,,..... man 4/Y\m.\ out rrw:,\ r wu HUM CaehBox CashBox France Urn \I Z=iin eMUMi `siir Great Britain WWI/ \\vm Tiffuawm roni The Rolling Stones will produce and star in a major TV program to be 2 months before its opening, MIDEM 1969 is beating all records. To date, called "The Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Show" which will be distributed on a about 30 offices are left in the Hotel Martinez. 2,500 participants are already global basis. It is the group's first small -screen spectacular and filming will attending MIDEM. This number represents 2/3's of last year's participation. be Michael Lindsay -Hogg who was connected with the now defunct independent MIDEM expects an increase of 25 to 30%, i.e. 4,000 to 4,500 participants. At TV series "Ready Steady Go" and also directed the Stones in their "Jumping this moment, delegates from the technical department are in Cannes studying Jack Flash" TV movie. Already booked as guests are Traffic, American blues the best way to adapt the Martinez to the expected rush. The participants singer -guitarist Taj Mahal and Indian swamp music specialist Dr. John. The will discover with the greatest pleasure that Bernard Chevry has organized long delayed "Beggar's Banquet" LP by the Rolling Stones was finally re- in the Martinez a very important and up-to-date telephone installation. An leased November 22nd by Decca with revised artwork. exchange located at each level will enable the MIDEM participants to obtain Latest Board of Trade figures just released show that total sales of gramo- without any delay long distance and local calls. phone records in August at £2,083,000 were 5 per cent higher than in August, Bernard de Bosson, International Label Manager of the Compagnie Phono- 1967. Exports at £329,000 accounted for 16 per cent of total sales and were graphique Française, fights victoriously to impose in France the labels repre- 39 per cent higher than a year ago. Home sales remained virtually unchanged. sented by Barclay and CED. He gave us his last achievements. Total production of records was 14 per cent higher than in August, 1967, due Barclay: being released under the Buddah label are "Shake" and "From almost entirely to a 39 per cent rise in production of 33s rd r.p.m. records. Way Out To Way Under" by the Shadows Of Knight, the 1910 Fruitgum Co.'s. For the eight months ended August, 1968, production, total sales and exports "Goody Goody Gumdrops" and "Candy Kisses" and "Quick Joey Small" ("Run were all considerably higher than in the corresponding period of 1967. Joey Run") with "Poor Old Mr. Jensen" featuring the Kasnetz-Katz Singing Vic Lewis, News Managing Director, has signed 18 year old Czech singer Orchestral Circus. CED: to make Paul Robeson fans happy, two of his greatest Vera Maria for launching in the Western world. Lewis hopes this will mark numbers ("Old Man River" and "Deep River") are coming out under Van- the beginning of a two-way East-West talent exchange following recent talks guard. In the rock revival series, there is a Chuck Berry single with the titles in Prague. He is budgeting £25,000 to launch Vera Maria internationally, and "Rip It Up" and "No Money Down" on Chess, and on Chess "I Can Tell" and a date in the forthcoming Andy Williams color TV spectacular is already "Bo's Blues" featuring Bo Diddley. fixed. A Vic Lewis -Don Black composition for recording on the Nems label Philips gave a party to celebrate the launching of a new dance titled Casat- is planned. chock which is a dance inspired by the Cossack folk dance. Various records with this rhythm will be cut and, in particular, one new single by) Sheila. Ember Records chief Jeff Kruger has signed a long-term deal with the One year after the problems they had with the adaptation of the Aranjuez French AZ label under which the two organizations will exchange recorded concerto titled "Aranjuez mon amour," Richard Anthony and the author Guy talent. Kruger anticipates a first year sale of 50,000 Ember LPs in France Bontempelli encounter new difficulties with the adaptation of "Mac Arthur as a result of the pact and will make AZ artists available here on Ember Park." Gerard Tournier had promised an exclusive adaptation to the author beginning with Maria Vincent. The deal was concluded in conjunction with the Pierre Delanoe for the cutting of a record by Riviera's artist Nicoletta International Division of EMI. Delanoë being away, one of his substitutes-who had been unaware of the BBC Radio Enterprises and BBC TV Enterprises have now been combined agreement-gave Richard Anthony the authorization to have the lyrics adapted to form BBC Radio and TV Enterprises, and Dennis Scuse has been named by Guy Bontempelli (who titled the song "Séverine") and Richard Anthony General Manager in succession to