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HITS OF THE WEEK SINGLES SLEEPERS , "(LOVE IS) THICKER THAN WATER" , "NETHER LANDS" (prod. by COMMODORES, "LIVE!" The groupis (prod. by , Albhy Galuten Dal Focelberg & Norbert Putnam) on a hot streak that has taken them & Karl Richardson) (writers:B. & A. (writer:Fogelberg) (Hickory Grove, to the top of the r&b and pop charts Gibb) (Stigwood/Andy Gibb/Joye/ ASCAP) (4:37). The title track from andthislivedoubleset comesjust Hugh & Barbara Gibb/Unichappell, Fogelberg's latest is the sec- at the right time to cement that popu- EMI)(3:18). The follow-up tothe ond single from , a thoughtful bal- larity.With new versions of favorites years most successful debut single lad that sounds like a statement of like"Slippery When Wet,-"Easy," flowswitha lighttouchanda be ief. A long, orchestrated bridge 'Brick House'' and "IFeel Sanctified, - clever chorus/hook. It sounds like a connects the verses. Epic/Full Moon the sextet should enjoy its biggestIp pop natural. RSO 883 (Polydor). 8-50462. to date. M9 894A2 (11.98). MARILYN McCOO AND BILLY DAVIS, JR., "WON- DON McLEAN, "PRIME TIME" (prod. by John ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, "OUT OF DERFUL" (prod. by Frank E. Wilson) Peters) (writer: McLean) (Unart/Ben- THE BLUE." Four sides of new studio ma- (writers: Banks -Hampton) (Irvin, BMI) ny Bird, BMI) (3:29). McLean's sin- terial wrapped inan attractivesci-fi (3:43). This ballad, somewhat remi- gleisa rock'nroll song with a designedpackageshouldcarrythe niscent of "Love's Theme,- provides honky-tonk flavor and a good deal group through the Xmas season in fine a fine vehicle for the vocal trade-offs 0of strong and ironic social commen- form.Jeff Lynne's material maintains that arethisduo'strademark. A tary. Written to refer to any city,it his usual high standard with songs like good rhythm contrib- departs from his familiar style, but "Turn To Stone," ''Sweet Talkin' Wo- utes an extra spark. Pop and r&b at- couldwinhim new fans.Arista man" and NightIntheCity."Jet tention are likely. ABC 12316. 0234. JTLA-823-L2 (UA) (11.98).

NATALIE COLE, "OUR LOVE" (prod. by Charles , "EMOTION"(prod.by VARIOUS ARTISTS, "INTERGALACTIC Jackson & Marvin Yancy)(writers: Ba-ry Gibb, Albhy Galuten & Karl TOURING BAND." The year was 3035 same as prod.)(Jay's Enterprises/ Richardson) (writers:B. & R. Gibb) and the Vibra Corporation, who first in- Chappell, ASCAP) (3:57). A ballad (BarryGibb/Flamm/Stigwood/Uni- stigatedcolonizationoftheplanets that builds subtly, this single shows chappell, BMI)(3:43). Speaking of came up with the idea of an interga- 0off Cole's voice well and is one of the , they're all over this lactic touring band. ThisIptells the JacksonandYancy'sbetterpro- deput single by a breathy female story in pictures and music with an all- duction efforts. The rhythm section, singer.Hertreatment ofawell- starline-up of singers and entering late in the song, still makes crcfted song seems justright.Pri- ranging from Arthur Brown to Ben E. its presence felt. Capitol 4509. vate Stock 178. King. Passport PB 9823 (Arista) (7.98). , "SWEET MUSIC MAN" (prod. , "RATED 'X' " (prod. by Stuart BLACK OAK, "RACE WITH THE DEVIL." IMOby & Kenny Rogers) (wri- Alan Love & Nick Gilder)(writers: A new line-up and a new ter:Rogers)(JollyRogers, ASCAP) Gi der -McCulloch) (Beechwood, BMI) distinguishes this Ip by the group. The (4:17).Rogers probably wrote this (3:06). Thisteasingrocker,with title song, originally recorded by Gun, song with one star or anotherin echoes ofT.Rex,isGilder's best is a fiery introduction that sets the pace, mind, butitcould apply to many. sirce"RoxyRoller,"andshould picked up by songs like "Daisy" and Itsapretty ballad with thought - bLild on the gains made by that "Rainbow.- An extended seven minute provoking lyrics, and pop and coun- sir gle. Its subject is a hook in itself, versionof Buddy Holly's"Not Fade try radio should certify that it ranks and the tongue-in-cheek treatment Away" is an unusual touch. Capricorn withhis best. United Artists1095. helps. Chrysalis 2174. 0191 (Polydor) (6.98).

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Klein Testifies at College Market Poses Major Challenge for Retailers Tax Evasion Trial By MIKE FALCON and SAM SUTHERLAND an early test for specific musical By ALAN WOLMARK (The second in a series of reports on the campus marketplace, the styles and new artists remains un- NEW YORK - With testimony following continues RW's survey of manufacturers and retailers, this changed. at the income tax evasion trial of week highlighting the key problems and procedures in reaching the RW's surveyoflabelstaffers Abkco Industries president Allen student customer, and the special challenges facing retailers, on -cam- andretailpersonnelpoints up Kleindrawing toa closelast pus and off, in college communities.) students'sustainedinterest in week, Klein took the stand refut- LOS ANGELES-Acknowledged As reviewed last week, labels AOR and classical product (the ing the tax dodging charges and by record companies and retail- are divided over whether to serv- latter category, while stilla mi- theimplicationsresulting from ers alike as a key record and tape ice college media and track cam- nority ranking has perennially en- formerAbkcoemployee, Pete customer, the college student to- pus sales as part of their overall joyed a substantially wider share Bennett's earlier allegations. day provides the music industrysales, marketing and promotion of market on campus), while jazz Three weeks ago Bennett, guaran- with a discretetargetmarket effort,or segregate all campus - product continues to show a re- (Continued on page 24) while posing unique problems fororiented programs under a sepa-surgence and many students are thelocalretailer,including therate college program. However, among the first buyers supporting Singles Sales Index disruption of seasonal sales pat- both record companies and rack new wave releases. Reaches All -Time High terns and conventional product and retail accounts covering col- ScottBurn,nationalcollege mix as monitored in non -college lege communities maintain that promotiondirectoratElektra/ By LENNY BEER locations. the student's traditional value asAsylum, sees the college market Debby Boone (Warner -Curb) as a "natural" for jazz exposure. continues to dominate The Sin- "We're placing alot of empha- gles Chartinthe same manner Government Readies Jukebox Regulations sis on jazz," explained Burn, "but that (WB) has con- By MICHAELSHAIN right now we're basically concen- trolled The Album Chart. Her sin- WASHINGTON - Theper- been free of performance royalty gle, "You Light Up trating on the Walrus reporting forming rights societies and the liability since their inventionin stations, making sure they've got Chart My Life," has now nation's jukebox owners and op- the late 1800s. That liability ex- recorded four con- the product. they're playing the Analysis erators are locked ina dispute emption was wiped out last year record, we then call the local pro- secutiveweeksat over how far new governmentby the new copyrightrevision motion rep to make certain the the top and thereis no end in regulations ought to go inac- act. The new law prescribes a record is in the market. sight as it is number one in every counting for the location,size, major market except for Denver and charges per play of nearlyyearly performance royalty, to be there are a couple and is outselling the #2 record, half a million machines. splitbetween musicpublishers of major distinctions between the college audience and the overall Heatwave, by almost two to one. The U.S. Copyright Officeis and , of $8 per ma- As a matter of fact, the Boone expectedwithinthenextfew chine. Last week (25), the rights 18-24 year -old demographic sec- record is so big that The Record weekstopromulgatethefirst organizations-BMI, ASCAP, and tor, "in that they're sort of a more World Sales Index for singles has federalrulesgoverning theli- SESAC-and the jukebox opera-captive audience that does buy (Continued on page 6) censing of jukeboxes, which have tors testified before a panel of records.It's simply another ave- Copyright Office officials on how nue of exposure for artists.If I tightly those rules governing re- don't sell a lot of records at some of these colleges, at least I'm ex- porting requirements should beposing them by getting airplay, drawn. ThE RECORD WORLD SFILES INDEX Regulations must be and that's where Iconcentrate a written by the end of the year lot of times. Although we service ild3ums SiNIGLE when the new law goesinto them with all sorts of product, it's * Sales Sept. Oct.Oct.Oct.Oct.Oct. * SalesSept. Oct.Oct.Oct.Oct.Oct. effect and, by that time, every basically those artists who are not Ind x 24 1 8 15 22 29 Index 24 1 8 15 22 29 (Continued on page 62) 200.0 200.0 190. (Continued on page 28) 180.0 180.0 Everybody's Takes to the Road 160.0 160.0 34.4 With Mobile Managers Convention 140.0 140.0 By MIKE FALCON LOS ANGELES - Everybody's 120.0 , examining the opera- 120.0 Records, the Northwestretail tions of manufacturers and dis- 100.0 100.0 chain known for innovative ap- tributors. proaches to marketing and strong Firsthand Awareness 80.0 80.0 social concerns, took to the road "We feel you learn more by with their 1977 managers con- being there, rather than having 60.0 60.0 vention beginning Oct. 19. The someone tell you what's done," unusual meeting first went mo- statedpresidentKeenan. "We 40.0 40.0 bile two years ago when a limited triedtoplan a meetingthat 20.0 20.0 number of personnel visited Los would allow us to see firsthand Angeles area manufacturers for a a number of manufacturers three-day confab. Last year the whose operations were relatively 1977 Figure 1976 Figure convention remained stationary. open and that would round out * The Record World Sales Indexisbased on a broad cross-section of quantitative sales data The 1977 version saw 12 man- our managers' knowledge of the reported to Record World from retailers, rack jobbers and one -stops across the country. The base agers andregionalsupervisors, business." figure for both the singles and album indicesisa smoothed average of these quantitative reports during periodsinMarch, 1976, with each weekly figure being a percentage increase or decrease including president Tom Keenan On Wednesday (Oct. 16) the on the base. The base figure for both singles and albums is 100.0. and vice president Michael Reff, entourage arrived in Los Angeles, take a week-long sojourn through (Continued on page 60)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Beer Named 20th Promotion VP Skynyrd Prod. Issues Statement Keogh, Profera Also Join Department NEW YORK - Lynyrd Skynyrd 1700 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019 LOS ANGELES-Harvey Coop- Productions, Inc. last week issued Phone: (212) 765-5020 er,seniorvicepresident,a&r the following statement here con- PUBLISHER EDITOR IN CHIEF and promotion at 20th Century cerning the band's future: BOB AUSTIN SID PARNES Fox Record Corporation, has an- "Contrary to reports in certain VP & MANAGING EDITOR nouncedtheappointmentof publications, Lynyrd Skynyrd have MIKE SIGMAN Lenny Beer asvicepresident, made no decision to disband as LENNY BEER/VP, MARKETING HOWARD LEVITT/ASSOCIATE EDITOR national promotion director for a result of the tragic accident that TONI PROFERA/RESEARCH DIRECTOR the label. occurred on October 20. MICHAEL SCHANZER/ ART DIRECTOR Cooper stated:"Lenny Beer, "A decision regarding the fu- David McGee/Assistant Editor in my opinion, will bring several ture of the group will be made Barry Taylor/Assistant Editor Marc Kirkeby/Assistant Editor new dimensions tothe record when all the surviving members Pat Baird/Assistant Editor business.His overallintelligent have fully recovered from their Alan Wo!mark/Assistant Editor view of radio, research and con- injuries. Sophia Midas/Assistant Editor temporary promotionisarare "Though no details have been Mike Vallone/Assistant Research Director Dede Dabney/R&B Editor insightfrom a greatobserver. worked out, itis extremely likely David Skinner/Assistant Art Director Hisoutstandingcharacter was Lenny Beer that Gary Rossington, Allen Col- Joyce Reitzer/ Production one of the first notable charac- lins, Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Speight Jenkins/Classical Editor teristics which firstattractedus after five years at Record World, Vince Aletti / Discotheque Editor Artimus Pyle and Leslie Hawkins Michael Spain/Washington Correspondent to him. We felt that Lenny stuck where he was most recently vice will compose, record and play to his guns in many a hard de- president of marketing. While at Robert Palmer/Jazz Editor Record World, Beer was instru- their music together at some time bate and accomplished seeming- in the future." Stan Soifer/Advertising Sales ly insurmountable tasks. This ap- mental in developing many key Skynyrd Productions also an- WEST COAST pointment, along with the recent research -relatedfeaturesinthe SPENCE BERLAND magazine. nounced the creation of a trust acquisitionofArnieOrleans, furd and a scholarship in mem- VICE PRESIDENT should give us one of the young- Beer will be joined in his new WEST COAST MANAGER ory of the band members killed SAM SUTHERLAND/WEST COAST EDITOR est,most experienced manage- post by Kevin Keogh and Toni in a plane crash two weeks ago. Samuel Graham/Assistant Editor ment teams in the business." Profera.Keogh comes to20th The Van Zant/Gaines Memorial Mike Falcon/Assistant Editor Beer comes to the 20th Cen- from ABC Records and will op- Linda Nelson/ Production tury -Fox Record Corporation erate as national field promotion Fund, which will provide for the Portia Giovinazzo/ Research Assistant director. Profera spent seven benefit and education of Ronnie 6290 Sunset Boulevard Van Zant's two daughters and Hollywood, Calif. 90028 years with Record World in New Phone: (213) 465-6126 MCA Names Bly York before she was tapped to Steve Gaines' daughter, will ac- become national singles promo- cept contributions c/o SirPro- NASHVILLE ductions, 130 W. 57th St. #6D, JOHN STURDIVANT VP, Nail. Promotion tion director for 20th Century - VICE PRESIDENT Fox Record Corporation. (Continued on page 32) SOUTHEASTERN MANAGER LOS ANGELES - Stan Bly has Luke Lewis/Southeastern Editor been appointed vice president/ Marie Ratliff/ Research national promotion for MCA Rec- Vicki Branson/Research Harvey Schein Honored Red O'Donnell /Nashville Report ords, it was announced last week 49 Music Square West by Richard Bibby, vice president/ Nashville, Tenn. 37203 marketing for the label. Phone: (615) 329-1111 Reporting directly to Bibby, Bly LATIN AMERICAN OFFICE TOMAS FUNDORA will be responsible for the di- VICE PRESIDENT rection of the MCA national pro- 3140 W. 8th Ave., Hialeah, Fla. 33012 motionstaffconsistingof Joy (305) 823-8491 Hall (national album promotion), ENGLAND NOEL GAY ORGANISATION Wayne McManners and Paul Lam- 24 Denmark St., London, W.C. 2, England bert (national singles directors), Phone: 836-3941 JAPAN Jeff Lyman (national country di- ORIGINAL CONFIDENCE rector) and Shelly Hoppers (direc- CBON Queen Building 18-12 Roppongi 7-chome tor of special projects), as well as Minato-ku, Tokyo the coordination of the MCA pro- CANADA ROBERT CHARLES-DUNNE motion field staff. 19 Yorkville Avenue Toronto, Ontario Bly began his career at Mercury Canada M4W ILI Recordsin as assistant (416) 964-8406 promotion manager. He was pro- GERMANY HarveyL.Schein(left), chairman of the board of the Sony Corporation,is shown JIM SAMPSON motedtopromotionmanager, receiving the AMC Cancer Research Center 10th Annual Humanitarian Award from Liebherrstrasse 19 8000 Muenchen 22, Germany national promotion manager and New York's Mayor Abraham Beame. More than 700 attended the annual dinner/ Phone: (089) 22 77 46 dance, chaired by Walter Yetnikoff, CBS Records Group president.Yetnikofflater vice president of national promo- FRANCE presented a check to AMC for nearly $250 thousand. GILLES PETARD tion. 8, Quai de Stalingrad, Boulogne 92, France Phone: 520-79-67 Marty Thau Forms SPAIN JOSE CLIMENT Powerhouse Picks Avenida de America 35, Piso 5 No. 7 Madrid 2, Spain (Due to airplay and sales in projectable markets, these records Red Star Label Phone: 416-7161 Phone: 416-6686 exhibit top five potential) By PAT BAIRD MEXICO High Inergy (Gordy) "You Can't Turn Me Off (In The NEW YORK-Industry veteran VILO ARIAS SILVA Marty Thau has announced the Peten 151-402 Colonia Navarte Middle Of Turning Me On)." Mexico 12, D.F. formation of Red Star Records, a Phone: 536-41-66 Already top 10 r&b and breaking wherever aired pop. "new wave oriented" label to be SUBSCRIPTIONS: ONE YEAR (52 ISSUES) U.S. AND CANDA-$70;AIRMAIL-$115; FOR- Crossover sales are coming in strong on both coasts. administered by Prelude Records EIGN AIR MAIL -4120. SECOND CLASS POST- buttobeindependentlydis- AGE PAID AT NEW YORK. N.Y. AND AT AD- Don't miss this one. DITIONALMAILING OFFICES. DEADLINE: tributed. NEGATIVES AND COPY MUST BEIN NEW Thau, who was promotion head YORK BY 12 NOON FRIDAY. for Cameo Parkway and Buddah Copyright 1977 by RECORD WORLD PUBLISHING CO., INC. (Continued on page 32) VOL. 35, NO. 1582

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CHART ANALYSIS Single Sales Boom Behind Boone Disc; Ronstadt LP Challenges Mac Cassidy, LPs Hot Chicago Single Strong By LENNY BEER justreleased"StreetSurvivors" (Continued from page 3) BeeGees(RSO),anotherbig II Fleetwood Mac (WB) held onto set (MCA) debuts as Chartmaker shot up toitsall-timehighest jumper which now stands at 15 its position atop The Album Chartat #22 and the "Live" album re- level,almost 50 pointshigher with abullet;Firefall(Atlantic) for the 23rd week, but this time turns to the chart also. Store or- than it was last week. moved up again to 16 bullet; and it was with considerable struggle ders for their entire catalogue are Other strong singles contribut- the newest Fleetwood Mac (WB) as there are serious contenders huge with the next few weeks ex- ing to the overall expansion of was another big mover at 25 with foritsthrone.LindaRonstadt pected to show allof theiral- thesaleofsinglesare Donna a bullet up from 38 last week. (Asylum) forced itself in the #2 bums in strong national positions Summer (Casablanca), Barry White Also strong this week and mak- position with her multi -platinum as the band was on the verge of (20th Century), Crystal Gayle (UA) inghitrecord signs were LTD "Simple Dreams" containing twosuperstardom, similar to the case and Rita Coolidge (A&M). Donna (A&M),withtheirfirstmajor simultaneous hit singles that are with the death of Jim Croce that Summer has finally exploded incrossover hit; Steve Miller (Capi- delivering a serious album crunch, led to the artist attaining the top salesinthe east and shows all tol), with his thirdhit from his Shaun Cassidy (Warner -Curb) also three albums in the country some signs of repeating the success it latest album proving itselfas a had another strong week although years back. has receivedelsewhere; Barry passive smash and now as a sales it was pushed down to #3, Steely The battle between Arista and White (20th Century) has finallyfactor; Bob Welch (Capitol), an Dan (ABC) isincredible at retail Warner -Curboverthealbum slipped to #2 on the r&b chartout -of -the box instant hit that is and strugglingabitatracked sales from the song and movie of after a month and a half at the selling singles and albums for the locationswiththeirlatestand "You Light Up My Life" is prov- top and is showing similar explo- formermemberofFleetwood possibly greatest album now at ing to be a victory for both sides. sive action at pop radio, Crystal Mac; and Santana (Columbia), an- #4, andElvisPresley (RCA) is Warner -Curb, which released Gayle (UA) is closing all of the re- other breakinginpassive areas sellinglike wildfire at the racks theiralbum oneweekafter maining holes on her country and and proving itselfin most other and holds the #5 slot. Arista, now also has a smash with pop smash, and Rita Coolidge is markets. The restof the top 15 held the Debby Boone album jumping on her way to repeating the in- New this week on the chart relativelyconstantwithFoghat up to 43 from 83 with a huge bul-credible success of her previous with bullets are (Mo- (Bearsville)grabbing #10 posi- let. The Warner album isprob- hit,"Higher and Higher," with town) as Chartmaker of the Week tion up oneslot,Barry Whiteably abit stronger atretail but her versionof the Boz Scaggswith r&b and pop activityal- (20thCentury)inchingupto for behind at the racks. This gap penned "We're All Alone." All ready, and Kansas (Kirshner), #12, and Crosby, Stills & Nashshould narrow quickly but both of these records show the poten- breaking quickly in the middle of (Atlantic) inching back up to #14. albums should be in the top 20 tialof goingallthe way, butthe country behind their super A littlefurtherback, Kansas in the very near future. Boone is the strongest roadblock smash album. (Kirshner) is the only bulleted al- New on the top 100 this weekin quite some time and may stop bum in the 10 to 20 range at 16 with bullets were Blue Oyster Cult everyone's journey up the chart with solid sales and the midwest at 66 with the midwestern rock for some time. Levy Named VP leading. 'n roll area leading; Olivia New- Outside the top 10, Chicago The immediate reaction to the ton -John at 71; the Commodores (Columbia) leads the way as an Springboard Dist. Lynyrd Skynyrd tragedy can be (Motown), withtheirlivetwo explosive passive record which is RAHWAY,N.J. - Springboard seen on this week's chart as their record set at 77; Chuck Mangione also selling wellin many areas; International Records, Inc. presi- (A&M), at 78; the Beat es (Capi- LindaRonstadt(Asylum),with dent Dan Pugliese has announced tol), with their repackage at 88; "BlueBayou," isexplodingin the appointment of Len Levy as TMA Taps Mulhern High Inergy (Gordy), at 87; Camel sales and was the biggest jump- vice president/marketing for the NEW YORK - JayLeipzig, (Janus), with easily their biggesting record on the top part of the company's wholly owned Spring- president of The Music Agency yet at 93; and George Duke (Epic) chart this week as it moved from board Distributing Corporation. Ltd. has announced the appoint- at 100. 31 to 13 and is selling up a storm; Levy served as vice president mentofWilliamMulhern as and general manager of Epic Rec- marketing director of the adver- ords and as president of Metro- tising agency. Mulhern's execu- media Records prior to opening tive experience spans label ,REGIONAL BREAKOUTS an independent consulting firm in management, marketing and the Miami and then in Los Angeles. artists and repertoire areas. He Singles Albums He was most recently marketing was mostrecently associated and merchandising consultant to with RCA Records as director of East: rEas, Amherst Records in Los Angeles. Lynyrd Skynyrd (MCA) product merchandising. Odyssey (RCA) In addition to primary respon- Bob Welch (Capitol) Odyssey (RCA) sibility for the Springboard sales (Columbia) i. igh Inergy (Gordy) Beatles (Capitol) force, Levy will be involvedin Commodores (Motown) the creationof marketing and South: merchandising concepts for the South: Earth, Wind & Fire (Columbia) entire Springboardfamilyof (RCA) Lynyrd Skynyrd (MCA) labels. He will be based at the Blue Oyster Cult (Columbia) company's west coast executive Crystal Gayle (UA) Midwest: Dolly Parton (RCA) offices in the Springboard Build- Odyssey (RCA) ing on Sunset Strip. Crawler (Epic) Midwest: Earth, Wind & Fire (Columbia) Blue Oyster Cult (Columbia) Carpenters (A&M) Lynyrd Skynyrd (MCA) Pompadur Ziff Pres. Kendalls (Ovation) Starcastle (Epic) NEW YORK-I. Martin Pompa- Camel (Janus) dur has been named president of West: Odyssey (RtA) Crystal Gayle (UA) Ziff Corporation - parent com- Santana (Columbia) pany ofZiff -DavisPublishing High Inergy (Gordy) West: Company - succeeding William lynyrd Skynyrd (MCA) Ziff, who becomes chairman of Beatles (Capitol) the board. Jean -Michel Jarre (Polydor) loggins & Messina (Columbia) Pompadur joined Ziff Corpora- tionin January as a senior vice William Mulhern president.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Newly Confirmed Copyright Tribunal Races with Clock Roth Joins CBS By MICHAEL SHAIN sources within the White House, manager Mary Lou Burg, Austin NEW YORK-The appointment WASHINGTON - The Senate delayedannouncementofthe accountant Frances Garcia, and of Myron Roth to the position of last Wednesday (26) quietly con- five members until he discovered freelance economic writer Doug- vicepresident,businessaffairs, firmed allfive members of thethat he had no legal authority to las Coutler - will probably be west coast, CBS Records, has been announced by Marvin Cohn, vice newly -created Copyright Royalty preventitscreation, which the sworn in by the first week of No- Tribunal in an unrecorded vote.President felt betrayed his cam- vember. Garcia and James have president,businessaffairs, CBS Records. The approval of the Presidential paign promise to consolidate the beenconfirmedforfiveyear nominees wassounheralded, dozens of narrow -function regu- terms, the others will each serve both at the Judiciary Committee latoryagenciesingovernment. sevenyears.Allwillbepaid level and on the Senate floor-Too, the White House mistakenly $47,500 a year. The members will that it would have been hard to misfiled one of its appointmentshave to elect a chairman from imagine aset of appointmentsto the Tribunal, that of Douglas among themselves, who is likely which could occasion less con- Coutler. Coutler's original nomi-to be Tom Brennan, a major ar- troversy. nation documents, sent to thechitect of the copyright revision The rather unobtrusive course Senate incorrectly, listed his state measure while he served in the of these five appointments, how- of residence as Virginia, when it Senate and the only member with ever, belies the delays and bu- should have stated New Hamp-more than minor experience in reaucraticbunglingthatfinally shire,furtherdelayingSenate the field of copyrights. brought the Tribunal to the Sen- considerationoftheappoint- ate floor for confirmation. The ments. Tapes Seized announcement of theappoint- Now the Tribunal has less than NEW YORK-About 3500 alleg- ments was almostsixmonths two months to promulgate an en- edly counterfeit 8 -track tapes, a Myron Roth over the deadlinesetby the tire laundry list of regulations and supply of counterfeit labels, wind- In this newly created position, Copyright Revision Act which cre- copyright liability fee schedules ing and shrink-wrap equipment, ated the new regulatory panel.before the revision act goes into Rothwill beresponsiblefor and materials used in manufac-directing the business affairs of The President, according to effect on January 1. Among the turing 8 -track tapes were seized decisions the Tribunalwillbe the CBS Records west coast office. by FBI agents here Oct. 26 in a He will report directly to Cohn. making affecting the music indus- raid on Record Warehouse, Inc., try are regulations governing the Roth comes to CBS Records at 8717 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, from RCA Records, where he had WEA Austria Bows; performing rightsorganizations' and on a van owned by the firm. accesstoestablishmentswith been vice president of business J. Wallace LaPrade, assistant di- affairs since 1973. Prior to that Zitta Appointed MD jukeboxes (see related story,p. rector of the FBI in charge of the he was Senior Counsel for RCA, NEW YORK - Guenther Zitta 3), the fees public television and New York office, estimated the radio will be paying for music, as and,beforethat, was assistant has been named managing value of the seized tapes, equip- general attorney for NBC. director, WEA Austria,itwas well as a cable TV royalty sched- ment and raw materials as being announced by NesuhiErtegun, ule. The Tribunal, sometime after in excess of $35,000. president of WEA International. 1980, will also be able to con- Among the seized tapes were ELO LPs 'Leaked' sider alterations in the mechani- allegedlyillegalduplications of cal fees (now 2.5 cents per tune) Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" and the jukebox performance fee (Warner Bros.); George Benson's To Radio Stations ($8 per box annually). "InFlight" (Warner Bros.); The LOS ANGELES-United Artists The Tribunal members - Sen- SteveMillerBand's "Book of Records confirmed last week that ate aide Thomas Brennan, Cleve- Dreams"(Capitol)andStevie copies of the new Electric Light landattorneyClarenceJames, Wonder's"" (Mo- Orchestra album, "Out Of The former Milwaukee radio station town). Blue," had been leaked to a num- ber of radio stations nationally. While the shipping date for the Foreigner's Double Platinum Party new UA/Jet package remains this Thursday (3),plans to withhold airplay copies untiljust before national release had to be hastily reshuffled when those stations re- Guenther Zitta ceiving leaked copies began play- ing tracks over the air. The new company, the second Gordon Bossin, VP of market- new WEA record company to ing, made an official statement on open on thecontinentinsix the copies, asserting, "When the months, will start on January 1. enthusiasm for an album runs this It will be headquartered in high within a company, itis un- Vienna, at 1080 Wien, Floriani- derstandable that such a situation gasse 50. may develop. To rectify the situa- Zitta came to New York last tion, we had immediately insti- week to discuss company plans tuted blanket mailings to all radio and to meet personally with WEA formats and distributors." International management in the U.S. He will then participate with White Platinum all other WEA International man- Atlantic recording group Foreigner, having been art the road virtually non-stop since LOS ANGELES-Arnie Orleans, aging directorsattheinterna- last April, wrapped up their first tour this past Sunday (23) with a headlining show senior vice president, marketing, tional executive meetings in atDetroit's Cobo Hall.The band's debut album, "Foreigner," recently passed the Barbados from Oct. 26 to Oct. double platinum mark and a full contingent of Atlantic representatives wereon hand at 20th Century -Fox Record Cor- to present the group with specially -prepared plaques commemorating this milestone. poration, 31. has announcedthat Thusfar,the1p has yielded two top 16 singles, "Feels Like TheFirst Time" and Barry's album, "Barry White Sings Beforehis "Cold As Ice." Shown gathered at 's St.Regis Hotelfor an after -show party new assignment, For Someone YouLove," Zitta was chief executive of the are, from left: (standing) Atlantic midwest regional promotion director Mike Manocchie, has Ian McDonald & Dennis Elliott of Foreigner, group manager Bud Prager, Foreigner's achieved platinumstatus.Also, Bellphon Record Company, Ed Gagliardi, president Jerry Greenberg, Lou Gramm & Al Greenwood of Foreigner, his single, "It's Ecstasy When You which he also founded. Prior to senior vice president of promotion Dick Klinelocalpromotion rep Ron Counts (be- that, he held executive positions hind), Foreigner's Mick Jones, west coast director of a&r John David Kalodner, and Lay Down Next To Me," has be- comeWhite's at Amadeo Records. east coast publicity manager Art Collins;(in'front) road manager Larry Griffith, pro- fifthsingleto moter Rick Kaye and director of artist relations Perry Cooper. achieve gold status.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Injunction Stalls Playboy's Future Remains Uncertain 'Magazine' Album By SAMUEL GRAHAM LOS ANGELES-An injunction LOS ANGELES - Following the with both Playboy and Epic logos preventingMushroom Records recent resignation of label presi- prominently displayed. fromfurthermanufactureand dent Tom Takayoshi, the exact A spokesman for Beserkley Rec- distribution of the album "Mag-futureofPlayboyRecordsre- ords,whichhadpactedwith BLUE OYSTER CULT TOUR azine" by Heart has been im- mains uncertain. Playboy spokes- Playboy for national distribution posed by the U.S. Court of Ap- men report that "substantial con- prior to the CBS/Playboy deal, 10/7Memorial Aud. peals for the 9th Circuit in Sanversations" regarding a possible said that the Bay Area independ- Utica, N.Y. Francisco, pending aruling on label restructuring are continuingent was not involved in the cur- (with BeBop deluxe) an appeal by the group. The in-with CBS, with whom Playboy rent reshuffling. "It doesn't affect 10/9Civic Center junctionwentintoeffecton made a distributiondeallast us because our relationship with Augusta, Maine Tuesday, October 25, followingApril,butitisunclear atthis Playboy ended on September 1st (with BeBop deluxe) point what that restructuring will of this year, by mutual and ami- a 2-1 decision from the panel of 10/10Rockland Community judges on the appellate court. involve. cable agreement," he noted, add- Playboy'snationalpromotion ing that Beserkley thus has no College Fieldhouse The "Magazine" album was Suffern, N.Y. releasedby Mushroom follow-director, John Wellman, has re- remaining distribution link with ing an August 9 decision in thesigned as well, along with r&b CBS at present, since the original 10/12 Central Mich. Univ. U.S. District Court for the West- promotiondirectorJayButler; pact was with Playboy, not CBS. Fieldhouse ernDistrictofWashingtonat however,thelabel'sNashville "Beserkley Records is very Mt. Pleasant, Mich. division will apparently remain as sorry to hear of Tom Takayoshi's Seattleliftinga March 10re- 10/13 IMA Aud. straining order that had prevent- is. Dick Rosenzweig,executive resignation," he continued. "We Flint, Mich. ed the label from making com- vice president of Playboy Enter-are certainly appreciative of the 10/14Civic Center mercialuseoftherecordings prises,thelabel'sparent com-fact that Playboy assisted usin known as the "Magazine tapes."pany, told RW that the current achievingnational distribution Hammond, Inc. The group obtained a stay pend- situation "goes back several for the first time." No new U.S. 10/15Veterans Memorial Aud. ing appeal of the August 9 deci- months. When Ifirst came to Los distribution deal for the labelis Des Moines, Iowa sion that has been in effect since Angeles from Chicago, we knewbeing set at present, although it (with Ram Jam & Cheap Trick) that we had to take a heavy look isbelievedthat severalmajors August 26, temporarily prevent- 10/16RKO Orpheum Theatre at Playboy Records, andit was are huddlingwithBeserkley's ing Mushroom from further ex- Davenport, Iowa decided that in the best interests Matthew Kaufman for those ploitationofthealbum.The (with Ram Jam) new injunction imposed by theof the label,itsartists and the rights. Court of Appeals sets up a brief- organizationitself, a different 10/19Dane Co. Coliseum ing schedule which will lead tostructure should be imposed on Madison, Wisc. a court decision early next yearthe label." Jewel, Vesper Pact 10/20Mary E. Sawyer Aud. regardingthe releaseofthe Rosenzweig added that a con- SHREVEPORT, LA.-Jewel Rec- LaCrosse, Wisc. "Magazine" album. tinuation of the distribution ar- ords President Stan Lewis has an- 10/21 Brown Co. Arena ShellySiegel,vicepresident rangement with CBS is "likely." nounced an agreement whereby and general manager of Mush- Should CBS and Playboy continue Jewel will distribute the Vesper Green Bay, Wisc. room, commented following theto be associated, he said,itis label along withits own black 10/22 Riverside Arena court decision: "Despite the de-possible that "a split label might gospel product. Austin, Minn. lay imposed by the court inre- evolve out of this," a Playboy/ The Vesper label will retail for 10/23Arena solving this situation,I am opti- Epic label as opposed to a Play- the same price as Jewel Gospel, Duluth, Minn. mistic that Mushroom willulti- boy label per se; such a develop- $6.98 for albums and $7.98 for mately prevail in this case. How- ment would indicate a change in tapes. There are nine albums in 10/24Arena ever, in view of the court's deci- the CBS/Playboy relationship the Vesper catalogue by such art- Milwaukee, Wisc. sion to review the lower court's fromitsoriginal "associatedla- ists as ShirleyCaesar, James 10/26Auditorium ruling in our favor, I must requestbel"statustoproduction deal Cleveland, Clarence Fountain and Omaha, Neb. that all radio stations with copies status, wherein CBS/Epic would The FiveBlind Boys from Ala- buy completed Playboy masters 10/27Kiel Aud. of 'Magazine' cease and desist bama, Swan Silvertones and Rev. St. Louis, Mo. from playing the album until such and artwork and distribute them Claude Jeter. (with Black Oak & Cheap Trick) time as the matterisfavorably resolved." 10/28Municipal Aud. CBS Fetes Mary Kay Place Kansas City, Mo. (with Black Oak & Cheap Trick) Whittemore Taps Two 10/29Fairgrounds Pavilion LOS ANGELES-Donald Harri- Tulsa, Okla. son Whittemore, president of the Whittemore Corporation, has 10/30Memorial Coliseum announced the appointments of Corpus Christi, Tex. Maria Polivka and Russ Palmer 11/3Le Centre Civique toexecutivepositionsinthe Lake Charles, La. Hollywood - based promotion 11/4Joe Freeman Coliseum firm. San Antonio, Tex. Maria Polivka has been named asnational promotion director. 11/5Sam Coliseum She comesfrom 10QRadio Houston, Tex. where sheserved as assistant 11/6Moody Coliseum S.M.U. programdirector.Pastassocia- , Tex. tionsincludefouryearswith 11/8Memorial Coliseum RCA Records west coast promo- recently held a special luncheon for artist Mary Kay Place. Ms. Lubbock, Tex. tion department. Place made a promotion visit to New York in conjunction with her new album "Aimin' Russ Palmerisappointedas To Please." The Ip, produced by Paul Ahern, features a duet with Willie Nelson, en- 11/9Co. Coliseum director of specialprojects.His titled "Something To Brag About." Ms. Place is currently preparing an extensive tour El Paso, Tex. background includes national to begin early next year. Pictured at the luncheon are, fromleft:(seated) Walter and westcoast promotion Yetnikoff, president, CBS/Records Group; Bruce Lundvall, president, CBS Records Divi- for sion; Mary Kay Place; Jack Craigo, senior vice president and general manager,mar- UA, RSO and Warner Bros. Rec- keting, CBSRecords; Don Dempsey, vicepresident,marketing,Columbia Records; ords.Healsowasassociated (standing) Bob Sherwood, vice president, national promotion, Columbia Records; Don with KGIL Radio as assistant pro- DeVito, vice president, talent acquisition, Columbia Records; Arma Andon, vice presi- dent, artist development, Columbia Records; and Paul Smith, vice president, marketing gram director. branch distribution, CBS Records.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Sets FM Simulcast Foghat Benefit Concert Of 10th Anniversary TV Special NEW YORK - Rolling Stone Stations confirmed for the si- magazine will celebrate its tenth mulcastare:WNEW-FM (New anniversary on November 25 with York); K -WEST(Los Angeles); aspecial two-hour prime time WABX (Detroit); KSAN (San Fran- broadcast on CBS which will be cisco); WBCN (Boston); WMMS simulcastintruesynchronized (Cleveland); and stationsinSt. phased stereo to 15 major market Louis,Dallas,Minneapolis,At- FM stations,itwas announced lanta, Miami, Chicago, Philadel- last week. Participating stations phia, Pittsburgh and Washington, will receive free, on a barter basis, D.C. More stations will be added two continuoushoursofpro- before the broadcast. gramming and commercial con- The show, which is highlighted tent via AT&T dual 15 KHZ pro- by three major musical segments, gramlinephased -4stereoin stars Ted Neeley,PattiLabelle, synch with the video transmission Art Garfunkel, Gladys Knight and originating from CBS transmission the Pips, Steve Martin, Bette Mid- centersinNew York andLos ler,Jerry Lee Lewis, Richie Ha- Foghat presented David Hall, head of Rogers and Hammerstein Archives, the recording Angeles. vens, Mike Love, Melissa Man- division of the New York Public Library, with a check for $5,000 and the entire chester, Keith Moon, Billy Pres- Arhoolie catalogue at a receptionin the Lincoln Center branch of the library. The ton, Donnie Osmond, Jann Wen- -tribute concert took place at the New York Palladium, and featured performances Comas Joins A&M ner, Ben Fong -TorresCissy Spa- by Foghat, Eddie Kirkland, Honey Boy Edwards, ,Otis Blackwell, LOS ANGELES - Allen Levy, , Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield. Pictured from left are David Hall, cek and Phoebe Snow, among Dave Peverett, , Craig MacGregor, Roger Hall of Foghat, Eddie Kirkland and national publicity manager, A&M others. Johnny Winter. Records, has announcedthat NduyanyuBernardComashas been appointed to the post ofABC Campaign Stresses Novel Incentives national publicitycoordinator, LOS ANGELES-ABC Records' effectivenessarebeing viewed willalsobeusedforspecial special markets. holiday marketing and merchan- in terms of mom-and-pop retail-weekly conferences between re- Prior to joining A&M, Comas dising campaign is attempting to ers, isolated locations and "retail tailersand company executives had been an independent pub- transform a traditionalretailer storesthat,because they may and roster talent. "We're going licityconsultant,mostrecently complaint into a market advant- not be the flagship store of a to isolate an hour or two a week involved with summer tours and age throughitsnewly unveiled givenchain,orinthechain's when they can phoneinand special projects for David Stein- "Display It Again, Sam" program, most active market, are the lasttalk toa specific artist and ex- bergandAssociates, workinga national advertising and mer-to receive support from labels." ecutive," Grieff said, adding that with suchactsas Chuck Man-chandising push thatwill use a With two toll -free area code designatedacts andlabelper- gione and The Crusaders. separatesweepstakes anddis- 800 exchanges already operating, sonnel will be announced in ad- play contest, together with a toll - retailers contacting the label will vance through trade advertising. Capitol Prom. Randall free telephone service that will be automaticallyenteredinto "We're putting our artistsand double as contestoutletand the sweepstakes portion of the executives on theline,inthat LOS ANGELES - Nikki Ran-retailer "hot line,"to motivate promotion,withprizestobe sense;if someone wants to call dall has been promoted from an smallerretailoutlets randomly awarded andtoin- me up and complain, or bring assistant in ' "It's simply aimed atretailers clude Datsun automobiles, RCA a problemtoSteveDiener's marketresearchdepartment to who usually get no support," ex- videocassetterecorders,Puch attention, they'll have that thenewly -createdpositionof plained label VP, marketing and mopeds, telephone answering chance." Inadditiontolabel manager of music researchfor creativeservices,BarryGrieff, units,and Kodakinstant cam- president Deiner, Grieff himself thelabel,according toDon who developed the campaign in eras. and recently -named promo/sales Zimmermann, CRI executive vice conjunction with ABC's creative Label advertising and a spe- VP Gary Davis, the campaign is presidentandchiefoperating servicesandadvertisingstaffs. cial four-color contest pamphlet,already lining up other depart- officer. Grieff said that while the cam- which reprises the ad copy, how- ment heads and top labelacts Ms. Randall joined Capitolin paignwillbedirectedtoward ever,highlightstheprogram's to commitments for the phone- 1969 and worked asa depart- allretailoutlets,withprimary second phase, a display contest in segments of the campaign. mental assistant in several differ- initialexposure viathelabel's whose winners willbe eligible Grieff admits that there were ent divisions before becoming acurrent trade advertising follow- for a second set of prizes. Sub- some misgivings about the market research statistical analyst ing a teaser ad seriesinrecent titled "The case of the neglected lengthy "story" copy included in and most recently a market re- weeks, the focalpointfor theretailer," the push will make in-the basic ad/folder for the cam- search assistant. push and much ofits expected dividual artist and product post- paign. Using a "hard-boiled" ap- ers and display materials on allproach taken from detective fic- key label acts, along with stand- tion and afirst -person narrator up displays, buttons, t -shirts and whose lack of business ("Yeah, posters created for the campaign my businessissellingrecords, itself, available to retailers phon- but I wasn't breaking any rec- ing in via the toll -free numbers. ords for sales, if you know what Prizes for the contest will be I mean") is solved by "Sam," the awarded in three different store trench -coated mascotforthe size categories, "so that smaller campaign,thecopypointsto storeswon't havetocompete retailer neglect as an "epidemic." directly with large outlets," ac- However, Grieff noted, the can- cording to Grieff. Thus, winnersdid approach being taken could in each of the categories, rang-win the label a new level of re- ingfrom stores under2,000 tailsupport during thecrucial square feet to the largest categ- holiday sales period. ory of outlets exceeding 4,000 Grieff developed a more com- square feet,willreceive grand plex retailer/customer sweep- prizesof Europeanvacations, stakes push for A&M lastyear, first prizes of Caribbean cruises, prior to joining ABC; ABC itself andotherbonuses,including meanwhilemounted a major luggage and color televisions. fourth-quarter incentives pro- Thelabel'stoll -freenumber gram last year.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com THE C BAST BUJ at The Troub By SAMUEL GRAHAM and SAM SUTHERLAND THAT'S "FM", NOT S/M: We mistakenly reported last week that Richard Kimball, Ned Doheny's personal manager, would be playing the part of "a hard-nosed radio general manager" in the Universal feature "FM;" apparently that's the role that will be played by E/A chief Joe Smith. Executive producer Iry Azoff gave us a call recently to let us know that "executive producer" really means that he's han- dling hairstyles and wardrobe details-"I'm also in charge of obtain- taining the 'Thank God for Walter Yetnikoff' and 'God save Charlie Lake' signs," Azoff said. "Ron Alexenburg was going to play an over- weight promotion man, but he lost all that weight, so he's out .. " Meanwhile, reports are that Azoff and Front Line Management will be donating their considerable supply of gold records to be used as props in the offices of "Q -SKY," the radio station being constructed as "FM's" authentic centerpiece. Iry also wanted to make sure that Sam Bellamy, Bonnie Simmons and Shelley Stiles, radio people all, were given some recognition for all of their help on the film. Backstage, following Blood, Sweat and Tears' Troubadour performance are from left, WELL, EXCU-U-USE ME: In our report on Steve Martin last week, kneeling and sitting from ABC: Steve Diener, president;BillCraig, national dir. of we neglected to mention that Artist Consultants-Lou Robin and promotion, special markets; standing: B.J. McElwee, dir., national field sales; Skip Byrd, VP, national sales; Elaine Corlett, VP of artist development, international; Dino Alan Tinkley-is promoting the tour. Barbis, dir. of national promotion; Gary Davis, VP, sales/promotion; Jon Scott, national CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW? You never know just who's going dir., Ip promotion; Charlie Kendall, music dir., KWST-FM, LA; Sunny Schneir, manage- to end up riding-or at least wading in-the new wave. Our street ment, BS&T; David Clayton -Thomas, BS&T; SheldonHeller,president,international informants tell us that Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie was at the division; Richard Green, VP of business affairs; Jay Morgenstern, president, ABC/ Dunhill Music; Marvin Deane, national dir, MOR and secondaries; top: Barry Grieff, Whisky not long ago to hear Devo (she missed the Wierdos, inexpli- VP of marketing and creative services; Mark Meyerson, VP of a&r. cably). It's really not so strange; McVie is a former art student, as are the members of Devo, and the band's show evidently incorporates interesting elements that go beyond the normal high -volume insults that comprise most new wavers' live "acts." There's absolutely no Zappa Sues Discreet, Warners truth to the rumor that McVie and the other Macs are now affecting LOS ANGELES-Frank Zappa'ssitions that appear on it. Zappa those kinky punk hair -dos and willbe calling their next album manager,BennettGlotzer,has further claims that he has not "Phlegm" ... Backstage Pass, the all -female (except for the drummer) announced that on October 25 issued any licenses for the release quintet, will be opening for Elvis Costello when he hits town .. . On Zappa filed a lawsuit in the Losof the album or songs, and he November 3 in Santa Barbara, a new band called The Future will play AngelesUnitedStates District seeks to enjoin Warner Bros. and a benefit for station KCBS. The show will be put on by Panic Produc- Court against Warner Bros. Rec- Discreet from usinghisname, tions in coordination with the University of California/Santa Barbara'sords and Discreet Records, seek- image and likeness in promoting A.S. Concerts. It will effectively mark the debut of the band, which ing damages of five million dol-the album. to us as "space rock and roll." In the hearing held before U.S. THAT'S SWELL, BUT WILL YOU TAKE MASTER CHARGE: Inlast Live LP Judge Malcolm C.Lucas, attor- week's column we mentioned the showing of original Zappa also seeks preliminaryneys for Warner Bros. and Dis- artwork featured in the new book called "Phonographics" (andit and permanent injunctions against creet stipulated that they would was about time for some legit recognition, we might add) that was the defendants, prohibiting them not manufacture, press, sell,re- to be held at the Mirage Gallery here in Hollywood. Well, we went from manufacturing, pressing, lease or distribute the aforemen- and checked out the opening, and came back alternately salivating selling,releasing or distributing tioned album pending further rul- over the quality of much of the work and sighing over the big bucks an album entitled "Zappa in New ings by the court at a hearing to -and we're talkin' BIG, at least as far as the average, impoverishedYork." beheldonNovember3.A (but oh so dedicated) trade writer is concerned-required to pur- In the lawsuit brought by at- spokesman for Warner Bros. Rec- chase same. About the cheapest item we saw was the cover of torneyHarveyFierstein, Zappa ords told Record World that "the Fleetwood Mac's "white album" (photography by Herbert Worthing- claims that Warner Bros. and Dis- matterisinlitigation, and itis ton), signed by the group and going for $500, which didn't seem creet have pirated his album andtherefore inappropriate for us to unreasonable. As far as the other stuff went-and artists like David the nine original musical compo-comment at this time." Willardson, Dave McMacken, John Van Hamersveld and Peter Palombi were featured prominently-prices in the $1500-$2000 range were common, which immediately reduced most potential buyers to mere spectators. If a piece was for sale but marked "Inquire at desk," one Funzone in L.A. might as well as have been buying a vintage Duesenberg: if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it, chum. For instance, the framed credits to "Exile On Main Street," hand -lettered by Mick Jagger- informed sources tell us that it was going for ten grand. And that's not to mention the 20K for Philip Garris' "Blues for Allah" cover or the supposed 30K for the Kelley/Mouse "Europe '72" graphics. OK, sure, we said, hustling off to the buffet table for another round of carrot cake and swiss cheese . .. and early this week we could be found at the nearest discount art mart, buying plastic frames for our cardboard album covers and passing them off as exclusive, signed originals. . . FEEDBACK: We ran into L. A. Times pop columnist Robert Hilburn last week, who told us that RW's recent DIALOGUE with Jeff Wald ledto an interesting phone call. Seems Wald's commentsabout the critic's high praise for acts that subsequently didn't make it in- duced one of them, Kate Taylor, to phone Hilburn and assure him Wald's verdict was premature. "The "70s aren't over yet," warned sister Kate, whose recent single and forthcoming Ip, marking her Recen'Iy, Phonogram/Mercury and First Artists Records presented the group Funzone, new contract with Columbia, were producedby brother James Taylor at L.A.'s Roxy Theater. The date marked Funzone's debut appearance and kicked off

