SiXT-Si\TII 1EAA 50 CENTS PRICE: DECEMBERBiIlFóa 5, 1960 (J THE AMUSEMENT INDUSTRY'S LEADING NEWSWEEKLY :IEC Deejay Stunts Grow STAR -SPANGLED Foreign Disk INAUGURAL DUE Mart PRESIDENT -ELECT Rougher & Tougher By MILDRED !L \LL Holds Big Potential WASHINGTON - Music Promotion- Minded Stations Up Demands will loons large in the inaugu- ral gala for As Jocks Break Records, Bones, Banks President -Elect For American Kennedy, when Frank Sinatra Firms will produce and perform in a Bç JUNE. BUNDY local high schools by playing a show spangled with such stars series of basketball games with lo- Top Rank's Marshall Cites Rising NI \\ YORK Ira tough to be as Harry Belafonte. Ella Fitz- - cal students. The locks lost the a deejay these days. Promotion - gerald, Nat King Dean first game. and sulk:red several Cole, Overseas Disk Sales as Indicator minded station caeca are making injtries- including Dick Drum's Marlin. Sammy Davis Jr., more end more demands upon spin- and Nelson and his By sprained loot end Chuck Brink - Riddle KEN GREVATT get money out of many countries. ners in an to garner extra effort orchestra. The two -hour inau- Today currency exchange is almost publicity tor their outlets. man's sprained knee. akural E'ditor's Note: This is the first of a gala, to be seen by in- an automatic matter a Also risking injury for sweet series in number Some at the more recent stunts vitation plus 5100 per head, of articles covering all im- of sectors. have involved burying a jockey in charity recently were spinners at will be held at the portant facets of the international National This factor has accounted for a a barrel of canned cranberries, hay. WIP, Philadelphia. During a local music .scene to be published) Guard Armory here, January from gradual increase in export of actual ing a spinner set up disk -keeping ice show performance, the jocks rune time Billboard. - 19, to iii The disks to foreign countries from the in a bird cage, entering jocks in Joe McCauley, Dick Carr, Torn Other top stars entertaining United States, This has replaced cooking contests. and having entire Brown. Jim Learning. Dick Reyn- the new NEW YORK - As 1961 ap- President and 'ice- in some cases the shipping of tapes deejay status participate in a va- olds and Chuck Dougherty -don- preaches, American disk men can President, their wives, cabinet pressing overseas. Some labels nety ut strenuous sports competi- ned skates and held a race. Each members and other officials. look to the foreign market as one for which already arc active in This field. "It tions. One outlet, KALL, Salt deejay represented a local institu- will be holds the greatest potential Joey Bishop, master of Sivas them better control of the lake City, the tables and tion and the winner donated an growth tor the record business. ac- turned .ceremonies for the show. Mil- release of their product," Marshall tattered prizes to the first skier - electric organ to his charity. ton cording to Paul Marshall. local Berle, Henry Fonda. Gene continued. "Prestige Records, for dialer Io break a leg. Apron -wearers this Kelly and attorney closely identified with the season were Red Skelton. Ma- example, in certain countries. made The cranberry victim was Free- deciays "Big_ Wilson. music scene, and head of the Top "Swinging" halìa Jackson will sing the export arrangements only on the man Hover. KEYZ, Williston, Sweeney, Ronnie Barrett and national Rank International disk co -op. r Tom anthem, and special basis that the importer would have 1\. D.. who was encased in a for - "There has been an incredible Griffiths of KYW, Cleveland. The material for the original show to accept some tress of canned cranberries as part increase in the size of the foreign of every item in boys acted as assistants to the fi- will be prepared by Sammy the catalog. record market in just the past three American companies of a pre-Thanksgiving promotion nalists in the station's apple - Cahn and Van Heusen. bake James will be able to insist on arrange- for a supermarket. Hover stayed oft contest. The finals It will years," said Marshall, "and yet were held be interesting to com- ments like this more and more be- inside the can -barricade for five in a taken in tote. the business over- downtown show window dur- pare attention given the per- cause the seas today is a mere of stability of currencies hours -thats how long it took ing a remote broadcast of Barrett's formers at this Democratic in- trickle of what it in many nations overseas." .