THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN RADIO SINCE BEFORE JEFFERSON MANE HAD TAKEN OFF plus: payin' t BRANDY ZSz MONICA Impacting May 4 Debt]: album 4,, platiman 1 OLW1-01) 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 1 charts 60 million peop e watcl- ed 13170111t y star in Cinderella on ABCTelevision Over 4 million people watch Brandy ....ach week onNfoesha Tonight Show May14 'The Boy Is Mine produced by 1.ociney.iicrictis for Darkchild Entolainnier t Inc. Brandy will be featured on the covers of Vibe, TeenPeople, Ebony, Dallas Austin or Darp, Inc. and Brandy fcr 3rand Ni., nc Seventeen, Jet, and in an In Style feature. Monica appears courtesy of Arista Records Inc MTV Ultrasound, MTV Spring Brmk, kfIV live (6/9) www.alaqtic record! cEl Neu, album NEVER - SAY - NEVERin stores June 9th air. ATLANTIC CROUP ,c1998 ATLAN rt.: RECORDIM ; CORP A WOE WARM:2 (CM'AVr First Person Inside AS TOLD TO ELIOT TIEGEL 3 News 10 That's Sho-Biz Friends of Radio 1111,.;h Crirrall 24 Class Is in Session Tony Outeda Our Rock team focuses on On PBS, Fundraising, and Making Music College Radio this week. Meet Morcheeba, take a crash course Former personal manager Tony on how a record company functions in Radio 101, and learn bow Outeda is president of PBS Records, on different levels. You're involved in curve bigwigspaid their dues. the new 50-50 joint venture between making and manufacturing a record, 33 Classifieds the Public Broadcasting Service and looking at tours, sales, and radio pro- Warner Bros. Records. Under its five- motion. The beauty of having a cus- FORMATS year deal, WB will fund the produc- tom label deal with a company like 11 Top 40 tion of two TV specials and CDs year- Warner Bros. is you have their entire Top 40 Profile:Garrison Starr ly and provide all sales, marketing, infrastructure available to you. A 12 Go Chart promotion, manufacturing, and dis- management background gives you a 13 Hot A/C tribution. Outeda will draw material full understanding of how all these from PBS Network artist perfor- functions work together. 14 Adult Contemporary mances and fundraising specials, as Our records will be promoted on Inside A/C //,?/;,/,rc well as from individual PBS affiliate PBS; whether they get promoted on A/C Profile: 11/e0,1hr,111 stations. But the synergy has to be radio is an open question because 17 A' Album Adult Alternative right on the audience mark; other- we'll be making a lot of albums that II Knew Him ), wise it's a no-go. Outeda is the latest Tony Outwits aren't going to fit into any radio for- 22 College former artist manager to join the Blackside, the top -of -the -line Boston mat. The music on PBS is so eclec- ranks of record company presidents; production firm, about a possible tic-Broadway, pop, rock, opera, Making Scrilla as a DJ during his career as a manager, companion record for their 6 -hour jazz, barbershop quartets. There was 31 Active Rock Outeda has worked with Foghat, documentary, I'll Make Me a Life, even a show on klezmer music. 32 Alternative Laura Nyro, Dave Edmonds, and which defines the impact of black PBS has a fundraising hour special No Static Bob Welsh, among others. artists in the 20th Century. Obviously on barbershop quartets and we're Spence's Memphis Diary a big part of that is going to be going to have an album. It'll be taped In this new endeavor, all of our music. This is the company that did in Atlanta over the July Fourth week- 34 Country record albums will have televi- the award -winning show about civil end. We'll coordinate the release to Country NotesOde to Faith sion components. If we were to rights, Eyes on the Prize. coincide with the special.It's good 37 Gavin Americana FM find some musical talent, we'd work In the case of documentaries, the music, it's interesting, and it's great to Mph' litretli in tandem with PBS to create the filmmakers will need music that listen to. Where would you get it 39 Rap visual aspect. Or it could be some- works in the documentary, while played? You wouldn't. On the other thing PBS already has in the pipeline. we'll need music that stands on its hand, who knows what will come 40 Urban Landzcape It's a combination of the record com- own for a CD. If we can't do that, we from some of the things we're work- Urban On-line pany feeling this is going to make an won't make the record. We hope that ing on? Certainly the