. . . Rolling Stone's Dave Marsh offered so passionate a tribute to an extensive tour the group is planning in conjunction with their newly released Ip. that we thought he should know that bothJohn and After the show, the group was greeted backstage by some of their friends. Pictured York from left are Charles Fach, executive vp and general manager of Phonogram, Tim Yoko have been back in the states recently: they were in New McIntire of Funzone, Tommy Mazzetta, local promotion man for the label, the group's lastFriday (21)for the wedding of actor Peter Boyle and writer John.Rubinstein, national promotion manager for Mercury Records, Jim Taylor and (Continued on page 68) Gary LeMei, head of First Artists Records.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Who In The World: New Y rk, Stones'Live'a Landmark LP NEW YORK-"Love You Live,"which is now being recorded at By DAVID McGEE and BARRY TAYLOR the seventh album by the Rolling EMI StudiosinParis for a pro- WHOA DOCTOR: Parallels would have to be drawn to Stones on Rolling Stones Records, jected 1978 release, EMI will be at Carnegie Hall, The Who at the Murray the K Show, is an appropriate landmark in thethe distributors of Rolling Stones opening for the Young Rascals in Central Park or Bruce Spiringsteen's band's career for a number of Records for the rest of the world. week at the Bottom Line for sheer energy, excitement and promise reasons. Coupled with the announce- when Graham Parker and the Rumour wound up their American Recorded live in Paris and To- ment of the Stones' new distribu- tour last week with a special "midnight" show here. ronto during 1976 and 1977, the tion agreements with Atlantic and Despite his nearly unanimous approval on the press level over the album isa positive reminder of EMI was the announcement one past year, Parker's ascension has been anything but meteoric. His the Stones'alluring power on- monthlater by Ahmet Ertegun album sales have yet to reflecthis notices and his performances stage, a dynamic that is quite dis- that Earl McGrath had been ap- here have been impressive but spotty. At the Palladium and two days tinct from the role they play in- pointed presidentof Rolling later at the Bottom Line he was a new man who blossomed into an side the recording studio. And StonesRecords.McGrath,for- aggressive figure, coming out from behind his oversized acoustic sinceitis separated in time by merly Atlantic's director of press/ guitar to take charge. The four man horn section provided the punch some seven years since their last artistdevelopmentsince1974, to the Rumour's sound and Parker was finally able to beam with livealbum("Get Your Ya-Yas hasbeenassociatedwiththe confidence in his group, his material and himself through an impec- Oct," recorded during the 1969 company since 1970. Rolling cably paced set of new and recent album material. tour), "Love You Live" also serves Stones Records will soon release With songs like "Soul On Ice," "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse as a documentary of the band's the debut single of former Mamas Down," "Thunder and Rain," "Stick To Me" and "The Heat In Har- musical evolution during that bet- & Papas -leader John Phillips (with lem" from the new album, Parker flashed with inspiration while still ter part of a decade. an1p to follow); and McGrath being able to lean into numbers like "White Honey," "Back To School On another level, "Love You indicates that the label will have Days," "Pouring It All Out," and the song that has become the show- Live"signals the closeof one further signings to announce in piece, "Don't Ask Me Questions." The Bottom Line show was an phase of the Stones' business ca- the months ahead. important milestone in Parker's career: he showed that he is capable reer. Re-signed by Atlantic Rec- The fact that of delivering the goods, and when he returns early next year there's ords chairman Ahmet Ertegun last have enjoyed uninterrupted com- no reason why he shouldn't be a headliner. March, for continued distribution mercialsuccesssinceinitiating Another highlight in what seemed to be an extraordinarily good of all future product on the labeltheir own label in 1971 reaches week for live music was City Boy's first Palladium appearance which for the U.S. and Canada only, out to the raison d'etre of "Love turned out to be one of the most impressive and well received sets "Love You Live" repreSents the YouLive" - andmore. The by an opening act on a triple bill there. With three albums behind final Stones album that will be double-Ip set was certified RIAA them now and considerable stage experience from severalBritish distributed worldwide by Atlan- gold on September 20th, exactly tours, the group has constructed an entertaining show with enough tic. Beginning with their next Ip, two weeks afterits national re- strong material that songs like "Deadly Delicious" and "Hap-Ki-Do lease date. This echoes the Stones' Kid" could not be squeezed into their alloted 40 minutes The group track record for their half -dozen has a couple of free days in New York before they return to England Col Names Fishel previous albums, all certified gold next month and it would be our lossif they don't get booked into within two weeks of their release. the Bottom Line for at least one of those nights. To A&R Post "Black and Blue" (April, 1976); DANCIN' AGAIN: AM radio is not something we listen to a great I NEW YORK-Mickey Eichner, "Made in the Shade" (July, 1975); deal these days, but every now and then a special record catches our vicepresident,a&r,Columbia "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" (October, attention and leads us to believe that good music will out in the end, Records, has announced the ap- 1974); "Goat's Head Soup" (Sep- after all. So it is that we are gladdened by Johnny Rivers' return to the pointment of JimFishelto the tember, 1973);"Exile On Main charts via a superb Jack Tempchin song called "Swayin' To The Music position of a&r manager, Colum- Street" (May, 1972); and "Sticky (Slow Dancin')," which is just the sort of gentle rocker that Rivers bia Records, east coast. Fingers" (May, 1971). Their single, has used in concert with full -tilt rock and rollto buiod and sus- "Angie," was certified RIAA gold tain a career thatisimpressive, to say the least,for the quality in1973; and theirlastalbum, of its output over nearly a decade and a half of hits. In between his "Black and Blue," was certified first hit in 1963 ("Memphis") and the latest one, Rivers has also been platinum in 1976 under the then - busy cutting quite a figure for himself behind the scenes in the music new RIAA standard of 1million industry. He teamed with Lou Adler in founding Dunhill Records, units. and was instrumental in organizing the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. With the inauguration of Roll- In the '60s the first act signed to his own label, Soul City Records, was ing Stones Records some six and a group called the Versatiles, which he renamed the Fifth Dimension a half years ago, the band made and supplied with songs by a then -unknown songwriter, newly -signed a quantum musical leap the ef- to Rivers' publishing company, named Jimmy Webb. What more is fects of which are still being felt, there to say about the collaboration? just as their influence on rock in Impressive credentials those, but not nearly so impressive as his the 1960s was a proven factor. achievements as a recording artist. Today when we listen to "Sum- The Rolling Stones' chronicle mer Rain," "Seventh Son," "Secret Agent Man," "Poor Side of Town" comes full -circle on "Love You et.al., and particularlyhisbrilliant "Rewind" album, we hear a Live" with the four songs that singer who has proved that commerciality and good taste need not Jim Fishel were recorded last March at To- be strange bedfellows. In hisnewposition,Fishel ronto's350 -seat El Macombo Rivers' new album on the Big Tree -distributed Soul City label, willbe responsible for recom- room, where (quoting John Rock- titled "Outside Help," maintains the same high standard of his earlier mending the signing ofartists, well in the New York Times)"they recordings and as such is cause for celebrating his return to the active reviewingmaterialand coordi-went back to their roots, knock- list. So where has he been lo these last couple of years? Trying to natingtherecordingactivities ing out raunchy Britishrhythm extricate himself from "unpleasant situations" with major labels, he of many of the artists currently and blues in a smoky club." They told us last week. on the east coast roster. He will identify their origins with Chuck "My career's had its ups and downs," he explained. "Looking back report directly to Gregg Geller, Berry's"AroundandAround" there's lots of things I may have done differently, but overall I'm director ofa&r, east coast, and WillieDixon's"LittleRed pretty happy with it. I just wish I could have stayed with one record Columbia Records. Rooster"; and then reassert their company rather than switching around like I've done. ButI had no Prior to joiningColumbia authority in that genre by deliver- choice becauseI was with companies that were sold. That was part Records, Fishel was an editor at ing potent new versions of Muddy of the problem. When I was on Imperial years ago that was like my Billboard magazine's eastcoast Waters' "Mannish Boy" and Bo (Continued on page 69) office. Diddley's "Crackin' Up."

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com AmericanRadioHistory.Com whole new era. It's that advanced. Theirraves first as Brandtwo did albumstheir X moves amazing won 'adcritical live of competitionconcert from and which takes their Jazz-rock new live into a Robin albumLumley was on keyboards,recorded.on fretless The Percy electric group Jones bass, consistson John guitars, of Goodsall drummer Morris Phil Pert Collins, on percussion c)E,rerjut.,6"/4,1 LIVESTOCK L.-. and Kerwood Dennard also on drums. "LIVESTOCK" ON THEY'RE ALL GIVING X A GOOD NAME: WarRICORD DISTRIBUTEDPASSPORT BY AR STA RECORDS. RECORDS. Pa 9824 ARISTA NEW WAVE NEWSDead Boys Noise at Quiet Night By BARRY TAYLOR & ALAN WOLMARK PREVIEW: It has been said that the new wave will die or flourish with the long awaited release of the Sex Pistols album. "Never Mind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols" was releasedin the U.K. last week and we are happy to report that the new wave should be healthy for some time to come and the influence of the album should spread well beyond that. With all four of their singles among the eleven tracks, the group could have padded an album with Ventures "b" sides and it still would be a significant release. The group instead maintains a high standard with songs like "Seventeen" ("I'm so lazy, a lazy sod"), "Liar," "No Feelings," and the savage "E.M.I." which is their side of the story. Warner Bros. will release the album here in about two weeks. GET WISE: Recently, we have been besieged with cards and letters like the one that appears here from angry L.A. punks who feel that we do not devote enough space to the scene out there. All we Sire recording artists the Dead Boys, currently in the midst of their first major American can say to thatisjust gmve our Ae tour, recently played at the Quiet Night in Chicago. Seen backstage after the concert UNE regards to the Dodgers, willya? are 'romleft:George Garrity, nationalartist development, Warner Brothers; Bob VINYL RAPS & TALKING Skafish, WXRT; Cheetah Chrome, Dead Boys; Jimmy Zero, Dead Boys; Steve Goralski, HEADS: Since we began this bi- Warner Brothers Promotion; Stiv Bators, Dead Boys; John Montgomery, VP promotion, weekly RW feature,comments Sire Records; Mike Rivers, Sounds Good Record Stores, Johnny Blitz, Dead Boys. with the word "legitimize" have been furiously flying. Well, we're RCA Operas on Stereo Cassettes glad to say it's spreading and on NEW YORK-For the first time, git Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Re- October 12 Buffalo State College RCA Recordsthismonthwill gine Crespin, Renata Scotto, (New York) hosted "Vinyl Raps & beginreleasingitsbest-selling FrancoCorelliandSirGeorg Talking Heads," a new wave sym- opera catalogue on stereo cas- Solti. posium. Congratulations to local settes. Twelve complete operas Red Seal Cassettes DJ Gary Storm and BSC's Student will be included in the initial re- RCA'sregular Red Sealcas- Union Board for managing to get lease. setteprices of $7.98 each will Arista'spresidentCliveDavis; RCA'scassettepackageswill prevail, so that two -cassette Rolling Stone editor Dave include two or threecassettes packages withlibrettowillbe Marsh; Village Voice editor Rob- and the packages will be 12" by $15.96and3 -cassettepackage ert Christgau; Creem editor Billy 6" so that two can be placed will be $23.94. Altman; Creem founderLester side by side in LP browser bins The cassettes all will be Dolby- Bangs; and Ken Kushnick of Sire Records to seriously discuss the ram- inrecordstoresfor maximum ized. ifications of for an evening. New wave is presenting exposure.Onespecialfeature The listof the operas in the the industry with its hottest, most controversial challenge in a longof the packages will be that they initial releasefollows: Bizet: time and the symposium focused on the prospects of perpetuating its will contain complete librettos. "Carmen"; Gershwin: "Porgy vitality, expanding its popularity beyond cultism and avoiding the pit- Selectionofthefirstoperas And Bess"; Giordano: "Andrea falls open to any new and vibrant scene. Critics on the panel spokehas been based on new and ca- Chenter"; Offenbach: "LaPeri- with a very watchful and cautious eye of the scene today. There's great talog best sellers;included are chole";Puccini:"La Boheme"; concern that new wave won't be allowed to mature properly because, such RCAartists as Leontyne Puccini: "Madame Butterfly"; unlike its predecessor of a decade ago, today's music doesn't have Price, Anna Moffo, Sherrill Mil- Puccini: "Tosca"; Puccini: "Tur- the luxury of proliferating in an era of relative innocence. nes, PlacidoDomingo,Mont- andot";Verdi:"Aida";Verdi: Discussions of new wave can't put a lick to the real thing, so the serratCaballe, and suchaddi- "La Forza Del Destino"; Verdi: symposium closed with a performance by New York's Talking Heads. tional international stars asBir- "La Traviata"; Verdi: "Requiem". The Heads surfaced through CBGBs and their music now encom- passes other styles and bears out Clive Davis' comment that theBilly Joel Coast Date "bands will transcend the hype . . . it'sthe individuals, not the classification." HEY, WHO'S THAT GUY WHO SPEAKS FUNNY?: The Jam's appear- ances in L.A., , Boston and New York scored big points for the Britishers who were recently featuredina one -hour punk special aired on the Lee Abrams' chain of FMers. The three man band has the appeal of a hybrid of the very early Who and Beatles (how many times have you heard that about punk bands?-but they really do!) Unlike thepoliticalEnglish punkers who lead guitarist Paul Weller feels "use it to get on," The Jam is fiercely patriotic and even played for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Bands that have been leaving the U.K. for tax reasons "make me sick" said Weller who added, "We're just good working class boys." LIVE, DISCS & RADIO: Radio station WCOZ-FM hosted a "Hallow - cast" from The Rat in Boston on Sunday (30) featuring Joharna Wild. Lesley Palmiter, who does the "Boston Beat" on WCOZ on Sundays at midnight, MC'd . . . WRNW-FM's (Westchester) Meg Griffin plays new domestics and imports on "The New Rock & Roll Show," Mon- Columbia recording artistBilly Joel recently played the Santa Monica Civic Audi- day nights from 9-10. torium to a packed house. Backstage after the show CBS representatives congratulated Sam Graham tells us that Takoma Records is starting a punk label. Billy an his performance. Pictured from left: Jeff Shock, road manager, Warren Wil- The label is called Infected Records, and the first band seems to be liams, regional promotion manager, west coast, Columbia Records, Bill Freston, asso- ciatedirector, product management, east coast, Columbia Records,Elizabeth Joel, known as Nuclear Valdez; first single, "Johnny," is due out in mid - Billy's wife/manager, Arma Andon, vice president, artist development, Columbia Rec- November. It will be test marketed in S.F., with possible widespread ords,PaulRappaport,regional album promotion manager, west coast,Columbia distribution to follow. Takoma president Charlie Mitchell was adamant Records,, Don Ellis,national vice president, a&r, Columbia Records, Ron about calling it new wave, not punk. He said that Takoma is officially Obernian, director,merchandising, west coast, ColumbiaRecords, Chuck Thagard, national director, promotion, Columbia Records, Frank Shargo, director, artist develop- distributing and administrating thelabel,butInfectediswholly ment, west coast, Columbia Records, Bob Garland, local promotion manager, L.A., (Continued on page 64) Columbia Records.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com RADIO WRLD AM ACTIN Welch at CKLW (Compiled by the Record World research department) Bee Gees (RSO). This hot ember of a record is smoldering its way to the top of radio lists as well as national charts. Coming in on all avenues of research sales, calls both in and out. Picked new at WABC (30), WDRQ, (32), WMET (29), KCBQ (25), KLEO, KRIZ and KAAY. Jumped 13-10 WRKO, 26-19 96X, 13-9 WPGC, 39-36 WQAM, 24-14 WMAK, 17-8 WZZP, 16-11 13Q, 20-15 WKBW, extra -21 WFIL, HB-29 WPGC, 20-16 WQXI, 17-14 Z93, 25-21 WCOL, 20-15 WOKY, 29-21 KSLQ, 20-15 KXOK, 28-23 WSAI, HB-24 Q102, 18-14 KJR, extra -33 WNOE, 9-7 KRBE, 20-15 KHJ, 23-14 KLIF, 19-18 KTLK, 20-14 KKLS, 16-6 KVOX, 18-9 WZUU, 17-9 WFLB, 23-16WAUG, 14-7 KYNO, 5-1 KDON, 15-9 WRFC, 23-15WAVZ, 22-16 WBBQ, 14-9 KFYR, 16-9 KTOQ, 9-5 WGUY plus As his "French Kiss" album and "Sentimental Lady" single bullet up the charts, Cap- itol recording artist Bob Welch continues his promotional tour of the States. Shown lots more. stopping at Detroit's CKLW, where he delivered a copy of "Sentimental Lady" to Bob Welch (Capitol). Already top 10 music director Rosalie Trombly, are from left: Vivian Fent, Capitol's rids promotion N manager for the Detroit area; Welch; Trombly; and Craig Lambert, Capitol promotion in Minneapolis (12-9 KDWB, 13-10 manager for the Detroit area. KSTP) and showing signs of duplicating that around the country. Picked at WPGC, KJR, KTLK, WQXI (LP), KXKX, Chappell Releases Hall & Oates Folio WZUU (LP), KXX/106, KAFY, WGSV, WABB, NEW YORK-Chappell Music Hall and John Oates," containing WTIC-FM. Jumps 14-8 WTIX, HB-27 13Q, isreleasingaspecial"Best ofbio and photos, retails for $5.95. DarylHall andJohn Oates" extra -37 WLAC, 32-30 WDRQ, 24-15 It is distributednationally Bob Welch songbookfeaturing13 ofthe by KSLQ, 25-19 KXOK, 30-27 KRBE, 37-30 duo's top hits. Theodore Presser Company, WNOE, 23-18 KTOQ, 28-24 WIFI, 23-20 KHFI, 26-20 The softcover "Best of Daryl Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. KVOX, 31-24 WAVZ, 28-23 WICC and 29-26 KCPI-FM. Player (RSO). Exploding in the southern secondaries for the past week or so and now the majors in Atlanta make some key moves to emphasize that. 23-18 Z93, 24-20 WQXI. Also 17-13 WRKO (where it started), 22-18 13Q, 16-12 Y100, 29-27 WPGC, 23-19 KJR, 19-9 WHHY, 29-20 WORD, 25-19 KKLS, 27-21 KNDE, 23-19 KAFY, 24-19 WAUG, 6-2 WQXI-FM, 17-14 WGSV, HB-21 WCAO, 29-22 WPEZ and 37-28 14ZYQ. New adds include KFRC, 96X, WTIX, 98Q, WZUU-LP, WABB, KVOX, KFI, WSPT and WISE. Night airplay at WLAC and WMAK. Santana (Columbia). Breaking nationally now with key adds at KDWB, "I'M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME" KTLK, KSLQ and KJR (day part -full Leif Garrett time). West Coast progress includes 17-14 KFRC, 27-24 KHJ, 19-16 KSLY. Also 29-23 96X, 40-34 KXOK, HB-21 KSTP, LP WPGC, 28-23 WRJZ, 18-13 KDON, 26-20 KKLS, HB-35 WRFC and HB-27 KGW. Dolly Parton (RCA). Exploded in all key areas where there is airplay 29-19 WQXI, 29-18 WLAC, 26-19 WOKY, 23-19 KSLY, 12-5 WORD, HB-34 WPEZ, HB-29 WHHY plus more. Note: Significant sales surge on the 1p which bullets this week at 139. NEW ACTION Kansas (Kirshner) "Point of Know Return." Title cut off the spanking new 1p (which in its third week on the street sits at a bulleted 16 on the national charts). Off with a bang in the middle of EXCLUSIVELY ON the country - added to KSLQ, WDRQ, WZUU (lp), WPEZ PINNACLE (lp). Also KJRB, K100 (night) WRJZ (night) and WGLF. RECORDS Leif Garrett (Big Tree) "Runaround Sue." #1 phones after one night of play at Y100. This is sure to be a teen monster. Also garners KHJ, KFRC and DISTRIBUTED BY WORLD INTERNATIONAL 615/256-3351327.4267 KSLY. Commercial stock is not out at press time, but stay tuned for a healthy debut on next week's charts.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com NMPA Sets Workshop/Forum Participants Klein Testifies in Tax Trial NEW YORK-The list of partici- day will provide a forum in which (Continued from page 3) teed immunity, told the jury of a Cashranging from $10,000to pants in the three workshop/for- a panel of experts will explore the $20,000 was always kept in the ums planned by the National Mu- impact of the new Law on Music promotional record selling Abkco safe and Klein claimed that sic Publishers'Association has publishers' adm nistration and scheme of which Klein claims no been finalized, according to Leon- business decisions. This general, knowledge and from which Klein the cash -on -hand was never re- ard Feist, NMPA president. open discussion of future prob-denies netting the $220,000 profit ported on his returns "because it made no difference on my tax Jon Baumgarten, general coun- lems and new possibilitiesforwhich he is accused of neglecting music publishers will be led byto file on his 1970-72 returns. liability." Klein testifiedthat sel of The Copyright Office, will when he first became affluent he chair the workshops on the firstNMPA general counsel John C. It is not the scheme which is at Taylor, 3rd. of Paul, Weiss, Rif - issue inthisproceeding,but kept a cashreserve"for emo- day of each of the two-day ses- tional reasons-I was poor and sions to be held in New York on kind, Wharton &Garrison.In rather whether Klein received the you don't forget." But, he added, October 31/November 1, at the each city, Taylor will be joinedmonies collected by the alleged as he got further immersed in the Waldorf-Astoria, in Nashville No- by Alan L. Shulman, Esq. of Sil-front man, Bennett, who sold the irregular hours of the music busi- vember 3-4 at the Hyatt Regency, verman & Shulman, counsel to discs.Klein denied any knowl- ness, he began "to need cash for andinLos Angeles NovemberThe Harry Fox Agency, as well as edge of the scheme. He explained 10-11 at the Beverly Hilton. Baum- Copyright Office spokesmen.In that between 1965 and 1972 he afterhours." garten will be joined by six other New York, Robert D. Hadl, Esq.allowed Bennett to work as an in- experts from The Copyright Of- of Wilner & Scheiner and Alan creasinglyautonomouspromo- Times Sq. Flashes fice,including Marybeth Peters, Latman, practicing attorney andtion man for Abkco and in that senior attorney and training of- professor of copyright law at New unsupervised capacity Bennett Record Co. Messages ficer,andMildredHenninger, York University will also partici- allegedly succeeded with his rec- pate. NEW YORK-Spectacolor, the acting head of the music section ord selling. 40 by 20 foot high sign located of the examining division, in de- In Nashville, Richard Frank, Esq. Klein's defense lawyer, Gerald on the prow of One Times Square scribing the new regulations and of Barksdale, Whalley, Leaver, Gil- Walpin, submittedasevidence (formerlytheAlliedChemical forms which will come into effect bert & Frank, and W. Michael many of the checks Bennett re- Building), is proving to be a most January 1, 1978 to the assembled Milom, professor of copyright law ceived in payment for the promos innovative promotional look for music publishers and their attor- at Vanderbilt University as well-most of which Bennett did not themusicindustry.The com- neys. as a practicing attorney, will take immediately cash but "held for so puterized sign was first used by On the morning of the second part in the forum longbecauseKleinwasn'tin Motown Recordsto advertise day, Albert Berman, president of Finally, in Los Angeles the panel town." Through a series of carStevie Wonder's "SongsInthe The Harry Fox Agency, will dis- will be joined by Seymour Bricker, service, hotel and plane fare re- Key of Life" album, and has since cuss the role, responsibilities and Esq. of Kaplan, Livingston, Good- ceipts to pinpoint Klein's where- beenemployed by numerous plans of the agency. Similarly, the win,Berkowitz& Selvin,and abouts,it was pointed out thatother record companies-includ- future copyright undertakings and AverilC.Pasarow, Professor of thechecks were oftencashed ing Columbia, WEA, A&M, Arista objectives of NMPA will be out- copyright law at South WesternwithinhoursofKlein'sdepar- and Capitol-to send messages lined by Feist. University, who is also a practic- tures from New York. The prose- regarding new releases or con- The afternoon of the second ing attorney. cution, headed by assistant U.S. certstothe estimated 500,000 attorney Tom Engel, presented a persons per day who pass number of checks, totalling in ex- through Times Square. cess of $20,000, cashed by Ben- Spectacoloristhebrainchild nett just prior to some of Klein's of a former New York ad agency other departures. chief named George Stonbely. He One of the government's keyfirst came across the sign con- cept in Kuwait, where he saw a witnesses, Sal Vassi, the personal primitive,four-colorblurbsign manager of numerous musicians,manufactured in Hungary. Upon testified early last week to seeing returning to those shores, Ston- Bennett give Klein a large amount bely negotiated with some Ameri- of cash at a June 13, 1971 party canmanufacturersfor a more for Klein's wife, John Lennon and complex multi -colored sign. .Bennett'sprevious American Sign and Indicator com- statements list this action as pay- panyofSpokane,Washington ment for a shipment of Paul Mc- finally developed Spectacolor, Cartney's "Ram" 1p, but the de-which went into operation in De- fense produced a check for these cember1,1976. The company albums dated June 18, five days currently has plans to set up signs after the party. in Los Angeles and later in San Bhaskar Menon, chairmanof Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago. Capitol Records,testified last Color Design week tothecontractualdeals concerning The Spectacolor system incor- Abkco,Appleand porates state of the art electron- Capitolwhichprovided Abkco ics and lamp design. Four color with5000 unmarkedandun- bulbs - red,green, blue and drilled promos of all Apple pro- white-give up to 30 shades and duct and to becoming aware of new modules willhave agray the record selling set up some- scale as well for higher resolution time in the spring of 1972 when and the possibilities for more than he discovered boxes of Abkco 400 shades. Spectacolor enjoys a promos at a Buffalo, New York visibility and readability range up one -stop. Klein allegedly became to 59th Street on Seventh Avenue "quite angry" with Bennett be-and to 53rd Street on Broadway. cause the discs were not being Spectacolor advertising time is used for promotional purposes. sold on the basis of spots similar He denied telling Bennett to try to radio or television. These spots to re -sell the records. can be bought indurations of Klein'spersonal habits and five,10,15, 20, 25, 30 second methods of business are being spots or longer. The frequency of publicly scrutinized at the trial. thespots determines thecost.

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By SAMUEL GRAHAM making more money, but I wasn't necessarily getting more expo- Don Davisisperhapsbest sure to the business. So I felt that for long-range goals, the best known as the producer of two investment thatI could make would be in myself and in a record recentandhugelysuccessful company that would afford me and the people who are involved singles, Marilyn McCoo & Billy with me the opportunity to really work a record from start to finish. Davis Jr.'s "You Don't Have To A lot of times, after we finish producing an album, we have nothing Be A Star" and Johnnie Taylor's to say about marketing, merchandising strategy and what not. This " Lady" (which Davis also way I'll have a total involvement with the artist. wrote). But there is much more RW: But won't you still have some of those problems, since you'll to Davis than his producing: he be using a major label for distribution? Won't RCA exercise a certain owns United Sound Systems, Inc., amount of control? Detroit's only 24 -track recording Davis: The way our deal is structured with RCA, we're pretty au- studio; there is a publishing divi- tonomous. We have an ample budget to do anything that RCA sion of his operation, Grooves- doesn't do.If they're reluctant, or too slow for us or whatever, we ville Productions, Inc.; and he has can sort of side-step them and get some things done ourselves. also put together his own label, Dan Davis RW: How big is the Tortoise staff right now? TortoiseInternationalRecords, Davis: Right now, it isn't very big. We do have Rick Ungar, who's based in Detroit and distributed by RCA. In the following Dialogue, the vice president andisactually running the company-he's ac- Davis discusses his new label and some of its artists (including the tively involved in synchronizing the RCA staff, and he also has an Rockets, a rock band including members of the okl Detroit Wheels), as well as his recent independent production projects with Robin assistant who's involved in promotion. We also have Karen Shearer, who's doing PR for the company. Everybody's doing the best they Trower (for Chrysalis Records), Albert King (Tomato) and Bobby Wo- mack (Columbia). can to get things going-and after we have a few hit records, we'll expand the small staff that we have. Record World: How long has Tortoise Records been an entity? RW: What is Tortoise's major priority at first? Don Davis: Tortoise has been an entity legally for about six months; Davis: Our major priority now isnaturally the Rockets and the in theory and in desire, it's been in the making for about a year andgroups that are directly signed to the label. Johnnie Taylor isn't- a half to two years. we only had a one -album deal with him. The Rocketsisa push It'sa Detroit -based label, and it's focusing on an all -area talent project; it's one that we've spent a lot of time on, as well as money, exposure. What's happened in the past is that most of the compa- concentrating on getting them to the marketplace. nies that have originated inDetroit, Motown included, have con- In the beginning, Tortoise Records will have to be more or less centrated on black talent-none have really been receptive to the a proving ground for new artists, with the exception of one-we multifarious categories of talent that are in the area. Before, we've just signed the Skyliners. Current artists, ones that are currently hit- had a lot of good talent that's been in Detroit, born in Detroit, and ting, will always be looking for a bigger buck than we can afford, because they didn't fit,say, within the Motown sound or the r&b and at the same time they'll be going for companies that are more sound, the talent has been neglected, and it would usually have to established and more of the in -crowd type of company. So our at- traction to established artists will come as we establish new artists. go to another city to get started,like Grand Railroad, Bob Seger or others like that. So we're throwing our doors wide open to Then, once we get two or three new artists going, some of the cur- rent artists will say "Hey, Tortoiseis all really cookin'. I'dlike to be the talent in the Detroit area, and of course everywhere else. over there." The only pre -requisite is that you have the talent. RW: Is the label's roster limited to Detroit acts at this point? Davis: No-among our first five groups we have a group called Before, we've had a lot of good [rock] First Fire, and they're California -based. We have a group called the talent that's been in Detroit...and 99 Green Brothers, who are like a 1977 Sam and Dave duet, and they're 46 from . So by no means are we trying to limit ourselves to it would usually have to go to another Detroit productions. city to get started... RW: How do you go about collecting acts for the label, and dif- ferentiating between Tortoise projects per se and separate Don Davis productions? RW: How did you get interested in the Rockets? Certainly most Davis: Well, asit stands now for starting the label, there would people wouldn't expect that you'd be working with a white, hard be no differentiation; every act we'd do would be primarily for rock band after McCoo & Davis and Johnnie Taylor. Davis: I think the interest in doing different types of music really Tortoise, unless it's an outside act that's already signed with another started at a very early age, company. As far as our encounters with different acts, they come in the sense that when I was young, through various means. First of all, there's an awful lot of referrals- black radio stayed on for only an hour a day. So anybody that loved music, as I did, had to look to whatever means possible to somebody might come to me and say "I've got a tape of such -and- such a group, and they live in Kansas City. What do you think ofhear music. Since during the week I'd only hear black music foran hour a day, that gave me a chance to be exposed to actuallymore them?" pop music than rhythm and blues, although r&b was my heritage. There's a group that we're getting ready to sign now from the The pop music rapidly became a very essential part of my being, and Dallas, area, called Buster Brown-this group was referred to for years there always existed a complete love and acceptance for us by a Dallas attorney. So we get a lot of referrals from different all kinds of music-we used to travel south every summer, and in parts of the country; and at the same time, there's a lot of groups the south you still couldn't get any r&b, so you'd listen to country that are still gigging in Detroit that will be called to our attention.and western music and get into that, too. RW: Why didit become necessary for you to start the label, as I felt that in order for me to continue to grow as a producer, it opposed to simply maintaining independent production status-was was necessary for me not to continue to produce the same kinds it to expose new talent? of music. When you produce r&b, you're limited toyour subject Davis: Well, first of all, personally, in producing so many outside matter, your words, your melodies, the type of instrumentation that acts for other companies, Ifelt that I had reached a plateau, and that you use as opposed to when you produce, say, a country and as far as growth and involvement in the business were concerned I western record. Also, when you deal with the same kinds of music was sort of in a revolving door. I wasn't getting any further-I was (Continued on page 74)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com How Gino Vannelli became A Pauper In Paradise."

N THE BEGINNING it was a story like many others. A kid with a homemade demo, enormous energy, and an untiring desire to be a star. He came down from his hometown Montreal, talked his way into the A&M lot, and got the demo to Herb Alpert. That was all it took. And that was five albums ago. Taken separately, Gino has become a performer of sensual exuberance and his music has evolved to an exciting and unique level of quality. Together, Gino and his music create an amazing explosion of sight and sound. His new album, "Pauper In Paradise',' is Gino at his most romantic, dramatic, and spectacular. Along with five new songs, it includes an original classical/pop composition for symphony orchestra, band and voice featuring London's famed Royal Philharmonic under the direction of jazz/pop arranger//conductor Don Sebesky, Indeed a long way from Montreal demos and a fitting reward for a pauper in paradise.

Gino Vannelli "A Pauper In Paradise" SP 4664 On A&M Records Sr Tapes

Produced by Gino VannelliAM and Joe Vannellit--ate'

GINO VANNELLI ON TOUR

OCT. 27 EL PASO, TEXAS NOV. 10 BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA NOV. 24 TORONTO, CANADA University of Texas -El Paso L. S.U. Assembly Center Maple Leaf Gardens OCT. 28 LUBBOCK, TEXAS NOV. 12 JACKSONVILLE, ALABAMA NOV. 25 MONTREAL, CANADA Civic Center Jacksonville State University Forum OCT. 29-30 SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS NOV. 13 ATLANTA, GEORGIA NOV.27 PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA DEC. 8 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Municipal Auditorium Omni Civic Arena Convention Center Expo NOV. 2 WACO, TEXAS NOV. 15 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY NOV. 28 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA DEC. 9 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Convention Center Commonwealth Convention Center Spectrum Kiel Opera House NOV. 4 HOUSTON, TEXAS NOV. 17 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS NOV. 30 CLEVELAND, OHIO DEC. 10 KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Music Hall Music Hall Music Hall Municipal Auditorium NOV. 5 DALLAS, TEXAS NOV. 18 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND DEC. 1 DETROIT, DEC. 14 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Convention Center Arena Leroy Theatre Cobo Hall Santa Monica Civic Auditorium NOV. 6 MONROE, LOUISIANA NOV. 19 HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND DEC. 2-4 CHICAGO, DEC. 15 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Civic Center Calderon Theatre Aire Crown Theatre Golden Hall NOV. 9 MOBILE, ALABAMA NOV. 23 NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK DEC. 7 MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN DEC. 16 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA Municipal Auditorium Convention Center Auditorium Theatre Civic Auditorium

AmericanRadioHistory.Com College Market Survey (Continued from page 3) selling very large amounts at the get direct mail record releases, ediesfortheseasonalbuying sics. If a new rendition of a Mah- moment who can benefit fromand thinks that college radio "is patternsandrelativelynarrow ler symphony appears in review this type of programming and ex- an excellent barometer for many product confines of the college in either the local papers or the posure. artists." In contrast to Lifeset of community. New York Times, they'll come in Polydor's JerryJaffe,national UA, who mentioned the difficulty "Idon'tlimitmyself to theimmediately looking for it, with album promotion director for the ingettingprogressiveproductcampus," said Bill Robbins, owner the review clipped and in hand." label, agrees, saying the college through to the rack -serviced col- ofBerkeley'sLeopoldRecords The record department in Yale's marketis "a great receptor for leges, Isgro noted that "if some- and Tapes, "because Irealized a cooperative storeisrun by the new acts, because college people thing's being asked for by a num- long time ago that, as Leopold's Pickwick International Retail Di- reach beyond the status quo and ber of people at one college audi- became well-to-dointerms ofvision, and according to the man- the accepted crop of superstars. ence, they (rack jobbers) may put volume, and other record stores ager, there islittle walk-in traffic Consequently, you can get your it in nationwide." Isgro cited the moved into the area, taking some outside the Yale community, ex- hooks in for credible new waveease in getting most college sta-of the white middle-class shop- ceptduringChristmasseason, and jazz artists." tions to play records. pers, we would have to advertisewhen alumni return and there is Jaffe echoed other label reps, Additionally, the pop promo-a great dealin other markets."more shopping by the outside however, inhis warning of thetion director noted that the iso- Robbins combats both the sea-community. Almo cited the "so- difficulty in assessing which col- lated age breakdown in a collegesonal sales trends and the white phisticated, informed buyer" as lege radio stations are significant, audience means thata demo-college community by appealing being an integral part of his cus- apart from the handful of veteran graphic breakdown of a radio sta- to the black buyer and drawing tomer profile. collegeoutletslike WRAS-FM, tionisn't necessary, due to theon the tourist trade. Despite the At neighboring Cutler'sRec- WBRU-FM and other standouts. narrow boundaries of most col-one -block distance from the Uni- ords, located on the brink on the Polydor's previous direct mailing lege radio markets. Consequently, versity of California, Berkeley, "a ghetto, there seems to be a more listof 1000 stationshas since"it provides a good barometer forlittleless than half of our saleswidespread buyer profile with a been pared to around 390 college usbecauseinallotherradio come from students now," added large walk-in traffic. The full line Robbins, who has operated Leo- outlets.According toJaffe,"It you'redealingwithaudiences of classical offerings, including a was really a waste of time when whicharesegments. We'd be pold for seven years. large number of operatic reissues we were dealing with collegesfoolish not toutilize this close At Circle Records inFlagstaff, and foreign labels, occupies about that would get all of our ECM jazz tie-in, although the total collegewhere the Northern Arizona Uni- half of the store. The other half is line, and it would never be uti- picture is pretty confused at thisversityislocated,the summeroverwhelmingly r&b and disco. lized." Deletions focused on sta- point." Isgro added that he ex- sales lull is partially offset by Flag- This illustrates a common prob- tions considered to be trainingpected to do additional research staff University summer programs, lem in dealing successfully with a grounds for announcers,rather in the college area shortly. whichattract many music stu-college market: pulling in strong than local broadcast competitors; Isgro does not favor a college dents,and theFlagstaff Music sales from the local community local promotion people also serv- department for Motown atthis Festival, which has a large num- tobalancetheseasonaland ice smaller stations on a selective placing emphasis on a well- ber of music buying tourists. "highbrow" tide. basis, resulting in total coverage rounded promotion staff thatis Some retailers, however, have coordinated. "The local promo- found the seasonal vagaries of the "I feelI have a responsibility to estimated by Jaffe at between 600 both types of buyer here," said and 800 stations. tion man is a source of exposure college market difficultto deal and he should know how to ex-with, and many college area re-Sandy Brill,manager, "but you promotion can imagine what in-store play is At MCA, college amine and workhismarket," tailers who didnot meet the falls under the auspices of Joystated Isgro. "We're trying here changing demands of the college like. My big dream is to find an Hall,national1p promotion di-to get away from an era of spe- market have been forced to cease r&b customer browsing on the rector. "With the exception of acialists who don't see alarger operations. classical side, and for a student couple of reporting AOR college picture." "If you don't have a new re-to purchase something from the disco stacks." stations," noted Hall, "the college Collegiate Retailers leaseinstock they'lljust walk stations,otherthanreporting Echoing Isgro's concern in find- over somewhere else and buy it," Brill also noted, as did Linda AOR's,areservicednationally ing an overall picture of the mar- observed Leigh Almo, record de- Stellinger, record buyer for the and worked on alocallevel." ket, many retailers located on or partment manager for the Yale Harvard Coop, that returns and While Hall observed that college near campuses have sought rem- Coop. "This is true even in clas- defectives are a crucial aspect in radio stations, for the most part, a college -oriented store. At the play any product available that Harvard Coop returns by college does not conflict withabasic E/A Inks Group With No Name audiophiles have helpedcause format, she does not encourage the organization to hire a person local promotion people to serv- who does nothing but handle re- ice them or visit them "every five turns. minutes, because we service them Campus bookstores, however, through the mail and there's usu- often "flow" with the summer lull ally more than can be gotten if no offsetting buying audience through area radio." She said that surfaces in the area. At Creighton there were notable exceptions, University's student store the in- "but I doubt that too many stu- ventory is reduced by "half stock, dents even listen to college radio to the top 75 or 100 records," stations, taken as a whole. You according to Dave Mandina, man- figure that people are buying off ager of Davidson's One Stop in commercial stations." Because of Omaha. New releasesthatare the familiaritylocal commercial made by groups with a strong stations enjoy in most major col- sales history and "good catalog" lege communities, Hall thought are also included in Creighton's "the demographics" were "pretty reduced summer stock. The stu- much the same in terms of pur- Steve Wax, president of Elektra/Asylum Records, has announced the signing of The dent store ceases operation dur- chasing habits of regular 18's to Group With No Name. The group's single,"Roll On Brother,"will be releasedin ing the Christmas break, although 24's." November. When asked their name, the group said they had none, and thus came itisheavily stocked before the Joe Isgro, national pop pro- to be known as The Group With No Name. Pictured from left are: Kenny Buttice, E/A vice president/promotion; Jimmy Lott and Carolyn Ray of the group; manager Dick recess, allowing the students "to motion director for Motown, has Broder; the group's Katie Sagal, Franny Eisenberg, and Alan Miles; and (seated) E/A take something home with them." 120 college radio stations which president Steve Wax. (Continued on page 60)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com AmericanRadioHistory.Com "Heads;' by Bob James. Wheregreat musical mindsmeet. In his short but illustrious career as a composer, arranger and recording artist, Bob James has played with some of the best known musicians in the business. They're all here on Bob's new album, "Heads;' his first for his own label. "Heads;' a soaring, searing celebration in sound, is Bob at his most creative. From sparkling interpreta- tions of contemporary hit tunes ("We're All Alone;' "I'm in You;' "You Are So Beautiful"), to sensational new compositions ("Heads;' "Night Crawler," "One Loving Night"), "Heads" is the kind of album you'll find difficult to put down. "Heads," produced by and starringIC 34896 Bob James. On Columbia/ Tappan Zee Records and Tapes.

Bob James on tour:

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com AmericanRadioHistory.Com Martha Glaser on Garner Tributes By PAT BAIRD Import Albums NEW YORK - When an artist became, bynecessity, thefirst asuniversally popular asErroll artist to have final product ap- BE SEEING YOU Garner dies, a glut of pseudo re- proval written into his recording DR. FEELGOOD-UA UAS 30123 (U.K.) cordings and representations of contracts. Animportant albumforthe bandin thatartistisoftenput on the "I've beenleft with the pro- thatitisthefirstwithguitarist John marketplace. verbial trunk-ful of songs," Glas- Mayo (who earlier replaced Wilko Martha Glaser, Garner's man- er said. Since Garner neither read Johnson), and the group responds with ager for 27 years,is determined nor wrote music, most of his un- an excellent blend of new material and to oversee all such Garner prod- finished or unrecorded songs are forgottenblues and rock classics.Pro- uct and memorials to insure that, on cassette tape, including one ducer Nick Lowe againplaysanim- even in death, his career will be which came tohim when no portant role. handled with style and selectivity. was available and he sim- Cherry Lane Musicrecently ply hummed into the tape re- NEW BOOTS AND PANTIES ! ! IAN DURY-Stiff SEEZ 4(U.K.) published the first and only au- corder.Glaseris now seeking thorized Erroll Garner Songbook suitablelyricistsformanyof Dury is another one of those idiosyn- with by Sy Johnson. these compositions. cratic personalities that always seem to The book was in the works for Like many jazz artists, Garner's blossomonStiff.Hisbackgroundin- more than a year and was ap- recordings were released on a cludes Kilbunr and the High Roads, a provedbyGarnerbeforehis number of labels including group which firsthintedathisoffbeat deathlast winter. According to Savoy,Columbia,Londonand visions. "Wake Up and Make Love To Glaser, the book has been highly Me," "Sweet Gene Vincent" and "Block- Mercury.Columbia is already 01111 WAYnew EiCrSAPIDIFMT,E praised by other pianists for the planning tore -issue the famous heads" should further them. subtle complexity .of the arrange- "Paris Impressions" album which ments, arrangements that had to contains 11 Garner songs and is HITS GREATEST STIFFS be simplified from Garner's origi- now selling as a collector's item VARIOUS-Stiff FISTI(U.K.) nals because of his difficult ambi- for as much as $200 per copy. The long awaited collection of some of dextrous piano playing and near A number of television packaging the label's early singles, long since de- two -octave reach. offers were made to Garner dur- leted,makesforanentertaining Ip. The folio contains 20 selections, inghislife and Glaseris now These tentracks feature either "a" or including "Misty," "Dreamy," considering these offers. Since he "b" sides, the most interesting of which "ShakeIt,Don't BreakIt" and recorded more than 60 albums in areElvisCostello's "Radio Sweetheart" "Mambo Swing," as well as a full his lifetime, Glaser is concernedand Nick Lowe's "Heart Of the City." biography, discography and an- about the number of possible re- notations. Glaser pointed out that issuesandfeels"thematerial FIVE LIVE KURSAALS another, unauthorized, songbook KURSAAL FLYERS-CBS82253(U.K.) was published just recently and mustbe watchedevenmore FlItAtIRSAALS. carefully thanit was during his Afterseveralalbumsthatonlynetted isnothing more than transcrip- them a modicum of success,thislive tions of some of Garner's record- life." Television album, recordedatthe Marquee, con- ings. Garner also performed on tele- taining the best numbers from each 1p Because of Garner's spontane- vision a great many times as a could be the one to focus mass attention ous lifestyle ("he perfected the onthegroup.The performancesare fine art of hanging out," Glaser and several times as an actor. Glaser has now requested impeccable, adding a previously unheard said), it has been difficult for her dimension to the material. to completely catalogueallthe tapes of his television perform- Garner createdinhis ances from stations all over the material world and regrets now that he HURT lifetime. According to Glaser the CHRIS SPEDDING-RAK 529 (U.K.) artist often recorded as many as hadn'tacceptedmoreofthe dramatic roles offered to him. A Spedding has been leaning toward the thirty-six songs in one take each, new wave on some of his most recent scheduledtelevision document- creating them right in the record- projects, but this second 1p for the label ing studio. Because of this style ary by noted film maker Francois Reichenbach (Edith Piaf- "I Have isa return to mainstream pop. There is of songwriting,Garnerrarely than on his No Regrets") had to be cancelled a lot more guitar work here evenlistenedback tohisre- that category Sped - because of Garner's last illness. lastrecord andin cordings in the studio and ding excels,buthisvocalsstillleave something to be desired.

McEuen at the Roxy GONG EST MORT Tapioca B2 (France) The second double live Gong album to be releasedinthe past monthisactu- GONG ally a reunion Ip recorded last May at the Hippodrome inParis. David Allen, Steve Hillage and Gilli Smithre -joined MORT the group forthis occasion and went through some of the band's most popular materialincluding"Radio Gnome In- visible" and "Can't Kill Me."

