The Cash Box, Music Page 22 June 14, 1958 Platter OPERATORS Spinner Patter RETAILERS ALL ABOUT DISK JOCKEYS lllllllinillllllllllllllllllllllllllM Three KDKA-Pittsburgh deejays, Rege Cordic, Karl Hardman, and Bob Trow, have recorded a children’s story on an RCA Victor single. Labeled “Omicron And The Sputnik,” the story tells of two' visitors from Venus and DEEJAYS Jupiter and their reaction to the arrival of sputnik in outer space. The three platter spinners are heard on “Cordic And 9B| Company” from 6 to 10 AM Monday thru Saturday. In Order To Have Your Top Ten Rep- . Jack Underwood *m1§| (WOWO-Fort Wayne, Indiana) SL-'™ Ts celebrated his birthday May 26th with an open invita- resented In Charts, tion to all of his fans to attend a local Fort Wayne THE CASH BOX drive-in theater. Over a thousand vehicles came around, which necessitated the use of another drive-in Fill In The Coupon Below to handle the overflow. The folks who came were treated to a double bill, birthday cake, and to dancing- (Or Put On Your Letterhead) between features. Bob Michael ( WELM-Elmira, Them Own N.Y.) back on the disk beat after an illness of several weeks. Seventeen year old Dick Tondreau (WKCB- Berlin, N.H.) has show run teenagers, And Mail To DICK TONDREAU a by which (WKCB— Berlin, N. H.) features rock ’n roll, jazz, and discussions of various teenage problems (complexions, going steady, etc.). Dick has also formed a “Teen Date Big Five” club to aid community causes, THE in the first and a half weeks since its inception . CASH BOX and two has 126 members. 1721 BROADWAY Vic Aime and Joan Brooks ( WNNJ-Newton, N.J.) initiated a “Next Week’s Hits This Week” format, 5 to 6 PM on Saturdays. Ron Hickman also of N. Y. WNNJ says the Don Cornel pressing of “You Go To My Head” catching on NEW YORK 19. strong in his area. WLOB-Portland, Me. jocks, Seth Larrahee and Richard Dunn, celebrated National Radio Month with different contests each week awarding radios, albums, and records as prizes. * * * * * List Your Top Ten Pop Tunes Here Freeman Hover (KCSR-Chadron, Nebr.) bucked four other activities to NAME OF RECORD HERE ARTIST OR BAND HERE present a teenage hop recently, and the dance drew 300 youngsters. Even high school seniors dropped in on their way to receive ' their diplomas at com- 2 . mencement exercises, and then came back afterward 3 . Two disks making hay around Bill Worth’s 4 . ( WONG-Oneida, N.Y.) neighborhood are Little Rich- 5 . ard’s “Ooh My Soul” and Marvin Rainwater’s “Two Fools In Love.” . Roy Castelbury (KFTV-Paris, Texas) completed thirty-seven and a half hours of 7 . broadcasting, with ten minute breaks on the hour, 8 . in a department store show window as part of a 9 . local “Disk Jockey Marathon.” . WBKH-Hatties- 10 . SETH LARRABEE burg, Miss, reports wedding bells for Fred Sands (WLOB— Portland, Me.) (May 24th); and Terry Speights (sometime in Sep- tember). Bob Pilcher, a former WBKH deejay, now List Your Top Ten Country Tunes Here with WBKN-Newton, Mass., will wed June 14th. A1 Weaver (WKBC- NAME OF RECORD HERE ARTIST OR BAND HERE Wilkesboro, N.C.) getting lots of requests for the Bill Haley (Decca) LP, “Rocking Around,” and Lester Lanin’s latest Epic affair, “Lanin Goes To College.” . Alan Fredericks (WGBB-Freeport, L.I.) reports that WGBB discontinued the programming of rock ’n roll, and will henceforth concern 3 . itself with popular music in a warmer vein. Fredericks is skedded to leave 4 . the outlet shortly as a result of this action by the station. Bob Furry 5 . (KTAR-Phoenix, Ariz.) conducted two record hops several weeks ago, and writes that the new Four Aces Decca disk of “Saturday Swingout” received 6 . “the most reaction” from the two crowds. Frank Bell (WOAI-San 7 . Antonio, Texas) reports that six San Antonio deejays, including himself, 8 . “forgot rivalries for a few hours” and staged a big record hop for Cerebral 9 . Palsy. “School’s out soon, who has some good teen promotion ideas?” asks 10 . Bell. VITAL STATISTICS: List Your Top Ten Rhythm ’N Blues Records Here Dick Lawrence, formerly of WBNY-Buffalo, NAME OF RECORD HERE ARTIST OR BAND HERE N.Y., has been appointed Director of Programs, Promotion and Publicity for WKBW-Buffalo. WKBW, affiliated with NBC, is Buffalo’s only 50,000 watt station. Dick Drury, former Pro- gram Director of WBRB-Mt. Clemens, Mich., returns to Cleveland on WJW. Drury will take over the 6:30 to 10 PM time slot on WJW. Jack O’Neil has been promoted to Program Direc- tor of WCAT-Athol, Mass., and is nawiav running- two shows, “The Early Cat,” 6 to 9 AMlI and “The Afternoon Slot,” from 3 to 6. Bill Calder 7 . has joined KSJO-San Jose, Calif, with a 10 to 8 . 12 Midnight spot. John Stone, formerly Pro- gram Director at KTOW-Oklahoma City, and 9 . DICK LAWRENCE KANS-Wichita, Kansas, is now on the WNOE- 10 . (WKBW— Buffalo, N. YU New Orleans, La. deejay staff. Stone is also a actor, emcee, and composer. Bob Steele, NAME singer, known as Art King when on WBSMO-New Bedford. FIRM Mass., is now conducting a three hour (5 to 8 PM) top tune program on . Max Sherman has been upped to local Sales ADDRESS WMEX-Boston, Mass. Manager of WWDC-Washington, D.C. Bob Woodel has made the CITY STATE. switch from WSAY-Rochester, N.Y. to WWHG AM-FM in Hornell. N.Y. ” “Only those records best suited for commercial use are reviewed by THE CASH BOX.