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A &M Joins New RCA Distribution U.S. Retailers' if

$7.98 Tag Dips By JOHN SIPPE I

1 (IS ANGELES-Despite s, It spiral- _ Inflatunan txcd of doing business. l 5

rctaders hasn dropped their ho pmt un 98 tape) and LPs P. to 5', while 5S 9S lut

.r,.dncl is up only 15. Tlany chain homes report the, hase held

.bask , n heftier 5898 LP prone boosts since itch of their present Inventor) on that pote

lost was purchased al a 57.98 wholesale or discount program since superstar album prices were hiked SI talc In 1978.

The drop in 57.98 and the upward spiral un .s 98 follow enterte nadir rs irr he pail three cars in which the increased price packages K in pricing. while the former peak price

.esches downward Advertised 57.98 fil tape pecla Is Je-

ended mou from last sear'. $5 30 an S$ tH o fillolT The other 57.98 retail pace -Jumps

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CRAZE A MIXED BLESSING

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rinsed blessing tu black music Doti, has brought black nosh.

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Note, Bill SpnalsAi. lice president sil Spring Resod. "f he whole Ilf has gone thee entes and as a roua sale. La, nondisei uSh records hase ,huppe) (re.

Using New York rk t e r n ample. because as une induite net put it "N hereto dote is go. mg the Big -Apple ss all get there 11n1:' Ihele ate a rapldle Jwmdbng n11mhu of platy, whore hrasrtlun,si ikh sen he heard

NAIL F TI S rapid rt..: lu the for of the New fins reedit heap appeau. to he thangmg the rate re black radio litre

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Arbitron Ratings: Boston, Cleveland, P. 30, 34

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Exit Is Shock To Indie Ranks

By L la ll.\RRI \tl1 LOS ANGE LEN -A&M'e demon top with

RCA Wr domcsht sloinhunun xar partlalls due tu the "formidable expense' on the part el A &M to outhlish branch operations sl radar to A& M Paoli: in sitter parts of the er,unln'

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tors op s e pinsnt,med Jnrnbuh,nr upr Lewhcte includatr shippmp and mllei:ul

aeeotalle rctcirahlcwuulJ ". .1t lnhiie the Jcscl 5 poem and mart.eting of talent'.

Indic distributor rmelions story on pager 3.

fel.Aand AAM and Associated Labelsl]tlh Century. Salsoul. &c1c1. Ruaeshow. (iront. W mdsrsng. T, rrunse,Ss dare Pahlo.Free Flight lis a new distrih mrpanloahon within RCA that incorporates the 18 branches as el Feb. 15.

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General News

-CBS-TV Says Suit Ìs To Get Better Deal'- WASIIIN(.IO-A1t&r some hcamting and fuming, it ils at.

turnes Alan Hniska agreed with U.S. Supreme Churl .Iustice Bv- in 1Vhile Monda) (151 that the point of the CBS [vies Non soil

against AS('AP :und BAI' is simply "lu gela better deal mu of hem"

The admission was drawn out of Hrusku during oral aigu. nests lwfure the High Court. All' 'h this nut) he a seemingly simple % Ut(% . the vue, ncvartheless, is p.tcntialI precedent setting.

The case, Ishiclr ins oho. blanket licensing of music uses on It, could hase far -reaching effects on Tong standing musk induslr) practices.

The Supreme (burl is tu decide whether blanket licensing of network fetes ision is a form of illegal price fixing and whether xtiCAP and HMI misused copyrights in u poly market.

The MAI argument before the High Court ana) well hair cor the stage for the conclusion of this long and cnmplirated litiga-

Il) WAN CALLAHAN

sirui "Mich lwean nine n eornOahu h) (1)S Dec. 11, 1%9 in Manhattan Inters' churi. When the netnork lost that suit. an appeal was taken lu 1ht t Court of Appeals for the Second ( izeoil. which rescrsnl and held Thal nfering nitly blanket li- (cmcs without a peruse op nas price fixing In violation of the Sherman and (1 t)ton Acts.

Patch side in me case was 011.11e4 4S minutes Monday, will !hose appc:thim the pram. sdecision speaking first. AS('AP and HMI disidcd (heir time nigh a retnescnlaltte of the Justice Dept.

AS('AP Iansel. .1111 Iupkis turd In nine justices that CBS could switch from blanket to per -program licensing "al any Mile" and That the network had a unti tsr of options atailable to insure a fair deal.

Illuslralite of these, he claimed. were 11re choice of per-program or blanket licenses, the right ill deal direct') wills indirid- wal copyright miners and the abiliti to appeal ASCAP- calcu- laged rues to a federal cunt.

l +pkis clrinnd the t cast of f'HS was'haud on conjec- ture and speculation."

Representing HMI. Antalya Keane emphasized that "CBS has never attempted to gel a direct license from cupyrigltt owners," which prompted Justice Lewis Powell to ask whether other user. of nm%ic ever sought direct licensing. While BAH knew "of no incident of a Icletitton network doing set :' two caws where direct licensing was sought were discussed.

One uas the 3M "700" taped background music system which had that e pani attempt to ohlain licenses directly from the 35 publishers of the music it wished In use. It could tmly get 27 to agar and thus had to abandon the idea and go to licensing from ASC'AP and BM'.

The second example concerned Warner Bros. Music's ill -fated attempt in the 1930s to bypass ASC'AP and license its music directly. The plan failed when Ile radio stations refused to deal with the publisher. cnna tie i lilt MO 34r

Independent Distribs Stand At Crossroads

By IRx LICHl tlAN NEW YORK -independent distributions oft -told tale iii e -the contin-

uing loss of key label Imes -is underscored by A &M's defection. A&M's jump to RCA means a substantial portion of its 5100 million a year business is being siphoned off this wholesaling area of the industry.

Among the remaining high volume independent labels still within the independent distribution network are Motown, ABC. Arista. Fantasy. Chrysalis. II( and London.

ABC seems most likeh to enter a

branch distribution whip. since it's known that discussions are being held between ABC and Polygram Distribution Inc.

At Motown. Arista. Chrysalis and London. executives at the top rung declare intentions to continue their associations with current distributors.

In a public declaration. Michael Roshkind. recently named vice chairman and chief operating 0111-

Midwest Blizzard Shuts In Patrons

And Ices S Flow Hs ALAN PLNCHANSK'i

CHICAGO- The blizzard of '79 is not only placing physical stress on the roofs of homes and businesses with its tons of snow. but the finances of small retailers and whole- salers also are being drained.

The immobilization of the populace has caused millions in sales to be lost and some retailers report dif- ficulties meeting financial obliga- tions due to cash shortages.

A survey of branch distribution credit managers reveals that financial pressures have risen with the winter not even half over. Dealers' cash headaches are being exacer- bated by the seasonal slump in strong releases, big outstanding debts coming due from fall programs. the slowdown of returns processing due to shipping dead- locks and clogged mails.

Industry finance executives nonetheless express confidence that retailers' financial footing is solid and few see any permanent disruptions here.

Well have to-make certain ad- justments as we try to work with an account.' explains Carl Schnock. one of two CBS credit managers working the Midwest. "There's no doubt about it. we have been getting calls and will be having problems."

r reports Schnock, at his Indiana office.

(Continued on page 14)

per of Motown, states, We want to

put to rest once and for all the repeti- tive but totally inaccurate rumors that we were either sold,on the verge of being sold, or that our product will henceforth be distributed by some other major corporation.'

independent distribution itself has responded in recent years to changing manufacturer alignments and marketing patterns with restruc- taring of their own.

Some have established vertical operations to include one -stop divisions and. more importantly. stronger independent entities. have entered the retail picture. such as

Schwartz Bros. Marmon. Hutt, Pickwick (Music Lind) and Best & Gold (Record Theatrel.

Others have augmented their op. erations via expansion over a wider geographic base.

Yet. these directions do not touch on independent distribution's basic services to its remaining label lines. Can they do the job in promotion and marketing?

The few remaining "major" independent labels feel they can remain tall in the marketplace on the basis of promotion and marketing personnel in the field who are hired by. paid by and owe sole allegiance to labels which can afford this in -house field structure.

But. the vast majority of smaller labels still depend on distributorinr bated efforts in promotion and mar. kiting.

(C'nnrimrrd on page 931

BLUES TIME -Pablo Cruise is joined onstage in Boston by John Belushi in a

version of 'Jailhouse Rock." That's Pablo's David Jenkins on the left at the WRKO -AM sponsored gig.

Court impounds Vidcassette Of Stones H).foHN SIPPP-1.

LOS ANGLLES- federal Dis- trict Court Judge Lawrence T. Lydick here has issued a writ of seizure impounding masters and copies of the videotape cassette entitled "The Rolling Stones In Concert," al- legedly held by defendants Media -

Home Entertainment Inc.. Studio Film Exchange, Studio Film & Tape. Charles Band, Joe Mazzini, Carole Dean. John B. Miller and Joy Sures.

The secure order results from the fret known litigation filed by a music publisher against a videocassette manufacturer defendant charging infringement of cops right

Ahkco Music. New fork. has filed suit against the local tirons and individuals involved therein. charging defendants reproduced sis copyrighted songs without license or con- sent tin the Stones' sidetlsassette

The compositions :tee Midnight Rambler.'. "I'm Free. eipin' Jack Flash," "Honks b nk Woman." "Love In Vain.' S-.nnpa- thy For The Devil" and "S.wsfac- tion.' according to an afiiJ,,sit of Joe( Sdser. vice president of the plaintiff publisher.

tiled with the court is 60- minute videocassette on which is printed the nord. "mcda." along with credits.

Judge Lydick has ordered the defendants to appear Friday 119) to show why they should not he en- joined.

On Nov. 12. a full -page ad was run in the "Calendar" section of The Los Angeles Times offering for sale videocassettes featuring Jimi Hen- drix. Blood. Sweat & Tears. Stevie Wonder. John Lennon, Volunteer Jam, Edgar Winters and Three díf-

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First Of New

Superstores Set For N.Y.

By IS IIOROWITZ NI- N' YORK -- Veteran record-

men Jack Grossman and Jesse Setter return to front -line retailing next month when they open the first in a

projected web of record and tape superstores in the metropolitan New York area.

Both principals headed major retail operations in past years. although more recently, through their separate firms. Jack Grossman Cos. and NMC Corp. they have specialized in promotional and surplus wholesaling.

Parent of the new retail enterprise is Music Market Co.. a firm in which both Grossman and NMC have equity.

The initial Music Market store is

slated to open for business the first week in February. says Grossman. Located in East Meadow. L.L. the facility will provide 10.000 square feet of selling space and also house executive and buying offices for the company

Grossman describes the store as an "in- depth. full -inventory" outlet which will stock about 20.000 different titles. Home videocassettes will be carried. The store will be outfitted with video playback equipment to

audition the cassettes as well as to perform promotional tapes supplied by record labels.

Grossman says that an exlensnc inventory of promotional and "low- end price" product will be featured in a separate display tagged "inflation fighters" Record and tape accessories will be stocked in the store, but no hardware at this time.

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$10 Mil Funds Infusion To InterMagnetics By Swire By ELIOT TIEGEL

LOS ANGELES- InterMagnetie, is being given a áI0 million infusion of line of credit funds by John Swire & Sons, a $3 -$4 billion a year U.K. - based conglomerate.

The money, to be dispensed over a

three -year period, will build a 50.50 joint venture company, Swire Inter - Magnetics. designed to market blank audio tapes around the world

The new company. planning ei-

ther a March i or April i launch in North America. marks the first time 200 -year -old Swire has entered the consumer products field.

Previously, it was in airlines. ho. lets and bottling in the Far East The marriage of this giant tympany in Asia. which is relatively unknown in the U.S.. with interMagnetics. a

four -year -old manufacturer of turn- key tape manufacturing plants in a

number of overseas markets. scent well defined marriage.

Swire has the money and international organization while inter - Magnetics has the experience in manufacturing and selling consumer products. with its own brands of blank cassette tapes sold in such

mass merchundisets as Montgomery Swire InterMagnetics will have its

Wards. Thrifty Drug and Fedco. ,ivit salesmen to work in concert $wire InterMagnetics will he with the 18 rep companies already

headquartered in Santa Monica. handling the InterMagnetics brand Calif.. the home of tnlerMagneitcv. lines like Laser (high performance) The new company also plans offices and XL I arid- priced goods). in Canada. Europe and warehouses George Johnson, former Inter - st-ill he in Gardena. Calif.. around Magnetics senior executive vice Toe unto and in the New York area. president for U.S. marketing. shifts

New staffers will be hued to de- over to become president of the new velop promotional campaigns. pack- 'print venture. Hat Jansen is his na- aging and new applications for tional sales manager and Bob Dunn blank tape growth Bel-dually the the sales vice president company plans to market its own The new company is projecting line of blank videotape. (Continued on page 79)

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General News

WB Black Dealer Program Resuming Jan. 30 Philadelphia ist Of 8 -10 Host Cities

By JEAN WILLIAMS LOS ANGELES-Warner Bu»

entering phase two oI' its lad haler program started more than a

year ago. Phase two of the black music

dealer's program begins in Phila- delphia at the Marriott hold Tues - day (30). according to Eddie i sil

math. the label's national '. I,

manager for black music. He points out that Warner Bros. is

gearing up for eight to 10 meetings before the end of the year. On the drawing board are sessions for Washington /Baltimore. Atlanta. Houston and Dallas. with when to come.

Unlike many label /dealer meetings where product is shown, "product presentations arc out at Warner Bros.." sass Gilreath. The accounts know all about our product because we have field people constantly ad- vising them of our releases.

"Warner Bros. rs hying co increase the knowledge and awareness on all levels of selling black music. These meetings are educational for all of us.

Our objective is to determine how o the dealers can better sell our prod-

uct and how we can better serve o them. m For the first time the label is

bringing in outside speakers to talk ta to dealers. Heretofore. the meetings

were limited to in -house present. lions.

Joe Cohen of the National Assn. fs- isi of Record Merchandisers is set to

speak to the dealers. offcnng insight into the function of the organization and what it can do for black music

Qretailers. "There are a lot of programs

planned for these dealers at NARM's convention in Miami March 23.28 and they should know about them." says Gilreath.

Glenda Gracia. executive director of the Black Music Assn. is scheduled to speak on the efforts the organization is putting into black music.

Says Gilreath: Most people know about the organization but few really know its goals. Glenda will tell the dealer, what it can do for them and how they can become a

part of the organization." Calvin Simpson. owner of Simp-

son's One -Stop in Detroit and vice president of the merchandising division of the Black Musc Assn will discuss his role m the organization and the effects of total retail merchandising.

A. Richard Marks. president oI Marketing Options Inc. in Phila- delphia will talk about media advcr- nsing.

" WEA's National Outlook" is the topic to he addressed by Oscar Fields. WEA's vice president, black MUSIC marketing.

Tom Draper. vice president. black music marketing at Warner Bros.. fias chosen the topic. "Industry Pro - jections On The Growth Of Black Music."

There will be heavy branch par -

ncpalion. says Gilreath. Pete Stocke. WEA's branch manager in Mt. Lau- rel. NJ.. servicing Philadelphia. will discuss the function of the branch and the help available to the dealers at the local level

Gilreath points out that an addition to guest speakers. the meetings

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CRAZY CREAM- Brenton Wood performs his latest Cream single. "Let's Get Crazy Together," at an Osko's disco party in LA. for a High School Talent

Search International contest. Wood was a dance judge.

BUT STOCK IS LIMITED

Mainland China LPs Selling On 5th Ave

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NEW 1ORh -ti "Ambush 1 -rom All Sides" and "Welcome Rain In The Banana Grove" are unfamiliar best sellers. it doesn't mean sou're not up em today's hit LPs.

These titles are among the imports from the People's Republic of China picking up in sales at China Books K Periodicals Inc. in New York. a retailer at 125 Fifth Ave.

Thanks to the recent normaliza- tion of relations between the U.S and the People's Republic of China. traffic at the store has greatly increased in recent weeks.

"1 suppose China is no longer such a mystery and the normaliza- tion has created a better climate and a curiosity concerning Chinese music;" says Ruth Micholoff, manager of the store

The Nev. lurk outlet is branch of a company based in San Francisco. with another outlet in Chicago.

The New York store carries about 50 titles. with generally 25 on hand of each title. '-The stock is limited. but as a wholesaler, too. we have immediate access to more product Micholoff explains.

&ah "Ambush From All Sides" and "Welcome Rain In The Banana Grove" feature a variety of folk in struments, mainly reeds and swine,.

Also. the imports include Chinese operas. songs and language recordings.

All are LPs but appear in 7 -inch, 1(I -inch and 12 -inch formats. priced. respectively. at $1.25, $2.50 and S7.98 or $8.98. The 12 -inch recordings are mostly Chinese operas, with two or three LPs per package.

Micholoff notes that (Lillie at the store consists mostly of while Amen.

'Star Trek' Music Nt W YOR,. I.inion. titie.

do isi in of Paramount Phew. lees

..ywred the soundia.1 i,, titi f.irihomung film r 'Star Trek. "a paramuuul prop., t fur release in December 1979 ti..rte is

being completed M iomposet Icon (irldsnttlh whose past credits include "t Iona town." "Papillons' and " I -he Omen "

cans and traveler , although .molar recordings are sold by the store to a

number of locations in Chinatown China Books & Periodicals was

Formed in San Francisco in 1960. lung before U.S. policy towards mainland China changed to its present statu.,. The Chicago branch. opened in 1972. moved to the heart of the Loop in 1977. The New York store opened in 1971.

The recordings bear the name of China Record Compans. marketed through Ciuozi Shudian. the China Publishing Center of Peking Titles. selections and names of instruments are printed in English.

In This Issue CAMPUS 54 CLASSICAL 64 CLASSIFIED MART 80, 81 COUNTRY 68 DISCO 82 INTERNATIONAL 87 JAZZ 62 RADIO 30 SOUL 66 SOUND BUSINESS 56 TALENT 42 TAPE /AUDIO /VIDEO 76

FEATURES Disco Action. 84 Inside Track_ 112 Lifelines 105 Stock Market Quotations 8 Studio Track .... 58 U.S Retail Price Chart 19 Vox lox 38

CHARTS fop LPs. 108. 110 Singles Radio Action Chart 22.26 Album Radio Action Chart 28 ltoxolhce 54 Bubbling Under

Top LPs /Hol 100 38 Jazz LPs 62 1111,01 The World.. 96 Hot Soul Singles 66 Latin LPs 94 Soul LPs 67 Hot Country Singles 72 Hot Country LPs 74 Hot 100 .,. 106 Top 50 Easy listening 62

RECORD REVIEWS Album Reviews 98 Singles Reviews _ ..102 LP Closeup Column _..___...100

Executive Turnloble Record Companies

Ron Douglas, pre) i ouste national diro.stor of sales for Epic. Portrait and As. ..mated labels. becomes s nee president. branch distribution. MCA Distribut- ing Corp . Los Angeles He had also been regional promotion and marketing manager. WeO Coast. far Epic Records... Lou Cook appointed vice president of internanon,it I,.r MCA Records. Los Angeles. He has been an executive

isnh the label since 1972.... Stan Layton, mont recently national sales director for Chissaln Records. named vice president

.1 marketing for MCA Rewords. Layton was with MCA Records for 12 sears as district manager. national field coordinator and vice president of field operations Sam Parsa. manu Jr, who headed his own independent aisance [mg and marketing research company. Cook becomes director of marketing for MCA...

Paul Fishkin. president of Bcarseille Records. Los Angeles. has exited that pont. i.d Hynes, formerly director. sales /artist development. Columbia Record.. 'e.. York. moves up to become vice president. national promotion fur c'olunini., Records. .. Don Wardell, formerly pop product manager for London. Irons RCA Records. New York. as manager, pop merchandising

Sam Cerned named national sales director for Warner Bros. Records country division and will base out of Chicago. He had been Midwest regional promotion manager for Warner country.. ... Stan Monteiro returns to the CBS Records family as vice president marketing. West Coast, Epic/Pimrait/Asso- ctated Labels. At one time he directed national promotion for CBS and in the last two

Hynes tear. has been with United Artists as promotion director as well as holding an executive slot with Cashbox magazine -

Rob Gold. director of marketing for Casablanca Recsords, Los Angeles, and prior to that an assistant to WEA advertising and publicity chief Skid Weiss. leaves that post.... Andre Perry named to the newly created position of director. artist development, black and progressive music. for Arista Records. New

York. He had been Warner Bros. Records' national marketing manager. jazz/progressive music. .. Quincy McCoy named na- n .ryal pop promotion director for Fantasy Prestige / Milestone /Sfax. Berkeley. Calif. He Joined Fantasy in 1978 as national lax promotion director following an I I -year radio career. Paul Politijoins Unlimited Gold

Wardell Records. Los Angeles. as executive s ice pros- Camel' 'dent He comes from Barry White Produc- tions, Inc. where he was liaison with 20th Century -Fox Records.... Nick Al- barano, formerly executive i ice president and general manager of Roadshow Records, assumes the presidency of Hub Records. New York.... Julie LJpsüts, becomes executive vice president for Roadshow Records, New York. She Joined Roadshow in 1977 as vice president and general manager of both the

international and publishing divisions of Roadshow. Shc will continue to oversee these areas.... Larry- Golinski becomes sales manager. CBS Records for the New York market. He was previously director of Mas- terworks sales. And Ginn; Moore takes oser the slot of manager. branch merchandising in the CBS Records Chicago branch She had been singles record coordinator for the Chicago market... Denny Harley becomes

director of sales and promotion for the John Daniels Gasgel series on Tomato Music. Ncw York. He was with Savoy. Gloria Loschen, formerly director of production for Cï'I Records. joins Tomato. New York, in the same capacity

. Larry Tolli appointed Western pop promotion manager for Motown Rec- ords. Los Angeles. Ile was formerly chart analyst for Record W 'rid magazine

and cu- president of Lee -Tollm Productions Also, Manny Clark named Southern regional rAb promotion manager for Motown He Joins aller a 14 year career with WGIY -.AM in Charlotte. N.C. Kenny Ryback. recently handling promotion l'or Aubain Management, appointed national director ut secondary promotion for Jet Records, Lae Angeles. Arnie Smith, national director of disco pnsmution at Casablanca Record A

I in O r't k s. tones Risi i Records, Los Angeles. as director of national disco pre - motion Sian Sutntan, veteran Northwest record executive. joins First American Records. Seattle., is national accounts manager. He had been an executive with AB(' Re.orss C Tape Soles Mary H. Welch becomes sales promotion and puhlnot d"ector for Audio I'debts. Chiaroscuro. First Com- ponent Series and Image Roods, New York Pros usus ai tinning she had done mdepandent puhhetis .iiid Promotion work Christine Williams appointed executive assistent to Warne! Bros s ice president and country music director Andy Wickham in Nash, dle Warren Rossman resigns .i. t ice president of Tomato Records and will ,announce future plans shortly Audrey Strahl he- atmes national pues, ollicet ton Sire Record.. Neu 1 ork. She had been with Rolling Stone magazine Roberts Petersen, ty titi Warner Bros. three scan, named general manager /West t i.,isi,mCr for Warner Bros. Records. Los An- geles Shc had been music es,ilu.ii,.r for the label's afir depanmeni

Music Publishing Al Altman appointed director of professional activities for Rocket Publish-

Douglas

Montetro Perry

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The show- stopping best song from the highly acclaimed movie -musical "The Wiz"

is now a special single release. Michael Jackson's "You Can't Win:'

On Epic Records. Produced by Quincy Jones for Quincy Jones Productions.

Managements Weisner /eeMann and Joe Jackson. 9200 Sunset Boulevard- Penthouse 15, kos Angeles,,

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N.J. DISC -O -MAT Paramus Outlet Web To

Add Paramus Outlet March Its Rtr \1 k\ ht)/ yh

NEW YORK -The lour -store Disco -O -Mat chain, which regularly sells 57.98 LPs al $4.49. the lowest

shelf price in the city, is expanding outside Manhattan with a fifth store

in Paramus. N 1

Label Unemployed Up

I I!'. :ANGELES. With last week distribution pact between A &M and RCA. the record company unemployment lines continue to grow

When 20th Century -Fox gaoled with RCA for dlstnbution, some 30-

40 regional staffers and independents found themselves out of work.

At about the same lime. ABC cut Its home staff ber about 50, comprised of mid-Iesel executive

sitions. And while A &M still is unsure of

the number of rot layoffs. it u be

tweed that a health.. number of the

A &M sales, distribution and recounting stall will also find themselves on the unemployment lines.

A &M Is optimistic that a number of personnel will he integrated into the RCA distribution system, al-

though mi Is std( too early to tsumale just how many will.

Sovine in Exit \l L. em 1.1. S t l u,m I : 1 he Muscle

Shoals Waste Assn as Imm,mga strong board member with Roger Sovine', move from BMI n. the Welk Music Group.

So.ine oaar he will keep his individual niembership mn the am 1-

-itiun but is expected lo relinquish lits hoard post to Dale Bryant or

13M1', Nashville of lite

Opening day for the projected 5,400 square foot store is March 1. It will be housed In a free standing building can Route 4. near a major mall, sass Elliot Mavorah. partner with Ed Bela in the operation.

"A lot of people come here from New Jeemes ro shop." says Mavorah. explaining the move, "but Paramus Is an area, like a little Manhattan. where there are a lot of people coming together

"But as w Ill c6.me hack to the city for our ,morh and ,es enlh stores. We do not intend to es pand all Over the plate and hay, slures an Oskhosh, What o, wart is the hest possible location sac can gel."

Though Mavorah sells to some overseas accounts, his IIrlc lt'm a re-

tail operation. employing about 50 persons in his marchamase, office and stores.

Mavorah claims his chain sells

records cheaper than "anyone in the world,' wtlh not Just new 57.98 LP produce, but also catalog LPs selling al $449 and SB98 LPs selling for 54 49.

Ma.t.rah sass he makes his money through ailunie -ales Th eueh reluctant to Po, out searls figures, he goes an Indication of his volume when he dims to have already sold 20.000 copies of "522nd Street," the Nu. t Billy loci LP, and that is not including it-tracks or cassettes. I doubt dank four stores any -

wherecan sell that mans. 1 wonder If Korseltes. with its 40 shirts, has sold 30.000 unit..

Disc -O -Mal I, hie in cutouts. but Mavorah ,:c , he Is not tur,remied in getting "Thousand, and thousands of one numhcr unlc,s rl', rune areal nunther. Rather sae like to be able to coyer our IOW sl6.rcs G,r .I three- week period until im ,ill,.,ui \'ou dse

Leeis To The Editor. near Sir:

1 echo Dick I. ohm's s,ntintenls in

his Ian I1 letter emJarclinl' the qual- ny (lack rill in the os el all rec,iril nl:ot1 ,.t ,rod als., loin his pal -

titolar .land toncrrnmg \Ic'A. \I, ,norm i/spiriences land Ihre 6.I 111.í11'm

iss,. rI I,11\rnl' IYatnd,l hat. hn %inmil.im Mt :\ all,iini,, 116.1, than ,ins t,mb,l 111.1p 'r I.IhtI. a., t n ,a,lrnlls pl.ml'o,d .aim Ih, ,inn.,, 1111,

"4ìm+r bai'.l,wa1,ndmsmti.. I hi harm I., in11 Iccrnl i'mam1 +Ir ..I

Ihrs n "I ht WI'," an alhmti that Ire

Ifs tart n,trrli mlim;tnmhJ hirlir IhIn aieri:'t till alley 16.111101 I

I mirih,J In6.,s.m1F,oiin , nl is hin I

I,nrnmd Ihn s,mmadn acL wrou ld h, re

leased on Nil A, and nisi ws +art le:u, h :ist been reaII /ea, s,"n s opa,s ens(

three record stoics !ter 1 had Iwo

redit .Imps and a pressing only ,lightly better than the lins.

The lrustr,mtion .done soured rame

on rc,urd buying fn ak, 1)t.in ;i Ross' ballads and other roller recorded passages arc lillcd wish snap, ctaikle .rond pop min, ans ranis somewhat camouflaged mn the other parts of an otherwise +cry well re- "'Hied allsmit

II res6.rd im,mpanics think that problems 01 this mutine and the rc- %sillanl It salir ti6.ri do noI el leil lu- mi, pi msim,tses, Iliti :tie strong 1

h,mat sire nay ,mwn record purchas- ml' tln.p aadre :der mare the p,nl Iwo lets ,done, something I tress lhuughl wv,nld happen

Joseph Slonreal Sen Diego, (uliL

1

not want 4) Nee the same Item e,;ers

single day Basically you get about 400 of a number. or 100 per store, and Il sells out In two weeks," says

Mavorah Dise-O -Mat sells elasstcal records

in two of it stores, at the same rate

Price, as its pop product. And though bussnos as still stow, he says

it is picking up through word of mouth, as customers discover the

low, prices. -A lot of people think Disc -O -Mat

just sells disco, but that is not true We sell all kinds of music. And I

don't care what kind it os, if the LP retails for $7.98, we will sell it for 54.49.

Disc -O -Mat sells $7.98 cassettes

and 8- tracks for 54.99. Mavorah sass that the ratio of tapes sold to LPs'ma

growing. He says he could sell tapes for 5449, and "if the market eruw-s, and of there as pressure for IL we may

do it"

CBS Firms Fest

In Havana With

Cubans March 2 \J.N \URK -A thrre-Jay Cu

ban -American music fentn al is

scheduled for March 2-4 an Havana through the cooperation of the Cu- ban .veuemmenl and CBS Records. It is the first undcrtakme of in kind in 20 ears,

Smite top Columbia Records artists, including Bills Joel. Weather Repico, the CBS Jazz all -Stan and Fama ill -Star, w ill .appear w ith Cu- ban artists in three concert at the 4,8110 -seat Karl Mars Theatre

Cuban artist, scheduled arc Irakerc (who,c LP Columbia o ill release In the l' S nest month(. Orchestra Aragon. Los Papmnos. Ballet Folk - 1 mrsa and ruatanst Lcti, Brower

Other artists may still be added to the lineup CBS Rttirrds well record the dancer!, and Ihc re are plans in

the works for a major 1: S. telesnlon network to 'madotape the shots, INS -TO" has been contacted.

"The. wmll be :1 musaeal esent for Ixrllt Cuba and the t S It has nosh mg to do wl lh pr,lrutl:' soar, Bruce hinds :III. president of the CBS Ru's

tird, 13mm Isl.'. "Rather ri is a lulliirrl esth,oagt h,twsen two iounlrle that li,oe ntuth In cunimon in their music '

II asas I-undvall's trip 10 Cuba last 'meat d,ol opened the dcxars for a cultural and musdc,ll exchange belwcen Owe taro countries C'BS arranged for lrakere to appear al the Newport 1a/i 1 c tisal ;rnd the Monntremis Jan 1 cslmv.al as well as the CBS convention in Los Angeles Iasi July.

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Financial WCI Music & Records Rise 16% Score New Worldwide Revenues High Of $617 Million

NEW YORK -The Warner Com. munications Inc. music and record group set new worldwide revenues records in 1978. rising more than 16% to an estimated $617 million from the 1977 ligure of $532.4 million.

Total revenues have nearly doubled in the last three years for the group. which includes the Warner Bros.. Elektra /Asylum and Atlantic labels; WEA Corp.. the domestic distribution arm. WEA Inter- national and Warner Bros. Music.

With WEA International sales gains of 32.54 to an estimated $ 193

million noted late last year (Bill- board. Dec. 23. 1978). combined domestic revenues and music publishing worldwide thus ho about $424 million. some 107 over the 1977 total of 5385 h million. No detailed breakout is available until the year- end statement and annual report.

Under the leadership of Henry Droz. who took over for the late Joel Freidman. WEA Corp. handled its largest volume of records and tapa in its history in 1978. making a major contribution to the new sales and expected profit records.

And WEA International continued as the fastest growing major international record group worldwide.

Disks Give mNEW YORK -1 he best earnings

in history for RCA Records were m cited as a key factor in parent RCA go. Corp.'s best year in its sox- decade

history. boosted by record fourth quarter sales and profits for the com-

N Party. )- After citing the Hertz Corp. as

á RCA's number one profit contrìb- D ulor due, m part. to the decline of

By STEPHEN TRAIMAN Based on preliminary figures. its

share of overall WCI record and music group revenues is up to 31.39 of the 1978 total compared with only 27.49 the prior year.

Indicative of the strong performance by the three domestic labels and others they distribute are a

record 77 gold and platinum cita- tions by the Recording Industry Assn, of America. The 55 golds include 40 for albums and 15 for singles. The 22 platinums cover 20 for albums and two for singles- Queen's "We Are The Champions" and Chic's "Le Freak."

Platinum artists included For- eigner. approaching five million units. according to WCI, with two gold singles from "Double Vision:" the Rolling Stones. more than four million with "Some Girls:" two for Steve Martin with "Let's Get Small" and "A Wild & Crazy Guy." Jack- son Browne. nearly three million for "Running On Empty." Linda Ron - stadt. with "Living In The U.S.A.' shipping double platinum: Rod Stewart. "Blondes Have More Fun ;" Abba with two, for "Greatest Hits; and "Abba: The Album :" George Benson's third in a row for "Week- end In L.A.." plus Shaun Cassidy. the Doobie Brothers. Funkadelic. Carly Simon. Yes and Joe Walsh

RCA Corp. brnadeasling fortunes. Ldgar (irtl- fiths, RCA president and chief executive officer. emphasized that "RCA Records was another outstanding performer In the consumer elec- trons products and services ment to which it belongs. the strong showing by RCA Records provided the major advance in this area."

Although no figures hate ever

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New artists going platinum with their debut label album, included Van Halen, the Can and the Blues Brother (John Bclustil and Dan Ackroyd), the latter making it curly in 1979. Debut gold releases included Leif Garrett, Chic, Warren Zevon. Trammps and Exile.

Established acts who added gold disks in 1978 included Rose Royce, Fireball, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell. Roberta Flack, Booby's Rubber Band, Ashford & Simpson. Gordon Lightfoot. the Average White Band, Genesis, Harry Chapin. Foghat, Emmylou Harris and Neil Young. while Chaka Khan went gold with her first label release after joining WB last year.

Other accomplishments were noted for the WC1 labels in disco. where tie Rolling Stones' "Miss You" and Chic's "Le Freak" were big disco hits; jazz, with WB getting ECM Records for a distrib agreement, and a special 10 -album set of Keith Jarrett's live concerts released, while E /A's new jazz /fusion department introduced a number of new recordings; country. where Eddie Rabbitt broke through to star status and the soundtrack album from the late -year Clint Eastwood hit "Every Which Way But Loose" which features him on the title track.

Top Year hecn broken out Si o RC .\ Rewrds within the multibillion- dollar consumer electronics group. a recent statement by RCA's Paul Potashner in Fortune acknowledged 1978 label sales of more than S300 million, with a 604 return on investment.

This would be a solid 257 gain over the $400 million sales for the record division estimated for 1977. extrapolated from ligures presented by Grit-NM at the annual meeting last spring.

It was the most attention paid to the label in a year -end report within memory, and reflects. to a degree. the aggressive stance and progress of the division since Bob Summer took over as president last April I. Most recent move is the A &M distribution deal announced last week (see separate story).

For RCA Corp.. the October -De. cember quarter was the 14th succes- sive period of year -to -year profit growth and eighth in a row for record highs. Earnings rose 15% to $75.2 million on a 124 sales boost to $1.85 billion.

In fiscal 1978, the company's sec - und consecutive record year, net income was up 13% to $278.4 million or $3.65 per common share. on a 124 sales advance to $6.65 billion

Profit advances were noted l'or sis of RCA's seven principal business segments, with only broadcasting reporting a pretax profit decline of about 204. This was due to the impact of low audience ratings on television network sala and the Cost of new programming.

Karol Gross Rises `.I W yMK Ili, k.., Karol nl ,h.tin here grussc,j 5h 2 million 1'170, a gain of SI 5 nulhon over

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ords, effective through Jan. 31. is offering accounts six free on 100 and an extra 30 days dating on a selection of recent and new albums on Capitol. UA and EMI America labels. Accounts may order as often as

they wish dunng the program period.

The most recent releases by the following acts are included: Glen Campbell, Anne Murray. Stan. Dr. Hook, Little River Band. Steve Miller, Bob Seger. J. Geils, Three Degrees. Brass Construction, Cindy

Bution, Ronnie Laws. Gerry Raf- ferty, Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle.

New releases in the program include the following artists: Anne Murray. McGuinn. Clark & Hill- man, Marshall Haire, Triumvirate. Be Bop Deluxe, Tavares, Desmond Child & Rouge. Chip Taylor & Kim Carnes. Charlie Rich, Shaiey Bas- ses, Dusty Springfield and the soundtrack albums from "The Inva- sion Of The Body Snatchers" and "Slow Dancer In The Big City."

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5 More Jukebox Suits By ASCAP

11.11 , (IRA :5141 \P has tiled live more suns against jukebox operators for copyright infringement through failure to comply witl the compulsory license provisions of the copyright law.

The Society's first such case, against Paramount Vending of New York, ended in a settlement.

Defendants in the current actions arc North Amencan Interstate Inc of Berkley, Mich., Thiescn Vending Inc. lind Thiesen Music Inc., of C'OMPTON. Calif. Iliv Craig Burnsville, Minn.. DV M Inc_ and Corp.'s earnings for the second kcal Dahlco Music and Vending Co. of quarter which ended Dec. 31. 1978 St. haul, Minn.; Sanford Brown and were 5317.000 compared with Carl Brown, doing business B A B S 1 ,470,000 for the corresponding Music and Mac Inc. of Clesel ind; quarter of 1977 and Gerardo P Marchese doing The second fiscal quarter sales business us Jury Cigarette Vendor, were $27,345. compared with 1977 Expc1O, Pa when sales were S28,612.

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tens results in its histon. However, these are down somewhat from last year's second quarter.

Revenues and earnings for the six months ended Dec. 31, 1978 were at record levels of 519,40300 and $3.270.000, respectively, up 14.57 and 22.14 over the prior years six month results of 516.948,900 and S2,679,000

Revenue. for the three months ended Dec. 31. 1975 were 59.843,000 compared with last year's So.774,700. Earnings were down h 44 from last year's S 1.844,400 to S 1.7_17,2(10.

The company announced an increased quarterly common stock dividend of SO 15 per share, a 257 increase of the poor quanerh d1v1-

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It's triple platinum.

It's been on the charts for 52 consecutive weeks.

It's already produced three smash singles that have sold four million copies.

And now, the FOURTH... "Somewhere In The Night':..

is bulleting straight to the top.

This week, it received a Grammy Nomination for

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Featuring: "Can't Smile Without You :' " Copacabana;' "Even Now" and...

Barry Manilow's Even Now. Featuring the current smash hit

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tUecier(A TV REVIEW

UNICEF `Gift' Has Class, But No Kick

LOS AN(.I I I s A Gift t)t Song -The Mus For UNICEF Concert." beamed from the General Assembly of the United Nations Wednesday (101 was a classy show. but rather dull. It featured 10 top acts performing either live or to prerecorded tracks -and while the). took their turns in an orderls and dignified fashion. the show held relatively few moments of drama or surprise.

It was clearly for a good cause' each artist performed one of his songs and then signed away as copyright in perpetuity to UNICEF. in

observance of the U.N.'s Inter- national Year of the Child.

But there was perhaps a bit too much on- camera talk of the concert as a histonc, momentous event and there was certainly too much of a su- perstructure surrounding the show.

At the top of the show each of the acts was shown performing a few bars of one of their hits. Each then had his own solo spot. signing a

proclamation at song's end. and returning at the end of the nevi artists song to hand over the parchment to him.

There were excellent performances, to be sure: Rod Stewart singing his sly, exuberant "Do Ya Think

C I'm Sexy," for example, or Earth. 'a Wind & Fire doing its masterful O -That's The Way Of The World" mJ latter getting in a bnef plug for its

d current single. "September "). m And the Bee Gees. who were in- en

strumental in organizing this event. en

Shindler Writing CC LOS ANGELES -Merrill Shin-

dler has been appointed staff wnter Z for the syndicated "American Top

40" radio program. Shindler has been added because of the demands put on the show due to its expansion from three to four hours.

shined on their hog hit "1oo sta. h

Heaven," highlighted by lolling and soulful falsetto parts by brother Barn (dish. I he drama of these vocal limos was undercut. ulitortu- natcic. h ecausc the camera work melded iii a peel ,'I till audience instead of liking on Barry.

An all -cast finale of "Put A Little Love Your Heart' was performed as NBC cut in and out of promo spits the home audience saw only intermittent snatches of it. And Donna Summer and Rita Coolidge, an interesting coupling to say the least, performed a brief bit of Carole King's "You've Got A Friend," but only as a bumper to a commercial.

Summer lwho was not in the show's originally announced lineup. while Elton John, who was, did not appear) and Olivia Newton -John took separate turns on two numbers, though neither was exceptional. The reason is simple while both ladies are budding songwnters. their main talent is in interpreting the more dynamic works of their respective pro - ducer/writers. Giorgio Moroderl Pete Bellotte and John Farrar. So they came across as modestly talented performers rather than full - blown superstars.

Km Kristofferson and Coolidge. John Denver. Abba and a blow - dried Andy Gibb also had spots in the show, the latter artist later teaming with Newton -John for an effective duel

David Frost lent his usual style to his role as host, while cohosts Gilda

Fonda were given little to do. besides. presum- ably. attract a tv audience. Henry Winkler, the third cohost, hammed it up singing a song with some kids.

The show was produced by Ken Ehrlich and Marty Pascua. with Pa-

setta also handling directing chores. Frost and Robert Stigwood were executive producers PAUL GREIN

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NARM Course Will Go City To City NEW YORK -A five -dais course

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The newly formed committee met in Chicago Thursday t III to discuss implementing the ambitious project. directed at middle management retailing executives with a cumculum geared to experienced managers as well as the novice.

The course is broken into five areas. starting with an initial session on overall managenal functions that includes employe communication. systematic approaches to problem solving and optimizing time. and de- termining a correct managerial style

The second daily session consents the mathematics of markups. stock turnover and formulas for handling inventory flow. Pricing techniques will also be discussed.

The third days course attempts to define merchandising in terms of analyzing customer demand. react- ing to competition. planning sales. stopping theft. handling returns and developing a markdown policy.

Advertising. promotion and the use of merchandising aids including video displays are among the sub- teas featured on the fourth Jay Community relations and research- ing local markets will also he cov- ered during this session.

The fifth day is concerned wall personnel management, with topics ranging Irunm how to prepare a lob description. conduct an intenicw with a job seeker. rating emph'sc. and teaching them Itow to deal with customers

The NAItM project is headed lis la: ('i'lien, HARM executive vice president and committee chairman. Dr. David Rachman. course mstrrc tor: and David Grossman, NARx1's manager of special projects

The education committee eludes Edward Caber of Men, mu. s,c ('tarp, Chicago, tieollrct l' 11.11

of Middle Tennessee State ni. Man Keller of Music Stop Inc., Madison Heights, Mich.; William Lamben of Pickwick International. Minneapolis: John Marmaduke of Western Merchandisers. Texas. Larry Mundorf of Camelot Music, No. Canton, Ohio; Ronald Schaff of Ron Del Distnbuting, Philadelphia; Russ Solomon of Tower Records. Sacramento. Calif.; and Chris Stew- art of the Record Bar. Durham. N (

Audio /Visual Show Spans Partnership

NI -h\ OR is An audio sosual presentation emphasizing the partnership between manufacturer and merchandiser will be a featured part of the general business session March 26 at the 1979 convention of the National Assn. of Recording Merchandisers in Hullywood, Fla

The audio /visual p,iruun explores successful merchandising efforts tamed out among retailers. rackjob- hers and manufacturers and is an estensten ofa film shown Iasi scar, ut

NARM's serres cil regional mctbngs. where it enjoyed a gxvi reception.

NAR\t'. m.:rehandnrn_ .,+m- mrnee 1. chaired M Startle, R \t.,,. shall. te president of I I, -b t lUm Rctonl S. w Ito .I,e.. ¡. Ili. partners tir theme Ill Ille tilnt pres- rn

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NEW YORK -Roc. a five -member rock band from New York. has `f won a singles contract with Infinity Records after placing first in the fi- nals of the Manhattan Music Play. offs.

The playoffs. sponsored by the of- (ice of Manhattan Borough Presi- dent Andrew Stain. attracted more than 100 amateur local bands since tts inception in September. Prelimi- nary contests were held at various venues around Manhattan b e f o r e I I

finalists were picked to perform before a panel of industry representatives and teenagers at Hunter Col - lege Auditorium Jan. 6.

Placing second in the competition Was Seville. an eight -man vocal group. which woo a showcase appearance at Trax. a West Side dub that caters to the music business. The third place winner. Innervisions, a

fusion band. was awarded a show - case at the new Soho club. MCL.

In addition to its singles contract, Roc won a week's engagement at the Riverboat club. plus a live radio broadcast from the venue on DIR's "King Biscuit Flower Hour.

The Judging panel consisted of artists Art Garfunkel. Paul Stanley of Kiss, Billy and Bobby Alessi. ra-

dio representatives Dennis Water of WYNY -FM, John Ogle of WPM- FM. Bun Brindle of WABC -AM, promoter Ray Aviles. music publisher Susan McCusker of Sumac Music and producers Ron Dante, Fddte Kramer and T Life.

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miliar A" symbol. The longer logo will be used on all corporate advertisements, stationery, promo items and on record labels, which recently underwent a change from pale blue to tour. color. The new design Is the first such change since the label

bowed lour years ago.

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And thanks to over -a -year's worth of hit singles from Eddie's near -platinum debut. and thanks to Eddie's constant concert activity (right now he's in Europe, giving those folks a taste), a lot of fans are gonna make it well worth your wait.

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2 Views Of Àmerican Entertainment' Book Tome Rates Hope's Praise

0) BOB IIOPE

Nineric.a'' Lnteriainmenl," pub original BIIIh,'i d re, 1e s It pot Ished In Billboard and v. mien ht great to cet I,"I ins some of the mol Ji epli and June Bundy Csida. I, M' uondiliil moment, in how bona

tar one of the most entertaining ne.s 111.64 books about show business I've read Them: moment, ate brought out in

nt a lung time From the earliest days a bright, unprctenuiu, style The of the modern American theatre lu narrative isn't 11)1k Jkil with pool. vaudeville to roussies w rekuISrun tu puas opmmns st ..a su:sl}htu,rwarsI rock concerts. it's all here s topa. il Iht sers Inc and urnes of

I'm a guy whci s always un the go. snow husme,s. *uplrsrtei ht ampli For Sean my kids thought 1 u.as.a pa 111uHrauns. re, iris and phut, lot with American Airline. So Ion This eolleuuon of mcnlurses otters glad that -American I :nicnam- a lut ut hm fur esenb ids. whether Gent isn't .1 hook son hase to read in it out sit show business :1 rei sein

from end to end. Who', got the aine" of nos 1929 act. tore instance. brought With this big. beautituf tune. I can hack a flood of memories kir me. just flip through the pages and such as the tact that my first dressing watch my hairline recede Yep. I'm room was a nail. In mans 14 the photos and there are Though ti's often uncomfortable hundreds sil great shots plus the for entenamers to lave in the past.

-American Entertainment" M Jo- seph ('sida and June Bundy published by Billboard Books. 94H

pages. 530.

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,slid .IC411111.1 \auitesitie and ra- itso, to rnenuon Iwo st our (tear de parsed Louse Aye again m these pages

Soon it he breaking ground for the Bob Hope Museum. which will he situated on land I own across the street from NBC in Burbank It will house the memorabilia i've a ttreird over the years. You can he sure that ".American Entertainment" will be among the reference books on the shelves.

To the authors Joseph and June Csida. thanks air the memones -tor rents of theist

'79 Blizzard Freezes Cash Flow Conl.., from ¡..;, .

Some record outlets' prole.hon. are more than baked thus far in

January. The lìirenast. late Iasi week. called fur net another layer of snow and ice to blanket the ells

"I can't make any commitments to pay anyone at this point until I find out where everything is." one doe, suite chain owner complains lin,

¢ days of operation were lost to last

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Credit manaeers. sympathetic to the cash shortages. say they expect to make ;rllu'n inces on returns lama ary return. hisioneally run high, but lesels may soar as dealers begin to son out their ohtseatwns Resaul

closings and tramporl shortages Kane created shipping hacklogs, and supplies will take these problems omu conssdcrauon

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Polygram*, Steyr SeRlne is extended a flexible return policy to help some retailers over the hurdle ihere will bcallowances on return - ing products that couldn't be re- channeled due to the snows, the Midwest credit manager indicates.

SeRine also believes some "roll- overs' of credit "moratoriums" will Ise extended. Ho vesrr, the sass majority of dealers is eapeeted to meet its commitments.

"I don't forecast any long -range diffrculuer because of the weather Accounts from a financial point of view are secure."

Saline has seen no avere dasrup nuns in Cleveland. Detroit and In- dianapolis. with the St. Louis and Kansas its markets also fasur able- he sat,

"Tile siiIi ..alts t se gotten are from people trying to determine whether w'e',e received their checks." he explains.

Dennis Wilkins. Capitol's Mid- west credit chief. also has rec.,ed phone calls trssm accounts fore- seeing shortage. the will work with these various ,u eounin." he assures.

Wilkins say. delerusJ p,snaent bosun_, .same. due Ills month. nlsak me the situation more sriuc.al

'Ba,lc.111i hu -.rtes. has come to t,,nJNII t here' dust a straight no cash Ilsw nu:credo manager sass

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ii,is also fresh out of money. After knocking in vain our months on the dour, of every newspaper in New York, by a happy fluke I found my first gainful employment as a cub reporter on The Billboard. Now the magazine you are presently reading. with its stock photography and luxu- rious advertisements. is guise a different weekly than the one on which I started no writing career.

The ancestor of this Billboard was an incredible journal which attempted to cos,' every aspect of the entertatnmcnt world The pages in the front, which we Wrote an our editorial offices in She Palace Theatre building on Broadway, concerned theatre, films, bands. radio, popular music. nightclubs and vaudeville.

And the pages on the back of the book delved into circuses and car - nsats, into burlesque and 1 urn shows, into the problems of pitch men and sideshow freak.. and amusement parks and. yes. there was

even a section, always reeking with idvertiements. about jukchoxes and music machine.

It wa, thus quiet sneaky little sec-

tion lurking m an obscure corner of The Billboard. which would eventually, like a sucnce- ticuon creature. Corns' to Jamurate die weekly and make it what is is unity, the great medium of news and statistics about music and tapes and performers and those invaluable charts.

My own interest then was In jazz and swing and since I was the only guy on the staff who followed jazz I

was soon assigned to cover the 52nd St. clubs and the jazz bistros and the Apollo Theatre uptown an Harlem tf caught Count Basic's orchestra at the Apollo when it played its first Manhattan gig and gave Basic his first cave in a metropolitan journal and John Nammond came in person to call on me at the Billboard and was amazed when tr turned out It was a glorified office buy who was the tarn reviewer. But he thanked me and we became friends I

If only I had dreamed that esen- wally The Billboard wind,' hcsume the magazine which tt is today t assure you that I would has e faithfully remained tin the stair to this Ji is

And now 1 have been reading -no reading is the wrong word- gorging myself is better yes. gorging myself on the Jetrcn,us rneursels of a wonderful bunk by Joe Csida and June Bundy Csida Jive ('suda when I first met him, was Akan. kinetic guy with black eye. Ile was an sJvertlang salesman later he heeamc the ed,- tot of Billboard We liked each other at once We both acre striven hs an, Imam and dreams toss large for our bodies to contain The, were. of course. dillerent anihnasns and dif- Iirelit dreams. and I think that In .hltercnt ways they cane true for us.

In nn orgamration and style. the s'.icla !amity's "American Lister -

talinncnl" stands by Itself as an interesting and cnlcrt.unong historical record of Anlerlcan show busmcss tram 1700 to 197' Loch segment cones an mi(Surism Istoucat period. Within each per11s.t. we .ire glen a Juas_'t.lm oil chart sst the ken styes .snJ Inno,.thsu. of the unit

1 him s hsllowcti by a lightly wnl- an account of the historical desrl- opsusus s,i the paruculas era tine -'coin 01'0 ti fists esp,'siltss um- pfesseJ sise ss Ns conlplchenaon as well .s t, cou.:slou 1 \nil then there lsillo,ss iii ;it in to Me the most de- helot ul pontoon of each htstonc.11 pe- 'soif rep. olucunns of actual stories

and advertisements from the pages

of The Billboard in the typestyles of

that tome. And this is followed by a year -by-

year record. keyed to each area of show business, so that "American Entertainment' is especially when you want to place a specific subject you are writing about or thinking about in the context of his time.

Let's say you are writing an article about Ziegfeld for a magazine be-

cause a network is doing a television special called "Ziegfeld And His Women." Well. by checking out the appropnate period. you can readily place Ziegfeld and Billie Burke in the historical context of their period and get a sense of what was going on in Broadway.

For this reason alone, "American Entertainment" is a necessary title for any library which pndes itself on having a broad range of research tools. And the individual reader. whether interested in these mattes professionally as I am, ur curious ahoul the past an a passionate lover of the past. one of your nostalgia freaks. wanting to know precious and delectable pieces of data about vaudeville performers or circus acts, will find these pages teeming with ir- resistible items. one after another. strange and sad and ironic.

Have you ever wondered what was the scene they were playing in Ford's Theatre when Booth shot Lincoln? A member of the cast, still alise in 1907, told the actual lines of dialog from "Our American Cousin" to a Billboard reporter. Or you can read the advertisement for A. Van Gofre. "The Lion Mouth Man" No. he didn't have a leonine mouth - what he did was stick his head in a

lion's mouth. And Came Nation. to my sur-

prise. was advertising herself as a

lady of "saloon smashing noteriety" and was available to fain, parks, ex- positions. etc., in the summer of 1904 The encroachment of nickel- odeons and the increasing power of motion pictures which. with radio. led to the ultimate disappearance of saudesolle and almost killed the le- Cuonatc theatre. is chanieled here. not as history, which is. life seen through the 20 perspective of hindsight, but as it was lised through at the time. when few- could predict the outcome of the new and the unusual.

Sometimes The Billboard fell flat on its face. At Jolson's "Jai Singer" which changed the course of Holly- wood and movies was dismissed as a

"stale entertainment based on a stale situation." Jolson was said to be 'as flat on the seseen as a glass of tepid beer."

And the moguls were often no smarter. Joe Schenk, president tit United Artists and later president or 20th Century -Fox and one of the shrewdest monac tosses, dismissed talking pictures as a "passing nos -

city that are not meeting with public i.us or " Taal was on September 1928. ley the end of 1929, almost even I»csiue i:1, all- talking. And in 1946. the brilliant inventor and business eSS 'euhve. L F.1\1cDonald Jr., president or Zenith. said in a letter to Bill- hoard that he did not believe that "the ad,crisscrs of America are going to fo l this enormous bill of pro - siding televsion entertainment." SVell, that paused to be a colossal et" ror On the other hand. McDonald, in the rest of his statement, urged terhnioans to "develop the means of obtaining a boxoflìce which will pay

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oiling Stone called her "one of the t figures of '70s rock 'ti roll:' With er, PATTI SMITH has become a

nafide superstar. The album feared herwortdwide smash "Because e Night" which won "Single Of e Year honors in both Rolling

tone's critics und readers polls as well The King Biscuit Rock Radio

wank. And her forthcoming LP due spring, will feature the production

fTodd Rundgren.

Scoring virtually all the tntde single and album awards 1òr "top new group" the phenomenon called RAYDIO had a

banner first year. With ui gill irst album (Ravi/nil and a gold R &B and pop single smash (' Juck And Jill "). they emerged as one of 1978's most dynamic crossover stories. Led by the brilliant writer -producer- engineer -vocalist Ray Parker. Jr. they've now completed their second album. due in February And. its going to launch this incredible young band -to superstardom.

With the most recent album. Misfits. THE KINKS continue their unprecedenteArista period of renewed growth and vitality. Com- ing on the heels of Sleepwalker, their Arista debut and biggest album ever. The Kinks are back in the forefront of rock's great groups. And this winter Ray Davies and Company embark on a long- awaited East - em U.S. tour -just another milestone in the new KINKS era:'

1978 was also the year of MICHAEL HENDERSON. The brilliant young singer- composer -in- strumentalist was one of the year's major crossover breakthroughs. on the strength of his sensational gold LP /n The Night -Trine. Featuring two Top-10 R &B singles ( "Take Me I'm Yours" and "In The Night- Time"). the album went Top-I0 R &B and jazz, while also making substantial impact on the pop charts. In the years to come, Michael Hen- derson and gold will be a consistent duo.

1979 begins. ERIC CARMEN s

album Change Of Heart. which ready produced one smash single he capti%ating title song). is about launch another -"Baby I Need

our Lovin " With his frequent ap- rances on nationwide TV during

e last four weeks as extra impetus. e Eric Carmen story will continue be one of music's biggest.

Only a short time since the release of their incredible debut LP.OUAZAR is one of R &B's hottest new acts. Already, the album's first single. "Funk Roll: has become an R&B smash. Now. supported by the bands exciting, live appearances around the country their new "Funk With A Big Foot looks like an even bigger hit. For these talented Arista discoveries. the future means the very brightest stardom.

Today, MANDRILL, one of music's most exciting groups, is riding their biggest album ever -the sizzling New Worlds. Featuring the hot single. "Too Late;' its a hot mix of styles, rhythms. and songs. Now reaching both pop and R&B audiences, it represents yet another step in Mandrill's steadily blos- soming Arista career.

