TEC Acquires Levine & Resnick Productions... Schwartz 3ros. Going Public ... Pavilion's 'Oh Happy Day' Stirs 3adio; Buddah Is Distributor... Columbia's Gold Con- ;iders Producers April 19, 1969 apprentice Pro- jram . RCA aggla BOX754 World Rights To Poppy Label ... Kasenetz- Katz SOS Cash Box reeling (Captain) Groovy, TV Cartoon Act .. :M I Forms Record Co. In Japan With Toshiba. ON BUTTERFLY: CAST IN HIT MOLD Intl Section Begins Pg. 49 www.americanradiohistory.com This particular overnight sensation took five years, The Spiral Starecase four months. got together in Sacramento, in January 1964. They worked on their act, and their music. And they worked, and they worked. Then, just last year, they came to Columbia without any fanfare. :kAILL 29 E, They had a lot of original songs. And Chic they claimed they could make hit records. They were right. "41 "MoreTodayThanYesterda 'U0 PA y Ureria their new single, has been snowballing since Milo tel; GER the first day it was released. It's a smash. NALs k¡ Now they've got Rai ROL an album in the wings. PAUL IF.ratJ TheL Bookings around the 1e1: g country. Everything's fPA happening fast. Like any good overnight sensation. On Columbia Records F, www.americanradiohistory.com ///4\ %/i\ ///111M ////\\\\ MUM ///U\\\ MUM 111111\\ /111111\\ THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY VOL. XXX Number 38/April 19, 1969 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 IRV LICHTMAN Editor in Chief EDITORIAL MARV GOODMAN Assoc. Editor DANIEL BOTTSTEIN JOHN KLEIN ALLAN RINDE BOB COHEN EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER, New York BILL STUPER, New York HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood WOODY HARDING Art Director Required Roadwork COIN MACHINE & VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager BEN JONES, Editor CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago LISSA MORROW, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. man who the national man knew so well during CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD The music promo or sales CAMILLE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER is elevated to a national position usu- his stint as a local man may no lon- 29 E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset Blvd. ally leaves behind a long trail of road- ger be around, with a new generation Chicago 2, III. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (312) FI 6-7272 Phone: (213) 465-2129 work, if not one-nighters. His promo- of important contacts in their place. tion to national status may well en- Even if there is little change in an ENGLAND national man should rea- DORRIS LAND gender the feeling that he has paid area, the 3 Cork Street his dues and is entitled to the respite lize that the written word or the tele- London, WI, England of generating action phone contact is merely a good sub- Tel: 01-734-2374 from the grind on a record or song based on ardu- stitute for personal meet -and -greet ITALY CANADA ous contact in the field. In directing contact. Bringing in one's staff to the MARIO PANVINI ROSATI WALT GREALIS a network of local promo and sales home office is a good idea, of course, Galleria Passarella 2 RPM Milan (Italy) 1560 Bayview Ave. forces, he may feel that his primary but what about getting together with Tel: 790990 Toronto 17, Ontario functions are telephone contact and local people on their homeground? Tel: (416) 489-2166 re- national man can get a first- GERMANY various administrative functions The truer MAL SONDOCK ARGENTINA quired to analyze and define field re- hand view of the market when he Josef Raps Strasse 1 MIGUEL SMIRNOFF makes the scene himself and is filled Munich, Germany ports. Rafaela 3978 in by the rep there without the com- Tel: 326410 Buenos Aires home -office procedures are Tel: 69-1538 Such petition of other reps. And it's also a HOLLAND certain to preclude a national man's PAUL ACKET matter of displaying the importance BRAZIL road on a continuous Thereslastraat 59-63 return to the a PEDRO FRAZAO of each and every market when The Hague Yet, in the performance of his DE VASCONCELOS basis. man - Tel: 837703 national takes the time to drop 11, Apt. 13 man exempt Rua Frei Caneca, duties, is the national in. Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil FRANCE road trips? We think Tel: 239.40 18 from occassional CHRISTOPHE The first vocational home for a na- IZARD not. For, as a national man recently 24, Rue Octave Feuillet tional man is, obviously, the home - Paris much of the nitty- XVI Tel: 870-9358 JAPAN pointed out to us, office. He has been situated there to Adv. Mgr. of getting a record or song or SCANDINAVIA SHOICHI KUSANO gritty perform vital tasks, including an in- Mgr. to success still re- SVEN G. WINQUIST Editorial artist on the road volvement in important policy deci- Koggeholmsvagen 48, MORIHIRO NAGATA in the hands of city -by -city con- Higfashi-Olzumi mains sions that can effect the entire scope Stockholm-Enskede, 466 promo man knows, there Sweden, Tel: 59-46 85 Neirimaku tact. As any of a music operation. He must, how- 122 40 Tokyo take place on are many changes that ever, make it his business to take the local music scene. There is a AUSTRALIA BELGIUM distrib some time off away from the home - RON TUDOR JOS BAUDEWIJN high -rate of deejay turnover; office and reacquaint himself from 8 Francis St., Lindestratt 19 and sales personnel are them- Heothmont, Lokeren promo time -to -time with what's happening Victoria for national jobs; Tel: 870-5677 Tel: 09 78 31 76 selves possibilities in the field first hand. Only then and talent show- - new record outlets can he have a meaningful rapport SUBSCRIPTION RATES year anywhere in the U.S.A. ublished $25 per weekly byCash Box, 120 Huyshope Ave., Hartford, cases emerge. with the total national picture for 000. 06106. Second class postage paid at Hartford, Conn. 06105 S.A. The local scene, then, is in con- which he has been given the respon- Copyright op Publishing Co., Inc. All 'phis 1969 by The Cash Box stant flux. And the people and places sibility. reserved. 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