APRIL 24, 1965 SEVENTY -FIRST YEAR 50 CENTS Billboard The International Music -Record Newsweekly radio -TV Programming Phono -Tape Merchandising Coin Machine Operating RCA's Showing of Lear Tape Draws Enthusiasm NEW YORK -RCA Victors used the Lear tape transport rent catalog available in the demonstration last week of the with external amplifiers driving Lear cartridge form; (2) offering Lear eight -track stereo cartridge large speakers to fill the Mer- its duplicating facilities to any system (Billboard, April 17), cury Room at the New York and all labels who want to CAPITOL STAR LIZA MINNELLI IN BROADWAY DEBUT. She's got natural talent, available in drew an enthusiastic response Hilton. make their product boundless energy, and the title role in the forthcoming Broadway musical, vice this form. from most of the record industry George Marek, -president "Flora, the Red Menace." Two of the top songs make up her latest Capitol representatives who attended and general manager of the RCA Victor is expected to single, "A Quick Thing" b/w "All I Need." What's more, she'll soon be follow- the unveiling. The Lear system RCA Victor Record Division, kick off its eight -track operation ing up her first album, "Liza! Liza!" with her newest, "It Amazes Me." ST 2271. is the latest designed for tape opened the demonstration by with a 100 -album release. (Advertisement) cartridge playback in automo- hailing the system as a means (Continued on page 3) biles and homes. of bringing recorded music to The consensus was that the millions on the move, and for prototype units demonstrated opening a new mass market for performed in an excellent the entire record industry. manner, delivered a fine quality RCA told those present that UK Battered by sound reproduction, and offered it has no desire to cram the RCA Winner of 12 a .simplified, easy -to -use ap- Lear system down the throats proach to tape playback in of the industry as opposed to vehicles. any other system. It stated its Unmerseyful' RCA Victor and Lear Jet position as (1) making its cur- Grammys; 8 to Col. Corp. executives, including Wil- liam P. Lear, president and By CLAUDE HALL Grammy Awards were all cour- hoard chairman of the private Billboard's first annual Spot- tesy of one star, Roger Miller. who won all categories for Slide in Sales jet plane firm, were on hand light on Jazz appears on pages NEW YORK - RCA Victor which he was nominated with to answer questions. For pur- 34 -41. The section covers the Records topped all winners in By CHRIS HUTCHINS poses of demonstration, RCA jazz field today and features the the 1965 Grammy Awards pre- his "Dang Me." Acad- Victor used two units. One was first regular weekly column of sentations of the National "Hello, Dolly!" showered two LONDON -Shock sales fig- Arts and integrated in the dash of a Pon- Del Shields, Billboard's jazz emy of Recording labels with glory-RCA Victor ures for January announced by tiac car with speakers installed Sciences held Tuesday in New for its original cast album which the Board of Trade have alarmed and in the car doors. The other York, Chicago, Hollywood brought Jerry Herman a com- the British record industry. Nashville. Victor racked poser's award song of the RCA for Twenty - five per cent less 45- compared to up 12 winners, year, and Kapp for its single by rpm disks -singles and EP's Next high- - eight for Columbia. Louis Armstrong. Herman re- were sold in the month than in est winners were Verve stage, Capitol, marked from the "Thank January of last year. and Smash with five each. you, Louis." This is the second jolt the might Ironically, Columbia Henry Mancini reaped three industry has had since the another award except have won awards with "Pink Panther" for boom began with the Beatles. for having loaned its star, Bar- RCA Victor. Fottr of the five Sales fell last October on t 963's bra Streisand, to Capitol for Verve awards resulted from the figures, but were up again for show album the original cast combination of Stan Getz,Astrud the final two months of the year. "Funny The "People" pro- Girl." Gilberto and Joao Gilberto for This is the breakdown for duction garnered three other the "Getz- Gilberto" album and January: Total sales were worth awards for Columbia $6,183,600 as compared with The Smash collection of five (Continued on page 6) $6,222,440 in 1964. Britain ex- ported $663,600 worth corn - pared with $694,400. But it was only the climbing AFM Officials Mapping sales of albums which pre- vented a bigger drop than the 4 per cent by which manu- Fight Against Discotheques (Continued on page 18) By CLAUDE HALL cotheque has made a mark. "We realize this evil is upon Teeners Mob Para NEW YORK- Executives of us," he said" ... that we'll have various musician's locals met on to live with it." He said, how- For R 'n' R Opener Tuesday (13) at American Fed- ever, that union action would NEW YORK -Morris Levy's eration of Musicians headquar- hinge upon trying to "discour- opening show at the Paramount ters here to discuss methods of age" use of discotheque. One literally packed the teen -agers combating the growing disco- weapon will be the AFM's "un- from the rafters. At 7 a.m. open- theque craze. Emil Powell (Pao- fair list." ing day (Good Friday), the lucci), head of Local 38 of West- Max Arons, an official of Lo- youngsters were already lined chester County and a member of cal 802 in New York, which has up five abreast, the line stretch- the board of the New York State in the past several weeks suc- ing almost to Eighth Avenue FRENCH TEEN -AGE STAR FRANCE GALL won the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest Conference of Musicians, said cessfully picketed various city and 43 Street. The attractions with "Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son." Philips has now also released inter- the meeting included union rep- discotheque operations and were Soupy Sales and a group of nationally her version of the winning song in English, "A Lonely Singing Doll," resentatives from nearly every forced them to alternate live rocking record acts including and in Italian, "lo Si, Tu No." (Advertisement) area of the country where dis- (Continued on page 3) Continued on page 10 1Adveraemenl) ARE YOU READY FOR THIS ?! 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Sachs, Continued from page 1 lent, but he had some reserva- nizing that in addition to find- 15 Out o141 saltier than ever, spans Billboard tions about the system. He felt ing the ideal playback system, history ranging from the early Lear told Billboard: "I was that standardization in the tape a prime factor to be considered By ELIOT TIEGEL days of vaudeville tabloids, bur- extremely pleased by the man- cartridge field is essential and in the field is compatability." lesque, magic, carnivals and tent ner in which RCA Victor con- that the existence of two systems Leonard W. Schneider, exec- LOS ANGELES West and rep shows to the great days ducted the demonstration, partic- will inhibit the growth of taped utive vice- president of Decca - ularly by the Coast manufacturers and artists of radio and the modern music fact that RCA music. Records, said: "What 1 heard take a won 15 of the 47 Grammys pre- business. From the era of the didn't position of proprie- Mike Stewart, executive vice - was most effective and the sented last week at NARAS' Weaver Brothers & Elviry to torship or seek exclusivity. In- president of United Artists Rec- stereo was most impressive.