Her presence is dazzling. On stage she's

commanding. Already critics have compared her to the great vocalists of our time. Her name is PHYLLIS HYMAN. And this month. Arista releases Somewhere In Mr Lifetime, her brilliant label debut. Highhghted by its current smash single. the Barry Mani - low- produced "Somewhere In My Lifeume;' it's a stunning showcase for a

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Full Moon Rochester, Mich. 4 $4.99 $5.99 $4.99 $5.99 $5.99 $6 99 $4.99 $6.99

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Evolution Houston, Tex. 13 $4.99 $5.59 $4.99 $5.59 $5.55 $5.99 $5.55 $5.99

Disc Cleveland, Ohio 34 $4.99 $6.98 $4.99 $6.98 $5.99 $7.98 $5.98 $7.98

Camelot N. Canton, Ohio 72 $4.99 $6.19 $4.99 $6.79 $4.99 $7.99 $4.99 $7.99

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Harmony House Detroit 10 $4.97 $6.49 $4.97 $6.49 $5.94 $7.94 $5.94 $7.94

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Mr. Music Houston 9 $4.99 $6.97 $4.99 $6.87 $5.79 $7.87 $5.79 $7.97

King Karol New York City 7 $4.99 $6.49 $4.99 $5.99 $5.99 $7.49 $5.99 $6.99

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Schwann Catalog Tops 10,000 Listings NEW YORK -For the first ume

in 29 years of publication the Schwann Records & Tape Guides listed more than 10.000 new titles in 1978. There were 5.919 new LP records listed in the year. and 4.638 new tapes. for a total of 10.557. an increase over the 1977 figure of 9,882.

According to the company. another new development in 1978 was that for the first time. more new cassettes were listed (2,589) than 8 -track tapes (2.049). reflecting the growth of cassettes in the classical music field.

Though the Schwann Guides do not list every tape or disk released in the U.S., the company claims the list includes all releases available over a

wide area of the U.S.. with the fig-

ures reflecting the trends in the recording industry.

Of the 10.557 releases listed. 3.064 were classical stereo releases. broken down into 2.198 LPs. 73 8- tracks and 793 cassettes. Among the 6.585 non- classical releases. including pop. jazz. musicals, spoken and international. there were 2.996 LPs. 1.861 cartridges. and 1.728 cassettes.

As of December 1978, Schwann says it lists releases on 678 labels. which includes 319 tape manufacturers and 60 manufacturers of quadraphonic records and tapes.

The figures show that though the

number of labels has decrcased from the 1977 figure of 729, the number of tape manufacturers has gone up by

46. while 24 labels left the quad price field in 1978.

Reissues and new releases on mono or simulated sterco totalled 592. up from 485 in 1977 and 405 in 1976. The increase in 1977 was di- vided evenly between classical and non classical, and included 100 8 -Track cartridge and 80 cassettes, according to Schwann.

A new section in the Schwann Guides this year was devoted to direct -to -disk. digital and other high technology recordings, with 98 clas-

sical and 69 non -classical entries representing 32 labels.

In 1978 there were 5.334 new listings in the popular section of the

guides. broken down into 1144 LPs,

1.528 cartridges and L362 cassettes.

Survey Compiled by John Sippel

BOOK REVIEW

Few Protests In 'Songs Of the '70s' -Great Songs Of I he `70s," ar-

ranged and edited by Milton Okun, published by The New York Times Book Co., 271 pages, S19.95.

There's a little of everything in this spiral -bound collection of 81 hit songs of the 1970s.

It is in fact, more of a folio of sheet music than a book. Okun contribution is four pages of test. And there are four pages of aru.t composer halftones. all publicity stills previously published in the industry's print media.

One can't carp about the songs, however. They cover rock, soul. disco. folk. Broadway and several from motion pictures. and all were hits atone tinte or another from 1970 to the tail -end of 1978.

I here are tunes -with lyrics -by Paul McCartney. Paul Simon. Janis fan, Gordon Lightfoot, Billy Joel. Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart. Paul Williams. Bob Dylan. Neil Dia- mond, the Gibb brothers, John Den- ver and numerous others who rang the bell with substantial hits in this turbulent decade which will be re- membered for Vietnam and Water- gate.

Okun notes that there were few protest songs in the '70s. In contrast to the 1960s. America's popular music reverted to romance. humor and novelty.

"At a time when political corrup- tion threatened to overturn an entire


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There are big people Andy Aiello Mark Bremer Kelly Conway Luba I irchuk Fred Humphrey Dan Allen Grant Brinser Doris Cook Jim Fishel Rob Hunter Jim Allen Val Brockman Barbara Cooke Jim Flattman Don Hunstein Randy Allen Bill Broege Del Costello Scott Folks Norman Hurt Pete Anderson Allan Brown Harold Cotton Bill Fox Ed Hynes

Arma Andon Debbie Brown Tom Croft Mary Francis Orlando Imala

Hope Antman Jim Brown Jack Craigd Bill Freston Sal Ingeme Craig Applequist Paula Brown Joe Crain Bill Frolich Terry Inde

Al Aguilar Randy Brown Homan Crawford Lori Frosch Bob Jamieson Peggy Arntz Craig Bruhn Charles Crossen Craig Gaglia Jay Jarvis Paul Atkinson Tim Buress Sandra DaCosta Renee Gaia Michael Jensen

Billy Baker Jheryl Busby Dave Dawson David Gales Jay Jenson Phil Balsam Bud Bush Walter Dean Pat Gambale Connie Jester Linda Barton George Butler Don DeGraf Bob Garland Dick Jester

Paula Batson Mary Jo Caliendo Chip DeNigris Bonnie Garner Roy Job Alan Bauman Thom Callahan Dan DeNigris Emma Garrett Barbara Johnson Burt Baumgartner Ken Calvert Carl Denman Ed Geis Mary Jo Johnson George Becker Bob Campbell Gene Denonovich Gregg Geller Rodman Johnson Lorraine Bege Bill Cargall Glenn Devery Ed Gertler Jefi'Jones Bruce Bench Jim Carlson Don DeVito Susan Gibson Earl Jordan Mark Benesch Jim Carnavale Mike Dilbeck Jack Gold Stephen Kakes Buddy Bengert Roger Carpenter Frank Dileo Larry Golinski Mike Kaminsky David Benjamin Ann Carroll Ron DiMatteo Alan Goodman Steve Kaminsky Bill Bennett Ben Caruso Linda DiMotta Howard Gorbis Patti Kean John Berg Joe Casey Nancy Donald Herb Gordon Sandy Kea).

Mike Bernardo George Chaltas John Dotson Nick Gordon Ray Kelch Ellen Bernstein Tom Chaltas Kathy Durand Nina Greenfeld Bill Kelly Ted Bernstein Frank Chaplain Jerry Durkin Joan Griewank Patty Kemp Randy Bimslager Jack Chase Greg Eagle Ted Griffin Bob Kerns Sue Binford Bob Chiado Ken Earl Gerry Griffith Bernie Krane Paul Black Jim Chiado Terry Easter Harry Gurgol Mike Kraski Rick Blackburn Sheila Chlanda Gene Edwards Mike Gusler Ken Kravitz Sam Blackford Al Clasing John Edwards Maxinne Halpern Mark Kohler Roz Blanch Ed Climie Barry Elert Doug Hamann John Kotecki Dan Blaylock Kevin Clougherty Paris Eley Caesar Hancock Rich Kudolla Mark Bobonick Fred Cockeril] Don Ellis Dennis Hannon Jack Lamiere Debra Boehm Jonathan Coffino Michael English Ernie Hansen Tony Lane Ed Bonuso David Cohen Yvonne Ericson Chris Harter Torn Lanzilloti Carol Bork Marvin Cohn Pat Esposito Neil Bank% Lee Lawrence Bruce Botnick Don Colberg Bob Ewald Sue Heinruns on Ed Lee Greg Boyd Gary Cole John Fagot Nancy Helland Wayne Lee Steve Brack Andrew Color Denise Fanelli Christ Henderson Bobby Leech Richard Brady Gil Colquitt John Farr Val Hendricks Barr Lehman Bill Braman Gale Compton Frank Felicien Roger Holdredge Nanette Leone Joe Bravo Henrietta Condak Gregg Fiori Jana Holland Arnold Levine Steve Brecker Bob Conrad Victor Fiorillo Paul Hughes Luke Lewis

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Earl Miller Ken Miller Susan Miller Giselle Minoli Emily Mitchell Curtis Mobley Barry Mog Frank Mooney Ginny Moore Jan Moore Peggy Mulhall David Mulkey Mason Munoz Bill Murrett Marie Nehls Sharon Nelson Rosalyn Newberry Debbie Newman Mike Nold Joe Norton Dennis Noto Ron Oberman Eugene Oberto John O'Connor Odile Offenbacher Alan Oreman Deborah Osborne Richard Outler Karen Padgett Jim Patterson Mert Paul Gregory Peck Ron Peek Vincent Pelligrino Fermin Perez

Nancy Perov Jack Perry Bob Petrie Carolyn Petty Greg Phifer Peter Philbin Joseph Piacenti Ron Piccolo Andy Piretti Jerry Pitti Bob Puer

Laurel Poison Terry Powell Terry Powley Tim Pritchett Maureen Quinlan Patrick Quinn Cathy Rabin Donna Raffoul Paul Rappaport Bob Ratcliffe Michele Raymond Tom Reaney Esther Reichard Dave Remedi Larry Reymann Ken Reynolds Fred Richardson Dana Robb Karen Robbins Rita Roberts Earl Rollison Harvey Rosen Wendy Rosenbloom Myron Roth Rich Rothchild Bill Rusch Pat Rustici George Ryan Marvin Saines Bob Sanaford Phil Sandhaus Ken Sasano Barbara Savage Paula Scher Dave Schmeiser Arreda Schneider Eileen Schneider Christine Schultz Mickey Schwelgien Denise Scopas Janice Scott Jim Scully Shelley Selover Alan Septoff Tom Sgro

JelfShanc Liz Shanks Bill Shawn Carolee Shepard Billy Sherrill Bob Sherwood Chuck Shorter Jerry Shulman Eddie Sims Ron Sims Vernon Slaughter Carol Slovak Cheryl Smith David Smith Fred Smith Leroy Smith Lesley Smith Paul Smith Jack Snyder Sally Solomon Guy Spellman Harry Steele Grady Steen Jeff Stella Stan Stern Bobbie Stevens Susan Stewart Midge Stubbs Bruce Sullivan Dan Sullivan Reggie Sullivan Dan Summers Walt Swan Dave Swengros Nella Sword Richard Tardanico Susan Taylor LeBaron Taylor Virginia Team Gail Thomas Garcia Thompkins Sky Traughber Jose Tudela Jim Urie Don Van Gorp Warren Vincent

Mikc Volkuvitsch Mikc Waggoner Raoul Wagman Nia Wagnor Terry Wainscott Eugene Walker Nancy Walker Larry Wall

Don Walters George Wanamaker Fred Ware Maurice Warfield Don Watts Sandy Webb Bill Weber John Weihing George Weinberg Ray Welch Peter Wertimer Mark Westcott Dick Weybright Granville White Burt Whitman Roger Whitney Judith Wilder Win Wilford Doug Wilkins Bill Willcox Warren Williams Dick Wingate Joe Wissert Andrea Wojtyniak Nate Wolk Glenn Wright Rob Wunderlich Ray Wunsch Danny Yarbrough Arthur Yeranian Russ Yerge Walter Yetnikoff Joe Yoppolo Cynthia Zambri Jean Ziment Susan Zurak Tony Zetland

1978 the best year in Columbia Records' history.



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KHl -u D CHERYL LYNN -Got to Be Real /Columba,

BANTAM- Stuemy(Colombo)

CARS -My Best fnend'sGILEhMty2I 22

* ROD STEWART -Do YOU(hob l'm Se.y

(WB)24 13

IurM(w) -u BARYS- Everylme 1Mnk01You 101,./In) NEIL DMMORO- Forever In Blue leans 1Columbal

POINT RSIRERS- Fur(P1aoet)23 15

ROD SEDUM -Vo You l tuna EmSay WBI7

RR -u LITTLE RIVE/MOD-Lady (Harvest)

DONNA SUMMER- Kaaren Knows

ROD STEWART- Drs youlmnk l m Seto.

(WO) 77

OUMA NEW10N- 10ßN- AUIIIt More Lore t MCA,129

BED -Roam HEART -Oog&Buttnlly(Musmooml

DOOBIE BROMFM -What A fool Behenes

WB,

THE ROWNG STONES -;nettled (Rmlmp

Stoner 10 G

ROD STEWART -Do You ThiAtIno e

.13, 14 9

CB0 -San Diego

DOLLY PARTON -Baby I'm But fun IBC(

[ARAM RANKLE -You Nerd A Roma n

Tnnyhl(AAMI

NICOLLTTELARSON -Lolla Lore IYdl)62

POINTER SISTERS- fue lPYrx 1 17 9

-5an getup lam

LITRE RIVER BRIO -lady (Harresl)

HEART -Slimed On lMusbroom l 138

RANK RIND& FIRE -kph/abet (ARC/ 199

IMMI -Bakersfield

CHICAGO -ROM lover (Col umbal

FOREIGNER -Moe Mnrmng Blur Day

(M1*1H)

DONNA WIRIER -Heaton anon: (Casablanca, 29 21

IRCOLEITE(ASON- tolta(aetWB,14 10

BiDboa l rd Singles Radio Actîon e

TOP ADD ONS -NATIONAL DONNA SLIMMER-Hymen hnoniCo;abl one a)

(D) GLORIA GAYNOR -I 1Ydl Survive (Polvdor)

UTILE RIVER BAND -93d1 Illanesl!

D-Discotheque Crossover

ADD ORS -The Iwo key prod uc1s added at 19e lad. srabon, listed as deteemmed hr umun personnel PRIME MOVERS -The two products regislermg the great est proporlionate upward movement On the stJhon playlsl. as determined by sta bon personnel BREAKOUTS -Billboard Char' Dept summary of Add On and Pnme Mover rnlurmaIan la re Ilea greatest product at trvay al Rg.nal and Nabonal,evrls

Pacific Southwest Region

TOP ADD ONS

UnII HYD La0-4dy Marvel 101 CNIRyt 1Y1111-Gal /o Br lkal lCyusenl

DpNM SUYYFA-*aree Kmws

* PRIME MOVERS

A00 SRW410 -.4 rcv INna I in jan 0.1 raKy1A Si51yR -Fire tytamu *COUTT/ IAASa -tone lore íW81

BREAKOUTS

SAKIW- SlfrAN ICdumba) CAUML- Goodbye I lam You lat4olrtl NEB DIAMORD -'rare, In BbK Team

Promo,

ROPA- Phoeni,

Urn( RIVfR BAND-1 ade1Hant;ll

O GLOM GAYMOR -IPhil Swore (Pointer)

* BLUES BROTHERS-Soul Von INIMIK) 20 15

KENNY ROGERS -The Combler (UA) 18 10

NTNT -Tacon

DONNASUMMER- heaven Knows

IC amble.) LINDA RONSTADT -Hot Onelool(krluml

D. CNERYILTNM -Got loBeRealICdumbial 25 19

ROO STEWART-Do You Mod I'm Serf 108113 13

IQEO- Mbuquerque

DOOBIE BROTHERS -WhalAFoolBelrres tWB)

1ác -I or you AndIIPuhd*l MELISSA MANCHESTER -WWI Cry Out

LoudtArul»I7 12

D. CHERYL LYNN- 6olt0Be Beal (Columbia) '7 le

ONO -1 as Vegas

MOL-Cali Out MY Name (EMI

BLUCS BROTHERS- Soul Man Atha.) ROD STEWART -Q* You Bunt ImStay V18129 23

FOREIGNER -Blue Morning, Blue Day

Al lame .'S G

R1M8 -Gan D*Ga

OLIVIANEWTON,IOHN- A Utile Mort love t RCA,

RREFALL- Cnoah,.. love You (Atlantic) NICOLETTCURSON -1 olla love (WB112 I

POINTER SISTERS -I iretPlanelll4 16

Based on station playlists through Thursday (1'18/79)

Pocific Northwest Region

TOP A00 ONS

DOM SUMMD-*a.en maw/ r.,Nmw,

D0L1y FANTOD -B,bel mBum,n (AG, TAMING KAM-10r Alr To IM RHrr ,tn

* PRIME MOVERS

A00 SI[WAIf-Do roo 11.1 1 m tn,1Ne1 RUES 801.013-W14.11040.4, n01 CHOCOMrt-(rrey I 1 A W,nnn

BREAK OU T5

SUOq041M4 CNMSNORYM-tmMin 1 IP'ifii

DM OOY-Maybe ri Moo, ICaWm W, NOW MOIHIAS-whM A tool 804.

,w8

ROPE- Lar F, aroaoo

SUL QUATRO & CHRIS NORMAN- StumbL,n' In 10501

EDDIEMONEY-Moo.belmAlool Columbia,

BLUES BROTHERS -Soul Man lAt4nht) 189 HOT CHOCOUTE-Fvrry I t A Wmner (I0nit019 I I

MI-San Flamm NONE

BOOM CAEDWELL-YYMIYouWo1Dafor Lore r Cloud) I7 10

NICOLETTE tAR50N -TM ta love lW8124 IS

KUV-Sanfese

0 WLLAGEMOPLE-Y M C A (Casablanca)

O PEACHES & HERB-Shale Your Groove

IMq (PMO.) (1OBBYCRIOWELL-WhaI Van IYoIiIOnFlu I urr Maud) 79 7

DO GLORIA WYNOR-IWUISu,vnelPnlTdn HB 8

KROY-SaaameMo

EDDIE MONEY-Maybe I m A hod 'Columbia) CAPTAIN &TENNILLE- You NerdA?Inman TnmKhl (A&M

ROD SIEWMT-DoYou !hint 1m »my IWH121 15

HOT CHOCOUITE-Every l'sAWrnnee IlnluNl/l IS 9

gTNO-IYesao

BONNIE POINTER -IrreMr(eomMy I reedom /M down) SYLVESTER-YuuMde Met enMh,, Reel' anl b5y I

THE RDLLINGSTONES-Shallnrd(Rolling ',low) NB 27

MON STAIR -Cunha ()ahCrnlwyt IIB 3O

ROD STEWART -It 1,,u think in ;Far (Oho OUVD NEWTON.IOHN -A LIIIIe Roe Band (KAI

ID) PEACHES B HERB -',hale 'lout Groom 1 my tPolydol,

NGW- Portland

DONNA SUMMER -Haan hoot,

000010BROTNERS -What AFmN Behoves

(WBI

BOOMER -W'è rr Got Tonight (Capitol) 169

ELTONIOHN -Part time I. or (MCA) 106

KING- Stallk

DONNA SUMMER -Heaven Know; (GsabtartaI

THE RAMC HEADS -lake Me to The

Rve,tSuet

BLUESBROTHERS -Soul Men Athol,/ 25 15

ROD STEWART -Do You IMMI mSery (WO) I: 7

KERB- Spbant

LITTLE RIVER BAND -Lod,( Harvest,

SUZIQOATROO CHRIS NORMAN - SIumMot In IRS01

BLUES BROTHERS- Snow Man lAtientKI 18 11

MELDSA MANCHESTER -Don 1700,1 loud IArntal 25 21

MC-Tama

DONNA SUMNER -Heaven Booed'

(Casablanca,

NEIL DIAMOND -Faerer In Blue leans (Columbia,

BEE GEES-Too Mu, hHearen(RS0153

(AMA NEW101610NN -A WieMOre Love

(MCA) 129

KCPI -Sall Labe Cay

DOLLY PARTON- 13,41 m Benin tOCAi

rNEMURRAY -1 Ius! Frilly Love Again Mtasalct,

ROD STEWART -Do You 1Mn1I'm St,y 108111

GEARY RAFfORTY- Home And 0,Y1UA,26 19

%ASP -Sall Lem Cote

BABOS -Every Timelyh,rVOl You

ICMysal,5,

0. CHERYL LYNN -Got To Be Real(Culurnbm

ROD STEWART -Do You I lwnk I'm Sery

1081126

AGE FREHLEY -Mew Yob 6 Woo* ICasabWre) I7 12

IRA -Dearer

NO UST

OMB -Denser

HOTCNDC01ATE- (veryl's AWinnee

(Infinity)

FOREIGNER -Blue Mornmg. Blue Day

(AtlanlK I

ROD STEW/ST- Do Nub.* lm Se, 198113 6

Du CHIC-II teak Milantv) 7 3

North Central Region

TOP ADD ONS

01*! 11MITRT0 -Harr And Mr ion) DONM SUI0101 -Hrann anon

Keehn,. NDSCAOYGL -lar Ove l h* Hon Animar

iavrikela

* PRIME MOVERS

ROD SILA&. -I loo lhm at lay, .1 LNI IMAING ne40S- Irks Mt In the lino

IDI *ARILSII(A-th,ell r.n G.wr Imny

,M,dnit

BREAKOUTS

AMNf YVaM/-I INU rn n I m Arin 11.mehal

eAIas-1.en I.wr 1ran, 01 Yau Itn,yv,n, Sl. I IM Dry CALM/

CAM- Dome

Mt Mt

WDRQ-Delrod

D PEACHES HERR -Shane Your Groorr IhmglPOlydal

S1YE-SmglorIhe Day IABMI

ROO SIEWMT-Oo You T hink mSery

MR/ 75 I7

I.GULSBAMD-Goe Lail NnsIEM1127II

WfA6-FkI

CHUCK BERM GTHE SOUL SEMCHERS- Baal,n looseISwrcel

AWL -tall Out Mr Name (EMI,

BLUESBROTHFAS -Soul Man 'Allan.) 27 12

POINTER SISTERS -I,,, IPI anet, 13 9

2 96 (VWRFMI -Grand Rlp&W

UTILE RIVER BMD- Ladl1Herter

BLUES BROTHERS -Soul Man lAllantec)

ROD STEWART- Ou You IRA l'mk.r WBi2C I:

POINTER SISTERS -Rue l Planet 116 8

WMY- Laurselle

GERRYRARFRTY-HomeAndOry (UA)

ANNE NOWAY- IIusI Fell In lote Again tCapHOU

D* PEACHES &IHRO-Shakr foot Croft. Thing (Poledall5 27

HOTCNOCOIATE-Evny l'sAWnner 1lnhmty)10 S

W9GN-BowBngken

NFAIT-Do,S Butterfly 1Musnroom)

5U21 QOATRO & CHRIS NORMAN - Glnn6hn In(RSO)

WIMATMEIYS-Shakell(MusRroom)24 I

HOT CHOCOLATE-Every LsAW,nner 11n6mlr119 10

WCtt-Cterebrid

ROSEAOYCE-1 pre Donl lneHere Anomie IOh,tlitld)

DONRA SORRIER -Heaven Knows

1CaSablanuI

RODSTEWMT-Do You humid m Sete

(WB117 3

ME TALKING NEWS- Take Me lolhe Rover )Sut) 30 22

WIIP-CkvtkDO

ERR WREN-Baby Need Your Lon, 100,141

ANNE MURRAY-I lust f Kiln love Again

ICapilol)

0* PEACHES & NUS -Shake Your Groove ltnglPolydonHe 19

ROD STEWMT -Do You think l'mSell aW8123 15

(002 (INARI}FM)-Cmcmrotl

MOTS-ken lime l the, 0lYOu (ChrrSHnl

GEIIRYRMYFATY- Home And OrytUA)

0* DOA LOIN -Got Solle Beal lCdumb,al l'

D M( RAES-Alette Lorin' (A&M1149

*NCI (*um bus

PoINTLB SISTERS -fnelPlanet,

LDfGARREtI-IWASMadr(atummy kolh Brnlhntl

FRITHBAIID-Dalton Shoes Weir ury175 70

ROO STEWARI-fb You lhintl'mSe, WN170 I5

WCUE-Nmn

LRILE RIVER SAND -ladydl.rrrrat

SYLVESTER-You Make Mrl eel M,gMy Neal(' enlato,

NOD STEWMT -flu You I Met ImSr,y 1101,1 1

POINIERSISTERS-Ine11'IanN114 5

13 Q(WN1Q)-P,ItsbwgN

0. CHIRYI InIN-f,ol Io Ile Real (Caumbu)

MUD MURRAY-IIus11n,I1nlnrrAgam

THEIALgDNGHRADS- IabeMrlalhe Rwer(Sue127 19

ROD SWIM -On Veit I hill lImk,y 0M1)1/ I

DOABLE BROTHERS -Whal A Fool Believes (WB)

STYX -Sing For The Day 700M)

NEIL YOUNG -font ;Hong Windt Val

YOU-Pdfsargh

FIREFALL-Gmd0Yr,1 love You al IOU)

f0RE1GN4R-BlueMornmg.BlueOro IAIkntK7

RODSfEWMT-Do You Mai l'mSeaY

(WB) 158

11ICOLETTELARSON-t.,nalore(WB)129

Southwest Region

TOP ADD ONS

IDI GlOMAGAoMt -I rin;inne ,Pardee,

DOOM SOMMD -Hrson Mows

CIR(AGO -No tao tan 1 Wvmau,

* PRIME MOVERS

ADDSTCwAAI - .*nnit:eay1WB, AfAN/ ApGIAS- +rylee MA,

taw IwID 10NA-a LIY Ywe Iar V:

URE AK OUTS

NED DIAMOND -. a.. N Blut Iron

Mel 5,R0Q IS -;veers a,er iYMB,

YELL YOOM -rev ''),till inlc Mr tae

I Ar'

KILT- IHoasfea

DIRESTRMGHTS- Su(lon: Ot Swing LWB)

NEIL DIAMONO- 'ears In Blue lens (Columba)

Or PEACHES&NEM -Shake YOWGroove

Thin/(Po(ydorl 15'9

KENNY ROGERS -The Gambler 130123 15

RRCO- HOUSta

NICOLETTE LARSON-Lolla Lore (BI BARRY WINNOW -Somewhere ln ihr Night IMdta)

FRANNIE YAW -Save Me, Saee Me

(1Wreer.'Curie 14 9

HOT CHOCOLATE-Gm isaWt,e^- I Inlmdy127 16

RUF -Dadas

HALL &OATES -I Dail Want Tolose You

(RCA)

DONNA ROWER -HVVen Rnous (CasaWancal

ACE MONET-Hew Ufa G,00re ICasa0anca)23 21

OLWMIEWTON. INN- AL,HIeMaelme (MC17I

INUS.FM -OMlay

DONNASUMMEI -Heaven chows 1 Casablanca,

D GLORIA GAYNOR- Iwm SunmeIPolydari

MELSSIYIINCHESTER- Don1C4Out loudlAn *la)33 16

0* CHERYL LYNN -Got TO Br Real Columb 1

155

AFIU FM (2.97)-R. Warta

OORElGNER -Blue Morton, Km Oat 'Ana* ,

EAIM.WIND0FIRE- September(ARC1

'MCBEES -10o Moen Neaten lRS0, 9 6

DURKNEWTOHIOHN -AI Me Al of. e, (RCM 15 7

RINT -OPava

TER GARRETT -I Was Modeloe Damon, 15(nth 9,IM,sl GERRY WORM -,,.',. a - t,

10051110NT 119911)10 741

POINTER SISTERS -((planen 17 I

WRY- 01VAonaOq

CHICAGO -No Iell Lover )Columbia) D CHANSON -Dun I Hold Bach'Ar,ola)

RODSILWARI- OoYau 'hint mSen ,613)14 9

IENNT ROOF RS -the Gambler ¡UM HB 17

RAMC -Tabu

ROUST

AEU -Tulsa

DONNA SWAYER -Het yen Moors

ICasabtancal

ON.NOOR -ALL the Some ¡vibe Ww16

(CapIOlI

VARY MANIIOW -Soo, .hem In The

high' (Arnie 31 17

ROD STEWART-0o Y. Think Cm See,

,wh.'

WBI -New Oneam

0 GLOOM00YNOR -I Wal SunneIP

REIM MOORE -You Stepped alto My

'Ep 1 RODSTEYMRT -Oo You Sea, '00120 A

0 CNERTLLTI01 -Got lo &Rea11CNw 155

000E- NeO.W

D. GLORIA GIIYII0/-IWSrayWelP BILLY IDEL-Bg Shoe (Columba)

LEIF GARRETT-I Was Made For Daotng Coco', Brothers , zBII

D CH ERR. URN -Got to El, Real lCaluwba)

KEEL -Shreveport

CHICAGO- 9''eu.o n'Col101.1 BLUES BROIHFAS -Sal ha IAtkatl NICOLETTE IARSON -both LOre(WB) 11

ROD STEWART-Do Tou Bag I Sot +6,169

WO- Malts

MARSFIAT HARN- Daact In The Coy

lures!, DOBIE GRAY- rou Can DoIOfuldyl BLUESBROTHE1S -lad Ida IKOaatcl 209

ROD STOUP -(. ,,arrSevy

Midwest Region

TOP ADD ONS

4fNnpOGIR+-- NICIXTF'..WO- CH,LY,O- ..... N,a+.

i

PRIME MOVERS

DCMYNORd6101-a oca

e00STOR1 -De env Thom Vie :. ,. (Aanl110Waf1M-+ï

BREAKOUTS

WOK 11110ls0S-`x . w ',maws

STYa^ ,'v OOmM SAIMIID-+arr tsar

WTS-Chug

NICOLETTELARSOR-sartaLaH,W6:

OLIY41NElyF01F1WM-AIdIk Mart lwt Vì.,_3 II ROD STEMMBI-Do You NwlmSao iaAty25

IYEfM-CAcag

GLORIA GAYR01-IIWISywtIPMydMI

STT[-Sm, fee Dealt MUM

FOREIGNER-Rue Maninl Moe Oa ,(HSnr.;t I7 13

OLIYMNEY4TOnIONR-AldtleWotan V, A' 'I 16

IYR04-ROdkN ___ CHICAGO -Nulrul:+ee/Coluab) GPTAN(t RANKLE- You Need 4Mum ton., hi BALI,

N 'COLETTE IARSON-lolta Love RIB) l4 11

o EMTH,WND&FIRE -Sept embnlAAC)

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ARTHUR KNIGHT, Hollywood Reporter

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Billboard Singles Action Based on station playlists through Thursday (1/18/79)

Continued from page 22

NIFE-ledprsayolia

KAIISAS-LoneyWindlNeshnee)

AMISTETMNI-S sock 0nW000(kmb)

NOD SIEWAR7 -Do You fhmkl'mSeeY (WB)2510

OIIMNEWT0610N9-A Wee More Lave

(SICA)20 11

WNDE-Indunapula

D DAAHARTMAN- Instant Replay (Blur Str)

RAISIN VALLI -Film Dann' LWarnerr Cab)

ACE19nitE1-NPrYaaCroore (Casablanca) 26.19

NOTCNOCOUIE-Erery IS* Thaw IMhmry) 25-14

N 08T-MNrerdee

WON ROGENS-.fhe Gambler 1841

SITI-Sag For The Oar (48M)

E1UIN,YNNDAFIRE-Seplember(MC) 14-)

Ol1WAN(VNONdOHN-AldtleMaeLove ( MCA) 20.16

WAIUFM-MRrMdee

D DAN IWI7MM-Iastanl Replay (Blue Sa(I

D0081EBA0THERS-WhatA Fool Bahr: (WB)

HOTONICO(AT(-Erery l's AMaier Inhndy) l5 10

POINTER SISTERS-Fu el Plane! )105

S.5411411-SLSmb

KENNyR06EM-The Gamble (UA)

00081E BROTHERS-Mg A Fool &heva (WB)

BWß BROTHERS -Soul Man (ALlanhc) 2 16

ROO STEEYART-D0 You Dunk 1'm Seey

(08151

G OA-St. Lem

SPIL-S+neFa The Dar (MM)

NRAIE7TEtARSON-tolla love(WB)20 10

RDOS7EMA9T-DoYou hunk rmSexy (WB) 12 3

IUDA-Des Vane

ROD SEEWART-Do You Think Fro Soy (W8)

FMK NINOinRE-SeMtmba(MCI

KEIpTR06E15-The Gambler (UA)2315

ROTI7gCAlATE-Every I'sAWmnel (Infinity)20.10

11(11911-YYnapoh

SEW R06E8S-ihr Gambler (UA)

BWESeNOMERS-Soul Mm(Mbatk)

* unit maps FIE -September (MO 22 1/

OURS NEWTON-l01M-ALr9h Mare toe (MCA) 20

E iI-Yia6+o6.

DOME 8116THEAS-WYat A f oo18e1mves (WB)

IMVATTNDVS-Shaltll(Muskroan)

PUMA NEOfONdONN-A Lillie More lore (MCA)127

FMBI.00RU6E-IGoToRa(AAM)2318

WN6-Narostig_

CHOW -No leo Laer (Columh)

OQIIASUMVR-HeavmAmvy (Casablanca)

fQRp69tR-BkelAamag.8lueDay (Atlantic) 25,16

lE1FGNMER-IWas Made For Dawn, (Scott Brothel) 21 12

K8EQ-ßnwCity

DONNA SUMMER -Heaven Knaws

(Criaa)anu)

p00BIEBROTNFNS-Wka(A Fool Beluets (WB)

SFNNYR06FKS-1he Gambler (UA)135

PO)N1E16571RS-Fe1Plans)129 KK pity.

LOT GARRETT-IWas blade For Osumi (S11r8rothers)

i1KEFML-Goadbye. (tow YOu(Mlan1d/

NOICNOCOUTE-Everyl'sAPhone, (lnhndy)84

POWNERSISIERS -Fire (Mkt 11815

AQW9 -lMgo

D CHERYL LYNN-Col Toes BeallColumbui

GERRY RAFfER9- Home And OrylUA)

BWESBRODIERS -Soul Mae(Atlanllc) 27 71

COIN. 61ENNILLE -You Need Anima loeghl!ABM) 31 24

Northeost Region

TOP ADD ONS

D OMIS 51 r lJ -HU.en nenn

(Clessaal t!W DeltIrT_IWn Maas row 0,0005

(kau homers) WTI CORM-Ho. Y, Gonna see Me H,

(we)

* PRIME MOVERS

tODST4wMf -aayaY ores l'm 5Ue Mbs la) GLORIA GIeNON-I WIn S.tin IFW dal D) Cmel Lnel-64110 & Real ICahrehu)

BREAKOUTS

Dam 'CRWh1611E Ileló-1 Dal Kno,I Irs RrIpI (Kai

9atliAMlfA-loa Up Mimi Wu/is -',samtlialubu)

WAB5- Neu140

OWN .CNAVPAGNE.KIC- (Don't K nox II 9's (RCA)

BELL &JAMES -Lini II Up (UM) o iONSL601- Wo'reGot Taught (Capstoy

1512

(/* CHERYL LYNN -Col to Be Real (Columbia) 11 7

Rate) 99-X- New Tali

DONNA SUMMER -Heaven Knows

(Casablanca)

BEM RAFTERTY -Hume And Dry (UA,

Do 6LORIAGAT900 -IWdt Sunna l Pol)dor)

1) 19

ROD STORM-Do You Thmklm Se. y

(WB)

WPTR -AlÑay

0. CNLRYLLY9N -Got 10ßt Real(Columbu)

8Á91S- Every tune UUOnk0( You

(Chrysalis)

DOD STEWART -Do You lhmkl'm Sexy

(06) 209

BARRY MMILOW- Somewhere In the N,gM (kola) 2617

0191 -41bare

LE8GM9LTT -11.14: Made For Dancing (Swlh Brothers)

soma -A Man Ill Never Be ass) ROD S1IWART- Oo You MIMIm Se, y

(W8196

40041840TNERS- Su)Maiklan :,c)

139

0060 -BuRah

VIEWS MACHESTFR- DoétCry Out

loud (A nla) 809951090E1- Heaven %vows

(Casa61440)

FOREIGNER -élut eamng.Blue Oar

(Allants) 18 13

D* CHERYL 1.14N-Cot To BeReal(ColumIna) 2622

OTSL -8á00M

DMESTIWTS- Sullins 01Smng 00131

D00811480199540 -What AFOOIBeheres

W8)

ROD 5IE11MT -Do You t9 e4 (m Sear

(08) 14 3

/ONTO SISTERS- Fa. IPlaneO16-7 0ß5F- Nxlatar

BABYS -Every Time Think CAYou

( Chrysalis)

ILUFSBlD1NUl5 -Soul Man OSIoMc)

NOD STEWART- Oo You hunkl'm Seay

(Wß)10 5

MICE COOPER -Hore You Gonna See Me

Now (081213 0190 -Ra

LOTGMRCTI -Inas Milde for basing (2001, Brothers)

&ICE COOPER -Has YouGomaSee Me Noo(WBI

D GLORIA GAYNOR- IW,RSUnne(Pohdat ItS ROOSUWART -Do rota lhMSl'mSul, (WB) 29 15

WBZFM- Boston

AMI SEEWART- knot k On Wood(ksoh)

SUNQUAtROiCAMISNORMAN- Snim ,i In(850)

NONE

F.105)WS4F) -Rmlon

GURT RAFFERTY -Howe A.dDIT(UAI

THE ROWNGST041ES- S4ltered(Rdlmg Stories)

EMU, WIND & Rom-September (ARC) 177

Du 61001868VM , -IWMI Survive (NOV) 14 4

WORC -Hartford

UTTLI RIVER BAND -1 ad (sanest)

DON SUMMER -(leaven Maws

(Casablanca)

NOUStEWNO -Do Youlhmkl' m5ew (W13) 29 19

OLNMNEVNONFOHN- Aldlle Mort Lour

MCA) 12 5

WPR 019- PrVllesce

DONNASUMMER -Naven Known

(Casabloc/I

SANTARA-Stormy (Coumba)

Da palatal HERB- SAaaerour Groove

Thing (Polyda)NB 26

NOSE 110YCE -Lae Don't Ins Here

Mymae (Wh,tbeld) He 25

VRROFV -ha*a ce

UNWNR(TT- 1WU Mae For D.ca9 (Math Blolhers)

PEACRéSIHLRB- ShakeYO.e Gsoore

Thing (Poladurl

MUM MAN1WDW- Somewhere In the

Night (kabl 12 9

D. GLOLR6GRY8DR- (9iulSuawe <estse0) 22 I;

MCC- 8r,d,eporl

NO 1( 7

Mid- AtIontic Region

TOP ADD ORS. ?OIQK IM -Bbr Mormmg 900 Dry

146.0 Ira Matr1II L 1U -Shake Tar Gamy 11,..;

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a00 SrlMaR1-G'. , 1'I11. r k,. 1.611

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FRMUEMILLS- MusoOo,Dancer (Chrysah;l

NEUURIG? -11osl Fell M Love Again

(Caedoll

NEIL OMMOND- Fasy.:ln Bluelans (Columbla)HB 19

NNALETIELARSON- I011M Lore (W13)12.6

true- Pódaddphb

NO UST

WIFFM- Milldelpl4

FOREIGNER -81ns Morning, Blue Day

(0l3msl

D. PEACFLES5NQ0 -Shake row Groove

Dune (Patr0al

URTN,WINDSFME -September )MC) 121

Do CHERYL LYNN -Cal To Be Real (CoSrots. 20 la

WPOC- Walupon

D GLORGWYNOR- IWOI.o,o e(Polydor)

BO3.9)04L- 145E011Cdumba)

IMIARTTNEWS -Shake II (Mushroom) 16

DO PEACHES' NERB-ShkeVourCrowe Ihmg (PnNdor) 79 20

Y9'.9-9a1oN

O. GLORIA GAYNOR- Mal Survive (Polyda)

BOOK BR01H IRS -WhmA1400 Behar rn

IWO,

* H07CHOCOLA7E-Every Es *Winner 1lnlmdy) NB 9

DONNA SUMMER -Heaven Mewl ICasabb0a1H8 13

ICAO -enema F09E1GN0)-Blue MOrnmA Blue Day

1A(Ian11c)

COWL MORO-Marba l-m A Fool (Columbra)

CNICA00-Ho 101 lover (Columba) 75 20

Ree SitWART-Dn You lMnhl'mSe,Y IWBI) 1

WYRE-Arw D. 6L0RM6ATROR-IWdI Sunm (Poledor)

MIEMURMY -Rust Fell MLereAPA (C01011

* ROSEROYCE-LoreOorl'tlneMere p*YAwse (Y0.v.16z161 Olt SOD Stt91Nn -Do You Pak l'eSecy

(WB) 52

MIE-Ric4Id CHICAGO-No fell torer(Columb,a)

tie CARROT -I Was Made For Dancing

(Scott, Brothers)

1KF101S50N-Danun'Slpes(Bang)71 21

* DIARTMMIIOW- Sum t.Mro ln The

N,g6t lkrsla117 12

09VQ-Itdmkmd

MOTS i SERB -Shale Your Crowe

Inmg(Pohda) TNT DOWN STONES-ShallendOW, Sloes) IAN MA1THflV5-Stakell(Mushroom) 14

9

FOREIGNER-Blue Manta, Blue Day

(Allanht )19 12

111E8-NLatoe

BMYS-FVy Toe I TAW. 01 You

(Ckysalu) DONNA SUMMER -Stara Snows

(Casablanca)

1ARNTMMROW-Some.here Is The

N,gDt (krsla) 22. I5

* RODS7EWMT-Do Sou Math I'm Sag (W8)18 8

WRBO-Ilarrbbwg

NNFEMONIAT-1 lust Fed InLaveSenn

(CORM) PEIICNß611ElI-ShakllOaGrome Ihmg(Polyda) BLUESBNOiTTflö-SoulMan(AYlanTrc) 1710 NOD STOIARF-Oo You Think I'm San

NB) 103

Southeast Region

TOP ADD ONS

ID) 6L0eAGrpON-INn, Strafe (Pdrdal snTU Arrte hAND-Lane matron COW .01,1-Hrmn KnpR

* PRIME MOVERS

000115001 -)u You Thou r say 1995,

III MOO 14018-Cane Tour 6,oea Iem¡

IP01 .s edRIGS6TER3 -r.e 0.4.1

BREAKOUTS

00011M01,105-1.41A rwl Brlent (1Y91

IbLr0YN6-fov Suons Wnd: rWB)

0000-Oily tat lARCI

0811 -Neaab

ailltEMO4ES -Maybe I'm Afoot (Columba) MNMATTHE0S -Shake I (Mushroom) WIWI 806115- The Gambler Mal 17.8

00VMMflWO1- I0HN- A1411e Mae lore IMCAIS

Z-93(WZGCFM) -Atlanta

NOL ORMOND- Forever Blue Mans ICorumbal D0O8)EB90THERS- Maul A fool Basses (W131

o IAN MAIINEWS- Shake11(Musk000)7) 15

BLUES BROTHERS-Soul Man(ASanis) 13 5

118813 -k 405 Unit RIVER SAND-Lady (Hanes() 1000 RMBIT/- Every11%ch Way Sul 10010Ual10) RANSIL SSW -Murs ß0e Drayer (Ckysala) 3012 MEILSSRMANCNFSIER- OoeiCrr Out loud (kola) 16 )

WFOM -Mhuta D G1ORU GAYNOR- IWIIISavm(Pdhda)

000811 BROTHERS- WToIA Fool edraves 9H

CHICAGO- No fell Twat(Co(um5M) 75.18 ROD 51 Bain -Oa Voo Tnkl'0Seay (*5115 a

WSW- Broom h

11451651 MMICNEST4R -Don't Gy Oul )ou0lAnS a)

0OSS,00010E9,CJY(6909111S5N Pa 09, We lore You (Notas)

Dr P5ACN(SANE9B -De he raw Groove 16n4(Pol)dorl 18 13

0. MAR LYNN-Col to &Real(Columbia) 145

wß5- FaplterUa

KR DIAMOND -forera ln Blua leans (Cnlumbu) N. NOOK -Ml The lime In The Wald IGD,loll DONNASOMM(R- Ilaven Snows ifasablanca) HD 71 CNUCBBNQYMITNESethSEMCHE11S- 8inl,n' loose (Sowre)11013

Ploylis) Top Add Ons

Ploylist Prime Movers *

TAAM-Mlael

NOT CNOCOUTE-EyerT I's AWlnner

(Inhndy)

POINTqSISTENS-Fue Mutt) 146

DRN00R -Sharing The N,ghtTogether

ICapdoU I5'

11M11 MI) -Mlad

IACKS0115-51ele Your Boot, (Eorel

BARRY MMIIDN-Some.berelnThe N,ghlrArcta)

ROO STEWART-DoYou rhos I'm Sea,

(WB)249

D. 6LORG6AYN011-141105lsrne 11'07400

li

Y.LOO(VMt1{V)-11uei

NOa1ST

NWT-Orlando

DDNIUáOMMEN-Konen Knan (Casablanca)

NEIL Y00N6-Four Strong WmdsMD,

Do PEACNES6 ROW -Shake Tow Groove

Thing (PolY00) 15 6

NOOSIEWMT-Da You Ibmk I'm Sew

With 21 II

(11D51WRBA01)-Tmpa

11TRE DNB BAND -Lay lHanel)

D CLONGGAYNOR-IW,II Some (PardM)

D. DM HARTMAN - Replay (Blue Slr) 22 7

D. PEACNESjNDIe-ShaYC Your Groove

Thing f Pdrdor 128 14

BI 105 (WBIWFM)-Ortaeda

NEIL YOUNG -Four StronSWMds(WB)

MAMA- Sloan r(Columbia)

811.1110E1- 4/4l21c(Cohmb5)4l

NOD STEOMT- Do You Think Fm5ery (WO, 18 8

Whi11- ó0710M Reach

NEIVOUNC -Four Strong Winds nail

ROSS, MODEL 610E N ROBINSON -Pops We lose You (Mutate,)

NOD SMART -Do You Thma1. Seer (WI) 72 17

OLWGN(WTONFONN- ALdlle Morelaee (MCA)199

WADE -1 ckwari h

CNN.A60 -Holes loner (Columba)

SARI'S yW6- NeenOnDoom' LColumma)

RODSIDWT -Do You Dusk'.Serl 04()21 17

DO 1NE 1AES -A little Loeoo AM) 23.18

WAYS- CbidOt.

W CLORGCAT90N- twasumrt(P**4 D00RENROUIERS- WhatAF obi khans RIB)

D PUCKS 8NG1- ShakeYOUrGroove 7buaO48d0S S6 LD

NODSIEWMT -Do You flank 1'm6e4P ORB) 72 I*__ RATE BUSH- ManWdh The CkIdl.K, Eyes (EMI)

DADDY DEWDROP -Nanu Nano I lnphtron)

ROSE ROYCE -Lore 0oollre Her Anymore (Whitheldl HB 29

NIGEL05S50N -O/non Shoes(BAnt)HB 28

I1I11R- 04rlelon

RAOTS -Oren T,mel ThubOlYOu (Chrysalis)

OR. NOOK -Shang The Nrghl Together (Capitol)

* ROD S7DURT- Do You Thal To Sew 108) 17 6

r VEUSSA1014CMCCR1- DoáIUtOul Loud (Anita) 16 11

WORD- Spertabu5

W GLORG DAIMON -IW,1Sun.O(P0yda) o flItfU- Goodbye, I Love You ULla0M:)

CHICAGO -No le4lowl (Columbo)t 21

(10I CHOCOLATE -Ivey, TIAWmner 001.41 18 10

WLM- Nehvlh

DONNA SUMMER- .ovenRam - (Casablanca)

(RU.101E6 -(tong h 1411160)

D. GLORG W0NDR -I W,u %man (Polled) 76 16

ACE FRENLEY- Ne Tor k Groove (Casablanc4130 17

(T1/Y, !2 iLWrw

d1N51C0-NOTeIILorW(Calrly ._

POCO-Gary Le. (A8C)

NODSFEIMRT-DoYwihinrtieg (WBI121

PpNFElllafTEiS-T'Na(PgeeU141

ENLR=Mrp1N

eWfStI0TlN36-9odd,a80al (Mhcl 1A1RY MAR.ON-Somes,Me M The

N,gM (ArUa)

OWES eROnNlS-SaulMaWhom 30 15

NICOIETIE IANSON-lotla tat (141) 25. 18

RNU-WlfaheeP

(KMAN9rtOF10111-AUOeMn (MU)

WMATIHETR..S1aIeN(Mahloe)

D IYRIN6E PEOPU-YIF.CA (Caaebhela)

POMiFaSETE1S-iselPhne)111-5

WU2-IIsoIt

POCO -Crary LydU16G)

EDDIEMOET-gUEermAFoe Icotu0)

D PUpBi1Bi-9ate Tow Tome Tl.eg(PWyda)N&27

0* CNARSOi-0mTHddBad (kohl IdlS

IIC011-gettaellp

DONNA 911111(1-Haje Sr. (CasaMma)

UTILERFEF11RN0-lady(NMa4M)

11WG5TONUft01-IIY1erlad Wdh You (Epe) 17 11

NEIIS571 NAibCllpl9-Os76g0et Lordakrsta) 12-6

IRK -Idele POCO-CGary lore (ABC)

FNNFNOEMl1LS-M war 8eDarr (CIrY9(rs)

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0* Oá1ftLYNN-GM to& Rol (CahYb 27 21

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11TNEtl1ESYND-lah(krwt)

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FRMUEItLS-Wsc8410ars ICAYSa16)167

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MI-Nlutonlele

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Who give others their dreams

For it is their dreams

Well share forever.

Shelly Siegel

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In Memory of a man who in youth

gave us all the timeless gift of imagination.

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Billboard Album Radio Action Ploylist Top AdOns Top Requests /Airplay * Regional Breakouts & Notional Breakouts

Top Add Ons- Notional DESMONDCHILD& ROUGE- (CaodOI)

DAVID BROMBERG -My Oh House (Fantasy)

NA2ARETR -No Mean City (AGM(

ROBBEN FORD -Ihe Inside Story (Nato)

ADD ONS -The lour he prod ucts added 31 the radio stations listed. as determined by station personnel TOP REQUESTS/AIRPLAY- The tour products registering the greatest listener requests and airplay as determined by

station personnel BREAKOUTS-8111b03143 Chat Dept summary of Add Ons and Requests/Airplay mlormahon to reflect greatest product ac

Iw1ly al regional and nalonal levels

Western Region

TOP ADD ONS

KAIHAST -lm<MY) CAM- &.atNes/Mrol (MINWID-RaA N bow* IMexr IIN Dt/1ytR-, eP 1

ATOP REQUEST. AIRPLAY

&UB 11I0TNEE- Baraa 1 N 01 Ou, IAnh<I

ROOSTDUlt- Blande! Nut Mas tun fers

taut 1011-52.7 Slatl Maluntat DIR( STRA11-,5181

BREAKOUTS

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RuESYQaEIIi-&ml<r FNO,BIUn 11,n1n1ll

14011015-Pnlltl lees lCNlLhsl

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Southwest Region

TOP ADO ONS

NAlA1ETM-No Mao t0 IASMI

MILK 1MR01 Alg-No bop It II 0(SY010 C11l0 a 1N6E-(Capea 10B&w 10,0 ',r I,adr 51a11fN1r.

* TOP REQUEST, AIRPI AY

ROO SIE11'MI-B10i, rim 11:1L

BAUES eROIMEILS-&ehase fun 018 - rMn<,

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U015 C057000 -4,-, r

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ME 11MI9-14. rol (CMr ':r FABULOUS P000US -111.0 Lan (t:

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&UBB/OMFMS-&nwvTW101Blots ,un ROO STC10.1-BbndnN,r. Mere l0181 000IEIR0TRO5-WaleBr Newt MU/

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Based on station playlist through Wednesday (1/17/79)

Top Requests /Airplay -National BLUES BROTHERS -810401$0 Full 01 Blues (Atlantic) ROD STEWART- Blondes Have More Fun (WB)

DIRE STRAITS -IWBI BILLY 10EL -52nd Street (Columbia)

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SAW OlDhl(0-M1&N1iCh,yuln, IREWIT-Errt(CMyNEnI (IerSCOSrt110-4mNfYSt([ahm5r) (0011101111-Ldtra IA. plrn((COlmBrAl

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Midwest Region

TOP ADO ONS

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WDEK -FM Ups Power, AOR Slant

CHICAGO-Pending federal Communications Commission approval. WDEK -FM, a station located in the university city of to Kalb 60 mitts west of here, will soon blanket Central Northern Il- linois with 20,000 watts and a new AOR sound.

Presently a Q.51X1 waiter and di- vided between day tone automated contemporary and night -time live AOR. plans call for a gradual conversion to full -time AOR with a progressive slant - At WDEK's helm is newly -appointed program director John Bell. formerly the production director and mid -day announcer at WXRT- FM. Chicago.

Bell. who began his radio career years ago as initiator of WDEK'. night -time rock format, returns t,, the station following three years at the Chicago AOR.

Among the changes Bell has in mind are the addition of LP cuts to the station's TM- originated automation, and the gradual conversion from automated to live programming. Studio schedule conflicts with news /MOR sister station WLBK- AM have thus far made daytime live programming impossible. but Bell will step in as WDEK morning announcer on Monday (15).

Station manager Bill Cerny hopes the station will receive approval by spring to move its transmitter site from its present 200 -foot tower in the Kishwaukee River valley to a new 495 -foot tower south of town.

The expansion will increase WDEK's coverage arca to encompass the Rockford area, Southern Wisconsin. the Illinois River valley cities and the western Chicago sub - urh

Sanders Obtains FCC Approval For WVOK Buy

NASHVILLE -Federal Commu- nications Commission approval for the takeover of WVOK -AM in Bir- mingham. Ala.. has been received by Nashville -based broadcaster Mack Sanders.

Contracts were signed for the purchase of the 50.000 -watt. non- direc- tional station last August when unofficial transfer came from previ- ousowners. the Voice of Dixie. Inc.

WVOK. which serves 20 metro- "' politan areas in Alabama as well as

portions of Mississippi. Georgia and Tennessee in signal coverage. oper- ates at 690 on the AM dial. and is the second Southern radio outlet purchased by Sanders.

His other holding. WJRB -AM in Nashville. went on the air Oct. 17

and was moved to new quarters along Nashville s Music Row area.

According to Sanders. a one -time owner of the largest chain of country stations in the country with a total of I I. he has plans to move WVOK to new quarters within the year in addition to keeping an eye open for FM stations in the Birmingham and Nashville areas.

Wolfman Jack Back NEW YORK -Waltman Jack re-

turns as the host of NBC Teles 1s Ion's "Midnight Special" Jan. 12 in a

show which will include appear - ances by Santana. Alicia Bridges. Chanson, First Choice. Patrick Juve1 and Paul Jahara.

Radio-TV Programming

BILLBOARD ARBITRON RATINGS A computation of individual market's formats released by Arbitron based on metro average quarter hour and share figures for Monday to Sunday 6 a.m. to midnight. All figures are reported to the nearest 100 people.

SAN DIEGO OCTOBER -NOVEMBER

AVERAGE QUARTER HOUR -METRO SURVEY AREA SHARES -METRO SURVEY AREA l EDEN 10111 MEN WOMEN Inn tom

MEN WOMEN inY FORMATS MArOR MOM 18- 25- 35- 45- 55- se- 25- 35- 45- 55- 12. FORMATS Rtl11t 18- 25- 35- 45- 18- 25- 35- 45- 12-

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550711 74 71 2 16 7 a 5 2 11 7 10 1 3 COOI1117 1.6 1.5 8.8 6.1 8.1 I./ 5.5 49 8.1 1.7

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Add 7 TV Stations NEW YORK -Video Music.

whose syndicated television concert specials featuring Leonard Bern- stein are currently being shown in

more than 50 markets. will add seven additional stations including WGN -TV Chicago for the fall sea-

son. They are WTCG Atlanta. WMPB

Baltimore, WCSC Charleston. S.C.. WKYC Cleveland, WHRO Norfolk and WWBT Richmond

WRQX Beams Top 107 Albums WASHINGTON -Album I

WRQX took advantage of its dial position of 107 on the FM side to de- vote the entire first weekend of 1979 to playing the best of the top 107 albums of 1978.' The music special was broadcast from 6 p.m. on Jan. 5

to 8 p.m. Jan. 7, enti rely commercial - free.

As an attention- getter, the station conducted a trivia contest over a 10-

.1 period. with one listener each dos winning the entire Top 107 album library.

Instead of relying on national figures. the station based its listings on its own research conducted throughout the year, WRQX, owned by ABC. formerly was known as WMAL -FM before its sale to the network by the previous owners. the Evening Star Broadcasting Co.

'Yearbook' Tells All

NEW YORK -Billboard's "Year- book 1978" provided a recap of the year's past on 420 radio stations with an estimated audience of 24 million over the New Year's weekend. Pro- duced in three formats, the second annual special produced by Bill- board's Music In The Air division, presented the years top chart hots, personality interviews. top utos,e sound clips and nemptmaries.

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NPR `Jazz Alive' Welcomes New Season In New Year's Marathon

WASHINGTON -National Pub- lic Radio's "Jazz Alive" Show, flex- ing its muscles in the midst of its second season, staged a mammoth nationwide broadcast New Year's Eve that may have been the longest live jazz show ever aired.

The show, heard on 185 NPR outlets. began at 9 p.m eastern time. and didn't sign off until 5:15 a.m. It included two lengthy segments of live music broadcast from venues on the East and West Coasts. and offered a wide spectrum of jazz. from mainstream to the most avant -garde. The broadcast was considerably longer than last year's New Year's Eve show. which originated only in

By BORIS WEINTRAUI two New York night spots and lasted 55ri hours.

The rust of putting on this year's show was estimated by Steve Rathe, executive producer of "Jazz Alive.' at about S32.000.

The show kicked off with a half - hour retrospective of the year injuzz. narrated by pianist Billy Taylor. In- cluded were a sizable number of ex- cerpts from "Jazz Alive" shows during the year. including the live broadcast from the White House Jazz Festival at which President Carter joined Dizzy Gillespie on vocals for "Salt Peanuts." performances by Lionel Hampton and a

concert featuring Joni Mitchell and

Rock Gets Welcome From Charity Shows


Kirshner. somewhat bedazzled by the offer from the Easter Seals telethon's producers. Woody Frazier and Ken Greengrass. believes 1979 opens a new era of opportunity for rock stars and the music industry in general to gain points with the pub-

.% Is: by performing on tv for worthy O causes.

