OCTOBER 25, 1969 $1.00 SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR The International Music -Record Tape Newsweekly COIN MACHINE Bi oa PAGES 41 TO 48 Trade Moving to Same Col Tops Hot 100 Chart 8 -Track, Cassette Price By BRUCE WEBUR Report; Keeps LP Lead LOS ANGELES - Industry The tape duplicator joins By FRED KIRBY trends point to a $6.98 stand- Columbia, RCA and Capitol, NEW YORK - Columbia Columbia also led for the Seven Arts complex, which also ard for both 8 -track and cas- among the major record manu- maintained its leading position third quarter on the Top LP's includes that label, which was by 1 sette, and Jan. an indus- facturers to establish a cassette in percentage of spots on Bill- Chart, but the top quarter Hot ninth with 23 titles for 3.6 per- try -wide price is ex- posture standard equal to that of its board's Top LP's Chart for the 100 scorer was RCA with 16 cent. Columbia's leading posi- pected. 8 -track cartridge product. first nine months of the year titles and 8.4 percent of the tion for last year's first three today's markups Many of in If traditional record labels, and gained the top position on chart, compared to Columbia's quarters was only supported by price tags as an come after- (Continued on page 14) Hot 100 percentage. 16 titles for 6.9 percent. 65 titles. math to rising costs at the man- ufacturing and distribution The nine -month Top's LP's RCA rose from its sixth spot leaders were points. Other reasons also con- Columbia with 94 for 1968's first nine months, titles for 13 percent; Capitol, while Atlantic's rise was from tribute to the $1 hike, largely Cash Sweeps CMA Awards because of increased labor costs 57 albums, 7.1 percent; RCA, seventh and Reprise's from and higher costs of materials 45 LP's, 6.6 percent; Ateo, 27 eighth. Other major hikes were and tape duplicating equipment. At Biggest -Ever Convention titles, 5.9 percent; Reprise, 29 registered by seventh place Dun- sets, 4.6 percent; and Atlantic, hill with 17 titles and 3.9 per- CRT became the first tape By BILL WILLIAMS company to raise the suggested 30 albums, 4.4 percent. cent; Parrot, eighth with 12 titles retail price of its cassettes to NASHVILLE-Johnny Cash Riding the success of "A Boy Ateo, Reprise and Atlantic all and 3.9 percent; and Epic, 10th $6.98, effective Nov. 1. A&M swept five of the 10 Country Named Sue" and the popularity are part of the Warner Bros. - (Continued on page 12) also will follow suit and increase Music Association awards at the of his television show, Cash, a its cassette price to $6.98, ef- third Annual Awards Show, tele- Columbia Records artist, won fective Nov. 1. cast live on NBC Oct. 15. every award for which he had been nominated. He was named U.K. Studios' $5 Mil Spree Entertainer of the Year, Male By RICHARD ROBSON Vocalist of the Year, Single of IMIC 2 on the Ball; Plans the Year, Vocal Group of the LONDON - During the next independent recording firms year Year (as part of a duet with his British recording studios have enjoyed since they first ap- will Full Card Sportin' Life wife, June Carter) and Album spend nearly $5 million to peared 10 years ago. of of the Year, for his "Johnny capture a larger slice of the De Lane Lea alone will spend NEW YORK-Golf and ten- Conference (IMIC 2). The con- Cash at San Quentin." mushrooming U.K. independent $1.8 million on a massive studio nis will highlight the non -busi- ference will be held April 26 - production market. All over the complex at Wembley, a Lon- ness events at the second annual May 2, 1970, at Palma de The female vocalist of the country, studios are launching don suburb, which, when com- was a International Music Industry Mallorca, Spain. It is sponsored year Tammy Wynette, massive building and expansion pleted, will be one of the larg- by Billboard and its sister pub- (Continued on page 98) programs in the biggest boom (Continued on page 84) lication in England, Record Re- Autry Rides Into tailer. The golf and tennis tourney The Hall of Fame will be hosted by Charles Brady Associates. Brady is an inter- NASHVILLE-Gene Autry, national industrialist who resides the first "singing cowboy" to in Mallorca. The golf tourna- make records, became the 16th ment has been scheduled for person elected to the Country April 29 at Sun Vida, a newly Music Hall of Fame in cere- completed 18 -hole course. Brady monies last week. will post the prizes for the tour- Autry, a one-time railroad nament as well as host a lunch- telegrapher who went on to be- eon on the day of the