Norway's Best Sellers This Last Weeks on Wk. Wk. Chart SCANDINAVIA 1 . 2. 7. From A Jack To A King (Ned Miller/Karusell) Palace- Sweden Music 2 . 1. 10. A Summer Holiday (Cliff Richard/Columbia) Musikk- Huset A/S FINLAND 3. 3. 9. Hey Paula (Paul & Paula/Philips) Harald Lyche & Co. 4. The sale of the UN record, “All Star Festival,” is a record in Finland, 6. 3. Blame It On The Bossa Nova (Eydie Gorme/CBS) Not it is learned. The sale passed 10,000 sometime ago, which in Finland would Published be considered a good sales result for a single or an EP. However, the UN 5. 5. 14. Regniga natt (Gratende sky) (Anna-Lena/Metronome) IjP is sold at only half the price for LP’s, mk. 12. (around $3.75) against Manu Music mk. 24.—being the regular price on LP’s. 6 . 8. 4. *Singel og sand (Olkabilanio/Philips) 7. 4. 8. One Broken Oy Finndisc Ab is a new record company, situated at Simonkatu lOB, Heart For Sale (Elvis Presley/ RCA Victor) operated by Rolf Kronqvist and Erik Lindstrom, formerly with Oy R E Belinda (Scandinavia) AB 8 . 10. 2. sa dejlig det skal bli Westerlund Ab (HMV) in Finland. Their label is Safir, and so far they Tenk (Wenche Myhre/Triola) have their first three records on the market. Two more releases are scheduled 9. 9. 3. Rhythm Of The Rain (The Cascades/Warner Bros.) before the summer arrives. Record sales are far from the normal over the Musikk-Huset A/S 10 . 7. 3. Kiss Quick (Elvis summer months, but this year it seems as record sales and summer weather Me Presley/RCA Victor) Belinda (Scan- are not following each other. After the long strike in March, it seems that dinavia) AB *Local Copyright. people have more money than before and some of it is spent on records. However, the record industry in Finland declares that it will take a long time to recover from losses because of the strike. Jazz is coming here, said Henrik von Denffer, head of the record dept, Denmark's Best Sellers at Siemens Siihkb Oy to Cash Box. This type of music is also getting more and more promotion on radio and TV, and it seems that the sale of jazz This Last Weeks on records might be something to count on in Finland for the future. Siemens Feek Week Chart handles such jazz labels as Jazzland, Riverside and Verve, along with Coral, 1. 1. 9. A. Summer Holiday (Cliff Richard/Columbia) Dacapo Deutsche Grammophon, Polydor, Heliodor, United Artists and other labels. Musikforlag “It would be most valuable for us to get in touch with people in the United 2. 2. 8. Hey: Paula (Paul & Paula/Philips) Multitone A/S States who might be able to offer short films and taped interviews with 3. 4. 5. From: A Jack To A King (Ned Miller/Karusell) Palace- jazz people, as well as tapes from jazz club discussions in United States Sweden1 Music ' for our own jazzclubs, this would do a lot to raise our sales figures for 4. 7. 5. Tell Him (Billie Davis/Decca) Robert Mellin (Scan- jazz records,” von Denffer told Cash Box. dinavia)( AB Scandia artist Vieno Kekkonen is getting her own regular TV show next 5. 3. 8. *:Dansevise (Grethe & Jorgen Ingmann/Metronome) autumn, Antti Einio of the publicity dept, at Scandia-Musikki Oy told Mdrks Musikforlag Cash Box. S. Piwovitch of Nor-Disc Oy said that May looks like a very 6. 5. 6. Pepino: —den italienske mus (Pepino, The Italian Mouse) good month as far as record sales are concerned, much better than in other (Raquel Rastenni/Sonet) Stockholms Musikproduktion years. The three companies, Nor-Disc, Scandia and Sonet, have been very 7. 10. 3. Blame It On The Bossa Nova (Eydie Gorme/CBS) No successful this year, he said, and have had as many as eight out of the 20 Publisher records on the best selling charts. The three companies operate from the 8. 6. 12. Ta' med ud & fisk (We Wanna Go Fishin’) (Gitte/HMV) same office and with almost the same personnel. Imudico A/S Osmo Ruuskanen of Musik-Fazer was very happy about CBS in Finland. 9. 8. 6. Han skal i glas og ramme (Skip To My Lou) (Grethe Eydie Gorme with “Blame It On The Bossa Nova” is coming up strong and Klitgaard/Tono Nat “King” Cole/ Capitol) Sweden might soon be the same top seller in Finland as in the other Scandinavian Music countries. Fazers’ has just released the first records with the new dance 10. 4. Casanova Baciami (Petula Clark/Vogue) Multitone A/S Tamoure in Finland, Catarina Valente’s “Java Tamoure” and Wyn Hoop’s “Wini Wini.” Martti Piha, off for biz talks with EMI in Stockholm, told Cash Box Israel's Best Sellers that two local artists, Veikko Tuomi and Lill-Jorgen, have managed to be on the charts for two years with their last two recordings. Tuomi is very This Last Weeks successful with local songs, while Jorgen and his trumpet has a wider inter- Week Week on Chart national market since his recordings finds no language baimiers. He started 1. 