Radio Enterprises chief Rooney Pelletier who registered the record under Columbia's label. shortly retires. New company plans regular LP releases distributed through Jacqueline Polloni, from Festival Records, informs us that a new collection the wholesale house of Lugtons. will soon be released under this label with music originating from Argentina, Jethro Tull's manager Terry Ellis is fixing American release of the group's Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Austria, etc. This collection will be initiated with Island LP "This Was" to coincide with their tour in the States beginning Pierre Marcel Ondher's co-operation. Festival Records imports exclusively in January 31st at Fillimore East, New York, and taking in Los Angeles, Boston, France the collection Boom which has met enormous success in Italy. This Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and campus dates. collection deals only with children's tales. A small rubber gadget representing Liberty has an underground blues month on LP in December. The label the hero of the tale is sold with the record. releases December 6th "Strictly Personal" by Captain Beefheart and his Kenyan singer Roger Whittaker is coming to Paris in December when he Magic Band and the Canned Heat double album "Livin' The Blues." At the will appear in a show. Whittaker, who was one of 1968 MIDEM's revelations, same time Liberty issues local product by the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation- has twice entered the French Top Ten with "If I Were A Rich Man" and "Dr. Dunbar's Prescription"-and two albums in the Groundhog series "Mexican Whistler." "Scratching The Surface" by the Groundhogs and "Me and the Devil," an Under his own label Disques Temporel, Guy Béart just released his second album dedicated to old French songs titled "V'là le joli vent," and its success anthology of British blues by various artists. The two albums will be issued new in the States to coincide with Groundhog Day on February 2nd, and a Joe appears to be great. Anne Sylvestre has left Philips to join the young Williams blues LP recorded in London will also get American release at that company Disques Meys. Gerard Meys, who is the manager of this independent time. production, at the same time directs Editions Alleluia. He has obtained the songs of Jean Ferrat and of Mikis Theodorakis under exclusive contract, which RCA is planning a country and western month for February with special is a success for his firm. promotion and publicity on a batch of LPs in that idiom including album by British country group the Hillsiders. RCA hope to bring in Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Jerry Reed and other American country stars as part of the campaign. Frances Best Sellers Pye a & r manager John Schroeder delighted with the success of the Status Quo who were recently presented with a Gold Disk for over one million sales This Last of "Pictures Of Matchstick Men." Their follow-up "Ice In The Sun" did very Week Week well, and the next single scheduled for American release on Chess is a track 1 3 Hey Jude (The Beatles) Odeon; Northern -Tournier taken from their "Technicolor Dreams" album. No new UK single will be 2 9 Les Baisers (Pierre Perret) Vogue; Vogue International issued until after Christmas. New groups under the Schroder banner include 3 7 Le Temps Des Fleurs (Dalida) Barclay; Esssx Shaky Vic, a blues band, who debut with "Hey Little Woman You're So Sweet" 4 4 Monia (Peter Holm) Riviera -CED; Vogue International and a Welsh group, Man, who make their bow with "Gentle Influence." Follow- 5 - Monsieur le Business Man (Claude François) Flèche; Sunny Music ing the success of Sounds Orchestral, Schroeder has just recorded the West- 6 2 Plus Long Sera L'Hiver (Sheila) Carrère; Carrère minister String Band with an album entitled "A Touch Of Velvet And A Sting 7 - Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (Mireille Mathieu) Barclay Of Brass." 8 - La Maritza (Sylvie Vartan) RCA Victor Scottish group My Dear Watson has just signed a three-year recording 9 - Que Calor La Vida (Marie Laforêt) Festival contract with White Whale Records, New York. Their first Stateside release 10 - Cours Plus Vite Charlie (Johnny Hallyday) Philips early in the New Yerk will be their current U.K. Parlophone disk "Stop, Stop, 11 11 On The Road Again (Canned Heat) Liberty; United Artists There'll I Be" published by Feldmans. Group writers John Stewart and Bill 12 12 On Prend Toujours Un Train Pour Quelquepart (Gilbert Bécaud) Cameron are negotiating with American companies to take their material and Dimension; Rideau Rouge they plan to set up their own publishing company in the U.K. White Whale 13 15 With A Little Help From My Friends (Joe Cocker) EMI; North- currently have a hit in the U.K.