event. come a business tycoon, was The tennis tournament, which selected by a secret ballot of will he held at the Racquet electors, and joined the ranks Club at a date yet to be set, (Continued on page 59) (Continued on page 12) DGG, Philips Join in Numbering NEW YORK - Deutsche hering concept to he used by Grammophon and Philips will DGG and Philips is projected launch a new universal number- for the next 20 years and aims ing system in January. It marks to anticipate industry develop- the first time that two record ments for that period of time. Jethro Tull was recently voted the #2 group in England Gladys Knight & the Pips are moving full steam ahead with (outdistancing such as the Stones), where their LP "Stand companies have gotten together The numbering system, which their newest entry on the Hot 100, "Friendship Train," Soul a Up" and single "Living in the Past" reached the top of for common numbering will originate from DGG's Ham- 35068. This driving new single spells top sales and chart purpose. burg, Germany, headquarters, the charts and sold a ridiculously large number of records. Upstart Tull's "Stand Up" has already begun its advance action for this group. Just released is their newest album, Although the mechanics of and Philips' base in Baarn, Hol- on the U.S. just released and charted with stars, the system are being kept "Nitty Gritty," Soul S-713, also a chart contender. under land, will be applied on a world- bullets, and that stuff. Another example of Reprise's (Advertisement) wraps, it is known that the num- wide basis. embarrassment of riches. (Advertisement) (Advertisement) see pages 31&32 www.americanradiohistory.com JEFTERSON AIRP NE VOLUNTEERS bw WE CAN BE TOGETHER #74-0245 i NEW SINGLE RC,'www.americanradiohistory.com Industry News Leonard Chess Dies, Commerce Survey: $$273.2 Co -Founder of Chess CHICAGO - One of the Checker - Cadet combine in- lviii Disks Tapes Sent in '6 7 founders and co-chairman of the cluded the Flamingos (they re- By MILDRED HALL Chess - Checker - Cadet group, corded "I'll Be Home" which Leonard Chess, died of a heart was a hit also for Pat Boone WASHINGTON-The Corn- the government statistics do figure of $395 million for fac- attack here Oct. 16. He was using the original Chess arrange- merce Department's preliminary show the dramatic leap in man- tory sales of records and tape 52 years old. ment), the Moonglows and the report on its 1967 Census of ufacturers' sales of records and in 1967, a lift of about 38 per - With his brother,.. Phil, Chess Cornets. Manufacturers estimates the prerecorded tape in the four cent over the $286 million EIA was a pioneer in the independ- Leonard Chess was a corn- value of records and tapes year span between 1963 and estimate for 1963. Retail sales ent record field and was one plete record man. In the early shipped by manufacturers at 1967. They show the triumph in the industry as reported in of the outstanding executives Chess days, the two brothers $273.2 million-an increase of of stereo over monaural, and Billboard annual tallies showed who developed the speciality would distribute their product 52 per cent over its 1963 busi- the Last initial growth of pre- a gain of over 70 percent be - field off r&b in the 1950's. The by car to their Chicago South ness census figure of $180.2 recorded tape from shipments tween the retail sales figure of Chess brothers, immigrants from Side accounts. He also went million. Actual manufacturers' valued at $3.8 million (goy- $658 million in record sales for Poland who came to the U. S. on the road during the 1950's sales in 1967 were about $268.2 ernment figures) in 1963, to 1963 and the billion -dollar 1967 on Columbus Day 1928, formed in the South, where he dis- million for records and tape, $35.9 million in 1967. figure of $1,124,000,000.) the Chess label in 1948 with a covered artists like Howlin' with about $5 million for other (An example of the wide dif- The preliminary Commerce recording by tenor saxophonist Wolf. He even did field record- activities. ference in figures from the figures for manufacturers em - Gene Ammons, a soul version of ings - Crudup was recorded Although Commerce Depart- 1967 Commerce Census es- ploying 10 or more people in "My Foolish Heart." This led in this way. ment business census estimates timate of $268.2 million, a rise 1967 show these comparative to national distribution of the The Chess brothers were also are usually well below the of 52 per cent over 1963, is breakdowns: Chicago -based label.