Kirshner says that although it is not his responsibility to book acts for the March 24 -25 Easter Seals shin- dig. he will undoubtedly speak

.- with his friends' in music anent participating on the telethon which

N still originate from KTTV here.

cc There is also the possibility of re- motes from other cities, Kirshner

z says. to make appearing less comply- ' sited for superstars working in other major cities.

Kirshner will co-host the telethon with actor Jack Klugman. star of the tv series "Quin cy "The 20 -hour telethon will be seen in approximated, 114 markets. with the Faster Seals organization estimating the viewing audience at around 55 million per - sons.

"I hope to call some of the people that do my own 'Rock Concert' show." Kirshner confides. Like who? "Fleetwood Mac. Donna Summer. the Commodores."

"Rock Concen" is in its sixth season and airs on upwards of 100 stations.

In addition to seeking rock music names for (he telethon, Kirshner

PETERS ADDS NEW FORMATS

NEW YiiRl. Darrel frivis 1 Isl 100 Plan ha. hided two more formats to its list which now includes "Beautiful Music." "Beautiful Country" and "Beautiful MOR" The new format. will he railed "CC 100" (control contemporary). which will bea soft contemporary lineup of songs and "AC 100" (adult contemporary) which will be a harder contemporary based formula.

With the latter format. the attempt will be to try to hold the listener for a longer period of time. It will employ the same principles of music blends as the "Beautiful Music' format does now. Both formats arc projected to be ready for syndication by January 1979.

Co-hosts Don Kirshner. left, and Jack Klugman at their first meeting

to discuss the telethon.

speaks of bringing before the camera major record company executives. its important." he says. "for them to be on camera as partial' a big industry. They work for chanties behind the scenes. I think they should talk about what they think in front of the public "

As part of the telethon's format. Kirshner is working up a segment to talk about the T 1 Martell Founda- tion which raise, funds to fight leu- kemia.

Funds from Easter Seals effons go to help people suffering from a vary ctn of illnesses. Kirshner point. out.

All ace. performing on the telethon work gratis. as du the hosts

Kushner sass that if his name can draw rock stars and help pull in a

Jib audience anti thus new con -

Ihutors to this telethon. it's all ,.,nth the cox and effort.

Notes Kirshus, "If you do well in this world sou have to give something hack

r.

Among last sear's music names appearing on the telethon were Peggy Lee. Herb Alpert and Lou Rawls, not exactly the kinds of musicians Kirshner is accustomed to working with. The Motions have at- ways had MOR artists, Kirshner points out, but not the major rock names.

Emanating from Los Angeles last year. the Faster Seals show drew heavily on actors as guests. ranging from Charlton Heston to Peter Falk to Henry Fonda.

This year Don Kirshner wants to add rock music to that milieu.

Hcrbie Hancock performing to-

gether

Then the seem shifted to Sandy's

Jazz Revival in Beverly. Mass where a three -hour "Salute To Count Basic" was being staged. Per-

formers included the veteran Mus-

kogee pianist and bandleader Jay

McShannon drummer Jo Jones, vo-

calist Game Smith, bassist Major Holley, saxophonists Al Grey and Jimmy Forrest. and Bobby Dur- ham's trio. Also included in the lengthy segment which lasted until 12:30 a.m. Jan. 1 were taped interviews with Basic, and live interviews conducted by program host Felix Grant, a veteran jazz DJ on Wash- ington's WMAL -AM and by Willis Conover. the on -stage master of ceremonies whose jazz program on the 'Voice Of America" has been a

staple for years.

In addition, the show dosed with a jam session in which the musicians. largely Basic veterans. were joined by Polish jazz pianist Adam Makowisz who happened to be in the audience and was called to the stage by Conover.

Then the show moved across the country to the Keystone Karner in San Francisco for a segment that opened with a quartet featuring saxophonist Charles McPherson. and continued with performances by singer Leon Thomas. the Joe Henderson septet featunng brother Eddie Henderson. trumpeter Fred. die Hubbard. pianist Alvin Daley. and avant -garde trumpeter Don Cherry.

Cherry led the Old And New Dreams Quartet. which included such modern masters as Charlie Ha- den. Dewey Redman and Ed Black- well. The evening was part of the second annual Rabsaan Roland Kirk Memonal Festival. and. once more, included interviews conducted by Tony Batten, formerly a

D1 on New York's jazz. station WRVR -FM and now with WHTA- FM, and NPR outlet in Washington. and by jazz authority and producer Michael Cuscuna.

Ratite said the decision to embark on such an ambitous undertaking resulted from the success of the previous year's show, which included performances by veteran singers Al- berta Hunter and Helen Humes and by Joe Vance and Stanley Turren- tine. and from a decision to expand the show's live coverage of special events.

Most of the program's weekly shows consist of tapmgs of live performances. Rathe said. but "we're moving toward more live shows

By way of example. he cited a In s broadcast of a Sarah Vaughan concert in New Orleans, the White House Jazz Festival and a live concert broadcast from last year's New- port Jan Festival.

Upcoming. he said, are two concert, from March's New Orleans Jun and Heritage Festival, includ ing an appearance by Ella 11l; gerald with the New Orleans Phil harmonic.

Ratite said the Ste" of the concert included $5,000 in talent fees, which included payments ai double the AFM scale for the holiday appear unce. About $10.000 went into pre- production expenses, indicating the preparation that took place. The money came out of regular CPU- NPR funds plus grants from the Na- tional Enduwnment for the Arts.

Jock Talk NEW YORK -It's no secret that

disk Jockeys in general are an endan- gered species by way of their in- creasingly diminished roles in tightly structured music formats. Add to that the trend toward syndi-

cated radio. automation and less

talk, more music formats and it be-

comes apparent that we must accept

our changing roles, in fact we must create our own adaptations if we are

to survive. The disk jockey who aspires to be-

come a personality faces a unique broadcasting dilemma: where to pick up cues that even hint at what we're doing nght or wrong. So here

it is; I'm turning this column over to you for your quesuons. comments and industry observations.

The pertinent problems will be

posed to pertinent people. like Stott Henderson of Frank Magid Associ- ates, a well -known broadcast con-

By BREE BUSHAW

sulung and research firm. who says that the key to success in any market depends upon the talent's sensitivity to it: that die superior adult- oriented personality needs to become aware of and cater to the listeners immed ¡. ate concerns.

Regarding a jock's success ut switching markets. Scott daims that peoples tastes can vary drastically from place to place because of pret. erences for a certain type of humor, level ofsoplusucauon and even intonation of voice. The point is to be natural. Don't deny the fact that you are locked into ourself.

The industry street talk nlfecu disk jockeys too, and we'll all be buzzing a long time about the emer- gence of disco as the newest and hottest radio form But I personally like to get to the meat of the motion, to I

called upon none other than the (Continued on page 40)

BILLBOARD ARBITRON DJ RATING PERFORMANCE

Following are Arbitron trends of top OJS performance In morning Shown are rating shares or percentages for total listening audience over age of 12 in the Iasi rive Arbitron reports

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Nov. 76

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KFRC-AM 7.9 8.5 10.1 7,1 9.3 Dr. Don Rose Format: contemporary

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KN9R -A91 4.3 4.3 5.4 4.4 3.8 Frank Dill Format: MOR

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that AOR and Top 40 formatted sta-

lions perhaps take themselves text se-

riously, former KSHE -FM program director Ron Stevens has forsaken St. Louis and created. "Somewhere Over the Radio. ... There's Ronk

Comedy." The ,5nJ«.tted sertes of 130 tape or disk ,Ipncttes irrever- ently attacks everything in rock radio.

Offered by The From Studio B

Company here. stations can humor - ize any hour of the day with the

drop -Ins, which range tiom 30 to 90 seconds. according to Stevens' part - ner-in- comedy. former morning DJ By PAUL GREIN Joy Grdnic.

Musit.dty.a medley ofWingshits LOS ANGELES -"Dancing is ofNBC- TV's "MidnightSpeciaL",n

is offered in, "Paul & Linda' The sweeping the music business" says explaining that long- running show's

ICnnrimred on page 34) Burt Sugarman. executive producer decision to book several dance-

Sugarman Hedges; Dance, Not Disco, For `Midnight'

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eight months ago," he explains. "but that's the way the music business is going now."

Yet he insists that "Midnight Spe- cial" has not become a disco show.

We didn't make a deal with Herb Schlosser and NBC in 1972 to give them a disco show: we made a deal to give them a show that would follow the trends of the music business and that's what we're doing."

"Look at Donna Summer," says Sugarman. "She came out of the dancing mold. but she's not a disco act. She's a music business an; an

international pop star." Sugarman concedes that not all of

the dance acts booked on the show in recent weeks are major pop names. with Patrick Janet, Pattie Brooks and Laura Taylor representative of this group. Says he "Some acts which are not on the pop chart and ..tight not normally be on the show are breaking in the disco market and well book them for that reason. We book from all charts."

Sugarman points out that the show has featured dance -flavored episodes in the past featuring the

Bee Gem and Chuck Bern, but without the mirror balls. fog machines and lighted dance floors it has now.

"We added the lighting effects to

reflect what's happening today. he explains. "Disco is at a high right now and clubs are opening all over the country. And some discotheques are big Advent screens at the bar."

But the show has no plans to doan extended run of disco shows. "For one thing. Sugarman says. "there just aren't that many major disco acts in the country. If we wanted to

do nothing but disco shows wed run out of talent in two weeks: since there aren't enough disco acts to sus -

lain us, we follow the entire music business."

In fact Sugarman says that the

show airing Friday 1261 will probably be totally pop- oriented. without dancing.

In a sense the dance shows are

simply the latest in a string of innovations the show has tried over the past six years to keep the basic format from come stale. A show last fall

Sc had Hall Oates live in she recording studio and also featured a tape of Heart to concert and backstage. "We will do more of that," vows Sugarman.

Actually "Midnight Special" ven- tures out of the NBC soundsuge several times each season. The bulk of one show featured Donna Sum - nter performing in a nightclub: another was taped at Willie Nelson's Fourth of Jul, picnic in Texas. still another featured Marvin Gave in a

pair of one-man shows and in such

pnsatc atliliue. as jogging around the stadium.

What are the show's long -range plans^ "The music business doesn't all(,, sou to make any." says Sugar - min "The whims of the public change ttlo quickly "

While Sugarman has been executive producer of the show through its

entire 300 -show run, there has been

turnover in other key statT positions. Producer Nell Marshall assumed that position about a year ago from Ken Ehrlich. around the same time that director Tom Trbovich Usher-

lied that mantle from Kip Walton.

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April .Blackwood Music proudly salutes Billy Joel on his Grammy nominations for "Just the Way You Are" -the most celebrated song of 1978.

It's accumulated major covers in every imaginable musical format, with recordings by Barry White, Cleo Laine, Les McCann, Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ray Conniff, Kenny Rogers & Dottie West, Isaac Hayes, Ferrante &

Teicher, Ramsey Lewis, Grover Washington, Wayne Newton, Ahmad Jamal and Andre Kostelanetz.

It's created record -breaking sheet music sales all over the world. And it's achieved the "classic" status attained so quickly by

only a handful of songs in this, or any other, decade. Thank you, N.A.R.A.S., for recognizing Billy's excellence.

And thank you, Billy, for sharing it with us.

April. Blackwood Music.

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CBS Sues For Better Deal continued Jiom page 1

Appearing as a friend nl the court on behalf of the Justice Dept . Dep- uty Solicitor General Frank Easier--

brook voiced the opinion Thal "prices tend to be lower under blanket licensing"

ASCAP and BMI lyric little In common with a pnce -II Imp cartel. he added. because "The, neither agree not to compete nor try to cur- tail use of music they offer

Easterbrook also saw "some odd- ity" that CBS nas never sought direct or per -program licenses.

Replying to that and the other points. Hruska termed the situation far less flexible for CBS than thejus- tices had been led to believe. He

charged that the defendants in the

suit "have created a central instru- mentality which controls and insures prices .. more effectoeR than any garden variety hotel room price lix."

Justice John Paul Stevens in- quired whether the network would consider it unlawful for two com- petitors to use the same sales agent. or only if a substantial portion of a

market could use the same sales

agent. Hruska answered that the

percentage of the market is not as

important as the fact that a price is set CBS claims that ASCAP refuses to deal on a per -use basis.

"The blanket license is an all -or- nothing deal," Hruska argued. which "makes direct licensing silly because. who wants to pay twice for the same music ?" Justice White then

iz queried the attorney about the ap-

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expressed c,meern 14 helhct all mdi- vtdual copsnght bin let with no-icl three songs could elfts.lueIs deal with CBS in the absence of perternl- mg rights organizations.

In reference to the 3M "700" tapes. Hruska claimed that eight publishers who refused to license 3M supply 40%i of the network's music.

The Supreme Court generally takes several months to decide a

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The Court's ruling is expected to impact on the suit brought by independent to broadcasters in New York federal court over blanket licensing (Billboard. Dee. 9, 19781

Rock Parody Continued from page 32

Shower Tapes," with male and female singers performing tunes a cap- pella to the background of cascading water.

There also is "Ted Nugent: 'Cat Scratch Fever,' " performed by a jug band before sounds of thousands; and a selection of forgettable cuts from an "LP" by "Jesse Jeff Win- chester." raising a ticklish point with Grdnic.

"Not all the artists would allow us

to use their real names or song ti- ties." she explains. Obviously Nu- gent did not object to the ribbing.

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NON YORK "Austin City Lim- n:' held a party at the Lone Star Cafe here Tuesday (16) to celebrate the music.it variety show's fourth sear on the PBS network.

The show is noted for its democratic approach to country music. presenting act as diverse as Light -

nin' Hopkins, Tom T. Hall and I nn

Waits within the same format li is

produced by KLRN -TV in Austin. a

PBS outlet. "It merely reflects the eclecticism

of the Austin music scene." a spokes- man for the show explains.

Is the formula successful? Yes, considering that despite the

withdrawal of monetary support from a private donor, the show has been picked up by enough PBS affiliates across the country to remain solvent. Each PBS affiliate pays to run the show.

One problem is that the show doesn't air in the same time slot on the PBS net, with each station bring left to place it whenever it chooses. This takes some of the impact away. but the show maintains a loyal following despite this drawback.

This season's airings begin Feb. 5

with Norton Buffalo and the Stam- pede. Other appearances and dates are as follows:

John McEuen and Friends (Feb. 12); Dan Del Santo /Taj Mahal (Feb. 191, the Neville Bros. /Light- nm' Hopkins /Robert Shaw (Feb. 26). Nashville Super Pickers/Tom T Halt (March 5); Lcon Redbone/ Steve Fromholz (March 12); Tom Waits (March 191: Delbert McClinton /the Cate Bros. (March 26); Pure Prairie League /Bobo, Bare (April 21; Alvin Crow /Marti.. Bull (April 91; Hoyt Axton (Arpil 16); Little Joe s la Familia/Eaicb.nl Jordon (Apnl 23); Doug Kershaw Clifton Chenier (April 30).

All air dates. of course. are for Austin onto. Other PBS stations must be checked on a local basis.

San Diego's KBZT

Rides Oldies Format SAN tJll_(,Ci I he debut of an

oldies format in this market puts KBZT -FM known as K -Best high in the Arbrtron ratings.

The station. which switched from eligion to oldies only 32 days before

the rating period, is number four among adults IIl to 49. Before the ibrmat switch the station did not show up in Arbrtron.

Morning drive man David Good scores with a 3.4 share of audience (sec Billboard Arbnron DJ Rating Performance in this section), while the station's overall share among listeners above the age of 12 is a 3.9 share The station scores a 5.0 among 'i, and .i 1.0 among women.

I Ile ti,nnal is described as "The biggest Ilits Of All Time." Norm I titer Is president and general man -

.agerand Dean I lalam is program di- rc.lor.

For the Record (. III( Alit) Alan Mitchell is the

morning dnsc nias on WBBM -FAI (-Imago and the .Brion'. format I. no longer mellow but cunlemporarl Mo. hell succeeded Lee DeYoung In

November in the middle of the O. lober /Novenlhcr Arbrtron rating period Bobby O'Jay es the morning dnve man at WBMXFM Chicago. Ile succeeds John Silver.

BILLBOARD ARBITRON DJ RATING PERFORMANCE

Following are Arbnron trends of top DJs' performance in morning drove.

Shown are rating shares or percentages for total listening audience over the

age of 12 in the last five Arbitron reports.

BOSTON:

Monday -Friday 6 a.m.-10 a.m

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77

Jan. - Feb. 78

April- May 78

July- Aug. 78

Oct: Nov. 78

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WBCN -FM 1.7 2.8 1.7 3.1 WBCN -AM

Charles Laquldara° Format: progressive rock

WBZ -AMI 12,8 1

16.8 1 15.4 I 1 12.2 I WBZ -AM

Carl Desuze Formal: contemporary

WCOZ -FIN I 3.1 I 2.5 I 4.3 I I 3.6 IWCOZ -FM

Dave Lee Austin° Format: progressive rock

W HDH -AMI 14.8 1 15.4 1 14.4 I 1

15.4 I W H D H-AM

Jess Cain Format: MOR

WRKO -AMI 7.1 1 6.3 I 7.1 I I 7.7 I WRKO -AM

Dennis John Bailey°O0 Format: contemporary

WVBF -FMI 4.2 I 5.2 I 5.2 I 14.6 I WVBF -FM

Dale Oormanoe66 Format: contemporary

L4o. oars succeeded Tommy HoOges In Janua, ,978 Austin succeeded Jack Brodanck Net before the latest book

Bailey succeeded Cnannt and Harrigan who were on for two weeks ,n September They reecela t: r decided they chant like Boston and went back to California They were preceded by Ten MAY Dorman succeeded Frank Kingston Srmm. who 'en September

CLEVELAND:

Monday -Friday 6 a.m.-10 a.m.

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Jan. - Feb. 78

April- May 78

July - Aug. 78

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WGAR -AM 8.5 7.5 8.8 6.3 WGAR -AM

John Lanigan Format: contemporary

WGCL-FMI 4.0 I 3.0 I 3.5 I I 3 2 I WGCL-FM I

Phil Gardner Format: Top 40

WHK -AMI 11.0 I 11.8 I 10.6 1 i 13.1 1

WHK-AM

Gary Dee Format: country

WJMO -AMI 3.5 1 4.4 1 5,7 I I 5.3 1 WJMO -AM1

Eric Stone Format: black

WJW-AM 2.2 3.9 2.1 4.8 1 WJW -AM

Ronnie Barrett° Format: MOR

WMMS -FM1 8.8 I 5.1 I 7.1 I I 7.1 IWMMS -FM

Jeff Kinzbach Format: AOR

WWWE -AMI 5,2 I

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Mike Wilson Format: MOR _ W V WA11ß -FMI 3.9 1 2.7 1 3.1 1 15 -0 jIWWMFM

David Spero Format: contemporary earlsucceededo Reeves in July Reeves snd been on for l O wreaks Mid succeeee:

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KARA -FM 3.3 3.0 2.2 3.2 RA -FM Dan Schow Format: oldies

KEEN -AM 2.4 I

4.4 I 2,5 I j 3.9 I KEEN -AM

Jay Albright Format: country

KLIV -AM I 4. I 4.1 13.7 I 13.9 I KLIVAM Bob Ray Format: contemporary

KLOK -AM 6.7 4.5 6.4 5.6 LOK -AM Jim Phillips° Format: MOR

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FM Briarcliff Manor. N.Y.. Piasek has worked at WCOZ -FM Boston. WPLR -FM New Haven, Conn., and

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Cremona went on to say. "Pure rock'n'roll is an evolution of AUK which has become. unfortunately, 'all over the road.'" He added. "WPIX 102 is now going to provide the listening audience with a specialized and consistent version of 'basic' music.'.

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reigning king of disco himself. t ddre Cossman, executive vice president id

SJR Communications, and as such. the head honcho of New f'ork's number one station, Disco 92

W KTU -FM. I've wondered whether disco

won't last longer here in New Yolk than in other markets. so that's what I asked Cossman. He tended to

agree. because as he sees it, in New York. the variety of population mix creates the socioeconomic factors that influence the popularity of music and dancing more here than in other markets.

As far as its endurance qualities all over, Cowman says he's uncon- cerned. "Let it last another week." He claims that a certain sociological study he's had compiled says that disco will take its place alongside other permanent forms of music.

On the other hand, a psychiatric study points out that most people couldn't take it for very long. The in- cessant beat can drive you crazy. Cossman insists any radio format "should exist only as long as it ful- fills the needs and preferences of the public" Nonetheless, he's prepared to take measures that will insure

O disco's longevity in the Big Apple. cc He plans to spend S1.5 million in ad-

< vertising in 1979. Meanwhile. Glenn m Morgan. WABC's young and histor- 2, wally successful program director. ep reminds us "One book does not a

legend make."

L.A. KIIS -AM TRIES DUO IN EARLY HOURS

By CARY DARLING LOS ANGELES -Billing the

show as the "new alternative." KI IS- AM has launched a new morning dnvetime comedy and music pro- :tram. The Tom And Jerry Show.' featuring air personalities Tom .Murphy and Jerry Bishop. now challenges KFI -AM's long- standing "Lohman And Barkley Show" which had been that time slot's only such duo personality program.

The morning wasn't really weak for us hut we took a look around at

the other stations and realized eve n one's Just playing the some muses We were looking for alternatives ays program director Mike Wad net

The program had been rear' for Bishop. already the morning d s4.

pickey at KIIS -AM is well as the off- camera announcer on MO TV's "Dick Clark's Live Wcdnr. day." to handle solo. Ileiwerri. humorous banter between Bishop and Murphy, air talent at the Top 40- nirned -disco KIIS -FM. on the inter - station intercom sparked the ideas That the two might work well together.

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ner of the duos emphasis nr Its t.

am.-I0 a.m. program. "Our )aglow is music. laughter and infiirmauon

They play more than fivcurs songs per hour. We want to plan Inure music Ilion Lohman and Bark - ley."

With the show now only 7.nn Into iIs second week. Wagner has

real idea how it's faring with the public. We don't expect to take the market overnight. It takes awhile" he admits. So far. phtlir. iii lrsptnlx- has hico posiiisr

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share figures for Monday to Sunday 6 a.m. to midnight. All figures are reported to the nearest 100 people.

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AVERAGE QUARTER HOUR-METRO SURVEY AREA SHARES-METRO SURVEY AREA

TOM HIM MEN WOMEN MU 1091

MEN WOMEN iron

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By JEAN WILLIAMS had three programs shown in 16 of the 36 -store Peaches chain. The programs spot 16 acts including the Who, Devo, Van Mai-mini. David Bowie. Lvnyrd Skvn.rd. Alice Cooper. Nicolette Lar.on, Todd Rungren. Riot Stewart. "'Ihe Wiz" :rad others The program started last

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Neville Bros.

New Orleans

Chart Hopes By KELLY TUCKER

NEW ORLEANS -After having success with Le Roux's "Louisiana's Le Roux" LP and "New Orleans Ladies" single, Capitol Records has taken under its wing another New Orleans area group -the Neville Brothers.

Though the four brothers (Aaron. Cyril. An and Charles) only recently completed their first album, they are by no means strangers to recording. or to the charts.

Lead vocalist and percussionist Aaron hit number two on Bill- board'spopchartsin 1967 with "Tell It Like It Is," and kcyhoardist-vocalist Art and conga player- vocalist Cy- ril were the nucleus of the Meters. a

local group which had a few charted records.

The Neville Brothers' self -titled LP, released last month. was recorded at nearby Studio in the Country in Bogalusa. La., where Stevie Wonder recorded some of his upcoming album. Producing the group's album was Jack Nitzsche. known for his work with the Rolling` Stones and Neil Young. among others.

Since the Neville Brothers are known locally far their funky rhythms. the album surprised many of thee fans because of iii. slickness and the inclusion of several poign- ant ballads.

Iluwevcr. .icc.lyding to group manager Rupert Surcouf. the LP is selling well locally and in Texas. 1L ....ippi and Alabama. Surcouf

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Band; Billy Crain, from the Henry Paul Band; Charlie Daniels, Gary Bossing. ton. from Lynyrd Skynyrd; Toy Caldwell. from the Marshall Tucker Band.

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10,000 Applaud Gala Daniels Homecoming

By SALLY NASHVILLE -The Charlie Dan-

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More than 10,000 fans jammed the auditorium for the traditional six -hour marathon. while an even

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Bill Anderson Revamps To Add Flexibility In Booking

NASHVILLE - Country entertainer Bill Anderson has refined his road show presentations for 1979 with a fresher and more flexible show for bookings.

As the first major company entertainer to feature a multi -media slide presentation in his travelling show. Anderson has expanded this year from a one -screen, three -projector show to a three -screen, nine- projec- tor production.

In addition to his association with Marty Slutsky of Moonlight Sound of Nashville for audio, Anderson has contracted Scott Nicely of Star - maker Productions of Knoxville for lighting as well as special sets and visual effects to lie in with the music.

The Bill Anderson Show. which features the Pó Folks Band and Mary Lou Turner, is also available this year with or without Turner.

'This is no break in our relationship,' states Anderson. "but rather a

plus for both Mary Lou and myself. "She will be free for the first time

in six years of working with my show exclusively, to work surir dates on her own and to expand her individual .areer, while I'll be able to offer hasch and promoters a greater flexibility in booking the show Vien they need a longer, more complete show, we can give them that with Turner on the bill. When onstage tinte, and /or size of the facility dic- tates less, we can give them Bill An- derson and the Po' Folks."

Anderson kicked off the new season Friday (12) with a date in Read- ing, Pa. Upcoming highlighting dates for the show this year include a 15 -day European tour in February, state fairs in Florida and Missouri, die Sidney, Iowa rodeo for six days in August, a proposed coast -to -coast tour in Canada and a September Gnose aboard Holland -American Lines.

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by the Bill Goodwin Agency' of Madison. Tenn_ and personal management by Bobby Brenner .Assona- ates of New York. SALLY HINKLE

'Grease' Tops Clark's Awards

LOS ANGELES- "G maw' beat "Saturday Night Fever" as top pop album at Dick Clark's sixth annual Amen - can Music Awards Jan. 12. but mast of the other awards went as expected.

Barn Manilow and Linda Ronstadt were tabbed toR pop vocalists for the second year in a row. while in soul Natalie Cole won as top female for the second year and Earth. Wind & Fire emerged as favorite group for the third straight sear.

Multiple winners were Ronstadt, who also won top counln single for "Blue Bayou;" the Bee Geo, top pop group and top album for "Fever." Kenny Rogers, top vvimtry orale and country album for "10 \ears Of Gold." and Donna Sum- mer, top disco female. top dise single for "Last Dance" and top disco alhum for "Live And More "

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Talent BIG DEBUT LP ON WB

Nicolette Larson Leaves Backup

From left: Buddy Collette. Charles McPherson, Al Aarons. Billy Chetum blow at the Memorial Mingus Concert.

Friends & Performers Pay Mingus Tribute

By ED AGUIRRE LOS ANGELES -Family, friends The first was Buddy t. oilctc play-

and musicians who lived and loved ing solo flute °Bering his rendition the Iceacy of Charles Mingus paid of "My Buddy." It was a touching their tribute here Sunday (14) in moment that drew tears from many what was an informal gathering in in the room. Benny Powell and the heart ofdowntown Los Angeles. Frank Morgan played a prayer.

The encomium. which took place Harold Land and Teddy Edwards in a junior high school auditorium. jammed on old standards and Don had quite a turnout bnnging to- Cherry sat in on African guitar. eether Mingus fans and top name Also adding a bright spot was alto musicians in the L.A. jazz circle. saxophonist Charles McPherson on

"Take The A Train." As somewhat of a finale. everyone

Joined in on Lou Mathews' arrangement of Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," featuring Blue Mitchell. Col- lette, Jimmy Chetum. McPherson. Leroy Vinnegar and Donald Dean.

There was also talk of a scholar- ship fund being set up in the name of the late musician.

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The event was arranged by the late bassist's son Eugene Mingus. his nephew Bill Lewis and many close friends.

There were eulogies given, vist,al sequences on screen and almost two hours of live music played by many musicians who had worked with or been inspired by Mingus.

The musical segment was run spontaneously, allowing anyone wanting to offer musical tribute to do so. Harold Land

Disco Out At Hungry Tiger LOS ANGELES -The Hungry

Tiger restaurant chain is moving to a

more traditional talent booking policy and away from the disco format initiated more than a year ago. according to Rick Buche, director of entertainment for the 19- restaurant operation.

Disco. says Buche, who has handled the bookings for four years. did not fare well in the clubs because the clubs are primarily dining and lounge atmospheres. The Hungry Tiger is reverting to solo acts, duos and small show groups.

Trying a different approach to its entertainment. Buche and partners Sam Parsons and John Livingston created an original video an presentation titled "Phantasmogona." a

conceptual staging of micro -lensed aisual abstract art forms coupled with an orchestrated musical score at each of the locations.

The show was screened five times throughout the evening in lieu of standard performers.

"People loved the shows," says

Ruche. They became so mesmerized by the occurrences up on the screen

that they forgot to drink, and the shows lost money."

In business 14 years, the Hungry Tiger has maintained live entertainment consistently in that time in all of its clubs. Acts are brought in on

an indefinite contract arrangement and paid above union scale. says

Buche, who hires talent for each res-

taurant. He notes that his job is made eas-

ier because "I receive about 40 calls a day" from musicians and performers seeking bookings. However, he

will only contract performers he has

personally reviewed live, and he

looks for "showmanship and personality" to generate volume business in the lounges.

With a new restaurant. which opened Friday (151 in Phoenix and five more on the drawing boards

through next September. the Hun- gry Tiger is experiencing a steady

growth rate which, notes Buche, is

supported strongly by the chain's commitment to live entertainment.

I OS AN( II I I s \.I ,solelo Larson about Io'r tit l hi, ,1d1n break and she'll tell s, o

about a ncrvou, gnl tooiii K.,u.. ('its who parked heiscIl 4'111 141, 1.111

I.raneist'ris ReeoisI Plano ,..11.ing up enough courage I..rudition lot a

singing gig on ,u ('n1rnande' album that Hoyt Aston was producing

Axton vase her the joh and before she knew n she was on the road with Cody opening for Joan ttaer'. "DLLe

monds And Rust" tour Not loo bone

after, the record contracts stalled coming in.

And now Larson's debut Warner Bros album titled "Noolette" o. rac- ing up the charts faster than anyone anticipated. with het version of Neil Young's "Latta Lace" making its way into the top IS of the Hut 100.

Larson has contributed hack - ground vocals for the likes of John Stewart, Jesse Winchester, Neil Young. Arlo Guthne, the Doohie Brothers and others, but as her own career now mushrooms she feels that he backup days are behind her

In fact, hcralbum rclleots the ',dried influences of the musicians she's played with and the songs she's been exposed to.

"You have to do songs you like," Larson explains. "I can't worry about concept Tlic only concept was to keep the album on a positive level. If I had a statement to make, wanted at to he that everything's all nght."

The album's diversity showcases Larson's rock, counts. rockabilly

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roll .i Nn, ho coi sour erme ,diet she heard 1t at one of Jesses ,how. And much of her country IIIlluc11oc 'ten, Iron I arson's triendship with I nrr,rslou Il. iris

!i Nicolette Larson

Lawn.' has dr.0 sn many compari- sons to Linda Ronstadt. whom she's sang with on many occasions including "Nicolette. Larson credits Ron - stadt for teaching her how to sing.

"It's inevitable drawing compari- sons to Linda," says Larson. "If I

sang with Chaka Khan I'd sound

Nashville Host To Lloyd's Country Song Competition

NASHVILLE -Music t oy o Song Festival, a new national country music songwriting competition. begins this month here with a promotional and advertising campaign slated to utilize major country music publications and radio stations.

According to Mick Lloyd, president of Mick Lloyd Music and director of the festival. the contest is open to amateur songwriters. lyricists and singers who will compete in three categories for cash prizes and recording opportunities.

Grand prize in the song competition division. says Lloyd. will be $10.000. with the winner in the lyric competition receiving $7.500 and the top finalist in the vocal performance division taking home 51.500. Runner -up lin.iIists will also receive cash prizes. with an additional 100

honorable mention certificates to be awarded at the close of the contest.

Judges for the Music City Song

Festival will Includo \Ilk, Burger. president of the Federation of Inter- national Country Air Personalities and program director of WHOO- AM in Orlando, Fla.; Merlin Lit- tlefield, assistant director. ASCAP, Nashville; Vincent Candilora, director of writer affiliation, SESAC. N.Y.; Maggie Cavender of Maggie Cavender Enterprises, and Georgia Chellman, executive director of the

Federation of International Country Air Personalities. Additional judges are to be announced shortly.

Deadline for contest entries is

Aug. 15. 1979. Winners a re to be announced no later than Dec. 31. and grand prize winners from each of the three categories will he brought to

Nashville to receive their awards at a

special banquet. All competition entries should be

addressed to Music City Song Festi- val, 1014 16th Ave. S., Nashville. Tenn. 37212.

Iowans Don't Forget Holly CLEAR LAKE, Iowa -On the

20th anniversary of Buddy Holly's performance at the Surf Ballroom here -his final concert prior to the plane crash that took his life -local KZEV -FM will sponsor a memorial conccn.

The concert, to be held Feb. 3 at

the Surf. will aid the Buddy Holly Memorial Fund as well as 'a local center for the handicapped.

Scheduled to appear in the show are Jimmy Clanton, Del Shannon, Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids and MC Wolfman Jack, reportedly to he joined by a member of the Crickets. Holly's backup band.

The Surf. according to KZEV mu-

sic director Bruce Wasenus. has over the last few years been used for ballroom dancing, an annual Okto- berfest celebration and various community events.

Apart from a Wet Willie performance a few years ago, the Holly show will he the first r ck'n'roll concert to take place there in some time. The hall holds approximately 1,300 persons.

KZEV, a 24 -hour stereo contemporary station, will broadcast the affair live. Serving Clear Lake, adja- cent Mason City and much of Central Iowa, the station has been giving away copies of Holly's "Gulden Greats" LP provided by MCA Records.

like her II I sang with I.sthcr Phillips I'd have more of a Jazz influence

"Linda taught me a lot about hrcathing and what approach to take t si rags. I don't mind when poople tell sic I sound like Linda on Mal song." she says. "And there's no 'I' ilry either."

While Larson doesn't consider herself a country artist- she Is partial to it because it makes her "happy and want to dance." She believes that country artists today lack the "class" of a Hank Williams. George Junes, Roy Acuff or Ernest Tubbs.

"Now its turned into almost humor," she says. "Country artists today think they're being pop."

Larson is now putting together a

touring hand for a major headlining tour that hcgms m February. She is

hoping that the band which appeared on the album and accompanied her on a warmup gig at Los Angeles' Roxy last month will make the tour.

The all -star group consists of Little Feat's Billy Payne on keyboards and Paul Barerre on guitar: drummer Rick Shlosser; bassist Bob Glaub; Bobby Lakind of the Doobie Brothers on percussion; and vocalist Fran Payne. who co -wrote "Give A Little" with Billy Payne.

Larson also is working on her writing, something she admits weakness at, and if she's confident enough in a song she pens. will include it on her next album.

Concerts Stalled, Minority Schools

Facing Problems OP

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By CARY DARLING

LOS ANGELES -Colleges and C

universities with predominately minority enrollments are facing concert booking problems due to small enrollments, inadequate facilities and geographic location.

Racial lames have not inter- fered with bookings, according to a

survey of 11 institutions comprised of minority enrollments.

A member of the student eovern- ment at Nashville's Fisk Unis "It has nothing to do with being black or white. When you talk to a

promoter. he doesn't ask your color. He wants to know the number of students. Promoters are attracted to the larger schools ;" Fisk has an enrollment of approximately 1.300.

This points to one major problem faced by many minority colleges. It is one of size. Andrew Nichols, president of student government at Mis- snsippi s Alcorn Stale Univ., says. "Black schools have lower per count student enrollment than the racially nuced schools and that means a

lower amount of fees collected." At Alcorn there is an 518.000

budget alloted for all student activities. Nichols admits the school needs

to spend nearly $20.000 on a single amcen in order to make money.

At the predominantly Chicano College of Santa Fe in New Mexico,_ there has not been a concert in five sears clnell because of finances. "the fact that we have a large mi- nurns enrollment doesn't hold us back," notes student government president Pablo Guzman. "Our finances hold us hack. Our last concert was with Flash Cadillac five years ago and attendance was poor."

Like Alcorn, the primarily Chi - (Continued on page 54)

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l alent Bronco Fullback Tackles Nightclubs

DENVER -Denver Bronco fullback Jon Keyworth debuted his stage act this month, following the release of his first album. "Keys."

At the same time his label, Aspen Records, is lying in with a local radio station and audio equipment store for a promotional giveaway of two tickets to the Superbowl scheduled for Jan. 21 in Miami.

A band was recently selected for Keyword) by his label and its parent company, AMI. a Denver musical conglomerate.

Edd Nichols, acting as manager of the newly formed group. explains that band members were selected after a month of auditioning.

There will be two keyboardists: Dave Sisson, who did the musical at- rangements for Keyworth's album, and Jim Carlton, who also will handle some of the singing duties for the band.

Other members include Jim Man- cuso on bass and Matt Iddings on guitar. Background singers and a

permanent drummer are yet to be se-

lected. The band opened Jan 2 at the

B) DICK KELLEHER Villa Grove in the Deriver suburb of Applewood, the town in which Ap- plewood Studios, where Kcyworth recorded his album. is located. He has performed around Denver previous to this, but never with this band.

Nichols says that until the end of the football season Kcyworth will only be performing on Friday., as

long as his football schedule will al-

low it. After the season. he plans to be onstage five nights a week.

Filling in with the band for the remaining nights of the six -week run at the Villa Cir.wc will be Phyllis Murray, fomierls ,n the Billy Miles Band. Murray will reni.iin as part of the act after Keyworth resumes control of the show. Nichols states.

Following that engagement, the hand moves onto Hogan's First Precinct for two weeks and Nichols is working on a Southwestern mini - tour to follow that.

Plans call for Keywonh and his band to perform in Vail. Steamboat Springs. Boulder and possibly Albu- querque and Fort Collins. All but

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Giving a report on how Key - worth's record is doing. Nelsons statm "Keys" sold 10.000 units 60

days after its release. The record is

distributed only in Colorado. New Mexico. Nebraska, Wyoming. Mon - lana and Utah.

The album carne out in controversy because of a nude Bronco player on the cover and eight other players sans clothing in a shower) on the inner sleeve. A large Denver chain store refused to put the LP on

its shelf for a short time, but Nelson assures that situation has been re- solved.

Tie said besides the unusual tic -in with KTMN and the Soundtrack stores, the LP has also been sold al several Bronco home games by the Arvada High School Sales and Mar- keting Club.

Talent Talk

On the heels d a regaled loss 01 more than

52 million in 1978. New Yak's troubled Radio

City Music Hall has retained Robed F. Jani as its

programming consultant Jan, creative directa of Walt Disney Productions to Disneyland and

Disney Wald, plans to develop new programs la the hat There is a possibility the house

could close alter April Until that time Radio City

is committed to its present entertainment for mat

Look for Frank Sinatra and Melissa Radars. tee to sing together on "I'll Be There," a song

she and Carol Connors ( "Gonna Fly Now ") wrote

for his new album Manchester recently co.

wrote with Kenny Logglns his hit 'Whenever I

Call You Friend " Ironically she did not write her

own hit. "Don't Cry Out loud" penned by Carole

Bayer Sager and Peter Allen. Grammy nomi nee Anne Murry has been advued by her doc-

tors to cancel all forthcoming singing engage

ments la at least a period of three weeks

Murray is reportedly suffering horn mRamma

Ion of the throat and ears The singer will be

advised rn early February whether she can at

tend Feb 15 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles

where she is nominated in four categories

Beau and Jeff Bridges, Keith and Robert Car -

radine, Harvey Korman, Melissa Manchester,

Bud Cori, Ilona Simon and International Chil-

dren's Choir hosted a benefit to wipe oul world

hunger Fnday (1St at the Pasadena Civic Audi-

torium in California The event, titled A World

Without Hunger,' kicked off a weeklong Rain

bow Rose Festival at the Pasadena Convention

Center All proceeds are earmarked for the

Southern California U N. International Year of

the Child Commission, the Pasadena Hunger

Ptolects Committee and Ike international Coop

eralion Council

Etektra recording artist Eddie RabbiR a set

la a special engagement al Los Angeles' Pal mino Club with the lust of his two consecutive

dates. Feb I. being broadcast live over 6H11

FM Rabbitt set a music industry record by scot

ing eight back to back number one country rec

aids

Natalie Cole debuts as a headline Las Vegas

perlorner Feb O to 14 al the MGM Grand She

also will headline at the Sahara Tahoe March 9

through 1 I Mcóuám, Clark and Hillman will showcase in Pans, London. New York and Los

Angeles The L A Rory dales are March 1 3

while the N Y Bottom Line dales are Feb 23 through 75. An extensive European tall tour also

is planned "Boogie Oogu Cogre" becomes

Canada's lust platinum 1150,000 copies) single

by an rdb act, Capitol's Taste Of Haw first it was Grand Canyon, then d was the

towers of the Wald Trade Center, and now the

Year One Band, in its pursuit of the (roiled rock mow. a waking with ARC TV to gel a orsa to play

at the Neal Wall of China Men Corker, spokes man for the group. says he hopes the lilmmg will take place on Aug 24, the 101h anniversary s1

Woodstock "Rock Wes,' as the protect o called. will also appear in book form in Seplem her To be published by Doubleday. the lull color cannon book will also contain an Evatone

wondsheet with the "Rock Was theme

ROMAN KOMAK and CARY DARLING

GOOD COMPANY -From left, Roberta Flack, Elwood Blues and Jake Blues

(the Blues Brothers) share in the fun at Atlantic Records' holiday bash in New

York.

Talent In Action TANYA TUCKER and TNT

Rod y, Las Angelei If there was any doubt whether Tanya can

make a successful transformation from gentle

sweet sounding country singer to a hot

rock'n'roll lady that doubt was erased ten 10

when she delivered a surprisingly solid 50 -min

ute, 13 -song set of countrified rock

Dressed m skin -light black leather similar to

that on the album cover of her new Mal album

"TNT' and heavy on the makeup Tucker ail

peered more like a veteran rocker. wiggling her

derriere and going through all the nght motions

than a fragile country crooner

She opened with "Lover Goodbye," a charged

rocker that set the pace for the remainder of the

show Sim Throaty vocals. compote wilt her

country twang came across authentically enough as her TNT band supported with excel

lent musical accompaniment. Pouring plenty of emotion into each song

tucker performed most of her new album Not

Fade Away.' her current single, now Tucker bell-

ing away as searing guitar work helped drive

home the tune.

Vocals on lohn Pnne s "Angel From Mont

gomery" sounded a bit too countryish for pop

audiences. tel the power of the song and the

conviction in which Tucker delivered it nullified

any of those teehngs.

Also performed were "I'm The Singer, You're

The Song," written by Tucker and producer Jerry

Goldstein for her "Amateur Night" television de

but. Chuck Berry's "BrowmEyed Handsome

Man" with Tanya on electric guitar shaking her hips, as well as a medley of her country stand arils such as "What's His Mama's Name,"

-Georgia 1- Dancing The Night Away" and

her landmar, Delta Dawn."

"Hanbreak Hotel" was a bawdy rocker sod

her encore, in which she was dressed without

her jacket. gave her an even someone o she

performed the ballad "River And The Bat' How the public accepts Tucker's new image

will be the deciding factor in the growth of yea

pop career ED HAI M

HERBIE HANCOCK Re-n. Los Angeles

Contrary to what Hancock might berme. be

a not a singer and he proved n Jan 15. An u-

tremely talented keyboard player he a, and lie

confirmed that in his opening number teatcnng

a 55acmuse, imptovoahional yeyhtresd sato.

With the crowd somewhat mellowed and not

knowing what kind of show to ripeti. Heard brought on the remainder of his trio, ropey

drummer Alphonse Mouton and bass Plato Paul Jackson_

The unit eased into Hancock's "Maiden Ye,.

age:' running through multiple moods ranging

from funk shuffle and contemporary mpdern

sounds

At this point Hancock introduced tour mere

additions to the ensemble on keyboards Web-

ster Lewis. woodwinds Bennie Macye. pertß sionist Sill Summers and guitamt Roy thugs

The players npped mto a bud. flaky meson

of "Hang Up Your Hangups." Hancock changed the whole Lbw d toe

seven tune. 80- minute evening when he began

to sing through the vocordes. a device obeli

puts tones to spoken wads.


Signings Orleans to a worldwide recording contract Gamed Ruff, a South Carolina based banl to

with Infinity Records The Woodstock. N Y Capitol The upcoming album a stated la Feb

based group is mixing its LP expected tor re Ivary Jimmy Ibalsm, fume Had anger

lease in March Singei.composer Tai Mahal with the NMty Gritty O6t Ball. to Seattle's fen to Victor O'Gdrie of CWP Associates for bensait American Record Group to recording management. Mini Gores lo Image Manage

ment Co. 10e personal management Het hint Sttse Manson to booking agreement nth single. It Hurls So Bad" has shipped on EMI Shorty ,aieniei Tatnet Yr; to Elehm Records

America with an LP upcoming shortry n tr Ion Byron to Light

Bratdran singer and composer Gilberto Gil to Re. tore due for

Regency Artists, ltd . for worldwide representa March ieiase R. H Blackwood 8 FeiN,the bon His debut album, produced by Sergio Mm. LeGarde Tuns, J.D. Sumner b The Stall" the des, is set Ida release Feb I l'R Queenie J: Ellis lirooinine and lent Wallas, .i to AN En- the Percolators, a New Orleans based group tertamment in addition t. Ronnie Owes b WC

which has opened in its home city for such acts Owen &others for exclusive bookings. Orb as Louisiana LeRoy* and terry let Walker, to Layne to Fox Fire Records With had single re music publishing agreement with Almo Music kale.. Lore To The Highest &ddei'"'Naisl Cap (ASCAP) Case 01 love"

Neville Bros. New Orleans Pride Continued from purge 4: i

sass site arc slow m other areas of the eounies because ot'the lack of r &b airplay

"Oddly enough. the l'ew .tabors, we've prike.l up ,o tar hare been AOR ones,- s.i s Yurci,ut " (.apnol's pop promotion department hi, done a great lob hot the rife depau- ment hasn't done An, thing, to help We're hoping it'll pick up the slick when the lint single t, celea,eit and when we goon lour."

Surcouf say, the single. "It li lake All Night," will be released Tlmrs- ,Lis (25). "Everybody at Capitol

secninl I. like that song best and

thes sainted to put out a ballad be-

cause it a ballad's going to make rt n'll make a right away."

Regardless of how "If It Take All Night" fares. Sun:ouf believes the

(coups tour will attract a following .ofd boost album sales. The tour. scheduled for the first three weeks in

February, will consist mostly of showcase clubs Surcouf says he is

lining up dates with the Paradise Ballroom in Boston. Bottom Line in

New York City. Bijou in Phila- delphia. Cellar floor in Washington. D C.. Great Southeast Music Hall in

Atlanta and Exit /1n in Nashville.

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With this, Hancock became a tit11e earned

away, galavanting around the stage like a teen"

age rock idol and at one point his sidemen even

mined in to create disco talseito lourpart har

monies. The remainder of the set comprised

tunes from his tatest release on Columbia. Sun

light." and the soon to be released disco LP

"Feet Don't Fail Me Now " EDAGUIRRE

LENNY WHITE Rr,vi. /vrs Angelen

While, mike many jazz musicians today. has

crossed into disco funk fusion music.

And White. drummer extraordmaue, along

with an array of excellent musicians dealt the

enthusiastic crowd what d wanted m a loud. 90

minute approximately 10 song net of various

types of fusion sound Jan 12

He opened with "Strutting from his latest

release Streamline on Elehtra The tune, a

typical hard driving tunk groove. set the room

on fee With the same intensity, White and corn

',any strutted into "12 Bars From Mars ufilrz

ing the talents of multi keyboard players Doncel

Broadway Miller" and Donald Blackman they

moved through "Earthlings,' as While brought

en vocalist Diana Reeves to guest throughout

the remainder of the set

Although the bulk of the set came from his

latest LP. White did offer a distinctive arrange

men, of 'Lady Madonna" featuring keyboard

',iaye' Blackman on vocals The group continued

with a collection of old and new tunes

All numbers were played with the loud, m

tense fusion sound White a noted for

Ed Martinez also offered tasty Naar work as

Jid Barry Sunion on bass ED AGUIRRE

GEORGE THOROGOOD ea

Bottom Line, Nei.. York CC

Thorogood, this seasons prime example of

mthe vitality of basic rock'n'roll, proved beyond a

J 1,0' here tuesday (161 that you can raise the =1,3,

5,

root and dnve people wild with lust a set of

drums, a bass guitar and a high energy lead gut

burst/vocalist who closely follows the path sel

by the masters -Chuck Berry and Bo Drddley

Ihorogood, a Baton Rouge native who grew

up in Wilmington. Del earned his musical

chops playing en bars night after night until lie

mastered every note of every rock standard,

bent it to his own taste. and revved it up for la

day's audience

He never drops a note or misses a beat evil when he plays lying on his back. and this re

viewer has seldom seen a performer who cloys playing as much as Thorogood does

His 90.mmule more than a dozen tune set rs

dominated by his flashy guitar playing and his

strong voice which is perfectly suited to the

lanes he preten. such as "The House 01 Blue

Lights." Madison Blues:' "II Wasn't Me." 'Ride On Josephine." "No Particular Place To

Co," and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One

Beer " Ho success is based simply on mining

the rich blue vein of American nUb

By sometimes employing a steel bar on his

pinky, Thorogood adds considerable depth and

variety to these patented guitar licks. corn

pletely avoiding the danger of becoming boring

and repetitious

Judging tram the Yenned audience response

and the fact his one night stand was broadcast

five via WNEWFM enabling him to reach more

people, all signs indicate 1979 could be a ban

nee year for lhorogood, and for Rounder Rec

olds. the little independent label he prefers to

be associated with despite offers from Arista

Warner Bros and Atlantic

In fact. Thorogood could be in the start of a

revisionist movement when traditionalist rock

ens will associate themselves with independ en's, rather than the conglomerates.

The bottom line is getting the record into the

retail bins. and the last that the giant Leiber

man organization has played a major role in dis

tribuhng Thorogood's albums augers well for the

future of small labels with hot acts

DICK NASSER

Talent_ Talent In Action

ALESSI BROTHERS Bottom Line, Nor }rink

The lean figures of Bobby and Billy Alessi

sprung tirlo action here Jan 13, sporting mime eve

ulately white summer style means. along with

loosely worn white shirts knotted across the

waist, outfits which iellecled then biight musi cal outlook

The two songwriter brothers opened for the Andy Gibb tour last year and have developed

then own formula that is warm, even sweet. yet

non cloying, while also uttering some tasty rock

Aided by a six piece backup band, the Alessrs

wooed and romped the mull house with 17 songs

and RO minutes of high spirited. streamlined

pop "Dancing In The Halls Of Love," from their

latest ARM release. "Du ilia'," served as a

strong. rhythmic opener, tottered by "Yon Can

Have It Back," an older showcase for the soulful side of their vocal capabilities

Many in the audience who were followers of

the two brothers since their Barnaby Bye group days especially appreciated such favorites as

Lover Boy" and "Oh Laurie, with Bobby Alessi s smooth lead vocal riding over a light. flowing accompaniment revealing traces of man

But the vocal high point of the evening was

an intimate duet setting tor a medley where

Bobby and Billy blended silky harmonies and wove counter melodies together as they accom

paled themselves on keyboards The band re

emerged with startling energy during the last song d the medley, "Do You Feet It,

The sir piece band powered the songs along enthusiastically, and provided many a tasteful MI Timmy Rippetoe on guitar was consistently colorful. whether he was accompanying or shin ing in one of his own brie' but compelling solos

Also responsible for generating sight and

sound electricity onstage was percussionist Car

los Rodriguez, whose assured preciseness often cracked a rhythmic whip Vocally the band was

rounded out by the efforts of new member John

Metnirk BOB RIEDINGER JR.

BLUE NOTES SONNY JOHNSON

/'alai Puvilliurr, Bahama, Princess Hotel Freeport, Grand Bahama

The group's vocal dynamics came to the lore

recapping such million sellers with a medley of

past hits. "Be For Real. "' If You Don't Know Me

By Now,' "Wake Up" and "The Love I Lost " The 75 minute show consisted of a dozen songs

Accompanied by the Shades of Blue. as eight" member backup band. the Blue Notes romped

through such other tunes as "Where Are All My

Fiends," "Cabaret" and "The Greatest Ballad "

The group also included its first release on

the Fantasy label two deco oriented songs.

"Ono Explosion" and "AI' I Need" that dis

played its lent for the current disco form

Newcomer 011ie Woodson and John Atkins

one of the original members shared vocal leads

Ian 9

Opening for the Blue Notes were Sonnylohn son and the Sunglows. a Bahamian vocalist with

tine backup musicians Johnson proved to be

crowd pleaser with a splendid romantic voice

during his five song, 30 minute set SARA LANE

BEAMER BROTHERS ßluriJ. ll dr. nu. Honolulu

Since their association began with producer

arranger Teddy Rendano, Keola 8 Kapono

Seamen have watched their career advance in

Quantum leaps Their concert Jan 7 showed

them more as polished and confident than ever

before Their 80 minute set was backed by a 15

piece orchestra under Rendauos direction. They played 17 songs, ending with their popular "Honolulu City Lights" a song which has en

toyed enormous popularity in the islands on the Paradise Hawaii label The Beamed and man

alter Tom Moffatt aie in the final stages of nego

bating distribution of their single on Rocket Rec

ads

The lush strings and other background e

slruments didn't obscure the Burners' stunnm

slack key guitar powers, nor did it interfere wit

thee pinpoint harmonies for which they are t

well noted. What the orchestra did was enhanc

the melodic beauty of their songs

The Beamers received a standing ovation a

they sang another island favorite Seabreeze

for thee encore. DON WELtI

PLASMATICS Clu b i', .ticii } "ork

Playing before several hundred fans at th

new venue that was once a Polish social cat

the Plasmabcs used a multimedia approach IN

saw the halfhour approximately five tune slip

end with a simulated chain saw mutilabon Jar

6

Fans who like a but of sex and violence wit

thew rock'n'roll land there are a few about) in

like the Plasniatics.

Four members make up the band Richer

Stotts, lead guitarist. plays while wearing

nurse's undom He occasionally dons a rubli mask. and sometimes plays the guitar over In

head or between his legs Partial to masks, to

rs drummer Stu Deutsch On pass o Cosa Fuea

Kara. from Japan

The band plays beneath a banner declare,

"new hope for the wretched." Ode three polo

tic wrapped bundles. looking like torsos, are a

the side. hung suspended from the necks.

But all that is only so much icing on the cake

Because as mon as she comes onstage, coo

smashed the transistor radio that was playeg

all male eyes, at least. at club 57 were on Weedy

Whams, the shapely blonde lead sage

Dressed in as little as she could legally get aim with, Williams pumped writhed, gyrated and

rubbed her way through the eight-song set wet

such abandon that any vocal limitations became

almost irrelevant if the Plasmlios has any problem, and wen

out doubt it a a map, one. d LS that as a eel


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Few Concert Dates At Minority Schools


cano New Mexico Highland, Uni in Las Vegas. N.M., ha, to make du with a student activities budget which is not adequate. We have 30,000 for the whole year and that has to cuver everything." explains student body president Roberto Archuleta. "So we get a lot of me dium talent."

New Mexico Highlands Univ. is

also saddled with the problem that admission to events must be free. "For anything that's sponsored by us, we can't charge admission. If you do, you get poor attendance. If it's free. it's packed." says Guzman.

Since most minority colleges have small or medium enrollments. their facilities for concerts are limited. As Ralph Dines, manager of Howard Univ.'s 1,500 -seat Cranston Audito- rium in Washington. D.C., says. "Most black colleges have small halls."

Neita Pittman, of Houston's Texas Southern Univ. with an enrollment of nearly 8,000. says the size of the campus' facilities hampers it front getting top acts. "Our gym can seat only 5,000 persons and our auditorium only holds 1,800. That's an lm-

2 mediate turn -off to promoters." q Sheyann Webb, coordinator with O student government association at

Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Ala., d echoes those feelings. "We can't gel

the artists we want because of the fa- r- chilies," she says. In the past, Tus- ° kcgee has hosted such acts as Peabo r-: Bryson and Gil Scott -Heron in its Css 2.700 -seat gym. Performances by the

Bar -Kays and Switch are antici- paled in the near future.

Without the services of some of the top promoters, sometimes the colleges must turn to lesser known promoters. "Southwest Concerts is

not going to fool around with us." says Pittman. "So we're left with new promoters and third-rate promoters. A lot of times they don't know what they're doing."

Though most of the colleges sur- veyed indicate there is no inten- tional snubbing of its institutions by promoters or agents because they are minority colleges, Dines says he is suspicious.

"We have a difficult lime getting entertainment. We have been blocked by local promoters. It's impossible to prove but I'm very sus- pect."

While Kentucky State Univ.. in E rankfort, has no problem with fa- edifies because it has an interest in the state -owned 8,500 -seat local arena. it does reiterate the financial aspect.

Greg King. director of aetiv lies, explains. "Our problems are with the budget and getting the bigger acts. Four or five years ago the situation was good. Today. headliners charge between $7,000 and S10.000."

Hardy Johnson. Norfolk State Univ's special advisor to the student body president. concurs. "Our prub- lemsare financial. The white schools have more money " Norfolk State has a 2.500-seat auditorium but can pay only a limited amount to its concert talent. "$6.000 is tops for us." says Johnson.

