What The Trade Can Expect At Midem 69 Editorial: The Price Of Doing Business... Paramount Jan. 4, 1969 Label Formed . Bell U ps ’68 Sales 70% iustice Dept. Says ‘No’ To NGC Purchase Of WB/7 Arts . Disney Plan For Kiddie Disks In Latin Markets THE IN VOGUES Int'l Section Begins Pg. 29 If we cant sell you the Brooklyn Bridge... how about the one on 59th Street ? 444728 You’ll find a lot of customers for it. Because it’s Johnny. And because they’re both hits The two most programmed cuts from his current album, ‘‘Those Were the Days.” Better be prepared with his other albums as well. JOHNNY NlttlMS Johnny Mathis ThoseWereThe Days including: Love Is Blue including: You/Light This Guy's In Love With My By theTime I Getto Phoenix Moon River Turn Around Look At Me I Say a Little Prayer/ Walk On By - On Columbia Records! 'Available in 8-track and A-tt'ack stereo tape cartridges and 4-track reel-to-reel stereo tape. >> "COLUMBIA ^MARCASREG PRINTED IN US> 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 rOM McENTEE Assoc. Editor DANIEL BOTTSTEIN JOHN KLEIN MARV GOODMAN ALLAN RINDE EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA The Prite Of ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER N«w York BILL STUPER New York HARVEY GELLER Hollywood Doing Business WOODY HARDING Art Director COIN MACHINES D VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager BOB COHEN CAMILLE COMPASIO Chlcogo LISSA MORROW Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA Mgr. CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD Price change never seems to come go stereo at $4.79 (list price, to be CAMILLE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER ^asy in the record business. By what sure). But, the trade knows that the 29 E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset Blvd. Chicago III. 2. Hollywood, Calif. 9^28 this changeover to all-stereo proved a (Phono: (312) FI 6-7272) (Phone: (213) 465-2129) immutable law of economics does industry operate with some kind of costly burden to many labels—yet ENGLAND self-consciousness when, as a whole or who dared to suggest a price increase, Dorris Lancj even at RCA’s 4% adjustment? 3, Cork St. individually, it decides on an upward London W1 Enoland To illustrate once more the indus- Tel. 01-734-2374 adjustment of the cost of its product? try's self-consciousness in making We have no idea how this all came ITALY CANADA price adjustments, some companies viARlo PANVINI ROSATI WALT GREALIS about, but there would seem to be Galleria Passarello have set higher prices for certain al- 2 RPM rec- Milan (Italy) 1560 Bayview Aye., something sacred about keeping Tel: 790990 bums, such as original cast product. Toronto 17, Ontorio ords at a fixed cost to consumers. Tel: (416) 489-2166 Quite often, this has been accompa- Under this false stability, the record nied by something “extra,” mainly in GERMANY ARGENTINA MAL industry is supposed to be immune to SONDOCK MIGUEL SMIRNOFF the nature of elaborate packaging, Josef Raps Strasse 1 Munich. Germany Rafoelo 3978 the outside world, where the cost of including booklets, photos, posters, Tel; 326410 Buenos .Aires. Tel: 69-1538 doing business—at the pace of spiral- etc. So higher prices are justified by ling inflation is ever on the increase, obvious increases in cost-factors to HOLLAND BRAZIL — PEDRO FA2A0 and increased price scales are a rather set! But, PAUL ACKET DE produce the the consumer Thareslastroot 59 -63 VASCONCELOS The Rua Frei Caneca, 11, ApL 13 ordinary fact of life. should also be aware that the “hid- Hague Sao Paulo, Tel: 837703 S.P., Brazil Tel: 239.40 18 * cost-factors climb, too. Like the These thoughts come to mind as a den” greatly increased income by artists