Senator Dirksen: Artist With A Bullet • • • Wolpin Exits Famous Jan. 1 • • Bell To Handle New Greene- Stone Labels* $1 Mil Writer Deal Signed By Jagger& Richard •••Mathews Runs Date* CBS France Records Go Behind Iron Curtain Int'l Section FRONT COVER: AND ALONG CAME THE ASSOCIATION Begins Pg. 55 p All the dimensions of a#l smash! *smm 1 4-439071 P&ul Revere am The THE single of '66 B THE SPIRIT OP *67 from this brand PAUL REVERE tiIe RAIDERS INCLUDING: HUNGRY THE GREAT AIRPLANE new album— STRIKE GOOD THING LOUISE 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS CL2595/CS9395 (Stereo) Where the good things are. On COLUMBIA RECORDS ® "COLUMBIA ^MAPCAS REG PRINTED IN U SA GashBim Cash Bock Vol. XXVIII—Number 22 December 17, 1966 (Publication Office) 1780 Broadway New York, N. Y. 10019 (Phone: JUdson 6-2640) CABLE ADDRESS: CASHBOX, N. Y. JOE ORLECK Chairman of the Board GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher NORMAN ORLECK Executive Vice President MARTY OSTROW Vice President LEON SCHUSTER Disk Industry—1966 Treasurer IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL TOM McENTEE Associate Editor RICK BOLSOM ALLAN DALE EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI JERRY ORLECK BERNIE BLAKE The past few issues of Cash Box Speaking of deals, 1966 was marked Director Advertising of have told the major story of 1966. by a continuing merger of various in- ^CCOUNT EXECUTIVES While there were other developments dustry factors, not merely on a hori- STAN SO I PER BILL STUPER of considerable importance when the zontal level (label purchases of labels), Hollywood HARVEY GELLER, long-range view is taken into account, but vertical as well (ABC's purchase of ED ADLUM the record business is still a business a wholesaler, New Deal). Replying, it General Manager and its well-being boils down to sales seems, with a philosophy of turnabout- COIN MACHINES & VENDING and profits. Year end financial wrap- is-fair-play, a number of wholesalers JOEL VANCE, Assistant ups being submitted by various com- began the distribution of their own LEE BROOKS, Chicago, III. LISSA MORROW, Hollywood panies are rosy indeed; many labels record labels. ART DIRECTOR—WOODY HARDING have continued to show gains over CIRCULATION—THERESA TORTOSA, Manager highly gratifying showings in past CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD A newer development, a logical out- years; significant, too, is the fact that LEE BROOKS HARVEY GELLER growth of the hit output of indie pro- 2» E. Madison St., 6290 Sunset Blvd., some companies pulled out of the dol- Chicago 2, III. Hollywood 28, Cal. ducers, saw the establishment of rec- (Phone: Financial 6-7272) (Phone: Hollywood 6-2129) drums to sound 1966 on a happy fi- ord companies by indie production EUROPEAN DIRECTOR nancial note, “the best year in his- NEVILLE MARTEN firms, with merchandising and, in tory,” as the headlines and lead sen- many cases, administrative functions ENGLAND tences pronounce. NEVILLE MARTEN being performed by larger disk opera- Dorris Land 9a New Bond St. tions. London, W1, Eng. Tel’ Hyde Park 2868 All through the year, the trade has ITALY AUSTRALIA received a number of indications of MARIO PANVINI ROSATI RON TUDOR As 1966 came to a close, there re- Galleria Passarella 2 8 Francis St., this better-than-ever climax, from Milan (Italy) Heathmont, Victoria mained an area of uncertainty. This is Tel: 790990 Tel: 87-5677 strong quarterly and half-year results GERMANY ARGENTINA to RIAA-certified gold record awards the field of tape cartridges, designed SONDOCK MIGUEL SMIRNOFF MAL at first to the time in Josef Raps Strasse 1 Rafaela 3978, being made with happy abandon to a enhance spent Munich, Germany Buenos Aires, Tel: 326410 Tel: 69-1638 remarkable spread of companies. That autos and, more importantly, viewed HOLLAND BRAZIL billion industry predicted for the $1 later as a addition to li- PAUL ACKET LUIS DE M. C. GUEDES new home Thereslastratt 59-65 Rua Rego Freitas, early 1970’s is receiving a big boost The Hague 289—3*. andar braries. With all labels of consequence Tel: 838500 Sao Paulo, SP from 1966. FRANCE MEXICO making the meat of their catalogs avail- CHRISTOPHE IZARD ENRIQUE ORTIZ able to the cartridge market, some 24, Rue Octave Feulllet, Insurgentes Sur 1870 Paris XVI Tel: 870-9358 Mexico 20, D. F., Perhaps a clue to this glowing sales- BELGIUM Tel: 24-65-67 companies were gratified with their profit story of 1966 can be found in FRANS ROMEYNS CANADA share of this small market (less than Paul Hymansiaan, 8, JOHN MURPHY the remarkable turnabout that saw Brussels 16, Tel: 71.57.51 87 North Hill St. 1% of total sales); others were still SCANDINAVIA Port Arthur, Ontario American artists and songs slow down SVEN G. WINQUIST Tel: (807) 344 3526 awaiting a hoped-for boom. Kaggeholmsvagen 48, JAPAN considerably the onslaught of sounds Stockholm- Enskede, Adv. Mgr.: Sweden, Tel: 59-46 85 made-in-England, thus limiting costly SHOICHI KUSANO SPAIN and not-always-profitable deals be- As far as disk sales were concerned, FEDERICO HALPERN Editorial Mgr.: Sagasta 23, MORIHIRO NAGATA tween U.S. and English companies. 1966 was a boom year, and by year’s Apartado 4025, 466 Hlqashl-OIzumI Madrid Neirimaku, Not only did these acts dominate Tel! 267 0907—224 8600 Tokyo end labels in one way or another were American chart listings, but foreign rates 820 per year anywhere preparing for a showing in 1967 that the U. S. A. Published weekly. Second class posta sales honor-rolls as well. Latter-wise, paid at Bristol, Conn. 06012. U.S.A. would earn a better-than-ever Copyright • 1966 by The Cash Box Publishing C American companies were in a posi- success Ino. All rIghU reserved. Copyright under Unlver Copyright Convention. tion to make a good deal or two! story. 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