NEWSPAPER fr MARCH 21, 1981 $2.75 Rick Nelson Dia10 ue Hits of the Week SINGLES ALBUMS REO SPEEDWAGON, "TAKE IT ON THE THE WHO, "YOU BETTER YOU BET" (prod. SPINNERS, "LABOR OF LOVE." As SPINNER, RUN" (prod. by Cronin-Richrath- by Szymczyk) (writer: Towns - the "Yester -y ..." medley bullets Beamish) (writer: Richrath) (Bud- held) (Towser Tunes, BMI) (3:58) upwards .3b five strong voices dy, BMI) (3:35). "Keep On Loving r Flashy electronic keyboards b. er to rock you with Wil- You" bulleted to =1, signalling us -tor 3n Roger Daltrey's souped ss "Long Live Soul Music" the arrival of this band as a ma- up pop vocal on this label d harmonize on a slow ballad, jor pop radio force. This power and ïnl release from the 'A Man Don't Just Know What A ballad follow-up is another block- Bred group's forthcoming `r E Woman Goes Through.'' Atlantic SD buster. Epic 19-01054. Dances" LP. WB 49698. 16032 (8.98). KOOL & THE GANG, "TAKE IT TO THE STYX, "TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS" TED NUGENT, "INTENSITIES IN 10 TOP" (prod. by Deodato) (writers: (prod. by group) writer: Shaw) CITIES." What wou d cave men Bell - group) (Delightful / Fresh (Stygian /Almo, °ASCAP) (4:24). have done with electric guitars? Ted Start, BMI) (3:36). It's appropriate Tommy Shaw's vocal is a perfect continues to ask the musical ques- that this single-with its trium- vehicle for this message about tion on an LP of 10 new tunes re- phant title-follows the =1 "Cele- modern man's boredom. The corded live at 10 gonzo tour stops. bration." Wonderful harmonies, brisk beat and winding guitars He plays his best guitar on stage, so vigorous strings & a snappy beat have strong pop appeal. A&M who needs a studio? Epic FE 37084 highlight. De -Lite 810 (PolyGram). 2323. (8.98). ROD STEWART, "SOMEBODY SPECIAL" GINO VANNELLI, "LIVING INSIDE MY - PAT TRAVERS, "RADIO ACTIVE." (prod. by Harry The Hook -group - SELF" (prod. by Gino -Joe -Ross As "Crash and Burn" edges toward Johns) (writers: Stewart -Harley - Vannelli) (writer: Gino) (Black the gold mark Travers returns with Chen - Savigar - Cregan - Graing- Keys, BMI) (3:48). Vannelli makes an LP that encompasses super- er) (Rive WB, ASCAP) (4:28). C, an auspicious label debut with charged guitars on 'New Age Mu- Rod's jagged vocal delivery turns this dramatic ballad from his sic" and the warm Keyboard har- good lyrics into great ones, as on fcrthcoming "Nightwalker" LP. monies of "I Can Lcve You" and this successor to his top 10 "Pas- A. vocal/keyboard wall of sound. Feelin' in Love." Polydor PD -1- sion." WB 49686. Arista 0588. 6313 (PolyGram) (8.98) BOZ SCAGGS, "YOU CAN HAVE ME ANY- BILL MEDLEY, "DON'T KNOW MUCH" JOE ELY, "MUSTA NOTTA GOTTA TIME" (prod. by Schnee) (writers: (prod. by Lloyd) (writers: Weil - LOTTA." This Texan lends his indi- Scaggs-Foster) (Boz Scaggs, AS - Mann -Snow) (ATV `Mann & Weil' vidual stamp to rockabilly (the title), Foster Frees/Irving, BM)) LI/ERTY Braintree Snow, BMI) (3:07). inflation blues ("I Keep Gettin' Paid :56). Boz' latest outings have Perned by the formidable We l - the Same") and pretty love songs ,., enhanced his image as pop mu- Mann -Snow team, this beautiful ("Wishin For You"). A refinement of sic's premiere romantic crooner. ballad is a godsend for Medley's his first two LPs anc those were Here's another soft -lights ro- towering vocal style. Great for pop damned good. SoJihCoast' MCA mancer. Col 11-01023. and A C listeners. Liberty 1402. 5813 (8.98). www.americanradiohistory.comAmericanRadioHistory.Com Russell mr m "Love life When you play it entangles But you gar to stay If you want to ...love life" LOVE LIFE. BRENDA RUSSELL's new album. On A& NI Records & Tapes. SP 4$11 Produced by Stewart Levine. Executive Producer: Brenda Dash 01981 A&M Records, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ' ©1981 Almo Music Corp.; Rutland Road Music IASCAPI www.americanradiohistory.comAmericanRadioHistory.Com Hecate World MARCH 21, 1981 Call To Abolish CRT Warners Trying Counterfeiters and Middlemen Testify Stuns Commissioners Loose Shrink Wrap By BILL HOLLAND By SAMUEL GRAHAM As Goody Trial Concludes First Week WASHINGTON - Copyright LOS ANGELES - In a move By JEFFREY PEISCH Royalty Chairman Clarence E. designed to reduce disc warpage NEW YORK-The first full week they would not be prosecuted for James did not inform the other and thus lower defective rates, of the Sam Goody Inc. trial saw any new crimes uncovered during commissioners that he was going Warner Bros. Records has re- government prosecutor John Ja- the trial. to tell Congress the CRT should leased the first album for the la- cobs call several of his key wit- Tucker began his testimony by be abolished