MUSIC WEEK NOVEMBER 10, 1979 BG s campaign ■-T: -i or; lights up scene A MASSIVE publicity campaign has been launched by Polydor to promote the Bee i Gees Greatest album (RSO RSDX 1). Full page ads have already Marketing appeared in the music trade press and future ads include the Sun, Daily Mail, Observer, Tune In, Smash Hits, Ms London and space m has been taken in the Woolworths The LP features the single Eton and Access booklets. Rifles. Display activity will include There will be expensive ads in the posters and there will be illuminated rock press and joint advertising with BILLY CONNOLLY made a displays featuring the Bee Gees logo HMV, Virgin and Our Price. Ads personal appearance at the Virgin and sleeve front. Spartan goes Fuhlk A poster campaign will cover 264 will also appear in Time Out, Smash Megaslore, Oxford Si reel, London sites throughout the Greater London Hits, Miss London, Shoot, National where he signed copies of his new area for two months. Student, Sunday Mirror and Sunday UK SALES and distribution for Public Records, the new label that has been Poly dor album. Pictured, (I to r): Mail. There will be flyposting and launched by Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Gloria Sattin, is to be handled by George McManus, Polydor MCA/INFINITY is launching a big posters, logo cards, mobiles and Spartan. First single under the deal is Japanese Girls by Urban Gypsy, released marketing manager, Bob campaign titled Our Hot 12 Inches badges available to dealers. this week. An unusual feature of Public is that there is no royalty structure — Hedgecock, Poly dor's West-End on the release of five 12" disco all profits from record sales are divided equally between the label and the representative, Billy Connolly and singles during November. THE FIRST 2,500 copies of the Billy performer. Virgin's John Fewings. The singles arc: Cordon Bleu by J Kramer single. Blue Christmas, Stix Hooper (MCAT 536); Music by released by Hobo Records this week One Way featuring A1 Hudson; Do (HOS 010), will be pressed on blue You Love What You Feel by Rufus vinyl and packaged in clear sleeves and Chaka Khan; Dancing In Outer with a handwritten message from Space by Almosfcar (MCAT 543) Kramer on the label. Prepare yourself for and I Just Can't Control Myself by TO PROMOTE the new Yvonne Nature's Divine. Elliman single. Love Pains (RSO 46) All the singles have an RRP of and her forthcoming album Yvonne £1.59 and will be backed with press (RSS 16), Polydor will be. taking ads ads in all the disco and trade in Music Week, Record Mirror and publications, in-storc and window Smash Hits. displays and explanatory leaflets for TO COINCIDE with his customers. Disco promotion will be promotional visit to Britain on handled by Sally Ormsby. December 3, Polydor will be taking CHERRY RED Records releases its advertising for Jack Jones in the second compilation album. Labels Radio Times, Daily Mail and Miss Unlimited (A Second Record London to promote the album, Collection) on November 16 with a Nobody Docs It Belter (2383 547). retail price tag of £4.25. It features Display posters will also be 16 tracks by 16 bands, all the available. A new Jack Jones single. the new;w albumaamuAKI numbers having been released The Love Boat, the theme from the previously as singles on independent TV scries of the same name, is to be labels. Bands included are Rudi, issued by Polydor on November 23. Crisis, Poison Girls and Second Layer. ALVIN LEE'S Ten Years Later have an album, Ride On, released on \t>^ POLYDOR RELEASES the new Polydor this week. The release will from Jam album, Setting Sons (POLD be backed with ads in the rock press 5028) on November 16 to coincide and on Capital Radio. The band with (he band's nationwide lour. lours the UK from November 26. Sire signs Sports SIRE HAS signed Australian group The Sports exclusively to the UK; a single, Who Listens To The Radio (currently in US Billboard top 50), and an album, Don't Throw Stones, are to be released this month. The band released an EP on Stiff earlier this year and were special guests on the Spring tour by Graham Parker and the Rumour. They arc in London at present rehearsing for a second LP and a tour of the US. CANNED ROCK, the group that financed and TV-advertised their A own album, have signed with Pinnacle for the distribution of their next album. Live (CAN 003). The group's publishing company, Canned Rock Music, has signed an With each successive i: administration deal with Andrew Heath Music. Pictured at the signing release, Janis Ian has been (I to r): Dougie Kennard of Canned developing as a singer/ Rock, Sam Mortimer (Andrew songwriter to be reckoned Heath Music), Don Maxwell (Canned Rock), Tony Berry with - both artistically and (Pinnacle Records) and sealed John commercially, 'Night Rains' Bright (group's manager). is her strongest offering yet. MANCHESTER-BASED group Containing the popular Salford Jets have signed to RCA and new single. "Flv Ton High" their first release on the label is an BOO), produced by Vincent it's going to cause a deluge EP (in full colour bag) selling for the Castcllano. It will be available in a price of a single. The Salford Jets limited edition picture bag. of requests. EP is out on November 30. Make sure you're ready. IMF. ORIGINAL Mirrors have THE MOMENTS, who were signed to Phonogram and a single, L4.\ previously with All Platinum Could I his Be Heaven (Mercury Records distributed by Phonogram, 6007 245), is released this Friday in a and had such hits as Girls and Jack picture bag. The record will be :bs Single: 'Fly Too High' CBS 7936 In A Box. have re-named themselves backed up promotionally by Ray, Goodman and Brown and flyposting in London, and adverts in 1*1 Album:: 'Night RainN CBS 83802 L signed directly with Phonogram UK the trade papers and Time Out iv I fe CBS '10-83802 on the Mercury label. Their first maga/ine. I he latter advert will "Order from CBS Order Desk. Tel; 01-960 2155. CBS Distribution Centre, Barlby Road, London W10 single under the new deal and new include a phone-in number to hear name is Special Lady (Mercury 6008 the new single. PAGE 2 .