' Commonwealth United’s 2-Part Blueprint: Buy Labels & Publishers ••• Massler Sets Unit For June 22 1968 Kiddie Film ™ ' Features * * * Artists Hit • * * Sound-A-Like Jingl Mercury Ex- iff CashBox pands In Publishing • • Atlantic Sees Confab Sales Peak** 1st Buddah Meet Equals ‘ Begins Pg. 51 RICHARD HARRIS: HE FOUND THE RECIPE Int’l. Section Take a great lyric with a strong beat. Add a voice and style with magic in it. Play it to the saturation level on good music stations Then if it’s really got it, the Top-40 play starts and it starts climbingthe singles charts and selling like a hit. And that’s exactly what Andy’s got with his new single.. «, HONEY Sweet Memories4-44527 ANDY WILLIAMS INCLUDING: THEME FROM "VALLEY OF ^ THE DOLLS" ^ BYTHETIME [A I GETTO PHOENIX ! SCARBOROUGH FAIR LOVE IS BLUE UP UPAND AWAY t THE IMPOSSIBLE * DREAM if His new album has all that Williams magic too. Andy Williams on COLUMBIA RECORDS® *Also available fn A-LikKafia 8-track stereo tape cartridges : VOL. XXIX—Number 47/June 22, 1968 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 LEON SCHUSTER Treasurer IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL TOM McENTEE Assoc. Editor DANIEL BOTTSTEIN JOHN KLEIN MARV GOODMAN EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI When Tragedy Cries (hit ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER New York For 'Affirmative'Musif BILL STUPER New York HARVEY GELLER Hollywood WOODY HARDING Art Director COIN MACHINES & VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager BEN JONES Asst. CAMILLE COMPASIO Chlcogo LISSA MORROW Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA Mgr. CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD Music seemed as a part of others; a weekly program CAMILLE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER much the hosted by 29 E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset Blvd. tributes to the late Senator Kennedy as Negro actor Robert Hooks featured Chicago 2. III. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 (Phone: (312) FI 6-7272) (Phone: (213) 465-2129) the verbal rhetoric of those who paid a performance of the “Impossible EUROPEAN DIRECTOR their respects to the slain leader. This Dream” by Josh White, Jr. and the Ed NEVILLE MARTEN alone is perhaps not as significant as Sullivan Show, dropping its scheduled ENGLAND NEVILLE MARTEN the kinds of music that were chosen to line-up, featured Sergio Franchi sing- Dorris Land express the sentiment of the occasion. ing “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” Dionne 9a New Bond St. London, Wl, England Starting from the funeral service itself Warwick’s “Battle Hymn” and the Doo- Tel: 01-493-2868 in St. Patrick’s Cathedral through the dletown Pipers’ “What the World Needs ITALY CANADA national day of mourning proclaimed by Now is Love” and Ed Ames’ “Who Will MARIO PANVINI ROSATI LORI BRUNER Galleria Passarella 2 1560 Bayview Ave. President Johnson, it was quite appar- Answer?” Milan (Italy) Suite 107 Tel: 790990 Toronto 17, Canada ent that solemn music, drawn from the ARGENTINA Such a broad, often straight pop GERMANY classics or the liturgy, was not to be the MIGUEL SMIRNOFF approach to circumstances as tragic as MAL SONDOCK Rafaela 3978, only way of expressing respect for Josef Raps Strasse 1 Buenos Aires, the assassination of a major figure in Munich, Germany Tel: 69-1538 Senator Kennedy. Tel: 326410 BRAZIL public life would have been assailed HOLLAND LUIS de M.C. GUEDES Within the great Catholic cathedral, a and condemned a few short years ago Ruo Rego Freitas, ACKET PAUL 289—3*, andar Protestant hymn, “Battle Hymn of the —most certainly at the time of Presi- Thereslastraat 59-63 Sao Paulo, SP The Hague Republic,” was sung by pop singer Andy dent Kennedy’s murder. But, times Tel : 837703 MEXICO ENRIQUE ORTIZ Williams, a close friend of Senator have changed in a short space of time. FRANCE Insurgentes Sur 1870 CHRISTOPHE IZARD Mexico 20, D. F„ Kennedy; a movement from a Mahler We have seen rock-influenced works Tel: 24-65-57 24, Rue Octave Feuillet, 870-9358 was performed by Leonard integrated into religious rites of the Paris XVI Tel: JAPAN Symphony Adv. Mgr. Bernstein and members of the New Catholic, Protestant and Jewish denom- SCANDINAVIA SHOICHI KUSANO SVEN G. WINQUIST York Philharmonic, operatic tenor Rich- inations. Certain jazz performers who Editorial Mgr.: Kaggeholmsvagen 48, Stockholm-Enskede, MORIHIRO NAGATA ard Tucker sang Cesar Franck’s “Panis have died were honored with jazz music 466 Higfashi-OIzumi Sweden, Tel: 59-46 85 40 Neirimaku, Agelicus” and the Navy Hymn, repre- during their funeral services. And, of 122 Tokyo senting