lists such accesso- And don't forget who has the greatest R & B tape research and development, said Mort Barnett, manager of re- ries as head cleaning cartridge. catalog in the whole world it's MODERN, the five -year -old firm is work- corded tape advertising and Stereo 8 Installation and Service and if you write and ask for one, we'll be happy to ing on a similar machine for promotion, this means that de- Test cartridge and home and labeling 8 -track oblige. Just write to: cartridges and mand for the new catalog is travel caddies. is developing methods to auto- about 25 times the initial de- matically print graphics that use mand the company encountered Modern Tape Corp., 5810 So. Normandie Avenue color separation. for its previous catalog, which Los Angeles, California 90044 (213) 753-2481 Espo, according to Esposito, eventually found its way to has been involved as a consult- more than a million consumers. ant firm with Ampex, Bell & RCA's catalog, with almost Howell, Zenith, Motorola and 800 titles, contains product other firms. The firm has two from the following labels: RCA efflehefflieleSI,b2999S1999. The SIGN 01 great reacting 18 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD WELCOME A THE U IfTW!GON! iI!!! Pll HIS PLAYBOY with their new smash single!

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UNIVERSAL CITY RECORDS A DIVISION OF MCA INC The Greatest of the Greatest Hits programs.

Being first to create new ideas to give your customers better listening pleasure, and to boost your sales and profits is what Columbia does best. It's our business. Creating Greatest Hits programs which meet with great success year after year is an example. We pioneered the GH concept; now we have the largest and best-selling GH catalog in the industry. And you just can't beat the sales potential of GH releases. In May, we started our biggest GH program ever. Featuring GH albums and tapes by our top artists in every musical category including Pop, C&W, Rock, Jazz, etc. Product that's already started to sell itself. Just look at what '69 has in store for you.

First with the best of GH releases. ROBERT GOULETS volume RAY CONNIFF'S The Buckinghams' MILES GREATEST HITS Iv Greatest Hits DAVIS' GREATEST HITS including GREATEST MY LOVE, FORGIVE ME Tony Kind of a Drag Mercy, Mercy. Mercy WHAT KIND OF FOOL AM I? Somewhere, Susan Back in Love Again Lawdy Miss Clawdy Bennett s My Love IF EVER I WOULD INCLUDINGHIIS YOU LlAVE Invisible Tears ' v 'ROUND MIDNIGHT THE IMPOSSIELE DREAM Greatest Memories Are SEVEN STEPS THIS ALL I ASK Hits Made Of This TO HEAVEN and more S Wonderful ALL BLUES including: E.S.P. For Once In My Life Happiness Is e and more MY FUNNY The Shadow Of MS VALENTINE Your Smile :r \ Time For l,ne Groupa Rose People

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CARL PERKINS' L POWER RIGGS' LIBERACE'S Th. ez.ch Way0. Qa ry's GREATEST HITS GREATEST 111Th UILLYWALEMS GREATEST HITS Q4 4tdliú Blue Suede Shoes Folsom Prison Blues Bach: Toccata and Fugue In I) Minor Ind lading: Daddy Sang Bass Mean Woman Blues The Little Fugue/Sleepers Awake Warsaw Concerto Open l ip{ Theo Pearls l ides Honey Dont Handel:Thel'uckooand IheNightingale As Time Goes By/September Song Thank God For (ùlsarv/ l'll Never More titre Where The Soul Never Dies and more Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary RAATTIMs Beer Barrel Polka/I'm Always Chasing Rainbows This World Is Nol My Thane Widor: Toccata In F COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER/FOREVER and more Ives: Variationso erica"and more CROSS THE BRAZOS AT WACO/CATTLE CALL IF IT PLEASES YOU and more

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Available in 8 -track stereo tape cartridge Available an 4.track stereo tape cartridge }Available in 4 -track reel -to reel tape Talent Hendrix, Cot Mother Cr Miles Turn Garden Into a Rock Roost NEW YORK - A Madison up brass brigade, Herhic Rich's Smith on organ and Larry Pack- Square Gardenful of screaming huddled meditations with the er on violin, mandolin and lead teenier, calling from the tiers organ, plus Jim McCarty's mad guitar, could lift the group to like crows on a clothesline, dashes across the guitar have more meaningful heights. cawed and clawed each other fused with Miles' strongarm Hendrix. a Reprise artist, of to flash a camera in the face drumming to make the Express course, was loose and leering, of the man who was once Little the darkest. downest, most sap- bucking and flinching to the Richard's guitar player, work- ping soul experience working in groans of his guitar, which is ing up to a typical Jimi Hendrix the rock idiom. Razored on the his specialty. Despite the show- Experience with cheers for Cat strop of McCarty's electric manship that keeps serious rock Mother and the All -Night News- strings, bent mercilessly in every huffs away from his self -cele- boys, Polydor group, and Mer- direction, the group's weighted brations, Hendrix is a brilliant cury's Buddy Miles Express on down blues sound penetrates technician and stylist, squeezing May 19. like a blade, as Miles' remote. from his arsenal of guitars every Big Buddy Miles. who huffs boyish voice hangs hack like shock of plugged -in power and like a pressure cooker and swats second thoughts, adding to the (Continued on page 28) his drums as though he were edge by conjuring up a brand of beating down a door, has finally blues that is far away and un- gathered together the kind of sympathetic. Yet the group's hy- blues is the most RAY BLOCH, right, musical director of the "Ed Sullivan Show" since group predicted when Miles first brid of rock 'n' 1948, presents Sullivan with copies of his first two album releases for lowered the old Electric Flag creative undertaking of its kind. Ambassador Records. to catch the Express. A beefed - though the lead -heavy music may he, because of its density, the secular wound for fans of the "A LITTLE hard down. Miles' latest Mercury DAREIN' " Who Show Why, How They're Best album, "Electric Church," is co - produced by Hendrix. The group's performances of "Miss NEW YORK The sus- man and bass guitarist Val the stage and played it. Before - Redding's tained excitement of the Who's the show ended, this drum and Lady" and Otis "Cig Fuentes supplied solid support. arettes and Coffee" were su ohn first show at Fillmore East on a cymbal were sent flying. Then came the Who, a re- perb. May 17 handily demonstrated Perhaps the most remarkable that the Decca Records quartet markable, dynamic group whose part of the show was that it Cat Mother, five local boys is the best performing veteran electricity never lets up. Roger went off at all. A fire gutted who dig old rock 'n' roll and a rock group around. While other Daltry's vocals are as strong as an adjacent store the preceding lot of their own uninteresting rock units of the early '60's have anyone's in the field, while night and caused the May 16 material, bounded merrily IulgNq broken up or dropped personal Townshend still is a formidable second show to be switched to through musical territory unaf- appearances, the Who have be- challenger to the title of the the afternoon of May 18, but,' fected by content or design. Of- come better and better. most exciting guitarist around. except for a scorched marquee, fering lighty and forgettable For the first time here, Peter Moon. at times a comic per- there was no damage to Fill- tunes, the group tripped harm- Townshend didn't resort to end- former -conductor, ranks among more East. Daltry and Town- lessy through "Bad News," "The ing the show by shattering his the upper echelon of rock drum- shend also had a problem with Bramble Bush" and "Marie," guitar. He's such an exciting mers. John Entwhistle, not as a plainclothesman due to the scoring with their friendly, now- animated as his three colleagues, fire, but it didn't hamper their here style and Monkees-like li,performer, he doesn't need this Unsurpassed in Quality at any Price device any more. However, it is one of the steadiest of bass superb performances. The Who vitality, but disappointing by was impossible to restrain Keith guitarists. is unique in today's musical adding nothing hut their good Moon, as his drums were strewn There were differences in the scene. FRED KIRBY name to the rock picture. Bob about at the finale. material this time as the bulk GLOSSY The opening acts were good of the set was devoted to selec- also, especially It's a Beautiful tions from their new two -LP 1PHOTOS Day, which was making its first rock opera "Tommy," but the Taylor/McKendree EACH 8x10 Fillmore East apearance. Sweet - excitement was there through- 8e water's heady musicianship also out. The concluding "We're not 1000 LOTS was first-rate. The former also gonna take it" was devastating. $12.45 per 100 Two Topflight Acts Post Cords rocked, but with softer elements Then came two hard rockers S49 per 1000 too. Two good lead vocalists, familiar to Who fans and "Sum- NEW YORK - Two excep heavily on material from his 1,000 violinist David LaFlamme and mertime Blues" and "Shake It tional folk -style voices contrib- debut Apple album, including MOUNTED 8x10 COLOR Pattie Santos, also ENLARGEMENTS are keys for All Over" have never sounded uted to a topflight show at the "Something in the Way She $175.00 It's a Beautiful Day. stronger. The leaping of Daltry Bitter End on May IS: James 20"x30" Sé.SO 3,000 Postcards Moves," "Something's Wrong," 30"x40" S9.50 Much of their set consisted and Townshend, who also con- Taylor and Fran McKendree. S120.00 of material from their upcom- tributed solid singing in the set, The latter also had strong in "Sunshine Sunshine" and his Special Color ing debut album on Columbia. and Moon's remarkable ending strumental support from the single "Carolina in My Mind." Process "Hot Summer Day" and "White brought the large audience to other members of his Decca The last was one of his many Bird" both utilized the voices of its feet. Half of his drum set group: McKendree Spring. highlights. LaFlamme and Santos as solos, fell over, but he kept playing. Taylor, accompanying him- went gospel in "People in counterpart, as duet, and with He carried one snare drum onto self on acoustic guitar, relied He organist Fred Webb. LaFlamme, Get Ready," traditional in "Oh, hoto9roPtherr Webb and guitarist Hal Wagon- Susannah," restless in "Some- A Division of JAMES J. KRIEGSMANN ett also had good instrumental thing's Wrong" and tender 16S W. 46th St., N,Y. 36 PL 7-0233 segments. Drummer Mike Hol- Paxton Parlays Folk and throughout. especially in "Something in the Way She Drama Into Winning Double Moves" and "Sunshine Sun- Utley Tours shine." Taylor also sang the NEW YORK -- Due to an the Children," "Angie" and Coca-Cola commercial and a oversight by the pop public and "Chances." while Paxton, as al- blues take-off with good comic YOUR HOST: With Artists the gentle, uncompromising ways, skipped with critical, pa- effect. Taylor's easy banter also buoyed his performance. NEW YORK - Bill Utley, folk singing of Tom Paxton, the tronizing puckishness through president of Reb Foster Associ- Elektra bard should continue politics, pop culture and coun- McKendree Spring is one of to enjoy his uncelebrated, but try tunes. the top young folk units around. ates, has embarked on a trip to Scandinavia, Amsterdam and undeniable status as America's Sometimes pretentiously un- In McKendree, the group has a ;di^.vd.JESTAURANT only troubadour. Accom- vocalist with a Tim Hardin London in connection with the urban pretentious as in his apologies panied by a sound. Dreyfuss is one of tours of Steppenwolf and Three Nashville -flavored for the slick fretwork in his Mike pre- talented Dog Night. This marks Three piano and bass, Paxton "Bottle of Wine" laughter, Pax- the most of young viewed as he violin. Dog Night's first European his latest compositions ton instantly closes in on the musicians played 163-65 W. 48th St. at the Bitter End, Wednesday viola and teremin. Add solid tour. Steppenwolf is set for warm irony of passive love, New York, N. Y. 10036 work television appearances in Bel- (21). longing and the soft fantasies from electric guitarist 245-6138 Martin Slutsky and bass guitar- gium, Amsterdam and Paris, as Simple, yet suggestive in his of simple folk, catching the ist Tucker and McKen- 'I'he well as concert performances in presentation, Paxton has mas- spotlight in and across his Larry Gourmet's Haven dree Spring has a good sound Stockholm, Arhus and Copen- tered a subtle interaction of eyes, always deep in sympa- for Italian Cuisine with a McKen- hagen. muisc and mime, cleverly manip- thetic expression with his music. bright future. dree played acoustic guitar. THIS WEEK WE SALUTE - While in Copenhagen, Utley ulating the house lights to die A fine dramatist whose true, will meet with executives of or rise with the drama of his clear voice will live long after The group also relied heavily Atlantic Atco Records Bendix Music to form plans for sung anecdotes. His eyes are the Leonard Cohens and Tim on its debut album with the b J AHMET PRES. a four -date engagement in the the gesturing hands of his Hardins have dropped off the bluesy "No Regrets" and the ERTEGUN, & MR ESUHI ERTEGUN, V. -P. & MR Scandinavian countries for stories, acting out the distant charts with their transient tunes subtle protest "Spock" standing JERRY WEXLER, V. -P. & SAIF ti Three Dog Night. In London, dreams, rage and emptiness in of self-conscious allusion, Pax - out. "I Can't Make It Anymore" Utley will hold meetings with the lyric as his hands are tied ton's detailed descriptions of also utilized a steady folk representatives of the Harold nimbling to the quiet, consist- city folk and their country theme. The faster "If the Sun Diners' Club Davison Agency, the BBC, ent task of picking his guitar. neighbors will last as long as Should Rise" was another good American Express the Decca LP. members of the European press His finest numbers were "If I real folk music continues as a number from Carte Blanche and EMI. Had a Troubadour," "About tradition in America. FREI) KIRBY MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 23 QUALITY Talent

TOP ear PRINTS Brubeck's Oratorio a Bright From The LITHOGRAPHED ON HEAVY KROMEKOTE Light in Jazz -Classic Music Music Capitals UNDER 3C EACH NEW YORK - Dave Bru - est part is the choral writing, LOTS heck's oratorio, "The Light in and the Miami chorus was per- of the World IN 1000 a in the ma- 500- -$18.85 1000 $29.75 the Wilderness." received fect its handling of For larger quantities add 522.00 per 1000 sterling performance at Philhar- terial with flawless diction which (DOMESTIC) monic Hall on May 16. The added to the work's impact. ALSO AVAILABLE NOW: forces included the Cincinnati Hale probably gave his finest CHICAGO Mary Holiday, who has been hack- 8X10 COLOR PRINTS Symphony, the Miami (Ohio) local performance both vocally ing up numerous Memphis re- sessions, including Elvis University A Capella Singers, and interpretatively. The jazz sec- Chess Records is sending a pro- cording 1000 8x10s $175.00 Presley, B. J. Thomas and others, baritone Robert Hale, and the tions included improvisations by ducer to Los Angeles, where Bo Diddley will soon be recording has been joined in Memphis to Send for a sample 8X10 color composer, all ably conducted Brubeck at piano and by mem- work on several additional ses- again in his home. . . The Chi- print and black & white 8X10 for by Erich Kunzel. Except bers of the Symphony Jazz cago Blues All -Star Band has been sions by Jeannie Green, Donna plus prices for other sizes in Hale, these are the same per- Quintet. These were generally formed, featuring Willie Dixon. Thatcher and Susan Pilkington black & white and full details formers who appear on Decca's good. Brubeck is a Columbia bass; Johnny Shines, guitar; Walter from Florence, Ala. They work on ordering. successful recording of the reli- artist. The oratorio, an obvious (Shaky) Horton, mouth organ; on sessions at Fame in Muscle gious work. crowd pleaser, drew an enthu- Sunnyland Slim, piano; Clifton Shoals. Judd Phillips Jr. is now pro- Brubeck's lengthy work imag- siastic audience response. Bru - James, drums. All arc lead singers ducerducer-engineer -engineer for Dave Hassing- PICTURES and more Hale the and switch off during their per- inatively utilizes jazz beck, and Miami er's Sound Factory in Hollywood. ' 317 N. ROBBERSON standard classical elements, while chorus will accompany the Cin- formances. . . . An estimated SPRINGFIELD, MO. 65806 50,0(H) turned out for the Jeffer- He worked for Sun Record Co. he text is mainly drawn from cinnati on its European tour. rr,r.n q w Y...... g Pinar". i. son Airplane Free Concert May and Holiday Inn Record Co.. as a the Bible. Musically, the strong- when the oratorio also will he producer -promotions man before 13 at Grant Park. . . . RCA's performed. Ralph Ebler is playing host this going to the West Coast. He is Max Rudolf, the Cincinnati's week to Marilyn Maye, who is now producing several things in music director, opened the pro- in town for the annual WGN Memphis for the Sound Factory gram by conducting Nielsen's dinner. operations. . Phillips is also / RICH LITTLE producing in Memphis for other "FLOWER "Symphony No. 4 (Inextinguish- Delaney & Bonnie & Friends labels. . . Ike and Tina Turner, ihle)," which he has recorded were in town for a promotion pays tribute to tour. The group has a new Elek- a husband -wife team from San INJUN" with the orchestra for Decca. Francisco, have been working on FREI) KIRBY tra single, "When This Battle Is Over," and a new album, "Delaney a single and album at Hi Record HUMPHREY & Bonnie & Friends." Hosting Co., under the aegis of producer the visitors were Ed Redmond, Willie Mitchell. . . . Rudolph World Series Elektra. and Jimmy Bryant, M.S. Russell, president, and Quinton vice-president, have com- Distributing. . . . The John Paul Claunch, BOGART on Of Jazz Set Duo has begun a four -week en- pleted a production session James Carr. . Betty Berger, SAN ANTONIO The first gagement at the Flower Pot. . JOHN DAVIDSON SHOW - Who, Buddy Rich & the Buddy president of Continental Artists World Series of Jazz will be has hired Vincent FRIDAY Rich Orchestra and Joe Cocker hooking agency, held here in the Theatre for & the Greaseband are slated for Alphonzo to work in her agency. the Performing Arts on Monday Memorial Day weekend at Aaron She signed 011ie Jackson to a "I "Rich Little's Broadway" (27); with the appearance of Russo's Kinetic Playground. . hooking contract. -he Hombres will play the Gold Room at Shan- Kerr Records Inc. Jim Cullums' Happy Jazz Band Susan Distributing Co., Inc. held against the World's Greatest an open house May 22 at its non, Miss. JAMES D. KINGSLEY \999 N. Doheny, L.A. 90069 Jazz Band of Yank Lawson and plant and offices in suburban Bob Haggart. Skokie. John Bishop and his trio will In addition to Lawson and open a three-week engagement on NEW YORK Haggart, other musicians in the Tuesday at the London House. (27) Atco's I.ed Zeppelin, Cadet's World's Greatest Jazz Band . . Trini Lopez and Tiny Tim Woody Herman and Elektra's De- whose mission it is to save were recent visitors on WBBM- laney & Bonnie & Friends play American jazz are Billy Butter- TV's "The Lee Phillip Show.".. . on Friday (11)) and field, Lou McGarity, Carl Fon- Harry (Tex) Fenster reports that Fillmore East . Barbara Mc- Dick Wickman and his band will Saturday (31). tana, Bud Freeman, Bob Wil- in New York this be back at New York's Roseland Nair arrives her. Ralph Sutton, Gus Johnson week for meetings on her debut Dance City July 22.. . . Vocalist Jr., and Maxine Sullivan as . Cheryl Berdell, comedian Lou Al- album on Audio Fidelity. East vocalist. exander and the Joe laco Trio Jimmy Wisner. Columbia's 'Bound Coast director of pop recording, Cullums' Happy Jazz hand arc performing at the Playboy's the West Coast to pro- was organized here seven years Penthouse. On tap in the Living flew to duce an album of Italian songs by ago and is composed, in addi Room are the Harold Harris Trio, The sessions arc Keith Droste Trio, Gene Espo- Robert Goulet. fion to Cullum Sr., of Jim Cul- and conducted by sito Trio and John Gittens Trio. being arranged lum Jr., Gene McKinney, Cliff Don Costa.... Mercury's Buddy to Gillette, Curly Williams, Harvey Vocalist Dana Valery is wind- Miles Express signed with Neil ing up a three-week engagement Kindervater and Wilson Davis. Management at Mister Kelly's. Appearing with C. Reshen Business for business management and with Miss Valery is comedian Jerry Shane.... Recently Janis Murray for press and public The Nice Booked signed artists Anne on the Delmark roster include relations. Mercury producer For o U. S. Return harmonicist Carey Bell, guitarist Tansey also signed with Reshen. Happen Felicia Sanders opened a three- Jimmy (Fast Fingers) Dawkins, NEW YORK -- The Nice, week engagement at the Rainbow British group who recently Luther Allison and Mighty Joe Young and AACM tenor sax/ Grill on Monday (19). . . . The closed a six -week U. S. tour. Stress Blues Band headlined composer Maurice McIntyre. Bob Mr. have been set for a return visit Koester, producer of Delmark Cincinnati's Black Dome on Fri- and Saturday (24). . . to America in mid -July. During Records, spoke on urban blues day (23) 's Atco's Vanilla Fudge plays the Billboard the interim six -week period, the during Highland Park High Hampton Beach (N. J.) Casino on group has been tabbed for a School's recent week-long seminar, Friday (30): Diamond Beach Club series dates in and "Focus on the City." Dawkins of England in Wildwood, N. J., on Saturday the Continent. and his band provided the music. (3 1 ); Chicago's Kinetic Play- Ochs Meantime, the is . Various promotional appear- Ed Nice riding ground. June 6 and 7; Detroit's ances in the Chicago area have high with their current album 13 and been slated for the Mass in sup- Grande Ballroom, June 14: the (N. J.) has gone completely underground. "Ars Longa Vita Brevis"on Im- port of their new release on Neil Lambertville Music mediate Records (distributed by Records, "I'll Meet You Circus, July 6; the Blossom Music in My ('enter, North Hampton Township. Then he was always underground, CBS). Dreams.". . . Ben Arden, Empire Ohio, July 8; Dubuque, la., Room maestro, has given notice July 9; the that his orchestra will not re-sign Graffiti Club of Aurora. probing R&B in Soul Sauce and Majestic at the expiration of his current III.. July II; Hills of Lake Geneva. Wis.. July 12; Ra- contract on July 2. . . . Uncle reporting the rock scene from vina Festival at Highland Park, Signings Andy's Cow Palace Restaurant re- Aug. 8; Pittsburgh's cently celebrated its opening in III., Civic Arena. Aug. 9; Fillmore East. Ed's crisp writing suburban Palatine tinder the own- Smithville (N. J.) Music Fair, Aug. 10; Shady Grove Brother Jack McDuff signed a ership of John Bakos. Music Fair at Gaithersberg, Md.. and sharp insight will go heady long - term contract with Blue RON SCHLACHTER Note, where his first album will Aug. II; and Montreal's Expo and heavy, inside and under the he produced by Lew Futterman Fair Grounds, Aug. 22. of Concert House Productions.... MEMPHIS Eric Anderson of Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records and David music in Billboards, Inner Dialogue to Ranwood. . . "new" Bill Cowsill signed an exclusive Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham Rea play the Main Point in Bryn production and writing contract have been writing songs for each Mawr, Pa.. on 'Thursday (29) with Leonard Stogel & Associ- to do an album. Penn will sing through Sunday (I. Philips' Andy ates... John Fischer has joined his album for release on Atlan- Robinson plays the Main Point F.E.L./Flair, where his debut al- tic. Oldham plans an instrumental with Wooley Thumpers Jug Band, bum will be issued on the that features his own piano play- June 12-15. Elektra's Tom Paxton In June June Atlantic's appears F.E.L. religious label.. . Timmy ing. . . . ('hips Moman and I8-22.... Willis signed with Jubilee through Tommy Coghill, producers at Eddie Harris opens a two-week George McGregor of Gee Mac American, worked with Neil Dia- stint at Stockholm's Golden Circle Productions. Willis' first single is mond, Sandy Posey and the Box on Sunday (I . . Club Revel- "I Finally Found a Woman" and Tops. Mark James, producer at ation, a new multi -media supper club, is presenting its "space odys- "February.". . . Composers Ed- American. is putting strings and ward Millis and Chris Ducey to horns on a single he recorded on sey in sound and color" at 8717 James Byron for personal man- himself. James is one of the Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. . . Morris Levy, president of Roulette agement. . Boxer Jerry Quarry writers for the Box Tops and B. signed with the Charles Stern J. Thomas. Moman produced a Records, was honored as "Demo- Agency for exclusive representa- session on Ronnie Stools for his crat of the Year" by the Lower Say You Saw It the Billboard tion. own AGP Record label. . . . (Continued on puer 28) 1in 24 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD !A' is for Apple, !Z'isfor apple. IntroducIng Zapple, a new label from Apple Records.

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MULTI Earrings Turn Hard Davis, 30 Other Performers To Appear at Jazz Festival MILLION Now Easy to Hear SAN DIEGO-Sammy Davis during the festival are the Fabu- Shelly Manne, NEW YORK - Battling making the Dutch unit their Jr. and about 30 other perform- lous Impressions, ers will appear in a "Jazz by the the Clara Ward Singers, Herbie DOLLAR equipment difficulties, the Gold- first single act. en Earrings indicated they have Bay" festival here June 21-22 Hancock, Paul Lopez, Rita Both sides of the single were heavy talent in the hard rock in the International Sports Moss, Bob Pell, Bill Evans and vein. The Polydor quartet offered, including "It's Alright, Arena. the San Diego State Jazz En- RETAIL opened at Ungano's on Tuesday But I Admit It Could Be The festival program includes semble. (20). Better." As in most of the ma- concerts by Davis, Oscar Peter- The festival is produced by Jimmy Lyons, founder and di- Blown fuses cut numbers terial, Rinus Gerritsen stuck to son, Gabor Szabo, Cal Tjader, short three times, while the or- Jimmy Smith, Odetta, the rector of the Monterey Jazz ORGANIZATION his bass guitar rather than gan was virtually inoperable. - Festival, and sponsored by tackle the organ, which he also Young Holt Trio Unlimited, The instrument, borrowed from COPE (Community Opportu- plays, but the fine rock sound Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock Joe Cocker and the Grease Band and Shelly Manne. nity Programs in Education) in WANTS MAN came through. conjunction with San Diego's seemed to afford that act no "Jazz by the Bay" is sched- Barry Hay provided strong 200th anniversary. difficulties. Cocker, an A&M uled as part of a series of ac- artist, filled the room with elec- lead vocals and also fine flute playing. On the other numbers tivities beginning June 14 that tricity as his dynamic vocal will include a jazz workshop at style spun out such numbers as he also handled rhythm guitar. Lead guitar was well handled San Diego State College and of "Let's Go Get Stoned." jam sessions featuring local tal- Low -Priced Capable Golden Earrings, producing a by George Kooymans, who also assisted on vocals, while Jaap ent in San Diego parks and harder sound than on their pre- schools. Up vious Capitol albums, showed Eggermont was solid on drums. Setting festival they could justify the faith the The single's "B" side, "Song of Davis kicks off the June 21 with an afternoon con- Concerts Star new U. S. Polydor label has in a Devil Servant," was a good New Wholesale softer number. On this one, cert, with Oscar Peterson, the Gerritsen tried the electric piano. Sandpipers, Gabor Szabo and One -Stop Conservatory's The opening, "Good Times," vocalist Michelle Nichols. An Elektra Acts set the pattern for the set. The evening performance features and Jazz Courses hard rock was exceptional. The Tjader, pianist Calvin Jackson, LOS ANGELES - Elektra organ wasn't used. A blown fuse Oliver Nelson and Jimmy Smith. Records will showcase its art- BOSTON-The New Eng- cut the number short. Only on The final scheduled perform- ists in an inexpensive concert Rack Jobbing land Conservatory of Music will the closing "Eight Miles High" ance will be a June 22 afternoon series at the Aquarius Theater inaugurate a fully accredited was the unit able to finish, al- concert with Odetta, the Mighty here in July and August. Run- Operation. jazz department this September. though playing without key- Panther, Ahmad Jamal, Peggy ning on consecutive Mondays, Courses will cover all aspects boards. Hay and Kooymans Menifee, the Young -Holt Trio the series has a tentative ticket of jazz theory, history, arrang- were a strong vocal duet, while Unlimited and the San Diego price of $2 each. Should Have Youth Symphony. ing, composition and improvisa- Gerritsen has an excellent solo Among the Elektra acts Also scheduled to perform tion. on bass guitar. This group can scheduled to perform are the Experience A bachelor's or master's de- yet make an impact here; their Doors, Spider John Koerner and gree will be offered in jazz. The new style certainly suits them. Willie Murphy, Rhinoceros, and school begins its jazz program FRED KIRBY Lamb, Paul Butterfield Blues this summer at its Tanglewood From the Band, the Soft White Under- Background institute with two three-week belly, the Dillards, Lonnie seminars, July 14 -Aug. 2, and Alice Cooper Tour Music Capitols Mack, Bread, the Stooges, and Aug. 4 through Aug. 22. Begins in Nevada Delaney and Bonnie and Sales and Jazz ensembles will be formed Of the World Friends. by the students to work in per- SALT LAKE CITY Alice The Aquarius has been the formance techniques, improvi- - Merchandising Cooper, five -man Straight Rec- (DOMESTIC) home of the Los Angeles pro- sation and fundamentals of the- ords group, begins a cross- duction of "Hair" since Decem- will be of LP ory. Instructors Jerry country tour here on Tuesday Continued from page 24 ber. The arrangements for the Coker and David Baker. A tui- (3). Dates include New York's series were made by Jack Holz- tion of $150 per three-week East Side Democratic Association Felt Forum on Friday (6) and Sunday (18). man. Elektra president, through session will be charged. at the Hotel Pierre on Records, Saturday (7), Denver, Cincin- Ballentine Books is publishing Pat Faralla, West Coast publi- Auditors will be allowed to nati, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Buf- a hook next month on "The Jeff- cists. sit in on any of the classes at falo, Philadelphia, the Toronto erson Airplane and the San Fran- 45 RPMs, $50 per week. Elektra also will rent the . . Atcti s New Pop Festival. cisco Sound.". Aquarius for a special concert Rock & Roll Ensemble play The unit also will play the York on Monday (26) with the In- Steve Paul's Scene through Prerecorded New York City Pop Festival at Wednesday (28). They will per- credible String Band. This con- on 4 Roosevelt Raceway July form at the Hollywood Bowl on cert carries a $3.50 top. The Tapes- LAST WEEK... and 5. The festival is sponsored June 28 with George Shearing Theater, which holds more than by their business manager, Neil and the San Francisco Symphony 1,100 persons. was the original Catalog, Reshen. under Arthur Fiedler. The group's Hullabaloo Club and later Ka- second album, due next month. leidoscope. Alan Emig, a West was produced by Alan Barber. Coast producer -engineer for weekly Surplus Freddie Cole Set BM l's second of three Elektra, will handle sound for Musical Theater Workshop Show- the For Chicago Hotel cases is scheduled for Tuesday concerts. and (27) at the New Theater under NEW YORK - - Freddie the direction of Lehman Engel. Cole, who is riding up on the Dick Friedenberg, project Discontinued charts with his De -Lite Records manager of the I.ongines Sym- UNITED ARTIST'S release of "Fourth Blue Mon- phonette, recently became the Items. day," is set for a two-week date father of a girl, Jill Leslie. . . . Campus GEORGE BUTLER at the Sheraton O'Hara, Chicago, Sam Chaplin, father of Ed Chap- lin, head of PPX Enterprises. beginning July 8. Dole, who is RECORDED ON 12-16 TRACK died on May 7. ® a brother of the late Nat King AT BROADWAY RECORDING STUDIOS London's Michael Allen opens Cole, will be dedicating a school at the Copacabana on Aug. 7. Dates WHERE WERE YOU? in Chicago in honor of his broth- Columbia's Peter Nero con- SALARY OPEN 1697 Broadway er on June 22. tinues his string of TV appear- Epic's Sly & the Family Stone New York, N. Y. 10019 He follows the Chicago book- ances with the "Dick Cavett Show" play Hampton Sidney Institute on (212) CI 7-1690 on June 27 and the "Kraft Music ALL ing with an eight -week stay at June 27. BENEFITS Hall" on Sept. 3. . Smash's the New Inn, Okoboji Lake, Left Banke plays John F. Kennedy Capitol's Cannonball Adderley la.. starting July 25. High School here on Friday (30). performs at Rutgers University on Their new album is being pro- July 26. by Tommy Kay. . . . The duced The Queens (N. Y.) College Stony Brook People begin a four - Gardens Rock Roost Golden Center Concert Series for ALL REPLIES week gig at Washington's Club . . violinist Isaac "TURNED ON Continued from page 23 Bastille on Wednesday (28). . 1969-70 includes Rex Allen appears at shows and Stern of Columbia, Oct. I1; the STRICTEST JohnIN1UN" psychedelic beauty. His fierce, rodeos in San Francisco, Saturday Detroit Symphony, Nov. I; London almost sadistic manipulation of (31) and Sunday (1); Wichita Falls, Tex., June 3-7; Hudson, Wis., June pianist Vladimir Ashkenaxy, Nov. the guitar's personality, is ar 20-21; Laramie. Wyo.. July 3: and 8; Angel mezzo-soprano Asset CONFIDENCE rogantly featured in his act as Denver, July 4-5.... Bob Crewe Baker, Jan. 3; bass Marte Talvela, he humiliates the instrument by is producing Oliver's second al- Feb. 14; cellist Janos Starter, raking it across the microphone bum for Jubilee, which was fin- 14; Orchestra stand, playing it disinterestedly ished in New York last week... March Naftalis de behind his back, pushing up the Two members of Imperial's Compo, March 28; and Rotter- volume till it whines out in pain Classics IV were recently injured dam Philharmonic, April 25. BOX S-101 and, finally, popping a string and in a car accident in Atlanta. Bass September dates for United »mad discarding it altogether. With guitarist Wally Eaton will be re- Artists' Josh White Jr. include St. placed on the group's tour until Barnard (Ala.) College, Sept. 9; Noel Redding on bass and Mitch he recovers from multiple injuries. Idaho State University, Sept. 12; c/o BILLBOARD Mitchell on drums, the Jimi . Odeon of Stockholm has ac- College of South Idaho, Sept. 13; Hendrix Experience is one that quired sub -publishing rights for College of Idaho. Sept. 15: Boise every rock nut should have Glasyn Shelley's Clown Town. State College. Sept. 16; and Uni- sooner or later. ED OCHS ED OCHS versity of Idaho, Sept. 18. 28 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD TI lE AMERICANS DREAM COMES TRUE.... (Now they've got a third smash single from their great hit album)

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Warwick & Legler Join Bulb Set Ad Notes By CLAUDE HALL NEW YORK - Warwick & Beer commercial, Warwick & for advertisements and music. By CLAUDE HALL Legler Inc.-which handles such Legler used music from Corelli With another copywriter named Radio-TV Editor accounts as Seagram liquor Jacobs Film Music Inc. that was Bill Conklin, Miller wrote a mu- and "Sam's Place" arc slated for brands, Beck's Beer, Chooz, composed by Kurt Rehfeld- sical play in 1964 called "Oh, "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail" them is Buck Owens, American Can and Timex-has specifically two music selections Say Can You See" that ran six Coke commercials. The man who'll be airing who made both tunes country music hits. He wrapped up a TV commercial called "In the Tyrol" and "Vien- weeks in New York. To illus- Capitol Records artist, spots, which will be blanketed over the for the Holland Bulb Associa- na Rendezvous." trate his belief in music, he just finished recording the services at CBS tion. The animated cartoon strip Miller said he hoped to get pointed out that in his 12 years nation.... Maude Webster, vice-president of division that there are five shows bulbs of various varieties Warwick & Legler deeper in- at BBD&O, they'd come up with Radio, told Kansas City advertising executives a radio commercial into a growing, such as the Prince volved in the creative aspects the Schaefer Beer commercial ways agencies and clients can turn good write and if Charles and the Queen of Sheba of music in commercials. Just tune and used it for the past disaster: Avoid a commercial with a clear concept; poorly a spot or hire to music, reports creative recently joining Warwick & Leg- eight years. "That's the secret- that doesn't work, over -write; use bad lyrics on music -all music or sound so director Bob Miller of Warwick ler from BBD&O where he was if you have a good jingle you completely incompetent singers; have background in casting & Legler. The music will prob- an associate creative director, can stay with it indefinitely and loud that the listeners can't get the foreground message; or account ably be canned on this com- Miller has a varied background keep attacking it with fresh ver - announcers or actors, use only agency secretaries junior mercial. On a recent Beck's emphasizing both copywriting (Continued on page 48) men, or, if possible, the client's relatives. Theme Productions, 17596 Wyoming Avenue, Detroit, has recently created commercials for such national clients as Kent cigarets, Mustang Malt Liquors, Lanolin Plus, and Mystery of Black cosmet- Deals New Hot Hand and Packer's supermark- Phillips ics. Local spots have been done for Wrigley's By RON BATISTE ets and People's Outfitting Co. Carl Porter, president of the black - owned firm, says he uses the talents of many of the same songwriters, What do movies, records The return to commercials ends a seven-year LOS ANGELES - musicians, and recording artists who work for Motown Records for commercials all have in common? wrote ad and beer hiatus for Phillips. The last time he spots.... Katz TV has been named national sales representative for The answer-Stu Phillips, one of Hollywood's is music was in 1962 when he scored the Yuban KATU-TV, Portland, Ore. . . . James Brown of King Records most successful and prolific arrangers, producers, Coffee presentations. Among others he did earlier among those who have cut spots for the World Health Organization now a top commercial writer. composers-and were General Times, Herbert Tareyton cigarets, which will be carried by the networks and also distributed to 1,500 Phillips, 35, and originally from New York, and Q -Tips. radio stations. Ira Ashley produced the series of 23 ten -second -to- on a series of Hamms recently completed work one -minute spots, the first in the 2I -year history of the U. N. organ- Beer advertisements for J. Walter Thompson, the He is now an independent producer and has no contract with any studio. His records have ization. giant New York advertising firm. Also among the new national TV spot for Levis been produced on several labels. He plans produc- The national Tanfastic and recent commercial credits is an Eldon Toys series. San Francisco, air personality Johnny tion of a special on the rock singer, Sagid Khan. were voiced -over by KYA, And while all of these were going on, the Dancer -Fitzgerald -Sample was Phillips already has produced one of Khan's Holliday. . . . Louis T. Fischer of graduate of the Eastman School of Music, awarded the Gold Key of the Station Representative Association N. Y., scored Me," arranged albums. Rochester, "Follow here May 20 at a luncheon: the Silver Nail Timebuyer of the Year "Through Spray Colored Glasses" for Dino, Desi Phillips would not say exactly how much time award went to Robert L. Turner of McCann-Erickson. . Jean he spent on his naturally come and Billy, and scored the movie, "Run, Angel, projects-"Some Jacques Perrey, whose electronic musical effects are heard on nu- easier than he said arranging was Run." others"-but merous commercials, just completed new spots for Eveready Al- than composing original music. He credits He is working on two other films-"Gay De- easier kaline, produced by Howard Cowell for the William Esty Co. and his big break in music to Milton Berle. Berle hired ceivers" and Commonwealth/ United's "The Big Halo Shampoo, produced by John Blumenthal, also of William Esty For the beer com- Phillips as a music copyist for the "Texaco Hour" Blast," starring Peter Lawford. Co. Both will be aired in the near future. Perrey does jingle work for on out of scores of other applicants. He mercials, Phillips said most of his work consisted TV Laurie Productions. would not be his last venture into of arranging music already in the public domain added this Composer -artist Dick Behrke, also known as King Richard of music scoring; he expects to be more for a small combo. Ad copy was used rather than commercial the Fluegel Knights, has scored the signature for the new General active in the medium. lyrics. Foods Dream Whip campaign; Kathy Land produced for the Grey Advertising agency, William Mostad was art director, Vance Ar- buckle was copywriter.... Chico Hamilton produced and composed the music for a series of seven TV spots for the Brown Shoe Co.. each with a different musical concept. Helen Nelson produced for the Leo Burnett agency and the spots will hit the screen in June.... Emil Ascher Inc., king of the background music libraries, has reissued a catalog listing all of the music acquired in the last two years. It's 180 pages and is only one -of -four catalogs the company has available. For copies, write Emil Ascher Inc., Suite 410, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10022. Renfrew Rides Via Capitol Department By ELIOT TIEGEL LOS ANGELES-Renfrew of Davis and Farley Smith, an the Groupies is the lead char- associate, began writing the se- acter in a running series of 120 - ries one month ago, and the second radio spots promoting first six spots have already progressive rock music and cre- played in several major mar- ated by Capitol's pop merchan- kets, including a progressive dising department. rock station in Salt Lake City. The Renfrew spots are de- Each commercial tells a signed to create a comical seri- "story" of the famed policeman alization type of commercial. starting out in search of some- Music is Communication "Our approach is akin to a soap thing and running into a opera," explained Al Davis, a "groupie" (a sexually liberated former broadcaster who is now female) who hangs around with the label's pop product mer- rock musicians. The emphasis is Music on records has to communicate through chandising manager and its all on a soft sell approach, but the recording. chief commercial creator. (Continued on page 48)

We have to be as good at our work as you are - or your music won't get through. Commercials Wing Imagine recordings you really like. Formed by Farrell Recordings done right. NEW YORK-Wes 1-arrell. ords, and "Muguet de Bois," head of an independent record which was especially written production and publishing firm, for Coty and is performed by a subsidiary for the Brooklyn Bridge, a group Petrucci & Atwell, Inc., Recording, 16 Track has established that will that Farrell produces for the 331 Newbury Street, Boston, 617-266-3610 producing commercials be known as the Commercials Buddah Records label. The Management Group Inc. The Coty tune has been on the air Wes Farrell Organization's pub- since about May 1 and Farrell lishing wing-Pocket Full of states that "public reaction to Tunes-has two songs now be- the song has been so enthusias- ing aired as commercials, "In- tic that a demand has been dian Lake," which was a hit created for a single. Coty's re - for the Cowsills on MGM Rec- (Continued on page 50) 30 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Kapp records takes pride in introducing a distinctive new international star

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eili1 THE AUDIENCE THE FORMATS FEATURES ! PROGRAM MANAGERS TOP 40 COUNTRY R&B "SOUNDS OF THE TIMES" EXHIBIT MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Pi STATION OWNERS AND MANAGERS A first -ever exhibit of the actual sounds of trend ! PROGRESSIVE ROCK setting stations in every format throughout the gt DEEJAYS country. Tapes of the stations will be put on cassettes through the co-operation of the engi- WO b RECORD COMPANIES neers of Norelco. You will hear the jingles, the STATION TYPES commercials, the news approach, the deejays, the music and every aspect of a typical radio day. AND EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH AM & FM Representatives of the station will be on hand to imel INCREASING EFFECTIVENESS AND LARGE, MEDIUM, SMALL answer your questions-an unprecedented chance for you to listen to what's happening in radio IMPACT OF RADIO RURAL, METROPOLITAN nationwide. ig THE PROGRAM Mt1'4 THURSDAY, JUNE 19 Session 3 Session 6 '' IU 12.00 noon -8:00 p.m. Building Your Audience With On -the -Air Achieving Greater Impact With a Small or !_ REGISTRATION Promotions Medium Market Station iG' 3:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. a. The New Records Keeping Up With and De- a. What Practical Results Can Onthe Air Promo- EXHIBIT-"Sounds of the Times" ciding Which to Play i tions Achieve for a Station? N1 Ron Fraiser, Program Director 114 FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 20 Howard S. Kester, Vice -President, General Manager WNOR Radio AVCO Radio Corporation Norfolk, Virginia t...; 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon AVCO Broadcasting Corp. REGISTRATION b. Competing With Major Stations Reaching Your San Francisco, California Market 900 a.m.-1200 noon lack Murphy, National Program Manager t` b. New Promotional Ideas-The Winners and the Susquehanna Broadcasting Co. gal; Session 1 Losers York, Pennsylvania Charles R. Parker, Vice -President and The Dynamic Power of Radio 5:30 p.m.7:00 p.m. .; ¡Iji Program Manager a. The Future of Radio-Decline, Growth or Sta- Radio Station WDRC EXHIBIT-"Sounds of the Times" ii tus Quo Hartford, Connecticut Miles David, President, Radio Advertising Bureau 6:30 p m.-7:30 p m. wait! New York, N. Y. ARTIST APPRECIATION COCKTAIL RECEPTION ¡Mee b. How and Why Radio Must Help Stem Deterior- A get -acquainted reception, strictly social will pro- ation of City Life and Commerce Session 4 vide an opportunity for every registrant to meet (to be announced) and to socialize with a number of recording artists, PAW The Need to Look at Your Station Objectively representing all types of music. c. The Vital Impact of Proposed Copyright Wye Changes on Radio and the Record Industry a. The Danger Flags That Indicate You Need Harry Olsen, General Attorney to Make a Change SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 21 CBS David R. Klemm, Director of Marketing and New York, New York 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a m ii i, Operations EXHIBIT-"Sounds of the Times" John Blair and fRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 20 Company New York, New York 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m res 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. CONCURRENT CONFERENCE SESSIONS LUNCH b A New Way to look at the Impact of Your These five sessions are concurrent. Each session Station The Brand Rating Index 12:00 noon - 2:15 p.m. will be held in a separate room and repeated. %--} John E. Allen Ill, Ph.D., Vice -President EXHIBIT-"Sounds of the Times" Every registrant will select two of the five sessions, Brand Rating Research Corporation attending one at 9:00 a.m. and the other at - Mill 2:15 p.m. 5:30 p.m. New York, New York 10:45 a.m. CONCURRENT CONFERENCE SESSIONS am, These five sessions are concurrent. Fach session Session 7 will be held in a separate room and repeated. Session 5 Every registrant will select two of the five ses- Selecting Records for Air Play sions, attending one at 2:15 p.m. and the other ril Top 40 Programming at 4:00 p.m. a. Picking the Records-Who Should Select Them and What Criteria Should Be Used a Is Top 40 Radio Dying? Session 2 Deane Johnson, Program Director Bill Stewart, Operations Manager Radio Station KDWB-Vallon, Inc. iii Finding the Hit Records WNOE Radio Minneapolis, Minnesota a. Checking Music Popularity in Your Market and New Orleans, Louisiana Relating It to Air Play b. How Do You Pick the Best LP Cuts? Norman Wain, Vice -President, Secretary b. What Variety of Music Should Top 40 Program Pat McMahon, Program Director Westchester Corporation to Compete Successfully? KRIZ Radio 1 Phoenix, Arizona General Manager: WIXY-1260 and WDOK-FM John Borders, Group Program Manager 1.` Cleveland, Ohio Texas State Network Owned Stations/and Network h Record Popularity Charts in Magazines and Fort Worth, Texas 1,,,..lR: Newsletters-What Value Are They Don Ovens, Director: Charts and Reviews Billboard Publications New York, New York

rt, .: Session 8 Session 12 Session 17 Middle of the Road Listening New Trends in Modern Music Where Country Music Rides Today a. How Contemporary Can Your Sound Be Without Frank Zappa a Trends in Country Music Sound and lyrics and Chasing Listeners Away? Bizarre Productions Its Impact on Pop Donald L. Shafer, Program Director Los Angeles, California WTAE Radio Jim Harrison, Program Director Peter Yarrow Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Radio KFOX Peter, Paul & Mary b. Music vs. Personality-Determining How Much Sonderling Broadcast Company New York, New York and What Kind of Each Long Beach, California Buzz Lawrence, Deejay Session 18 b. Programming a Modern Country Format KHOW Radio Denver, Colorado Jack Gardiner, Program Director Innovations in Sound Introduced by Creative 'KBOX Radio Session 13 Recording Approaches Dallas, Texas Phil Ramone, Executive Vice President "The Day I Dreamed I Was a Program Direc- A & R Recording Inc. tor . . ." New York, New York Session 9 a. What the Deeiay Would Do Dick Biondi, Deeiay 11:15 a.m. 12.15 p.m Are How Important Personalities to the Station WCFL Radio ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE DISCUSSION-CON- Chicago, Illinois CURRENT SESSIONS a. What is the Difference in the Skills Required b. What the Record Promotion Man Would Do Today for the Successful Personality? These five discussions are concurrent. Each will be Wade G. Pepper, National Country Sales and Pro- held in a separate room. Each registrant will select Allan M. Newman, Program Director motion Manager one subject to attend. Each room will be set with KSFO Radio Capitol Records Distributing Corporation round tables with ten people per table. Under a San Francisco, California Atlanta, Georgia discussion leader, every group of ten persons will c What the Advertiser Would Do exchange ideas b. How Do You Handle Personalities Effectively- and experiences on prepared ques- Harry Sazz, Vice President, TV-Radio Services The Super Personality, the Overthe-Hill Deeiay, tions, relating to various aspects of the one subject. Ted Bates & Co., Inc. etc. The discussion approach will permit every registrant New Ycrk, New York to discuss his individual problems and to gain a Richard F. Carr, Vice -President and General host of new ideas from success stories-and fail Manager Session 14 ures-of stations throughout the country. WIP Radio New Direction in Music Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a. The Progressive Growth of Rock as a Music Session 19 Format John Detz, Station Manager Developing Teamwork at Station to Achieve Session 10 WABX (FM) Programming Goals Detroit, Michigan Khan Hamon, Program Director Outside Aids to Help Programming b. The Broadening Listener Appeal of R&B Music KTSA Radio Al Jefferson a. Using Production Aids Effectively-ID Jingles, San Antonio, Texas Radio Station WWIN Sound Effects, Tradeouts, Show Promotions Baltimore, Maryland Don Bruce, Vice -President Session 20 Airplay International Session 15 Deciding on Time, Frequency, Kind Division of Pepper & Tanner, Inc. of News What Programmers and Deejays Should Know Memphis, Tennessee Coverage About Advertising Buddy McGregor, Program Director b. Beyond Demographics-A New Research Ap- a. The Changing and Different Demands of Na Radio Station KNUZ proach of Completely Targeting Your Audience tional vs. Local Advertisers Houston, Texas (Psychographics) Ben Holmes Edward Petry & Co., Inc. Frank Magid Session 21 Frank Magid Associates New York, New York Cedar Rapids, Iowa b. How the Local Station Can Creatively Produce How to Attract the Housewife Listener During Better Commercials the Day Larry K. Ryan, Program Director George Williams, National Program Manager LIN Broadcasting Corp. Session 11 Southern Broadcasting Company KEEL Radio Winston-Salem, North Carolina Developments in FM Radio Shreveport, Louisiana Session 22 a What Are the Prospects for FM Profitably Session 16 Competing With AMA Setting Record Policy at a Station What Variety of Music and Non -Music Do Lynn A. Christian, President a. A Re examination-Should the Personality Pick Teens Want to Hear His Own Records Dawson Communications Inc. Bob Todd, Program Director Lee Sherwood, Program Dallas, Texas Director WAKY Radio Radio Station WFIL Louisville, Kentucky b. Two Success Stories of FM Programming Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Peter V. Taylor, General Manager b Deciding on Frequency of Playlist Additions and WiIB-Kaiser Broadcasting Play of Oldies vs. Top Records Session 23 Boston, Massachusetts Bill Sherard, Program Director Keeping Up With and Evaluating the New WAVZ, New Haven Robert Podesta, Owner -Manager Record Releases (a Division of Kops-Monohan Communications) KREP Barry E. New Haven, Connecticut Gaston, Operations Director Santa Clara, California KFH Radio and KHF-FM 5:30 p.m. -6:30 p.m. Wichita, Kansas EXHIBIT-"Sounds of the Times" 6 00 p.m. -7:00 p.m. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 21 BILLBOARD OPEN HOUSE AND COCKTAIL RECEP- 12:30 p m.-1:30 p.m. TION AT THE BILLBOARD OFFICE AND ROOF TER- SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 22 LUNCH RACE 1245 pm 215 p.m. LUNCH 12:15 p m -2:15 p.m EXHIBIT-"Sounds of the Times" SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22 GROWING SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNITY INVOLVE- 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MENT FOR RADIO-PROGRAMS OF ACTION 215 p m.-5:30 p.m. CONCURRENT CONFERENCE SESSIONS AWARDS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT CONCURRENT CONFERENCE SESSIONS These two Sessions are concurrent. Each session will These five sessions are concurrent Each session be in a separate room. You will hear on tape the BILLBOARD PRESENTATION will be held in a separate room and repeated Every music described by the speaker, giving you a first registrant will select two of the five sessions, at hand experience of the kind of sound that is hap 2 15 p.m.4 00 p.m tending one at 2:15 p.m and the other at 400 p.m. pening now or will be breaking on the music scene. EXHIBIT-"Sounds of the Times"

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NEW YORK-WWRL's goal is to be the type WWRI. checks a total of 81 retail record stores of r&h radio station from which those who love and from this data "projects" where a record will the music can listen to without turning away. he in popularity three weeks away to determine says Jerry Boulding. operations manager. "The the amount of airplay. The reason for doing this, sound has to he something that people can listen Boulding said. "is that listeners have probably to for an hour or more. That's why we don't already bought the No. I record and are tired of allow commercials on the air that offend human hearing it on radio." All records are keyed with dignity and that's why we do what we do as second -to -vocal to facilitate production. well as we can. Even if people don't like r&h Though the aim of the station is to appeal to music, WWRL. is still a very listenable station. all listeners, its goal is to serve the black com- Our aim is to appeal to the people who like the munity. For this, Boulding has beefed up the music rather than just a black audience . and news department and the station is deeply in- we.know we're reaching an integrated audience." volved in community projects. It produces the Recently, the flagship Sonderling station had "Profiles in Black" series about famous Negroes proof of its "total audience" reach. Shell Oil Co. that is aired on other Sonderling stations. bought a recruitment commercial on the station specifically seeking black secretaries "hut half of "We're out to be a class black station," the girls who showed up were white," said Bould- Boulding said. "We spent $15,000 for our jingles ing. and we have the best personality staff avail- For this reason, WWRL. counter -program to able-Enoch Gregory. Hal Atkins, Jerry Bledsoe, JACK WILSON, HOST of the "High Noon" show on KBTV-TV in Denver, welcomes First Reprise Records. From left: Wilson; WABC and WOR-FM and even WMCA to some Al Gee, Jeff Troy and Gary Byrd who just joined the Edition of Edition members Mike Settle, Mary Arnold, and Terry Williams. extent because "these are our competitors." The us from WYSI. in Buffalo.

