08120 O6106.)aLY*1011e) 1526 JI1r176 21 05 152 5;?(,1c.;3243,+56 NEWSPAPER B DALY 11Ft 50 CRESCENT `;T HARTFC'QD CT 06106 81a A Billboard PublicationDHIoar The International Music -Record -Tape Newsweekly November 29, 1975 $1.50 See Bullish Market British Students Record- Bursting Subsidizing Rock For Kiddie Products By PETER JONES Era For Nashville By STEPHEN TRAIMAN LONDON -Astonishingly high NEW YORK -Rebounding from 2 More CB /Tape figures have been disclosed here to late summer on, following an early - show the enormous subsidies that Television Action t year slump, and encouraged by holi- student union bodies in the U.K. Units At APAA By GERRY WOOD day orders, the children's record/ pour into the rock music industry ev- By ANNE DUSTON NASHVILLE - CBS -TV's tape market's leading labels are gen- ery year. Fania LP Hike: Two more firms are "Country Music Hit Parade," a new erally bullish on overall business. CHICAGO The figures show that colleges are mem- the CB /tape combination Allen Funt -produced pilot show in- According to the NARM joining supporting the live sector of the rock bership profile, dollar volume at re- area, despite objections by other No Other Takers volving Art Linkletter, and the an- business to the tune of more than nouncement of Jerry Reed's new na- tail for children's records /tapes was manufacturers that combined units By RUDY GARCIA $1.3 million. tionally- syndicated music -talk show up I percent to 4.5 percent of total are too bulky, too expensive, and NEW YORK -The decision by members, biggest cat- have a limited market. And that a further $2.3 million is are the latest developments making music sales by Fania Records to raise the list price increase other than country At the Automotive Parts & Acces- spent each year on capital equip- 1975 a boom year for network and egory cn its new product to $6.98 starting for a Assn. Show at McCormick ment such as discotheque units, rec.- syndicated TV shows out of Nash- for 1974, and a substantial pie sories with its late November releases (Is- (Continued on page 55) ville. growing number of labels and mar- Place Nov. I8 -20, Kraco Enterprises rael Miranda, Orchestra Harlow its model KCB -2390 CB The record- setting year -with keters to cut up. unveiled and Ricardo Rey /Bobby Cruz), has with AM /FM /MPX ra- more than 300 syndicated and net- Among recent shots -in- the -arm transceiver Iceland: Unique ether Latin record industry moguls for one of the least noticed but sub- dio and 8 -track stereo tape player as work originations- represents Nash- taking a hard look at their own price in its thrust ville's strongest national TV activity, stantial and growing music markets the top of the line initial Isle For Disks structure. are Wonderland /Golden's plans for into the CB market. The in -dash surpassing 1969 -71 when the By IS HOROWITZ However, the consensus seems to a "Read And Hear" cassette /book unit, at a $329 list, will initially be Johnny Cash network variety show wait and see package ready for NARM, based on marketed through automotive out- NEW YORK -If one applied Ice- he that they prefer to originated from Ryman Audito- how sales are affected before the success of Superscope's Story lets in chains. Hy Sutnick, vice presi- landic hit standards to the U.S. an Fania rium. 4 in the same direction. Teller and Disneyland's Story Tape dent, marketing, says the firm is de- album going gold here would have moving So far this year nine network programs; Children's Records of veloping a marketing program that to sell a minmum of 3 million copies "I understand Jerry Masucci's shows, and portions of three other and rake in a gross of more than $30 America ( "Sesame Street" licensee) will involve both electronic and au- (Fania president) reasons for doing web shows, have been telecast from merchandising boost from J.C. Pen- tomotive areas. million at retail. it," says Sam Goff. Coco Records local production facilities. Though ney adoption of the Children's TV "The in -dash market for CB and This may seem an outlandish ex- president. "But I believe he should the network activity doesn't surpass be- weekly series, Workshop family a la Sears and CB /tape units with AM /FM multi- trapolation, but it's the way the fig- have waited until next summer the totals of the Cash Winnie the Pooh, and Peter Pan In- plex radios will develop in the next ures come out. At not much more fDre going with another dollar in- syndicated programs continue to dustries' first licensee product for Bi- year," he predicts. than 200,000, the population of the crease." soar with 259 half -hour shows, 22 lingual Children's TV property, Audiovox had a prototype of its North Atlantic country is only about The hike is the second dollar jump hour programs, and several pilots. "Villa Allegre." new CB with AM /FM multiplex one- thousandth that of the U.S. It in less than 18 months. All three networks -ABC, CBS, (Continued on page 6/) (Continuer/ on page 40) (Continued on page 14) (Continued on page 56) (Continued on page 16) Collegians End WB Boycott By JIM FISHEL NEW YORK -A three -week boy- Under terms of the new agree- cott of Warner Bros.