TAPE- RETAILING AUDIO VIDEO RECORDS STUDIOS ■ RADIO TV oo o<» Europes Leading Music Businesspoper A Morgan-Gfampian Publication JUNE 11, 1977 S 'S 5 " ill lii air-"-11 Europe I ndustry keeps pace post for with 12-inch trend bv ADAM WHITE interest. Its original UK release date Ken THE COMMERCIALLY available of May 6 was suspended for a 12-inch single is continuing to attract fortnight in order to make the record UK music business converts. RCA, available in the larger format, which % Glancy Arista and Chiswick arc the latest to holds for the first 15,000 copies. adopt the configuration for certain Recommended retail price is 70p. by BRIAN MULLIGAN product, coming soon after Rocket's More such releases are anticipated KEN GLANCY, former managing recent debut with an Elton from Arista. i director of RCA-UK, has.stepped John/Kiki Dec item (Music Week, The initial 13,000 copies of TWO OF Britain's most successful songwriters of late. Ken Gold and Mickey down as president of RCA Records May 28). There is an ambitious new Motorhcad's new single from Denne — hits to their credit include the Real Thing's You To Me Are U.S. and will return to Europe. scheme from Capitol in July, and Chiswick, entitled Motorhead, come Everything and Cliff Richard's I Can't Ask For Anymore Than You — have A statement released last week by hints of an imminent Anchor entry as a 12-inch with a special cover, signed to MCA Records as artists. Negotiations for the company were handled RCA revealed that Glancy has been into this fast-crowding field. then switch to 7-inch. in New York by its East Coast director, George Lee, and he is pictured here replaced as president by Louis Meanwhile. CBS and WEA have The Capitol scheme features four- (centre) with Denne (left) and Gold. The pair's first MCA single is expected Cutiolenc, president and general extended their commitment to the track, 12-inch singles by Natalie later this year. manager since 1965 of RCA Mexico. giant-size singles with new releases, Cole and the Sylvers, plus a special Cutiolenc has also been responsible and Pye has claimed unit sales of sampler album. Consumers who bu\ for RCA Latin-American market 200,000 for ns four-track Big Deal both of the former simultaneously development and in 1974 was m.d. line. But no new 12-inch product is — they retail for a suggested 99p PRS to appeal against of RCA France for an interim presently planned by either each — then receive a free copy of period. Phonogram or Polydor, despite the latter, which showcases the The RCA statement noted that success with the Ramoncs and the label's soul product. The LP will not Glancy had been "assigned new Who respectively. be available separately. Lyttleton court order responsibilities" in Europe which RCA's move features the T- Each of the giant-size singles will Associate member Lyttleton had would be "announced shortly". Connection's Do What You Wanna go out in limited editions of 30,000 by JOHN HAVWARD It quoted Glancy as saying: "As copies; the sampler offer will only COMPOSER TREVOR Lyttleton requisitioned the court hearing in most people who know me are Do, on theTK label. The first 15,000 has won the first battle in his long- order to circulate PRS members \\ ho aware, I have a special fondness for copies of the disc will be 12-inch {as apply in this configuration, and drawn-out campaign to force the had the right to vote as part of his TKXC 9109) retailing for 99p; when cease when the singles revert to 7- aim to change the company's Europe and have been hoping for it reverts to 7-inch (TKXB 9108), the inch. Key track of the Cole disc is Performing Rights Society to the opportunity to devote more time Party Lights, taken from the singer's reveal its list of voting full members, constitution. He intends to urge to RCA Records' European RRP drops to 70p. The company has but total victory still eludes him. them to support resolutions which activities. The music business in been studying the market lor some new LP: other cuts are her first he has set down for the company's time — and, like virtually every British hit. This Will Be. plus In the High Court on Friday, Mr. Europe has not approached its Sophisticated Lady and Inseparable. Justice Brightman ordered the PRS annual general meeting on June 30. potential and the challenge of other UK firm, using the to send Lyttleton, who is both a He has been fighting for some contributing to its growth is one to configuration for disco promotion The Sylvers' record includes the composer and a solicitor, a copy of time to this end, and has frequently