`^~ - EXPQ-F-N '^8122 V__^"" EMMA BEARD INC SONY MUSIC WEST CENTURY PARK 1801 C p0067_606- LOS ANGELES _ NKDRRFrr- www.americanradiohistory.com the GAVIN REPORT PLG AT A GLANCE FEATURING ZEMYA HAMILTON GAVIN TOP 40 3 * -1!! (213/4) GAVIN TOP 40 40 * -38* DAVE SHOLIN CROSSOVER R &R CHR 5 * -2* 134 STATIONS PICK THIS WEEK! MTV VIDEO JUKEBOX WNCI 13 -12 KBEQ 26 -19 Z100 24 -21 KHMX 16 -13 KISN 23 -19 WZOU 30 -24 R &R CHR 12/9 KWOD 1 -1 HOT WBBQ 4 -2 Q105 4 -3 WXKS 18 -25 EAGLE106 24 -22 KKRZ ADD ALREADY ON: KEGL 3 -2 WZOU 3 -2H0T WAPE 5 -3 DAVE H0T97 23 -20 KMEL D -34 KKFR ADD Q102 3 -2 KITS /FM 3 -3H0T Z100 7 -3 SHOLIN POWER102 ADD KTFM ADD B96 ADD KKRZ 2 -1 KPLZ 3 -3HOT WNVZ 6 -4 PERSONAL PICK 4/3/92 KWIN WZOU KKMG KEGL 3 -2H0T KISN 4 -3H0T 0102 3 -2 KPRR 11(fir U2 CLUB LAND C I. US IAN D "ONE" "Set Me Free" GAVIN ALTERNATIVE 23! "...a cool narration...this is a rockin', GAVIN ALTERNATIVE 42*-36* GAVIN ALT SUBCHART #6 talkin', song fortified by intriguing KRZQ KACV WFIT WDET WICB LIVE105 KJQN WHFS GAVIN TOP 40 UP & COMING 29/6 verses and a -slick super chorus" WDST WRAS WFNX KTAO MTV VIDEO JUKEBOX -the GAVIN REPORT 4/17/92 KNNC WNCS KUNV WBRU MTV 120 MINUTES WDRE KJJO KRCK KCRW DAVE SHOLIN PERSONAL PICK ADDS INCLUDE WNEW & KLOL 4/17/92 GAVIN ALBUM: int KWOD 25 KISN ADD KBEQ CHARTBOUND DEBUT 999KH1 0010 THE MEN E CHRIS MARS "Hello Cruel World" (E) "Church Of Logic, Sin & "Popular Creeps" Lu GAVIN A/C DEBUTS IN GAVIN TOP 40 COMING MAY 18! 50 ADDS OUT -OF- THE -BOX UP & COMING 24/7 SHAKESPEARE'S SISTER INCLUDING: KTUX 39-36 WIOG WLAN WZYP KF95 99KH1 #1 NINE CONSECUTIVE B100 KKLD WQLR WRQK KIKX WYCR K103 WAHR KBIG WEEKS IN A ROW KESZ WZNY WKYE IN THE UK!!! SHAKESPEARE'S ROBERT PALMER STAGE DOLL SISTER "Every Kinda People" "Love Don't Bother Me "STAY" www.americanradiohistory.com the GAVIN REPORT GAM pr á GLANCE ..v.,,. MOST ADDED MOST ADDED MOST ADDED WILSON PHILLIPS GLENN JONES PENTHOUSE PLAYER'S CLIQUE You Won't See Me Cry (SBK/ERG) I've Been Searchin' (Nobody Like You) (Atlantic) Explanation Of A Playa (Ruthless/Priority) MICHAEL BOLTON ISLEY BROTHERS featuring RONALD ISLEY BLACK SHEEP Steel Bars (Columbia) Sensitive Lover (Warner Bros.) Strobelite Honey (Mercury) LINEAR GROVER WASHINGTON, JR. & LALAH HATHAWAY GANG STARR T.L.C. (Atlantic) Love Like This (Columbia) Take It Personal (Chrysalis/ERG) RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH RETAIL A TRIBE CALLED QUEST TRUTH INC. RHONDA CLARKE Scenario (Jive) The Very Best Of Me (Interscope) (If Loving You Was Wrong) I Don't... (Tabu /A8M) RADIO GENESIS Hold On My Heart LIONEL RICHIE FU-SCHNICKENS (Atlantic) Do It To Me (Motown) La Schmoove (Jive) ANA MOST ADDED MOST ADDED MOST ADDED MICHAEL BOLTON REBA McENTIRE DELFEAYO MARSALIS Steel Bars (Columbia) The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia (MCA) Pontius Pilate's Decision (Novus /RCA) CHER LORRIE MORGAN BOBBY WATSON When Lovers Become Strangers (Geffen) Something In Red (RCA) Present Tense (Columbia) WILSON PHILLIPS RICKY SKAGGS SHIRLEY HORN w/STRINGS You Won't See Me Cry (SBK/ERG) From The Word Love (Epic) Here's To Life (Verve /PolyGram) RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH ANNIE LENNOX ROSIE FLORES BOBBY WATSON W y (Arista) Blue Highway (HighTone) Present Tense (Columbia) GENESIS REBA McENTIRE TONY WILLIAMS Hold On My Heart The Night The Lights Wen'. The Story 01 Neptune (Atlantic) Out In Geor,ia MCA. (Blue Note) 1 ALTERNATIVi ALBUM ALTERNATIVE MOST ADDED MOST ADDED MOST ADDED KICKY HOLLAND CRACKER THE INDIGO GIRLS (Epic) "Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)" (Virgin) "Galileo" (Epic) LOREENA McKENNITT LYNCH MOB XTC The Visit (Warner Bros.) "Tangled In The Web" (Elektra) Nonsuch (Geffen) BRUCE BECVAR LITTLE VILLAGE WIRE TRAIN Rhythms Of Life (Higher Octave) "Solar Sex Panel" (Reprise) "Stone Me" (MCA) RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH RECORD TO WATCH LOREENA McKENNITT XTC SOCIAL DISTORTION The Visit (Warner Bros.) "The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead" (Geffen) "Cold Feelings" (Epic) tior ár LYLE LOVETT DELBERT McCLINTON Joshua Judges Ruth "Every Time I Roll The Dice" THE SOUP DRAGONS (Curb /MCA) (Curb) Hotwired (BigLife/Mercury) Mur I. /992 /11w GAVIN REPORT www.americanradiohistory.com the GAVIN REPORT BOSLEY ON RATINGS WARFARE BIO BITS -- see page 37 -- see BIOFEEDBACK pas,. 