Chicago record Put Time on Your Side interesting album, and PBS feeling it's we'll be able to combine budgets andwill have airplay. We'll ship stations a 42 Jazz going to make good television. The expertise and come out with better sampler with several cuts. On Z CornerKeiko Matsui first PBS record and program that's in results that we would otherwise have Some of the PBS affiliates-like 44 Smooth Jazz & Vocals the works is a Chicago perfor- had. If there's a musical idea we WNET-New York, WGBH-Boston, mance/Christmas album. The band think would make a great record and and WTTW-Chicago-create pro- will be taped in late May. PBS doesn't feel it'll make good PBS gramming, much of which is music, NEXT WEEK We're talking about a number of television or is suitable for the PBS that gets on the network. We have Welcome to Gavin: projects, and we're going to do at audience, then it won't happen. It's the potential to use locally produced The all new GAVIN, that is. Our least two fundraising events each always going to be something that music shows from other PBS affili- year involving an hour's perfor- everybody enthusiastically believes ates, as long as we're informed of the special Alternative focus is just mance, like last year's John Tesh at will have a common ground. program and are involved initially so the beginning this week. We've Red Rocks. We've had meetings with My background in personal man- we can coordinate the release of the got new features, new depart- Sa111 Pollard :Ind Rena Kosersky Of agement has given me a perspective album with the air date. GAVIN ments, and a whole new look for you to enjoy! First Words Many years after the fact, I can admit it:I was the that, despite a degree in anthropology, radio would end worst disc jockey in the history of college radio. up being my career. Somehow. Now, over the years I've run into many people who The point is: if you have a passion in life, if you are make this claim, but in my case it's true. I tried too self -directed, if you are persistent, if you understand hard to sound like a Top 40 jock, I could never get the about "paying dues," and if you can see opportunity V11 11Founded by Bill Gavin -1958 hang of cueing the records, I stepped all over the when it pounds on the door, you'll end up doing what \ isi., published 50 weeks a year on Friday of each music (and myself), and I even played William you want to do. week. Subscription Rates $325 for 50 issues or $180 Shatner's cover versions of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Go out there and make it happen. for 25 issues. Subscription and circulation inquiries: (415) 495-1990. All rights to any or all of the contents "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" (found the album in of this publication are reserved. Materials may not be the trash; still have it). Even locked myself out of the reproduced in any form without the publisher's studio...more than once. permission. C1998 GAVIN, MillerFreeman EntertainmentGroup But I loved radio. Loved everything about it.I also 140 Second Street, San Fr.incisk loved to write, to dig, to talk to people, to understand C.illi,nna itti;,I iSA ing I.ould about this great medium. And I knew Reed Bunzel, Editor -in -Chief Miller Freeman A United News & Media company GAVIN MAY 1, 1998 polnivers arp litudiGTh nTh Bill Gavin founded this publication 40 years ago. To celebrate our anniversary, we have chosen to celebrate our founder by paying tribute to the industry he loved. In a special, large -format book that will be sent to all radio decision makers in May, our editors-with help from such record and radio industry figures as Gary Owens, Joe Smith, Ron ("Boss Radio") Jacobs, Ian ("You Turn Me On") Jacobs, and Cousin Brucie Morrow - will trace the history of radio over the past four decades. The people behind the scenes and on the air: not only the deejays and the music they played, but the jingles and IDs that gave their stations their particular image. And, of course, the music, from the pop and Top 40 sounds with which Bill Gavin worked as a pioneer programmer, to all the music that GAVIN has chart- ed and covered over 40 years. But this special edition goes beyond 40 years. It'll begin on the eve of rock and roll and Top 40, with a look and listen back to the first golden age of radio. It'll reflect on the stars, the stations, and the issues of today.