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Pepper for stops pulls Capitol __111.1111 Capitol Richardson :k 0 LE TREE opt 1971 28, August CENTS THIRTY 2 No. 16 rVolume so PLACE Vak'i 1 ONTARIO Forum LIVE APPEARING 2 - . - RPM 28/8/71 GRT Vancouver promo coup for Diamond MWC's Stampeders hit Gurr builds national image Via Telex addition to picking up the diamond, gold after seven years Russ Gurr, who recently released his the In one of the strangest promotion she received the complete Bang "Federal Grain Train" album follow- corc coups in some time, Bang Records Diamond library and tickets to the For the first time in the history of ed by the single by the same title, ture via its Canadian distributor GRT, chanter's Saturday show. the Gold Leaf Awards Trust Fund, a has shown strong national chart gains and pulled off a highly successful bit with record has certified Gold in Canada that could see him with a breakout Lon Neil Diamond who now records for the CKLG reports the mail pull on the while holding the numer one berth on single before the fall. George Taylor, Rod MCA -distributed UNI label. In con- contest amounted to over fifteen the RPM 100 Singles Chart. To boot, who heads up Rodeo, release label junction with Grassie's, one of the hundred entries. Emerson Sales, GRT it is a wholly -Canadian record - the for Gurr product, reports strong re- prime jewellers in British Columbia's distributor in B.C. recorded heavy Stampeders' international smash, action from rackers and retailers. lower mainland, Gail McGregor, re- activity on all Diamond Bang product "Sweet City Woman". It's expected that an 8 track cartridge Ho presenting GRT and Bang, organized with emphasis on "Neil Diamond's will be released over the next few Greatest Hits". Both evening shows Bounding up the chart with a bullet weeks. Hone "The Neil Diamond" contest. Listen- put on by Diamond were sold out, much virtually every week, the single has leas ers to CKLG, Vancouver's top rocker, recorded sales, at time of writing, in Gurr first became associated with the were invited to guess the dollar value of this success was due the "Dia- Of IV mond" promotion. excess of sixty thousand units sold. Federal Grain Limited five years ago albu of the "Neil Diamond" displayed in This figure is expected to go much and it was at this time that Dennis stroi Grassie's downtown store window. Miss McGregor is also associated higher. In addition, Music World Cre- G. Stephens, Director of Corporate Alth Winner with the correct guess, $469, with International Promotion Con- ations, release label, has issued a Relations for Federal Grain, recognizedalbu was Mrs. R. Saliken of Vancouver. In sultants. French -language version for the Gurr as being highly valuable in the has Quebec market backed by an instru- public relations area. A company disc dust mental version which will doubtless was released resulting in hundreds of is di figure be accorded heavy play on MOR out- requests for this record and more of Thit CHUM reaches highest ever audience lets across the country. The single Gurr. It was because of these re- for t (original release) has also topped the quests that Stephens authorized the cour CHUM, the Toronto rocker, reports the A close analysis reveals that, accord- MOR playlist and now rests at the "Federal Grain Train" album. First latest BBM figures as showing the ing to the BBM, CHUM has more Leig adults aged eighteen to forty-nine # 1 slot on the RPM Country Fifty. pressing of 2500 albums proved to be station having achieved its highest inadequate with these disappearing Mist audience figures in the history of the than any other station in Canada. "Sweet City Woman" is the follow-up within a matter of a few months - this powerful Top Forty outlet. Figures From mid -morning until mid -evening to the group's Canadian hit "Carry Shar for July/71 indicate that CHUM has a the station has shown a steady build- Me" which the American distributor, despite the fact the album had not expE total all person circulation of up of adult women listeners. Their Polydor, was unable to get off the been released commercially. It was tour 1,219,000, which is only 125,800 be- teen audience of 321,000 far exceeds ground. This time 'round, MWC's Mel obvious to Stephens that Gurr's ap- mud peal was far more reaching than he tales hind CFRB, long considered Toronto's the combined teen totals of all AM Shaw, has U.S. distribution via Bell had first envisioned and he set about leading ratings station. and FM stations in Toronto. Records who have established the to make the necessary moves to re- The