1. (6) Hey Paula Paul & Paula. (Phillips) in 1961 with “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” for Columbia, which was on — 2. 2. (6) Chariot—Petula Clark. (Vogue) the charts for more than a year, and in 1962 it was followed by his “Man- 3. 3. (7) Foot Tapper The Shadows. (Columbia) zanilla,” still one of the top sellers in Finland. — 4. 5. (8) Let’s Limbo Some More Chubby Checker. (Parkway) Johan Vikstedt of Oy Discophon Ab (RCA Victor in Finland) said there — 5. 6. (4) Tous Les Garmons Et Les Filles^ Francois Hardy. is many new, so-called Shadows-orchestras blossoming up all over Finland — (Vogue) nowadays. Every record company has one or more such groups, usually 6. 7. (8) If Mary’s There Brian Hyland. (A.B.C. Paramount) quartets or quintets with electric guitars as main instruments, under con- — 7. 9. (4) Losing You Brenda Lee. (Decca/Ivan Mogull) tract, and the latest habit is making ‘modernized’ versions of old Finnish — 8. 11. Sandy Dion. (Laurie/Teen/“Hataklit”) folksongs. Discophon recently made a recording with the well-known band- (5) — — 9. 10. (6) South Street 'The Orlons. (Cameo) leader Rauno Lehtinen, and looking for a name for the group, it decided on 10. 12. He’s So Fine The Chiffons. (Laurie) Rautalanka Oy (Wire, Inc.). (4) — DENMARK 11. 4. (8) Summer Holiday—Cliff Richard. (Columbia) 12. 13. Young Lovers—Paul Paula. (Phillips) The year has been very successful so far, declares Kurt Hviid-Mikkelsen of (4) & (Musicor) SGA (Skandinavisk Gramophon A/S), the Danish EMI company. EMI records 13. 15. (4) Mecca—Gene Pitney. 14. 17. Two Faces Have I Lou Christie. (Roulette) has been on the charts every week, sometimes as many as five out of ten (3) — 15. 16. The Gift Mel Torme. (Atlantic) records on the charts have been EMI products. Top sellers in Denmark are (4) — 16. 19. Broadway—The Drifters. (Atlantic) Britain’s Cliff Richard and The Shadows, both on the Columbia label. (2) On 17. — 55 Days In Peking The Brothers Four. (Columbia) Maria Callas to Copenhagen for concerts on June 9. It will be her first (1) — Scandinavian concerts. 18. 8. (12) Walk Right In—The Rooftop Singers. (Vanguard) Cooke. (R.C.A.) People coming and going: Robert B. Weiss, international director of Warner 19. — (1) Another Saturday Night—Sam 20. 14. (10) Boss Guitar—Duane Eddy. (R.C.A.) Bros. Records flew in from Sweden. Michel Berson of Pathe-Marconi in Paris expected here for biz talks. Anders Holmstedt of EMI-Sweden just leaving after a couple of days of business talks with the Danish company. Along with Holmstedt was Ivan Nordstrom, a & r man of the Swedish com- pany. Gitte, the EMI songstress, back from Germany where she has been recording for Electrola. Jerry Raker and Herb Holmes of Colpix (New A Year Old Association York) expected to Copenhagen during the European round trip. Knud Mdrk of Morks Musikforlag back behind his desk after a business trip around Europe. Pat Boone in Copenhagen on May 2 for a big charity show. After being welcomed by numerous fans at the Kastrup airport, he sang for more than 25,000 enthusiastic Danes, and, according to Knut Mdrk of Morks Musikforlag, who is handling Dot in Denmark, this was among the best promotion his rec- ords could get in Denmark. Morks has just released “Days of Wine and Roses” in Denmark. Knut Mdrk also told Cash Box that during his recent visit to Germany, Italy and Switzerland, among others, he saw the German and Italian publishers of the recent Danish Eurovision Song Festival winner “Dansevise,” and also made a deal with Mr. Sugar in Milan about the Scandinavian distri- bution of the Italian labels Aquario, Derby and Juke Box. Sweden's Best Sellers This Last Weeks on Wk. Wk. Chart 1 . 9. 2. How Do You Do It (Gerry & The Pacemakers /Columbia) Sonora Musikfdrlags AB 2 . 3. 3. Amapola (The Spotnicks/Karusell) No Publisher 3. 2. 6. Greenback Dollar (The Kingston Trio/ Capitol) Palace- Sweden Music 4. 4. 3. Foot Tapper (The Shadows/Columbia) Gehrmans 5. 10 . 2. Cupboard Love (John Leyton/HMV) Musikforlaget Essex 6 . 1 . 6. Blame It On The Bossa Nova (Eydie Gorme/CBS) No Publisher BRUSSELS—When Bobby Weiss, international managing director of Warner presented with a 7. 6. From A Jack To A King (Ned Miller/Karusell) Palace- Brothers Records, was in Brussels recently and he was Sweden Music huge cake by Guy Khavessian, managing director of Vouge-Belgium, who in Belgium.