CHECKPOINT SAIILOR-Epic 82256 (U.K.) CBS has teamed the group withpro- ducerBruceJohnstonandwhilethe pairing seems to be a complementary John McEuen, recently returned from a StateDepartment tour of the Soviet Union as one onpaper, the former Beach Boy a member of the United ArtistsRecords recording group The Dirt Band, was at L.A.'s has done little to enrich their sound as Roxy recently as a solo artist. On hand for theoccasion were (from left): Howard Zimmerman, UA corporate director of administration;David Bridger, manager of artist itisstillbased aroundtheirnickelo- relations; UA art director Ria Lewerke; John McEuen;Mark Levinson, vice president of deon. What he has done is sharpen their business affairs for UA; Ursula Nelmes, UA managerof artist tours; UA vice president vocals as in "Romance." of merchandising Larry Cohen; and Dan Alvino, UAvice president of sales. RECORD WORLD NOVEMBER 5, 1977 30

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1. DANCE, DANCE, DANCE Although they aren't due for release until sometime later this week CHIC/Atlantic (disco disc) or next-depending on the priorities of the already overworked 2. GIRL DON'T MAKE ME WAIT/ pressing plants-three of the strongest new disco discs around right LOVE SHOOK PATTIE BROOKS/Casablanca (Ip cuts) now are making so much noise in their advance -pressing stage that 3. DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD they demand immediate attention. One record-"Moonboots" by SANTA ESMERALDA/Casablanca (Ip cut) 4.I GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Orlando Riva Sound (Salsoul/Tom n' Jerry)-appears on three out of FANTASTIC FOUR/Westbound (disco disc) our four top 10 lists this week which, combined with a couple of 5. NATIVE NEW YORKER ODYSSEY/RCA (disco disc) earlier listings, just nudges the disc into the Top 20 at number 19- 6. BLOCK PARTY an unusual and auspicious move for a test pressing.The other two ANTHONY WHITE/Salsoul (disco disc) Fire, Getting 7. LE SPANK are big -name releases-the new T Connection, "On LE PAMPLEMOUSSE/AVI (disco disc) Higher," and the new George McCrae, "Kiss Me," both on TK-that e 8. POP COLLAGE/LET'S MAKE LOVE have had a much more limited advance -copy distribution but are A collection of the Sire new wave mer- TO THE MUSIC chandising pieces shipped to retailers by PATTIE BROOKS/Casablanca (Ip cuts) also shaping up as instant hits based on the early word-of-mouth. Warner Brothersin support of the new 9. YOUR LOVE IS SO GOOD FOR ME "Moonboots," an Italian production disco -mixed and co -produced by albums by The Dead Boys, Richard Hell DIANA ROSS/Motown (lp cut) Tom Moulton (it's also the first 12 -inch single release on his Tom n' and The Voidoids, The Saints and Talk- 10. RUNNING AWAY ROY AYERS UBIQUITY/Polydor (disco Jerry label), seems to be everyone's favorite new all -electronicnumber ing Heads as well as the cata- disc) sound that's closer logue albumsispictured above.Items 11. SPEAK WELL -an instrumental with a bright yet richly sensuous includeposters,streamers, mobiles and PHILLY USA/West End (disco disc, in spirit to Space than Kraftwerk. Chanting female vocals,repeating the Bugs Bunny as a punk T-shirt mod- new mix) -like, eled by Snarling Suze. 12. COSMIC WIND/THE BULL the title-crooning "moon" until the word floats off, balloon MIKE THEODORE ORCHESTRA/ then popping it playfully with a sharp "boots!"-add warmth tothe Westbound (Ip cuts) 13. SAN FRANCISCO/HOLLYWOOD/ percolating synthesizers (supplemented occasionally by drums)and Bing Crosby LPs FIRE ISLAND a deep bass gives the spacey effects asolid base. At 9:30, "Moonboots" VILLAGE PEOPLE/Casablanca (Ip cuts) Planned by UA 14. LA VIE EN ROSE is rather long, but a series of breaks keeps it freshand invigorating GRACE JONES/Island (lp cut) right to the end. NOTES: 1) For the final pressings,the group's name LOS ANGELES-United Artists 15. THERE'S FIRE DOWN BELOW Records has announced the FANTASTIC FOUR/Westbound (lp cut) has been shortened to initials -ORS; 2) The flipside of the disco disc 16. YOU'VE GOT MAGIC feature! two shorter versions of "Moonboots," one a2:59 single scheduled rush releaseof a RICE & BEANS ORCHESTRA/TK (disco special two Ip set of the best of disc) (Continued on page 66) 17. DISCO DANCE/MAGIC LOVE/CAN'T Bing Crosby's final UA record- YOU FEEL IT ings, entitled"SomethingTo MICHELE/West End (lp cuts) 18. IT'S ECSTASY WHEN YOU LAY Remember You By." DOWN NEXT TO ME Parade The package contains cuts BARRY WHITE/20th Century (disco disc) Discotheque Hit from the Bing Crosby/Fred 19. MOONBOOTS (Listings are in alphabetical order, bytitle) ORLANDO RIVA SOUND/Salsoul (disco Astairealbum, "A Coupleof disc, not yet available) HARRAH/NEW YORK Song and Dance Men," and the 20. WATCH OUT FOR THE BOOGIE MAN STUDIO ONE/LOS ANGELES TRAX/Polydor (Ip cut) DJ: Manny Slali DJ: Wayne Scott Crosby Ip,"That's What LifeIs BLOCK PARTY/I CAN'T TURN YOU LOOSE DANCE, DANCE, DANCE-Chic-Atlantic All About," both released in the -Anthony White-Salsoul (disco disc) (disco disc) U.S. Side one of this special set Thau Label DANCE, DANCE, DANCE-Chic-Atlantic I GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE-Fantastic Four-Westbound (disco disc) will be taken from a live Ip re- (Continued from page 4) (disco disc) cordedat DICO DANCE/CAN'T YOU FEEL IT/ IT'S ECSTASY WHEN. YOU LAY DOWN a London Palladium Records and most recently dis- MAGIC LOVE-Michele-West End NEXT TO ME-Barry White -20th concert and released only in the covered and managed The New (lp cuts) Century (disco disc) U.K. Other cutswillbe taken York Dolls, told RW recently that DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD- KISS ME-George McCrae-TK (disco from the"Beautiful Memories" new wave or punk "is just a con- Santa Esmeralda-Casablanca (lp cut) disc, not yet available) GIRL DON'T MAKE ME WAIT/LOVE LE SPANK-Le Pamplemousse-AVI and "At My Time Of Life"al- tinuing study of teenage rock and SHOOK/POP COLLAGE-Pattie Brooks (disco disc) bums, also released only in the rollmusic. The Dolls were out -Casablanca (lp cuts) LOVE SHOOK/GIRL DON'T MAKE ME U.K. LE SPANK-Le Pamplemousse-AVI WAIT-Pattie Brooks-Casablanca there alone and got clobbered by (lp cuts) the industry. There was no prece- (disco disc) MOONBOOTS-Orlando Riva Sound- MAGIC LOVE/CAN'T YOU FEEL IT- Herman Joins Tomato dent to evaluate them on. At this Salsoul (disco disc, not yet available) Michele-West End (lp cuts) point, new wave has pulled itself NATIVE NEW YORKER-Odyssey-RCA NATIVE NEW YORKER-Odyssey-RCA NEW YORK - Kevin Eggers, (disco disc) (disco disc) president of The Tomato Music up to a valid musical format and YOUR LOVE IS SO GOOD FOR ME-Diana ON FIRE, GETTING HIGHER-T Connection Company, Limited has an- is being accepted." -TK (disco disc, not yet available) Ross-Motown (lp cut) The first album on the Red Star THERE'S FIRE DOWN BELOW/I GOT TO YOU'VE GOT MAGIC-Rice & Beans- nouncedtheappointmentof label will be by the New York HAVE YOUR LOVE/DISCO POOL BLUES TK (disco disc) Nina Herman as national director group Suicide, co -produced by -Fantastic Four-Westbound (lp cuts) of promotion andpublicityof THE EXILE/WASHINGTON, DC Thau and Craig Leon. Thau is cur- Tomato Records. Prior to joining BEDROCK/BROOKLYN, N.Y. rently in the studio with The Real DJ: Vince Michaels Tomato, Ms. Herman was associ- Kids from Boston. DJ: Bacho Mangual BLOCK PARTY-Anthony White-Salsoul ated with Greengrass Enterprises. CHOOSING YOU-Lenny Williams- (disco disc) Thau hopes to keep his label ABC (disco disc) DANCE, DANCE, DANCE-Chic-Atlantic "smallandselect"andhe is DANCE, DANCE, DANCE-Chic-Atlantic (disco disc) Skynyrd Statement thereby personally surveying (disco disc) DISCO DANCE/MAGIC LOVE/CAN'T YOU American punk scenes and the DANCE A LITTLE BIT CLOSER-Charo- FEEL IT/HOLD ME, SQUEEZE ME- (Continued from page 4) Salsoul Op cut) Michele-West End (lp cuts) English circuit to find bands with DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD- I GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE/THERE'S New York, N.Y. 10019. North East- "the humor and look to fit into Santa Esmeralda-Casablanca (lp cut) FIRE DOWN BELOW-Fantastic Four- ern Oklahoma A&M College has the times." I'M HERE AGAIN-Thelma Houston- Westbound (lp cuts) established a scholarship on be- Tamla (lp cut) LE SPANK-Le Pamplemousese-AVI Astronomical sales are not a LOVE SHOOK/GIRL DON'T MAKE ME (disco disc) half of Steve and Cassie Gaines; necessity according to Thau who WAIT-Pattie Brooks-Casablanca LET THE MUSIC PLAY-Dorothy Moore- contributions should be sent to has set Red Star's goals inline Op cuts) TK (disco disc) The President's Office at the col- MAGIC LOVE/ DISCO DANCE-Michele MOONBOOTS-Orlando Riva Sound- with the belief that "some of the lege, 2nd and I St. N.E., Miami, -West End (lp cuts) Salsoul (disco disc, not yet available) (new wave) sales are more im- MOONBOOTS-Orlando Riva Sound- RUNNING AWAY-Roy Ayers Ubiquity Oklahoma 74354, made out to portant than people realize. Fifty Salsoul (disco disc, not yet available) -Polydor (disco disc) the"North Eastern Oklahoma SPEAK WELL-Fhilly USA-West End YOUR LOVE IS SO GOOD TO ME-Diana to seventy thousand for The Ra- Ross-Motown (Ip cut) A&M College Music Scholarship mones' first album is pretty good (disco disc, new mix) Fund For SteveAnd Cassie YOUR LOVE IS SO GOOD FOR ME- YOU'VE GOT MAGIC-Rice & Beans-TK and happening sales -wise." Diana Ross-Motown (lp cut) (disco disc) Gaines."

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HOT-Big Tree 16104 (Atlantic) GENE PITNEY-Epic 8-50461 GIL SCOTT -HERON & BRIAN JACKSON- YOU CAN DO IT (prod. by Clayton Ivey & IT'S OVER/IT'S OVER (MEDLEY) (prod. Arista 0285 Terry Woodford) (writers: Sands- by Jerry Fuller) (writers: Orbison- HELLO SUNDAY! HELLO ROAD! (prod. by Gil Germinaro-Weisman) (Evie Sands/ Dees-Rodgers) (Acuff Rose, BMI/ Scott -Heron & Brian Jackson) (writer: Blen/American Dream, ASCAP) Bibo/Steel Plate, ASCAP) Scott -Heron) (Brouhaha, ASCAP) (3:20) (3:24) (3:29) The third single from a successful debut Roy Orbison's '64 hit and Jimmie Rodgers' This uptempo travelling songisScott - album has the same sultry, slow-paced '66 hit are blended here in a distinctively Heron's most commercial since "The Bot- appeal that brought the trio up the charts. Pitney way. The dramatic quality of both tle," and may be his first crossover hit. A This could repeat the pattern. could result in a combined hit. country cover is a possibility.

GEILS-Atlantic 3438 THE MIGHTY POPE-Private Stock 176 DENISE LA SALLE-ABC 12312 SURRENDER (prod. by The J. Geils Band) CAN'T GET BY WITHOUT YOU (prod. by Harry LOVE ME RIGHT (prod. by Denise La Salle) (writers: Wolf-Justman) (Juke Joint/ Hinde) (writers: Gold-Denne) (Col - (writer: La Salle) (Warner -Tamerlane/ Walden, ASCAP) (3:17) gems -EMI, ASCAP) (2:45) Ordena, BMI) (3:33) The urgent message of the chorus anchors The M.P., who reached pop stations with This story of a woman demanding the at- a finerocksong fromtheseBoston his version of "Heaven On The Seventh tention of her man is one of the most heroes. FM attention to their current al- Floor," could add to his public with this erotic r&b ballads of this year, and should bum should help the single on its way. uptempo, orchestrated r&b song. soon be a staple of r&b playlists.

PARLIAMENT-Casablanca 900 HOODOO -Fantasy 805 CAT STEVENS-A&M 1971 BOP GUN (ENDANGERED SPECIES) (prod. GOTTA LOT OF LOVE IN MY SOUL (prod. by WAS DOG A DOUGHNUT (prod. by Cat Stevens by George Clinton) (writers: Clinton- Clayton Ivey & Terry Woodford) & Dave Kershenbaum) (writers: Shider-Collins) (Rick's/Malbiz, (writer: Crane) (Polo Grounds, BMI) Stevens -Roussel -Lynch) (Co?gems- BMI) (4:00) (2:35) EMI, ASCAP) (4:14) The first single from a new album is in the The Devils, who have a hard -rocking past, move into with a smooth, up - This instrumental was the flip of Stevens' hard -funktraditionthathas made the tempo love song that has all the moves last single, and has been re-released fol- group famous. The rhythm kicks solidly, down and could hit with pop and r&b lowing some radio response. It's synthe- and the subject is, well, topical. stations. sized disco, with good effects.

RAYDIO-Arista 0283 KEITH BARBOUR-Private Stock 174 JAY FERGUSON-Asylum 45444 JACK AND JILL (prod. by Ray Parker, Jr.) DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC (prod. by Val THUNDER ISLAND (prod. by Bill Szymczyk) (writer: Parker) (Raydiola, ASCAP) Garay) (writer: Sebastian) (Faithful (writer: Ferguson) (Painless, (3:29) Virtue, BMI) (3:10) ASCAP) (3:19) Raydio is Ray Parker, Jr., known best for The Lovin' Spoonful's first hit is a true pop Ferguson, a former leader of Spirit and Jo his session work. This singleisa mid - gem, and Barbour's restrained reading of Jo Gunne, should have his best chance at tempo r&b song that expands on the nurs- it should bring artist and song back to a solo spot on pop charts with a fast - ery rhyme in interesting fashion. pop and MOR charts soon. paced, big -sounding rocker.

RAMSEY LEWIS-Columbia 3-10643 PAUL WINTER-A&M 1986 TYCOON-Warner-Curb 8472 SKIPPIN' (prod. by Larry Dunn) (writer: ICARUS :prod. not given) (writer: Ralph OVER AND OVER (prod. by Marc Gordon) Feldman) (Good Vibes, ASCAP) (3:12) Towner) (Jupiter, ASCAP) (3:12) (writer: Byrd) (Recordo, BMI) (3:27) Lewis' latest instrumental single, a strong Unquestionably Winter's "greatesthit," The lyrics have been altered somewhat Victor Feldman composition, allows the this song, now re-released as a single, is from the Dave Clark Five's '65 hit version, artist to stretch out on piano more than stilla beautiful instrumental, and could but the pop appeal of the chorus seems past singles have. It could hit. regain a place on pop and MOR airwaves. to be unchanged.

INGRAM-H&L 4689 FINE AS WINE-Warner Bros. 8467 THE HAPPENINGS-Midland Intl. 11127 GET YOUR STUFF OFF (prod. by Landy WHY WON'T YOU LET IT GO (prod. by LET ME STAY (prod. by Bob Miranda) McNeal) (writer: Ingram) (Raton/ Buddy Killen) (writer: Flippins) (writer: same as prod.) (Diagonal/ Family, BMI) (3:14) (Tree, BMI) (3:30) Carolina Dawn, BMI) (3:14) The Ingram brothers, known for their ses- The melody and harmony arrangement on The ingredients here-an uptempo, mel- sion work, offer a dance/funk track with thissingleput most discorecordsto odic pop tune,well -arranged harmony energetic vocals and good brass additions. shame-it should win over the r&b audi- vocals and a hook in the chorus-recall It should establish them. ence, and pop attention is also likely. those that brought this group its past hits.

NILSSON-RCA 11144 THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY CHOIR- PENGUIN FEET & THE TEARDROP KID- ALL I THINK ABOUT IS YOU (prod. by RCA 11149 HDM 504 (Amherst) Harry Nilsson) (writer: Nilsson) NOTHING CAN SEPARATE ME (prod. by LARRY, MOVE YOUR HAND (prod. by Hadley (Golden Syrup, BMI) Warren Schatz) (writers: Wilson - Murrell) (writers: Horan -Murrell) (4:04) Freeman) (Dunbar/Nycon, BMI) (2:34) (H & H Team, ASCAP) (3:42) This emotive ballad exercises the lower One of the better gospel -soul records of This novelty record uses a simple doowop end of Nilsson's vocal range, and the sub- recent months, this single has a big, choral melody as the basis for a moving saga of dued performance, with a fully -produced sound and a high energy level that could the plight of a young girl in a big car. Up- background, could bring him attention. result in an r&b hit. holstery fans take note.

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LIVE LEVON HELM AND THE RCO ALL-STARS CROSBY-NASH-ABC AA 1042 (7.98) ABC AA 1017 (7.98) The live format gives the duo a chance to The first solo album from a member of the retrace some of their past successes as Band is actually a group effort with Paul well as some newer material. The sound Butterfield, Steve Cropper, Mac Reben- quality has a quiet intensity which is built nack, "Duck" Dunn and Booker T. Jones through some solid support and the rap- (among others) laying down a solid base of port these musicians have built. "Immi- gritty soul and r&b. With Helm's vocals, gration Man," and "Deja Vu" should con- the soundisnot far removed from the tinue to be favorites. laid back beauty of the Band. ICE OYSTER CULT. SPECTRE THE DEVIL IN ME SPECTRES THELMA HOUSTON-Tamla T7 -358R1 (7.98) BLUE OYSTER CULT-Columbia JC 35019 (7.98) Houston's comeback Iplast year netted "Don't Fear The Reaper" showed another the songstress a major crossover hit and side of the BOC and turned out to be a some deserved attention. Here, with the substantial hit. The group must have kept assistance of a number of arrangers and that in the back of its mind while record- producers including Michael Masser and ing this 1p as it has a solid melodic under- Brian Holland, she has made a consistent current as well as the enigmatic symbolism album with several strong singles possibil- that earlier endeared the group to a strong ities including "I'm Here Again." "cult" following. BRASS CONSTRUCTION III SONG BIRD UA LA775 H (7.98) DENIECE WILLIAMS-Columbia JC 34911 (7.98) The nine man outfit has built a strong Williamshitwith her veryfirst album base of support with its two previous al- ("This Is Niecey") and that successful for- bums and follows them strongly with a mulaofartistandproducer(Maurice program (again produced by Jeff Lane) White) is duplicated here. Her captivating that should spread the word outside of new material that ranges from fiery funk the . "GetIt Together," "Top Of ("Time") to sweet ballads with a spiritual The World" and "We" lead the way. flavor ("God Is Amazing"). BABY GRAND DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD Arista AB 4148 (7.98) SANTA ESMERALDA STARRING LEROY GOMEZ- The group is fronted by David Kagen, Rob Casablanca NBLP 7080 (6.981 Hyman and Eric Bazilian, three newcom- The Spanish flavored sound of this group ers whose background of studio work has has finally been imported into this coun- given them a distinct solidity. The self - try by Casablanca after causing a consider- penned material is bolstered by strong ar- able stir in the discos. "Don't Let Me Be rangements and a crisp, sure -handed pro- Misunderstood," the Animals' 60s hitis duction touch that should help to grab the centerpiece but the segued "Esmer- some attention. alda Suite" and "Gloria," should also elicit considerable interest. BRIGHT LIGHTS & BACK ALLEYS SMOKIE-RSO RS -1-3029 (6.98) The group that scored with "Living Next FIRING ON ALL SIX Door To Alice" and "If You Think You LONE STAR-Columbia PC 34937 (6.98) Know How To Love Me" shows a marked With their second album, the group intro- duces a new lead singer which strength- sophistication in its musicianship and vocal ens their potential to capture a Led Zep- prowess. "Needles and Pins" and "The Dancer" are excellent choices while Chinn pelin/Queen audience. Gary Lyons instills and Chapman's "Lay Back In The Arms Of just the right amount of flashin John Someone" is sparkling. Sloman's voice and 's guitar to win over a substantial following here. RECYCLED 'S WHITE TRASH-Blue Sky DON'T LOOK DOWN PI 34858 (CBS) (6.98) THE OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS-A&M Edgar Winter's cyclical career has taken SP 4662 (7.98) Douevits him back to the hard driving r&b flavor of The group's fourth album for the label White Trash which has been reunited in (produced by David Kershenbaum) is a re- part. Jerry LaCroix, who with Winter was turn to the spirited country/rock fusion the focal point of the band, continues to that marked their earlier efforts. The open- provide thegutsy tone on"Puttin'It ing track, "River To The Sun" sets a brisk Back," and "Open Up." Winter takes the pace withitsuplifting harmonies and a lead on "Parallel Love." memorable melody. PAUL NICHOLAS ENCORE RSO RS -1-3028 (Polydor) (6.98) * * * TANiEJtiNE TANGERINE DREAM-Virgin PIG (CBS) 35014 * * * * * "Heaven On the 7th Floor" is the single The group's spring tour of the U.S. marked ** * * ** * that launched the career of theBritish .1. * * * pop singer inthis country and this set itsfirst visit to these shores and the trio 4. 411. seized the opportunity to record its first should further his popularity. Bugatti and live album. The two record set, recorded Musker, the duo that penned his hit are during March and April, finds synthesists responsible for six other tunes including Baumann, Franke and Froese in an im- "Reggae Like It Used To Be" and "Dancin' pressive display of state of the art elec- With the Captain." tronics. (Continued on page 58)

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15' A PLACE IN THE SUN Bill Schnee (Irving/ I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE LIKE YOU Pablo Cruise, BMI) 54 Alan Parsons (Woolfsongs, BMI) 100 BABY COME BACK Dennis Lambert & JUNGLE LOVE Steve Miller(Sailor, NOVEMBER 5, 1977 Brian Potter (Touch of Gold/Crowbeck/ ASCAP) 47 Stigwood, BMI) 43 JUST REMEMBER I LOVE YOU Jim Mason NOV. OCT. BABY, WHAT A BIG SURPRISE James (, BMI) 16 5 29 William Guercio (Polish Prince, ASCAP) 11 KEEPIN COMIN' LOVE H.W. Casey & BEST OF MY LOVE Maurice White 101 102 CLOSER TO THE HEART RUSH/Mercury 73958 (Core Music, ASCAP) R. Finch (Sherlyn/Harrick, BMI) 5 (Saggifire, BMI/Steelchest, ASCAP) 17 LADY OF MAGIC Frankie Beverly (Pecle, 102 103 JUST FOR YOUR LOVE MEMPHIS HORNS/RCA PB 1 1064 (Penneford, BLOAT ON Lou Adler (ABC/Dunhill/ BMI) 95 ASCAP) Woodsongs, BMI) 92 LOVE GUN Group & Eddie Kramer BLUE BAYOU (Acuff -Rose, (Kiss Songs, ASCAP) 89 103 111 SEND IT ASHFORD & SIMPSON/Warner Bros. 8453 (Nic-O-Val, ASCAP) BMI) 13 MONEY, MONEY, MONEY Benny 104 109WAS DOG A DOUGHNUT CAT STEVENS/A&M 1971 (ColgemsEMI, BOOGIE NIGHTS Barry Blue (Rondor/ Andersson & BjornUlvaeus (Artwork, Almo, ASCAP) 2 ASCAP) 64 ASCAP) BRICK HOUSE James Carmichael & (WB, ASCAP/ 105 101 HEAVEN ON EARTH (SO FINE) SPINNERS/Atlantic 3425 (Mighty Commodores(Jobete/Commodores, Caledonia Soul, BMI) 98 Three, BMI) ASCAP) 9 NATIVE NEW YORKER SandyLinzer (Featherbed/Desiderata/Unicappell, 106 106 DON'T BE AFRAID RONNIE DYSON/Columbia 3 10599 (Jays/ CALLING OCCUPANTS OF INTER- PLANETARY CRAFT Richard Carpenter BMI) 90 Chappell, ASCAP) (Welbeck, ASCAP) 59 NOBODY DOES IT BETTER Richard Perry 107 108 IT AIN'T LOVE TOM POWER/Big Tree BT 16103 (Atlantic) (Topo, ASCAP) CAN'T IT ALL BE LOVE Bill Schnee (Piano (United Artists, ASCAP/Unart, BMI).... 3 Picker/Unart, BMI) 80 ON AND ON Henry Lewy (Stephen 108 104 ROLLIN' WITH THE FLOW CHARLIE RICH/Epic 8 50392 (Algee, BMI) CAT SCRATCH FEVER Lew Futterman, Bishop, BMI) 81 POINT OF KNOW RETURN Jeff Glixman TEN TO EIGHT DAVID CASTLE/Parachute 501 (Casablanca) (Unart, BMI) Tom Werman & Cliff Davis (Magicland, 109 105 ASCAP) 20 (Don Kishner, BMI) 85 110 107 EAST BOUND AND DOWN JERRY REED/RCA 11056 (Duchess, Vector, BMI) CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN RED HOT Richard Gottehrer (Hi Lo, BMI) 94 ATTITUDES Norbert Putnam (Coral SEND IN THE CLOWNS 111 125 MIND BENDER STILLWATER/Capricorn CPS 0280 (No Exit, BMI) Reefer/Outer Banks, BMI) 49 (Beautiful, ASCAP) 38 112 129 IF IT DON'T FIT, DON'T FORCE IT KELLEE PATERSON/Shadybrook 1041 COLD AS ICE John Sinclair, Gary Lyons, SENTIMENTAL LADY Lindsey Buckingham Mick Jones & Ian McDonald (Somerset/ & Christine McVie (Warner Bros., (Funks Bump, BMI) Evansongs/Warner Bros., ASCAP) 14 ASCAP) 40 113 113 CREAM CITY AALON/Arista 0249 (Milwaukee, BMI) COME SAIL AWAY Prod. by group SERPENTINE FIRE Maurice White (Artwork, (Almo/Stygian Songs, ASCAP) 46 ASCAP) 57 114 117CRYING IN MY SLEEP GARFUNKEL/Columbia 3 10608 (Canopy, ASCAP) DAYBREAK Ron Dante & Barry Manilow SHAKE IT WELL Don Davis (Groovesville, (Kamakazi/Angeldust, BMI) 33 115 - AIN'T NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE KING MUSKER/Epic 8 50429 DEVIL'S GUN Mike Theodore and Dennis BMI/Conquistador, ASCAP) 72 (Blackwood/BMI) Coffey (Atv, BMI) 55 SHE DID IT Eric Carmen (C.A.M., BMI) 39 116 115 WAITING IN VAIN BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS/Island 092 (Bob DOCTOR LOVE Baker/Harris/Young SHE'S NOT THERE Devadip Carlos Santana Marley/Almo, ASCAP) (Lucky Tree, Six Strings, BMI) 52 & Tom Coster (Al Gallico, BMI) 41 DO YOUR DANCE (PARTI) Norman SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED (I'M YOURS) 117 110 SHOO DO FU FU OOHI LENNY WILLIAMS/ABC 12300 (Len -Lon, BMI) Whitfield (May Twelfth/Warner- Peter Frampton (Jobete, ASCAP/Stone Tamerlane, BMI) 45 Agate, BMI) 118 119 HIDE YOUR LOVE SILVERADO/RCA 1 1075 (Silver, BMI) DON'T ASK MY NEIGHBORS Maurice 32 SILVER LADY Tony Macauley (Almo, 119 - SAN FRANCISCO (YOU GOT ME) LOVE & KISSES/Casablanca White (Unichappell, BMI) 62 DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE Macauley, ASCAP) 73 NB 896 (Can't Stop, BMI) (United Artists, ASCAP) 8 SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY Paul Simon & Phil 120 121 HEART GET READY FOR LOVE THE K&K SUPER CIRCUS/Epic 8 50443 DON'T STOP Fleetwood Mac (Gentoo, Ramone (Paul Simon, BMI) 50 (Keyboard Pendulum/Chappell, ASCAP) BMI) 36 SPACESHIP SUPERSTAR Bruce Fairburn DON'T WORRY BABY Chris Christian (Squamish/Corinth, BMI) (Irving, BMI) 87 121 122 MY EYES GET BLURRY KENNY NOLAN/20th Century 2352 (Kenny 82 STAR WARS THEME/CANTINA BAND Nolan, ASCAP) DO YOU WANNA GET FUNKY WITH ME Meco Monardo, Harold Wheeler & Cory Wade (Sherlyn, Describe, BMI) . 29 122 123SCHOOL'S BACK PHILADELPHIA/Warner/Curb 8470 (WB) (Saber Tony Bongioui (Fox Fanfare, BMI) 7 DRAW THE LINE Jack Douglas & STONE COLD SOBER Allan Callan & Tooth, BMI) Aerosmith(Daksel/Vindaloo/Song Group (April, ASCAP) 69 123 & Dance, BMI) 51 - RADIO LOVES YOU P. R. BATTLE/A&M 1987 (!rving/Maui, BMI) SURFIN' USA Michael Lloyd (Arc, BMI)....93 124 118 SWEET WINE OF LOVE ROBIN TROWER/Chrysalis 2172 (Misty Days/ DUSIC Phil Benton & Group (Caliber/ Good High, ASCAP) 23 SWAYIN' TO THE MUSIC (SLOW Chrysalis, ASCAP) ECHOES OF LOVE Ted Templeman DANCIN') J.Rivers (WB, ASCAP) 30 125 - MOVIN' OUT (ANTHONY'S SONG) BILLY JOEL/Columbia 3 10624 (Soquel, ASCAP/J.E.C., BMI) 88 SWING TOWN Steve Miller (Sailor, ASCAP) 34 (Joelsongs, BMI) (EVERY TIME I TURN AROUND) BACK IN LOVE AGAIN Bobby Martin TELEPHONE LINE Jeff Lynne (Unart/Jet, 126 127 I WANT YOU CHEAP TRICK/Epic 8 50435 (Abbott, BMI) (Iceman, BMI) 31 BMI) 75 127 112 WOMAN OF MINE DEAN FRIEDMAN/Lifesong 8 1756 (CBS) FAIR GAME Prod. by group (Gold Hill, THAT'S ROCK 'N' ROLL Michael Lloyd (Blendingwell, ASCAP) ASCAP) 61 (C.A.M.-U.S.A., BMI) 12 FROM GRACELAND TO THE PROMISED THE HAPPY GIRLS Kim Fowley & Earle 128 128 ALL YOU GET TYRONE DAVIS/Columbia 3 10604 (Blackwood/Content, LAND Fuzzy Owen (Shade Tree, BMI) 84 Mankey (Almo/Irving/Buggerlugs, BMI) ASCAP/BMI) GEORGIA RHYTHM Buddy Buie(Lo -Sal, 63 129 130 OXYGENE JEAN-MICHEL JARRE/Polydor PD 14425 (Black Neon, BMI) BMI) 78 THE KING IS GONE (Brim, SESAC) 21 THE LOVE THEME FROM "ONE ON ONE" 130 120 GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE Richard Perry I'M JUST A COUNTRY BOY DON WILLIAMS/ABC Dot DO 17717 (Braintree/Snow/Golde's Gold, 13MI) 83 (MY FAIR SHARE) Louie Shelton & 131 132 FUNK, FUNK CAMEO/Chocolate City CC 011 (Casablanca) (Better GOIN' PLACES Kenneth Gamble & Leon Charles Fox (WB, ASCAP/Warner Tamerlane, BMI) Days, BMI) Huff (Mighty Three, BMI) 68 35 GONE TOO FAR Kyle Lehning (Dawn THE WAY IFEEL TONIGHT Harry Maslin 132 114 DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT THIN LIZZY/Mercury 73945 (MCPS, breaker/Cold Zinc, BMI) 44 (Rosewater/Careers, BMI) 70 ASCAP) HARD TIMES Joe Wissert (Boz Scaggs, THUNDER IN MY HEART Richard Perry 133 133 COME SOFTLY TO ME BRENTON WOOD/Cream 7716 (Cornerstone, BMI) ASCAP) 77 (Braintree, BMI/Longmanor/Chrysalis, HEAVEN CAN BE ANYWHERE (1WIN ASCAP) 53 134 138 ONE STEP AT A TIME JOE SIMON/Spring 176 (Polydor) (Teddy PINES THEME) Paul Hornsby (Hat Band, TIME BOMB James Hopkins -Harrison & Randazzo, BMI) BMI) 86 Geoffrey Peacy (Colgems-EMI, ASCAP) 76 135 141 I GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE FANTASTIC FOUR/Westbound 55403 HEAVEN ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR TWILLEY DON'T MIND Bob Schaper & Christopher Neil Oister (Atlantic) (Bridgeport, BMI) (Keyboard Pendulum/ (Tarka, ASCAP) 96 Chappell, ASCAP) 19 WAY DOWN & Felton Jarvis 136 126 WONDEROUS STORIES YES/Atlantic 3416 (Topographic, WB, ASCAP) HELPIS ON THE WAY John Boylan & (Ray Stevens, BMI) 18 Group (Australian Tumbleweed, BMI) 137 - HEROES DAVID BOWIE/RCA 11121 (Bewlay Bros./Fleur/EG, BMI) 22 WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS Queen (Queen) 66 Gary Klein 138 140 I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ME NANCY WILSON/Capitol 4476 (Stone Diamond, WE'RE ALL ALONE David Anderle (Boz (Screen Gems-EMI/Summerhill, BMI).... 58 Scaggs, ASCAP) 10 BMI) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE Prod. by 139 136THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE STARLAND VOCAL BAND/Windsong 11067 (RCA) WE JUST DISAGREE & group, Karl Richardson & Albhy Galuten P. Nevison (Blackwood/Bruiser, BMI) 26 (Stigwood/Unichappell,BMI) (Cherry Lane, ASCAP) 15 WHY DO LOVERS (BREAK OTHER'S 140 147 BREAKDOWN TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS/Shelter 62008 I BELIEVE YOU Couch -Stroup -Stevenson HEART) Christopher Bond (Hot Cha/ (ABC) (Skyhill) (Addrisi, BMI) 11 Unichappell, BMI) 79 141 142 LAY IT ON ME SYLVIA/Vibration 2353 (All Platinum) (Gambi, BMI) I FEEL LOVE Georgio Moroder & Peter YOU CAN'T TURN ME OFF (IN THE Bellote (Rick's, BMI/Sunday, ASCAP).... 4 MIDDLE OF TURNING ME ON) Kent 142 145 DON'T LET THE FLAME BURN OUT JACKIE DeSHANNON/Amherst 725 IF YOU'RE NOT BACK IN LOVE BY Washburn (Jobete, ASCAP) 56 (Halwill/Plain and Simple, ASCAP) MONDAY & Brad Shapiro YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE Joe Brooks (Big (Tree,BMI) 91 143 148 CAN'T WAIT PIPER/A&M 1969 (Songs of the Knight/Bomass, BMI) Hill, ASCAP) 1 I GO CRAZY Paul Davis (Web IV, BMI) 60 144 137 THEME FROM BIG TIME, PT.I SMOKEY ROBINSON/Tamla T 54288F (YOUR LOVE HAS LIFTED ME) HIGHER & I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING HIGHER David Anderle (Chevis-Warner (Motown) (Bertham, ASCAP) B.Gibb-A. 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TITLE, ARUM. Label, Number, (Distributing Label) 49 42 CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES NOV. OCT. WKS. ON JIMMY BUFFETT/ABC 12305 7 29 CHART 58 SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY PAUL SIMON/Columbia 3 10630 4 1 1 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE 60 DRAW THE LINE AEROSMITH/Columbia 3 10637 4 DEBBY BOONE Warner/ e Curb 52 57 DOCTOR LOVE FIRST CHOICE/Gold Mind 4004 (Salsoul) 8 Warner/Curb WBS 8446 53 53 THUNDER IN MY HEART LEO SAYER/Warner Bros. WBS (WB) (4th Week) 11 8465 5 54 55 A PLACE IN THE SUN PABLO CRUISE/A&M 1976 7 Ei 3 BOOGIE NIGHTS HEATWAVE/Epic 8 50370 15 55 48 DEVIL'S GUN C.J. & COMPANY/Westbound 55400 (Atlantic) 14 3 2 NOBODY DOES IT BETTER CARLY SIMON/Elektra 45413 16 69 YOU CAN'T TURN ME OFF (IN THE MIDDLE OF TURNING ME ON) HIGH INERGY/Gordy 7155 (Motown) 7 I:1 6 I FEEL LOVE DONNA SUMMER/Casablanca 884 14 57 59 SERPENTINE FIRE EARTH, WIND & FIRE/Columbia 3 10625 4 5 4 KEEP IT COMIN' LOVE KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND/T.K. 1023 20 68 HERE YOU COME AGAIN DOLLY PARTON/RCA 11123 4 8 IT'S ECSTASY WHEN YOU LAY DOWN NEXT TO ME 67CALLING OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETARY CRAFT BARRY WHITE/20th Century 2350 10 CARPENTERS/A&M 1978 5 7 5 "STAR WARS" THEME/CANTINA BAND MECO/Millennium 60 61 I GO CRAZY PAUL DAVIS/Bang 733 11 MN 604 (Casablanca) 15 61 62 FAIR GAME CROSBY, STILLS & NASH/Atlantic 3432 6 131 11 DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE CRYSTAL GAYLE/ al 71 DON'T ASK MY NEIGHBORS EMOTIONS/Columbia 3 10622 3 UnitedArtists XW1016 15 63 65 THE HAPPY GIRLS HELEN REDDY/Capitol 4487 3 9 9 BRICK HOUSE COMMODORES/Motown M 1425F 11 75 MONEY, MONEY, MONEY ABBA/Atlantic 3434 3 14 10 WE'RE ALL ALONE RITA COOLIDGE/A&M 1965 9 72 YOU'RE MOVING OUT TODAY CAROLE BAYER SAGER/ 15 BABY, WHAT A BIG SURPRISE CHICAGO/Columbia 3 10620 6 Elektra 45422 5 12 7 THAT'S ROCK 'N' ROLL SHAUN CASSIDY/Warner/Curb 81 WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS QUEEN/Elektra 45441 3 8423 (WB) 15 76HEAVEN'S JUST A SIN AWAY THE KENDALLS/Ovation OV 1103 3 Ei 31 BLUE BAYOU /Asylum 45431 5 14 10 COLD AS ICE FOREIGNER/Atlantic 3410 16 68 70 GOIN' PLACES THE JACKSONS/Epic 8 50454 69 73 STONE COLD SOBER CRAWLER/Epic 8 50442 5 118 26 HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE BEE GEES/RSO 882 (Polydor) 6 70 80 THE WAY I FEEL TONIGHT BAY CITY ROLLERS/Arista 0272 3 19 JUST REMEMBER I LOVE YOU FIREFALL/Atlantic 3421 10 71 34 I BELIEVE YOU DOROTHY MOORE/Malaco 1042 (T.K.) 15 17 16 BEST OF MY LOVE EMOTIONS/Columbia 3 10544 21 72 63 SHAKE IT WELL DRAMATICS/ABC 12299 6 18 17 WAY DOWN ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA PB 10998 19 73 74 SILVER LADY DAVID SOUL/Private Stock 163 9 22 HEAVEN ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR PAUL NICHOLAS/RSO 85 YOU'RE IN MY HEART (THE FINAL ACCLAIM) RS 878 (Polydor) 12 /Warner Bros. 8475 2 20 20 CAT SCRATCH FEVER TED NUGENT/Epic 8 50425 15 75 35 TELEPHONE LINE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA/Jet 1000 (UA) 21 21 13 THE KING IS GONE RONNIE McDOWELL/Scorpion SC 0543 9 76 77 TIME BOMB LAKE/Columbia 310614 6 Ef3 25 HELP IS ON THE WAY LITTLE RIVER BAND/Harvest P 4428 77 78 HARD TIMES BOZ SCAGGS/Columbia 3 10606 4 (Capitol) 15 78 79 GEORGIA RHYTHM ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION/Polydor 27DUSIC BRICK/Bang 734 10 14432 6 24 12 I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING ANDY GIBB/ 1E1 88 WHY DO LOVERS (BREAK EACH OTHER'S HEART?) RSO RS 872 (Polydor) 29 DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES/RCA 11132 2 m 38 YOU MAKE LOVING FUN FLEETWOOD MAC/ 80 83 CAN'T IT ALL BE LOVE RANDY EDELMAN/Arista 0268 3 Warner Bros. WBS 8483 3 81 37 ON AND ON STEPHEN BISHOP/ABC 12260 20 26 28 WE JUST DISAGREE DAVE MASON/Columbia 3 10575 10 82 46 DON'T WORRY BABY B. J. THOMAS/MCA 40735 17 ER 32 ISN'T IT TIME THE BABYS/Chrysalis CHS 2173 6 28 23 IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A SONG RONNIE MILSAP/ CHARTMAKER OF THE WEEK RCA PB 10976 16 m - GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE 29 30 DO YOU WANNA GET FUNKY WITH ME PETER BROWN/ DIANA ROSS Drive 6258 (T.K.) 10 Motown M 1427F 1 30 18 SWAYIN' TO THE MUSIC (SLOW DANCIN') JOHNNY RIVERS/Big Tree BT 16094 (Atlantic) 20 84 87 FROM GRACELAND TO THE PROMISED LAND MERLE in 40 (EVERY TIME I TURN AROUND) BACK IN LOVE AGAIN HAGGARD/MCA 40804 5 LTD/A&M 1974 C - POINT OF KNOW RETURN KANSAS/Kirshner ZS8 4273

32 21 SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED (I'M YOURS) (CBSI 1 PETER FRAMPTON/A&M 1972 11 86 89 HEAVEN CAN BE ANYWHERE (TWIN PINES THEME) 33 36DAYBREAK BARRY MANILOW/Arista 0273 6 CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/Epic 8 50456 3 47SWINGTOWN /Capitol P 4496 4 87 90 SPACESHIP SUPERSTAR PRISM/Ariola America 7672 (Capitol) 3 41 THE LOVE THEME FROM "ONE ON ONE" (MY FAIR SHARE) 88 91 ECHOES OF LOVE DOOBIE BROTHERS/Warner Bros. WBS SEALS & CROFTS/Warner Bros. WBS 8405 9 8471 3 89 82 36 24 DON'T STOP FLEETWOOD MAC/Warner Bros. WBS 8413 18 LO'v E GUN KISS/Casablanca 895 7 90 94 NATIVE NEW YORKER ODYSSEY/RCA PB 11129 2 111 43 IT'S SO EASY LINDA RONSTADT/Asylum 45438 5 91 97 IF YOU'RE NOT BACK IN TIME BY MONDAY MILLIE 45 SEND IN THE CLOWNS JUDY COLLINS/Elektra 45076 7 133 JACKSON/Spring 175 (Polydor) 3 39 29 SHE DID IT ERIC CARMEN/Arista 0266 11 92 - BLOAT ON CHEECH & CHONG/Ode 8 50471 (CBS) 1 52 SENTIMENTAL LADY BOB WELCH/Capitol P 4479 5 40 93 84 SURFIN' USA LEIF GARRETT/Atlantic 3423 11 131 56 SHE'S NOT THERE SANTANA/Columbia 3 10616 5 94 98 RED HOT ROBERT GORDON WITH LINK WRAY/ 133 49 YOUR SMILING FACE JAMES TAYLOR/Columbia 3 10602 5 Private Stock 156 2 54 BABY COME BACK PLAYER/RSO RS 879 (Polydor) 6 95 96 LADY OF MAGIC MAZE WITH FRANKIE BEVERLY/Capitol P 133 4456 4 50 GONE TOO FAR ENGLAND DAN & JOHN FORD COLEY/ 96 99 TWILLEY DON'T MIND DWIGHT TWILLEY/Arista 0278 2 Big Tree BT 16102 (Atlantic) 6 97 - YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH (HOT 45 39 DO YOUR DANCE (PARTI)ROSE ROYCE/Whitfield WHL SUMMER NIGHT) MEATLOAF/Epic 8 50467 1 WHL 8440 (WB) 7 98 - MOONDANCE VAN MORRISON/Warner Bros. 8450 1 51 COME SAIL AWAY STYX/A&M 1977 7 99 66 (YOUR LOVE HAS LIFTED ME) HIGHER & HIGHER 47 43 JUNGLE LOVE STEVE MILLER BAND/Capitol P 4466 14 RITA COOLIDGEA&M 1922 27

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M105-FM/CLEVELAND LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col MIDNIGHT WIND-Charlie FLASHMAKER Daniels Band-Epic Doobie Brothers-WB TWO MAN BAND-Splinter- ADDS: AJA-Steely Dan-ABC MUSICAL CHAIRS-Sammy Hagar MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col Dark Horse -Capitol OUT OF THE BLUE-ELO--Jet ROUGH MIX-Townshend/Lane PLAYER-SRO -MCA HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd phones in descending order): FIRE IN THE WIND-John Stewart SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan Skynyrd-MCA -RSO SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt Armatrading-A&M TERRAPIN STATION-Grateful -Asylum STICK TO ME-Graham Parker HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, Dead-Arista STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd -Mercury phones in descending order): LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy Skynyrd-MCA THUNDER IN MY HEART-Leo BOOK OF DREAMS-Steve Miller Newman-WB POINT OF KNOW RETURN- Sayer-WB Band-Capitol SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan Kansas-Kirshner SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt Armatrading-A&M RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac-WB HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, -Asylum phones in descending order): NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils CHICAGO XI-Col HEROES NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils Lofgren-A&M Lofgren-A&M MA-Steely Dan-ABC BEAUTY ON A BACK STREET- DAVID BOWIE MIDNIGHT WIND-Charlie I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project Hail & Oates-RCA RCA WLIR-FM/LONG ISLAND Daniels Bands-Epic -Arista GRAND ILLUSION-Styx-A&M ADDS: TERENCE BOYLAN-Asylum A FAREWELL TO KINGS-Rush LAKE-Col -Mercury CITADEL-Starcastle-Epic GONE TO EARTH-Barclay James AJA-Steely Dan-ABC Harvest-MCA CHICAGO XI-Col RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac-WB CROSBY-NASH LIVE-ABC STICK TO ME-Graham Parker LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones MOST ADDED: FIRING ON ALL SIX-Lone Star -Mercury -Rolling Stones -Rolling Stones -Col MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col DIAMANTINA COCKTAIL-Little CSN-Crosby, Stills & Nash- ...I HEROES-David Bowie-RCA HEROES-David Bowie-RCA SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult River Band-Harvest Atlantic -Col INTERGALACTIC TOURING BAND WIOQ-FM/PHILADELPHIA POINT OF KNOW RETURN- Kansas-Kirshner STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd -Passport ADDS: Skynyrd-MCA LEVON HELM £ RCO ALL-STARS WEBN-FM/CINCINNATI FINALE-Loggins & Messina -ABC A PAUPER IN PARADISE-Gino ADDS: = -Col Vannelli-A&M WOSR-FM/TAMPA MUSICAL CHAIRS-Sammy Hagar FOREIGN AFFAIRS-Tom Waits DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark -Capitol CROSBY-NASH LIVE-ABC ADDS: Mt. Daredevils-A&M -Asylum WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS PRIME TIME-Don McLean-Arista EXPECT NO MERCY-Nazareth BAT OUT OF HELL-Meatloaf LET'S GET SMALL-Steve Martin (single)-Queen-Elektra SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col -A&M -Epic -WB LOVE SONGS-Beatles- FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col Capitol HEAVY ACTION (airplay in FIRING ON ALL SIX-Lone Star GAMBLE ROGERS-Mountain SHOT IN THE DARK-Bill CROSBY-NASH LIVE-ABC descending order): -Col Railroad Quatornan-RCA OUT OF THE BLUE-ELO-Jet MA-Steely Dan-ABC MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col HEROES-David Bowie-RCA HEROES-David Bowie-RCA SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Armatrading-A&M CITADEL-Storcastle-Epic INTERGALACTIC TOURING BAND LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol Skynyrd-MCA -Passport STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd MUSICAL CHAIRS-Sammy Hagar Skynyrd-MCA LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol Newman-WB -Capitol WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (single) WNEW-FM/NEW YORK THE STRANGER-Billy Joel-Col MARIN COUNTY LINE-New ON STAGE-Lily Tomlin-Arista -Queen-Elektra Riders-MCA ADDS: LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus YOU'RE IN MY HEART (single)- SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col BABES ON BROADWAY-Artful Doobin Brothers-WB Rod Stewart-WB Dodger-Col REDWING-Grinder Switch-Atco CRAWLER-Epic BABY GRAND-Arista HEAVY ACTION (airplay, STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd HEAVY ACTION (airplay in SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col phones in descending order): CROSBY-NASH LIVE-ABC Skynyrd-MCA descending order): DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark Mt. LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones MA-Steely Dan-ABC MA-Steely Dan-ABC Daredevil s-A&M -Rolling Stones I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, phones in descending order): SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus ROUGH MIX-Townshend/Lane -Arista -Asylum -MCA REDWING-Grinder Switch-Atco THE STRANGER-Billy Joel-Col MA-Steely Dan-ABC I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col TAKING IT ALL IN STRIDE- IN CITY DREAMS-Robin Trower SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt -Arista S. Iverado-RCA -Chrysalis -Asylum ENIGMATIC OCEAN-Jean-Luc THE MOONLIGHTERS-Amherst WCOZ-FM/BOSTON POINT OF KNOW RETURN- LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- Ponty-Atlantic THE MOTORS-Virgin ADDS: Kansas-Kirshner Doobie Brothers-WB RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac-WB THE SCRATCH BAND-Big BRIDGES-Gil Scott -Heron & CRAWLER-Epic MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones Sound (bp) -Rolling Stones Brian Jackson-Arista LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones FOREIGNER-Atlantic HEAVY ACTION (airplay in BROOKLYN DREAMS-Millennium Newman-WB -Rolling Stones descending order): RUBY, RUBY-Gato Barbieri-A&M IN COLOR-Cheap Trick-Epic NEVER LETTING GO-Phoebe CELEBRATE ME HOME-Kenny FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col Snow-Col Loggins-Col SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd HEROES-David Bowie-RCA Skynyrd-MCA FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- POINT OF KNOW RETURN- Kansas-Kirshner INTERGALACTIC TOURING BAND STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd KARLA BONOFF-Col Capitol -Passport Skynyrd-MCA LITTLE QUEEN-Heart-Portrait OXYGENE-Jean-Michel Jarre -Polydor STICK TO ME-Graham Parker WKLS-FM/ATLANTA THE STRANGER-Billy Joel-Col -Meicury HEAVY ACTION (airplay in descending order): ADDS: LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones Newman-WB -Rolling Stones FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- CITADEL-Starcastle-Col WCOL-FM/COLUMBUS Capitol AJA-Steely Dan-ABC ENIGMATIC OCEAN-Barclay ADDS: MA-Steely Dan-ABC SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col James Harvest-MCA WMMS-FM/CLEVELAND CITADEL-Starcastle--Epic FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- MOONFLOWER-Santana-Cal GONE TO EARTH-Barclay James RECYCLED-Edgar Winter-Epic Harvest-MCA ADDS: Capitol RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac-WB SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col HEROES-David Bowie-RCA HEROES-David Bowie-RCA MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt STICK TO ME-Graham Parker EDDIE MONEY-Col -Asylum SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol -Mercury BOOK OF DREAMS-Steve Miller THE JOY-Fantasy MIDNIGHT WIND-Charlie WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (single) Band-Capitol Daniels Band-Epic -Queen-Elektra WBCN-FM/BOSTON STICK TO ME-Graham Parker- HEAVY ACTION (airplay): SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col YOU'RE IN MY HEART (single)- ADDS: Mercury MA-Steely Dan-ABC Rod Stewart-WB BABY IT'S ME-Diana Ross- YOU'RE IN MY HEART (single)- CHICAGO XI-Col HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales Motown Rod Stewart-WB in descending order): LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales): LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark Mt. Doobie Brothers-WB RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac-WB A FAREWELL TO KINGS-Rush Daredevils-A&M Doobie Brothers-WB LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones AJA-Steely Dan-ABC -Mercury LITTLE QUEEN-Heart-Portrait MARIN COUNTY LINE-New -Rolling Stones FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- AJA-Steely Dan-ABC Riders-MCA ROCK & ROLL ALTERNATIVE- Capitol BEAUTY ON A BACK STREET- MUSICAL CHAIRS-Sammy Hagar WPLR-FM/NEW HAVEN Atlanta Rhythm Section- SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt Hall & Oates-RCA -Capitol ADDS: Polydor -Asylum BROKEN HEART-The Babys- RECKLESS ABANDON-David RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac-WB BAT OUT OF HELL-Meatloaf- Chrysalis Bromberg Band-Fantasy CITADEL-Starcastle-Epic STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Epic I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project CROSBY-NASH LIVE-ABC RUBY, RUBY-Gato Barbieri-A&M Skynyrd-MCA POINT OF KNOW RETURN- -Arista SHOT IN THE DARK-Bill DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark Mt. Kansas-Kirshner MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col Quateman-RCA Daredevils-A&M WORJ-FM/ORLANDO STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd POINT OF KNOW RETURN- SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col Skynyrd-MCA Kansas-Kirshner HEROES-David Bowie-RCA ADDS: HEAVY ACTION (airplay in BABES ON BROADWAY-Artful PRISM-Ariola America RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus ALAN PRICE-Jet descending order): Dodger-Col SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt FR:NCH KISS-Bob Welch- REDWING-Grinder Switch-Atco BLUE SAILOR-Cheryl Dilcher- BROKEN HEART-The Babys- -Asylum Butterfly Chrysalis Capitol SIDE POCKET SHOT-Nighthawks STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd KARLA BONOFF-Col -Adelphi HEROES-David Bowie-RCA CRAWLER-Epic Skynyrd-MCA

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"Karla Bonoff:' Her voice is the instrument her songsPC 34672 were written for. On Columbia Records and Tapes. ..COLUMBIA.AR MARCAS REG. C. 1977 CBS INC. Produced by Kenny Edwards.