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I IIII I I I I station blends hard r&b records with Dionne War- Boulding came to WWRL. in September 1968, nIIIImIm1nn11111111nn1111111111I11111111111111111111111111I11111111111 Ill I111I IIII wick, Fifth Dimension, and other softer sounds. from WEBB in Baltimore, where he'd served as The basic playlist of 45 records allows deejays program director. He'd been with WOL in Wash- to play two oldies an hour (oldies are used to ington before that. A graduate in journalism WSB GIVES CLERGYMEN balance the sound). The playlist includes 10 from Duquesne University, Boulding has worked up and coming records and an average new rec- on WYOU in Newport News, WABQ in Cleve- CHANCE TO JUDGE LYRICS ord gets played seven -to -nine times a day for land, WILY in Pittsburgh, and KJCK. Kansas ATLANTA-WSB put today's pop music lyrics to the toughest three weeks, before it's dropped as a dud. City. test of all recently-a panel of ministers. WSB program director Brent Hill lined up a trio of Catholic, Episcopal, and Methodist churchmen PROGRAMMER for a radio show examining lyrics as part of the station's observance PROFILE of National Music Week. Examined were the lyrics of such tunes as "Both Sides Now," "Long White Room," "Windmills of Your Mind," and "Aquarius." Randal's Mod Plan in Phase 2 Dean Henry Collins of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, believes that much of today's music "allows us to share the feelings of By ELIOT 'rHEGEL others. Such empathy is crucial if we are to communicate with one another," he said. LOS ANGELES-Program- programming concept with Jay Lawrence has emerged as "Popular songs today are not necessarily pretty and the words ming consultant Ted Randal has which the "new" KFI operates. a new comic personality in the may not he good according to Dr. Thomas Smith of the First entered "phase two" in his re- afternoon. The morning team poetry," Randal talks of developing United Methodist Church of College Park, "but today's music re- structuring of his newest client, this mechanical of Lohman and Barkely (who formula over veals attempt to say something about our times and to express KFI, powerful clear channel were already at the station an the past six years. The audience age." NBC affiliate. when Randal arrived) are more aspirations of our the station is striving to reach According to Father Henry Gracz of the Catholic Cathedral of The 47 -year -old local is droll and formated in their station, the 18-49 bracket, with 25 Christ the King, music today asks who we are, where we are going, one of 12 all -clear channels in the mean age. comedy routines. Al (Jazzbo) and how we can overcome the problems we face. "Music is the signs the country, is being modern- Collins communicates with a KFI's format is designed not of our times for all to hear," he said. ized by Randal. The assignment to sound repetitious. Randal's national audience, not just the local folks at has a n!II!nnl willnn VIII!I!nVIIIIIIIIIIIIAIIIIIn11111111811111tIIIIII1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111Alnmmnmm11llnlf caps the executive's 10 -year format "takes away the repeti- night. He A111111111111IIIIIIIIIIII@!ui career as a "programming doc- tive sound which many for- softly flowing organ track playing behind tor." matted stations get and which him as a taste of his former association with jazz. Randal has an endearing feel- is deadly for a middle of the KUDU Goes ing for the 50.000 waiter since roader." Guides Them Back he grew up listening to its pro- When any of the personali- Musical Universe ties go grams and he now finds himself off on a blind vocal trek. slowly changing the station's Randal's "musical universe," Randal steps in and brings them as he calls it, covers 2,000 rec- hack onto the prescribed All Country sound into a contemporary path. ords in both the single and LP He is able to monitor the sta- property. VENTURA, Calif. - KUDU category. The programmer tions he works with via special KFI was formerly a holdout has switched to country music claims a record will not be re- phone lines and a phone am- in block programming, around -the -clock, according to featur- peated within four hours, but plifier unit. "I first heard part ing a variety of musical general manager Mike Thomas. shows that his formula specifics per- of KFI's new programming and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Larry Daniels. who'd been oper- centages for singles. LP cuts while I was in Halifax, Nova Baseball, plus a which ations manager and program signal car- and recall records. All his oldies Scotia," he recalls. ries at night clear across the director for the Buck Owens - are hand-picked and the dee - KFI has a large auditorium have owned KUZZ in Bakersfield for country. provided KFI's jays play the material off the which had been the originating with nearly eight years until recent- management good ad bill- assigned list. Denis and Anti point for many famous NBC ing and a solid image. But in ly, has become program director put the playlist together, but radio programs. Randal has an entertainment, the music of the new country station, and re- Randal makes the final decision eye on this facility for future JAY HOFFER, vice-president of flected is handling the changeover. the 1930's and 1940's. on pieces of music which some- special programming. KRAK in Sacramento, tells Capi- Daniels had most recently been Randal says this is the first one may question. "I am attempting a 50-50 tol Records artist Buck Owens, left, the house is involved with songwriter -per- time in the station's history that KFI's now sound is a bright balance between my personali- that packed (Memorial Auditorium) for his former Dennis Payne in a pro- it has operated with a formated compendium of current tunes ties and my music. Most sta- show. Owens was the headliner motion firm called Bakersfield sound. "Personality entertain- with the personalities able to tions are running 85 to 15 for the recent KRAK -sponsored Entertainment Enterprises. ment was always a factor," he show off their mental capacities. (Continued on page 44) country music show. said and his present lineup of KUDU, which covers such air voices, reflects this concept. cities as Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Randal has selected lively men and Santa Paula, is in the to host the programs and they WPIX Into Syndicated process of increasing power to are given freedom to develop Specials 5,000 watts, Thomas said. their routines during their air NEW YORK - WPIX-TV, Tuesday (3), a week-long series chided for the future, including tricks. Since being hired Feb. local independent station, is en- of locally produced specials (the Abby Lane. IO by general manager Ed tering the syndicated "specials" show has taped and aired about KYA's Campbell Bunker, has added Dave Booraem notes that the idea Randal business with a series of half- a dozen during the past two Hull, Al Collins and Frank for doing syndicatable music Hosts TV Show hour programs centered largely years) with which WPIX-TV specials stemmed from a hap- Terry. Ted Quillin. with Jerry on record artists and albums. will keynote its summer pro- penstance remark by Tony Ben- SAN FRANCISCO Tom Bishop the newest man joining gramming. The show is - Blueprinting this move into titled nett's record promotion man Joe June I. "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy," Campbell, evening personality on the syndication field is pro. Petralia. The station had done radio Station will host a On the administrative level after Miss London's latest Liber- KYA, Denis grams vice-president Hendril a couple of specials with Ben- new version of the old "Pow" Randal installed Mark ty album. And the songs she and Booraem Jr. The shows are be nett, one of which was taped at TV show, now in production at (formerly a program director Tulchin chose for this show are ing produced by WPIX-TV in the Waldorf-Astoria last year here. The half-hour with KGB, San Diego) as his included in the album. The KPIX-TV collaboration with producer - when Bennett was headlining 5 show, tentatively resident program director. He Serendipity Singers aired origi- channel works with director Hal Tulchin. Though the hotel's Empire Room show. slated for Sunday viewing, will librarian Don Anti nals in their special (seen recent- most are being produced in Petralia said sales of Bennett's feature music as well as other (formerly of KFWB, here), who ly) which are slated for album was hired by pro- New York, some will be done album had jumped following types of entertainment. Camp- the former exposure as well. gram director, Dave Moorhead. in other TV stations in Puerto the Channel 11 colorcast. bell, who also writes a column Randal's office manager, Mike Rico and Los Angeles-all by The station has produced Booraem and Tulchin thet. on music for The San Francisco Lundy, is the third part of the WPIX-TV. specials featuring Tony Bennett, put heads together to determine Examiner, said the new show programming triumverate which An example of the direction Lainie Kazan, and Tony Mar- how many similar music spe- would not be a teen -type hand- works on KFI projects. But it of each show will be the new tin. Specials centered around cials they could co -produce. stand show, but touch all mu- is Randal's carefully drawn out Julie London special, 10 p.m. artists like Kay Stevens are in - (Continued on page 43) sical and entertainment bases. 9 &&AV el 1OLO 11111n AOri

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Contem. Pro. Dir.: Have been top Major market radio program consult- Want a children's program but can't jock in three major markets. p.d. in ant is looking for medium market find qualified personality? Male. 28, one of them. College degree. Cur- AMers and medium and major mar- taught school 7 years. 4 years 2nd Proven format grade, 2 years 1st grade. 1 year pr: rently employed with the nation's ket FMers as clients. Some most exciting medium market chain. ready to get ratings and billings h. school. Excellent references. p.d. or operaUons dir. the right markets. Management with TV experience. Contact Billboard. Looking for 165 W. 46th St.. New York. opportunity. 315.000 mon. Top ref- foresight can get the full story in Box 0110. RODIO MORT Box 088, Billboard. writing or detailed market analysis New York 10036. -TV erences. Write 165 W. 46th St.. New York. N. Y. can be made of your station and 10036. your competition. More information is available by writing In confidence drive slot, No. I station to Box 096. Billboard, 165 W. 46i 23 -year -old off -air programming' pro. Is Afternoon N. Y. Top This column published for people in a top -30 market. Salary open. St., New York. duction man seeking job with seeking positions as well as station Taps 40 station. Seven years' exp., three First phone given preference. lo- managers seeking personnel. Rate is h resume lo Box RR, Billboard, 165 Is $15.000 too much to pay for a pro". with current station. Money or 35.00 per one half inch (app. 40 W. 46th St.. N.Y., N.V. 10036. Att. If not, maybe I'm your man. 14 cation secondary; new challenge worts). A box number will be used Claude Hall. years' experience include sales, pro- vital. Contact Frank Gould, 514- to protect the Identity of the adver- production. ntinuity. Young TV personality, with 4 years' 637.7578. tiser. Send copy along with payment traffic. yrshts market. Looking experience as emcee, wants to move to: co 22 yrs. old, draft - for challenging position with future. to new market. RADIO-TV JOB MART Box 095, 165 W. exempt and experienced in emceeing Billboard WLVA is searching for a stable, re- Write Billboard, public rela- beau- 46th St., New York, N. Y. 10036. shows. promoting hops, 165 W. 46th St. liable MOR Air Personality for tions, and sales In radio and TV. For New York, N. Y. 10036 tiful Lynchburg. Va., market. Con- write: Billboard. Robert H. resume and pics Grant Spawns tact sales and operations, Box 0121, 165 W. 46th St.. New York. MacCallum, 2320 Langhorne Rd., Phone: 845- N. Y. 10036. Lynchburg. Va. 24505. -sounding personality. 1242. Your,, bright or Summer Series 2 yrs.' experience. is seeking rock POSITIONS OPEN MOR station in D.C.. Md.. Va., l'a. area. Tight hoard -excellent produe NEW YORK -Under a mil- obligations. 3rd only requirements are decent lion. No military My and lion -dollar grant from the Cor- First Phone needed immediately for endorsed. Contact Claude Hall. pay, a chance for advancement top contemporary station in Midwest Box 165 1St'. security. Single, 27 yrs. old, three poration for Public Broadcast- No. 1 rated station in top -30 market with excellent working conditions, New York. N. Y. 10036. yrs. college. navy vet, program wants First -Phone, all-night Jock. fringe benefits, chance for advance- music director exp. at stations such ing and the Ford Foundation, Mature "Top -40" type or bright. ment. Prosperous company, expand as KFOX, KDOL, WGAW. Excellent brief good -music personality. $7,500 ing. Will talk salary. Contact pro- references. 3rd ticket. Call. Con- an I 8 -week series of summer - lo $8.500 plus. Exceptional oppor gram director Jim Stagg, WJPS. tact Claude Hall. Box V, Billboard. tunity with large radio lv chain. Ind. 012-425-2221. solid festival programs of classical, Evansville. No. 1 rated shows -315 yrs. Write: Billboard. Box 098. 165 W. Broadcast school folk, opera and jazz debuts 46th St., New York, N. Y. 10036. rock experience. trained, first phone, syndicated army the '2 years to 38 stations Sunday (I) over most of show for old, former Chicago -based company wants ex - weekly, and also had top.rated week- Jerry Bright, 35 years coast -to -coast network of the announcers, salesme nto sell radio end show during 2 yrs. In army at program director of No. I Top 40 NEEDED FOR SUMMER time by telephone. Travel Midwest. KCI.U. Rolla, Mo. Heady for the big station featuring the "Drake" con- 161 stations of the National obligation Have also considerable experi- Announcer available tu travel with no car necessary; expenses paid; move! Complete military cept. of professional sports shows. College home weekends. No experience nec- April 30. Available May 15. Audi ence in the personality concept Educational TV Network. 1 will- radio or TV student preferable. essary: chance for advancement. lion tape and complete resume avail Top 40 radio. am available, Will teach hard worker. Great deal. able now. Write: J. J. Mitchell ing, and eager to program your sta- Steve Allen, who had his own Write: Mo. 6555)' top of the market. Call Mr. Singer. Area Code 312-275-9200. Rt. 3, Box 37. Newburg. tion to the a VARIETY ATTRACTIONS, INC. Roberts Advertising. Inc., 2717 West or call 314-364.3008 weekdays after 703-. 583-2282. syndicated TV show on string GEORGE MOFFETT Peterson Ave., Chicago, III. 60845. 9 p.m. of commercial stations, will host P.O. Box 2276 the weekly Sunday evening pro- Z Ille, Ohio and boss radio grams titled "Sounds of Sum- 40 personality. Ex -Drake employee $130 per week to top experienced newsman for program director wishes to relo- Willing to take someone whose exp. "Need an supplied mer," which will reach the U. S. as long as the summer?" Journalism major cate. Tapes of station is limited (college radio) to a good young, draft Music Librarian needed. WVNJ. they know music. No ticket needed. with desire to move up on request. Single, and Europe, searching out and market. Authoritative voice, strong exempt. No. I stations are my bag. Young man, exp. In good music pro- You'll be doing a six -hour evening In that ea delivery. 1 year more In college. Let me put your station presenting the festivals. gramming. including best of con- show. six nights a week. Nice area if the job is gory. Results guaranteed! Write to 1 Con- Would go anywhere temporary and great standards-the to live. Sta. No. in market. anti Box 11, Billboard. big, bright and sound that tact Ron Stratton, mgr.. WBEC. right. Dependable, unmarried, ('laude Hall, beautiful gen. willing to dig. For tape and resume, has made WVNJ the most listenable Pittsfield, Mass. 413.-448-8292. 165 W. station in New York -New Jersey. write: Box 0101. Billboard, Good salary, fringe benefits. Imme- 46th St., New York, N. Y. 10036. Syndicated Specials diate opening. Call 201-643-7600, 20 -year -old. clean-cut Negro disk Continued front page 34 program director Steven Van Gluck. Two sharp countryppoolltan person- jockey with exciting sound. Draft alities needed for WTOD, Toledo. exempt, ready to cook at pop or rob Should be professionals, good on Heavyweight major market morning station. Four and a half years' exp. Their first, project "Love Is prod. Contact program director Donn than looking. Experienced with at WJMO in Cleveland and WKLR in Lainie" starring MGM Records Note to all applicants: If you're Williams as soon as possible, 419- "drake" and heavy personality for- Toledo. I will relocate to any market sending resume tape, and or other 385-2507. mals, top 40 or MOR. Creative copy if the money is right. For tape, artist Lainie Kazan, is not part material to a box number, please and production. Married, vet, col- resume, etc., call Charlie Chandler. enclose a stamped envelope. We will lege, no problems and excellent ref- 216-921-8714, or write 3706 Avalon of their syndication plans due It to the proper radio station. Ohio 44120. address erences. Tape and resume to major Rd., Cleveland, to a contract situation. Canadian Top 40 station, very close markets on request. Write: Bill- to Drake in style, needs first rate. board. Box 0100, 165 W. 46th St., Tulchin works well in small heavy. $12,000. Contact program New York, N. Y. 10036. operation with Imme- director Gary Talnet, CKSH, 1 Gren- studio capacities; Tony Martin's Major market help. I)J- diate opening for a strong (Top 40) ville St., Toronto. Ont. 189. or phone Lose a pig? Maybe we can version of "Aquarius" for his personality with production ability. 416-.923-0921. Comedy two -man show for radio 7 Salary open. Send tape and resume. TV. Nonsensical, satirical, mature, special was performed before a Write: Billboard. Box 0102. 165 W. Announcer with three years' experi- contemporary. Background in all 46th St.. New York. N. Y. 10036. ence with MOR station seeks employ- phases. Will double In brass. Reason specially designed astrological at MOR station within the able salary requirements. Write: KROV, Sacramento, needs an all. ment 46th signs set. The Martin special, night personality. Must be able to Southeastern U. S. Tape and Info Box 0122, Billboard, 165 West communicate and have fun. No available upon request. ('refers St. , New York, N. Y. 10036. third in the series, will receive pay small market. Contact: Randy Galli Medium market easy listening sta. machine gun. Salary open. Will Jacksonville. to pay $600-3650 to start fur right man. Must want to work her. 3907 Angel ('lace, its first airing sometime this lion willing Florida 32210. or call: (904) 771-2905. for a good personality who can his buns off, have 3rd ticket. Call summer. Tulchin's goal with This station program director Johnny Hyde, also handle production. First Fone 7 years commercial ex. is part of a major broadcasting 916 927-4274. good an each artist "is to tape a show for ad perlence, solid engineer, chain. The opportunities nouncer. College student desires that has the artists singing or vancement are unlimited. Contact vacattonlantl Claude Hall, Box KK, Billboard. Small market program director month of August in would like to move up. Have recto me a good motel. Any Position. playing directly to the viewer Fred llighman. WBZ in Boston, giant Westinghouse been in my present position four locale considered. at home. This is the person -to - station. needs a vacation man for a years. 29 yrs. old. Married. three 9 Paterson Ave.. Warwick. R. 1. 13 -week summer stint. Salary will children. Good reputation. Stable. 02888. person appeal unique to TV." 1.000 -watt. 24 -hour country music sta- range from $225 to $290, depending reliable. Only a stable situation will tion in excellent market needs a per- on the week. College grads may send be considered. Contact Claude hall. Five more shows are slated for sonality. Pay is good. Working con tape and resume to program director Box R. Billboard. ditions are friendly. This is a mod- Tony Graham, 1170 Soldiers Field taping this summer. Several will ern country music station that alms Road Boston, Mass. 02134. Profes- Announcer available. early June. be available for syndication to be bigger and better. Located in sionals may call at 817-254.5870. Experience: No. t show on the No. 1 MIssouri-Illinois-Kentucky area. Con station in this small market. First hopefully by the end of May. tact Claude Hall, Billboard. Box 00. Super D.J.. No. I BAB jock in L.A. job, now want to move up, with Pulse Ratings in L.A. General Mar- sports a possibility. Three years Albums, as focus points, are First Ticket personality needed Im- ket during my time slot show me college it -TV. Married, draft exempt. especially well -suited to this No. 2. Nov. Dec. '68-No. 2, Jan., Prefer near college. Air check avail- mediately for Top 40 formated Box X. Tight hoard personality in a small WI.EE, Box 8765. 6200 W. Inroad Feb., 6-9 p.m. Available for immedi- able. Contact: Claude hall, type of TV special, Booraem medium market ready to move up. Street Rd., Richmond, Va. 23226. ate employment in L.A., San Fran- Billboard. feels, since they Earn top money, plus talent, with tape and resume to program cisco. and San Diego. Heavily qual- contain suffi- Send 40, and the No. 1 station as midday man. director Lee Arbuckle. ified- can do Top Drake. cient numbers just right for a Must be at present job at least one Personality. Tape and resume sent year. first ticket, good production on request. Call: 213--292-8306. half-hour show. and references. Join a group with Eddie Dillon, 3rd class license; West, a and a great future. Southwest. West Coast. Showroom "One of the important as- good record Director needed for easy Contact Don B. Williams. KI.ED, Program announcer. "Harrahs" South Lake pects of these Boo- 316-943-0255. Wichita. Kan. listening, major -market station in Tahoe. Calif. One year "Pacific specials," the Southwest. Excellent pay with Enthusiastic. creative D.J. seeks job Bandstand" emcee, KEYT-TV. Santa raem said, "is that they can he alert, progressive radio chain. The with progressive East Coast station. Barbara, Calif. Three years KTLN. hours are long and the work is hard. Six years' experience in the Top 40. Denver, Colo.; KVOR, Colorado done at the artists' convenience. but the chances for personal success mod and Maw. Prefer metropolitan Springs. Colo.: WWII, Greensburg. Director one of na- . Program -For are unlimited. Send resume and let- area. 24 years old. 3rd phone. Con- l'a.; WCMC, Wildwood by the Sea, We tape them on Sunday tion's leading contemporaries in Box A. Billboard. ter to Claude hall, tact: Billboard, Box 0107, 165 W. 46th N. J. lOght years. MOR "Good Life" normally a day in a major Top 10 market. Man we are 301-- shift. Avail- off New looking for is currently PD in one St., New York, N. Y.. or phone: station. Prefer night 898-9157 after 5 p.m. (EDT). able immediately. Contact. by phone: York nightclub appearance . of the Top 30 markets and has a Sum be able to 805-969.4250 or P. O. Box 73. successful record. Must Calif. 93067. and we arrange for them weeks do air work on emergency and sum- Two good, young personalities merland. mer relief basis. Must know music. needed for 1,000-watt, daytime in advance." he administer a tight WBZE. Send resume and aircheck to Must able to general manager Frank Sweeney. Station Manager: Are you getting Each is a mood musical from format and he good executive for clobbered by Top 407 Want to com- fine staff. Please WBZE, Broadcast House, P.O. Box air promotion 1470, Wheeling, W. Va. 26003. pete without going Top 407 I've got If you're a rocker who hires on per- beginning to end. Tony Martin, stale salary requirements In resume. just the thing to get large numbers formance and ability, plus years in Send to Claude Hall, Box QQ, Bill. In 18-35 group. If you're in a com- the business, and are willing to pay for example, limited his chatter board. what petitive market, over 200,000, and $175, then I'd like to show you to only a "good night" on his need a PD, then let's talk. I'm ex- 1 can do. 23, married. Brown grad., 1st phone announcer (no mainte- perienced professional, college grad Ist phone. company man, military special. nance) worked MOR medium market: with first phone. Also very good completed. I have the desire to be -voiced Personality with appeal seeking Top 40 airshift in New Eng- jock. Doing well now but have the best, and I will. Contact Box Y, With syndication of a pack- Hairy land. Contact: Billboard, Box 0128, to 18-39 age group needed for WMOD- reached limit here and am ready to e o Claude Hall, Billboard. age FM. 202-462-5050. 2000 P St.. N.W.. 165 W. 46th St., N. Y.. N. Y. move up. Write: Billboard, Box of six planned already, Washington, D. C. 20036. No ticket 0116. 165 West 46th St., New York. several have already been "spo- needed. Good money, good working N. Y. 10036. conditions. This is an alert. .ucgre, Young, bright -sounding Top 40 l'cr ken for" even before completion 40 that keys Its pro sive Top station venality looking for a chance to by KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, a gramming on oldies. Contact pro- POSITIONS WANTED move up. 3 years' experience. Would gram director Mary Brooks. First phone. 25-year -old announcer prefer the Pennsylvania. Maryland. spokesman for WPIX-TV said. with two years of college, seeks pro- West Virginia area. No military oh gressive rock position at a station ligation). 3rd phone, endorsed. Cott Modern country music program di- regardless of the locale. Have ex- tact: Billboard, Box 099, 165 W. 4611, Experienced Salesman wanted to sell rector and air personality available. tensive knowledge of good rock, St., New York, N. Y. 10036. Bow advertising for TV station in North- Currently employed in top 50 market. blues, and trtppy music. Will send NBC-TV to eastern V. S. Excellent salary, plus Proven track record. Can supply tape and resume on request. Write benefits. Call on national and local exciting, creative air sound lo any Bill Eden, 5400 I.andham Sta. Rd., accounts. Write: Box 0127. c'o Bill- radio station looking for high ratings Lanham. Md. 20801. "College student seeking summer em- Country Pilot board. 165 W. 46th St., New York. and good profit picture. Contact ployment In radio. Three years In N. Y. 10036. Claude Hall, Box A, Billboard Maga- a market of 100,600 people. Currently NEW YORK Among the 1 - zine. with No. MOR station in four -sta- Need an extra man during the sum tion market. Third -endorsed. Am six "specials" that the NBC-TV mer? I'm young but have 2 years' looking for a position with a large network will how this summer Looking for Program Director posi- experience part time, a third en- station to gain experience to co- tion or major market deejay job. dorsed, and a desire to "live radio" incide with my college studies and as pilots for series in the fall Canadian stations, attention! Avail- I.a't Exp. on WJIIK In Detroit, WIFE in able immediately. John Murphy, 15 this summer. me send you a with my planned career development Indianapolis. and WOHO In Toledo, yrs.' exp. music, news, radio -TV: tape and resume. Call collect: (2171 In radio." Write: Billboard, Box 097. will he "A Country Happening," 544.2017. 165 W. 46th St., New York, N. Y. among others. 31, married, college Ken Nicolson, 10 yrs.' exp. all with Roy Rogers and Dale communication grad. Contact Claude sports, radio -TV; Randy Gordon. 10 10036. Hall, Box B, Billboard. yrs.' exp. adult -oriented personality: Evans hosting a halt -hour of Rich Hamilton, 5 yrs.' exp.. drive time and contemporary music spe- Top-notch Jock at a top station in a song, dance, and conversation cialist. Call 21N--284 3497, Winnipeg. major market quitting. Looking fur Available Immediately: Top-notch with guest artists. Greg Garri- Wayne Joel'. 215 -Tit 4-1578, 3d en- a Jock Shift in a comparable market "Pro" top 40 man. 10 years' experi- dorsed. 26. married, one child, two or a P. I). position In a smaller one. ence, excellent references, age 25. son is executive producer and years jazz background. one year of Will go anywhere If right gig comes Heal strong on news and production, progressive rock on WDAS-FM. Phil- Hgeb program director and person- along, in rock, MOR, or progressive. experienced in copy writing and the show is produced by Don adelphia. Studied Temple University ality, a veteran, 27 yrs. old, stable. Married, first phone. draft exempt. sales. Good voice, strong penon- Van Atta for Garrison -Van Atta school of communication. Refer- Seeking similar position. Now in a No calls. Write Box (187, Billboard. allly, has "Major Market Sound." ences. Seeking position with pro- Southeast top 50 market. Contact 165 W. 46th St., New York, N. Y. For tape and resume call (601) Productions. The show will air or Top 40 station. Box Z, c o Claude Hall, Billboard. 10036. 48351(29. gressive rock 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8.

MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 43 Radio-TV programming

RHYTHM AND Programming Aids BLUES Vox Jox Apopka, Fla. (WTLN) By CLAUDE HALL Programming guidelines from key, pacesetting radio stations, includ- Tom Mitchell, Personality Radio-TV Editor ing Best Picks, Best Le/r/ield Picks, Biggest Happenings. and Biggest B P: "Too Experienced," Eddie Lovette, Happenings. Steady. BLFP: "Black Pearl," Sonny I got to thinking the other day 40 radio. When these two guys Le/t/ield Charles. A&M. RH: "Oh, Happy Day," about battles between rock stations really get to knocking heads to- Edwin I lawkins Singers. Pavilion. other Pittsfield, Mass. (WBEC) B LFH: "Too Busy Thinking About My in some of the major markets. gether - watch out you Jim Walker, Music Director Baby," Marvin Gaye, Tamla. There just aren't many, to tell the formats. Ted has just brought in HOT 100 BP: "I Could Never lie to You," New truth. You can expect things to be Charlie Van Dyke from CKLW Colony Six, Mercury. BLFP: "For the in Detroit. After all. Which earns Greenville, S. C. (WHYZ), Big Gem happening in Detroit and Minne- First Time," Georgia Prophets. Double another Purple Toadstool Shot. RH: "These Eyes," the Guess Mack, Program Director, Personality apolis. What's going on in Pitts- him New York (WOR-FM) the world's major Who. RCA. BLFH: "Marley Purl burgh, 1 can't really tell yet. Bos- Award. (He's Sebastian Stone, Program Director RCA. BP: "Instant Groove," King Curtis. Drive." Jose Feliciano. BI.FP: "Devil or Angel," Toni Scotti. ton may again come alive in a few collector of this particular award.) BP: "No Matter What Sign You Are," RH: "For the First Time." Prophets. weeks because Dick Summer has * * * Supremes. BI.F'P: "Taking a Chance on GA. BLFH: "Steal Away," Drifters. Love," Osmond Brothers. BH: "Good been hired as a consultant to Stu Collins isn't program direc- Son Antonio, Tex. (KTSA) Morning Starshine," Oliver. BLFH: WMEX (he'd been on WNEW, tor anymore at WI.YV in Fort "Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet," Kahn Hamon, Program Director Memphis (WDIA), Bill Thomas New York) and even as you read Wayne; he shifted over to the com- llehry Mancini. B P: "Oh, Happy Day " Edwin Hawkins BP: "Iligh'acked," The Passions, Tower. this he is up there surveying the . . Tony Singers, Pavilion. BUT: "It Didn't petition - WOHO. RI.FP: "Highjacked," The Passions, Even Bring Me Down," Sir Douglas market. More about this later. As Evans, now at KELI in Tulsa, is Abbeville, La. (KROF) RH: Back." The Tower. BH: "Too Busy Thinking About Quintet. Smash. "Get My Baby." Marvin Gaye, Tamla. BLFH: for Los Angeles, you might pay trying to locate Larry Vance, for- Beatles. Apple. BLFH: "I've Been Joe Martin, Program Director a Little Bit," Little Milton, to KRLA for the at WALT Hurt," Bill Deal and Rhondeles. Heri- "Just close attention mer operations director B P: "Silly Sarah Carter (Eating on a Checker. next few months. Program direc- in Tampa. Sorry for the goof -up Moon Pie)." John Fred and His Play- tage. boys, UNI. RH: "The Boxer."' Simon tor Doug Cox is up to something. on where -you -ain't, Tony. . . and Garfunkel, Columbia. Miami Beach (WMBM) He just hired Jay Stevens from Rick Savage at WIRK in West Son Francisco, Calif. Donny Gee, Station Manager KFRC in San Francisco and what Palm Beach, Fla., is trying to lo- Dick Starr, Program Director makes this an interesting move is cate Don Greene, formerly of Albany, N. Y. (WSUA) BP: "Don't l.et The Jones," Tempta- Mama Cass, tions. Gordy. BLIP: "That's Not Love," that it combines a Drake -type per- in San Antonio. Rick says Keith Mann, Music Director, Personality BP: "It's Getting Better," KONO Dunhill. BLFP: "My Pledge of Love," Dee Dee Warwick, Mercury. RH: "Fol- sonality with a personality -plus he and WIRK music director BP: "No What Sign You Are." Wand -Ind. low the Leader, Diasor Dance. Dakar. Matter The Joe Jeffrey Group, guy named Jimmy Babbitt. They Lee picked "Welcome Me Diana Ross & Supremes. Motown. Dist. BH: "Everyday With You Girl," BLFH: "So I ('an Love You," Emotions, Terry B UT: "Turn On. Tune In. Drop Out," Classics IV, Imperial. BLFH: "Take Sias. are on at different times, but I'm I.ove" back in early March and Brothers Three. T -Neck. RH: "Gratin' Your Love." Cousins, Shove -Love. wondering what kind of sound Cox he's glad to "see that Buddah in the Grass," of Distinction, Friends is trying to create. However, I got on the right side of RCA. BLFH: "Black Pearl," Sonny Pensacola, Fla. (WBOP) finally think the most interesting battle the Bridge." )harles. A&M. Robert (Cooker) Morgan, Personality Brooklyn Syracuse, N. Y. (WOLF) in radio during the next several Don't Want Nobody to Give * * Bob O'Brian, Personality BP: "I be in San Me Nothing," James Brown. BLFP: months is going to Richard Patterson is now vice- Altoona, Pa. (WFBG) Tomorrow," Bee Gees, BP: "Tomorrow, "Evers, Little Bit Huns," Peggy Scott. Francisco. Both Ted Atkins, pro- president of operations at WTVB John Anthony, Program Director Atco. BLFP: "Israelites," Desmond RH: "Stop Throwing Your Man Away," of KFRC (the Drake Dekker, UNI. BH: "We Can't Go On," gram director and WANG -FM, Coldwater, BP: "Israelites," Desmond Decker. Ella Washington. BLFH: "Chokin' and Starr, program BI.FP: "Bad Moon Rising," Creedence Unchained Mynds, Buddah. BLFH: Kind," Joe Simon. operation) Dick Allen Gray is the new Epic. Mich.; (learwatrr. BH: "Get Back." Beatles. "Sorry Suzanne." Hollies, director of KYA, are good friends morning man, and Lance Michaels BLFH: "Israelites," Desmond Dekker. the of mine. I sat down other has just came on full time in the night and listed the people I con- evenings after working there three Troy, N. Y. (WTRY), Mike Mitchell the 10 program di- B abylon, Long Island (VISAS), Mike sidered major years on weekends while going to Music Director, Personality Jeffries, Music Director, Personality COUNTRY rectors in the nation. This in- college. During the day the station B P: "Lay Lady Lay," Byrds, Columbia. stations, B P: "Good Morning Starshine," Oliver, cluded easy listening plays easy listening and then goes BLIP: "Medley Rainbow/Love Is Blue," J top 40 sta- Jubilee. BLIP: "Israelites." Desmond Dells, Cadet RH: "Bad Moon Rising," country music stations, Hot 100 at night.... Bobby Dark Dekker and the Aces, UNI. RH: "Every- rated the men in my Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy. Ashland, Ky., & Huntington, W. Va. tions. And I is now music director and 2-6 p.m. day With You Girl," Classics IV, Im- B LFH: "Seattle." Perry Como, RCA. not necessarily on ratings perial. BLFH: "See," The Rascals. (WTCR), Mike Todd, mind personality with 10,000 -watt KNIN them have tremen- Atlantic. Program Director, Personality (though all of in Wichita Falls, Tex.; he'd been dous success stories), but on pro- Brooklyn, N. Y. (WIC') B P: "My Grass Is Green," Roy Drusky, program director of KBST in Big Mercury. BLFP: "Golden Slipper Rose," gramming craftsmanship. The two Spring, Tex. Coffeyville, Kan. (KGGF) Lenny Bronstein, Music Director Stan Hitchcock. Epic. BH: "Dearly top men in my opinion have to Greg Meredith, Music Director B P: "Spinning Wheel." Blood, Sweat & Beloved," David Rogers, Columbia. * * * Tears. Columbia. BLPP: "New Day/ BLFH: "In the Ghetto," Elvis Presley, be Rick Sklar, program director B P: "Don't Lei the Sun Catch You of WABC in New York, and Ron Here's a letter that I was hop- Cryin'." Trini Lopez. Reprise. BLFP: Thuntbin' a Ride," Jackie Lomas, Apple. RCA. Drive," Jose Felici- ing I'd lost, but I didn't, From "Can Sing a Rainbow -love Is Blue," RH: "Maryel Purt Jacobs, program director of KHI The Dells, Cadet. BH: "But It's Al- ano, R('A. BLFH: "In -A -Gadda-Da - in Los Angeles. But both Ted and Bob Hamilton, national promo- Vida," Iron Butterfly. Atco. Cincinnati (WUBE) right." J. J. Jackson. Warner Bros. - Dick were also in the top IO. Now, tion director of Rama Rama Rec- Seven Ans BLFH: "Down at Ralph's Bob Tiffin, Music Director ords: "As I do every week, 1 read Joint," Booker T and the M.G.'s. Sias. both of these guys are against BP: "My Grass is Green," Roy Drusky, Vox Jox last week. Must say it is Her each other. It's rare, indeed, that Mercury. BLFP: "You Comb Hair." I did not Curtis Potter, Dot. BH: "Spring," (lay you have two men of that calibre the first of your columns I the Coldwater, Mich. Hart, Metromedia. BLEH: "West Vir- fighting it out. I have the utmost thoroughly enjoy. thought EASY LISTENING ginia Woman." Bill Ed Wheeley, U.A. was a gas, I (WTVB-AM, WANG -FM) respect for both: I really couldn't contest at WFUN dig Lance Michaels, Personality begin to predict the outcome. But Larry O'Brien as a deejay, I think BP: "Green Door," Jerms, Honor Flint, Mich. (WKMF), Jim Harper, I do know this: Whatever happens that WGH's jingles are good. But Brigade. BLFP: "Gitarzan," Ray Delray Beach, Fla. (WDBF), Tom Kege Program/Music Director, Personality is bound to he good for Top 1 never said so because I only Stevens, Monument. BH: "I Shall Be B P: "OB -LA -DI. OB -LA -DA," Floyd spent eight years in radio and Released." Box Top+. Mala. BLFH: (ramer, RCA. BLFP: "Day After Day,' B P: "The Days of Sand and Shovels," "In-A.Gadda-Da-Vida." Iron Butterfly, Shango. A&M. RH: "The Boxer.' Was ton Jennings. RCA Victor. BLFP: never considered myself an author- Atco Simon and Garfunkel. Columbia. "Spring." ('lay Hart, Metromedia. BH: ity on broadcasting. I particularly "Running Bear," Sonny James. Capitol. think it is necessary to dwell into B LFH: "I'm a Good Man," Jack Reno. ing," Creedence Clearwater Re- any matter thoroughly before one B r, N. H. (WDCR) Indianapolis, Ind. (WXLW) Dot. vival, Fantasy. . Pittston. Pa.. critiques. To listen to the radio Paul Gambaccini, Station Manager Personality Jay Williams, WPTS, BP: "My Pledge of Love," for a few minutes and make defi- B P: "Moods Woman," Jerry Butler, BP: C'an't Quit lier," Arbors, Date. Tenn. (WHIN), Benny Mercury. BLFP: "Ruby Don't Take "I Gallatin, Joe Jeffrey Group, Wand. BLIP: "Sittin' On the Dock of the Willliams, Program Director, Personality (Continued on page 48) Your Love to Town," First Edition. RH: "In WB -7A. BH: Bay." Peggy Lee, Capitol. "Bad Moon Rising." the Ghetto," Elvis Presley, RCA. BP: "Cut Across Shorty," Nat Stuckey. EASY LISTENING - Yolanda Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy. BLFH: "I Taught Her Everything She RCA. BLIP: "Mother Country," John Parapar, Miami, Fla., BP: B LFH: "Romeo & Juliet." Henry WIOD, Knows," O. C. Smith. Columbia. Stewart, Capitol. RH: "When We "Love Me Tight," Tom Jones, Mancini, RCA. Tried." Jan Howard, Decca. BLFH: Randall's Mod Plan "Drink Canada Dry." Bobby Barnett, Parrot... , Portland, Ore., OK -98, Columbia. BP: "Without Her," Herb Alpert. Continued from page 34 Lewiston, Maine (WLAM), Bob Jacksonville, Ill. (WLDS) Ouellette, Music Director, Personality John Jeffrey Clark, Personality COLLEGE - Neil Kempfer- mechanics against personalities." BP: "No Matter What Sign You Are," BP: "Sincerely," Paul Anka. BLFP: Peoria, 111. (WXCL) Stocker, Bethlehem, Pa., WRMC, Around 50 per cent of KFI's Diana Ross "Love Is All," Nick DeCaro and Orches- Personality & Supremes, Motown. Dale Eichor, Music Director, BP: "The Skelton and the Round- is a chart nature al- B LFP: "Rainy Jane." Neil Sedaka, SGC. tra. RH: "Pretty World," Sergio Mendes music of RH: "Tomorrow Tomorrow," Bee Gees. and Brazil '66. tFH: "OB -LA -DI, B P: "My Grass Is Green." Roy Drusky, about," Idle Race, Liberty, LP... . though Randal emphasizes that OB -LA -DA." Floyd ('ramer. Mercury. BLIP: "Never More. Quote Atco. BLFH: "My Pledge of Love." Charlie Bruce, music/program di- is attempting to make Joe Jeffrey Group, Wand. the Raven," Stonewall Jackson, Colum- KFI "not bia. RH: "Singing My Song," Tommy rector, Athens, W. Va., WCCR, hits, but that it is very much on Wynette. Epic. BLFH: "Other Side of BP: "Don't Let the Joneses Get Norwich, Conn. (WICH) Darrel and Anita top of new material." Randal Middletown, N. Y. (WALL) the Coin." Johnny You Down," Temptations.... Bar- Bob Craig, Program Director Carter. U.A. says he was the first station in Larry Berger, Music Director ry O'Connor. East Lansing, Mich., BP: "Sincerely." Paul Anka, RCA. town to play "Oh Happy Day" BP: "Crystal Blue Persuasion," Tommy B LIP: "Everyday Livin' Days," Merilee WMSN, BP: "Spinning Wheel," James and the Shondells, Roulette. Rush, AGP. BH: "My Chirie Amor." Phoenix, Ariz. (KRDS), Bob Pond Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Colum- because he felt it had a hit BI.FP: "Rainy Jane," Neil Sedaka, SGC. Stevie Wonder, Tamla. BLFH: "Israel- Philip Fenster. Rochester. sound. BH: "Heather Honey," Tommy Roe, ites." Desmond Dekker and Aces, UNI. B P: "It's All Over (But the Shouting)," bia.... Bob Lumen, Hickory. BLFP: "You N. ABC BI.FH: "Good Morning Star - Y., WRUR, BP: "No Matter The station is now playing shine." Oliver. Jubilee. Don't Need Me for Anything Any- What Sign You Are," Diana Ross more," Karon Rondell, Columbia. BH: nearly 25 per cent new music and the Supremes. Motown. . San Francisco (KNBR), Mike Button, "Why You Been Gone So Long." Johnny which its audience has never Muncie, Ind. (WERK), Big Joe London, Asst. Program Director Darrell, UA. BLFH: "That's My Song." Jerry Halasz, WI.BK, BP: "Get Jim Sloane. MTA. heard before. The reaction? Associate Program Director B P: "Taking a Chance on Love," Os- Back/Don't I.et Me Down," answers. B P: "Moody Woman," Jerry Butler, mond Brothers. Barnaby. BLFP: "If It's Beatles, Apple. Good, Randal Mercury. BLFP: "Israelites," Desmond Tuesday, It's Belguim," J.P. Rap, World The station's weekend pro- Dekker and the Aces, UNI. BH: "More Pacific. RH: "In the Ghetto," Elvis PICKS COUNTRY-Mel Meyer. Kim- Presley, RCA. BLFH: "Love Theme OTHER gramming maintains the same Today Than Yesterday," Spiral Stair- ball, Neb., KIMB, BP: "Pretty Pic- case, Columbia. BLFH: "Grazin' in From Romeo & Juliet." Henry Mancini, flavor as the weekday shows, the Grass," Friends of Distinction, RCA. HOT 100 - George Hiller, tures in Your Mind." Warren Robb. R(' A. Ithaca. N. Y.. WVBR. BP: "Spin- Starday.... Frank Wiltse, Miami. except that baseball is heard ning Wheel," Blood. Sweat and Fla., WGMA, BP: "My Grass Is days. Ted Quillin's assignment Springdale, Ark. Orangeburg, S. C. (WORG) Tears, Columbia.. . Ron James, Green," Roy Drusky, Mercury.. , . is to keep the audience which Dave Sturm, Personality Ted Bell, Music Director Norfolk, Va., WNOR, BP: "Tes- Larry Scott. Burbank, Calif., previously switched to other B P: Need You Now," Ronnie Dove, "I tify," Johnnie Taylor. . Jerry KBBQ, BP: I Have to B P: "Hushabye." Jay and the Americans, Diamond. BLFP: "To Think You've "All Offer outlets. Jerry Bishop will be United Savannah, Ga., WSGA, Artists. BLFP: "Listen to the Chosen Me." Don & Cherry. Monument. Rogers, You," Charley Pride, RCA. . assisting him on the weekend. Band." Monkees. ('olgems. BH: "Oh RH: "Earth Angel," The Vogues, Re- BP: "Hushabye," Jay and the Buddy Alan. Phoenix, Ariz., Happy Day " Edwin Hawkins Sinters, prise. BLFH: "Quentin's Theme," The By design, Randal has limited Pavilion. BLEU: "More Today Than Americans. UA. . Michael KTUF. BP: "Delia's Gone" and Charles Randolph Green Sounde, Rain - the number of stations for which Yesterday." Spiral Staircase, Columbia. wood. O'Conner, Galveston, Tex., KII.E, "The Days of Sand and Shovels," BP: "Paradise." Dave Clark Five, Waylon Jennings, RCA. , Bob he consults to KFI: KDES, Palm Phoenix, Aria. (KRIZ) Epic. . Thom Darro, Niagara White, Chester, Pa., WEEZ, BP: Springs, Calif.: CHUM, Toron- Steve Martin, Personality Springfield, Mass. (WSPR) Falls, N. Y., WJJL, BP: "Lay "Delia's Gone," Waylon Jennings, to, and eight Australian outlets. Director Byrds. . B P: "Crystal Blue Persuasion," Tommy Budd Clain, Program Lady Lay," Columbia.. RCA. Over-all he sends out records James. Roulette. BLFP: "St. B P: "Yesterday When I Was Young," Gary Steele, Huntsville. Ala.. Paul." and playlists to 50 stations cov- Terry Knight. Capitol. RH: "Bad Moon Roy Clark. BLIP: "Don't Let the Sun WAAY, BP: "House on the Hill," PROGRESSIVE ROCK - Jeff Rising." Creedence Clearwater Revival. Catch You C'ryin'," Trini Lopez BH: Starr, Worchester, Mass., WORC. ering a variety of musical appe- Fantasy BLFH: "Me & Mr. Hohner," "Without Her," Herb Alpert. BLFH: Turtles, White Whale.... Baxley. Bobby Darin, Direction. "Good Morning Starshine," Oliver. Ga., WUFE. BP: "Bad Moon Ris - BP: "Baby." Joneses, MGM. tites. 44 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD BOBBY SHERMAN, co-star of television's "Here Come The Brides," has become one of the most popular television personalities in the history of the medium. He has a following of FANS that numbers into the UNCOUNTABLE-and now, with his debut single on Metromedia Records, he is about to break through into the music world with a smash single-

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SOUL SLICES: Replacing Diana Ross when she splits from the Supremes next August to concentrate on films will be studio singer Rita Wright.... Eddie Holland's Invictus Records will be pressed, distributed and marketed in the U. S. by Capitol. Holland has retained creative freedom in running the label. . . . Jerry Butler breaks into the commercial field with a series of five radio commercials for Ultra Sheen hair care products manufactured by John- son Products Co. of Chicago. The spots feature Butler singing lyrics co -written with his brother, Billy. ... Harold Battiste, executive producer with Pulsar Records, former arranger -producer with Sonny & Cher and Dr. John the Nighttripper, has rejoined his former West

Coast partner Melvin Lastie of Halmac Productions. . . . Speaking of commercials, Detroit's Theme Productions, Inc., a black -owned company, creates the radio spot jingles for 80 per cent of the nation's black -oriented stations, including a new package for Detroit's WJLB, which is soon due to go r&b 24 hours a day. The company will soon enter the newspaper syndication field with a black comic strip, "Captain Soul.". . . The current Joe Tex single has been flipped to "Chicken Crazy."... Atlantic has hired ex -pro footballer BROTHERS -THREE Bob Gaiters, NFI. Rookie of the Year with the Giants in 1961, to do West Coast promotion with the label. . . . Ida Sands is making TURN local smoke in Norfolk with her Howbig Records. "Start All Over ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT Again," and headlining her own review with the Soul Duo, the Action Pack, Sebastian William and the Gold Bees. . . . C & the Shells will appear on the East Coast next month with a date at the Beach Ball Club in Boston, June 2-15. . . . "Gettin' It All Together," the hour-long TV show featuring Stax/ Volt artists, aired in April, attracted more than a million viewers. . . . Raymond Patterson, president of Bedford Records, and Kip Anderson, executive vice-president, and former Chess/Checker artist, have debuted on the Brooklyn -based label with Chuck Carter's "A Tear Drop Fell." Carter once hit the charts with "Pretty Little Brown Skin Girl." . .. Joe Jones of "You Talk Too Much" fame has penned a tune on his own label for Alvin Robinson. The artist bows with "What- ever You Had (You Ain't Got It No More)" b/w "You Brought My Heart Right Down." Jones recently produced the "Cissy Strut" hit by the Meters and formerly handled the Dixie Cups and Anon Neville. . Buddah media man, Richard Robinson, has debuted I Know Who You Been Socking It To Somebody Been Messin' with the first issue of his "Black Music Review" magazine and will It's Your Thing interview Eddie Floyd on his upcoming Channel 5 TV show, "Comin' Around," aired in the afternoons. . Atlantic has grabbed "Take Your Love and Shove It," by the Cousins, distributed by Atco on the Shove Love label.

