\'Pli ,TA 1-Y ..0AZIN*-1:1114. 0 ,e1:1 RCA Victor recording star SKEETER DAVIS, the calico Cinderella who made a dramatic rise to the top of the pop charts without compromising her country music convictions. See page 8. FROM NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE-THE MUSICAL HEART OF AMERICA 1 HYLO BROWN BENNY MARTIN r'CYD;) a o of My Heart" " alCin-43:ci a" 71 "Tql `1113:!÷"' N CANADA -ON SPARTAN Contact your Storday Distributcr or Starday Records-P. C'. Box 115, Madison, Tenn. charlie's column BY Doing some Springtime noodling this week, we came Lawrence with "Don't Be Afraid Little Darlin" up with flower -pot full of noodnicing that springs some on Columbia, Nat "King" Cole (seldom out of the charts) pretty interesting facts and figures. with his Capitol discing "All Over The World".And The figures simply point out that' Connie Francis has in elpeesville, Tony Bennett's in with a pair, Johnny a very significant title in her MGM hit single & elpee, Mathis, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Robert Goulet are big "Follow The Boys". Girlsingers are following the chart items. boys in the charts to a ratio of about two to one. Without rounding off the batting averages,itlooks A recent Big 100 chart registered 39 male vocals; like a good season for the guys this Spring.But don't compare that with 16 gal types, 15 instrumentals and forget dear heart,in the Springtime a young man's 30 groups.And most of the male stuffissmooth fancy turns.So the moral is:watch those swinging ballad material.A pair of leaders-Andy Williams on fancys! Columbia and Brook Benton on Mercury. THIS ABOUT THAT: There was no big hassell be- Andy's at the top with "Can't Get Used to Losing tween labelsfor soundtrackof Alf Hitchcock'sfine - You" and Brook's right in there with "I Got What I feathered thriller-diller flick "The. Birds"-no soundtrack! Wanted (But Lost All That I Had)" while Andy follows Not a lick of music!Just birds ... Nancy Sinatra is himself with "Days of Wine And Roses" and Brook number one on Rome's hit parade with "Like I Do" trails himself with "Dearer Than Life". on daddy's Reprise label . .Kingston Trio, Capitol- Flip to the elpee charts.Triple-threater Andy leads izing on elpee "#16" and single "Reverend Mr. Black", with "Moon River", "Days Of Wine & Roses" and inked withFrisco accounting firm Fong and Tong "Rodgers & Hammerstein"; Brook's got "Golden Hits". (fer real) and they use an abacus to count them there In both the elpee and singles listings, you've got some green back dollars. an then there's the artist who real great ballad belters from 'way back.Guys like put his foot down and told his manager, "Either I get Al Martino on Capitol with "I Love You Because", my price or I work for nothing." CHARLIE LAMB PRESIDENT, PUBLISHER AND MANAGING EDITOR ANITA McINTURFF the music reporter VICE-PRESIDENT AND STATISTICAL RESEARCH SUBSCRIPTIONS: ONE YEAR ( 52ISSUES),U.S. FRANCES A. 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NASHVILLE-(Bradley Studios) 804 16th Avenue South; AL 4-5578; Bill Denny, Manager. behind the sock "I Fall to Pieces".Burl Ives, after a hit record hiatus, burst into the TEAMWORK four -hits -per -year bracket with "Little Bitty Tear". PeteFountain'sentirecatalogue was reborn to prominence through Decca's effortswithitssubsidiarylabel,Coral. KEYNOTES Jackie Wilson's comeback viaBrunswick, Decca Records, acting like the New York another Decca subsid,is one of the most Yankees of the recording industry, is at the dramatic stories of the pop-R&B field. Deccahas peak of one ofitshottesthitstreaks-a consistentlystayedinthe spectacularthree-yearstretchthatshows winners column but in 1959 and early 1960, no sign ofbreaking. the label broke wide open with one of its Like the Yankees, Decca has big, strong hottestsalesstreaks. men with a keen sense of teamwork, in the Checking his files, Salidor came up with right jobs at the right time. a highlight recap of the rocket -bursthit Cleanuphittersforthechampionship streak. Itwas ignited by Brenda