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WORLD SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt OUT OF THE BLUE-ELO-Jet I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project SHOT IN THE DARK-Bill TOP AIRPLAY -Arista Quateman-RCA -Asylum SAY IT IN PRIVATE-Steve IN CITY DREAMS-Robin Trower Goodman-Asylum SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col -Chrysalis Armatrading-A&M SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col CSN-Ctosby, Stills and Nash- TERENCE BOYLAN-Asylum HEAVY ACTION (airplay in descending order): Atlantic THE MOTORS-Virgin ONE WAY TICKET-Dave GRAND ILLUSION-Styx-A&M WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP- Loggins-Epic SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt -Asylum LET'S GET SMALL-Steve Martin Grateful Dead-WB NETHER LANDS-Dan Fogelberg- -WB Full Moon MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, GOING FOR THE ONE-Yes- phones in descending order): ROUGH MIX-Townshend/Lane Atlantic -MCA KGB-FM/SAN DIEGO SHOT IN THE DARK-Bill CHICAGO XI-Col ADDS: TWILLEY DON'T MIND-Dwight Quateman-RCA GOING FOR THE ONE-Yes- Twilley Band-Arista Atlantic DRAW THE LINE (single)- Aerosmith-Col BRIDGES-Gil Scott -Heron & FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- Brian Jackson-Arista AJA KSHE-FM/ ST. LOUIS Capitol HEROES-David Bowie-RCA MA-Steely Dan-ABC STEELY DAN ADDS: POINT OF KNOW RETURN- MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark Mt. Kansas-Kirshner LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones ABC SLIP SLIDIN' WAY (single)- -Rolling Stones Daredevils-A&M THE STRANGER-Billy Joel-Col Paul Simon-Col NEVER LETTING GO-Phoebe STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Snow-Col Skynyrd-MCA Skynyrd-MCA MOST AIRPLAY: Doobie Brothers-WB NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS/ SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan AJA-Steely Dan-ABC Lofgren-A&M BAD REPUTATION-Thin Lizzy- WE WILL ROCK YOU (single)- Armatrading-A&M OUT OF THE BLUE-ELO-Jet Mercury SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Queen-Elektra BEAUTY ON A BACK STREET- Ronstadt-Asylum SHOT IN THE DARK-Bill EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS YOU'RE IN MY HEART (single)- Hall & Oates-RCA LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- Quateman-RCA -Supertramp-A&M Rod Stewart-WB Doobie Brothers-WB SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col AJA-Steely Dan-ABC POINT OF KNOW RETURN- HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, KSAN-FM/SAN FRANCISCO Kansas-Kirshner YOU'RE IN MY HEART (single)- CSN-Crosby, Stills & Nash- phones in descending order): Rod Stewart-WB Atlantic ADDS: LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones I RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac-WB -Rolling Stones 11 CAUGHT IN THE ACT-Steve FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt Gibbons Band-MCA HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, -Asylum ! Capitol phones in descending order): CHUM-FM/TORONTO HEROES-David Bowie-RCA LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd PRISM-Ariola America ADDS: Skynyrd-MCA Doable Brothers-WB LIVESTOCK-Brand X-Passport MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- BLUE BAYOU (single)-Linda AJA-Steely Dan-ABC ON STAGE-Lily Tomlin-Arista RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac Capitol Ronstadt-Asylum POINT OF KNOW RETURN- FOREIGNER-Atlantic SPECIALS-LIT-Lamont Cranston -WB GO BACK HOME AGAIN (single) Band-Shadow I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project Kansas-Kirshner -Andrew Gold-Asylum FOGHAT LIVE-Bearsville -Arista A FAREWELL TO KINGS-Rush SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col SERPENTINE FIRE-Earth, Wind & I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project LITTLE CRIMINALS ---Randy -Mercury -Arista Newman-WB Fire-Epic HEAVY ACTION (airplay in CRAWLER-Epic CELEBRATE ME HOME-Kenny STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd descending order): Loggins-Kirshner BROKEN HEART-The Babys- Skynyrd-MCA HEROES-David Bowie-RCA Chrysalis POINT OF KNOW RETURN- WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (single) WABX-FM/DETROIT IN CITY DREAMS-Robin Trower Kansas-Kirshner LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones -Queen-Elektra IN COLOR-Cheap Trick-Epic -Rolling Stones ADDS: -Chrysalis STICK TO ME-Graham Parker EDDIE MONEY-Col LIVIN. ON THE FAULT LINE- HEAVY ACTION (airplay in Doobie Brothers-WB -Mercury descending order): KWST-FM/ LOS ANGELES HEROES-David Bowie-RCA AJA-Steely Dan-ABC EDDIE MONEY-Col SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt ADDS: SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col LAKE-Col -Asylum MY AIM IS TRUE-Elvis Costello EXPECT NO MERCY-Nazareth -Stiff (import) WE WILL ROCK YOU (single)- CHICAGO XI-Col -A&M NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils Queen-Elektra AJA-Steely Dan-ABC WKDF-FM / NASHVILLE HEROES-David Bowie-RCA Lofgren-A&M LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col ADDS: OUT OF THE BLUE-ELO-Jet HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, Doable Brothers-WB phones in descending order): RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus ROUGH MIX-Townshend/Lane FOREIGN AFFAIRS-Tom Waits A FAREWELL TO KINGS-Rush -MCA RUMOURS-Fleetwood Mac-WB -Asylum -Mercury SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col HEROES-David Bowie-RCA LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy FOREIGNER-Atlantic CARELESS-Stephen Bishop-ABC Newman-WB I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project MARIN COUNTY LINE-New CSN-Crosby, Stills & Nash- KMET-FM/LOS ANGELES FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- -Arista Riders-MCA Atlantic ADDS: Capitol CHICAGO XI-Col MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col TERRAPIN STATION-Grateful HEROES-David Bowie-RCA NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils Dead-Arista FOGHAT LIVE-Bearsville NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils KZ AM-FM/SEATTLE Lofgren-A&M JT-James Taylor-Col Lofgren-A&M SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt ADDS: -Epic STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd HOPE-Klaatu--Capitol SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col Skynyrd-MCA DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark Mt. STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Skynyrd-MCA WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (single) HEAVY ACTION (airplay in Daredevils-A&M -Queen-Elektra descending order): FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col KLOL-FM/ HOUSTON ADDS: FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- GUABABE-Cal Tjader-Fantasy AJA-Steely Dan-ABC HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, Capitol phones in descending order): DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark Mt. LONGER FUSE-Dan Hill -20th Daredevils-A&M MUSICAL CHAIRS-Sammy Hagar Century AJA-Steely Dan-ABC -Capitol WXRT-FM / CHICAGO FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt LOVE YOU LIVE-Rolling Stones ADDS: -Asylum FRONT PAGE NEWS-Wishbone -Rolling Stones CUT OF THE BLUE-ELO-Jet Ash-MCA CITADEL-Starcastle-Epic THE STRANGER-Billy Joel-Col SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt REDWING-Grinder Switch-Atco LONGER FUSE-Dan Hill -20th I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project -Asylum DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark Mt. Century SAY IT IN PRIVATE-Steve Daredevils-A&M -Arista FOREIGNER-Atlantic NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils Goodman-Asylum FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col IN CITY DREAMS-Robin Trower FOGHAT LIVE-Bearsville STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd -Chrysalis Lofgren-A&M HEROES-David Bowie-RCA RECKLESS ABANDON-David IN COLOR-Cheap Trick-Epic Skynyrd-MCA POINT OF KNOW RETURN- Bromberg Band-Fantasy THE QUINTET-VSOP-Col LOVE SONGS--Beatles-Capitol Kansas-Kirshner CRAWLER-Epic SPARK IN THE DARK-Alpha BAD REPUTATION-Thin Lizzy- METRO-Sire FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- Band-Arista HEAVY ACTION (airplay): Capitol Mercury THE JOY-Fantasy SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col CHICAGO XI-Col LIGHTS OUT-UFO-Chrysalis AJA-Steely Dan-ABC SPELLBCUND-Alphonso Johnson MAGAZINE-Heart-Mushroom THE PLAYER NOT THE GAME- JT-James Taylor-Col -Epic Jess Roden-Island LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE- KZAP-FM/ SACRAMENTO KARLA BONOFF-Col STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Doable Brothers-WB ADDS: Skynyrd-MCA HEAVY ACTION (airplay in LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy descending order): BROOKLYN DREAMS-Millennium Newman-WB TRUE TO LIFE-- STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd CAUGHT IN THE ACT-Steve OLD FRIENDS-Mary McCaslin- Atlantic / Md1W AU K EE W410FM- Skynyrd-MCA Gibbons Band-MCA Philo ADDS: DON'T LOOK DOWN-Ozark Mt. ROUGH MIX-Townshend/Lone HEAVY ACTION (airplay, sales, LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy phones in descending order): CROSBY-NASH LIVE-ABC Newman-WB Daredevils-A&M -MCA FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col SANDMAN-Herb Pedersen-Epic AJA-Steely Dan-ABC FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col AJA-Steely Dan-ABC SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt HEROES-David Bowie-RCA SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy HEROES-David Bowie-RCA Armatrading-A&M Newman-WB -Asylum METRO-Sire LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol CSN-Crosby, Stills & Nash- SAY IT IN PRIVATE-Steve SIMPLE DREAMS-Linda Ronstadt STICK TO ME-Graham Parker -Asylum -Mercury MARK FARNER-Atlantic Atlantic Goodman-Asylum

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Last This Last This Last This Week:Week: Week:Week: Week: Week: 1 1 Debby Boone 1 1 Debby Boone 1 1 Debby Boone 3 2 Heatwave 2 2 Crystal Gayle 2 2Carly Simon 2 3 Carly Simon 6 3 Barry White 4 3 Heatwave 4 4 4 4 Star Wars (Meco) Commodores 3 4 Star Wars (Meco) 7 5 Rita Coolidge 10 5 Donna Summer 5 5 KC & The Sunshine Band 3 6 Carly Simon 12 6 Rita Coolidge 7 6 Barry White 10 7 Bee Gees 9 7 Firefall 9 7 Chicago 5 8 Donna Summer 8 8 Barry White 8 8 Donna Summer 8 9 KC & The Sunshine Band 13 9 Chicago 14 9 Crystal Gayle 12 10 Chicago 18 10 Crystal Gayle 13 10 Rita Coolidge 15 11 Linda Ronstadt (Blue) 6 11 Shaun Cassidy 6 11 Shaun Cassidy 9 12 Star Wars (Meco) 20 12Fleetwood Mac 17 12 Bee Gees 11 13Dave Mason 15 13 Peter Brown 10 13 Commodores 17 14Firefall 17 14 Bee Gees AP 15 Kendalls 18 14 Fleetwood Mac (Loving) 5 15 KC & The Sunshine Band 18 16The Babys 7 16 Emotions (old) 21 15 Linda Ronstadt (Blue) 26 17 Paul Davis 11 17 Foreigner 19 16Firefall 22 18 James Taylor 29 18Linda Ronstadt (Both) 11 17 Andy Gibb 19 19 Brick 14 19Andy Gibb 25 18 Paul Nicholas A 20Dolly Parton 22 20Barry Manilow 20 19 Dave Mason 25 21 Fleetwood Mac 30 21 Styx 21 20 Linda Ronstadt (Easy) 27 22LTD 21 22 ELO 12 21 Stephen Bishop 29 23Player 25 23Dave Mason 16 22 Emotions 24 24Barry Manilow 26 24The Babys A 23LTD 30 25England Dan 16 25Fleetwood Mac (old) 28 26 Linda Ronstadt (Easy) 19 26Peter Frampton A 24Judy Collins 14 27 Heatwave A 27James Taylor A 25The Babys 13 28 Shaun Cassidy 23 28Johnny Rivers Adds: Player A 29Steve Miller A 29Bob Welch Steve Miller A 30Paul Simon A 30LTD Adds: High Inergy Adds:Lake Extras: Barry Manilow Styx Kansas Queen ' Judy Collins Seals & Crofts Extras:England Dan Aerosmith Paul Nicholas England Dan Extras:A Emotions LRB BobRSWelch LRB LP Cuts:Rose Royce (Ooh Boy) LP Cuts:Steely Dan (Various Cuts) LP Cuts: Elvis (My Way) Chicago (Take) Kansas (Point) Also Possible: Bay City Rollers Also Possible:Aerosmith Peter Brown Judy Collins Also Possible: Stillwater Seals & Crofts Santana Billy Joel LRB Leif Garrett Andy Gibb Hottest: Rock'ri Roll: Adult: R&B Crossovers: Santana Paul Simon High Inergy

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com lel 151-20 0 ALBUM CHART 151 CHASING RAINBOWS JANE OLIVOR/ 176 MANDRE/Motown M6 88651 Columbia PC 34917 177 MAZE FEATURING FRANKIE 152 SPELLBOUND ALPHONSO JOHNSON/ BEVERLY/Capitol ST 11607 THE ALBUM CHART Epic JE 34869 178 RINGO THE 4TH RINGO STARR/ 153 BUNDLE OF JOY FREDDIE HUBBARD/ Atlantic SD 19108 Columbia JC 34902 179 WHO ME? I'M NOT HIM RICHARD kO° 154 SHAKE IT WELL DRAMATICS/ABC PRYOR/Laff 198 15 AB 1010 180 LIVESTOCK BRAND X/Passport 155 PRISM/Ariola America ST 50020 PB 9824 (Arista) NOVEMBER 5, 1977 (Capitol) 181 SO EARLY IN THE SPRING JUDY 156 DEVIL'S GUN C. J. & COMPANY/ COLLINS/Elektra 8E 6002 NOV. OCT. Westbound WB 301 (Atlantic) 182 TOM PETTY AND THE 29 157 CAN'T WAIT PIPER/A&M SP 4654 HEARTBREAKERS TOM PETTY/ 101 110BROKEN HEART THE BABYS/Chrysalis CHR 1150 158 SMOKEY & THE BANDIT (ORIGINAL ABC SR 52006 SOUNDTRACKI/MCA 2099 183 COSMIC WIND MIKE THEODORE 102 95 FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE PETER FRAMPTON/A&M 3703 159 ELVIS AS RECORDED LIVE AT ORCHESTRA/Westbound WB 305 103 96 EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS SUPERTRAMP/A&M 4634 MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (Atlantic) ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA LSP 4776 184 ROLLIN' WITH THE FLOW CHARLIE 104 103 THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/ 160 MONKEY ISLAND GEILS/Atlantic RICH/Epic PE 34891 SD 19103 185 PLAYER/RSO 1 3026 (Polydor) United Artists LA774 H 161 DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD (Polydor) 105 75 TAKIN' THE STAGE PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE/RCA CPL2 2404 SANTA ESMERALDA/Casablanca 186 KEANE BROTHERS/20th Century NBLP 7080 T 536 106 108 LET IT FLOW DAVE MASON/Columbia PC 34680 162 MAKIN' LOVE AND MUSIC 187 STILLWATER/Capricorn CP 0186 DR. HOOK/Capitol ST 11632 (WB) 107 - CITADEL STARCASTLE/Epic PE 34935 163 SAY IT IN PRIVATE STEVE 188I CRY, I SMILE NARADA MICHAEL 108 94 ENDLESS FLIGHT LEO SAYER/Warner Bros. BSK 3101 GOODMAN/Asylum 7E 1118 WALDEN/Atlantic SD 19141 164 ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD 189 RECKLESS ABANDON THE DAVID 109 88 SANFORD-TOWNSEND BAND/Warner Bros. BS 2966 LYNYRD SKYNYRD/MCA 2 80001 BROMBERG BAND/Fantasy F 9540 110 114 MIDNIGHT WIND THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/Epic PE 34970 165 BEHOLD THE MIGHTY ARMY NEW 190 ON STAGE LILY TOMLIN/Arista BIRTH/Warner Bros. BS 3071 AB 4142 111 115 GREATEST HITS LINDA RONSTADT/Asylum 6E 106 166 LIFELINE ROY AYERS UBIQUITY/ 191 EDDIE MONEY/Columbia PC 34909 Polydor PD 1 6108 34909 EIEI 122THE BEST OF TAVARES/Capitol ST 11701 167 IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A SONG 192 GREATEST HITS CHICAGO/Columbia - FINALE LOGGINS & MESSINA/Columbia JG 34167 RONNIE MILSAP/RCA APL1 2439 PC 33900 168 HOW GREAT THOU ART ELVIS 193 SINGER OF SONGS, TELLER OF TALES EMI 125 RUBY, RUBY GATO BARBIERI/A&M SP 4655 PRESLEY/RCA LSP 3758 PAUL DAVIS/Bang 410 169 MENAGERIE BILL WITHERS/ 194 THE MISSING PIECE GENTLE GIANT/ 115 80 LIVE! IN THE AIR AGE BE BOP DELUXE/Harvest SKB 1666 Columbia JC 34903 Capitol ST 11696 (Capitol) 170 IT'S TIME FOR 195 THE SURVIVORS' SUITE KEITH PETER ALLEN/A&M 3706 JARRETT/ECM 11085 (Polydor) 116 90 TERRAPIN STATION GRATEFUL DEAD/Arista 7001 171 MAGIC IS A CHILD NEKTAR/ 196 TERENCE BOYLAN/Asylum 7E 1091 Polydor PD 16115 117 97 NIGHT MOVES BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND/ Asylum 7E 1091 172 THE JOY TONI BROWNE & TERRY Capitol ST 11557 GARTHWAITE/Fantasy F 9538 197 TRUE TO LIFE RAY CHARLES/ Atlantic SD 19142 118 101 LAKE/Columbia PC 34763 173 PORTFOLIO GRACE JONES/Island ILPS 9470 198 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT DIONNE 110130 BAT OUT OF HELL MEATLOAF/Epic/Cleveland Intl. PE 34974 174 THE KING IS GONE RONNIE WARWICK/Warner Bros. BS 3119 McDOWELL/Scorpion GRT 8021 199 MUSICAL CHAIRS SAMMY HAGAR/ 120133 THE QUINTET V.S.O.P./Columbia C2 34976 175 VILLAGE PEOPLE/Casablanca Capitol ST 11706 121 82 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU BARRY MANILOW/Arista 4090 NBLP 7064 200 ANGELLE/Epic PE 34836 MTA 132 WE ARE ONE MANDRILL/Arista AB 4144

135 GOIN' PLACES THE JACKSONS/Epic JE 34835 ALBUM CROSS REFERENCE 124 121 ONE ON ONE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) SEALS & CROFTS/ JOAN ARMATRADING 77 LTD 47 Warner Bros. BS 3076 ASHFORD & SIMPSON 92 LYNYRD SKYNYRD 22 THE EABYS 101 MANCHILD 138 OT 138 STICK TO ME GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR/ GATO BARBIERI 114 MANDRILL 122 BAY CITY ROLLERS 131 CHUCK MANGIONE 78 Mercury SRM 1 3706 BEATLES 88 BARRY MANI LOW 24, 121 BE BOP DELUXE 115 STEVE MARTIN 30 126 102 MAKING A GOOD THING BETTER OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN/ BEE GEES 40 DAVE MASON 106 STEPHEN BISHOP 61 MEATLOAF 119 MCA 2280 BLACKBYRDS 41 MECO 23 BLUE OYSTER CULT 66 STEVE MILLER BAND 32, 143 127 129 DIAMANTINA COCKTAIL LITTLE RIVER BAND/Harvest SW KARLA BONOFF 79 ODYSSEY 70 DEBBY BOONE 43 RANDY NEWMAN 75 11645 (Capitol) BOSTON 42 OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN 76, 126 BRICK 26 TED NUGENT 27 128 104 LIVE-YOU GET WHAT YOU PLAY FOR REO SPEEDWAGON/ BROTHERS JOHNSON 33 DOLLY PARTON 139 Epic PEG 34494 JIMMY BUFFETT 57 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: CAME. 93 A STAR IS BORN 85 129 106BRIDGES GIL SCOTT HERON & BRIAN JACKSON/Arista AB 4147 ERIC CARMEN 90 STAR WARS 9 CARPENTERS 65 THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 104 130 111 STEVE WINWOOD/Island ILPS 9494 SHAUW CASSIDY 3 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE 28 CHEAP TRICK 98 GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR 125 IT'S A GAME BAY CITY ROLLERS/Arista 7004 CHICAGO 8 ALAN PARSONS PROJECT 17 131 107 COMMODORES 15, 71 POCKETS 81 CON FUNK SHUN 136 JEAN-LUC PONTY 50 132 113 CELEBRATE ME HOME /Columbia PC 34655 RITA COOLIDGE 11 ELVIS PRESLEY 5, 7, 46, 72, 80, 140, 141, 146 CRAWLER 58 PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE 105 133 117 GO TOO STOMU YAMASHTA/Arista AB 4138 CROSBY, STILLS & NASH 14 RAM JAM 69 PABLO CRUISE 63 REO SP E E DWAGON 128 EEO - OXYGENE JEAN-MICHEL JARRE/Polydor PD 6112 CHARLIE DANIELS BAND 110 KENNY ROGERS 149 DOOBIE BROTHERS 19, 82 ROLLING STONES 13 135 134 FRONT PAGE NEWS WISHBONE ASH/MCA 2311 GEORGE DUKE 100 LINDA RONSTADT 2, 111 EAGLES_...._._.56,60 ROSE ROYCE 20 - SECRETS CON FUNK SHUN/Mercury SRM 11180 ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA 99 DIANA ROSS 38 EMOTIONS 51 RUSH 35 137 120 HOPE KLAATU/Capitol ST 11633 FIREFALL 49 SANFORD-TOWNSEND 109 FLEETWOOD MAC 1, 53 SANTANA 34 FLOATERS 68 STARCASTLE 107 138 141 POWER AND LOVE MANCHILD/Chi Sound CH LA765 G (UA) DAN FOGELBERG 97 LEO SAYER 52, 108 FOGHAT 10 BOZ SCAGGS 145 MCI - HERE YOU COME AGAIN DOLLY PARTON/RCA APL1 2544 FOREIGNER 6 SEALS & CROFT 124 PETER FRAMPTON 29, 102 GIL SCOTT -HERON & BRIAN JACKSON 129 140 143 PURE GOLD VOL.I ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA ANL1 0971 CRYSTAL GAYLE 74 BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND 117 ANDY GIBB 95 PHOEBE SNOW 83 141 123 FROM ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD., MEMPHIS TENNESSEE GRATEFUL DEAD 116 STEELY DAN 4 DARYI HALL & JOHN OATES 39 45 ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA APL1 1506 HEART 25,64 STYX 54 HEATWAVE 18 DONNA SUMMER 44 142 128 PATTI LABELLE/Epic PE 34847 HIGH INERGY 87 SUPERTRAMP 103 ISLEY BROTHERS 94 TAVARES 112 143 127 FLY LIKE AN EAGLE STEVE MILLER BAND/Capitol ST 11497 JEAN-MICHEL JARRE 134 JAMES TAYLOR 21 MILLIE JACKSON 147 THIN LIZZY 91 144 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS TOM WAITS/Asylum 7E 1117 JACKSONS 123 PETER TOWNSHEND/RONNIE LANE 67 62 ROBIN TROWER 31 145 126 SILK DEGREES BOZ SCAGGS/Columbia PC 33920 BILLY JOEL 48 STANLEY TURRENTINE 96 ELTON JOHN 37 DWIGHT TWILLEY 89 146 139 ALOHA FROM HAWAII VIA SATELLITE ELVIS PRESLEY/ KANSAS 16 UFO 86 KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND 55 V.S.O.P. 120 RCA LSP 3758 150 TOM WAITS 144 KISS 73 WAR 148 147 - FEELIN' BITCHY MILLIE JACKSON/Spring SP1 6715 (Polydor) KLAA1U 137 BOB WELCH 36 PATTILABELLE 142 BARRY WHITE 12 148 124 PLATINUM JAZZ WAR/Blue Note BN LA690 J2 (UA) LAKE 118 STEVE WINWOOD LITTLE RIVER BAND 127 130 149 147 KENNY ROGERS/United Artists LA754 G WISHBONE ASH NILS .OFGREN 84 135 150 116 SIMPLE THINGS CAROLE KING/Avatar SMAS 11667 (Capitol) KENNY LOGGINS 132 STOMU YAMASHTA 133 LOGGINS & MESSINA 113 YES 59

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What other explanation is there for the way it's Minneapolis; Cedar Rapids; Oklahoma City and Tulsa. breaking into AOR radio in New York; Philadelphia,' And what makes it even more devastating is the Hartford; Buffalo; Washington; Atlanta,' Birmingham,' bit single it's carrying. "Heaven Can Be Anywhere Montgomery; San Francisco,' Phoenix; Los Angeles; 'Twin Pines Theme)"is everywhere on the radio. Minneapolis; Pittsburgh,' Cleveland' Kansas City; When The Charlie Daniels Band stirs things up, Houston; Dallas; Miami; Mobile; Nashville and more! they sure do it big. Not to mention the way it's breaking into Country "Midnight Wind."Featuring the single, radio in Albany; Salt Lake City; Denver; Phoenix,' "Heaven Can Be Anywhere (Twin Pines Theme)." Nashville,' Chattanooga; Knoxville; Birmingham; The Charlie Daniels Band blows good rock your Jackson; Washington; Roanoke; Cincinnati,. way. On Epic Records and Tapes. THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND TOUR 10/20Kiel/St. Louis, Mo. 11/11Capital Theatre/Passaic, N.J. 11/27Micisouth Coliseum/ Memphis, Tenn. 10/23MSU Ice Arena/East Lansing, Mich. 11/12Music Hall/Cleveland,Ohio 12/2 River Front Stadium/Cincinnati, Ohio 10/27Ice Chalet/Columbia, Mo. 11/13Convention Center/Indianapolis, lnd. 12/3 Freedom Hall/Johnson City, Tenn. 10/28 Western KSU/ Bowling Green, Ky. 11/ 14Radio Promo/Chicago, 12/4 Civic Center Arena/Charleston, W Va. 11/ 3 The Palladium/New York, N.Y. 11/15Riverside Theatre/Milwaukee, Wis. 12/5 Civic Arena/Pittsburgh, Pa. 11/4 Suffolk Forum/Commack, L.I., N.Y. 11/16Grand Rapid Stadium/Grand Rapids, Mich. 12/6 Constitution Hall/Washington, D.C. 11/5 Orpheum Theatre/Boston, Mass. 11/17Royal Oak Theatre/Detroit, Mich. 12/7 Civic Center/Salem, Va. 11/6 Tower Theatre/Philadelphia, Pa. 11/18Aragon Ballroom/Chicago, 12/9 Civic Center/Hampton, Va. 11/7 Century Theatre/Buffalo,N.Y. 11/19Civic Arena/St. Paul Minn. 12/10Civic Coliseum/Knoxville, Tenn. 11/8 Radio Promo/Philadelphia, Pa. 11/20Pershing Auditorium/Lincoln, Neb. 12/11 So. Carolina Coliseum/Columbia, S.C. 11/9 Civic Center/Springfield, Mass. 11/25 The Garden/Louisville, Ky 11/10 The Leroy Theatre/Pawtucket, R.I. 11/26 The Memorial Aud. /Chattanooga, Tenn. B EPIC' MARCA REG a 1971 CBS INC AmericanRadioHistory.Com Together...they're wonderful. They have a very special relationship. Listen to the two of them on The Two qf Us Like the title of their new single,

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ECORDS A survey of NEW product sales in the nation's leading retail outlets NOVEMBER 5, 1977 cc THE RETAIL REPORT listed alphabetically WORLD SALESMAKEROF THE WEEK SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan PLATTERS/PHILADELPHIA PRISM-Ariola America GOIN' PLACES-Jacksons-Epic Armatrading-A&M ALAN PRICE-Jet RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol THE STRANGER-Billy Joel-Col SAY IT IN PRIVATE-Steve CITADEL-Starcastle--Epic MUSICAL CHAIRS-Sammy Hagar YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista Goodman-Elektra -Capitol DON'T LET ME BE (Soundtrack) STICK IT TO ME-Graham Parker RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus MISUNDERSTOOD-Santa YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby & the Rumour-Mercury ROUGH MIX-Pete Townshend/ Esmeralda-Casablanca STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Boone-Warner/Curb FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col Ronnie Lane-MCA Skynyrd-MCA SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col MUSICLAND/NATIONAL LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN'S RADIO 437/MILWAUKEE LICORICE PIZZA/ A PLACE IN THE SUN-Pablo GREATEST HITS-MCA BEHOLD THE MIGHTY ARMY- LOS ANGELES Cruise-A&M PLAYER-RSO New Birth-WB AJA-Steely Dan-ABC SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Culit-Col BRAND NEW THING-Doc AJA-Steely Dan-ABC BROKEN HEART-The Babys- STARTING ALL OVER-Philippe Severinsen-Epic GREATEST HITS, VOL. II-Elton STREET SURVIVORS Chrysalis Wynn-Cotillion CITADEL-Starcastle--Epic John-MCA STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col LYNYRD SKYNYRD ELVIS IN CONCERT-Elvis Presley EROTIC SOUL-Larry Page -RCA Skynyrd-MCA Orchestra-London NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils MCA FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- GET UP & DANCE-Memphis Lofgren-V&M FLO'S RECORDS/ Capitol Horns-RCA PASSAGE-Carpenters-A&M PITTSBURGH TOP SALES IN CITY DREAMS-Robin Trower LA CATEDRAL Y EL TORO- POINT OF KNOW RETURN- Joe Fcrrell-WB -Chrysalis BAT OUT OF HELL-Meatloaf- Kansas-Kirshner STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN'S STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Epic Skynard-MCA KENDALLS-Ovation GREATEST HITS-MCA Skynyrd-MCA PASSAGE-Carpenters-A&M BEHOLD THE MIGHTY ARMY- RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE- New Birth-WB WE MUST BELIEVE IN MAGIC- Arista (Soundtrack) WE MUST BELIEVE IN MAGIC- EYE OF THE BEHOLDER-Ray STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Crystal Gayle-UA FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- Crystal Gayle-UA Barretto-Atlantic Skynyrd-MCA YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Aristc (Soundtrack) Capitol YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista IT'S TIME FOR PETER ALLEN-A&M THE QUINTET-VSOP-Col (Soundtrack) YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col LOVE EYES-Art Webb-Atlantic FRANKLIN MUSIC/ Boone-Warner/Curb SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult- 7. RECORD BAR/NATIONAL ODYSSEY-RCA ATLANTA Col POWER & LOVE-Manchild- MUSIC PLUS/LOS ANGE.ES YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE- ELVIS IN CONCERT-Elvis Presley BEAUTY ON A BACK STREET- -RCA Chi Sound Daryl Hall & John Oates-RCA FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- Debby Boone-Warner/Curb SHAKE IT WELL-Dramatics-ABC Capitol LET'S GET SMALL-Steve Martin HERE YOU COME AGAIN-Dolly -WB STILLWATER-Capricorn Parton-RCA IN FULL BLOOM-Rose Royce- ABC/NATIONAL THE QUINTET-VSOP-Col LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE- Whitfield OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN'S Chuck Mangione-A&M MENAGERIE-Bill Withers-Col MA-Steely Dan-ABC GREATEST HITS-MCA NATL. RECORD MART/ LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT-Dionne NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils ELVIS IN CONCERT-Elvis Presley ON STAGE-Lily Tomlin-Arista -RCA MIDWEST Warwick-WB Lofgren-A&M GREATEST HITS, VOL. II-Elton POINT OF KNOW RETURN- LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol NIGHTWINGS-Stanley Turrentine John-MCA Kansas-Kirshner AJA-Steely Dan-ABC MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col -Fantasy ODYSSEY-RCA ROUGH MIX-Pete Townshend/ SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col ELVIS IN CONCERT-Elvis Presley RAM JAM-Epic Ronnie Lane-MCA -RCA SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd SOMETHING TO LOVE-LTD-A&M PASSAGE-Carpenters-A&M Skynyrd-MCA FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col POINT OF KNOW RETURN- TERRENCE BOYLAN-Asylum -Capitol Skynyrd-MCA Kansas-Kirshner KEANE BROS.-20th Century STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd WE MUST BELIEVE IN MAGIC- STAR WARS-Meco--Millennium WE MUST BELIEVE IN MAGIC- Skynyrd-MCA Crystal Gayle-UA LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol Crystal Gayle-UA Y'ALL COME BACK SALOON- MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista Oak Ridge Boys-ABC/Dot YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby TAPE CITY/NEW ORLEANS POINT OF KNOW RETURN- (Soundtrack) YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista Boone-Warner/Curb Kansas-Kirshner MA-Steely Dan-ABC (Soundtrack) STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd ANGELLE-Epic TOWER/LOS ANGELES YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby TWO GUYS/EAST COAST BROKEN HEART-The Babys- Boone-Warner/Curb Skynyrd-MCA EDDIE MONEY-Col AJA-Steely Dan-ABC THE STRANGER-Billy Joel-Col Chrysalis FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col CAMELOT/NATIONAL BABY IT'S ME-Diana Ross- YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby DUSIC-Brick-Bang Motown FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- FIRE IN THE WIND-John Stewart A FAREWELL TO KINGS-Rush- Boone-Warner/Curb ELVIS IN CONCERT-Elvis Presley Capitol -RSO Mercury LACOSTA-Capitol AJA-Steely Dan-ABC -RCA RECORD REVOLUTION/ LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy MISS RANDY CRAWFORD-WE BABY IT'S ME-Diana Ross- FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- CLEVELAND Newman-WB SECRETS-Con Funk Shun- Motown Capitol MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col BAT OUT OF HELL-Meatloaf- Mercury BARRY WHITE SINGS FOR KARLA BONOFF-Col NETWORK-Epic Epic SOMETHING TO LOVE-LTD-A&M SOMEONE YOU LOVE -20th LET'S GET SMALL-Steve Martin I CRY, I SMILE-Narada Michael STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan Century -WB Skynyrd-MCA Armatrading-A&M FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- PASSAGE-Carpenters-A&M Walden-Atlantic YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista Capitol MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col POINT Of KNOW RETURN- Boone-Warner/Curb (Soundtrack) I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project Kansas-Kirshner MOTIVATION RADIO-Steve -Arista THUNDER IN MY HEART-Leo Hillage-Atlantic SOUND TOWN/DALLAS YOU'RE THE ONLY DANCER- LET'S GET SMALL-Steve Martin Sayer-WB RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus Jackie DeShannon-Amherst -WB YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista ROBERT GORDON WITH LINK BABY IT'S ME-Diana Ross- Motown EUCALYPTUS RECORDS/ OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN'S (Soundtrack) WRAY-Private Stock GREATEST HITS-MCA SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col NORTHWEST FOREIGN AFFAIRS-Tom Waits- POINT OF KNOW RETURN- FOR THE RECORD/ STICK IT TO ME-Graham Parker Asylum FEELIN' BITCHY-Millie Jackson Kansas-Kirshner & the Rumour-Mercury STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd HERE YOU COME AGAIN-Dolly -Spring STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Parton-RCA FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col Skynyrd-MCA BRIDGES-Gil Scott-Heron & Skynyrd-MCA HOPE-Klaatu-Capitol LET'S GET SMALL-Steve Martin Brian Jackson-Arista THE JOY-Toni Brown & HANDLEMAN/NATIONAL IN CITY DREAMS-Robin Trower COMMODORES LIVE-Motown Terry Garthwaite-Fantasy -WB A FAREWELL TO KINGS-Rush- DISCO BILL-Bill Cosby-Capitol -Chrysalis MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol Mercury FEELIN' BITCHY-Millie Jackson ONE OCTAVE HIGHER/ MUSICAL CHAIRS-Sammy Hagar BABY IT'S ME-Diana Ross- OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN's -Capitol -Spring CHICAGO GREATEST HITS-MCA Motown MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils ELVIS IN CONCERT-Elvis Presley ACTION-Blackbyrds-Fantasy SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col Lofgren-A&M REACH FOR IT-George Duke- -RCA BARRY WHITE SINGS FOR THE QUINTET-VSOP-Col SENOR BLUES-Urbie Green -01 HERE YOU COME AGAIN-Dolly Epic SOMEONE YOU LOVE -20th SECRETS-Con Funk Shun- DAN JAY/DENVER SPECTRES --Blue Oyster Cult-Col Parton-RCA Century STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN'S Mercury CARELESS-Stephen Bishop-ABC SEND 1T-Ashford & Simpson-WB CITADEL-Starcastle-Epic Skynyrd-MCA GREATEST HITS-MCA ELVIS IN CONCERT-Elvis Presley LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE- YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE OF TURNIN' ON-High lnergy-Gordy -RCA Chuck Mangione-A&M Boone-Warner/Curb ONE-David Soul-Private WE ARE ONE-Mandrill-Arista ELVIS IN HAWAII-Elvis Presley MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col Stock -RCA RECKLESS ABANDON-David EVERYBODY'S RECORDS/ POINT OF KNOW RETURN- WAXIE MAXIE/ ENIGMATIC OCEAN-Jean-Luc Bromberg Band-Fantasy NORTHWEST Kansas-Kirshner WASH., D.C. Ponty-Atlantic SAND MAN-Herb Pederson-Epic STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd IN CITY DREAMS-Robin Trower SPECTRES-Blue Oyster Cult-Col FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- Skynyrd-MCA BEHOLD THE MIGHTY ARMY- -Chrysalis STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd Capitol YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista New Birth-WB ODYSSEY-RCA Skynyrd-MCA KARLA BONOFF-Col (Soundtrack) COMMODORES LIVE-Motown RAM JAM-Epic YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE- YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby ELVIS IN CONCERT-Elvis Presley YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista (Soundtrack) Chuck Mangione-A&M Boone-Warner/Curb - RCA (Soundtrack) YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Debby MIDNIGHT WIND-Charlie Daniels Band-Epic KORVETTES/NATIONAL FANTASTIC FOUR-Westbound Boone-Warner/Curb GOIN' PLACES-Jacksons-Epic 1812 OVERTURE/ MOONFLOWER-Santana-Col BABY IT'S ME-Diana Ross- OXYGENE-Jean-Michel Jarre- GREATEST HITS, VOL. II- MILWAUKEE ODYSSEY/SOUTHWEST Motown Polydor COMMODORES LIVE-Motown Elton John-MCA WEST LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol BOATS AGAINST THE CURRENT- POINT OF KNOW RETURN- I ROBOT-Alan Parsons Project Eric Carmen-Arista CHOOSING YOU-Lenny Williams Kansas-Kirshner -Arista TRUE TO LIFE-Ray Charles- CITADEL-Starcastle--Epic -ABC RAIN DANCES-Camel-Janus LOVE SONGS-Beatles-Capitol Atlantic FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- COMMODORES LIVE-Motown SHOW SOME EMOTION-Joan NIGHT AFTER NIGHT-Nils TURNIN' ON-High Inergy-Gordy Capitol FINALE-Loggins & Messina-Col Armatrading-A&M Lofgren-A&M YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE-Arista LITTLE CRIMINALS-Randy FRENCH KISS-Bob Welch- STREET SURVIVORS-Lynyrd PASSAGE-Carpenters-A&M (Soundtrack) Newman-WB Capitol Skynyrd-MCA

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TITLE,ARTIST, Label, Number, (Distributing Label) 45 31 STREISAND SUPERMAN BARBRA STREISAND/Columbia JC NOV. OCT. WKS. ON 5 29 filmocsamt CHART 34830 19 G IV011.5' 46 39 WELCOME TO MY WORLD ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA APL1 2274 10 F 1 1 RUMOURS 47 44 SOMETHING TO LOVE LTD/A&M SP 4646 14 G FLEETWOOD MAC 53THE STRANGER BILLY JOEL/Columbia JC 34897 5 G G Warner Bros. BSK 3010 49 40LUNA SEA FIREFALL/Atlantic SD 19101 13 50 52 ENIGMATIC OCEAN JEAN-LUC PONTY/Atlantic SD 191107 G 37I G (23rd Week) 51 35 REJOICE THE EMOTIONS/Columbia PC 34762 20 F 52 57THUNDER IN MY HEART LEO SAYER/Warner Bros. BSK 3089 4 G 8 G 1E1 3 SIMPLE DREAMS LINDA RONSTADT/Asylum 6E '04 53 49FLEETWOOD MAC/Reprise MSK 2281 (WB) 119 G SHAUN CASSIDY/Warner/Curb BS 3067 (WB) 19 F 3 2 54 45 THE GRAND ILLUSION STYX/A&M 4637 15 G 5 G 113 5 AJA STEELY DAN/ABC AB 1006 55 48 PART 3 KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND/T.K. 605 26 G 3 K Ell 10 ELVIS IN CONCERT ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA APL2 2587 56 54THEIR GREATEST HITS: 1971-1975 EAGLES/Asylum 6E 105 88 G 32 G. 6 4 FOREIGNER/Atlantic SD 19109 57 51 CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES 7 6 MOODY BLUE ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA AFL1 2428 17 G JIMMY BUFFETT/ABC AB 990 38 F

8 7 CHICAGO XI/Columbia JC 34860 6 G 58 61 CRAWLER/Epic PE 34900 9 F 9 8 STAR WARS (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/20th Century 59 47 GOING FOR THE ONE YES/Atlantic SD 19106 15 G 2T 541 21 H 60 62 HOTEL CALIFORNIA EAGLES/Asylum 6E 103 46 G 9 G 10 11 FOGHAT LIVE FOGHAT/Bearsville BRK 6971 (WB) 61 55CARELESS STEPHEN BISHOP/ABC ABCD 954 10 G

