September I, 1973 NEWSPAPER $1.25 New Stress Needed On Gift Value Of Recordings (Ed) ... RCA Goes Double Inventory In StereoIQuad Marketing... Epic, Col Custom 'Hot' Wave... Zappa, Cohen, Glickman Label...2nd Kirshner TV'er: Allurans ...Col Inks Billy Joel ...Court Gains Vs. Pirates... , BtT TE MI VINE /MISS M(arvelous) www.americanradiohistory.com You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me:' It's the best thing to happen to Ray Price since "For the Good Times!' `You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" is already No 12 with a bullet on the country charts. And more and more Top -40 stat_ons are adding Ray's song to their playlists every week. "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" was written by one of today's most prolif_c songwriters, JimWeatherly, whose last two songs,"Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" and "Where Peaceful Waters Flow," both be- gan on the country charts and turned into national hits. "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to lie=' Ray Prices new single. 4-4 5889 On Columbia Records cot tY1BlA.-jeleARC4S REG 4,41NED IN Sa.: www.americanradiohistory.com /diu /7i/k\\ 1\Q NAM THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY %iriiiW ti UI, Ca,h ox Vol. XXXV - Number 12/September 8, 1973 Publication Office/119 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019/Telephone: Judson 6-2640/Cable Address Cash Box, N. Y. GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Executive Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Vice President and Director of Editorial CHRISTIE BARTER West Coast Manager Editorial New Stress Needed New York KENNY KERNER ARTY GOODMAN DON DROSSELE Hollywood RON BARON On Gift Value BARRY McGOFFIN Research MIKE MARTUCCI Research Manager BOBBY SIEGEL Of Recordings Advertising Some years ago, any number of labels took advantage of the ED ADLUM gift -buying season by formulating merchandising campaigns-some Art Director WOODY HARDING of them elaborate, some modest-that stressed the continuing pleasure derived by the recipient of a recording. It's true that Coin Machine & Vending ED ADLUM Christmas product per se today is not stressed in view of the Manager DON DROSSELL saturation of Holiday product over the years, save for the occasional CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago album that features a newer recording personality. Circulation Be that as it may, yet the industry should be telling a general THERESA TORTOSA Manager catalog story during its most active period of the year. The tale has is HOLLYWOOD often been cited before, but it's been neglected of late. And that CHRISTIE BARTER that an LP or tape is still an exceptional entertainment buy and in 6565 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 525), Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (213) Hollywood 9-2966 view of an immense catalog of all kinds of music (as well as spoken - NASHVILLE word) available, a recording can be easily obtained that will please JUANITA JONES 806 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 all who own a phonograph. Phone: (615) 244-2898 That "entertainment buy" we speak of has taken on added lustre CHICAGO CAMILLE COMPASIO in recent years by virtue of the multiple, specially -priced album 29 E. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Phone: (312) Fl 6-7272 package. They consist of strong stereo -age product covering all ENGLAND types of music and artists. Surely, the many companies that have DORRIIS LAND be regarding gift -giving merchandis- 3 Cori St.. London WI marketed such product should Phone: 01.7342374 ing as a perfect vehicle for such product. ARGENTINA We recall years ago, the RIAA sponsored a running tag line MIGUEL SMIRNOFF that Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 "B" Buenos Aires, Argentina in advertising that brought the gift -giving concept across. Phone: 89-6796 consumer This approach, we believe, has even greater merit today. Despite a CANADA a higher consumer WALT GREALIS number of factors that could be cited to justify 6 Brerstcliffe Road, Toronto 17, Ontario, Canada of recordings today do not Phone: (416) 425-0257 price -scale for recordings, the price reflect what many consider a runaway -inflation economy. The "Best FRANCE FRANK LI PSI K Buy" in entertainment concept is truer than ever. S Rue Alfred Dormeuil- 78 Croissy Phone: 225-26-31 We realize that time is short in developing extensive gift -season HOLLAND campaigns for this year, but a modest start for years to come can PAUL ACKET a For the Theresiastraat 59-63, The Hague still take place on various levels, especially on local level. Phone: 837700 latter area, retailers, too, should be devising concepts of their own, ITALY for your best buy in gift - GABRIELE G. ABBATE stressing that they are "headquarters Viala A. Doria 10, 20124 Milano giving, a recording." BELGIUM In the belief that the industry has done little of late to bring home ETIENNE SMET Postbus 56, B-2700 Sint-Niklaas to the consumer the value inherent in the purchase of a recording Phone: (03) 76-54-39 on all levels should AUSTRALIA for one's own use or for gift -buying, the business PETER SMITH be merchandising along these lines, keeping in mind that there are 40 Winters Way, Doncaster 3108, Victoria, Australia many gift -giving seasons in the year besides the upcoming Holiday JAPAN Adv. Mgr. season. And to cite a recording campaign of some years ago, re- SACHIO SAITO I-11-2-Chome Shinbashi, Minato -Ku, Tokyo cordings are the "gift that keeps on giving." Phone: 504-1651 Editorial Mgr. FUMIYO TACHIBANA I-I1-2-Chome Shinbashi, Minato -Ku, Tokyo Phone: 504-1651 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $35 per year anywhere in the U.S.A., Published weekly at 34 N. Crystal St., E. Strouds- burg. Psi. by Cash Box, 119 West 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10019. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., U.S.A. rind additional offices. Copyright © 1973 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright under Universal Copyright Convention. www.americanradiohistory.com DELTA DAWN ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY 68 AS TIMES GOES BY Helen Reddy-Capitol 3645 2 6 Joe Walsh-Dunhill 4361 54 63 Nilsson-RCA 0039 73 78 2 LET'S GET IT ON 36 BILLION DOLLAR BABIES 69 RHAPSODY IN BLUE Marvin Gaye-Tamla T54234 1 2 Alice Cooper-Warner Brothers 7724 40 45 Deodato-CTI 76 89 3 BROTHER LOUIE GHETTO CHILD Stories-Kama Sutra 577 3 1 LET ME IN Spinners-Atlantic 2973 51 61 Osmond Bros. 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