September SON MOM IDE WED DO MI SAT IF WEEKLY 1 234 5 6789 10 11 $3.00 34 AA 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 2 1263 19 20 21 2223 24 25 $2.8 0 plus .20 GST AO \\ 20 6 9 27 28 29 30 171 Volume 58 No. 4 A6-1 A525 A926 21 29 Week Ending August 7, 1993 22 31 N HIT PICK No. 1 HIT COUNTRY ADDS AIN'T GOING DOWN RIVER OF DREAMS (Till The Sun Comes Up) Billy Joel Garth Brooks WHEN I FALL IN LOVE -COMING ON STRONG Celine Dion/Clive Griffin Blue Shadows THE WAYS OF THE WIND CRAZY PM Dawn Colleen Peterson PLUSH NOTHIN' BUT THE WHEEL Stone Temple Pilots Patty Loveless I DON'T WANNA FIGHT PERSUASION ONE LAST CRY PROP ME UP BESIDE THE Tina Turner Tim Finn Brian McKnight JUKEBOX (If I Die) Virgin Capitol WILL YOU LOVE ME Joe Diffie IN THE MORNING . LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE Sam Mollison Travis Tritt R U SEXIN' ME THE TEST OF TIME West End Girls Suzanne Gitzi BARBRA STREISAND Back To Broadway RAIN Madonna SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE ALBUM PICK Soundtrack MAN ON A MISSION Hemingway Corner MOXY FROVOUS UB40 WILL YOU BE THERE Bargainville Promises And Lies Michael Jackson TAYLOR DAYNE STONE TEMPLE PILOTS KILLER/PAPA WAS Soul Dancing Core A ROLLING STONE ONYX SWV George Michael Bacdafucup It's About Time IF 4 NON BLONDES H -TOWN Janet Jackson Bigger, Better, Faster, More! Fever For Da Flavor TOMORROW'S GIRLS POETIC JUSTICE SOUNDTRACK Donald Fagen Various Artists lost keepingBerry's WAYNE'S WORLD WEAK key GEORGE THOROGOOD hisAlert to The Basement Tapes SWV Haircut success worked tough,label is Attic - ACD 1377-Q lean IF I HAD NO LOOT workingfor Kim a forn2ulaand THE TEA PARTY Mitchell, Tony Toni Tone Splendor Solis expectedforljolly that Breit to shape isnow STUCK IN THE 90'S Brothers. thefinale and Moxy FrQvous re foris the - Page HEALING POWER OF LOVE 7 Dan Hill : WHAT IF I CAME KNOCKING : John Mellencamp I'LL SLEEP WHEN Bon Jovi OOCHIGEAS Roch Voisine CAN YOU FORGIVE HER Pet Shop Boys THE RIVER U2 The Tea Party Zooropa SWEAT (A La La La La Long) Island - 314 518 047-2-Q Inner Circle 2 - RPM - August 7, 1993 A June honeymoon for album shipments and sales find ways to reverse the downward spiral of As spring turned to summer, consumers seemed single sales in Canada. 4.07 million units of music videos, cassette For the year to date, shipments are up to be preparing for beach and cottage parties singles, other singles, cassettes, compact discs, by stocking up on music. seven per cent over last year and the net sales digital compact cassettes and Mini Discs were value is up 13 per cent. Shipments and the net value of shipped in June. In comparison, 3.55 million prerecorded music sales boomed during June units were shipped in May and 3.43 million Partland Brothers launch according to figures released by the Canadian units were shipped in June 1992. The net value Recording Industry Association. A total of of sales for June was $36.83 million, as western promo tour compared to $31.28 million in May and $29.42 The Partland Brothers will launch a major Ian Thomas' Boomers to million in June 1992. western promotional tour on Aug. 3 in support celebrate Toronto's 200th "I can't remember such a sustained of their new Kinetic Records album. healthy period as this for the past several The tour coincides with the release of Ian Thomas and the Boomers will headline an years," says CRIA president Brian Robertson. Part Land Part Water, the duo's debut for the evening concert at Toronto's Nathan Phillips "The cassette format seems to be staying up label. "We're hitting the road with two acoustic Square on Aug. 2 to celebrate the city's 200th there too." guitars and our manager Jim Martin, and little anniversary. After a steady decline over the past year, else," says Chris Partland. They expect to call The bicentennial celebrations will begin cassette shipments have rebounded in recent on as many radio and television stations and at 11 a.m. when But I'm Just A Kid, a 10 -piece months and, in June, they were five per cent record stores as possible. band, takes the stage to entertain the younger ahead of the totals for the same month last "We've played all around the country, crowd. Face -painting, clowns and jugglers year. For the year to date, shipments and the but we've never really been on the road. This will also be on hand. net sales value of cassettes are up one per cent way, we get to cover more ground and meet a At noon, Toronto Mayor June Rowlands over 1992. lot ofpeople in a short time. Plus, we get to lay will greet the historic governor and Mrs. CD shipments were