. COOLIDGE/A&M SP 461626 F 11 9 ANYTIME .. ANYWHERE RITA 62 63OL' WAYLON WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA APL1 2317 26 F 12 14 BARRY WHITE SINGS FOR SOMEONE YOU LOVE 63 65 A PLACE IN THE SUN PABLO CRUISE/A&M SP 4625 32 G BARRY WHITE/20th Century T 543 8 G 64 56 DREAMBOAT ANNIE HEART/Mushroom MRS 5005 78 G 13 12 LOVE YOU LIVE ROLLING STONES/Rolling Stones COC 74PASSAGE CARPENTERS/A&M SP 4703 4 G 2 9001 (Atlantic) 5 I

1 G 14 15 CSN CROSBY, STILLS & NASH/Atlantic SD 19104 18 G SPECTRES BLUE OYSTER CULT/Columbia JC 35019 F 15 13 COMMODORES/Motown M7 884R1 32 G 67 68 ROUGH MIX PETER TOWNSHEND/RONNIE LANE/MCA 2295 5 19 F 20POINT OF KNOW RETURN KANSAS/Kirshner JZ 34929 68 50 FLOATERS/ABC AB 1030 (CBS) 3 G 69 70 RAM JAM/Epic PE 34885 9 F 17 16 I ROBOT ALAN PARSONS PROJECT/Arista 7002 18 G 70 91 ODYSSEY/RCA APL1 2204 2 F 13 F 18 19 TOO HOT TO HANDLE HEATWAVE/Epic PE 34761 COMMODORES LIVE/Motown M9 894A2 1 19 17 LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE DOOBIE BROTHERS/ 72 73 ELVIS' GOLDEN RECORDS, VOL. I ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA LSP Warner Bros. BSK 3045 9 G 1707 9 F 20 21 IN FULL BLOOM ROSE ROYCE/Whitfield (WB) 11 F 73 60 LOVE GUN KISS/Casablanca 7051 18 G 21 18 JT JAMES TAYLOR/Columbia JC 34811 18 G 99WE MUST BELIEVE IN MAGIC CRYSTAL GAYLE/ United Artists LA771 G 2 G 86 LITTLE CRIMINALS RANDY NEWMAN/Warner Bros. BSK 3079 3G

CHARTMAKER OF THE WEEK 76 OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN'S GREATEST HITS/MCA 3028 1 G CO 85 SHOW SOME EMOTION JOAN ARMATRADING/A&M SP - STREET SURVIVORS 4663 2 G LYNYRD SKYNYRD IED105 FEELS SO GOOD CHUCK MANGIONE/A&M SP 4658 1 I MCA 3029 1 I G 79 81 KARLA BONOFF/Columbia PC 34762 5 F 80 71 ELVIS, A LEGENDARY PERFORMER, VOL. IELVIS PRESLEY/ RCA CPL1 0341 8 G

23 22 STAR WARS AND OTHER GALACTIC FUNK MECO/Millennium 81 84 COME GO WITH US POCKETS/Columbia PC 34879 5 F MNLP 8001 (Casablanca) 11 F 82 7E BEST OF THE DOOBIES DOOBIE BROTHERS/Warner Bros. 23 BARRY MANILOW LIVE/Arista 8500 23 24 BSK 2112 51 G 25 24 LITTLE QUEEN HEART/Portrait JR 34799 24 G 133 NEVER LET GO PHOEBE SNOW/Columbia JC 34875 2 G 26 27 BRICK/Bank BLP 409 9 G 100 NIGHT AFTER NIGHT NILS LOFGREN/A&M SP 3707 2 H 27 25 CAT SCRATCH FEVER TED NUGENT/Epic 3470C 21 G 85 66 A STAR IS BORN (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/Columbia JS 59 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/ 34403 48 X B3 Arista AB 4159 3 G 86 76 LIGHTS OUT UFO/Chrysalis CHR 1127 22 29 26I'M IN YOU PETER FRAMPTON/A&M SP 4704 20 G 109 TURNIN' ON HIGH INERGY/Gordy G6 978S1 (Motown) 1 30 37LET'S GET SMALL STEVE MARTIN/Warner Bros. BSK 3090 6 G LOVE SONGS BEATLES/Capitol SKBL 11711 1 31 34IN CITY DREAMS ROBIN TROWER/Chrysalis CHR 1148 6 G 89 92 TWILLEY DON'T MIND DWIGHT TWILLEY/Arista AB 4140 2 32 29 BOOK OF DREAMS STEVE MILLER BAND/Capitol SO 11630 24 G 90 64 BOATS AGAINST THE CURRENT ERIC CARMEN/Arista AB RIGHT BROTHERS JOHNSON/A&M SP 4644 25 G 33 28 4124 10 G 58 MOONFLOWER SANTANA/Columbia C2 34914 2 H ELI 91 79 BAD REPUTATION THIN LIZZY/Mercury SRM 11186 7 G 35 36A FAREWELL TO KINGS RUSH/Mercury SRM 11184 7 G 92 98 SEND IT ASHFORD & SIMPSON/Warner Bros. BS 3088 3 F 46 FRENCH KISS BOB WELCH/Capitol ST 11663 5 F 137RAIN DANCES CAMEL/Janus JXS 7035 1 G 42 GREATEST HITS, VOL. II ELTON JOHN/MCA 3027 4 G 94 87 GO FOR YOUR GUNS ISLEY BROTHERS/T-Neck PZ 34432 G 43 BABY IT'S ME DIANA ROSS/Motown M7 890R1 5 (CBS) 31 F BEAUTY ON A BACKSTREET DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES/ 39 30 95 77FLOWING RIVERS ANDY GIBB/RSO 1 3019 (Polydor) 12 G RCA AFLI 2300 8 G NIGHTWINGS STANLEY TURRENTINE/Fantasy F 9534 9 G 40 38 HERE AT LAST-BEE GEES LIVE BEE GEES/RSO 2 3901 96 69 (,Polydor) 23 97 67NETHER LANDS DAN FOGELBERG/Full Moon PE 34185 41 41 ACTION BLACKBYRDS/Fantasy F 9535 6 G (CBS) 18 F 58 G 42 33BOSTON/Epic JE 34188 98 89 IN COLOR CHEAP TRICK/Epic PE 34884 7 F YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE DEBBY BOONE/Wcirner/Curb BS 1111 83 99 72 A NEW WORLD RECORD ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA/ 3118 (WB) 2 F Jet LA679 G (UA) 42 G 44 32 I REMEMBER YESTERDAY DONNA SUMMER/Casoblarca NBLP 7056 22 G 100112 REACH FOR IT GEORGE DUKE/Epic PE 34883 1

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com ALBUM PICKS WORLD (Continued from page 36) Caught in the Act LA CATEDRAL Y EL TORO CAUGHT IN THE ACT SteveGibbors JOE FARRELL-Warner Bros. BS 3121(6.98) BandLive- STEVE GIBBONS BAND-MCA 2305 (6.98) - The redoubtable team of Ralph MacDon- Gibbons and his band have made some ald and William Eaton produced Farrell's great strides this past year, with most of first album for the label which appears to the attention focused around his live act. be a veritable call to arms of top session This 1p captures some of that excitement players.Movingfromelaboratesym- with songs like "One Of The Boys," and phonic tracks (the title number) to cool "Speed Kills" in addition to interpretations ballads and even disco styled numbers, of"Tulane" and "Watching theRiver Farrell touches all bases. Flow." EXPECT NO MERCY ROAD TO TOMORROW NAZARETH-A&M SP 4666 (7.98) CHI COLTRANE-Clouds CL 8801 (TK) 16.981 The latestlabel under the TK umbrella The hardrocking side ofthisScottish reintroduces this vibrant songstress. With quartetis given a workout by guitarist/ ten new self -penned songs topped by the producer Manny Charlton and lead singer Dan McCafferty. The title song and "Gone RollingStones -sounding "SlowDriver" and "What's Happening To Me (It's A Dead Train" are in the mold of some of Spell)," Coltrane shows that she has lost their earlier songs and itis that no non- sense,straightforward approach thatis none of her charm or talent. their calling card. UP JIM MULLEN AND DICK MORRISSEY- EARTHDANCE Embryo SD 536 (Atli (6.98) PAUL WINTER-A&M SP 4653 (6.98) Mullen(fromKokomo) andMorrissey Winter's three A&M albums is the source (fromIf) have been working together in of material for this set. Side one, from his bars and clubs this past year, but their live "Road" album has a spirited upbeat association goes back even further. The feel and includes his best known work, Average White Band produced the mostly "Icarus." Side two has been culled from instrumental jazz set and several members the "Something In the Wind" and "The of the group contribute. Winter Consort" albums. KING ALBERT ALBERT KING-Tomato TOM 6002 (6.98) ANOTHER ISLAND The "King" of the blues guitar wails more KING ALBERT ARTHUR WAYNE-Casablanca NBLP 7070 (7.98) convincingly than he has on recent past An excellent mixture of r&b, pop and efforts with this first 1p for the label. Pro- calypso with some reggae thrown in for ducer Don Davishassidesteppedthe good measure gives Wayne an identifi- disco styled arrangements King has been able sound which should be good for any utilizing for a more straightforward and number ofradioformats. "Shanghaied comfortable approach for King and his (On Your Ship Of Love)," "Maylinda,"

"Another Island" and "Dance It Out" are the standouts. MY MUSIC IS HOT LALOMIE WASHBURN-Parachute RRLP 9001 (Casablanca) (6.98) MY FAREWELL TO ELVIS The first album on the new Russ Regan MERLE HAGGARD-MCA 2314 (6.98) label finds this pink haired disco song- Haggard's self -penned single hit, "From stress fronting a tight, rhythmic section Graceland to the Promised Land" opens that includes Wah Wah Watson, Lee Rite- this tribute to the King. What follows is a nour and Joe Sample. "Give Me Love With selection of nine songs made popular by the Music," and "Double Funkin'" show Elvis and lovingly interpreted by this art- just what this lady can do. ist.Among thetracksare:"Don't Be Cruel,""Love Me Tender,""InThe THE PAC IS BACK Ghetto" and "Jailhouse Rock." IMPACT-Fantasy F 9539 (7.98) The outfit fronted by former Temptation LOVE TRANSFUSION vocalist Damon Harris has matured some ROCKETS-Tortoise Intl. BYL1-2572 (RCA) (6.98) since their debut earlier in the year and This high energy rock quintet from De- shows much promise with this first 1p for troit is lead by guitarist Jim McCarty who Fantasy. "Carry Me Back" opens the set has played with Mitch Ryder in the De- with a brisk vocal workout that sounds troit Wheels. Straightforward rock like the reminiscent of the Emotions' "Best Of My brand this group serves up is timeless and Love." songs like"Fast Thing InDetroit" and "I Got To Move" prove the point. LOVE-SHOOK PATTI BROOKS AND THE SIMON ORCHESTRA- Casablanca NBLP 7066 CHARO AND THE SALSOUL ORCHESTRA One of the more inventive disco produc- Salsoul SZS 5519 (6.98) tions we've heardin awhileisbuilt Charo has been recorded in the past, but around the vocals of this lady who grace- it has not been as complementary as this fully glides through two sides and four pairing with producer Vincent Montana, extended numbers. Of particular interest Jr. The songstress has a unique way with is the "Pop Collage Medley" which com- words and she turns songslike"Let's bines "Popcorn," "BlackIsBlack" and Spend The Night Together," and "Speedy "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." Gonzalez" into personal statements.

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Now on tour with Rod Stewart. OCTOBER 1977 DECEMBER 1977 10/31 Stadium Chicago, Ill. 11/18 Civic Center Birmingham, Ala. 12/2 Joe Freeman San Antonio, Tex. NOVEMBER 1977 11/20Omni Atlanta, Ga. Coliseum 11/2 Civic CenterSt. Paul, Minn. 11/21 Coliseum Jacksonville, Fla. 12/4 McNichols Arena Denver, Colo. 11/4 Richfield 11/23 Sportatorium Hollywood, Fla. 12/7 Ariz. State Univ. Tempe, Ariz. Coliseum Cleveland, Ohio 11/25 La. State Univ. Baton Rouge, La. 12/8 Community 11/5-6 Cobo Arena Detroit, Mich. 11/26 The Summit Houston, Tex. Center Arena Tucson, Ariz. 11/8 Riverfront 11/27 Tarrant Co. 12/10 Sports Arena San Diego, Calif. Coliseum Cincinnati, Ohio Convention CenterFort Worth, Tex. 12/12-14The Forum Los Angeles, Calif. 11/9 Civic Center Roanoke, Va. 11/29 Kemper Arena Kansas City, Mo. 12/18-19Cow Palace San Francisco, Calif 11/10 Coliseum Greensboro, N.C. 11/30 The Myriad Oklahoma City, Okla. Lam' u'"COLUMBin." MARCAS REG. (C) 1977CBS INC.

AmericanRadioHistory.Com Everybody's MobileMgrs. ConventionELP Feted (Continued from page 3) where they had lunch with WEA they hadseen.Additionally,a executives and were given a tour group of Everybody's personnel of the facilities, as well as a visit rehearsed their new band, a punk to the film studios and back lot. rockoutfitcalledLance Rhoid That evening they dined with and the Noids. Led by Canyon RSO president Al Coury and label Road(Portland)manager Marc executives. Gonzales, thegroup invited Thursday, the group saw the members of the "invitation only" Superior Music operation, guided audience to dance "The Pogo," by Steve Wallich, who "gave us reportedlya new wave body the in's and out's of why Superior movement exercise. doesthings," stated Keenan. Continuing on the tour of Cali- Other representatives chose to forniamanufacturingfacilities, visit JEM Records, "to see some the group left Ricon and headed of the problems encountered by North to tour the Santa Maria an import specialist." That eve- pressing facility of CBS, then flew ning the convention was given a to San Francisco, touring GRT in tour of A&M artists, later diningSunnyvale, and concluding the with A&M executives. meetings with a dinner, hosted Atlantic recording group Emerson Lake and Palmer returned to New York's Madison OnFridaytheytouredthe by Fantasy Records. Square Garden for a special benefit concert sponsored by radio station WNEW-FM. Capitolpressingfacility,visited Inaddition to the personnel Proceeds will go to several New York charities. Following the performance, a party Mushroom Records and ex- previously mentioned, Bruce was hosted by WNEW-FM and in the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller changed viewpointswithmar- Center. Shown at the party are, from left: WNEW-FM air personality Pete Fornatale, Chisholm, Oregon regional man- Atlantic chairman Ahmet Ertegun, , and executive vice president Sheldon keting specialist firms Macey Lip- ager; John Falkenstein, Washing- Vogel. man and Image Marketing. They ton regional manager; and vice also visited RW's West Coast of- president Don McCabe were with fice, where they discussed chartthe group. Bob Cael, manager ofTWM Appoints Two Doucette to Mushroom methodologyandretailinput Downpour Distributors, attended NEW YORK-Michael Hektoen, LOS ANGELES - Mushroom withRW staffers. as did store managers Bob executive vice president of TWM Records has signed Jerry Doucet- After the first three days the O'Neal, Roger Nielsen, Jim Management, has announced the te, a Canadian artist, to a record- group gathered in Rincon, Cali- Hudak, Tim Mortenson and John appointment ofBillDern and ing contract, andisplanning a fornia, torest and digest what Hunanger. Barry Essenfeld to the positions of marketing and promotional cam- vice presidents of the company. paign to coincide with the re- Record Bar Bows Tracks Dern, who will bring in such lease of his debut album in No- jazzclientsas Art Farmer and vember. The album, "Mama Let Jeremy Steig, will work on jazz tours,promotion and personal Him Play," has just been com- management of all TWM music pleted at Mushroom Studios in clients. Vancouver, produced by Marty Essenfeld, who was previously Lewis and Rolf Henneman. assistant treasurer and director of operations for Allied Pictures, will work directly with TWM presi- Beatles Gold dent Gerald Delet, in the coordi- MI LOS ANGELES - The Beatles' nation of corporate and client"Love Songs" album has been financial affairs. certified gold by the RIAA. Campus Market Survey (Continued from page 28) Convenience,morethan any are available, however, they may other factor,helps the college lose the white pop customer. bookstore, according to the man- "The one complaint I get fairly ager. "In some cases you've got often is that the Tape Rack has to an almost captive audience." pay a lot of freight in order to Mandina also cited the local keep current," stated Gus Figu- "head shops" with providing stiff -*.`a\ roa, a salesperson for Associated Tracks, the Record Bar chain's first superstore, opened its doors for business in Norfolk, competition for record specialists Distributors and an affiliated one Virginia on October 20, and for some 200 recording industry executives, media rep- in the college area. "They can sell stop. resentatives and local businessmen, a grand opening cocktail party held the previous records at a giveaway price, be- Co-op Rebates evening offered a sneak preview of the 10,000 square foot store. The Tracks grand cause they use them as loss lead- opening promotion will continue through mid -November. A number of giveaways are The campus co-op, or "coop," planned, including Kawasaki KZ 1000 motorcycles, two 10 -speed bikes and a stereo. ers,"observed Mandain. "Any- in addition to having a campus The giveaway is being sponsored jointly by Tracks and Norfolk radio station WMYK- body can give records away, but location,oftenenjoysanother FM. Shown above at the grand opening is the Tracks management staff, which was it's another matter to make a liv- distinct advantage. At the end of picked from the ranks of Record Bar management. From left are: Zan White, opera- ing and a profit at it." tions manager; Lamar Blaylock, product manager; Ralph King, general manager; and the fiscal year all members of the Charley Dobbins, merchandising manager. Hot Pop Sales co-op receiverebates on their Robbins, Singer and Mandinapurchases. At the Harvard store all agreed that most college area (which is located off campus) the Michael to ATV Polydor Taps Werchen retailers tend towards a high con- return yielded eight percent last Ms. Eileen Michael has joined NEW YORK - Ekke Schnabel, centrationofcurrenthot pop year. This translates to a savings ATV Music Group as administra- vicepresident,businessaffairs, product,althoughtheretailers of 320 on each album sold to tive director, east coast. She was has announced that David Wer-also report that there are largeco-op members at$4.00. Most formerly general manager of Al- chen hasjoinedthebusiness collegesegmentsinterestedin record purchases at the Harvard mo Publications, and director of affairsdepartmentofPolydor, classical and jazz selections. If the Coop,however,are made by product and media for Warner Inc. and Phonogram as associatecollege area store does not offer members of the general commu- Brothers Music. counsel. new selections as quickly as they nity.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Govt. Readies Jukebox Regulations Midsong Signs Greene (Continued from page 3) box in the country (about 450,- curity value or of a trade secretfice is not sure it can require of 000 of them accordingly to the nature. As the AMOA's attorney theoperators anythingmore Amusement and Music Opera- Nicholas Allen,pointed out, than areporting of each ma- tors Association) must apply for evenif the jukebox owners re- chine's serial number as require- an $8 license sticker issued by ported the location of alltheir ment for issuance of a license. the Copyright Office. machines,theoperatorscould The revision law prescribes that Last week's hearingswere make acaseagainstreleasing operators applying for a license called to hash out the minutiae that information even to the per- must supply "the manufacturer ofthatlicensingsystem,with forming rights organizations un-and serial number or [emphasis particular attention paid to der the trade secret exemptionadded] other explicit identifica- just what information the ma- of the FOI Act. Without the 1;sts, tion of the" jukebox. The "or" chine operators will have to file theperformingrightssocieties inthatlaw'sphraseology may with the government in order to would be no better off thanif precludetheCopyrightOffice, Bob Reno(left),presidentof Midsong believe, InternationalRecords,ispicturedwith get the license. The performing the information had not been re- certainofitsofficials Denny Greene of Sha Na Na at Greene's rightssocieties,fortheirpart, ported at all. fromrequiringanythingmore signing as asoloartist with Midsong. must police the new licensing The rights organizations hastily than the machine -maker's name HisfirstIp,"Denny Greene," has lust scheme to ensure operator com- offered to compromise their call and the box's serial number. A been released. pliance and sample the boxes' forfulllocationacountingsin final determination on the scope programming to determine which the licensing process. Instead of of information required will not Famous Signs writers and publishers will be en- being required to report the lo-be madeuntiltheregulations titled to payments from the ap- cation of a box in order to be are announced. Butit was clear British Acts proximately $4 million pool the issued a license, the societies of- thatifthe Office goes beyond NEW YORK - Famous Music new royalty willgenerate, and fered, they are willing to acceptmanufacturer and serial number Corporation, a division of Para- thereforethosesocietieswant a regulation which requires op- inits rules, that little word "or" mount Pictures, has signed sev- fullaccountingmadetothe erators to merely list the estab- may prove to be grounds for lat- eral English writer/artists for ex- Copyright Office.Box location, lishmentswhereitsmachines ter law suits against the Officeclusive publishing rightsin the the model number and capacity are located-withouttieing a and its regulations by the juke- and Canada, ac- of the box, as well as the charge specific box to a specific loca- box owners. cording to Marvin Cane, president a basis.The The other important item sep- per play, said the rights organi- tion-on regular of the firm. zationswhichtestifiedjointly, societies suggested monthly re-arating copyright owners and the were necessary for full enforce- ports.Without somesortof jukebox operatorsisthe place- The new signings to Famous ment of the new law. The opera- master list, though, they said,it mentofthelicensesticker, include the group Grand Theft; Pipedream, featuring Dave Melia tors,expressingconcernthat would become necessary to whichtherightsorganizations they would be providing lists of check each of the half million want displayed prominently and and Martin Tetlow; Charlie Gil- theirclientstorivaljukebox machines for compliance. theoperators would preferto senan; Adrian Gurvitz; and The companies in the process, argued "The burden for such enforce- have the leeway to place on the Secret.PierreTubbshasalso signed a deal for his company, for asimpler accounting with ment falls squarely on our backs of machines. If required to minimalinformationreporting shoulders," said the joint rightsdisplay stickers on the fronts of Universal Songs Ltd., to be repre- necessary for a license. organization statement. "There is machines, the operators want to sented by Famous for the world, Location Lists no police force, no governmentsee the license reduced to one excluding the U.S. and Japan. The most importantdispute, agency which can or will protect inch by three inches so thatit however,seemstocenter on copyright owners' rights onits could be affixed to one of theWilson Tour Set whether the operators will have own initiative. Our job, as hard box's title strip panels. Since the to supply lists outlining the loca- asitis,shouldnot be made law specifies prominent display, LOS ANGELES - Dennis Wil- son, Caribou Records artist, will tionsofalltheir machines so moredifficultby a regulation the Copyright Office will almost beginhisfirsttour asasolo thatfield representatives can whichwillcostusgreat time surely require thatitsperform- concentrate on those establish- and expense as a practical mat- ancelicensebeaffixedsome- artistinNovember, performing ter. Without specification of lo- where on the front, butitap- in 10 cities in the east and mid - ments with boxes not reported beginning November 21. to the government. cation, the proposed regulation pearsunlikelythatallthere- west The boxes, according to the opens up the possibility of eva- quiredinformationfortheli- Wilson will employ a 13 -piece band, including Carl Wilson and AMOA testimony, are constantly sion of the law." cense sticker can be reduced to being shifted from one site to For its part, the Copyright Of- 1" by 3". Bruce Johnston as background another. New boxes are shifted vocalists. Ricci Martin (Epic) will locations, they ex- be Wilson's opening act. Wilson into "best" will also appear on Don Kirsh- plained,whiletheolderused Cruisin' with Pablo ones are bumped down the line ner's Rock Concert and The Mike Douglas Show. of an operators'listofclients until the "worst" machine isin the"worst"locationandthe Thin Lizzy Gold oldest are taken out of circula- CHICAGO-Mercury star Thin tion.Thisperpetual movement Lizzy'salbum,"Jailbreak,"has of machines between establish- ments and in and out of repair been certified gold by the RIAA. shops would make for unaccept- ablepaperwork,ifeachbox's whereabouts had to be reported Four from MCA to the government atalltimes, LOS ANGELES-According to they said. vice presidentof marketing, Too, the operators fearthat Richard Bibby, MCA Records they would be supplying com- will release four albums for No- petitors with ready lists of clients vember. Those releases include if such a requirement were es- "My Farewell to Elvis" by Merle tablished.Allinformationcol- Haggard, "Trini-vibes"by Kay - lected by the government is sub- Ian,'A Semi -Reformed Tequila jectto public inspection under Pictured backstage toasting Pablo Cruise after their successful Forum concert with the Crazed Gypsy Looks Back" by Doobie Brothers are: Cory Lerios (Pablo Cruise); Dave Jenkins (Pablo Cruise); actor Tony Silvester and "Original the Freedom of Information Act, Will Greer; Stephen Price (Pablo Cruise); Bruce Day (Pablo Cruise); and Jerry Moss, except for that data which can chairman, ABM Records. The band is currently on a 60 day tour of the U.S. to promote Music From the Motion Picture be proven to be of national se- their current A&M Ip, "A Place In The Sun." Soundtrack 'Heroes'."

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com GENE HARRIS' TONE TANTRUMS. Since the day of its release, it's been getting heavy national airplay on all progressive FM formats. And it's still growing and spreading now. Big sales are starting to show with a pattern of reorders all over the country. For years Gene has developed a large and faithful audience. Now it's spreading. Everywhere! TONE TANTRUMS BY GENE HARRIS. ON BLUE NOTE RECORDSAND TAPES. b Note

AmericanRadioHistory.Com S UL TRUTH CBS Honors O'Jays By DEDE DABNEY II NEW YORK: Personal Pick: "You Can Do It" Hot (Big Tree). An up -tempo tune. The haunting voices enhance the possibilities for strong chart action. DEDE'S DITTIES TO WATCH: "Love ME Right"- Denise LaSalle (ABC); "Sweet Disco Daddy" The Waller Family (MCA); "Just Keep On Lovin' Me" -- Johnnie Taylor (Stax). There is a new program director at WOL-AM (Washington). His name is Quincy McCoy and he came CBS Records and Philadelphia International Records recently held a gala reception for from station Y-100 (Miami). PIR recording artists The O'Jays to present them with a gold record for their latest Ip, Mitch Clark has been named new program and music "Travelin' At The Speed of Thought." The album was produced by PIR's Kenny Gamble director of WEAM-AM (Arlington, Va.). He will take and Leon Huff. The party also celebrated the O'Jays SRO performances at Madison Square Garden. PIR is a CBS Records Associated label. Pictured at the reception are, the place of Calvin Booker and Barry Richards. from left: (top) Richard Mack, vice president, national promotion, CBS Records special CTI Records has gone through a cutback in its markets;Gordon Anderson,director,nationalpromotion, CBS RecordsAssociated Labels; Ron Alexenburg, senior vice president, Epic/Portrait/Associated Labels; Leon promotional staff. This change has affected Celeste Huff, vice chairman of the board, PIR; Harry Coombs, exec. vice president, PIR; O'Jay Deems who was handling east coast promotion for the Eddie Lavert; Kenny Gamble, chairman of the board, PIR; O'Jay Walter Williams; company. Tony Martell, vice president and general manager, CBS Records Associated Labels; Ray Free, local promotion manager, New York, E/P/A; and Jim Tyrrell, vice president, Charles Bobbit, who was affiliated with James marketing, E/P/A; (bottom) Eddie Sims, northeast Regional Promotion Marketing Man- Brown, has been named special advisor to the President ager, CBS Records special markets; Mike Barnardo,local promotion manager, CBS Records special markets; O'Jay Sammy Strain; Peggy Parham, manager, merchandising, of the Republic of Gabon, Albert Bongo. E/P/A; Vernon Slaughter, associate director, national promotion, CBS Records special should be very pleased with the final markets. outcome of his testimonial dinner, held last week at Detroit's Plaza Hotel. Some folk in attendance ABC Promotes Wilson were quoted as saying this turn -out was as huge LOS ANGELES - Corb Do- as a NATRA convention. The highlight of the dinner, nohue, national director of art- which was tastefully planned, was the appearance istdevelopment, ABC Records, has announced the appointment of DeeDee Sham Gamble. of Belinda Wilson to theposi- We would like to apologize to Atlantic Records tionofdirectorofartistrela- for the typographical error which stated that Jimmy tions, special markets. She was Carter would have a new release on this label. previouslyregional promotion Obviously it should have read Jimmy Castor. director, ABC. Ms. Louise William's Testimonial will be held Wilsonhasbeen with ABC Recordssince1973. Priorto November 11th. For further details please contact joining the company, she held Harold Burnside at (215) 878-2000. positions with several radio sta- Guess who came to Bal- tions, including KDAY, Los An- timore? Al Jarreau. geles, KFWB, Los Angeles, and Jarreau was presented KDIA, San Francisco. with his NATRA award at Wilson will report directly to Washington's Constitution Donohue. Belinda Wilson Hall where he was appear- ing. Pictured from left: New Wave News Kitty Brody, president (Continued from page 18) of NATRA; Jarreau; owned by-and this is really peculiar-John Fahey. Thus, said Mitch- ell, "only John Fahey can create an Infected record," chuckle, chuckle. NATRA's national secre- ... Mitchell alsosaid that Infected was "formed specifically to launch tary Elois Purdie- and the Valdez brothers-we felt that Takoma had the wrong image." WEA Baltimore -Wash- Hey, this gu'c perceptive, eh? But what Beer (smile when you say

ington -Virginia market- that name around here) and I really want to know is, when will the ing coordinator Tonv Dead Boys' "Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth" make the new Anderson. wave hit parade? R&B PICKS OF THE WEEK DIANA ROSS, "GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE" ccTHE MIGHTY POPE,"CAN'T GET BYX ALBERT KING, "KING ALBERT." LLI WITHOUT YOU" (Colgems- King has the knack of putting it (Braintree Music/Snow Music/a. KING ALBERT Golde's Gold, BMI). Stars rise IVA EMI Music, ASCAP). Wheneverco alltogether. This1p exemplifies when it comes to a flavorfulwSTOCKthere is a strong back beat it-1 the meaning of the blues. Guitar- melody. However, this star did always insures airplay in the< ist and vocalist, his versatility is not need a tune to make her r&b market. This is the second evident throughout this disc. Sug- vocal ability rise, for she is a action packed single by this gestedcutsare ''BootLace," queen of any type of music. new artist whose vocal capa- "Chump Change"and"Good Ms. Ross hasonce again bilities are sure to win over Time Charlie." Tomato TOM - emerged with a hit single; a thebuyingpublic.Producer 6002. fast moving pace, with a bril- Harry Hinde knew what the liant interlude of slow notes, disco -goers enjoy listening to enhances this production. Fan- and, keeping that in mind, he tastic side! Motown M 1427F. has a natural chartmaker. Pri- vate Stock PS 45, 176.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com L;co THE R&B Disco File (Continued from page 32) 19k) SINGLES CHART version, the other a percussion variation running 3:54; 3) the first Salsoul disco disc pressed at 33 rpm-which does not repre- NOVEMBER 5, 1977 sent, at this point, a major policy shift for the label but is sure to add to the overall confusion on disco 12 -inch speed anyway. NOV. OCT. 5 29 George McCrae's "Kiss Me" is a wonderful flashback: it's that old IIII 2(EVERYTIME I TURN AROUND) BACK IN LOVE George McCrae formula-the one that sent him to number one with AGAIN LTD/1974 "Rock Your Baby"-but it feels great all over again, especially with 2 1 IT'S ECSTASY WHEN YOU LAY DOWN NEXT TO ME BARRY WHITE/ all the new touches that refine the original sound, making it cleaner 20th Century TC 2350 3 4 DUSIC BRICK/Bang 734 and sweeter, adding tight percussion breaks. It's McCrae streamlined 4 3 DO YOUR DANCE (PART I) ROSE ROYCE/Whitfield WH1 8440 (WB) but sexy as ever, his voice honed to a delightfully sharp cutting edge. 5 6 KEEP IT COMIN' LOVE KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND/T.K. 1023 "Kiss Me" isin two parts, the first 5:47, the second, beginning with 9 YOU CAN'T TURN ME OFF (IN THE MIDDLE OF TURNING ME ON) HIGH INERGY/Gordy 7155 (Motown) a break, 3:42-both brilliant and a welcome return to basics. Since 7 8 DO YOU WANNA GET FUNKY WITH ME PETER BROWN/ the T Connection's "Do What You Wanna Do" was one of the most Drive 6258 (T.K.) successful disco discs of the year, their follow-up has been eagerly O 12 IF YOU'RE NOT BACK IN LOVE BY MONDAY MILLIE JACKSON/ Spring 175 (Polydor) awaited and "On Fire, Getting Higher" won't disappoint anyone. The 9 5 BRICK HOUSE COMMODORES/Motown M 1425F sound is still hard and aggressive, firmly rooted in funk but this time 10 17 SERPENTINE FIRE EARTH, WIND & FIRE/Columbia 3 10625 around drawing much closer to rock than ever before. Both the quality of the vocals-prominent throughout-and the prominence of 11 11 SHAKE IT WELL 43 24 THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL DRAMATICS/ABC 12299 GEORGE BENSON/Arista 0251 the lead guitar make this the perfect rock/disco crossover, a record 12 7 BOGGIE NIGHTS 133 58 NATIVE NEW YORKER that could easily elude all labels and win everyone over. Cory Wade HEATWAVE/Epic 8 50370 ODYSSEY/RCA 11129 and Alex Sadkin produced so you know the breaks are hot and there 13 10 WE NEVER DANCED TO A CEI 50ALL YOU GOT LOVE SONG TYRONE DAVIS/Columbia 3 are plenty of off-the-wall touches to keep you happy (an almost MANHATTANS/Columbia 3 10604 classical piano out of nowhere and, later, zippy synthesizer accents). 10486 46 38 THEME FROM "BIG TIME" 19 GOIN' PLACES PART I "On Fire" (7:20) should have them screaming in no time;it flips to JACKSONS/Epic 8 50454 SMOKEY ROBINSON/Tamla T T Connection's first hit, "Disco Magic" (7:15) which sounds as good 54288F (Motown) 15 13 FLOAT ON as ever-cleaner even, so this may be an improved mix. Both records FLOATERS/ABC 12284 CU 55 FFUN CON FUNK SHUN/Mercury are likely to be monsters-spearheads in TK's winter assault on the 16 14 DOCTOR LOVE 73959 1ST CHOICE/Gold Mind 4004 (Salsoul) 56 I GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE disco charts. FANTASTIC FOUR/Westbound Thelma Houston's new album, "The Devil In Me" (Tamla), contains 17 15 WORK ON ME 55403 (Atlantic) O'JAYS/Phila. Intl. ZS8 3631 (CBS) 49 52 WAITING IN VAIN the expected longer version (6:31) of "I'm Here Again" and if the BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS/ 18 16 STRAWBERRY LETTER 23 Island 092 additional few minutes don't entirely redeem this "Don't Leave Me BROTHERS JOHNSON/A&M 1949 50 51 I'M AFRAID TO LET YOU This Way" retread, they definitely do give it the added punch at the 19 18 BEST OF MY LOVE INTO MY LIFE end thatitneeded. Whether a few superb piano runs and string EMOTIONS/Columbia 3 10544 FREDDIE WATERS/October 1011 59 I'M HERE AGAIN accents can dispel! the general disinterest that has greeted the single 20 21 "STAR WARS" THEME/ 1133 THELMA HOUSTON/Tamla T in the clubs remains to be seen, but "I'm Here" deserves another CANTINA BAND 54287 (Motown) MECO/Millennium MN 604 listening in this expanded form. Unfortunately, the rest of Houston's (Casablanca) 61 LOVELY DAY EDI BILL WITHERS/Columbia 3 album seems to lack a coherent spirit in the product and many of 21 20 EASY 10627 COMMODORES/Motown the cuts fall far short of what they could be, but, for the dancers, "It's M 1418F 53 53 GET INTO MY LIFE BELOYD/20th Century 2353 22 22 LADY OF MAGIC Just Me Feeling Good" has a certain appealing bounce. Much more MAZE FEATURING FRANKIE Ea 63 YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY satisfying as an album is Freda Payne's latest, "Stares and Whispers" BEVERLY/Capitol P 4456 YOU LOVE ME 23 25 JUST FOR YOUR LOVE FLOATERS/ABC 12314 (Capitol), which should put her right back up there at the top of the MEMPHIS HORNS/RCA 11064 ® 62 LOVER JONES -female vocal field again. Producer Frank Wilson, who has done so 24 26 DON'T BE AFRAID JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON/ RONNIE DYSON/Columbia 3 DJM DJUS 1029 (Amherst) much fine work this year, suits Payne as handsomely as Holland - 10599 111 64 GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE Dozier -Holland did once, particularly on "Love Magnet" (6:23), with 33 DON'T ASK MY NEIGHBORS DIANA ROSS/Motown M 1427F EMOTIONS/Columbia 3 10622 57 57 LAY IT ON ME its darting synthesizer touches, and "Master of Love." 26 28 RUNNING AWAY SYLVIA/Vibration VI 570 ROY AYERS UBIQUITY/Polydor (All Platinum) 14415 ECI 66 DO DO WAP IS STRONG 27 23 HEAVEN ON EARTH CURTIS AAAYFIELD/Curtom R&B REGIONAL BREAKOUTS CMS 0131 (WB) (SO FINE) 59 60 THIS TIME WE'RE REALLY SPINNERS/Atlantic 3425 THROUGH 28 27 I BELIEVE YOU Singles Albums ELEANOR GRANT/Columbia 3 DOROTHY MOORE/Malaco 1042 10617 (T.K.) 60 46 DISCO 9000 35 SEND IT JOHNNIE TAYLOR/Columbia 3 East: ASHFORD & SIMPSON/Warner East: 10610 Floaters (ABC) Bros. 8453 61 65 SUPER SEXY New Birth (Warner Bros.) 30 32 FUNK FUNK LEON HAYWOOD/MCA 40793 Parliament (Casablanca) Commodores (Live) (Motown) CAMEO/Chocolate City CC 011 62 67 COULD HEAVEN EVER BE Al Green (Hi) (Casablanca) Mandrill (Arista) LIKE THIS Brothers Johnson (A&M) Memphis Horns (RCA) 31 29 CREAM CITY IDRIS MUHAMMAD/Kudu AALON/Arista 0249 930 (CTI) Santana (Columbia) 131 40SOMEBODY'S GOTTA WIN, 73 BOP GUN (ENDANGERED South: Phillipe Wynne (Cotillion) SOMEBODY'S GOTTA SPECIES) Al Green (Hi) LOSE PARLIAMENT/Casablanca NB CONTROLLERS/Juana 3414 900 South: (T.K.) 64 68 FUNKY MONKEY Midwest: George Duke (Epic) 37 I'M AT THE CROSSROADS MANDRELL/Arista 2074 Kellee Patterson (Shadybrook) VERNON GARRETT/ICA 003 65 69 SOLAR FLIGHT (OPUS I) Odyssey (RCA) MANDRE/Motown M 1429F Midwest: 42 IF IT DON'T FIT, DON'T Al Green (Hi) FORCE IT 66 71 LET ME LIVE THE LIFE I LOVE Gladys Knight (Buddah) New Birth (Warner Bros.) KELLEE PATTERSON/Shadybrook LATIMORE/Glades 1744 (T.K.) Commodores (Live) (Motown) SB 45 1041 Brothers Johnson (A&M) - BELLE Most Requested Rhythm Band 41 ANY WAY YOU WANT ME Oil AL GREEN/Hi 77505 (Cream) 133 SYLVERS/Capitol 4493 (Magic Disc) 68 70 MELODIES 36 30 SHOO DOO FU FU OOHI MADE IN U.S.A./De-Lite 1594 West: Memphis Horns (RCA) LENNY WILLIAMS/ABC 12300 Santana (Columbia) 75 SORRY DOESN'T ALWAYS Odyssey (RCA) 37 31 I FEEL LOVE/CAN'T WE MAKE IT RIGHT Diana Ross (Motown) Phillipe Wynne (Cotillion) JUST SIT DOWN (AND GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS/ Gladys Knight (Buddah) TALK IT OVER) Buddah 584 (Arista) West: DONNA SUMMER/Casablanca 70 - RUNNIN' FOR YOUR LOVE 884 BROTHERS JOHNSON/A&M Commodores (Live) (Motown) 38 34 O -H -I -O 1982 Most Requested Rhythm Band OHIO PLAYERS/Mercury 73932 71 72 SHOUTING OUT LOVE EMOTIONS/Stax SIX 3200 (Magic Disc) 44 ONE STEP AT A TIME (Fantasy) 111 JOE SIMON/Spring 176 (Polydor) 72 74 HAVING A PARTY POINTER SISTERS/ABC Blue 40 45 JOY TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Thumb 275 PATTI LABELLE/Epic 8 50445 73 - COME GO WITH ME 41 43 I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ME POCKETS/Columbia 3 10632 NANCY WILSON/Capitol 4476 74 - REACH FOR IT 42 36 I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR GEORGE DUKE/Epic 8 50463 EVERYTHING 75 - IN A LIFETIME ANDY GIBB/RSO 872 (Polydor) TEMPTATIONS/Atlantic 3436 66 RECORD WORLD NOVEMBER 5, 1977

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8 A Great 'Simon' from DC CLASSICAL By SPEIGHT JENKINS NEW YORK-Deutsche Gram- tragedy of Simon the overwhelm- mophon has just released a great ing vocal and dramatic elements. RETAIL REPORT Simon Boccanegra. Conducted by When the first act begins Ab- NOVEMBER 5, 1977 GREATEST HITS OF 1720-Columbia Claudio Abbado, this moody and bado dreamily traces the famous CLASSIC OF THE WEEK JANACEK: KATYA KABANOVA- haunting work of Verdihasa nature picture of the garden and Soederstroem, Mackerras-London great cast and a strong directional sea, and MireIla Freni begins her MUSSORGSKY: BORIS GODUNOV- conception hanging over its everyMaria, memorable from first note Angel bar. When Milan's La Scala Opera tolast. The sopranoisoften a RACHMANINOFF: PIANO CONCERTO came to the United States in Sep- surprise on records; due to her NO. 3-Columbia tember of1976, oneoftheir absence from the U.S., we have VERDI: REQUIEM-RCA more acclaimed works was the not been able to hear her devel- VERDI: IL TROVATORE-London GiorgioStrehlerproductionof opment from alightlyric to a VIVALDI: FOUR SEASONS ON KOTOS- Angel Simon Boccanegra. heavier lyric soprano, and though I CAN HEAR YOU CALLING: Irish Songs At the time,I was only able to it has been evident before on rec- by Robert White-RCA see the dress rehearsal, which did ords,somehowthisrecording notincludetheprincipalson more clearly identifies her as a VERDI SPECS/MIIAMI whom the production was based. true Verdi soprano, capable of IL TROVATORE CILEA: ADRIANA LECOUVREUR- Inthisrecordingtheyareall singing any ofhisrolesfrom SUTHERLAND, HORNE, Tebaldi, Simionato, Del Monaco- there, and one feels the theater Gilda. London in every bar. The orchestra and PAVAROTTI, BONYNGE A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS-Waverly Her first duet with the strong London Consort-Columbia chorus, both of La Scala, respond and generally effective Gabriele WHITE CHRISTMAS-Mormon Tabernacle to Abbado's every wish. His con- AdornoofJoseCarrerasends ;21111111111/1111111111111111,t1111111/111111111111111111111/11111111111111111111111,1111111111111111111,11.1.11 Choir-Columbia cept of Verdi's opera stressesits with a breathtaking piano G on BEST SELLERS OF THE WEEK GREATEST HITS OF 1720-Columbia poetry: the Prologue is quiet and her part, and the two sing the VERDI: IL TROVATORE-Sutherland, MOZART: STRING QUARTETS-Melos sombre (recollectionof the set subsequent,usuallycutcaba- Horne, Pavarotti, Bonynge- Quartet-DG makes it probably the darkest sin- London letta with dispatch, Carreras cre- MOZART: SYMPHONIES NOS. 40, 41 gle scene from first tolast ever ates a young and virile Gabriele; MUSSORGSKY: BORIS GODUNOV- -Boehm-DG Talvela, Gadda, Semkow-Angel seen), with the bitterness of Fies- throughout the recording, how- PONCHIELLI: LA GIOCONDA-Milanov co and the disillusionment and RACHMANINOFF: PIANO CONCERTO London (Continued on page 72) NO. 3-Berman, Abbado- RACHMANINOFF: PIANO CONCERTO Columbia NO. 3-Columbia VERDI: REQUIEM-Price, Baker, VERDI: LA FORZA DEL DESTIONO- Luccheti, Van Dam, Solti-RCA Milanov-London 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111t111111111111. 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TROVATORE-London BACH: AIR t For TheG String) BOLLING: SUITE FOR FLUTE AND JAZZ PIANO-Rampal, Bolling-Columbia HANDEL: GOUNOD: FAUST-Caballe, Aragall, TOWER/SAN FRANCISCO SARABANDE From Suite No. 11 Plishka, Lombard-RCA BEETHOVEN, SCHUMANN: SONATA, (Theme From Barry Lyndon) JANACEK: KATYA KABANOVA- PIANO WORKS-Rubinstein-RCA Philharmonia Virtuosi Soederstroem, Mackerras-London BERLIOZ: L'ENFANCE DU CHRIST-Baker, MUSSORGSKY: BORIS GODUNOV- Davis-Philips OFNew York Angel BRAHMS: EIN DEUTCHES REQUIEM- RACHMANINOFF: PIANO CONCERTO Maazel-Columbia Richard Kapp NO. 3-Columbia CONINICTOR VERDI: REQUIEM-Sutherland, Solti- BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 9- London Korajan-DG VERDI: REQUIEM-RCA HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 100, 103- MX 34544 VERDI: IL TROVATORE-London Marriner-Philips VIVALDI: FOUR SEASONS ON KOTOS- JANACEK: KATYA KABANOVA- Angel Soederstroem, Mackerras-London MUSSORGSKY: BORIS GODUNOV- KING KAROL/NEW YORK Angel BERLIOZ: L'ENFANCE DU CHRIST-Baker, RACHMANINOFF: PIANO CONCERTO Davis-Philips NO. 3-Columbia BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE- VERDI: REQUIEM-RCA Bernstein-Angel VERDI: IL TROVATORE-London