- housewives to buy enough cran- disk show. may one day be." augural celebration, with the Upswing Cycle berries to permit his release. The Mike Hunter, program careless Speaking in general terms. director. indifference given per- Taking a closer look at specific buyers were invited to submit and Morton Marshall noted such nations as the Downey Jr., both of formances by Lily Pons and foreign countries. Marshall noted guesses as to what time Hover KEt P. El Paso, Tex., broke Dorothy Shay, and Fred War- Soviet Union. India, Indonesia and several that almost all are currently on an would he released. and the winner standing records when they ing, among others, at the last even Red China as fantastically big staged upswing cycle. "Canada," he said. versed of a howling Republican potential markets. "The latter three all her grocery pur- marathon last month. inaugural celebra- parallels our own market closely. ger for that day free. Hover's Hunter bowled 115 straight tion for Eisenhower. At that nations alone contain over a billion games There is virtually no r,&b. there +nos comment. "1 feel like I Was with a 120 over -all average in a time. the trilling audience people. Think how many records that and no jazz, but the Dominion is Bran- buried." little more than 31 hours on non- largely had its back to the many people could buy in a year. a definite country and western fac- The cage- sitter was Stowe. stop bowling; while Doss ncy stage, and talked straight thru given the right economic con- Jerry tor. Otherwise, Canada is a straight bowled 1(17 games. the performances. ditions. Es'en today, American rec- KTlT, Tucson, Ariz, who lived i, to 7 per cent ords are being smuggled- into Red rri:arl:el. r.ltteru"l and broadcast from a cage outside Many jocks undoubtedly' secretly. Matthew H. McCloskey, China via Japan and on the United States. the studio until his Emu bird re- gloated over KAI.L's "Broken Leg" treasurer of the Democratic Shanghai. "In There are 2212 million England," he declared, "they turned. (,immick was that Stowe contest. which put the cast National Committee, estimates Russians on the starving jazz. have had a good year. You must the cage the on the basis of a flood of ad- for American Record kept warm until Emu listener's foot for a change. The remember that it's largely a monop- was found. vance inquiries, that the huge people may well look far beyond local merchants got first person breaking his leg on the oly type of market, but business is armoy will be filled to capac- the markets we think of tradi- In the act by donating heaters to local slopes was awarded (by still up over last year. They will keep the cage ity for the show. Traditionally, tionally as foreign. 'f he business warm, a radar set KALL) a wheel chair, crutches. will buy American hits, but they are to help especially in the Roosevelt someday be a lot more than look for the bird, etc. Dial- cane, knitting needles and the lat- very selective as to artists. You ers were and Truman era, performers just England and \Vectern Europe." urged to donate food est -TV Guide' have to work very hard there to items. which and the arts hase Exchange Good were later presented Glamour was added to a stunt performing establish an American artist he- local found more and Marshall explained that one im- to the Community Chest. staged last month by dccjays at enthusiasm cause of their growing spirit of na- f. In support from the Democrats, portant aspect of the growing over- the field of athletics. the en- KT W B. Hollywood. The jocks par- tionalism. They sell much classical tire deejay staff of KQV. Pitts- than from the GOP adminis- seas market in the increasingly ticipated in a trotters race at the and little modern jars. But it's a burgh, is trations. + healthy state of currencies abroad. helping raise funds for on page 1-It Three years ago it was difficult to (Continued Claims Jocks NEWS OF Charts to Get Live Easy Life THE WEEK Global Flavor 1s I NOR).. -DA jockeys may Sinatra to Debut Own Classical Sales at NEW YORK - As the oser,eas hcty. :se. hut according to a . NF' Label In February Peak in 19611 . market for Americo record prod- ! I :ihr Relations Board Frank Sinatra will release the first two albums, uct expands, a concurrent devel- has re records origin, ,sack. a dctjay's techni- one by Samna' Danis and the other by Sinatra Classical are enjoying their hest year opment can be expected to mani- .1re easily learned and himself, on his own as yet unnamed label in in sales via record dealers, according to a fest itself, sources (lye 1 according to tedinic:d survey by The Billboard Ion cduca- mid -February. t'at;r - Market Research (fi- here.' As the channels are opened Att vision.