MEXICO result of the pricing an- FRANCE ENRIQUE ORTIZ new schedule CHRISTOPHE from labels, the cost of studio time, IZARD Insurgentes Sur 1870 Records for its 24, Rue Octaye Feulllet, nounced by RCA pop Mexico 20. D. F.. the increase in studio time to produce Paris XVI Tel: 870-9358 Tel: 24-65-57 and Red Seal album lines. The new more entertaining LP’s, labor costs at JAPAN pricing—not affecting singles or the SCANDINAVIA Ady. Mgr.: all levels, etc. SHOICHI KUSANO company’s economy-priced LP's—is SVEN G. WINQUIST It was recently suggested by Clive Koggeholmsvagen 48, Editorial Mgr.: a modest 4%, bringing the list prices Sfockhtolm-Enskede, MORIHIRO NAGATA Davis, president of CBS Records, that Sweden. Tel: 59-46 85 466 Higfashi-OIzumi of the product involved to the point 122 40 Neirimoku. the industry charge for its product on Tokyo where they were three years ago when the basis of what the traffic will bear. the industry on to AUSTRALIA BELGIUM passed consumers Like Broadway, night-clubs and con- RON TUDOR JOS BAUDEWIJN the savings that came with the re- cert arenas that engage super-stars. 8 Francis Ct.. Llndestraot 19 Heothmont, Victorio Lokeren moval of the excise tax. This is fair in our view. Tel: 870 5677 Tel 09 78 31 76 Cynics might point to the death of It is also fair that the business make the mono record as essentially a price general adjustments when the eco- D RATES $25 per year anywhere in the U.S.A. postage paid at New York. N. Y. increase, since consumers could no nomics of doing business can no long- I '0001 U.S.A. ond odditionol entry office. longer buy a mono disk at $3.79 (list er accept the price status-quo. 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A 12/21 2/28 1 1 HEARD IT THRU THE STAND BY YOUR MAN CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' S GRAPEVINE Tammy Wynette-Epic 10398 44 54 Bobby Womack-Minit 32055 72 83 Marvin Gaye-Tamla 54176 1 1 34 SCARBOROUGH FAIR SHE'S A LADY WICHITA LINEMAN Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66-A&M 986 24 19 John Sebostian-Koma Sutra 254 70 80 • Glen Campbell-Copitol 2302 3 5 HEY JUDE YOU SHOWED ME # Turtles-White 292 78 — 3 STORMY Wilson Pickett-Atlantic 2591 46 61 Whale Classics IV-Imperial 66328 2 3 36 MY FAVORITE THINGS SWEET CREAM LADIES, Alpert-A&M 1 LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME Herb 1001 42 59 FORWARD MARCH # — Bobby Vinton-Epic 10397 5 2 37 MAGIC CARPET RIDE Box Tops-Mola 12035 86 I'M GONNA MAKE YOU Steppenwolf-Dunhill 4161 25 23 DOES ANDBODY KNOW • LOVE ME 38 HEY JUDE I'M HERE Diana Ross & Supremes & Temptations-Motown 1137 9 13 Beatles-Apple 2276 27 25 Dells-Cadet 5631 80 - 6 ABRAHAM, MARTIN & JOHN TOUCH ME CAN I CHANGE MY MIND • Doors-Elektra 45646 53 Tyrone Dovis-Dakar 602 82 — Dion-Laurie 3464 4 2 7 LOVE CHILD 40 1 CAN'T TURN YOU LOOSE 73 I PUT A SPELL ON YOU Bros. 41 Diana Ross & Supremes-Motown 1 135 6 ( Chambers -Columbia 44679 39 Creedence Clearwater Revival-Fantasy 617 65 74 • CLOUD NINE 41 THOSE WERE THE DAYS 74 MALINDA Temptations-Gordy 7081 10 10 Mary Hopkin-Apple 1801 31 26 Bobby Taylor-Gordy 7079 67 75 9 FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE READY OR NOT HERE 1 COME 75 IF I HAD TIME Stevie 54174 • Delfonics-Philly Groove 154 52 63 Nick De Caro-A&M 1000 81 89 Wonder-Tamla 7 4 10 CINNAMON 43 BABY LET'S WAIT 76 TRAGEDY Derek Bang 558 11 14 Royal Guardsmen-Laurie 3461 47 57 Brian Hyland-Dot 17176 77 86 • SOULFUL STRUT CALIFORNIA SOUL CONDITION RED Young-Holt Unlimited-Brunswick • 5th Dimension-Soul City 770 56 Goodees-Hip 8005 88 95 55391 15 22 GOING UP THE COUNTRY 45 THE GIRL MOST LIKELY BABY, BABY, DON'T CRY — ~ • Canned Heat- Liberty 56077 17 Jeannie C. 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