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NOVEMBER 5, 1977 NOVEMBER 5, 1977 1.IN FULL BLOOM 1. ENIGMATIC OCEAN ROSE ROYCE/Whitfield WH 3074 (WB) JEAN-LUC PONTY/Atlantic SD 19110 2. BARRY WHITE SINGS FOR 2. LIFETIME SOMEONE YOU LOVE ROY AYERS UBIQUITY/Polydor BARRY WHITE/20th Century T 543 PD 1 6108 3. SOMETHING TO LOVE 3. ACTION LTD/A&M SP 4646 BLACKBYRDS/Fantasy F 9535 4. COMMODORES 4. NIGHTWINGS Motown M7 884R1 STANLEY TURRENTINE/Fantasy F 9534 5. TOO HOT TO HANDLE 5. FEELS SO GOOD HEATWAVE/Epic JE 34761 CHUCK MANGIONE/A&M SP 4658 6. REJOICE MCA Records hosted a private jazz radio dinner for David Axelrod in Los Angeles re- 6. BLOW IT OUT EMOTIONS/Columbia PC 34762 cently. Pictured from left:Russ Palmer, director of specialprojects for Whittemore TOM SCOTT/Ode BL 34966 (CBS) 7. BRICK Corp; Rod McGrew, KJLH program director David Axelrod, Monica Riordan, KBCA 7. FREE AS THE WIND Bang BLP 409 music coordinator; Wendell Bates, MCA national R&B/black marketing director; Sparkle CRUSADERS/ABC Blue Thumb BT 6029 8. SHAKE IT WELL Kemp, MCA west coast r&b regional marketing manager; Maria Polivka, Axelrod's 8. LIFESTYLE (LIVING AND LOVING) DRAMATICS/ABC AB 1010 manager; Don Whittemore, president Whittemore Corp. JOHN KLEMMER/ABC 1007 9. STAR WARS AND OTHER 9. LOOK TO THE RAINBOW GALACTIC FUNK (AL JARREAU LIVE IN EUROPE) MECO/Millennium MNLP 8001 The (Continued from page 14) AL JARREAU/Warner Bros. 2BZ 3052 (Casablanca) Coast 10. BRIDGES 10. FEELIN' BITCHY Lorraine Alterman, who followed John's advice to hold the ceremony GIL SCOTT -HERON & BRIAN JACKSON/ MILLIE JACKSON/Spring SP 1 6715 at the United Nations chapel "because the chaplain looks like Pat Arista ABC 4147 (Polydor) 11. REACH FOR IT 11. ACTION Boone," according to our source. GEORGE DUKE/Epic JE 34883 BLACKBYRDS/Fantasy F 9535 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: When Warner Bros. artist development 12. FRIENDS AND STRANGERS 12. PATTI LABELLE staffer Mike Stone arrived in Austin, Texas, for Randy Newman's show RONNIE LAWS/Blue Note BN LA730 Epic PE 34847 there, he was met by an unscheduled welcome committee of one. H (UA) 13. BABY IT'S ME 13. COMING THROUGH DIANA ROSS/Motown M7 890R1 As Mike drove away from the terminal in his rental car, he turned to EDDIE HENDERSON/Capitol ST 11671 14. FLOATERS face a disgruntled (and, we're told, er, disoriented) gent aiminga 14. BYABLUE ABC AB 1030 gun at his midsection, who accused Stone of being a narcotics agent KEITH JARRETT/ABC Impulse AS 9331 15. ODYSSEY 15. MORE STUFF RCA APL1 2204 responsible for the arrest of the gunman's girlfriend. STUFF/Warner Bros. BS 3061 Stone hurriedly explained that he wasn't a narc, just a music biz 16. LIVE 16. COME GO WITH US POCKETS/Columbia PC 34879 type, and offered to show the desperado his hotel room as evidence LONNIE LISTON SMITH/RCA APL1 2433 17. FINGER PAINTINGS ("Would I stay in a place like that," he reasonably pointed out). 17. LIFELINE EARL KLUGH/Blue Note BN LA737 (UA) ROY AYERS UBIQUITY/Polydor PD Then, when they got to Stone's hotel lodgings, the unexpectedpas- 1 6108 18. BUNDLE OF JOY senger conveniently passed out on the bed, precluding further ex- FREDDIE HUBBARD/Columbia JC 34902 18. TURNING ON planations. 19. RUBY, RUBY HIGH INERGY/Gordy G6 97851 (Motown) Still, we know now that somewhere in Austin there'sa Mike BARBIERI/A&M SP 4655 20. CTI SUMMER JAZZ AT THE Stone clone ... and a young lady who, in keeping with Newman's 19. SECRETS HOLLYWOOD BOWL, VOL. 2 CON FUNK SHUN/Mercury SRM 11180 latest, is a "little criminal." CTI 7007 20. MAZE FEATURING FRANKIE BEVERLY PARIETALS: Songstress Melissa Manchester was honored in a rather 21. PICCOLO Capitol ST 11607 risque fashion following a recent gig at Southwest State University RON CARTER QUARTET/Milestone 21. CHOOSING YOU M 5504 LENNY WILLIAMS/ABC AB 1023 in Marshall, Minnesota, when students informed her that a men's 22. FIRE ISLAND 22. SEND IT dormitory had been named Manchester Hallin her honor. We're HERBIE MANN/Atlantic SD 19112 ASHFORD & SIMPSON/Warner Bros. told Melissa was given a special presentation key to the building and 23. TIM WEISBERG BAND BS 3088 24 -hour visiting privileges. Our source also reports that she told her TIM WEISBERG/United Artists LA773 G 23. POWER & LOVE 24. TURN THIS MUTHA OUT MANCHILD/Chi Sound CH LA765 G (UA) fans she'd probably take them up on the offer on her next visit, IDRIS MUHAAAMAD/Kudu KU 34 (CTI) 24. GOIN' PLACES "since the Holiday Inn here really leaves a lot to be desired." . . . 25. SPELLBOUND THE JACKSONS/Epic JE 34835 Meanwhile, aficionados of cajun stomps and zydeco raveups hunger- ALPHONSO JOHNSON/Epic JE 34869 25. RIGHT ON TIME 26. THE QUINTET ing for some L. A. satisfaction need wait no longer: accordionist V.S.O.P./Columbia C2 34976 BROTHERS JOHNSON/A&M SP 4641 Clifton Chenier, whose most recent package was a live double set 26.I REMEMBER YESTERDAY 27. GO TOO DONNA SUMMER/Casablanca NBLP 7056 on Tomato, is set for a dance at Verbum Dei High School at 111th STOMU YAMASHTA/Arista AB 4138 27. VILLAGE PEOPLE and Central on November 5. Yes, that's a part of L. A. whereyou 28. LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE Casablanca NBLP 7064 won't find earth shoes, Hawaiian shirts and too many Mercedes. CHUCK MANGIONE/Mercury SRM 1 684 29. DUNE 28. CARDIAC ARREST And, yes, gumbo will be served. CAMEO/Chocolate City CCLP 2003 ET CETERA: Epic's ad for Ted Nugent in a recent issue of Rolling DAVID MATTHEWS/CTI 5005 (Casablanca) 30. THE SURVIVOR'S SUITE 29. REACH FOR IT Stone has evidently been a big hit with the teen andpre -teen set. KEITH JARRETT/ECM 11085 (Polydor) GEORGE DUKE/Epic JE 34883 The ad is a clever item showing Tender Ted giving out Halloween 31. RIGHT ON TIME 30. GOIN' PLACES treats (consisting of Nugent albums, of course) to a trio of kiddies BROTHERS JOHNSON/A&M SP 4644 MICHAEL HENDERSON/Buddah BDS 5693 wearing Nugent masks and Nugent -styleleather arm bands -and 32. SERGIO MENDES AND NEW 31. BEHOLD THE MIGHTY ARMY Pat Siciliano tells us that Epic has been besieged with calls from BRASIL '77 NEW BIRTH/Warner Bros. BS 3071 demented kids wanting to score Nugent masks for themselves. The Elektra 7E 1102 32. MENAGERIE 33. GOIN' PLACES masks are not, in fact, for sale . . . BILL WITHERS/Columbia JC 34903 Virtuoso bassist Stanley Clarke MICHAEL HENDERSON/Buddah BDS 5693 has certainly been keeping himself busy lately, what with his increas- 33. COMMODORES LIVE 34.I CRY, I SMILE Motown M9 894A2 ing interest in producing: recent and upcoming production projects /Atlantic 34. THE BEST OF TAVARES include Roy Buchanan, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Jimmy Spheeris. SD 19141 Capitol ST 11701 Clarke has also been in the studio working on two of his own solo 35. HEAVY WEATHER 35. DEVIL'S GUN WEATHER REPORT/Columbia PC 34418 C.J. & COMPANY/Westbound WB 301 albums, the first a studio record due in February and the seconda (Atlantic) live disc which will be released some time after Clarke's March/ 36. IN FLIGHT GEORGE BENSON/Warner Bros. 36. MOST REQUESTED RHYTHM BAND April/May tour with his band School Days, which includes drummer BSK 3111 Magic Disc 110 Gerry Brown, keyboardist Peter Robinson, guitarist Ray Gomez anda 37. SENOR BLUES 37. WE ARE ONE brass section . . URBIE GREEN/CTI 7079 MANDRILL/Arista AB 4144 . Michael Lloyd is the composer for the score of "The Hollywood Knight," a film starring Michael Christian; Lloyd also 38. PLATINUM JAZZ 38. GET UP & DANCE WAR/Blue Note BN LA690 J2 (UA) MEMPHIS HORNS/RCA APL1 2198 has a movie role of his own, that of a rock and roll singer in the 39. BREEZIN' 39. MOONFLOWER Disney film "The North Street Irregulars" . . . Antisia Music, the SANTANA/Columbia C2 34914 GEORGE BENSON/Warner Bros. company of percussionist Ralph MacDonald, songwriter Bill Salter BSK 3111 40. STARTING ALL OVER and arranger William Eaton,isinvolved PHILLIPE WYNNE/Cotillion SD 9920 in the production of Joe 40. CAPE TOWN FRINGE (Atlantic) Farrell's next album for Warners. DOLLAR BRAND/Chiaroscuro CR 2004 (AFE)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com New York, N.Y. The MOR Repor (Continued from page 16) own company. We controlled the release dates and promotion and (Listings are in alphabetical order, by title) had nothing but success. We wound up on United Artists when it was for sale. I tried to get them to keep the Imperial label alive, but WIOD/MIAMI we got into a big legal battle over it and they wouldn't do it. That Most Adds LOVE IS JUST A GAME-Larry sort of stopped the momentum we had going at that time.I feel com- GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE Gatlin-Monument fortable with the situation now; maybe we'll get a few things happen- -Diana Ross-Motown (6) STILL THE LOVING IS FUN-B.J. ing with the Big Tree situation and Atlantic. It feels really good." SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY-Paul Simon Thomas-MCA Rivers admitted that he got bogged down in administrative work -Col 15) WJBO/BATON ROUGE with the original Soul City label, and bowed out only to be disap- DON'T LET THE FLAME BURN OUT-Jackie DeShannon- SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY-Paul Simon pointed by the treatment given him by other labels. Those experiences Amherst (4) -WB convinced him it was time to try Soul City again, if only so that he MY WAY-Elvis Presley-RCA SWEET MUSIC MAN-Kenny might have more control over his own destiny. "Slow Dancin'" was Rogers-UA lip cut) (4) initially distributed only in the south, where it became a regional hit. THE LOVE THEME FROM "ONE- MY WAY-Elvis Presley-RCA ON-ONE" (MY FAIR SHARE)- (lp cut) "I knew I could do it," Rivers says of his decision to reactivate Soul ! Seals & Crofts-WB (41 WGAR/CLEVELAND City. "I knew when 'Slow Dancin" became a hit down south and HERE YOU COME AGAIN-Dolly stores couldn't keep itin stock that we could have a national hit Parton-RCA (3) FAIR GAME-Crosby, Stills & Nash-Atlantic with it. Then I approached Atlantic about a distribution deal, because STILLS THE LOVIN IS FUN-B.J. Thomas-M.C.A. (31 THE LOVE THEME FROM "ONE- independent distribution is a very difficult way to go." ON-ONE" (MY FAIR SHARE)- Rivers' immediate plans include a tour of the south, to be followed SWEET MUSIC MAN-Kenny Seals & Crofts-WB Rogers-UA (3) after the first of the year by a national tour. And what of those ru- WLW/CINCINNATI mors we had heard about him being disenchanted with the business CALLING OCCUPANTS OF Adds to the point of considering retirement? Not true. "I'm sure that as I INTERPLANETARY CRAFT- WHDH/BOSTON Carpenters-A&M get older I'll probably just move into the production end of it and THE LOVE THEME FROM "ONE- FAIR GAME-Crosby, Stills & maybe just not work as much on the artist end of it. Maybe not do ON-ONE" (MY FAIR SHARE)- Nash-Atlantic Seals & Crofts-WB two albums a year; just one or something like that. I've got this label. GONE TOO FAR-England Dan & There's no other artists on it but me, so I'm really concentrating on WSAR/FALL RIVER J.F. Coley-Big Tree my own stuff right now. In the future if something comes along and LOVERS HOLIDAY-Engelbert WCCO-FM/MINNEAPOLIS I Humperdinck-Epic get really excited about it we may get involved with another act. SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY-Paul Simon CAN'T IT ALL BE LOVE-Randy But not for awhile." -Col Edelman-Arista (JOCKEY) SHORTS: Ian Hunter to Mercury? .. . Will Steve Barri THE HAPPY GIRLS-Helen Reddy HERE YOU COME AGAIN-Dolly -Capitol Parton-RCA produce the next Manhattan Transfer album? . .. former Genesis gui- tarist Anthony Phillips is recording a solo album at Essex Studios in WNEW/NEW YORK WTMJ/MILWAUKEE London with Rupert Hine producing. His band includes John Perry, HEAVEN'S JUST A SIN AWAY- BABY COME BACK-Player-RSO formerly of Caravan, on bass, and Mike Giles, formerly of King Crim- Kendalls-Ovation I GO CRAZY --Paul Davis-Bong MY WAY-Elvis Presley-RCA son, on drums . . . Allen Jay Lerner to BMI? . . . Buddy Rich will be lip cut) SENTIMENTAL LADY-Bob Welch -Capitol inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame on October 29. PASS THE SALT, PLEASE: Filmmaker John Waters ("The Diane Link - WIP/PHILADELPHIA KMBZ/KANSAS CITY GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE- letter Story," "Multiple Maniacs," "Pink Flamingos," "Women in Diana Ross- Motown FRENESI-Bing Crosby-UA Trouble") was screening his new film, "Desperate Living," at the IT'S ECSTASY WHEN YOU LAY -Olivia DOWN NEXT TO ME-Barry Newton-John-MCA School of Visual Arts Wednesday night. After the screening, a mem- White -20th Cent. JUST YOU AND ME TOGETHER- ber of the group Steel Tips brought some pictures up for SENTIMENTAL LADY-Bob Welch -MCA -Capitol Waters to see-pictures of the punk rocker with firecrackers explod- MY WAY-Elvis Presley-RCA ing on his chest, etc., very tame stuff. When Waters extended his WBAL/BALTIMORE cut) hand for a friendly shake, the punk bit it. That's hospitality. MY WAY-Elvis Presley-RCA KMOX/ST. LOUIS OH JESUS CHRIST: Well, our source is back again. This time he lip cut) I'D REALLY LOVE TO SEE YOU tells us that every time Reggie Jackson hit a home run in the World WMAL/WASHINGTON TONIGHT-Dee Dee Sharp Gamble-Phila. Intl. Series, WABC-AM played Ralph McDonald's "Jam On The Groove." GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE- That's great. Dear source: Have you ever considered self -immolation Diana Ross-Motown IFI NEEDED YOU-Marcia Routh SIMPLE THINGS-Carole King- -Epic as a hobby? Avatar LIKE I'VE NEVER BEEN GONE- WHO CARES DEPARTMENT: Stan Soifer had a birthday last week. STILL IHE LOVING IS FUN-B.J. Fran McKendree-Arista QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Will Alan Wolmark soon be pushing up Thomas-MCA RUN TO ME-Flower-UA daisies? WKBC-FM/WINSTON- THE RUNAWAY-Danny O'Keefe --WB SALEM YOU'RE IN MY HEART (THE FINAL DON'T LET THE FLAME BURN OUT ACCLAIM)-Rod Stewart-WB UA Signs Millingtons -Jackie DeShannon-Amherst GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE- KULF/HOUSTON Diana Ross-Motown I FEEL LOVE-Donna Summer- YOU'RE IN MY HEART (THE FINAL ACCLAIM)-Rod Stewart-WB Casablanca JUST REMEMBER I LOVE YOU- WSM/ NASHVILLE Firefall-Atlantic GETTIN' READY FOR LOVE- SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY-Paul Simon Diana Ross-Motown -Col STILL THE LOVING IS FUN-B.J. Thomas-MCA KOY/PHOENIX WHAT A NIGHT-Tom Jones- SWEET MUSIC MAN-Kenny Epic Rogers-UA WE JUST DISAGREE-Dave WMPS/MEMPHIS Ma son-Col DUSIC-Brick-Bang YOU'VE REALLY GOT ME THE LOVE THEME FROM "ONE- NEEDING YOU-Peter Pringle ON-ONE" (MY FAIR SHARE)- -WB Seals & Crofts-WB KITS/LOS ANGELES WFTL/FT. LAUDERDALE SWAYIN' TO THE MUSIC (SLOW DON'T LET THE FLAME BURN OUT DANCING)-Johnny Rivers- -Jackie DeShannon-Amherst Big Tree HEAVEN ON EARTH-Spinners- Atlantic Also reporting this week: WCCO, United Artists Records president Artie Mogull has announced the signing of pop/rock SLIP SLIDIN AWAY-Paul Simon WBZ, WSB, KSFO,KVI.26sta- -Col tions reporting. group Millington, made up of former Fanny members June and Jean Millington. SWEET MUSIC MAN-Kenny There will be no A/C Report next Millington's debut album on UA, "Ladies On The Stage," will be released early next Rogers-UA week. year. Pictured from left: Sidney Schwartz of Triple K Management; Jeff Samuels, UA's representative; Triple K's Pete Kameron; June and Jean Millington; Artie Mogull; Mark Levinson, UA VP of business affairs; and Bert Kamerman of Triple K.

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Record WorldenSanto Domingo Los meses de agosto y septiem- circulars en este ambience y que DESDE NUESTR bretuvieron una repercusi6n pertenecen a determinados sellos completamente negativa entre to- que notienenrepresentation doslosdisqueros dominicanos legal enesta urbe. INTERNACIONAL debido ala fuerte recesion eco- Ahora bien, si enfocamos des - RINCON nomica que afecto el Caribe. de el Angulo de los mismos dis- By TOMAS FUNDORA Esta situation se manifesto en queros (muy pocos, por cierto) Siempre se comenta que el mercado de Miami forma mas clara con una reduc- que se piratean sus propios discos (latino) es impredestinable. Nunca se esta seguro tion en un sesenta por ciento depara evadir el pago de "royalty," de lo que pueda pasar con cualquier tipo de las yentas promedio de cada mes, las cosas toman amplias dimen- espectaculo que se presente, ya sea por bueno asi como en Ia quibra o apriete siones. Pero esto lo vamos a de - o por malo. La "comidilla" de esta semana lo economic° considerable de algu-jar por ahora asi, ya que en otra ha sido, el tremendo fracaso economic° del es- nas companias disqueras que no ocasion volveremos sobre el pectaculo presentado en el "Miami Stadium," con soportaron el peso de la crisis. tema. figuras de alto nombre internacional y estrellas No obstante, el mes de octubre iHasta la proximal locales, que aseguraban un exit° absoluto. Si bien parece alentar un combio posi- es cierto que el espectaculo recibio una promo- tivo a favor de nuestros disque- tion radial como escrita, de gran envergadura, lo cierto es que el ros, dada Ia aproximaciOn de los RW en Chile p6blico no se hizo presente. El gran esfuerzo dejo a los organiza- meses en que se consigue mayor By RICARDO GARCIA dores conlosbolsillos vacios hastatalpunto que no cubrieron vol6men de yentas. Elsello EMI Odeon celebro los alas elementales compromisos con los artistas presentados, ya Pero, volviendo a los momen-cincuenta anos en Chile con Ia sea desde el aspecto del pago de sus actuaciones, como las cuen- tosdificiles,no sololascasas edici6n de un disco especial tas de hoteles, etc., etc.El caso ma lamentable fue el de Roberto discograficas sufrieron econorni- recordatario y una serie de fes- Carlos, que a mas de no recibir el pago por sus actuaciones, ya camente, amen del comercio en tejos conlapresencia de altas que recibio un cheque sin los apropiados fondos, despues tuvo su general, si no tambien los grupos autoridades y un show en el hotel representante que devolver dicho cheque, antela amenaza de no de "disc -jockeys" vieron reduci- Sheraton en que una de las prin- dejarle sacar sus costosos equipos de sonido,sino devolviael do al minimo sus ingresos por cipalesfigurasfueelcantante "cheque de goma."Entrelosartistasque se esos conceptos, aparte de que Marcelo, cuyo album grabado en presentaron en un hermoso espectaculo y que muchos fueron retirados de las Buenos Aires fueIanzado con ofrecieronlo mejor de si mismos se contaron: listasoficiales de los disqueros. fuerte camparia publicitaria. Sarita Montiel, Roberto Carlos, La Lupe, Miami Si.Porque esa eslarealidad Lindomar Castillo y Palito Or- Sound Machine, The Susy en Santo Domingo. El disco que tega han sido atraccion de varios Lemans, Omar Sanchez yNico Membiela.Lo no se paga, dificilmente se escu- programas televisivos,lo mismo lamento por todos los artistas presentados y mas cha en nuestras emisoras. Claro, queelespanolPabloAbraira, a6n por susorganizadores, ya que toda una hay algunas excepciones. cuya version de "Gavilan o pa- labor como la realizada debia haber sido coro- Pese a esto, ya sus efectos fati- loma"prometeconvertirseen .. nada con el mayor de los exitos econornicos. dicos se han dejado sentir de ma- superventas. Roberto Carlos PresentO Calypso Productions de Nueva York, nera notoria con los artistas de El periodista Guillermo Zurita al afamado Billo Frometa y sus Billo's Caracas Boys, en espectacu- algunos sellos internacionales. reanudo la entrega del traditional los ofrecidos en el New York Hilton Hotel de Nueva York (fue la Por ejemplo, para no perdernos premio "laurel de oro" que se primera vez que el Hilton presento un baile lati- en palabrerias, podemos citar el ha convertido en uno de los esti- no) en el Hotel Carteret de Elizabeth, New Jersey caso de Julio Tonos, C. por A., la mulos mas publicitados del am- y en elHotel Everglades de Miami. Esperanza companiadisqueraquerepre- biente artistico nacional. Cardenas, presidenta de Calypso Productions le senta los sellos EMI y Odeon. El sello IRT lanzo un nuevo al- hizo entrega al fraternal dominicano de una Placa Pues bien, Don Julio Tonos no bum de su superventas Tito Fer- Trofeo en ocasion de la conmemoraciOn de sus promueve sus discos, y este es nandez. Elcantante chileno, in- "40ariosdeExitos."Losbailesmencionados el termino moderno que se usa discutiblemente lafigura mas fueron un exit° tanto artistico como econOmico para hablar de "payola." Esa es popular delpals,grabo un LP . . . John Gilbert Sollas, previamente Director de la razon por la cual en Santo Do-junto a la orquesta de Guillermo Programacion de Radio WSOL, Tampa, Florida, mingo no se conoce a Luciana Riffo, el cual sera editado, seg6n Manolo Otero acaba de ser nombrado Director de Production (Argentina), Manolo Otero (Es- Jose Manual Silva, director artis- de las emisorasgemelas de Miami, WCMQ Radio y FM92. iFelici-

pana), Ricardo Ceratto (Espana), tico de IRT, en varios paises de dades Johnny! . . ComienzaAldo Monges a recibir fuerte promo- Miguel Gallardo (Espana), y mu- America, gracias a un convenio tion en Ia costa oeste con "Un Hijo en Febrero," chos otros grandes artistas quecon RCA Internacional. La con- que amenaza con convertirse en su nuevo exit°

pertenecen a EMI -Odeon. ferencia de prensa mostro el en- . Encendidos los animos en Mexico yIa costa Pero el mismo caso que le esta tusiasmo de los ejecutivos de IRT oeste de Estados Unidos por supuestas declaracio- pasando a Julio Tonos C. por A., por conveertir definitivamente a nes de Julio Iglesias que hieren a su legion de ad- le esta ocurriendo a otras casas Tito Fernandez en un nombre de miradores en ambas areas en particular y al p0- disquerasdominicanas quere- proyecciones internacionales. blico mexicano en general. Seguire informando chazan tajantemente la "payola." La reunion de la Federation de hast donde Ilega el asunto. Otra tema que es muy impor- Productores deDiscos que se Miguel Gallardo comenzo sujira por Latino- tante enfocar esel de la "pira- celebro en Santiago en lospri- america el 27 de Septiembre en Caracas, Vene- teria" del disco, el cual es muy meros dias de setiembre mantuvo E. Cardenas Frometa zuela.Permanecera por cerca de un mes en delicado debido alosintereses atareada ala Camara del Disco Mexico, donde su "Hoy tengo Ganas de ti" alcanzo cifras de yentas que se envuelven dentro y a laschilena que preside Jorge Undu- superiores a los 300,000 ejemplares. Su jira continuara a traves de posibles reacciones de losmis- rraga. Uno de los temas que seMiami, Centro America, Peru, Argentina, terminando en Diciembre mos. trat6 en esta reunion de la FLAP en Colombia. Su nuevo exit° "Desnudate" de su autoria y con Realmente,lapirateriatiene fue, por supuesto,lapirateria y arreglos de Alfredo Domenech, esta comenzado a sonar fuerte en

poco alcance en este palssiIa las mejores relaciones internacio- todas partes . . . Manolo Otero, cuyo sencillo con "Todo el tiempo vemos desde al punto de vista nales. del Mundo" vendio mas de 250,000 copias en Argentina solamente, de los discos que se prensan y (Continued on page 72) (Continued on page 71)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com LATIN AMERICAN HIT PARADE Redlands, Cal. Pomona, Cal. San Francisco Panama By KCAL (FABIO RODRIGUEZ) By KKAR (BARDO SANCHEZ) By KBRG (OSCAR MUNOZ) By RPC RADIO 1.I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR 1.EL INFIERNO ES AMOR POR TI 1. PESARES 1. PAJARILLO FERNANDO ALLENDE/Orfeon MANOLO MUNOZ/Gas NAPOLEON EVERYTHING 2. PAJARILLO 2. PESARES ANDY GIBB 2. A POCO NO MANOLO MUNOZ BEATRIZ ADRIANA/Peerless NAPOLEON/Raff 2. CISNE CUELLO NEGRO 3. SUAVECITO BASILIO 3. TAN LEJOS, TAN LEJOS 3. REGRESA YA ISMAEL MIRANDA 3. QUE TE ME VAS LOS BABY'S/Peerless ESTELA NUNEZ/Arcano 4. PERO ESA VEZ, LLORE MOCEDADES 4. PERO ESA VEZ, LLORE 4. SIEMPRE EN MI MENTE LEO DAN 4. SQUEEZE ME LEO DAN/Caytronics JUAN GABRIEL/Arcano 5. LA GAVIOTA MICHEL 5. PESARES 5. LIBRE COMO EL SOL MOCEDADES 5.SI TE VAS, TE VAS MANOLO MUNOZ/Gas RENE/ARV 6.EL 7 MACHOS HUGO BLANCO 6. PAJARILLO 6. UNA LAGRIMA DIJO ADIOS LOS MELODICOS 6. ALI BOMBAYE NAPOLEON/Raff ANGELICA MARIA/Melody 7. FERNANDO MANDRILL 7. SABOR A SANGRE 7. DESNUDATE PERLA 7, GAVILAN 0 PALOMA VICTOR MANUEL SOSA/Musart MIGUEL GALLARDO/Latin Intl. 8.EL ECO DEL TAMBO JOSE JOSE 8. HOY POR MI, MANANA POR TI 8. CAMINANDO CON LOS GITANOS DIMENSION LATINA 8. SOLO QUIERO SER EL TODO LOS JINETES/Safari LUPITA D'ALESSIO/Orfeon 9. QUIERO OLVIDARME DE TI EN TU VIVIR GRUPO EL TREN 9. COMO SE MUERE UN AMOR 9. QUE BONITO OSCAR OLANO EMIR BOSCAN/RCA 10. OJITOS DE ENGANA VEINTE LOS TERRICOLAS/Discolando 9. JUSTO YO 10. MI PRIMERA LAGRIMA LUCHA VILLA LISSETTE LA TROPA LOCA/Latin 10. RESPETA MI DOLOR COSTA CHICA/Fama 10. DEJAME DAR Los Angeles JOSELES Hartford Lancaster, Pa. By KWKW (PEPE ROLON) By WRYM (OMAR AGUILERA Y 1. PESARES Venezuela By WDDL/WNCE (WILFREDO SEDA) WALTER MARTINEZ) MANOLO MUNOZ/Gas By MANOLO OLALQUIAGA 1. DE TODAS MANERAS ROSAS 1. NO LO CORRAS 2. PAJARILLO 1. PAISAJE IMAEL RIVERA/Tico ROBERTO ROENA/Intl. NAPOLEON/Raff BILLO'S CARACAS BOYS 2. OTRO OCUPA MI LUGAR 2. TUMBA TUMBADOR 3. BESITOS 2. NO QUIERO ESPEJO OSCAR SOLO/Borinquen TIPICA '73/Inca LOS HUMILDES/Fama LOS MELODICOS 3. PRONOSTICO 3. ECO DE UN TAMBOR 4. UN HIJO EN FEBRERO 3. NECESITO LLAMAR SU ATENCION IMPACTO CREA/Vaya DIMENSION LATINA/Top Hits ALDO MONGES/Microfon ROBERTO CARLOS 4. TU ME ABANDONASTE 4. HUELE A QUEMAO 5. POLVO MALDITO 4. POR QUE TE VAS ISMAEL MIRANDA/Fania OSCAR D'LEON/Top Hits LOS CADETES LINARES/Ramex JEANETTE 5. HOLA, SOLEDAD 5. ARREPIENTETE 6. DOS CARAS 5.EL BECERRITO ROLANDO LaSERIE/Musart ORQUESTA BROADWAY/Coco VALENTE DEL CAMPO/Romar LILIA VERA 6. TUS MALETAS EN LA PUERTA 6. NO ESTAS EN NADA 7. JAMBALAYA 6. AQUELLA NOCHE YOLANDA DEL RIO/Arcano JUESTO BETANCOURT/Fania LOS FELINOS/Musart UN, DOS, TRES Y FUERA 7. LO HAN VISTO CON OTRA 7.EL NEGRO CHOMBO 8. DEJAME S/HAS OLVID. 7. QUINCEANERA LOS TERRICOLAS/Discolando TOMMY OLIVENCIA/Inca Q/T/QUIERO PECOS KANVAS 8.EL NEGRO CHOMBO 8. AMANECER LOS VIENTOS/Disco 8. LO NUESTRO TERMINO TOMMY OLIVENCIA/Inca MONGO SANTAMARIA/Vaya 9. PERO ESA VEZ, LLORE JUAN GALEA 9. ME MUERO EN LAS BARRAS 9.SI TE COJO LEO DAN/Caytronics 9. EL PAVO REAL LUIS GONZALES/Flor Mex ISMAEL RIVERA 10. CARTA Y CONTESTACION NOHEMI BERLATTI 10. EL BOLETO 10. OMELE DE EUFEMIA 10. SUPERMAN TRIO LOS CANCIONEROS/Borincano SONORA PONCENA/Inca BEATRIZ ADRIANA/Peerless CELT BEE Nuestro Rincon (Continued from page 70) ha iniciado una "tournee" en Bolivia, el dia 8 de Septembre, desde Frometa and his Billo's Caracas Boys in balls at the New York Hilton donde visitard Argentina, Venezuela y Colombia, para despues seguir (thisis the first time in which this hotel has given a Latin Ball), the a Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Centroamerica y Mexico. Su nuevo Carteret Hotel, Elizabeth, New Jersey, and at the Everglades Hotel "release" conteniendo "Sin ti" (M. de Ia Calva-R. Arcusa) esta reci- in Miami. Esperanza Cardenas, president of Calypso Productions, biendo fuerte promocio. iMuy bueno! extended an award to Billo for his accomplishments during his "40 Celia Cruz ha mantenido una politica en su vida, tanto profesional yearsof continuous success" . . . John Gilbert Sollas, formerly como personal, de caracteristicas totalmente definidas y exactas. Su program director of WSOL Radio in Tampa, has been named direc- actitud en Panama, al negarse a actuar mientras se mantuviesen en tor of production of WCMQ and FM -92 in Miami. Congratulations, el auditorio donde se estaba presentando, individuos muy apartados Johnny! . . . Aldo Monges is enjoying heavy promotion onthe west de sumentalidadpoliticayespiritual,hasido extremadamente coast via "Un hijo en febrero" . . . Certain comments supposedly comentada por Ia prensa internacional. Celia Cruz nunca habla de expressed by Julio Iglesiasin the west coast regarding how poor politica ni comenta sus dolores en cuanto a su partida de Cuba, the sales were of his recent album dedicated to Mexico, are causing pero cuando Ilega el momento . . . acttla! . . . Cayon Gadia, Direc- a very strong reaction from the press against the artist. We'll keep tor de las Radiodifusoras Tupi y Difusora de Brasil, ha dejado vacante you informed. esta posicion. Se comenta que posiblemente pasard a Radio TUPI Miguel Gallardo's tour on Latin America startedlastSept. 27th y Tamoio de Rio de Janeiro, tambien asociadas con el conglome- in Caracas, Venezuela. He will stay a month in Mexico, where his rado TUPI de Brasil. Al mismo tiempo, se ha sabido que su posiciOn song "Hoy tengo ganas de ti" went up to over 300,000 copies sold. en las anteriores emisoras, sera posiblemente cubierta por el po- Then, he will cover Miami, Central America, Peru and Argentina, in pular discjockey Luis Aguiar . . . Y ahora . iHasta Ia proxima! order to be in Colombia in December. His new hit, "Desmldate," composed by him with arrangements by Alfredo Domenech, is enjoy- Show business people have always wondered why Miamiisso ing good sales almost everywhere . . . Manolo Otero, whose single unpredictable. You are never sure about anything if you are think- "Todo el tiempo del mundo" sold over 250,000 copies in Argentina ing of presenting a show of any kind, good or bad. The tale this alone, has been touring Bolivia since Sept. 8th and will keep going week in Miami has been the tremendous fiasco of the show pre- to Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Peril, Ecuador, sented in the Miami Stadium presenting great international and local Central America and Mexico. His new release, containing "Sin ti" talents. The show, weeks ahead, received great promotion through (M. de Ia Calva-R. Arcusa), is enjoying good promotion. That's good! TV, radio and press, but the public did not care too much about it Celia Cruz has maintained, through all her professional and per- at the end. The great effort of the producers of this event left them sonal life, a very strong and sharp concept regarding morals and very almost bankrupt and they couldn't fulfillall their compromises with high ethics. Her behavior in Panama. last week confirmed all that. Dur- the artists that performed, such as their fees and hotelbills. The ing her latest performance in that country, she refused to go on stage one that took the worst part of it was Roberto Carlos, who received a unless some "people" that were mixed with her admirers would leave bad check and was even forced to returnit under the pressure of the place. These "people" were against her political and spiritual not being able to get back his musical instruments and sound equip- ideals. Her attitude has been widely commented on by the internation- ment. Among the artists that performed were Sarita Montiel, Roberto al press. Celia Cruz has never opened her mouth to talk about politics Carlos, La Lupe, Miami Sound Machine, The Judge's Nephews, Susy or about her sufferings when she left Cuba, but when the moment

Lemans, Omar Sanchez, Nico Membiela, etc. I feel sorry for all these comes, she certainly moves!... Gayon Gadia, director of Tupi and talents, but most of all, for the producers that gave all of what they Difusora of Brazil, left her position. It's said he may work with Radio had of themselves to obtain what should have been a wonderful Tupi and Tamoio in Rio de Janeiro, Meanwhile, the vacancy left by success in every way, and turned out as a complete loss. Gayon will be covered by the popular deejay Luis Aguilar... And Calypso Productions of New York presented the famous Billo that'sit for the time being!

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com LATIN AMERICANAznavour and Nightingale (wopw°ALBUM PICKS

ONLY THEY COULD HAVE MADE THIS ALBUM CRUZ .4 COLON-Vaya JMVS 66 En produccion de Willie Colon, Celia Cruz une sus grandes habilidades vocales a Ia excelente labor de muy Buenos mu- sicos y excelentes arreglistas. Una combi- nacion ideal. "Usted abuso," (D.R.), "A Papa" (Mon Rivera), "Pun Pun Catalo" (J. Pacheco) y "Dulce Habanera" (D.R.) iMuy buena mezcla sonido! II Produced by Willie Colon, Celia Cruz is backed by terrific salsa musicians and arrangements. Great mixing and sound! "Burundanga" (D.R.), "Todos somos iguales" (F. Hernandez), "Rinkinkalla," (D.R.) and "T6 y las nubes" (D.R.).

MITAD MUJER, MITAD GAVIOTA Pictured during the recent taping of Charles Aznavour's upcoming television special IMELDA MILLER-Arcono DKL I 3380 are Aznavour and special guest hostess Maxine Nightingale. The show, due to air in Con arreglos de Chucho Ferrer y E. Maga- European markets during the holiday season, was produced in Geneva and West llanes, Imelda Miller luce sus habilidades Germany, and will feature both artists in performance. interpretativas. Entre otras se destacan "A que notevas"(M.Alejandro),"Mi Huela" (Graciela A. de Tobon), "Pobre 'Simon' from DG Don SimOn"(I.Miller-Esquivel), "Si yo (Continued from page 67) no fui to esposa" (Rossana Rosas) y "Mi- ever,he tendsoccasionallyto to hear him only on records! tad Mujer, Mitad Gaviota" (L. de la Co- force the sound at climactic mo- Jose Van Dam must also not lina). ments, making itlesslyric and beignored. How often isthe With arrangements by Ch. Ferrer and E. Magallanes, Imelda Miller more pushed thanisnecessary. villain Paolo a barked, ugly role! shows her excellent abilities as a performer. Good orchestratin! "Don- This characteristic was not present Van Dam never sings any way but de podre gritarte que te quiero" (L. Porcella), "La Saporrita" (J. Vilo- inhis Metropolitan Opera sea- patrician, and he always manages ria), "Este Mundo es un Lio" (D. Daniel -H. Hightower), others. son last spring; perhaps this re- to color his voice evily and yet corded trait was the last gasp of still sing with lyric abandon. LA NUEVA LEY DE LA CANCION something he has put behind him. RANCHERA Verdi restructured the 1857 op- A few years ago in conjunction erawiththehelpof ROSENDA BERNAL-Latin Int. DLIS 5061 librettis Interpreta Rosenda Bernal m6sica ranche- with a Verdi Institute in Chicago, Arrigo Boito'sin 1881, and the ra con gran poder de yentas en la costa theLyricOpera openedwith Council Chamber Scene (Act.I, oeste y Mexico. Arreglos de Riberto Al - Simon Boccanegra. The produc- Scene2) isthe major change. faro y Pepe Martinez. "La nueva ley" (R. tion was ridiculous, the singingClearly a study for the third act Alfaro), "Porque no te vas (Juan Luis), "Se was not good and the whole was ensemble of Otello, which was pretty dismally disappointing. only a few years away, the scene me escapa la vida"(J.Martinez) y "Po- breza Fatal" (J. Barette). Among the negative factors was is the finest in the opera. In this Rosenda Bernal offers a ranchera package that will sell nicely in Piero Cappuccilli's Simon. Some- recording it boils out of the vinyl. Mexico and the west coast. Arrangements by R. Alfaro and P. Marti- thing, perhaps Strehler's directors, From the first notes there isin- or Abbado, has made a huge dif- nez. "Motivos" (I. Piazzolante), "Gracias Amor" (A. Correa), "El Sina- credible tension - one has the loense" (Veronika) and "Quiero Sentir." (A. Correa). ference inhis interpretation. Al- sense ofaRenaissance revolu- though he still portrays a rough,tion in Genoa-and the entrance RICE & BEANS ORCHESTRA occasionally overwrought old sea- ofGabriele andAmelia,the Dash LPS 30007 man, in general thisis a Simon Doge's horror at the near fate of Con arreglos de Hector Garrido, Ia Rice filled with tenderness and sub- hisdaughter, andhisturnon and Beans Orchestra esta comenzando a tlety. Cappuccilli has never put a Paolo bring newly discovered ex- dar fuerte en el mundo del "disco sound." better vocal portrait on disc, un- citement. Abbado's shaping of the Temas de Pepe Luis Soto. "Dancing Vibra- lessit was his DG Macbeth, an ensemble disclosesthe pheno- tions," "Coconut Groove," "You've Got equallygrippinginterpretation menalgrowthinMissFreni's Magic,""Peel a Banana" y"Midnite and also led by Abbado. Not only voice, his own dramatic capaci- Gossip". does the baritone clearly show vo- ties and the stellar singing abili- With arrangements by Hector Garrido, Rice and Beans Orchestra cally the difference in his feeling ties of every member of the cast. from Puerto Ricois starting to move strongly in the disco market. when he discovers that Amelia is One must also note, in the final Superb production by Pepe Luis Soto, associated with Tato Rossi. really his lost daughter Maria, but scene, how MissFreniactually "Music in the Air," "Dancing Vibrations," "Peel a Banana," more. again and again he strikes theachieves a "piagente" or weep- right mood: his powerful yet not ing effect as she sings the de- Chile (Continued from page 70) angry "Plebe, patrici," his breath- scending chromatic line in quar- En taking whisper of Maria's name tet.Itis nothing short of remark- Lapresenciadelcantantees- Es el primer festival de canciones as he goes to sleep in Act II and able. panolManolo Otero realzard uno que organiza este sello dedicado the whole final scene are great This is a wonderful recording, de los6Itimosprogramasde principalmente ala m6sica folk- operatic moments. one that should sell many copies. "Esta noche, fiesta. . ." de canal lorica. Nicolai Ghiaurov makes abit Simon Boccanegra in my experi- 13 de TV, serie que ha cumplido Mari Ramirez less of "IIlacerato spirito" than ence is one of the most difficult interesante trayectoria con la ac- Entretanto, la compositora one would expect, rising to his of Verdi's works to make success- tuacion de destacadas figuras in- Mari AngelicaRamirez disfruta own highest level of accomplish- fulinthe theater. Abbado has ternacionales. del triunfo logrado en el reciente ment in Fiesco's final scene andfound the musical answer to the LaprimeraFiestadelCanto Festival Folklorico de la Patagonia duet with Simon. The rolling, im-score, and he has given it to pos- Popular, organizada por elsello con su cancion "Violeta eligio el pressive sound of his bass is un- terity-with all the drama intact Alerce nostrard doce nuevas can-silencio,"canciondedicada a equalled in the world. How sad -in this new Deutsche Grammo- ciones de compositores chilenos. VioletaParra. that in New York we always seem phon recording.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CONCERT REVIEW Presley's Death Clouds Impersonator'sFuture By SAM SUTHERLAND the media at the time." him where I thought we could be Billy Joel Rocks LOS ANGELES - While the For Actis, however, the validity in three years." death ofElvisPresley has trig- - and potential profit - of re- Thus far, he adds, his original The Opry House gered a dramatic national interest creating early rock styles has been timetable has been met at every NASHVILLE-Nashville's Grand intheartist's own recordings, a theme since before teaming upstage. The tribute has become aOle Opry House has seldom fea- along with recorded tributes bywith Meyer. Five years with the Vegas moneymaker, successfullytured a rock'n'roll concert as pro- other performers and a growing Dick Clark organization saw Actis playing in several of the town'sfessional and dynamic as that of array of Presley memorabilia, the variously involvedwith both major rooms since Alan's first ap- BillyJoel(25). Joel's piano vir- field of live talent packages based rock'n'roll and packaging as an pearance there several years ago. tuosity in and of itself was enough on impressions or impersonations associate producer with "Ameri- To Actis, that success representedto create an unforgettable eve- of the King has yet to translate can Bandstand," general manager an early goal. "We decided thatning, but he didn't stop at musi- into recorded product. While the of Clark radio shows in charge ofwe had to get credibility for thecal talent. Joel displayed a per- region of Presley -styled impres- production and market syndica-show, or it would never get off sonality and sense of humor that sionists continues to grow, cur-tion, director of worldwide tele- the ground," he explains. "We developed a feelingof cama- rent label interest is focusing onvision syndication, and associate decided the way to do that wasraderie between himself and the thefewperformers who haddirector of the combine's con- to get into Las Vegas." audience. achieved significant live exposure cert division, working with acts Dick Clark Joelandhisfour -man band and acceptance prior to Presley's like The Osmonds. His last post Dick Clark ended up providing treatedtheaudience to some death. with Clark was the most influen- theopportunity."'GoodOld tasty selections from his four Co- Actis tial, however, and prefigured his Rock'n'roll was in its third run in lumbiaIps.Hunched over the Personal manager Chet Actis, involvement with Alan: togetherVegas," Actis remembers, "and piano, he had a Beethoven -type withClark, he helped develop who has directed the career of was now playing at the Thunder- appearance inhis gray suit and Presley impressionist Alan Meyer the "Dick Clark's Good Old Rock bird. Dick was four -walling the tie,but the music he pounded 'n'Roll" live package, which cou- for the past two years,isthus room through a speciallease, out on the keyboard was straight hoping to dominate that sectorpled vintage rock and r&b acts rather than just playing the room Billy Joel rock'n'roll. like , The Coasters by looking up an album deal for as aregularact would." That Well-known songs like "Angry his client, whose "Alan: A Tribute and Freddie Cannon, and provid- added control Young Man," "The Entertainer," ed Actis with his first hint of the over the venue To Elvis" has successfully estab- provided Actis with his opening,"Billy The Kid," "Captain Jack" lisheditself as a club attraction potentialforlounge and main and"Piano Man" wereinter- room bookings for vintage rock, and he asked Clark to extend the in Las Vegas, and has toured na- arrangement another three weeks spersed with selections from his tionally.ForActisand Meyer,beginning with the show's run latest albumincluding "Scenes at the Las Vegas Hilton. and debut the Alan show under however, Presley's death both en- the title, "Dick Clark Presents." From An Italian Restaurant," hances the market for the current Elvis Tribute Clark's name, and the room it-"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)," live tribute while posing added For Actis, the lessonofthe self,thusprovidedlegitimacy. "Just The Way You Are" and the challenges to a career plan that Clark oldies package suggested "Eventhereviewerssaidthey title track "The Stranger." calls for Meyer's own emergence that Alan'sElvistribute was a wouldn't have covered itif Dick Puffing on a cigarette and wear- as a separate performing star, in- logicalextension."Ididn't see hadn't been involved," Actis says.ing sunglasses, Joel provided a cluding new material. that much of adistinctionbe- Sincethen,Actisclaimsthe "sleaze" atmosphere for "New Actis agrees that wariness of tween having Jackie Wilson per- tribute has yet to draw a bad re- York State Of Mind" as a back- live Presley tributes preceded the forming his hits of 15 years ago, view, despite critics' initial skep- drop of the New York skyline artist'sdeath, andlikewiseas- and Alan performing Elvis' hits," ticism about a Presley tribute. He slowly came into view. "Summer, serts that the talent market for Actis says. When he encountered notes that the Presley fan organi- HighlandFalls,""Miami 2017" such packages has been apparent Alan's show, he had left Clark and zations have given the show their and a rollickinginstrumental for a while. When he first sawwas operating his own booking blessing, and his own willingnesswere additional highlights during Alan perform, he claims the po- agency, beginning in offices pro- to provide added guarantees forthe two hour show. tentialfor generating fanaticism vided by Clark himself; although subsequent exploitation confirms The audience responded en- was already on display. "Alan's he notes that he had no manage- hisapparent certaintythatthe thusiastically to all of Joel's tunes show was designed for the Elvis ment credentials, Alan chose to tribute will successfully translate with numerous standing ovations, Presley fan,"Actisrecalledof accept Actis' offer to manage him into sales. Actis himself isplan- calling him back for three en- that first glimpse of the act, which rather thanseveraloffers from ning to executive produce a dou- cores. joined Billy on Actisdescribesas much closer establishedpersonalmanagers. ble live package to be recorded stage to pick the for "Trav- musicallyto Presley'searliest "The thing he said impressed him atthe London Palladiumlater eling Prayer" during the first en- rockabilly style,rather than the the most about me was the fact this year, and while he is already core. more lavish pop ensemble scale thatI came backstage after hear- huddling with labels to secure a The band, comprised of Liberty of the artist's later tours and re- ing his show, and instead of try- contract, he isn't pursuing a con- DeVitto(drums),Frankie Vento cordings. "I'm an Elvis fan, and ing to impress him,sat down ventional bargaining stance: the (guitar), Doug Stegmeyer (bass) as one, I saw that Alan was de- with a pen and paper and told (Continued on page 78) and Richie Cannata (woodwinds, livering something Elvis couldn't percussion andkeyboards)not deliver. Alan recreated the Elvis Twilley Gets Rather Ripped onlycontributedtheirsuperb of the '50s, and diditauthen- musicianshipbutalsobacked tically." Joel's stage humor. Actis and his client both insist Margie Barnett thatthetribute'sapproach is "third -person,"clarifiedatthe show's opening by a spoken in- Calliope Pirrelli LP troduction by Alan proclaiming LOS ANGELES-Calliope Rec- his own stature as a fan and the ords will release the U.S. debut reverence ofhis approach. But ofAustraliansingingstarJay Actis concedes that industry dis- Pirrelli.Pirrelli'ssingle,"Baby, comfort for the Elvis tribute, like You're Nobody Unless You Got initial response to other impres- Somebody," will be the subject of an extensive sionists promotional, like Jim Baley, was evi- marketing dent at the outset. According to andpublicitycam- paign.Pirrelliwillsupport the Actis, the show "was greeted with release with an American tour complete and absolute skepticism Seen at a recent in-store appearance is The Dwight Twilley Band, which visited Rather Ripped Records inBerkeley. Pictured from left are Ron Henry, Twilley Band's man- thatwillincludeseveraltalk by everyone in the industry and ager; Dwight Twilley; Phil Seymour; and Bruce Wheeler of Arista. show appearances.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Dialogue (Continued from page 26) all the time, you get into a rut where you use the same techniques. hit artist" as well? You use the same arrangements, the same players, the same studio Davis: When Robin and I got together, he told me "Don, if you mikings, the same limited technical approaches. Getting into dif- possibly can, cut me an AM single." He was reluctant about "Sweet

ferent types of music, like rock, really affords you a chance to open Wine of Love," but I said, "Man, that's the only AM single we have, your head up. Instead of going into the studio recording a synthetic let's go with that." From the beginning we felt that we would really

sound, now you're trying to record an actual,live sound, which like to get one or two hit singles. I wouldn't so much like to con- means ambience, different placement of themikes, approaching tinue with the pattern of McCoo and Davis and Taylor as far as the the vocals in a live way. singles approach, because I think that you can only bend so far When Ifirst heard the Rockets,I was a little reluctant to go and with singles, and then you lose your album approach. interview the Band, because most interviews just don't pan out for RW: The album is being looked at as a more r&b-oriented project

me. But when I went to see them, they just blew me off my feet;than what might have been expected from Trower. Do you agree the music was really, really closely related to the old Little Richard with that assessment? and Chuck Berry stuff, and it was like being able to partake of that Davis: Well, I think that had a white producer produced the album,

era in 1977. there wouldn't be a thought of r&b. The minute I stepin the RW: How about the Robin Trower connection? Had you been picture, there's gotta be some tracks that are alluded to as r&b. familiar with his work? Which is fine, because it's the age of categorizing-everybody likes

