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"11'r-' RANDY TRAVIS No Holdin' Back JIVE BUNNY & THE MASTERMIXERS SWING THE MOOD The Album Jive Bunny & DO WOT WE WANT TO ROB BASE & The Mastermixers Picture Comes To Life DJ EZ ROCK SOUL II SOUL ---- RHYTHM NATION Cess Pool Of Lust - CPOS-04-N The Incredible Base Keep On Movin' Janet Jackson BEETHOVEN LIVES RUSH DOWNTOWN TRAIN UPSTAIRS Presto Rod Stewart ALBUM PICK Classical Kids EURYTHMICS FREE FALLIN' We Too Are One Tom Petty LINDA RONDSTADT PUMP UP THE JAM Cry Like A Rainstorm Technotronic SINGLES TO WATCH RITA MACNEIL I'M NOT THE MAN Rita I USED TO BE Fine Young Cannibals PEACE IN OUR TIME TECHNOTRONIC Eddie Money Pump Up The Jam WOMAN'S WORK Sheree ANGEL TOM PETTY Eurythmics Full Moon Fever SO HARD Sass Jordan NOTHIN' TO HIDE TOM COCHRANE & Poco RED RIDER FOOL FOR YOUR LOVE The Symphony Sessions Whitesnake HELENE Roche Voisine JOE SATRIANI THIS ONE'S FOR Flying In A Blue Dream THE CHILDREN EVERYTHING New Kids On The Block Jody Watley ROY ORBISON A Black And White Night Live STEAMY WINDOWS HUMAN CANNONBALL Tina Turner Webb Wilder DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE DON'T MAKE ME OVER TOO MUCH And In This Corner ... 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QUINCY JONES HONEYMOON SUITE WOMAN IN CHAINS Back On The Block I REMEMBER YOU The Singles Tears For Fears Warner Bros - 92 60204-P Skid Row WHEN THE NIGHT COMES WE'LL REACH THE SKY Joe Cocker TONIGHT Rita MacNeil CRUEL LIFE Ray Lyell And The Storm No.1 ALBUM No.1 SINGLE gomiktq - TO WATCH TIME'S UP Southern Pacific w/ Carlene Carter WALKIN' ON THE MOON Tom Russel Band HEARTBREAK HURRICANE Ricky Skaggs SOUTHERN STAR Alabama FAST MOVIN' TRAIN Restless Heart LOVE STILL MEANS YOU Susan Hammond formed ANOTHER DAY IN TO ME Classical Kids to introduce MILLI VANILLI PARADISE Roger Whittaker children to the great classical Girl You Know You It's True Phil Collins composers. -Page 7 Arista - AL -8592-N Atlantic - PROCD-25-P 2 - RPM - December 16, 1989 Best International Group/Artist Slaight is strengthing Standard's Toronto Music Awards honours cities best - Jeff Healey The Toronto Music Awards were once again Best Rising Star Band Allan and son Gary Slaight are perhaps two Divisic asuccess,asnomineesandindustry - The Razorbacks For more information contact Chart of the most watched of Canada's broadcast supporters packed Toronto's Diamond club Best R&B/Soul Toppers at (416) 238-8682. moguls.AsAllan "Our December 6th to share in the excitement as - Liberty Silver rollsintohissixth our cu the creme de la creme of Canadian talent was Best Folk Group/Artist Whittaker firmed for year as head of the to buy on hand to present and accept the honours. - Bruce Cockburn giant Standard The event was taped for air as a Q107 Best Country Artist Toronto's Massey Hall Broadcasting empire other and CHCH TVsimulcast.Categories - Murray McLauchlan Roger Whittaker's Family Christmas concert and Gary enters his progra spotlighted many genres, including reggae, Mayor's Award third year as head of people blues, jazz, and rock artists. featuring his daughter J.J.Whittaker has - Jeff Healey been firmed for Toronto's Massey Hall for the Radio Division, changt Best Jazz/Instrumental Ottaw Listed below are the winners of the December 19 and 20. As well, the Nashville thechangeshave various awards for each particular category: - Shuffle Demons Network's On Stage TV show will feature beensubtle,but to a r Best Female Vocalist nevertheless obvious quite ii Best Group (local) Whittaker in a half-hour Christmas Special Ottaw - Alannah Myles that will be aired Dec. 11, 21 and 22. throughout the seven Gary Slaight - Kim Mitchell Cutting Edge station chain. reveals Best Club - Cowboy Junkies Both the concert and TV specials will As Garry Slaightpoints out, "When I confus - Diamond Harmony Award featureWhittaker'spopularchildren's joined Standard my biggest challenge was to our ap Best Pop/Dance - Gordon Lightfoot novelty, Darcy The Dragon, with music and focus the radio group and to bring in some ,g4 - Candi Best Male Vocalist lyrics by Canadian writers Greg Adams and new blood ... and to bring about a new style station Best Reggae - Kim Mitchell Eric Robertson. of management. Really, as far as manage- more - Messenjah ment is concerned, we have all new people oppon Best Keyboard Player CBS Masterworks toutsmusic for the palate from two and a half years ago. Some were would - Greg Wells back,' Deborah MacCallum,ClassicalProduct Italian Album, featuring works by Puccini, gone before I got here and some left as I got Best Bass Player We wa Manager for CBS Masterworks Canada, VerdiandMascagni(novocals);The here." - Geddy Lee radioI Best Drummer reports a highly successful launch of Dinner Viennese Album,withgreatpiecesby The Standardchaincomprisestwo Classics, a unique series designed to enhance Strauss,BeethovenandMozart;The SI. - Neil Peart stations in Toronto, News and Information concert the