TID-GRITS: Mercury will toss a party, put up the bread and cut a single for-not a new rock group-but Moms Mobley. Moms will record a live comedy album, Tuesday (27) before the trade press, deejays and friends, following up the album with a promotion push on major media. She'll issue a rare single when she releases a serious recitation of the hit "Abraham, Martin and John" song. New albums of quality to consider: Young Hearts' first on Minit, Dee Dee Warwick on Mercury and a new B. B. King on Bluesway. King's LP is half live and features his "Why I Sing the Blues" chart disk. It could bring his big pop breakthrough. . Holly Maxwell should score a hot hit debut on Curtom with her Curtis Mayfield penned and produced recording of "Suffer," backed by "No One Else." . . . Roulette is finding a leftfield winner with Sam Moultrie's "Funky Jerk.". . . Calla is working on Big Ella on

the Lo . . . Lo label. Junior Wells opened for a week at Unganó s Wednesday (28), to be followed by a June engagement by Little Richard and, in July, by Screaming' . Jay Hawkins. . The "First Generation Blues" festival continues at the Electric Circus every Wednesday night, but we don't recommend it. . . . Double Shot is working to establish the Bagdads with their latest release, "Love Has Two Faces."... Sonny Cox has recorded an instrumental version of Joe Simon's big TNS-3001 "Chokin' Kind" disk for Bell. . . Blue Thumb has purchased an LP master, to be titled "Truckin'," featuring blues Distributed, guitarist Albert Collins, presently included in Imperial Records' blues marketed and i r campaign. . . . Composer -conductor -arranger promoted by H. B. Barnum has BUDDAH produced an r&h-flavored campaign song for Los Angeles mayoral 'RECORDS ...of course!!! candidate Tom Bradley. Barnum will also do a single for Cleve- land's Mayor Carl Stokes. Bradley's tune, "Los Angeles Needs a Man," features Gene Diamond on Barnum's new Mothers Records. . On his way to England to scout A subsidiary of Viewlex, Inc. new talent is arranger -composer Horace Ott, who reads Soul Sauce. Do You? 46 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD The only trouble with being #1 is that it leaves little room for improvement!

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BEST SELLING Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 5/31/69 Renfrew Rides Via Rhythm Capitol Department Continued from page 30 shirts and a logo which will all he sent to stations airing the excerpts of music from a spe- series. group's cific LP being promoted Why are usually heard. The group is Capitol Records doing its own radio spots? The number being sold usually has the qual- STAR Performer-Single's registering greatest of spots the company requires * proportionate upward progress this week. ity (or something) which Ren- would make the cost too pro- W eg This Last Weeks on frew is looking for. Week wWeek Title, Artist, Label, No. hibitive, Davis claims. He $ M. Wrf Week Week Title, Artist, Label, N.. i Feb. Chart Davis hires actors and books can turn them out for $500 a shot. 1 1 CHOKIN' KIND 26 18 BUYING A BOOK 7 studio time in the Capitol "It's not like creating a cam- Joe Simon, Sound Stage 7 2628 Joe Tex, Dial 4090 (Tree, BMI) Tower. The same two voices (Wilderness, BM)) paign for any other play Renfrew and Miss Groupie. form of 27 27 (We've Got) HONEY LOVE 6 product," he says. 4 TOO BUSY THINKING ABOUT MY BABY Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, At first, several stations re- Marvin Gaye, Tamla (Jobete, 54181 BMI) Gordy 7085 (Jobete, BMI) fused to air the two -minute In addition to creating com- 3 3 I DONT WANT NOBODY TO GIVE spots, but after hearing the mercials for the progressive MEDLEY: CAN SING A RAINBOW/LOVE ME NOTHING 8 - humorous approach they re- rock acts, Davis also develops James Brown, King 6624 (Dynatone, BMI) IS BLUE .. 1 spots Dells, Cadet 5641 (Mark VII/Croma, ASCAP) lented. radio for other Capitol art- 4 5 I CANT SEE MYSELF LEAVING YOU... Renfrew is a super straight ists. A Glen Campbell spot was Aretha Franklin, Atlantic 2619 (14th Hour, BMI) 21 THE COMPOSER 4 character. To promote the San aired in 23 markets. A spot pro- Diana Ross & the Suprimes, Motown 1146 (Jobete, BMI) Francisco act, Sons of Cham- moting seven rock albums all 5 2 ITS YOUR THING 12 Isley Brothers, T Neck 901 plin, Davis had Renfrew search- listed under the title "Goodbye (Brothers Three, BMI) 22 NEVER GONNA LET HIM KNOW 11 ing the hills California" ran into trouble Debbie Taylor, GWP 501 (Willbridge/MRC, BMI) of Marin County, with 6 6 CISSY STRUT 7 outside San Francisco. To pro- one local station, KHJ, because Meters, Josie 1005 (Marsaint Music, BMI) 31 WHY SHOULD WE STOP NOW . 5 mote a group called Pollution, of the topic of an earthquake Natural Four, ABC 11205 (Wilhos/Pamco, BMI) Davis had Renfrew seeking the destroying the State. But KRLA 12 SO I CAN LOVE YOU 5 Emotions, Volt 4010 (Pervis/Staples, BMI) 26 SEVEN YEARS 7 cause of pollution. accepted the spot. Impressions, Curtom 1940 (Camad, BMI) The pitch 8 8 0 HAPPY DAY for the product In addition to writing his own 4 only occurs Edwin Hawkins Singers, Buddah 20001 33 MY WIFE, MY DOG, MY CAT . .. 5 in the tag when a spots, Davis farms out work to (Kama Rippa/Hawkins, ASCAP) Maskmen & the Agents Dynamo 131 sample of that artist's style of Spot House, a (Catalogue/Clairborne, BMI) local new com- 9 9 GRAZING IN THE GRASS 9 music is played. Capitol has de- pany, and to Globe Propaganda Friends of Distinction, RCA Victor 74.0207 U I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU TOO LONG 3 signed bumper tags, (Chisa, BMI) sweat in San Francisco. Ike 6 Tina Turner, Blue Thumb 101 (East/Time/Curtom, BMI) Q 17 (I Wanna) TESTIFY 4 Johnnie Taylor, Sfax 0033 (Groovesville, BMI) 41 I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER 2 Sly & the Family 11 13 WE GOT MORE Stone, Epic 10450 SOUL 6 (Daly City, BMI) Warwick & Legler Join Bulb Set Dyke & the Blazers, Original Sound 86 (Drive -In, BMI) 39 LET ME LOVE YOU 2 Continued from page 30 the new "Smiling faces going Ray Charles, ABC 11213 (ASA/Racer, ASCAP) 12 10 ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE 13 places" was good. Jerry Butler, Mercury 72898 lions. For the first 34 ITS A . four years, (Parabut/Double Diamond/Downstairs, BMI) GROOVY WORLD 8 One thing that always seems Unifies, Kapp 985 (Andjun, ASCAP) we did different arrangements to have a lot of popularity in the 13 15 JUST A LITTLE BIT 6 commercials Little Milton, Checker 1217 (Armo, BMI) 29 I CANT SAY NO TO YOU 6 of the tune, then we switched to field, he indicated, Betty Everett, UNI 55122 (Screen Gems - are old songs. Fifty thousand 14 14 STAND ...... 7 Columbia, BMI) famous singers such as Lena Sly & the Family Stone, Epic 10450 dollars is now the going price on (Daly City, Horne and Vic Damone singing BMI) 35 WALK AWAY ..... 7 some of these songs. For ex- Ann Peebles, Hi 2157 the song. 15 16 PROUD MARY 4 (Saico/Jec, BMI) Last year, BBD&O ample, I once picked out the Solomon Burke, Bell 783 (Jondora, BMI) started the Schaefer talent search marching society song from - APRIL FOOLS 1 campaign." 16 7 TIME IS TIGHT 9 Dionne Warwick, Scepter 12249 the Broadway musical 'Where's Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Stax 0028 (Blue Seas/Jac/April, ASCAP) Charlie' by Frank Loesser for (East/Memphis, BMI) A Unique Form 49 MY WHOLE WORLD IS FALLING DOWN.. 2 General Electric and that was 17 The music jingle 11 AQUARIUS/LET THE SUN SHINE IN 10 William Bell, Stax 0032 (East/Memphis, BMI) form is a the price we paid. TWA built 5th Dimension, Soul City 772 (United Artists, type of music unto itself, Miller 1hASCAP) BORN TO a whole campaign around 'Up, - BE WILD . 1 feels. It should be simple and Wilson Pickett, Atlantic 2631 (Duchess, BMI) Up and Away,' a year ago. - DONT LET THE JONESES GET YOU DOWN easy to remember. "For certain Temptations, Gordy 7086 (Jobete, BMI) United had its 'Come Fly With LOVE MAN . 1 products-especially - .. those for Me,' Contact had 'You Belong 28 BLACK PEARL Otis Redding, Atco 6677 which you're trying to create (East/Memphis/Time Redwal, BMI) to Me.' United used 'Take Me Sonny Charles with the Checkmates, Ltd., an image-the A&M 1053 (Irving, BMI) music jingle can Along.' " 47 A NEW DAY BEGINS 2 be an enormous aid." Q 32 WHY I SING THE BLUES Parliaments, Atco 6675 (Cotillion/LeBaron, BMI) For some commercials, of S. B. King, BluesWay 61034 Lately, the music tag has course, the producer must create (Pamco/Sounds of Lucille, BMI) 45 IT'S YOUR THING . 2 come into vogue, especially with a mood. Some of the best writ- Senor Soul, WHIZ 611 (Brothers Three, BMI) 24 GOTTA GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER .. 4 airlines-tags like "Pan Am ers for this type of thing in- QBobby Bland, Duke 447 (Don, BMI) 46 I'M GONNA DO ALL I makes the going great" and CAN . 2 "Fly clude Sid Ramon and Bill Giant, Ike 38 IT'S MY THING (Your Can't Tell Me & Tina Turner, Minit 32060 (Barton, BMI) the friendly skies of United." who wrote many of the tunes Who to Sock H To) GOOD MORNING Sometimes, these work out well. for the Elvis Presley Marva Whitney, King - STARSHINE 1 movies, 6229 (Dynatone, BMI) C & the Shells, Cotillion 44033 On the other hand, Eastern Air- and Ray Ellis. Most of the 23 WHAT DOES (United Artists, ASCAP) - IT TAKE TO WIN YOUR LOVE 1 lines' "Eastern makes it easier things done by Miller at BBD&O Jr. Walker & the All Stars, Soul 35062 48 AIN'T to fly" tag was too musical and used (Jobete, BMI) GON' BE NO CUTTIN' LOOSE . 2 original music of this type. Junior Parker, Blue Rock 4080 (laden, BMI) stylish . "even now I have And it will be one of the con- 24 37 I WANT TO LOVE YOU BABY trouble Peggy Scott & JoJo Benson, TIGHTEN singing it." It lacked cerns of Miller for the future - UP MY THANG 1 SSS International 769 (Green Owl, ASCAP) Soul Children, Stax 0030 (Birdees, ASCAP) certain values, he feels. But with Warwick & Legler projects. 25 20 SUNDAY 50 PITY FOR THE LONELY 2 Moments, Stang 5003 (Gambi, BMI) Luther Ingram, Ko Ko 2102 (Klondike, BMI) Vox Jox Continued front page 44 but rather a local banking execu- know a 50 kw. puts so little in its tive whose voice is frequently programming. I was surprised that nite judgment is like coming from heard on commercials. I read your you did not mention the fact that a foreign country, reading para- KAAY uses very little personality, column with great interest every graph two on page six of Billboard since you stress it so much." week and feel you would appreci- and making a judgment. When * * * criticizing someone professionaly, ate the above correction." From I need more resumes from small I think we should realize how im- Larry Kenney of WOWO in Fort Wayne, and medium market personalities portant what we says is. I've al- Ind.: "In regards to Vox who'd like to move up. Please ways been a heavy proponent Jox, May 10: "His name is of Larry Kenney, state if you have first or third Vox lox. That's why I felt com- and he thanks you the class license and all that jazz. I've pelled to let you know I would for kind remarks." And from Phillip Bradshaw got almost three dozen stations hate to see it turn into a proof WHNY gramming in McComb, Miss.: "I thought I'd looking - secretly - right now. critique page - despite The staff lineup your experience let you know how much I enjoy at KMDO. in programming Fort Scott, Kan.: Program director radio." your column each week . . . es- * pecially those weeks when you Tom D. Nelson from KTTN. * * have just returned from some trip. Trenton, Mo.; John Shane from From vice-president and KNEM. Nevada, Mo.: general It's interesting to note your com- Bill Hurst. MOTOWN'S MARVIN GAYE accepts a presentation of three gold disks manager Dick Kelsey. WINZ, Mi- ment concerning certain stations who returned from KESM in El- ami: "We dorado from Barney Ales, left, Motown vice-president in charge of sales, for his appreciate your mention . . . we all can use some Springs, Mo., and Chuck con- single, Heard It Through of WINZ in your last column dur- structive criticism, I especially Morilla, who was a record pro- "I the Grapevine," Motown's best selling ing your Nassau trip, but I think agree about the comments you motion man in California.... Just single ever. Holding two of the gold records are Al Klein, director of I should point out that John Engel made concerning KAAY, Little got one of the best letters I've ever Motown's single sales, and Motown's national promotion director is not an air personality on WINZ, Rock, Ark. It is disappointing to (Continued on page 50) Gordon Prince, right. 48 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD "Is This WhatYou Want?" is an album ( ST - 3354 ) Is This What You Want?" is a question The answer to the question is "yes"

The answer to the album is YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES (yes) Jackie Lomax on Apple Records "Is This What You Want?" Well, is it? "Yes"a million times "yes" (But you've got to listen. Always you must listen) Rhythm & Blues

Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 5 31.'69 BEST SELLING Vox Jox m& Blues Continued from page 48 and Ron Knight with talk -man Jon Esther. . Deejay Don received; it's from Chuck Brig - Clark at KNBR in San Francisco man, music director of AKBC in really knows how to hurt a guy. North Wilkesboro, N. C. Celebrating the birthday of Don LP's Perry Samuels, senior vice-presi- Rickles, the cut 'n' slash comedian, dent for radio of AVCO Broad- he aired cut 'n' slash best wishes casting, will speak at the gradu- from George Shearing, Buddy --LP's registering greatest proportionate upward progress this week. * STAR Performer ating ceremonies of International Rich, Redd Foss, Johnny Canon. This Last Weeks on This Last Weeks on Broadcasting School. Dayton, June Bill Cosby, etc.... Jim Kennedy Week Week Title, Artist, Label, No. & Pub. Chart Week Week Title, Artist, Label, No. & Pub. Chart left as program director of 7. . Program director Roger has WTAI in Eau Gallic, Fla., to join 14 McClintock and air personality 1 1 CLOUD NINE 12 26 17 ALWAYS TOGETHER KHLO in Hilo, Hawaii, where he'll Temptations, Gordy GLPS 939 (S; Dells, Cadet 822 (S) Edward W. Wendung need easy listening records at KRKC, 1,(0) - do a 4-9 show. RAW BLUES 4 watt station at P.O. Box 625, King 2 3 IT'S OUR THING 6 27 24 ...... Johnny Taylor, Stax STS 2008 (S) Isley Brothers, T -Neck TNS 3001 (S) City, Calif. 93930. Station playa Program director Johnny Hyde progressive rock Saturday nights. at KROY. Sacramento, reports the 28 28 SAY IT LOUD 7 3 5 ICE MAN COMETH 21 February / March Pulse shows Lou Donaldson, Blue Note BST 84299 (5) * Jerry Butler, Mercury SR 66188 (S) Got a note from Wes Dickinson. KROY with a 20.2 for the 18 -hour 12.7 with 15 who's now at KYOK in Houston. averáge. KRAK has a 4 4 STAND 5 29 13 SOUND OF SEXY SOUL Delphonics, Philly Groove LP 1151 (5) Wash country music. KXOA has 12.5. Sly & the Family Stone, Epic 8N 26456 (Si and he reports that Allen is there with him. Wash Allen is Deejay line-up at KROY, a Top 40 30 31 BEAUTIFUL 6 station, goes: Uncle Johnny Hyde, 5 2 SOULFUL SOFT AND one of the finest men in this busi- Aretha Franklin, Columbia CS 9776 (S) Dionne Warwick, Scepter 573 (S) ness. Rick Roberts is program di- Bob Sherwood, Chuck Roy, Dr. rector of the r&b-formated station. Tom Becker, and Mr. Lee. KROY 31 38 DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES has a 26 3 -midnight. . , , 6 8 SOUL '69 16 Music director David P. from JOIN THE TEMPTATIONS 26 Aretha Franklin, Atlantic 8212 (S) Schmidt at an MOR station Dick Widdoss is the new opera- Motown MS 679 (S) WIZZ. at P.O. Box 377, Streator, Ill. tions manager at KEZU in Rapid 7 6 SAY IT LOUD-I'M BLACK AND City, S. D., and plans to use a 32 32 ONE EYE OPEN 4 61364 needs records. . . . Larry I'M PROUD 8 Bethea the Masked Man 8 the Agents, Shannon, an announcer at WNOR "modified Drake of Most Music" James Brown, King 5.1017 (S) Dynamo DS 8004 (S) in Norfolk, Va., is now program playing the best of country music director and air personality at in the wee hours and the soft rock 8 7 UPTIGHT 17 33 34 BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS 6 WPVL in Painesville, Ohio. in the afternoon. Needs records. Soundtrack, Stax STS 2006 (S) Columbia CS 9720 (S) Widdoss had been with KIMM in * * * Rapid City. 9 9 FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE 11 34 41 SILK 'N SOUL 22 Here's the staff at WDAD in O.C. Smith, Columbia CS 9756 (S) Gladys Knight 8 the Pips, Sou, SS 711 (S) Indiana, Pa., now: General manager Ray Goss, program director 15 LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE 35 36 MEMPHIS UNDERGROUND 2 Paul Todd, Mike Cavanaugh, Jim Seminar on OF THE LORD 3 Herbie Mann, Atlantic SD 1522 (S) Stanley, and Gary Persons. . . Edwin Hawkins Singers, Jim I). Kime has been appointed Pavilion BPS 10001 (S) 36 39 16 BIG HITS, VOL 10 3 Communication Various Artists, Motown MS 684 (5) station manager of KGW. Port- 11 11 STONE SOUL .. ... 13 land. Ore.; he's been with the CHICAGO -A conference Mongo Santamaria, Columbia CS 9780 (S) 37 37 GETTIN' DOWN TO IT 2 station since 1959. Jim Hunter has embracing such fields as radio - James Brown, King KSD 51051 (S) been named production director 12 10 MOTHER NATURE'S SON 13 TV commercials production, au- Ramsey Lewis, Cadet LPS 821 (S) of the station; he'd been produc- 38 30 HICKORY HOLLER REVISITED 48 tion director of such stations as dio recording, video recording. 13 16 LIVE AT THE COPA 22 0. C. Smith, Columbia CS 9680 (S) WLS in Chicago, WKYC in Cleve- music Temptations, Gordy GS 938 (S) film making, advertising, land. and KOIL in Omaha. . 39 U IT'S TRUE! ITS TRUE! 16 WRVA in Richmond, Va., during package production and others 14 14 TCB 22 Bill Cosby, Warner Bros. -7 Arts WS 1770 (S) Diana Ross & the Supreme, with the the past year received letters from will be held here Monday (26). Temptations, Motown MS 682 (S) 76 listeners in I2 foreign coun- 40 40 TOGETHER 5 The event, a first in the Chi- Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, tries, including a British fan named 15 12 CAN I CHANGE MY MIND 12 Warner Bros. -Seven Arts 7250 (5) Richard Wood who picked up the cago market, is under the aus- Tyrone Davis, Dakar SD 9005 (S) station while visiting in Hawaii. pices of Chicago Unlimited, a 27 25 MILES 3 41 43 BAYOU COUNTRY 8 Gary Stone, formerly 6:30- reedence Clearwater Revival, communications industry asso- Edwin Starr, Gordy GS 940 (S) Fantasy 8387 midnight personality with KFYR in Bismarck, N. D., is now after- ciation, and will be held in the 17 19 SOULFUL STRUT 22 42 42 THE WORM 22 noon drive deejay with KCJB in the Prudential Young Hott Unlimited, Brunswick BL 754144 (S) Jimmy MiGriff, Solid State SS 18045 (5) auditorium of Minot, N. D., using the name of Building starting at 6:30 p.m. 18 18 WHO'S MAKING LOVE 19 43 35 SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES- Sean McKay. KCJB program di- Admission is free. Invitations Johnny Taylor, Stax STS 2005 (S) rector Davey Bee announces that LIVE 16 are extended to all individuals Tarala TS 289 15) the Hot 100 format station will up 19 29 GRAZIN' IN THE GRASS 4 power to 5.000 watts any airshift interested in developing Chi- Friends of Distinction, RCA Victor cago as "the Middle Coast," LSP 4149 (S) 44 33 SILVER CYCLES 15 now. Line-up there also includes Eddie Harris, Atlantic SD 1517 (S) Terry Dean, John Ruby, Dean Chicago Unlimited said. Among 20 20 PROMISES PROMISES 23 Alien, and Lee James. the speakers will be Bernie Dionne Warwick, Scepter SPS 571 (S) THERE'LL COME A TIME 1 Clapper, Universal Recording Betty Everett, Uni 73048 (S) * * * 26 YOUNG MODS, FORGOTTEN STORY 4 WOKY in Milwaukee is still Studios; Dick Marx, Dick Marx Impressions, Curtom CRS 8003 (S) SWEET SOUL MAKIN' 1 king of the mountain with a 22.7 Associates; Brad Eidmann, Young Hearts, Minit LP -24016 (S) 22 22 HEY JUDE 15 Total Rated Time Periods in the WGN Continental Productions; Wilson SO Pickett, Atlantic 8215 (5) YEARS GONE BY 1 latest Hooper, followed by MOR- Bill Newton, Sarra, Inc.; Carl Albert King, Stax STS 2010 (S) formated WTMJ with a 19.6 and Turk, Turk Productions; Len 23 23 LOVE'S HAPPENING 5 MOR-formated WEMP with a Five Stairsteps 8 Cubic, Curtorn CRS 8002 (S) Levy, Leo Burnett; John Mann, SOULFUL STRINGS IN CONCERT 16.5. Staff at WOKY includes Checker, LSP 10051 (S) Camer-Krasselt; and Joe Slat- APOLLO, general manager Ralph Barnes, 24 21 JAMES BROWN AT THE tery, president, American Fed- VOLUME 2 39 49 48 THE DYNAMIC CLARENCE CARTER 15 program director George Nilson, King 1022 (S) Atlantic SD 8199 (S) deejays Jack Lee, Jim Brown, Bob eration of Television and Radio Barry, Jac McCoy, Carl Como, Artists. 25 25 I'M ALL YOURS BABY 4 50 49 MOTOWN WINNER CIRCLE, VOL 2 67 Ray Charles, ABC ABCS675 (5) Various Artists, Gordy GS 936 (5) Commercials Wing Formed by Farrell ThB Continued front page 30 council, and performance by established professionals." sponse has been to double the He said Commercial Manage- charts proposed number of spots." The ment Group would seek the "Indian Lake" tune hacks up services of outside producers as the Dodge Charger commercial. well. In addition, the firm will teii me story Farrell, who will hire an ac- be involved in producing back- count executive shortly for the ground scores for movies and firm, said he set up the sepa- television shows. rate company because of the Billboard "growing demands of the adver- It's Now WUFE tising industry for product identification through the use of BAXLEY, Ga.-WUFE are has provocative contemporary mu- the new call letters of the sta- sic." The advertising agencies tion that used to be known as i 4.07. need direct access to lyric copy - WHAB here. The 5,000 -watt THE CHARTS righters and composers, he said, station serves some 40 towns in DETROIT COURT Judge George W. CroC'lcett, second from right, is a Motown headquarters, "What we will the adver- south and middle Georgia, ac- treated to personal tour of Berry Gordy's offer stopping to chat with Gordy's sister, Mrs. Esther Edwards, Motown tising industry, then, is a staff cording to general manager Al senior vice-president. Berry Gordy Sr., left, and Ewart Abner, vice- of knowledgeable experts in the Graham. Personalities include president of Motown's management wing, join Judge Crockett at a music industry under one roof, Bob Joiner, Bill Edenfield, Jim presentation of an album containing the last speeches made by the a one -stop source of advice. Overstreet and Bobby Holland. late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD

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POP POP POP POP POP Sth DIMENSION- MARVIN GAYE-M.P.G. BOBBY VINTON-Vinton. THE WHO-Tommy. The Age of Aquarius. Tamla T5 292 (S) MR. JAMES BROWN- Soul City SCS 92005 (S) v Epic BN 26471 (S) Decca DXSW 7205 (S) Gettin' Down to It. Leading off with his King 5-1051 (S) If there is one sure thing in records big hit, "Too Busy The Who, hard rock revelers of "Tommy," this Bobby Vinton has another easy week, it is this latest release -to-take al- a two -record rock opera composed by Peter Soul screamer by the 5th Thinking About My Baby," Marvin Gaye bum here that should continue James Brown continues his Dimension. Thanks to his string Townshend, features among the 21 cuts, flood "Aquarius/Let the of album chart of product, this time doing away has another big album here. 12 successes. Standards such the group's "Pinball Wizard" Sunshine In" they have zoomed to the top All cuts hit. A de- with his raunchy, rousing soul band for a as "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" and "Try a luxe fold -out of the singles charts. They are vocal acro- cover and a 12 -page color rhythm trio, the Dee Felice Trio. He wails are solid in the popular Gaye style. "Try Little Tenderness" are side by side with booklet round bats and, with expert arrangements and out the group's masterwork through standards and contemporary tunes recent pops such as "This Guy's in Love performances, trapeze through an even My True Love," "Seek and You Shall Find," highlighted by Sonny Boy Williamson's like "That's Life," "Sentimental Reasons" With You" and "To Know You Is to Love to dozen of winners, including their million "Eyesight the Blind," "Christmas," "The and "Sunny." Added for good measure are and "That's the Way Love Is" are among You" all sung well. Then, there's "The Acid Queen," "Sensation" seller and a dramatic reading of Laura and "Welcome," "Cold Sweat" and "There Was a Time," Days of Sand and Shovels" and "Are You which Nyro's "Wedding Bell Blues." the top the vocals, while plenty of both charts hits, as Brown strikes again other winners on this album. Sincere," others in a series of gems. instrumentals make this package a hot item. with rhythm and new pop polish. KM dir CAN MAKI !

POP POP POP POP POP MARVIN GAYE AND HIS GIRLS- Tamla TS 293 (S) JOE SIMON- RAY STEVENS-Gitarzan MERCY-Love Can Make You '+JJ DEE DEE WARWICK- w F Happy. Warner The Chokin' Kind. Monument SIP 18115 (S) Bros. -Seven Arts Foolish Fool. May is Marvin Gaye month in Motown Monument SSS t 5006 (S) WS 1799 (S) Mercury SR 61221 (S) country and the pop -soul star should cele- brate This latest LP venture, recorded in concert, Mercy has a delicious the following months with new chart With sound. It's a group No longer "Dionne's "The Chokin' Kind" zooming to the is by far the most exciting thing he's sister" with the chart LP's and, of course, a steady stream of ever with a harmony technique that's warm and success of her top of the Hot 100 put down on disk. Temporarily putting "Foolish Fool" disk, Dee hit singles. One-half of the May Gaye pay- chart, Joe Simon can't aside Dee Warwick his serious vein, Stevens recaptures caressing and with top appeal for pop ears arrives at her promise of off on the artist's talents miss with this LP. . the is this package , and the other songs pop -soul popularity with her Ed Townsend of sweet soul duets, both old and new, excitement and hilarity of his original as attested by their first single hit, "Love - with are can't miss songs, including his "Baby, winners, penned and produced records. Her latest, past partners Mary Wells and Kim "Ahab the Arab" and "Harry The Can Make You Happy." Weston, The repertoire in That's Not Love," should sustain the hit and his latest chart flame, Tammi Don't Be Looking in My Mind" and spar- Hairy Ape," along with unbeatable versions Terrell. this LP is in a similar groove, momentum won at last with the aid "Can't Help Love kling versions of "Alley Oop" and "Along Came Jones." especially of But You" and "Good [ovin' of "lonely Man" and "Wich- Jimmy Wisner, Jerry Ross Ain't The "Gitarzan" album should quickly fol- "Forever," which looks like it could step and others. Also Easy" star on this hit -bound team. ita Lineman." featured are "Thank low in the footsteps of the Top Ten You Love" and "Where single. out as a single. Is That Rainbow,"

POP POP POP POP POP CONNIE FRANCIS JOHNNY MANN SINGERS- x. JULIE DRISCOLL/Brian LEE HAZLEWOOD The Wedding Cake. Goodnight My Love. Auger i BUDDY MILES EXPRESS- MGM THE TRINITY-Street Noise ANN-MARGRET- SE 4637 (S) Liberty LST 7620 (S) i Electric Church, Atco SD 2-701 (S) The Cowboy and the Lady. Mercury SR 61222 (S) "The Wedding Cake" has brought Connie Typically warm, lovely perennial standards LHI S 12007 (S) Francis back to the singles forefront and by Julie Driscoll again Joins Brian Auger, one Ann -Margret gets the Johnny Mann Singers-songs de- tough and uptight on a Miles wields his nine -man soul band in a of the finest pop organists around, in an couple of the tunes on this it should do the same for her album sales. signed to last a album power play of hard, down blues and churn- while like "I've Gotta excellent disk, ably aided by the other notably Working "Only Mama That'll Walk the ing rhythm blasts. Co -production by Jimi under the aegis of Shelby Single- Be Me," "This Magic Moment," "I'm Gonna two members of the Trinity. This two -LP line"-but the main drift is country - Hendrix and Anne Tansey, Miles re-creates ton, Miss Francis has found new pop Make You Love disk includes Miss Driscoll's strong vocals pop flavored tunes Me," and "Let It Be Me." by her and Lee Hazle - his Electric Flag effort, "Texas," as well as on "Take Me to the Water," "Light My wood, who comes in strength. The songs are in the country - On top of all this, there's a sensational strong on a solo - "Destructive Love," and a shorter version Fire," and "The Flesh Failures (let the accented pop groove and are "No Regrets." "Mangin' On" de- of his previously recorded "Wrap It Up." delivered with an over- "I Love How You love Me." An auto- Sunshine In)." Auger's playing is outstand- serves radio exposure as does the Hazle - Otis Redding's "Cigarettes all market appeal. matic hit album. ing throughout. and Coffee" also wood single "Greybound Bus Depot." featured on an 8 -minute trip.

COUNTRY JAll JAll CLASSICAL A LOW -PRICE CLASSICAL BILLY WALKER- JIMMY McGRIFF-Step I. HORACE SILVER QUINTET- Portrait F FOUR FAVORITE TRIOS- of Billy. F Solid State SS You Gotta Take a RELLINI: NORMA- 18053 (S) little Love. Istomin-Stern-Rose Monument SIP 18116 (S) Blue Note BST 84309 (S) Trio. Callas/Filippeschii Stignani Columbia D 3 S 799 (SI Various Organist McGriff, already in the jazz Another Artists/La Scala Orch. Billy Walker is well -up -to -standard album by the constantly on top . . and chart "The (Serafin). Seraphim with Worm," has another strong Silver quintet which means some there's a reason: every record is projected swing Chamber music is at its finest here as IC 6037 (M) follow-up with this album. It's the leader ing, rolling blues filled instrumentals across to his audience convincingly. Here, backed by his of "blues band" a small broad appeal. Like Art Blakey, Silver this illustrious trio gives performances he'll convince you of the down-and-out group of blues-jazz Here's grand opportunity oriented musicians. But manages to keep the character of his to pick up this world with "From the Bottle to the Bot- right at the center which have been widely acclaimed as sep- package the second of it all is McGriff's group .ntact despite personnel changes. time around, and at tom." His "Ramona," a big hit, is a total musicianship in the blues the low price, too. Miss and jazz Main reason for this is probably Silver's arate recordings. Represented in this Callas' Norma is convincing love story. "Age of Worry" field. On the spe- one of her richest album is an extended ver- own writing and distinctive piano work. and moving portrayals. and "Highway Man" are two tunes that sion of "Step a cially priced And she gets some One" McGriff single that "The Risin' Sun" really explains what 3 -LP set are works by Bee- sparkling assists from deserve repeated airplay. earlier made the r8b Filippeschi, Stignani, chart. Silver's style is all about. thoven, the La Scala and Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schubert. conductor Tullio Serafin. This is a locked display -case lock for cartridges. This is a Liberty Stereo Tape LIBEñTY P 'AK which contains STEREOTAPE one ' artridge.

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The tape industry is going to be doing its thing with By BRUCE WEBER chandisers convention, a CBS executive discounted the a promotional this fling summer. effect cassette tape would have on retail merchandising. And enough evidence is accumulating now to make The rise of the cassette has added substantially to Now, however, members of NARM feel that with Co- an early verdict: the tape industry is a music maker for the great buzzing confusion that characterizes the tape lumbia and RCA moving into cassettes, the system has the masses. cartridge business. A variety of competing cartridge "turned the corner." Whether it be 8 -track or cassette, pre-recorded mu- systems-differing mechanically and in the amount of Jim Shipley of Main Line Record Service, Cleve- sic or blank tape, or software or hardware, there is an music they will hold-have battled for supremacy in land, summed it up this way: "The belated entry of electronics revolution in progress. And the - multimillion the market place. Columbia and RCA into the cassette field has given dollar pursuit of the American consumer is be- just now Retailers have been walking a ginning. configuration tight- that configuration great sales impetus." rope for several years now (8 -track vs. cassette, etc.)- Giving further weight to the cassette explosion are Hardware manufacturers are no longer only catering that many are in a mood just to relax and welcome all two facts: plans of the major electronics importers to to the audiophile with expensive and highly technical systems. flood the U. S. market with a variety of cassette re- playthings. Low cost equipment-much of it portable- While cassette has corders and players, including auto units, and the intro- both for the home and the auto, is aimed at the new obviously now the glamour appeal (simpler operate, duction by Motorola's consumer products division of electronics consumer, who is not confused by the ple- to more compact and more fool- its initial cassette unit: a player/recorder. thora of equipment and proof than the cartridge) the 8 -track system is supported systems available on the market But inclined, released today. by Detroit, which installs that system as original equip- for the more clinically RCA ment vehicles. an analysis of the two tape systems given by an eminent Record companiees, once fearful of the tape explo- in most And it was Detroit, with its great love psychologist. sion, are jumping on the tape wagon after discovering affair with the 8 -track, that squeezed the pioneer, relatively teen "The appeal of Stereo 8 (8 -track) has strong sensual that record profits are unaffected by tape sales, low-priced and -oriented 4-track, a favor- and that overtones, with users emphasizing the "power" and "all they could, in fact, profit ite of West Coast teen-agers, into the background. by supplying music packaged enveloping" quality of the sound. Its appeal, in cartridge in cartridges. The advantage that the cassette has over the 8 -track geometry, mode of cartridge insertion, and sound is Retailers and tape cartridge is that it can be used for recording as well as duplicaters are indulging the strongly weighted toward males. mods and the minis who know what playback, and this is generally conceded to be a factor they want and "In contrast to the sensual, mobile male appeal of have the buying power to get it. in the RCA and CBS decisions to enter the cassette 8 -track, the cassette has a more feminine appeal with The biggest names in the home field. entertainment indus- its dainty proportions and its purse -sized cosmetic -style try also joined the parade But Detroit, Lear Jet and RCA, among others, feel toward instant music: RCA, case." General Electric, Motorola, there is room for each system, with each carving out a Philco-Ford, Bell & Howell, It's doubtful that will change the minds of many Ampex and distinct market for itself. Norelco. consumers. But the auto manufacturers might. Besides these household names, a number Irwin Tarr, of Japa- RCA marketing vice-president, says it In the auto field, Detroit is committed to 8 -track nese firms have entered this way: the business: Sony, Hitachi, Pan- "The 8 -track cartridge and the cassette can systems totally, many believe, with the major American asonic (Matsushita), Aiwa, Toshiba and and will coexist in S. TEAC. the U. and the world market for auto manufacturers holding with 8 Why? contracts -track sup- many years to come. The real question is the relative pliers. A rising stream of spending level that by the consumer is giv- of coexistence. It will be the young consumer An RCA survey indicated more than 85 per cent ing the tape industry a blue chip appearance. that will make that determination (8 -track or cassette) of the auto buyers say they either have installed 8 -track Just how big the as they industry has really grown can be enter the market and decide how to spend their in cars or definitely plan to have it installed after the seen in this: By 1970, about 11.3 money." million Americans will initial purchase. Detroit, too, is convinced the 8 -track own either a tape recorder a tape or cartridge player. Oscar Kusisto, Motorola vice-president and general system is ideally suited to car use for two reasons: car- Six years ago, by contrast, cartridge sales were just manager of the automotive products division, agrees tridges with continuous loop are easier and simpler to above the 100,000 mark and cassettes sales were zero. with Tarr. "I don't believe there is or should be any use than cassettes and the 33/4 ips speed of cartridges In 1969, experts figure sales of cassette recorders need will for competition between cassette and cartridge sys- gives them a fidelity not possible with the 17/8 ips speed hit 3.4 million, while 1.8 million cartridge players will tems. I see cassette important in its proper market seg- standard on cassettes. be sold. ment. And I see 8 -track in its proper market segment. But, there are some who believe the auto manu- And how fast the tape industry has grown can be Each has its specific niche." facturers are willing to experiment with cassette auto seen in this: By 1970, total tape sales should strike the James R. Gall, vice-president of marketing for Lear units. An Ampex executive said: "This fall there will $450 million level, and by 1975 tape sales could ac- Jet Stereo, also maintains there are two separate mar- be a tremendous growth in cassette after-market units count for as much as 40-45 per cent of the total re- kets for cartridge and cassettes. for cars. It opens the market opportunities for cassette. corded music business. But cassette adherents think their system eventually For the first time, really, cassette is going to go into the Total retail volume in 8 -track players and cartridges will supersede all others, with or without Detroit. But area where 8 -track is strongest." alone in 1968 was about $350 million. Adding the value no one is betting when technological stability will be a Many feel that if Detroit makes up its mind to put of player sales, one can project a total 8 -track industry fact, if ever. cassette units in as original equipment, the fight will be of more than $500 million in 1970. Retail sales of 8 - on. track tape in 1969 will approximate W. L. Zalsman, managing director of Philips In- the record indus- In the end, however, the choice seems one of relative try's total sales dustries, stresses the importance of one system. "We feel in 1959, revealed RCA statistics. price, size and simplicity. All this, and this summer the cassette will, in the long run, prove to be the sur- or early fall, RCA and Is there a possibility of standardization-one sys- CBS (Columbia Records) viving form. It's simpler to operate, more compact and may mark the beginning of a tem-in the immediate future? Most experts feel the new era in the more foolproof than the cartridge." tape industry. That's when the two giants, consumer will decide, not the record companies, long opposed Wybo Semmelink, or the to the cassette system, will release "best North American Philips execu- retailer or even the hardware manufacturer. selling recordings" tive, believes cassette recorder/players on cassette tape cartridges. will account for One thing is certain, though. Hastening the record companies' two million of the six million recorders of all types sold entry into suppling Whether you're supporting 8 -track over cassette, or their music on cassettes is in a 12 -month span; this would compare with that more than 100 set manu- 1,375,000 betting on both, the rising consumer interest in the tape facturers have adopted the cassette and 5,500,000 respectively in 1967. Thus, nearly all concept. And the industry is just beginning. And what began as a quiet hardware producers, primarily the growth in tape recorder volume this year is Norelco, are pouring coming electronics revolution just a few years ago is exploding multimillion from cassettes. -dollar promotion campaigns aimed at a into a billion -dollar industry. mass market. Two years ago at a National Assn. of Record Mer - And it's going to get better. MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Summer Is a Tape Thing T-3 The Teen Market: Top Buyers Tape Today Means And Now Trans portable New Duplicators Entertainment

By ELIOT TIEGEL

The present and the future parade type of sampler car- round and the lack of ocean- more cars than girls, boys tend less than $2. Eight -track duplica- of cartridge entertainment seems tridges. "I wish we could have front crimps any romantic to buy more cartridges. With tors are held hack economically locked in the solid hands of that kind of programming," thoughts of listening to one's fa- singles and albums, girls tradi- in this category. America's youth. Not only have Muntz laments, looking at the vorite tapes while developing tionally were the sales leaders. Economics are also a factor young people become the major Billboard single chart and en- a spring tan. In Florida, "kids are con- in introducing money -conscious audience for "cartridgeized" mu- visioning kids selecting 10 tunes The impact of the teen-ager stantly outdoors and they want youngtsers to cartridge systems. sic, but they have begun to reap from the top 40 positions. with his regular allowance and music," says Panasonic's Dave Machinery is down low enough some of the financial remunera- bootleggers ineffable appetite for musical en- Hirsch, a resident cartridge for most people to afford. "1 tion normally going to the manu- "The operate at tertainment has created an al- player salesman in the Sunshine don't think a kid will buy an facturer and duplicator. a one to one ratio, so their sound reproduction is rather good. Kid most monopolistic state in the State. Miami is the second larg- album if he's got a cartridge A new crop of enterprising can buy bootlegged tapes for cartridge business. In five years, est cartridge market, Hirsch player," comments Earl Muntz. youngsters across the country around $2.98. Duplicators are the cartridge business has moved claims, with kids buying very Many tape duplicators, Muntz has discovered that tape duplica- even wholesaling them in either out of the infancy stage and into heavily in the cassette configura- included, promote their wares tion is a new-found way of earn- the 4 or 8 -track versions for the maturation age, prodded tion, according to Hirsch. This on rock radio stations because ing money and they have joined $1.50. Stores are even buying steadily by young America, surge forward for cassette mu- this is where young ears are the dreaded ranks of the back- and selling product obtained which has supported the system sic has occurred during the past tuned to. yard duplicators, much to the from these illegal operators." once the price of players came six months. "Because of the Tape to a good many young- chagrin of legitimate companies down out of the elite $200 weather," Hirsch says with the sters has come to represent "There are more kids now specializing in reproducing mu- category. same kind of civic pride as "transportable entertainment" sic involved in bootlegging than for cartridges. Teen-agers account for 50 per would a Southern Californian, teens have "led the revolu- ever before," cries one music and In many instances young peo- cent of the total cartridge busi- "kids aren't confined indoors tion into packaged music." The company executive. "There's a ple buy their favorite songs ness, estimates Bob Demain, and they need portable equip- quotes are from Liberty/UA's lot of activity in Chicago and from classmates who have in- vice-president at Modern Tape ment because they're outside so vice-president Lee Los Angeles." corporate vested in the proper duplicating Corp., a blues specialty house. much." Mendell. equipment and have turned their One estimate is that around Sales of vintage blues perform- Florida is also a state of uni- This revolution which at first homes into part-time factories 65 per cent of the bootlegging ances which appear on the Mod- versities, and this conglomera- saw kids buying whatever was with the nary signs of industrial occurs in California where tape ern line hold up well in the tion of students is a major factor available-just so there was con- wear and tear. cartridges have become a com- South and West, Demain claims. in turning the area into tape stant music playing while they "A kid can buy the equipment monly accepted form of youth- There are a few areas where town. "The students are very showed their new sound rig off for $100 and in three weeks he ful entertainment. rhythm and blues just doesn't music conscious in Florida," to friends-has evolved into the has it paid for," says Earl The music being supported make it, baby, such as in the Hirsch continues, and then there buying pattern of kids showing Muntz, who perhaps better than by young people covers the Rocky Mountain States, or Pa- are some who have gotten in- interest in the excitement of new anyone, knows the impact of the broad range of popular styles. cific Northwest. Blues markets volved with cassettes because product. bootlegger. Muntz, the indefatig- If the artist bows with a hit are Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, they can record music or speech But this excitement is prone able defender of the 4 -track album, its counterpart tape is San Francisco, New York, Los with the equipment. The kids are to wane if the tape counterpart concept, paints a rosey picture sure to gain the nod from teens. Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore very aware that 8 -track machin- of a hit album is not available. for the teen-age bootlegger. and St. Louis. have Geographical location can be ery doesn't this capability. "If the record's cooled off and "The bootleggers are doing great Youngsters that a factor in the daily or seasonal Young people today are are aware the you're just getting the cartridge," business and they always will." oriented sound is all sale of taped music. On a week- toward blues packages, quality improving says Music City's Ethan Caston, They have the best selection of the in the end a few weeks ago, teen-agers and such old-timers as Elmore time cartridge field. "the excitement factor is cut and material because they pick the flocked to two San Fernando James and Howlin' Wolf are Kids have never been the mass it can affect sales." top 40 best selling singles off Valley stores in the sprawling reaping the benefits of exposure buyers of high fidelity equip- Kids are more aware of tape the national chart and their cus- Los Angeles suburb. Business for the first time before young ment, points out Capitol's Oris than their parents, the retailer tomers pick the 10 songs of the next day was not nearly as ears. Vintage blues cartridges Beucler, so the sound they are believes. Usually this interest their selection. These songs are good. In Detroit, motor driven haven't become an overwhelm- accustomed to is often better begins when a teen-ager comes duplicated in a cartridge some- kids packed tape stores on ing part of the teen market, but than what they hear on their of driving age. By the time they times by the kid's mother while Saturday. sales are gaining steadily. Young small transistorized radios. are 16 they have developed artist he's in school learning about the people who dig a rural blues "Teens have always been in- loyalities and taste patterns. The reason? In Southern Cali- financial structure of the coun- caravan for the first time at a terested in a big sound in the The teener in New York, fornia where the weather is gentry, its industrial complex and coffee house, or college concert, midrange. They have no feel for Atlanta or Denver usually seeks erally conducive to outdoor lei- the capitalistic form of enter- can be expected to re-create the great fidelity in the extreme out those first artists heard on sure time activities, teens prefer prise. experience by buying a tape by high or low ranges," but Beucler records when it conies time to to do their shopping prior to Eight -track blank cartridges that performer or someone who does feel that young people are stock a library. That's why ever- the weekend. On Saturday and are selling like blank cassette sings in the same mode. "demanding better sound" from green hits are duplicated. Past Sunday "surf's up" and the tapes, Muntz theorizes. His 4 - Since cartridges initially were the set manufacturers. hits stimulate past memories. highways leading to the beaches track business has always been related to automobiles, individ- The teen set seems to have The formula seems to read: are jammed with cars of all sizes. plagued by the illegal duplicator, ual state driving laws affect sales discovered the cassette system, past hits stimulate past memo- The din of music, usually rock, who first filled orders on artists patterns in various regions. In Beucler believes, with the same ries. wafts through the air, and is not available on 4 -track, but Florida, where kids can drive alacrity as when 8 -track was the And new hits motivate new clearly heard when cars stop to who now sells price as a deter- at 16, the tape market has newest electronic baby. excitements. park and one hears the natural mining reason for staying in grown nicely. Tape sales in The cassette system has one So most forms of mass ap- sound of the pounding surf. business. Texas and Louisiana, for ex- special feature going for it which peal pop music keep the teen- Youngsters across the coun- In Detroit, the theorem goes, ample, are linked to the fact endears it to teens. A manu- age buyer on an up -tempo path try discover who their friendly teens are not nearly as mag- that kids also drive at a young facturer can program four tunes to his favorite tape dealer. backyard duplicators arc and netized toward spending as age. on a cassette, and the teen has Or favorite school chum often stock up on their own hit much time outdoors all 'year Since boys generally own his oldies hut goodies tape for turned duplicator. T-4 Summer Is a Tape Thing MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Motown StereoTapes... for Sound SummerProfits

