1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I 1111111111111111 NASHVILLE SCENE PEEBLES BOOKS Tennessee to By ELTON WHISENHUNT First release of Ronnie Mur- many movies he had seen. But C &W SHOWS ray on Ebbtide is "What Are You can anybody top 20,000 letters a Give $25,000 Doing Here?" Murray's producer, year -about 60 a day?) Mank in- IN CINCINNATI write for his latest, Charles Wright, 124 N. Peak, vites deejays to Country mu- Dallas, is producing for various "Blue Viet Nam Skies." CINCINNATI- to the labels; says he is in need of Skeeter Davis was hospitalized sic returns Cincinnati To Fund with CMA "strong, new song material." . . for a rest, had to postpone a Gardens soon announce- Ray Sanders' new one for Buddy Midwestern tour.... Van Trevor, ment by Harry (Hap) Peebles, NASHVILLE -Gov. Frank Records is "Pinchin the Girls" country artist for Band Box Rec- of Wichita, Kan., that he has Clement's office announced and "Be My Guest." Deejays can ords, drew big crowds last week scheduled two big shows there. last week that Tennessee get copies from Buddy Records, at Utica, N. Y.... The Blue Boys The first, March 20, will have will donate $25,000 to the Coun- . an tour from 500 Locust, Marshall, Tex. are on extended Jimmy Dean as the headliner in Music Association's build- of Bragg Canada to Texas. .. Roulette's try Nell Wilburn, president .. the 12,000-seat auditorium. Also Hall of Records, said she is getting good Linda Manning has a singles ses- ing fund for the CMA on the will be the Wilburn action on Hodge Martin's "When sion in Nashville before leaving bill Fame and Museum. She Touches Me." for a Midwestern and Texas tour. JIMMY NEWMAN's new D Brothers, Margie Bowes, Don Half the money will come
. a Pocket Mo Helm, the Osborne Brothers, Decca's Rick Nelson will record Dave Dudley just finished single, "Back from this year's budget of about and is be another in a an album of country songs under tour of Canada, will tour sure to Harold Morrison and Mack $500,000 for tourist promotion. Alaska beginning March 28. line of top disks for this a&r director Bad Dent. . Sanders. The other half ($12,500) will Billy Crammer was on "The sonable artist. J i m m y Dean Martin is getting good air The second show, April 10, come from next year's budget Jimmy Dean Show" Feb. II, and booked exclusively by the K play with "Walk On By," the will feature Porter Wagoner from the same fund. LeRoy Van Dyke country hit of has been invited back for the Talent Agency, Nashville. March 25 show. Dean and Gram- (Advertisement) and his group, singer Jeannie The CMA will begin a fund- 3 several years ago. . . Roy Acuff mer worked together on a network Seeley and the Wagon Masters; raising campaign in mid -March Jr. s new one is "You Won't Ever show some years ago. . Dick Kitty Wells, Johnny Wright and among Nashville business inter- See Me Here Again." ... Claude .. Heard, now in management and Ruby ests to raise $350,000 for the King says he is getting country C&W Format their show; Bill Phillips, and pop action on his new one, production in New York, writes Wright and the Tennessee building, on which work has from Pittsburgh that country mu- "Catch a Little Raindrop." King Good for WZIP Mountain Boys, and George already begun. offers it to deejays. Write him at sic is going great there. DI Morgan and Jimmie Skinner. A ground- breaking ceremony Windy Hill is back with KING, 806 Pinetree Drive, Shreveport, CINCINNATI - WZIP and is set for next week (14) at the Juneau, Alaska, and asks that La. WZIP -FM's new c &w format 11111111111111 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I t 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 site, 16th Avenue South, and Di- Victor's country releases be kept coming Cbet Atkins, RCA has been "overwhelmingly ac- vision, with a number of out -of- chief, is on a his way. Nashville cepted in its first six weeks of town music and recording Iwo -week cruise to the Bahamas I I I 11111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111 Manager prescribed by his physician. He operation," General Dick Heard dignitaries expected. has been troubled with a sinus Harold Parry said last week. Governor Clement attended a
. . Feb. 24 ailment. . Gen! Bennett, who LAW GROOVES Program director Bill Baker luncheon meeting of who has a big country show on WPIT. and deejays Bud Stagg, Johnny Signs Dollar 42 prominent businessmen Pittsburgh, asks for country re- PATRIOTIC DISK Wade and Jay Adrick play 18 are on the committee to raise leases. . . So does Harlan Blair, NEW YORK -Music veteran NASHVILLE-Don Law, Co- hours of country music daily. the $350,000. Committee chair- "The Singing DJ" on KRBC, lumbia's country music a&r Dick Heard has entered the man is Andrew Benedict, presi- Abilene, Tex.... Capitol has re- so chief, recorded Stonewall Jack- "We ask for help we can management - production field, dent of First American National leased an album of old Jack keep up to date with the latest Billy son on "The Minute Men Are signed country artist Johnny Bank. The fund drive will last Guthrie recordings, and sounds and materials of the great -term personal Hayes, of Saddle Songs Publica- Turning in Their Graves," Dollar to a long through May. c music," said tions, Brooklyn, says he has a col- and said: "If this isn't a smash, American &w management contract and is at CMA's over -all goal is $750,- Parry. lection of 78- r.p.m. G u t h r i e I give up. And I don't say that work on a promotional build -up 000, of which almost $400,000 records. very often." The song is in a for Dollar. Heard also intends has already been pledged or Promoter Chew Mank, Staun- patriotic vein and takes draft - to represent other performers. donated by the music industry. ton, Ill., claims to be the cham- card burners to task. It was writ- Gerrie Lynn Single Until recently, Heard oper- pion movie fan and letter writer ten by Harlan Howard. Law NASHVILLE -Gerrie Lynn, ated the music industry news- in the world. He said he runs II says Howard, who has produced a new country music artist letter, For the Record. He was funct Radar label and Jamac fans clubs, belong to at least 265; professional manager Publishing Co. personally wrote 15,000 letters in countless hits, believes it is the signed by Columbia Records, cut previously Heard, who is also a well - 1961 and 20,000 in 1962. (He greatest song he has ever writ- her first single here recently of April -Blackwood Music Co., has offices at didn't say how many he wrote in ten. with a&r chief Don Law moni- had also been vice -president and known songwriter, 1963, 1964 and 1965, how toring the session. general manager of the now de- 250 W. 57th Street, New York. nor 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111111111111111111111111 l
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