24 his steady growth through virtu- one better suited to the chal- ally every facet of the record busi- lenge of starting up a new label Creative Chaos ness," said Columbia president in this roller coaster environ- Don Ienner. "I can't think of any- ment." A new label Jim Cawley, made its debut whose first project this week. will be the Wail- ARB Diary Editing Computerized Chaos Record- ing Souls' album ings will "oper- All Over the World, The Arbitron system of giv- identifier in a certain daypart ate alongside" set to hit the streets ing credit to a station even on one day, but a pattern has Columbia in June. July is the though its identifier is missing been established making it Records, with projected release has been taken out of human clear the listener has the same the company's date for rock group hands and given to the com- station on in, say, morning first album re- Collision which puter. drive, every day of the ratings leases set for CHAOS will be followed in According to Tom Mocarsky, week. later this spring. August by singer/ Vice President of Communica- The impact of the new sys- Heading up songwriter Brenda tions for the ratings service, the tem on diary review is that the company is label manager Kahn's Epiphany In Brooklyn. rule hasn't been changed, just previously, when a listener Chaos' initial staff will be eight the recording method. omitted giving credit, it was field marketing and promotion "We have changed the system easy to spot by reviewers be- reps. Marketing, sales and pub- only in the sense that we have cause it was written in with a licity areas will be set up at a later automated one specific edit," he special diary- editor's pen. date, according to company offi- is where we Now that the computer takes cials. In the interim, those depart- said. "And that those entries will not be ments will be the responsibility have a blank station identifier, over, of Sony and Columbia. but entries for everything else. as easy to spot. But, Mocarsky Jim Cawley was most recently We have a start time, we have a says, it will still be obvious in senior vice president, marketing stop time, we have an AM /FM the "mechanicals" (actual dia- for EMI Records. Before that stint, band indication and we have a ries) where editing comes in. he was at Arista for 15 years, start- place indication." "Nothing will change," ing in the mailroom and leaving Another instance where the Mocarsky re- iterated. "This as senior vice president, sales and computer will take over, was a system that was easy to distribution. Mocarsky said, is when a lis- automate, which speeds up our "I have known Jim for more tener omits entering a station's productivity. The rule is the than fifteen years and have seen same." continued next page NEWS - Beverly Mire TABLE OF CONTENTS FORMATS COVER STORY FEATURES 8 TOP 40 38 COVER STORY EI DeBarge 24 BIOFEEDBACK by Ron Fell 28 URBAN 13 HEAR & THERE by Sheila Rene 14 RAP 13 P.D. NOTEBOOK by Eric Norberg 19 A/C 31 CLASSIFIEDS by Natalie Duitsman 40 COUNTRY 37 RATINGS & RESEARCH by Rhody Bosley 34 ADULT ALTERNATIVE 32 JAll 46 ALBUM 48 ALTERNATIVE the GAVIN REPORT /May /. /992 www.americanradiohistory.com SMOOTH CONNECTION filreftt + laniegefir RADIO MIX 3:33 Executive Producer: C.R. Anderson Produced & Arranged By: Tony DiMaria Male /female hip -hop duo mixes r &b /dance rhythms with a hearty dose of rap on this radio friendly dance cut. Up- tempo, melodic cut is spiced with extremely high -pitched female vocals and infectious beat. BILLBOARD/ Larry Flick A BIG THANKS To These Stations For Breaking The Ice! CHARTS ADDS EXTRAS WJDY -9 WXVI WUFO WGOK Wf'MX - 14 WJBT WSWN WAQO KJBR - 22 WKGC WOKI WRXB UUUUWQ - 34 WJFX KHRN WPAL WFKX - 40 WIFX KC CO WABD WQIS - 40 WQFX KEEP WFXM KAZI KXZZ KRUS wz OU KANW (LATE NIGHT POWER PLAY) Gemini Records CRP P.O. Box 22004, Denver CO 80222 Published By: KaPenda Music (BMI) 3Eminl (803 753 -0278 Fax (303) 753 -6751 VICE PRES. Odella Anderson www.americanradiohistory.com NEWS the GAVIN REPORT formatted WKYS also took a dive, 5.4 -4.3. Ditto for WHUR, A N a rdy Move although not so drastic a fall: 3.3 -2.9. So where did everybody This week Phil Hardy moved from go? It's not clear, but album the Artist Develop - ment Department at station WWDC pulled up a full RCA, of which he was Director, to the share, hitting 4.0 and classic Promotion Depart- ment, where his title rock WJFKwentup a half -share will be Senior Direc- tor, National Album to 3.0. Newly -religious WAVA Promotion. took the biggest fall, going to 1.9 from 3.8, and Country sta- Hardy, a former vice president at AIM tion WMZQ held steady, mov- Marketing, was also head of promotion at ing to 5.7 from 5.8...In neigh- Megaforce Records.