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Ask Iry Katz, president of catering to youthful cassette Audio Magnetics, about the fu- buyers. The company recently ture of blank tape and he'll re- created a separate operation to Retailers spond with words exuding unin- service the cassette market, and hibited confidence. also revamped its factory opera- Audio Magnetics, blank tape tion to accommodate a more manufacturer and duplicator and cassette -geared marketing pro- Gear one of the pioneer entrants in the gram. blank tape market, is a company To reach the broadest possi- on the move with its blank cas- ble market for its tape product, sette product. the company uses every form of For And the target of Audio Mag- outlet available. In addition to netics is Young America. conventional retailers, Audio Magnetics distributes product to Young people really can do drugstore chains, specialty out- things about the Summer economic cli- lets and variety stores. mate in the tape market. And what they do-and what they When the cassette boom don't do-can send sales and came, Katz was ready. Super profits of some companies soar- How? ing, others tumbling. Audio Magnetics product is Audio Magnetics is willing to available at J. C. Penney, Sears, gamble on the "under 25" Radio Shack, Western Boom crowd. Auto, Walgreens, S. S. Kresge, Wool- Just how bi4 Audio Magnetics' worth's, Thrifty, among others. cassette business has really It supplies cassette product to sweet through player at In The sound of money is in equipment giveaways $29.88. Sacramento, grown can be seen in this: it 10 major duplicators and Grand six booming forth from the tape regional contests. Auto Stores, a five -store has manufactured and shipped traditional record manufacturers. cartridge market chain, is advertising a 4 -track to retailers The teen-age group is going 1.3 million cassettes this month, And to a list of player manufac- stereo player across the nation. in a big way for cartridge play- for $29.88. It also of which 400,000 were prelead- turers, including Norelco (Phil- is offering 8 -track Industry forecasts in both ers, and the demand for cassette tape from ered and supplied to prerecorded ips) and Bell & Howell. hardware and soft goods have recorders, particularly those Capitol, Atlantic, London, Scep- tape duplicators. In June, 2 mil- The set the volume level for summer priced from $40 down, is be- ter, Atco, RCA, Decca and Lib- lion cassettes will be produced, company recently formed erty with a an international division to di- sales at a record -breaking high. ginning now to come on strong. for $5.79, twin pack of which 1 million will be pre- bonus special for $4.99. leadered for tape duplicator use. rect its overseas operations in So, what are retailers doing to California retailers are show- Mexico, Israel and India, with stimulate ing a willingness to merchandise Muntz Stereo -Pak features a additional summer And how does Audio Mag- additional commitments in Eu- sales? and cassette. With 4 -track stereo both cartridge unit for $21.95 netics go after the youth mar- rope, South America, Canada, a good business going for them (regular price: a 4 and At Sears and Montgomery $39.95); ket? "Easy," said Katz, "we the Near East, South Africa and 8 8 -track compatible Ward the merchandising and in both 4 and -track cartridge stereo player cater to the mods and the minis." the Southwest Pacific. marketing concept is to gear up players-in homes now, as well at $59.95; a Sony 8 -track tape It recently produced a new line recorder Katz, whose company does to the affluent middle -income, as in automobiles - merchants at $129.95; 60 -minute of youth products, including a about 25 per young adult found living in here apparently have no reser- blank cassettes at 99 cents; 4 - 15 -minute extended play blank cent of its business Southern California's sprawling vations about the influx of cas- track tapes at $1.98, and 8 - cassette to retail at 79 cents. Au- in the overseas market, sees about 24 freeway suburbs. sette recorders. track tapes at $2.98. dio Magnetics also offered a 36 - million cassettes being sold in his "primary overseas If you want to make it selling Just how big the player mar- In Craig's outlets, a cassette minute blank long-playing cas- market," including 15 million in tape and related hardware equip- ket is in California is evident portable tape recorder (model sette, listed at 98 cents, and a Europe, 2 million in South Af- ment at White Front, a 22 from the upswing in business 2603) retails at $59.95; a port- compact blank cassette twin - -store rica, 2 million in South Amer- chain in California, this year. Next year, White able cassette recorder with AM/ pack at $1.79. tune into ica, 500,000 in the Near East, the teen market, where Front, May Co., Sears, and oth- FM radio (2606) at $119.95: a "And that's just for openers," discount 1.5 million in Canada, 500,000 pricing rings the cash register. ers, expect to carry an even portable cassette tape recorder according to Katz. "To further in Mexico and 3 million in the larger inventory in players. (2602) at $69.95; a portable At music specialty shops, too, tape tailor its cassette line for Young Southwest Pacific. owners are taking a hard, long Summer promotions aimed at recorder (2108) at $54.95, and America, Audio Magnetics plans look at sales and are now mak- teen-agers and young adults another portable (2106) at to merchandise cassettes in He sees sales reaching $10 ing room for additional tape come right to the point. They $69.95. The company's low -end unique ways. "Our EP and LP million this year, a tidy growth stock. stress low-cost units. The White portable tape recorder (model cassettes will be marketed in live- from its $2.2 million sales year instance, 212) retails at $34.95. ly in 1967. And at Muntz-Stereo Pak's Front Stores, for are colors-pink, blue, purple. advertising cassette tape record- Or what about retail store, "It's music on Higher priced tape equipment scented cas- The reason: Young America ers at $29.97 list, MGM's 2 - settes?" wheels, man, and like if you is also advertised, primarily with has discovered the blank cas- ain't got it, you ain't with it." track player at $11.96. Concord's the adult market in mind. White Audio Magnetics feels it can sette. And the boom is turning portable reel-to-reel recorder at The teen-age press of business Front features a Sony cassette triple its business this year by into a superboom. a Webcor cassette re- recently so clogged installation $19.75, recorder priced at $99.50, a facilities that the company pulled corder at $29.95 and a secondary Webcor 8 -track stereo cartridge cassette recorder at its regular radio sales ads and brand player at $69.97, and a portable $24.97. substituted a message to delay compatible for both 4 and 8 - purchase -happy youngsters from May Co., a 16 -unit depart- track tapes at $89.97. ment store chain, also joined Muntz Goes coming out to the facility. K -Mart, a division the summer parade of S. S. It didn't work. The next day, promotion Kresge with Playtape's Hipster player Co., has a cartridge tane despite appeals on two teen - recorder for $49.97, while Kay oriented radio stations, pleading model at $25.99, Concord's cas- Af ter Graduates Jewelers is offering a cassette sette radiocorder at a with teen-agers to call ahead for $69.95, recorder at Handy -Andy compact open -reel recorder by $29.95. an appointment," the four -lane stores in Sacramento also are Concord that carries a list price Muntz Stereo-Pak will pro- and ultimately upgrade his own installation center again was a carrying more cassette equip- of $19.95, and a 4 and 8 -track mote its M-12 compatible player player because of the constant traffic jam. ment, including a Panasonic compatible unit at $48.88. cas- with a graduation promotion this exposure to the higher priced The reason: a 4 -track stereo sette player/ recorder at $29.95 Bullock's department stores June. The campaign will utilize equipment. unit regularly retailing at $39.95 and another cassette recorder radio print are promoting a Magnavox cas- and media to stimu- The company plans opening was selling for $21.95. for $34.88. It also offers an late parents to buy gradu- sette recorder at $59.90, and their two "instant stores" in the Los A push for each tape concept, RCA reel-to-reel recorder for ating seniors a $39.95 Radio Shack offers a variety of unit. Angeles area mobile trailers whether it be cartridge, cassette, $28.88. - equipment, including cassette The California company is converted into 4 -track music or open -reel, is coming from A drug chain, MDX, is jump- recorders priced from $24.95 starting to think nationally in and player most retail outlets. And they're ing on the hardware bandwagon shops. These new and up, plus two portable open - terms of its promotions. It has stores which come completely jumping on the hardware band- by offering a Mayfair cassette reel units at $14.95 and $24.95. been assisting Carlson's of Salt equipped and are trucked to a wagon, too. recorder for $23.88 (regularly Specialty shop promotions are Lake City in developing mer- vacant location and then placed The $29.95). report from key mass being concentrated on lower chandising and advertising aids on foundations, will be the ob- merchandisers is that "tape is priced merchandise. The Pep Tape sales also will become for a campaign promoting music jects of strong promotion during not only a summer thing a part of the summer but Boys, for instance, is featuring fling. Thrif- and machinery. Munti s own the summer months. President year-round happening." ty, a drugstore is And a 4 -track auto unit (sans speak- major chain, ad department prepares the ma- Earl Muntz hopes to build a net- manufacturers are beefing up ers) at $26.88 and a 4 and 8 - selling 4 -track cartridges at $3.69 terials for the Utah company work of these franchised opera- their co-operative 8 advertising track compatible car stereo at and -track cartridges at $4.44. which foots the bill for all the tions from Los Angeles to San programs to prove it. $56.95, with tape cartridges at K-Mart is offering blank tapes aids. Francisco. Specialty stores such as $1.49. (30 min.) at 88 cents, while Sprouse -Reitz, a 16 -store chain; In the specialty field, Say -On, blank tape (60 min.) at MDX re- "If you can merchandise a There will be a large and store the way you merchandise small version Kay Jewelers of Los Angeles a drugstore chain, is offering a tails at 87 cents (regularly of the instant store and Sacramento, and the Pep Craig portable tape recorder $1.49). an LP," believes Muntz sales with as many as three persons manager Don Bohanan, "you required to run an operation. A Boys, an automotive supply out- (model 212) at $34.95, and a Pre -recorder cassette and 8 - can draw lots of people." Muntz large store will let, are all taking advantage of budget line of Premier blank cas- track tapes at Save-On are stock $10,000 has opened special country and in music the summer tape superboom, too. settes for 69 cents (30 min.), priced at $2.95. and $5,000 in units. western and rhythm and blues Player manufacturers are us- 99 cents (60 min.) and $1.29 In California, 4 -track and 8 - Muntz will provide a credit sections in its Los Angeles store, ing radio, TV and newspaper (90 min.). The tape sale also track are the sales warhorses, plan for a franchisee backed by and other West Coast Muntz advertising to promote their includes 8 -track and cassette but the retailer here views the the Commercial Credit Co. dealers are picking up the idea. product. With more low-priced tapes at $2.95. proliferation of cassette equip- The idea of developing a mov- player equipment available to For car -bound teens, Sears is ment as another opportunity to There is a company theory able store for a product which is the teen-ager this year, several pushing 4 and 8 -track stereo make further headway with the that a steady music customer will inexorably tied to a transportable companies are placing emphasis players at $79.88 and a 4 -track swinging tape market. observe new player machinery society seems very fitting. T-6 Summer Is a Tape Thing MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD EDDIE HARRIS 8 41 SILVER CYCLES IAM4 H uu0 HERBIE MANN MEMPHIS UNDERGROUND

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JOE TEX HAPPY SOUL e TPACO Art A1117r 1311 .111 About the New Tape Cartridge Charts BEST SELLING This issue inaugurates a new for each best seller listing. Rank, many other ways at weekly all levels series of best-selling as shown in the charts, was de- of the industry. Dealers are Tape charts covering tape cartridges termined on total points earned cautioned not to limit their buy- by configuration. by each title. Completed re- ing within the narrow range of Research to produce these ponses were received from out- these charts. This is the product charts was conducted among lets in 23 different States, with that can he counted on to de- 1,500 dealers of various types each major region of the coun- liver substantial sales, but there Cartridges -racked and independent-in- try represented. All responding are many other titles in all concluding music -record stores, de- outlets offered 8 -track, 75 per figurations which are in high partment stores, 8 TRACK mass merchan- cent offered cassettes, and 21 consumer demand and should disers, tape centers and automo- per cent sold 4 -track tapes. he part of the basic inventory. tive This Last outlets. The number of positions Weeks en Many of these can he found in Week Week TITLE-Artist, Label Respondents listed, in rank shown in the charts in this issue the tape cartridge columns of Chart order, their 15 best sellers based are not 1 GALVESTON fixed. They will grow Billboard's weekly Top LP's - 1 on the most Glen Campbell, Capitol recent week's sales. in depth as the number of re- chart. Thus, for buying evalua- 2 BLOOD, SWEAT Points were assigned, title by spondents grow and the - & TEARS 1 validity tion purposes, these two charts Columbia title, on an inverse point ratio of ranks beyond the positions -supported by Billboard's reg- 3 IN -A -GADDA -DA system, with - -VIDA 1 the No. I best show here matches Billboard's ular Iron Butterfly, Atco seller listing getting listings of new tape car- IS points. research standards. 4 HAIR tridge releases-should provide - 1 No. 2 getting 14 points. etc., Popularity charts are pub- Original Cast, RCA Victor down to the No. I S listing lished basically to excellent buying guidance for all 5 WICHITA provide buy- - LINEMAN 1 which earned I point. Points ing guidance for retailers, al- outlets in the tape cartridge Glen Campbell, Capitol were added, 6 GREATEST by configuration, though they are also used in business. - HITS 1 Donovan, Epic 7 BEATLES - 1 Capitol 8 BAYOU COUNTRY - 1 (reedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy RCA Follows 9 JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON the Sun - 1 Columbia 10 CLOUD RCA Records will be rolling Newsweek, - NINE 1 Look, Evergreen, tainer for "Hair," and the sec- Temptations, Gordy with the theme "Follow the sun Saturday Review, High Fidelity, ond a 20 -cartridge container for 11 ASSOCIATION'S with musical fun" in - GREATEST HITS 1 its adver- Country Song & Roundup, Ster- assorted country cartridges. Warner Bros. -Seven Arts tising -promotion -publicity cam- eo Review, Playboy, Harrison 12 LIVE These have been designed to - 1 paign for 8 Tom Jones, Parrot Stereo this summer. Tape Catalogue and the record merchandise product at point of 13 HELP YOURSELF trade publications. sale to the consumer. In - 1 "Although Stereo 8 is in every addition Tom Jones, Parrot to a header card for store sense an all -year business, it is In addition to extensive print dis- 14 BALL - 1 play, the prepack contains a true that the number of places advertising, RCA will conduct a win- Iron Butterfly, Atlantic where Stereo 8 turns dow -counter -wall streamer. Ad 15 TIME PEACE/GREATEST up increases comprehensive spot radio cam- - HITS 1 in the summer months-beaches, paign in major markets during mats are also available. Rascals, Atlantic The prepacks have 16 STEPPENWOLF sail boats, picnic areas, patios the summer, Barnett said. "Our been pre- - 1 pared Dunhill and the like," said Mort Barn- past experience has as a result of the success shown us 17 GENTLE ON MY of four such packs introduced in - MIND 1 ett, manager, recorded tape ad- that radio is very effective for Glen Campbell, Capitol vertising January for "Oliver!" "Sound of and promotion. cartridge sales," he continued. 18 LED ZEPPELIN - 1 Music," "Elvis" and "Feliciano," Atlantic The advertising is scheduled Promotionally, RCA is intro- and are designed to attract the 19 FEVER ZONE in the following publications, - 1 ducing two new display/shipper "impulse buyer" in retail out- Tom Jones, Parrot some with multiple insertions: prepacks, one a 10 -cartridge con- lets. 20 3 DOG - NIGHT 1 Dunhill

Superscope Planning Tape Windfall CASSETTE This Sony Superscope will use this explains Last Weeks on marketing man Bob music products, headed by Mary Week Week TITLE-Artist, Label summer as Chart a time for develop- Behrens. Scott. formerly of Capitol. Beh- ment and consolidation of ideas Superscope will unveil its pre- 1 - GALVESTON 1 rens as well as executive a&r Glen Campbell, Capitol for the launching of the com- recorded music at the consumer producer Jack Wagner are all 2 WICHITA pany's line of budget -priced 8 - - LINEMAN 1 electronics show in New York former Capitol people. Glen Campbell, Capitol track and cassette tapes. in mid -June. President Joe Tushinsky has 3 BEATLES 1 The company is also - staffing The company will develop set a $3.95 list for his tapes Apple up its duplicating facility to 4 ASSOCIATION'S promotions in conjunction with which will present a good sam- - GREATEST HITS 1 eventually Warner Bros. -Seven Arts handle the manufac- the 5,500 franchised Sony tape pling of his original piano rolls ture of these Superscope tapes recorder dealers in the U. S. as recorded 5 - IN -A -GADDA -DA -VIDA 1 on the Weite vor- Iron Butterfly, Atco which will cover all fields of "The public will relate our tapes setzer. These "Keyboard Im- 6 musical expression. to - ENGELBERT 1 the recorders," Behrens adds. mortals" performances will be Engelbert Humperdinck, Parrot "This is a time for develop- To develop its own graphic augmented by other classical 7 BALL ing management systems so we - . 1 appearance, the company has tapes as well as a full line of Iron Butterfly, Atco can go full steam in the fall," created an art department for pop products. 8 - FEVER ZONE 1 Tom Jones, Parrot 9 FRANK - SINATRA'S GREATEST HITS 1 Reprise 10 - SUPER HITS, VOL 3 1 Ampex Various Artists, Atlantic Aims 11 at Teens CREEDENCE CLEARWATER - REVIVAL 1 Fantasy While continuing the monthly This will provide the impetus tributors and dealers at the 12 - CLOUD NINE 1 releases throughout Temptations, Gordy the sum- for a consumer sales campaign Consumer Electronics Show at mer 13 DIANA ROSS months, Ampex will also that will continue - & THE SUPREMES GREATEST HITS 1 through the the Hilton Hotel, New York, Motown mount an extensive consumer summer, hacked by heavy trade June 15. campaign at the Teen 14 - STEPPENWOLF 1 World's and consumer advertising on all Ampex are currently com- Dunhill Fair, beginning at the New York configurations. pleting details for a new con- 15 BAYOU Coliseum - COUNTRY 1 May 29, announced In addition, a special promo- cept for micro cassette racking Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy Ampex advertising manager, tion on cassettes and micro cas- also, which will be unveiled at James W. Johnson. settes will be mounted for dis- the Hilton Show. 4 -TRACK

This Last Weeks en Ethnic Goes to College Week Week TITLE-Artist, Label Chart 1 - GALVESTON 1 Glen Campbell, Capitol Ethnic Tapes, a subdivision of product in the New York car- bel and affiliates and such labels 2 BAYOU COUNTRY 1 Roulette Records, is planning to - tridge market. Biggest seller,, of as Philips, Vogue, Cotique and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy enter the college market with its course, is Spanish language 3 car- Musicor. The business is still - JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON 1 new series of authentic African tridges. Columbia growing and Gurlek speculated 4 music cartridges. Richard Gur- Ethnic Tapes, brainchild of - WICHITA LINEMAN 1 lek, sales and promotion chief Roulette president Morris Levy, that there was a chance of prod- Glen Campbell, Capitol 5 of the operation, said there has has uct being - TIME PEACE/GREATEST HITS 1 roughly 160 titles out in 8 - released sometime in Rascals, Atlantic been a recent splurge of African track, including the Roulette la- the future on cassette. 6 - DONOVAN'S GREATEST HITS 1 Epic 7 - IN -A -GADDA -DA -VIDA 1 Iron Butterfly, Atco 8 - BIRTHDAY PARTY 1 SteDDenwolf, Dunhill 9 - STEPPENWOLF . 1 The New Tape Cartridge Charts Dunhill to - ASSOCIATION'S GREATEST HITS 1 Start this week-see this page Warner Bros. -Seven Arts S111baard Special Survey fer Week Ending May 31

T-8 Summer Is a Tape Thing MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD TÁp

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For the name of your nearest NAL Distributor contact: NORTH AMERICAN LEISURE 1776 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019 or phone collect (212) 265-3340 W-7 Into Major Tape Launching

"Dean Martin Wants You in mer to inspect both sides of the about 240 tapes with an inven- His Car," the sign will entic- plastic casing. tory value of $1,000 and the ingly read. And the people at Consumer reaction will prod owner doesn't know what he's Warner Bros. -Seven Arts Tapes the company to either go ahead got stocked. hope the will public jump in and package all its 8 -tracks in Unlike other companies like their buggies with Dino. the cardboard holder (which fits Capitol which have established This slogan as well as a num- a in browser rack) or seek an- relationships with automotive in- ber of others will appear this other outer package. dustry subdistributors, W-7 has summer around the country as W -7's tape sales manager Ted chosen to let its distributors cov- W-7 launches its first major Ponseti has visiting been all the er all the non -music outlets like promotional effort its 8 - for company's distributors to help camera and auto accessory track cartridges. in the - "education" process. Pon shops. Since Jan. 1, W-7 has had seti has also been visiting re- sales and marketing control over tail accounts and in some in- All W -7's initial promotions its own 8 -track product. Now stances established department will center around the standard the company is unfurling its re- stores which still haven't dis- album releases. There are no spected merchandising skills and covered the child called car- plans yet to develop specialized erudition and going to "educate" tridge. repertoire like variety packs. the public and trade that W-7 "There are still people who "We don't know if there is a has a stable catalog of tapes. don't know that our acts are on market for that kind of mate- Display kits will he provided tape," admits marketing vice- rial," Friedman says. to all the W-7 record distribu- president Joel Friedman. "I'll Of one thing he is certain: tors who have the exclusive take you to a department store once the total tape industry es- selling rights to all W-7 8 -track in Los Angeles or Chicago and tablishes an acceptable package cartridges. show you the absence of tape," container which will allow the W-7 has been field testing in he tells a visitor. "Why?" customer to browse the mer- the East its own browsable con- Or, Friedman will show you chandise, tape's growth will be tainer which allows the custo- a store with a desk size bin of impressively speeded.

Capitol Goes to Airwaves for Tape Promotions

Capitol has bought time on tridge m u s i c. Merchandising Capitol is eying the college In addition to pop music, buying cassettes with the same the NBC Radio Network during manager Hal Rothberg notes the press and a new, untapped area country sounds are a very good speed as when 8 -track was first the upcoming moon shot to pro- company has also bought time for tape exploitation. Capitol's area for cartridge sales. "The unveiled. mote its tape products. on three national TV shows, recent cassette explosion promo- country music market has be- Would Capitol engineer a The unusual time buy will ex- "Dating Game," "Let's Make a tion was geared at young people come quite affluent," feels Oris to handle pose Capitol's cassette and 8 - Deal" and "Newlywed Game" and there are plans for a rock Beucler, special products vice- player both cassette track titles before a mass na- promoting the cassette mode. music promotion for cassettes in president. "These people are and 8 -track since it distributes tional audience for the first time "These are shows catering to either August or September. looking for innovations such both these configurations? "We in the broadcasting industry. young people," according to The company is very enthusias tape cartridges." All Capitol's are working on a design for an Capitol is gearing itself during Rothberg, and comprise the ex- astic about the cassette mode, major country acts have been adapter which would play a cas- the warm weather months for a act audience for tapes and play- with additional money being released on 8 -track and cassette. sette through an 8 -track system," series of promotions for car - ers. planned for the next fiscal year. Beucler says youngsters are answered Beucler.

MGM lines Up Liberty Hot With Exploitable Items Drive -Ins Liberty Stereo -Tape has three with another 10 planned for 81/4 inches long and 191 inches Summer is the season for major items to exploit this sum- for July. high at the back with a header drive-in theaters and Iry Stimler, mer. Liberty calls the release of its card. These header cards may to use with other director of tape and special proj- First is its national expansion own designed cardboard holder be changed of its big little cassette line, for 8 -track tapes an experiment. merchandise. ects at MGM Records, is plan- which has been field tested on The container is being built by Liberty will pre -pack the Riv- ning a campaign toward this the West Coast. Second is the an Omaha manufacturer and is ers and Dimension tapes in the captive audience for tape CAR- debut of its own "pik pack" car- a key ingredient in a promotion holder, but after that each store tridges and cassettes. tridge holder and third is the centered around the new Johnny will be responsible for assem- Iry Slimier advancement of its recently Rivers "Touch of Gold" and bling its own packaging. "We've already lined up the bowed "Move Music" series of Fifth Dimension "Aquarius" Liberty's pik pack measures Walter Reade theater chain .. . programmed tapes. tapes. 4 inches by 12 inches and 33 can they're definitely interested. fit in a 12 -inch browser bin. The But cartridge, for the most part, be- June I is the launching date Liberty's package has a lock black color motif is designed to I would rather have a rack job- cause the most volume of sales for the national sale of $1.98 top instead of a heat seal. The offset the artwork of the car- ber do this than us." The drive- is done on rock 'n' roll product." four -tune cassettes which are de- package is black in color with a The rule of thumb, he said, is signed to offer top hits by an hand pointing to the open win- tridge. in theater, under this type of The will release that cartridges are selling about artist. "We have found out that dow through which the cus- company four campaign, would feature a slide additional titles to its "Move one -fifth to one-fourth of what there is a definite market for a tomer sees the tape. series, its first or film clip on the screen adver- an album by the same artist is $2 buyer," reports sales man- The program whereby an ac- Music" including "Rock on the Move" program. tising the cartridge product avail- selling. A hit cartridge sells ager Charlie Bratnober. "Big lit- count receives a browser bin A large two-piece display will able at the popcorn stand. 200,000 units. tle cassettes are very appropriate and a number of tapes is tied be offered as a sales stimulus the 8 -track is a because the large number of into the rush -release these two As another method of boost- "But buyer of of for this series. different buyer, in my opinion. portable machines on the mar- titles. ing sales of cartridges this sum- The tape division is preparing He's a little older. I feel that ket." The browser box for the spe- more merchandising and sales mer, Stimler is toying with the we might not sell even though Twenty new big little cas- cial tapes is 131/2 inches wide, programs than ever before, adds idea a as many units of a good music of giving away portable settes will be offered in June, 61/4 inches high at the front, general manager Earl Horowitz. cartridge player as an induce- cartridge as we will a Cowsills cartridge, there's still a healthy ment to dealers. market waiting." In the line of product, MGM Stimler also predicted that the will bow in the next few weeks day is coming when record com- Sees Sales several jazz and good music panies will sell a million units Fantasy Tripling of a hit cartridge. sampler cartridges in 8 -track. By GEOFFREY LINK These will carry suggested prices The key cartridge slated for of about $3.98. release this summer by MGM Fantasy Records expects to at of LP sales, which on 'Bayou "have any plans to duplicate will be the soundtrack of "Good- least triple its tape offerings by Country' is 400,000 so far." Ampex's promotions" or do any "We'll also be releasing a new bye, Mr. Chips," and this will the end of the year, according Fantasy does its own distribut- of its own. line of better music cartridges receive extensive cross -promo- to Saul Zaentz, label president. ing through 30 record distribu- Zaentz predicts that the "tape and cassettes. These will include tion through both movie and Fantasy has about 25 selec- tors, Zaentz said, but it also has market will come close to dou- generally lush background -type record outlets, as well as normal tions available now and is add- a deal with Ampex, which re- bling when the new cars are cartridge channels. Other prod- ing two to three a month. With leases tapes to electronics houses. music such as some of the tunes out" in the fall. uct to be released in the next a spate of fall releases, the firm Nationally, Ampex sales about Fantasy began tape of David Rose, pieces from 45 days will feature Roy Orbi - will have 75-100 LP's on tape double Fantasy's. In California offering soundtracks like 'Gone With the son, Wayne Newton, the sound- by the end of December. alone, Fantasy sells more than two and a half years ago, with Wind' and 'Dr. Zhivago.' Re- track of "I a Woman II," the "Eight -track is by far the 10,000 tapes a month. only five -six selections, mostly member the Jackie Gleason ma- Blues Project, Willie Bobo, Jim- leader," he continued, "and Ampex is buying radio time 4 -track and open reel. This May, terial of several years ago? That my Smith, Count Basie, the Creedence Clearwater Revival is to promote the Creedence tapes, Fantasy released tapes by Char- type of music. The record busi- Cowsills, and the Lovin' Spoon- Fantasy's best seller, with tapes plus it has commissioned posters, lie Mingus, Billie Joe Becoat ness has avoided this type of ful. representing over 20 per cent Zaentz said, but Fantasy doesn't and Cal Tjader. T-10 Summer Is a Tape Thing MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 171M '11,1 l JUT2A MAJ

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LOADED BLANK CARTRIDGES Modern Tape will release new conventional 5 -inch holder, says titles June 10 in both its Flair 30 Modern vice-president Bob De- and 12 Original Artists Oldies main. its first warm CLEAR TOP 4 & 8 TRACK PROFESSIONAL QUALITY TAPE Hits lines as For its oldies series, Modern weather promotion. has designed a black and gold There will be three new old- holder with a round diecut to ies tapes bringing that catalog give the impression of a gold Channel can fill all your orders for up to an 18 title high. This ma- record. This is a departure from terial sells for $6.98 in 8 and the standard square viewing win- Empty or Blank Loaded 4 & 8 Track $5.98 in 4 -track. There is no dow. cassette representation for the Cartridges. Any standard length shipped The Modern emphasis is on vintage hits. repackaging its vintage blues There will be 12 new Flair from stock. Custom lengths on order. material, although the Flair line tapes (retailing at $3.98 in both has a broader scope of pop and 4 and 8 -track), for a 24 title jazz product. catalog. DELIVERY! in the GUARANTEED! IMMEDIATE A Flair low pilferage mer- There are 128 titles will in Modern Tape library, 27 in the AND PRICE INFORMATION PHONE (600) 424.3344 chandiser be offered con- FOR DIRECT PRODUCT junction with the release of the Modern/Fax party line and the new material. The unit is like oldies and Flair lines. CHANNEL MARKETING, INC. the Recco holder which fits into "We expect an extremely 342 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017 a 12 -inch LP bin, only Modern strong summer," summerizes TEL.: (212) 682-2848 will manufacture the cardboard Demain in Chicago. "We expect holder itself in its Los Angeles it to go continue strongly through factory. This outer case will the first of the year. I don't see come in red and black. any back slide over the sum- Jobbers will be able to spec- mer months as we have been ify this 12 -inch holder or the used to seeing with records." Key National Radio Leaders Discuss the DY- NAMIC POWER and PROBLEMS of RADIO at Billboard's 2nd annual Radio Programming Paramount Stereo Tape Forum, June 19-22. A 'Unified' Image

For details write: A new Paramount Stereo Tape A series of soundtrack tapes line will be unveiled this June will be developed, as will be a encompassing product from Dot, variety pack program. Peters Atca, Steed and Paramount Rec- was instrumental in developing ords. Approximately 150 titles variety packs at Liberty Stereo - will be released within one year Tape. in 8 -track and cassette, reports There is a possibility that a Paramount's chief music execu- series of variety packs may be FORUM tive, Arnold Burk. developed culled from the Dot The only Paramount -owned catalog and then released as al- label which will not henceforth bums. There are over 500 titles be merchandised under this new in the catalog from which to se- radio logo will be the Stax/ Volt line lect repertoire. in Memphis. Paramount has devised new Paramount Stereo Tape will black box packaging for its 8 - release 37 titles in both the cas- tracks and cassettes. Four-color sette and 8 -track models in June. artwork highlights the casing A $6.98 price will cover both configurations. itself. Wally Peters, who joined Par- Each of the company's 13 amount Stereo Tape May 19 as record promotion men are being programming operations director, will be in given an education course in the charge of developing product. tape business and will hence- A major campaign will be initi- forth promote both tapes and ated to cull the established cata- records. is moving 300 Madison Avenue New York, N. Y. 10017 log for material for cartridges. The tape business Ninth Floor The initial 25 tapes released on so nicely that Burk is motivated Dot last January will be re- to predict: "In one year tape released under the new Para- sales can account for 25 per mount logo. cent of our music business."

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Here is a rundown on what mer-unless there is a repeat CONCERTONE individual retailers here think of of last summer's rioting. their prospects for summer sales in the lively tape market. Waxie Maxie presen t.s Herb Fribush, buyer for three The District's famous rhythm kTARLINE Washington Super Music City and blues and jazz retailer, stores says sales of 8 -track and Waxie Maxie Silverman says his the soundest buy in 8 -track, cassette, cassettes are growing bigger all in -city Quality Music store is having very good sales of 8 - and reel-to-reel recorders! the time. Their stores will be L stocking heavily for the sum- track and he expects it to go J mer, and continue their adver- right on through the summer. tising in all media-including Cassettes arc selling so well the feature the backs of theater -ticket en- veteran retailer expects they will velopes. "be the big thing"-hut in his attractions - - downtown store they amount to Fribush, a veteran of over a only 2 per cent of tape sales as decade in the recorded music the total yet, and have not begun to catch business, says the 8 -tracks are up with his 8 -track sales. The tape concept still ahead in Music City stores, 2 4-track is "just about finished." l J hut cassettes are catching up He feels a really big display this summer. The young set paris needed to give tape the sales ticularly has boosted the sales rSTARLINE 8 -TRACK CARTRIDGE RECORD & push it needs. (He advertises of cassette tapes and the easy - PLAYBACK UNITS consistently on radio, and in inexpensive carry, players-hut newspapers, but like others in 7 Models Available - from $39.95 to $369.95 all ages are buying the 8 -track the area, was not as of this in- for car use and home use. Featuring the MODEL NO. CC -8-R. The terview, planning any special first fully automatic 8 -track tape cart- The higher -priced newcomer summer tape promotion.) Qual- ridge recorder built to professional cassettes by Columbia and Vic- ity Music is selling "everything" as standards! "Sensomatic" permits selec tor come no shock to Fri- in the 8 -track, although Waxie bush-and he expects them to Maxie specializes in rhythm and a tion of any part of any channel. Tape . : sell well even if they arc priced blues and pop. He sells a great releases automatically at end of playing somewhat higher. ("We are deal of country western on tape, time. No crosstalk. Special inputs per- used to higher prices from these too. mit recording from any sound source. two companies - Broadway The small record store, he Playback frequency response: 10 to 20,000 Hz. See and hear it at shows, classical and light pointed out, can't show enough the CE Show! Also available: Two 4 8 and 8 -Track De Luxe units classics and even pop singers tape product-they may average for home, auto and portable use have generally cost us more on up to 200 tapes at best-and these labels.") He expects them this can mean that in a cate- to sell well to the young set gory like Country and Western r STARLINE CASSETTE RECORDERS because "these kids really have there may be only 10 tapes- 6 Models Available - from $39.95 to $199.95 the money." not representative enough to build on. The store that can Featuring the MODEL 240 MINI- Advertising Tapes stock five to ten thousand tapes, CASSETTE. Weight: under 2 lbs.! However, the higher price for across the board and in depth, Complete record/playback unit with tape in general has held hack has it made. In his Rockville built-in speakers, fast forward, fast sales somewhat, together with store, Waxie Maxie says he has rewind, pop up cassette ejection. the lag behind record release a bigger display, wider selec- and tape should pull well Five integrated circuit boards aid dates. The lag is rapidly being tion, this summer. in low -noise recording and hi fi play- overcome, which adds to good summer prospects. When Super He mentioned-as did others back. Takes 6 pen lite batteries. Music first got into tape, there -that while 20 per cent of sales Frequency range. 80 cps to 6,000 was too much old catalog, but are in tape now in his stores, cps at 17/8 fps. See and hear it "now they arc in the main- the record sales have gone right t Lac the CE Show! stream, meeting record release up with the tapes. If tapes do dates." overtake records, Waxie sees no companies will Another plus for the retailer problem: "The ' STARLINE REEL-TO-REEL STEREO RECORDERS, simply phase out the conven- is the "good job" some com- 5 Models Available from $79.95 tional records gradually, as they - to $219.95 panies arc doing in advertising did with the old 78 speeds, featuring the MODEL 4001 tapes, and educating the public. and move their recordings into PORTABLE STEREO RECORDER. The more educated the public, tape. After all, if a record com- Powerful, solid state, AC, stereo the more sales rise because the pany is making two million a tapes arc easy to store, easy to recorder with facilities for year in records and tapes-and play, have better recordings, and sound -on -sound recording. Two can make three million in tape, there is less wear and tear on Vii meters, fast forward and re- cartridged they'll he perfectly happy about recordings. Fribush that!" wind, pause function for editing, says they find very few of the two mikes and patching cords. kind of defects that first plagued 'Pilferage Proof' Racks See and hear it at the CE Show! earlier tape product. Pilfering is a problem, par- Super Music, like others in ticularly with the cassette car- the Washington area, finds the tridges. The blunt and forth- 4 -track fading DEALERS- - MANUFACTURERS fast, and reel-to- right Waxie is not too im- reel going out with it, among pressed by manufacturers' pil- their particular cross-section of fer -proof rack that requires un- REPRESENTATIVES: customers (downtown, mid- locking of the tape. "Thieves Concertone will present the STARLINE town)-so they have discon- can get them out anyway. We tinued the open -reel entirely, at the June CE Show. The place: Americana put ours in a case, under lock track fast. and key." He spoke of other Hotel, 5th floor, the St. James Suite. companies that funish a fair- This merchandising program, embracing The only fault to be found with the 8 -track sized carton with a plastic front every aspect of tape recording and play- and cassette cartridge is that they are mov- to allow self-service but said back, is a dynamic profit mover in the tape ing too fast for manufacturers "They can break them out of industry. to keep up with the sales. the box and slip out with them." Selected dealer and representative fran- Super Music has carried 8 -track Waxie, who lost his famous chises available. for about a year and a half, 14th Street, ghetto -area store and cassettes for 6 months. Fri - in the riots last year, is philo- bush feels conventional records sophical about pilfering-which are safe for at least another will probably increase in the 10 years from serious inroads summer with all the kids out CONCERTONE from tape, partly because tape of school. 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He does not expect tape in my opinion." expects that in the summer, they to see records knocked out al- in' in the like most of the equal sales, together by any means, but he Waxie Maxie, could he reaching tape retailers, sells cassettes and and sales of both the 8 -track sees the move to tape buying just in the duplicating 8 -track players but they do not and cassette cartridges are ex- "in all fields-not l get the more costly kind. "The pected to get bigger in the fall. younger pop music." They can kids love the tapes. About 70 per cent of their At 'Woodies' business their pockets with enough stuff tape customers are in the young - cassettes to give them music for Another, somewhat more con- age group. Hecht is a very ag- players. And then, ventional and traditional down- hours on their gressively youth -oriented store. with Ford coming out with a town department store, the fa- uses heavy newspaper advertis- in its newer mous "Woodies" (Woodward & cassette player ing but no other kind so far. will spread. I feel Lothrop), had something of a models-this It prides itself on keeping one the cassettes lag in getting proper display that eventually ahead in whatever is jump space and pilfer -proof lock -in might knock out the 8 -tracks." the young and swinging with racks for its downtown and sub- and the young - Youth Market young -marrieds urban stores. But says Frank age minded among more mature in charge of buying A full program with all The big downtown department Wright. groups. stores Electro Sound equipment, installation stores, as expected, have not pre-recorded tape, in the and training, for top quality hi -speed operations kept pace with the music record- Hecht's has more faith in the that are provided with the right ing specialist retailer. But they pilfer -proof holding racks that fixtures, the sales keep picking AUDIOMATIC CORPORATION are moving fast. lock the cartridges in. while let- up at a fast rate. Westchester Ave., Bronx, N.Y. 10459 915 Co.'s Mel Fry, who ting the customer browse Wright expects that as the 212 LU 9-3500/Cable: AUDIOMATIC The Hecht has just taken over the tape op- through titles - but just the store's display areas and tape departments are readied and stocked, the summer sales will keep right up. They will do "some advertising" during the summer to help it along. The demand for cassette in stores where the stocks were not yet ready, "was very noticeable." THE TELEX 811R RECORDER/PLAYER revolu- Record sales have been going tionizes the 8 track stereo tape cartridge market. up right along with the tape sales, at Woodward and Loth- 811R STUDIO -QUALITY engineered for professional rop's, and based on orders, recording of classical and contemporary music. Wright sees no evidence as yet of tapes eating into record sales is not just FOUR LOGIC CIRCUITS-two in the record mode but expects to find out more trend as the stores allow choice of auto-stop at end of any single about this become fully equipped and all Two addi- program or at end of fourth program. demand for cassettes, as well choice another tional logic circuits in the play mode for as the well -stocked 8 -track, will of auto-stop at end of fourth program or continu- be met. ous play. Uptown, at Dan Danziger's 8 track plush Connecticut Avenue Disc RECORD/PLAY FEATURES include record gain Shop, summer prospects look controls for left and right channels, VU meter, good. Mike Framer, in charge meter switch for left and right channels, logic of tape product, says "Tape sales very well more play thing record interlock, record indica- are pulling - selector switch, every day in cassettes and 8 - tor, manual track selector with numerical pro- track. The new car owners and -the R gram reference and on -off pilot light. the fact that more people are out in their cars in summer, has PROFITS from TELEX are easy. Five models to pushed the 8 -tracks steadily up- sell-all manufactured by America's oldest name ward." Also, Washington is hav- stands for in the cartridge industry. ing a heavy tourist influx, and the tourist and convention trade should keep things rolling. Not Hurting Records RECORDER The Disc Shop buyers are all ages-the store has a solid inventory in classical and mood music as well as newer pop music on tape. Like most record and tape retailers in the area, they also sell tape players and cassettes, and then help the customers stock up for their new players. The tapes are not making a dent in record sales at the Disc Shop. Framer feels that for classical music, and for spotting individual passages or songs. the records will be solidly en- trenched "for a long time to come." Until the tapes achieve more perfection and selection in cartridges, and until the prices meet those of records. Framer believes the records will more than hold their own. The Disc Shop customers are "very knowledgeable" about tapes, these days. The store does not put out tape advertising per se, but it mentions having tapes in its advertising PLAYBACK MODELS in newspapers and on TV or PRODUCTS OF BOUND RESrARCN radio, when advertising its record sales. He mentioned the dollar - higher cassettes being TELEX® launched by Victor and Co- COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION lumbia philosophically: "After Contact: Russ Molloy all," he said, "can you name 9600 Aldrich Avenue South r e Minneapolis, Minnesota 55420 one thing where the price is not going up?" 811W 811 811A 811P portable The Georgetown Record and complete system pre -amp amplifier Book -Shop, owned by John Lear - mon, has "doubled last month's tapes sales, and stocked in quite heavily for summer," says tape manager Hugh Griffin. The (Continued on page T-26) BILLBOARD Is a Tape Thing MAY 31, 1969, T-22 Summer We've got the guts!

