RCA Names Jenkins Disk Operations VP, A&R Chief; D’lmperio Is Publishing-Talent Services VP* Kirshner And Saltzman To ^Produce Pics* Tl Buys Pioneer, Forms New Music Corp.** Cramer Elected BMI Prexy ••• Editorial: Trend Against Trends’*** EMI Shifts Execs BOBBY VINTON MEETS ROWE'S NEW MMII PHONO Int’l. Section Begins Pg. 65 smm&m They're not even waiting for the smoke to clear Now here’s Puckett and his troops ready for another charge with their new single. (General Grant would have been proud.) "YxirGirF'c/wTm LosingYou"««» CL 2812/CS 9612 byThe Union Cjsi THE UNION GAP p FEATURING 6ARY PUCKETT featuring Gary Puckett WOMAN, WOMAN It's going to continue what “Woman, Woman” and their first album started. (“Woman, Woman” is now in gold. And their album is already well over 150,000.) ® '•C0lUM8!A,"®MARCASREG. PRINTED IN U.S.A. On COLUMBIA RECORDS® : Vol. XXIX—Number 31/ February 24, 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 ALLAN DALE DANIEL BOTTSTEIN JOHN KLEIN MARV GOODMAN EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA HEDDY ALBERT ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER New York BILL STUPER New York TrendAgainst Trends HARVEY GELLER Hollywood WOODY HARDING Art Director COIN MACHINES & VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager BEN JONES Asst. CAMILLE COMPASIO Chicago LISSA MORROW Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA Mgr. CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD CAMILLE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER 29 E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset Blvd. Chicago 2, 111. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 (Phone: (312) FI 6-7272) (Phone: (213) 465-2129) One of the most difficult things for a new acts played it cool with novel ideas EUROPEAN DIRECTOR tradester to do these days is to peruse that were bottled-up in their minds in NEVILLE MARTEN the charts and discern some sort of deference to “making it first and doing ENGLAND things NEVILLE MARTEN trend, an indication that one can gener- our way later.” Even early product Dorris Land alize as to what particular new sound by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and 9a New 3ond St. London, Wl, England is making it. Of course, for those who the Beach Boys, exciting as they were, Tel: 01-493-2868 “create” on the basis of what’s-happen- relied greatly on easily recognizable rock ITALY SPAIN ing, this can represent a dire threat to patterns. This dynamic trio, of course, MARIO PANVINI ROSATI FEDERICO HALPERN Galleria Passarella 2 Sagasta 23, their well-being in the business. For the soon moved to the forefront of experi- Milan (Italy) Apartado 4025, Tel: 790990 Madrid psuedo-innovator, a lack of trends is a mentation, no doubt opening the way for Tel: 257 0907—224 8600 GERMANY tough act to follow. the current “trend against trends” situ- MAL SONDOCK ARGENTINA ation. Josef Raps Strasse 1 MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Munich, Germany Rafaela 3978, If one reads between the listings, how- Tel: 326410 Buenos Aires, HOLLAND Tel: 69-1538 ever, there is an interesting situation We are not suggesting that courage in PAUL ACKET BRAZIL that could be termed a “trend against experimentation among newcomers au- Thereslastraat 59-63 LUIS DE C. GUEDES The Hague Rua Rego Freitas, trends.” The situation is one in which tomatically qualifies them for success. Tel: 837703 289—3°, andar FRANCE Sao Paulo, SP many of today’s newcomers on the disk This step may, in fact, introduce the im- CHRISTOPHE IZARD MEXICO scene are not allowing idolization of al- pediment to quick success that comes 24, Rue Octave Feuillet, ENRIQUE ORTIZ Paris XVI Tel: 870-9358 Insurgentes Sur 1870 ready-established acts overwhelm their with new ideas that need some getting SCANDINAVIA Mexico 20, D. F„ Tel: 24-65-57 own creativity. They are coming on the used to (and highly repetitive exposure). SVEN G. WINQUIST Kaggeholmsvagen 48, JAPAN scene with their own bag, very often do- Also, of course, experimentation may Stockholm-Enskede, Adv. Mgr.: Sweden, Tel: 59-46 85 SHOICHI KUSANO ing things in a way that reflects experi- simply not have validity or be ahead of AUSTRALIA Editorial Mgr. mentation and a disregard for conven- its time. RON TUDOR MORIHIRO NAGATA 8 Francis St., 466 Higfashi-OIzumi tion, even in rock terms. Heathmont, Victoria Neirimaku, But, by large, today’s rock attrac- Tel: 870-5677 Tokyo and CANADA BELGIUM It is apparent that there is a willing- tions are striking out on their own, put- LORI BRUNER JOS BAUDEWI JN 1560 Bayview Ave. Lindestraat 19 ness on the part of rock fans to accept ting a great deal of time and effort into Suite 107 Lokeren Toronto 17, Canada Tel: 09 78 31 76 innovation right off the bat from new- the process. It is this “trend against comers, a factor that pays tribute to the trends” that seems to deny the charts a SUBSCRIPTION RATES $20 per year anywhere in the U.S.A. Published weekly. Second class postage paid at New York, growing sophistication of the audience sense of direction. Yet, this individu- N. Y. 10001 U.S.A. buyers. This “trend against ality of approach is at the very heart of Copyright © 1968 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. of singles-LP All right reserved. 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