up 38 per cent in the groundwork for a bigger fall tour with our Simcoe, who will be portrayed by Timothy Cc June over June 1992, and music video full band. We want to take our new record to Marketing and Laurie Simcoe Vowles, the sixth shipments increased a whopping 125 per cent the people." The generation grandson and granddaughter of during the same time frame. Scheduled stops include North Bay, governor John and Elizabeth Simcoe. A giant The bottom continues to fall out of the Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Winnipeg, initi birthday cake will then take centre stage to be singles market, however, as shipments Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Thisunique cut up and distributed to the audience. decreased 60 per cent and the net sales value Vancouver, Victoria and wherever else time Several of Toronto's top rock, pop and fell 65 per cent when comparing this year's allows. country acts will perform during the afternoon June figures with last June's numbers. For the Communicat celebrations, including The Angels of "Our new album is very much a case of tli year to date, shipments of singles are down 60 the Partland Brothers getting back to our roots. Reinforce Montenegro, The Lost Dakotas, Kelita and per cent and the net value of single sales is This tour seems to be the perfect way for us to Manteca. i down 63 per cent from 1992. go out and let people know we're still making campaign Thomas and his Boomers (Rick Gratton, CD singles are enjoying a resurgence in music together." Peter Cardinalli and Bill Dillon) have attracted the CO" Europe and Japan, however, and Robertson The Kinetic label is distributed in Canada Currently, a large following in Germany, where their says he is looking at those markets to try and by Denon. latest single, You've Got To Know, became a Top 20 hit. The single from their WEA album, Figgy Duff's Noel Dinn loses battle withcancer ai Art Of Living, is also showing chart and andd soonperu Noel Dinn, founder of Figgy Duff, died in treatment in Toronto. It was only in the week withol playlist action at Canadian AC and CHR hospital in St. John's on July 26, 1993 after achieved stations. a before he died that he returned home to St. lengthy battle with cancer. John's. Lighthouse was a last minute addition to Mr. Dinn had been diagnosed last year the evening bill. The Toronto band hasn't Mr. Dinn founded Figgy Duff in with lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Newfoundland almost 20 years ago. Known The Market appeared in concert in its home town in more After receiving treatment in Mexico, he than 10 years. for its Celtic sounds, the band became popular all members showed signs of recovery and continued across the country and released product on the Music industry veteran Bob Hypnotic label. Downstream, their last album, marketing vi Hahn is dead at 73 spawned an AC -charted single titled Freedom a "signature Robert Henry Hahn, a highly respected distinguished himself as a composer, musician, earlier this year. memberofCanada'sentertainment band leader, producer, music publisher and InAprilofthisyear,several embrace oni community, passed away on July 26 at record executive. He was a member of the Newfoundland artists mounted benefit Women's College Hospital in Toronto after a Society of Composers, Authors and Music concerts for Mr. Dinn to assist him with his We invite lengthy illness. He was in his 73rd year. Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the Canadian you tosend Mr. Hahn was among those who mounting medical costs (RPM - April 24/93). together us your Association of Broadcasters (CAB), the Among those attending was the ultimate ideas championed the cause of Canadian performers Association of Canadian Television & Radio Newfoundland recording artist Ron Hynes seekg home and songwriters and he supplied input for a your "line" entertm Artists (ACTRA), the Canadian Music who, in a CP report in Toronto's Globe and all over mid -'60s government debate on the importance Publishers Association (CMPA), and the Mail (July 27/93), described Mr. Dinn as thecount of radio to Canadian recording artists. This Toronto Musicians Association. Newfoundland's"traditionalmusic led to a new Broadcast Act, the birth of the Over his songwriting career, Mr. Hahn E CRTC, and eventually, Cancon legislation. ambassador to the world, helping to pave the wrote 200 songs and 1,500 jingles as well as way for other performers from the province. Mr. Hahn was also well known in the publishing another 800. Si literary field, having chronicled the Hahn Mr.