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MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Summer Is a Tape Thing T-25 in the Continued from page T-22 sette tape sales are about equal. because of its location Griffin says many new -car own- heart of a specialty area, a store gets good trade not only ers come in to stock up on pre- university locale, and a gener- from the nearby university stu- recorded tapes for their new ally young population. E CASSETTE 60 dents, but much tourist traffic. set L ATB L EIR car players. The younger At Saxitone Visitors to the city (busloads of go in for the cassette product. school -age, families with young Saxitonc, on Columbia Road the higher cost per. FULLY AUTOMATIC members) come to the area to Nevertheless, in far uptown Washington, is . of the tape is a big factor N see the famous Georgetown a super -specialty all -tape store. among their customers, in hold- P44 landmarks, and to browse It is half counter -retailer, and ing tape sales in favor around various specialty shops down half mail-order, and a discount- of records, said Griffin. He IN Sees Nr lePe on "M" street, Washington's er as well. David (Wally) Wal- feels that if it weren't for this T Greenwich Village parallel. strom does a many-sided thing: the conven- cgV p price differential, serves regular store traffic in Fast Sales tional records "could go over 3 variety of tape and tape years." every C4eFFR The Georgetown Record and the hill within a few equipment; serves schools and improvement in LABELS BOTH SIDES Book Shop is prominently men- The constant government; carries on an in- e(F in home tioned in all tourist brochures quality of tape and ternational mail-order business on tape is another ilill and other promotion, but has reproduction in all varieties of prerecorded among his not yet planned any special tape strong booster factor tape, which he carries in depth LABELS AUDIO INDUSTRY STANDARD CASSETTE many of the promotion of its own (as of this customers - to meet special requests. younger set using tape in their mid -May deadline). Walstrom is highly optimistic courses, research, etc. ECONOMICAL LONG OR SHORT - RUN PRODUCTION The specialty store has only about summer sales of 8 -track been in tape since the early It is too soon to calculate and cassettes. Saxitone is one of spring, and the fast sales have probabilities in dollars, said the few stores in the District espo engineering corp. led them to expect to sell all of Griffin, but the store is keeping where open reel sales are steady, a separate breakout on the 8 - sales to 5334 WEST 65th STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60638 their 8 -track and cassette prod- by way of mail-order selling. track and cassettes. This will be soldiers in Vietnam, military PHONE (312) 581-0123 uct stocked for summer As of now, the 8 -track and cas- one to watch with extra interest clubs and club buying. Most of the open -reel tapes he sells the military are in pop and rock, with a fair amount of country and western. Customers can mail-order almost any kind of tape. selected from the Harrison mailing list, and in almost any amount, and have it mailed to them out of Saxitone's. Building up a good mail-order customer list is the toughest part of this kind of Sales operation, and the detail inv- Bakers Dozen volved in follow-through and gives you an extra $6.98 of bread keeping records. Walstrom hopes to computerize if and when it becomes cheap enough to do so. It will make things a lot simpler when, for example, he wants to make the kind of graph he GET 1 FREE GRT TAPE WHEN YOU ORDER 12. is now making to compare the still -good open reel sales as 24, or 3 tapes Or 2 tapes free when you order against 8 -tracks and cassettes. free when you order 36. Get the idea? There's Pick-up Expected no limit to the extra profit you can cash in on- except that the sale ends June 30th. Walstrom had no special plans for large-scale summer Call Toni Tape collect at our office today to get promotion, beyond the usual. the in-store trade the complete details on this GRT sale. Bread is He expects and the domestic mail-order what we all need to eat. bread baby, and that's trade to pick up in the summer because of the extra car use, with 8 -track and cassettes NUMBER TITLE AND ARTIST more than holding their own. ABC9 CANDY Original Soundtrack The in-store traffic at this all - OF THE IMPRESSIONS ABC654 BEST tape operation has a fair age ABC659 TIME FOR LIVIN' Young Americans meg is getting IFPPFNA"!F ABC675 I'M ALL YOURS, BABY Ray Charles spread, but the market a A8C682 YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN- Frankie Laine younger. Walstrom finds ABC683 DIZZY Tommy Roe good deal more rock selling on

... , BANG2I9 NEIL DIAMOND'S GREATEST HITS tape-perhaps 25 to 30 per cent BELL6025 THE BOXTOPS SUPER HITS of the cassettes, and, surprising- -+>t r.u5rco[ DEN ENA BL5 OUTTA SEASON- Ike & Tina Turner ly, "in 8 -track it may be an .tea--- CAD8821 MOTHER NATURE'S SON Ramsey Lewis even higher per cent." His best ALWAYS TOGETHER The Dells CAD8822 store sales of tapes are in rock RAMSFY IFW Q DUN50025 FAREWELL TO THE FIRST GOLDEN ERA MOTHER very little v Mamas & Papas or classical-with HARRIS SON DUN50029 STEPPENWOLF middle-of-the-road, and not too DUN50037 STEPPENWOLF THE SECOND much country -western. HITS THE BEST OF DUN50047 GOLDEN GRASS, THEIR GREATEST - One other specialty aspect of THE IMPRESSIONS The Grassroots this unique operation-the cli- DUN50048 3 DOG NIGHT has a heavy Spanish- ORIGINAL DUN50052 LOVIN' THINGS The Grassroots entele SOUNDTRACK DUN50053 AT YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY Steppenwolf speaking contingent, for which CANDY DUN50055 BUBBLE GUM, LEMONADE FOR MAMA the store has a special linguist - Mama Cass helper, Miguel Diego. They sell DUN50058 THREE DOG NIGHT: II a lot of Spanish music in 8 - _-viDIONNE WARWICK S8 DUN14025 A TREASURY OF GREAT CONTEMPORARY HITS, GOLDEN HITS, track. Vol. I PART ONE ex- DUN14026 A TREASURY OF GREAT CONTEMPORARY HITS, Saxitone's has greatest Vol. 2 pectations for the highly versa- YEARBOOKSAND EV5200 PATSY CLINE'S GOLDEN HITS tile cassettes, which have such YES12RDAYS KAP3530 GOLDEN HITS - Roger Williams a wide use range. Walstrom ex- r KNG1047 SAY IT LOUD, I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD pects it to make heavy inroads James Brown on the 8 -track. The growing IC MON18000 ROY ORBISON'S GREATEST HITS U. factor is the suburbs, which BOOTS WITH STRINGS --Boots Randolph e MON18066 are very much tape -oriented, and NV2004 ALL MITCH RYDER HITS PLAI HARPER VALLEY P.T.A.---Jeannie C. Riley the influencing of the older PART L' PLA2 YEARBOOKS AND YESTERDAYS - groups by the younger set and rIYL' w[DlK , *YAW,., Jeannie C. Riley the college population, toward RAN8049 GALVESTON-Lawrence Welk tape. ROU42023 CRIMSON AND CLOVER--Tommy James .AMES yyr SAY it .^1 SCE565 GOLDEN HITS, Part 1 -Dionne Warwick M SCE571 PROMISES, PROMISES - Dionne Warwick 1M I SCE573 SOULFUL -Dionne Warwick FRANr UN173043 BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP Foundations NEW reYOUGA, WW7115 THE TURTLES' GOLDEN HITS A MOUN,°l' TAPE CARTRIDGE I111 BC ri, SI.D[R ,.i TAPE DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA CHARTS Division of Allstate Record Distributors 60632, (312) 2544612 THIS Td& 3035 W. 47th Street, Chicago START WEEK See Page T-8

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SALES OFFICES EAST 65 COMMERCE WAY HACKENSACK NEW JERSEY SOUTH 1125 97TH ST BAY HARBOR ISL . FLORIDA MIDWEST i:V1 W LUNT ELK GROVE VILLAGE ILL WEST 500 RODIER DRIVE GLENDALE CALIF HAWAII 313 KAMAKEE ST HONOLULU Listening These are best sell ng middle-of-the-road singles compiled from r ar -irai retail sales and radio station air play listed in rank order. t i á á ú ; ; ; TITIF, Artist, label & Number 3 oe

1 2 4 HAPPY HEART 9 Andy Williams, Columbia 44818 (Miller, ASCAPI

5 6 10 LOVE (Can Make You Happy) 8 Mercy, Sundi 6811 (Rendezvous Tobac, BMI

3 4 5 THE BOXER 7 Simon & Garfunkel Columbia 44785 (Charinj Cross, BMI` 10 21 35 LOVE THEME FROM ROMEO & JULIET 4 Henry Mancini 8 His Orch R(A 74 0131 (Famous, ASCAP)

2 1 1 AQUARIUS/LET THE SUNSHINE IN 11 Fifth Dimension, Soul City 772 (United Artists, ASCAP)

7 9 15 GOODBYE 6 Mary Hopkin, Apple 1806 (Maclen, BMI)

6 3 3 MY WAY 10 1 Frank Sinatra, Reprise 0817 (Don C. Spanka, BMI) 5 2 SEATTLE 12

Perry Como, RCA 47.9722 (Screen Gems - U4 Columbia, BMI) 9 10 11 TIME IS TIGHT 1 Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Stax 0028 U ,East Memphis, BMI) 11 14 14 WHERE'S THE PLAYGROUND SUSIE 5 Glen Campbell, Capitol 2494 (Ja -Ma, ASCAP)

12 12 21 PRETTY WORLD 5 11 Sergio Mendes 6 Brasil '66, A&M 1049 OD (Rodra, ASCAP) 23 28 32 DAY IS DONE 4 Peter Paul 6 Mary, Warner Bros. -Seven Arts 7279 (Pepamar, ASCAP) 13 15 11 SAUSALITO 7 1313 Al Martino, Capitol 2468 (Blendingwell, ASCAP) 17 23 24 I'M A DRIFTER 6 14 Bobby Goldsboro, United Artists 50525 Detail, BMI) 15 16 16 WITH PEN 15 IN HAND 10 "lkki Carr, liberty 56092 (Unart, BMI) 20 32 - WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND 3 Dusty Springfield, Atlantic 2623 (United Artists, ASCAP) 7 7 EARTH ANGEL 6 11 Vogues, Reprise 0820 (Williams, BMI)

14 8 9 HAWAII FIVE -0 10 lú Ventures, liberty 56068 (April, ASCAP)

19 21 30 - HERE WE GO AGAIN 3 Nancy Sinatra, Reprise 0821 (Dirk, BMI)

40 - - LOVE ME TONIGHT 2 20 Tom Jones, Parrot 40038 (Duchess, BMI) BILLBOARD launches the first industrywide promotion to make Summer a Tape Thing for everyone-manufacturers, dealers, consumers! - WITHOUT HER 1 Herb Alpert, A&M 1065 (Rock, BMI) IS SUMMER A TAPE THING is more than an exceptional issue for your advertising 22 27 28 OH HAPPY DAY 5 message. It's the perfect vehicle for tape and tape product merchandising- 22 Edwin Hawkins Singers, Pavillion 20001 The way to move tape off the shelves! (Kama Rippa Hawkins, ASCAP) 34 - - PLAY IT AGAIN SAM 2 Peter Max, whose designs have revolutionized the American poster industry, has 23 Tony Bennett, Columbia 4-44855 (Sunbeam, BMI) created a full -color cosmic 24" x 36" art presentation based on the theme, SUMMER IS A TAPE THING. 25 26 27 SPINNING WHEEL 5 24 Peggy Lee, Capitol 2477 (Blackwood, BMI) This outstanding Max original is part of a merchandising kit that includes logo - I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN 1 strips and ad mats, the entire package is available to Billboard readers for only 25 Burt Bacharach, A&M 1064 (Blue Seas $1 per kit. Extra posters for your dealers are also available at volume prices. Jac/Morris, ASCAP) 29 34 40 HURT SO BAD 4 Make TAPE your SUMMER THING-and join in this industry -wide promotion. For 26 Lettermen, Capitol 2482 1Vogue, 9M1) the IS A "SUMMER TAPE THING" kit, and extra Peter Max posters, just fill out 28 31 33 IT HURTS TO SAY GOODBYE 6 the order form on this page. Jack Gold Chorus, Columbia 4-44808 C7) (United Artists, ASCAP) 30 39 - SON OF A TRAVELIN' MAN 3 28 EdsASCAP)Ames, RCA Victor 74-0156 (Sunbury,

33 38 - IN THE GHETTO 3 Ron Carpenter, Billboard Publications 29 Elvis Presley, RCA 47-9441 (B 'n' B 'Gladys, 165 West 46th St., N.Y., N.Y. 10036 ASCAP) Yes! SUMMER IS MY TAPE THING! 31 - - TRUCK STOP 2 Jerry Smith, ABC 11116 (Papa Joe's Music House, BMI) Enclosed is a ( ) check ( ) money order in the amount of 32 - - APRIL FOOLS 2 Dionne Warwick, Scepter 12249 (Blue Seas for the following: lac April, ASCAPI 38 40 - YOU DON'T NEED ME FOR ANYTHING $ for - kits at $1.00 per kit ANYMORE 3 $ for extra Peter Max posters at 60¢ each Brenda lee, Decca 732491 (Pincus, ASCAP) 35 36 - DIDN'T WE 3 Robert Goulet, Columbia 44847 (Ja -Ma, Name__ ASCAP) 24 24 25 LIFE'S A DANCE (Casatchock) 8 34 Alexander Karazov, Address Jamie 1372 (Gallico, BMI 36 37 - I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN 3 Johnny Mathis, Columbia 44837 (Blue City State _ _Zip 35 Seas Jac Morris, ASCAP) 37 - - GOOD MORNING STARSHINE 2 36 Oliver, Jubilee 5659 (United Artists, ASCAP)

- GALVESTON 1 31 Roger Williams, Kapp 2007 (Ja -Ma, ASCAP)

39 - - MY HEART'S SYMPHONY 2 BILLBOARD 38 Four Lads, United Artists 50517 (Viva, BMI)

- - EVERYDAY WITH YOU GIRL 1 39 Classics IV, Imperial 66378 (low -Sal, BMI) 165 West 46th St. 188 W. Randolph St. 9000 Sunset Blvd. 1905 Broadway 1 Carnaby St. New York, N.Y. 10036 Chicago, III. 60601 Los Angeles, Calif. 90069 Nashville, Tenn. 31203 London W.1 - - - FRIEND, LOVER, WOMAN, WIFE 1 212; 751-2800 312; CE 6-9818 213; 2131555 615; 244-1836 437 8090 40 O. C. Smith, Columbia 44859 (B 'n' B, ASCAP) Dexter's Scrapbook

Album Reviews By DAVE DEXTER JR. HOLLYWOOD - The most While not singing, playing misnamed group in America has their instruments and painting, SPECIAL MERIT PICKS just got to he the Fool. Posthuma's group designed Originally from the Nether- clothing, modish mod apparel how to themselves. They've got Action lands and bossed by Seemon for men and for women, some express POPULAR things to say about the generation gap Posihurra, the Fool first made of it oddly interchangeable. and about their own identity and they say itself or themselves known They recorded frequently. it in terms that the young audience, condi- - - honed on Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan on an international basis shortly and their success in so many THE BROTHERS FOUR-Let's Get Together. and the likes, can understand. Columbia CS 9818 (S) Records after they left Holland when fields led them to Hollywood. The quartet, with newcomer Mark popular SHARON CASH-He Lives Within My Soul. they were commissioned by I.ast month, they topped all Pearson, pays tribute to today's writers Mothers MRS 74 (5) and some contemporary classics in John Lennon of the Beatles to their previous triumphs by perform Sharon Cash has a lot on the vocal ball. a mellow, appealing manner. Excellent ma- Still in her early twenties, she's developed paint his treasured upright pi- painting, on .20 gigantic sec- terial includes the title song, Nilsson's Albums a soul style all her own even when -she "Without Her," Ed McCurdy's "Strangest ano in the -Lennon London tions of scaffolding, the Sunset goes after such identifiable numbers as Dream," Bob Dylan's Be Your Baby "I'll "Sitting On the Dock of the Bay," "Fever," rtsidence, The 88 keys ended boulevard site of the Aquarius Tonight," Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." * NATIONAL BREAKOUTS -"Pledging My 'Love," "What Am I living - And a integrated medley of up in 88 colors,- shades and Theatre in the heart of Holly beautifully For" and "Nature Boy." songs by the Bee Gees. tints. 5th DIMENSION .. . (Continued on pays 76) RAY DIAPER-Red Beans & Rice. Epic PETER Do You Go To Age of Aquarius, Soul City SC 92009 (5) SARSTEDT-Where BN 26461 (S) My Lovely. World Pacific WPS 21895 (5) REAR kick off their disk debut with a The best song in this package is ROGER . . . "Where, storm of instrumental energy and the bear- WILLIAMS Do You Go To My which has lovely," ing soul -vdcals.of group leader, Ray Draper, Happy Heart, Kapp KS 3595 (S) brought fame to Peter Sarstedt Through its a lit uba player. Rough and tumbling, 'World. rot Hawaii' Is as a single. He's got an earlier elease RB&R offer no-nonsense bashes blending amiable and refreshing delivery and the rock, jazz and soul to cop a share of all rest of the material has moderate appeal. markets. "Empty Streets," "Trilogy" and * NEW ACTION LP's "let My People Go" .spark excitement from JOHN HARTFORD-RCA Victor I.SP 4156- (5) Draper & Co. as this new group aims at a Big-If Nothing Else Composer -guitarist John Hartford's material piece of the pop action. SONS OF CHAMPLIN . is not run-of-the-mill stuff, and other per- loosen Up HONOLULU Won- formers have done very well with it. His Naturally, Capitol SWBB - "The disappointing, though it re- singing here is relaxed, but his playing, on 269 IS) derful World of Hawaii," a ceives full, lush treatment from banjo, guitar, sitar and fiddle, is extra- COUNTRY ordinary This program of special material $5(0,000 production which pre- a 17 -piece pit orchestra which JAIME BROCKETT .. . showcases his multiple talents. Note es- miered to 8,0(X) at the Waikiki augments Remember the Wind & the Rain, Oracle the taped music. pecially the instrumental "Dusty Miller JIMMY DEMPSEY-The Strings of My Gui- ORS 701 (S) Shell May 12, is neither won- The tunes are Hawaiian only Hornpipe and Fugue in A Major for Strings, tar. ABC ABCS 670 (S) Brass and Five String Banjo," which de- Jimmy Dempsey playing some excellent gui- derful nor Hawaiian. in context, with reference by spite the wordy title, is exciting in the tar, offers an upbeat, different "Ode to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERDE- manner one principal to another. Only of Mason Williams' "Classical Gas." Billie Joe," and follows it with a mellow In sheer size, it is the most NOMINATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR . . . version of "Yesterday," "Loneliness," two have the texture and body and Oh Happy Day, Buluu 60001 (SI extravagant musical to hit the RONNIE ALDRICH-It's Happening Now. "Gentle on My Mind." Some very pleasant of possible "hit" status. One is London Phase 4 SP 44127 (S) instrumentals here. local stage, hut it is far from

The -piano . . . dual wizard takes some of to- YOUNG HEARTS It a "Roses, Rainbows and Ro- in pops, his perfect. confirms general day's best adds distinctive Sweet Soul Shakin', Minit LP 24016 (S) mance," rendered with dignity touch and the result is an artistic, com- belief that Hawaii is not quite mercial gem of a package for programming CLASSICAL ready to whirl into the wonder- and vitality by Patricia Lei BUDDY MILES EXPRESS .. . and listening. Among the highlights are the Anderson, a former Miss Ha- Electric Church, Mercury SR (S) ful world of Broadway -type Aldrich performances of "Hey Jude," "Scar- 61222 waii, who borough Fair," and Theme from "Elvira MESSIAEN: QUARTET FOR THE END OF musicals. portrays the young Madigan." Much sales and chart potential TIME-Beroff De Peyer ' 1 Gruenberg VARIOUS ARTISTS . . . heroine in the production, for this exceptional Phase 4 sound program. Pleeth, Angel (S) S 36587 Super Oldies Vol. 5, Capitol STBB The Doug Mossman attempt New recordings of Messiaen music are I.eialoha Lee. 216 (5l THE EXCITING JOHN ROWLES-Kapp KS valuable contributions to the contemporary is ambitious, at best, and am- The other tune with poten- 3597 (S) catalog and this fascinating quartet is no biguous, at worst. Lavishly is a newcomer tial success is "I Like a Girl," John Rowles with a power- exception. The performers, pianist Michel PHIL OCHS .. . ful voice and smooth he's mounted with stunning cos- delivery, and Beroff, clarinetist Gervase de Peyer, vio- Rehearsal for Retirement, ABM SD sung by Lani Kai (formerly on destined for big things. His international linist Erich Gruenberg and William cellist 4181 (S) tumes by Peter Lee, the show TV's "Adventures in Paradise"), hit "If I Only Had Time" is included along Pleeth, all contribute splendidly in this with outstanding performances of "(Sittin' pressing. boasts a most talented cast who appears as Kawelo, a local on the Dock of the Bay" and "By the Time TONY MOTTOLA . . whose singing is far better than heachhoy. I Get to Phoenix." With the proper expo- SAHL: A MITZVAH FOR THE DEAD/RAN- Joins the Guitar Underground, Project 3 sure, Rowles should prove strong compe- DALL: LYRIC the acting. Unfortunately, he VARIATIONS-Paul Zukofsky. PR 5035 SD (S) The concept of "The Won tition to male V the other vocalists currently Cardinal 5 10057 (S) cause of the projection problem derful World of Hawaii" is riding charts, and quickly surpass them. Violinist Paul Zukofsky is magnificent in in the this coupling of new avant garde pieces. outdoor theater, most of wonderful enough: Mix .culture JULIE BUDD-Wild and Wonderful. MGM Michael Sahl's "A Mitzvah for the Dead the singing evolves on pre- with history, in the song -and - SE 4607 (5) for Violin and Tape" turns into a moving recorded tape, with the princi- MGM has been touting this talented teen- nostalgic piece. J. K. Randall's intricate Singles dance tradition of a musical ager for some time and, judging from the "Lyric Variations for Violin and Computer" pals merely mouthing the lyrics. extravaganza. Geared for tour- class of her latest LP, its is performance also an interesting composition. ists, faith could pay off. Miss Budd's style is * NATIONAL BREAKOUTS Gordon Jenkins' original the show is to run Mondays unconfined; in this program of pop standard score, consisting of 14 songs and through Thursdays for six material, she sustains highs like Eydie TOMORROW TOMORROW . Gorme ("Johnny One Note"), defines joy LOW PRICE CLASSICAL 27 musical cues, is generally months. WAYNE HARADA and excitement like Judy Garland ("Be a Bee Gees, Atco 6682 (Casserole, BMI) Clown"), and dramatizes like Barbra Strei- sand ("Where Is Love"), and she's a MOZART ARIAS-Anna Motto. Seraphim still NO MATTER WHAT SIGN YOU ARE . kidl In this LP, she S 60091 (S) demonstrates the po- Diana Ross & the Supremos, Motown tential of a recording super star. Miss Motto's first recording on a low Hendrix to Open Newport price label should be one of the lures for 1148 (Jobete, BMI) buyers. Another CHUCK BERRY Concerto in B Goode. Mer- lure, too, is that it's a NEWPORT, R. I. vivat, recording The Steppenwolf, Butty Sainte- cury SR 61233 (S) full of the soprano's fine lyri- I TURNED YOU . . . - ON Veteran performer in the rAb cal quality. Some of the arias include those Marie, Eric Burdon, Charity, and rock Isley Brothers, T -Neck 902 (Triple 3, Jimi Hendrix Experience will fields, Chuck Berry has produced an un- from "The Magic Flute," "Cosi Fan Tutte" BMI I Friends of Distinction, Lee usual album. He has surrounded himself with and "Don Giovanni." headline the June 20 opening the sounds of The more ethnic blues mu- concert of the Newport '69 Pop Michaels, Albert Collins, Sweet- sicians-the rolling piano, blues harmon- Festival, Special water, and Love. ica plus a little fuzz boxing and am- * REGIONAL BREAKOUTS guest stars are plifiel 'effects. In the middle of this are R&B the Spirit. The opening program The June 22 program stars the usual Berry lyrics. One side is taken the Rascals, with Johnny Win- BIBLE SALESMAN . also will up with a piece based on his "Johnny include Albert King, VAROUS ARTISTS-Anthology Rhythm and Billy Vara, ter as special guest star. Other B Goode" that will open up the ears of of Atlantic 2628 (Blackwood, Southwind, Raj Mahal, Joe his fans. Blues Volume 1. Columbia CS 9802 (S) BMI) (New Orleans) artists on the hill will he Flock, This anthology, produced by Seymour Stein, Corker, the Edwin Hawkins is taken Chuck and the GENE BUA-Love of Life. Heritage HTS from Syd Nathan's King catalog Singers. and Ike Tina Berry, Booker T ROSE GARDEN .. . & Turner, 35,004 (S) which means it includes names like Hank MG's. Three Dog Night, the Gene Bua's big TV following, won Ballard, laVerne Baker, Charles and James Bobbie Gray, White Whale 300 (Lowery, The following night through features Grass Roots, Brenton Wood, his work on the daytime soaper "Love of Brown, Bill Doggett, and the Five Royales, BMI) (Boston) the Creedence Clearwater Re- Life among the hippies -its high points and covers the late 40s and the 50s. This the Byrds, and the Chambers started and his strong vocal styling should is the music that provided the roots for Brothers. keep it going. He's a warm and winning the rock and roll revolution of the mid balladeer and knows how to get the right 50s and even hearing it a decade or so feeling into songs like "Suzanne," "Love later those roots are still healthy. Current interest in vintage rock help sales. Me Tender" and "If I Were a Carpenter." should

LOTTI GOLDEN-Motor-Cycle. Atlantic SD 8223 (S) **** 4 STAR LOW PRICE R&B **** Life among the hippies its high points and its low points is the story that Lotti Golden tells here in dramatic song form. ISLET BROTHERS DO THEIR Miss Golden is the writer as well as the THING-Sunset singer and she comes off better in the SUS 5257 (S) Continued from page 54 MME. EDNA GALLMON COOKE-Memories latter department. Now that she's got her Some really great material lifts this low Of Mme. Edna Gallmon Cooke. Nashboro price the early autobiography off her chest she could album of ordinary to make it a 7068 (SorM) VARIOUS ARTISTS-Jazz for a Sunday Af ter - prime mover. It's a pocketful of hits de- REV. WILLINGHAM-The New Walk. Nash - yo on to bigger things. noon Solid signed to appeal to all pocketbooks State SS 18052 (S) boro 7070 (S) B. B. KING-Live and Well. Bluesway "Stagger Lee," "Please, Please, Please," SOB SHEPARD AND THE BLUE MEADOWS- BIS 6031 (5) and "What'cha Gonna Do," among others. A Quiet Place Light LS 55)3 -LP (S) A snapping, rocking & "The Best I've Ever Sounded," says every- album. RHYTHM BLUES **** body's blues king, B. 8. King, about his latest part -live, part -studio LP. Recorded THE UPSETTERS FEATURING JIMMY WESS- INTERNATIONAL **** live at New York's Village Gate, side one JAZZ We Remember Otis. ABC ABCS 651 (S) features "My Mood" and "Please Accept THE MORA ARRIAGA FAMILY AT THE HEM. My Love," while side two offers up an ISFAIR-Falcon FLP 3016 (M) eight -minute version of his new single, CHARLIE BYRD-Aquarius. Columbia CS 9841 GOSPEL **** RAY CAMACHO AND THE TEARDROPS- I the Falcon FLP (5) "Why Sing Blues," as well as "Get ( SI 3015 Off My Woman." Back King at his best is The current pop hits make excellent ¡art DOROTHY LOVE COATES AND THE GOSPEL a must for blues buffs who dig the best. fodder for Charlie Byrd. His guitar and his HARMONETTES-The Separation Line. Nash - A timely LP for the tops. SPOKEN chart hand-picked sidemen take the like of the boro Nashboro 7071 (S) WORD **** title song, "My Way," "Galveston," "You've B.C. A M. MASS CHOIR-God's Will. Creed VARIOUS ARTISTS Great Motion Pic- Made Me Very HUCKLEBERRY -36 So Happy" and "Traces" TWAIN: FINN-Ed Begley. BILLIE . JO SPEARS types her ture 3009 (5) Themes & Original Soundtracks. United for an imaginative interpretative ride which Caedmon TC 2038 (S) resignation after her hit about Artists UXS 69 (S) gives them all new dimensions. THE POETRY OF MILTON-Anthony Quayle. Here's a smartly packaged two -record set in- Caedmon TC 1259 (S) her boss, "Mr. Walker, It's All cluding 36 of today's most popular film HELEN MERRILL/DICK KATZ-A Shade of Over." Looking on and super- themes with many excerpts from the orig- Difference. Milestone MSP 9019 (S) vising are Dick Bethel, Capitol inal soundtrack versions that's sure to Miss Helen Merrill is by far one of the CHILDREN **** prove a very salable item, especially at most outstanding female vocalists of this FOLK Records promotion man in Cin- the bargain price. Included are "The Wind- generation, and she is given ample oppor- CAPTAIN STUBBY AND THE BUCCANEERS- cinnati, and WCLU's Jimmy mills of Your Mind," "Chitty Chitty Bang tunity to display the many facets of her Lil Wally Presents Animal Ditties for ROY HARPER-Folkjokeopus. World Pacific Logsdon. WCLU, Cincy country Bang" and "Buono Sera, Mrs. Campbell" talent in this exceptional LP. Her warm, the Kiddies Jay Jay 5)08 (S) WPS 21888 (S) station, conducted a campaign in and a delightful array of other film gems, intimate treatments of "Never Will I with an equally delightful array of in- Marry," "I Should Care" and "My Funny A selection of tunes written and performed conjunction with the Capitol hit terpreters. Valentine" are a listening must, and her by Roy Harper. "In the Time of Water," COMEDY **** to find Mr. Walker and get his rendition of "Spring Can Really Hang You "Zaney Janey," and "Manana" merit ex- side of the story. In the song WENDY A BONNIE-Genesis. Skye SK Up the Most" is in a class of its own. posure on progressive rock outlets. Many HARVARD LAMPOON-The Surprising Sheep 10060 (S) Her fans and followers will quickly scoop of the tunes on this LP are strongly sar- and Other Mind Excursions. Epic BN Billie Jo can't stand any more of Wendy & Bonnie are teen-agers who know this up. castical comment. 26462 (S) the life of a New York secretary. 56 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Miss Totie Fields

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This Month Is Pronounced Tet'ragram'màton Advertisement I Musical Instruments Penonalify Sons looks Thomas Gets New Direction Hammond's From Bloomberg Leadership Artists 'Top' By RON SCHLACHTER Music of Today-Brimhall LAS VEGAS-"We want to short, we are teaming ourselves NAMM Show by: Jude Porter help dealers pull our products with dealers on a long-term ba- CHICAGO Would you like to have the TOP through instead of pushing sis. The dealers must participate - Organists and moneyed them." This was the way Robert with us in serving the consumer. recording artists George Wright, -modern music sheets in your store or on your rack77? You've Bloomberg, president of Thomas We have also discontinued a Richard (Groove) Holmes, Lu- Organ Co., summed turned to the right page your up his com- number of dealers. cho Azcarraga and Denny Mc- ... pany's marketing approach. "As for the company itself, "buying guide" to "sound sellers." Lain, the latter a Detroit Tigers "We've tried to reconstruct the we have reoriented management baseball company," explained Bloomberg, responsibilities. Everyone knows star, are among mu- NEW TUNES ON TAP ... sicians lined who assumed leadership of what his responsibilities are and up for concerts by Today's musical wave -length sweeps Thomas about a year ago after what responsibilities everybody the Hammond Organ Co. dur- the slate with six smash super - serving as controller at Whirl- else has. I went from a large ing the National Association of selling sheets .. . pool. "There were some severe company to a smaller one, hut Music Merchants (NAMM) show problems. pushing Thomas is not The Our got to minute, by any ROBERT BLOOMBERG, president Mills Bros. follow up their movin' the June 22-26 here at the Conrad dealers and stopped there. (Continued on page 60) of Thomas "Cab Driver" with a bouncy Organ Co. Hilton Hotel. The concerts ballad Now, we are trying to service will named be part of an .. our dealers better and the result 11111M111111111111NNIVINIINIMINNONIMINIMIUMMIIIMMOMMUNIMININIMUNIMINIMMIVIRMIMMIMINVIIIMII innovation by is that we have a much stronger Hammond, which will also, for GUY ON THE GO dealer structure. the first time, show its line in the Tower Suite on top Bobbie Gentry's newest "aim to "We want to help dealers WELK of the pull ALBUM FEATURED hotel. Nightly concerts fame" is soul -filled and funky. It's our products through. We want will he held in the Sheraton -Blackstone called .. . dealer -oriented promotions. We IN THOMAS Hotel. TOUCH 'EM want to help dealers sell. In JUNE PROMO WITH LOVE Among new items on display LAS VEGAS-Thomas The latest waxing Organ Co. will launch a June promotion will he the H-262, a console by Otis Redding featuring exclusive de- 60-day distribution of Lawrence Welk's latest signed specifically for churches rocks with rhythm and blues. Simply album, "1 Love You Truly," prior to its national release. and institutions, featuring two order it .. . The LP spotlights Lawrence Welk with Bob Ralston at the organ 61 -note manuals and a 25 -note LOVE MAN and will be available at Thomas stores for $1.49. The Ranwood re- pedal board. Hammond's release represents the first time that Welk has ever featured himself cently introduced Cadette organ. Henson Cargill's messageladen as an album performer. which is coupled with a special country evergreen says sales a- In addition, each store will be conducting its search for the "Instant Play" trade -up promo- plenty .. . couple married the longest. The couple will be given a party in their tion program, will also be fea- honor at THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS the store as part of Thomas' June tribute to lovers. tured by the Chicago-based com- A third phase of the promotion pany. consists of a drawing at each Holding the No. 1 position on the store to give away a Whirlpool home appliance. The winner's name Don Lewis, Denver organist, Country/Western charts is Bill Ander- will then be submitted for a national grand prize, five full days for and Tony Cabral, organist son's melody two as the guest from (he wrote and recorded of Thomas Organ and Lawrence Welk. Mexico, will also The be featured in it) . . . national winner will stay at Welk's home in Escondido, Hammond's entertainment sched- MY Calif., and be his guest at the LIFE (THROW IT AWAY IF I taping of his network television show ule. Performances will he held at ABC-TV center in WANT TO) Los Angeles. The winner will also be enter- three times each day at II LAWRENCE WELK is shown here tained at the Palladium and enjoy excursion trips to Disneyland and a.m. 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. in From the new, delightfully different as he appears on the cover of motion picture studios. If the winner should be from California, a specially constructed 150 -ca - Columbia Motion Picture, his new album, "I Love You a trip to Hawaii is planned. "Run Wild, (Continued . . . Truly." Prior to its national re- Concerning the promotion, on page 60) Run Free" the title song is lease, the Ranwood Nick Orlando, Thomas eastern sales LP is re- manager, said, "Our primary presented by the New Christy Min- ceiving exclusive 60 -day distribu- aim with the program is to move at strels .. . tion at Thomas Organ dealerships the dealer level." Cello Patent across the country. RUN WILD, RUN FREE il I I I I I I I III II ST. LOUIS, Mo.-St. Louis Music Supply Co, here has filed CASH COLLECTORS .. . A Harpsichord 'Happening' Kawai Meeting design patents with the U. S. Our S. M. I. sales network reports Patent Office these songsheets leading COLUMBUS, on the Karl Knill- the pack Continued Ohio Coyle . from page 4 Neely Bruce (Hubbard double) - ing Porta cello. List prices on the in popularity . Music Centers here were repre- and Philip Corner (Neupert student cello start at $69.95. LOVE THEME FROM tion to the Composition of sented at a recent sales ROMEO & double) played partial scores. meeting JULIET Waltzes by Means of Dice" and and seminar conducted by Kawai The computer -generated tapes. BLACK PEARL "The 1 Ching" or Book of Piano 1111111111111111 i 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 which Cage estimated allowed Corp. in Hammatsu. Changes. Japan, by CISSY STRUT a total of 885,000 different Dennis Iguchi, man- The harpsichordists were on ager of Coyle's main store HARPSICHORD BAD MOON RISING pitches, were handled by 13 at raised platforms 2864 North HEATHER HONEY surrounded by teams positioned near the ceiling High Street. the milling spectators who were APPLAUDED EVERYDAY WITH YOU GIRL around the back row of seats BY encouraged to "participate" in I'VE BEEN HURT and transmitted through huge Except for a specified set of the event. Only a scattered PROUD I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU TOO few loudspeakers. Each team used four tapes, to OWNER LONG chose to sit be played at 8:30 in the seats, al- four tape recorders and and ... the Beatle smash, holding though 16 tapes, p.m.. and another set of four to CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Walde- William Brooks, playing - the No. 1 chart . each approximately 20 minutes be played at 11:05 p.m., the mar position .. a Challis single, said "Get Pollee, who might he de- up in duration. (Continued on GET BACK high, it sounds much better." page 67) scribed as a harpsichord "hobby- ist," thinks his favorite David Tudor, producing vari- instru- ment may become more MUSIC BOOK REVIEWS .. . ous odd sounds, played the only popular as a result of adding electronics. electronic instrument, a Baldwin JOHNNY CASH-THE HOLY LAND BEST SELLING He is doubtful, however, solid body. Antoinette Visher, about Hansen Publications, this week, is- any promotion possibilities sued one from Switzerland, who commis- ac- of the most glorious never - cruing from such events to -be -forgotten books printed sioned the Cage work, was the as held ever here last week in which . a living -color tour of the "Holy only harpsichordist who played seven harpsichords and 52 tape re- Land" as, Johnny Cash and his wife the Mozart piece as written. FOIOS "lived and loved" it! corders were used in an extrava- Filled with Brooks (Challis single), Ronald music, lyrics, beautiful gant concert of computer photos (4 Peters (Brueggeman ALL ORGAN/PORTABLE CHORD ORGAN -pro- colors), editorial dialogues double), grammed music. and in- Yuji Takahashi (Dowd double), spirational messages . immor- Pollee who talized in print forever! TITLE (Publisher) lives in Michigan, The "Holy nevertheless, said he was hon- Land" should be alongside The Bible in every home! (MWL NAMM Additions BACHARACH-DAVID SONGBOOK-All Organ ored to be invited to loan his $2.95) (Cimino) $6.250 hand-crafted instrument CHICAGO - The National to avant-garde composers John THE MUSIC OF JIMMY WEBB Association of Music Merchants, FORTY LATEST COUNTRY, FOLK ROCK & Cage and Lejaren Hiller. who The matchless music of Jimmy Webb is captured between the color covers Inc. (NAMM) has announced POP HITS-All Organ (Hansen) spent nearly two years develop- of this wonderful - ing "HSPCHD," which new special spiral additional exhibitors for its up- spells bound book -of -plenty!! "Plenty" of GOLDEN SONGS OF TODAY-Portable Chord harpsichord in computer coming Music Show, set for June lan- fantastic music . the complete 22-26 here at the Conrad Hilton Organ (West Coast) guage. repertoire of Jimmy's hits from "By Hotel. They include Ashley Pub- "You don't just buy a harpsi- the Time I Get to Phoenix" to HYMNS WE "Where's lications, Inc.; Vincent Bach LOVE-All Organ (Big 3) chord and let it set," he said. the Playground Susie" ... and more! Corp.; Charles Bay & Gale "The humidity and temperature Has a life-size poster, POP ROCK-All Organ (Leonard) color photos and fine -line Woodwind Mouthpieces; Buesch- of the room it's drawings kept in are very of the artist -cum -genius of lyrics er Band Instruments; CosCo SEVENTY SUPER BLOCKBUSTERS FOR '70- important." Pollee recommends and music! Research; Emmons Guitar Co.; All Organ controlling the humidity at be- (Hansen) What a book!! (Elite $4.95) Merson Musical Products Corp.; tween 50 and 65 and thinks 70 Progress Publications, Inc.; Roth SEVENTY SUPER BLOCKBUSTERS FOR '70- degrees is the ideal temperature. Violins; Scherl & Roth, Inc.: Portable Chord Organ (Hansen) "I have to tune mine every eight GOLD MARK ASSOCIATES Southern Music Publishing Co.: weeks. The harpsichord is a very PUBLIC RELATIONS SOUND OF MUSIC-All Organ Trio -Might, Ltd., and Z. B. Cus- (Chappell) delicate instrument." New York-Beverly Hills-London tom Guitar Co. tHIINNNIUllllM NIIINNNNIIINNINIINNINNNNINNNINNNIINNINNg MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 59 Audio Retailing

JJazz LP'sWeeks on This Last Phonographs and Recorders Week Week TITLE, Artist, Label 6 Number Chart 4 1 1 MEMPHIS UNDERGROUND ..... Featured in Webcor Showing Herble Mann, Atlantic SD 1522 (S) 19 CHICAGO Consolidated Webcor and Viscount home 2 2 SOULFUL STRUT - en- YoungHolt Unlimited, Brunswick BL 754144 (S) Merchandising Co., div. of U. S. tertainment products. At a re- Industries, Inc., plans to open cent show here, 49 Webcor 3 4 THE FOOL ON THE HILL 25 Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, ABM SP 4160 (S) warehouse facilities here and ex- models and 31 Viscount models pand its marketing activities of were presented. Viscount is a 4 6 MOTHER NATURE'S SON 13 promotion brand, while Webcor Ramsey Lewis, Cadet LSP 821 (S)

is a well-known trade name that 5 5 STONE SOUL 12 Consolidated recently acquired. Mongo Santamaria, Columbia CS 9780 (S) Questions Six console phonographs were 6 3 SAY IT LOUD .. 9 among the Webcor models. Lou Donaldson, Blue Note BST 84299 (S) These consisted of the Lisbon, needle dealers 7 9 MUCH LES .11 Model 5066, with a 66 -in. Med- Les McCann, Atlantic SD 1516 (S) iterranean walnut cabinet, six matched speaker system, AM/ 8 7 SILVER CYCLES 14 Eddie Harris, Atlantic SD 1517 (S) FM/FM tuner, listing at $399.95; Model 5060, the Ma- 9 10 A DAY IN THE LIFE 87 r, (S) jorca, with 60 -in. Continental Wes Montgomery, ABM SP 3001 THE SEEBURG home entertain- walnut six 14 cabinet, matched ment line was on display at the 10 8 THE GREAT BYRD Charlie Byrd, Columbia (S 9747 (S) speaker system and AM/FM/ recent American Music Dealers FM tuner, at listing $369.95. Industry Exhibit (AMDIE) at Las 11 11 ROAD SONG 29 Also, Williamsburg Model Vegas. Shown here talking to Wes Montgomery, ABM SP 3012 5050, a 50 -in. maple, Early Mrs. Donald Rife of Portland, Ore., is Don Patton of Seeburg. 12 13 LIGHT MY FIRE 5 American cabinet unit with four Woody Herman, Cadet LSP 819 (S) Standing next to Patton is See - If I can buy cheap needles balanced speakers and AM/FM burg's Bob Fordyce. 13 14 SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME 10 why should I pay more for 4 stereo tuner, listing for $299.95; ABM SP 3014 ;S; Fidelltone? George Benson, the Revere Model 5040, a 40 - 13 You don't make money by in. maple Early American unit 14 12 SOUNDTRACK A. Charles Lloyd, Atlantic SD 1519 (S) buying needles-profits with four balanced speakers, and satellite speaker system, listing from come selling them. AM/FM tuner, listing for for $199.95; Model 2000, fea- 15 15 THE WORM 23 Fidelitone offers you a full Jimmy McGriff, Solid State SS 18045 (S) line of quality replacement $299.95; the Wakefield, Model turing 4 -track stereo or monaural phonograph needles and we 4020. with a 40 -in. Continen- record and playback, two heads 16 18 SUMMERTIME 6 back our dealers with a tal low -boy cabinet, four bal- and automatic shut-off, listing Paul De'mond, ABM SP 3015 (S) comprehensive MAKE IT anced speakers and AM/FM/ for $249.96; Model 2500, fea- EASY merchandising 17 17 MERCY MERCY 29 FM radio, listing for $249.95; 4 -track stereo record and ST 20133 (S) program that insures their turing Buddy Rich Big Band, World Pacific and the Berkeley, with a 60 -in. playback, three -speed, automatic sales and profits. 10 Continental and 20 18 16 UNDER THE JASMIN TREE cabinet, four match- shut-off -watt peak out- Modern Jazz Quartet, Apple ST 3353 (S) If I can buy direct from a ing speakers and AM/FM/FM put, listing for $299.95. competitive factory, why Q radio, listing for $299.95. Two other open reel models 19 19 FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMY & WES 11 should I buy through a Jimmy Smith B Wes Montgomery, Verve V68766 S) Fidelitone Distributor? The entire line-up included were Model 4000, listing for two color television sets, two $399.95, equipped with an AM/ 20 20 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL 2 Your Fidelitone A. Distributor modular tuner amplifiers, two FM/FM tuner and featuring 25 Gary McFarland, SKYE SK8 (S) is a trained specialist who takes the work out and puts stereo console phonographs, watts of stereo peak output with Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 5/31/69 the profit into handling four home phonographs, nine three -speed operation, and Model replacement phonograph cassette tape recorders, three 3000D, a stereo tape deck list- needles. He provides prompt 8 -track CARtridge stereo playing for $249.95 with such fea- service on fast selling assortments; his stock backs ers four portable phonographs, tures as three heads, three -speed Gets New Direction up your once in a while needs one 3 -in. open reel recorder, operation and 4 -track stereo and for special items; he four 7 -in. open reel recorders, monaural record and playback. Continued from page 59 provides sales training for six AM/FM table radios, six Consolidated, which recently means. There are many advan- your personnel; he provides portable radios and moved into new headquarters an inventory management AM/FM tages of a small company. We can control system; and he one AM portable radio. in Maspeth, Queens, N.Y., has move quickly. We have stayed offers a "Magic Touch" Open reel recorders included serivce offices in Los Angeles, away from little pockets of man- promotion program to Model 620, a 2 -speed unit with Atlanta, Dallas, Tokyo and here agement. Everything is in the accelerate sales. Your 3 -in. reel list priced at $49.95: and has two plants in Tennessee has to let its Fidelitone Distributor is a open. A company merchandising specialist Model 200S, a 4 -track stereo and one each in Japan and people comment objectively. whose main function is to unit with automatic shut-off and Taiwan. "We're basing our operation assist Fidelitone Dealers in on long-term business. We won't increasing needle sales with product quality and profits. compromise which is our prime social re- If your is Panasonic Line business buying Unveils sponsibility, as far as I'm con- phonograph needles, go anywhere for an ex- If your business is selling needles. cerned. We're striving Fidelitone is your one source for Marking 10th Anniversary cellent product. Every complaint sure sales and profits! letter comes to me. Each week, THE BROOKVILLE is a new AC/ NEW YORK - Panasonic's FM AM radio, retails for $125. battery -operated portable phono- I meet first with our quality con- 10th anniversary line includes As for complete home enter- graph from Panasonic. Model trol manager. two a list "We have established a whole Fast' new stereo phonographs de- tainment centers, the 1969 Pana- SG -634, with suggested Fool -proof' signed specifically with the needs of $99.95, boasts a four -speed new service department and re- sonic line boasts the 60 -watt changer, Easy to user of the college set in mind. custom turntable, record organized the engineering de- Kips Bay. The unit is a stereo ceramic cartridge and a flip -over partment. We have brought in Most complete Both the Brookville and the stylus, plus continuous tone con- replacement needle module system with a built-in a lot of new engineers. When Highland Park are AC battery - trol and dual volume controls. guide in the something wasn't right last year, operated units and offer a four - AM FM & FM Stereo tuner and industry' I shut down the plant a couple wJk rrlJxrmrm auut. speed custom record changer, separately sealed twin two-way of times. This got the message ceramic cartridge and a flip -over air suspension speakers. Features across to everyone. We had one stylus, plus an electronic RPM include Panasonic's magnistrate product introduced three years Fidelitone governor motor control to keep was produced last cartridge with a flip -over dia- ago that just THE TOUCH OF MAGIC the turntable running at a uni- year. This won't happen any mond stylus, a automatic Dept. 1-Ec form speed. The Brookville has custom more." N four -speed record changer, 6415 Ravenswood Ave . Chicago, III 60626 a suggested list price of $99.95, FET Phono needles blank tape cassettes and while the Highland Park, which tuning and a tilted control panel acceSSOr,es also features a slide -rule tuned equipped with a black-out and Hammond Artists illuminated slide -rule tuning. The Continued page 59 suggested list is $279.95. from pacity theater in the Tower Suite. The SC -666, with a suggested Each organist will he featured FACTORY -TO -YOU means better, faster list of $349.95, is an 80 -watt on a specified night in three con- service on diamond & sapphire needles, stereo music center from Pana- SHIPPED at the Sheraton -Black - ORDER spindles, Power Points', NEW CASSETTES, sonic. A precision automatic certs tape cartridges, head cleaners, accessories, stone's Bonaparte Room during turntable features a Pickering . . . shipped directto-you from our etc. magnetic cartridge, while twin the period 9 p.m. -1 a.m. 1tESII new, modern plant (near Chicago). Write Azacarrage, from Panama and two-way acoustic for free catalog, mail order forms and sales suspension DAY speakers provide improved bass PANASONIC'S HIGHLAND PARK, an Art Record Sales Co. re- THE SAME plan information. response. Model SG -674, is an AC/battery- cording artist, will he making operated phonograph, designed his first NAMM appearance. The newest addition to the with the needs of the college Wright, Dot Records' artist and company's line of stereo compo- student in mind. Features in- renowned as a pipe organist, has nent products is 70 -watt SA -40. clude an RPM electronic governor recently switched to Hammond's «7E 'fIl. 11. Ìl it 11..,. motor to keep the -1 This instrument features Pana- turntable X-66 electronic model. Holmes sonic's flywheel tuning mecha- running at a uniform speed despite the condition of the bat- records on World Pacific, and nism a CHEMICAL CORPORATION behind black-out dial teries or any fluctuation in house McLain, whose NAMM date de- v. w^^`'^' 3300 WASHINGTON ST BOX 498 WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS 60015 glass. The suggested list price is pends on his team's schedule, WEST COAST: 147571, OXNARD STREET VAN NUYS. CALIFORNIA 91409 current. The suggested list is $229.95, $125. records on Capitol. 60 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD CHART BOUND Country Music

Cuts Distrib Ties Lynn Expands "WHO Chart With RCA; Broadens Plan On 3 Fronts NASHVILLE - Lynn Pro- NASHVILLE - Chart Rec- whole spectrum of the record- most observers consider an out- whose president is POURED artists ductions, ords, purchased a few months ing business." Williamson stated. standing job in building Lola Wager, has moved into ago by Audio Fidelity, has ami- "An artist on the Chart label on a small label. Among those new quarters and expanded all cably severed its distributional now will actually have more developed are Lynn Anderson, facets of its operation. tics with RCA Victor and an- product available through more Maxine Brown, Connie Eaton, Vernon, The firm includes Wager En- nounced a broad new distribu- channels than an artist on a Gordon Terry, Kenny Lola's THE laWanda Lindsey, Vance terprises, a booking firm; tion plan. major label." Music, a publishing house; and Williamson maintains his pub- Bulla, Johnny Dollar, Bobby Lode Slim Williamson, president of Green, Kirk a demo recording studio. lishing companies, Yonah, Edwards, Lloyd by Terry Fells, Chart, said the separation date Wes Helm, Gene Records, owned Peach, Sue -Mire and Sixteenth Hanserd, also will share the building at with RCA would be Saturday as- Hood, Jerry Lane, Dianne WHISKEY inde- Avenue on the grounds this 806 18th Avenue South. (31), although the actual him good material for Leigh, Anthony Armstrong May I. He sures will Lola's Music, pendent sale began recording. These are independ- Jones, Jim Nesbitt, Clyde Fells run said the move was by mutual Owens, Hargus Robbins. Junior while the hooking at Wager ent of Chart. will handled by agreement. RCA took over Williamson has done what Samples and Kenny Vernon. Enterprises be Chart distribution Sept. I, 1967, Don Fowler, formerly of the IN after Chart had become one of Circle Talent Agency. the strongest independent labels Miss Wager said she will in the country field. In addition 50% soon name many artists who to the distribution agreement. Carol Acquires will come under the wing of the THE Chart and RCA carried out an booking agency, and writers interchange of artists for re- who will sign exclusive con- cording duets, and had nominal Of Circle Talent Co. tracts with the publishing firm. success in this regard. The company was begun with NASH V I I.LE Carol Enter- is Carbill. He has signed Billie Williamson said he held RCA - a booking agency for musicians. prises, newly formed manag - Jo Spears, Capitol artist, to WELL" and its people in the "highest con- Miss Wager keeps a stable of ment -publishing -production and an exclusive management and esteem," but said he needed to 50 tract, and will book her through musicians at her disposal, booking firm, has purchase them to artists in need feel the pulse of distribution of Circle Talent Co. Circle Talent. provides per cent of band replacements for the DECCA #732477 himself, and wanted a direct and absorbed its operation. manager of han- Starnes, former road, or for recording sessions. association with the men George Jones, said he also had dling the records. Under the Bill Starnes, president of She also can provide an entire Carol, said Circle president worked out an arrangement with group. program now ending, he had no Unlimited, Ltd., was he aware of Chuck Eastman would continue Opportunities contact, nor of Nassau, to begin filming a orders. to run the booking organization, and that talent such as Johnny movie July 1, featuring modern "To run a record company, Carver, Jack Barlowe, I.ynn country music. "It will not be I've got to direct the opera- Jones, the Cantrells and the a country music story," Starnes tions personnel," he said. Wil- Young Country would be given said, "hut the music will be liamson is shipping to 38 inde- full exposure in all facets of en- woven in through club scenes pendent distributors in the tertainment. Circle now will be and the like. Eastman and United States, most of whom located in one of the II offices Starnes attended the Eastern worked for him. "My plan is operated by Carol at 1719 West Country Music Convention in to work closely with those dis- End. Providence, R. I., and booked tributors who helped me get Starnes also has brought in Jack Barlowe, I.ynn Jones started," he said. Beady Music, a second publish- and Brenda Kaye for the Satur- To emphasize the good rela- ing firm, into the corporation. day afternoon and evening tions with RCA, he pointed out The other publishing company shows. that negotiations have been concluded with that label to handle its stereo product and to distribute Chart albums through the RCA Record Club. 'Hee Haw' Show Williamson also noted other expansion plans. All Chart product will be released in Canada on Phono Disc, marking that com- Puts Down Critics pany's first big entry into the NASHVILLE-Despite many those unfamiliar with the show's country field. comments regarding the title of contents. shot on the Additionally, all Chart album MISS KATHY BAKER, BY the forthcoming CBS "Hee "First of all," Peppiat staid. set of the new "Hee Haw" coun- product is to be released on Haw" show, its producers say it "the show is named for its ani- try production on CBS, was Stereo 8 and cassettes by ITCC promises to do everything but mated star-one adorable, pro- selected for the role of "Miss on a non-exclusive basis. after officials had downgrade country music. lific, phrase -shouting mule who Hee Haw" Phillips will re- auditioned 40 others for the job. International is accompanied in part by an lease most Chart LP product There have been recurrent She was spotted painting sets for BILL comments suggesting that the animated cow, crow, a chicken the show. An employee of WLAC- on cassettes, six of them imme- TV, where the summer series is diately. Reel-to-reel release of show is a "barnyard comedy" and a scarecrow." this form being filmed, she will appear the product will be handled venture, putting down Aylesworth said the show is each week on the program. through Muntz. of music or relegating it to its a "laughing matter, all right" image of 20 years ago. HOWARD Starday is conducting a mail- but one of "clean, earthy and ing piece of 60,000 offering Frank Peppiatt and John good humor, the family type Chart l.P's through the Starday Aylesworth of Yongestreet Pro- that has made artists such as Dottie West Album Club. ductions, Inc., Los Angeles. say Minnie Pearl, Roy Clark, "We're going to cover the that the criticisms come from Grandpa Jones and Archie With Moeller PUBLISHED BY: Campbell favorites throughout NASHVILLE Dottie West IIIUIIUIINUNIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIGIf IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII the years." - a the show is has not yet signed contract The idea that or any- just another country music vari- with Entro Corporation one, according to Larry Moeller FORREST INDIANS SAY 'HOW' TO ety program is false, Ayles- worth "We are augmenting of the Moeller Talent Agency. said. exclusive con- the funniest and most enjoyable "She is under FAME he pointed out. It HILLS COUNTRY HALL OF humor to be heard on a major tract to us," was in Billboard (May network in many a moon with stated NASHVILLE-The Country Music Hall of Fame and Mu- 24) that Entro Corporation renditions of No. 1 hits by MUSIC seum was invaded by Indians last week, members of the Intertribal planned a series of three tele- Council of the United Southeastern Tribes of American Indians. such artists as Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette, vision syndications. one of Buck Owens, would involve Miss West. Here for the first such gathering in 150 years, the members George Jones, Merle Haggard. which It state that a contract were introduced to the hall of fame by Bob Ferguson, producer for Waylon Jennings, Roy Clark did not RCA, and president of the Southeastern Indian Antiquities Survey, had been signed. and others. It's all presented in have EXCLUSIVELY ON: Inc. colorful and tasteful surround- Contracts, however, who them were Lois Johnson, been signed with Jack Greene Those of Indian heritage greeted ings and sobriety." and Charlie Walker. Charlie Walker and Billie Ray Reynolds. The tribal delegation was Peppiatt said people "surely DECCA headed by Phillip Martin, chairman of the United Southeastern are intelligent enough to wait Tribes of America; Buffalo Tiger, vice-chairman; Mrs. Betty Mae and judge 'Hee Haw' on its Jumper, secretary -treasurer; Emmett York, chief of the Mississippi quality and entertainment abili- when answering ads .. . Susie Henry, RECORDS Choctaws; Joe Dan Oseola, president of the Seminoles; ties before they throw rocks at Say You Saw It in princess of the Choctaws, and Cherokee princess Penny Otter. its title." The show premieres on CBS. Billboard IINIIIUUNINUIUNNNNUUIUUNINUINIUNNIUIINNIUIIIIUIMgNIIpgIMIINNUUNNNUIINUIUUNUNIMINI UIUUIINIWU11UNIIMM11111U111U11111111 Sunday, June IS, 62 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD t!