"We're spitting In the wind if we try to get a group that', in the I op 40. Groups have priced themselves out of our range." says Pittman "And 1 think promoter, don't want to see artists on campuses "

She ell ..t1llrlslallle Where sill: al- leget the rut group Con Funk Shun, which had been set to perform al Texas Southern. was bought away by another promoter and booked into a different facility one month before the scheduled TSU date.

"We do have financial problems but no more than white colleges of the same size," says H.H Peace. director of student activities at Dallas' Bishop College. "You have to think about ftnuls and student income and location. That's what sometimes mtcrteres in getting entertainment."

This points to another problem which is the location of the campus. Dines believes Howard is hindered by its urban setting because Wash- ington. D.C.. offers many other college facilities as well as several municipal facilities.

College of Santa Fe and Ken- tucky State have the opposite problem. "The possibilities of getting good acts are slim because we're 60 miles away from Albuquerque," says Guzman.

"We're a rural college and that's detrimental The closest airport n 22

miles away in Lexington and there aren't enough studentson campus to support a show," says King. Ken- tucky State has an enrollment of approximately 2,000 students.

Tuskegee Institute, though it is not close to an urban area. isn't at a ter- rible disadvantage because of its location. "The community and students are supportive." says Webb. Tuskegee also features a somewhat larger enrollment of nearly 4.000 students.

Peace feels the urban location of Bishop is helpful. "It only hurts if a

large segment are commuters," she says.

Johnson. of Norfolk State. points out that although Norfolk is an urban market. it is not as competitive as other urban areas. therefore reducing some of the dangers of booking in a metropolitan community.

Because a large segment of the potential audience consists of students, admission prices are kept down despite soaring costs. At Howard. Dines stales that most shows have little problem selling out with theav- erage ticket usually S5.

The same figure was quoted as the price that Texas Southern tries to keep as its maximum. At Norfolk Stale, 11íe usual ticket price is $5 for students and 57 for the general public.

Tuskegee has a range of 53.50 -$5 while Kentucky Slate students pay onls $3 and general admission is

$5.50. Alcorn charges 53.50 for sto dent .idntission, $4.50 for general idnits,nl and Fisk and Bishop say

prices fluctuate. depending on the act.

At Howard, wills a large student population of 1011(9). the general public Is not a rtes c,..0 t ,,,mponrnt for a sellout \I I I i..,,,. dean of students al .`.i .. r el ,iii ,..iilherll tinri .also ..i, Ili. iii,.i.,ii relics moults im us ,ttel till Ior attend- an,

Other campuses are not so fortunate :mil moist refs on tilt -c; um pus advertising. which can Increase costs. Other institutions report lib. eral use of the local media to general interest man upcoming event "As advertising cosi go up. l e t s sIs of dome .I ,h.,u are hvcamrng more prohibitive." says Johnson

(o,rtrnuiJ band, about sir months old, its musical etecu

bon Is not yet up lo its anon, no matter how

unique.

The Plasmahics musicians play at a lurnus

role, and Williams has to sing last to keep up,

which doesn't do muds for her phrasing or

enunciation Also loud as the band e,, with only

guitar. bass and drums (and chainsaw al the

end), the overall sound is a bd thin, and since

the band plays it only one speed, a bit limited.

Keyboards might help

But the band does have a numbo oI Inter

estmg tunes, notably "Fast Food Service," of

which the band also has video version, and

"Butcher Baby," where Williams lust culs

through an electric guitar with her chain saw,

belore going on to a young man who looks

strapped atop a table II nothing else, it's a memorable scene and

the music, with the chain saw selling up an un

holy whine, n only slightly tens to However

Waled, this is a band with ideas But careful

with that saw ROMAN KOZAK

ANGELA BOFILL Bonom Line, New fork

In her first New York performance since the

release of her debut album, this Bronx born vo

caksl showed her impressive pipes qK to a roam

filled to the ratters with industry people Bold)

has a truly powerful voice though she al times

pushed II past Its limits in her Jan 8 show

The singer's biggest problem is her material,

which lacks drectian and originality. Her bit Rest asset is her voice and the competent fire piece band which played everything with laste

and feeling.

The sevensong, 40mioute set was uneven

as Bofru's chcheeidden stage manner tended to

detract from her assets. Highlights of the sel

were "Summers Almost Gone," a ballad which

showed off her voice to its best advantage. and

"Rough Times," a strong albeit tamdiar sound

ing funk tune that showed off the band's talents

as well

Bofrll was opening the show for Stan Getz

who was reviewed here recently

ROBERT FORD IR.

STEPHANE GRAPPELLI GEORGE SHEARING Kr,I Albert i/ull, /.unJ,ul

Undoubtedly one d the most eloquent

soloists in tato, Grappelli scored a personal

triumph before a neancapacity audience of

5,000 when he played the second d a series of

three 70th birthday celebration concerts here

Dec. 12 The other concerts were staged al

Usher Hall, Edinburgh, and at the Empire

Theatre. Liverpool)

Grappelli, backed by his regular trio of Du

Digley and John Ethendge (guitars) and Phil

Bates (bass). played host to a number of guest

musicians, through two hours and about a doten

tunes, including George Sheanng classical gut

tans' loran Bream, French rock violinist Didier

Lockwood, American mandolin erped Oavid

Gasman. with bassist Bnan iorff, and brilliant

Danish bassist Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen

Grappelli opened with a lively sel by his own

group and then brought on Lockwood to in

him in "Autumn Leaves" and a neatly arranged

,.Tiger Rag."

Crisman had the nerd guest spot and played

some fast lingered, highly articulate mandolin

on "lrmehouse Blues" and "Tipsy Gypsy,' the

latter tram his score for the IIIm "King 01 The

Gypsies" which leatures Grappelli

Carradines In L.A. Appearance

I OS ANGELES -The Carradine !amity. John, David, Keith and Robert. appeared logellrel in con cari tor the first little .it Ille Ebel) Iheatre here 3.i11u.us 11

The performance w:i ii iii, ,t

for a relevision music nn Ihr f eek Ural Iras been shot the past si.ir in

dill e'en! parts of the U.s Europe and Asi;i

the ('arr,idine, known individually for their musical and acting c.l- rcers. t erlornted individually und volleiiieli hacked lis a live -pli, band Wlost ,rl the tunes perli,rmi,t were it'll permed

Talent

Talent In Action The lest half concluded with a guest appear

ante by guitar virtuoso Bream who, though

clearly having no natural affinity for Tau time.

worked his way gamely through two old Hot Club

Quintette numbers. " Nuages" and "Belleville "

A set of consummate elegance and polished

musicianship by Shearing and Pedersen opened

the second hall and then Shearing and Crap

pelli-who had been partners on London's war-

time nightclub scene in the '40s, were reunded

to feature three titles from Thee MPS album,

"The Reunion "

The concert concluded with two lam session

numbers, "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Crazy

Rhythm" lcolarnos all the musicians, and at the

end there was a standing ovation

MIRE HENNESSEY

REDD, HEDWIG &

CROSSLEY ROBERT KRAFT

Bottum Line, .New York

Sporting an abbreviated name and a re

vamped acl, this female trio turned in an

energetic and enthusiastic performance Dec

29. fist of three nights at this Gotham night-

spot.

Sharon Redd, Uta Hedwig and Charlotte

Crossley have dropped their cule, post'Midler act (It was entertaining enough, but arguably

subject to the law of diminishing returns) in fa

vor of a more rock inclined approach, better for

displaying their formidable vocal talents

They are both collectively impressive

loe Sample's "Put It Where You Want f

Bruce Spnngsteen's "Badlands." and in

ually line as is Redd's soulful "The An

Me," Hedwrg's "I Can't Stand The Feeling"

Crossleÿ s gospel rooted "All God's Charlie,

Soul" Interestingly. Redd. Hedwig and Co

this incarnation strongly resemble the

Ladies d "Rock Follies," the teleraton

seats from Bolen about a female rock

screened here a while back.

The one-hour, one dozen song shoe

tamed only Iwo songs from the ba's debut album, suggesting that a new LP a vent.

Highlights of the new material Iodide II's Gonna last' and "Living Without You,"

a delightful. lam spoof "You're Blase."

Supporting Redd, Hedwig and Craásdey

solid frvepece band. especially dynamic M

conga and keyboards departments

Opening the evening was Robert Kraft

the Ivory Coast. an esoteric quintet working

what might be called a contemporary

the vintage Lambert/Ross /Hendricks

bon

The ezzdmged. 40mmute. a

eight-lune set was witty and enpyable,

the particular msets of Kraft's kerboar

sell penned songs such as 'rip's Who" and 'Tube Start Difficult to see

translating ds appeal to disk sales. bit amusngy diverting,

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Tow Ticket Sales

Arenas (6,000 To 20,000)

Ticket Price Scale

GRATEFUL DEAD -Ruttmo & vaughn,Monarch Entertainment. Nassau Coi.. Uniondale. N Y , Jan

10.11 (2)

33.464 58.50.59.50 $300.111

2 GRATEFUL DEAD- Monarch Entertainment /Ron 19.720 08.5009 50 $163.0110.

Delsener, Madison So Garden. N YC . N Y Ian 8

3 GRATEFUL DEAD- Electric Factory Concerts, 18.538 06.50.5850 5113,151' Monarch Entertainment, Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa., Ian 12

1 BOSTON /SAMMY HAGAR -Ater Cooley Inc Omni. 13.087 06.50-08.50 3142.433

Atlanta, Ga Ian 11

3 STYX/CINDY BULLENS- Entam,Beach Club 9,434 $748 571237

Booking. Cal.. Greensboro. N C Jan 12

6 BOSTON / ShMMY HAGAR -Cellar Door Concerts, 8,351 $748 S6i.1Hh Arena. St Petersburg. Fla. tan 9

7 BOSTON / SAMMY HAGAR- Cellar Door Concerts. 8.000 $738 $6.3,051

Civic Centel. Savannah, Ga tan IO

8 VOLUNTEER IoM If-Sound Seventy Productions. 9,900 ss S%.932* Municipal Aud . Nashvitfe. Tenn . Ian 13

TEO NUGENT /ANGEL -Mike Clark 'Friends 7.108 $8'S8-50 $57.511' Production; Pace Concerts Louis Messina. Chapairell Center, Midland In tan 13

IO GRATEFUL DEAD- Monarch Entertainment 1.043 S7 50 58 50 553223", Memorial dud Utica. N Y Ian 14

11 TED NUGENT /ANGEL -Alei Cooley Inc Col . Bdou. 6.918 5708 S51,1n Mss tan 10

12 TED NUGENT /ANGEL -Mike Dark Friends 6.000 57 5038 $45,000' Production/Pace Concerts' Louis Messina. Memorial Col , Corpus Christi, Tr Ian 14

13 CHEAP TRICK/OFT BROADWAY -Star Date 6,100 S6 50.57 50 $42,96!' Production, Aud , Milwaukee. MSC )an 12

14 STYX /CINDY BUIIENS- Entam. Col Knoxville 6.848 5758 $57,950 Tenn., Jan 11

Auditoriums (Under 6,000) 1 RUSH /STARZ -Ron Delsener Palladium N Y C 6.300 S7 50 S8.50 552,000'

NY, Jan 13814 2 LITTLE RIVER BAND /AMBROSIA- Enlam, Civic 5.356 5637 $31,%6

Center, Huntington W ea. Jan 13 RUSN/STRRI -Don taw Co. Music Hall. Boston, 3,800 S7 5048 50 $31,750 Mass, lan 11

4 ROY BUCHANNAN -0i Cesare Engler Productions. 3.716 $7 75 327,061' Stanley Then Pittsburgh Pa. lin 13

5 DEVO/POINTED STICKS -Perryscope Concert 2,000 S8 $16,000 Production. Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, 8C. tan 2 (21

6 DEVO -lohn Baum Concerts Paramount thee. 2,090 $7 $13244 Seattle, Wa.Ian 11

810NDIE/TWITCH- Perryscope Concert Productions, 1.000 S7 50 $7,500' Commodore Ballroom. Vancouver, 8 C . tan 8 RAMONES/D.OA- Perryscope Concert Productions, 1,000 S6 50 $6,500' Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, 8 C Ian 9



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RHYTHM TRACKING -B.B. King second from right. lams at Hollywood

Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, where the Crusaders. in collaboration with

Stuart LevineOutside Productions, are producing his upcoming LP Shown at

a session are, left to right, Paul Jackson, Jr.: Crusader Wilton Felder; cru. rader Joe Sample; King; and guitarist Dean Parks. In the background i`

Crusader drummer "Stir" Hooper.

New CAMEO Trade Group Sponsors NAMM Session

(unrloir. J '.,.r: page I

tt :, nce Air.: , nnnal sponsored h) the nets trade group. CAMEO. Cre- ative Audio and Muse al a NAMM. And It reflects the .hiking dNribu lion pattern o1 pp, and ,call -pro recording equipment as more and more musical instrument dealer, are

adding product, of this Ispe. The espanslon of sreatise audio

product, into the sountr%', lull network was highlighted at a recent UtS seminar in Las \' egas which termed this segment of the elestn.n- ic, and music hu,:ncss a, a "sleeping giant "I Billhoard. Jan 20. 19791.

While the \; \515I .how is prima -

il% geared toss ard. nluiii.il :nslru- Illenl Manufacturer, pain 11l a $2 million and..ser hucrossi annualls. more cleclrumcs makers are making themsebes present with recording and sound reinforcement equip. ment.

With 236 eshihaor, .el for the .flow. all utilving the Inaslnrun, 50,000 square feet of diipl.l) space. this NAMM Is the largest in the or- li.uliraion'. 10 -sear havers. Sonic 222 esh:bton ;Yen: Imn hand last sear

Dealer registration 1s also up as preregl.traiun measure. $8'; ahead or last tear with 12.000 deal- en ani sales peuple :credei At- tendante lessi seau ssa, 44011

\ nul::h.r oI lits.:. puhlnhcr,arc also represented at NAMM.

The CAMEO -sponsored seminar will feature two manufacturers and

two retailers in panel dixusuion that

also includes a quesion and aniser Period,

On the panel are Hartle) Peavey of Peaces Electronics. Steve Kauf- man of DlMarzio. Lam Rogen of Hottman'. In Spokane. Wash.. and

Ted Veneman of Veneman's Music, Rucks Ille, vid. Moderating is inde-

pendent public relations consultant Bilt Campeau.

A CAMEO board meeting u also

slated on Wednesda night 1241 at

rho El Camtnu Room of the Disne_1-

land Hotel beginning at 8 p.m.

Other ke% seminars at the osent include an M. Rohner- sponsored "Esenthing You Aluap Wanted To Know Atout Harmonicas But Were Afraid To Ask" which takes

place Fhdat al I I a.m. and u re-

pealed Sarurda and Sunda% at 9 a.m.. and a National Assn. of Elec- tronic Organ Manufacturers-sponsored "Computers And The Music Retailer.- u hich takes plat Sunday al 8:30 a.m.

Entertainment includes a coun- rrs western hluegcls aoniYn Fri - dai night -pon.cired lis Musts City

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Norman Cannon' -You its Slarship." Sound Ideas. C need

Neer, College I und. Bruce Sprmgsteen'. 'Darkness On The Edge 01 Town." Record Plant. I reehold Area Hospital. Boh Se-

ger and the Sib' er Bullet Band's "Stranger In Town." Muscle Shoals, March of Dimes Al ci -\cnn,mlth's "Draw The Line.-

Plant. American Cancer Scs'tel. i colin "Ch.unpagne.. King's "Shaine.- Alpha Inter - naion.tl mill ¡Jed hetw:en Mus- cular ll%slrdphi Assn. and the Jackte Wilson Fund: Croch. Stalls and N.1di's "C.S N.- C s- toitit. National Laster Seal Skle,. Blondie'. 'Blondie -' Pl.t,,1 Sound. Jusendo Diabetes Eoundaion. and Carl, Sunon's "!ìo55 in The Trees Atlantic Studios. dnrdcd between Pacific \Iliansc fnerg) and Riserdale Menial Health Assn.

I he Bee (iees wam an amati for Iii .mile "Tuai Much I le.ten :' sit ,it Criteria und will be designating a children's char- t% .ho:ti as the recipient of the \mois cash donation.





Sound Business

Studio Track IOS ANGELES -At Record Piani. Roy Ayers

finishing up a Polydnr LP prudwmg Aim.,II with Dear King engmeermg Johnny Sandlm al;n

there producing DetbeA McClinton la Can.

can, Tom Rye engineering and Mike Banger assisting

Norman Connors tracking Inv a new aisles al

turn .,t Kendun, Rick Heenan and haw Schwartz ngmerrmg Ran Kersey producing

Patrice Rushes for Elektra Asylum at Total Er per enne. Wayne Henderson also a producing

Michael White prote' I there

Nits Idgien ult,ug bath, I'ir A5M ,il Fdm

ways: Heiler. Bob fine and B San Chnsban Pro

ducmg with David Cat, engineering Fdmwar:,

tinder Retarding and Filmway. Auden Services

also provided complete audio .ont recording fa

oldies la the recent Aine 'amiss Awards

from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on ABC

television. as well as la A GM 01 Song." the

IJNICEf television broadca.l tom the Ended

Nations Geneva! Assembly in New York

The pomade's, m collaboration firth Stuart

Leeine/Buts+de Productions, are producing B.R.

You've Discovered Gold... and Platinum in Florida.

Now unearth New Prospects 'Round The wake Billboard's Spotlight on Florida in the April 7th Issue.

Advertising Deadline: March 9,1979 You're Spinning Gold in The Sunshine State... And plenty of platinum too. Ifyou're part o('the Florida scene, you knoay' the story But here's 'our chance to tell the world.

It'e're Digging Deep to Tell Florida's Fabulous Story... Don't miss titis opportunity to take your record cort-

pansa. cour studio, your station,ynur act, YOUR COMPANY to the entire music business, Nationwide and Worldwide.

Bonus Distribution: NARM '79 The National Association of Record Merchandisers is holding its 21st annual convention in Hollywood, Florida, March 23 -28, 1979. The spotlight will be there bathing every attendee.

Billboard's Spotlight on Florida will help you cash in on this Great Stampede...

Reserve your ad space non; then watch your own sales stampede. To get in on the Florida Rush of '79, Contact J.B. Moore at (212) 764 -7348 or writeJ.B., Billboard, 1515 Broadway, Nett, York, N.Y. 10036.

Ad Deadline: ,1Martl+ 9, 1979

Issue Date: April Z 1979

Ring al Hoiyaod Sound Recarder& lama Howard producing the DR Band at Bat* Andy Johns engineering Chuck Maitioee agi, mere completing mues Ni a bee album. Ifid Gueauski behind the board

Armin Steiner and MidgdWmkock protes ing Boil Bacharad% at Sound labs, Sterna env neenng along alti tanda Tyler. Gary Rep sea producing Cheryl tadd's second Cando' album nere John Mis engineering assisted by Stuart Whitmore.

lack Keller praduang Dared Castle for Para

chute at Muse Grind Aorard benmd

the board And Frank Wilson p'nduung

Whams Ici ABC Gary Skardvra ai the consok Castle also waking at Spectrum Studies von eeiler and engineer We Hall.

Nowa Moon producin; Riche Foray at Spec.

from, Enc Preshdte at the board Pdr McCann finishing a Columba album with ro dane' Hal Tarder and rgme e Lary bed A Paramount Ran Garnet atra these putting iht hnrshmg touches on an upcoming FAN Amerua

LP Dasid Woe and Dam Elmpae producing

tack amide producing Re* Patter an

Cherokee. Mad HouYq eng,neerng And s. thael Jackson me recording a solo Epic album

Qumnry knee praduang. Broie Sae/is behind

the VeCt

Mrkt Chapman putting the 'muting dupe., On Eade's upcoming LP at Whitney. Ma that be begin; producing Blendie's hest CTrrald of

bum at New 104.5 rya Sand. The Ohio Pbyeea beginning a new LP e

QaaeNra Vickie grue producng Face

Dancer try Cantor at Larrabee

w

Stdeebdi tutting a new Parachute album al

little Mounhm Sound Stadia, Vancouver BC

Walter Stewart a-d Ray Roper nn poduong eta

engineer hune baba. Betty Roule von

mg at the TR Studio, Hialeah. Fla he ages

LP Cory Wade producng Peter Bum%nnt TKOrrve album at Studio Cater, Harm

Dyed Robots= producng Hrkie Brod for Columbia at the AtdieuR, San Fraoxcs

Fred Catered engineering Mufti Mahn k. producing the Fasia AI Star of Pria

delphia s Sipe Sound for lama Records. Rena

Gamble and tam HO also producing lai Raab

for Philadelphia International there

the Teddy Bears. Teddy Pendergrass Lunt

cutting its own materai at Verdi* leatadrt Company, Ardmore Pa . ',mare man Gel Da

Vale co producing with Sae Reed. Bobby

Womb" CWPduCmg a one LP d Ildbds Reed

at Ibis Sound Studios. atlante The Fanta : - _- m. Nashvuk tout tar

(Tartre Daniels Volunteer tam at the Mancha.

Auditorium loherry Rasera engmeenng

Barry Beckett . -. oremdubs and mur..g

or the v. - Dire Straits ! P fa Warner Bros at

Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield tat

wmt r - lent aerie ace engineer

Gretg Hamm

Dennis Feranu _': Cody Stang prOdutng

Trigger - RPY Sand Studies,

N r Bart Om -; -. , ye Mar as

cobrg Tony Reale ;'::_:m,, Naebckd at

Quadradal. Mum Bob loterie eny neenng Lew

Futtemun odor Producing the Ted liment Band

Mete Tab Menem, CH Davies ant Bob btru handling rntineenng chyes

Gag Wratbl producing Pbdnm Hook be

Mdnoe at Sound Wars, N Y Tee Sr".' remote truck cut SesthAde Johnny and the Os-

bury Jukes at the Paramount in Snaffle h -

eA Revue Jr. producing Nicked Duan sad by al Tie Studio, St Paul Minn for P.rmmewn

Records One Wrath eng nenneg Rn haw

ley pedutmg Street Tob al Maori Stadia. Auckland New Zealand tor MA New Zealand

Recent actndi at Pete's Place mn Nasnc it

has included Desead Allah Coe, woiAmng on 1,6 O

coning Columbia LP with Bib Sherrill produc

mg and Al Packed, en, nee, ^: a î Diarot

and Boyce producing the Saturday Night Rand

roi Reluite Records Don De Grate '., A c

Beve and co producing Wild Hrthtmer. the

Drlfaro and Owe prowls MPP enpneetet Tr

Randy Best Al Nashville n Woodland Sound Studios, Shm

Whitman is back working on hi. neat Inlet at

vils protect slated for release in England late.

this spring Producers Scotty Turner and Man

Wamr are working with Whitman in addition to

Les Ladd, Skip Shemin and David *kaki be

hind the board Ray Head. a newcomer to

Woodland is working on an LP for ABC ReCOrds

with Ron Chantey producing and les lad&

Danny HiHey and Steve Gostrre cepneenng

Eddie Babbitt c hmnmg out his latest LP due

in March loi Elekha with producer Ovid Mal* I(rrnrrnuert ant pou not



:tson Aerosmith Atlanta Rhythm Section Average White Band üt_ r; Blue Oyster Cult Debl glue Oyster Cult Debby Boone Bootsy's Rubber Band Brass Construction Brick BT Express Jimmy Buffet Norman Conn Buffet Norman Connors Crosby, Stills & Nash Rick Dees Neil Diamond George Duke Band Bob Dylan Eagles Earth,

Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Electric Moog Orchestra Firefall Fleetwood Mac Dan Fogelberg Crystal Gayle Andy Gik ayle Andy Gibb Graham Central Station Emmylou Harris Heart Hot Millie Jackson Jefferson Starship Billy Joel Kar

Billy Joel Kansas Eigo Kawashima Evelyn "Champagne " King Kiss Mary Macgregor Chuck Mangione C. W McC. langione C. W McCall Meat Loaf Meco Steve Miller Band Walter Murphy Band Willie Nelson Ted Nugent Parliame Nelson Ted Nugent Parliament Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Bob Seger & [he Silver Bullet Band Carly Simon Lynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd Bruce Springsteen Trooper Gino Vannelli Johnny "Guitar' Watson Aerosmith ullet Band Carly Simon )ythm Section A

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AMPEX GOLDEN REEL AWARDS. THE FIRST TWO YEARS.

Ampex celebrates the second anniversary of the Golden Reel Award.

The outstanding artists and groups listed above have received eighty Ampex Golden Reels among them. And donated over $80,000 to a wide range of

charitable organizations. To qualify, our winners had to sell a million

singles, or half a million albums and, of course, have mastered their hits in the studio on Ampex tape.

We'd like to congratulate all of them.

AMPEX Ampex Corporation, Maien",:c Tape Division

401 Broadway, Redwood Co y,Caidrrrma94063,: Sis,'.3R57 Golden Reel Winners as of 1/79



( Wiwi /Thun ¡',rr;r h und Danny Hiley on the board Charlie Dan.

lets Band winding up its latest I P for Epic slated lot March relea' with producer !oho Boylan

and engineers Paul Grupp and Steve Gaostree.

Immune Hawkins is recording her lust Light

un usiness

Studio Track Hrrnd+ I P *Ur the Archers are also in the m Nashville, Troy Sub n ruling tracks with toi reamer Bros with Stan Sdret producing and

sludm !esse Onan is completing work by Dard Bugg producing, Marshall Morgan and Eicheber /et engineering, Gene Cotton and pro

fob IU on an l.P protect for light Recurds Marty levels engineering, Even Stevens puoduc durer Steve Gibson readying Cotton's nerf

Chris leOaa in at Nashville Sound Lab lin mg Wood Newton lot f lektra Records with Gene ;Viola LP nith Rrdi Schirmer engrneenng and

slung his ninth IP under the duechnn nl pro fxhelbergee engineering and limey Strad as Marshal Morgan assisting. and Norbert Putnam

durer BdI Hams. At Quadraphonic Studios srstueg, Deana rargo m for work on her new LP and Dan Fogelberg in co producing Fogelberg',

Creative workshop enjoys noise-free recording with 24 channels of dbx tape noise reduction.

Brent Maher ProducerfChret Engineer at Creative Workshop. Nashville. TN

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HIDLEY BASE NOW KAUAI

LOS ANGELES -Tom Hadley, who originally formed studio design company Westlake Audio in 1970 and who has been running Easdake Audio in Switzerland. has shifted his worldwide activities.

Ridley is now based on Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. He will operate Hadley Design Services from that location.

Hidley's exclusive representatives will continue to be Kent Duncan of Sierra Audio and David Hawkins of Y Scenic Sounds, London, who will take over the operation of Eastlake Audio.

Sierra Audio has been representing Hidley in North Aeria and Asia since the formation of Eastlake. L

Sound Waves

AES Anthology

Series Adds 2 Hy IRWIN DILHI.

NE V, YORK -Beginning its fourth decade as audio engineering's professional group and forum for disclosure of new technological developments, the Audio Engineering Society has announced the publication of two important additions to its .10

Anthology Series. Both additions are collections of

papers published between 1953 -77 to the Journal of the AES. The two- part volume. Loudspeakers, was edited by Raumond E. Cooke of KEF Electronics. Ltd. Authors include Harry F. Olson, Paul Kbpsch, Daniel sein Recklinghausen. Rich- ard Novi, Richard Small and AN. Thiele.

The second collection titled Sound Reinforcement. was edited by David L. Klepper of KMK. Ltd. Papen M Klepper, Leo L Beranek. William Snow. Barn Blesser, Don Davis and Robert Schulen repro- + sent a portion of the publication. Copies are available for purchase through AES headquarters office in New York.

The first major AES function of 1979 will be the European conoeo- e.w

lion, that Sovcien's 62nd since inception in 1948 The old world charm of Brussels. Belgium should provide a

vvntrasting backdrop for presentation of the latest in technological de- vclopnicnts in analog and digital audio.

The consentson will meet from 'starch 13 -16 at the Brussels Shera- ton Convention Chairman Herman Wutlnts has. to addition to providing fer the usual papers sas ions and ex- hibits. also planned a number of workshop. and touts of both technical and cultural interest.

A travel package has been put together hs the N.Y. headquarters office that includes both hotel and air- fare Departing flight is Saturday. March 10 returning Sunday. March

An optional one -day trip to the city of Brugge is also available as

part td the package. Additional in- tiamt.oton can be obtained from Ms. Silich, Audio Engineering Society. 60 East 42nd. St.. New York, N.Y. 10017.

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A BiIIoard® SPOTLIGHT



puts itPolyGram

Jacques Michel

Felix Leclerc

Selling over one million copies of two double soundtrack albums in one year is a hard act to follow! Even when you also market some of the most prestigious international artists and labels in the business - artists that earned 13 platinum and 16 gold albums last year in Canada. That's why selling the winners at PolyGram starts with breaking new talent - both international and Canadian acts with worldwide potential. That's the challenge of our business - and PolyGram Canada is meeting it.

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Music Report From Canada: tvil Sunny Skies And

:,7,4 q Rosy Forecast US

n etall prerecorded music sales in Canada reached

a new high of approximately $400 million in 1978, a figure that gave the record industry its third consecutive 20% annual increase and a

sum that constitutes perhaps only half of the total dollar figure rung up by the music Indus

try here when one starts to account peripheral areas such as publishing. concert productions. studio earnings and club bookings.

Net shipment dollar figures in the past 10 years have lumped from $40 million in 1968. to $140 million in 1975 to this past year's estimated $200 million -plus Perhaps the single most important development in the marketing area is

the astonishing success story of the RSO soundtracks. "Sat urday Night Fever" and "Grease." These two premium-priced packages. along with "Rumours." by Fleetwood Mac, have broken all known sales peaks and established a record one million unit sales apiece

The disco phenomenon. married to success of "Saturday Night Fever's" boxoffice success. played no small part In pumping up percentage gains for companies like Polygram, CBS. Capitol and WEA But more than anything, growth pat

..terns paralleled investment commitments made by Inde pendents and majors alike. There was good reason to invest too. with the Warner Communications industry survey paint- ing a rosy forecast of the future and most companies taxing manpower and warehousing space to the limit

The retail industry has played a key part in the record sates figures established in 1978 Sam's. the largest franchise operation in the country. now has close to 100 outlets coast -to coast. and others -such as Mr. Sound, A&A and Records on Wheels -have expanded and opened up new territories at a

rate unseen previously. Again going back to the success of the SNF story. many retail operations have grown to include disco racks and sections. some binned in the jazz area and other stores stocking the disks close to r &b and soul stock

Until the last quarter. retail operations were earning substantial profits from imports. direct disks and colored vinyl pressings, along with $3 U.S cutouts. Unfortunately a mix of factors. ranging from increased value for duty on imports to a

glut of specialty vinyl products. has all but killed off these profit centers.

By DAVID FARRELL

motional money poured into radio, television and print adver- fining, along with creative and costly In-store point of purchase displays to support the total campaigns. Where a

budget five years back might have spent $40.000 on a record ing and $10,000 on promotional support, today the budgets have been increased to meet international expenditures and the total package might be closer to $125,000 for a major campaign. White it is hard to recoup this amount in Canada. the international exchange of hit product has never been more evident than In 1978 and Canada has not been lost in the shuffle.

The greater portion of Candian originated disks still come from the independent labels. but no longer does the industry argue that the major labels aren't investing in local produc trans. The problem for the major labels now seems to be in getting through to Los Angeles and New York and finding out if they have listened to a tape sent down. One well-known a &r director for a major label recently opined, "My God, its not that we aren't trying, it's just that they keep rejecting tapes without even listening to them. Then when the act signs with the independent and something happens. they want to know why we missed signing the act- What do you do?"

The reasonable answer to this solution is to start breaking international acts before the U.S. companies do. thus Great ing a momentum. a psychology of leadership and, most Im portantly, a bargaining position. Acts like Meat Loaf, Elvis Costello, Cheap Trick, Styx. Nazareth, Supertramp. Devo, lot Creme and Kevin Godley, Blondie and Cars have all benefitted from this back room philosophy of zeroing in on a special prop ect and driving It as close to home as possible The independ. ents have managed to place most of the hit material in the past year. with the notable exception of GRT. however

Mushroom Records continues its place in the forefront Having lost Heart the Van- couver ' Los Angeles offices have extensively promoted tour and album projects by Paul Horn and taken guitarist Jerry Doucette from the basement to platinum sales with one album Chilliwack has yet to establish itself as a head

band internationally and the hard -edged trio has sold hun dreds of thousands of albums in Canada in the past few years.

Attic Records has also done exceptionally well in the past year, working with a studio budget slightly in excess of $500.000 The company currently has a red -hot protect on the road in the U.S. in the form of Triumph. West-coast acts such as Trooper (MCA), Prism (GRT and Arola). Doucette and Chilliwack (Mushroom), Nick Gilder (Chrysalis) and Stonebolt (Arcola) have all contributed toward Canada's international chart success this past year, while others from Toronto, such as Lightfoot (WEA), Anne Murray (Capitol), Zwol (EMI -Amer- ica), THP Orchestra (RCA & Butterfly). and Dan Hill (GRT) have more than contributed their share. Another major chart success. not to be overlooked. is ex- Buffalo Springfield hand. Rick James, on Motown, who scored no small measure of success with the long -lasting 45, "You And I " 'I Just Wanna Stop" re- established Gino Vannelll on the U.S. charts once again too, after a relatively soft period as he worked toward a

stylistic balance Burton Cummings had less of an impact on the Billboard charts than he did in Canada where his albums are consistently platinum, but Neil Young made an almost historic comeback and Joni Mitchell and Paul Anka continued to knock off the kind of songs that wooed publishers by the score These were just a few of the major names that blossomed forth

Radio continued to be the primary new music outlet, but the disco phenomenon, which grabbed anywhere between 25- 40% of the album and single charts, was virtually ignored by AM and FM outlets across the country. Notable exceptions to the case included CKGM in Montreal. CFTR in Toronto and CKOC in Hamilton CKLW -AM in Windsor, once a powerhouse that was equal to CHUM in its ability to break new disks. continued to suffer of the hands of the CRTC rulings, and the dy-

Polygram Canada staffers with RSO president Ai Coury in front of the "Grease- car. which was given away as part of the LP campaign The soundtrack as one of three (with "Rumours" and "Saturday Night Fever ") which topped a million units on ales

Wish Bob DySn backsige al his Maple Leal Gardens. Toronto concert are, from kit Bruce Lundvail. Ares, dent of CBS Records division. Dick Asher. prase dent of CBS International Dylan. and Arnold Gose wich, chairman of CBS Canada.

Geddy Lee and Alex Lrleson of Rush accept their 1978 Juno award for Best Group of the Year

A revue of value for duty policies by Revenue Canada deli vilely hurt import houses in Canada. as well as losing foreign exporters a number of sizable accounts, but ultimately the rulings may be short lived with the GATT negotiations draw ing to a close Perhaps part of an overall government policy toward fostering a stronger manufacturing base in Canada. the sagging Canadian dollar and increased customs duty will lead a number of companies to establish plants in Canada and a great number of the importers have been quick to see a

way to make good out of the Canadian 85 cent dollar by ex

Porting disks into the U.S This switch -around has drawn o w some vehement protests from U.S. manufacturers.

Domestic talent for the first time has been able to earn decent money in Canada with the aid of substantial sums of pro-

Davit Farrell rs Billboard's Canadian correspondent.

Anne Murray did more than her share for Canada's international chart success this year.

At the Wade House for the presentation of Gotthilf Fischer's "Mass For Peace" manuscript pst May are from left Hans Bertram, producer of Fischer Choir. Bernd Von Staden, Ambassador from West

Germany. Gotthill Fischer, conductor of the Fischer Choir and composer of the "Mass For Peace" and President Carter.

A huge breakout artist this year from western Canada, Nark Gilder

lining act west of Winnipeg, but record sales in the West and the U.S. have been more than respectable and label chief, Shelley Seigel. has vowed that he will do everything and anything to break the act on the continent.

Beyond a doubt the other major independent on the scene is Anthem Records, which licenses finished master tapes by Rush and Max Webster, along with several other acts, to a variety of labels including Mercury in the U.S. and Capitol in

Canada. Rush presently is Canada's biggest tour grossing

namo progressive. CHOM -FM, In Montreal, turned to outside aid to help reestablish its position in the market A situation that was at best tricky in light of the exodus of angl phones from the city due to political and economic pressures brought about by the Parti Quebecois.

CHUM radio's FM station in To- ronto stepped up the number of live broadcasts it was to do and pioneered the simulcast system in Can- ada by linking up with CITY TV in late November to broadcast a show from

the El Mocambo with Murray McLauchlan. With interlocking ownerships, CHUM -FM's Warren Cosford told an assembled throng of media delegates that a commitment to do a "minimum" of 10 more shows had been tendered to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission by lall of 1979. Previous radio broadcasts by the station from various venues around the city have ultimately been syndi

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Mining The Million Unit Market

peak to anyone in the Canadian music industry these days about the state of the business and invariably the discussion will gravitate toward the phenomenal development of the country as a record market.

There is much to discuss too. Several years back it was considered a major landmark when an album was certified gold. but today a lot of artists are peaking at double and even quadruple platinum and WEA and Polygram now have million selling albums to brag about The development of Canada as a million-unit market was pioneered by WEA when the Fleetwood Mac **Rumours" album was certified by the CRIA in May. 1978 Within four weeks Polygram roared past that sales mark with the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and. on Oct, 31. returned to do the same with the "Grease" soundtrack. a double album released in April of the same year

While it can be argued that the three groundbreakers to O date have had massive radio support and the RSO sound T, tracks have benefitted from cinema exposure. these suc O casses really underline a whole new approach to marketing a3. records in Canada these days and supports the Warner Corn.

mumcations industry survey thesis that the years m through 1985 should be years of increasing growth for the in

dustry " ca While Capitol -EMI and WEA might argue the fact, many in

the Canadian music industry see CBS as the pioneer spirit be

ry hind the new aspirations, goals and successes evident in the > past 18 months here. Until as late as 1975. the marketing and

promotion departments of the major labels were about as el D fective as Canada's postal system They merely pushed prod

uct out of warehouse doors and ted radio stations with mate rial, in many cases the radio stations having already added the key disks to rotation after obtaining them through ad vane U S. mad-outs Says one veteran observer. 'The whole thing was a charade One went along with the system because

airplay," a growing number of live acts were earning more money than ever before with the radio exposure and the pres tige of having a record on national distribution In 1976. the Canadian Recording Industry Association established an au dated sales certification system for gold and platinum disks and, the following year. introduced a national sales chart. is sued twice a month and tracking the top 50 albums and singles The Juno Awards were on television by this time and the dawning of a new age was clearly becoming evident

1977 was the year that would convert the last remaining non -believers to the fact that Canada was a profitable market and a barely untapped mine of talent and future profits. Part of the tease was confirmation that CBS and A &M had toppled all previous sales peaks. the former with Supertramp's "Crane Of The Century," and the latter with the first Boston album and then with the Streìsand /Kristofferson "A Star Is Born" soundtrack Between them they had sold well in excess of a million albums, the Supertramp LP selling 500.000 copies alone back then RCA played a significant part in re searching the real potential of the Canadian marketplace as welt Having successfully marketed a number of superstar country and MOR acts on record, the label leased a "Best Of Charley Pride" and a similar Roger Whittaker package to Tee Vee International and the repackaged tracks ended up selling close to double the numbers they did as original hits with RCA. MCA found the same thing happened when it leased product to the mass marketing company and also became the first la-

bet to achieve a gold album with a pure country artist. namely Conway Twitly and his "Highpriest Of Country Music" LP

At the tail end of 7977, Arnold Gosewich traded his position at Capitol -EMI, as president, to go with CBS Canada, as chairman and a vice president of CBS International His move to CBS was explained as part of "a dramatic growth" plan on the part of the label and underpinned the company's inter national goal for market supremacy- The past year for CBS then has been immensely productive and by doubling man

Joe Owens at CBS points to album product such as Cheap Trick, Eddie Money, Elvis Costello and Jett Wayne's musical adaptation of "War Of The Worlds" as prime examples of the "imaginative marketing" the label is successfully exploiting today. A long-time promotion man in the business, Owens now handles artist development and national publicity for CBS and has earned his reputation by taking on tough ac-

counts and building successes out of them. In an informal dis.

cussion he suggests that "the old way of going about breaking a record an Canada was to wait until something took hold in

the U.S-' He voices the opinion of many when he notes that Canadian radio programmers have not shown the initiative to

get behind records-because they sound good" in the past.

but have merely monitored the national breakouts and top 30 in the U.S. "But those days are coming to an end. at least I

hope they are," he waxes. Perhaps the pride and toy of the label is its Canadian roster

both French and English Among the close to 20 acts signed directly, classical guitarist bona Boyd is most surety the most adventurous undertaking for the label ever. Other notable sellers for the label include keyboardist Dale Jacobs. rockers Zon, the Diodes. vocalist Bruce Murray. Octobre, Harmonium and Fosterchild out of Calgary. The company also enjoys a

solid working relationship with the independent True North label, which records Murray McLauchlan. Bruce Cockburn and Rooney Abramson.

WEA has hardly been idle in the past year. however. Re-

ferred to as "a model company" by Nesuhi Ertegun. presi-

dent WEA International, the label showed a 28% growth in the past year and has doubled its overall business in the past three year period.

Apart from being the first company to hit the million unit mark with an album ("Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac), the company is batting an average of 64% in home runs with re lease material and, similar to CBS, has expanded its marketing department to include customized merchandising mate.

ces canada chairman Arnold Gosewe h

Presents Burton Cummings with his tat est gold disk

Dan Hill is presented with gold and platinum awards after a November performance at Massey Hall Presenting the awards are from kit Bernie Fiedler, Hill's co manager, Jeff Burns. suce president of aór, GRT. Hill, Lee 5dversides, national promo man agir. CRT, and Berne Finkelstein, no manager

it was all that we had but everyone wished something would happen. Bad or good. The business was so automatic and Idi less and it seemed that whenever something exciting w,,. about to happen it would Clicker out and die. N lacked people and gamblers

Hardly exuberant words, but then Canada's proximity iii the powerful and influential U.S. market, combined with population that was only slightly more than double that ''t New York state, did not give the country a strong bargaining. position for influence pedaling Beyond this, the prevahnt mentality nationally held that Canada was marked with a is gantic stigma brought about by the still controversial CH I C.

ruling which dictated to radio stations the bare minimum C

(tadian content (CanCon) records they were to play betwera, the hours of six a m. and midnight

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Carrell Bair, became the lira Canadian country artist lo go platinum The RCA artist receives the award from Brian Robertson, president of CRIA

iii markchn¡ ;Intl yroiviotiuh irOAt >, along with stream l,ifi,- tali. internal adnilnrstr,ihon of the n,itlnnal held stall,

1. lnnlied into the forefront Of the industry here.

AI Caury, RSO presi dent receives medal Iron to commemorale one matron units said in Canada of "Saturday Night Fever ' Present ng are Tim Harrold.

Jett president Polygram Canada. and Defter Radedle,, right, vice president of marketing and sales, Polygram Canada

WEA artist the Spinners backstage of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. With tax group from kH are More Ket, of Q107. Mark Daley, CHUM. Nick Aar 'elk." of WEA. Make Gant. WEA. and tarry Green WEA

vials and beefed up the quantity and quality of pop matenals available to retailers.

Another new addition at WEA is Ross Reynolds, former president of GRT Canada and now senior vice -president for the company. Known as a tough. but amiable record man, with a proven a &r ear, he, along with Green and a &r director Gary Muth, was instrumental in budding the career of Edmon ton signing, Streetheart A sort of younger day version of Rod Stewart with the Faces, this cocky rock outfit has gone gold with its last album, "Meanwhile Back In Paris," and has lust finished a second album protect at Le Studio in Quebec with Nazareth's helmsman, Manny Charlton, producing the sessions The label has also re inked a contract with Gordon Lightfoot, himself earning a multi-platinum certification on his past album, "Endless Wire."

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Of this number less than 20 will be Cana don productions and likely no more than 10 will be nationally distributed to retailers because the other 50i'ß represents small Indie houses that have no cross Canada marketing clout The plight of the independent record label in this coon try Is almost that of passive strangulation, and yet tew of the 15 major independent labels bother catering to the mass con sumer, preferring to regionalize their product and marketing it in some of the most bizarre places imaginable Beyond this. a great number of newcomers to the record business have tittle knowledge of how to do business in today's ultra coin petitive marketplace

For example, a budding record man in the prairies tlew into the music capital of Toronto for an industry convention last

ó, winter and stood up at a seminar to complain that the major labels were ignoring the west On being asked if he had com municated with anyone at the head offices in the east. the

2 young man retorted that he had not "because nobody would $ give me the phone numbers of the record companies " Igno ,73 rance is bliss'tis said. but this kind seems almost dangerous a Oddly enough. in a country that fosters national unity and

culturallsm by spending millions of dollars annually from the

taxpayers pockets. the Canadian government has done little to promote the cause ot the independent record company There are no tax incentives to lure would be investors and a

9 °0 federal manufacturing tax has long nettled the domestic industry Still, the Canadian content legislation has fostered a

growing throng of Indie labels and each year another breaks through with a motor hit. and in doing so turthers the cause of

improving Canada's woeful balance of payments situation The five majors in the country are Mushroom, Attic, An

them. Aquarius and True North Because of the high cost of producing and promoting a new artist in the ultra competitive marketplace, all but Mushroom and Attic offer a total service package tor their acts That is. the companies also house management and publishing firms

Anthem grew out ot a production 'management learn han dung Rush and with the international success that this To-

ronto trio has come to have, the company obtained Canadian o rights for the group from Mercury and set up the Anthem la-

bel. which now has three other bands on the roster. including O Max Webster which is handled by Capitol outside the country m Anthems resources are not minor and through a distribution

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Four-year old Attic Records budgeted $500.000 for studio costs in 1978 and released some 20 albums, a portion of

which represented license deals struck at MIDEM and from in

'emotional contacts it has built up over the years ot operation Behind the company Logo are tom Williams and Alexander Moir, both recognized in the industry as aggressive self start ers and capable ot pulling the stops out when needed With an

international outlook, Attic's premier stars include songstress PatsyGallant. Hagood Hardy and the rock trio Triumph lei the past year it has been Triumph that has brought home the golden egg. whereas In

1977 it was Patsy Gal lánt with '-New York To L A " and the year previous it was Ha

good Hardy and "The Homecoming "

Notes Williams who handles the day to day activities of the record label. "We are tardy open to the kind of product we will re lease It we think it

sounds good and has a chance in the mar ket. then we're inter ester' The only restric- tron we have as a company IS Our size The motors can push out 15 albums a week and hope that there is a winner or two in the pile, unfortunately we can't do that and so

we budget our resources, which includes manpower, and work

each protect to the best of our ability "

Attic's ability to carry a project through the various stages is

exactly what lured Patsy Gallant to the label Having been in. volved with several major labels in the past, when her option came up for renewal several years back she turned down some healthy otters to go with Attic on the basis that she

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mator development that has only come about in the Vast several years and one that underlines the growth of the industry in general here.

According to Eastern Sound's general manager, Salim Sachadena. professional 24.track studios in Canada offer many financial advantages to international recording acts.

According to Sachadena. Canadian studios have a number of financial advantages to offer international acts who might be

scouting for new centers to record in He notes the sagging Canadian dollar as one of the benefits a non Canadian act might gain by recording here, being that the U S. dollar is worth $1.15 in Canada. There are tax advantages of up to 40% for international acts recording on Canadian soil too The advantage, which derives from Canada's position in inter

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a vantage in amortization of production costs. xo Mator Canadian stars regularly using Eastern Sound in- a

elude Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, Murray McLauchlan and international acts using the facility have included Bob Welch and Elton John.

Eastern has also been the site of the most expensive and expansive upgrading of any studio in the country in the past year In excess of $500.000 has been spent sprucing up the guts and facade of the studio located in the fashionable York ville district.

Sounds Interchange. also in Toronto, has completed the addition of its second 24track board and the new setup. which enlists Studer tape decks and a Harrison automated 40-input console. is designed especially for remix and over- dub sessions. The studio, owned by Jett Smith. also boasts its own record label. Change Records, and was used recently by Rod Stewart for the "Blondes Have More Fun" LP.

Soundstage studio (Nimbus 9 Productions) has also been upgrading its facility. A newly installed. custom designed 24 track board and a new 3M tape machine are part of the new

C additions and helmed by producer Jack Richardson, d is en ce viably one of the busiest recording studios in the country

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Soundstage also has its own cutting room and has been in

the vanguard of direct to.disk recordings in this country through the studio affiliated Umbrella Records.

Umbrella. headed by Nimbus 9 vice president Peter Clay ton. has released close to a dozen direct disk recordings since starting up and is now seriously looking at putting in a digital process some time in the near future.

Thunder Sound is located in Toronto's affluent and scenic Yorkville district like Soundstage and Eastern. and was

recently taken over by Inter Global Music run by Gary Salters and John Williams. These two have turned a once overlooked location into a vibrant and busy audio workshop. Part of the business has been derived from the company's offshoot Dr rection Records label, but it has also housed a number of local productions and is said to be one of only six studios in North America to have the Yamaha "Dream Machine GX1 electronic organ, made famous by Stevie Wonder on the "Songs In The Key Of Life" LP.

Manta Sound is located close to Lake Ontario's shoreline in Toronto and was the site for Rod Stewart's "Foot Loose & Fancy Free" LP, along with all of Canadian superstar Dan Hill's recordings and is almost exclusively used by CBS Can ada for its productions.

Thin Lazy tales a break at Sounds Interchange

At Phase One. the TNP session finds. from ten, John Luengo. Wit, Mornson, tan Guenther and George Semk,n behind the board

Phase One studios, Toronto, also has disk cutting facilities

and is the location for the direct disk Kiras label, recently re

named from Labyrinth. Among the direct disk protects com pleted: the Climax Jazz Band and lau-rock band, FM.

RCA's studios in Toronto have also hosted several direct-to. disk recordings and it too has expanded its studio B complex to 16.track from eight.

In Montreal as In Toronto, the studio scene is lust buzzing with activity with most of the local studios reporting bookings far into the future.

Perhaps the best known is the Laurentian hideaway Le Stu

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n hum of optimism buzzes through the western Canada music scene all the way from the people who make the music to those who sell it. The industry In the West is no longer iso hated cottage industries producing for them selves but one potentially gigantic industry

whose indisputably positive temperament is Inspired by this year's breakthrough by a handful oh Vancouver, B C., artists from Nick Gilder ("Hot Child In The City'') through to Prism, Chilliwack, Trooper, Doucette, &m and Stonebolt

Independent labels Mushroom and Casino and production companies such as Panda Productions and Pacific West Pro ducttons have shown the way for other such companies to do business in the international marketplace whole associated studios -the Mushroom Studio, Panda's Little Mountain Stu duo. or Pacific West's Total Sound -have brought up the credo biltty of product recorded in Canada and attracted mayor in. ternational acts to record

Such are the possibilities revealed by Vancouver's coming of age (after a decade of unfulfilled promise) that in this city of a million and a quarter people the enthusiasm has spread to the street level Each month more amateur and proles sional musicians enter the studio to record demos or their own records for independent release, several of which reflect a higher standard of professionalism than ever before.

Meanwhile. in the provinces of Alberta and Manitoba in par titular, those involved in the music business are developing their own active scene following Vancouver's lead Talent that was always present but had no place to go is working in tan dem with business experience which was previously lacking

A definite division lies between East and West For years the West felt it was dependent upon the East where the Canadian music industry is based and the East was overlooking its poor relations while being caught up In its own protects The West looked to itself, generated its own protects and, in the case of Vancouver, took its business to newly established connec lions in Los Angeles. Now there are some people in the West who feel the industry here has not only caught up with the standards being set by the East but has surpassed them. Cer

o tainly the platinum status of Nick Gilder. Trooper, and Prism

á would support this, o Concert promoters, retail record outlets, racklobbers, and ni major distributors, are considering the West as a whole uni

tied market to be developed rather than live primary centers in and a scattering of secondaries of Community minded radio is supportive of the burgeoning rn local music scenes. generally, and Is actively involved in con- ^ cert presentation Ñ Booking agencies such as Bruce Allen Talent Promotions > are building an inviting. profitable club circuit from Vancouver CC through Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon and Winn. 7 peg that showcases name acts (from the Stylistics to Johnny Z Rivers) and breaks acts into new markets

Discos are popping up in the prairie provinces and creating woe among the booking agents. Where disco has settled in on the coast there is the beginning of a dichotomy between live entertainment and disco- they've found their respective au dtences.

Events such as the Western Canada Talent Conference held in October in Calgary and sponsored by the Calgary based monthly music publication Music Express awakened Eastern Canada to the potential boom that is ticking closer

Winnipeg had slipped into a lull for most of the '70s alter a

few years of feverish activity in the mid.'6Os that yielded the Guess Who, Burton Cummings. Randy Bachman and a legacy of experience that is lust now beginning to find its way back into an active role in the music industry

It is riot surprising to discover that one of the leaders of this prairie capitol's reawakening is Frank "I Just Book 'Em" Wei ner of the Hungry I booking agency

In this city where the music scene has been isolated, whose influence has been mostly insular. and whose energy has been kicking in spurts. Weiner's name is pervasive The Hun gry I agency virtually monopolized the club, pub. dance. and high school circuit throughout Manitoba in the '60s

Tom Harrison IS Music Editor, Georgia Straight, in Vancouver

How The Today Weiner is venturing back into the record business en

couraged by the presence of a iirst class studio, Jim Rouse's Roades Recorders. and the coordinated involvement of pro motion/ management companies such as Star Kommand and the quality of the music currently being made In Manitoba

Using his experience in record production he says he will "take the processionals and make them more professional "

The city has good engineers but equally good producers will be imported The effect of this Joint eltort will improve the Winnipeg record business "vastly "

Jim Rouse agrees His Roades Recorders. a 16 track Neve equipped facility that will have an additional studio by spring 1979, is booked solid 17 hours a day for demos. jingles. coup try and gospel music and also the completion of several album and single protects

These include an album by Greg Leskiw (former Guess Who and Mood Jga Jga, the latter recorded for WEA Music of Can ada) that will be released independently in late November, a

single by Crowcuss that. remarkably. had its B side "Running Start" go No 1 in Guatemala while the A side has only had moderate success in Canada as of this writing The reunited Guess Who will have its second Aquarius Records LP released in January Titled -All This For A Song" it will be released in the U S on Atlantic "Come On Little Momma" from the first Aquarius LP is being mixed for an American release

A second noteworthy studio operating in Winnipeg is Cen fury 21. now nine years old, which has opened a second 24 track studio under an expanded root. Utilizing Neve and Stu der equipment (bought from Oakwood Audio in Winnipeg). Century 2] with pro ductton, and protects as esoteric as an LP by Harvey Pollack. "World's Champion Whistler "

Winnipeg based labels, the independent Downs Records and Sunshine Records also use Century 21.

It is generally agreed among those who live in the province of Alberta that after Vancouver the Locus of the Canadian mu sic business will shift to Edmonton and Calgary, cities that share a kind of symbiotic relationship, that is, Edmonton has the studios while Calgary has the label warehouses, prompt ers, progressive radio. and faster growth rate The two cities (both with populations of approximately half a million people) exchange a lot of services. their momentum provided by the strength of Alberta's economy

Calgary's Nancy Nash, a tine singer currently negotiating an American recording contract. is one of the best known voices in the country courtesy of the many jingles she records in Vancouver where commercial production is extremely high The city's other best known exported talent is Fosterchlld, a middleweight rock group signed to CBS in Canada that has re corded two albums and scored the biggest of their tour singles with "I Need Somebody Tonight" in late spring.

Sound West is a low keyed 16.track facility that records mostly country/crossover and pop material as well as adver fising jingles. The only consistently busy studio in Calgary, Sound West opened a film studio complex in July 1977 that offers complete scoring for soundtrack protects.

Decidedly, Edmonton is busier on the recording scene Damon Productions Limited has been a 24 track facility since

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By TOM HARRISON

Booking Agencies And Concert Promotions

n the aftermath of "Saturday Night Fever" discos have arrived on the prairies and B.C. tete. nor and are posing problems for the prou. Indes' various booking agencies.

In Manitoba they have problems enough lust contending with liquor laws that have re

suited in the province having few. if any. clubs to speak of. The laws limit the size and capacity of any club and it is duff cult to get a license. Many discotheques operate without them while bars are now allowed to have live music and dance floors According to Andy Mellen. who covers the pop scene for the Winnipeg Free Press. there are few discos that were built as discos though Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy in

Winnipeg is an exception. Most discos such as Georgie's or Uncle's, are converted pubs Most rock bands share gigs in

pubs with strippers. while the lounge circuit is flourishing. Hungry 1 does the lion's share of booking in Manitoba.

Western Ontario and Saskatchewan, handling 75 acts and booking clubs, bars. high school dances and other one night ers.

"The whole music scene is about to explode." says Greg Thomas of Studio City. the Calgary booking agency that is Al

berta's largest Now in its eleventh year of operation. Studio City also has an office in Edmonton that caters to the club market and is booking the Holiday Inn chain nationally. The

Calgary headquarters is more into one nighters and collabo- rated with CJAY FM on "Homecookin'," a concert series tea luring local acts. Thomas feels that the quality of local talent is at a much higher professional level Acts that he books include Fosterchlld, One Horse. Blue. Shamash. All The Rage In

Paris. hypnotist Reveen, and comic Nestor Pistor. With Cal. gary enjoying rapid expansion Studio City is also benefiting from a strong convention and party market. Calgary's showcase for rock and pop artists. the Refinery. is booked by Stu-

dio City which. with Refinery owner Lou Blair, is responsible for introducing acts as established as Johnny Rivers and Long John Baldry or as promising as Lisa Dal Bello and Doucette. The arrival of discos in Alberta has yet to have an effect on Studio City's operation.

In Edmonton the Point After, Grand Central Station or Luci' fer's also forge an extra link with the Refinery in Calgary. the Cave or Body Shop in Vancouver, and Royal Towers in New

outside the Mush- room studio.