work — and now feels the lime is group's current US hit. High School expressed his dissatisfaction uith which I look forward with great right to make its commercial 12-inch Dance, Hot Line, Lovin' You Is the pan or parts of its members' anticipation." Like Lovin' The Wind and the two- register containing the names and some aspects of the running of the Glancy was appointed president in entry. More bum per-size singles addresses of those who are entitled PRS and its accountability to December 1973. After record sales from RCA will follow, with miilion-sclling Boogie Fever. to attend and vote at the company's members. emphasis on its disco/soul output on Both the 7-inch and the 12-inch His counsel. Oliver Weaver, told and earnings in 1975 and 1976, in the labels such as TK, Soul Train and will be sold in specially-designed meetings. first quarter of 1977 RCA almost But when the PRS gave notice of the judge that the company, which doubled its profits, with a Sal Soul. "Capitol Soul Special" bags, and appeal, the judge granted a stay on Arista's debut 12-inch item. retailers will receive the 12-inch discs TO PAGE 4 particularly strong showing Garnett Minims' What It Is, was his order, as long as the appeal was internaiionallv. prompted "by import and disco TO PAGE 4 heard quickly. RCA drops Pistols give Virgin VALDOCMCAN minimum Some of my best friends are songs W biggest debut sales? order DESPITE A total broadcasting ban the IB A issuing instructions that the VflLDPJONICflN on the single God Save The Queen, it record should not be played on the surcharge seems certain that the Sex Pistols grounds of "gross bad taste". will provide Virgin with its biggest- Radio commercials to promote THE CURRENT stagnation in UK selling single on a debut release. the song have been turned down by record sales has led RCA to abolish Boots, Smiths and Woolworth Capital, BRMB. Clyde and its minimum order surcharge (75p have all said they arc not stocking Piccadilly, and printers on the rock on orders worth £14.99 or less). the group's 45, but some reports say weekly Sounds refused to handle a Company label group manager, that certain Boots branches have back page advertisement for the Julian Moore, described the move as defied the ban and taken in large single until it was re-designed. one to help dealers in every way stocks. Despite the records' high chart possible in the current situation, and However, the merchandising placing (No. 2 this week), it will not m controller in the audio department at be played on Top Of The Pops. yi io encourage them to stock RCA Producer Robin Nash has said: "It Boots, lan Smellie told Music Week: IT V /fli ■DZSH HP Particular. T0 RAGE 4 "We did say to branches that we did is quite unsuitable for an not wish them to stock this, but it entertainment show like Top Of The could be that this note was sent out a Pops." bit laic. It was sent at the end of last Virgin, press officer, Al Clark, week, and that some branches had commented: "There is certainly a Contents unanimity of bans. Every already placed orders." IMofr.j-g I Uawn'ima Cr),ngT:mc RETAILING; New York Reports indicate that the CBS conceivable outlet for the record is tetKsr® ihs Sunshsvi m GtwiApofes Gof&jJt discount battle 16. Counter telephone sales department — Virgin now closed to us. Our only m is distributed by CBS — is having opportunity to push the record is via Intelligence 22. Small press advertising and a poster companies Part 2: Broadside the busiest week for months campaign, and quite a lot of posters 'kL: 24. Audioscene 25&26. handling the flood df calls from European news 6. American dealers anxious to stock the single, are being ripped dow n by royalists. MM scene 10. Musical Mallorca which is being shipped out at the rate Clark went on to say that Virgin's of 20,000 per day. On one day last sales manager. Ann Green, had SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE SONGS Song Festival report 12. Talent week orders totalling 25,000 went called major retailers around the 14. Classical 28. out to stores. country to assess reaction, and all Album 6641607 Cassette 7599184 Cartridge 7789 223 CHARTS: Top 50 33. Top But if sales have been had confirmed that God Save fhe marketed by albums 31. U.S. top 20 10. unprecedented, so have censorship Queen was the fastest selling single phonogram problems, with both the BBC and in their stores. B MUSIC WEEK JUNE 11, 1977 UA issues one-man Jubilee 45 A by TERR! ANDERSON Rockficld co-producing it with when the Queen stops there on her AS A result of Welsh entertainer Ward.