Panel Of Top Music Men: Absorbing The Innova- tions Of The Seventies . Al Abrams Opening Sales Co. To Rep Labels In Chi Product Flow ... A Key To Establish- ing New Acts: Colleges . Key Execs Exit MGM . Holzman To Keynote '70 NARM Confab ... Atlantic /Atco Fall Sales Push Grosses $7 Mil ... More Local BBC Radio LAURA NYRO: PRAISING HER SINGING, SINGING HER PRAISES INT’L SECTION BEGINS ON PAGE 49 THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC-RECORD WEEKLY VOL. XXXI — Number 20/December 13, 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 ALLAN RINDE West Coast Editor JOHN KLEIN BOB COHEN BRUCE HARRIS NORMAN STEINBERG EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER, New York HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood WOODY HARDING Ml '70 : An Art Director DEM COIN MACHINE & VENDING ED ADLUM General Manager ED KELLEHER, Assistant Established "Must' CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago LISA MORROW, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. CHICAGO CAMILLE COMPASIO 29 E. Madison St., Chicago, III. Phone: (312) FI 6-7272 HOLLYWOOD HARVEY GELLER 6430 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. 90028 Phone: (213) 465-2129 ENGLAND DORRIS LAND 3 Cork Street, London, Wl, England Phone: 01-734-2374 NASHVILLE JUANITA JONES 806 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 MIDEM, an established “must” on which is devoted to classical and con- Phone: (615) 244-2898 the music industry calendar, is ready- temporary serious music. This has ing its in Like ITALY HOLLAND 1970 gathering Cannes. been organized in cooperation with MARIO PANVINI ROSATI PAUL ACKET a true "growth company," this Interna- the International Music Council of Galleria Passarella 2 Theresiastraat 59-63 tional Record and Music Publishing UNESCO and will center its intentions Milan (Italy) The Hague Tel: 790990 Tel: 837700 Market has never been content to rest on the promotion of young perform- GERMANY on the laurels of its previous year’s ers and composers. Between the pop CHRISTIAN TOERSLEFF BELGIUM success. 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