Thu West's Nestor Pistor h one of RCA's lop selling m '.sik +oliv/,. He'i shown s ere on Ihr sei of CBC's

Streetheart Irnd:gold on thepralrles they are y.i i,ied with Ross Reynolds of WEA llar left) and al tar right. Regina mayor Henry Raker

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West Was Won Westminster which form a chain of showcase clubs that have proved their ability to to break new acts.

In spite of this there are not enough clubs to keep all the province's musicians self-supporting and the disco business (there are approximately 40 discos ranging in scope from An nabelle's or Misty's to neighbourhood discos such as Jingles in New Westminster or Clyde's in West Vancouver) severely cuts into the live entertainment business

And yet both of B.C.'s major agencies. Bruce Allen Talent Promotions and Axis Entertainment. report that business is up. Sam Feldman. co-owner of B.A.T.P . says that the live mu sic market has expanded in the last year with name acts (in cluding Bette Midler, The Temptations. and Tower Of Power) seeking club dates- B.A.T P 's booking volume is up by 50 %, the company is now booking 25 rooms, and as the scrap for the entertainment dollar grows more serious entertainment budgets are increasing.

Additionally the Calgary office is now in the black after three years in existence and has experienced a "500% growth," while the 18 month old trucking firm, Overdrive Trips, has eight trucks on the road and has hauled equipment for the Grateful Dead, Heart. Trooper, Prism. STO, Foghat. Bob Weir. the Commodores. and the Blackstone Magic Show

Axis Entertainment experienced a 15% growth over last year though it lost considerable onenighter business to disco parties and the conversion of several of its rooms to discos in the B.C. interior.

Two problems face western Canadian promoters. the tact that western Canada is not thought of as a worthwhile market for most major acts because of the isolated centers of popu latton, the distances that have to be travelled to reach them, and their relatively small size. What usually convinces them to remain on the U.S. West Coast is the devalued Canadian dol tar. which is the second problem.

Among some promoters, Norman Perry of Perryscope in particular, it is in the promoters' and music industry's best in terests to develop the whole of western Canada as a feasible market rather than a handful of major cities strewn over lour provinces.

In its first calendar year. Perryscope has gone "from 0 to 60" in establishing its presence in western Canada and can take credit for the innovations the company has introduced in this area and the courage of several of its concerts. Early in 1978 Perryscope introduced its budget showcase concert series called Cheap Thrills working closely with radio stations FM 99 in Vancouver and CJAY.FM in Calgary presenting nine and four Cheap Thrills shows respectively Perryscope has

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ecord consumers living in Vancouver enjoy one of the most unique markets in North America; perhaps only Los Angeles can offer cheaper record prices

The downtown core of Vancouver has a dozen places to buy records for as low as

$3 99 for a single LP. This is due to a price war that has been raging without let up for nearly a decade Leading the light is A &B Sound which features an immense catalogue and a high volume Top selling LPs are sold as loss leaders for as low as $3.99 (hough the average downtown price is between $4 99 and $5 49. Critics of A &B Sound's drastic discounting claim that the whole record department functions as a loss leader for the stereo equipment department and since few other retail stores deal as extensively in stereos as A &B Sound they are hard pressed to compete. but compete they must

The Kelly's chain (which is racked by its own Pro-Sound) is down in volume, the A &A chain (stocked from eastern Can ada) remains at a fairly steady level and has come on more aggressively. especially the display oriented downtown store on Granville street Miller's. a Vancouver only chain. has adopted a policy of selling only deletes. overruns, and the Top 40 singles.

The price wars downtown are particularly hard on the small neighborhood stores who have no way to compete and so sell their stock at an average $6.48 to $6 98 on $7.98 or $8.98 list price LPs. The specialty stores such as Magic Flute (the largest classical record stock in western Canada and one of the best in North America) or Black Swan (jazz and avant-garde rock specialists) and Quintessence (import rock) also have been hurt by a duty imposed by the Canadian govemment on import records that was designed to protect the local pop indus. try (which is frequently criticized for its low standards)

In effect, says Magic Flute's Roy Sackeroff, the duty dis cnminates against specialty records since very few classical records and esoteric an product is produced in Canada. At first it was feared that the skyrocketing prices of imported records would kill the import stores. especially since the devalued Canadian dollar buys even less than it did last year The costs were passed on to the consumer who showed no reluctance to buy even if a record he was buying on the Telefunken label now cost him as much as $14.98 (discounted to $11.00 at Magic Flute). In 1979 the dollar is expected to stabilize and so will the price of imported records while the list price for the average domestic LP will be $8.98

Basically the ups and downs of the British Columbia noon. omy, which is shaken up frequently by strikes and dizzying inflation, is expected to bring an end to the Vancouver price war. and, in tact, the price of an album is edging closer to the sta dollar mark even downtown where the discounting is heavy. Major distributors report that sales in B.C. have not been steady- autumn was very soft generally, except for Poly- gram who enjoy the same kind of phenomenal sales (courtesy

RS0) to the West as everywhere else. All of t em. owever. have enjoyed bigger years. ¿y

The only one slop operation in B.C. is also the only tnde- pendent distributor, Emerson Sales, who handle such lines as Fantasy and Disneyland. Only WEA. RCA, and London have warehouses in B C , the other labels maintaining branch of- !ices out of which they work.

One of the success stories of western Canadian radio is that of CHAR in Moose Jaw Part of the Moffatt chain (8 stations, 5 AM and 3 FM on western Canada) CHAB had a listening audience of 34,000 iii 1974. In 1978 the audience has grown to a remarkable 300,000, which means that one in four radios in Saskatchewan is tuned into CHAB.

In 1974 CHAR switched from block programming to an AOR format and became heavily promotion oriented and ac live in community protects In past years CHAR has spon sored a water skiing championship and in 1978 the station sponsored a concert with Chilhwack at Buffalo Pound Provi- sional Park

CHAB's switch to an AOR format is a familiar story encoun- tered throughout the prairie provinces where country music stations are becoming more aware o1 crossover potential and e--°

MOR and youth oriented rock stations exist only in the larger S cities a

In the major cities most eyes are on the progress of FM radio. June 1, 1977 Calgary's CJAY -FM was one of four new FM ° stations to go on the air in Canada (the other three are in east ern Canada) A year later it is the only one of the four to have grown in total audience and to continue to show growth.

For the label representatives and the music community alike. CJAY has been a tremendous influence. The station has broken CANO. Molly Hatchett, Dire Straits, and Cheap Trick, artists that never could have dented the market before. The station's influence on concert ticket sales and album sales has been substantial This year CJAY also gave a boost to the local music business by initiating its Homecookin' concerts. Nine concerts were held this year featuring a pair of local acts each

In December the CRTC begins to review applications for a much needed FM station in Edmonton No less than 14 applications have been handed in by various interests including the Moffatt chain and McLean Hunter, owners of CJAY. There is not much doubt that the winning presentation will follow a format similar to CJAY's but everyone in Alberta is watching the outcome of these hearings with considerable interest.

Similarly, a decision is being awaited in Vancouver where in r October the CRTC listened to presentations made to the corn. mission for a new FM station. CKWX, a successful country mu C sic station on the AM band. has made a pitch for an all Jazz FM station which appears to be the only application likely to pre.-c vent the CHUM owned station. CFUN, from receiving its FM license. If granted to CFUN, the new FM station will be an adult contemporary station even softer than both CFMI, the eo city's most successful FM station. and FM 99, which ranks second.

The Moffatt owned FM 99 can take credit for getting "heay. m

Ily into concerts." to quote operations manager Roy Hen- nessy. that include the Cheap Thrills series. a benefit concert p for the station's Children's Fund featuring Doucette. and the first of many simulcast concerts. "Ladies In Lights," a Christ. p mas concert spotlighting the city's leading female artists. Fu. Lure plans include putting direct lines into concert halls in order to broadcast more concerts and tape them, possibly for special productions that will be heard on the Moffatt chain

On AM radio CFUN introduced 3 and 4 song sweeps and was followed shortly thereafter by CKDA (in Victoria) and CFUN's adult contemporary competitor. the Moffatt owned COLD. CKLG's coup during fall ratings was to sponsor a radio telethon for Greenpeace. it was one of many aggressive promotions undertaken by this community conscious station CFUN became more identified with the concert scene and backed the weekly publication. Georgia Straight, which re- vived the old fashioned Battle 01 The Bands competition.

Two more radio programs merit mention. CBC's "90 Min- utes With A Bullet." and "Great Canadian Goldrush." "But_ let" is produced in Winnipeg and compiles a weekly national album and single chart while "Goldrush" presents taped live concerts by name acts. studio sessions with upcoming Cana- dian artists that "Goldrush" produces itself. plus interviews and other specials. For a second year 'Goldrush" took a cara van of artists into the small towns of B C. and presented spe chal concerts that were taped for later broadcasts Both pro grams are heard nationwide and are enormously influential

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shortly alter inking with the indie

True North is perhaps Canada's ultimate indie label, a

small but dedicated company that has defied every known

rule in the music industry handbook and built up its stable of

three stars to epic proportion formed by manager Bernie Fin kelstein and former coffeehouse operator. Bernie Fiedler. the

two started the label in the early Seventies with singer song

writer Murray McLauchlan and guitarist Bruce Cockburn By

tough bargaining and a lot of screaming over the phones.

these two men go their artists out on the road touring and by

1975, both acts were capable of headlining in most markets across the country. Several years back a young singer dropped into their offices after having made the rounds of the major labels and presented himself as a possible candidate for the boutique label's roster Remembers his present man-

ager Bernie Fiedler, "I knew he had potential and I wanted to

sign him. but to have taken turn on would have affected our ability to handle the artists we already had I agreed to man age him and took the tapes to GRT where I was reasonably sure I could strike a deal "

Fiedler did and Dan Hill proved himself with a U S number three hit. "Sometimes When We Touch." and followed It up with -All I See Ss Your Face' and toured the u S with Phoebe Snow and Art Garfunkel when he wasn't headlining 3000 seat halls in Canada Cockburn and McLauchlan. meantime. are now major acts in Canada, both recently louring in Japan and Cockburn is on international release via Island Records A

McLauchlan deal is pending, after True North yanked him from that label for its own personal reasons The label has also signed songstress Ronney Abramson who is due to start work on her third album shortly

It should be noted that True North is handled nationally in

Canada by CBS. a working relationship That both have enjoyed benefits from for a good tire years

Aquarius Records is the only moor indie to base itself in Montreal and grew out of an alliance between label chief terry Flood and concert promoter kingpin, Donald Tarlton For long the label's anchor was April Wine, a feisty rock 'n' roll band that has toured nationally as a headline act for a good many years and has several album releases in the U.S through London and. more recently, Capitol In recent times the label has expanded and this year inked a deal with Capitol as it sought to break Windsor rock band. Teaze, and veteran Montreal guitarist, Walter Rossi Aquarius' approach to mar keting has always been to outdo the majors and its big bucks approach has earned it award winning accolades in this coup try. as well as earning April Wine multiple platinum albums Perhaps almost as many as BTO was to earn in this country

Teaze. meantime. has become a smash hit in Japan via a

licensing deal there with Nipon- Victor, and recently toured a

number of major centers, including Tokyo. as a headlining at traction The group has lust issued a "Live In Japan" album in both markets and has played more than 80 concerts across Canada Walter Rossi's second album is now close to gold and a record company backed tours planned in the early part of this year

The only major indie to house itself on the west coast is Mushroom Records. headed up by Shelley Seigal and an offshoot of the Mushroom Studios in Vancouver After suffering the loss of Heart to Portrait, the label bounced back into the limelight with guitarist Jerry Doucette. whose first album for the label has gone well over the platinum mark in Canada and a recent tour m the east firmly marked him as a national star Beyond this. Chilliwack has toured extensively in Canada and the U.S and sold huge numbers of records. particularly in the Pacific Northwest area. while flautist Paul Horn has toured to favorable applause in a variety of countries and receives extensive airplay at many of the country's major stations The label is distributed and promoted in Canada by A &M Records

These then are the big guns that have taken a different atti lude toward Canadian talent, bucking the radio mentality which long opted for the easiest method of making turntable selections, namely reading U.S. chart information. The corn petition is fierce here with large scale promotions being car rind on every week by the major labels to promote everything from the latest Queen album to remarketing the Beatles catalogue Newcomers such as Change Records. backed by Sounds Interchange Studios. arid distributed internationally by MCA. has learned that the media doesn't necessarily lump at the sound and sight of a new Canadian company. no mat ter how polished the finished product may be.

While the radio programmers now at least listen to domestic productions, the battle for print renews is equally tierce As one rnafor daily rock critic opined recently "Unless the act is daringly different or controversial. it really doesn't stand much of a chance of get ling into the paper "

One Label that has sprung uli in the past year and holds honors in both categories is Bomb Records While many indie houses have been content to 1011ow the Asylum Records route to lame and signed up en riiasse a stable of singer-song writers, pop and country or botti by trade. Bomb went for the throat right off the bat and shined a pugnacious local Toronto bar hand, sweetly called Battered Wives It didn't lake the women's movement brig to catch onto them once the album was out, pressed on a pleasing red colored vinyl, and a protest iii ub" .i Montreal record store Mil the Canadian Press wire "i viii' .,nil ,,ri, wballerl troni there In the true tradition of the

i; 'mew press, the Canadian payers and radio stations

latched on to the story and the ball kept rolling along as they clambered onto a national Elvis Costello lour.

Asked it the publicity had hurt the band, Bomb Records co. owner Phil Lubman thinks not, and says that he is more than pleased with first month record sales that took the album halfway to gold status. Another signing tor the off shoot of

P J Imports, the Bomb label, is ex. Wacker Bob Segarini After penning a lull page article in a Saturday edition of one of the Toronto dailies. chastizing radio programmers and a &r duet, tors for not taking chances on local talent, Bomb issued his

"Gotta Have Pop" LP. backing the release with full marketing support, which included buttons. stickers. embossed drinking glasses and store posters. Almost overnight Seguin' burst out of seclusion and onto high rotation at a number of major market AM and FM stations across the country. The label recently verbally patted with Greg Shaw for a number of Bomp Rec.

ords productions and has also leased a number of albums from abroad and released them in Canada on colored vinyl

Other labels such as Royalty Records and Stony Plain in the !Continued on puge C -301

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caled in one fashion or another, a number ending up as seg.

ments in the "King Biscuit Flower Hour ' Radio syndication is coming into its own with the rock on

ented Pringle Program now carried by 54 AM and FM stations across the country and Big Country being carried coast -to.

coast CILQ.FM. Toronto. has also struck up a loose alliance with several major FM stations across the country. for tape ex-

changes on broadcast concerts and major personality interviews

Beyond this. 1978 was a year that saw several boxoffice rec-

ords established in Ontario. The first was a Concert Produc- lions International/ Electric Light Orchestra outdoor concert date at the CNE stadium. attracting some 70.000 paid en.

trants The second was Canada Jam. staged at the Moseort speedway on Aug 26 and attracting close to 100,000 people to turn a gross in excess of $1 5 million

Although the music industry appeared to be unaffected by the chaotic economic climate in Canada. various sectors of the industry have been ensconced in protracted discussions with various government ministries seeking to get tax dis- pensations or new interpretations of rulings standing. In

some cases the lobbyists have been given favorable hearings, but in many cases the charade of discussion and diplomacy has won little but contacts in the seat of federal power.

In October when Statistics Canada announced that it was terminating print outs of record industry statistics due to "budget cutbacks," many in the industry found it to be al-

most sadly comical If in fact Statistic Canda does discontinue issuing the monthly figures, the CRIA has indicated that it will pick up the pieces and Collate information to be dispersed mon

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wage and price controls lilted. and unemployment dropping to 8 2% of the work force, Canada's economy is predicted to grow between 4 and 4' van in 1979. But. as record mogul Sam Sniderman. of the Sam's Records chain. has often said "In times of adversity people turn to records for home entertainment What else is there for prolonged enjoyment at such a low price' Clearly the percentage gains experienced by the manufacturers and retailers in the past year support this thesis The question is will it continue' And what affect will the new $8.98 suggested list have on old listening habits?

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Major downtown Montreal studios include Tempo. used by many of the trancophone and anglophone musicians such as Mahogany Rush. Walter Rossi and the Bombers and April Wine. Studio Six has now moved to McGill College Avenue and has been host to an array of recording acts and released a

Christmas album of its own making to tremendous success last year Listen Audio and Studio Marco are also nestled in the attractive core of the city, one that brims with nightlife. fine restaurants and high Cashion stores Most of these audio centers have undergone expansion or renovation in the past while, as has Studio Experience which took over the Studio Six building earlier in the year and totally re -out( ted the studios and control rooms. The Experience studios tied to CAM Can .ida Ltd., whrch owns three publishing companies and has full facilities for motion picture and commercial editing and sound nnxing General manager is Alain LaRoux.

Elsewhere in the country a growing number of 16. and 24- track studios have opened up, expanded and survived In the west there are a growing number. although the Mushroom Studios (Can Base) has certainly grabbed the lion's share of work contracted by record companies in the past Year

All in all, where 10 years back there was less than a handful of I6.track facilities to choose from in Canada, today there are numerous 24 track studio and most all compare with tact( dies available in New York l os Angeles ,vid London

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anada s refait industry has grown in leaps and bounds in the past two years and particularly so in the past 12 months While the economy has been Is than kind to many sectors of the relail trade. disk purchases by the public have done nothing but steadily increase Retail

chain baron Sam Sniderman of Sam's Records summarizes the relative increases by noting that in limes of hardship there "lust Isn't a better buy for the dollars spent than a record "

The great malorily of disks sold in this country are sold by chain outlets, either franchise record outlets or in department store record centers. Unlike in the U.S., companies such as Polygram, CBS and Capitol EMI have direct interest in chains. as do several major distribution companies.

With expansion by these conglomerates has come im creased eflrciency, proficiency and finesse in retailing strate gies. Most major outlets have coop budgets with record labels for print or radio advertising and the past 12 months has seen the introduction of rmhouse display artists and toward the

, end of the year. the beginning of paid watt space by one mater record company (although it was done in the form of free

á goods) Inventory controls, in some cases, being done by corn puter terminais at central warehousing locations and

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Retail Chains Grow As Disks Become Better Buy

The largest chain in the country is the Sam's Records tram

chase operation. Overseeing the 91 store operation is Bob Snr derman, who also manages the chain's distributing wing, Roblan Distributors. Based out of Toronto, the aggressive

company now controls more than 15% of all record sales in

Canada and has blossomed forth of late with a new franchise operation known as the RD2000 The RD (named after Rob Ian Dist.) is a compact modular istore record retailing de

partment that can be assembled in minutes, comes with full line stock and is designed to fit into existing retail operations with unprofitable floor space.

The RD2000 was being utilized by 30 stores from the prairies to the North West Territories at last count and Snider. man is predicting to double this figure by year -end 1979. Rob. tan's has created a publicity department in the past year and

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Treble Clef Goes Superstore Canada's first record and home audio retail superstore opened in Ottawa in September 1978 as part of the everex panding Treble Clef chain It is called Super Clef. naturally

Owner of the store. Harvey Glatt came up with the idea for opening the massive 12,0)0 square foot location after re-

searching similar types of outlets in the U.S "I guess the concept is based on the success of stores

such as Peaches and the Record Theatre in Buffalo," the in

dustry mogul says But the store is no carbon copy of other success stories when one looks around the enormous Io-

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D 5 Inside Sam's, the largest retail chain in Can. m ada. which controls 15% of ai record sales in

Canada This is an ßD2000. a compact mod ,.1 uhr irrstore retailing department that can be

assembled in minutes and is utdired by 30 stores wons Canada

Treble Clef goes to Su per Clef. with a 12.000 square loot location

Among the features of the one-level outlet are three cash desks, including an express wicket; a video theater which doubles as an artist showcase area when a promo fion is being run. color coded sections, and a fair ex change policy on damaged goods.

Initial stock includes some 7,000 album titles and 10.000 prerecorded tape titles, along with 5,000 sepa rate stereo components

According to Glatt, the prerecorded tape section is the largest anywhere in Canada and initial buying habits dicate that cassette tapes are going to be signil ..

sales leaders in terms of overall categories of sales is

track sales. Glatt notes, are no match for the volume sales cassettes have today.

Merchandising plays an important part of the store's overall look and feel Large posters. mobiles and pop ma. tenais have been thoughtfully placed in strategicareasof the store and yet there is no feeling evident anywhere on the floor space of crowding. Super Clef employs cash clerks and inventory staff as well as a floor staff of three persons per shift DAVID FARRELL

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Every year of P.R.O. Canada's history brought important changes, new challenges for songwriters. And 1978 was an important year. We were granted by the Copyright Appeal Board an increase in certain license fees from the "users" of music, permitting us to increase some of our payments to the people who create music. The increase has allowed P.R.O. Canada to extend its areas of payment, such as the recently introduced "pop concert payments ". 1978 also marked the year the performing rights organization signed its 10,000th songwriter.

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trying to track an RCA record in this country is an expensive proposition that is left up to the act's management in most

cases. Still, according to Ed Preston, general manager of the record division. the past year has been exceptionally good,

with Presley product continuing to line the company's profit sheets, along with a number of major country acts, of which several are domestic signings.

Not blessed with the quantity of commercial rock and pop product that other majors have today, the company has been

ultra successful in building a successful roster of Canadian country artists. the most notable one being a kind of Domi- nion version of Dolly Parton, namely Carroll Baker.

Polygram has had its most successful year ever in Canada, with year -end sales close to $27 million. A large part of the la-

bel's success stems from the distribution and marketing rights to RSO and Casablanca in Canada, thus producing million sellers in "Grease" and "Saturday Night Fever" soundtracks and platinum sales for acts such as Kiss and Donna Summer on the Casablanca logo.

Like WEA, Polygram seems to be vacillating on whether to expand as CBS has in Canada Its market strength is best described as powerful, leading a number of international acts to stay with the label tor Canada, but signing with other labels for the rest of the world.

Major Canadian acts for Polygram today include Garfield, Cooper Brothers (signed to Capricorn, which Polygram handles in Canada), BTO, Paul Mills, Rose, Goddo and the French, Canadian instrumentalists -Maneige.

Capitol probably ranks third in terms of market share in this country and the company's past year is surely highlighted by its well honed a &r acquisitions. Oddly enough, the company has gone against the grain of its international policy o) signing acts worldwide and sought to land distribution deals with sev-

eral key independents with first rights of refusal on the acts. The two major signings would have to be Daffodil Records. under the direction of Frank Davies This small label's principle act is the faceless Klaatu band Platinum sellers in Canada, other rights in the deal included catalogue titles by acts such as blues- harpist King Biscuit Boy and the legendary Crowbar band.

The second major distribution deal involved Anthem Rec-

ords, a relatively new label that sprung out of Moon Produc- tions and took Rush to the enviable position it sits in today as

an international rock band. Dave Evans replaced Arnold Gosewich as label chief and un-

der his leadership, Capitol has become an aggressive promoter on the streets, especially so since the label has its own retail chain across the country, headed up by Brian Josling, vice president of retail.

Other Canadian acts the label has include guitarist Dome. nic Trotano, and country songstress Colleen Peterson. It is ru-

mored that Capitol Canada has also made overtures toward signing Long John Baldry, one of the first non-Canadian acts it will have signed under a new policy established in 1977 that guarantees U.S. release on label signings done here.

The Motown story is considered to be a lot healthier than Canadian president Ron Newman likes to let on A label that has had few successes on AM or FM radio, due to the thick. headed refusal of Canadian programmers to understand that r &b can also be considered pop music, it has worked hard on the street and rung up more than a couple of cash register ho nanzas in the form of Stevie Wonder (250.000 copies sold of "Songs In the Key OI Life"), the Commodores (platinum on the single and album containing "Three Times A Lady ") and has done good business with others such as Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Rick James(CanCon) and a variety of greatest hit and anthology packages. Motown sources have few good words for the leading AM station in the country however, hay. ing had endless discussions to get product spun. but have played up the competition to their advantage and have done well in the secondary markets and at CKOC in Hamilton and CFTR in Toronto.

A &M Records has been successful in maintaining an ag gressive and concerned profile both at the street and industry level. In keeping with its strength in tour support and in store merchandising skills. the company showed leadership above and beyond its U.S. counterpart in the building of superstar acts such as Styx, Pablo Cruise and Supertramp. Fortunate or not. A&M had Canadian rights to the infamous "Sgt. Pepper" soundtrack and was successful in pushing it into the triple platinum strata by year end, but the initial sales predictions seem to have dampened the actual success the double package has achieved.

The first label to open up a publicity department, MM de buted a bimonthly tabloid this year with 100,000 copies put into retail outlets across the country and employing some of the top music critics to fill its pages. Beyond this. the label recently opened a West Coast a &r office, has entered into the audiophile market with a JVC disk line and has invested heav ily into Canadian productions in the past year.

A &M has also picked up national marketing and distribu lion rights to Mushroom Records in Canada and distributes Motown disks in the West.

GRT in Canada has continued to maintain a high profile both internationally and at home Long -time president Ross Reynolds shifted to WEA and Gord Edwards moved in to lake hare of the label, appointing national promotion and a &r dr

,,for, Jetf Burns, to vicepresidenry Moving in to replace

Burns in the hot seat was Lee Silversides. formerly with A &¡H

A company that handles ABC. Passport, Janus and vanety of other labels in this market, il ranks high in terms of being able to sign Canadian talent and break it abroad. Most notable in the past year are Prism and Dan Hill. Other ma)or Ca nachan acts the label has signed. or distributes via other la-

bels. are: the progressive FM trio, flautist Moe Koffman, David Clayton- Thomas. Ian Thomas, David McCluskey and Craig,. Matthews.

Quality Records continued to suffer from the loss of the Casablanca line to Polygram, but has had a number of head office shake-ups in Toronto that saw Frank Dallar move into the national promotions seat and independent Skyline Rec. ords chief, John Driscoll, take over the a&r slot, replacing Bob Morton who moved on to independent productions. Accord I

ing to Dallar. Quality's primary objective today is to create some action for the label's own productions in the U.S. Among the acts that Quality is leaning hard on are Lynx and the Madcats (Continued on page C.321

West's Concerts Continued Irani page C -J.

also brought the "concert bowl to Vancouver, which involves sectioning off the Coliseum, has presented several new wave air acts at the 1000 seater Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, and pressed for more reserved seating concerts at venues such as the Coliseum.

Perryscope. however. can't take all the credit for stirring up excitement in the West. In 1978 Isle Of Man was by tar the top ranking outfit working predominantly in Vancouver with a

w $1.2 million gross business based on 10 concerts.

Among Isle Of Man's successes (carefully chosen shows all) are concerts by Leo Sayer, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Phoebe Snow and Kenny Loggins with Foretell though by far its biggest accomplishment was Summer Sunday '78 held outdoors at Empire Stadium that was attended by more than 45.000 people who came to see Heart, Little River Band, Bob Welch. and Nick Gilder It was the largest one day show ever held in western Canada and only the third (after Elvis Presley in 1957) and the Beatles in 1964) to be held at Empire Sta-

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e Vancouver Folk Music Festival held in the summer was an unqualified critical and popular success. Fashioned after and organized by the same people who have made the yearly Winnipeg Folk Festival the largest of its kind in North America it was well attended in spite of the soggy condition of Stanley wri Park due to inclement weather.

North Pacific Presentations valiantly attempted to create '

interest in concerts held at regular intervals on Grouse Moun tain, a beautiful location overlooking the city of Vancouver from 3700 feet Well organized and efficiently run, the two and three day concerts. of which there were five in the series. introduced many promising Canadian artists and quality international acts such as Jimmy Buffett but suffered from the ineffectual marketing of the idea to the populace and funda. mental problems in the booking.

Nostalgia Plus, which predominantly promotes jazz artists, echoes the beliefs of Norman Perry, and likewise seeks out new and better venues for its acts in order to build up a strong circuit that includes college dates in the U.S. and shows presented throughout western Canada.

In all there were approximately 212 concerts presented in Vancouver. reports one ticket outlet. Concert Box Offices. compared with 215 in '77. They were attended by 409,563 people compared with 414,573 the previous year. Gross sales amounted to 3 million dollars These figures, says CBO. indicate that the concert business remained steady inspite of higher costs and B.C.'s shaky economy. The forecast is for concert promotion to continue at a similar pace next year.

The largest concert ever held in Alberta was that of the Eagles this past summer in Calgary. The Eagles were presented by Springfield productions which also promoted shows by Leo Sayer, Average White Band. England Dan and John Ford Coley, Burton Cummings. Pure Prairie League. Bort Scaggs and Little River Band among others.

David Horodezky calls Brimstones year one of rebuilding. Based in Calgary. Brimstone took new acts such asWarrenZe von and Bob Welch through western Canada as far as Winni- peg and completely sold out the Meat Loat dates. In 1979 Brimstone plans to return to the larger acts it helped to break including Jethro Tull and will bring Yes through Alberta for the first time ever.

In 1978 Star Kommand moved its office from Regina, Sas- katchewan, where Gary Stratychuck's company monopolized the province's concert market, to Winnipeg where the concert business is also wide open. Star Kommand is now pouring money into the Winnipeg music scene in an el fort to build up the music market there.

In summary, the western Canada concert business is gaining momentum as primary cities are linked by the secondaries, and more promoters concern themselves with the development of a whole market rather than points on a map. Tickets average $8.50; Vancouver is in need of a mid -sized (8000 seat) hall, Edmonton would benefit from a progressive FM station while Calgary, which has a progressive FM station would benefit from a large auditorium. The centers in Mani- toba and Saskatchewan which generally are less affluent than those in Alberta and B.C. lag behind but with input from corm panics such as Star Kommand are beginning to catch up.

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n Quebec. 1978 was the year of the wanderers: French artists who deviated Irom their usual ways, sounds or acts al order to satisfy their needs. hopes and fancies.

For some. it was a minor alteration and for others. a mator step ahead For many. it was

an episode in the long chain of events of their own evolution and for all, it was the only way to tend some gratification in

..their work Boredom grows bitterly and easily in the lives and careers of

local artists who. year after year, tend to and are pushed to follow an invariable schedule: a new album promoted on the same five or six television shows and a yearly tour of the prose trice culminating in Montreal's two or three big spots. This routine might provide an adequate way of living but it is still a

claustrophobic atmosphere to perform in for anyone who has the slightest ambition.

Not so long ago, this schedule was a challenge and only a

handful of artists had the opportunity and talent to cope with it But today almost anyone can follow his fancy of performing at the Place des Arts in Montreal For example. a reporter turned singer. Michel Girouard. a comic act called TiGus et Tr Mousse. a tv and radio animator. Serge Laprade. all had their turn there this year. Five years ago. this would have been an impossible dream. If that shows a flourishing show biz it also

e, pressures topbilled artists to tip-toe into other fields. Certainly those artists cherish their annual rendezvous with

the public of Quebec. but they are more and more demanding with themselves If many others still stagnate in the routine. in 1978 a change of wind passed over the music business and some top artists decided to show. maybe not the other side of

" their moon. but at least, another side of their performance Those wanderers. on the other hand, choose to not ride

alone into the sunset With a little (or big) help from their mu sisal friends. duos became solos and vice versa. singers made films and actors made records, writers became singers. tv animators made it onstage and well known groups subtracted or added members.

If in the first halt of the year this tendency germi nated. it certainly went wild in autumn Jammed with local shows. the fall of 1978 U.S. in Montreal, the most ebullient artistic season in years. if not ever.

It started well. In fact. it h. started with the best: Ca

role Laure and Lewis Fu. rey at the TNM. Carole Laure is a French Cana dean actress who met Fu.

rey during the filming of r` "L'Ange et La Femme'

two years ago. Filming in

France this year, Carole Laure teamed with Furey in Paris for one of the most captivating musical shows of the time Atter their success, the duo came back to Montreal and cajoled everyone into the magical atmosphere of their special world, a

world created by the mu seal touch of Furey On stage, Furey is the star but Carole Laure wasn't shuttled aside. since she is the singer on the album "Alibis." which derives from the show.

One woman shows also took the biggest piece of this autumn's cake. Mo. nique Leyrac took a successful monthly ride at

By MANON PECLET

the Botte a Chansons de l'Hotel Meriden and Diane Du frustre opened the renovated Theatre St Denis in a delirium of fans and leathers, Ginette Reno, who made her point on the "Dinah Shore Show" last spring with "Sometimes When We Touch," sold out her show again this November and surprised everyone with her next project involving two films. Diane Du Iresne is also contemplating cinema in the near future But triumph this fall took the name of Dominique Michel, a Iv su perstar who, atter more than 10 years. decided that it was time for a stage comeback a onewoman show called "Show. time "

Poet Raoul Duguary made his last stage appearance (for three years, at least) at the TNM and multitalented Jean Guy Moreau gave us his "Yesterday, Today and Tout Moreau " Pr anist Andre Gagnon made a Place des Arts hit with the public. if not the critics. and crooner Michel Louvain celebrated his 20th anniversary in the business with a flurry of gilts a show at the Place des Arts, a Illm with Margaret Trudeau and huge record sales. His "La Dame en Bleu" sold more than 100.000 units.

Stage and tv actor Luc Durand presented his first one man show al the Patriote and internationally but not locally known mime Claude St Denis gave his first big show in Montreal's Theatre St Denis. After a live year absence. Claude Dubois came onstage and after three years and three albums. Fa bienne Thibault made her solo debut at the Outrernont Sing ing Brecht, Pauline Julien teamed with the Grands Ballets Ca nadien in a special song and dance review Lively Gilles Rivard who was a hit on radio but a flop on sales. surprised everyone with a packed audience at La Boite a Chansons As expected. comics followed the mood with trio Paul di Paul and group Les Carcasses, whose success gave both of them a return engage ment.

Another sign of this exceptional autumn is the hit record of " Starmama." a collective effort of Quebecois and French artists via a musical comedy (the stage version will be done next year) Reuniting singers Fabienne Thibault. Diane Dufresne.

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Nanette Workman, Claude Dubois. and France's France Gall, ó Eric Este., Rene Joly, and composers Luc Plamondon and Michel Berger. " Starmana" is one of the top selling albums of T.

the year and also brought a hit single for Dubois with "Le Blues du Businessman."

If the fall of '75 nias lull of vitality. the rest of the year was no vacuum, especially in record sales

The two super hits of the year came from what could be called "adopted" Quebecois artists: Acadian Angele Arse. naull and Calun Zachary Richards.

The album "Libre" of Angele Arsenault sold 120,000 copies and is still riding high with singles like "Moi Jmange." "Je Veux Toutte La Vivre Ma Vie" "Moi, J'ai Les Bleus" broadcast daily, one year after release. surprisingly popular since the first shipment was for 2.500. As for Zachary Richards, his single "L'arbre Est Dans Ses Feuilles" went platinum a few months after it was heard on radio, giving a nice push to his -Mardi Gras" and "Migrations" LPs.

Richards' folkloric single made it clear that This sound is not dead The movement is in fact quite healthy and duos like Breton Cyr and Jim et Bertrand. who won the top honor at the Folk Festival of Montreux this year, are there to remind us of il But it was newcomer Paul Piche who showed us that folk z music is alive and well and living in Quebec. His album "A Qui Appartient Le Beau Temps" sold 51,000 units and his shows D are always sellouts

II folk product seems to saturate the market. artists who -a had made it their trademark, turned away from it Louise For- ester has a new sound and ManeClaire Seguin (from the ex duo Richard et Marie Claire also called Les Seguin) made an i album with some members of Harmonium. ea

Harmonium. which didn't work as a whole this year. wasn't r' lazy either Its new album will come out next spring but '78 i was really one of individual association As mentioned, some D 9. members worked with Marie-Claire Seguin and an ex.mem 5p

ber. Serge Local. cut his first LP as a solo in November. But it

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Serge Farr and Rte hard Seguin hit the tack pot with their LP "0eu. Cent Nulls A

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Dominique Michel, a tv superstar who made a onewoman show Stage come back ruled "Showtrme.'

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Manor; Peeler is Eddor of iMa entertainment section, Dimanche Melon

Zachary Richards nad a pfahnum single this yeae proving folk music rs still very much alive m Quebec

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U all the gripes and groans that come out of the lto industry in Canada about government

interference and high overheads. radio in this country is very professional, successful and profitable.

The proximity to the U.S. marketplace has made Canada's programmers very aware of new develop ments In the broadcasting held. the audience trends and the exchange of high calibre shows that goes on through the syn dicatlon networks. FM has shown a dramatic increase in lis

tenership in the past Pew years and there are now eight FM AOR formats spanning the country from Montreal to Van couver The traditional shouter of the scene. top 30 radio. has. in most cases. toned down its image and has taken on a more mature attitude in its broadcasting philosophy. Changes to have occurred on AM include sweeping with three to bye disks. allowing disk jockeys to have a more individual approach to the make -up of their programs and knocking out the glib, uttrafast chatter that used to be fed over intros and outros to disks.

Competition is the key to d all, according to programming ÿconsultant Dave Charles. Formerly program director of CILQ

m FM in Toronto. Charles left the post earlier in the year, to set Iup his own consultancy company under the name of Joint Communications.

Charles. along with CHUMFM's program director. Warren Coslord. Les Sole at Toronto's CFTR AM and a number of other key radio people in the country. see a bright future for commercial radio here in the future

British DJ Mark Steyn recently visited Canada and wrote a

critique for Broadcaster magazine before leaving for home He says that "generally Britain has a lot to learn from the dit- ferent music formats and presentation of style available here." Steyn also notes that because most of Canada's big stations have eliminated various degrees of technical respon sibility from the disk jockey. by having operators, they are better able to concentrate on what they are paid for- speech

CHUMFM in Toronto has been a major innovator in the past while Its in concert broadcast series. taped from clubs such as the Riverboat, Groaning Board and El Mocambo. has consistently shown high quality and effectively promoted the names of the acts that it has worked with The station recently entered into an agreement with CITY -TV for a series of simul- casts. the first done in November with Murray McLauchlan from the much touted El Mocambo rock haunt It has made a

guarantee to the Canadian-Radio and Television, Tele communications Commission (CRTC) for 10 more in the 1979 programming season.

Behind the new image of FM are the foreground regu

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lotions, which means that the stations are obligated to pro-

vide their audience with 126 hours of content programming per week Specialized news programs. artist interviews. and in depth features all fit into this category. Beyond this. FMS

are compelled to provide factual information on the records

that they are playing. or on the artists that they are spotlight mg. The regulation stipulates 30 seconds of informative talk per 15 minute block and is known as mosaic programming.

In Montreal radio has had much to contend with, being that the Parti Quebecois has had a great deal to say in "cultural" matters and the uncertainty of the political future of the province has led to a great number of people leaving for Toronto.

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Calgary and even Miami. Hardest hit by the political climate have been the English language stations and CHOM.FM suf feted so badly in its last ratings book that for the first time it has turned for outside help and now consults with Joint Corn.

munications in Toronto. CFNY -FM in Bramton is perhaps the definitive secondary

market FM station. its programming philosophy running against the grain of the major market stations. Chairing the programming director position is Dave Marsden who has blended the best of freeform with commercial AOR FM and the station is gaining an ever increasing number of listeners.

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in many small towns Retail outlets are noticing a consider able increase in disco sales I in some cases new disco acts out selling established rock artists), while radio is tonally picking up on the beat

To say disco is relatively new to Canada would be quite inaccurate. as Quebec must be recognized as one of the birth- places of disco in this hemisphere Discotheques have been in operation there for over 12 years. In fact Montreal particularly has played a very large role where this 'explosion" is con cerned, that city being the clearing point for most European disco hits of lust a few years ago -bimbo Jet, The Ritchie Fam- ily. Santa Esmeralda, Chocolats, et al -and more recently Marsha Hunt. Cerrone, Roberta Kelly, Voyage, Theo Vaness.

u Cale Creme, Sheila B Devotion, to name a few In fact be E: cause of the interest created by these imports. many went on ` to release here and the U.S . in some cases achieving gold

e Montreal also was the source of the first domestically pro duced disco records However Toronto and Vancouver are now quite actively involved. From Vancouver there's Denise

a McCann. now released on Butterfly in the U S while Toronto can be justifiably proud of such tone producers as Harry Hinde (The Raes). John Driscoll (Star City. The Mighty Pops), and Willi Morrison and Ian Guenther (THP Orchestra. Grand Tour. Sticky Fingers and Southern Comfort) All of the aforemen honed are either already, or soon to be released inter nationally. Co-producing and mixing for Driscoll is Robert Qui. met. DJ at Canada's No 1 discotheque. Montreal's Lime Light. while Morrison and Guenther, and Hinde utilized the talents of Boston's John Luongo

For the past three years Luongo. who formerly headed up the Boston Record Pool. has been aware of the talent polen teal of Canada. and has been one of the staunchest support ers of Canadian product in the U.S As a point of interest it

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Radio support of disco music has been slow, except in the case of Quebec For over three years the Radiomutuel chain has featured a disco show on all five of its stations, while sta lions like CKMF FM, CKLM FM and FM 96 all aired disco shows. Also in Montreal television shows were a powerful fac tor. This combined support accounted for major sales action in this part of the country Now radio and television support is spreading across the country. In Ontario CKFM FM broad casts "live" from a Toronto disco every Saturday night The latter station also playlists several of the softer disco cuts as

part of its regular programming Where tv is concerned. the CTV network now features "Down Right Disco" and the "Patsy Gallant Show," both hall hour prime time shows. and both airing on the full network "Down Right Disco" is not a

dance party show. but rather focuses on the artists. Not surprisingly this radio and tv support has had quite an

impact on sales This as well as more availability of product Again, in the east, one stops were well supplied with disco as well as other product Not so in Toronto One stops here. in

many cases would not carry any releases not appearing on ra dio station charts. This caused Toronto to have a thriving im port scene. in many cases product appearing in some of the independent stores there as soon as 24 hours after U S re

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C.1 disagreement has evolved between publishing and record manufacturing interests in the Ca

nadian music business as a result of initial lederal government moves in the long process to revise the Canadian Copyright Act The leg-

islation promises to be the single largest goy ernment movement attectmg the industry since the 1972 regulations regarding the 30 °° Canadian content rule for broadcasters.

The process towards revision. started informally in 1971, will not produce a final report tor at least three niore years and it is unlikely, in the opinion of most observers. that a new Copyright Act would be possible before 1983 or 1984

If the government follows the opinions expressed in a 1977 report by lawyers Frank Keyes and Claude Brunet (hired by the government's Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs in 1973 to suggest possible revisions). it would. among other things. consider abolishing the practice of compulsory licensing by which a composer, alter negotiating first record mg of a song. is compelled to license all further recordings at the 2 cents per copy royalty rate

rn The two lawyers. both of whom have since lett the depart m nient (Keyes to the Secretary of State's Office as a copyright $ -adviser and Brunet to his private practice. intricately involved m with the Quebec music business), also recommended a per w centage of the list price as a new basis for calculating mechan

Kcal royalties and advised that that percentage apply to me

ords manufactured. not to those sold, All of these are significant changes. the first in this area since the Copyright Act was enacted in 1924

At present mechanical royalties to the composer are three fourths of a cent behind the U S rate, both of which lag sig- nificantly behind European payment rates which are calcu- lated from 8 °0 of the suggested list price,

Since the Keyes-Brunet report, interested sectors have re.

sponded on all topics which affect the music industry, an prep. aration tor talks in 1979 Thirty six leading manufacturers. represented by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. have asked for the maintenance of the present royalty rate under the original act CRIA president Brian Robertson said a

brief, submitted to Consumer and Corporate Affairs in the spring of 1978, conveyed its position and since then CRIA has been quiet. preferring to meet privately with publishers in the hopes of presenting a 'united front" to the government next ,ear In the meantime he prefers to dismiss the Keyes Brunet

áreport suggesting it should not be taken seriously mThe Canadian Music Publisher's Association, which with

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brief agreeing in large part with crucial Ke ;'- brunet open

ions It called for a royalty rate of 8 °.. of the suggested last

pril:e.the European rate Two LA the largest of the CMPA members. Chappell Music.

and Leeds Music are in the position of pitting their composers up against record companies of which they are a corporate arm. Chappell is part of the Polygram group of companies and Leeds is part of the MCA group of companies. II was sug

gested by one participant in the publisher manufacturer ne

gotiations that Chappell and Leeds might both be conscious of their larger corporate connections, and that an unwilling ness on the part of either to add extra expense to the parent s

manufacturing process may affect the bargaining process. Mr Keyes. in defending the opinions in the report. said that

Section 19 of the 1924 Copyright Act, concerning compulsory licensing, was -grossly unfair" to the composer. who could not protect himself from exploitation nor his songs from de basement The inability to control the future of a particularly popular song results in a unnegobable royalty rate and leaves the composer at the mercy of popularizers who might distort or cheapen the material The end of compulsory licensing would allow full control of the future of a song to thecomposer or publisher, including royalty negotiation for every future recording and veto of artists

Keyes said compulsory licensing was curious only to the music trade, pointing out that literature or drama have no

such licensing compulsions As well he pointed to France. where the music business proceeds without the necessity of compulsory licensing.

All of this lakes place at a time when the publishing and manufacturing interests have been sharing together the el leas of the 1972 government regulations. which opened a

larger hole for the exposure of Canadian talent than had been previously dreamed of Controversy still flares up occasion ally, but for the most part the industry has agreed that as tar

Paul McGrath is a former pop cnfic lot the Giaoe 8 Mail newspaper and n now a freelance water in Canaria

as Canadian artists and music are concerned. the govern. ment legislation was a large boost. The CMPA has been grow. ing steadily. with close to 10 new members in the past year,

and it has seen a steady growth in royalty payments to Cana chart composers collected by the Canadian Musical Reproduc Lion Rights Association, Ltd a CMPA body instituted to li

cense recordings for Canadian compositions. Although figures are sketchy on the topic. CMRRA president and president of Attic Records. Al Muir, suggested that the Canadian publishing business is growing at a faster rate than the music business as a whole Mair pointed to rising Canadian fortunes in the fact that for the first time an 1977, a Canadian song. -The Homecoming" by Hagood Hardy. generated the largest royalty payment in Canada of any song. Also. the success of

Canadians such as Dan Hill and Gino Vanelli in the United States and Europe has brought royalty money back across the border and left behind a growing interest in Canadian compo. salons

A number of things may happen before government and in.

dustry meet The government is under no obligation to accept the "opinions" of Keyes and Brunet Theirs was simply an ad. wsory mission and the amount of controversy generated may scare the government away from the more radical sugges. :eons On the industry side, the hope was expressed from both camps that buss

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fter five years and five presidents, the Canadian Recording Industry Association elected Brian Robertson as its first permanent president on

December. 1977 The CRIA is loosely mod elled after the RIA of America and has a rnern bership ol 38, which collectively accounts for

95% of all records and tapes manufactured and sold in Can

ada. Previously known as the Canadian Record Manufacturers

Association. in 1973 the CRIA was instituted with Arnold Gosewich. then president of Capitol-EMI, elected as its first president Issues and protects at the time included a crack down on piracy. the decision to set up a certification system and the pursuit of government tax incentives for record pro ductions

Robertson's appointment as permanent president under lined the association's growing need for a full time specialist to oversee the Increasing complexities of the record business here Particularly with Ottawa and Prime Minister Trudeau's Liberal government becoming openly nationalistic in its eco

nomic policies. while not being noticeably sympathetic when lobbied for a break in the tax bite

By 1976 the CRIA had instituted a policy for record certifica wins, a 10% system in proportion to RIAA qualifications, which meant 100.000 and 150.000 sales for platinum albums and singles respectively, and 50,000 and 75.000 sales for

gold albums and singles respectively In December of that year, the CRIA had certified a total ot 216 records, including a

first quadruple platinum tor the CBS qct, Bos ton. and "A Star Is Born" by Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristof ferson, also on CBS. which goal, tied as triple platinum

With a credible certification system estal, lished, in the summer of 1977 the CRIA insu toted Canada's first national sales chart The as

sociation has also made the decision to publist, an annual directory listing Canadian disks, al

bums and singles, released each year and listing the label, i d number and title

Through Brian Robertson's representation the CRIA has made strong inroads into !hi, abatement of bootleg and counterfeit product, on the market and, on July 17, a mapor seizure ot

10,000 bootleg recordings was made in a raid on a Montreal warehouse by the RCMP

Commenting on the bootleg seizure, Rot, ertson says that "Record and tape piracy cordon ues to be a worldwide problem. but through thy cooperation of the RCMP and other law enforce-

CR1A Tackles Industry's Growing Complexities merit agencies. we have been able to contain it to manageable proportions in Canada, In recent years "

Running down issues and resolutions facing the associ ation in the past year. the president suggested that the long standing battle with Customs over the importation of foreign cutouts was a major victory for the manufacturers

The facts on this issue center around an 18 month cam paign by the CRIA to move National Revenue into reviewing the value for duty section of the Customs law pertaining to

cutout records With as many as eight million cutouts flowing onto Canada in 1977. many of the titles still active in Canadian company catalogues. the attect on sales was viewed by the CRIA membership as a formidable threat Initial overtures by the CRIA to the Anti Dumping tribunal had failed to meet with any success. then, finally. on October 3. a new ruling was handed down "A triumph tor patience and persistence," is

Brian Robertson. at left presrtent of both CRIA and CARAS. is shown with Burton Cummings and Paddy Sampson. producer ol the Juno Awards telecast

how Robertson termed the new ruling, which exacted a 27% customs and federal tax on the current line price of the disks in the exporting country, not on the purchase price as previ

ously ruled. The Customs reversal has not been viewed with the fondest

thoughts by all. however Apart from the anger exhibited by major record retailers. companies like EMI. Polygram and London were finding that more than just cutouts had been re

viewed by Customs and suddenly CRIA was back at National Revenue's door asking for consideration in allowing classical recordings to be considered "cultural product "

So far the government and the industry are at a stalemate on this subject and both Polygram and London have all but phased out importation of the prestige Deutsche Grammo- phon and Philips classical lines respectively Capitol-EMI has

been hard hit by the new ruling as well. having substantially expanded its classical and pop import department with the bulk of disks coming in from Japan and Britain

Similar to the Canadian Independent Record Producers As

sociatoon. the CRIA is actively pursuing a 100% tax wrote-off for Canadian productions. through the Secretary of State's of.

lice The thrust of the CRIA pitch to Ottawa is that Canadian

sound recordings can be considered as "Cultural expres. sions." but though the culturally minded Secretary of

State department is sympathetic. Revenue Canada argues that themusic busoness isan ondustryand as

tong as it shows profits, thecultural contributions are merely second nature to its primary aim

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On the more positive side it now looks as if

- = the long disputed 12% manufacturing tax on

ji., disks is to be applied on the producer's cost, v..) whereas the government has been applying CI the tax on the price sold to the distributor.

All in all. 1978 was the most productive and. C34/ if not rewarding. aggressive year ever for the

Canadian Recording Industry Association and next year's goals include taking the national chart

onto television for a program to be called naturaey, 'Top Of The Charts " DAVID FARRELL NA, d

Quebec Change (,.,, That; itt/tte

was the tandem Serge Fion and Richard Sequin who hit the jackpot with the album "Deux Cent Nulls a L'Heure," selling 135,000 units and still on top of the charts As for the future of this supergroup. after the release ol its album, rumor has it that each member will go on his own

The same thing might happen with Beau Dommage which this year was totally absent from the market. But the head and heart of the group, Michel Rivard, has not sung his last notes. since he found that he could enjoy himself in a solo act presented on Pans Another artist in trouble this year was Gille Valiquette whose sox albums on the market didn't help his last one, -Vol de Nail."

A helping hand was given by to to French artists with Eng lish ambition. After Rene Simard. Patsy Gallant and Suzanne Stevens found themselves at the head 01 a weekly series broadcast coast-to-coast However the most impressive often sere in the field belongs to disco artist Martin Stevens. With seven hit singles behind him, he is coming on still stronger with his version of "Love Is In The Air" more than 100.000 units sold in Quebec Johnny Farago. Quebec's own Presley imitator also stirred the show market

As expected, the country scene rode straight for their home market and even broke some chains with the press confer ence and show of Julie el Ses Musiciens, at the El Casino Ve Vogel had a successful series of Monday night jazz concerts and the Rising Sun continued to be the best. il not the only, jazz place in town

Some achievements were also to be found in the classical scene this year Pianist Andre l.aplante won a silver medal at

Moscow's Tchaikovsky contest last July and Francois Dom pierre signed with the prestigious Deutsche Grarnmophon tor his piano concerto to be recorded in Montreal next February. Dompierre is an unlimited artist who also writes for popular singers like Nicole Martin who changed her image this year al ter a one-woman show at the Place des Arts. Before her au chence was almost limited to singles buyers In Quebec. that is

synonymous with predominately young fans who almost never buy albums and who are seldom seen at the Place des Arts Anyone considering a long range career has to overcome this restriction without losing the tornnierrial support That is

why it is so important for French Canadian products tri hil the CJMS radio chart since because of its audience, It alone di.

ides if d WV. 1/111 fld1,4 ro, d 0,1i rar dilo p.. t n dil

mentary on the situation of the record industry The private station, Tele Metropole, did the same thing on a tour part basis The two programs were inspired by the research of a

well known reporter in the field, George Hebert Germain. and for the first time. the public had an inside view of what goes on behind the recorded products they buy.

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An Independent with a different approach to business's Do

rection Records. helmed by former CBS a&r director John We hams, and backed by IGM Records and Black & White Sales All three inter locking ownership companies base out of To ronto and company president Gary Salter also has ownership on Thunder Sounds, located in the trendy Yorkville district of the city

According to Williams. -independents are the future bear ers of Canada's success internationally. We don't have the ti

nancial resources that a CBS has, to give an example. but then we don't the limitations of working in a corporation setup either"

Direction's thrust has been to license product abroad as much as possible and actively promote the publishing cata logue To date the small label has been very successful in plac ing acts such as Gotham, Kebeketektrik and Barde in a variety of countries that include Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy. Portugal, Spain and Brazil

Its a&r policy is by no means restrictive, ranging boat disco with Kebekelektnk, to folk with Barde Distribution in Canada Is handled by Polydor Records and ¡GM by Epic In Canada 10M has Silver Convention, Amanda Leal, Antonio Fernandez and local band Teenage Head

More and more acts are taking it upon tliernselves to dig tip Ihn money necessary for an album these clays and many Use I reble Clef Distributors in Ottawa to rack their rie ords in retail outlets I his company is lied into .1 large retail chain, (Treble Clef and Super Clef has interests in Ottawa station CHEZ FM, and also has its own Posterity Records label Behind thos em pee is Harvey Glatt, perhaps one of the roost dedicated pro motets of Camelot] Liked ii II ii'i ountry and a man of many successes

ra,ao u n i wirle i didlOgUe of one shot Or one art

it.i Libel ns I notes that "eventually some of these names are it in n guidance, which is a part ot

rime Iii os with a record 'I"il better as well il ! a good pro

ducer had been brought in to mix the tracks. But they learn he adds optimistically

-Most make their initial investment back and then put the money into a second record, then a third and if sales keel) up. then they start getting offers from major labels The question is, will they get a better deal than if they do it themselves?"

That has been a question that many have bandied around in the past few years as many maw labels seem at a loss to persuade their U S. and British affiliates to pick up Canadian productions For this reason, many managers now fly directly Io New York and Los Angeles to obtain label deals and quote often bypass Canadian a&r offices Both MCA and Capitel have struck up agreements with L A offices to simultaneously, release Canadian signings, but most still battle verbally with U S a&r offices when it comes to a reciprocal trade agree ment

Such is life then tor the majors and the independents. but the bottom line to the matter is based on the time spent on artist development today The hits are there, but discovering them takes time and money Canada's independents are des, nitely contributing to both areas DAVID FARRELL

Independent Producers The Canadian Independent Record t

atoon is the voice of the independent producers and record labels in Canada, but is basically comprised of companies and individuals working from the Ontario marketplace Unlike the CRIA. the association does not have a great ti nancial resource to tall back on and the annual election of a new president is enough to make some shudder at the thought of the extra workload

In the past the loose assemblage of independents has hired on Earl Rosen to take up their cause with the federai and provincial governments, seeking both tax credits and, in some cases, grants.

Two separate grants funded start up costs in supplying a range of Canadian produced disks to Cannon Book Dis tributors, a distributor that handles a lot of variety and cot net store accounts Rosen ternis the marnage of books and records "a reasonably successful one." but notes that the arrangement is now worked out with CIRPA providing Cannon with only moral support now.

With a membership of 100, close to a 33% increase in the past 12 months, the association is presently engaged in diplomatic discussions with Ottawa to get a 100% cap, tal cost allowance for its membership on Canadian produc- lions DAVID FARRELL



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cially tar a great number of chart. bound acts hitting the tour road in Can. ada, and the subsequent success of many of these undertakings has Invar. iabfy led to scaled downed romps onto

U 5 tour turf Whether it be a mix of club and arena tours in centers like Edmonton, Regina and Sault Ste. Mare, the reality of cross Canada tours for the new wave of Maple music talent has become a reality. with direct results of these campaigns shoving themselves in many cases at the retail disk level

Much of the initial enthusiasm to support talent on e road came from concert promoters and agencies in

e east. such as Donald K Donald and Concert Pro -

iodions International, two of the largest concert pro. Auction .. ompanies in the country Agencies with a vested inter est in seeing career development evolve for Canadian ads' nclvde Music Shoppe International and The Agency in Toronto.

Major tours over the past year have included billings for trooper, Chilliwack. Prism. Doucette. the Hometown Band.

Valdy Triumph. Madcafs. Battered Wives. Lisa Dal Bello. Maneige. April Wine and ton It most cases. the tours have been hacked by big buck marketing campaigns. funded by the respec live record companies,

While radio across the country has generally paid lip service to Canadian recording acts, the Moffat chain in western Canada, along with a growing number of secondary market stations and AOR FM license holders have been moved to start supportingdo-

mestic disks. This crossover action from street acceptance to radio sup-

port is a relatively new development. instigated by the promoters and backed by marketing campaigns from record companies, which has

torced radio into become a little more aware of their own regional pro gramming needsand less L A and New York oriented in their research.

