Warner Bros -Jacobsen Link -Up Berle Adams Named MCA Exec Veep** Pickwick Begins Whole - safer Drive... March 23, 1968 1 UA Meeting In . Fla Morgan 1 1 Appointed New Capitol VP Merrec Names :11 Cash Box Two New Execs Hip Pocket Disks At 39c ' r Shorewood Process Cuts LP Jacket Costs Jess & James DIONNE WARWICK: GOLD CROWN FOR A QUEEN Intl. Section Begins Pg. 93 1,,r + = J -- , r 1 I 9 g 51 r. The Biggest Values 4E INCLUDING: Stonewall Jackson I` ORMAN PAPER DO1L STEVE LIJBOFCHOIRF Thoughts of a Lonely Man LAWRENCE R, SMILEAGAIN including: MOMENTS THE BREEZE AND I Everybody But Me MOON FIVER 1 }O MOSIENTS and Including: the Love REMEMBER Thankful forYour REMEMBER TO A Men Without a Home Around Tha World I Can't Go On Living Thie Way Teach Me Tonight AllThe Way Moon River Biggest Misty I At Stars are on / HL 7456/ HS 11256 HS 11257 H3 11259 Lefty 1 izzell Saintnya.ye Lester laniE body a Orchestra Harmony ,}1ll-`Ifine GWalta 9hvorEteF Dance Signed, Sealed INCLUDING: TENNESSEE WALTZ including: and Delivered fv- !THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, My Favorite Things The Sound Of Music ?3 LOVE YOU TRULY/CHARMAINE the Song Is You Tie Way You Look Tonight including: c` Everything's Coming Up Roses Lost Love Blues SLICE BLUE GDWN Records. Signed. Sealed And Delivered The Tragic Letter .r+ Is It Only That You're Lonely f^7 If You're Ever Lonely Darling HL 7460/HS 11260 HS 11261 H3 11262 Paste., ollaII a«d Cant Sc'la.yys Mike Douglas McPARTLAND Young At Heart JIMMY Says to INCLUDING: including: MAMA'S AND DADDY'S UTTIE GIRL Young And Foolish BIG BLACK TRAIN/OLD FOLKS Dear Heart A MILLION 1 EARS IN GLORY Young At Heart CRYING MY HEART OUT OVER YOU My Kind OI Town S ghe .oneShooneThe Shore INCLUDING: ei7" BALLIN' THE JACK THIRD STREET BLUES THE BASIN STREET STOMP ORIGINAL DIXIELAND ONE STEP IrI THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE HS 11263 HS 11264 HL 7665/ HS 112E5 THE MARLBOROUGH CONCERT BAND EXTRAVAGANZA! BURL IVES sings INCLUDING. LITTLE WHITE DUCK MAN OF LA MANCHA MEDLEY and Other Children's Favorites MARY POPPINS MEDLEY BRIGADOON MEDLEY including: HENRY MANCINI The Little White Duck MEDLEY The Little Engine That Could RODGERS AND Mr. Froggi. WWent A -Courtin' HART MEDLEY The Tailor and the Mouse Mother Go see Songs ;7 ';ed' 1:24"4:. ` HS 11266 IlL 9507711S 11507 And now we're going to great lengths to tell your customers the reasons why. We're starting with our great new April releases; window streamers, advertising kits and wire racks in a dynamic new sales program. Three of the fastest, most effective methods we know of for promoting Harmony's great values. Is there something else you need to know? Ask us at the NARM* Convention. *A Special 10th Anniversary Salute to NARM from Harmony Records -COLUMBIA" -HARMONY- MARCAS REG. PRINTED IN U.S.A. onnie gods Pop J Perhaps the most powerful ballad of her career DBYE? K-13923 Written expressly for - IS by Andre Popp; the composer ó 'Love is Blue." MGM RECORDS MGI/ Records is a division of Metro-Gddwyn-Mayer Inc / fi men discoMeeelin`rwrs their debut with a Co/gens 114 And they ' dIe... go Ivé c`e ake the `Hurt cA wt 1020 .33;y 4t./'/ : y 41/1"11 1' o .s ! ,11,41'...¡V,21.1,Id`1 <!- ` 'Iy "'kV %_'o J tYr TM 'j; ;Y+... a%.J; E MS ®J :, 1 ,` . -.14.,,:-.14.,,:_.'~ .: . ._., 1 , :..01e1I I, ..,t41.1~ "F"`. 4 3 `(1 , L¡fG. :',1 i \ ` i t: ar. .'T: r. I° *° . -..14 a . .° 40# ,_,f á' Manufactured and Distributed by RCA 6 Cash Box-March 23, 1968 H P Disks Get 39¢ Tag WB/7 Arts Ties Prod. Knot With Sweet Reliable a For 'Optimum Profit' a major ex- SAN FRANCISCO-In 1 Pocket Records, pansion move WBros-7Arts Records NEW YORK-Hip this week signed a far-ranging pro- the 3743 inch plastic couplings of duction agreement with Erik Jacob- former hits which Philco-Ford intro- Jacobsen duced recently, will retail for a sue.- sen's Sweet Reliable Prods. is an independent producer heretofore ' Bested list price of 39 cents instead for of the 69 cent price originally as- responsible for producing product signed to the disks. such artists as the Lovin' Spoonful, Tim Hardin, and the Sopwith Camel. r The price change was announced Reliable found in a WB-7A is financing Sweet last week after Philco in San Francisco, to that 39 cents was the Prods., located sensitivity test operate as a separate entity within the optimum price for larger volume at with product from a good profit. Philco found that the WB-7A operation, mini -disks increased be- Jacobsen's unit of producers, artists, sale of their be released exclusively tween 6 and 20 times over their and writers to previous sales volume