ID EM 69: Full Report On Third Success . Prime me For Youth (Editorial) ... Polydor Of U.S. Under :hoenbaum ...The Story Behind Camden's Top Sales lowing In Feb. 8, 1969 story... Re - k Turtles To SIC 75e hite Whale . Diversity Marks Product Z W Z Cash Box w By Metromedia..Special MIDEM Reports )m France & Germany..RCA Publishers Meet \IG -HOLT UNLIMITED: DOING THE CHART STRUT Intl Section Begins Pg. 52 www.americanradiohistory.com Np 4,& tris k The Clingers are here. They deliver a hard line. They sing strong. And they don't have to hire a band. That's them on all the instruments. Drop the double standard and just listen to the music. The Clingers make it on the single "Gonna Have a Good Time."447 "te, Get it from Columbia Records.) FrC..cCc`:, , t;ìC' L .. _. 3'7,1K :C' ...Ci' r ?h, _;. T.,"- _-- i e.Fr r Kris Caer www.americanradiohistory.com i/\ III// \U //UM//i 1 THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY VOL. XXX-Number 28/February 8, 1969 Publication Office/ 1780 Broadway, New York, New York 10019/Telephone: JUdson 6-2640/Cable Address: Cash Box, N. Y. GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL TOM McENTEE, Assoc. Editor DANIEL BOTTSTEIN JOHN KLEIN MARV GOODMAN ALLAN RINDE EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising Prime Time ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER New York BILL STUPER New York HARVEY GELLER Hollywood For Youth WOODY HARDING Art Director COIN MACHINES 8. VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager BOB COHEN Asst. PRIME TIME --just listen to the ring of more mature listeners who were not CAMILLE COMPASIO Chicago LISSA MORROW Hollywood it. The phrase brings an image of mill- considered "impressionable." From ions clustered by TV sets; it reeks of the late night shows that could feature CIRCULATION money and carries a perfume of the contemporary product when the young- THERESA TORTOSA Mgr. biggest audience assembled since D - sters trundled off, radio moved into CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD Day. But, to rock performers and the their current stratified programming CAMILLE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER or early twenties viewers prime pattern which enables each age and 29 E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset Blvd. teens Chicago 2, III. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 time once meant bland "family enter- interest group to find its own station. Phone: (312) Fl 6-7272 Phone: (213) 465-2129 tainment" aimed at an audience of Now, television has evolved into a re- ENGLAND children, tired businessmen home from juvenating fountain of youth which has DORRIS LAND the office, and wives who have been unlocked, if not opened, its door to 3 Cork Street London, WI, England through a hectic day. contemporary talents. 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