- Reprise Rec- ment, campus stations will now be ords product by almost 250 member turned over to one of the company's stations of the Intercollegiate Broad- 28 regional promotion representa- casting System ended abruptly last tives and judged for service on a week when Warner promotion exec- one -to -one basis. utives agreed to re- evaluate policies According to Gary Davis, Warner regarding college radio. (Continued on page 61) Canadian Labels Miss Disco Boat By MARTIN MELHUISH TORONTO -Failure to spread timates that it is buying close to the current trend of the disco market $9,000 worth of disco imports each to the street level is costing Cana- week. Duchy's Record Cave in Mon- dian record companies thousands of treal, one of the largest disco import- dollars in lost revenue. That is the ers in the city, orders a minimum of The legend is back! Country Joe's first LP for Fantasy Records looks to he contention of many club operators 2,000 singles per week and 400 al- Dan Hill, 20th Century Records fabulous new Canadian import, has a the artist's biggest ever. With a steady uphill climb on all sales and listen- and deejays in both Toronto and bums on import, depending on the great deal to say on his newest release T 500. He sings of love, life, and ing charts; a single, "Breakfast for Two" (picked by Bill Gavin); huge na- Montreal. amount of new product available. most important, about you. When you listen to Dan Hill, listen with tionwide U.S. and European tours in the offing.... Paradise with an Ocean As an example, the Muntz outlet Also, certain radio stations are your heart! (Advertisement) View (F -9495) looks like potential gold. (Advertisement) in the Toronto Dominion Center, es- (Continued on page 30) (Advertisement www.americanradiohistory.com Dig Deep. DEEP PURPLE COME TASTE THE BAND ON WARNER BROS.RECORDS AND TAPES. www.americanradiohistory.com Record Copyrights C'right Rate Ceiling Talk In a Dramatic Leap WASHINGTON -The Library of including this one. In a five -year pe- Comes In For Hard Knocks Congress report for fiscal 1974 riod from 1970 through fiscal 1974, By MILDRED HALL shows registrations of recordings, music registrations went from 88,949 WASHINGTON - Compulsory Also, the prospects are poor for a said Congress ought to dump com- copyrightable since Feb. 15, 1972, to 104,511. For fiscal 1975, the staff licensing of music under a statutory statutory "floor" for mechanicals, pulsory licensing altogether, as un- have made dramatic leaps. The total estimates a 10,000 increase to rate ceiling came in for a lot of hard urged by the songwriters. The me- fair to author's constitutional rights. went from 1,141 registrations in fis- 114,000 registrations. knocks at last week's hearing on cianical rate paid on recordings The Register agreed in principle, but cal 1972 to 9,362 in the 1974 fiscal Deposits of recordings (two best copyright revision by the Kasten - made under compulsory license, af- said neither publishers nor record year, which closed June 30 of that copies are required with each U.S. meier judiciary subcommittee. ter a first recording of the music is companies are ready for the "shock year. domestic registration, but certain There were steamy questions made, will most likely remain a ceil- wave" of such a drastic change. But due possibly to the vinyl chlo- foreign registrants are given an op- about songwriter contracts with ing without a floor. The industries are too rooted in l ride scare and dips in the economy, tion to submit one) were 18,431 in publishers who own record com- Copyright Register Barbara Ring- the compulsory licensing structure, the 1975 fiscal year registries are fiscal 1974. Music compositions de- panies; the re- marketing of cutouts er, who has one more hearing to and as an earlier Library of Con- down slightly (4.53 percent) from posited number 124,481. without payment to composers; and goo (Dec. 4) in her review of the gress report noted, even publishers the 1974 total, according to the the unfairness of a flat -rate mechan- Copyright Office report on revision who oppose it in principle expressed Copyright Office processing staff.