Lee's Decca crew are Sydney Goldberg, VP of "Sweet Nothin's" and fanned by her follow- Decca Distributing Corp. and General Sales up million -seller "I'm Sorry". ManagerandLennySalidor,National Then, recalls Lenny, along came Patsy Director of Promotion and Publicity. The Cline withherstringofhitsincluding pair forms one of the toughest sales -promo- "Pieces", "Crazy", "She's Got You", "When I tion teams in the trade today. Get Through With You" up to her current Goldberg was there when Decca Records "Sweet Dreams".Burl Ives clicked hard was formed in 1934.He has played a key with "Tear" followed by "Funny Way of role in building the label's legendary ledger Laughing", followed by "Mary Ann Re- of hits and its powerhouse catalogue which grets", followed by "Same Old Hurt". stands as one of the finest anywhere. Salidor Middle of the road C&W hits helped keep has 13 years with the company, working his the teams' bating average up: Bill Anderson way up from salesman to west coast pro- had "Tip Of My Fingers"; Webb Pierce motion manager tohis current post. scored with one of his biggest singles about GoldbergandSalidoragree:"Decca then,"Lover's Leap"; Bob Beckham was maintains its high batting average through unveiledwith "Just As Much As Ever" and team effort!" "Crazy Arms".Solid Roy Drusky and Carl The team at the top, in addition to the Dobkins waxings boosted the average even duoabove, includesClaudeBrennan, higher. National Sales Manager; Lou Sebok, Na- Instrumentally,Decca triumphedwith tional Sales Promotion Manager; Clarence SYDNEY GOLDB,ERG, TOP a set of Bert Kaempfert singles, "Wonder- Goldberg, Syndicate Store Sales Manager; LENNY SALIDOR, BOTTOM land By Night" and "Affrikan Beat"; Pete Murray Lorber, Director of Advertising; and Fountain got hot and Earl Grarit hit twice the A&R Department heads-Milt Gabler, in a row with "Swingin' Gently" and "Sweet Harry Morrison, Dick Jacobs and Henry 16". Jerome in New York; Bud Dant in Los With many oftheirhit -singlesartists Angeles and Music City's Owen Bradley and cranking out around four hits per year and Harry Silverstein. with the bulk of their roster, both pop and Executive direction comes from Milton R. C&W racking up heavy album sales action, Rackmil, President of Decca, Leonard W. Goldberg andSalidorfoundthemselves Schneider,Executive VP and MartinP. working closer than ever before.And the Salkin, VP. excitement never seems to wear off at Decca. "We allwork toward one goal,"says "We signed some exciting new talent Lenny."The A&R men are fast to move on during the past few months", states Salidor. hot masters and in picking up fresh, strong "We got Vince Edwards and Bob Braun and material.They work closely with the rest of course we added Ricky Nelson, Johnny of us.Sales always calls in the other de- Ray and Jerry Keller, which is bound to partments before digging into a promotion make us even stronger." campaign. Goldbergpointsoutthatdespitethe "Being a factory owned operation gives so-called soft market for singles, Decca has us perhaps a stronger feeling of team play. more hot chart items working for them There are only a few indie distribs involved currently than they had at this time last and we have highly capable men in the year. field to complete the picture." A real smooth double -play combination, Decca has never been content with fol- Goldberg and Salidor, working in the shadow lowing the leader.They always pioneer. of extremely high caliber leadership, manage It was Decca leading the way to develop top to keep the Decca ball rolling steadily up- Country & Western talent and direct much wards.They are one team in the industry of it into the pop field.The label is consis- that competitors who find they can't beat tently represented in both pop and country them . would like to join. charts byits C&W roster.Decca broke Red Foley, Ernest Tubb, Webb Pierce and Kitty Wells to make a beachhead for the country music product.Newer, pop -oriented artists like Bill Anderson, Roy Drusky and SUCCESS Bob Beckham are Decca products.