At year end acts such as Prism, Chilliwack, Lisa Dal Bello. Max Webster and Battered Wives were all on the road playing small concert hall

venues. and filling a void for promoters while many of the major acts hi.

bernated for winter The premier Canadian touring band Rush. meantime. was booked for a three-night stmt at the 18.000 seat -plus Mao le

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CILQ FM is consulted by Lee Abrams. but has its own music committee. under the direction of Gary Sleight, who replaced Joint Communications' Dave Charles mid -year Better known in the market as Q 107. the station has an audience of some 350.000 now and has shown great interest in aiding the development of burgeoning local talent and getting involved in community affairs One of the regular fares on the station is a live studio broadcast (generally done from Thunder Sound) and the station has several -personality" broadcasters who establish their own program lormats and have total control over disks played On Saturday nights yournatist broadcaster Ritchie Yorke hosts the "Night Moves' show Sundays it is

Bob Mackowycz with -Performance. a mixed bag of music and rap

Several major syndication programs exist in the Canadian marketplace From Winnipeg comes 90 Minutes With A Bul let," a 90 minute AM/ FM contemporary music package that is

fed to subscribing stations by the CBC station in Winnipeg.

In Toronto there is the "Pringle Program.- hosted by Doug Pringle and produced by Martin Melhuish The tour hour mix of album cuts. artist interviews, record reviews, news and tea Lures is carried by 54 stations nationally and the next step is to take it into the U.S , says executive producer Dave Ham mond.

Several syndicated country music programs exist as well, perhaps the best known being Opry North." which is carried Sunday evenings and coordinated by CFGM in Toronto

While music directors have not shown any great preddec lion on AM formats toward promoting Canadian talent to any great extent. by comparison with many European countries. Canada is fortunate to have the number and variety of music stations that currently exist. The proliferation of FM licenses in the past two years has pioneered new markets in the prairies and in Northern Ontario. Another development not to ibe overlooked is the growth of chain stations, such as the CHUM group, and necessarily the death oI the lanoly owned operated small market station.

Generally then, radio is flourishing m Canada today. but un fortunately music selections are still largely copied Irons the U S station playlists and unless the government outlaws tip sheets in Canada -which is not likely to occur -this situation will likely not change for many years to come DAVID FARRELL

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London Records has had its share of seesaw fortunes. having lost acts like Thin L,zzy, 10 CC and Engelbert Hum perdinck to Polygram and CBS. Primarily a distributor now for independent labels. it also earns revenue from its Montreal manufacturing plant. which has a yearly output of some 10 million LPs and tour million 455.

According to marketing vice president. Ken Verdoni, the la-

bel is currently distributing 35 independent labels. ranging from Able Records and the Ritchie Family to Attic Records with Hagood Hardy and Patsy Gallant He waxes that the company is finding a strong profit base in the province of Quebec. where the label head office's. with a mix of disco and Franco- phone product.

"t never thought I would see the day when I would be having my salary paid from the success of Canadian acts on the ros ter, says MCA Canada's vice president and general manager, ail Scott Richards The relatively small multinational has done well for itself this past year with Vancouver pop act Trooper. with several albums by the band now platinum and consider able single success earned through extensive touring of the Canadian marketplace

ACA's philosophy in Canada runs contrary to many of the majors here and it simply states "no discounting of major sell ers " Richards' philosophy stems from the tact that "when you have something hot. why give it away'

Another map, plus for MCA this past year was the acquise lion ut the Toronto -based Change Records label. patted for international distribution through the company

Aside from the independents, dealt with in a separate story- the only other major name label is Phonodisc Canada. Once an important record label in this country, especially so when it

handled the Motown line in the late '60v. it has lost its impact over the years and has no production concerns to separate it from being purely a distribution label, which it is Recently sold by Elizabeth McKim for an undisclosed sum, the label handles a variety of foreign licenses, including the Pye tine The new owner is James A. Trainor, a chartered accountant with a MBA degree from the London School of Economics. No policy changes have been posted as yet by the label and McKim stays on with the company ,n ;u1 adw<nry rapants'

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summer 1977 and has thrown itself into the launching of rock group the Fitth Avenue Allstars who will be released on the Damon owned Mustard label with an American deal hoped for soon. Other recording include the 1978 Commonwealth Games official theme song and souvenir LP, the Michel Le

grand television special. corporation work for the CBC (radio, to. and the French affiliate CHFA), a country LP by Whitehorse group Gold Fever and a Christmas single featuring Nancy Nash and the Colchester School Chorus

Sundown Recorders is owned by music veteran Wes Dakus (his group Wes Dahus And The Rebels were voted best instal mental group in Canada in 1964) who has built a professional studio that competes on an international level

With one 24-track MCI equipped studio and another near ingcompletion, Sundown is racking up credits as quickly as it is expanding. This past year Leo Sayer added lead and backup vocals for his "Raining In My Heart' single, engineer Howard Steele and Randy Bachman mixed the platinum selling Trooper LP, "Thick As Thieves," while Bachman himself re

corded vocals and guitar tracks for his second solo LP Sundown can also take credit for breaking Edmonton's 10-

year absence from the record charts In order to stimulate recording within Edmonton Dakus established the Vera Cruz label, but found that local artists were slow to respond though. to his surprise. the international reaction was quick and positive Since then Vera Cruz has released a debut LP by rock group One Horse Blue whose Irrst single "Cry Out For The Sun" was a national success while the title track is figuring strongly as a followup Country singer Fustukian released an LP and single on the Vera Cruz label as did Mavis McCauley

Another small but aggressive label is Stoney Plains which is now into its third year and growing fast In fact, it is the fastest growing independent label in Canada. reports label man ager Holger Petersen An album due from rock band Crow -

cuss in January, a single by new wave Montreal band Silver Zipper, two LPs leased from the Great Northwest Company label (Tint Duffy and a new one from Clarence "Gatemouth' Brown). albums leased from the Flying Fish label by the Dil lards, Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Geoff Muldaur and Amos Garrett, and an album leased from Weems Music by Ma son Williams. would seem to verify this

Mushroom Records collected triple platinum for Heart "Dreamboat Annie.' platinum for "Magazine.-' platinum for Mama Let Him Play" by Doucette, platinum for Chilliwack's

"Dreams Dreams Dreams" and "Lights From The Valley-' They also released albums by Ian Matthews ( 'Stealin Home") and Paul Horn that have been modest successes It was the label's biggest sales year in Canada ever.

Mushroom has now established a disco/r &b division and be releasing the second Doucette album early in the new

year Chilliwack toured the U S extensively with Mushroom's support to make the greatest gains in a career that spans nearly the entire history of rock in Vancouver

Mushroom studios was also very busy Trooper recorded "Thick As Thieves." as did Prism ("See Forever Eyes "), singer Brian Guy Adams. BTO ( "Street Action"). Chilliwack. Crow cuss, the Billy Joel Band, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson

Vancouver's other well known independent label, Casino. spent most of 1978 apparently inactive It turns out that Ca sino was merely keeping a low profile. Singer Sim released his third Canadian LP -Thistles,' which was his tirsl in the U S

on the Elektra label, white country singer Diamond Joe While will release his first LP in December and Ray Materick will re lease an album, "Fever In Rio." and a single, You" very shortly

Little Mountain Sound. the opulent 24 track equipped stu dio that is a division of Griffith s Gibson Productions (which specializes in advertising jingles and promotions) set up its own production company-' independent label called Panda late in 1977 and promptly signed a Seattle rock group. Big- horn That in itself represented a significant step and the sub sequent leasing of the debut Bighorn LP (due in January) to CBS Records marked the first time a Vancouver based Cana. dran company had consciously looked outside the confines of western Canada to build for the future.

Dale Jacobs, part owner of 16 track, Neve equipped Total Sounds West reports that the studio has had a "great couple of years" and a "high involvement" in the Vancouver music explosion

Jacobs' own group. the Dale Jacobs Group. signed with Epic Records and released an LP titled "Cobra -" A jazz recording. "Cobra" has received considerable airplay across Canada on both FM and AM radio Pacific West Productions. a company of Total Sound, signed an agreement in October, which brings the Powder Blues Band Wayne Kozak, and the Wade Broth ers to Epic Records

Denise McCann's LP for Polydon will be released in altered form in the U S on the Butterfly Libel )

In June Stonebolt released its first album on Parachute Like McCann's the Sloneboll album was recorded at Total Sound and it received medium to heavy arrpliy lit Canada and the U S "Queen Of The Night" and "I Will Still love You" were top 10 hits in some parts o) the country and some then the band, which is managed by PryamiiI I',udu, twins of Van couver, has been active on the concert television. and club circuits

Pinewood is a 1r> U,u h facility built by Geofl turner who originally designed I ,tile Mountain Sound) Now two years old, f'Iril'W.iiiiI II.1! ,111,' Neve, Ampex, and Scully equipped studio

, Wished with a 24 track Necam studio In it li,i. ontpleted 2.000 sessions That this

year includes album work by Prism, Pied Pear, Gene Simmons (of Kiss), an Irish Rovers TV special, the Whitecaps soccer club fight song. a single by Bryan Guy Adams, an LP titled "The Source," plus other demo, tingle, tv and soundtrack work

In 1979 Ocean Sound will move to a new location 'roe- North Vancouver to Vancouver proper and will expand f roe 16 track to 24 Like most studios, Ocean derives most of as income from demo and tingle work, though LPs by Septem ber, Sparkling Apple. and other country or rock acts have been recorded there. as well as a number of singles.

Psi Chord. Golden Age Sonic Lab, and Sculptures In Sound have likewise been involved in demo. pre production, or corn pleted projects,

The sheer volume of recording by local talent is up enor mously and some of it has to have been inspired by the acces-

sibility and standards of the studios as well as breakthroughs by- Trooper. a Western success that in 1978 gradually became a national headlining band with a sellout 60'date cross Can ada tour that grossed V': million, according to manager Sam Feldman of Bruce Allen Talent Promotions, Prism, managed by Bruce Allen, which is well on its way to double platinum for its second LP, "See Forever Eyes," and which is headlining its first national tour in November and December, Chilliwack which has seen its second LP for Mushroom become plat num. Bin,, a popular Canadian singer who is now breaking out of Phoenix, Boston and Seattle, with his Elektra LP. Stonebolt Doucette, Valdy, BTO. Randy Bachman, the Hometown Band (the latter currently without a label after two successful LPs for A &M) and especially Nick Gilder

Gilder's single "Hot Child In The City" is gold in Canada as

is his second LP for Chrysalis Records. In the U.S the single went No 1 and sold I' n million copies The LP is gold "Here Comes The Night" from the LP is hot on the heels of "Hot Child." Record World voted Gilder best new vocalist of the year, and "Hot Child" has been nominated best song of '78 tor the Grammys and the Dick Clark awards. Gilder is man aged by Barry Samuels of Axis Entertainment. a Vancouver booking agency,

Everywhere within the Vancouver music scene the mood is

optimistic as the talent, the business experience, and Ire higher professional standards of the studios collaborate a

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Retail Chains Grow now produces a monthly update magazine for its chain, which includes bio information, audio development stories. tour in formation and record reviews.

The CBS -owned Ad.A chain has undergone expansion in eastern and western Canada and plans further growth in the new year The A&A franchise chain has its own distributor in All Record Sales (ARS) and competes in many markets with the Capitol owned chain of Sherman's and Mr Sound Stores as well as with Sam's Records.

Similarly the Sherman's and Mr Sound chains have under. gone expansion in eastern and western Canada concentrat- ing for the most part on mall locations and offering lull-line catalogues as does Sam's and A&A's.

One of the big new guns on the scene is the Records On Wheels chain now with 50 stores in Ontario Starting oft with a travelling bus. franchise owner Vito lerullo has bucked the re tail industry here by moving into secondary markets and un dercutting the competition by as much as $1 50 in some cases.

Racktobbers have become a force to reckon with as prime movers of product this past year too, as the Handleman Co, of Canada showed by becoming the first company to ship enough copies of one title to warrant Polygram presenting the company with a platinum album. The package in question was "Saturday Night Fever'

One of the major setbacks for the retailers across the coun try in the past six months was the loss of U.S. delete catalogues. a situation brought about by a review of custom as sessments on product being imported.

The new duty is such that importing deletes has become unprofitable and retailers are having to buy from Canadian manufacturers now. The gripe here. many store owners say. is that the Canadian manufacturers don't have the selection, quantities or low rates that the U.S. delete houses offered and independents also object on the grounds of the ruling being in

violation of lair trade practices The record manufacturers here. along with the Canadian Recording Industry Associ- ation. are delighted at the prospect of gaining another 300v of the market though, a figure that roughly covers the number of disk dollars being spent on deletes and imports per year in Canada DAVID FARRELL

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disco flute player," says Het hie Mann on the eve-of the release of Ito new disco album, -Super Mann... which Atlantic Records is promoting as pan Of Its current d campaign.

"Right now 11sou are not a vocalist sou have Ir. make hick in dlsLu album. tr. reach the mass audience I

played on the upcoming Bee (lees album. and alter I saw how talented they are I felt they are dome as much as I was trying to do with ins own musical standards," he continues.

I)eelanng that he Is not interested in the opinions of the Iasi punsts. Mann also notes that weeps joy Chuck Mangione or George Benson few fusion jaco artists go gold And I've done that sort of thing with

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"Memphis Underground. winch w'ay, among the lirhl.yl all 'usiu.n re, ords," he says.

"So why should I lust limit mysell lii the )ait charts"' I want l. Islay in the saune liallpak as the lice (lees. May he they 'I1 he playing at the main diamond and I'll be in the Headsets, but at least 4t will be in the same park," he says

"Sinter MAIM'. will not he Mann's Iirsleserdisc.cltort In 1975 he had a MI w111Á 11iFLOk which was salsa disco However, on the new record he Is using disco munpclams and vocalists while Patnek Adams. whose current hit Is "Push Push In The Bush" and Ken Morris arc the producer

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-originally we Intended to do the idle tune Iron the minion picture but leers Greenberg, IAilanui's president) wanted to do this song. We felt there would be a lot of covers of the theme while a completely dif Idiot song with the same name would have a hewer chance," says Mann.

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big band again m the New Yolk area and had

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the release of several Igor Mark- evitch -led recordings of modern French works and historic monaural Aaron Copland performances

And the defunct Remington line is being unearthed, promising long unavailable only -recordings of 19th

and 20th century orchestral scores. In addition, Varese- Sarabande is

becoming a clearing house for collectors and historic material through a new agreement to distribute Tom Britton's Chalfont Records and the launching of a cooperative issuing project with the Roy Harris Ar- chives.

The hunting out of rarities is a labor of love for NulL a collector turned retail specialist. turned is-

suer. who himself provides the extensive Jacket annotation that has

helped to distinguish the Sara -

hande's 57.98 reissues. Varese- Sarabande also has begun

producing original recordings. focusing first un the music of plains' scmphonist Roy Harris.

Rare works of composers Felix Draesekr. Werner Egk. Max Von Schilling and Ottonno Respighi are among the treasures discovered in the Urania trove. says Null. These include the only tape recording of the Respighi Violin Concerto. (The composer's centenan is this sear.t

According to Null. the sound of the Urania masters is "better than imagined." and the reissues will technically outclass the original pressings it's promised- thanks in pan to some cleaning up with modern electronics.

A few of the old Iranian lapes are tow far gone for restoration. sass Null. The property has been kept in New York and has not been consistently. cared for. Some operatic issues will also be forthcoming.

Chalfont % 14 classical titles. described as audiophile recordings produced In Britain and pressed here. have had onl, marginal distribution in the past. The catalog boasts world premiere recordings of scsetal Vaughan Williams scores. other rare British repertoire and ad- venturesome organ recitals.

Null is combining new recordings produced in Los Angeles by Varese - Sarabande wish previous(, unre- leased tapes in the Harris .krchnes sertes, including man composer -led perlìinn :incas

Harris Concerto for Amplified Piano. Brass. String Basses and Per- cussion was taped in 1971 with the composer directing the U S Air Force Acadcnts Band. Suite for Or- gan. Brass and Timpani. also heard in the firs Archives release was taped recent(, at L- \.'s Royce Hall In the presence of the composer.

The rele.rse is beine.innounced to honor iI.irri.' kIst hrrthdas.

in addition to Sarrbande's $798 series..cicr.ii SV VS titles arc being prescsl hs 1\ t... including material I sexsed front the Japanese. The I-,tin \(.Isar. Leipzig Gewandhaus Beeihosen's Symphonies edition oaitls .owned by. WC has been leased to the Aniencan firni. Null II.,\IIV

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Soul Sauce

Davis, Curb Donate $$ For PUSH

By JEAN WILLIAMS LOS ANGELES -Sammy Davis

Jr. donated 550,000 and California Lt. Gov. Mike Curb donated 55.000 to Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH.

The pair gave the fund, at a

cheese and wine sip at Davis' Bev- erly Hills home Monday (151 The event was part of the organtrat,on's PUSH for Excellence Week celebration in conjunction with the cor- memordlion of Dr. Marco Luther King's 50th birthday annicr ary

More than 250 musk industry, political. film and civic persons were on hand for the affair.

f At another celebration commem-

orating the birthday of Dr. King. Stevie Wonder organized a benefit concert at Atlanta's 17.000 -seat Omni. The show was soldoul.

Stevie. who performed for nearly two hours. was joined in concert by Peabo Bryson and the McCrarys, This marked the first time Wonder had performed to Atlanta in more than four years.

The concert. with proceeds going to the King Center in Atlanta. topped off sex days of activities in the city Jan. 11-Tuesday (161. The week was dubbed King Golden An- niversary Celebration.

In addition, Stevie joined Coretta King. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. Atlanta's mayor Maynard Jackson and an estimated 10,000 Dr King fans in a march from Ebenezer Baptist Church to the state capitol fora rally.

At the rally. Wonder advised the crowd that he plans to return to At- lanta to again perform in concert on April 4. the date of Dr. Kings assas- sination

President Carter also was on hand (Jan. 141 10 receive from Coretta King the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Price. In his address, the Presi- dent said he hopes to sign the King Birthday Bill into law this year.

Atlantic Records came up with one of the most creative ideas for a

disco party this reporter has seen in some time. The week -long traveling disco party was topped off in L.A. with a flying DJ. Yes. 1 said flying D1.

The DJ. suspended somehow from the ceiling. apparently on tracks. flew around the rood donned in black and silver with a

spotlight attached to his headgear. As he did twirls in mid -air. he

managed t(1 pass out record, Jtld T- shirts. The packed room at Dillon, downtown looked on in amazement.

In addition to the D1. Marty Mack. Atlantic's director. r &h promotion pulled together some outstanding disco dancers.

The traveling disco party. which begun in New York. was designed to showcase the label's upcoming disco releases. Product includes releases by Chic. Canine, Fantastic Four, lief Garrett, Hcrhie Mann. 'last. I liornas. Mick Jackson, Phase 2 and Phreck.

From New York the party moved to Boston. Philadelphia. Atlanta. Cleveland, Chicago. Dallas and Lo, Angeles. There were times when the staffers split up and held parties in two cities the same day.

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CBS DONATION- LeBaron Taylor, left, vice president, black music marketing, CBS Records: and Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager, marketing, CBS Records, donate on behalf of CBS Records, $50,000 to the Mar- tin Luther King Center for Social Change in Atlanta in honor of the slain civil rights leader's 50th birthday anniversary.

Receiving the check are Coretta Scott -King and Martin Luther King Sr.

Rise Of Disco Music Could Be Mixed Blessing To Black Talent

Continued from page I

has begun to program more disco records than ever before.

At WWRL -AM, which is cur- rentl-market's for a distant third in the race f this black cars. new program director Bob Law is taking the opposite approach. According to Law. "We are currents playing about 255 discoo music because the feedback we get from the streets says that the young black adults in this town want to hear more than just disco."

But Law is quick to point out that much of the non disco his station is

playing is by artists like Al Jarreau, Phoebe Snow and Cleo Laine, performers linked more closely to Jazz than r &b. "We will not touch old sounding music." says Law. "We are only interested in artists who are re- sponding to the marketplace."

There are also fewer places in the New York area for non -disco r &b acts to play. Most of the supper clubs in this area that formerly booked r &b performers hase either van- ished or gone disco. And though the Apollo is once again in business, most of the performers who could headline there choose to play elsewhere.

According to Larry Myers of Uni- versal Attractions. the non -disco r &b artist is having problems throughout this country. "Disco has seriously diminished the work chances for second echelon soul acts domestically." states Myers.

"In fact we now book a major portion of dates for acts like the Man- hattans, Stylistics, Delphonics and James Brown, overseas." Myers says that the South and parts of the Mid- west are still fertile turf for his r &b clients but the Northeast and Far West are rapidly being closed to them.

While most of the major labels admit that disco has changed the way they produce and market black music, few are willing to administer the last rites to traditional r &b just yet. LeBaron Taylor, vice president in charge of black music marketing at CBS, sees no problem marketing upcoming releases by traditional r &b acts like Tyrone Davis and the Man- hattans.

While acknowledging disco's impact on black music. Taylor con- tends that disco is still primarily a regional phenomenom where record sales are concerned. "I still think that more than 50% of disco record sales come front the Northeast," note Taylor.

And Taylor adds: "At CBS we are not tailoring our releases to the disco market because we still feel it is too limited."

Hill Cur:ion. who handle, r&b a &r for Atlantic, admits the label is gearing its records for the listening audience. But Cureton also feels that there is still a place for strong r &b product. "Good ballad, like the Commodores' "Three Times A Lady" and Mathis and Williams' "Too Much. Too Little. Too Late." still find their way to the top," ob- serves Cureton, However. Cureton believes that a new r &b artist will probably have to look to disco to establish his talents.

Many non -disco r &b artists feel that the current state of the marketplace may eventually prove to he an asset "I'm tilling a void :" says balla- deer Pcabo Bryson. "I'm still singing about love and despite the changing times everybody still wants to be in love."

Manager of the Manhattans. Her - mie Hautin. feels. like Bryson. that her group is filling a void. "People can go out and dance all night but when they come home they still like to hear hove songs," Harlin remarks.

While many other veteran r &b attractions have succumbed to disco fever. Hanlin says her group will not. "There is no sense in following the marketplace if you have nothing to follow it with," states Hantin, "The Manhattans do love ballads best and that is what they will continue to do."

Spring Records' Millie Jackson is

another artist who feels that atold- ing disco is to her advantage. "My- singles have a longer chart life than most disco records," Jackson points out,

"Back In Love By Monday"

stases a,n the `Mill charts narre than 30 weeks and few disco records can claim that kind of longevity."

To compensate for the fall -off in clubs lo perform in. Jackson has lair lured her show for concert audiences In her ruant recent tour she is teaming up with the Moments in a

revue that features comedy skits and production numbers. The show has done well in concert halls throughout the Midwest and South but with the exception of a holiday week stand at the Apollo. Jackson is still having trouble cracking the North- east.

Infinity Records president Ron Alexenburg does not feel liar his label's two r &h oriented acts will have any trouble in the disco market place. "The success of disco is merely an appreciation of danceable music. Alexenburg says. "Both of our acts arc getting play in r &b and disco."

Comments Spring Records Spitalsky: "What is disconcerting to me is not the fact of WKTU's successful format. but the fact that it seems that all r &b- oriented stations play more disco records than straight r &h. WBLS' new slogan seems to be 'Disco And More Disco'

"Also. since WWRL gave up its

number system at the beginning of the year, you can't get the frequency of play at these outlets.

"This is no sour grapes on my part since we're doing well in disco with Joe Simon's 'Lose Vibrations' and the new Fatback single. 'Freak The Freak (Rocky' ' " Latter capital- izes on the Fast coast success of the rock dance

Soul Sauce Continued from parr his

president. director. special markets. Sumo Doe, director of press information, special markets; Izzy San- chez. national director of disco promotions and disco a &r coordinator; Rosy Myzal. associate national disco promotional director and others. * t a

The Univ. of Colorado's College of Music has asked the Black Music Assn. to assist in locatinga qualified candidate for a faculty position in the areas of composing/conducting/ arranging /directing of a jazz vocal ensemble. The school is seeking to

have the position filled by March I

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organization getting its teeth into - more jobs.

Whatever Happened To ... La-

verne Baker?

Las Cr.,. who had hits on Atlantis such as "Tweedlc -Dec Dee" and "Jim Dandy." is now living in Pakts tan, She went there on tour nearly 15

years ago and never returned. Many credit TK's Dave Clark

with discovering Baker in 1953. He found her singing in a small club. the Calumet. in Chicago using the name Little Miss Share Cropper.

Clark, who admits to "probably" discovering the singer, notes that he

took her to Detroit to Al Green, manager of the Flame Showb ;ir.

"Laverne began her career by attempting to imitate a Chicago singer who called herself Little Miss Corn Shucks. She was working al Chi- cago's Club Delito." stays Clark. La- verne was married lo comedian Sloppy White.

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NASHVILLE \lonunlcm Rec- ords takes J Ile dtc.n'n 111, 1.79 . 1 h l'nLenlr.11a,n ,,Il ,elect and pros en Went." I' eng+hasize the point. the Inhel s president. I- red

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Other Monument ants Include Bats Randolph. Ray Price, kris Knstofl'erson, Charlie McCo.. Cin nie Smith. Larry Gatlin and Larry

on Wilson. Foster also plans to unleash an in-

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Entering its 21st sear Monument. founded in March of 1958. ranks as one of the 'West U.S. independent lapels still sun Is rig

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37 YEARS OLD

Acuff -Rose Taking Shot At New Image I

NASHVILLE- Realigning its professional staff, constructing new

c Q facilities and scouting for new as writers. Acuff -Rose Publications.

mInc. plans to shed its frequent image te -i or a "catalog only' company.

The restructuring of the profes- s sional department follows the de-

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- nay. and the promotion of Ronnie Gant as director or the department. } It has been boosted to srtcn ern- s.

fr ['loves with the addition of Annette = j McKinney. formed,. with LSI Slu- t 2 dio. and Gene Vowelh formerly with

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Cor writers in Nashville than years ago-' comments Wesley Rose. president of the giant pubber> established some 37 tea, ago as a pari- nenhrp by his Father. the late Fred Rose. and country music great Ito!, Acuff. "We hope 10 have a good year. get some new waters and get more done for the writers we have now."

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lung -time Nashville music leader notes that his lirnl has yielded hits an

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"You've gaunt get new young write, all the lime." ;utilises Rosi, "other. wise. your writers ate all in the tensc- Icry.

A L. "Doodles" Osten and Whiles Shafer are two nincemctery writers recently :Iddrd to the fold Others include Van Çtisen-,, Lorne Morgan. i' lin has :i record corium, .mit '11

Itien' Relurds in Fthriarl. ,inil t ait licks. who has wine, such rigs as "L(1nny Street" and that t:ny To Porgel "

Ian ,ludic used h, A. uiI Ito,e and Sham) Recuits has been Ic- modeled and te.equtpped Into 24. track Uulhy Lynn Pete trell has hero heed as a new engulcet.and Rick Bracey remains as chief engineer

Four new wetter room, are being cons. intea toi the second Il'io of the AciillRosw building.

Acuff -Rose has ils own ettusa- (tnrutueJ on pop. 741

S"))putos in sound or style with another artist on my Isabel.-

hostel believes Janis. lit, ibis sui' utili: "Sunny Ilan a sound that's identifiable instantly, and, al the

same tunie. he's been able to change with the tunes. There's wade range of material- including disco thai he

can do that would please a Sonny lames fan"

James, noting that he and foster will co- produce his sessions, adds. "1

like to become invoked w th the du-

rectum music is going and hold my identity. t like to create trends of go

with them Fred has fresh Ideas on material and where he plans to rake me.-

Formerly on Columbia and Capi- tol. James bunt onto the national recording scene with the No. I pop hut "Young Luse:' Asa country all. 1St. he enjoyed one span of cunstacnt No 1 hits in a sin -y'ea'r period.

.i,int Sonny to he univrrsallls rie,l by people of all musical

comments Foster. noting that sro>suter sill he a key' goat. though he drstikcs putting music moo different categories heed use buts pigeonhole you into a confining space.

"Wilt have an interesting carn- patgo urn Sunny" claims Foster. re- fusing to release details on tulure promotion. marketing and sales campaigns until they're ready n, he launched.

The Monument \'ash. rile stall to- R eel is th national distri-

bution handled h. l'honogram and international distribution through ( BS International which Foster tennis "WO .m1 to none."

Monument plans an intensified thrmt mitt international markets and has atrady ginned suhd sales figures in Germans. England and Australia. "The European market we'll hit fur Soriny will he toting .adults to middle -aged working people T hey still prefer the song Me, gin recognize to the ones they can't We'll probably do an album of standard sings nor the international market

Iu'trxa, lows bs Monument art. 'h will he a closely coordinated set 'f personal appearances and lute - .111nt shots, advises Foslcr "The right kind of touring. well-planned. is highly important

Holland appears io be the nest country on the scree of successful sales figures for Monument. hut F ranee remains a problem area.

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New Man: Monument's newest artist. Sonny James. meets with from the left: Terry Fletcher. vice president and general manager. Fred Foster, presi-

dent; John Dorris, vice president /finance and Te. Davis, national country Promotion director. That's James on the right.

30 COMMITTEES APPROVED

Sunny Puerto Rico: CMA Board Meets

1141LLL 1 he L ounlrs Mu- Ai held its first quarterly

hoard meeting of the new tear Jan. 9.11 at Dorado Beach. Puerto Rico. Board membre from all over the LI S. few in to attend the meeting. which included budget approval anti ratification of 30 CMA cum mules appointments.

Mike Burger spoke for membership committee chairman Bill Low cry about prodding additional sun ices to CM,A's DJ members and improving the annual October Is Count' Music Month packet which +s distributed to radio stations by CMA.

Bud Wendell. who heads the law l'air committee- discussed the upcoming eighth annual countn music fan fair program slated for June 4- I fi in Nashville The registration fee for this :vent is set again at S30. and schedules of record company programs, the international show and Zither related activities will continue with outs minor changes for 1979

A special fan fair softball committee was established t' re- ci .iluaic rules andehglb,lili requireiiiuntsfur the annual tournament

Chairman In mg Waugh of the tt committee discussed proleeted plans for the 1979 awards show. and } rances Preston made a report on several proJecu Currently under study by the planning and development committee.

Plans for a simulcast of the 1979 CMA awards show and the pos.- halt, tif establishing a network to Fred a pre- tcicc,nt program tu par - ticipatlne radio slavons were presentc,l lis Neil Rockof: head of the r,adio.'mivaluce

Ile noted that the CMA broad -

wastei,' kit ism the princes of being updated ihlough the e0i rt.of hoard memha r Jun 1 >unc.ln 1. , under consideration 1..I pr'i's s.l count' must, road shit Ic.nuun_ lite I'll Ierinnmenl

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crag New lurk. Detroit LA and Chicago. The show would be designed as a traveling good will am- bassaJur for country music and would perform for advertisers and businesses upon request. Also offered as a possibility is a special presentation at the National Assn of Broadcasters convention nett sear.

This was tied -in with a report from Bob Austin of the public relations committee, and Charlie Scull and Neil RockolTwere appointed to look into the Idea of putting together a road show to appear at the \AB.

For further emphasis, a blue rib- bon panel composed of members from the public relations. promotion and rads committees was tornled to Inetagatr the possibilities of road shows and other related areas.

Jose Talhot gate the contention studs commates, report detailing some of the committees ideas for the count' music contention held in October \Cali\. Talbot also discussed (MA's participation in Muse.tpo. VOW and other related areas of Inte(nat,nal aerie its.

Members approied the 1979 CMA budget. and dais, were scheduled for other hard meetings throughout the year. The second quarterlt board oiceUne lakes place April 4 -5 in I ucsen at the Westward Leek; the third nIIl he held at the Four Seasons in Calgan..Alberta. Canada. with the CMA bPasd usent- hen being the guests of the Calgary Stampede: and the fourth meeting will occur- as is traditional during the count' music eons::iii,n in

Nashville in October

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Nashville Scene A 1957 Chevrolet was recently presented by the Four Guys Harmony House m Nashville By SALLY HINKLE Jimmy C. Newman's first single release with

Billie Jo Spears, United Artists artist. to the win Nashville's Erit/In has played host to several his band. Cajun Country, has been released by

ners of 3 WKOA AM contest. coordinated in con gauntry artists lately, intruding Ronnie Sessions, are slated to loin other entertainers who will Plantation Records M instrumental. the tune

!unction with Spears single "57 Chevrolet.' Vern Gosdin and Randy Gurley, who opened fm perform in mid April at the 1 Ith annual Inter features Bessyl Dalton on French accordion

and sponsored by WKOA. UA and Cunningham Gosdm Don Gibson, songwriter and Hickory national Feslrval of Country Music at Wembley Tom T. Hall was recently interviewed tor the

Kelley Chevrolet The presentation look place at Records artist, along with RCA's Floyd Cramer in London March issue of Penthouse maganne Hall spoke

Artists and Record Companies

Limited to Non -U.S. Residents

Invitation for artists to submit an application to appear on the Country Music Association International Show in Nashville on June 9, 1979 during International Country Music Fan Fair.

Artists or their record company must provide transportation to and from Nashville if selected. CMA will provide lodging and a per diem for 3 days' stay in Nashville.

Artists must have had a country record commercially first released in a country other than USA within the past 24 months.

Applications which must be received at the CMA offices in Nashville by March 1, 1979, should include:

1. Biography and photographs 2. Copy of country recordings released 3. Name and address of artist and record label

Country Music Association, Inc. 7 Music Circle North Nashville, Tennessee 37203 U.S.A.

of ho philosophy on songwrdmg and writers m

addition to his recording career and his LP for

children. "Saturday Morning Songs." slated for

release by RCA m February

T. G. Sheppard felted to Toronto recently to

tape Ronnie Prophet's' Good Ole Country Music

Show" Sheppard was seen lately on a segment

of "Hee Haw." and this month has been show.

casing throughout the Michigan Pennsylvania

area for fair buyers' meetings

On a Today Show" appearance this month,

Donor Fargo talked, for the first time in a tele-

vised interview, about her battle against muk

tiple sclerosis, which was finally diagnosed after

her monthlong slay at Santa Barbara Collage

Hospital last June. Bobby Goldsboro o set to

perform with the U S Ain Force Band al Consb

lution Hall in Washington. D C Feb 18.

Freddy fender, who plays Pancho Villa m the

film' She Came To The Valley;' escorted Villa's

85 year old widow to the film's premiere in

Brownswlte. Ten Jan lI Fender recently ap-

peared as a presenter on the "American Music

Awards" show, taped an appearance on the "To

day Shorn and Tue dwy 1231. &DDeats On the

PBS TV special, °Soundstage"

Roger Viler Ilea to London Jan 12 for lour

days of tapings Ion the Moppets Iv program A big hit m the Houston area lately a "The Oil-

ers Cannonball," an adaptation of Roy AcufFs

Wabash Cannonball." recorded by Cart Mack of the Houston Oilers m Mickey Gilley s studio in

Pasadena, Ter. Unfortunately. the widespread

airplay didn't get the Oilers past the Pittsburgh

Steele,

Oak Records Dawn Chastain a gaining a con

sistent chart record with sir single chartings to

her credit Her latest single. 'Me Plus You

Equals lose." no produced by independent

producer Ray RIM Dave Deadly and man

ager Jimmy Key left for Saarbrucken. Germany,

Tuesday (161 for Dudley's appearance an a tv

special hosted by German country entertainer

Freddy Quinn. The concept of the special orrgr-

nated with the song. I Would Like To Hear Dave

Dudley. Hank Snow and Charley Pnde.' en

carded and made popular by a German group.

From Saarbrucken Dudley will continue to Bre-

men for an appearance on Musikladen. a Pop-

ular radio production. and additional tv shows.

The Tennesseans, a Capitol recording group.

are slated to provide the entertainment for

inaugural !awes m Minors Ica Gov lint

Thompson The group was booked by special request of the governor. and mark their second

appearance for this inaugural event The

Front Row Theatre in Cleveland plays host to

Can Hanky, Jerry Recd and the Geedals Sun-

day (281

Capricorn Records latest signing. Too Djebel. has a new LP Crary Me. on release at the end

of the month Produced by Tony Brown the LP

features guest appearances be two members of

hmmy Deflett's Coral Reeler Band. Figes Tay -

lor on harmonica and Jay Spd on keyboards.

The Marshal Tacker Band's ninth LP for

Capricorn ships Thursday 1251 Entitled 'Run Like The W nd the LP features an appearance

Chuck Leave! or Sea Level

Delbert McChnton a working on ha neat

Capricorn LP protect in Los Angeles at the Record Plant with Johnny Sandkin producing among the session players are two members d McClinton's band. Billy Sanders on guitar. who

underwent a back operation m December. and Robert Harwell on sas Ronnie Prophet, who hosts the Canadian to network Drorano "Grand

Old Country. will host the CRY Telethon in Win

nrpeg. Manitoba. lan 27.28 The event wilt lea lure 21 hours d continuous broadcasting on

CKY TV. and IS sponsored by the Winnipeg Lions Club as a fund raising event with proceeds going to the Lions Disability Fund for Children

Loretta Lynn and Conway Toily will perform at the 47th annual Livestock Show and Rodeo in

Houston. held in the Houston Astrodome begin ring Feb 21 Performing separately, !witty will make a Feb 26 date. stile Lynn will catch the March 1 show The Calnos, known ton Vs

golden hit of the 60s. 'Then You Can Tell Me

Goodbye,' has regrouped and added contemporary. country and dace to its repertoire The group was recently engaged at the OM land Hotel's Slagedoor lounge

Freddy Fender and George Loedsey are head doing at the Silverbird Hotel and Casino in tars Vegas through Tuesday (30) Met rah: taped a segment for the 'Donny And Marie Show" rn Orem. Utah. recently

L D. Sumner and the Stamps are mating a

wide sweep with personal appearances this month m Topeka- Kan. Landover, Md., Lake Odessa. Mien and Walker, la



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TEXAS BARED -Bobby Bare tapes a segment of the PBS network program, "Austin City Limits," at KLRN -TV in Austin. The Columbia artist appeared on the show carried

on more than 250 stations.

Sen. Sasser

Sees C'right

Tribunal Meet NASHN. ILLL . menin of the

copynght commission members in Nashville?

It's likely, sass Sen. Jim Sasser of o Tennessee. who says he is also push-

ing for a gospel music night at the White House this year.

Sasser made the comments at a

Jan. 11 meeting with key music In- dustry leaders at ASCAP in Nash- ! sulk, hosted by Ed Shea. ASCAP's Southern region director.

Commenting on new copyright legislation. Senator Sasser predicted a meeting of the tribunal commis- sioners for Nashville. "I'd like for them to get to know some of these music people in Nashville." stated Sasser.

The Democratic senator promised to prod President Jimmy Carter into holding a gospel music night at the White House it's only fitting and proper that the President have a gospel music night. I think he'll ultimately look favorably on this."

Problems with U.S. and IRS regu- laúons in national and international music business dealings also were aired. with Sen. Sasser promising to bridge the gap between the music industry and the halls of Congress.

Among those attending the meeting were Jack Stapp of Tree Inter- national; Wesley Rose, Acuff-Rose; John T. Benson, the Benson Co.; Don Butler. Gospel Music Assn.: Charlie Monk. April /Blackwood; Laura Eipper, Nashville Tennes- sean; Gerry Wood. Billboard; Buzz Cason, Cason Publications; pro - ducer -writer Bob Montgomery; Tim Wipperman, Warner Bros. Music; attorney Denny Brcwington; Cra- ven Crowell, press secretary to Sen. Sasser; and Rusty Jones and Connie Bradley of ASCAP.

"We hope this is the beginning of a mutually productive dialog for the future," concluded Shea.

Tasty 45 Promotion NASHVILLE -A sweet promo-

, lion is underway for the single "I'll Let You Taste The Honey" by Kathy Muncy on Door Knob Rec- ords. The song's writer, John Riggs, is sending packs of mountain honey to country radio stations.

Atkins In Hungary NASHVILLE A display focus-

ing on Chet Atkins as being prepared for the "America Now" cultural ex-

hibition to open in Budapest. Hun- gary, in April. Atkins contributed a

guitar and other items for the exhibit with the theme "Arts Of The'711v."

Baker Breaks Her Canadian Ties NASIIVILLL I uni l) cst,ib-

lished as a leading recording artist in Canada, Carroll Baker is carrying her career to the U.S. and European markets as well.

Don Grashcy, the singer's pro. doter/manager. and RCA Canada

are sonsi,elinf I1.r, IPr release of Baker's product uwside her native Canada. Besides working her busy Canadian tour schedule, the award winning perkimier has been contracted for a 17 -day tour of England with Slim Whitman next March.

2 To Tour U.K. NASHVILLE- Faron Young and

Bill Anderson are set for a tour of Great Bntain for Jeffrey Kruger in

February. The tour, which will also feature

Mary Lou Turner. begins Feb. 15

with performances slated in Belfast, Glasgow, Liverpool and London.

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NASHVILLE :1 \.I.hrillc based talent firm has reportedly marked .t lirst In stagtny and yiJco taping a scnes tit s,toucasc performances in this city tor major talent buyers front across the country

ti,shville International Talent win. h represents such acts as Ace Cannoe. O.B. McClinton. Joe Sun. R t Bannon. Jeanne Pruett Louise Meddrell, Tummy Jennings. Linda Young. the Walker Sisters and Paul

Craft, recently. flew In sonic 20 promoters from Florida. California. Texas. the New England area and other points to view their roster or

three showcase situations under actual concert and stay: conditions.

Staged at Nashville's Melrose House. the showcases were presented to two evening and one matt- nee segments. all of which were videotaped by Video World of Nashville. a firm contracted by the talent agency. for showing to other talent buyers.

In addition. because of some seven hours of what the agency con- siders high quality video. the agency is also considering several avenues for distribution of the tape for tele- vising.

Among the avenues being pur- sued are the Armed Forces radio and lelesnion network; a closed -circuit situation, which would be fed via a multi -point distribution network, and editing for a two-hour special entitled "Nashville international Talent Presents Showc.,. '79" for submission to Home ft,,. Office and Super Stations for possible airing.

According to agency directors. Scott Faragher and Eddie Rhinoo, the talent showcase will become an annual affair, with several possibilities being considered for the future. among which would be to hold the showcase in a different city each

year with consideration depending upon facilities for videotaping.

Another possible incorporation has been spawned by approaching rock acts. who are looking to the agency and its corporation affiliates for booking. management and concert promotion. to have a contemporary or rock showcase sometime during the summer months

'New' Acuff-Rose t hnIttined frelm prude hN

uonal publishing depanment which. within a month. should have its material sold through G. Schirmer in New York. The depanment produces choral and marching band arrangements, along with piano and guitar courses.

The firm sells its own sheet music and song folios which arc printed at its Nashville headquarters.

The publishing firm maintains an active promotion department utilizing live Nashville employes and three independents Rose likes to re- call the earlier days when Acuff - Rose hired such Independents as

Russ Regan, Jerry Moss. Sunny Bono and Jerry Tiefer

We believe in promotion." say, Rose "Everything has to he pro. mated differently, whether its poster. sailing or visiting radio stations or Liking artists on promotion trips. Mel Forte. Nashville's first promotion man on the road. has been with the company for 33 years.

A pioneer in the foreign exploitation of country music. Acuff -Rose selects its own overseas staff and keeps in constant contact with its international outlets.

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Talent Showcase: Epic recording artist Louise Mandrel) and Columbia artist R. C. Bannon perform before major talent buyers during Nash ville International Talent's show-

case in Nashville.

Nashville International Talent is

part of an umbrella corporation that also houses concerts. production. management. custom production and press and promotion for in- house and other clients.

10.000 Pack Concert For Daniels' Return

c'nnanued from page 42

set. the members deltscred a

charged. instrumental version of the group's biggest hit. "Free Bird." in dedication to Van Zant.

Daniels and his hand opened the celebration with a lengthy and well - balanced set of Southern rock and tradttional tunes such as "Orange Blossom Special;' in addition to several selections from the band's forthcoming "Million Mile Reflections" Epic LP.

Following Daniels. part two of the Jam proceeded with such return is Yaritas as Grinders Switch, Stillwa- ter, the Henry Paul Band. Papa Jahn CI-each. the Winters Brothers and members of the Marshall Tucker Band.

As in years past. the Jam always holds a few surprises, and this year was no exception with such names as

John Print. Dobte Gray. Cajun fiddle player Doug Kershaw, Jim Owens. Carl Perkins and Link Wray dropping in for a few numbers.

The jam session brought the es-c- ning to a close as the Daniels band lit into their now traditional "The South's Gonna Do It Again.' while being joined by many of the previous performers. as well as Vassar Clements, Janie Fricke. Barry Chance of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band and session placer Fred Carter Jr.

A special presentation of the cSe rung was made by Daniels to !bur dccjays from Nashville's W LAC AM radio who helped to shape today's rock'n'roll hs ptoncermg the play of black music to a predominately while rilltittlICC in the earls 'Sus Citing "p :icssclting contrib.', thins during the formatisi sells of radio" Daniels pre , 1, .l

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Len. Hugh "Baby" J. tieti and lien, Noble

WDCN -TV, Nashville's PBS sta- tors. taped the lam for a PBS docu mcntary. and a taped radio broadcast has been scheduled for a 90- minute "Kings Biscuit Flour Hour" special in February.

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WILLIE AND FAMILY LIVE -Willa Nelson, edamus net 35643

EXPRESSIONS -Don Williams, roc Kr 1069

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CRAZY -Waykn Jennings, RCA uu mi,

HEARTBREAKER -Dolly Parton,

STARDUST-Willie Nelson, cavilar IC 11305

TNT -Tanya Tucker, 4C1 lint

LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY -Anne Murray, curcu ST 11743

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PROFlLE%BEST OF EMMYIOU HARRIS. none era es, 320

ELVIS: LEGENDARY PERFORMER, VOLUME 3 -thin Peaky, w of 13011

BURGERS AND FRIES'WHEN STOP LEAVING (l'LL BE CONE) -Chen Pride.

ROOM SERVICE -The Oak Ridge Boys. +oc tots

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ONLY ONE LOVE IN MY LIFE- Ronne Mdsap, EtcA Ku i76e

PLEASURE 8 PAIN -Dr. Hook, -

WAILON I WILLIE- Wayton Sennmgs I Wilt* Nelson. ::116

ENTERTAINERS ... ON AND OFF THE RECORD -The Stater Brothers. maiun Outset IHoriow,

EVERYIIME IWO FOOLS COLLIDE -Kenny Rogers 8 Dottie West vra,a rnr: thkt.. e

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VARIATIONS -Eddie Rabbnt.

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FALL IN LOVE WITH ME -Randy Barlow, a, -tae IOW)

ELVIS -A CANADIAN TRIBUTE -Elsa Presley, ucO jut tons

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TURNING UP AND TURNING ON -Bitty `Crash" Craddock Casa. Sw tuI HEAVENS LIST A SIN AWAY -The Rendatts o,ew w 1'19

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Jennings Hosting NASH1 11 11'asIon

Jennings trill hemtit cancers onbehaii,I 11 i,,lnauonofinter- national Counts :tir Personalities scheduled for S.mirdar tel at the Tupperware Auditorium in Or- lando, Fla.

Benefit For DJs Jennings, a !Omier disk jockey

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Tape /Audio/ Video Winter CES Is Record Mix For Music Industry_

reap »aid photos by ` +tr!phn ira!mar CES SCENES: At left, CES boss Jack Wayman gets a look at picture disks and in -store merchandisers at the joint display with NARM's Stan Silverman. Above, E Nakamrchr. left, and son Ted demonstrate the firm's first metal- capable cassette decks At right. Magnavox videodisk system had its only exposure at the Advent booth, as the firm's Bob Logan explains the interface with his large-screen and stereo sound hookup.

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SOUNDSTREAM'S Tom Stockham, CO left, has a digital chat with Jack Sav-

edge of Spin Physics as original digi- m tal tape on the firm's recorder is

r,72 played at the Infinity Sound booth.

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new remote control und for dbx ex-

pander to John Hollands, chairman of parent firm BSR Dbx also bowed lbx and 2bx versions of "hoe" res-

torahon aid.

BLANK TAPE: TOW; Bud Barger. above left. previews the firm's new Beta videotapes for Candy Stripe's Bernard Keil and Stan Gecht, who recently took on the video line. Below from left. Sony tape plans are the topic of Sony Industries boss Michael Schulhof, Japan magnetic tape chief K. Tozawa.

U.S. director Terry Aoki.

TEAC Tascam sales head Bill Mohroff, above left. demos new 35.2 deck for

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Lee Nipper. Videotechnics. At right, rep Ij Harry Matthews. trenau Assoc.; dislrib

Al Rosenthal, flank brit Allsop for pitch on Alisop 3 cassette deck cleaner.

MUSIC OUTLETS SOUGHT

More Videotape Programs Out NEW YORK- -From feature films

to visual graphics and hard -core pornography. there was a wealth of new prerecorded videocassette product for the hone and disco markets at the recent WinterCES in Las Vegas.

With approximately 20 companies represented on and off the exhibit floor at least seven more broad- family entertainment catalogs joined Magnetic Video. Allied Artists and Video Warehouse in the race for software dollars as more record /tape outlets are sought for distribution.

Not only was music represented for the first time at CES with offerings front a half -dozen firms, but one innovative company has the first laser effects on videocassette. and another has a television sound enhancement system to go along with its products.

Video software is definitely spreading to the record /tape distributions pipeline, with the giant Wherehouse chain on the West Coast probably the major outlet for all types of programming from PG W X. and Crazy Lddie's in the New York metro area its counterpart in the f.r,l

1 s peal of industry interest was the %rat el Bernard Keil and Stan tkecht of Candy Stripe, major Northeast one -stop based in Free-

RUSS BOOST CONSUMER

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port. N.Y.. with video catalogs high on their shopping list.

Searching audl for music -related product. they posed the key question of music publishing royalties u1th distributors bearing the responsibility for pavmcnt.

Ron Friedman of Home Theatre Movies, one of the first firms to oller key music product including concerts by Rod Stewart, Marshall Tucker Band. and other top groups. emphasizes that the firm has been working with Al Berman of the Harry Fox Agency to insure proper payment by either the producer or distributor of all royalties. Already carrying product are Sound Unlim- ited, K mart. Broad. as Stores and Wherehouse he sae.

Meanwhile. the firm's Visual Concerts di, sion is asnsels involved with labels on in -store demo tapes, having completed programs for MCA on Tanya Tucker, for

JAPAN PRODUCTION

Chrysalis on Jethro Tull and L r , Heep, and now with Casablanca , r.

Kiss. Donna Summer and Village People. The company has commis- sioned a UCLA study group now involved in a home video research project on all types of software preferences including music.

Sharing space with the firm at

CES was Ultrasound Power Audio` Sound System. a 25 -watt enhancer for all Iv systems and designed winter-face with any regular set or large- screen system. Home Theatre Afos- ies has an approximate 335 margin. with dealer cost of 527.96 for halfhour. 533.96 for h -hour. 538.96 fm over I -hour and 545 for adult tapes.

Address: 3376 Motor Ave_ Las An- geles 90049. 12131559-7720.

Custom Video Productions u another innovative firm offering Merlin Laser Visuals. claimed as the

first custom sideotapes to interface

(Continued on page '8)

Blank Tape $ Up 28% As 1979 Goal Is $750 Mil

tt, I l tRl Iltk() FL kL lt:\RA TOKYO The value

lion's magnetic tape output has doubled over the last three years. thanks partly to a pumper year -to- year increase estimated at 285 for 1978 to about 56011 million Produc- tion target for 1979 is a hefts 5700 to 5750 nul hi

Major factors behind this acnus- Ihe -board tips, mg .tic the his production .n,t sates push,. in the three fields of audio. 11101101s .cod yid., recording.

The rndistrs's big n.imes like TDK and flll :o.hi \tasell are al- read, s,islnl! lhat duhlr- tlrcil sno,th it s ,came rs .i loriçon

- t n- sluskorr and tiles .Its- the start lof 1110.11 tape ,.ills the eiteliiaune nu,menlnm .,I tldeotISSSIic Lige. .mil ihi 14yo4/: ,silty sutst,se, so/ lof tltialits authol.ipi,

\hhonlh Its lifurss for last sear still hase to he i,uhere t and 14H1e1 up ofli.l :ell, mdnslrs everts are st tu fiO

` :tit tut lease on :x'i In taxi. in the first In monthsot lase sise. the unuulaus c total of ?Shull million had topped Ihe I977 record of $476 million. '1 hu was a 32.á't increase oser the sane period of the year before

Manufacturers reckon that the I,. tat salue of last year's output tltll conte up to around 5600 milhoe double the figure for 1975

They intend to keep up the pres-

sure this sear with bullish ntanufke. luring and marketing plans L

year, they brought out neu i

proved tapes and so this sear

arena of competition will swi

from the research labs and prod tin lines to the retail outlets

Hopes arc now being pinned increased sale. of videocassette

the VCR market conics Into its

Manufacturers are horning in

both the domestic and foreign mat- . Lets.

Another candidate for sales hon-

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mg campaigns. Along with the

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Videogram' Distribs Seek Music Outlets Continued from page 76

with live music, according to Gd Gordon. At 527 to distribs (S49 95 list), the hour -long shows of laser effects with computer graphics arc the forerunner of a disco laser show in production. Also available are belly dance and disco lessons on tape. Ad- dress: 6464 Sunset Blvd.. Hollywood 90028,(213)462.1191.

Video Tape Network (VTN), making its first CES visit. has signed 10 reps to move product to record/ tape and hi fi outlets and specialty stores with the most volume. notes John Lollos. The 50 -tide VTN catalog is culled from its 400 -plus college offering. focusing on the most suc-

cinful programs as a "home test." Termed "specials" in the tv sense.

by Loftus, it ranges from concerts and comedies to home how -to. kid- die and sports fare. plus a collector's best sampling of horror and satire. He claims 4,000 tides sold in two months of availability, and a mail - order campaign that got 3.800 calls from an 800 number in the Time video supplement late last year He is also talking with CBS Records on a potential music package. Address: 115 E. 62 St.. New York 10021. (212) 759 -8735.

Allied Artists Video Corp. is

emphasizing in-store display aids to boost its 100 -tide catalog of recent feature films, notes Dick Stadin, with a new three -tier turntable display case, made by the Speidel sup-

O plier, to show 90 tapes either front or spine (575 to dealers). a smaller Iwo -

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tier counter model and a new lour - color counter card.

Record /tape store+ are high on his

outlet list, with Wherehouse and Sam Goody already taking big initial orders. "We began delivery Nov. 10 and our average rate 1, equal lo Magnetic Video's," Stadm claims. "Like any new product, we're looking at many new channels of distribution and those who promote the best will get the business." More titles are promised for 1979, and more videocassette releases right after first -run as with "The Wild Geese," he says. Address: 15 Columbus Circle. New York 10022. (212) 541- 9200.

Magnetic Video now a subsidiary of 20th Century-Fox, sees its catalog of major feature films expanding with its new affiliation, notes Andre Blay. In addition to its

50 20th flicks, the Viacom. Avco- Embassy and the packages. the firm will have 21 films from Faberge's Brut Productions under a worldwide live-year distnb pact similar to the one with Avco: wildlife programs from Bill Burrud Productions, and Pathe News footage dating to 1895. Also previewed at CES was thc company's first self- produced home video show on disco dance lessons. with dealer reaction reported good. It is mull facing court action from RCA over distribution of Elvlc Pres- le5 films. tit which RCA claims exclusive rights. Address: 23434 In- dustrial Park Ct., Farmington Hills, Mich. 48024. (313) 477 -6066

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Nostalgia Merchant had one of the most attractive packaging graphics for its line of about 100 family en- terlainment classics, with Wilene Blair noting sales to both Where- house and the Broadway Stores. With about a 33% dealer margin built in. both Beta and VHS tapes are the same price, 537 cost for up to one hour at 554.95 suggested list. and 574 for two -cassette specials or serials up to four hours, at suggested 5109.95. Address: 6255 Sunset Blvd Hollywood 90028, 12131 467.2181

Video Warehouse, first to offer dealers an in -store counter catalog display. has about 80 new tiller including 15 Spanish "classics" in its basically soft R and X catalog. with a number of comedy and horror classics. at 529.95 list Prices have been reduced on about 10% of the total catalog. notes Ron Obsgarten- Address: 500 Hiway 36. Atlantic Highlands. N.J. 07716. (201( 291- 5300.

Entertainment Unlimited has perhaps the largest selection of fam- dy entertainment with 1.000 titles. mostly public domain, in the firm's big catalog, and a separate X catalog of adult tapes. Feature is "The Elvis Presley Story" compilation of non - copyrighted early black & white kinescope is appearances. For dealers. Jim Hutchens has a 51.600 starter pack with 100 tapes and display case, a 549.95 intro package with catalog and demo tape. and new packaging with Xerox -copy four - color labels. Address: 848 N.W Brooks St.. Bend. Ore. 97701, 15031 389.4316.

another firm with both family and adult catalogs. note Charles Band and Jerry Nieves. Claiming sales to both Fotomat and Sears. as well as

Wherehouse. the firm has about 71)

titles in its general catalog including best sellers by Fellini and Warhol. "The Groove Tube" and the "Flash Gordon" serials, ranging from $39.95 to 554.95 list. and an Erotic Tape Catalog with 20 titles from 549.95 to 589.95.

Dealer cost ranges from a 335 margin on a minimum 25 pieces to 40% on 500 titles or more, and the I arm is looking for exclusive area dis- tnbi Address: 7243 Santa Monica Blasi.. Los Angeles 90046. (800) 421- 4509.

