64 ® R&R August 28, 1987 NASHVILLE THIS WEEK KATY BEE II COORDINATING CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS Halsey Forms Pro Tours The Jim Halsey Company, Inc. has announced a new Other Pro Tours projects include mass media /marketing service for artists, promoters, the Oak Ridge Boys' 1987 Fast and special events. Headquartered in Nashville, Lane Tour, Judds dates, and per- Pro formances at the Indiana State Tours will coordinate and simplify the corporate sponsor- Fair. ship process. Senior VP Steven Pritchard adds, "Our objective is to make every promotion reach a broader audience." The organization will be involved with all radio, televi- sion, and print for concert promo- tions, advertising, VIP receptions, and special projects in connection with tour sponsorship. The Merle Haggard /George Dickel /Epic Records campaign to MR. SONGWRITER RIDES AGAIN - It's Harlan Howard Birthday Bash support Farm Aid is underway time again, as the "songwriters' songwriter" holds another outdoor guitar now; Pro Tours provided Country pull September 9. Howard (seated) will co -host with (l -r) Emmylou Harris and Bobby Bare. BMI /Nashville's parking lot is the site of the event, radio with merchandise for an on- which also features Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, John D. air benefit raffle. Consumers can Loudermilk, Don Schlitz, Paul Overstreet, Thom Schuyler, Kevin Welch, also buy Haggard's "Amber Fred Knobloch, Brenda Lee, Jamie O'Hara, Townes Van Zandt, Paulette Waves Of Grain" cassette at a dis- Carlson, K.T. Oslin, Nanci Griffith, Dean Dillon, Pee Wee King, and Red count ($5.98), with Dickel & Stewart. Proceeds go to the Nashville Entertainment Association Co. TENNESSEE TRIUMPH - Merle Haggard played his first major concert and the building fund for a Songwriters' Hall of Fame. donating $1 per tape to Farm Aid. in Nashville, and was honored as a Tennessee Colonel. Joining him at the Dickel will also forward money to performance are (l -r) Bobby Lee Springfield, Haggard, CMA Director Jo Farm Aid through a retailers' pro- Walker Meador, and CBS Sr. VP /GM Rick Blackburn. motion. Austin By The Book RCA labelmate Earl Thomas Con- ley; Vern Gosdin and Emmylou PBS's "Austin City Limits" is Harris sang harmony on the cur- now in print form. Subtitled "The rent single "Would These Arms Story Behind Television's Most Get In The Way." Popular Country Music Program," the 136 -page multi -color picture When Jimmy Carter called book takes readers behind the Tom T. Hall, the songwriter picked cameras of the series, carried on up his hammer and took off for 280 stations. Author Clifford En- Charlotte, NC. Hall was part of a you CAN'T dres chronicles 11 years and 140 15- member crew that spent a week shows; the book is published by building low- income family homes University of Texas Press. for non -profit Habitat For Humani- ty. Carter was project foreman. Waylon's "Audiobiography" When Larry, Steve, and Rudy Gatlin hit the desert town of Victor - AFFORD into TOMAI(E Two pages his autobiogra- ville, CA, Roy Rogers came out to phy, Waylon Jennings realized that their concert and invited them to many of the people involved in his his famous museum. The cowboy life story were still alive. So instead hero personally escorted them of committing any past incidents to through his movie memorabilia. T E WRONG print, he took to the grooves. Jen- nings says he decided "music is Barbara Mandrell and beach what I'm really about." With that buddy Frankie Avalon will co-star in mind, he created his "audiobiog- in next year's syndicated TV spe- raphy" on the forthcoming album cial "Opryland Salutes 200 Years of "A Man Called Hoss." He and Rog- American Music." The show also SELECTION. er Murrah wrote all the songs. features Minnie Pearl, Charley Keith Whitley has some guest Pride, comedian Arte Johnson, the stars on his upcoming album Tennessee State University March- "Come Back Kid." He recorded ing Band, and the U.S. Marine AND YOU CAN'T "Brotherly Love" as a duet with Drum and Bugle Corp. SELECT THE RIGHT NASHVILLE IN MOTION MUSIC ROTATION SYSTEM Ronnie Milsap's publishing corn - ficers for 1987 -88 are: Chairman of UNTIL YOU'VE SEEN THE BEST: pany, Milsap Music /Lodge Hall, is ex- the Board Brenda Haynes, President panding. Joining staff writer Mike Richard Thrall, Executive VP Johnny Reid are rock -oriented writers Naomi Rosen, Treasurer Tom Rashford, and Martin, Lisa Daniels, Daniele Alex- Secretary Betty Clark. ander, and Tim Nichols. Step One Records has signed Gene Hughes Promotions has re- Southern Reign ... Los Angeles - grouped into the Hughes Promotion based Envelope Records has opened Group, with Patti Hughes, Gene a Nashville office at 1001 18th Hughes Jr., and Mike Luebbe. They Avenue, South; the artist roster in- ANTM remain at 6 Music Circle North, Nash- cludes the Stenmark -Mueller Band, ville; (615) 255 -1633. Jack Denton, Lyn Wilson, and John Roger Sovine has been reelected Paladin ... Mandy Hunt has joined (205)987 -7456 President of the Nashville chapter of the New Clarion Music Group. NARAS. VPs are: Steven Greil, Barry Whipple Will Music moves to 1217 Beckett, Alan Bernard, Joe Galante, 16th Avenue, South, Nashville, TN; CALL TODAY FOR AN IN- STATION DEMO! Bruce Hinton, and Steve Popovich. (615) 320 -7024 ... Rock manage- Bonnie Rasmussen was elected Sec- ment Praxis International has relocat- retary and Jimmy Gilmer was reelect- ed to 1700 Hayes, Suite 301-2, ed Treasurer ... The Nashville Enter- Nashville, 1987 TAPSCAN, INC 3000 RIVERCHASE GALLERIA, SUITE 1111 BIRMINGHAM, AL 35244 TN 37203; (615) 320- tainment Association's executive of- 1200. www.americanradiohistory.com.