dinner hour with light classics from the Best Guitarist Japanese Album featuringtraditional flagship CFRB with George Ferguson as he is Masters and others. Japanese melodies in arrangements for flute, - Jeff Healey General Manager and Program Director compel The initial release comprises six cassettes violin and cello with traditional Japanese Best Group/Artist John Keogh, and CKFM with an Adult is on tt - Downchild Blues Band and CDs,sportingthe CBS Nice Price instruments, "a very exciting and unusual Contemporary format with Gary Slaight as album,"enthusesMacCallum;andthe and CI Best Club Band pricing, which ranges at retail anywhere from General Manager and Marty Forbesas $11.99 to $16.00. In place of liner notes, each timely Christmas album,featuring itdid - L.A. Program Director; Montreal's CJAD with a everybi package includes a suggested menu and three Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite, Bach's format similar to CFRB, and the Adult recipes in line with the concept of the album. LittleSuiteFrom Anna Magdalena 49 yea BMG Music International Contemporary CJFM with Rob Braide as CKFM The recipes were supplied by Martha Stewart, Notebook, excerpts from Handel's Messiah General Manager and Jeff Vidler as Program change and Henley sign deal one of the most successful writers in the and March Of The Toys by Herbert. Director of both stations; Ottawa's 54 Rock, American food industry. The brainchild of Laraine Perri of CBS audien, BMG Music Publishing International has a mix of CHR/AOR with David Forman as we're i The packages are further enhanced by Masterworks, New York,theseries,all signed a deal to sub -publish Larry Henley General Manager and Bob Mackowycz as SI; Music for the world, excluding the U.S. exquisitephotosofcolourfulsettings, previously released material, will expand into Program Director; and, in St. Catharines, suggesting the type of menu. The Sunday cocktail and fireplace settings for a spring proble: Henley's songs include Wind Beneath My CKTB, which is Adult Contemporary (talk), kind of Heart, which has been recorded by Roger Brunch Album, the top selling in the series, release of five albums. and CHTZ, an AOR formated station. Greg "partly because of the music (Vivaldi, Bach, McCallum points out that surprisingly, place, Whittaker, Gary Morris and was a recent hit Slaight,Gary'sbrother,istheGeneral move for Bette Midler. Handel,Corelliandothers)",says cassette sales are ahead of CDs, (60-40), an Manager of both stations, and Program MacCallum, depicts what most would enjoy indication that the real audiophiles have yet to or Henley's songs have also been recorded Director of CKTB, while Eric Samuels holds there i; by Randy Travis, Gladys Knight,Willie for brunch. to discover Dinner Classics, which could down the position of Program Director at it." Nelson, Sheena Easton, Fleetwood Mac, Lee Also included are The French Album triggera major run on storesforthe HTZ-FM. with music by Debussy, Ravel and Faure; The remaining shopping days before Christmas. As Greenwood,JenniferRush andmore. Does Slaight,as head of the Radio Slaight Included is the Randy Travis hit, Is It Still A&A Records & Tapes expand warehouse space licence Over, which became the No. 1 single on "It wil RPM's Country 100 (May 22/89). Peter Parrish, Senior Vice President, Sales & conditions, Parish expects the addition to be group,' Marketingfor A&A Records & Tapes, operational by February of next year. black u reportsthepassingof"yetanother attract milestone,"inthecompany'sroadto from th success, further consolidating what he refers Sta to as the company's "unassailable position as Slaight Canada's biggest and best music retailer." Ground wasofficiallybroken Theme (Nov.15/89)forthe expansion of the Slaigh company's corporate offices and distribution hearinc centre in Scarborough, Ontario. Another feet of office and warehouse station space will be added to the existing 60,000 as poss square feet, "making the new A&A complex younger the largest distribution centre in the Canadian they we music industry," boasts Parrish. Allinthenameofcharity.Standard Sla Parish goes on to explain, "With 265 Broadcasting executives dress up as French broadce stores already open and at least 25 more maids to kick off the CFRB/CKFM employee ireof scheduled to open by the end of 1990, we Seen breaking ground for the expansion of in-house campaign for United Way '89. Friday broadca have had to expand in order to keep pace with A&A's corporate offices (I to r) Bruce VanAllen the 13th of October marked the day with a (ExecutiveVicePresident),lqbalHussain complimentary coffee break for approximately CRTC 1 our retail growth." He concludes with, "The (Senior Vice President, Finance), Lyle Drake one hundred employees who willingly donated of corn Seen outside BMG's Nashville office (I to r) number of stores and the speed at which they (Senior Vice President, Distribution), Robin $1,000 to see their executives in drag.