Video Communications Inc. claims the exclusive on more than 400 idles from classics to family Eire. plus a few "R" titles but no push on these. sass Gene Dennison AIR, I4 years in films the sontp:i is shifted to tape about 2', scars ago and is testing 75 lines for interest in its first catalog. It just got the rights to all "Bullwinkle" tv cartoons and reports all distribution rights to "Acapulco Gold "

I a r in is now duping 30.000 tapes ,i month it claims, and currently is lust working through distrhs at margins of 305 to 355. Address 6355 I.

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National Iloinc Video offers a mu, of Ice oily entertainment. drama clattics, music ms11idmg Beatles. Rolling Stones,md I It tapes. plus 26 Wollie,i,i Lick syndicated ti shows, mot's tun Siaib,r. with about ell ,idttli tapes also altered. Prcyiti tapes arc 545 (ail of $55 1X1. Ad dress: Box 75211,. 422 S Wcsdein Ave., Los Angeles 4102(1. (213) 388- 2261.

Cinema Video Classics dues its own 35 m nt film to tape Ira lister, to assure quality control, null, Bob Shot. with a PG line of films soon to supplement its current adult catalog

of 96 titles. including Sylvester Stet

lone as the "Italian Stallion." Wholesale price is 565. or $60 for 25

titles or more. with rebates for larger volume. and Bela or VHS tapes under two hours have a trailer at the

end to highlight over availabilities. Address: 2660 W. Olive Ave., Bur- bank 91505,(213)846 -1180.

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Peaches Outlets Continued from page 42

the 16 stores is outfitted with a

seven -foot screen. The program created exclusively

for Peaches. "is more than a promotional idea. it's a form of entertaining customers," says Landry.

The program features Flo & Ed- die as hosts. When the duo comes on

the screen, it calls out to customers in

the store. Flo & Eddie introduce themselves. insert some humorous quips and then move to the artists. The first three shows were raped live at Peaches, says Landry.

The clip of each act is four minutes long with a buildup pitch by Flo & Eddie. "The program creates a

short. concise form of entertainment whieh stimulates foot traffic."

Landry explains that store personnel Is instructed m bow to bisait sales plus understand the workings of the videocassette "Each store sends individual cards with information ad- vising of the effectiveness of the program." says Landry. "This tells us

exactly what we should delete or include- overall. how to improve on the program."

"Because of the type of program we're showing, we don't deal with demographics or age groups, only record huscrs"

He explains that the cost. paid by the labels. is S35 per store per act. The sophisticated equipment in each more includes a 1VC ', -uich U-Matie VTR capable of stereo playback via a 7 -f00m- diagonal Ads cot Video - Beam large screen protection mete- s isian unit. Both intcrtacc with each stores hi fi stereo ss stein for the most effective presentation.

"We're supplying the Industry with an alternause to radio orptat. After all. stations :tie not in hosincss to sell records. but we are

"We're tying into seseral outer areas such as radio and Image Mar- keting. a limb were w orkung with to market the program.

"With DC'vt1, the group wasn't go. nag a lot of airplay but people carte into Peaches and hough) the LI' after seeing the progwnn They then called the stations in their arras asking them 10 play the record. At the end of the program, we du a radio tic -in The program iv built on word. 01.lnnlh "

I andrs notes that tit Nitta:10.00 progiain Is IIid Into Kill M

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According to Landry. he is look. mg at new talent as hosts for upcoming programs.

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Boom Period By ALAN PENCHANSKY

LAS VEGAS -Electronics' industry forecasters point to the 1980s as a

decade of video. convinced that eco-

nomic and cultural forces are creat-

ing a central role for new video elec.

vonia in the American home. Products like giant screen tele-

visions. videodisk players, portable video recorder /camera combos and prerecorded programming of video

entertainment and education were

pictured as part of the boom here at

the Winter CES video conference. Industry manufacturer execs and

market analysts promised an audience of dealers and retailers - many of them concerned about economic slow -down -that video sales

vistas would be spectacular in the

1980s. The outlook for video products in 1979, a year of most immediate concern also was positively drawn here in a two-hour session.

According to David Fishman, a

market analyst for Boston -based Ar- thur II Little. Inc., the ultimate penetration level of videocassette recorders in U.S. households could measure between 40% and 50 %.

Fishman, who referred to the desire of consumers to escape from the "tyranny" of network tv programming. also sees enormous potential for sales of videodisk players.

In general. Fishman explained. American lifestyles and interests are inclining toward autonomy and individual control over entertainment Fishman believes videodisk players potentially can outsell cassette players two to one.

In the more immediate time frame, sales of videocassette recorders are expected to become more profitable to dealers in 1979. Broad- ening of lines. with introduction of new step -up models, and the debut of the portable video recorder are credited for the pick -up.

"Dealers and manufacturers now are making money," observed Dick O'Brion of IVC, chairman of the video systems panel that dovetailed on a session about developments in conventional is receivers.

Attendees learned that U.S. VCR unit sales in 1978 topped the 400,000 mark. Sales of decks. cameras, prerecorded upes and other ancillary items totalled $750 million, according to O'Brien.

Conventional color is recover sales for the past year reached 10.25

million --a new re-cord. Norman Schnell of GE pictured*

"business boom" in the '80s as America's past -war baby boom reaches its fullest matunty in the

marketplace. Moat of the husehold formations to result from the de- mographic hump have yet to take place, captained Schnell, noting that by 1990 there would be 21 million new households that don't exist today.

Schnell also sees positive indica- tors in the fact that the 525000 -plus per annum average income households are the fastest growing segment

According to Schnell. 40,000 consumers have made inquiries to GE ,about purchase of the company's new big screen tv system A toll -free number was advertised to handle the inquiries.

Both Schnell and Ed Eskandarian of Humphrey, Browning, MacDou- gall. Inc., urged dealers lo make a

greater comntilmstat to projection tv.

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Tape/Audio/Video

.Disco Beat Is Vibrant Spark At Winter CES NEW' YORK -If the recent Win.

ter CES in Las Vegas moved to an

hear. it certainly was disco. Lively

rhythms were heard all around the

main exhibit floor as well as in many

sound rooms and suites.

The mix of old and new com-

panies with disco -related product on

hand for the record- breaking Jan. 6-

9 event reflects the crossover of equipment into the home consumer marker And the range of new pro-

fessional equipment in both the sound and sight areas was equally impressive.

Both Uni -Sync and Rotel pre-

viewed their first purr disco produce, the former with its Discorama professional mixing console and the

'latter with its RZ -8 Play Miser as the heart of a home system while Picker-

ing had its first disco cartridge

More New Sound & Light Firms Seen New firms to the market with im-

pressive entries, most of which will be seen at the upcoming Billboard Disco V Forum here, include Enter- tainment Engineering Corp. with its Dillon's Discotheque, sound /light module, Chromus Corp.'s Faze Maze audio/video pattern proc- essor. Goodnians of the U.K. wish is looking at the U.S. mart tin n, Power Range of speakers. and Sound Promotions with a truly "readable" mobile console.

Pnme disco equipment firms on hand with new or improved product included Technics, Litelab, Times Square, BGW, AAL, Electro- Voice. Altec Lansing. Rank Audio- Visual.

_.CHINA IN FUTURE ?» Swire Input Boost To InterMagnetics

Connnued from page 3

the manufacture of 100 million cas-

settes for the U.S. within a three- yen- period. of which 80% will come from its own manufacturing sources with the remaining 20% from licensing lactones. Tern Wherlock, Inter- Magnetics president.

Wherlock adds that the Hong -Kong factory will be enlarged either this year or next to where it can produce 160-180 million cassettes a

sear. Its current capacity. claims Wherlock. is 80 million assettes an-

snualh. Swirc. traded on the London Ex-

change and on Exchanges throughout Asia, is known for its holdings in Hong Kong. Japan. South East Asia and England.

The board of directors of the new firm will have three representatives from each of the two companies.

Wherlock notes that the StO million presides InterMagnetics with a

line of credit to purchase its finished goods which the new company will market and promote.

Adds Wherlock: To obtain any growth requires a lot of money You can't generate it by rolling back the

areas like we've done in the past " Swire thus allows InterMagnetics

to make business decisions which "make sense and cents." Wherlock points out. To the tune of SlO million.

This is the second venture he- ., Ivieen the two companies: the first. Swire Magnetics Ltd. was opened in Hong Kong in 1975 to manufacture blank cassettes. A spinoff company, a marketing firm in Japan which opened last March. sells finished goods made in that Hong Kong factory in Japan.

Swirc InterMagnetics, in addition to having sales people selling blank tapes in established markets. is also discussing trade with China.

Swirc traces its formation to trading with China 200 years ago. and Wherlock says that Swire executives have been conducting talks with Chinese officials about building a manufacturing facility in mainland China.

"There is no market opportunity to sell finished goods there." Wher- lock says. " Swire officials found this out through their visits. With labor 5ecommg tighter in Hong Kong. it's conceivable that molding and assembly of cassettes could be done in China. Later, we could put in coating plants."

Wherlock says the discussions which Swire officials have been holding with mainland Chinese representatives could lead to a plastics assembly factory within one to two years.

"The Chinese." says Wherlock, "are interested because they know they want the technology. But they can't use the end product.

"Swirc has been trading with the Chinese for 200 years, so the new talks are an extension of this dialog." Wherlock points out.

The tapes Swirc InterMagnetics will sell will be manufactured in

Hong Kong in the Swirc Magnetic, plant and at the planks presently in operation involving InterMagnetics as on investment partner. namely in

Singapore. Taiwan. Thailand and Indonesia.

InterMagnetics has a technological development facility in

Gardena. Calif.. where some blanks are made.

In London. Swire InterMagnetics will establish a corporate headquarters for Europe The Japanese office of Swire Magnetics will also serve as

the sales office for the new company.

There is no intention to set up a

manufacturing facility in the U.S., Wherlock says. Only marketing and distribution warehouse offices to service U.S and Canada.

LRep Rapii The Solomon Co. tas been lamed by Perry

Sdomon, formerly with Jack Carter Assoc and

Jack Berman Co. to service the Southern Cali

lama, Southern Nevada and Arizona markets

for consumer electronics lines. Office is at 2116

Stradella Rd los Angeles 90024, phone (213)

4167168 first statier named is Raad Beimeis-

ter, who inns Iron California Sales 8 Marketing

where he was named 1971 fisher saksman of

the year. and prior to that, with University

Stereo in L.A

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UniSync, the Westlake Village. Calif based

BSR company that manulaclures pro amps and

mixers, has named Shelly Bunnell, tormerly

with ¡fAC. as sales administrator. with rep cam

mumrations a key responsibility Newest rep ap

pantment is Cathie I Associates, Parente.

Cald., where lamer Ant- Sync sales manager

Wayne Freeman recently joined as a partner

him will cover Southern California and kirona

for UniSync, and also handles Otan and Celec/

Gauss audio.

By S'I1 PHEN TRAIMAN Cerwin -Vega, American Lighting Specialties, American Lighting & Manufacturing, Data Display Sys- tems. Stanton, Hammond Industna (Meteor Light & Sound and Beyer Dynamics), Disco Explosion, Visual Effects and KES Enterprises

Among equipment highlights noted at t'I S

Dillon's Discotheque is named after Dave Kenner's two West Coast clubs, and his L.A. -based Entertain- ment Engineering Corp. has packaged a modular two by four -foot en- closure complete with two speakers and an equalized amplifier offering about 44-46 watts /RMS plus a lighting Chair Cllitri,t ooh capacity of

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35 adult tides In its first catalog, with 20 more due soon, according to Bob Summer. who claims a high quality product already being sold by Crvt Eddie's and "quietly" by Abraham & Straus in the New York area, Mar- gin for the 599.50 list product is 30'. to 40'S depending on volume, in either Beta I or II, or VHS formats. Address: 356 W. 44 St.. New York 10020.(212)541.7860

VTS (Video Taping Services) Enterprises had the must vslhie adult programming booth at CES, sharing space with the Video X Home Library and the Wonderful World of Video line. Joe Donato of L.A.-based VTS has about 300 titles in his catalog, from $60 to $99 list with dealer margins ranging front 257 to 335 and distill's' from 10% to 15%

Andre De Anici of Video X se.i,

showing a catalog with 25 one -h.

tapes, and 72 due in Iwo -hour mat soon. At $35 -540 wholesale. the hour tapes go to $99 list. u-hile the new two -hour programs will list for about $150. Crazy. Eddie's already has a selection of the hour tapes. he

says. VTS Address: 15036 Ventura Blvd.. Encino. Calif. 91316. (2131 996 -7068 -9. Video X Address: Box

G, Madison Sq. Garden Sta.. New York 10010. 1212) 929 -2340.

VCX, making its second t: ti

appearance. non has 56 adult vile In tis catalog. including 13 90 -minute I I1 boy -girl and two boy -ho y t

and a two-hour special "Devil In

Miss Jones /Deep Throat," note, Run Pike. Regular dealer cost offers a 33'2 margin. with a 405 spread on distributor orders of 500 titles or more Address: 7313 Vorne. North Hollywood 91605. (213) 764.0319

TVX Cinema Video had 25 titles In its first adult catalog. with Beta at $89.50 suggested list and VHS al $99.50, notes Dave Fried- man. Production rate is about 1.400 weekly now. with new four -color packaging. and expansion to Sox), week by summer. with .,Iles both direct and vii distributors with pricing geared for 311', n. 35', tleile'1 margins Meanwhrlc -'adult theatre" lobbies have proved plink sales i'Ul Ices in New York and Ìo, Angeles AJdres,: 1643 N. Cherokee Ave I lul lywvs,d. 90028. (213) 462-10111

Astronics Tele Cine us a, , n e -

mg its catalog of R. PG and t., type. at mostly $49.95 list. with the avicenl

on adult entertainment Highlighted were soft -cure "classics" "Secret... and "Baby Face" at 56995 lot earn Address: 90 Golden Gate Ave San

Francisco 94102. (415) 673 -4320.

1,500 watts plus the unit itsel, Ile sees the self -contained module .r, a

free- standing element ideal for any sire ceiling -the units clip together and simply plug in at $745 list each. A lighting module in the works should be ready soon.

Chromus Corp. of Phoenix calls its Faze Maze a "fascinating experience" in entertainment, with partners Scott Hale, Brent Brentinger and Frank Farrens spending a year on the microprocessor -controlled module with 23 -inch diagonal viewing space that offers an infinite number of colored Tight patterns.

Easily connected to an audio whire (', the unit in either oak or

black lin,- has a 25 -inch color tv tube with digital control box. built - en microphone. sight and sound tun- ing for instruments, and will be about $600 retail for disco installa- tions.

Sound Promotions of San Diego has been ruad testing six of its mobile consoles for about six years, according tir Dean Atkinson. with the baste unit built by Bobadilla Cases about 220 pounds fully loaded with two amplifiers, twin turntables, equalizer. crossover and lighting control. With wheels re- moved for travel it is 58 inches wide by 21 deep by 34 high to handle any component package. at about $650 list.

Uni- Sync's new Discorama mixing console features five inputs -

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See Video Boom In 1980s i. unermicd frurrr page '8

I scalers showrooms are described as

the "weakest link" in the chain of projection video marketing.

Eskandarian predicts that he- tween 60.000 and 70,000 projection tvs will be sold in 1979. Most owners today earn more than $58,000 annually and are primarily interested in sports programming. according to lskandarian, whose firm handles advertising for the Advent Video- Beam projection system.

According to Ray Gates of Pana- sonic. the battery- operated units will be priced at about $1,400 with a

weight of 15 -20 pounds (minus cameral Both the units themselves and their visibility to public are expected to stimulate consumer interest.

Gates also drew a lengthy crimpari- son for dealers between portable VCR use and filming with 8 m.m.

cameras. Though initial hardware outlay favors the film method, dealers were acquainted with the many software cost benefits of videotape.

Gates noted that tape costs less per minute of use, that it can be reused. offers better light sensitivity in color, can be played back instan- taneously and offers extended length in one package.

Speakers also included Dick Quaid of the Magnavox videodisk division, offering an overview of that product, and Dick Kelly of Video Corp. of America, who predicted between 540 and $50 million in prerecorded VCR sales for 1979.

Also heard were Thomas Shep- herd of GTE Sylvania on conventional color receivers and Alex Stone of Quasar. who noted that 15% of black and white receivers sold today are miniature units with combo features.

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I lie last kmla 1i .1dJI4s, of Mt :Jla- lionlc I Illenamolem Ins %vas 7243 Santa Monica lBlvd. wh9c the present address 01 Studio I dol ils change and Studio 1 ilni l I,ipc. is

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Superstores Set (.011 (frilled frwn 0-3 C, i Music: Market Nis ll)

inc. but not distrmil,. Ili Il, pricing polio)- says Grossman.

"We are prepared to open two or three more superstores in 1979, dc- pending on the as :lllabee) of suit- able locations. he delis. wall Sc1'-

eral potential locations nass bong insestigalcd. "The business is well- funded." Grossman declares

While Supclslores IL:Main the new company's slain Iltru,t. Music Mar - kel has also acquit,' Illo smaller stores whl.h also II Ill how under its banner in February These are situated in Levittown and Mineola. L.I.

Grossman is III see a as chief operating officer of the new retail operation. with his long -tinge associate, In Freedman. as key eulsiI lse

Music Markel headquarters are at 2305 Hempstead Turnpike, Ease

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tilesspon,tlred event with "Tonight Shun" drunlnler Ed ShaughnAS,s and his Energy force Band

The CAMEO nlenlheiship made up now. of 30 n1:11111I lureis who slake selch hardware .I, lesord í5g and soured reinforcement equipment a, well as electronic muslL.11 instruments sod accessories.

Gibson Wins Suits NEW YORK -Norhn Music has

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Without conceding liability in any of the suns filed by Norlin, Hoshino Gakki Ten Inc., tire Eiger Co. and Chesbro Music have agreed to make changes in certain of their guitar models so they are not confused with the Gibson line.

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LOS -\ \I.t I I \I Resold,. Inc.. ,I Burbank -based pressing plan) and near) manufacturing fa- eilitl. has opened a new díyu)On, Poslilis Musk. Sales deleted to the need, of sn1.111. Christian record labels

Headed by Bob Cotterell. who has Its own religious label called Son -

nsc. the division offers production. mastering. Jacket design and manu-

[Jazz Beali Cunlu+urJ fr11111 page n:

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Byrd playing together m beautiful sound

The Tucson Ian Society Is Bang a bangup

lob of keeping Lau activities going in that pan of

Arizona Notes Pat Patterson. society arce press

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lazo aficionados the opportunely to get together

and share the toys of lau Our society is also part of a larger network

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though we have no formal lies with each other,

we are begmnmg to coordinate efforts toward a

mutual cooperation and exchange between each

other "lati societies are the direct response of

cilles That lad the musical resources of such

areas as Los Angeles and New York

"Our Maces are reaching out for lair as is

evidenced by the more Than 4,000 people that

have attended our two free concerts the past

summer '

Patterson points to these other societies For

the Love 01 last. PO Box 125, Reno. Nev. lati In At. PO Box 13363. Phoenix, Art New Met

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l.1,. 111111 pressing and distribution 'eels,. with a minimum order of IW album,

-Many small labels couldn't gel Ihcir pi islutl out 0.1111 111e other pressing planes." says Cotterell.

"Asa producer for ml own lapels fse experienced the Iruslralltln of slow sers ice. especially al peak peti- ods, such as near Christmas shell many plants Lease larger cillll p .1171.

priori() In scheduling" Cotterell also notes that Ibos.

companres oflenng loss prices some I lilas turn out inferior product.

1 his is a sent.: tu religious I.i

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Iully autumalcd pressing faddæs. usu1g Alpha Tooles presses. with computerized digital and direct -t0- disk capability.

For records sel ,rock Jackets. Posi- tlle Music charges 5349 fier Jn order of 100. This price includes the manufacture of the record. imprinting of stock Jackets, printing of label, Ls il-

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tian,11 record up 10 2(10 veal- >I 411

With an older of 1,13111 alhunl, m

,lock jackets. the rosis \1.1111 ooh each additional record L11,111g

cent, For an order of 10(11celll, Ili 11.1 -

per sleets,. It. huh include, the sasse

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Lent charge Isis each additional record up 11, -111 order of 2(114

Reorder, cost S198 for the lint 113)

if they arc to he in stock laCkels and

$128 for the first 100 if they are to be

In paper sleeves. Discount, arc a callable to volume customers.

WB & Dealers (',r,lru11 from page 4

are dea0ned to offer Ille deal platform by which lo air Mow !heir pruhlcni, We will in to ,oh c

as many problems as possible. Some right ton Ille sprit. - he claims

Rital (-CIA init. marketing cea)r- dinaiorul the ML Laurel branch will also address the dealers. along with Rufus Greens field merchandiser for the Philadelphia area. who will discuss the effects of positive merchandising.

Other Warner Brus. executives are expected In attend the Electing. including lid Rosenblatt, senior vice president. sale, and promotion.

Herbie Mann r ntrnued /ruin page rra

It is quite usual that if you have a

1110Sle theme you do not want anyone to have it before you. but in our case it would not have made much difference. As il was, our "Super- man" single was released a week before the movie. If it had been the same song, it would have been released a week later, which is about the same thing."

Both the album and the single. and an upcoming 33 r.p.m. 12 -inch single are part of the You Have Never Been Hit So Hard" Atlantic disco promotion, which the label is

now working on "Super Mann" and seven other

Atlantic or Cotillion disco releases are now being premiered at discos at

major markets. Atlantic is hosting disco prescnta-

teon paroles in New York, Boston. Philadelphia, Atlanta. Cleveland. Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. Teams of top Atlantic executives are flying to these markets to introduce the disks to regional WEA and At- lantic staffers and to local radio. press. retail and disco pool personnel.

Special artwork has been prepared for the campaign with mounted and unmounted two -by- twos, posters, T- shins, banners and press kits. In addition. two specially prepared and edited samplers have been made that will include Mann's music with disco product by Cer- rone, Chic, the Fantastic Four, Lee Garrett, Phreek and Tasha Thomas.

Magnavision To Northwest Shops

'',r11.LLs I.: Ll'ma ii iII he. n1c the second nlarkel for the Magn,lylsion optical videodisk player, according IoJohn Find - later. president of MCA Disco - Vlsion, Inc.

Magnavox Consumer Flrrlriesin- troduced the MagnaVlslon player in Atlanta as its first market last De- cember.

Within 60 to 90 days the player and .lssoinpanying software will be

in Bon \ torche. Frederick & Nelson and Doshes Home Furniture Store in the Seattle and Tacoma areas

DsCIVlslotl software will be sold Dolt III the same stores that retail the hardware. adds Findlaler

Magnavox also plans to add six

more locations In Atlanta hcimnini' Feb. 2 ohich ulll retail the ...leili. Three stores in the Atlanta .Ire., all presently selling the system.

Gold Will Score LOS ANGELES -Oscar- winner

Ernest Gold has been set to score "The Runner Stumbles;' a Stanley Kramer Production of the Broadway play. Film stars Dick Van Dyke.




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Data Display division or Deeara also had its full array o¡ disco lighting effects un view, with mirror balls doing panicularly well according to Bob Levitt.

Rink Audio-Vetual had to full

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two turntables, two au salaries n ml .I

mike -with fading to or from an

combination. and the capablhls i..r live rrluoC mixing with the addition of a 10 -mike input expander module, not. Larry Jaffe, Also incorporated are a three -band graphic equalizer. four LED VU meters for the dance floor, and separate cuing and nuke systems. with hot :shout $ 1.249.

Rolel's first ours In the disco area, aimed at eonsunlers hub :ilo' the mobile man. is the RZ -S Plus Mixer for incorporation into any sound system, at about $620 list. It was shown at CES with Rotel's twin RP -5300 direct -drive rurniahl.,. RA -1412 integrated power amp 1 i to watts /channel) with the line going up to a 500 -watt model. matching preantp and equalizer. "It's a new direction for us." notes Mike Greg- ory. "and we intend to give the market a full test.-

(,00dmans of the U.K. is "definitely interested" in the US mart for its Power Range Audiom speakers. says Nigel Bain. and will have an American distrib soon. The dB 50 model offering about 80 watts/ channel RMS was road -tested by City Boy on last years U.K. tour. and is the prototype for a full line of high -power speakers with 50% more capacity and no lots of sensitivity. he claims.

Pickering Be Co. encouraged ¢ ht the success of sister firm Stanton

Oa Magnetics in the disco field, had its

en new XV- 15/625 DJ cartridge "rug - gcdized for disco," says Rio Ben-

in nett, at suggested S60 list, with an ex- . tra DIP stylus S30. or $81 for a three- , ea pack.

BGW's Brian Wachner notes reli more consumer crossover for the

firm's disco -acclaimed line of power

áamps. Including the new model D 1008 (50 watts/channel Rms)

bowed at the November AES in -+ New York.

Tidies Square was showing its new control rack that incorporates

speakers and light shows. and bor-

rowed QRK tunrtu es.

AAL is focusing more on the

toad than the disco for its high-output units. hut is expanding thedistn- buuon of its Blasters speaker com-

prmenl line, notes Bill Richardson. firm still has four disco models and two tweeter arms ..

All -Disco Format At

Toronto's CHIC -AM

Dillon's sound. light display at the Winter CES in Las Vegas is highlighted by

a dancing model.

its IO x 12 Program Monitor {3825

lira, 10 x 12 Memory Expander ($795), 4 x 12 4- channel controller (5495), 4 x 12 controller with built -in matrixmg 156001 and remote power unit for vanable -speed mirror -ball meNOr($1401. Enure unit is designed to mix incandescent with pmbeam and neon sources. Firm also showed its new beacon offering up to six pin - spots and oscillator.

Litelah had a traffic- stopping

Slarhursl backdrop for its display of lighting effects. and Peter Zopp notes the firm is now manufacturing its own pmbeam spinners with ad- justable lamps. Most Important. the

company has w. t.Ing numbers Irwin Underwnrot. ..h, on .III its

sonlrollero ,Ind hopes to have UL listing h the Forum

Disco Explosion's Rands tlan- sen and Conrad Schalk had the firm's new "moon mirror" panels at $35 list for a three by three -foot module. new cluster beacons with rotating lamps in a revolving fixture. and a new 4- circuit checkerboard floor to he available in 4 by S. 4 by 12 or 4 ho )6 -fora modules.

American Lighting & Mfg -t which bowed its The -Lire diffracting surface at the last Disco Forum, has the product available in larger 12- inch- square units, packed 16 to the carton at $204 In black or $252 in mirror.

KES Enterprise of Fresno, to businem about a year. had its portable console with mixer. amps.

Vegas Studio 4 Prospering With Gays After 2 Months

il, 111SIll i 1RRf.1 -I- Ist (I.t`fllNfi «'I ORI

BRAMPIOh -lhe successful WKTU -FM New York format has induced CHiC -AM to drop its contemporary top 30 format and program disco round the clock. thus he- coming Canada's first all -disco station.

The changeosertook place midnight Monday 1 151 and most observers expect the station to do well, with large gains In the metro Toronto re- gain despite pilar signal reception m the downtown clue of the elty

Program director Dave Oliver (Continued on pure 90)

LAS VEGAS -This entertainment capital's newest entry into gay discos Studio 4, after only two months, is a booming success thanks to Vegas Record Pool creator Wayne Thorberg.

Utilizing a successful formal of customer needs and wants, the spacious club, formerly known as

Disco Fever, is SRO nn weekends, offers a new restaurant and showcases the latest Top 40 disco bits.

"We're up with every major er ly Vlore now Before it was disgrace with this town being the enterl:on-

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The sunken dance flour, a kaki - doscope of color wheels. patterns and designs, Is surrounded by numerous booths, tables and seats as well as a bar and fireplace are.!

With its sapae it at il)0, the eluh also features a re.isonahle. low - priced menu from 52 -S7 flans include expanding the present 226 iso

20 -Gort dance door coi a second let el

The stereo sound -t,ieirr, manned by head decay Mails Shaliier :Ind Richard Braille's lt..onre, Ill tee Ke'owo)d Amps. Iwo I s,lnm Itlril tablas and six speakers.

Working closely with t aloha, R('A and ('.tsahlaueo. l'Iorberg hi. hosted %nth Iumln,it, .1, !;rase loncy, Ilto.n.i ',line, and the Vil - Lige l'o' (It'

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ilhuno, lobs. {,,.ltd l,it.nn,uon.,ind 1.1 pressing, as well as help Whe,, on unemployment.

",\long with all Iltc stateside op 4(1 diw,. products, sy'e gel imports front (:loadu:" toasts Tlwuherg

tr'onzin,,,,J un "elk,' ,y' /,/

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Litelab's Peter Zopp explains all the blinking lights to Robert Hutchinson. es

dio/video consultant, Fort Collins. Colo.

limes Square Theatrical's Robert Riccardelli, left, chats with Steve Siro- belight of Lighting Dynamics anent lighting equipment.

Hammond Industries' Jack ley expecting six new "effects Kelly reports the firm is equipping wheels" before year end for its Pro- two customized vans l'or Meteor lector system. The firm is taking a

Light de Sound to use here and in good look at projection is as its joint Europe as dealer showcases -going venture with Toshiba rn the U.K_ direct to the prospective customer makes the product an attractive with the Cull line of disco compo- prospect Gems Sips Marketing is still waiting

Also due is a "Disco Pnmei" with for assurance of supply for the-Bel- a light technical siewpoint aimed al gran Stanford line of mixers and. Dis and audiophiles on layout unique Digifader. according to John sound and light applications. cis King. Two new models are promised Meteor was not at CES. but Kell, for the U.S. mart. which would corn- was at the Bekr dispi,,o show ,no plemen' sorite of the Thorens WM' that firm's espanded line If nukes. a p.'nents also represented in the U.S. number of which. are used by club,. ho Elpa- sescral turntables and they!

Vi±ua! Effects of the Bronx w a, IHP 380 and HP 360 -Sound Wall" at its first t f S. and Paul UselolT re- speaker, with 2011 and 150 woos ca- ported good esposare to the firm', paetll re pectiveIs,atSo00and$700

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The innovative mixture of nine that explodes into INSTANT FUNK

(SA 8513) was discovered and produced by BUNNY SIGLER.

They most recently served as

recording musicians for Evelyn "Champagne" King, including the gold selling "Shame." The trend-

setting group now cooks to an urgent Philadelphia beat that

satisfies. Say whaat to INSTANT FUNK. Anytime!

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NEW YORK- -West End Records president Mel

Cheren and national disco coordinator lam

McDermott are reporting response from New

Yak deelays on the upcoming release of ('Ev erybodyl Get Dancing" hem the Bombers II al

bum This t? inch 33'o r p m dick creates a

tangible energy level with light orchestrations

Mat effectively match the stung section against

the pulsating guitar and synthesizer rhythm

Emphasis is placed on bongos and drums for the

breaks that give a sizzling production to the

smooth vocalizations which enrich the melody

line this 9 24 minute rut is a refreshing disco

sound by producer George Legaos and Pat he

sano

With the success of rock groups Ike the Roll

Ong Slopes and the Bee Gees which have crossed

over into the disco scene, we welcome Rod

Stewart Taken from his last album Blondes

Have More Fun,- Warner Bros has put out a

special loco version of the sang 'Do You think

I'm Sery' with a rem, by Iim Burgess

The artist's raw edged vocalization puts to

work a peppery say and rousing guitar instiu

mentation on this 12 inch 3311 r m

Rick lames has used the same lotmula that

put You and r' on the charts blu ha Motown

release 'High On Your love Suite" Funk pre vades the grooves with a down and out raucous

Disco Vegas Club

Disco Mix Rn BARRI 1.F.I)g:RFR

sound that puts the brass section to churning

out a heavy beat that o bolstered by strong

hand dal/Ding back tempo with a sac solo that

weaves around keyboard and synthesizer el

feels. A bongo break comes at the right time to

continue the momentum, however. the India mentation soon becomes too frantic and wed to

maintain the dancers 'Merest

GO a a new group on the Arista label and its

debut 12 inch 33'r rpm is called "Disco

Nights (Rock Freak) " Running 5 51 minutes.

this song a well culled and concise and Auks up in the second hall when "Rock Freak" be

gins The flip side. 'Boogie Oogie." h a rote ren

dition at Taste of Honey's by hit

With the influx of Superman memo being re

leased. A5M has come up with the love Theme

nom 'Superman," "Can You Read My Mind

Produced by Bobby Martin and Ron Kersey, the

group Krypton has come across with a pleasant

12 inch 33ío r p m which o catchy and an

lcotuous as the song progresses. and should register attention

the latest Disconet program of Volume II No

7 has been ieleased The' Contact' medley with

a me. by Valapacu has been extended to 17 30

minute and has been interestingly presented

and should garner attention by Oh that are into

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Side A contains both material and mixing

That a not up to par for Mrs service Side B.

Inman. picks up where the previous side lacks

in momentum and spud lop Dl Bobby DI Gut

lodmo is responsible for Iho program and as

usual has made a strong effort in what seems to

be a limited amount of material that was avail

able to work with Fantasy has released "Blue Moon' by the

Originals Many old rock o roll enthusiasts end

remember this song and enjoy its revival This

1? inch 45 r p m slants oy as a slow ballad and

then is transformed into 8 27 minutes of spin

/led disco excitement Although this disk has

been out for a short time. it is finally beginning to pick up attention across the country

The original melody of this song has been

maintained and the Originals have given the

tune their own style

Looking ahead you can e,pelt this tom

Casablanca "Spaces new LP "lust Blue.

Chefs 'Take Me Home' LP produced by Bob

Este. Meno s "Superman album with a 12 inch

em, by lam Burgess. the Silvers Sleepless

Nights "Also, the following groups will have new

releases Munich Machine. Bioaklyn ()teams. Eddie Orennon and Randy Brown

Casablanca will be providing pitone disk LPs

of the three Village People albums. the Donna

.summer "Live And More album and Cher's and

°arliament's LP

From ABC Rufus will have a solo album tilled Numbers" with a beauhlul ballad called "keep

it logelhet The Dells' 'Face to Face LP and 'oie Samples 'Cannel' album will be available

Madly

On Butterfly enpect the "Belle De lour' LP

by SI Trope/ with a pasable 12 inch of "Fill My

ife With Love Mso a new group called Graffiti will have an LP called "Oink Love Grand " late ;chtilin will work On a special protect Ion Ihr.

ompany with an album entitled 'Fire And Ice

ABM Records is working on a Raes LP pro

doted by Harty Made and mired by lohn

Luango MCA has a 12 inch called "lonely

Dance!' by Van McCoy pad of his latest album

Buddah is offering a Phyla Hyman album

wilh two disco cuts-' I Want To Kiss You All

Om Again" and So Strange " This album was

produced by T Life who worked on the Evelyn

King album Watch for "Dancing With Melba'

and 'Dancing With Gladys

Salsoul will be providing a 12 inch titled

'Dub Dancng by David Wardell which was a

previous airport the Bunny Siegler album on

GolOm nd Records is By The Way You Dance

Also on This label will be the First Choice LP

'Hold Your Horses" with a side one medley of

the lolkwing songs. Let Me Down Easy.'

"Goodmaning Midnight' and 'Great Expecta

tans Also included on this much awaited al

bum will be 'Double Goss" and "Love Thong"

Buddah Records is providing the Phyla Hy

man album with two disco tuts, I Want To Kiss

You All Over Again" and "So Strange This al

bum was produced by T life who waked on the

Evelyn 'Champagne' King album

the remake of Gang Out 01 My Head" at

5 35 minutes has taken the classic song with its

beautiful melody and turned it into a disco standard with use of violin overdubs and a Oro.

mg bass drum throughout.

Also tram Fantasy is Blue Moon' by the

Onrgmals Many old rock n'ron enthusiasts will

remember Iles song and enjoy its revival this

I2 inch 45 r p m record starts off as a slow bat lad and before being transformed into 8 27 min

caps of high sainted disco excitement

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Five year in the music business, Thorberg gained valuable experience to Dallas with the Plantation Disco and Disco 2001. Paradise Ballroom. Circus and Deco 1985 all in L.A.

The youthful club manager claims disco is outselling all other classifi- cations at nearby Tower Records even though he feels disco is peaking right now nationally. A 24 -hour. all - disco radio station is in the works. he adds.

Plans also call for Studio 4 expan stun into Fort Worth. Midland and Odessa. Tex.. with a next -door bath house for stricdr male customers. re- pons Thorberg. A tv room with a

giant screen Betamax unit is or- gelled.

A nonprofcssional. amateur dance contest is slated each Monday with special live entertainment dinner shows. seasonal parties and fashion programs scheduled.

The formerly straight disco pulls locals as well as the tourist trade competing openty with rival oper- auii::- hr Brewers_. Rumors. Gibbys an, anon

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VIDISK DEBUT - SPURS TALKS

ON ROYALTIES By l'k :fk'R J(f\k.s

LONDON -Some 35 manor t I,

video producers are setting up ,I

negotiating committee for dealing

with the Mechanical Copyright Pro.

!cajun Society as industry evente-

meot builds over the projected 1979

launch here of the video disk. The manufacturers will sort out

their own policy prep.:Ms on music

royalty rates and then report back to

the society. A general feeling is that

agreement is now not far away

The copyright society put forward some of its own proposals some months ago at the Video Trade exhibition and now details have been

outlined to the manufacturers. A sliding scale for occasional or library musical content on video product has been considered. but the cops -

right agency looks for a 104 of retail poux less on product with maximum music presentation.

Bob Montgomery. society managing director. says neither side is as

Nei committed to any thing concrete. But he looks for a procedure for collecting music dues both for society members and stdeo producers similar to the arrangements in use in the res rd Ind ustry .

His society has put a top priority tanne on sidi-o ru_sahtes since mid - 1978 when it was realized that this sear. probably November. would be the big launch date.

International SALES & DISTRIBUTION WITH CBS

MCA Goes Indie In Britain; Infinity Bows

isiNltt)", \R \ Risoid, I is

is hi go independent 1,010 111k 11h. year, thins endings four -teal Iuen, ing deal with 1 MI Iront that dal,. its pressing. sttstrihutwrt and sal , will be handled M CBS

Meanwhile. \1('A- funded Infra Its Records ,ils 'tour, t BS for U K Manufacturing. distribution and ,aies, with immediate OOleo I use

product, duc this month. 11,1111 , Dohic(iras and Mana Ihst-

Rot Featherstone, Mt 9 n,.inag ing slnector land a former I MI exec -

uusci. sis the company's turnover has merc.oed by sonne 1504 oser the past tua' ,' \JJmg the business wfiieh 's he generated by

RCA In Bolivia NEW PORK - Industria Buhv-

iana del Fonograma S.R.L. IINBO- FONI is named new licensee in Bo- livta for RCA Records International.

The deal. effective Immediately, was negotiated for RCA by Joe Vias. newly appointed director of international headquarter, operations.

Principals at INBOFON are Said Saba. general manager. and Mimic del Sahra- responsible for international repenoire. The firm is located in La Paz. Bolivia.

UNDER NEW DEAL

ippon -Phonogram Sets First Arista Releases

TOKYO - Nippon- Phono- gram will release first product under its new deal here with Arista Records (Billboard. Jan. 20. 19791 next month.

Four single, will ship Feb. IS, comprising Barn Manilow's Copacabana' and -Somewhere

In The Night. Erie Carmen's 'Baby I Need Your Lorin' "and Melissa Manchester s "Don't Cry Out Loud" A 10 -album release will follow in March.

Nippon -Phonogram will handle Arista separately from its own Western music department, and ensure acts receive maximum exposure through promotions. -What we want to do is sell at least a million LPs here in the first year," stresses company president. Nohuya ltoh.

"Asa member of the Polygram group, we've got a lot going for us in purely Western music. and we're going to further strengthen our position with Arista's artists."

Obscr,.i, belies this strengthening will boost N ippon- Phonugrani s market share by at

least one precentagc point to 5

Apart from Philips. Mercury and now Arista product, the ctmtpans has distribution of Shelter and Buddah from the U.S.. and Charisma front the U.K.

The Ansia deal. as pre ,loud% noted. spans catalog product a, well as new release, During its

association with Toshiba -EMI, the U.S. label is estimated to

have accounted for an average 124 share of the former's total Western music sales.

Nippon- Phonogram, teemed in 1970 with capital from Philips. Victor and Matsushita. is considered fifth largest tirin in the Japanese music indusrn West- ern repertoire account, for sonic 65101.11S business, domestic productions around 35%. (herall sales arc reckoned at around 542 5 million

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Luton), sale, stiength, eventually re. cited ro licensing. with Dicta and then I -N11.

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KENYA CAPER - Millie Jackson receives a silver disk from J.H. Kinzl, managing director of Phonogram in Kenya for her disk, "If You Are Not Back In Love

By Monday." She was in Kenya on her first concert trip.

LAUDS NEW CREATIVE CENTER

Fowley Steers N. Z. Rockers AUCKLAND the nest zluhal

rock sensation it come from New Zealand. proclaim, seteran U.S. producer and industry eccentric, Kim Fowles He's +pccdicalh refer- ring to Streettalk, tsnh whom he's been writing and producing in Auckland's Mandrill Studios.

The five -man band caught Fow- Icy's attention when he spent his first day here listening to local recordings in the studio, of r.,J,u actin 1ZM ( Strcettalk had waxed a locally released single. produced by ex -Byrd Chris Hillman).

'They're the most interesting of all the New Zealand groups I

heard." he says. "There may he Net- ter ones. but 1 don't want to have to go to elery pub. living room or ga- rage to find them.

"I tell comfortable +,Ili Sirceiralk when I found they liked Bruce Sprhngsteen, Southside Johnny, Mink De Ville and Bob Seger. and had an extensive hackgriund to blues and reggae."

Fowley praises I on Murdoch. chief of WEA New Zealand. for "being astute enough to sign the group." He adds: "When an international carpetbagger like myself arrives. 1 can't take the tape and run worldwide a rile it. Bur there's nothing letter than finding that the hest group in the country is signed to one of the uorld's leading record com-

Fowles sass he eirund Mandril Studio, to he a 141u,cle Shoals. type" "pet itmu run by (ityn Tucker uhi' en _iiiv-ted /he track, for the Sncco.,lk disk "le, like the good old days." continue, kowles. "when people like leery Wexler and Leonard Chess scent into the deep South to produce singers like Otis Redding and Arctlia Franklin.

"Because of the prolesaon:distil of Streettalk and Mandrill, we'll

Rs P1111. GIFFORI) bring In the finished album for under 510.000, with a world -class sound."

When not writing and recording. Fowles's time in Auckland has been spent telephoning performers and industry tashentakers in the U.S seeking reaction to Streettalk Among those he contacted: Bruce Spnngsteen, Sieve Miller, guitarist Greg Douglas. Cleveland Inter- national Records president Steve Pi pi sicli and Paradise Records vice president Dino Airah.

Fowles and Streettalk also under- took tin -air rnten,eus with deejay% Bowles Wilshire of San Francisco's KSAN -1.41 and Rodney Bingen' heimer of Pasadena', KROQ -FM.

The alhuni. "Sneeualk:' is due for rush release in New Zealand on Feb.

15, Fowley say+ his phone campaign has hcen to chat the industry to a

new ,p tin the world as a rock music center

Southern Music and the producer are collaborating un the album's publishing. He says: "I wouldn't be

surpnsed if some leading American artists recorded Streettalk songs on albums in 1979.

Fowles moved on to Australia (for an undisclosed project) after completing lits New Zealand duties. then returns to the U.S. for work with Greg Douglas on possible material for a new Steve Miller LP, and publishing meetings with Jefferson Starship's Marty Balin about Fow- ley-published songs which the latter

its American tour.

He then goes to Brazil. Venezuela. Jamaica and the Virgin islands publish and produce need talent

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IN ASIAN MARKETS

A &M Declares Overseas Alignment With Phonogram

, 155 YORK ASc 7l Records has ii In_ed its hcensi; n arrangements n the I I I `,- 'ntpany, with EMI i''t 1, .i e.rrs, returns to

Phunogiani, licensee prior to 1972. This is one of severa I renewals and

snitches in the U.S. firm's world %k id.: representation, disclosed h, its

' ice president of nlel-national, Da- s Hubert. They msluole the termi- nation 01 it, deal with Phunograni in Nigeria. Ghana and Kenya. No new ltscnsees there are named.

The label renews with EMI in In dra. CBS in Israel RTB in Yugo - vIota. R',denlim del Canulho to

Portugal and West Indic, Recrds in that territory Its Far Last tr,unter to

Phonogram exclude, the Philip-

pines. where : \ \`.I Mess with Dyna Products.

On Phonogram's part. the A &M deal lis part of a plan to increase its

(already sit'mlicant) market presence in Asia. and other license pacts will reporledls follow.

More local act will also be recorded, as. t or es.rmple, the company has done till Singapore's Paul Cheon_ Sales of this artist's de- hut album hase been soon:, enough to lead to .r second disk. duo soon.

Sources sari P tonogratti has also signed the Mies Ca,. Malaysian rock group uhreh ha, built up a

strong critical and audience re-

,ponse VIA local slate, and show's in Australia and Flung Kung.

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VISTASTAR BOWS -U.K. producer Ken Barnes, left, discusses plans for his new label. Vistastar Records, which has signed a worldwide production deal with Phonogram, with Ken Maliphant, center, managing director, Phono. gram, and Chris Harding, former Phonogram ado manager, who is now

Vistastar's managing director.

Set Tours For Romanians By OCTAVIAN URSL:LESCU

BLICIIAR EST- A tremendous burs) of action by ARIA. the Roma- nian Artistic Management Agency, has led to lours sel up abroad for many local group and artists in the earls months of 1979.

The Rapsodia Romana group is to mur Belgium. France and L usenr bourg. Pan's piper Ghcorghe 7amfir and his group goo, for television in East Germans. then give a series of concerts al Ihr Palais des Arts in Paris.

The Philharmonic Orchestras of Iasi and .Arad arc In give concerts in Italy. Conductor Ilona Andrea,cu leads orchestras in East Germany's Magdeburg, then appears as guest of

G Danish radio. His conducting col. fa league. llariun Ionesco -Galata. i

O Ms`tked to lead eight concerts of the 5 Swedish Philharmonis in lias e

rst

Rumanian plants( Dan Ongure n to play in the Austrian ten ters of V i- lach and Graz and organist Erhart Schlandt ta playing on Vienna. Ten- on Emil Oberman and Comet Fine - aanu will sing al the Comic Opera in Berlin. and the latter is hooked for a Budapest Opera appearance Cu- nna Char... singer. visits East Ger- many lór concert.

Bill the agency has also arranged for visits o Romania of leading foreign performers. Included are Stilia Rolaru and her Croup (' enana Rota. from Russia: Remus loin - aca. once of Romania nmv of Can-

ada. leading the Iasi Syrnphony Or- chestra and the Romanian Radio, TV Orchestra: Japanese imlmut ,ywko Hala, condochm Harold Farberman IU S I and Paul Strauss 1 Belgium).

International DISK FIGURES DISAPPOINT

Tape Is Pacesetter Of Japanese Output

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ItrN'-(r raisin .fók pndut Ion si ...pr nntcd Mr music indura) Let year. and mar,U:umrc) had to

straggle o post ,ear -to -seat gains or about 45 for both volume and ,alun. acssodmg n, potsrsrinat esti- mates released h, the Japan Phono- graph Record Assn.

About 191 million disks were turned out worth 5k50 nullon. But the cnmbn d value of the disk and tare output at 51.220 million Jost made dnuhle -digs growth with a

gain of 105

Prerecorded music tapa outshone disks with a total output Jumping 354 to 47 million units worth $370 million. up 254 riser 1977

Hopes for double -digit growth re

disks were dashed around mid -year after output had nisi) a promising 9": In the first sin month,. During the second half -year. production tided oft and only sp radie retailing :IMO ils was reponed during the nor-

For The Record NEW YORK -The Nethedandi

record industry, assnaauon. NVPI. retends presented Britain's Kale Bush with an Edison award f her "Wuthenng Heights- as Single of the Year. not for the singer's "The Kick Inside" album. as previously reported

jelly hu.dinp . rid sales sea.

wear. unrkru trmg the general slug -

gohncss of the market Japanese music single recovered

their rromentum from a poor per - formance m 1977 by increasing 10: in quantity to 63.4 million units. worth about 125 more. w

In contrast. Western music angles leveled off to 142 million units, with a value approximately equivalent to

that of the year before. Japanese music LPs Jumped

about 6°i o SI million units valued at 5360 million. an increase of 134 - enugh to lop the previous high set

m 1976 However. the overall album perfumance was marred by a 44

dip in Western music LPs to 42 million units, down 75 in value.

This dragged down the Western music sham of the total LP market to 45'1 from 484 of the year before. Japanese music LPs took up the slack. expanding their share from 525 o 555.

The highlight of the lapo figure was the scale of the comeback staged by 8- tracks. Over the past few years. they have been consistently out - pomied by castrates in the production stattsucs. Howeser, last year Choy shot up 334 to 12 million units. due primarily to the inchesuemd muse backup boom to Japan But value could not keep pace and it de- clines) by 14% from 1977

ARISTA ADDS ACROBAT TO LABEL TALLY ry I. N OR yrisrastallyofaf-

lidalcd label, takes an upturn with the addmon of Acrobat Records. the operation formed by Chris Yralleaf. ter he left as managing director of RSO Records U.K.

Acrobat. London -based, signs a five -year licensing deal with Arista. covering Britain and Eire. Germany, Austria, Swrtzcdand, Eastern Eu. rope (excluding Yugoslavia) and South and Central America, excluding Mexico.

Negotiations were handled by Youle and Arista's U.K. managing director. Charles Levison.

The Libel's acts comprise Roger Chapman, ex -lead singer of Street. walkers and Family. making ho de. but as a solo artist: Christopher Ned. singer and producer, known for his work with Paul Nicholas. among others. Runner. fronted by ex -Rare Bird swrbst, Steven Gould: Ara plan and singer. Peter Blake; and Jack Lancaster, who features saxophone and Lyricon.

First product, available Feb. 16. will be Chapman's debut album. "Chappo." produced by David Courtney. and this minódes with the antsl's first tour of Britain in two sears. Christopher Ned will follow. in March. nub a tangle. "Working Gld."

Acrobat was formal early last year. and its first there 45s were released through independent hcens- ing deals. They included a hit by

Dollar. handled by Camcro

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A new chain of retail outlets for consumer and sophisticated dec- tronic products. including proces- sors and computers. was set up a few years back, under an Electronic, banner- in Moscow. Leningrad. Voronezh, Tbilisi. Minsk and other major centers. Since the start, annual turnover of these outlets has increased by 90091 and expansion goes on.

At thew outlets. customers can get full information on product. via promotional materials and also through

lectures given on new good, by sales

and technical chiefs of venous man - ufacturingcompanies. This provides tighter business contact between maker and buyer, particularly helpful in the case of new lines.

But the major part of consumer electrom.S here comes from smaller

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It's All -Disco At CHIC -AM 11,rrmnueu from page X.'

claims the changeover was inspired by WKTU- FM's Arbitran jump and describes the switch as "a natural h,ingeover for a pop station in a

,ompetmve marketplace" CHIC -AM, now to be known as

Disco 790, does not subscribe to any riling services at present. but it is be- lieved that the station attracts about 100.000 listeners. No audience shares are suggested, but Oliver pre - ,h, Is the disco format could pull the

AM station's come figures up to

300,000, thus giving the station prominent positioning in the To- ronto market.

The station is now applying for inclusion in the next Bureau of Broad - castine Measurement ratings book. due mn spnng.

The small hinterland station's de-

own to opt for a disco format will likely fuel further debate at the three leading Toronto area contemporary format AM stations about future directions.

CHUM -AM, the conservative Top 40 formater. has long debated the relative merits of disco on radio. Program director Bah We,,d tirets discusses programming policy with the media hut has gone on record mn

the past as %WYing that disco mu,ic is

a"turn -off' factor in this market

Wood's assertion was made before the WKTU -PM success story, but receni developments at the station Inarcare that Wood realties that some .appeasement must he made between his research finding-, and actual audience tastes.

The national singles chart dated Jan. 10 shows Chic. VMage People. Bee Gees, Alicia Bridges. Ands Gihh. Donna Summer and Tow positioned in the top 10. with "Le Freak" and "1' MCA- nestled ln position, one and two, respectively. C HL \I ham, charred C hue's "Le I rear hue has set to translate the sale, position int. atrplas n,tauon.

Competing Top 40 sta son. C VTR. along with CKOC. Hamilton. both AM,: have successful!, integrated pip and disco lune, Into their for- mals.Ilw, allowing li,racloserlie -In hetwccn lire premise behind .i Top 40 liormat and the actual format used- Both CITR and C'KOC chart and play "Le Freak" and -YMCA "

C'IIIC -A \1'. Da,e Oliver is eut - rntl, using &Ilhoard's disco chart and Hot 100 as progu,mmmg aids for rotation adds at his ,Lr t nun, along with call -in Imps lion disco operators in the area ana twitter input from the Ontario I,,eu Pool. The pro gram due, ,chutes 11131 longer

tracks. such as "Warn.' by the Broth. ers Johnson, will be saved for night programming after 6 p.m.

The announcement of the programming change at CHIC -AM came via several small ads placed in

the Toronto weekend papers and an

Informal cocktail party held at the Chequers discotheque on Yorkville Ave. Monday 115). Included at the reception was a disco dance demon- stration by Canadian champions Louanne Scinnocco and Robert Martin. Myth of Toronto

CBS TOPS LIST

& Platinum Soar In CRIA Year -End Tally

TORONTO -Canadian Record- ing Industry Assn. certifications in

1978 show CBS acts dominating the 327 -strong list with the label garner- ing 54 of the 150 platinum albums certified.

For the first time ever, three titles sold a record- breaking one million unit, apiece in this country: Poly- gram scored two with the soundtracks "Sawrdav Night Fever" and "Grease:" and WEA set the trend in

motion onginally with Fleetwood Macs chart -busting "Rumours" LP.

In the quintuple platinum 1500. 000 units) area CBS scored three out of a total of four, and an the quadruple platinum region of 400,000 units, CBS garnered all six entries noted in the Industry association's year -end round -up.

The certification process is mod- elled on the Recording Industry Assn of Amenca's ,+.stem of nei shipment sales. with auditing done M an outside firm of chartered ac- countants In just about ever, sales category listed CBS showed up with double digit tallies. while competi- tors. such as *LA and Pulsgram, turned up with counts of less than 10

As a further example. to the I00.000 -unit platinum area. CBS scored with J total of 2h certified sellers. where,, WEA turned up with vscen. \1CA with eight. A&M with three and Polsgranl with opt. The Rush owned Anthem label earned tour platinum titles in the past year. and Mushroom Records uutduJ Capitol hs one with a total count of three.

In the platinum category London Record, was also able to reach a

Juuhl, Jmgit count tit 13 via a number t old catalog titles by acts such as the M,,,,d, Blues and the Rolling Stories

Again using the platinum album figures IlevI io Ole Industry 31,1,el- atll,n tall,. ,r total oÌ 2b.4 million unit, totaled to gut: 150 platinum or multi- pl,i!mum certification in l97S against \ 5 million units rL,ll,lin_'3

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RI' \I 1155 11, -Inca operate, the RI ( ,,11111 . \ss,mrls and the 11cadcnii ,mille, the ,ale Inay.afilie It11 a

list sel .Icon s rendis ,n ho arc then lulled sol the nominations and iinal \,'Ill lief wle,tions.

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platinum album certifications in 1977.

For the first time since the award program was initiated. Canadian artists shared in the sales increases. with acts such as Andre Gagnon. Burton Cummings and Dan Hill achieving double platinum statu Canadian platinum achievers In-

eluded Rush with three work' Trooper with three. Carroll Baker Doucette. Chilliwadl with two. Gin. Vannelb, Prism with two. as al'. Dan Hill, Burton Cummings an.. Andre Gagnon with two apiece.

Total certification rose from 2 it

in 1977 to 327 in 1978- figures th,: include gold and platinum cerufica ti ns for album and sine!, product

RCA Centralizes Market Authority

In Shift Of Policy TORONTO -RCA Canas(.. ::as

shelved its polie of branch aulon- oms and opted for the standard national marketing pr.-cedura utilized hs other majeur libels ln thecnuntry Head office for the J,rne tic division 1s mn Toronto

Vs,, pr rident and cenCral Tan- ager Ed Prestr.n annnunecul the new executise board Jan 9, shoals before leaving for MIDEM. Under the

new organizational set -up John Ford moss-s In from Vam >'usu to

assume his new post as director of marketing. Also cumin to the head office. from Montreal. is \ras \agy who now be -comes director of enea- use affairs and international_

Ken Cidhes totnlerl, nlanager- inJustnJl relations- is promntcd to director of ,1perdll11, ,er,lees and Bonnie \lckcen is upped to the post of manager. industrial retail-on,.

L nchanged and completing the e\e'cutisc stall are WV id Lone. du- rector of (inane, and adnunntra- lu1n: Jack Feeney. prLuuideut of Sun- bury Dunbar Publishing. and \high. Cocks adnumstratur. press

na puhhclt l'reston reason, that increased

..Ili, in the 1978 fiscal sear necessi- tated the national structilnng. not - ing tuait all area, of repertoire were up in sole,

European Wax NEW 1ORK SI, .too Dennis

\\'a% & Assoc.. Ncw York -based public relations firm specializing in disk and Ittusic- related acrontts, is

,'pelting ,I F.urupC,rn Jr'I,i011. It will he located In the Nether-

lands, at h,ntencal _. 1012 SZ. Ant - sterJ ,111110'0 1 .tiIJi. Jules Farber, prevlouslv ,mociated with RSO on the ( unti neut. is nailml European coordinator for the Was Interests. Thew hase involved RCA Italy, RCA Intel national. Trema IFrancel .111d 11,11ana's lllrov Records

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New Zealand Malaysia

Hong Kong Singapore

Taipei Japan

Philippines Taiwan

Indonesia Thailand

BILLBOARD PRESENTS ITS 1ST ASIA/PACIFIC MUSIC INDUSTRY CONFERENCE The Regent Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February 911,1979 THE AGENDA

-- PIRACY -A primary problem in the Asian / Pacific Sector - Royalties earned by artists from developing nations - MUSIC -The growing industry in Aus- tralasia and the Far East

--The development of national recording artists and composers for global sale

-What the developing nations are losing in revenue to pirates

-The Asian,' Far East route for performing artists

-MUSIC PUBLISHING -A rapidly growing industry, country-by- country

-The business outlook- Growth and development in Asia / Pacific / Far East

-The Audio Industry in this area Your participation is vital in this all important international meeting. The focus')

"THE GROWING MUSIC BUSINESS IN AUSTRALASIA AND THE FAR EAST AND ITS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT."