Davis:I'd only been vaguely familiar with Robin Trower. As a to categorize and stigmatize. But as the same time, I think that matter of fact, I got this call from his manager, and he says, "Don one of Robin's deepest desires was to get off into some tracks that

Davis? I'd like to know if you'd be interested in producing an album would be accepted by everybody. And I don't think the tracks are on Robin Trower." Ihad heard a couple of tunes, and Isaid, "Why nearly r&b-ish enough to really do a whole r&b thing. don't you send me some albums, and let me just listen to them and RW: Obviously,differentproducers' approaches totheir work see if I think I can do it." That was done, and before I could really vary alot. Some producers leave their mark on every record they finish listening, the manager called me back; he said, "Robin reallydo-you know when you're listening to a Phil Spector number, for wants you to do this album-and if you don't do it, then nobody's instance-while others simply try to bring out what was already gonna do it." They flew in from London the next day, and as soon there. Do you think you fit either of these descriptions? as they got in, we sat down and talked. Robin went over the whole Davis: It's really sort of both now. When I become involved with story as to why he wanted me to produce-he confirmed what his a song that's about to be produced, that song has the power to con- manager had said, that he had bought one record in five years, which jure up a number of different emotions for me. A song is sort of like was "Eargasm" (Johnnie Taylor). He was sitting around looking fora person: sometimes a guy might see a chick that would make him a new sound, a new approach to music, and he felt that whoever want to do anything, or he might see ten chicks that don't do nothin' produced "Eargasm" would be able to offer him what he needed. to him, or sometimes he'll see a chick that just makes him want to

Then he went into the technical sound of the album-he said he run away. I can come into contact with a song that will hit me so had compared it with Rod Stewart's album and several others, and he hard thatI want to take that song and do everything possible to it. wanted to have that same clear, lucid sound that was in "Eargasm."These songs are not necessarily hits-they just hit me personally. I saidI'dfly down to Florida [Trower's "In City Dreams" was Then there are songs like "You Don't Have to Be a Star." I never recorded at Criteria Studios] and listen to his material-after I heard liked that song, but I knew it was a hit. I never really got involved it I said "Hey, let's do it." withit other than making sure thatall the things that were put RW: How much of a role,if any, did you have in choosing that intoit were things that I thought people would like, not so much material? what I would like. Davis: When Iheard the material-andI was really emphatic, if I As far as putting an impression on a song, I only do it when I didn't likeit I wouldn't get involved in the project-I just loved it. have to. It's a fine line, because in many cases, say with Marilyn and I had come down and was prepared to play him some songs, but Billy, I'm confronted with a situation where I don't really want to I just thought his were all great. That was the first time since I'vedo anything but make a hit record and do a work of art. Then they're been producing in the last nine or ten years that I've ever walked cases like Johnnie Taylor where I'm really personally involved.It's in and liked everything from start to finish. There was only one not that one is any better than the other-a lot of times, the further song, "Sweet Wine Of Love," which is the single, that Robin him- you're away from the song emotionally, the better off you are with self did not like, and I insisted that he put that song in. it.In the case of Robin Trower, I was really emotionally involved- As you know, Robin has a trio, guitar, bass and drums. I'm used at the same time, I was artistically involved, too. I always like to to going into a studio and seeing, y'know, two guitars all kinds of not so much change or modify a production as to bring out what's keyboards, horns and strings-and here's a guy who came in and already there in the artist. With Trower, I felt that my contribution said "Hey, I've got three pieces.Let's go." I didn't know how itto him would be to put him in the right direction. Even though he would sound, but as soon as we hitit,the first number that wewas very successful, to me he was still a diamond in the rough. played,I knew that those three pieces were so basic and so effective that we'd have no problems. RW: How about Albert King (the new "King Albert" album, on RW: With this album, Trower himself is saying that his music har Tomato Records)-it must have been interesting producing him. changed-it's more song -conscious, thelyricsare more straight- Davis: That was a project that I don't think I ordinarily would forward, the whole tenor isn't quite so somber. How much of this, have takenifithad been offered to me a year ago. But what do you think,is the result of your working with him? happened isthat in working with the rock guys, Robin included, Davis: He seems to think that a whole lot of itis because of me there was so much respect for Albert King that I said, "Hey, I andI seem to think that very little of itis.It was just such a fusion better really see what this guy isall about." that was going on there, really. Robinis an exceptionally talented Albert is known as a bluesman. I felt that to undertake a project musician, in the sense that not only is he a perfectionist at playing with him, and to get involved with the blues, would mean a real he is also very openminded. He gave me complete control of every- severe challenge. thing in the sessions-if he came up with a lick that I didn't like, I felt that I could lend something to Albert's recordings because he just went back and came up with one that I didlike. Many of my experience with Robin Trower and the way we recorded times it was just a matter of trial and error-he would fool around his guitar. I just learned a priceless lesson; the whole Trower project until he came up with a lick and I'd say "Hey, that's it." was priceless in terms of learning new things about recording. So RW: The record was done pretty fast, in terms of recording time. the Albert King project came off-he breezed throughitin about That, I would imagine, would be your influence. two weeks-and it was the only project I can ever remember that, Davis: Yeah, as a matter of fact, when I came down Robin had when it was over, I cried because Ihated to see him go. There were booked the studio for three months, and I said, "Man, you've got absolutely no arguments, no stops, it was all jokes and fun, y'know. to be kidding. Three months to do an album? That's ridiculous." akndthere were songs that Albert himself was alittledoubtful We laid down all the basic tracks in one week, and he was astound- about getting involved in, but he plunged rightin. The only thing ed at the pace. I wish I had been a little more up on was the fact that Albert King RW: You're perhaps best known right now for the McCoo & Davis :an really sing-I underestimated his singing. But allinall,it was and Johnnie Taylor hits.Is the plan now for Robin Trower to be "avery successful, as far as I'm concerned.e

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CLUB REVIEW CLUB REVIEW 1111111R1111111111.1111.111/11.11M1111.11110.11. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.111111.1111111111111 Dixie Dregs Emphasize the Basics Steve Goodman: A Crowd Pleaser NEW YORK-To say that Stevecredibly tight rendition of "Jes- WASHINGTON-The sad fact cliquish (asofnow) audience Goodman is a crowd-pleaser is, sie's Jig," a bluegrass/folk tune. is that most rock and rollers today wants to hear. Their "Southern- ofcourse,anunderstatement. The lastportion of the per- aredistinguishedlessby whatness," however, may be more a Goodman illustrated this in a re-formance rangedintone from they actually do in their music marketing angle than a musicalcent performance (10/11) at the Goodman's country music paro- than by what they are afraid to :dentification when they throw in Bottom Line. Although he kickeddy, "You Never Even Called Me do. Be it the fear of straying too savageinterpretationsofblue- his set off with his ol' standby, By My Name," to his bittersweet far from established and familiar grass workhorseslike "Wabash "It's a Sin To Tell a Lie," most ofdedication to his father, "My Old tastes or the chic dread of being Cannonball" and something hisperformancefeaturedcuts Man." mistaken for a mass -appeal item, called "Gina Lolabreakdown." from his new Asylum album, "Say Goodman, called back for two the result is the same: definition If thereis no question about It In Private." encores, invited musicfriend by omission. the attitude these men have to- Since this particular set coin- up on stage to help Ittakes courage to challengeward their music-it is the joy ofcided with the first game of thehim round out the performance. the expectations of a rock audi-musicianship-they still fall short World Series, Goodman conveni- The opening act for the even- ence, especially for a new band.of making a complete statement. ently kept a portable TV onstage, ing was progressive country ar- And a rock band hitting the roadThey could afford to push theirsliding over between songs to tistsMaryMcCaslinandJim without a vocalist could make for music alittlemore "outside," catch the score. Somewhere be- Ringer. McCaslin and Ringer split unacceptable defiance. Up front, and to be a bit more adventurous tween the playbacks of a couple the setvocally, performing to- the all -instrumental band is say- on their blue spotlight numbers. of key plays, he seized the oppor- gether and doing various solos. tunity to do "Video Tape," from One of their more pleasing tunes ing that itis abandoning the pos- But what's more importantis of the evening was country stan- sibility of easy identification, giv- that the Dregs do not hide Euro- his new album. Mandolin player Jethro Burns dard,"Don'tPass Me By(If ing clear notice that it expects to pean (or even East Coast) sensi- (formerly of Homer and Jethro) You're Only Passing Through)." renegotiate the contract between bilities behind twin Stratocastersjoined Steve for the last part of The duo was backed extremely artist and audience that has been and a mess ofrefriedboogie. the show. Jethro received several well by Winnie Winston (pedal the underpinning of rock and roll Thesearenotrockmusicians ovations from the crowd for vari- steel), Billy Mundi (drums), Tony since Chuck Barry. dabblinginother forms. They ous hotlicks,while Goodman Markellis (bass), Jay Ungar While bands such as the Dixie have stripped away the extrane- (who is no slouch himself when (fiddle) and the aforementioned Dregs, which performed at Wash- ous, emphasized the basic and it comes right down to fast pick - Broudy on harmonica. ington's Cellar Door recently in a organic, and asked their audience in') added several harmony fills. Both McCaslin and Ringer two -night stand, candidly pursue to meet them half way. They were joined by harmonica have two solo albums out on a broad appeal with undeniable Michael Shain player SaulBroudy for anin- Philo Records. David Skinner rock, they are quietly redefining what rock audiences can come to CCNCERT REVIEW 1101111,11111111111111111111111111111111111,1111111111111111111101.111,1111111.....11 expect. The Dregs are five instru- mentalists-guitarist Steve Morse, Andrus, Blackwood & Co. Moving Towards the Top bassist Andy West, violinist Allen NASHVILLE - There are two welin harmony and each has some of the strongest numbers. Sloan, drummer Rod Morgenstein, key ingredients for a great gospel the ability to sing a convincing Rumorscirculatethathewill and keyboardist Steve Davidowski concert. First, it must have lead vocal. have his own album soon and it -without a need for the benevo- spiritualdepth,and secondly Mostimportantly,theypre- should be a gas. lent tyranny of lyrics. While itsit must be entertaining. The twosented a very strong line-up of Andrus,Blackwood & Co. music is intelligent,theband areintertwinedand a gopsel, songs in their show. When you started their set with "Never Be," staunchly refuses to justify that performer cannot succeed if take an act that can do any song an up -tempo, nicely paced num- intellect with literary pretensions. either of the two is missing. well and give them songs of this ber thatimmediately won the While their music is easily deci- The recent concert by Andrus, caliber, the resultisa monstercrowd. On each of their num- pherable, it is not patently acces- Blackwood & Co. (Greentree) at act.After seeing thisperform- ber, the applause from the audi- sible. And if the Dregs' call for its Massey AuditoriumatBelmont ance-only their sixth as a duet, ence could easily have lasted as audience to come to themis Collegeisa prime example of- itcan be saidthat Andrus, long as the song if their perform- stronger than most, they are not those two elements coming to- Blackwood & Co. have the mak- ers had letit.Sufficeitto say, unwilling to make a few conces- getherinperfectunison. Theing of a major gospel act. the audience response was sions. talents of Sherman Andrus and The person most responsible overwhelming. Their numbers are short-only TerryBlackwoodare immensefortheir songsisproducer Phil Other songsintheirsetin- one track on their debut Capri- both as individuals and as a duet. Jhonson, who not only selected cluded"Steve,""Holy,Holy," corn album "Free Fall" runs over Their vocals blendextremely most of the material, but wrote"You're My Everything," "Some- fiveminutes, nothing on stage thing Right," the great sing -along runs more than seven minutes or Hall & Oates Congrats tune "Oh, What A Lovely Day,' so-and their melodies are cred- penned by Chi Coltrane. But the ible. The band's power comes number that really brought from volume(ifanything, they down the house was their single, are not afraid to turn it up) and the rockin' "I'm Gonna Rise." the juxtaposition of tonal textures When they did"I'm Gonna which they milk from an array of Rise," they brought the house electronic attachments. The down down. In fact, they had to do an numbers arealldown, the up immediateencorebeforethe numbers unarguably up. crowd would let them continue Happily, the Dregs have not and didit again as their closing adorned themselveswiththe number before the crowdfelt trappings of jazzmen, thoughit satisfied. would have been very easy to do Andrus, Blackwood & Co. are given theirliking for structural set to embark on a major tour experimentation and improvisa- that will see their talents exposed tion. They are stylists, but not to tonumerous audiences. When the extent that they impress solely they return form that tour, they with the subterfuge of borrowed RCA recording artists Daryl Hall and John Oates brought their new show to Long willprobablyneverhave to classical riffs and technical virtu- Island's Nassau Colisseum on one of the opening dates on their extensive U.S. tour. worry about beingin demand They are seen here backstage being congratulated by impresario Don Kirshner. From osity. They have a firm grasp on left: John Oates, Daryl Hall, Don Kirshner, and Tommy Motella, Daryl & John's man- again. their tunes and on what their ager. Don Cusic

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com RECORD WORLD INTERNATIONAL CANADA ENGLAND By ROBERT CHARLES-DUNNE By PHILIP PALMER TORONTO-PLUG ME INTO SOMETHING DEPT.: This town, like LONDON-Making their first stage appearance in the U.K., Simon many, has always had problems with the distribution of tickets for & Garfunkel collected two awards at the first -ever Britannia Awards concerts and other leisure events. It didn'i matter if you lived down- Presentation held at the Wembley Conference Centre (October 18). town or in , in order to purchase good tickets for a hot They received awards for "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" in the Best show, you had to camp out for a few days prior to the day tickets International Pop Single and Best International Pop Album sections. went on sale. Those days are over now that BASS Tickets Inc. has The Britannia Awards were organized by the British Photographic set up shop, the first computerized ticket agency in Canada. Patterned Industry (BPI) and were presented to outstanding artists and record- after the Bay Area Seating Service in San Francisco, BASS here opens ings that have been released during the past 25 years, to coincide with 15 'terminal outlets' which actually print the tickets as they are with the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Nominations in the award categories being sold. There will be no more geographic chauvinism, either.were voted for by the BPI member companies in the U.K. record- All seats are available at all outlets. No more lineups downtown, no ing industry. The event was filmed by Thames TV and shown on more off -duty policemen being hired to maintain decorum when Led October 20. Thames TV will be negotiating the sale of the program Zeppelin tickets go on sale. And the central computer keeps track for screening in the U.S. and other overseas markets. The complete of 20,000,000 reserved seats and a further 500,000,000 general admis- listof awards are:BestBritishPop Singles-Queen's "Bohemian sion seats. BASS hopes to corner the market for sporting events, Rhapsody" and Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale;" Best theatre, movies, etc., much like BASS and Ticketron have done state- British Pop Album-"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band;" Best side. We'd like to see their hydro bill. Classical Orchestral Album-"War Requiem" by Benjamin Britten; CONSIDER YOUR EARS DEPT.: "Consider The Heart" was an album Best BritishClassical Soloist Albums: "Elgar's Cello Concerto" by recorded by Tony Kosinec for the Smile label about three years ago, Jacqueline Du Pre and "Mozart's Horn Concertos" by Dennis Brain; an excellent album which never saw release outside of Canada. "All BestBritish Non -Musical Album-Richard Burton's "Under Milk - Things Come From God," a hit single here taken from the Ip did wood;" Best British Pop Group-The Beatles; Best British Male Artist nothing to enhance its value to a&r types anywhere on the planet.-Cliff Richard; Best British Female Artist-Shirley Bassey; Most Out- We're pleased to report that persistence pays off. CBS/Sony in Japan standing New British Recording Artists (Male and Female)-Graham has leased the Kosinec album after two years of on/off negotiations. Parker and Julie Covington; and Best British -George It's nice to see that one of the brightest, most moving and compelling Martin. albums recorded in this country is finally being recognized outside RIVA managing director Mike Gill expected to announce complete Canada. Even ifit did take three years. worldwide plans for Rod Stewart's RIVA label this week ... McCartney BITS'N'PIECES: The biggest selling Cancon singlelast year was & Wings re-signing to EMI but not for U.S.? . . . Olav Wyper and "Roxy Roller" by Sweeney Todd. Just as the single was topping charts Geoff Hannington to announce U.S. affiliation for their logo label here, singer Nick Gilder left to become a solo artist. Both Todd and and transatlantic back catalogue . . . Former U.K. heavyweight boxer Gilder released versions of the tune in the U.S. (in fact Todd released (Continued on page 77) two) which killedits momentum. Then the band had some mana- gerial problems which are now reportedly fixed. To coincide with the release of their new album, "If Wishes Were Horses," Sweeney (Continued on page 77) JAPAN GERMANY By JIM SAMPSON 34:11,474,yraidwilt MUNICH-The new wave scene here is developing rapidly, thanks IN CONJUNCTION WITH ORIGINAL CONFIDENCE, JAPAN'S LEADING MUSIC TRADE PUBLICATION to considerable industry interest and good broadcast exposure. Eddie Singer/songwriter/producer Miki Antony, recently signed with EMI, and the Hot Rods and Tom Petty were featured on recent national was in Japan in mid -October to promote hisfirstrelease on the TV shows, while Heavy Metal Kids, Television, The Clash and others EMI label . . . King Records willreissue a series of twenty A&M toured recently (Ultravox and Damned due soon). Volker Spielberg, Records rock Ip hits on November 21, to be called the "1900 Series who saw the potential of this kind of music almost from the begin- -Best 20." These Ips will be marketed for Y1,900 ($7.30) as opposed ning,has signed Chiswick's Rockin Music tohisApril pubbery. to the usual retail price of Y2,500 ($9.60). Included in the series will Spielberg's former home, Intersong, has amassed an impressing new be albums by Humble Pie, , Joe Cocker, The Move, wave catalogue. Bob Hertwig of Teldec says his label justsigned a Procol Harum, Strawbs, Supertramp, The Flying Burrito Bros., Gene license deal with Stiff (Elvis Costello et al.). A wide variety of new Clark, Howdy Moon and King Harvest, among others . . . Warner - wave and punk groups are pressed here, availablethrough most Pioneer Records will carry out a massive year-end campaign entitled outlets, partly because neither the teen listeners nor the record com- "Young Adult Music," aimed at the 20-25 year old age group. The pany executives understand all the lyrics. Most of the German new campaign will center on George Benson, Michael Franks, Kenny Ran- wave acts surfacing lately miss the point of the music: afew dirty kin, Joao Gilberto and Al Jarreau. According to Warner -Pioneer pro- words do not transform mediocre musicians intopopular punk motion man Yoshio Niwano, young Japanese in their twenties tend rockers, rather into mediocre musicians who know a few dirty words. to spend their money on clothes, cars and various forms of enter- The energy and commercial showmanship of the leading English tainment other than records. The object of the campaign will be to and American groups are lacking. While German new wave develops, increase records sales to this group by presenting a package of art- we've got the English variety just a short plane ride away, comingists that most appeal to people in their twenties. Special DJ albums over frequently to boost sales. Concert responsehas been variable. featuring several cuts by each of the above artists will be distributed The Stranglers flopped in Frankfurt, were a hit in Hamburg. Severalto all radio stations, pamphlets and image posters will be made avail- small clubs or discos are starting to specialize in new wave, espe-able in stores and clubs frequented by people in this age bracket cially in the Hamburg area. German radio, hardly known for pioneer- and special displays will be set up in record stores throughout the ingprogressive programming, has aired some Sex Pistols music nation. In addition, a special radio program featuring these artists (not "God Save The Queen"). Also jumping on the bandwagonis will be produced and distributed to both AM and FM stations all the pop press,including Bravo, Music Express and Joker.Peter over Japan and a TV documentary on young adult life will utilize Orloff's Aladin Records has resigned with Friedrich E. Wottawa for this music as background. Also, Warner -Pioneer will give away coffee another five years of EMI Electrola distribution. Shake-up reported mugs emblazoned with the campaign's motto: "Music is an accessory (Continued on page 77) of your life."

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Henry Cooper will make his vocal debut with a Christmas release CANADAS TOP 1 album for the DJM label . . . Andrew Lloyd Webber iscurrently recording a version of Paganini's "Variations On A Theme" for a Singles Albums new year MCA release . . . Kay O'Dwyer, firstlady director ever 1. STAR WARS 1. RUMOURS appointed to an EMI group company, has been named as the first MECO-Casablanca FLEETWOOD MAC-WB 2. THE KING IS GONE 2. STAR WARS lady director of the World Sporting Club. RONNIE McDOWELL-GRT 20th Century 3. THAT'S ROCK 'N' ROLL 3. EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS Polydor is handling the pressing and distribution for indie Step SHAUN CASSIDY-WB SUPERTRAMP-A&M Forward label's "I Don't Wanna" single by Sham '69 . . . Through 4. SWAYIN' TO THE MUSIC 4. MOODY BLUE JOHNNY RIVERS -Soul City ELVIS PRESLEY-RCA its deal with the American Fantasy label, EMI's licensed repertoire 5. SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH 5. SHAUN CASSIDY division now has U.K. rights to the Stax catalogue . . . Status Quo's DAN HILL-GRT SHAUN CASSIDY-WB 6. TELEPHONE LINE 6. JT new Ip, "Rockin' All Over The World," will receive major promo- ELO-UA JAMES TAYLOR -CBS tional attention by Phonogram including an advertising spot on the 7. NOBODY DOES IT BETTER 7. LOVE YOU LIVE CARLY SIMON-Elektra ROLLING STONES -Rolling Stones scoreboard at half-time during the England -Italy football matchin 8. KEEP IT COMIN LOVE 8.I REMEMBER YESTERDAY KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND-TK DONNA SUMMER -Casablanca November . . . From GTO Records, Lesley Turnbull is joining Arista 9. I FEEL LOVE 9. CSN as an international promotion executive ... Perry Como is in London DONNA SUMMER -Casablanca CROSBY, STILLS & NASH-Atlantic to record a Christmas TV special for screening on BBC -2 and ABC-TV 10. ON AND ON 10. THEIR GREATEST HITS: 1971-75 STEPHEN BISHOP -ABC EAGLES -Asylum in the States . . . ArethaFranklin has been signed to appear at the London Palladium in November. Her firstBritish shows since 1968 Ozark Mountain Gold . . . David Bowie has recorded French and German versions of his latest single, "Heroes" . . . April Music's managing director, Len Beadle, is looking for separate offices away from CBS in Soho Square

. . . Carl Miller, who recently co -produced the CBS convention in London and who is Cat Stevens' former tour manager, has joined

CBS as special projects manager, a new position . . . Ice Records has just been formed by Anchor Music and debuts with Kevin Kitchen's"Silver Dreams."

Canada (Continued from page 76) Todd has commenced a tour of clubs and high schools, which we find surprising for a band that had one of history's biggest Cancon hits this time last year. Attic's Shirley Eikhard embarks on a tour of Canadian Armed Forces bases in Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Germany and the Netherlands on December 12. The tourisexpected tolasta month. CBS's new signing The Diodes, according to the label, "will A&M's Ozark Mountain Daredevils are pictured receiving their first gold album, for the become the Canadian ambassadors of punk rock to England & the "Ozark Mountain Daredevils," their first A&M album. Shown (from left)are: Ozarlk Mountain Daredevil manager Stan Plesser, band member Ruel Chappell; ABM chairman U.S." Furthermore, states CBS Canada prez Terry Lynd, "the work Jerry Moss; band member Steve Cash; David Anderle, producer of "Ozark Mountain of the marketing division will establish The Diodes as the major viable Daredevils;" band member Michael Granda; manager Paul Peterson; band members force of commercial new wave music in this country." Larry Lee, John Dillon, Steve Canaday, Jerry Mills and Rune Walle; A&M president Gil Friesen; and Tom Pitts, Good Karma operations manager. DIRTY GOSSIP DEPT.: Can we expect further shakeups at Capitol and Quality? Is RPM really considering an all -country format for the Vanguard Releases FiveRosenblatt Joins future? Change Records recently met with the manager of a local NEW YORK - Vanguard Rec- act for an a&r discussion. Diditreally only last for seven minutes Sire Publishing Arm it true ords has announced the release and change before said manager was shown to the door? Is of five albums, including "Flash - NEW YORK- Seymour Stein, that Maclean & Maclean so enraged the populace of their hometown man" bya Britishtrioof the president of Bleu Disque Music with their 'obscene' brand of humor that the residents of Glace Bay, same name, "TimeisFree" by Co.Inc.(ASCAP) andDoraflo Nova Scotia now refuse to let the brothers record a live album there? Jan Hammer andDavidEarle Music Co.Inc.(BMI), the pub- At any of the local halls? Will the debut Wanka album be released,Johnson, "Ragtime Woman" by lishing arm of Sire Records, has on Axe or any other label? Max Morath, "The Classic Span- announced the appointment of ishGuitar" by Alirio Diaz and Michael Rosenblatt to the newly "The Art of Alfred Deller" by thecreated position of professional Germany (Continued from page 76) Deller Consort. manager. in WEA promotion: Rosa Pape, longtime WEA television specialist, iscallingitquits to go independent. Wulf Weidner, former Berlin JAPAN'S TOP 10 press editor who took over WEA's promotion department a few months ago, also leaves the company at year's end to return to Ber- Singles Albums lin. Rudy Martini will be interim promotion chief. 1.WANTED 1.DANRYU Proof that Smokie reigns as the current top pop group in Germany PINK LADY -Victor SAYURI ISHIKAWA-Columbia will come on November 28, when the Englishmen reap two gold 2.NINGEN NO SHOHMEI 2. THE DIARY JOE YAMANAKA-Warner/Pioneer HI FI-SET-Toshiba/EMI and one platinum discs(thelatter for 500,000 copies of Greatest 3.KAZAMIDORI 3.COSMOS MASASHI SADA-Warner/Pioneer MOMOE YAMAGUCHI-CBS/Sony Hits). Meanwhile, in LA, WEA's Siggi Loch was passing out gold rec- 4.UCHU SENKAN YAMATO ords to the Eagles last week for 250,000 units of Hotel California. 4.Al NO MEMORY ISAO SASAKI-Columbia SHIGERU MATSUZAKI-Victor 5.SUMMER FIRE '77 Once he gets back home, Loch will have to flyoff again to give 5.NIKUMIKIRENAI ROKUDENASHI PINKY LADY -Victor Fleetwood Mac the same treatment for Rumours. KENJI SAWADA-Po lydor 6.JANIS IAN Now that Musikmarkt record charts have gone computerized, the 6.COSMOS KAIDOH JANIS IAN-CBS/Sony KARYUDO-Warner/Pioneer 7.IDOL NO. 1 biggest change one notices isin graphic design. The same company 7.UN DEUX TROIS HIROMI GO-CBS/Sony (Media Control) compiles both the sales and radio charts for Musik- CANDIES-CBS/Sony 8.WATASHI NO UTA, ORETACHI 8.SHISYUKI NO ASA markt. Interesting to note that in the latest survey, 65% of the radio HIROMI IWASAKI-Victor SHIGERU MATSUZAKI-Victor top 20 singles, but only 30% of the sales top 20, were domestically 9.KUGATSU NO AME 9.NINGEN NO SHOHMEI produced. Kurt Feltz's hit for Cindy & Bert, "Rosen and Rhodes," is HIROMI OHTA-CBS/Sony SOUNDTRACK-Warner/Pioneer 10.KIKYO 10.HOTEL CALIFORNIA number seven radio but unlisted retail (in the top 50 singles). HIROMI GO-CBS/Sony EAGLES-Warner/Pioneer

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Country Music ExplodingonInternational Scene By MARGIE BARNETT their own countries. artist tour dates and television presented Buck Owens witha NASHVILLE-Country Music is Country musicisnot distin- appearances. The CMA of Great gold record for his "20 Greatest exploding on theinternational guished as such in the minds of Britain has a yearly awards pre- Hits" Ip. scene,and in1977Nashville most European listeners, as coun- sentation for achievement in the CapitolartistsRay Griff and began to recognize this and work try productis aired along with country field. ColleenPeterson havetoured toward the realization of inter-other types of music. Don Wil- The record companies report Canada; FreddieHart, Saudia national country's vast potential. liams' (ABC Dot) European appeal a highlevel ofinternational Arabia; , Japan; Glen At MIDEM in France, the Coun- bearsthisout.Accordingto activity during the past year. CBS Campbell, Ireland and England; try Music Association established Stephen Diener, president of ABC launched a "Texas Rock'77" and Asleep At The Wheel in theinternational country music Records, "He (Williams)isap- marketing campaign in Germany several European countries.Dr. developmentcommittee, now pearing in the pop charts and is on 11 Ips featuring Willie Nelson, Hook's albums and singles do working with foreign media in becoming a major pop star there. DavidAllanCoe andCharlie wellin every European country the preparation of major maga- They accept Don WiNiams for Daniels (RW, June 11). Johnny andAustralia.LindaHargrove zine stories and television docu- his music and make no attempt Cash taped two television pack- taped a video show to be aired mentaries. toclassifyhim as countryor ages for England and Australia. in Moscow (RW, April 2). In April, 80 country music fans pop." (RW, Nov. 27, 1976) War- Marty Robbins touredEngland Don Williams' acceptancein from Germany, Switzerland, Aus- ner Brothers reportscountry and Scotland, and Barbara Fair- Englandissubstantiated by his tria and Luxembourgvisited acceptance for artist , child spent three weeks touring whose U.S. following two silver disc awards for the Nashville. Among the d&egation is one of Great Britain prior to the release Ips "You're My Best Friend" and weresixdeejaysandcountry rock and blues. The CMA is now of her new Columbia Ip, "Free & addressing itself to the need for "Harmony," the gold shipment music magazines' representatives Easy." of his "Visions" Ip and the SRO aseparate identityfor country who vocalized problems in get- Larry Gatlin (Monument) per-crowd at Wembley which broke ting country product for review, music. formed at the Wembley Festival previous attendance records (RW, airplay and sales (RW, April 16). Organizations such as the Coun- in London andisscheduled toApril 30). Williams also filmed at The CMA moved toeliminate try Music Associationof Great tape two BBC television specials. Nashville's Picking Parlor for use these problems by sending the Britain and the European Country UnitedArtists'"Lucille"by on British TV and distribution to top 10 U.S. country singles, artist MusicAssociation (ECMA) in Kenny Rogers is gold in England, 60 major world video markets in bios and pictures and tour infor- Hollandare helping tocollect Germany, South Africa, and 27 countries (RW, November 27, mation to the development com- and disseminate information on Australia and platinum in Canada. 1976). Other ABC Dot artists to mittee chairmen for promotion in country acts as well as assist in The album "Kenny Rogers"is make a mark internationally are also platinumin Canada. Billie Barbara Mandrel!, Saudia Arabia Actis' Presley Act(Continued from page73) Jo Spears had two number one and George Hamilton IV, British singlesin GreatBritainwith Isles. is before he even started making contract he currently propos- "Misty Blue" and "What I've Got ing places the financial commer- appearances," Actis asserts. He is Elektra/Asylum is making plans cial risk of the venture more on already looking at new material InMind." "You Never Miss A forEddieRabbittandStella Real Good Thing" was an English Parton to tour Europe, with Rab- Actis'shoulders than alabels, from contemporary , hit for Crystal Gayle in April. since Actisisguaranteeing 100 as well as songs originally plan- bitt tentatively set for Wembley percent of album sales, and says ned for Presley himself, for in- bears Warner in 1978. Jurgen Drews of WEA inter- hewillreimburse production clusion in a separate concert seg- Brothers' country banner Music in Germany did a cover costs as well, should the Ip fail mentthatwilleventuallybe nationally. Her March, '77 tour onRabbitt's"Rocky Mountain to generate sales. added to the show. That segment produced sold out concertsin Music" which has beenin the He claims to be confident that will showcase Alan alone. Germany andFrance and two top 10 for two months. Linda television show tapings - "Top has such a settlement won't be neces- While waiting for a recording Ronstadt hadtremendous PopTV"in Amsterdamand response fromEuropeanaudi- sary. "Alan has a built-in concert contract,Actishasalreadyas- sembled an Ip package for mail "Musikiaden TV" in Germany. An ences and plans a tour of the and television profile, and is sup- international tour is in the works ported by the Presley organiza- and televisionsales, to be test Far East next spring. tion itself. So an album package for Ray Stevens and Donna Fargo. RCA's Charley Pride has toured marketed in Houston and Pitts- Tee Vee Records in Canada just will tap a pre-existing audience, burgh, and advertised in publica- Australia, Japan, Tasmania, New- an audience that has been trained tions already devoting space to foundland, Nova Scotia and to buy his product for 20 years, Presley and Alan himself. Bee Gees Campaign Canada where his "Best" Ip (dis- tributed by Tee Vee Records) was II LOS ANGELES-The Bee Gees' declaredplatinum.Pride,John Allen Down Under Gold "HereAtLast... BeeGees... Denver, DollyParton and The is now Live"package,which Outlaws (Waylon, Willie, Tompall platinum markin nearingthe and Jessi) achieved top placings its sales,has been helped on in last year's British CMA Awards marketing way by atelevision (RW, October 30, 1976). Dave & program thatis the largest ever Sugar had a hit single in England attempted by RSO Records, and with "Don't Throw It All Away" thefirstever implemented by RSO's distributor, Phonodisc. A (RW, April 16). flight of 30 second spots was run BillMonroe (MCA)recently in 16 markets for three weeks in completedhisyearlytourof September,emphasizingcities Japan, as did Tanya Tucker. Bill in which the group had recentlyAnderson and Loretta Lynn per- appeared and in which itsrec- formed at the Wembley Festival ords have sold most strongly. thispastyear,withplansfor RSO president Al Coury, who Merle Haggard, Mel Tillis and Joe designed thecampaign, said Ely to do so next year. MCA also that more than 450,000 of the plans atourof Germany for albums were sold in the period Ronnie Sessions. A&M artist Peter Allen (center) smiles for the camera as he receives a gold record following thecampaign.The U.S. country artists are not the from A&M licensee Festival Records of Australia for his "" album. company's next major TV cam-only ones going abroad, as the The presentation, which occurred in A&M's Los Angeles offices, followed Allen's re- paign, Coury added, will support spreadofinternationalcountry cent tour of Australia. Shown from left are Lee Wilder, A&M international publicity the soundtrack Ip from the film music also works in reverse. The coordinator; David Hubert, A&M vice president, international; Allen; Allan Hely, man- aging director, Festival Records; and Gill Robert, national public relations director, "Saturday NightFever,"tobe CMA brought into Nashville top Festival Records. released in January. (Continued on page 83)

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com New Talent Talking Heads BringsNew FeelingTo New Wave By MARC KIRKEBY cult to listen to, and while the NEW YORK-There are many group's minimalist approach re- in the record industry who see mains even now, Harrison has the autumn of 1977 as a sort of clearly fleshed out the sound in trial period for newwave, a satisfying way, particularlyin "punk" rock music. The rapid- providing theguitar andkey- firereleaseinrecent weeks of boardfillsthat Byrneoften a dozen or more debut albums omitted.Frantz and Weymouth on major labels, backed by ex- playharderthanbefore,and pensive advertising and promo- appear to respond more flexibly tional campaigns, may well show to Byrne's ebb and flow. And the whether these marketing com- general polish the group's stage bines can bring to a mass audi- presentation has taken on com- encewhathas been a cult plements Byrne's increasing wil- phenomenon, and whether this lingness to give in to the feeling local music scene will become a his music inspires in him, to be, sales catalyst comparable to the however reluctantly, a rock San Francisco scene of 1967, or singer. limp into the cutout bins as did Talking Heads: (fromleft) David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Martina Weymouth and Jerry "Idon't think ofitas rock theBosstowndisasterofthe Harrison. 'n'roll singing," Byrne demurs. same era. last summer).Talking Heads writing - problems, decisions, "Ijust try to sing with convic- Only a few of the New York made its debut at CBGB in mid - tension-would make for gloomy tion.If I think of a rock 'n' roll groupsto winrecording con- 1975, and helped to anchor thesongs were it not for the elation singer, I think of the guy in Bad tracts may reasonably be called punk club's appeal almost from and rather warpedoptimism Company, or Mick Jagger, and I originals. Indeed, the most the start. The addition of Jerrythat creep into almost all of his certainly don't feel much in com- commonput-downonehears Harrison on keyboards and compositions. mon with those guys." circulatingfromthetablesat guitar earlier this year ended a Like Ray Davies of the Kinks, With short haircuts, dressing in CBGB to the offices of midtown lengthy search for a fourth mem- Byrne often speaks.through sport shirts and Levis, the mem- recordcompanies isthatthe ber, and did much to crystallize characters sketched with an ad- bers of Talking Heads do bear latestnew wavebandoffers a sound thatis both appealing mirable conciseness and treated littleresemblance torock star "nothing that David Bowie and uncompromising. withunderstanding and gentlearchetypes, or even to their fel- wasn't doing five years ago." De- "We never wanted to be so irony. Whether posing as a con- low bands at CBGB. While Frantz pendingonthesubject,the far out that we were going totened member ofthemiddle says"we'reverylucky CBGB artist and year may be changed do something that people class in"Don'tWorry About was around when we were start- to read , couldn'trelateto,thatthey The Government" ("My buildinging-it gave us a platform," the the MC5, the Stoogesorthe couldn't dance to," Weymouth hasevery convenience/It's go- band members are evidently un- Who.Someoftheimitators says, and Harrison concurs: "We ing to make life easy for me") comfortable with being typed as seem to be surviving on novelty, likeit when people can dance oras a murdererin"Psycho punks because of their associa- at least for the moment; others, toit. I think it's generally when Killer" ("We are vain and we tion with the club. likeBritain'sSexPistols, make you can't dance to music that areblind/Ihate people when They realize the CBGB associ- up in sheer fury what they lack itreallystopsbeingrock'n' they're not polite"), he createsation may now work against as in originality. roll." The Heads' notions of ac- believablepeoplespeakingto wellas for them, especially at Talking Heads (Sire), com- cessibilitycertainlydiffer frompersonal issues, in a world that the FM radio stations that posed of three former artstu- those of most record executives is probably too small for Talking Heads must rely on to dents and a founding memberand top 40 program directors, tragedy. take its music outside the North- of the Modern Lovers, sounds as but the group does play rock 'n' Byrnecallshissongs "frag- east. Where airplayislacking, orginal and exciting as any of roll,and isbothmusical and ments that seem to fit together." the group plans to take its case these bands, blending r&b, excitingin ways that belie the"I'll have an idea for words, ordirectly to the public. English rock and Asian influences group's name. I'llhave an idea for the way a "What we're trying to set up ina complex, humane, humor- "Talking Heads" is broadcast- song should sound-not so much now isto do some early shows ers' ou style that has few parallels. slangfortelevisionpro- the chords or the actual melody, that aren'tinbars," Weymouth Critical response to the group's gramsthatoffertheviewer but the kind of texture that the says, "so that younger kids can album and two singles has been words, not action, and beyondsong should have-and then I come see us, 'cause they seem veryfavorable,and some en- its derogratory, ironic sense, justsortof doodle around on to really get excited. They seem couraging (if not overwhelming)Weymouth says, the name "re- my guitar untilI come up with toidentifyrealstronglywith sales action on the Ip coupled latestothe way we perform.pieces that mightfitintothat what we're trying to say." with a vigorous promotional We don't use props and criteria." Reaching those new audiences, campaign by Warner Brothers, costumes in ourshow, our R&B Base forTalking Headsasforthe Sire's new distributor, hints thatvisuals are pretty much stripped Howeverrarified hislyrical other talented new wave bands, the band may reach a broader down to a pretty basic presenta- concerns, Byrne's chief musical may still be difficult.Their national audience than any new tion-'This is what we are, this influence seems to be Memphis- music,to make an obvious wave artist since Patti Smith. iswhat we do.' We just do style, rocking rhythm and blues. point, sounds little like anything David Byrne, Chris Frantz and songs, and each song is a little On stage, the group can bring else on any radio station. Martina Weymouth met whileconcept in itself." out thedesperatesideofAl Byrne'ssinging,althoughitis studentsatthe RhodeIsland What Talking Heads istrying Green's "Take Me To The River," distinctiveandappropriateto School of Design. Byrne played to say is something of a or recall the hard-hitting sound his guitar songs, does not make for and sang and Frantz puzzlement. Byrne does almostof theJB's on "New Feeling" easy listening in an era in which played drums ina allthe writing, and loveinits local band, and "Who Is It?" virtuallyevery radiostationis the Artistics, that stressed various formsishischief sub- Thegrowthoftheband's striving for just that commodity. eccentric cover versions of popject. Often posing questions he soundin two years, and parti-As with anyinnovator, and soul hits. Weymouth learned public can't resolve, orlayingout cularly since the arrival of recognition may take some time. toplay bassandbecame a situations without drawing con- Harrison, has been striking. The Talking Heads' progress so far, memberafterthethree had clusions,Byrne seems more a spareness of Talking Heads' pre- both in concert and on record, moved to New Yorkin1974. reporteror narratorthan a sentation, which first won them makes it likely that it will be time (She andFrantz were married critic.Thetouchstonesinhis attention, also made them diffi- well spent.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Cy Coleman's Famous Obscurity CONCERT REVIEW By PAT BAIRD studio musicians. We were ablemore than a dozen albums on Rush/UFO Bill: NEW YORK - Cy Coleman, to get the top caliber of musi- Columbia, Capitol, MGM, Decca, composer of such Broadway hitcian because we were able toLondon and RCA) and his own High Energy Rock scoresas "ILove My Wife," put them on stage and feature television special. In the past he "Sweet Charity," "Wildcat," "Lit- them in a way that had neverwrote and produced Shirley Mac- LOS ANGELES-The two night tle Me" and "Seesaw," was re-been done on Broadway." Laine'stwotelevisionspecials Rush/UFO standattheSanta cently the subject of a nationally Because of Coleman's "eclec-and picked up three Emmys for Monica Civic presented a com- syndicated column which labeled tic" score and creative presenta- the work. His other awards in- plementary billof high energy him as ...well, obscure. tion, he demanded that the cast clude six Grammy nominations, and well -seasoned rock and roll, "Idon't think I'm obscure," album have the same top quality. an Oscar nomination. five a description often used but in Coleman told RW recently. "Rex"I dont think technology is limi- Tony nominations, the LaGuardia this case truly substantiated by Reed had a big column all overted to the Rolling Stones or Elton Memorial Award for Outstanding the group's performances. the Honolulu papers when I wasJohn," he said. "I don't see whyAchievement and a N.Y. citation Stickingtobasics,Rushex- there about the fact that I was I can't walk in the studio and for Outstanding Contributions to hibited a successful combination unknown, and how did I feel use the same technology and the Culture of New York City. He ofwell -adaptedLedZeppelin is that no one knew me. Well, I same engineers and have a com- anelected member tothe raunchiness and smooth English felt crappy when I readit.I've petitive sound for a cast album. Board of Directors of ASCAP and progressiveness reminiscent of the found the best way to combat Itpaidoffbecauseeveryone a Governer of the TV Academy. Genesis or Yes vein. This Cana- somethinglikethat is when saysit doesn't sound like other It mayseem bafflingthat dian -bredtrioplaces a major someone asks me 'how does it cast albums." someone with so many creden- emphasis ontheirstorytelling feel to be unknown,' I say:'it The scorefeaturesthe two tialsstillis known as an "un- formats,utilizingmaterial from

feelswonderful. I reallylove show -stoppers, "Hello Good known" and why, for that matter, not only their current top selling anonymity.That's why I'min Times" and Someone Wonderful he has not yet beem named toalbum, "A Farewell to Kings" but show business'." I Missed." The former was re- The Songwriters Hall of Fame. also past works such as "2112" To be fair, Reed's article com- leasedasasingle by Atlantic "They put me up for nomina- and "Fly by Night." The lengthy pared Coleman's celebrity with Records and receivedalotof tion," he said, "butI've been set met with a heartypositive that of such consumer favorites MOR airplay. mad at them because I hate the response from the audience. Coleman's next major Broad- as Irving Berlin and Burt Bach- whole system. I think that when Inthepast few years, Rush arach,composers whosefaces way productionwillbe "20th itcomes towriting songs for seems to have zeroed in on their are as familiar as the songs they Century," a musical versionof shows, you either belong in, or own keyboard -dominated sound, write.Coleman's tunes"Hey theBarrymore/Lombardmovie you don't.It began to look like with the aid of the high-pitched Look Me Over," "If My Friendsof the '30s which he is writinga private club. They sent me a vocals of keyboardist/bassist Ged- Could See MeNow,""Big with Betty Comden and Adolphletter asking me to list the songs dy Lee; the Tolkien and science Green. Spender" and"It's Not Where I wanted sent to the voters. I fictioninfluences are wellinfil- You Start, It's Where You Finish" "Comden and Green ap- didn't answer it because I'm stilltrated throughout most of their proached me areprobably hummed justas after Dorothy under the contention that I be- cosmic epics and sagas. often as those by the other com- (Fields) died," he said. "All we longin,or I don't. Eventually, To make theeveningeven posers with slightly higher televi- needed was a common ground itwill be pretty hard to avoid complete, yet diverse, UFO sion profiles. and "20thCentury" was it. me but I'm not bothering with opened the show. On hand was "I know certain people who'll We'renotdoing'30smusic. it.If they give me the award, I'll lead guitarist Michel Schenker- go on every game show and putWe're doing it as a comic opera send someone." who was reported missing just their faces everywhere," he said. whichisperfect for their style. prior to the extensive U.S. tour- "I can't see any reason to go onThis will be the biggest singing lendinghis own classicguitar TV unless I've got something to musical since "Sound of Music." Hale Joins Phonogram licks to the tightunit.Starting plug." When we put out a casting call CHICAGO - Carol Forney, di- off with one of three current Another reason might be that for singers 600 showed up.It rector of business affairs for Pho- single hits, "Lights Out," UFO led was the first singing callin 15 Coleman is, by his own descrip- nogram,Inc./MercuryRecords, into "Misty Green" and continued years." tion, an eclecticpersonality, torun through some of their The show, which will have a has announced the appointment working onfiveorsixdiffer- of Kathy Hale to the position ofmore popular material,ending ent projects at a time. He was, cast of 30, goes into rehearsals Nov. 28. administrative assistant, business with "Rock Bottom" (from their in fact, working on the score to debut album). the upcoming "Twentieth Cen- Other Projects affairs for the firm. Ms. Hale will Other projectsset on Cole- be working directly with Ms. For- They returned for a well de- tury" when lyricist Michael Stew- served encore, offering "Too Hot art brought him the book of "I man's schedule include a new ney on contracts, licensing agree- recording contract (he's put out ments, etc. to Handle" as full -throttled up - Love My Wife." tempo finale. Reaction from the 'I Love My Wife' crowd was overpowering, and it "I told him I didn't think I'd should be obvious that by next have the time to do it," he said. Jam Holds Press Conference time around UFO will be head- "He told me to read the book lining their own shows. By and anyway and when I didI became large, UFO's originality and ex- fascinated because it looked like it was going to be a little com- cellent songwriting won over a whole new setoffanswhile edy, alight comedy that was retaining the followers who al- pertinent to today. I feltit was for the great middle class and ready swear by this English quin- commented on the sexual revo- tet of aggressive showstoppers. lution in a way that would make Pamela Turbov everyone feel good. Thefourcharactercomedy Barnes to Ariola also had the added innovation LOS ANGELES-Terry Barnes of bringing the musicians up onto has been appointed to the newly the stage. "I thought it was going created post of executive assist- tobetough,"Colemansaid, tant to the senior vice president, "and it was, but it's absolutely an it was announced by Scott Shan- innovation. It stretched out non who himself joined the Ariola horizontally and made it possible After The Jam's New York press conference at the American Hotel last week, The Jam staff three weeks ago. Ms. Barnes to do light comedy on Broad- got to meet the core of Polydor Records promotion department. Shown from left are: will oversee activities in promo- wayinsteadoftelevision. Stan Bly, vice president promotion; The Jam's Rick Buckler, Paul Weller, and Bruce It Forton; Jery Jaffe, director of album promotion; and Randy Roberts, field promotion tion, publicity and a&r and will also allowed me to use the top manager. report directly to Shannon.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CLUB REVIEW Conn Country Fest Kershaw's Uniqueness Planned for March UNTRY RADIO LONDON - Mervyn Conn's By CHARLIE DOUGLAS Scores at Palomino 10th International Festival of Inrecent months, Doug Ker- Country Music will be held March Steely O'Connor joins WEEP, Pittsburgh, as the morning man and shaw-in an obvious attempt to 25-27atthe Empire Pool and Jonathan Rhodes, PD, welcomed Charlie Daniels to the airwaves for update his image-had shed his Conference Centre, Wembley. a 30 minute stint as an air personality ... Terry Wood, WONE, Dayton, familiar velvet suits, gotten a new Once again the BBC will record has announced that "The Future Of Our Country" will be the topic(s) blow-dry hairdo, and, saddest of the event for TV transmission atfor discussion for the 1978 Country Radio Seminar . . . Tom Bootle all, forsaken a large portion of a later date and BBC Radio will has departed WKDA, Nashville, to form his own production company, his traditional Cajun repertoire in record the shows for its "Country and Dale Turner has been upped to MD. favorof more "commercial" Club" program. Duke Anthony at KXLR, Little Rock, is in need of an air personality material. The result, atleast to In addition, Phillip Morris Ltd., with pi oducton experience . . . Apologies to John France, all-nighter anydyed-in-the-wool Kershaw manufacturer of Marlboro ciga- at WHO. Icalled him Bill a couple of columns back. .. Barry Grant fan, was nothing short of heart- rettes, has joined forces with the at WIRK, W. Palm Beach, is looking for a morning air personality. breaking. Mervyn Conn Organizationto Nick Reynolds, OM, MD and 10-2'er at WRCP in Phillyis on the But on October 7, when Ker- sponsor The Marlboro Country beach. He'd been with the station for five years and offers 15 years shaw leaped onto the Palomino Music Talent Competition, which experience. Available at (215) 457-4263. stage, resplendent once again in will have more than 20 regional Meanwhile, Nelson Hobdell PD at WRCP, has named Pete Curryas