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* STAR Performer-LP's registering greatest proportionate upward progress this week.

This Last TITLE, Artist, Label Weeks on This Last TITLE, Artist, Label Weeks on Week Week Number & Publisher Chart Week Week Number & Publisher Chart

1 2 SINGING MY SONG 8 38 33 SWEET WINE 9 Tammy Wynette, Epic 5-10462 (Gallico, BMI) Johnny Carver, Imperial 66361 (Blue Echo, BMI)

2 3 I'LL SHARE MY WORLD WITH YOU . _ 10 61 JOHNNY B. GOODE .. 2 George Jones, Musicor 1351 (Glad, BMI) Buck Owens & His Buckaroos, Capitol 2485 (Arc, BMI) GAMES PEOPLE PLAY 4 6 40 42 DADDY 8 Freddy Weller, Columbia 4-44800 Dolly Parton, RCA 74-0132 (Owe -Par, BMI) (Lowery, BMI) TOP 3 OUT Of 3 49 MAKE IT RAIN 6 4 1 MY LIFE 14 Billy Mite, Imperial 66365 (Metric, BMI) Bill Anderson, Decca 32445 (Stallion, BM?)

52 I AM A GOOD MAN 4 5 4 (Margie's at) THE LINCOLN PARK INN 12 Jack Reno, Dot 17233 (Tree, BMI) Bobby Bare, RCA 74-0110 (Newkeys, BMI)

54 ALL FOR THE LOVE OF A GIRL 3 9 MR. WALKER. IT'S ALL OVER 7 Claude King, Columbia 4-44833 (Vogue, BMI) 13Br Billie Jo Spears, Capitol 2436 (Barmour, ASCAP) 44 43 JUST ENOUGH TO START ME DREAMING 11 7 8 WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE 8 Jeannie Seely, Decca 32452 (Tree, BMI) Jim Reeves, RCA 74-0135 (Tree, BMI) onte

57 STRAWBERRY FARMS 4 . 8 5 THERE NEVER WAS A TIME 10 et Tom T. Hall, Mercury 72913 (Newkeys, BMI) aMest b9'0°(%°"1" Jeannie C. Riley, Plantation 16 (Singleton, BMI) Wtik Í 46 44 DUSTY ROAD .. 8 `ass 9 7 YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN 11 Norma Jean, RCA 74-0115 (Tree, BMI) Johnny Bush, Stop 257 (Mojave, BMI) ttabe\ 13 5 !grew., 47 48 TOO MUCH OF A MAN s S}y 18 PLEASE DON'T GO 10 Arlene Hardin, Columbia 44783 (Window, BMI) 39 B+/ Eddy Arnold, RCA 74-0120 (Robbins, ASCAP) - ONE HAS MY NAME 1 W/s1 Aj1 Lee Lewis. Smash DJS 31 vita`' \l 17 CALIFORNIA GIRL 11 Jerry Dacca__ M 1111> Tompall & the Glaser Brothers, MGM 14036 (Perr Gynt, BMI) i (Jack, BMI) 0ss,l5 DELIA'S GONE 1 1 - GÑriwlon 15 ONE MORE MILE 10 Waylon Jennings, RCA 74-0157 er\v°m (Davis/Baron, BMI) Dave Dudley, Mercury 72902 (Newkeys, BMI) Ve\5\Ga\ OAS .\ 50 51 GOOD DEAL LUCILLE 6 Musico' CAJUN BABY . 26 5 Carl Smith, Columbia 4-44816 (Acuff -Rose, BMI) ttr MGM 14047 (Fred s~\ Hank Williams Jr., Rose, BMI) Gtorgnes,E 51 56 WEST VIRGINIA WOMAN 5 27 RUNNING BEAR 4 -lee %) Billy Ed Wheeler, United Artists 50507 4 Sonny James, Capitol 2486 (Big Bopper, BMI) ASCAP) (United Artists,

15 10 HUNGRY EYES .. . 15 52 58 DON'T GIVE ME A CHANCE 5 Haggard, Merle Capitol 2383 (Blue Rock, BMI) Claude Gray, Decca 4963 (Vanio, BMI) 1uST 35 I LOVE YOU MORE TODAY 4 53 59 THE DAYS OF SAND & SHOVELS 2 THINGS Conway Twitty, Decca 32481 (Stringberg, BMI) Waylon Jennings, RCA Victor 74-0157 tu (lonza & Oscar, BMI) 17 11 RINGS OF GOLD 15 BETTER... Dottie West & Don Gibson, RCA 9715 75 DON'T LET ME CROSS OVER 2 GETTING (Acuff -Rose, BMI) eir Linda Gail & Jerry Lee Lewis, Smash 2220 (Martin, BMI) KEEP 18 14 GALVESTON 12 55 53 THE BIG MAN 6 Glen Campbell, Capitol 2428 (Ja -Ma, ASCAP) Dee Mullins, Plantation 17 (Sunbury, ASCAP) 19 12 YOURS LOVE 13 55 Dolly Parton d Porter Wagoner, 56 BIRMINGHAM BLUES 5 17217 RCA 740104 (Wilderness, BMI) Jack Barlow, Dot 45 (Tree, BMI`

20 20 THERE'S BETTER THINGS IN LIFE 9 57 U I'M NOT THROUGH LOVING YOU 4 Jerry Reed, RCA Victor 74-0122 (Beaton, BMI) Jim Glaser, RCA Victor 74-0144 (Glaser, BMI) TOP4 OUT OFO 70 BEER DRINKIN' MUSIC 2 21 21 LET THE WHOLE WORLD SING IT Ray Sanders, Imperial 66366 (Viva, WITH ME 9 Tunesville, BMI) Wynn Stewart, Capitol 2421 MAy 31, 1969 (Freeway Music, BMI) - BOO DAN Jimmy Newman, Decca 32484 (Newkeys, BMI) 22 23 WHY YOU BEEN GONE SO LONG 6 Johnny Darrell, United Artists 50518 - ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY (Acuff Rose, BMI) er Hank Snow, RCA 74-0151 (East Star/Tennessee, BMI) 23 25 OLD FAITHFUL 7 proportion 61 63 EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN 2 Mel Tillis, Kapp 986 (Cedarwood, BMI) registering greatest Ed Bruce, Monument 1138 (Tree, BMI) This Performer-LP's 1 * STAR teks on Week 24 24 WALKING BACK TO BIRMINGHAM 7 62 62 HEAVEN BELOW 3 Leon Ashley, Ashley 9000 )Gallico, BMI) John Wesley Ryles, Columbia 4-44819 (Viva, BMI) 25 13 SWEETHEART OF THE YEAR 13 -- Ray Price, Columbia 4-44761 (Tuckahoe, BMI) 63 66 TRUCK STOP 3 IGanico. 2 MYIeSONG Jerry Smith, ABC 11162 SINGING 10462 IOU 36 I'M A DRIFTER 5 (Papa Joe's Music House, BMI) sWORLDicor Q Bobby Goldsboro, United Artists 50525 MY (Glad Iru SHARE 1 (Detail, BMI) 64 65 WHO DO I KNOW IN DALLAS 4 3 Jones. Kenny Price, Boone 1085 (Tree, BMI) eorgeWI Y BM ) 32 LEAVE MY DREAMS ALONE 5 LE PLAr (Lowery, 65 67 A MAN AWAY FROM HOME 4 6 WPEO Warner Mack, Decca 732473 (Page Boy, SESA() GAMES 14 Van Trevor, Royal American 283 Freda (Atlanta/Summerhouse, ASCAP) BMI) 37 STATUE OF A FOOL 4 MY 32445 (Stallion, Ite Greene, Uecca LIFE Decca Jack 22490 (Sure -Fire, BMI) SPRING 1 on , 12 - 4 Bill Anders INN Clay Harp, Metromedia 119 (Motola, ASCAP) 740110PARK 41 SMOKEY PLACES 4 e's) Billy Walker, Monument 1140 67 68 DEARLY BELOVED 3 (MargiBobby ARCAIVictor (Vinlyn/Arc, BMI) David Rogers, Columbia 4.44796 BMI) (Acclaim, BMI) lNewkeVs, R ALL O243 30 31 LET'S PUT OUR WORLD BACK TOGETHER 7 ITS 6 'TIL SOMETHING BETTER WALKER Charlie louvin, Capitol 2448 (Husky, - COMES ALONG 1 MR. BMI) 9 Billie 10 Spears, Bobby Lewis, United Artists 5U526 ASCAP)CaD (Passkey, BMI) (Barmour, 31 30 LIKE A BIRD 7 George Morgan, Stop 252 (Window, BMI) THIS - GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS 1 Henson Cargill, Monument 1142 32 34 SOLITARY 5 (Bluecrest, BMI) Don Gibson, RCA 74-0143 (Fred Rose, BMI) 70 71 UPSTAIRS IN THE BEDROOM 3 Bobby Wright, Decca 37464 (Tree, BMI) P.S. MANY THANKS, BILL, TAMMY, 38 WHERE'S THE PLAYGROUND SUSIE? 4 Glen Campbell, Capitol 2494 (Ja -Ma, ASCAP) 71 72 HAPPINESS LIVES IN THIS HOUSE 2 GEORGE AND BILLY Mac Curtis, Epic 10468 (Tree, BMI) JO, FOR 34 19 MAN & WIFE TIME 11 Jim Ed Brown, 74-0144 RCA (Window 72 73 GUILTY STREET 3 MAKING THIS ALL POSSIBLE Music, 1 BMI Kitty Wells, Decca 32455 (Wells, BMI) - 35 16 RIBBON OF DARKNESS 14 73 74 POOR OLD UGLY GLADYS JONES 3 Connie Smith, RCA 740101 (Witmark, BMI) Don Bowman, RCA 74-0133 (Parody, BMI)

36 22 WOMAN OF THE WORLD (Leave My - O 1 World Alone) LeonaNCE WMOREilliams, Hickory 1532 HUBERT LONG AGENCY 15 (Acuff -Rose, BMI) Loretta Lynn, Decca 32439 (Sure -Fire, BMI) A DIVISION OF HUBERT LONG INTERNATIONAL LOVE IS A - GENTLE THING .. 1 P.O. BOX 46, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 47 BE GLAD 2 Barbara Fairchild, Columbia 4-44797 37207 PHONE: 615-244-9550 Del Reeves, United Artists 50531 (Tree, BMI) (Champion, BMI) 6430 SUNSET BLVD. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF 90028

MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 65 Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY 'Hot For Week Ending 5/31/69 . . . Còuntry LPs THANK... YOU proportionate upward progress this week. * STAR Performer-LP's registering Weeks on This Last Chart Week Week TITLE, Artist, Label 8 Number

9 ACADEMY 1 1 GALVESTON Glen Campbell, Capitol ST 710 (5) 13 lis 2 2 YOUR SQUAW IS ON THE WARPATH Loretta Lynn, Decca Dl 75094 (S) 17 3 3 STAND BY YOUR MAN Tammy Wynette, Epic BN 26451 (S) OF 17 4 5 CHARLEY PRIDE ... IN PERSON RCA Victor LSP 4094 (S) IN --.THE 10 5 4 ONLY THE LONELY Sonny James, Capitol ST 193 (S) 17 COUNTRY 6 7 HOLY LAND Johnny Cash, Columbia KCS 9726 (S) 14 7 8 CARROLL COUNTY ACCIDENT Porter Wagoner, RCA LSP 4116 (S) BEDROOM" 9 8 9 JUST TO SATISFY YOU MUSIC Waylon Jenn mqs, RCA Victor LSP 4137 (Si 12 9 10 UNTIL MY DREAMS COME TRUE 'Hot Jack Greene, Dena Dl. 75086 (S; 8 14 SONGS MY FATHER LEFT ME Ne w' Hit ì1I Hank Williams Jr., MGM SE 4621 (S) FOR 14 11 11 SONGS OF THE YOUNG WORLD by: Eddy Arnold, RCA LSP 4110 (S) 29 12 6 WICHITA LINEMAN Glen Campbell, Capitol ST 103 (S) 16 VOTING ME 13 13 YEARBOOKS AND YESTERDAYS Jeannie C. Riley, Plantation PIP 2 (5) BOBBY 4 20 HALL OF FAME, VOL. 1 Jerry lee Lewis, Smash SRS 67118 (5)

12 15 15 BEST OF BUCK OWENS, VOL. 3 145 (5) MOST WR GHT Capitol SKAO 19 CONNIE'S COUNTRY 5 Connie Smith, RCA Victor LSP 4132 (5) 51 17 18 JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON Columbia (No Mono); CS 9639 (S) PROMISING 23 ONE MORE MILE 5 Dave Dudley, Mercury SR 61215 (S) 5 19 21 INSPIRATION Tammy Wynette, Epic BN 76423 (S) et 25 HALL OF FAME, VOL. 2 4 MALE Jerry lee Lewis, Smash SRS 67118 (S)

21 12 SHE WEARS MY RING 20 Ray Price, Columbia CS 9733 (S)

22 16 JUST THE TWO OF US 35 RCA Victor 1PM 4039 (M); Porter Wagoner JL Dolly Parton, VOCALIST LSP 4039 (S)

Decca 23 12 WITH LOVE FROM LYNN 9 #32467 l you Anderson, Chart (HS 1013 (S) 24 17 BOBBIE GENTRY & GLEN CAMPBELL 34 published by: Capitol ST 2928 (S) 25 26 KAY 8 TREE John Wesley Ryles I, Columbia CS 9788 (S) 26 24 SHE STILL COMES AROUND 21 music Jerry Lee Lewis, Sma,h SRS 67112 (S 27 29 DOTTIE WEST AND DON GIBSON 4 RCA Victor LSP 4131 (Sì

31 I REMEMBER JOHNNY HORTON 2 Claude King, Columbia CS 9789 (S)

29 30 SMOKEY THE BAR 3 Hank Thompson, Dot DIP 25932 (S)

3 tl 42 DARLING YOU KNOW I WOULDN'T LIE Conway Twitty, Decca DL 75105 (5)

31 32 KEEP 'EM COUNTRY 2 Nat Stuckey, RCA Victor 1.5P 4123 (S) - MR. WALKER, IT'S ALL OVER 1 Billie Jo Spears, Capitol ST 224 (5)

33 28 I TAKE A LOT OF PRIDE IN WHAT I AM 15 Merle Haggard, Capitol SKAO 168 (S) CURRENT 40 GUILTY STREET 6 Kitty Wells, Decca DL 75098 (S) 35 27 GENTLE ON MY MIND 87 Glen Campbell, Capitol ST 2809 (M); ST 2809 (S) IMPERIAL HIT

36 33 BEST OF MERLE HAGGARD 32 Capitol SKAO 2951 (S)

37 36 WHO'S JULIE 6 Mel Tillis, Kapp KS -3594 (S)

38 44 I'VE GOT PRECIOUS MEMORIES 3 Faron Young, Mercury SR 61212 (S)

39 35 YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN 8 "BEER Johnny Bush, Stop 10008 (S)

,I 45 SAME TRAIN, DIFFERENT TIME 2 Merle Haggard, Capitol SWBB 223 (S) 41 37 REMEMBER ME .. 8 DRINKIN' Jim Ed Brown, RCA LSP 4130 (5) - TODAY Itt Bobby Goldsboro, United Artists UAS 6704 (S) - DEDICATED TO: ONLY YOU Norro Wilson, Smash SRS 67116 (S) MUSIC" - SNOW IN ALL SEASONS Hank Snow, RCA Victor LSP 4122 (S) - DOWN AT GOODTIME CHARLIES Del Reeves, United Artists UAS 6705 (S)

66 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Country Music Armed Forces Radio Success Spurs Allison Overseas Move NASHVILLE - Independent but features everything from perience." He said someone like record producer -publisher Joe bluegrass to country folk. The Eddie Dean would be unusually Allison is putting together a programs are engineered by Jim helpful on such a show because group for an overseas tour, a Smick and produced by Frank "he's the type who performs for return to his old entertainment Ca ngialosi. an hour and a half and then days. This is the only "strip" show stays around to talk to the Allison has found a new set on Armed Forces Radio, al- servicemen." of followers in the estimated though 30 -minute weekly shows Allison was here to do a rush 500 million listeners a day to are done by such artists and disk album with Roy Clark, an im- his Monday -through -Friday disk jockeys as Tex Williams, Jean- mediate follow-up to the Clark jockey country music program nie Seeley, Hugh Cherry and single "Yesterday, When I Was on Armed Foreces Radio. Pro- Biff Collie. Young." This Charles Aznavour - duced at Armed Forces Radio Show Overseas written song, produced by Alli- and Television Service head- Because of his unusual expo- son, became an immediate best quarters in Los Angeles, the sure overseas, Allison was ap- seller. program is shipped to more proached to bring over his own "I came in here without a than 300 radio outlets around show. "They say I'm the best - studio, without a musician lined the world. Although each re- know person among the Armed up, without anything but blind HOSTS for the festivities held tains autonomy in program- Forces because of the wide- faith in Nashville," Allison said. during the ESCMI Convention at Providence, R. I., included, left to right: Red Harris, Vernon Strongberg, ming, "Joe Allison's Country spread coverage of the show, "The first thing that happened Lou Cassella, Peter Cohelo, Pete Pakel, Mayor Daniel Marso, Lynn 99 Corner" enjoys per cent and I have people now making was that Tommy Allsup of Jones (Capitol artist); Chuck Eastman, William Castro, Lynda Calvey usage. booking inquiries," he said. Alli- Metromedia relinquished a (convention queen), police chief George Rocha and Jack Barlow (Dot). Allison, here for recording son added that he would prob- scheduled date so I could get sessions, said the programs offer ably take an outstanding band in to do a session at the Wood- a "comprehensive look at the and a good girl vocalist along. land Sound Studios. Then Har- me to become the first 'out- do so many things well we're country music field." It is built "I'm used to introducing old Bradley went out and got sider' to use the new Monument not quite sure how to record around the contemporary, mid- shows, but not doing my own," me the best musicians in the studios. Finally, I'm finishing up him." Clark currently is co -host dle-of-the-road country songs, he said. "This would be an ex- city. Then Fred Foster allowed at Bradley's Barn because they of the new CBS summer come- somehow managed to fit me in." dy show, "Hee Haw." Although he lives in Los An- In addition to his Armed geles, Allison still produces Forces work and his produc- most of his sessions here. tions, he also retains his pub- Through his independent re- lishing firm, Nashville Music, cording producing company, which is located in his large Vox Jox owned jointly by Hank home in the Los Angelse area. Thomp- By BILL WILLIAMS son, he produces Thompson, Clark, Mary Taylor and Curtis RCA's Hank Locklin has de- single "Spring" has received moter Richard Best has signed Potter, all cided to rent out his famous strong airplay and sales, has now Debbie Witt & Jerry Moore to of Dot, and Jody Florida ranch and move to Nash- recorded an album of pop-country personal management contracts. Miller of Capitol. ville. He feels he has to be closer selections. Produced by Tommy Miss Witt records for Buddy Rec- The onetime Nashville disk to his base of operations. Allsup, the LP will be titled ords of Marshall, Tex. Moore 'ockey and air personality said Doug Kershaw is about to sign "Spring.". . . The title of the is a northern Illinois bandleader - that Roy Clark's versatility is with a new label, with two of Benny song . . , Martin on Stop Rec- singer. The WINN Country just beginning to show. "He can them bargaining for his composi- ords, "300,000 Unmarried Women Shindig number five drew a stand- tion. "You Fight Your Fight, I'll in Georgia," is, according to the ing room only crowd of more than Fight Me.". . . Former St. Louis World Almanac, a fact. It was 7,500 at the Louisville conven- Playboy Bunny Bobbi Owens written by researcher Bobby Brad- tion center, with more turned dickering for both a writing and dock. . Walter Haden, pro- away. Now Shindig No. 6 is set recording contract here.... Ralph fessor at the University of Tennes- for June 14, featuring Conway Emery again handled a radiothon see, Martin, Tenn., is working on Twitty, Hank Williams, Jr., Connie JIMMY HYDRICK in his native Waverly, Tenn., with a biography of the late Vernon Smith, David Houston and "many help from many country music Dalhart, He points out that, re- others." Exclusively on artists including Doyle Wilburn, cording under at least 74 different Chet Atkins spent a weekend the first to volunteer. Money was names between 1916 and 1938, entertaining Dale Robertson of the GOLD for charity, of course. . . . Ray Dalhart cut close to 5,000 differ- "Wells Fargo" series with golf and STANDARD Price and his 30 -piece orchestra ent tracks for most of the major Tennessee country ham. In June, have cut their first session to- and minor labels. Now he wants Chet jets to Boston for recording D. C. RECORDING CO. gether here, after doing several to exchange information with sessions with Arthur Fiedler and RECORDS in New York City. The sessions, others about his life, career, and the Boston Pops Orchestra, then Creekville, Ky. 40929 directed by Don Law, are for a recordings. The professor may be to lake Tahoe for an engagement Presents Christmas album. reached merely by writing to U. at the Sahara. On June 17 he will D. C. Mullins Sings Songwriter Jimmy I.ewallen is of Tenn. at Martin. . . . Jan perform in concert with the Minne- with said to be in critical condition in Hurley and the Revenuers broke sota Symphony Orchestra. "ME AND OLE BLUE" "SLOW TORTURE" Methodist Hospital (Room 200), club records at the Fireside Inn, Jimmy Key, president of Key Tal- Hattiesburg, Miss. His greatest Kearney, Neb. She was the first ent, rushed to Augusta, Ga., where and B 'W need now is blood, and it may country act ever to appear there. his son, Jack, underwent surgery "MY SOLDIER MIND" "THIRTY-SIX "B" be donated in any part of the Ernie Miller now is her front man. after being hit by shrapnel while D. C. RECORD #1 country in his name through the . . Rockford, Ill., manager -pro- serving in Vietnam. Designed for oll markets. Mullins' GS# 278 Red Cross. . Ferlin Husky, prolific pen has combined love, lit. For DJ copies after taping the "HeeHaw" show and religion in a way to please contact: here, flies to the West Coast for your listeners. Listen for piano in Zeke Clements the "Joey Bishop" show and then A Harpsichord 'Happening' "MY SOLDIER MIND." Mullins was an appearance at the First An- formerly a top D.J., and Fred Rose 728 16th Ave. So. nual California Music Festival at Continued from page 59 Mich. was wanted to write with him but was Millbrae, Saturday It made from Bra- Nashville, Tenn. 37203, and Sunday zilian Rio too ill. 31 -June l). Husky's brand-new "tapists" could choose at ran- Palisander wood by Capitol release is "That's Why I dom from their other eight Stefan Eichler, who recently re- Love You So Much."... Howard tapes. tired after a career at the Bam- Bennich, head of H&S Sales Dis- Only twice during the berg, Germany, harpsichord fac- Brite Star's Pick Hits ... Brite Star's Pick Hits .. . tributors, entire Dallas, has acquired performance tory and has a list price of manufacturing and distribution (the two specified Picking Up the Pieces-Steve Lawrence-RCA was $6,250. rights on the re -activated Dan - items) "everything going at Kaleidescoptic-Shiva's Head Band-Ignite rite Records. The first release is once," as music student Joe "At first, everybody talking to Individual of Society-Basis of the Thing (Chi -Line) scheduled for mid -June featuring Elms put it. He explained that each other bothered me," Pollie Here Comes Heaven-Jack Hunt-Northland new artist, Paula, a talented Amer- volume was controlled: "If you said, in describing the concert. Plastic Fantastic Lover-The Jefferson Airplane (RCA) Losing ican -Japanese singer who has been can't hear the tape "But after three hours I like that You-Will Bang-Geauga recorders on Hard Luck Man-Odie Workman-RCA featured at clubs throughout the each side of you, you're too part, too. It's unusual when Midwest. Acquisition was A Million More Like You-Jody Vac (Chance) made loud," he said, motioning to the people can enjoy a concert and from independent producer Charles This Is The Day-Mary Willows (Vermillion) teams 40 yards to his right and discuss it among themselves at Love's Not What It Wright. . , . Ray Crowder is Used to Be-Renee Perri-Soulville off the same time." on a three -state tour to promote left. The Man-The Good Humour Band (Ignite) his new release on Rich N Tone Adding to the aura of the Funky Virginia-Sir Guy (BPG) Records. He does a benefit show event were 64 slide projectors, Always Alone-Al Dennis (Sterling) Go Go Shake-Continental Charmers-National in Oklahoma City. . Brite Star eight motion picture projectors, Recording Session Promotions has sent Mike Saturn Make My Love On The Rocks-Lee Wilson -(Rich-R-Tone) 6,400 slides and 40 films-all Set as Top Prize Honey Sweet Gospel Album-The Moore Family (Malinda) to the Los Angeles area to cover projected on Il rectangular promotion for the firm on the * * *'* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For Promotion, screens and a - West Coast. Jane Zallo has been giant circular INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-The Distribution, deejay Coverage, Press Release service see Brite screen 340 around. Star's Ad in Billboard's Class. Mart TODAY, added to the firm to cover P.R. feet Another first Indianapolis Combo Con- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * work in Los Angeles and Bakers- screen surrounded the outside of flict, to select the top, young, SEND YOUR RECORDS FOR REVIEW TO: /rite Star Promotions, 209 Stahlman field. . . Barbara Mandrel!, who the building on which passersby musical combo group for 1969, eld,., Nashville, Tenn. signed with Columbia, writes from could view projected images will be held Saturday (31) at Germany that her tour will take from overhead projectors. Penney's Store in Lafayette Brite Star's Pick Hits ... Brite Star's Pick Hits .. . her into Holland. . Tommy Waldemar Pollie was probably Square. The winning Cash has been group will signed to a con- the most -pleased tract by Epic. A younger brother spectator. His have a recording session at a of Johnny Cash, his first release hand-crafted Neupert double local professional studio and is "Your Lovin' Takes the Leavin' harpsichord, played by Miss have two -thousand copies of its Out of Me." Vischer, was shipped here from record distributed to retail out- Say You Saw It in the Billboard Metromedia's Clar Hart, whose his home in Benton Harbor, lets. MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 67 The Giant is now three feet off the ground.

Which is not a bad start. And we're gettin' higher every day.

"Yesterday, When I Was Young" (Aznavour- Kretzmer) Roy Clark Dot 17246

This is a national hit. Right: NATIONAL! With across-the-board airplay across -the -country. Thank you, Charles Aznavour, for a magnificent song. Thank you, Joe Allison, for an outstanding production job. And thank you. We needed that.

"Baby, I Love You" Andy Kim Steed 716 Produced by Jeff Barry

And this is a national hit, too! Do you believe that? Wow! Thanks again. They're both good records and we really appreciate the play. We've got three hit records happening all at one time... all across the country... and they've been a long time coming. Now for the third hit... FROM THE BUBBLE GUM CAPITAL OF SUNSET BOULEVARD...

BRIAN HYLAND DOES ITAGAIN.

Many jocks around the country have said, "What would This is a good record. A really good one. All the trades summer be without Brian Hyland?" Really. Lots of think so. An awful lot of stations think so. And we think them DID say that. Remember... you'll think so.

"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" -1960 Production credit goes to our own Ray Ruff. Thanks, "Sealed With A Kiss" -1962 Ray, for a super Summer record. And we thank you for "The Joker Went Wild" -1965 staying and loving us all Summer. Brian thanks you, too.

That's right, DOT Records. The one with a whole bunch Well, always delighted to oblige, we now present of artists who are as good as gold.

"Stay And Love Me All Summer" (A. Kasha-J. Hirschhorn) DOTRECORDS Brian Hyland Dot 17258 Dot Records, A Division of Paramount Pictures Corporation

The Giant that woke up, sprouted wings, and is now three feet off the ground. FROM THE BUBBLE GUM CAPITAL OF SUNSET BOULEVARD...

BRIAN HYLAND DOES ITAGAIN.

"Itsy BitsyTeeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" -1960 Production credit goes to our own Ray Ruff. Thanks, "Sealed With A Kiss" -1962 Ray, for a super Summer record. And we thank you for "The Joker Went Wild" -1965 staying and loving us all Summer. Brian thanks you, too.

That's right, DOT Records. The one with a whole bunch Well, always delighted to oblige, we now present of artists who are as good as gold.

"Stay And Love Me All Summer" (A. Kasha-J. Hirschhorn) DOT Brian Hyland Dot 17258 Dot Records, A Division of Paramount Pictures Corporation

The Giant that woke up, sprouted wings, and is now three feet off the ground. Classical Music

BEST SEL !.INCA Biggs' LP Continues Col. Greatest LFS Hit Series; Gould 2d Volume Out asseBillboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week End.nq 5 31 69 This last Weeks on NEW YORK - Columbia George Szell and members of the Billings, an American composer Week Week TITLE, Artist, Label i Number Chart next month continues its Cleveland Orchestra in sere- of the Revolutionary War peri- INC. series 1 1 TRANS ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCTIONS "Greatest Hits" with an nades. Pianist Gary Graffman od. Completing the Master- PRESENTS SWITCHED ON BACH 27 album by organist E. Power offers a coupling of Brahms works titles is a march program Wolter Carlos/Benjamin Folkman, Columbia MS 7195 (S) Biggs, which features pieces by variations on Paganini and 2 2 SOUNDTRACK: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 42 Bach, Handel, Schubert, Clarke, Handel. by Leonard Bernstein and the MGM (No Mono); SIE 13 ST (S) Ives, Widor, and Tchaikovsky. Schumann and Mendelssohn New York Philharmonic with 3 3 TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 OVERTURE 22 Biggs also plays pedal harpsi- concertos by pianist Rudolf Ser- music of Bizet, Elgar. Mendels- New Philharmonics Orch. (Buketoff), RCA Red Seal LSC chord in the LP. kin and the Philadelphia Or- sohn, Verdi, Wagner, Meyer- 3051 (S) Pianist Glenn Gould has the chestra under Eugene Ormandy beer, Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Ber- 4 5 SELECTIONS FROM 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 42 second volume in his series of are recoupled in another album. lioz. York Philharmonic Philadelphia Orch. (Ormandy)/New complete piano sonatas, and an- The Gregg Smith Singers pre- The low price Odyssey line (Bernstein), Columbia MS 7176 (S) other Mozart disk features sent 20 choral songs of William will have two monaural -only 5 17 & 21 (Elvira Madigan) 69 4 MOZART: CONCERTOS sets as soprano Lotte Lehmann Andes/Camerata of the Salzburg Mozarteum Academics (Anda), DGG (No Mono); 138 783 (S) sings two Schumann song cycles as ac- 165 with Bruno Walter piano 6 9 MY FAVORITE CHOPIN Pinza Van Cliburn, RCA Red Seal LM 2575 (M); LSC 3035 (5) companist, and bass Ezio sings Mozart operatic arias with 7 7 UP, UP AND AWAY 38 Classical Notes the Metropolitan Opera Orches- Boston Pops (Fiedler), RCA Red Seal ISC 3041 (S) tra conducted by Walter. 8 6 BELLINI i DONIZETTI HEROINES 25 Soprano Veronica Tyler and Beverly Wolff, tenor George Shir- Volksoper (Jalas), Available in stereo versions Beverly Sills/Vienna Orch. Westminster baritone. Robed Mosley will be ley. bass -baritone Justino Diaz. 17143 on Odyssey will be music from WST (5) featured in a concert version of and bass Andrew Fold'. Henry 9 12 R. STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA 44 Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" in Mazer, the orchestra's associate the "Red Shoes," with Vladimir Philadelphia Orch. (Ormondy), Columbia MI 5947 (M); four New York Philharmonic conductor, will conduct a series of Golschmann and the St. Louis MS 6547 (5) "Promenades" programs beginning IO free concerts on Monday (26) Symphony, duo pianists Arthur 10 10 MASCAGNI: L'AMICO FRITZ (2 LP's) 5 Friday (30). Pianist Theodore under the auspices of the County Gold and Robert Fizdale in a Freni, Pavarotti, Royal Opera House Orch. (Gavozzeni), I.ettvin also will perform. The of Allegheny. City of Pittsburgh pairing of Brahms and Bizet, Angel S8I 3737 (S) program began on Thursday (22) and the Three Rivers Arts Festival. and music of the American with a "Promenade Espanol" fea- . . The American Symphony's 11 11 HOROWITZ ON TELEVISION 37 Moravians with soprano Ilona turing soprano MarºLin Niska and subscription season at Carnegie Vladimir Horowitz, Columbia MS 7106 (S) Kombrink, baritone Aurelio Es- baritone Ned Styles. The program Hall closed on Monday (19) with 12 8 GRIEG: CONCERTO IN A MINOR/LISZT: CONCERTO NO. 1 17 members the Fine was repeated Saturday (24). The a superb performance of Orff's tanislao, of Van (Ormandy), RCA Red Cliburn, Philadelphia Orch. last three performances of the "Carmina Burana" conducted by Arts Quartet, and the Moravian Seal LSC 3065 (S) "Russian Promenade" with bass - Leopold Stokowski. Festival Chorus and Orchestra 13 15 GOUNOD: ROMEO i JULIET (3 LP's) 14 baritone Donald Gramm are FRED KIRBY under Thor Johnson. Freni/Corelli/ Various Artists/Paris Opera Orch. (Lombard), scheduled for Tuesday (27). Angel SCI 3733 (S) Wednesday (28) and Thursday 14 19 BERNSTEIN'S GREATEST HITS 102 (29). All the programs at Philhar- New York Philharmonic (Bernstein), Columbia MI 6388 (M); monic Hall are under conductor MS 6988 (S) Andre Kostelanetz. COL. TO ISSUE LP OF SCORE 15 13 ROYAL FAMILY OF OPERA (3 LP's) 36 Joseph Fennimore, a young Various Artists, London RFO-S-1 (5) American pianist, recently won 16 17 STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA 2 the 1969 Concurso International: FROM 'PRISONER' MOVIE Los Angeles Philharmonic (Mehtal, London CSA 6609 (5) Maria Canals in Barcelona. . . Louis Lane, associate conductor of THE BIRDS/CHURCH WINDOWS 2 NEW YORK-Columbia Records will issue music of Webern, 17 18 RESPEGHI: the Cleveland Orchestra, con- Philadelphia Orch. (Ormondy), Columbia ML 7242 (S) Mahler and Berio, used in the Avco-Embassy film "The Female ducts six concerts in Montivedeo, Prisoner (La Prisoniere)" as the official album of the movie. 18 14 ANTIPHONAL MUSIC OF GABRIELLI 8 Uruguay, beginning Saturday (24). Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia Bross Ensembles, . Robert Sabin. former chief The album contains Webern's "Five Pieces for Orchestra" by Columbia MS 7209 (5) editor of Musical America, died Pierre Boulez and the London Symphony, the Third Movement of 19 16 BARBER: SCENES FROM ANTONY & CLEOPATRA/SUMMER at his New York City home on Mahler's "Symphony No. 4" with Leonard Bernstein and the New 13 OF KNOXVILLE 1915 May 17. He was 57. Sabin joined York Philharmonic, and Berio's "Visage" featuring the voice of Price/New Philharmonie Orch. (Schippers), RCA Red Seal Musical America in 1936, and re- Cathy Berberian and electronic sounds. LSC 3063 (S) signed as editor in 1962.... Six 20 21 TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 6 17 students, ages 19 to 23, were win- Released in New York in a French version, the film is set for Philadelphia Orch. (Ormandy), RCA Red Seal LSC 3058 (S) ners in a competition to appear national distribution in an English performance. The album's cover as soloists with the Philadelphia OF GABRIELLI 65 will use the same motif used in ads for the movie. Columbia will 21 20 GLORY Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy E. Power Biggs/ Various Artists, Columbia MS 7071 (S) tie' in promotion of the disk with local theaters and exhibitors. and William Smith next season. 22 23 CATALANI: LAWALLY (2 LP's) 8 Chosen were pianist Leon Bates. ammo nimm umminunumi uponi muuumununmmmmumunl immuum u uummummmumu mmu umumuumuummi Tebaldi/ Del Monaco/ Various Artists/ Monte Carlo harpsichordist Lee Dawson. vio- Opera Orch. (Cleve), London OSA 1392 (S) linist Lina Schiff, clarinetist David 23 24 A POPS SERENADE 2 Shifrin, and the duet of violinist Boston Pops (Fiedler), RCA LSC 3023 (S) Eliot Chapo and violist Alan de V erith. 'Tosca' to Open 13th 24 30 DELIBES: LAKME (3 LP's) 14 Sutherland/Various Artists/Monte Carlo Opera Orch. The Dorian Quintet performed (Bonynge), London OSA 1391 (S) at New York's Town Hall on 25 35 BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 5 48 Wednesday (21). . . . The Pitts- Santa Fe Opera Year New York Philharmonic (Bernstein), Columbia ML 5868 (M); burgh Symphony's concert season MS 6468 (S) closes on Sunday (25) at Syria SANTA FE-The 13th Santa vinsky's "Le Rossignol," which 26 22 CONCERTOS BY MOONLIGHT 14 Mosque with William Steinberg, Fe Opera season will open on will he paired with "Help! Help! Entremont/ New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)/ Philadelphia music director, conducting Ber- 5 with a new production of The Gobolinks." Robert Bau- Orch. (Ormondy), Columbia MS 7197 (S) lioz's "Damnation Faust." The July of stian will conduct "Le Ros- 27 28 CHOPIN: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 18 soloists will be mezzo-soprano Puccini's "Tosca," which will he Rubinstein/Philadelphia Orch. (Ormandy), RCA Red Seal conducted by John Crosby, the signol." ISC 3055 (S) company's director. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I opera III I I I I I I I in the Menotti 28 29 VERDI: REQUIEM (2 LP's) 23 IIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIImlmnllllll II II II II I IIIII IIIIIl6 Featured Various Artists/ Vienna Philharmonic (Solti), London U. S. premieres will be Gian will be William Workman, Ju- OSA 1275 (5) SEGOVIA, DECCA Carlo Menotti s "Help! Help! dith Blegen, John Reardon, 29 31 CHOPIN: SONATAS 2 i 3 26 The Globolinks" and Krzysztof Saramae Endich, Miss Kraft, Van Cliburn, RCA Red Seal ISC 3053 (S) NEW CONTRACT Penderecki's first opera "The Richard Best, Douglas Perry, 30 25 PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA'S GREATEST HITS, VOL 4 4 Devils of Loudun." which re- Clyde Philip Walker, and mem- Philadelphia Orch. (Ormandy), Columbia MS 7267 (S) NEW YORK-Guitarist An- ceives its world premiere in bers of the Texas Boy Choir. 31 27 SATIE: PIANO MUSIC, VOL 1 48 Hamburg next month. Ciccolini, Angel 36482 (S) dres Segovia has re-signed a Baustian also will conduct who his 32 26 BERLIOZ: ROMEO i JULIET (2 LP's) 10 long-term recording contract Gustav Meier, makes Mozart's "The Magic Flute," Kern/ Tear/ Shirley -Quirk / London Symphony (Davis), with Decca Records. His re- Santa Fe debut, will conduct which will include Miss Sco- Philips PHS 2.909 (S) cordings will continue to be the Menotti opera as well as votti, Miss Yarick, Workman, 33 33 R. STRAUSS: DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN (4 LP's) 9 supervised by Israel Horowitz, Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte." Donald Gramm, Burrows, Ul- Rysanek/Galt:/Various Artists/Vienna Philharmonic (Boehm), Decca's director of classical Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, con- fung, Harrower, Merja Sargon, Richmond SRS 64503 (5) a&r. ducting his first opera in the Watson, Nancy Jo Grimm, Jac- 34 34 BACH: ORGAN FAVORITES, VOL 1 40 Segovia, who has recorded U. S., will conduct "The Devils E. Power Biggs, Columbia ML 5661 (M); MS 6261 (S) quelyn Benson and Miss Kraft. 35 37 STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA 12 exclusively for Decca for 24 of Loudun." The cast of "The Devils of Chicago Symphony (Reiner), RCA Red Seal IM 2609 (M); years, has a new album slated A new production of Richard Loudun" will include Miss Sar- LSC 2609 (5) for August release. His catalog Strauss's "Salome" will be con- gon, Joy Davidson, Stewart, 36 - TCHAIKOVSKY: CONCERTO NO. 1 146 for the label currently contains ducted by Crosby with a cast Reardon, Workman, Richard Van Cliburn/ (Kondroshin), RCA IM 2252 (M); LSC 2252 (5) 24 titles. headed by soprano Eva -Maria Cross, Watson. Harrower, Ray 37 40 TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 OVERTURE 6 Molnar, baritone William Doo- London Festival Orchestra (Sharpies) London phase 4 IInRImmllmmlmnlmmNHnpmmmmlmllHllmRHmuIIIlHnult Hickman, and Best. The "Tos- 21001 (S) ley, tenor Ragnar Ulfung, ca" principals will be soprano mezzo-soprano Jean Kraft, 38 - BELLINI: NORMA . (3 LP's) 1 Mirna LaCambra, tenor Erik Callas/ Various Artists/LoScala Orch. 8 Chorus (Serafin), tenor John Stewart and mezzo- Townsend, baritone Delme IC -6037 (M); No Stereo when answering ads .. . soprano Ellen Shade. Bryn -Jones, Hickman and Best. 39 39 ART OF MAYNOR 2 DOROTHY Say You Saw It in Stuart Burrows. Jeanette In later performances the leads RCA LM 3086 (S) Scovotti, Doris Yarick, Chester will include soprano Maralin 40 36 STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA 12 Billboard Watson, Peter and Niska, tenor George Shirley, Chicago Symphony (Reiner) RCA Victrola 1265 (M) Harrower Miss Kraft will appear in Stra- and Dooley. 7A MAY t1 1OAO All IRAARI7 Coin Machine World PROGRAMMING Warn FAMA Rowe's Film/Record Expert Of Expected Tells of Concept's Success By EARL PAIGE MIAMI-The film/ jukebox Goldfarb said it entails a lot of Tax Increase concept may have its detractors work and might be confusing but Ronald Goldfarb, record "for someone without experi- By BOB LATIMER company co-ordinator for Rowe ence." Inc. here said he VERDE International, has TIERRE ISLAND, can only describe the concept as In Goldfarb's case, he Fla.-Members of the Florida week, been in the record business and and "fantastic." He said last Amusement Music Associ- "We can't get enough film. One associated with three one -stops ation (FAMA) meeting here last operator bought 75 films at one for 10 years, despite being only week were warned that the State crack. We also have had fa- 28 years old. Budisco One Stop, Legislature "is searching for $80 re of a branch of Bush International, vorite films -made because Florida, million in revenue from any pos- demand." As for co-ordinating the Rowe distributor in sible source." The group dis- films with the proper recording, (Continued on page 72) cussed other legislative problems, including one involving free -play on pin games, elected James Tolisano as president and partic- ipated in a Music Operators of Seeburg Complaint America (MOA) public relations seminar. Here conducting the MOA seminar were the national trade Against NSM Dist. group's president, Howard Ellis, Corp., Sales Corp. selling the eSM from Nebraska, and MOA ex- CHICAGO-Seeburg WURLITZER SCHOOL. Field service representatives Karel Johnson ecutive vice-president Fred div. Commonwealth United Prestige 160 unit, manufacffired (shown pointing in left photo) and Bob Harding (standing at left in Granger, Chicago. Corp., filed here last week a by NSM Apparatebau GNBH, right photo) recently conducted a four -day service school at Sandler complaint in the District Court Vending Co., Minneapolis. Among those attending, many of whom are Operating on an unusual split - Bingen Rhein, West Germany. for Northern District of Illinois pictured above, were Elmer Edel, Edel Music, Mason City, la.; Walt schedule basis, which left Satur- The complaint states that it is Meyer, Little Falls -Sauk Center Music, Sauk Center, Minn.; Ray Schultz, day free for fishing, golfing and alleging infringement of See - burg's design patent on its Spec- Seeburg's understanding that Grand Amusement, Grand Rapids, Minn.; John Backowski, Little Falls swimming, the three-day Inc., Lake meet tra model phonograph. The Specialty Sales is a sub -distribu- Music, Little Falls, Minn.; Alvin R. Kirtz, Lake Pepin Co., featured a brass -tacks atmos- Minn.; Eugene Clennon and Ed Sheimo, Star Music & Vending, complaint was made against tor of Associated Coin Amuse- City, phere as the membership settled ment Co., Inc., Oakland, Calif., Austin, Minn.; Bob Addington, Dakota Music Corp., Bismarck, N. D.; Specialty Sales Corporation of Permann and Mick Schneider, Friedel Music, Gettysburg, S. D.; down to the business meeting. which is the exclusive U. S. dis- Rodney Retiring president Jim Mullins America here, distributors of Russell Gherty, Gherty Novelty, Baldwin, Wis.; Daniel Hamiel, Stans - tributor for NSM. Seeburg re- Eugene R. Jelinek, Star Music & Vending, told of the decision to the German -made NSM phono- field Novelty, La Crosse, Wis.; drop graph. quested that the court enjoin Austin, Minn.; Kelly Goins, Kelly Coin, Carroll, la.; David Austin, Mill scheduled local meetings Specialty Sales from infringing Amusement, Milbank, S. D.; Keith Priebe, Wadena Amusement, throughout the State, to be re- The complaint alleges that its design patent. Wadena, Minn., and Frank Maxwell, Maxwell Music Service, Pierre, S. D. placed by meetings called only Specialty Sales Corp. is infring- "as needed." However, efforts ing the Seeburg patent No. DES. toward the chartering of local 214096, which covers design associations in major cities will features of the Spectra. Such Sego's Rosen Tells Need Set Hearing continue. The association has infringement, the complaint picked up members steadily alleges, stems from Specialty On III. Pins through committee effort along For Increase in Pricing Ill. The these lines, resulting in a dues TOKYO The necessity of the equipment and the extra SPRINGFIELD, - - stage is set here for what should paying strength of 110, even fol- participation out of 56 dues -de- "raising prices to raise income" service costs the lower price lowing the dropping of numerous was repeatedly stressed by Sega would entail," said Rosen. "It is be the legislative climax of an- linquent names. other annual skirmish revolv- delinquent members during the Mullins Enterprise president David realistic to approach the prob- introduced Julius ing anti -pinball legisla- year past. Some 25 members Rosen in a recent address to Jap- lem with the question, 'How around (Dutch) Sturm, FAMA executive tion when the House judiciary have been brought back to active Continued on page 73) anese coin machine operators should I raise the price per play and location owners. and by how much?' committee hears testimony on Rosen's which "With few exceptions, oper- Senate Bill 592 on June II. The comments, bill, as would have were published in a widely cir- ators who raise per -play prices amended, Daddis Praises TCU culated newsletter, touched on in a systematic way find that the effect of outlawing bingo - four main reasons why operators even when the average number of type machines. But the larger uuestion, according to Chicago must now reassess their pricing plays drops percentage -wise for attorney Tim Murtaugh III, is As a 'Money These were listed as a period following the change- Saver' structure. one of enforcement. He thinks in- over, the total income does not By RON changes involving world-wide SCHLACHTER drop. After a brief period, in- the present law is effective. flation, pricing strategy, mass Murtaugh, Nel- come rises to a satisfyingly high- of Murtaugh, UNION, N. J.-United Bil- "This is a finely engineered psychology and the public's son and Sweet, has been repre- liards' and technical and level. Even experienced oper- Tension Control Unit piece of equipment," said Dad - leisure attitude senting Bally Manufacturing (TCU) in the in- ators are often amazed at what "can save operators hun- dis. "It does exactly what we conceptual changes Corp. in previous hearings, and the public will accept in the way dreds of dollars a year and will," say it will. Testing began hack in dustry. sums up his to the of higher prices when the opposition according to president Art December and there are now "It is illusory to think that amended bill by making several Daddis. hundreds out on location. Actu- low prices would eventually changeover is handled intelli- points:' The device, which works along ally, it eliminates giving the bring in sufficient business vol- gently. "While many good locations "For one thing, my client with the coin chute and the ball quarter back. ume to exceed what could be thinks bill is discriminatory are constantly being developed, the trap, prevents object balls from "It's not a unit that can be earned at the correct higher mul- in that Bally is principally the the being trapped when a player easily adapted to other mecha- tiple per play (not to mention exceptionally good locations only company makng bingo -type plunges the coin mechanism too nisms on the market. However, the additional depreciation on arc difficult to find. This is true (Continued on page 72) quickly at the start of a game. it's very simple to hook it up to in Japan and throughout the The TCU is being featured with all our models. All that is needed world. Further, many operators Silver Fox tables, which are is a mounting bracket and two West German (Continued on page 75) Crestline models with a new screws. ZOA Election color. (Continued on page 72) Distributors WIESBADEN, Germany - After seven years as president of the West German coin machine See '69 Rise operators association (ZOA), HAMBURG - For the first Hasso Leoffier of Cologne has time in its I5 -year history, the been succeeded by the associa- West Germany coin machine tion's former treasurer, Werner distributors' organization held Schmidt. its annual meeting outside Ger- New treasurer is Willy Mueller many. The recent meeting of of Frankfurt, chairman of the the Deutscher Automaten -Gross- Hesse branch of the association. handelsverband (DAGV) met Carl -Heinz Wende, chairman of this time in Paris. The group, the Hamburg branch, was re- representing 30 firms, an- elected vice-president of the nounced that its gross for 1968 ZOA. AUTOMATIC COIN EQUIPMENT (ACE), Cardiff, Ltd. plans to build a amounted to 150 million marks, The ZOA's general secretaries, new factory at Llantrisant, 10 miles northwest of Cardiff, Wales. The or $37.5 million dollars. Fore- new factory, seen above in an artist's rendering, will occupy nine and Hans Odenthal and Bernhard casts of a 11 to 12 per cent re- a half acres and will employ over 500 people and utilize 122,000 Reichard, will be resigning their square feet of space for production purposes. Work is expected to be placement quota of jukeboxes posts June 30. So far, no replace- completed by the end of 1969. (Continued on page 72) DAVID ROSEN, Sega president. ments have been appointed. MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 71 Coin Machine News

