New Additions To Radio Playlists - Secondary Markets A broad view of the titles many of radio's key Top 40 stations added to their "Playlists" last week. Kansas WLOF-Orlando, Fla. WBAM-Montgomery, Ala. WPOP-Hartford, Conn. KEYN-Wichita, The World-Temptations-Gordy Games-Redeye-Pentagram Heed The Call-Kenny Rogers --Reprise Montego Bay-Bobby Bloom-L&R/MGM Unite Cry Me A River-Joe Cocker-A&M Easy Rider-Iron Butterfly-Atco Time Waits For No One-Friends Of Make It Easy On Yourself-Dionne Warwick- Lucy-Crabby Appleton-Elektra After Midnight-Eric Clapton-Atco Distinction-RCA Scepter Country Road-Merry Clayton-Ode 70 Express Yourself-Watts Band-Warner Bros. Somebody's Been Sleeping -100 Proof- Keep It Together-Paul Davis-Bang Time To Kill-Band-Capitol See Me, Feel Me-Who-Decca Hot Wax Super Bad-James Brown-King LP PICK: Montego Bay-Bobby Bloom-L&R/MGM God Love-Teegarden & Van Winkle- After Midnight-Eric Clapton-Atco Se A Cabo-Santana-Columbia PICK: Just Keep It Up-Otis Blackwell-Epic Westbound I Think I Love You-Partridge Family-Bell LP PICK: Mermaid-Flock--Columbia Do I Love You-Bill Deal & Rhondells- No Matter What-Badfinger-Apple Polydor I Believe In Music-Mac Davis-Columbia WLAV-Grand Rapids, Mich. Easy Rider-Iron Butterfly-Atco Games-Redeye-Pentagram WCRV-Washington, N.J. Unite The World-Temptations-Gordy To The Other Man-Luther Ingram-Koko King Of Rock & Roll-Crow-Ameret And, The Grass-Mark Lindsay-Columbia WSGN-Birmingham, Ala. I'm Not My Brothers Keeper-Flaming Winds Of South Chicago-Garden-Capitol Our House-Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young- WGLI-Babylon, N.Y. Embers-Hot Wax PICK: Tears Of A Clown-Smokey Robinson- Atlantic Heed The Call-Kenny Rogers-Reprise Something In You-Manitoba-RCA Tam la Come On, Say It-Grassroots-Dunhill Stoney End-Barbra Streisand-Columbia The Things Of Life-Andre Kostelanetz- Somebody's Been Sleeping -100 Proof- Cry Me A River-Joe Cocker-A&M Columbia WDRC-Hartford, Conn. Hot Wax I'm Not My Brothers Keeper-Flaming Cry Me A River-Joe Cocker-A&M As Years Go By-Mashmakahn-Epic Embers-Hot Wax A Clown-Smokey Robinson-Tamla This World-Sweet Inspirations-Atlantic Tears Of Pa. Montego Bay-Bobby Bloom-L&R/MGM WKIX-Raleigh, N.C. God Love-Teegarden & Van Winkle- WJET-Erie, Sweetheart-Engelbert Humperdinck-Parrot Heed The Call/A Stranger In My Place- Make It Easy On Yourself-Dionne Warwick- Westbound Lovin' You Baby-White Plains-Deram Kenny Rogers-Reprise Scepter Lucretia MacEvil-BS&T-Columbia Better Think Twice-Poco--Epic No Matter What-Badfinger-Apple As Years Go By-Mashmakahn--Epic Do What You Wanna Do -5 Flights Up-TA I Think I Love You-Partridge Family-Bell Stand By Your Man-Candi Staton-Fame Cry Me A River-Joe Cocker-A&M Jerusalem-Herb Alpert-A&M PICK: Unite The World-Temptations-Gordy Come On, Say It-Grassroots-Dunhill Let Me Back In-Tyrone Davis-Dakar Gone Is Love-Paul Mauriat-Phillips WKLO-Louisville, Ky. WKWK-Wheeling, W.Va. It's A Shame-Spinners-V.I.P. Come With Me-Utopia Pkwy.--U.A. Riki Tiki Tavi-Donovan-Epic Listen Here-Brian Auger-RCA Producer's Profile Animal Zoo-Spirit-Epic I Think I Love You-Partridge Family-Bell Lola-Kinks-Reprise Time Waits For No One-Friends Of As the saying goes, "Old rock and The Distinction-RCA And Grass-Mark Lindsay-Columbia never die, they just become Multitude-Atlantic After Midnight-Eric Clapton-Atco roll stars Woodstock-Assembled record producers." And so it is. Don Amos Moses-Jerry Reed-RCA This World-Sweet Inspirations-Atlantic Elektra staff producer, whose Super Bad-James Brown-King Gallucci, Unite The World-Temptations-Gordy productions now include Time To Kill-Band-Capitol It Must Be Love-Bobby Rydell-RCA Elektra Crabby Appleton and the Stooges, Super Bad-James Brown-King One Light, Two Lights-Satisfactions--Lionel started out as a teen idol. begins years WIRL-Peoria, III. WFEC-Harrisburg, Pa. The story twenty-two in Portland, Oregon where on Lucretia MacEvil-BS&T-Columbia Heed The Call-Kenny Rogers-Reprise ago October 31, Don Gallucci was born. God Love-Teegarden & Van Winkle- Cry Me A River-Joe Cocker-A&M too much about what Westbound Indian Lady-Lou Christi-Buddah Don didn't think be when he grew up, Unite The World-Temptations-Gordy Unite The World-Temptations-Gordy he wanted to but, says Don, "when I was seven I We Got To Get A Woman-Runt-Ampex