red velvet, and tore into the first heats through the U.K., startingMD and Neil Howard has returned to the station inan air shift. . . verse of "Diggy Diggy Lo," there in December and climaxing withBill Hennes is looking for a female type personality to fill the slot was no doubt that the "Ragin nationalfinalsduring thefirst vacated by Ellie Dylan when she departed WMAQ for WNBC. Tapes Cajun" had returned. The room, two days of Conn's festival. only to Hennes at the station . . . Ralph Emery has taken himself which only moments before had As well as having a cash prize, off the air on WSM radio but continues with his syndicationprogram beenpacifiedby openingact the promotion will offer British and morning TV show. Hairl Hensely has moved into Emery's 10-3 Ava Barber (a protege of Law-country music acts the opportu- slot and Chuck Morgan takes over at 3. rence Welk), was magically re - nity to compete for the joint first And so another "convention" is filed away and this one was far energized asKershaw danced, prizes (one each for solo/duo and more scattered than most. Many compliments, many complaints; the leaped and pirouetted his waytrio/group) of a recording con-compliments were mostly directed to the shows, which thisyear through 60 -plus minutes of Cajun tract, a major seven-day U.K. tourseemed smoother with less drag time between acts. Tom Bresh, on tunes. supporting an internationalstar the ABC/Dot show, was one of the highlights, not to be taken as Foot -Stompers in March/April, and the opportu-minimizing the considerable talents of the dozens of other super By the end of "Bully of the nity of appearing on stage duringperformances by so many other stars on all the shows, but Bresh, Bayou," the fourth song of the the Mervyn Conn production. unseen before by the majority of those in attendance, seemed to set, he had sawed through his CLUB REVIEW capture the spirit of the "new" country music with total entertain- fifth fiddle bow; slowing the pace ment. I had an opportunity to talk to many people about nearly all only slightly, he then sat down the shows and his name cropped up more than any other. on a stool to accompany himself Schneider Warms L.A. The Larry Gatlin and family performance at the FICAP banquet and on guitar during "Natural Man," LOS ANGELES-With cabaret - show was nothing short of spectacular and his not -really -tongue-in- "Louisiana Sun" and "Jambalaya." style entertainment becoming in-cheek plea for programmers to get off the album cut they've been When on thelast verse of the creasingly popular these days, itplaying in order to give the current single a chance to complete its Hank Williams classic he aban- is little wonder that RCA's Helenrun was timely and well accepted by the hundreds in attendance. doned the guitar and picked up Schneider received such a warm Ernest Tubb showed his class and style, as always, in closing the his fiddle, playing it down low in welcome in her recent L.A. debut.show, which was produced by Fred Foster of Monument Records. his crotch in the famed Kershaw Looking for all the world like aFICAP (Federation of International Country Air Personalities) elected stance, the audience literally ex- cross between MelissaMan- Mike Burger, WHOO, Orlando, as its new president for 1977/78, and ploded. Doug Kershaw has vir- chester and , Schnei- enjoyed the joining of its first international member in theperson of tually achieved the miraculous,der showcased a classic torchy Pascal Mooney of radio RTE in Dublin, Ireland. One of the comments forthemild-mannered, "Wel- posturing, displaying commend- made by Waylon Jennings, in attendance at the FICAP function, was kish" audience had been trans- able sensitivity in her vocal ren-his desire, as a former air personality, to show his support foran formedinto atruebunchof derings. organization dedicated to the man on the air. Waylon, along with carousing foot -stompers. Her selection of material was Charley Pride, Dave & Sugar, Danny Davis, Jerry Bradley and many During "Orange Blossom Spe- carefullymoldedinto awell - others made up the RCA contingent in attendance. Other officers cial," a standard which has been paced set, strong from beginning elected at the FICAP board meeting include Larry Scott, KJJJ, 1st VP; played to death by every fiddle to lively conclusion. An impres- King Edward IV, WSLC, 2nd VP; Bob Cole, KIKK, sec./treas.; Searchy player in the business. Kershaw siveentryinthedinner -club Hall, WHOS, parliamentarian; and Bob Ingram, WRJW, sgt.-at-arms. made the tune his own, changing genre, Schneider proved her ex- The line-up at WBHP, Huntsville, is Rick Warren, George Parker,

it from a hoedown into a searing pertiseina recent Vegas run Joe Patrick, Jennifer James, Steve Payne and Randy Blair. . . Tommy tour de force featuring solos from where she opened for comic FlipHayes is now music director at WAAX, Gadsden . .. Jerry Green of

each of his four backup musicians Wilson. Wilson, impromptu host KVE r, Austin, has released "I Know The Feeling" on Concorde . . . and a finalhair-raisingfiddle of the fête at Studio One, was so T. Tommy Cutrer excited about an exciting project. He bows as host break that was closer in style to impressed that he offered to open of "Nashville, USA," an hour long live early morning talk/music/ Jimi Hendrix than to Bill Monroe. for Schneider for the remainderperformance TV show on a private network of stations numbering, The song earned Kershaw a stand- of the week. at the outset, close to 90. T. willhost, Biff Collie will be exec. ing ovation. While her thoroughly profes-producer and talent coordinator and the whole thing is backed by The show ended, as do all of sional stage presence and power- Lester Vanadore whose classic comment ". . . and there ain't no Kershaw's, with "Louisiana Man," ful vocals were the show's indis-@#%$!(*84N+ agency dude from New York gonna come down and the audience, sensing some- putable focal point, it would behere and tell us what's country" tells you the direction of the show.

thing special in the moment, re- anoversighttowithholdthe Talent call will be at 3:30 a.m. and air time, is I believe, 6:00 a.m. frained from their foot -stomping kudos which rightfully belong to Good luck to Collie in getting folk up and out at that hour. It's the until the tune had finished. For her back-upunit,a five -piece most exciting thing that's happened for the country music industry "Louisiana Man" is, in fact, Doug bandwhosetastefularrange- since Edison. First show is October 31. Kershaw-and the uniqueness in ments provided the perfect foil Lyle Reed moves from a seven year stint at WEAT to afternoon in the man and the songlies for Schneider's ebullient person- drive at WIRK-FM, both in West Palm Beach . . . Good to see Big somewhere in the fact that both ality. John Trimble of WRVA, Richmond . . . Fred Sanders of WMAQ, remain totally alone and finally Schneider managed to main- Chicago, and Walter Vaughn, WIL, St. Louis, all at the Third Annual untouched, forbidding any possi- tain a high energy level that will Truck Drivers Country Music Award Show in St. Louis on Oct. 15. bility of imitation. make her a welcome talent. Performing were Merle Kilgore,HillmanHall,Hal Bynum,Pat Stuart Goldman Nick Nichols Raymond, Dave Sugar, Red Sovine and headliner Dave Dudley.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com cc WORLDRECORD WORLD COUNTRY Butler Relishes Indie Producer Role Mercury Inks Jeanne Pruett By LUKE LEWIS NASHVILLE - LarryButler, bia, Jody Miller (Epic),BillRice who walked off with the CMA's (Polydor), Barry Mason (Magnet), coveted Single of the Year AwardCarl Perkins (Mercury), Ray Frog- forhis productionofKenny gatt (Jet), Brenda Lee (Elektra) and Rogers'(UA)smash"Lucille," BillyMize. A considerableex- came by the Record World of- pansion, which Butler attributes fices here recently to talk aboutmainly to the factthat he no his new role as an independent longer has "to worry about day- producer. to-day management for a label." Goes Indie Negative Butler resigned his position as "The only real negative I can vice president of UA's countrythink ofisthat you are really divisioninMay "inorderto stuck out there, by yourself, on widen mypersonal horizons" a limb as an independent, with and foundhisname changed no real 'power' to act on prob- from RW's. Top Label Producerlems which exist within record (last year) to the Top Indepen- companies." Said Butler, "As VP dent Producer category (1977). ofoperationsyou can warn Freedom someoneabouttheirlackof Perhaps the most positive ef- performance. If they don't come Phonogram, Inc./Mercury Records has announced the signing of recording artist Jeanne through, you can make them an- fectofhisnew statusisthe Pruett to a long-term recording contract with the label. Seen at the signing, which freedom to acquire produc- swer.ThiswayI'm attheir took place at the Mercury CMA week cocktail party are, fromleft:(seated) Jerry mercy." Kennedy, vice president,Nashville a8r, Phonogram,Inc.; Jeanne Pruett;(standing) tionagreementswithoutlabel Carol Forney, director of business affairs, Phonogram, Inc; Irwin Steinberg, president, A prolificsongwriter with a affiliations being a factor. Butler PolygramRecord Group;CharlieEach,executivevicepresident/general manager, not only continues to produce (Continued on page 84) Phonogram, Inc.; Larry Westbrook, attorney for Miss Pruett. Kenny Rogers, Del Reeves,Bil- lie Jo Spears, , Melba CBS Releases Twelve Montgomery and Bobby Wright II NASHVILLE-CBS Records has forUA,butalso hassignedNASHVILLE REPRTannounced that 12 new Colum- deals with (Colum- bia,Epic, andPlayboy albums By RED O'DONNELL are scheduled for release during II "NashvilleU.S.A.," a syndicatedhour-long the month of November. Peer-Southern country music and talk TV show, scheduled to These Ips, supported by CBS' Taps Ron Bledsoe start today (Oct. 31), has been postponed until"Music City Music Train" fourth January according to its producer, veteran Music quarter marketing campaign, will M NASHVILLE-Monique I.Peer, Rower Lester Vanadore. include: Johnny Paycheck's presidentofthePeer -Southern Mel Tillisinhis debut as headliner in main "TakeThisJob& ShoveIt" Organization, has appointed Ron showroom of Las Vegas' Frontier Hotel, said: "I'm (Epic);MartyRobbins'!'Don't Bledsoe as director of Nashville going to enjoy it.I'm not going to tire out my Let Me Touch You," (Columbia); operations. hands and arms at the slot machines." George Jones and Tammy Wy- Background A fan gifted Warner Bros. artist Donna Fargo nette's"George& Tammy- Bledsoe, a Nashvillenative, with a Wurlitzer jukebox on which there was nothing but recordings GreatestHits" (Epic); Mickey has held a number of importantby Donna. (Hey, how about that likeness of Fargo on her latest Gilley's"Gilley'sGreatestHits, positions in the music field, most album? A sultry and sexy pose-or posture.)... Ray Stevens appeared Vol.II"(Playboy);Jim Owen recently as vicepresidentof in concert at London's Palladium, then waltzed to Vienna for stage and The Drifting Cowboys' talent acquisitionfor CBS Rec- performance that was taped for airing on both radio and television "Song For Us All"(Epic); Tina ords, Nashville.At PSO his throughout Austria and surrounding countries. Rainford's "Silver Angel" (Epic); primaryresponsibilitywillbe Vocalist Kathy Westmoreland, who was featured on the late ElvisTammy Wynette's "One of A developmentofcontemporary Presley's concert tours, was here for recording session. She cut one Kind"(Epic); Ed Bruce's "The country material. In addition to gospel and one pop song, but refused to do much talking about herTennessean" (Epic); Johnny Dun- his work with PSO, Bledsoe will career as entertainer on the Presley shows. "I am not going to can's "Come A Little Bit Closer" continue his independent activi- exploit my association with Elvis," she said . . . Bravo! say we. (Columbia); Little David Wilkins' tiesinbroadcast management The Kendalls (Royce and daughter Jeannie) hit it big with "Heaven "New Horizons" (Playboy); and as a producer and artists' Is Just A Sin Away," and I understand via the grapevine that Faron BobbyBorchers'"Denimand manager. (Continued on page 84) Rhinestones" (Playboy). COUNTRY PICKS OF THE WEEK

LE FEVRE, "SECOND HAND , "THE E.P. EXPRESS" (C. MERLE HAGGARD, "MY FARE- LADY" (D. Loggins; Leeds/Bi- 111.1 Perkins; Cedarwood, BMI). WELL TO ELVIS." Haggard pays bo, ASCAP). The acoustic gui- Originally releasedin1975, his respects with this tasteful col- tar intro aloneis enough to Perkin's self -penned "tribute"-alection, which includes nine per- hooklistenersonthisone. works in most of the titles of sonalizedrenditionsofPresley Dave Loggin's superb compo- v.) Elvis' early hits includinghis hits and his self -penned tribute sition serves as a perfect ve- own "Blue Suede Shoes." The "From Graceland To The Prom- hicle for an exceptionally ex- continued interest in The King isedLand."Thesingleshows pressivevocal performance. should push this up -tempo cut no signs of cooling and theIp There should be no stopping to the forefront. Mercury should follow suit. MCA 2314. this one. Warner Bros. 8468. 55009.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com International Country (Continued from page 78) C UNTRY HOTLINE country acts from seven countries Woman" and "(Turn Out The By MARIE RATLIFF to perform at the '77 FanFair, Light And) Love Me Tonight" by including Ondrej Carter (Czecho- Don Williams have proved big MI The fantastic voice of Sue Richards enhances her slovakia),Nancy Peppers(Eng- internationalhits for Hall -Clem- new outing "Someone Loves Him." The melody will land), RegLindsay(Australia),1 ent, as was the case with Kenny immediately call to mind the standard hymn "Jesus Wilf Carter (Canada), Saskia & Rogers and Brougham Hall's Loves Me," it's well done and worth serious Serge (Holland),LorneShields "Lucille." Pi-Gem/Chess reports consideration for a playlist spot! (South Africa) and Jimmie Tokita thesuccessof"(AfterSweet Susie Allanson has a strong start and easily charts (Japan). Memories)PlayBorn ToLose her second Warner Bros. release, "Baby, Last Night Tina Rainford, a German artist Again" in five countries. "It Was Made My Day." New believers this week include onEpic,rosetothetop20 Almost Like A Song" has been KJJJ, KDJW, KSOP, WMNI, WTOD, WPNX, WSDS, WAME, WCMS, on RW's Country Singles Chart covered three times, and Ronnie WXCL, KRMD. with "Silver Bird." Milsap's versionhasjustbeen Nashville publishers also have released in England. "Love Is Thin Rex Allen, Jr. has a superb revival of the classic favorable reports on international Ice"reachedthetop 10 in "Lonely Street," first week adds include KWKH, activity.TheHouseofGold, Sweden. KXLR, KNIX, KKYX, WINN, KFDI, WSDS, Owepar,ChappellandCedar - A parody cover of "D -I -V -O -R- KYNN, WBAM, WMNI. wood citedexpansion andin- C -E" gave Tree a number one It's "Johnny -On -The -Spot," or more creased activity internationally in record in England for 13 weeks. accurately, on the playlists; as their special stories October 15. Covers of "Look At Them Beans," both Johnny Rodriguez ("Savin' This Acuff -Rose had cover versions on "Country Bumpkin" and "Green Love Song Just For You") and Johnny several copyrights this past year, Green Grass Of Home" were also Paycheck ("Take This Job And Shove including "," good international country titles It") sport overwhelming national "ICan't Stop Loving You," "A forTree.Johnny Cash's "One ANO Rex Allen, Jr. acceptance first week out! Legend In My Time" and "Making Piece At A Time" was a hitin Believe." England. The CharlieDaniels Band again makes country "SayItAgain,""SheNever The futureof international inroads with "Heaven Can Be Anywhere (Twin Pines Knew Me," "IRecall A Gypsy countryisa bright one indeed Theme)." Currently moving with it are WVOJ, WKDA, with country music broadening WUBE, KVOO, KSOP, KJJJ, KTCR, WCMS, WPNX, KLAK, WIVK. Koval to Con Brio its base to reach people of more "The Search" is on for Freddie Hart in Wheeling, varied backgrounds and lifestylesMontgomery, Denver, Oakland, Akron, San Diego, II NASHVILLE - ConBrioRec- thaneverbefore.The whole ords comptroller Jeff Walker has San Bernardino, Norfolk and Columbus (Ga.). world lies waiting, and country David Wills' remake of last year's pop hit "Do announced the appointment of music is ready to give its all. Johnny Koval as director of pro- You Wanna Make Love" is getting an motion and marketingforthe early start in the Southwest; Jerry label. Koval will take over mostCash Gets Gold Wallace moving at WVOJ, KWKH, KXLR, ofthedutieshandled byBiff U NEW YORK - "The Johnny KFDI, WSDS, KKYX with "I'll Promise GreatestHits Collie, wholeftthe company CashPortrait/His You Tomorrow." to become talent co-ordinator forVolume II," by Columbia record- the new syndicated TV series, ing artist Johnny Cash, has been Monster Movers: Mickey Gilley, "Nashville USA." certified gold by the RIAA. Jerry Lee Lewis. Brush Arbor's "Get Down Country David Wills Music" charts immediately at KLAC Paycheck in K.C. (#57), added at WHOO, WCMS, WTOD. Connie Smith repeats her Monument success with "I Just Want To Be Your Everything," a big mover at KENR, KWJJ, KSON, WTOD, WJQS, KAYO, WBAM, WSM, KFDI, WCMS, WAME, WHOO, KXLR, KTTS, WSLC, KKYX, WPNX, KFDI. LaCosta's "Jessie and the Light" happening in Salt Lake City, Shreveport, Montgomery, Murfreesboro. Early action on Ray Sanders' "She Was Alone" at KDJW, WTSO, WSDS, KFDI, KDJW.

SURE SHOTS Stella Parton -- "Standard Lie Number One" T. G. Sheppard -- "Mister D. J." Billy Crash Craddock -- "The First Time"

LEFT FJELDERS Mylon LeFevre -- "Second Hand Lady" Red Steagall -- "The Devil Ain't A Lonely Woman's Friend" Stan Hitchcock -- "Kiss Away"

AREA ACTION Epic artist Johnny Paycheck recently had his day in Kansas City where he appeared in-store for the grand opening of the world's largest K -Mart record department. Pay- Don Miller - "Disco Redneck" (KSOP) check posters, albums, and mobiles graced the department walls as he autographed Price Mitchell -"What Would I Do Then" (KRMD) copies of hisIps for fans in attendance that afternoon.Pictured above during the ribbon cutting ceremony prior to the grand opening are, from left: (standing) Gary Mary Kay James "I've Come A Long Way" Hancock, branch manager, Handleman; John Getz, manager, K -Mart; Paycheck; Rick (KKYX, WSDS) Henderson, assistant manager, K -Mart record department; Larry Martin, manager, sales, Handleman; Dave Conn, manager, K -Mart record department; (front) Rich Schwan, Epic John Henry Alger "Your Actions Have Told promotion; Carolyn Broner, CBS artist development, manager; Jay Jenson, SW regional Me" (KCKC) country marketing mar.Jger, CBS Records.

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com Larry Butler Ariola Inks Gene Cotton (Continued from page 82) string of hits to his credit, Butler worldlive and work here and notes a"considerableincrease more comingeveryday.I've in my songwriting activity, prob-turned down a lot of money be-

ably due to the fact that I can cause I wouldn't go somewhere

now write a clearer mind." He else to record. I don't think you recently signed on as an exclusive needto.Anytime anyonehas writer with April/Blackwood, after doubts about what can be done spending threeyearswith UAhere he only has to look at the Music and ten years with Tree In-charts. That would seem to be ternational. the bottom line." Butlerhasreceivedcriticism After having enormous cross- for recording his own songs on over success with Rogers, Butler acts he produces, as have most maintains, "One oftheworst producers here, to which he re- things a producer can do is go plies:"I have the same attitudeinto the studio to try to cut a Singer -songwriter Gene Cotton has signed with Ariola Records. The signing wasan- nounced by Scott Shannon, newly appointed senior vice president of Ariola. Pictured aboutthat as BillySherrill- crossoverrecord. I hatethe from left: Shannon, Cotton, Jay Lasker, president of Ariola, and Howard Stark,execu- bring me a better song than the word. I hate the term. I don't go tive vice president. one I write andI'llcutit. The into the studio to cut a country ones doing the most complain- record,or a poprecord, or Nashville Report (Continued frompage 82) ing are the ones doing the most whatever. I go into cut a rec- garbage anyway." ord-a hitrecordhopefully.It Young is going to cut a sequel titled, "Hell Is Just A Sin Away, Too." "I get sick of the negative at- isn't up to me to classify it any- (The devil you say!)... Jerry Lee Lewis, he of the up & down career titude some people are express- way." in recent years, has been signed to star in a network TV tribute -type

ing about Nashville,"saysthe Butler works out of his newspecial tentatively titled "Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On . . . Still." former sessionpianist."Ikeep home here presently, assisted by (How could a whole lot of shaking be 'still'?) Whatever, it's slated for hearing and reading about how his wife Roxanne and Tim Dean. a mid -January taping in Los Angeles and will feature celebrity guests we are getting away from coun- He credits much of his success in a salute to Jerry Lee's more than 20 years as an entertainer. try here. We aren't getting awayto Gerry Margolis,inLos An- Birthdaying: Dale (Mrs. Roy Rogers) Evans, Bill Anderson, Charlie from anything, we are just add-geles, and Harold Orenstein, in Walker, Roy Rogers (see Dale Evans), Rita Faye and Stonewall Jackson. ing to what we've already got. New York, who negotiate con- Rex Allen Jr. was serving as guest dee-jay the other night on WSM I'm proud of thefactthat an tracts and represent himinall (radio) and was surprised to receive a long distance call from Bob artist can come to Nashville and legal related matters. Al Mifflin, Nolan of Sons of the Pioneers fame. Nolan told Rex Jr.: "This is the cut any kind of record imagina- in Nashville, takes care of all offirst interview I've granted in 15 years." I suppose that calls for a ble. The finestpickersinthe Butler's financial affairs. toast with "Cool Cool Water"? Personal: I join Sue (Mrs. John) Sturdivant's many friends in and Gusto Sets Album Release out of country music, in wishing and praying for a complete recovery from her surgery last week at Nashville's Memorial Hospital. Sue,a NASHVILLE - Gusto Records Fiddler's Greatest Hits,Original lovely lady, is a daughter of country music's near -legends Kitty Wells has announcedreleaseof26 BluegrassHits,GreatestSuper & Johnny Wright. albumson theSaturdayand Hits,The Stamps Quartet, The Country Music Entertainer of the Year Ronnie Milsap's next RCA Power Pak labels. LeFevres, The Blackwood Singers, single, "What A Difference You've Made ," goes on sale Includedinthe new product TheBrown'sFerryFour,The next Monday (7th). (Am tolditis dedicated to his wife-with love istheall -new "Super Sixteen" Lewis Family and Wally Fowler. and affection)... Roy Clark is set to make his motion picture debut seriesofcountry,gospeland Other new packages included in "Matilda," a comedy starring Elliot Gould . . . Speaking of feature bluegrass which will feature 16 inthefallreleasefeatureB.J. films and actors, Barbara Eden learned how to drive an 18 -wheel die- all-time greatest hits by the vari- Thomas, "Best ofB.J. Thomas," sel truck for her starring role in "Harper Valley PTA," based on the ous artistsinvolved. Artistsin- Jimmy Skinner, "#1 Bluegrass," story told in the song of same name as written by Tom T. Hall. The cludedinthe "Super Sixteen" Bob Kames, "OriginalOrgan recording sold several million. Jeannie C. Riley, who sang the song series are Reno & Smiley, TheSound of Bob Kames," Johnny on the record, has no part in the picture. Stanley Brothers, Carl Story, Billy "Guitar" Watson, "Gangster of Monument artist Larry Gatlin already has plans for New Year's Eve "Crash" Craddock, Grandpa Love," Joe Tex, "Another and the first day of 1978. He'll be co -headlining with Bernadette Jones, Red Sovine, Roger Miller, Woman's Man"and"Famous Peters in the High Sierra Theater of the Sahara -Tahoe Hotel Dec. 31 Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawk- Duets" by various country and Jan. 1. ings, George Jones, Ferlin Husky, artists. Watch -Us -Grow Dept.-The Nashville Associationof Musicians (local 257) moves into new and larger offices this week next to the Country Music Association Building. "A grand opening is scheduled GRT At Pierce's Pool for Dec. 18," reports the chapter's president, Johnny DeGeorge. A quote from folksinger Joan Baez, who in the past did much of her recording work at the local Quadrafonic Studio: "I've been cen- sored all my life.If I'm not being censored, I figure my work couldn't be very interesting." The "Louvin Brothers Living Museum" has opened in Henderson- ville, a suburb of Nashville.It'sunusual in that no admissionis charged!Ithas on display everything (song sheets?) written since 1942 by Charlie Louvin and his brother Ira, who died in June, 1965 in a automobile accident at Williamsburg, Ohio. "Also," says Charlie, "stage costumes worn by Ira and me, and some of the instruments we played are to be seen." The Blackwood Singers-J.D. Sumner and the Stamps show, which includes a 10 -piece symphony orchestra conducted by Milton Smith, presents its "Tribute to Elvis" in concert Nov. 23 at Chicago's Soldier Field. (Advance tickets sales already have surpassed the 5,000 mark,

GRT Records and Tapes enjoyed a pool party-at the guitar -shaped pool of newly - according to the show's coordinator R. W. Blackwood. signed artist Webb Pierce-as part of its divisional managers meeting in Nashville. I hear from the West Coast that Roger Miller-the wild child-will Shown enjoying Pierce's hospitality are (back row) Walter Kitchens, Bruce Reimans, star in a CBS -TV pilot.It's a comedy with Roger portraying a hotel Beau James, Nelson Larkin, John Craft, Dick Kampa, Andy Cook, Webb Pierce, Pam Hudson and Paul Davis; (front row) John Paul Jones, Les Silver, Joy Albrent, Max operator. He did the same in real life-almost-with the King of the Anderson, Linda Snider, Dick Heard and Bruce Crohn. Road Inn???

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AmericanRadioHistory.Com CtoUNTRY g980THE COUNTRY ccWORLDALBUM CHART SINGLE PICKS NOVEMBER 5, 1977 NOV. OCT. WKS. ON 5 29 CHART n 2 ELVIS IN CONCERT ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA APL2 2587 2 17 COUNTRY SONG OF THE WEEK 2 1 MOODY BLUE ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA AFL1 2428 3 3 SIMPLE DREAMS LINDA RONSTADT/Asylum 6E 104 8 BILLY "CRASH" CRADDOCK-ABC/ Dot 17725 4 4 IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A SONG RONNIE MILSAP/RCA APL1 2439 9 WELCOME TO MY WORLD ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA APL1 2274 29 THE FIRST TIME (J. Adrian; Pick -A -Hit, BMI) El 30 Craddock's emotive reading of this ballad dealing with a lover's in 21 ELVIS' GOLDEN RECORDS, VOL. 3 ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA LSP 2765 2 lament should hit home and head for the top. 13 9 PURE GOLD ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA ANL1 0971 8 8 8 HOW GREAT THOU ART ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA LSP 3758 9 9 6 DAYTIME FRIENDS KENNY ROGERS/United Artists LA754 G 16 10 10 SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/MCA 2099 15 STELLA PARTON-Elektra 45437 11 5 WE MUST BELIEVE IN MAGIC CRYSTAL GAYLE/United Artists LA771 G 16 12 7 01' WAYLON WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA APL1 2317 25 STANDARD LIE NUMBER ONE (D. Wilson; Tree, BMI) 13 13 ELVIS' GOLDEN RECORDS ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA LSP 1707 6 Stella sounds alot like sister Dolly here, but that can only be an 18 ROLLIN' WITH THE FLOW CHARLIE RICH/Epic PE 34897 5 asset with this clever, easy -paced tune showing strong potential. 24 EASTBOUND AND DOWN JERRY REED/RCA APL1 2516 9 TOMPALL GLASER-ABC 12309 16 16 SUN SESSIONS ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA APM1 1675 3 III 52 MIDNIGHT WIND CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/Epic PE 34770 2 IT NEVER CROSSED MY MIND (B. Chappell; Tompallland, BMI) 18 14 TO LEFTY FROM WILLIE WILLIE NELSON/Columbia KC 34695 19 Sparkling instrumentation and a memorable melody give this mid - 19 19 THAT'S THE WAY LOVE SHOULD BE DAVE & SUGAR/RCA APL1 2477 9 tempo tune a boost. Tompall could have a big one here. 20 20 TILL THE END VERN GOSDIN/Elektra 7E 1112 15 21 11 LOVE IS JUST A GAME LARRY GATLIN/Monument MG 7616 9 HELEN CORNELIUS-RCA 11150 Ea 45 HERE YOU COME AGAIN DOLLY PARTON/RCA APL1 2544 2 23 15 CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES JIMMY BUFFETT/ LINCOLN AUDREY (B. Morrison/B. Anthony; Music City, ASCAP/ ABC AB 990 37 Combine, BMI) MI 62 HEAVEN'S JUST A SIN AWAY THE KENDALLS/Ovation OV 1719 9 Cornelius shows strong potential with this solo outing. A strong song Ca 50COUNTRY BOY DON WILLIAMS/ABC Dot DO 2088 4 and a convincing delivery should see it chartward. 26 26 LUXURY LINER EMMYLOU HARRIS/Warner Bros. BS 2998 41 27 31 ELVIS, A LEGENDARY PERFORMER, VOL. II ELVIS PRESLEY/ T. G. SHEPPARD-Warner Bros. 8490 RCA CPL1 1349 9 MISTER D.J. (G. Francis/B. House; Pointed Star, BMI/Jop/A-Flat/Welbeck, D 57 THE KING IS GONE RONNIE McDOWELL/Scorpion GRT 8021 3 ASCAP) 29 29 Y'ALL COME BACK SALOON OAK RIDGE BOYS/ABC Dot DO 2993 4 T. G. comes with a bit of a twist on his label debut. This cut features 30 28 THE OUTLAWS WAYLON, WILLIE, TOMPALL & JESSI/RCA APL1 1312 92 31 23 YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL TANYA TUCKER/Columbia PC 34733 8 a powerful vocal performance and incredible background harmony. 32 12 I'VE ALREADY LOVED YOU IN MY MIND CONWAY TWITTY/MCA 2293 12 33 27 COWBOYS AIN'T SUPPOSED TO CRY MOE BANDY/Columbia PC 34874 7 PRICE MITCHELL-GRT 138 Erl- BLUEST HEARTACHE KENNY DALE/Capitol ST 11673 7 WHAT WOULD I DO THEN (C. Taylor/N. Wilson; Al Gallico, BMI) 35 22 CAROLINA DREAMS MARSHALL TUCKER BAND/Capricorn CP 0180 32 36 36 NEW HARVEST . . . FIRST GATHERING DOLLY PARTON/ Mitchell contemplates losin' his lady on this solid country cut, which RCA APL1 2188 36 should garner instant action. 111 58 I REMEMBER PATSY LORETTA LYNN/MCA 2265 29 BUCK OWENS-Warner Bros. 8486 Ea 54 IF YOU DON'T LOVE ME FREDDY FENDER/ABC Dot DO 2090 3 LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL (B. Owens; Blue Book, BMI) 51 ELVIS, A LEGENDARY PERFORMER, VOL.IELVIS PRESLEY/ RCA CPL1 0341 9 Owen's distinctive voice shines on this self -penned ballad, which 40 60 I LOVE WHAT LOVE IS DOING TO ME LYNN ANDERSON/ shows strong chart potential. Columbia PC 34871 4 - 24 GREATEST HITS MEL TILLIS/MGM MG 2 5402 3 JOHN ANDERSON-Warner Bros. 8480 42 25 ALOHA FROM HAWAII VIA SATELLITE ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA LSP 3785 9 I'VE GOT A FEELIN' (SOMEBODY STEALIN') (J. Anderson/M. Garvin/ 43 34 TODAY ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA APL1 1039 7 E. James/AI Gallico, BMI/Easy Listening, ASCAP) 44 17 TATTOO DAVID ALLAN COE/Columbia PC 34870 9 45 40 FROM ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD, MEMPHIS, TENN. ELVIS PRESLEY/ The bluesy, midtempo tuneiswell suited to Anderson's emotive RCA APL1 1506 9 vocals and Norro Wilson's production caps it off nicely. CEI 70A MAN MUST CARRY ON JERRY JEFF WALKER/MCA 2 6003 24 47 42 KENNY ROGERS/United Artists LA689 G 52 RED STEAGALL-ABC/Dot 17726 48 48 OUTLAW BLUES (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/Capitol ST 11691 2 THE DEVIL AIN'T A LONELY WOMAN'S FRIEND (D. Frazier/S.D. Shafer; 49 46 ELVIS' GOLD RECORDS-VOL. 2 ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA LSP 2075 6 Acuff -Rose, BMI) 50 63 LOVE'S TROUBLED WATERS MEL TILLIS/MCA 2288 2 A great piano intro kicks off this energetic cut. A thoughtful lyric and 51 59 RABBITT EDDIE RABBITT/Elektra 7E 1105 22 SONGS I'LL ALWAYS SING MERLE HAGGARD/Capitol SABB 11531 27 tight, bright production should help it soar up the charts. 52 55 al 67 BEST OF STATLER BROTHERS/Mercury SRM 11037 89 SUE RICHARDS-Epic 8 50465 111 72 LIVE/ TAKIN' THE STAGE PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE/RCA CPL2 2404 6 SOMEONE LOVES HIM (J. Vest/D. Chamberlain; Hotei/Welbeck, ASCAP) EBI 74 SONGS OF KRISTOFFERSON /Columbia PZ 34687 26 Intricate lyrics and production set this one apart and Richards' con- Ea 66 SHAME ON ME DONNA FARGO/Warner Bros. BS 3087 2 vincing reading is superb. It should see heavy action. - WAYLON LIVE WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA APL1 1108 42 - RAMBLIN' FEVER MERLE HAGGARD/MCA 2267 22 THE FOUR GUYS-GRT/Gar Pax 139 59 37ANYTIME ANYWHERE RITA COOLIDGE/A&M SP 4616 13 I REMEMBER (S. Milete/J. Lusk/G.S. Paxton; Garpax, ASCAP/ 60 53 BEST OF FREDDY FENDER/ABC Dot DO 2079 25 Kaysey, SEASAC) W - REDHEADED STRANGER WILLIE NELSON/Columbia KC 33482 107 The group and producer Gary Paxton put this "nostalgia" cut right in 62 33 HIS HAND IN MINE ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA ANL1 1319 9 the grooves. The appealing 50's feel should launch it. al 75 RONNIE MILSAP LIVE/RCA APL1 2043 47 64 49 LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ELVIS PRESLEY/LSP 4776 7 DARRELL DODSON-Pinnacle 103 65 69 A WORKING MAN CAN'T GET NOWHERE TODAY MERLE HAGGARD/ Capitol ST 11693 6 TIED TO A TIGER (B. Millsap; Ironside, ASCAP) 66 56 SOUTHERN NIGHTS /Capitol ST 11601 34 The "Tiger" is a money -hungry lady and Dodson's warning should get 67 - REDNECK MOTHERS VARIOUS ARTISTS/RCA APL1 2438 1 68 68 THE BEST OF REX REX ALLEN, JR./Warner Bros. BS 3122 2 instant attention from male listeners. Watch it. 69 - DYNAMIC DUO CONWAY TVVITTY & LORETTA LYNN/MCA 2278 17 70 - BEST OF MOE BANDY/Columbia KC 34715 13 TINY TIM-True 109 71 43 HANK WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS, VOL. II/MGM MG2 5401 7 I'M GONNA BE A COUNTRY QUEEN (C. Johnson; Sing Me, ASCAP) 72 71 BEST OF DOLLY PARTON/RCA APL1 1117 75 73 73 SOMEBODY LOVES YOU CRYSTAL GAYLE/United Artists LA543 G 72 Tiny pokes as much fun at himself as he does at country music in this 74 41 LINDA RONSTADT'S GREATEST HITS/Asylum 7E 1092 46 lighthearted cut. What's left of left field? 75 61 SHORT STORIES STATLER BROTHERS/Mercury SRM 1 5001 13

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TITLE, ARTIST, Label, Number 50 68 GEORGIA KEEPS PULLING ON MY RING CONWAY NOV. OCT. WKS. ON TWITTY/MCA 40805 2 5 29 CHART MOTHER COUNTRY MUSIC VERN GOSDIN/Elektra 45436 3 IM 4I'M JUST A COUNTRY BOY 60 52 55 LEAN ON JESUS PAUL CRAFT/RCA PB 11078 5 DON WILLIAMS 53 58 I MUST BE DREAMING DON KING/Con Brio 126 5 ABC Dot DO 17717 11 54 32 I'VE ALREADY LOVED YOU IN MY MIND CONWAY TWITTY/ MCA 40754 16 2 2 HEAVEN'S JUST A SIN AWAY THE KENDALLS/Ovation OV 63 ABILENE SONNY JAMES/Columbia 3 10628 3 1103 14 65 AFTER THE BALL JOHNNY CASH/Columbia 3 10623 3 8 6 ROSES FOR MAMA C.W. McCALL/Polydor PD 14420 57 37 WHAT A WAY TO GO BOBBY BORCHERS/Playboy ZS8 5816 10 9 BLUE BAYOU LINDA RONSTADT/Asylum 45431 8 8 1 MORE TO ME CHARLEY PRIDE/RCA PB 11086 CHARTMAKER OF THE WEEK 6 7 ONCE IN A LIFETIME THING JOHN WESLEY RYLES/ - CHAINS OF LOVE ABC Dot 17698 13 MICKEY GILLEY 7 8 LOVE IS JUST A GAME LARRY GATLIN/Monument 226 9 Playboy ZS8 5818 1 8 1 EASTBOUND AND DOWN JERRY REED/RCA PB 11056 13 l5WURLITZER PRIZE/LOOKIN' FOR A FEELING 59 59 WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA PB 11118 5 FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS BARBARA FAIRCHILD/ Columbia 3 10607 6 10 11 LET ME DOWN EASY CRISTY LANE/LS GRT 131 11 60 62 MEXICAN LOVE SONGS LINDA HARGROVE/Capitol 4447 7 14 FROM GRACELAND TO THE PROMISED LAND 61 66 THAT'S ALLI WANTED TO KNOW DOTTIE WEST/ MERLE HAGGARD/MCA 40804 5 United Artists XW1084 5 16 SHAME ON ME DONNA FARGO/Warner Bros. WBS 8431 9 62 64 MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY CHARLY McCLAIN/ 13 13 HOLD ME BARBARA MANDRELL/ABC Dot DO 17716 10 Epic 8 50436 6 63 67 111 18 WHAT'RE YOU DOING TONIGHT JANIE FRICKE/Columbia WALK AWAY WITH ME RANDY BARLOW/Gazelle IRDA 427 5 3 10605 8 83 MIDDLE AGE CRAZY JERRY LEE LEWIS/Mercury 55011 2 15 17 YOU OUGHT TO HEAR ME CRY WILLIE NELSON/ 72 QUITS GARY STEWART/RCA PB 11131 3 RCA PB 11061 9 66 70ONE NIGHT STANDS HANK WILLIAMS, JR./Warner Bros. 20FOOLS FALL IN LOVE JACKY WARD/Mercury 55003 9 WBS 8451 4 2 STILL THE ONE BILL ANDERSON/MCA 40794 6 67 69 THE SUN IN DIXIE KATHY BARNES/Republic 005 5 22 ONE OF A KIND /Epic 8 50450 5 68 38 TO LOVE SOMEBODY NARVEL FELTS/ABC Dot DO 17715 12 19 19 A WORKING MAN CAN'T GET NOWHERE TODAY SAVIN' THIS LOVE SONG JUST FOR YOU JOHNNY MERLE HAGGARD/Capitol 4477 10 RODRIGUEZ/Mercury 55012 1 20 26 HERE YOU COME AGAIN DOLLY PARTON/RCA PB 11123 4 70 I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING CONNIE SMITH/ Monument 231 1 21 3 I GOT THE ROSS MEL TILLIS/MCA 40764 13 79 RAYMOND'S PLACE RAY GRIFF/Capitol 4492 3 22 5 WE CAN'T GO ON LIVING LIKE THIS EDDIE RABBITT/ Elektra 45418 12 72 78 AGREE TO DISAGREE LITTLE DAVID 5822 3 CLOSE ENOUGH FOR LONESOME MEL STREET/Polydor PD FE 28 73 74 SHE KEEPS HANGIN' ON RAYBURN ANTHONY/Polydor PD 14421 7 14423 7 24 24 HE AIN'T YOU LYNN ANDERSON/Columbia 3 10597 10 74 76COME TO ME ROY HEAD/ABC Dot DO 17722 4 25 27 THIS TIME I'M IN IT FOR THE LOVE TOMMY OVERSTREET/ 85 I'M COMING HOME TO FACE THE MUSIC NAT STUCKEY/ ABC Dot DO 17721 8 MCA 40808 2 26 29 CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES 76 75 BETTER OFF ALONE JAN HOWARD/Con Brio 125 6 JIMMY BUFFETT/ABC AB 12305 6 77 81 YOU JUST DON'T KNOW MARY MILLER/Inergi 1-302 4 27 30 SOUL OF A HONKY TONK WOMAN MEL McDANIEL/ TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT JOHNNY PAYCHECK/ Capitol 4481 8 Epic 8 50469 1 28 12 THE OLD MAN AND HIS HORN GENE WATSON/ Capitol 4456 13 89 IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN EASY DOTTSY/RCA PB 11138 2 29 33 ENDLESSLY EDDIE MIDDLETON/Epic/Cleveland Int. 8 50431 9 80 88 DEAR ALICE JOHNNY LEE/GRT 137 2 30 35 BORN TO LOVE ME RAY PRICE/Columbia 3 10631 6 81 42 WHY CAN'T HE BE YOU LORETTA LYNN/MCA 40747 14 31 34 DAYS THAT END IN "Y" SAMMI SMITH/Elektra 45429 8 82 82 LIPSTICK TRACES JIMMIE PETERS/Mercury 55005 4 ED 40PEANUT BUTTER DICKEY LEE/RCA PB 11125 4 83 43 DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE CRYSTAL GAYLE/ EEI 41 DON'T LET ME TOUCH YOU MARTY ROBBINS/Columbia United Artists XW1016 18 3 10629 3 84 47 IF IT AIN'T LOVE BY NOW JIM ED BROWN & HELEN CORNELIUS/RCA PB 11044 12 39 SHE JUST LOVED THE CHEATIN' OUT OF ME MOE BANDY/ 85 77 6 Columbia 3 10619 5 MY GIRL DALE McBRIDE/Con Brio 124 86 90 WHEN DO WE STOP STARTING OVER DON GIBSON/ 49YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE DEBBY BOONE/Warner Bros. WBS ABC/Hickory AH 54019 2 8455 3 87 87WE'RE ALL ALONE RITA COOLIDGE/A&M 1965 3 36 23 Y'ALL COME BACK SALOON OAK RIDGE BOYS/ ABC Dot DO 17710 17 Ea BABY, LAST NIGHT MADE MY DAY SUSIE ALLANSON/ Warner Bros. WBS 8473 1 EZI 51 EVERYDAY I HAVE TO CRY SOME JOE STAMPLEY/ Epic 8 50453 3 89 91 YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE ME COMPLETELY JOHNNY BUSH/ Gusto/Starday SD 165 2 El3 61 I'M KNEE DEEP IN LOVING YOU DAVE & SUGAR/ RCA PB 11141 2 90 HEAVEN CAN BE ANYWHERE (TWIN PINES THEME) CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/Epic 8 50456 1 39 31 THE KING IS GONE RONNIE McDOWELL/Scorpion GRT 0543 8 91 I'LL GET OVER YOU NICK NIXON/Mercury 55010 1 40 25 DAYTIME FRIENDS KENNY ROGERS/United Artists XW1027 15 - 92 57 SILVER MEDALS AND SWEET MEMORIES STATLER 56 SWEET MUSIC MAN KENNY ROGERS/United Artists XW1095 3 BROTHERS/Mercury 55000 13 TOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH / 42 36 93 84 I HAVEN'T LEARNED A THING PORTER WAGONER/ United Artists XW1041 12 RCA PB 10974 4 CEI 54 THE PAY PHONE BOB LUMAN/Polydor PD 11431 4 94 97 RINGGOLD, GEORGIA BILLY WALKER & BRENDA KAYE 44 44 THAT OLD COLD SHOULDER TOM BRESH/ABC Dot DO 17720 7 PERRY/MRC MR -105 2 45 45 NOBODY CARES BUT YOU FREDDY WELLER/Columbia 95 46 ERES TU JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ/Mercury 55004 10 3 10598 9 96 95 HOW I LOVE THEM OLD SONGS DANNY DAVIS & THE 46 52 I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU THE CATES SISTERS/Caprice CA 2036 5 NASHVILLE BRASS/RCA PB 11073 4 71 COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER JOHNNY DUNCAN 97 98 ALLEGHENY LADY MAX D. BARNES/Polydor PD 14419 2 (WITH JANIE FRICKEI/Columbia 3 10634 2 98 50 DO YOU HEAR MY HEART BEAT DAVID ROGERS/Republic 48 48 HELEN CAL SMITH/MCA 40789 7 006 10 49 53 YOU'VE GOT TO MEND THIS HEARTACHE RUBY FALLS/ 99 73 IT'S ALL IN THE GAME TOM T. HALL/Mercury 55001 14 50 States FS 56 7 100 99 IT AIN'T EASY LOVIN' ME RONNIE PROPHET/RCA PB 50391 3

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