* Jf > GEORGE BENSON/ NEW HOME, NEW SUCCESS House Ups Mechanical Royalty To 2 3At; New Language Adopted Nationwide LP Price Roundup 1975 RIAA Sales Report; LP Units Up 6 Mil.; Singles Units Down 20% House Subcommittee Kills » Performance Royalty Amendment Decision In Davis Case Cotillion Success Profiled ABC To Distribute Shelter Lemongello Signs With Private Stock Bar Coding Committee Needed iFd) Getz gets back. Stan Getz was the pioneer Back to Brazil. Stan Getz’s in fusing Brazilian music “The Best of Two Worlds;’ and American jazz. Now featuring Joao Gilberto. in 1976, he’s once again On Columbia Records bringing together great and Tapes.>/ Stan Getz The / Bestof Two Worlds American musicians / including: Brazilian ' and masters to £Prec's°Per n doar/Jus,Z!^ tSt^ create a subtle, sensual musical experience. -TV-;'.”; A Shadowbrook Production, Produced by Stan Getz. •COLUMBIA."®! MARCAS REG. ©1976 CBS INC. 3 4 . THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC-RECORD WEEKLY VOLUME XXXVIII — NUMBER 2 — June 5, 1976 casti box editorial GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Executive Vice President Bar Coding Analysis Committee Needed . Editorial Needed For More Profits DAVID BUDGE Editor In Chief The news that Joyce Records has released its first album with a bar code, GARY COHEN as reported in last week's Cash Box, is welcome news for many retailers and East Coast Editor rack jobbers who do not have sophisticated equipment and inventory New York PHIL DIMAURO management systems. Though the "giants” of the record business can afford ERICRUDOLPH such equipment, and indeed need it for the actual day to day running of their Hollywood JESS LEVITT operations, the smaller retailer and rack jobber should have access to equally STEPHEN FUCHS sophisticated inventory management information. J B CARMICLE JOHN MANKIEWICZ Bar codes, which were unheard of a year ago. are now a way of life in many NICK NICHOLS other industries — groceries, drugs and magazines to name a few And the use D p rr> h HOWARD LOWELL Director of bar codes is spreading, and will continue to spread as electronics and STEVE OSTROW BOB SPEISM AN computerization continue making inroads at the retail and wholesale levels. LARRY CARLAT MARK ALBERT The economics available with full use of bar codes in the record industry is JACKIE WHITE LINDA CAUTHEN almost unbelievable. To some, the idea of instant inventory control, and Art Director knowledge of which of 50,000 titles has sold in their stores that day. borders WOODY HARDING on utopia. Yet it is not only possible to do so. it is already a reality for those who Coin Machine Chicago have invested in their own systems. CAMILLE COMPASIO Manager KAREN SHENK While scanning has run into some roadblocks at the supermarket level, the Circulation actual application is not totally the same for the record industry. The record THERESA TORTOSA Manager business would use the scanned information for inventory control only, and PUBLICATION OFFICES not for the "price lookup” capabilities that supermarkets were counting on. in NEW YORK 1 19 West 57th St . N Y N Y 10019 order to avoid individual unit pricing All a retailer would need is a cassette Phone: 21 2i 586-2640 Cab'e Address - Cash Bo- N Y recorder with a portable scanner, and access to a phone line and a receiving CALIFORNIA 6565 Sunset Bivd iSuite 5201 terminal to which he could transmit his sales information The result 9 Presto 1 A Hollywood. Ca 90028 1 Phone: : 21 464-51 21 daily inventory system with a computer printout indicating what albums sold NASHVILLE JUANITA JONES and in what quantity. BARBARA O DELL to assign, 151 1 SigierSt Nashviie Term 37203 But there are problems: which system to choose, what numbers Phone :615)244-2898 etc. Those problems, however, can be worked out The impetus for the system CHICAGO CAMILLE CAMPASIO must come from retailers and wholesalers who want scanning, just as it came 29 E MadisonSt .Chicago.l: 60602 Phone: 312)346-7272 from the supermarket chains to the grocery manufacturers. The wholesale and WASHINGTON. D C REBECCA MOORE retail communities have the largest stake in bar coding: accordingly, they 2831 28 St NW Washington. D C Phone:(202) 483-5533 should make the most noise for it. ENGLAND - KIM THORNE We call upon NARM and the RIAA to actively pursue the entire issue of 97 Uxbridge Rd , London W 1 2 Phone:01-749-6724 scanning, and to appoint committees to study the issue (There are ARGENTINA - MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Beigrano 3252. Piso 4 B" committees already for practically everything else.) The committee should be Buenos Aires Argentina Phone: 89-6796 made up of retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers, along with CANADA DAVID FARRELL representatives from various companies who can give technical 1 946 Bioor St. W Apt. 1 computer Toronto. Ontario. Canada M6P 3K9 Phone: 416)766-5978 advice Tom Heiman. president of Joyce and the Nehi/Peaches organization, HOLLAND PAULACKET has volunteered his services as chairman. Theresiastraat 59-63, The Hague Phone: 837700 There is no excuse for not pursuing this issue. Cash Box calls upon all ITALY GABRIELE G ABBATE Viaie A. Doria 10, 201 24 Mi ano parties involved to begin discussions. The end result would be better BELGIUM - ETIENNE SMET inventory control, and more profits. Aren't those Postbus 56, B-2700 Sint-Nik aas fewer returns, less overhead Phone: 03) 76-54-39 enough reasons to get some movement? AUSTRALIA PETER SMITH 6 Murillo Crt Doncaster Victoria. 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