when the price on the WB-7A and Reprise labels. was decreased to 39 cents. It also Offices have been opened in San Fran- found that the sale of the company's cisco's Columbus Tower at 916 Kearny i Mini Radio/Phono, a $24.95 item in- Street. The present production staff Left to right: Maitland, Jacobsen, Smith, Ostin. V -P creased by 3 times to 7 times (in consists of Jacobsen himself and locales) when the price of Robert Rafkin. as a creative already signed Leonard Schaeffer, a different WB-7A guitar which will work the record was reduced. Mike Maitland, president of recording unit on a profit-sharing basis vocalist -writer from Chicago. was Records, termed the alliance with Reliable. Jacobsen feels with WB-7A, Jacobsen The market sensitivity test one of the most with Sweet Of his deal conducted in four states: Massachu- Jacobsen, "potentially that many musicians from San Fran- stated, "I decided not to try to create far-reaching agreements we have to travel do setts, New Jersey, Wisconsin and envi- cisco have suffered by having a separate label of my own, nor California. made. Jacobsen's track record is away from their city to record in two or three artists- production pack- out of 14 singles he has produced In stores, closely tested for able; unfamiliar and sometimes inhospitable age deals appeal to me. Instead, I de- eight ten have been national hits." "There is a with environments. Ile states, cided to release my record product (Continued on page 64B) "We view this agreement a home town alternative." a single company with which Maitland continued, "and need for through Jacobsen", .lacobsen, who in the past has been I could establish a strong and positive Jacobsen's plans for a self-contained as the Lovin' major involved with such acts rapport. The choice became the production unit, as one of the Spoonful (with John Sebastian), Tim FRONT COVER: trends of our business. San Francisco, Ilardin and the Sopwith Camel. has (Continued on page 54) ......., hich has become a musical center, _- could soon rival Detroit, Nashville, New York, L. A. and Memphis as an Soundtrack LP's, important source of hit records." Picker Outlines Future Jacobsen moved Sweet Reliable to San Francisco in Oct. 1967 from New Cartridge Theatres York City to escape what he terms, Film Di vision s Planned has Artists Records will Picker disclosed that the company "the production rat -race", and MIAMI-United an outlay of $600,000 in been searching out talent with which reap the harvest of a number of im- would make LPs to be released an ad campaign on behalf of the film to form the nucleus of his production portant soundtrack movie musical, operation. He is looking for talent not in the near future and in the years to company's upcoming Picker, executive "Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang," based only in terms of singers and song- come, related David book. writers, but also outstanding studio vice president of UA Pictures at the on the Ian Fleming children's a band 10th convention last Picker also reported the forthcoming musicians, He hopes to form UA anniversary release of another hard road show consisting of bass, drum, keyboard and week. production, "The Charge Of The Light / Brigade." Currently in pre -production o , stages are three musical films, all of Tip' Pickwick Opens Wholesaler Acquisition which will appear on UA Records Dionne soundtrack albums. These include "Fid- As a long distance runner, Drive With Purchase Of Heilicher Bros. dler On The Roof," "Man Of La Man- Warwick has a track record of disk cha" and "House Of Flowers." Latter popularity that stands far and above or 50 cents has already been recorded by female artist. Since 1962, NEW YORK-Pickwick International a net income of $306,440 show the average has initiated a drive in the acquisition per share compared with $243,251 or UA in its off-Broadway revival. when she hit the charts with her first in com- who noted record Me Over," hardly of disk wholesalers with the purchase 40 cents per share the previous Picker, that the smash, "Don't Make Inc., in Minnea- period, a rise of 26%. Sales company had developed from a step- a week has gone by that Dionne's of Heilicher Brothers parable polis. The acquisition is Pickwick's rose 28% from $4,037.917 to $5,161,401. child to a son, also outlined United name hasn't been represented on the which does not re- either in singles or move aimed at creating a wholesaling Heilicher Brothers, Artist Pictures plans for the future in Cash Box charts, division similar to those of Transcon- port income, is estimated to gross up- motion pictures.