Daddis Praises TCU Rowe's Film/Record Expert Continued from page 7/ What's Playing? "As for reaction, comments Tells of Concept's Success have been to the effect that we Continued from page 7/ time of film with record he is ship nothing else into the area. satisfied. A weekly programming profile of current and oldie has one -stops in Jacksonville, Without a doubt, we definitely While he concedes that much selections from locations around the country. Tampa and here. his is of necessity believe that this is the biggest of criterion "I listen to about 100 differ- based on artistic and subjective Baton Rouge, La., Location: R&B-Lounge has advancement that been made ent records every week in an decisions-whether a given rein the pool table coin mecha- effort to stay on top of picking cording is r&b or nop, for ex- Current releases: nism." the ones to go with the eight ample-he does have definite "More Today Thon Yesterday," Spiral we each month," LORNA FAYE Stoircose, Columbia 4-44741; Working as a tension spring, films release guidelines. he said. "1f I hear a good ballad, STELLY, "Bad Moon Rising," Creedence Clear- the TCU gives the players about "Oldies" programmer, water Revival, Fontosy-622; for example, I note it mentally a 15 second margin of error by Stelly "Love Mon," Otis Redding, Atco-6677. and pray the time is the right "After determining which rec- holding the interior trap open Amusement Co. Oldies: with a ords fall into three basic cate- until the last ball drops down. duration to be coupled film." gories, r&b, pop and c&w, I try Anything by James Brown According to Daddis, the Silver to match the film to a current Fox line, featuring the TCU, will He said if he can come within release and an oldie." He said acksonville, III., Location: Adult (Over 30) -Tavern he ready for delivery in June. five seconds in matching the "oldie" and "standard" are synonymous in his mind, but that Current releases: the terms describe a recording "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," Campbell, Capitol; CHICK HENSKE, Glen that has sold "at least 500,000 "Release Me," Engelbert Humperdinck conies." programmer, Parrot. "Basically, I want to list a Henske record that operators can find Music Co. Oldies: at their one -stop. Why list some- Brod Swanson releases; thing that might be a cut-out Glenn Miller Orchestra. and no longer available from distributors just because it fits Morgan City, La., Location: C&W-Lounge the tempo and time required to Curried releases: fit a film?" "Proud Mary," Creedence Cleorwater As an example, Check In, a Revival, Fantasy -619; new Rowe PhonoVue film, was "Galveston," Glen Campbell, Capitol - JOE KEATING, 2428; paired with "Heather Honey," "Gomes People Play," Joe South, programmer, Capitol -2248. Tommy Roe's new ABC record- Twin City ing, "The Weight," by Arthea Music Co. Oldies: Franklin on Atlantic. "The lat- "We'll Sing in the Sunshine," Gale Cornett; ter is a standard by now and "Lost Date," Floyd Cromer. TOP EARNINGS most distributors around the country and one -stops, too, maintain stock on it," Goldfarb IN said. Another example: Wishing Set Hearing On III. Pins EVERY TYPE OF LOCATION Well, coupled with "Bad Moon Rising," the new Fantasy release Continued from page 71 session. "I think there were by Creedence Clearwater Re- something like 14 different ones EVERYWHERE vival, and as an oldie alternate, games. Also, the bill doesn't a couple of years ago." This allow operators a fair chance to (Continued on page 75) year, aside from 592, there are phase out of this type of equip- three other similar proposals. ment and some may have sub- "There's always pinball legisla- stantial investments. In effect, tion of some type it seems," he CHICAGO COIN'S NEW what is legal one minute is de- said. cided ille¢al the next. Testimony on Senate Bill 592 "I think the present law is may come "in the wee hours" TOTALLY DIFFERENT completely effective because it again, he indicated. The House leaves it up to the local com- judiciary calendar is reported to munities as to enforcement. be quite heavy and all bills must These machines are not hidden, be considered in committee by I they're in public places and the June 14. If the House committee local authorities are in the best passes it, the bill then goes be- position to know what's hap- fore the full House and must pening." then be signed by the governor. Murtaugh makes the further point that people can gamble on "almost anything." He said, "I fail to see the logic in people West German testifying that there are some 750 bingo -type games in 250 Distributors as er locations around the State. If people know it, and it's against Featuring Revolutionary the law, why don't they make See '69 Rise arrests?" Continued from page 71 The young attorney, who "WINDSHIELD VIEW" at the seems to view the situation for 1969 were made somewhat philosophically, said meeting. According to the DRIVING there didn't seem to be as many DAGV general secretary, Wolf anti -pinball bills in the current Meyer -Christian, one third of the total turnover for 1968 came SIMPLE, TROUBLE -FREE DESIGN from pay -out machines, which , , . NO FILM-NO BELTS! are statutorily required to pay Panoramic Animated Variable Driving out 60 per cent of the coins in- serted. Movement in Natural Color! DAGV members control near- Fantastic New Projection Principle! ly 80 per cent of the West Ger- All Machines man coin market outside the vending AUTHENTIC MOTOR -SPEED EFFECTS Ready for Location field. Last year produced a slight re- Driver -Controlled by Gas Pedal. cession because of the introduc- Seeburg A Y-100 $325. SIMULATED SPEEDS, 0 TO OVER 300 MPH AMI 200 selection wall box 19.50 tion of machines with a I5 -sec- CC Hula Hula 195. ond game cycle paying out two REALISTIC SPORTS CAR SOUNDS ON TAPE! Bally Dixieland 245, Bally Blue Ribbon 4 -player 245. marks instead of one. Invest- GEAR SHIFT ... Visual Motion -Effect AMI Cadette 595. ments in these machines had AMI Continental 1.200 165. the of Forward, Reverse, or Neutral. Seeburg 222 285. caused a slight fall in pur- Seeburg 0-100 275. chases of phonographs but the Seeburg 161 250. 4 MINUTES PLAYING TIME ... Adjustable. Criss -Cross Skee-ball 300. association was confident that Playtime Skee-ball 395. the lost ground would be more Available 10c OR 25c PER PLAY Rowe Riviera 175. 9 -col. National 55. than made up in 1969. ADJUSTABLE REPLAY OR STANDARD MODELS There are currently 60,000 COMPACT- 27" x 25" jukeboxes operating in West ALSO IN Germany and the figure had Mfrs YANKEE BASEBALL CHAMPAGNE GALAXY PIRATE GOLD Distributing (o / of % PRODUCTION LewJane remained virtually static for the PROVEN CHICAGO COIN MACHINE DIV Erclusire Wurlitter Distributor last IO years. But it was ex- PROFIT MAKERS' 1311 N Capitol Ave. pected that the replacement Since e` CHICAGO DYNAMIC INDUSTRIES, INC. Indianapolis, Ind. quota would climb from 10 per + 1931 cent to 11 or 12 per cent in ,c` I r75 W DIVERSEr lluD CHICAGO ,lL.NOS 60614 Tel MElrose 5-1593 1969. Coin Machine News FAMA Elects Jim Tolisano

Continued from page 71 citing the experience of operators with Granger moderating. He in South Dakota and Arizona director, who reported on cur- distributed copies of the pre- as well as Long Island. The ex- rent activities affecting the in- pared MOA speech for operator cellent returns are matched by the dustry at the State Legislature in members, and suggested "self - fine potential for landing new Tallahassee. The situation has re- training" methods for giving it locations in every case. More mained relatively serene through efficiently. "Operators should sit will be forthcoming in this area, the year, he down and read the speech sev- pointed out. He he promised. warned, however, that the Legis- eral times, over a considerable lature is ".earching for $80 mil- Vendors period of time," he said, "in or- lion" from any possible source. The possibility of bringing der to appreciate its points. He should practice and that sales tax may he ex- state vending operators into delivery in front of a pected to increase. (Currently FAMA was discussed, with the mirror." Ideas were volun- teered sales tax in the amusement ma- thought that venders might by members for good chine industry is slated to drop easily benefit from the same rep- public relations, including char- itable donations OVER to 3 per cent in June.) Chief con- resentation. Later in the meeting, of machines, 150 operators lined up for a special menu prepared by the participation Jetton Catering Co. Activities included instruction cern of operators should be however, George Harvey Duck- in civic events, bet- in authentic Hawaiian dances which found vending operators Ronny and "Pop" changes in the basis whereby ett. president of the huge Auto- ter identification with business. Ellis urged McClure joining a professional teacher on the large, decorated stage sales tax is paid on one half of matic Merchandising. Inc., the display of a new phonograph to the delight of the crowd. gross. Exemptions of the past, Tampa, active in both music wherever a speech is such as automobile dealers and and full -line vending, struck given. Elected for the 1969-1970 'I.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' private utility companies, may he this proposal down with the state- presidency eliminated and a new bill,asking ment that "The two operations of FAMA was Jim Reconditioned Tolisano Guaranteed I a 4 per cent sales tax is in the have very little in common and of Treasure Island Fun SPECIALS Center, works at present. very little need for the same Treasure Island. His ac- ceptance of the gavel highlighted Sturm also organizational services." On PIN BALLS BOWLERS ARCADE pointed out that in a unique career in that he has - - motion, the raising the occupational license suggestion was dropped. now been president of two State CHICAGO COIN RALLY fee on vending machines from PAR GOLF .. -...... $110 BULL FIGHT $150 associations, as well as it- MUSTANG, 2 -PI. 15$ MOA ROCKET =3 250 75 cents to $3, a proviso was Granger outlined current self. is a past HULA-HULA, 2 -Pl. 195 He president of the KICKER 185 CAMPUS QUEEN, 4 -PL 335 added which levies a standing $10 fine if of the copyright bill Connecticut Music Operators TRIUMPH S.A 250 WORLD CUP 385 the license is not attached which has been GOLD STAR S.A. 265 DIXIELAND to the with the Senate Association. Six regional vice- BELAIR S.A. 28$ 320 machine by a set date. Judiciary MEDALIST ... 310 "A pen- Committee for two presidents named are: Herman TEXAS alty RANGER 205 UNITED of 133 per cent of the license years, pointing out that the MOA Owens of Vero Beach ULTRA S.A $175 Music GOTTLIEB amount is out of reason," Sturm is standing pat on an $8 TIGER 195 per Co., Vero Beach; SHIPMATES, 4 Bob Pell PI. 8175 CORRAL said, "which is the way we are year per phonograph fee, "a real of Frank Pell KINGS IL QUEENS 165 310 Amusement Co., ICE REVUE 180 MAMBO 220 presenting our stand. achievement in view the CENTRAL PARK Actually of fact Orlando; Fletcher A. Blalock of 195 PYRAMID 28$ I the State legislature is using this that the original proposal called Blalock Music Co., Pensacola; avenue as a means of getting for $60 per box," he said. Un- Wesley Lawson of Lawson every machine on the State tax derscored was the fact that this Music Co., Winter Haven; Bus- ,, ) Write for complete 1969 Catalog of rolls." issue is being pushed aggressive- ter Fallin of Buster's Music, Phonographs, Vending and Games. ly by the National Committee Games Law Layton, and Ralph Sherouse of Established 7934 for Recording Artists, headed by Bar -Stell Music, Gainesville. Sturm also touched on the orchestra leader Stan Kenton. Elected secretary was Sol Tahb free -play problem which was Much the meeting was of Sol Tabb, Inc., Miami, with brought up abortively late for of de- I I Pleason Stambaugh Jr. of West Cable: ATLAS MUSIC COMPANY the 1969 session, which sought voted to better public relations ATMUSIC-Chicago Palm Beach being elected treas- a clear definition 2122 N. WESTERN AVE., CHICAGO, of gambling and practical methods of im- urer. Jim Mullins became ego ILL. 60647. ARmitage 6-5005 devices, and which chair- tentatively proving the operator's image, man of the hoard. set (I ceiling of IS free games, restricting them to machines tlhich make no announcement of L r1 C-7 the number of free games won, and which activated free games by the same plunger used to play the game. J_ ff He stressed that arcade oper- mie TOMORROW ators had won designation as a complex of 50 machines or more, and received approval of free games and prizes-a step which SOUND strengthened the hand of FAMA. The above elements had little chance of becoming a considered hill this year, Sturm stressed, He likewise emphasized the importance of pool tournaments, MONEY!

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MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 73 Bulk Vending News Vending Party Bulk Operators Put Artistic Hurvich Bros. 150 at Graff Talents to Use in Promotions DOTHAN, Ala.-Bert Witkos, this southeastern-Alabama com- Set for 38th owner, Bert's Vending Service munity. He identifies every ma- 38th is considered one of the chine with a bright, gold label BIRMINGHAM -The here, of Bir- most promotion -minded bulk with his name, telephone num- anniversary celebration sched- operators in the area. He does ber, and address. Instead of re- mingham Vending Co., 8. much of his own art work and maining anonymous with many uled to take place here June a number sign painting and even contrib- locations such as service sta- is expected to attract in- uted graphics for the 35th anni- tions, bowling alleys, super- of industry representatives, versary celebration of Birming- markets, airline, bus, and train cluding many operators from ham Vending Co. One of his terminals, Witkos is a "hand- Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, as well slogans is "home owned and shaker" who is positive about Georgia and operated." which he uses to com- letting everyone possible know as Alabama. Hurvich. bat competition from national that he is a Dothan native. He Max and Harry the operating companies. stresses that he is in the hulk known in the industry as vending business, and out to "Gold Dust Twins," established is a young operator Witkos Birmingham Vending in 1931 with more than 300 locations in please "his public." In many locations, he tailors after working for their uncle in stands and enclosures, to match a candy wholesaling business. the surroundings, a fact which Starting with penny gum ball invariably pleases location own- machines, the brothers carefully ers and leads to more worth- reinvested their capital and went HERS while spots. on to make their company one He has likewise taken over of the leading distributing firms many "difficult" locations, such of bulk, music, game and cigaret as an outdoor -sidewalk spot in products. While the Sunday open house IT IS a busy shopping center, building GRAFF VENDING president Floyd Price (left) congratulates Greenville, a heavy, protective cabinet in (Continued on page 75) Tex., vendor R. W. Lacy, winner of the top prize (a color television set) which II hulk venders can he at the recent 10th anniversary party at the firm's Dallas warehouse easily secured. It can be closed Bitterman Event and headquarters. gettiumetem. by a locked door, in one motion, after the Center shuts down for KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Bit- the night. terman & Son here will hold its Like many operators, Witkos annual open house June 29. made no specific attempt to Among the 150 guests expected CLASSIC (Continued on page 75) to attend are Jane Mason, Ray Bill, Sidney Eppy and Margaret Kelly. Bernard Bitterman is sec- GUARANTEED retary -treasurer of the National Vending Machine Distributors, USED MACHINES while his son, Alan, serves as MERCHANDISE Zr SUPPLIES assistant secretary -treasurer of the group. Alan is also president of the newly formed Missouri CAPSU LES Bulk Vendors Association. 250 PER BAG with MONEY MAKING DISPLAYS St All Ring Mix $4.60 St Trick i Game Mix .. 5.00 5t Creepy Bugs 5.00 5e Northwestern Mix 4.25 NEW 5t L Assorted Mixes . 5.00 VICTOR'S 104 Jewelry Mix 8.00 10t Lighter Mix 8.00 appropriate for Graff's 10t Big Dice Mix 8.00 11 SPECIAL --HAWAIIAN" LOVLIES. Dressed in costumes 104 Assortment Mix 7.00 event are (from left) Marie Norman; Mrs. Jane Mason, Leaf 10t Western Mix 8.00 uau 25 V2 Jewelry, 100 per box .. 10.00 Brands, Chicago; Yvonne Freeman, and Mildren Ponder. 254 V2 Oogles, 100 per box 10.00 EXTRA CAPACITY Empty V-V1-V2 CAPSULES

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7A MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Vending and Loin Machine News Rowe's Film/Record Expert Bulk Operators Put Art Sego's Rosen Continued from page 71 Tells of Concept's Success Talents to Use in Promo are simply not facing up to the massive changes now taking Continued from page 72 to be used with either "Give It C'ontinued from page 74 ture of customer -ages is represented round the clock. p!ace. They are mistakenly 'milk- Up" on Brunswick or "10,000 "identify" with the hulk vending "Statching it Back" by Clarence Miles" on UNI; Window Here, after consultation with ing' excellent locations by keep- Carter on Atlantic. business in the public eye, until location owners, Witkos pro- ing three, four and five -year -old Shopping, to be used with "Long numerous national competitors Other examples on Rowe's duced a mix which included 1 - depreciated machines set at low Green" on Ateo or "Sweet In- began appearing in the picture. newest film/record pairing list cent sour grape bubble gum, 1 - prices -per -play in premium spots. spiration," also Ateo; Cabana Because almost every franchise contrast new releases with older Girl, to be used with "Back cent colored bubble gum, 5 -cent As many progressive operators operator representing a "nation- songs that sold in good quantity: Door on Bang or capsules, and 10 -cent novelties. have found over the past two Man" "Gimme, al" showed signs which informed Check Cut is a film that Gold- Gimme Good Lovin' " on Bell. All were chosen because they years this course is very unwise." farb suggests can be used with that the firm was a nationwide meet the needs of travelers whil- Goldfarb contradicts the oft - "Gentle On My Mind," the Dean operation. Witkos immediately ing away the time between air- Martin Reprise recording of stated opinion that tavern pa- saw the advantage of playing up trons will seldom want to watch planes. some time back, or, "Johnny B. the local image. the same repeatedly. "We Witkos knows personally of Good," the newest Buck film In the process, by simply Owens several instances which a Jumbo Buys have favorite films. Copy Cat, pointing out to both current and in new recording on Capitol. business opening up in Dothan This combination of record- Pool Room and Check Mate potential location owners the fact had turned down a national were all made a long time ago. that he is a tax -paying member ines for one film, obviously vending firm "until they checked We've had to have more copies of the community, a church- demonstrates the kind of artistic me," he said. Each of these has and intuitive judgment Gold- made up because operators are goer, a father of small children demanding these films. and involved with many civic become a valuable location for farb has to make; and as well, Bert's Vending Service and has "Pool Room is a film featur- events, Witkos has seen his sales the molding together of music understandably, insured excel- ing a very attractive girl shoot- rise in every direction. categories. lent co-operation ing billiards. People in bars, No single element has been from the loca- Waiting, another Rowe film tion owner concern. release for May, can be used mostly men, of course, want to more important in Witkos' mer- see with "Apricot Brandy," the not - it over and over. In a case of chandising program than effec- so -recent Rhinocerous recording a film like this I may pair it tively tailoring the mix to match on Electra, or, with "Just a Mel- with six different pairs of re- each location. An excellent ex- A Full Line of cordings over the course of a ample is a four -head unit at the ody," the new Brunswick release Coin Operated by Young -Holt Unlimited. year. Dothan Municipal Airport Still more film/record pair- "Quite often a recording where, of course, a broad mix - Recreational comes out that I immediately ings: Star is Born, to he used That's the Kind of with either "The Time Is To- recognize as being more appro- Tables from priate a certain out in day" on Warner Bros. -Seven for film Find in registers that tell how often a Values You'll Arts or "Anything Better Than the field than the one being used given film is played. "In the Love, on Philasoul; Fun City, and I suggest the newer song." Our New Coin Machine List. Goldfarb said he regularly case of an operator from Ja- mails a list of Rowe's top 24 maica, evidently every film he ìl/lr'1111 Send for It! Hurvich Bros. Set films to as many as 1,000 oper- has is rolling the meter over. 1SHUFFLEBOARD COMPANY ators. The current list, in addi- He bought 75 films at once. .i0 FAIERSON PtANC ROAD Other operators may only UNION CITY NEW 1ERSFY Continued from page 74 tion to the above three -named films: Parachutist, My Hope, change two or three films a Erclusiye Rowe AMI Distributor week. Eo. Po S. Jersey Del. Md. D.0 will be held at company head- Viking Maid, Bewitched, Sing "We have one location here "The House quarters, tentative arrangements Off, Night Rider, Dynamite, that is doing $175 in quarters have been Robin Hood, Surprise Package, made at the Guest every week. Obviously, with That III BIISI:II House in Birmingham for guests Making Good, The Veil, The Oil\ Archer, Behind Closed Doors, this kind of action you won't who plan to arrive on Saturday, Quality Built" BSS N EROAD ST PNILA PA 18123 Up, Up and Off, Fashion Show, change films so frequently. June 7. In addition, plans are CEx'' 2 One They're paying everything. Phon( 21S 2900 being made for a dinner -dance Too Many, Fortune Cookie, (or all guests who will be in Fish Net, Sounds Fishy, Bust In town Saturday night. and Escape. Both brothers are married. Rotating films, according to Max has three children and five Goldfarh, depends on the meter grandchildren, while Harry has two children and four grandchildren. Al Toranto, Max's son- in-law, was made a partner in SEGA the company last July I. BARGAINS The Hurvich brothers are well-known for their active par- from ticipation in trade associations and other industry affairs. Max MISSILE KING'S One Stop is currently on the board of di- Psychedelic Pin -On ufrens 512.00 M rectors of the Music Operators Rings for It Vending, 800 to bag 1.90 of America (MOA), the Nation- Filled Capsule Mixes al Vending Association (NVA) All 250 per bag Controlled Missile Flight and the National Vending Dis- Se Economy Mix 83.90 tributors Association (NVDA). 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19 14 CUPID-Johnny Nash (Major 4 5 IRRESISTIBILMENTE- 7 - RING OF FIRE-Eric ARGENTINA Minor)-Kegs (Jad) Sylvie Vartan (RCM-RCA NEW ZEALAND Burdon/Animals (MGM)- 20 25 1 his I ash (Courtes) Escalera a la Fama) BADGE-*Cream (Polydor) 5 4 LA STORIA DI SERAFINO - The Animals-Laetrec 'Denotes local origin Dratkaf/Apple Music (Felix 'Adriano Celentano (Clan)-- N col. 11 tek (Trutone) Pappalardi) 8 THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR This Last Clan/Rizzoli 1 1 CRIMSON AND CLOVER- - 21 20 PASSING STRANGERS- and the MIND-Noel Harrison Week Week 6 16 GET BACK-Beatles (Apple) Tommy James Sarah Vaughan and Billy Shondells (Roulette) (Reprise)-United Artists 1 I EL EXTRANO DE PELO e Canzoni Eckst ine -Ritmi 3 (Teal) Joven 2 ATLANTIS-Donovan (Epic) LARGO-'La 22 30 TRACKS OF MY TEARS- 7 8 CASATSCHOK-*Dori Ghezzi 9 5 DIZZY-Tommy Roe (ABC Guardia (Vile)-Relay 3 4 WHERE DO YOU GO TO- Smokey Robinson and the (Durium)-Durium Peter Sarstedt Paramount)-Steve Barri- 2 2 DING DONG ESTAS COSAS (United Miracles (Tamla/Motown)- 8 6 BUONASERA BUONASERA Artists) Lowery Music (Teal) DEL AMOR-Leonardo Jobete/Carlin (Smokey -Sylvie Vartan (RCA)- 10 WHAT AM I LIVING FOR- Favio (CBS)-Melograf 4 R SORRY SUZANNE-The - Robinson) RCA Hollies (Parlophone) Percy Sledge (Atlantic)- 3 3 VOY A HACER UNA 23 16 GENTLE ON MY MIND- 9 II ACQUA AZZURRA ACQUA 5 6 GALVESTON-Glen Campbell Belinda (Teal) CANCION-Palito Ortega Dean (Reprise)- Ballisti (RCA--Clanort Martin CHIARA-Lucio (Capitol) Acuff-Rose (Jimmy Bowen) (Ricordi)-Fama/EI and 6 2 MONSIEUR DUPONT 4 4 PENUMBRAS-'Sandro 24 28 DICK-A-DUM-DUM-Des (CBS)-Ansa Chris -Sandie Shaw (Pye) SPAIN O'Connor (Columbia)-E.H. 10 9 IL PARADISO-'Patty Pravo 7 Hopkin 5 S PUERTO GOODBYE-Mary MONTI-Los Morris (Norman Newell) (Arc)-Fama/EI and Chris - (Apple) 1Courtes) of El Gran Musical) Iracundos (RCA)-Relay 25 17 BOOM BANG-A-BANG- 11 7 MA CHE FREDDO FA- 8 5 SURROUND YOURSELF *Denotes local origin 6 - LA LLUVIA TERMINO-Los Lulu (Columbia)-Chappell Nada (RCA)-RCA Iracundos (RCA)-Relay WITH SORROW-Cilla This Last (Mickle Most) 12 18 PENSANDO A TE-'AI Black (Parlophone) Week Week 7 10 LEJOS DE LOS OJOS- 26 44 I'D RATHER GO BLIND- B ano (VdP)-VdP Dyango (RCA); Sergio 9 - BOOM BANG-A-BANG- 1 3 MAMA-Jean Jacques 'Chicken Shack (Blue 13 - STORIA D'AMORE- Lulu (Columbia) (Hispavox)-Ediciones Endrigo (Fermata); Mary Horizon)-Jewel (Mike Adriano Celentano (Clan) Hopkin (A pie)-Fermata 10 - BLACKBERRY WAY-The Musicales Hispavox Vernon) -Clan Move (Festival) 2 2 CASATSCHOK-Georgie 8 8 ZINGARA-Bobby Solo 37 30 TIME IS RIGHT-Booker T. 14 12 OB -LA -DI, OB-LA-DA- (CBS); Iva Zanicchi Dann (Discophon)- and the MG's (Stax)- B eatles (Apple)-Ritmi e Ediciones Musicales Fontana (Philips); Nicola Dibari Chappell (B.T. Jones) Canzoni (RCA)-Fermata 3 1 C'U ENTAM E-Formula V 28 35 SNAKE IN THE GRASS- IS I WANT TO LIVE- PHILIPPINES (Fonogram 9 9 EN EL VAIVEN-Vico Dave Dee, etc. - )-Ediciones (Fontana)- Aphrodite's Child (Mercury) t his 1 ast Musicales Fontana Berti (RCA)-Relay Lynn (Steve Rowland) -Alfiere Week 10 6 ELLA, ELLA YA ME Neel. 4 5 LAS FLECHAS DEL AMOR/ 29 24 I DON'T KNOW WHY- 16 10 LETTERE D'AMORE- LA FIESTA-Karin OLVIDO-Leonardo Favio Stevie Wonder (Tamla- Renegades I I DIZZY-Tommy Roe (ABC) (CBS)--Mclograf (Columbia)- -Marcco, Inc. (H ispa vox)-Cha ppe I I be rica Motown)-Jobete/Carlin (D. Curci /Ediciones Quiroga Hunter/Stevie Wonder) 2 2 TIME OF THE SEASON- 17 14 BLAM SLAM BLAM- 5 6 BOOM BANG-A-BANG-Lulu 30 22 COLOR OF MY LOVE- Sylvie Varian (RCA)-RCA Zombies (Date)-Mareco, Inc. (Odeon-C h a pppee I I be r is a 'Jefferson (Pye)--Sphere 18 21 NON CREDERE-Mina BRAZIL 3 5 THIS GIRL'S IN LOVE 6 4 VIVO CANTANDO-Salome Music (John Schroeder) (PDU)-Fono Fikn/PDU (Belter)-Ediciones two DE JVs.FIRO) 31 50 I THREW IT ALL WITH YOU-Eydie Gorme AWAY- 19 23 ELIZABETH-Maurizio Inc. Musicales Better I Courtes) IROI'F Bob Dylan (CBS)-Feldman (Joker)-Bonagura (CBS)-Mareco. 4 3 INDIAN GIVER -1910 7 7 SINNER MAN-*Nuestro This (Bob Johnston) 20 13 LA PIOGGIA-Gigliola Pequeno Mundo (Sonoplay) 32 39 HIGHER AND HIGHER- Fruitgum Co. (Buddah)- Week Cinguetti (CGD)-Tevere Mareco, Inc. -Ediciones Quiroga I TUDO PASSARA-Nelson Ned Jackie Wilson (NCA)- 21 ACQUA DI MARE-'nomina - 5 7 SWEETER THAN SUGAR- 8 8 ALGUIEN CANTO-Matt (Copacabana) United Artists (Carl Davis) Power (VdP)-VdP Monro (Odeon)-Ediciones 33 17 WINDMILLS OF YOUR Ohio Express (Buddah)- 2 OB -LA -DI. OB-LA-DA-The 22 17 IN FONDO AL VIALE- Mareco, Inc. Quiroga Beatles (Odeon) MIND-Noel Harrison Gem (Deo)-Tank Music 6 4 I WILL-Beatles (Apple)- 9 9 LO MUCHO QUE TE 3 BAHIA DE TODOS OS DEUSES (Reprise)-United Artists 23 15 CRIMSON AND CLOVER- OUIERO-Los Angeles (Jimmy Bowen) the Dyna Products. Inc.; Vic -Elia Soares (Odeon) Tommy James and Lewis (CBS)--Mareco, Inc. (H is pova x) --Ediciones 4 Solo 33 HAPPY HEART-Andy Shondella (Roulette)-Curti ZINGARA-Bobby - 7 THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR IO 10 LA PALOMA-'Juan Manuel (Chantecler) Williams (CBS)-Donna 24 FIRST OF MAY-Bee Gees - (Jerry Fuller) - MIND-Noel Harrison Serrat (Zafiro)-Grupo 5 STELA-Fabio (RCA) (Polydor)-Senza Fine (Reprise)-Mareco Inc. Editorial Armonico 6 CRIMSON AND CLOVER-Tommy 35 36 YOU'VE MADE ME SO 25 CUORE STANCO-Nada VERY HAPPY-Blood. - 8 6 TOGETHER-Sandie Shaw James (R.G.E.) (RCA)-Amici del Disco (RCA Victor)-Filipinas 7 AAO MESTRE COM CARINHO- Sweat and Tears (CBS)- Jobete (James Williams Record Corp.; Ray Peterson Lulu (Odeon) (Reprise)-Mareco, Inc. R ADEUS INGRATA-Claudio Guercio) Fontana (Copacabana) 36 41 LIVING IN THE PAST- 9 - MY SPECIAL PRAYER- Jethro Tull (Island)- JAPAN Percy Sledge (Atlantic)- 9 MRS. ROBINSON-Simon and Mareco, Inc. Dexter's Garfunkel (CBS) Chrysalis (Terry Ellis) (Courtesy Original Confidence Co LN.) 36 34 BLUER THAN 10 R LIVE FOR LIFE-Jack Jones IO DEIXE ME OUTRO DIA-Agnaldo BLUE-Rolf ti)enutes local origin Inc.; Timoteo (Odeon) Harris (Columbia)- (Kapp)-Mareco, Patricia (Steve Gray) This Last Sergio Perez y su Organo Scrapbook 38 38 GROOVY BABY-*Microbe Week Week (CBS)-Mareco, Inc. I (CBS)-Sunbury (Ion Green) I I SCAT IN THE DARK-Yuki 10 - I LAUGHED TILL CRIED BELGIUM: FLEMISH 39 OH HAPPY DAY-Edwin Saori (Express)-All Staff Harriette Blake (Monument) - Inc. i( °urlcss llwnul Hawkins Singers (Buddah)- 2 2 TOKI NIWA HAHA NO NAI -Mareco Continued from page 56 *Denotes local origin Kama Sutra (Lamont Bench) KO NO YOHNI-Carmen 40 36 This MY FRIEND-Roy Orbison Maki (CBS Sonv)-April wood, a landmark that for 30 Week (London)-Acuff-Rose (Don 4 MINATOMACHI BLUES- POLAND Gant) Mori Shin-ichl (Victor)- years was known as Earl Car - 1 GET BACK-The Beatles (Parlophone) 44) - GIMME. GIMME GOOD Watanabe (Countess Polish Patfinders Station) roll's and, more recently, the 4 6 NO *Denotes local origin 2 HET KAN NIET ZIJN-Will Tura LOVIN'-'Crary Elephant UTSUKUSHIKI AI (Major Minor)-Dick James OKITE/KAZE WA This Last Moulin Rouge. (Palette) (Kasenetz/Kata) 3 GOODBYE-*Mary Hopkin (Apple) SHIRANAI-Tigers Week Week 42 46 THINK IT ALL OVER- With a little help from their 4 DAYDREAM-The Wallace I 3 SORRY SUZANNE-Hollies Collection (HMV) Sandie Shaw (Pye)- S S KIM11 WA KOKORO NO friends, the Fool transformed Sunbury (Ede Taylor) TSUMA DAKARA/NAITA (Parlophone) 5 SORRY SUZANNE-The 'lollies 2 I 43 47 DU GAMES PEOPLE PLAY- the 12,000 -square -foot area into (Parlophone) MONSIEUR PONT- HI MO ARU-*Tokyo Joe South (Capitol) Sandie Shaw (Pye)-Carlin Romantica (Teichiku)-Geion a psy- 6 ISRAELITES-*Desmond Dekker 3 4 GOOD TIMES-Cliff Richard sort of Gargantuan, (Supreme (Ken Woodman) 6 R NANAIRO NO SHIAWASE- 44 42 WHERE DO YOU GO Pinkv & Killen (King)- (Columbia) chedelic rainbow, about one- 7 PROUD MARY-Creedence TO- 4 2 I HEARD IT THROUGH Clearwater (America) 'Peter Sarstedt (United All Staff THE fourth the size of a football Artists)-Mortimer (Ray 7 3 Norihiko & GRAPEVINE-Marvin 8 ALS EEN KUS NAAR TRANEN KA7E-'Hashida the Singers) Schuberts (Express)-Art Gaye (Motown) field. It reverently depicts SMAAKT-Jimmy Frey (Philips) S 9 45 33 I CAN HEAR POD PAPUGAMI-'Niemen 9 MAAR IN AMERIKA-Marc Dex MUSIC-Beach Music (Mural current Aquarian Age and, Boys (Capitol)-Lieber 8 7 BLUE LIGHT YOKOHAMA (Arcade) Stoller (Carl Wilson) 6 - IN THE BAD, BAD 01.1) Posthuma modestly concedes, 10 MENDOCINO-Sir Douglas -'Ishida Ayumi (Columbia) (Pve) 46 WALK ON GILDED -Nichinn DAYS-Foundations will forever remain as testimony Quintet (Mercury) - 7 PIOSENKA O ZIELINSKIEJ SPLINTERS-*Marsha Hunt 9 14 JINGI-Kitajima Saburo - the (Track)-Apple (Tony (Crown)-Crown Skaldowie to the genius of ... Fool. R GIVER Hall/ Visconti) IO IS - INDIAN -1910 KYOTO, KOBE. GINZA- Fruitgum Co. (Buddah) BRITAIN 47 32 SORRY SUZANNE-Hollies ' Hashi Yukio (Victor)- (Parlophone)-Schroeder 9 6 PYTANIE CZY HASLO- Judy Collins simply took (Cowles) Record Retailer) Nkhion 'Romuald and Roman Destotes loWeal aright (Ron Richards) 11 13 OB -LA -Dl. 013-LA-DA- Southern California apart on 47 40 SANCTUS-Troubadours Du Beatles (Apple)-Toshiba IO - TIME OF THE SEASON- nis Last Zombies (Date) her recent visit. Her concerts Roi Baudouin (Philips)- 12 II SHIRANAKATTA NO-Ito Week Week Flamingo (Father Gudio Yukari (King)-Watanahe were sellouts, and weekdays she I 1 GET BACK-Beatles (Apple) Haazen) 13 IO HATSUKOI NO HITO- spent completing her autobiog- -Northern (George Martin) 49 26 I HEARD IT THROUGH Ogawa Tomoko (Toshiba)- PUERTO RICO 2 2 SENTIMENTAL FRIEND- THE GRAPEVINE-Marvin Hayabusa raphy, one which will feature Hermits )('Dunes WKAQ-F:1. MIINDOt Herman's Gaye (Tamla-Motown)- 14 - NAGASAKI WA KYO MO the music and lyrics of her (Columbia)-Monique Music Jobete Carlin (Norman AME DATTA-Uchiyamada 'Denotes local origin ic Whitfield) Hiroshi & Cool Five (RCA) This Last songs as well as straight text 3 MAN OF THE WORLD- 5o SWAN (BAF)- Week %Seek LAKE-*Cats -Watanabe . Fleetwood Mac (Immediate) - and photos. Dominant/Sparta (BAF) IS 9 GOOD NIGHT BABY-*King 1 I GENESIS-'Lucecita (Hit -Immediate/Fleetwood Tones (Polvdor)-J&K Parade) Miss Collins made her first (Mike Vernon) 16 16 365 -HO NO MARCH- 23 AQUARIUS/LET THE album in 1961 and has recorded 4 II DIZZY-Tommy Roe Suizenji Kiyoko (Crown)- SUNSHINE IN-Fifth (Stateside)-BMI (Steve HOLLAND Crown Dimension (Soul City) exactly one each year since. Barri) (Countess Radio veronica 17 17 SHINJUKU SATURDAY 3 2 CANCION LATINA-'De And while she once consid- S 7 BEHIND THE PAINTED and l'latenniruws) NIGHT-Aoe Mina Kalafe (Hit Parade) SMILE-Isky Brothers *Denotes local origin (Victor)-Victor 4 4 NO, NO PUEDE SER-Jose ered herself a solo performer, a (Tamla-Motown)-Jobete/ IR 18 FUSHIGINA L. Rodriguez (Velvet) Carlin (Ivy Hunter) This Last TAIYO- storyteller, she now wants to Week Week Mavuzumi Jun (Capitol)- 5 7 ASI-Sandro (Columbia - 6 6 MY WAY-Frank Sinatra Ishihara Mexico) augment her three-man combo (Reprise)-Shapiro- I 2 GET BACK-Mary Hopkin NO 19 - NAMIDA NAKA O 6 S CONTIGO TENGO TODO- with a permanent lead guitarist Bernstein (Don Costa) (Apple)-Leeds Basan ARUITERU-Ishida Trio Los Condes (Gems) 7 4 BACK COME AND SHAKE 2 I GOOD BYE-Beatles (Apple) Avumi (Columbia)-Nichion 7 8 EL GAGO-Johnny Ventura and a man who triples on flute, ME-'C'lodagh Rodgers -Leeds Basant 20 - LA PIOGGIA/OUANDO (Kubaney) oboe, "and maybe a couple of (RCA)-April (Kenny 3 3 THE Sth-'Ekseption L'AMORE DIVENTA 8 - PURO TEATRO-La Lupe Young) (Philips)-Altona POESIA-Gialiola (Tico) more wind instruments." As a 8 S GOODBYE-Mary Hopkin 4 5 SEASONS IN THE. SUN- Cinguetti/Massimo Ranieri 9 - ESTA BIEN-Nini Caffaro child she was a prodigy on (Apple)-Northern (Paul Fortunes (UA)-UA Music (CGD)-Sulseisha (Remo) -Algona IO TENGO-Sandro (Columbia' piano. Now, at 30, she is plan- 9 and Garfunkel - 9 BOXER-Simon 5 R MENDOCINO-Sir Douglas Mexico) a (CBS)-Pattern Music Quintet (Mercury) ning return to the piano for (Simon/Garfunkel/Hake) 6 4 WHY-'Cats (Imperisl)- MEXICO her next album. It) IS RAGAMUFFIN MAN- Veronica Music (Courtesy Radio MIl) *Manfred Mann (Fontana)- 7 7 THE. LAST SEVEN DAYS- SOUTH AFRICA "America," she said, "is so (Gerry Bron/Manfred Mann) This Last Gloria (Imperial)-Dayglow_ Week Week ICourtes Springbok, South African young it doesn't have much of II 10 PINBALL WIZARD-'Who Music I I TE DESEO AMOR (I Wish Record Manufacturers and Distributors a musical tradition. Not until (Track)-Fabulous (Kit R - DIZZY-Tommy Roe Assn.) Lamben) (Stateside) You Love)-Rondarlo de Bob Dylan. Contemporary com- 12 12 ROADRUNNER-Junior 9 6 THE WALLS FELL DOWN- Saltillo (Capitol) This Last Walker (Tamla-Motown)- Marbles (Polvdor)-Basart 2 2 SIMPLEMENTE UNA ROSA Week Week posers are causing an awareness Carlin (Holland. Dozier) 10 9 MEM ENSEMBLE-Mireille -Leonardo Favio (CBS) I I SORRY SUZANNE-Hollies here before." 13 22 AQUARIUS/LET THE SUN- Mathieu (Barclay)-Francis 3 S ENCADENADO A UN (Parlophone)-Ron Richards SHINE IN -5th Dimension Day SFNTIMENTO (Hooked on -Gralto Musk (EMI) Funny. Some of us said the (Liberty)-United Artists a Feeling)-B. J. Thomas 2 3 WHERE DO YOU GO TO (Bones Howe) (Orfeon) MY LOVELY-Peter same thing about the songs of 14 19 LOVE ME TONIGHT-*Tom 4 3 VOLVERÁS POR MI-Chelo Sarstedt (United Artists- the '30's a long, long time ago. Jones (Decca)-Valley ITALY y su conjunto (Musant) Ray Singer-Mortimer Music (Peter Sullivan) (Conde) Musica e Dischi, Milan) S S ELOISA (Eloise)-Barry Ryan (Trutone) IS 21 I'M IN SHAME- (MGM) 3 2 INDIAN GIVER -1910 Kay Starr flew 1,600 miles LIVING +Denotes origin Diana Ross á the Supremes local 6 9 HHAME UNA FLOR (Build Fruitgum Co. (Buddah)- from Oklahoma to California (Tam la-Motown)-Jobete This last Me Up. Buuercup)- Kasent z-Katz-Belinda (The Clan) Neck Week Foundations (Gamma) (Gallo) recently to make good a prom- 16 U 7 R POR AMOR-Sonia Lopez 4 4 GAMES PEOPLE PLAY- HARLEM SHUFFLE-glob I 2 TUTTA MIA LA CITTA'- ise-she once tendered John and Earl (Island)-Keyman Equipe 84 (Ricordi)- (CRS) Joe South (Capitol)-Joe Music (Marc Jean) Aromando 8 6 TREBOL Y CARMESI South-Lowery Musk (EMI) Harrah, of Harrah's Club in 17 8 P(X)R ISRAELITE- Crimson & Clover)-Tommy 5 6 AQUARIUS/LET THE Lake Tahoe. She chose "Some- *Desmond Dekkar (Pyramid) 2 1 ELOISE-Barry Ryan (MGM) James and the Shondells SUNSHINE IN -5th Sparta (Leslie Kong) -Aherhach (Roulette) Dimension (Liberty)-Bones- times I Feel Like a Motherless IH 27 GALVESTON-Glen Campbell 3 3 VISO D' ANGELO- 9 7 GENESIS-Lueesita (RCA) Howe-United Artists (Teal) Child" and "My Buddy" as her (Ember)-Carlin (AI De Camaleonti (CBS)-April 10 - NO, NO. PUEDE SER-Jose 6 7 FEELIN' SO GOOD-Archies I.ory) Music/Suvini Zerboni Luis (Philips) (RCA)-Laetrec (Teal) selections at Harrah's funeral. 76 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD NO.481 131jos THE mooby