Day Is Done-Brooklyn Bridge--Buddah heard my friend's brother playing Somebody's Been Sleeping -100 Proof- LP PICK: he called 'the boogie' on Hot Wax Black Magic Woman-Santana-Columbia something the piano and it floored me. I knew right then that I'd just have to learn to play the piano." Don took formal lessons till the time DON GALLUCCI he was nine, but then with one thing and another, he lost interest, until "I realized that music could make on London Records, but the produc- CITIZENS 2000 feet tap all at once. Music tion wasn't up to what we were try- could make all those people happy. So ing to do, and it sounded terrible. at the age of twelve, I started piano But the real trouble with Touch was again, this time on my own, no that we were too far ahead of our Is teachers, just me. The flow had hit me, time. Music is evolutionary, not revolu- Your flow starts, revo- This and when the feeling of and we were being too tionary, you do all kinds of things you didn't lutionary. In music, everything changes plan." each year, but not in a way that it Having kept at the piano for an- shocks anybody. A cat from 1940 other four years, Don joined the Kings- hearing the music of 1970 would be Rick men at the age of sixteen. "I had been shocked. It would be a painful ex- in a few groups around town, and the perience for him." rest of the Kingsmen were all three or Following the break up of Touch, Ely four years older than I was, but that Don worked around a studio musician. didn't matter, because we cut this Vice president of Elektra Records in record called 'Louie, Louie' and six charge of west coast operations, Russ months later, we wound up number Miller, brought Don to Elektra as a one with it, and the album we made staff producer, and Don's first produc- went on to stay on the charts for 153 tion was the single hit, "Go Back" for weeks." Crabby Appleton. Don went on to pro- But Don, who played keyboards and duce the group's first Elektra album did all the arranging for the group, and current single "Lucy." O do one tour with the only got to Don then began production on "Fun Kingsmen on his Christmas vacation. House," the second Elektra album by But he wasn't through with being Iggy and the Stooges. "Producing the L a rock and roll star yet, and he formed Stooges was quite a challenge," says a band called Don and the Goodtimes, Don. "Their music is so essential and who hit in the northwest even before basic. It required a very special ap- cutting their hit Epic single, "I Could proach to capture their excitement on Be So Good To You." a disk." "It's a funny thing what happened Don, now producing a group called to us after that," Don reports. "Every- Wild Turkey for Elektra, feels that thing was going great at first, but producing records is really a matter of T those times weren't really right for simplicity and balance. As he puts it, us. It was 1967, and the San Francisco "In a time when the advances of thing was just starting to happen. electronics enable you to do virtually That sound completely took prece- anything to anything, you have to be I dence over almost every other kind of careful not to get carried away. The music being done at the time. It's answer lies in simplicity. People making good to know that nowadays, a million records often try to overcomplicate different styles can make it all at once things. Music isn't just sound. It's in the same market." also color and perfume. A bad mix O But as pop music began to grow is like a bad mix of colors. It's ugly. more sophisticated under the further Music should not be brown and influence of the Beatles, the Jeffer- muddy." son Airplane and the Doors, Don began Don's hope for the future is to N to feel that he had been playing music make what he calls "graphic music." much less than he was capable of. "We must make music a visual ex- Records "I formed a new group," Don re- perience," he says. "I would like to and Tapes members, "and we called the band create five or ten minutes video seg- RC/1 Touch. It was really HEAVY music. ments to go with the music. I feel Too heavy. I arranged and wrote all that's the direction in which we must the material for the album we made move." 34 Cash Box - October 10, 1970 www.americanradiohistory.com.
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