Senator Kennedy’s World War course, the late Martin Luther King, AUSTRALIA BELGIUM RON TUDOR JOS BAUDEWIJN II service, could also be heard during Jr. was so honored several months ago. 8 Francis St., Lindestraat 19 Heathmont, Victoria Lokeren the service. Even the Catholic mass for 870-5677 Tel: 09 78 31 76 Naturally, the question of “good or Tel: the dead was described by the New bad taste” is bound to be raised. The SPAIN York Times as emphasizing “a less JOSE MARIA INIGO answer might well be one of determi- Avda. de Jose Antonio 32, grim, more affirmative view.” Madrid 1 3, ning how “good or bad” is the music Spain. Tel: 222 1181 Those who watched TV on Sunday and/or performance itself. For if the air were also faced with a less solemn is filled with “affirmative” music when SUBSCRIPTION RATES $25 per year anywhere in the U.S.A. Published weekly. Second class postage paid at New York, musical perspective. A jazz program on a tragedy cries out for some semblance N. Y. 10001 U.S.A. featured tributes Copyright © 1968 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. CBS musical by Duke of sanity and hope, then music, what- All rights reserved. Copyright under Universal Copyright Con- Ellington vention. and Johnny Hodges, among ever its source, should play on. Cash Box—June 22, 1968 3 . ishBox I#' CashBoxTOPIOO Os 35 UNITED 69 BABY YOU COME ROLLIN' 1 THIS GUY'S IN LOVE N Os Peaches & Herb-Date 1603 25 28 ACROSS MY MIND 01 CO WITH YOU Peppermint Trolley Co. -Acta 815 74 Herb Alpert-A&M 929 2 6 36 AIN'T NOTHING LIKE 88 THE REAL THING FACE IT GIRL, IT'S OVER 2 MRS. ROBINSON Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell-Tamla 54163 17 yo 44511 i i • Naney Wilson-Capital 2136 84 Simon & Garfunkel-Columbia 84 37 TIME FOR LIVIN' 3 MONY MONY Association-Warner Bros. 7195 23 26 LOVER'S HOLIDAY Tommy James & The Shondells-Roulette 7008 4 4 38 HONEY $ Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Bensen-SSS Int'l 736 82 89 4 YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Bobby Goldsboro-United Artists 50283 32 14 Ohio Express-Buddah 38 5 5 YOUR TIME HASN'T COME 39 COWBOYS TO GIRLS • YET, BABY 5 MAC ARTHUR PARK Intruders-Gamble 214 34 16 4134 3 3 Elvis Presley-RCA 9547 83 — Richard Harris-Dunhill 40 YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT ANGEL OF THE MORNING YOU MEAN TO ME • I'M A MIDNIGHT MOVER Merrilee Rush-Bell 705 8 12 Wilson Pickett-Atlantic 2528 — — Sam & Dave-Atlantic 2517 44 50 THINK HERE COMES THE JUDGE Aretha Franklin-Atlantic 2518 7 10 SKY PILOT (Part 1) • Pigmeat Markham-Chess 2049 — 87 Eric Burden & Animals-MGM 13939 52 69 THE LOOK OF LOVE 75 COMPETITION AIN'T NOTHING Sergio Mendes Brasil '66-A&M 924 16 38 42 I WANNA LIVE Little Carl Carlton-Back Beat 588 81 87 Glen Campbell-Capitol 2146 38 39 REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESSIESS (THE PUPPET SONG) Friend Lover-Verve/Forecast 5069 13 24 43 MY GIRL/HEY GIRL MEDLEY # & Bobby Vee-Liberty 56033 35 17 WHISKEY ON A SUNDAY Irish Rovers-Decca 32333 89 — 10 I COULD NEVER LOVE 44 JELLY JUNGLE ANOTHER Lemon Pipers-Buddah 41 30 36 LOVIN' SEASON Temptations-Gordy 7072 12 15 • 45 I'LL NEVER DO YOU WROI Gene & Debbie-TRX 5010 88 — Joe Tex-Dial 4076 45 48 THE HORSE 78 IT'S OVER Cliff Nobles & Co. -Phil L.A. of Soul 313 15 37 46 (YOU KEEP ME) HANGIN' ON Eddy Arnold-RCA 9525 76 71 Joe Simon-Sound Stage 7/2608 51 60 JUMPIN' JACK FLASH 79 I GOT YOU BABE Rolling Stones-London 908 28 58 IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME Etta James-Cadet 5606 72 52 HERE COMES THE JUDGE Gladys Knight & The Pips-Soul 35045 57 66 80 EYES OF A NEW YORK Shorty Long-Soul 35044 46 72 48 SAFE IN MY GARDEN WOMAN B. J. Thomas-Scepter — LADY WILL POWER Mamas & Papas-Dunhill 5125 49 59 12219 86 Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Columbia 44547 37 61 49 BRING A LITTLE LOVIN LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER Los Bravos-Parrot 3020 56 65 — — 15 LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOUu O'Jays-Bell 704 Spanky & Our Gang-Mercury 72795 14 13 50 HERE I AM BABY Marvellettes-Tamla 54166 55 64 82 AMERICA IS MY HOME 16 I LOVE YOU 51 SHOO-BE-DOO-BE DOO-DA-DAY PART 1 People-Capitol 2078 19 22 James Brown-King 6112 91 — Stevie Wonder-Tamla 54165 36 18 17 CHOO CHOO TRAIN WITH PEN IN HAND Box Tops-Mala 12005 20 31 52 DO YOU KNOW THE WAY Billy Vera-Atlantic 2526 96 — 18 LICKING STICK-LICKING TO SAN JOSE Dionne Warwick-Scepter 12216 41 33 GIVE ME ONE MORE CHANCE STICK (Part 1) Wilmer & The Dukes-Aphrodisiac 260 — — James Brown-King 6166 21 30 53 BACK IN LOVE AGAIN Buckinghams-Columbia 44533 59 63 TIP 85 LET ME BE LONELY TOE THRU THE TULIPS THE STORY OF ROCK & ROLL 94 93 Tiny Tim-Warner Bros.