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Inc.. formerly (irthaciones May- 8 -track cartridges. .. . Ricurdi re- craze that swept Japan a few years oral of Puerto Nuevo. Johnny newed its contracts with Equipe back. From The Blanco, veteran recording engineer. 84, I Dik Dik and Milva. . . . Lionel Hampton arrived in is talent manager. Woody Herman's Orchestra played Japan on a State Department ANTONIO CONTRERAS one-night stands in Milan and sponsored tour. . . CBS/Sony Music Capitals Prato and featured selections from released a number of double pack the hand's Cadet album. "I.ight classical albums in May. . . . AMSTERDAM My Fire." . . . Fred Bongusto, "Goodnight Baby," a Nippon of the World singer -composer formerly with Grammophon single by the King- Phonogram has acquired Dutch RCA -Italiana. has been signed by tones that has been a long, con- Continued from page 79 lin did badly here. performing at rights of the German Harmonia Clan Records and has recorded sistent seller here, released in the the Old Civic Auditorium. . . Mundi label, formerly distributed the Record the Summer entry. U. S. by Ateo.. . Unique pack- chances for "Susie 's Better Half," for Many live shows have been on in Holland by CNR. The catalog "Una Striscia de Mare." age-a cut out of the artist-by new country single from Canadian around town. Ice Capades at the includes recordings by Gustave is strong Philips on their new Paul Mauriat singer -composer Billy Chame. It's Honolulu International Center. Leonhardt, Anner Bijlsma, EIh Ricordi planning promotion campaigns for young album. "The Wonderful World of a self-penned number produced in Tom Jones cabaret at the Ilikai, Ameling. the Deller Consort Jorg artists Franco Sai, Minn and Rhythm and Blues.". . . Nancy Nashville and looks likely for "The Wonderful World of Hawaii" Demus and Paul Badura Skoda. Wilson will tour Japan in night U. S. release Instant success Sergio (formerly of I Gigantil. at the Waikiki Shell. . . . CBS artist Clive Sands was and military clubs in July. She of Henry Mancini single Ombra Borelli, Rosalba Archilletti "Love Jimi Hendrix is set to return to on local TV to promote "Hooked is released on Toshiba here and Theme From Romeo and Juliet" and Maurizio Vandelli.... John Hawaii. playing Friday -Saturday on a Feeling." . The Gun were two albums were issued last on top local rock stations may in- Roules (FMI) will be in Italy June (30-31) at the Waikiki Shell.. . . in Holland for a date at the Para- month. . RCA Glenn Miller dicate a new soft -sound trend.... 21 to promote "One Day" on the One promoter is trying to get diso. Amsterdam. . Clodagh reissue released last month is sell- Waylon Jennings into Horseshoe RAI-TV show "Chisaa chi lo sa?" Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 for a Rodgers appeared on local AVRO- ing well and now Toshiba has Tavern, June 2-7.... New Tetra- The show will feature the Wallace return showing at the H.I.C. . TV to promote her RCA single released the soundtrack album of grammaton single, "Oh Deed Collection (EMI) in its June 14 Bill Cosby scheduled to revisit "Come Back and Shake Me." . "Glenn Miller Story." Several Jap- Do." by Elyse Weinberg, program. . . . The Sweet Inspira- Toronto Hawaii. If Barbra Streisand Local VRA radio opened a new $2 anese AM stations use Glenn folk -pop singer, getting early ac- tions (Atlantic/Ri-Fi), in Italy ever plays here tickets are likely million concert studio at Hilver- Miller music as program themes. tion via Polydor release. She has for recordings, appeared on RAI to be priced at $15. . French sum. Radio's "Batto Quattro" May Ill Set for June release by CBS/ a new LP on same label.... Cat recording artist Candide topped Sandie Shaw appeared on the Sony-product by the Electric Mother and the -Night singing their San Remo song. All News- the entertainment at the Kahal local NCR V- TV program "Twien" Flag. Charlie Byrd. Fleetwood boys, in "Baci. Baci. Baci." . . . Al Bann for Jiml Hendrix show. Hilton's "A Night in France" with the Flux and the David Cup- Mac, Thelonious Hunk, Andy picked up good reviews. Their first (EMI -Italiana) is starring in the program 14-16. perfield Style. . . . Negram-Delta 1Villiams, Carmen McRae. Dave May film "Pensando a te." from which LP due soon from Polydor. . released a classic sampler album WAYNE HARADA the title of his Record for the Brubeck, Barbra Streisand and Early reports on "Roll With It" on Marble Arch called "Music for Summer entry is taken. Bann, who a reissue of the "South Pacific" from Edmonton band Southbound You" and received 10.0(M) advance soundtrack with Mary Martin and Freeway, all favorable for Quality stars in the film with newly signed SAN JUAN orders. . . . French singer Nicol - Pinza. EMI - Italiana singer Romina Ezio ELSON ERWIN Records. was in for ella (Barclay) Holland Power, has recorded French Quality has released "Bobo's Singer Abbey Lincoln (Impulse) TV recordings. Gert Tim- versions of "Mattino" and "Il Ragar- Party" from Melanie LP on Bud- is at the Caribe Hilton Hotel... . merman presented 20 artists in zo the sorride." and German ver- dah, following strong radio re- Bob Francis, vocalist, is at the a mammoth concert at the charity sions of "Mattino" and CHUM in sponse to album cut. Single is in Americana Hotel. He recorded an -seater "Musica. 54.000 Olympic Stadium. Ricordi launched special the French charts.... Tom Jones' album live in his previous appear- Amsterdam. on Saturday (24) in pro- "Love Tonight" ance at the San Jeronimo Hilton. motion campaigns for the Buddah Me an instant the aid of the Dutch Kidney or- groups Ohio Radio Deals chart winner for London on initial A new artists booking office, Express and the ganization. BAS HAGEMAN 1910 Fruilgum Company. release. . CTV's "It's Happen- Judi Lee Enterprises, opened here MARC MESSINA MONTREAL - Toronto ra- ing" TV host Roble Lane into recently. Headed by Judi Lee dio station CHUM has reached Schaitberger, the Friar's for a week.... At Savarin, company books MANILA an agreement with Geoffrey RCA CTL hand Bess Brass in for Bel -Aire Artists the Mexicans, MONTEVIDEO two-week stand. Billy Fellows and Bob Franck. IuMI vice-president Leo Chero- Stirling to purchase Montreal las sky sent the Soci- radio stations CKGM and Maxine Sullivan into Towne, for Triunfo Records, a new local has Filipino Heavy sales were and recorded from subject to approval week starting May 20. She's fol- label, with Alfred D. Herger pro- ety of Composers, Authors Simon & Garfunkel's "Graduate" CKGM-FM. Publishers (FILSCAP) a statement lowed by Marion McPartland, ducer, has released three new al- soundtrack album (CBS) after from the Canadian Radio Tele- bums: "Winners of royalties on public performance film Illinois Jacquet and Bobby Hackett of the First was premiered in April.... RCA vision Commission. Festival in the U. S. of the musical score with Vic Dickenson as that night of Latin American Song" Victor released (through Vik The agreement. with no fur- by various of the movie "No Man Is an Is- spot continues its jazz policy.... artists and two others label) singles by local artists in- ther details revealed, was dis- Leigh by pop singers land." by Restle Umall. a member Ashford, Toronto rock quin- Gloryvee and cluding Aldo y Daniel and Dino closed in an announcement from tet, recently signed with Nimus Oscar. . . . United Artists Latino of the Society. This is the first followed by product from I.os a 10 time a has received royal- the CRTC setting June Nine; into Electric Circus for week promoting albums by Vicentico Filipino Honkys and Ismael I.arroca, win- Vlades (first ties for a musical score. . . hearing date for the share trans- as house band.... New local rock time backed by a ners of the third Pop Song Festival hand Wood Mexican Mariachi FILSCAP now publishes a house fer. Milk signed by U. S. hand), Tito of Tacuarembo. and an I.P by Rodriguez's organ, a quarterly newsletter It should he noted that the Polydor Records before making latest "Mi Razon: Vera Sienra Sexteto Elec- Amarte" edited by Erlinda A. Reyes. . . even one public appearance. They (My Only Reason. Lov- Ironico Moderno recorded their CRTC recently denied CHUM ing You) and Chucho Songwriters Ireneo Bagayaua and recently bowed at Rock Pile... . Avellanet's second album in London. and also permission to acquire a multi- "No Es Manuel Y. Aragon won for San Duke Ellington, in town for a Un Juego El Amor" toured Northern Uruguay and Bra- lingual Montreal radio station. Toronto Symphony Concert, put (Love Is Not a Game). The Valdes Sebastian College six major zil. LP is scheduled for June I re- The Commission also an- in an appearance at Lighthouse gig album was recorded in Mexico awards in the recently concluded lease. . . . "Shine On Brightly" a nounced that it would be hear- . and the Song Festival, the biggest inter- at Rock Pile. Revolver single, other two were produced new Procul Harem LP, released by Leroy collegiate song in the by ing public comments on the "When I Die," by rock quartet Holmes in New York. competition R&R Gioscia on Odeon. Motherlode, meeting Philippines, with their entry. "Bu - role of FM broadcasting in strong radio "El Mamito" dance tune by Los Oscar Peterson and Earl Hines reaction across Ontario. A contract Barbarians hay Manok." . Tony Maiquez Canada at the same June 10 getting good sales re- appeared on Channel 12 TV is now being negotiated for U. S. action here recorded on New and Tito Arevalo won the best show. hearings in Montreal. release.... New Guess Who single York -based label, Four musical scoring award in the re- Points.... Montecarlo TV. Channel 4. pre- "Laughing" due for release soon Celines & Pepe Luis, Puerto Rican cent FAMAS, an award project sented a show by Leonardo Favio from RCA. Indications are it will artists have a here similar to the U. S. "Oscar." new album "Otro (CBS) and Matt Munro, whose be a strong follow-up to "These Verano" (Another Arevalo won the award for the Summer) for Capitol singles, sung in Spanish. Ellington for Eyes. RITCHIE YORK local label, Borinquen Records. scoring of "Igorota." Maiquez won enjoy strong sales. . . Sondor Musant his for "Kasalanan Kaya." . . Records of Mexico released Donovan's "Hardy Gordy and Florida has released the 14th Pauline Sevilla signing with the Czech Fest Man." . . . Expected soon from HONOLULU album by their top -selling artist Top Tunes label has brought dis- appointment to reformers here. Sondor: a Various Artists LP, PRAGUE The Duke El- Olga . . . - Guillot. Vicentico "Subterraneo" (Underground) with Elvis Presley is vacationing in Valdes' (UAL) latest album Her one-year contract does not lington Orchestra and the Kenny "Ale- tracks by Blood. Sweat and Tears, Hawaii, after finishing his film gre y Sentimental" getting heavy stipulate royalty payment. Sevilla. Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band "Change earlier, had announced an intent Spirit, Chicken Shack. Fleetwood of Habit" for Universal promotion by Martinez Vela, local 1fac, will appear in the International in Los Angeles. Presley to spearhead a royalty -demand Electric Flag, Steve Stills, stayed at distributor for United . Jazz Festival to be held here Artists... Al Kooper. Sondor will also the Ilikai, taking in Tom Jones' Sandro, vocalist from Argentina campaign. With the new contract, re- 30 2. lease second Blood, Sweat and Oct. to Nov. show, and the Kim Brothers' act (Columbia -Mexico) who recently her first single on Top Tune is The band will open "Tra -La -La," written by Danny Tears LP and "Time of the Sea- Ellington in the Hong Kong Junk. It was finished his first engagement here. two son" by the Zombies. . New the festival with concerts rest and recuperation: no inter- has his latest album "La Magia de Subido. Subido has also written songs LP's by Association, Buffy Sainte- on Oct. 30 and the event will views, no pictures, no phone calls, Sandro" high in the charts. is four for the forthcoming He Marie, Trini Lopez released no comment. . LP's of Norma Ledesma and Bobby by he closed by the Clarke -Boland Rusty Draper, already signed by Bestov Produc- Antar. Monument and Mercury artist, tions Gonzales, also Top Tune artists. Band on Nov. 2. to return to Puerto Rico CARLOS ALBERTO MARTINS appeared May 22 in the Hilton later this year. His records, pressed Mareco released two LP's of Juan Also appearing in the festi- Hawaiian Village Dome. The by Miami Records of Florida, are Silos Jr. and his Rondalla, "Dala - val will be the Oscar Peterson former "Swingin' Country" TV distributed by Ultra Records of gang Tabunon" and "Iloilo Ang TOKYO Trio, Yugoslavia Ljbuljana star was joined by the Gary Santurce. Banwa Ko," on Mahuhay. . . . Dixieland Band, and some lead- Graham Show. . Thai Banking on the nationwide popu- Yuro New York -based Patty Records, CBS/Sony have their strongest ing Czech jazz groups. (Liberty) at the Dunes larity of the Trio Los Panchos in nightclub part of Calmen Productions, has selling single since the for six weeks. She the past years, Marceo has re- company The festival will feature a recently closed two new albums "Lo Mucho Que established last year in at P.J.'s in I.os leased the group's "Epoca de Oro" "Mother- trombone workshop involving Angeles.... Hula Te Quiero," by Los Tropicanos, less Child" (retitled "Lonely Records' Don McDiarmid with hope that it would revive Baby" Erich Kleinschuster (Austria), Jr. is and "Recuerdos de Ipacarai" by for overseas export) by Carmen recuperating in a local hospital interest in Latin-American music. Albert Mangelsdorff (West Ger- singer Monna Bell. This company Maki. A chart topper it will he following an operation. . . The success of "The More I Love Uke recently opened their offices and released in Mexico and Argentina. many), Jiggs Whigham (USA) artist Herb (Ma, a Surfside You" has influenced this move. and warehouse at 610 ('erra Street. The single is domestically pro- and Svatopluk Kosvanec Decca artist, wound up a two- TV series. "This Is Tom in Santurce (the Puerto Rican duced. . . . In CBS/Sony's May (Czechoslovakia). The festival week date in Jones" has received a very high the U. S. Record Row).... Fania Records, releases are "Hawaiian will include jam sessions, an rating which previously was Wedding Several new Hawaiian -oriented New York. has a new album Song"-an album by by matched only by the TV program Andy Wil- exhibition of jazz literature and albums have been released here. Ralph Robles and singles by vo- liams, "Maurice Chevalier TCB featuring the Supremes and at 80," a meeting of the festival section The Sunday Manoa's "Hawaiian calist Santos Colon "Loco por Ti" -a Percy Faith "European Screen Temptations. . . . "Old Turkey of the European Jazz Union Time" (Hula) displays Peter (Over You), "Pepe El I.oco," Gems" and a reissue by Buzzard," the theme from the of the Moon's artistry not only as a Joe Balton and "Run Away Platters "Golden I P Child." movie "MacKenna's was Hits" ukulele player, but as a slack -key by Harvey Averne Band Gold." RCA's World Group on their released by Filipinas on RCA album re- Ricordi's Italy guitarist. Singer James (BIa) Pahl - Uptite label and produced by releases include Frank Victor. recorded by Jose Felici- Sinatra's nui is also featured . Linda Jerry "Academy Award Massuci.... George Gold- ano. OSKAR SALAZAR Song" and prod- Dela Cruz's "Kuhio Beach Girl" ner, producer for Colique Rec- uct from Shirley Saunders, Nancy Deal With Stax (Tradewinds) LP includes a big ords. has many artists on the local Sinatra and Helen Merrill. The MILAN-Dischi Ricordi has local hit-"Come My House," charts including Trio De Copas, MILAN company also released an "Easy acquired Italian distribution of which also features Harold Haku- Band, New Listening" TNT Swing Sextet, twin pack featuring Ed the American Stax and Volt ole.. . . The Surfers stars at the Lebrun Brothers and Johnny Riv- Giuseppe Giannini, general Ames, Vic Damone, John Gary labels, and will launch them Canton Puka Club, offer "Misty era. Colique is represented in manager of CGD. celebrated his and Jack Junes. RCA continues Rainbow" (Decca), on the Italian market with the title tune Puerto Rico by Franklin Hernan- 10th year with the company... . to release Latin, Hawaiian and of which was penned by Leon dez.. . . A new recording studio Ecofina has signed a three-year, country music by not -so -well "Who's Making Love," by John- "Tiny Bubbles" Pober.... With- has opened in the Hato Rey sec- non-exclusive contract with Ariston known names. They are hoping for ny Taylor; and "Time Is Tight," out much fanfare, the Led Zeppe - tion. the Mayoral Recording Studio to duplicate the Ariston catalog on a revival of the country music by Booker T and the M.G.s. 82 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD International News Reports

IIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII DGG, Spanish Sublid, KENT! GOING TO U. K., U. S. Introduce 6 -LP Pkg. JOHANNESBURG - EMI (South Africa) is sending Gilson TOLEDO, Spain-Deutsche recording of Joaquin Rodrigti s Kenti, author of a musical. Grammophon, in association "Concierto de Aranjuez" by "Life," to England and to the with its Spanish affiliate, Fono - Narciso Yepes and the Spanish U. S. gram S.A., arranged a special Radio and Television Orches- A spokesman for EMI (South two-day program for the press tra conducted by Odon Alonso. Africa) said that both England in Toledo and Madrid. May 7 After a tour of the Fonogram and the U. S. were interested and 8, to introduce the new building, the journalists went to not only in issuing the sound- "Hispaniae Musica" series which lunch at the students' inn of the track of the musical, but also will he released on Archiv. Alcala de Henares University in staging the play itself. Described as "a panorama of where the visit was wound up "Life" has been touring South Spanish music on six LP rec- by speeches from de Zuniga, the Africa for the past five months, ords," the Hispaniae Musica se- Catalan musicologist Doctor and has proved to be success- ries represents the first classical Querol, Joaquin Rodrigo, Nar- ful. "We are confident that WILFRED JUNG of Electrola, exreme right, and Hienz Gietz of Cornet, collection from Archiv devoted ciso Yepes and Enrique de la Kenti's trip will result in it second from left, shake hands after signing a new long-term contract to the music from a particular Hoz, representing the Ministry being placed overseas," he said. for the distribution of Cornet product by Electrola. Looking on, left geographic area. The collection of Information and Tourism. IIINIIIIIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIINNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIII to right, are Dr. Krajewski of Electrola, and Guenter Illgner of Cornet. includes works by Morale, Vic- toria, Palero, Soto, I.acerna, Bermudo and Tomas de Santa Maria and features music played on vihuela, guitar and the historic organs of Sara- gossa, Toledo and Madrid. The presentation of the series opened with a talk by the Span- Is he moving faster than you can ish musicologist Lothar Siemens given in one of the luxuriously furnished rooms of the Palace of Fuensalida in Toledo. wrauJìim? The journalists were then taken on a tour of the historic city, visiting the synagogue of El Transito, the Santo Tome church, the Santa Cruz museum, the museum -house of El Greco and the cathedral. After lunch in the private rooms of the Duke of Lerma, located in the Palace -Hospital of Tavera, there were speeches by Fonogram general manager Mariano de Zuniga, the gover- nor of Toledo Enrique Thomas de Carranza and the director of the Beaux Arts, Florentino Perez Embid. On the following day, the party visited the Fonogram studios in Madrid to watch the Tonodisc Bock in Production MONTEVIDEO - Tono - disc, a company that stopped production a year ago, has been revived, handling the same labels as Prodisa SRL in Ar- gentina, which include ABC, Impulse, Monument, Project 3, 20th Century -Fox. Chief executive is Edgar Barros. First releases from the company are the soundtrack LP "Joanna," by Rod McKuen and "Dizzy," by Tommy Roe. Ar- gentinian masters will be used, the records being pressed at American Products SA. Barros also announced that Tonodisc would soon put cassettes on the market with Enoch Light, Dick Hyman, Ray Charles. Tony Mottola and Boots Randolph featured in the first releases.

NNmIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IMMEDIATE IN N. Y. INVASION New York-U. K. company, Immediate Records, has opened a New York office with Paul Baines as general manager. The Immediate group of companies release U. K. acts such as Amen Corner, Humble All of a sudden he's a hit. And now you And another plus, our new film can Resinite Department, Borden Chemical, Pie, Fleetwood Mac and the can't get him out of the house fast enough. be used on all existing machinery. No mat- Division of Borden Inc, 1 Clark Street, Nice and are distributed NI What you need is new biax Resinite ter what you're using now, you'll get better North Andover, Massachusetts 01845. through CBS. CORDE AW. The film that wraps albums up to 25% tracking, better slip and fewer rejects with Baines will look for record faster. Resinite AW. and publishing product and Name And Resinite AW does it at a lower For more information mail us this act as a liaison between Imme- packaging cost. Lower than any other Company diate artists and CBS. The film page. And we'll show you how to move the temporary address of Immediate in the business. hot ones before they cool down. Street is 80 Central Park West. City State Zip NNNNNPoIIINIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIII(III(IIIIIIIIIII111111(IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIii L J MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD 83 International News Reports

IIIUUIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRIUniiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIII Foundations and any other Pye LONDON - Independent act if he were asked to do so. K. Puts New Lyrical who has Limbridge to U. producer Denny Cordell is part- John McLeod, writing company with publisher ten a number of hits with David Platz, although he will Macaulay and Barry Murray. Life in Oldie Tunes retain his 50 per cent share of producer of Blonde on Blonde, Be Handled Straight Ahead Productions for have joined Pye as a&r man- LONDON-Britain is prov- a three-week stay (his first the time being. agers. ing a hot outlet for old-style visit) to fly back to New York Platz will also continue to qua I i t y songs with updated May 15, Tobias said, "I've represent Cordell's publishing By SG -Col lyrics, according to songwriter - found a great demand in Britain company, Writers' Workshop, publisher Henry Tobias. for what some people choose and Cordell will continue to LONDON - Screen Gems - to call 'cornball' songs. Up to produce Joe Cocker for Straight Columbia has acquired world- Before leaving London after now the songs written by my- Ahead. wide representation - of Lim self and my brothers (Harry and Straight Ahead product is Welcome to RENO'S bridge Music, the new Charles) have scarcely been ex- issued in the U.K. on EMI's publishing company formed by ploited in the U. K. It took me Regal Zonophone label and by actor Richard Harris, his broth- Monmouth in a long time to make the trip, A&M in the U. S. er, Dermot Harris, and John but I intend to back at PONDERO SA! come 111IIIIII119111IIIIIIInhlIIIIInf 1111111111111111111IIIIIi1111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIt McMichael. regular intervals now." Reno's first new hotel in a decade. Limbridge will also be active Lose yourself in the lavish in record production and has During his stay in London. Distrib Deal Tobias placed songs with Macaulay Says, luxury of early 19th Century signed Vince Edward from the Nevada. Elegantly furnished the musical Campbell Connelly, Cyril London cast of NEW YORK Monmouth - Leaving Pye rooms with color TV. Reason- Limbridge will produce - Shane, Chappell, Welbeck Mu- "Hair." Evergreen product will be dis- ably priced for family budgets. three singles and at least one sic, Burlington Music, Leeds LONDON-Despite an offi- tributed exclusively in Mexico Music Dancing nightly. Swimming. album a year for U.K. release and Carlin Music. cial statement issued by Pye by Orbi Vox, and the U. S. Free parking. Be prepared for on CBS. Tobias songs recently record- Recordx that he is still under independent label has also set a Many Splendored Fling! Edward, who is managed by ed here include "Moonlight contract "for some time to up a distribution deal with former disk jockey Mike Len- Brings Memories" by Clinton come," Pye recording manager Tempo Record Sales in Aus- nox, will be produced by Der- Ford, "If I Knew Then" by Val Tony Macaulay announced that tralia. he would be the com- mot Harris. Copyrights already Doonican and "May 1 Have the leaving PONDEROSA! in the Limbridge publishing Initial releases through Orbi Next Dream With You" by pany at the end of this month. HOTEL I CASINO FOR RESERVATIONS CALL catalog include the Jim Webb Vox will include M -E's latest Malcolm Roberts. It is understood that Macau- RENO 1702' 766-6620 score for a film based on the Music Hoagy lay intends to set up his own albums, "The of "These songs were all written SU S. Virgin'', Rene, Ner. life of Welsh poet Dylan Carmichael," by Bob Wilber independent production com- ( more than 15 years ago," said Thomas, which will star Rich- and and "Bob pany but he indicated that he Maxine Sullivan, Tobias, "but they've been given ard Harris, the score for a film Crosby Live at the Rainbow would continue to produce the updated lyrics and Britain is of "Hamlet" and the score for Grill." Final release details are opening up a new outlet for the 1970 production "Stranger in the planning stage. still them. Maybe some of PRESENTING in Town," which will feature the old- Tempo Record Sales will ini- time writers should stop sitting Richard Harris and Robert Mitchum. tially release 12 of M -E's Col- on their ASCAPS and go delv- lector Series LP's featuring a ing into their trunks." Limbridge will also be pro- three -volume set, "Irving Ber- ducing a series of 26 30 -minute Tobias, who heads the Tobey lin: All By Myself"; Jerome TV films, with music Music Corp., has no publishing by John Kern: "All the Things You Hawksworth. tie-up in Britain but licenses Are" and the Carmichael pack- Other Limbridge projects in- his material on a song -by -song age. Joint promotions are being clude an album of the music of basis. "In view of the new inter- planned for the June I release Ceredig Davis by actor Stanley est in my style of song I may date. Baker, for release on MGM, consider tying up with a British and a souvenir album, with M -E's other foreign represen- publisher," he said. 1 music by Eric Wetherill, on the tatives include Musimart, Cana- investiture of Prince Charles as da, and the World Record Club the Prince of Wales. (FMI) in the U. K. Peer Southern IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIII IIIIIIIIIII111111111111111111111111111111111111111!1I II!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 2 -Song Push ATV BEATS OUT BEATLES NEW YORK - Peer South- ern, through its international IN NOR T H'N SONGS BID affiliates, is mounting a special LONDON-ATV and a third party consortium of stockbrokers, promotion on two song festival together holding about 51 per cent of the shares on Northern Songs, winning songs, "Por Amor" (Do- have combined to reject the Beatles' hid to win control of the com- minican Republic Festival) and pany. "Genesis" (Latin American Song The Beatles' hid, by which it was hoped to add enough shares Festival, Mexico). to their existing 30 per cent to win them control, closed May 19. Spearheaded by singer Nini The third party group, in throwing in its votes with ATV, has Caffaro, who won the contest secured the right to appoint one member to the Northern Songs with it, "Por Amor" now has 14 board and has nominated Ian Gordon, managing director of Con- singles, mainly vocal versions, stellation Investments. world-wide. "Genesis" now has ATV also plans to invite a nominee of the Beatles to join the 18 versions among different new board of Northern Songs. record companies, with the orig- The Beatles' failure to win control follows a similar failure by inal version, by Lucesita on ATV which holds 36 per cent of the shares. But by aligning them- RCA a No. I hit in Puerto Rico selves with ATV the consortium has ensured that ATV will not and Mexico. now depress the price of Northern Songs by selling its own holdings Both songs are scheduled for MERRILL WOMACH of 36 per cent. inclusion in films and in tele- Thrilling Exciting - Sensational!! 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TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS ELEPHANTS MEMORY- COUNTRY CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION CROSSROADS OF THE STEPPING STONES Spotlights Predicted to reach the top 20 of the (Prod. Tommy Jams 6 Ritchie Cordell) (Writers: James -Vale) (Big Seven, (Prod. Wes Farrell) (Writers: Shapiro -Bernstein) (Pocket Full of Tunes/Elan SAW-Change of pace for James, as he comes up with a powerful summer Associates, 11141)-Hard to beat, infectious rocker is the group's singles HOT COUNTRY SINGLES Chart sound that will fast take him right back up to the top a la "Crimson & debut, culled from their LP. Easy -beat tune with intriguing lyric should Clover," and "Sweet Cherry Wine." Infectious, easy -beat rhythm. Flip: fast prove a summertime smasn. Flip: "Jungle Gym at the Zoo" (Pocket "I'm Alive" (Big Seven, BMI(. Roulette 7050 Full of Tunes Elan Associates, BMI). Buddah 98 PORTER WAGONER AND DOLLY PARTON- ALWAYS, ALWAYS ;Prod. Bob Ferguson) (Writer: McCord) (Sawgrass, 8140-The consistent chart toppers do it again with a poignant, meaningful ballad that will fast top the success of their recent "Yours Love." Exceptional duet. Flip: "No Reason to Hurry Home" 'Owepar, BMI). RCA 74-0172

LUKE THE DRIFTER JR.- Ce 2F:1 rZe I reur BE CAREFUL OF STONES THAT YOU THROW (Writer: Dodd) (Acuff -Rae, SMI)-Following up his "Custody" winner, Spotlights Predicted to reach the top 60 of the HOT 100 Chart Luke Jr. can't miss going righ back up there again with this powerful, moving lyric message. Top balled material, with a performance to match. Flip: "Book of Memories" Audlee, BMI). MGM 14062 BOOKER T. & THE M.G.'S-MRS. ROBINSON EDDIE FLOYD- MELBA MONTGOMERY- :Prod. Booker 1. & the M.G.'s; (Writer: Simon) (Charing Cross, SMI)- DON'T TELL YOUR MAMA WHERE YOU'VE BEEN With much of the solid sales appeal of their "Time Is Tight" smash, this (Prod. AS FAR AS MY FORGETTING'S GOT fresh instrumental updating of the Simon & Garfunkel classic swings from Steve Cropper, B. T. Jones) (Writers: Jones -Floyd) (East/Memphis, start to finish. Strong entry. Flip: (No Information Available). Stas 0037 SNP-Driving, soul rocker with heavy dance beat gets a first-rate per- (Prod. Keiso Herston) (Writer: Sherry Bryce) (Bevis, RMI)-The stylist's formance from the exciting stylist. Much of the hit appeal of his "Bring move to the Capitol label is a potent one. The emotion -packed per- It On Home to Me" smash of last year. Flip: (No Information Available). formance on strong ballad material has all the ingredients te carry her OHIO EXPRESS-PINCH ME (Baby, Convince Me) Sfax 0036 right to the top. One of her finest performances with a top Kelso Herston production Fl 1p: "You Let Me Win" (Glad, BMI). Capitol 2513 Prod 1. Katz, 1 Kasenetz, J. J. Woods) (Writers: 1. Katz -1. Kasenetz-1. J. Woods) (Kasket, SMI-More infectious bubblegum sounds from the hot SONNY AND CHER-YOU'RE A FRIEND group- It's a strong follow-up to their recent "Mercy" with the same sales impact expected. Flip: "Peanuts" (Kaleidoscope, ASCAP). Buddah 117 (Prod. Sonny Bono) (Writer: Bono) (Chris Marc/Cotillion, BMI)-Infectious rhythm and lyric to match that will bring the duo back on the chart with Spotlights Predicted to reach the impact. One of their best in some 'ime. Flip: "I Would Marry You Today" CHART HOT COUNTRY SINGLES Chart PEPPERMINT RAINBOW- Chris Marc/Cotillion, BMI). Atto 6603 DON'T WAKE ME UP IN THE MORNING, MICHAEL SLIM WHITMAN-Irresistible :4 Star, BMI IMPERIAL 66384 (Prod. Paul Leka) (Writer, Al Kasha) (M.R.C. & Little Heather, BMI)- ROBERT KNIGHT-SMOKEY RAY Eva Have Pamper, Following up their initial chart winner, "Will You Be Staying After PENNINGTON -What Doesn't BMI,. MONUMENT 1145 Sunday,'' this rotent 'hythm ballad offers still more sales and chart (Prod. Buzz Cason & Mac Gayden) (Writers: Cason-Gayden) (Sons of Ginza, BMI)-Smooth swinger with good lyric line from that "Everlasting BILL WILBOURN & KATHY MORRISON-Lovin' Season (Acuff -Rose, BMI). potential. Top performance of strong Al Kasha material. Flip: "Rosemary." UNITED ARTISTS 537 Deese 732498 Love" guy. Should bring him back to the chart with no trouble at all. Flip: I Had My Way" (Sons of Ginza, BMI). Elf 90,030 "If CLARK BENTLY - Ballad of a Small Town Sheriff (Singleton, BMI). PLANTATION 18 BETTYE SWANN-ANGEL OF THE MORNING JACKIE LOMAX-NEW DAY BOBBY BARNETT-Stepping Stone (Central Songs, BMI). K -ARK 915 ,Prod Wayne Shuler) (Writer: Chip Taylor) (Blackwood, BMI)- She made (Writer: (Apple, "Eagle quite a chart dent with "Don't Touch Me," and this fine revival of the ;Prod. Jackie & Mal) Lomax; ASCAP)-His Laughs" JOANN BON AND THE COQUETTES-F Yours (Husky, BM MTA 173 Merrilee Rush hit will make the ballad happen all over again. Strong initial outing made a chart dent last year, and this powerful entry with VERNON-The Ba -Ba Song (Yonah, commercial entry! Flip: ''No Faith, No Love" (Beechwood, BMI). Capitol 2515 strong lyric idea will prove a big chart item. Loaded with underground KENNY BMI). CHART 5015 as well as top 40 appeal, Flip: "Thumbin' a Ride" (Progressive, BMI). Apple 1807 SONNY WRIGHT-I Lore You, Loretta Lynn (Sure -Fire, BMI), KAPF 2009 LEE DORSEY-EVERYTHING I DO JACKIE BURNS-That's What I Get for Being a Woman (Music City, GONH BE FUNKY (From Now On) PEOPLE-ULLA ASCAP HONOR BRIGADE 711-537 ,Prod. Marshall Schorn & Allen Toussaint) (Writer: Toussaint) (Marsaint, Prod. Mark Wildev) (Writers: Fridkin-Levin) (Beechwood, 8141J-The "I LLOYD GREEN-Orbit (Yonah, BMI). CHART 5014 BMI)-Funky, easy -beat item that moves and grooves all the way through. Love You" group snap back with a rocker that has all the ingredients of A discotheque winner, it should put Dorsey high on the pop and r&b a sales topper for their initial hit. Good sound and material. Flip: charts. Flip: "There Sould 9e a Book" (Marsaint, BMI). Amy 11,035 "Turnin' Me In" (Fling/Helios, BMI). Capitol 2499 20/111 I 11 ;KO glivAllNi 1:1;ZA I re RUB Spotlighting new singles deserving special attention of programmers and dealers. Spotlights Predicted to reach the SPANKY AND OUR GANG-And She's Mine (Prod. Scharf /Dorough) (Writer: BOSSY SHERMAN-Little Woman (Prod. Jackie Mills) (Writer, Janssen) TOP 20 of the TOP SELLING R&B SINGLES Chart Hodges) (Spanky & 0.G., BMI) Smooth rock -ballad follows up their (Green Apple, BMI)- Star of TV's "Here Comes the Brides," Sherman "Anythrhg You Choose," and should do even better in play and sales. makes an impressive end commercial move to the Metromedia label. Mercury 72926 Rocker has much sales potential. Metromedia 121 CANDI STATION-I'D RATHER BE AN OLD MARK From LINDSAY-First Hymn Grand Terrace (Prod. Jerry Fuller) RAY CONNIFF & THE SINGERS-Mold Me Tight (Prod. Jack Gold) (Writer: MAN'S SWEETHEART (Than a Young Man's Fool) Writer: Jim Webb) (Ja -Mar, ASCAP)- Sensitive treatment of the Jim Nash) (Nash, ASCAP)- The Johnny Nash smash of last year gets a spirited (Prod. Rick Hall) Writers: Carter -Jackson -Moore) (Fame, BMI)-The first Webb beauty, by the lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Much going over by Conniff's group and the result is a programming must product of the new Rick Hall -Capitol tune is a blockbuster, swinging middle the road of programming here as well Columbia 4.44875 with much sales potential as well. Columbia 4.44872 Clarence Carter ballad. New stylist will hit hard and fast, both pop and r&b. Flip: "For You" (Hester, BMI). Fame 1454 GOLDEN EARRINGS-It's Alright, Rut I Admit It Could Be Better (Prod. CAROLYN HESTER COJ'LITMON-Rig City Streets (Prod. Dave Blume) Arthur Corson & Fred Haayne) (Writer: George Kooymans) (Fat Zach, (Writers: Moore -Hester -Blume) (Easy Listening, ASCAP) The folksier RANDY LEE-BLACK HANDS, WHITE COTTON BMI)-First singles outing for the label and it's a winning solid beat, comes up with one of her most commercial outings ever in this initial commercial number ;Frod. Paul Gray -Sunny Limbo & Staff) (Writers: Bell -Reeves -Bell) (Wren with much appeal for both underground and top 40. entry on Metromedia. A rock beat is in strong support of her top gospel -blues swinger comes Strong sound and lead singer, Much chart potential here. Polydor 14001 vocal work. Metromedia 120 & Cha , BMI'-This powerhouse, driving, on strong and will hit the chart with solid sales impact. Equal potential MONGO for pop. Flip: "Take a Little Time" (Wren & Chattanooga, BMI). SANTAMARIA-Twenty Five Miles (Frod. Billy Jackson) (Writers: DON CHERRY-Days of Sand and Shovels (Prod. Steve Poncio) (Writers: Bristol -Fuqua Diamond 261 -Starr) (lobate, BMI)-Driving instrumental version of the MarshReneau) (Lonzo & Oscar, BMI) -Currently climbing the country recent Edwin Starr smash, has much of the sales potential of Santa- chart via the Waylon Jennings version, this pop and sensitive reading ,naria's successful "Cloud Nine." Truman Thomas version on Veep also by Cherry should carry the same sales appeal for the pop chart. has possibilities both pop and r&b. Columbia 4.44886 Top performance. Monument 1147 Spotlights Predicted to reach the MAUDS-Satisfy My Hunger (Prod. George Badonsky) (Writer: Marchand) DELANEY & RONNIE-When the Battle Is Over (Prod. Delbon) (Writers: R&B SINGLES Chart (Mite, BMI) Pulsating performance of a soul rocker will garner much Rebenneck-Hill) (Ten Eastil Found It, BMI)--Funky rhythm item with CHART play and rt ch, activity. Mercury 72919 strong lyric line should fast establish this powerful duo on the charts. Loaded with underground as well as Top 40 possibilities. Elektra 45662 ROSCOE ROBINSON-Oo Wee Baby I Love You (Costoma, BMI). ATLANTIC LESLEY GORE-98.6/lacy Day (Prod. Paul Leka) (Writers: Fishof(-Powers) 2637 (Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI) Clever, easy beat blending of the two BROOK RENTON-Woman Without Love (Prod. Arif Mardin) (Writer: Chest- past hits. Top vocal workout and arrangement with much play and nut) (Passkey, BMI) -The Johnny Darrell country smash ballad is DIPLOMATS-It's Not How You Make Love (Catalogue, BMI). DYNAMO 135 sales Mercury potential. 72931 given a powerful pop -blues by Benton that has much reading potential THE BILLY MITCHELL GROUP-Oh Nappy Day (Sea-Jack/Jamf, for the r&b pop and charts. Cotillion 44034 CALLA 165 MASQUERADERS-The Grass Was Green (Prod. Tom Cogbill) (Writer: Thompson) ¡Barton, 8M1) equal KENT With potential for pop and r&b, this CROW-Time to Make a Turn (Prod. Bob Monaco) (Writer: Weigand) BIG JOE TURNER-Love Ain't Nothin' (Modern, BMI). 512 potent swinger has much of the appeal of their "I A'int Got to Love (Yuggoth, BMI) Strong debut of a new quintet from the Minneapolis Nobody Else." AGP 114 THE SOUL DUO-This Is Your Day (Nimbig, BMI). SHIPTOWN 202 area with a raucous swinger and good lyric line, Top vocal workout and sound that could easily prose a big chart item. Amend 106 LOUIS CHACHERE-The Hen (Part I) (Twin City/Cleanteen, BMI). PAULA 32t EVERLY BROTHERS-I'm On My Way Home Again (Prod. Lenny Waronker) (Writer: (Rook, VIRGIL GRIFFIN-La Da Da Da Da (Malaco, BMI). SHOUT 241 Slater) BMI; Lively, country -flavored ballad is a strong ENOCN LIGHT & THE BRASS MENAGERIE-Slowin' in the Wind (Writer: entry that should bring the duo back to the charts once again. Dylan) (M, Witmark, ASCAPI Rousing instrumental treatment of the BOBBY SHEEN-I Don't Have to Dream (Footboat, BMI) CAPITOL 2507 Warner Oros. -Seven Arts 7290 Bob Dylan classic serves as a top programming item with much sales potential as well. Project 3 1354 NRSQ-Stomp (Prod. Frank Scinlaro & NRB0) (Writer: Ferguson) (Nemis, Fat Zach Farnsley, (MI) -An exciting rocker with a driving beat offers TERRY KNIGHT-Saint Paul (Prod. Good Knight) (Writer: Knight) (Story much fei play, sales and discotheque and could easily prove a left book, BMI)- Dedicated to Beetle McCartney, Knight comes up with an -111 review should be ad- !field smash Columbia 4-44865 records submitted for unusual, original ballad loaded with underground appeal. Medley of Beatle songs adds to the appeal. Capitol 2506 Record Review Billboard, GORDON WALLER-I Was a Boy When You Needed a Man (Prod. Finito) dressed to Department, (Writers: 8. Weinstein -M. Leonard) (Blackwood Prosody, BMI)-His FRANCK POURCEL-Aquarius (Prod. Ettore Stratta -Robert Colby) (Writers: first for half Bell, the team of Peter and Gordon, comes on strong MacOerniont-Ragni-Rado) (United Artist, ASCAP) Strong, lush instru- 165 W. 46th Street, New York, N. Y. 10036. with a powerful ballad loaded with play and sales appeal Potent mental treatment of the hit from "Han," is certain to garner much sound from Waller. Bell 794 in play and sales. Slue 1004 88 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD i

" ...This might just be the first pop masterpiece." -THE NEW YORK TIMES M,ry 1FS 1f)h1

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To further quote The New York Times: "...'Tommy' is just possibly the most important work that anyone has yet done in rock."

441 ."Tommy" - a deluxe, two -record set with a fantastic triple cover and a full -color twelve - 4> page book enclosed. It also includes their 4411, smashing recording of "Pinball Wizard."

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Incredible new excitement on Decca Records. IIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl111111111III111I1 RIAA Cr NAB Name HOW 'SUITE' IT Klein, Beatles' Business A Liaison Committee IS TO RASCALS NEW YORK- "I he Rascals Agreement Is Spelled Out NEW YORK - The Record (KGGF, Coffeeville, Kan.), Dan have received their fifth album Industry Association of Amer- Hayslett (KIXL, Dallas), Lester gold record for million in sales NLW YORK - ABKCO Klein emphasized that under of their two -LP Industries, Inc., headed by Allen ica (RIAA) and the National M. Smith (KJR, Seattle). and Atlantic pack- its appointment, ABKCO would Erny Tannen age "Freedom Suite." The group Klein, has taken over as the Association of Broadcasters (MEDIAmerica not share in any way in any stations, Silver also has gained three gold rec- exclusive business manager in Spring, Md.). Beatles' record royalties arising (NAB) have named the mem- A meeting will ords for singles. behalf of Apple, the Beatles, be scheduled from all existing Beatles record- bers of its liaison committee to shortly. and the Beatles group of com- IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIItfhII111111NUUTAIIUIIIIII1111111IIIIIIIANIIIIIIIIIIII panies. ing agreements, except to the provide a channel of communi- (The expansion of Klein's involvement with the Beatles extent of increases in Beatles cations between the two organ- was reported in Billboard, May record royalty rates during the izations. The establishment of 24.) period of the appointment. Klein the committee underscored that there was no was announced U. S. Hip Apple Corps Ltd. is the ma- Acts Erupt assurance that any existing Bea- by Henry Brief, executive di- jority partner in Beatles & Co., rector tles recording agreements would of the RIAA, and Charles a partnership consisting of itself be renegotiated, or that re- M. Stone, NAB vice-president and the individual Beatles, John if for negotiated, ABKCO would real- radio. In ín Lennon, Paul McCartney, U.K. '70: Davis ize any material earnings "This George Harrison and Ringo joint industry com- therefrom. mittee," they said, "will concern Continued from page I appeal in the U. K. than Starr. Among the companies in- over It was reported, but not veri- itself with matters involving here, he where cluded in the Beatles group of attracted the mass media to the said, the market fied, that would either or both industries where has companies are Apple Records, ABKCO re- music and artist. "This is a form changed. "And while CBS one might assist the Inc.; Apple Music, Inc.; Apple ceive 20 per cent of the income other. In of musical expression that gets will still promote and discover this manner a line communi- Films; Maclen Music Ltd., and of Apple and the Beatles group of both wide -scale and genuine na- the straightforward pop single, cation will he established the music publishing companies of companies from other so that tional publicity. It's free expo- I would point out that there is each interest knows what the of Ringo Starr and George sources. sure because the media people lasting strength and big business other is thinking and doing, thus also in the Harrison. At the same time, ABKCO are interested in the music as a groups working the enabling a more effective area The appointment, which is for announced a net income of culture. It is worth underground field. It wouldn't of mutual planning spending a period of three years, is can- $28,799 for the six months to meet the money to matter if we didn't put out a challenges of both programming get it off the ground cellable by either party at the ended March 31, including ex- because you get rewarded Blood. Sweat and Tears single and production of recorded mu- in this end of each year, and, at Apple's traordinary gain of $23,910, way," said Davis. in the next six months, inter- sic as used in radio." option, at any time, should which represent earnings of 2 A boom in the U. K. market est in the group would still be high. Klein cease his involvement with cents per share attributable to The following will represent for this music form would lead Likewise Janis Joplin product," he said. ABKCO. extraordinary gain. the RIAA on the committee: to a corresponding one in Eu- Stanley M. Gortikov (Capitol), rope, said Davis. The Continent As an example of the market Jac Holzman (Elektra). Hal at present follows U. K. trends strength in the U. K. in the kind Neely (Starday-King), and Jerry rather than the U. S. and has of product that reflects contem- Filmation and RCA Pegging Wexler (Atlantic). The follow- done so for the last couple of porary youth interests, Davis ing broadcasters will represent years. mentioned the success of the the NAB: Robert L. Leonard Cohen album, TV Series to a New Group Pratt Top 40 radio has a longer "Songs From a Room." This jumped into the Record Retailer album Continued from page I tenny-bopper to bubble gum. Publishing will be handled by chart at No. 2-"without a sin- unspecified number of singles SESAC Unveils New gle or anything," commented Fanfare Music, a division of 20th under its logo, with Filmation Century -Fox. Davis. and Dunwich Productions in The material for the LP's will Davis reflected that CBS' in- Chicago producing the music Nashville tense be from 24 original songs, each Building interest in the underground packages. to be co -produced by Filmation market stemmed from the visit Filmation and NASHVILLE-An estimated standing dignitaries. Radio Sta- Initially, Don and Dunwich, headed by Bill he and several executives made Kirshner teamed with RCA on 1,000 turned out for the dedica- tion WSIX-FM scheduled a se- Traut. to the Monterey Pop Festival in releasing music product on CBS - tion ceremony of the new ries of spot announcements on Initial release-an album and 1967. "That Festival made a TV "Archie" series, with Kirsh- SESAC building here May 12, the weekend preceding the ded- single-will be out Aug. 15, real impact-we had no under- ner's just a few steps off the city's ication congratulating SESAC Calendar label producing with Jim Golden of Dunwich ground artists at that time but several singles and a chart LP Music Row. on its growth in country music Productions producing the ses- we knew we had to get some. for RCA distribution. The ceremonies were hosted and on its new building. Local sion. The group, members of "By the beginning of 1968 Norm Prescott, one of Filma- by SESAC's executive adminis- TV coverage blanketed the event. which will be known only by we had signed some quality art- tion's owners, said the "Hardy" trator and director of interna- "The opening of our own their Hardy Boys names, will ists: Janis Joplin, the Electric series will feature one original tional relations, W. F. Myers, building in Nashville is but an- be groomed by RCA for per- Flag, Laura Nyro, Donovan and rock song in each half-hour seg- who is president of the Gospel other stepping stone in our con- sonal appearances, TV and re- Blood, Sweat and Tears. We were ment. The music, written by sev- Music Association. Mayor Bev- tinuing nrowth and cordings, including a 10 -city pro- service to ready for a concentrated na- eral writers in the contemporary erly Briley. CMA president Bill the music industry," said motional tour to coincide with Alice, tional push," said Davis. rock field, will range from Williams, Hubert Long, and H. Prager, executive vice-presi- the TV series. SESAC's Nashville manager Joe dent and managing director. She 5 -Year Pact Talbot took part in the festivi- expressed pleasure that so many The group has signed an ex- ties. Long's offices occupy the leaders in the country music NARAS Board Ballots Due clusive five-year record and entire second floor of the new field as well as dignitaries from management contract with Film- building. all over the world joined in the NEW YORK-Ballots for the niker, Don Burkheimer, Dom ation. CMA is packaging the After the official ribbon cut- celebration. "It is obvious that new Board of Governors of the Cerulli, David Hall, Sol Hand- group for appearances on the ting. the crowd poured into our already active role in coun- New York chapter of NARAS werger, Is Horowitz, Helen "Jackie Gleason Show," "Holly- three huge tents erected for the try music will find an even are due by the end of this week. Keane, Orrin Keepnews, Mike wood Palace" and "The Music occasion. greater expansion in the weeks Ballots list 50 nominations with Lipskin, Robert Lissauer, Jim Scene." Scores of congratulatory mes- and months that lie ahead," she 20 to be elected. Lyons, Frank Mancini, Harry With the "Hardy Boys" al- sages were recieved from out- added. Running for category desig- Meyerson, Mort Nasatir, John- ready in rehearsals, plans call nations, each of which have one ny Pate, Duke Pearson, Phil for the first four songs to be spot, are singers, Will Holt, Ramone, F. M. Scott III, Tom recorded in June, with 12 songs Tetra Says It's Unaffected Marilyn Jackson, Al Kooper; Shepard, Paul Tannen, Ray- to be recorded by July 25. conductors, Morton Gould, burn Wright and Peter Yarrow. The show will have about 19 Mort Lindsey, By the Nick Perito; minutes of music, including 16 Departure of Cosby songwriters, Herbie Hancock, minutes of original background continued from page 3 Tetra retains tape, record Ben Tucker; engineers, Brooks music plus the three -minute song Arthur, Bob Liftin; instrumen- Triple -Front by the Hardy Boys. More than by Michel Legrand, with two club (Columbia), Canadian and talists. Dick Katz, Joe New- 120 -minutes of original back- others not yet scored. overseas rights to Cosby's Tetra man, Jerome Richardson; ar- ground music has been recorded Tetra also will release two material for the remainder of rangers. Complex Set Dick Hyman, Milt for the show, utilizing a rhythm 20th Century -Fox soundtrack existing contracts, said Silver. Okun, Torrie Zito; art direc- section, bass, Fender guitar albums. "Che!" and "The The contract with the Columbia and Chair- tors, Sam Antupit, John Berg, By T. organ. men," starring Record Club has three years to Moon Gregory Peck Bill Harvey; and children's and A short subject. "The Birth with a score by Jerry run, while pacts with several Gold- spoken word, Herb Galewitz, NEW YORK-Tony Moon of the Hardy Boys," document- smith. It will continue to re- tape duplicators are for 18 Paul Kresh. has formed an independent ing the creation of the group, lease soundtrack product under months. A Canadian and for- pro- The 26 nominees for the 11 will be produced and shown in a two-year contract with British eign licensing agreement contin- at -large duction - publishing - manage- berths are Manny Al - theaters across the U. S. to coin- Lion Films. ues for another four years. bam, ment complex in Nashville. Ernie Altschuler, Bob Alt- cide with the series TV debut. In addition, Tetra has sound- Although Cosby will remain schuler, Fred Bailin, Mike Ber- Moon's new activity follows his The documentary will have track rights to Cosby's (via a stockholder in CSC, his busi- orig- resignation as general manager inal background music, NBC-TV specials) two animated ness relationship with the com- includ- of the publishing ing songs the group will do in programs. "Fat Albert" and pany on records, TV and films 'Particuliere' Film division of Pickwick International. the series. "Weird Harold." will he on a venture -to -venture Score to Regent Tape rights to all material by basis. Moon's production firm is the Hardy Boys will go to RCA. Lipman Establishes Tetra's publishing division has NLW YORK-Regent Music seeking talent and has already Music Promotions 400 copyrights and grossed Corp. has acquired the score signed the Merging Traffic, $200,000 in its initial year of for the film "La Lecon Par- whose Decca record "Bit by Bit" 'Dreamer's' Owner BOSTON Music Promo- was released last week, - operation. The stable includes ticuliere" composed by Francis and a NEW YORK tions Inc., headed by Danny 17 Nashville rock group called the - Shapiro, about exclusive writers, in- l.ai. The English lyrics are by Bernstein Lipman, has been formed here cluding Tommy Lemonade Charade. & Co. is the owner of Ghent and Miss Don Black and N. Croisille. the renewal rights to handle promotion for record Weinberg, who to Mabel has written the The film is to be released and Under the management di- Wayne's "A Dreamer's labels, publishers and pro- title tune in Sonny and Holi- Cher's distributed by Cinema V. Lai is vision, arrangements have been day" and not Ivan Mogull ducers. Lipman was formerly a initial film, with Cher record- the composer of the score for reached with the Lemonade Music as erroneously regional promotion man for ing the reported song as a single on At- the French film, "A Man and Charade and a concert rock Elektra Records. in the May 17 issue of Bill- lantic. a Woman." group, the Smithsonian Institute. board. 94 MAY 31, 1969, BILLBOARD Moyb once o year, one single comes a ong wnere everyhng is ngnt. Te song is riggt. T -e artist is riga. T -e arrangement is riga. The recording is ngnt. 1969 gas ust filed its quota.

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