when he recently ap- bel by the Who, entitled "Face nesses in an attempt to outline in identifying several boxes of coun- peared at an oversight hearing on Dances," packaged in loose detail that Goody executives terfeit cassettes that were taken Capitol Hill. shrink wrap, rather than the tight Samuel Stolon and George Levy from Pickwick International's counter- warehouse in Minneapolis, sent His remarks came as a com- plastic wrap used for most major knew they were buying to in a of purchases Pickwick by the Goody plete surprise and a shock to label releases. feit tapes series chain. some of the other commissioners, The shrink wrap used for most during the summer of 1978. Yet Tucker said that he was sure the tapes were including two former chair- albums is fitted to record covers the government came very close his because of the type persons. by way of a heating process that to losing the right to call some of of shrink wrap used, the type of its witnesses during a few tense cardboard flap used, and because 'We Were Not Notified' reduces the size of the plastic moments on Tuesday (10) when a the colors on the box were not "We didn't know about it," until it fits tightly around the motion charging an FBI agent with quite right. Tucker said that the commissioner Mary Lou Burg told jacket. It is that heating process, the destruction of documents was tapes cost him less than $1 each Record World. "We were not as well as the tightness of the filed by the defense. to manufacture and that he sold or or told in wrap itself, that can result in notified consulted them for close to $1.50 each. Dur - for matter after- warpage, a problem that is hoped Jacobs laid the foundation for advance, or that (Con tinued on page 35) ward." will be largely eliminated with his case on Monday with testi- the implementation of the looser mony by convicted counterfeiters The Subcommittee on Courts, wrap, commonly seen on records George Tucker and Frank Carroll, Civil Liberties and the Adminis- NARM imported to the United States whose product ultimately was Convention tration of Justice, which oversees from England and elsewhere and bought by Goody purchaser Sto - the CRT's mandated inquiries on To Stress Planning also used by some small domestic Ion. Tucker and Carroll agreed to copyright and royalty matters, By DAVID McGEE (Continued on page 40) testify with the understanding that meets in a yearly pro -forma ses- NEW YORK - "Plan To Be sion with the CRT chairman each There" is the theme of the 1981 year. Usually, the chairman's re- Elektra/Asylum Chairman Joe Smith NARM convention, scheduled to marks reflect the agency's views. begin April 11 at the Diplomat Asked wh, ther she felt the Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. Last subcommittee would solicit the Reviews a Year of Steady Sales Growth week, in an exclusive interview other commissioners' views on By SAMUEL GRAHAM with Record World, Joe Cohen, possibly abolishing the body, executive vice president of NARM, LOS ANGELES - "I think that large enough that when we do stressed the trade association's Burg replied: "My judgment is this company is the best record turn it on, it's significant." that generally, that (the chair- emphasis on the first word of company going right now of its man's statement) should be While any number of label ex- the theme. According to Cohen, general size. We're probably the enough," but cir- ecutives have undoubtedly made this year's convention will be "under those most efficient, the most effective, cumstances you'd think he'd sweeping statements similar to concerned primarily with consid- (the most) able to turn on the facts represent the agency and the that one, few have the and ering the changes expected to water and cut it off very quickly- which to back them agency's views and he did figures with take place within the next two - we're able to react. If you get instance, not inquire what those views up. In this particular to three years in the audio and much bigger, then it's very hard however, the speaker is Joe were, and did not so present video fields, and the ways in to cut it off; it's very hard to put the board at them. Smith, chairman of (Continued on page 22) anything under control. This com- Elektra/Asylum Records, and in "So maybe if they want to delve pany is still of a size where we view of the kind of success re- (Continued on page 40) can feel it and stop it, and still ported by E/A in 1980-success RCA Going to $8.98 that has apparently carried over NEW YORK-Record World into the new year-it would ap- has learned that RCA Records Wloid pear difficult to refute Smith's will raise the list price of all its Record Index remarks.