Editorial: Some Personal Business ... See ATV Victory In Northern Takeover .... National General Enters Music Scene; Al Kasha VP . Labels Commended, Scored By Deal- er Association... Stax-Volt Confab Orders Hit $2 Million ...Tetra's $250,000 Ad mCashBoK Program For New Product... Katzel Gen. Mgr. Of Avco Embassy Label. ..RCA Pubs Sizzle. Led Zeppelin THE AGE OF THE FIFTH DIMENSION Int’l Section Begins on Pg. 75 We’re so pleased, we’ve decided to release them as - the new Blood, Sweat &Tears single: “Spinning Wheel’4 4487i and “More and More.’’ Released from the album. On Columbia Records® 1 « -COIUMBIA, B M*RC»S REG PSINTtO IN U SJl THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC-RECORD WEEKLY VOL XXX-Number 44/May 31, 1969 Publication Office / 1780 Broadway, New York. New York 10019 /Telephone: JUdson 6-2640 /Cable Address: Cash Box, N. Y. GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher AAARTY OSTROW Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL AURV GOODMAN Assoc. Editor DANIEL BOTTSTEfN JOHN KLEIN ALLAN RINDE BOB COHEN EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE AAARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Some Persona! Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOI PER, New York BILL STUPER, New York Business HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood WOODY HARDING Art Director COIN MACHINE & VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager BEN JONES, Editor CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago LISSA MORROW, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD CAMILLE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER 29 E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset BKrd. The music business has had the Praising the industry for its part in Chicago 2, III. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 rare opportunity over the past several “erasing the color line” in America's Phone: (312) FI 6-7272 Phone: (213) 465-2129 weeks to hear the voices of two dedi- entertainment world, Sen. Javits visu- ENGLAND cated men among the ranks of distin- alized its participation in recruiting DORRIS LAND 3 Cork Street guished politicians speak at two in- talent from the ghettos and helping London, W1, England dustry gatherings. Senator Javits of form new record companies owned Tel: 01-734-2374 New York, addressed an RIAA award and operated inside the ghettos. This dinner (of which he was the first reci- dual purpose, of course, gives youth ITALY HOLLAND AAARIO PANVINI ROSATI PAUL ACKET pient) and Julian Bond, who was pro- in the ghettos a chance to achieve Galleria Passarella 2 Theresiastraat 59-63 pelled to national prominence from his economic strength on a creative level Milan (Italy) The Hague Tel: 790990 Tel: 837700 base as a representative in the Geor- and also provides employment in all GERMANY FRANCE gia legislature, spoke to guests at the types of skills required of any busi- /4AL SONDOCK CHRISTOPHE IZARD Stax/Volt sales convention in Memphis. ness enterprise within the ghetto Josef Raps Strasse 1 24, Rue Octave Feuillet Munich, Germany Paris XVI Tel: 870-9358 Sen. Javits' address was geared di- structure. Putting new economic vigor Tel: 326410 AUSTRALIA rectly for music business consump- into the ghetto is one thing, we may BRAZIL RON TUDOR tion, while Rep. Bond spoke to his add, but it's also important that the PEDRO FRAZAO 8 Francis St., DE VASCONCELOS Heathmont, Victoria audience not in their capacity as mu- music business find employment and Rua Frei Caneca, 11, Apt. 13 Tel: 870-5677 sic men, but as concerned Americans. opportunity for the disadvantaged out- Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil MEXICO Tel: 239.40 18 side of the ghetto, too. SALVADOR ARREGUIN Both, however, presented a strong ARGENTINA What Sen. Javits has proposed in ANTONIO SENS case for greater involvement in the up- MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Tiber 100 — 7 y 8 Pisos direct relationship to the music busi- Rafaeia 3978 Mexico 5, D.F. lifting of the economic standard of ness and Rep. Bond in more general Buenos Aires Tel: 25-39-52 11-62-96 those victimized by the repression with- Tel; 69-1538 terms has not totally been denied JAPAN in ghetto life. Rep. Bond pointed to CANADA Adv. Mgr. to some extent, both through cooper- WALT GREALIS SHOICHI KUSANO the fact that the gains the Negro has ative industry ventures and the actions RPM Editorial Mgr. made in the area of integration into 1560 Bayview Ave. MORIHIRO NAGATA of individual companies and people. public facilities Toronto 17, Ontario 466 Higfashi-OIzumi (e.g. buses, restau- But, “to some extent” is surely not Tel: (416) 389-2166 Neirimaku rants) has not been matched by all- Tokyo enough in a struggle to improve SCANDINAVIA important progress on the economic the SVEN G. WINQUIST BELGIUM lives of millions upon millions. And level. And he armed with dev- Kaggeholmsvagen 48, JOS BAUDEWIJN came “to some extent” is not enough for an Stockholm-Enskede, Lindestratt 19 astating statistics to support his thesis. Sweden, Tel: 59-56 85 Lokeren industry that owes much of its present 122 40 Tel: 09 78 31 76 Sen. Javits relied less on the statis- prosperity (and excitement) to creativ- SUBSCRIPTION RATES $25 per year anywhere in the U.S.A. tical approach, but on the moral ques- ity that has its origins in the ghetto. Published weekly by Cash Box, 17B0 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019. Second class postage paid at Hartford, Conn. 06105 tion of what role the record industry Yes, the role of the music business U.S.A. can play to improve the economic lot in this area is one of personal concern, Copyright © 1969 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. 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