deck on all three U.S. trade charts. off It is making strong bullety moves up lease Gurr on the commercial market. inch thousand units sold. His latest, all three. The single sold 90,000 It was at this time that Rodeo, one of a mi Lightfoot grabs 2nd "Summer Side of Life" was certified copies the first day of release in the gold last week having exceeded fifty U.S. gold LP for Warners thousand in sales. The certification marks Lightfoot's Warner Brothers have remedied that Gordon Lightfoot's first two albums incredibly long-lived success in the situation with a smash single, "If under his Warner Bros contract Canadian market. His previous con- You Could Read My Mind" and hefty FEDERJ have both been certified gold. His tract with UnitedArtists resulted in all U.S. sales on both albums. Another first for the label, "Sit Down Young of his albums under that banner achiev- single, the titler from "Summer Side Stranger", received the Gold Leaf ing exceptional sales. None of the of Life", is now being programmed Award some time ago, the qualifying United Artists' product was success- heavily across Canada and is receiv- figure being in excess of one hundred fully established in the U.S. however. ing picks and plays below the border. "There's country and Rode another a 'Gurrea try gentle (Rodeo Gordon Lightfoot's Reprise album "Summer Side Of Mercury's Rod Stewart receives Gold from label's presi- Life" has been certified Canadian Gold this week. dent Irving Steinberg (I) and Denny Rosencrantz (promo). 122 2538 121 2538 120 2538 119 2538 118 2538 Hambleton Greg Hambleton Fergus Kardone Rick Henderson Rick Boynton Peter Grant Ron CAPAC lie BMI label the with 17410 London Ltd. ions 1 roup. the from way e ;land" '"Climbing" 1003 HL album. f" Train" hbound tiuctions -2184 466 (416) 279 Ito cfesvils-chall t:litarnaivphen -Deuis-che Limit Canada Polydor Distributed 4 - - RPM 28/8/71 They've got a lot in the pot over there GR talentsor too manyproducers? at Toronto Sound. dot Do we have too few GRT has also reaped the harvest of a wit surperb promo job on Lighthouse. The we For many years, I have been a great cocktail party in your home. must be daily and for a long period of band came to the label after three anc devotee of foreign talk shows. In fact, time. relatively unrejoiced albums with U.S The host (or at least the more gifted act if the CRTC cable licensing or the hosts) are capable of bringing before The situation is so serious that the RCA. The addition of singer Bob CRTC Cancon ruling had limited my the camera - people who have a story Secretary of State should step in to McBride was a huge asset, but you We' access to foreign talk shows, I would to tell. The viewers share in the ex- underwrite an independently produced still can't deny that GRT has done a ren surely have been the first to fly to citement of subjects covering every talk show - or force the CBC to com- splendid piece of leg and lead work tha Ottawa and register a personal protest. area of interest. pete with a Canadian view, on con- on the band. "One Fine Morning" is ing versation. a Gold album. That says it all. It mai You meet the gifted authors, com- will bring in a lot of new business. clb COMMENT posers, lawyers, statesmen, actors, Although all the attempts at a talk architects, police officials and many show, in the past, were poor - none The company has also been able to Tln by Walt Grealis many others from almost every walk were allowed to get better. thrl launch, of all things, a Japanese tivi Since the days of Steve Allen, and of life. The whole concept is practi- Why did they all die so quickly? The group, the Flower Travelling Band, throughout the Jack Paar era, and up cally what Canada had with "This talk show is not a producers' medium, with a single called "Satori", and to the Johnny Carson, Mery Griffen, Week Has Seven Days" and "Sunday", and where the CBC producers discover an album on the way. Add to this David Frost and the unbelievable but not "Weekend" or "W5". The they cannot gain from a production. GRT's involvement in several other M Dick Cavett, I have discovered that talk show concept goes much further they cease trying, and are even less individual indie deals (Joshua, Up- one of the few contributions television however, it creates a viewer habit, interested in budgeting in an area roar, Tommy Banks etc.) and you get re has made to our way of life has been and stimulates the thinking of many where a star could be built (the host) the image of a company with its head the peephole on conversations, created who use the tube, mainly for escape.