The importance, problems and future plans for this ever -changing and rapidly growing region of the international industry TOP EXECUTIVES FROM

ALL MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COM- PANIES WILL ATTEND.

Cocktail reception, Friday evening, February 9. Sessions, Saturday and Sun- day, February 10 and 11, 1979.

INDUSTRY LEADERS RECOGNIZE THE OPPORTUNITY NOW AVAILABLE TO DEFINE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RAP- IDLY GROWNG ASIAN /PACIFIC MARKET.

KUALA LUMPUR: A cosmopolitan, colorful city that embraces various cultures Malay, Chinese, Indian, Eurasian and European.

A rapidly expanding commercial district, Julan Imbi; the Regent Hotel stands at its junction.

Only a 30 minute drive from Su- bang International Airport to the elegant Regent Hotel.

RESERVE YOUR PLACE to insure your contribution to these vital sessions. Hear about the latest developments first hand. Regis- ter early for the Billboard sponsored conference, in the captivating setting of The Regent of Kuala Lumpur, February 9 -11, 1979.

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Print Music Struggles To Hold `Long' Songs' Price

NEW YORK- Length of a song and a new poster wrinkle. not neces-

sardy inflation, can dictate the price of sheet music.

Generally, music publishers are willing to maintain a 51.50 list price for print which does not exceed eight pages. But many of today's elon- gated rock songs require tight or more pages. At this point and up to about 12 pages, print lists at 51.75. Twelve pages and beyond. the price goes to 52.

Perhaps the longest current pop song in print is the Meat Loaf-recorded hit. "Paradise By The Dash- board Light" a Marks Music copyright handled in print form by Balwin- Mills. It runs 20 pages and lists at 52.

Marks is also the first publisher to ofTer a poster within the format of a

four -page release. Last year. the John Paul Young hit. "Love Is In The Air." featured a four -color poster fold -out as does a new print release on his current single. "Lost In Your Love." List price is $1.95.

According to Bernard Kalban, vice president of publications at Marks Music. producing the poster concept adds an additional 10 cents to production costs.

Kalban also points out in John Paul Young's case the poster idea makes particularly good sense. since it creates visual identity for an act who has not appeared yet in the U.S. The Scotti Brothers Records' act is.

Runaways In Film LOS ANGELES -A feature film

to star the femme rock group Run- aways will begin lensing here in February to be produced by Robert Zane and Colleen Meeker of Z Pro- ductions.

Group's latest LP is distributed worldwide by Phonogram. but has not found a label outlet in the U.S.

however- dus t. I .t lour here this

spring. He cites no jobber resistance la the

logic of lengthier print or novel use

such as the poster- He claims, in fact,

that he has received many inquiries front other publishers on the poster. and expects others to have their ver-

sions soon.

BOOK REVIEW

Great Photos Aid

'California Rock' "C'alifornia Rock, California

Sound," by Anthony Fawcett, Reed

Books, 160 page:, $9.95 paperback. Sinking photographs. scores of

them in full four -color process. by musician Henry Diltz are ingeni- ously combined with Fawcett's knowledgeable text to produce I979's first important music book. one which merits wide readership.

Wisely. the Fawcett -Diltz duo makes no attempt to embrace the entire rock field. They judiciously zero in on a small and select group of performers based in Southern Califor- nia for unusually attractive illustrated interview chapters. The one focusing on Linda Rohstadt is particularly readable.

Others who are spotted include the Byrds. Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne. Warren Zevon, J.D. Souther. Karla Bonof( America, the Eagles. Neil Young and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Marred by a dullish. unattractive front cover, "California Rock, Cali- fornia Sound" is better than its outside appearance. And with the rock phenomenon well into its third decade. the genre's bibliography contin- ua to swell. This contribution by Fawcett and Wiz is a worthy addition. DAVE DEXTER JR.

1978 OVERVIEW

F3ee Gees, Bush Lead Portugal Chart Survey

By FERNANDO TENENTE

LISBON -Big winners in a break- down of chart action in Portugal for 1978 were the Bee Gees and Kate Bush. according to an analysis and readership research from the music magazine Musica & Som.

"Saturday Night Fever" was the top selling album and the Bee Gees were named best group Kate Bush. unknown here at the start of the year, was nominated best female singer and her "V./inhering Heights" 45 was top -selling single Boney M was best -selling singles group.

Most promising female singer was local EMI artist Gabriela Schaaf. but no male artist or group was named in this section.

Top IO singles: I, " Wuthering Heights." Kate Bush (EMI); 2, "Riv- etsOf Babylon," Boney M (Palatal: 3. "Aba -Ni -Bas" IzharCohen (Poly - dor); 4. "Stayin Alive,' Bee Gees (RSO); 5. "Canino Proibida," Marco Paulo (EMI); 6. "Nuvcn Pas - sageira." Hermes Aquino. (Rossi): 7, One For You, One For Me." La Bionda (Philips); 8. "Cry To Mc. Sergio & Madi (Rossi!): 9. "Um Por- tugues.' Linda do Suza (Carteret, Ia, "We Are The Champions," Queen (EM1).

Top IO albums: I. "Saturday Night Fever," Bee Gees (RSO); 2.

"The Kick Inside," Kate Bush (EMI); 3, "O Casarao," Iv Sound-

track (RCA); 4. "News Of The World." Queen (EMI). 5, "Some Girls," Rolling Stones (Bolting Stones); 6. "And Then There Were

Three," Genesis (Charisma); 7, "30 Successes Explosivos." Various Artists ( Polystar): 8, "Deliverance;" Space (Vogue); 9, "Grease." Sound- track (RSO). 10. "Portfolio," Grace Jones (Island).

__. ,í1 MIXING SESSION -Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark and Chris Hillman listen to rough mixes of "McGuinn. Clark E Hill.

man" at the Brittarfia Studios, Los Angeles. Shown, left to right, are coproducer Howard Albert. McGuinn, Hillman and

Clark. Basic tracks were cut at Miami's Criteria along with other coproducer Ron Albert. The LP is due on Capitol.

ATV Suit Names Kester Marketing

LOS ANGELI ti ATV Records has filed suit in Superior Court here against Kester Marketing. Pano- rama City. Calif.. wholesaler specializing in schlock. seeking a judg- ment for 46,350.65.

According to the filing. Rester purchased approximately 5135.000 worth of merchandise which was billed out on six invoices March 31.

1977 by ATV of New York. Rester made payments, according to the statement at ATV through Oct 28. 1977, leaving a residue of $6,350.65 unpaid.

Gibbs Reign TEL AVIV -lt has hccn the year

of the Gibb family in the annual popularity poll organized by both Israel radio stations.

Listeners to Shidurei Israel (Na- tional Broadcasting Station) and Galci Zahal (Defence Forces Radio) named the Bee Gees (group of the year). and Andy Gibb was picked on both stations as top male singer of 1978. The Bee Geed "Stayin' Alive" was named best song of the year.

Top female singer was Donna Summer. and listeners of Gale' Za- hal named "Nice 'n Sleazy" by the Stranglers as worst song of the year. That station's producers picked Gerry Rafferty's "City To City" as

album of the year.

BRAZILIAN SOAP -Adolfo Pino, right, president of RCA Brazil and RCA Ar gentina, presents Sigla managing director, Joao Araujo, with a gold Nipper to mark more than I.2 million sales of "Dancin' Days." disk soundtrack to the highly popular Brazilian soap opera of the same name. The score Includes VII. tage People's "Macho Man" and Bonny M's "Rivers Of Babylon." Sigla is dis.

trawled by RCA.

Saiiitt Winner in Song Contest LOS ANGLLES- Norman Salta'

was named professional grand prize winner at the fifth annual American Song Festival awards ceremonies here Friday (12). Sallie. already signed by Portrait with Ted Glasser set to produce. was the professional Top 40 category winner with his song. "Magic In The Air."

Betsy Bogart and Gary Reed were the Grand Pnzc amateur winners. having already won in the amateur easy listening category with "lust A Kiss Away From Falling In Love."

Began is currently working with producer Joe Saraceno.

The grand prize winners were

awarded a total of more than 56.1100

after being selected from thousands of entries by a panel of judges con- sisting of producers, songwriters- la- bel and publishing executives and

artists. The festival will soon broaden the

competition and hold some of the category judging in various US. cities, according to Tad Danz, presi- dent_

LISTENERS SURVEY

r French State Radio Loses To Competition

By HENRY KAHN PARIS -Despite the considerable

injection of promotional and programming muscle, the official French radio network. France Inter. lags sadly behind the two peripheral stations, RTL (Radio Luxembourg) and Europe No. 1.

Latest figures, from the Advertis- ing Media Center. show that overall 241E of French listeners prefer RTL. followed by Europe No. 1 (23.14%) and then France Inter 06.8%

The French government has a financial interest in both penpheral stations, plus a certain amount of control. Transmitters for both are outside France, but the studios arc in Paris. Post Office cables are used to relay programs and the government has the right to refuse permission at ant tinte. and for a while this was

done when RTL started advertising wine.

But the statistics show just why the government here is opposed ro other "free" radio outfits which could take away even more listeners from the state network. Despite powerful transmitters, Radio France just cannot generate full public awareness.

A fourth station, Radio Monte Carlo. rs at the bottom of the popularity list. but this is confined just to the Southeast regions. whereas Ra- dio Andorra covers only the South- west.

The real struggle for power is between Luxembourg, Europe No. I

and France Inter. all vital promo- lion,it aids for the record mmrantes.

TK SETS LONDON UNIT LONDON I f. Records Is selling up its y,tr.ttt.,n in 1 ondon The

,onipuny rel.:uus licensed to CBS U.K. as pail of worldwide distribution by CBS Records International, excluding the U.S.

Phil Holmes who has handled TK's activities within CBS here, is named European director.

"We're looking to expand sales in Europe, where it's clear that disco product is grabbing an Increasing share of the market." he says. "My first push will be ,u MIDEM, where I shall be linking with various European CRI representa- tivrs."

Holmes has handled CBS custom labels for 18 months, based at the corn pans 's West End headquarters. and previously was responsible for television prim ikon at EMI's Licensed Repertoire Division.

TK artist roster includes K (' and the Sunshine Band, Peter Brown, Foxy, Relief Wright and Tt rai se.liait

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Polish Agency

Celebrates 60th

With Concerts By R/). \1AN WAtil IIK4)

\v. RSAW - Polish songccrrten' agener, ZAIKS. is :debriefing its 601h inon ends c sa a series of concerts eporli hung the panoramic artistic achtes anents of the aswciation since 1918.

A gala concert at the High School of Musts here natured such outstanding artists as Anna Malcwicz- Made, and Dariusz Niemirowicz, performing the music of Tadeusz Baird, Romuald Twardowski. WI. told Rudzinski and Wawrzs nice Zu- lawskr, whose "Spanish Sink." was premiered. Zulawski was president of the agency 1956.57.

The associatcon was founded spc- eiticall, to protect rights of compos. ers, h noun and playwrights. Later it wt. on protection of artists involved

r in % anon, areas of the entertainment world. It is now the most representative hods of Polish cultural societies and life-

It is also one of the oldest, .a

founder member or the worldwide Confederation Internationale des Societes d'Autcun and Composi- leurs. CISAC, with Lin BeIssnski a

member of that body's Icgislati,c committee.

Other Polish executives have served on the executive committees of CISAC and BIEM.

International Branduardi British Boost By Ariola

LONDON An .cr ,ut chicc t establish Italian singercontposcr Angelo Brandu.oda in the l' K. ntar- kciplacc. follow rug. ht, run of hiss through rue t c, cutineni.tl I mccpc:rn territories, i, Iseine I.uiii ici bric he

Ai Iola. Linked whit his lint I K .ilhon,

"Highdowit l ait ,ait I nglish latte ccrsion cor "Alta I tent I kill st," his

Mutt Italian I l' call he rccmcrls at

the Venue 1I ch ' -TI .and mulli- media promotional pushes

I lie Bohan cerooat of tla,

was lira out in 107b, hec.im., top -selling Italian album or

and c,ouett Br.mdn.ncli the haliiir i.tpucalcnt of a i I sic me teeitel li has ,,,,aed in \V,.,1 cre, mans

r,mce. \..i n.linati.i. 11, I,inm .iii.) Snit/cll./nil I it I,.h feie Sinlicld.

After London, Ilr..., Nisi r,f

Munich. Frankfurt. Il ahn. Il.ui, burg, Dusseldorf. kit hi idle, Mann heiitt, Stuttg:ul. Leitich dad Paris.

GOLDEN ASSOCIATION -Village People collect gold awards from West Ger-

many's Metronome Musik tor 500,000 plus sales of the group's chart -top-

ping "YMCA." Sharing in the celebrations with the People are Metronome's managing director Rudolf Gassner, international promotion staffer Manfred

Wodara and international product manager Detlev Kroemker.

LFrom The Music Capitals Of The World LONDON

John Mayall.,:gran U K. blueaman vino hair

included such names as Peter Green, Efic Clap-

` tea, Jack Bruce and Mick Taylor m his lineups.

signed eeclusvely to DIM Records here. with Si

multasenus release of firs first album planned

for the U S and U K. a US tour to follow

Onetime group drummer Laurie lay now

heading management company Mutter. re

s(wnsible lot the handling of Catherine Howe,

Pder Sainted! and Niel Martinez. plus but

Year's Mass World Mary Stavin Bndghouse

Records. set up by a noted pub rock venue in

London. haca single' Sticky lack' by Warm lets

as its first product. the group including hwo

former members of Cockney Rebel

Big radio promotion for the new Judy Gibb

single "Don't Therm It All Away'. (RS0). the first

25.000 copes coming in 12inch blue vinyl

With the chart success of Daly Oldfield's single

"Minas, the tack is to be added to her debut

Bronze LP Water Bearer original copies being

withdrawn and new copies going out to dealers

She i's the sitter al Mike OMfield.

Reg Mclean, former head of Safari Records

until he qua the music business a year ago re

turns with a new label. Voyage International.

....first release coming from Australian Peter

Combe, now presenting BBC TV's `Muse Time"

cAddren s series RSO here signed worldwide

deal with Edinburgh-based Head Bays. a debut

album to be produced by Motors'producer Pete

Kee. Group as RSO's first world U K signing in

Sur years PETER JONES

HAMBURG After the presentation of a gold disk to Su.

Penner here, WEA Records pressed up 100.000

MCA Goes Indie Continued from page 87

ices are being sought to cope with the personnel increases.

Featherstone says: "It's been a

successful and friendly relationship with EMI. but we have to think about expansion. Our expansion fits

r in with CBS's own buildup of factory ]acetifies."

EMI says MCA sought a sales. pressing and distribution deal with the company but the former apparently fell this would be against current policy.

blue vinyl albums. with gold labels. to underline

for dealers the success of the band via the LP

the World OI Today ° Singer actor Rainer

Schoene signed a deal with Francis Day and

Hunter -s Emily label. distributed by EMI Elec

Data

Elbe Best Produced a new single. "Dubist Der

Groessle Gauner " ta WEA in London luer-

gen Tbuernau launching a big radiorpress cam

(sign for gill singer Olivia Molina and her new

album "Flutist Spired" Wolfgang

Krettschntar, director of Intersong in Hamburg

retired tollowmg a long illness

Phonogram artist Elton John starts his Ger

man tour Feb 10 in Hamburg Most popular

artists here according to Musikmarkt poll are

Urfa Juergen., Amanda Lear and Bony M.... CBS staling marketing erpenments with maxi

singles from Cherry Laine, Atlantic Starr and the

Brothers Johnson. ... Su Kramer (Teldec) has

the German version of "Nights In Manhattan'

from "Grease" The German version of 'YMCA,' which sold

500 000 units here sia the Village People single.

comes Irons the group Sunday.... Chilean band

Super out on the RCA label in Germany with the

Roil Soja title' Gigolo ..

The German industry

released 158 singles and 731 albums in Inno

any WOLFGANGSPAHR

SYDNEY Trafalgar Studio producer. Peter Walker,

helped Elvis Costello put down a track entitled

Crawling To The U SA " in a sir hour recording

session. hastily arranged between the Brit

isher's Sydney concert commitments It will be

featured in a new US movie to be called "Amer

icathon:' In which Costello will also appeal

The Kevin Ranch Express have been picked up

by Karma Records in West Germany The group's

American recorded third album. The lonely

One." will be released by Harma in March

lop Sydney rock station 25M took no

chances when rl added Plastic Bertrand's "Ca

Plane Pour Moi" to its playful RCA had to sup

ply a complete English translation of the lyric;

before the disk was heard over the air

Al presstame, police had not apprehended

the confidence trickster who posed as US

recording artist, Michael Nesmith, in Melbourne

recently The imposter ran up hefty bills in Nes

math's name. and even appeared on a telethon

He then claimed that his daughter had been

lulled in an auto accident and that he was rush

rag back to America. In turn, the real Nesmith

was Bonded with cards and calk expressing

sympathy. and it was through ha subsequent

denials that the hoar was distoiereU Although

West Melbourne police say that the hoaxer bore

only a slight resemblance to Nesmith, many

other artists on the telethon -including some

who had met the star on a previous visit -were

apparently taken in by the fraud GLENN BAKER

PARIS New label set up here is Disques 1MS. spe

eralnmg in French songs Mama Bea Te-

Idebki awarded the Vanely Grand Pm here by

French record retailers Phonogram signed

up two top French pop groups. Dogs and Go-Go

Piggies Barclay has put out a "Jan Lover:'

series from the MCA tau Heritage archives, in

eluding Mahalia Jackson's The Gospel Bool'

and a reedit,en of work from George Russel's

chestra

Daly Parton card al a press conference here

That she can sing Pop and rock as well as coup

try and tries not to imitate anyone. specially

Mae West or Marilyn Monroe with whom she has

been compared Natacha Smokanov, aged

73, has started a David Bowie Ian club in Pans

Industrial action sassed the cancellation of

Paris Opera's program, including "Swan Lake

with Rudolf Burgett Vogue here non di.

tnbuting the Hi, Canada and Cream calais; HENRY KAHN

ZURICH New musical sounds on the government con

trolled radio network here since the reorgan

nation, and responsible tux more international

airspace is Billy Bischof, leader of Ian group

Tetragon.... Promotion man Teddy Meier back

with EMI Swdzertand alter working with Chipa

lis throughout Europe Suzanne Klee opens

the year with a U.S produced country album

'Sawn' love You" (EMI)

leading rack singer Polo Hofer, formerly wilt Rumpetstitz, now has his own band Schmetter-

ding and a new album coming Dom Phonogram

Gold Records' contribution towards the hear

01 The Child is the album "Bealoenllo" (ram °,

median Beat Richner.... Concert agency Good

News announces February March visits by

Queen, Unah Weep, Nazareth, Whitesnake, loan

Armatradmg, George Duke. Elton lohn. Rory

Music, leanLuc Polity. Journey, Pal Travers and

Udo Lindenberg.

Auada Swnzeland paying special attention to

its Island, Virgin and Front Line reggae catalogs.

including product from such artists as Jimmy

Cliff, Burning Spear, Bob Marley and the

Wailers. Third World, the Diamonds, Tapper

Lubie PIERRE HAESLER

General News

PETZE'S TIE -Don Dempsey. senior vice president and general manager, Epic, Portrait & Associated Labels, meets with Lennie Petze, vice president a &r, Epic Records, and Engelbert Humperdinck backstage at the MGM Grand

in Las Vegas. Humperdinck played two weeks at the Grand.

INDIVIDUAL STORE BUYING

Peaches Promoting Area Autonomy LOS 'i \irk I I Or Y, a tilt she

Peach, iirc, shifting tu indi' vidu.tl ,tore hnorne at the local lis el (Billboard Nia 18. 19781 chain fuunderipre,ident Tom Neiman is placing greater auton- om) in regions in which the 37 MOMS ate located aero the U.S.

Instead ut holding national meetings as before. Heiman says

stores' personnel now will meet in area eimtcrcncrs as an Illus- tration of the neo management concept Peaches is dividing the stores into four regions.

Bob Sturges, heads the West- ern region. which embraces Col- orado. Texas. Washington. Kan- sas. Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Directing Southeast ado uy. ti,i -

cring Florida. Georgia. Missouri, Tennessee and North Carolina is

Mary Seagraves. The Northeasi. Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Con - Hectrcul and the District of Co- lumbia. will be supervised by

Doug Sou Meow Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio

and Indiana, the Northcentral block, will be overseen by John London. All regional directors are former slurs directors.

Heiman also Itas appointed Lyle Minnick to nationally direct purchasing procedures. Heiman stales that two more Peaches stores will open before April, but would not disclose locations.

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Distribs Are At Crossroads Continued]runr page 3

There is an old industry saw that stales that successful labels get more attention from independent distributors as the latter's lines diminish.

This is challenged by some industry observers who contend that the more sales volume thai is lost by independent distributors. the more serious their chances for suicislil "Not dealing in greater volume results in severe economic pressures. meaning you end up last to be paid and you can't hire the best people,' says one mdustrylc close to the distribution scene.

He further sees the eventual independent distributor pie lure as tine of ,even or eight "super Indies" covering a wide market within theirgeo- gmphic base.

As for distributors who will lose the A &M line effective Feb. 15. those contacted portray themselves asa hardy lot who.despite the loss of a major line. will weather thestorm.

Tl arc also display a lack of bitter- er l.n label that many have handled tar the entire 16 yearsofA &M's role in the Indust, s

(sac Silverman, president of Mu- ,.

1 rend in Detroit. A &M's sole , ita eel in the area since its origins. ex- presses optimism, looking forward mother labels to fill the A &M void.

"There'll be other Jerry Mosses and Neil Bogarts who will emerge and declare that independent distributors are worth the risk. Both A &M and Casablanca were small when they started, and we helped them grow.

"A lot of people have tried branch distribution and discovered that it didn't work for them. They missed

the one- urt-une relationship that we

provide." Silverman sass he's "grateful" for

his relationship with A &M. "They don't owe me a thing and I assume they'll be leaving like gentlemen."

"it's like a death in the family." comments Joe Simone of Progress Distributing, based in Cleveland. "We've had seven great years with A &M and I have no regrets. Finan- cially, we're in a strong position, and we'll be looking for new opportunities to broaden our geography."

Simone says he's restructuring his

company to basically allow him more time to pursue other areas for Progress. In this regard. he's named Brent Marco, formerly vice president of Western sales, to vice president and general manager of the

Cleveland home office. and Harvey Arnold has been promoted to vice pre,ideut of sales.

"I literally grew up with A &M:' says Warren Hildebrand, who took over all South in New Orleans after the death of his father. Henry Hilde- brand. "My dad would come home and often tell be about the great guys at A &M,"

All South has also handled A &M for the past 16 years. and. adds Hil- debrand. "I would have to have a se-

vere case of sour grapes to knock their decision. This will certainly hurt, but we'll weather it and re-

double our efforts with our remaining lines."

Another distributor who has had the A &M line throughout its history is Universal in Philadelphia. Owner Harold Lipsius is bullish about independent distribution's survival,

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Intersong-U.S.A. Into More Latin Publishing

By IRV LICHTAI t

\1 It 1r1RK lntersong-U.S.A. plans greater srrn.cntration m Latin A.111.1 all publishing activities.

()hlcciiscsin this area weresched- uleJ Iu be brought up at Intcrsong- U S.A.'s second annual Latin Amer - lsan Publishers meeting en Madrid. \hmJav and Tuesday 115, 16) and d MIDEM.

Meanwhile, under Cristina Vila. newly named coordinator of Latin Music-U.S,A . the company ¡s map- ping several Latin developments, including the creation of an LP show- casing copyrights for the Latin market. Vila and Enrique Chia will produce the master. working closely with arrangers Juanito Marques and Tidy Ramirez.

The company is also doing more Spanish lv n. versions of its suc-

cesses. inkluding "You're My World" and ':Songbird." lniersong- U.S.A. has obtained performances of its .%psrighLs on LPs by such major Latin arI1,L al Gat° Barbier. Julio Iglesias. Yofandiia Monge. Roberto Carlu,. Lissenc. l:i R. and Roue Durcal.

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On.), r,« (>rc.rtlrrt afld Cneral manager. reveals the exclusive rep. resentation in the U.S. and Canada ed Infinity recording artist Robert Johnson's material. His first album, "Close Personal Friend." is

presently on the Billboard's Top LPs

& Tape chart. A single from the LP. "I'll Be Waiting -" is also on release:

Oriolo aloe reports a change in

name for (ntersong -U.S.A 's BMl af- filiarc. Belinda Music. to Rightsong Music. Lauer writing stable consuls of William Bell. Bohannon. Allan Clark. Sob Duncan. the Hones, among others.

(ntersong -US.A, is a Polygram pobttshing company administered in the U.S. by Chappell Music.

Parsons Revisited LUS ANGELES -1hc dawning

of the late Gram Parsons' recording career is being explored by Sierra/ Briar Records "Gram Parsons -the Early Years. Vol 1." recordings from 1963.1965. will be issued in Februars

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Tope /Audio /Video New Technology For Disco & Highway Hi Fi

Balboa,' photos by Stephen Trannian 1 RANK AudioVisual's Brian Martin and Peter Ross, with Leak /Wharfe- s Dale's Malcolm Holt and Rank's Gerry Dingley, get an eyeful of the firm's projector visual effects from the U.K. DISCO mixers at CES are previewed, above from left, for Boyd Bat

lard and Curt Spain of Dallas based World Wide Stereo by Rotel's Mel

Kaplan. with Nick Saffos at the controls. Below from left, Uni- Sync's Larry Jaffe and Deborah Farr demo the new Discorama for F. Ito and

Kevin Dauphinee of Sansui.

C SOUND Promotions' Dean Atkinson, above left, shows off the company's mobile disco console to Litelab's

Peter Zopp.

A/V RETAILERS TOLD

HIGHWAY HI FI: Car -Fi chief Andy Becht, above right, and Mike England flank Morne Abramson of Houston's Kent Electronics for demo of high power amp. equalizer system. At right. Jim Fosgate and Wes Ruggles show off Fosgate's Tetra 14- channel stereo enhancement system for car, home and pro applications. Unit incorporales Ruggles' Tate Audio

SQ Direct Enhancement System.

Sharp Image, Honed Price Fight Cutthroat Discounts LAS VEGAS -A retailer who has

to combat cutthroat competition in his market needs to apply sound business practices, create a well defined image for this store and in some instances fight price with price. a Winter CES workshop on retail management was told.

Cosponsored by the National Assn. of Retail Dealers of America, the workshop zeroed in on some basic points involving buying and

r< inventory control. financial systems and how to stay alive against wild and crazy discounters.

Chairman Jules Steinberg's co- horts were all NARDA members. in eluding Zeke Landres. NARDA,. Eastern regional manager and Len Geiser. the association's retad management consultant -

Steinberg, also executive vice president of the trade group. noted that "the ability to provide management guidance hasn't kept pace with today's technology."

Landres offered the well attended afternoon workshop some guidelines for developing merchandising plans- notably: determine the kind and scope of merchandise to be put on the floor. "The cost of buying the goods is not as important as the cost you sell it to the customer," he said.

Landres said to shop around for the best gross margin percentage deal. The dealer has to know how much money was math last year in each product category before buying sew merchandise. Inventories should be in the same areas in which products sold best.

"Try to turn inventory at cost four times a vcar in each product category" Landres stressed that disci.

phne was needed so as not to vocr- buv.

Geiser emphasized the need for financial planning. "Dealers fail because of inadequate records, lack of inventory control, failure to budget, poor internal controls and inadequate cost information," he said.

He told dealers to establish profit goals. determine sales levels. establish expenses. determine pricing pol-

ides, develop monthly profit and lose statements and study trends in sales the company is taking.

Jules Kretzer, owner of Kretzer's in Mobile, Ala., and a veteran NARDA member. noted he's been up against cutthroaters for the 23 years he's been in business.

His plan for survival includes creating an image for his company, using good accounting procedures.

SO SAYS REP JACK BERMAN

Salesperson Quality Rising By HANFORD SEAR I.

LAS VEGAS -Hi ft store sales-

men quality and training are at a

new professional level of responsibility. impact and reality. reported electronics rep Jack Berman at a

Winter CES seminar. "More than ever. both the retailer

and manufacturer are beginning to

realize the important need for trained salespeople throughout the

music world process." said Berman, known as "Mr. Agreeable Sales-

man" by his peers. Interacting with business associ-

ate and friend Sam Thompson. Ber-

man outlined seven steps to doubling store sales and executed a mock -up

interview with Thompson. According to Berman. president

of his own firm in Inglewood, Calif.. those essential economic steps in-

clude salespeople selection. product training. sales training, leadership. motivation, environment and bum - out

Berman stressed the importance of positive reinforcement, honesty

and the human element of sales as opposed to the lifeless, sterile char- acteristics of technology.

Thompson, identified with his success representing the State Dept. in Africa and with Pacific Stereo, said job training only was wasted on 40% and that it was a store manager's job to set the example for a

positive frame of mind. "The manager should be on the

floor as much as possible working with his people, not just on weekly reports." Thompson urged. "Sales practice sessions play a major role"

The seminar. an encore presentation from Chicago's June CES. drew enthusiastic response when Berman pointed out weak, self- defeating sales practices and the overuse of the phrase "Can I help you ?"

Talking down to a customer and the lack of product knowledge, a

two -edged sword, has proven to be a

major obstacle, Thompson reported after working with 1,052 salespeople in 1978.

inventorying stock twice a year. hiring good employes. developing game plans and leadership to make them work, buying from suppliers whose quality merchandise is sup - poned by programs, having a service department. having an attractive store and involving himself in community affairs.

Bill Fisher, owner of Fisher's. a

chain headquartered in Rockford. Ill., trains his sales staff to believe the customer is only shopping his store. A followup call within 24 hours to persons claiming they aren't sure about a purchase generally lands the sale. Two persons in the store always talk to a customer.

Fisher says he's selective in picking merchandise. "Shoot for the best selection, best delivery. service, value and guarantee the pnce." If someone sells the same item for less

than what the customer bought it for in a Fisher's store, Fisher himself wntes the person a check for the difference.

Mike Jaret. owner of the Ap- pletree Stereo chain out of DeKalb. Ill.. also a NARDA member, also

guarantees price with a similar dif- ferential ofienng.

His competitive plan also includes: set up guidelines against cut - throaters, treat customers so they want to come back. develop good sales training programs. follow through on a sale with call and a letter, track the competition through media ads, review the manufacturers he's handling, plan attractive

CREDIT CARD FOR U.K. HI Fl LONDON -A credit card plan

launched here by Laskys. of the Au- diotronic Group. is claimed to be the first ever introduced by a major Brit- ish retail network specializing in hi fi and home entertainment.

Laskys currently has a national network in excess of 35 branches and is rated the biggest U.K. hi fi specialist organization.

Geoffrey Rose, chairman. says: "A good hi fi system is now the norm in home environments. as desirable as television or any other form of home entertainment. The credit card system is designed to encourage the lay customer. who tends to be wary of high -cost new technology typi- fying many modern hr fi products. to invest in good quality audio equipment"

The card entitles the holder to automatic membership of the comple- mentary Laskys Stereoclub, can be used at any branch, and allows customers to order by telephone and direct mail.

store layouts, maintain monthly reports on inventory, gross margins, return on investment develop "ex- tras" like extended service contracts, speaker exchange programs. "strive to be new and different." Jaret emphasized.

Asked whether Jaret and Fisher will match a lower price elsewhere, both retailers said they would in order to keep a customer. Asked what a small dealer can do when a manufacturer is offering a mass merchant in his town a better puce, Landres answered cogently: "Sell someone else's merchandise."

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smooth Yowls offsets the gravelly rawness of Krnloflerson's vocals to pleasing effect the instrumental backdrops are

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Dealers Pau got recent tv erp0surr 0n the UNICEF show

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loue to love 'lights Out Too Hot To Handle

Dealers UFO picks up momentum each time Out

FAWNER BROTHERS -Open Your Eyes, Polydur P916167 Produced by Amy Poncu. Apparently a new pro

dicer ant a new label have given this while eyed soul group a

new lease Ponca o praductron has given the Faraghers the

commerOal edged lacked during its ABC albums the smooth

vocals come acwss euctptsonally well and the harmonies equally eAectrve The Faraghers sound n close m lecture to

áPlayer but with enough distinctive rifts and purpose to avoid

erg comparison And the engaging melodies have also shown just

O how improved the Faroghers have gotten The brothers total m sir handling all vocals and instruments .I Best cuts: 'Stay The Night " Nothing To lose, "Doesn't

m It Make You Mad'. Find A Lone Of My Own

Dealers Play inetore

dry

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- t Soul RUNS -Numbers, ABC *A1098. Produced by Rufus, Roy

Hake. Rufus comes out strong m his hast LP without Chata Khan Propelled by an extremely light rhythm section as ev,

dented on the catchy "Panty Mood :' the band grooves through 10 selections ranging (rom hoot oriented songs like Any Nobody Like You:' 'Dont St Alone' and ils current

single Keep II Together - to more razz oriented cuts Ide the Instrumental Red Hot Poker" Tony Maiden and David 'Hawk" Wohnsbi share most of the writing and singing chores

creating a comfortable variety 01 textures Outstanding pro

ductwn by Rufus and Roy Hafee make Ihn one of as best

efforts Iodate

Bat cob: 'Ainl Nobody Like You. "Keep It Together' "Dont Sit Alone'

Dan In store play will generate sales

pri Country ,-

LORETTA LYNN -We've Come A Long Way, Baby, MCA MCA

3073. Produced by Owen Bradley. ',porting attrae Iwe I P phi h 0uphy I on . u urn rnI par,ngr 01e13 a balanced selectan s1 mdlempo and ballad country matelot Women In hey

distinctive style of delivery as steel and harmonica accen

tuate produclon A hrghlrghl of the LP. however. n 'I Can't Feel You Anymore.' a contemporary country ballad that

blends a softer deanery with strings, gutars, eleolru piano and bass

Bat cob: I Cant Feel You Anymore.- "Wive Cane A

Long Way, Baby." 'Easy Sheet'. "No Love tell (nude Of

Me' Dealers: A strong bath word coupled with appealing

pacbagm,: will prove by ;hone, '.star

JOHN DENVER -RCA AQU3015. Produced by Mellon Ohun

Denver is erpioring some new musical directions these day's.

with most enjoyably results this blest outing, which otters a

group of outseandmg musicians behold Denver, funds the singer confidently dripping Into a wide variety of material fhe overall mad is Ion, stronger and a nelciune change 01 pace

Best cab: ..Dnwnh,h Slutl" 'Berkeley Woman" "You're

So Beaulaul Dealers: ito tienrr, n i ell, 1 wily r Ili .l role

selection a ,Oor... '

First Time Around TRILLION, Epic 1E35460 (CBS), Produced by Gary Lyons.

trillion is a free man band Item Chicago with the sounds

skulls and potential to be able to rival Boston or Iorelgner m

superstar debuts the band plays progrruwe rah with

strong melodo hooks and pleasant vocal harmonies The

playing o light and sold throughout. with producer Gary

Lyons keeping trillion's Queen and Yes like art rock Mob' Ions Inmly rooted to a slid rock beat The level of perform

ante throughout makes II hard to believe that this Is a debut by an unknown group

Best cab: Never Had R So Good." 'Hold Out third Upon the Earth

Dealers: Band reportedly also has a strong and proles

sional stage show

MLLY BURNETTE, Potydor roister. Produced by Chps Mohan. [(Lunette is the son of Dorsey Aurnette and the

nephew of Johnny Brunelle, whose debut album re authentic rockn'roll ala late tOs early 60s style While Bunsen's brand

of rocking n tut of country rats it maintains its distinct rah rooted edge H. vocals have both a hard and soft lone quality

and he's able to handle the overly countrified lunes with the

same kind of finess as the rak'nmll Veteran producer Chips

Moman does a line lob n guiding this debut effort All but

one cut is self penned

Best cuts: 'Shoo Be Dot, " Believe What You Sae Niai

Holey' I bunt No Spaceman Dealers Pdrh rock and country

MARK TANNER BAND -No Escape, Elebtra /Asylum 6E168. Produced by Nat Jeffrey, Glen Spieen. Debut record by this

LA based band blends as gutsy energy with a smooth

slickness whit h indicates all the time d has taken to prepare

Its entry into pop oo H. Tanner as the lead vice has a Awn( vocal range and a warm. appealing style which Is perfectly in

place with the pungent guitar hots and gossamer under coaling of slings which add a welcome dimension to the mu

sic Backup vocals work well ,n concert with fanners robust

energy and polished voice tanner wrote the 10 tunes with assistance in Iwo Instances by Nat Jeffrey and Sal Marque; Bryan Savage's saxophone adds a sensuous element to

"Elena.' the lop cut in the LP Package is a well trolled stu

d o Oat. contemporary in lone all the way through Best cuts: 'Elena: She's So Spotlight'

"Edge Ot tore Beaten: Strong lead vocals. high energy rhythm and lush

strings all blend pedeclly in this LP which can prove a good

m store demo dish

Billboard's Recommended LP s

pop HUD EAST -Head East Lire, IMM SP6007. Produced by hl- Iren Leser. Materiat (nom lour Previous albums make up the

cuts here on thus two pocket live package It's a solid cross

section d Ihrs Midwestern rock band's work ranging from out

and out melodic rock'nroll to more textured and softer taut tinged offerings The hvesome gel maximum mileage out of

guitars and drums with vocals outstanding Best cuts: "Take A Hand."

..Celle Lanky,' 'Monkey Shine; "Every Little But

01 My Head." "Since You Been Gone." "Love Me 'tonight "

NAZARETH -No Mean City, NAM SPA7d1. Produced by Manny

Glutton. Nazareth has never been known Loa its soft ap

pwach and its latest Oat is no exception With the addrlan of guitarist /al Clemmsiin,'omerly of the sensational Alex

Haney band, the group lochs through eight frenzied unin

spired culs Fortunately. the guitar wort. r, outstanding Vo

catnl Dan McCayerty's raspy voice lends to gel tiresome at

let the hest few culs and gels even worse when harmonies are

experimented with as in 'May the Sunshine' and 'Whatever You Want " Best cub: lust In Gel Into Into It " What Ever You Want What s In II Inv Me

ORI61NAt MOTION PtCIURF SOUNOtRACA- Moment by Mo ment, RSO RSS3040. Varans producers. M.,An torn tint i

tunes such as' Sometimes When We I iorh Ibis lPrenlaur, a pleasant mix ol muse Thal dorm" depend on a knowhdye of the movie the ,nstrumenlals are partwularly ettedtve throughout and the title theme is catchy ennueh. As sung by Yvonne Elliman Best cuts: 'Hollywood Boulevard Miment By Moment Vo,' Rouet Never Lies

GOOD RATS -Both Comes fo Us MI, Passport PB9830

IArnta) Produced by Stephan Gallas, John Jansen. It's unto, lunate Ihal this superb band has (Arisen Ihr roomier d did since that conceivably could ter r tuinnll 'yet tl,e sn,iyo heft are 'AMP of the bed rock tunes of the day filled with plenty of musical muscly, /inky vocals and superior lyrical rmlenl Ile live man hand r. paced by lead went Peppy Kitchell. who also is the wider Marctueltò s Lyrics perhaps trying Inn hard in dove home a point, slat nonetheless out teed mare

than They lad Bat cub: City t Inns' 'Ordinary Man,' ' ;i hl.ul tier,'. 1, rende Song: Ynuir Sidi Duldg II

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ioE JAM -A8 Mod Cons, Polydor 9016198. Produced by the

Coppersmith. Oh,s threesome can be characterized is new

wave with flair Ihr rock, produced Iron two guitars and

drums. n melodic and highly energetic. moving al times in

machine gun lashon The band slows down it limes. how

ever, for ballad the material demonstrating a bole style

Nest cats: to Be Someone (Dian t We Have A Nice timet

English Rae "Down In the Tube Station AI Midnight' It's lot Bel

CAMEL -Breathless, Arab AB4206 Produced by Camel,

MO Glossop. feu the progress, minded this new nne by

the live man English 'nob band n a tasty excursion into me

Iodic synthesized rock. sweetened by Mel Colhns' marvelous

sax and Kole teak the Lengthy instrumental parts are catchy

fills with a Ilan of eommercal accessibility Andrew Latimer's

lead vocals are rattier light and arty. fusing well with Came o

mellow approach teat cub: Breathless. 'Wing and a

Prayer. Summer lightning. Echoes. Rainbow s End

BROPNISMILLE -Aú SpeuaC Epic JE35606. Produced by Torn

Merman. The group that hit the top three with the Smohin

In fhe Our Room' single (billed then as Brownsville Station'

makes its Epot debut with a set of raucous rack'nroll Most ul

the songs are argmats though covers of hits by Bo Diddley

and Chutk Berry are atio included The instrumental bath

drops are dominated by powerful lead guitar work Best cuts:

'Weekend,' lore Stealers.' Who Do You Love.` 'Open the Road Apiece- 'Taste o' Your love

BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST III, Polvda P016173. Predaced

by Barclay lames Harvest, Madill Lawrence. Th. English

Ovanei ma,nla. 'Cless,.,e tusk eta":,cal rack :cants at times remrm:_<: ; ,r the Moody Blues Toe goad uses

cornucopia of instruments, particularly guitars and hey

boards. to weave intricate melodies and moods supported by

intelligent lyrics Members also alternate on lead vocals Best

cuts: fantasy Loring Is Easy," °Classics A Tale 01 Two Lo

he: ." 'In Search On England Sip 01 Wine'- Harbour ..

DUSTY SPRINGE1El0 -Loing Without Your Lore, United Art

at . UAIA936H. Produced by David Wolfer. Doe of the most

dnlmctra temale stylists of the 1960s returns here with her

soultut sultry vocals intact Included are songs by such hit

DOD suaces as Barry Glbb Carole Sager and Melissa Man

Chester as well as Smoky Robinson's classic You've Really

Gol A Hold On Me The disk a Springfield's last fa the En

trainmen! Company. which has rescued several other acts tlom the MOR graveland over the past ten, years Bat cots:

rnu Can Do 11 " "Be Somebody," "Save Me, Save Me

SHIRLEY BASSEY -The Magic Is You, United Artists UALA926H Produced by Nick De art. era 01 female

singers nith whispery little gin voices. 11 á a treat t0 hear o

tads who can bell out a We with conricfan and dynamics The songs hete allow her to use this pourer They range from

Bacharach s classic ballad 'Anyone Who Had A Head' and Welsher I Riré s pamtive Pont Cry Fa Me Argentina' horn

Evita' to Sedaka s bawdy 'You Never Done It like that' Excellent brassy orchestral backdrops Best cots: those cited and' How Insensitive." This Is My life." 'the Greatest love Or All

ANTHONY PHILLIPS- Piwate Pads L Pieces, PVC 7905 (leml Produced by Anthony Phillips this is a collection of odd guitar and Piano solos duets and ensembles composed and played mostly by Phdfips, a loundrog member of Genesis,

and d has its charms, atin to the work of IoM (ahoy Should appeal to Genesis followers Bet tuts: "Autumnal "F veld 0t Eternity

ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRICA -The Magic 01 Lassie, Peter Pan 155. Produced by Irwin Costal. Debby Boone, Pat Boone, the Mike Curb Congregation Jimmy Stew art and Mickey Rooney are the featured artists on this some. which n in the preliminaries ton music branch Oscars the songs were written by Roben M Sherman and Richard R

Sherman, best known for 'Mary Poppies The lamay au

dome this movie is sure to attract will enjoy this simple, homespun entertainment Best cols: 'When You're Loved." "there it Be Other Friday Nights the Debby Boone tracks)

UBERACE -the Best 01 The Classics, AVI RIM. Ptodaceo au. toted. We no Horowdu but they he has never claimed to be

bberace's newest tP rs comprised ol classic Themes prevl ously issued in other altmmsand for his lops It rings the bell Nice, simple, solo piano throughout 10 lochs Bat cuts: Cho pin's "Nocturne In t Flat "I Sharp Maim Nocturne'

soul CHUCK BROWN I THE SOU1 SEARCHERS -Bustin loose, Source SOR3076 (MCA). Produced by lames Pork. the title rut ellnw, the yyoup In display its ue'atddy it comes out lamming, his pupal rs enrrgelot and sprinted Brown, who is

a en it stylist, truth like terry Butler offers some interesting phr.n1ng Instrumentation by thou silt contained. eight man ensemble I: Paige and usually heavy Best cuts: "Bustin' raise.' Nevi.' Gana Cove You Up" "Could It Be Inon'

Cattle Seven

VALENTINE BROTHERS -Source SOR3070 (MCA). Produced by Richard Evans. Ils duu dishes up some quality vocals Or

pole War interest is ils reworking of Sound 01 Music dix n

style while sumehuer maintaining the smoothness of the lune the brothers tend to lean lowed the more romantic

mellow tunes, however. they are not adverse to tackling funky numbers Strings are used In abundance and horns atoo are

effective Instrumentation rs simply structured Beal cu!s 'Sand 01 Music." Let Me Be The One,° "We Being To

gbh,' Feelings Inside

BILL ANDERSON -Ladies Chace, MCA MCA375. Prodb,,, by Biddy teas They don t call him' Whispering tha tomcat mg, in lace, Anderson has stylized the art ol 'annoy rata, than singing his lyrics the,, latest album is no except., as

he breathity intones nearly every song contained in tot pad. age including two loonier top 40 hits which reran a pate different treatment bete Best cuts: 'Stay WO Me," "Three limes A lady," Kris You All Over

disco LONNIE SMITH -Colette, LAC 9323 (IX). Produced by Lame Qoon. Smith u at ease playing heated pans gag synlbb suer and organ on the sir cuts offered here and he o as corded solid support in a Ihumpmt heavy discs groove, from a group which contributes say solo's by (Adie Daniels, Wok ylyth and loseph Nemey And there are hectic backup beat by a male trio Best artt 'I Need TOW Loa.' "be It

jazz LONNIE LISTON SMITH- Exotic Meltedes. C4,1, 1135651, Produced by Lonnie laiton Smith, Bert deColam. Smith moves farther and farther from Wzt mtt re world N

disco and his muse becomes more predictable sill, cab re

tease Eight tunes comprise Ihm LP and all recerye pee

demos. averarranged accompaniment Connie can -and bas

done -better Best arts: Quiet Moments relight'

MARY LOU WILLIAMS-My Mama Pined A Rau On Mt Pablo 2310819. Produced by Mary Lau Wdlums P.'.' t

O'Brien, SJ. This is precisely the type of LP W

needed, 16 tracks 01 caned pianishes with a sc.' .' Tyson s singing lor variety The program is all blues. Wins command of the keyboard emboces many mooch and leap and she's aided by Butch Williams on So: Bat cuts "Bab, Beat Boot e," "Rhythmic Pattern

JOE TURNER -Every Day Hare The Blues, Pablo 2310818 Produced by Norman Grant Big ice Jaesn I not the pone ne rince enpyed but he remains one of the world s most tern ing shouters His sri tracks here show him with Peelle ton's guitar. Sonny Stitt 's alto and tenor and Duet

taped atm)St toue years ago in los Angeles Best co, one is er Brown Blues

CEDAR WALTON- Anrmation, Columbia 1135572- Prot -:-: by Cedar Walton, George Butler ...ion. o :.tiles on

and electric piano backed by a smal; combo tmrec: selections, all Walton originals except two He u an a

MIS sdast technically secure, but the 1P tacks that ;

which could ignite sales Best cute "Another Star, Mountain

THE DON GOLDIE BAND -Mown' Sunshine Fn., ANY 1004 Produced by Non Rimer and Len le, romping charts by George Williams down 10 commendable cuts, most al them pop tango o1 t1' last decade Strings, wanted by Mike lewcs add cacette background to the leader -',.s Fost rate LP on a new lab, based in Oxnard Cant Best cuts,' The Most Beautiful Gel

Endlessly

TERESA BREWER, EARL HINES-We lore you Fats, Doctor Lan BIRRX 60004. Produced by Sob ThKk. (inch honed pet Iarmances by eaahìt Rrewer pant man Hines. DasSnt Milt Hinton and drummer Grady Tate hallmark this first LP tot the new Thiele owned Zabel hatch the tribute is to Fats Waller, w0h the mainstream arrangements allowing to ample blow mg by all the parhupants Teresa shows off her laidback roes/ stele in interpreting 10 tunes assaiated with Waller Hurses a tin own delightluly resilient sett Bat tots lletpm' Out 01 Mischief Now 'Fond Oul What They Like: "Honeysuckle Rose Squeeze Me

JOANNE GRAUER -Introducing Lorraine Feather, MPS0068198 Produced by Leonard Feather, asnusted by

Sandy Shoe. .ne prr,r.immed on this pleasing, undeistaled t P which stresses Glaser 's solo Drano in Iront of a cumplemenlan small combo bacbup Laraine Feather sings three tunesaPPeatmgly, erhubdmg logical phrasing and excellent Intonation But it is, on the whole, Grauer's atom Best cuts: Longing" '6ork." See You Lath'

SpobtgM - low roast oubtandino new proMut os the eea'r rtleaees and That with the rollest potmtie la IDs of ehr shad *canted. Peas- prrduted to the lop NN of the chart m the onces w the reviewer. recommended - p,d,cled lo Ad Ire wand hall of the dran on the opiuon el the remover, or aitwams d wpeoor Mundy Altwms ,ectmng ehret star rann, art rid sated ann.. wino Ed Harre co res,ewns. Das, Defier Ir Pani Grein. Rar Hnbec1 k, soar Hrnhie, Ap Mitt, Rann Rook, tim McCu5augh, D,tb N. ,, Man Peatumly, Elul rw,el Aden Ode, Amoy 00* Was Wams

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A &M Quits Indie Distribution Continued from page I

owned branches is a maim blots to independent distribution A&M has

been a staunch supporter of independents and the List and biggest remaining independently owned label The pact with RCA now concludes A &M'sgradual move away from in. die distribution. first began with the esiabltshment of A &M Pacific t Feb. 18. 1978). a company owned distrib- utorship.

B is understood that Bob tread. currently A &M senior vice president. sales and distribution. will join RCA to head the New York -based operation. Dick Carter. now RCA division, vice president. field marketing. will get the new slot of marketing vice president for the label.

A &M's Sun Valley warehouse in Los Angeles. which. housed A &M Pacific. has reportedly been having a difficult time collecting accounts receivables. putting the Libel in a

bind for cash. A&M Pacific will cease operation within months. put- t.% a number of employes out of work.

The fact that it was m needed-sash is supported by A &M's venture into the cutout market (Billboard. Sept. 2

197Si when it sold about one million units to Pickwick International.

Moss is hopeful that employes of A &M Pacific. headed by general manager Aubrey' Moore, with branches in San Francisco. Seattle. Denver and Phoenix. as well as em- plovcs of A &M's Boston sales office anti its Atlanta Together Distribu- tors office will be integrated into the RCA operation if feasible

RCA salesmen will he taking order, for A &M product and a large layoff in the AMA's ere.iti a departments as it'. promati,nt. adscnising. merchandising and other departments will remain intact Moss emphasized that A &M remains "a blatantly independent label' as there was no exchange of stock.

'The agreement doesn't etleet r.

Book Review Continued ¡ruin page 14

for the entertainment to be offered by this great new industry" And that finally came true almost 30

years later One of the most prescient reports

was the one by Benn Hall -a solemn, bespectacled. scholarly wetter whom i met when I came aboard in 1937

His prophecy appeared In August 1932. He began to write the first column exclusively devoted to news of television and he predicted that television "will he of far greater appeal than radio or the pictures." Hall was ahead of his time -about 15 year ahead. But his vision tame true.

Nobody however. nobody. not in the 1930s, the 1940s or even the 1950s when Elvis Presley exploded and when we had Chubby Checker and Fats Domino and Bo Dlddley and Buddy Holly, even so nobody prophesied. either in the pages of The Billboard or anywhere else. that within a decade. the musical groups like the Stones and Eagles and Kiss and Alice Cooper and Individuals nl tremendous personal talent and power like Bette Mtdler and Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan and David Bowie and Brace Springsieen and so

many others would come to almost dominate American entertainment, in concert halls. on record albums and 8 -track tapes. and in films like "Saturday Night Fever" and

I1nr,11 of i_ion.d people .' ,Ile. \1s,s "The ..nceln is as the local levcl and we're hapatL Sri fit Ihosc people niyalved an R( .A Well sec

what RCA hat. and Its Io nao%e

people into the system RCA will .assume manufacturing

and duplicating at :iIc sl record'. and tapes in the tiS !shit the pact. 801 of A &, \l's rectals havi been

manufactured hs ( BS and the i,ilice 211K hs Monarch Minh is. uolti. c:114. located on the .hcr side al !lie wall at the Sun \'.riles laa.hty ( Its manufactures IINI'r, ut A&h1's tapes

RCA. according to Moss. x111 he

hiring additional personnel while adding new pressing facilities to accommodate the A &M load. Moss projects that between RCA and A &M. $300 million w blhngs will he realized.

The new RCA /A &M /Associated Labels der nbution organization follows the pattern most rceentty adopted by MCA. prior to that by Polygram and pioneered ht \\ f A, for a centralized operation RCA's major pressing and duplicating fa- edits 6 at Indianapolis. where ex- pans a in both areas has been un- derwas liir sonic time

The agreement. es Inch as steeled

Friday 1121, will tot ,Meet any of A &M's international Iicenst t, deals. Its U.K. and Canadian company owned operation remains ,n.is well as agreements with CBS in I t- rope, Festival in Australia and Ana in Japan

Moss admits to hat rre Jrseus,tans with MCA Record Distributing as

well but sass Mai Itt :5 "understood the intangibles and Ile was mt. pressed with the "apere,ot ones, o!

RCA president Bob Sommer Ite \

reportedly taudcrcal A& SI a sots

statuia! cash advance and a good prat; pet l P

Moss nntiIted A &M's uidepend- ant distributors tel the change Mon- day 1 151. calling than "delft,nit con ver,atian.," considerne nii'.t of

them have been with A &M since the

label's inception It, teat ago Ik satyr the loss al A&M will

cause the independent deatibuior to

I v more aggressive in its dealing ooh teniaming inches and that they arc "hanl sup. Is " Moss adds Ihat mans distributors told him that tl

the RC A deal doesn't work out. "they'd still be there"

A &M's independent distributors affected by the change include Prog- tessin Cincinnati. Cleveland, and Columbus. MS its Chicago: Pick- wick in Minneapolis and .Si Louts: Music Trend in Deusii. All South in

New Orleans. Universal in Pbila- delphia. Alpha in New lurk. H W. Daly in Houston and Big State in

Dallas. Moss believes that the joining of

forces with RCA will make them a

major force in the market wnh nearly as many field people as CBS and WEA. Mass. who has been coo- cal of poor quality pressing. sass that RCA has "the highest quality pressing in the U.S." and if they can't maintain it. piessuig will be done elsewhere

A &M Sludrtrs is still targeted to receive 3M's new digital recording and mastering system which should he operational M the end attic tiro quarterot this year It will he one of Imo studios in the world with this neu recording technology with \ &M digitally recorded product a

I,khrh....d hei,,rr the end of the sear

New Companies Buzz Records. a division of

Bnghtade. Inc.. formed by Lee Mot:. can i first single is Morgan's "You

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t !BC Records, started by William

Sorenson, with Waller Haynes as executive producer and director of a &r, Bobby Fischer as national promotion director and professional manager of the publishing division und Sian Cornelius as general manager. Address. 50 Music Square West, Nashville 37203 (615) 329- 0714.

Ray Baker Productions, inc., formed hi It,i Baker licsides over -

sectng this puhhshmg eompanics tf Baran Music, los IltMll and lion - eytrec Music. inc I- \SCAPI. he tu handle the record production of Moe Bandy. I reddy Welkt. Connie Smith and David Houston. Address 50 Music Square West, Nashville. 37203 (615) 329.1323

Robert Blake & Associates, formed by Sharon Albert and Boh Blake. to oflcr hooking, management and promotion services Clients include Rita Rowland, Judy Allen. itJ Wright. Gary Michaels and the New t iras+ Express Iirnt offering a country show geared tar civic organ' /aln and clubs lund mount; Address I10 It Coy Squale

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Chet Allis Organization, a full service personal management, booking, financial service. publicity and production company representing clients in the entertainment and spurts field. teed by Chet Acte Mi- chael I- ligelin Is managing chlecu.a and Joseph Goodman is controller Adelrt-ss 113 S San Vincente lily cl

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Closeup DIRE S'TRAIES -Warner Bros.

Rf;K 3266. Produced by Muff Win. xnrd.

Oser the past couple of year. son.: dehnt albums have earned theft [lace an rock's pantheon if only foe the anounl of newspaper copy

deyame 1 to them Devu. Toot. Heart. foreigner. Cars. 80,ton. Flits (os- tsllo and talking Heads seemingly

came one of nowhere t,, achieve star

status wall cools tote album This scar. if all mina men, are correct, Dire Straits can be added to the list

One is the abandonment by people', but especially youth. of their cub total s

'And he

a

ritage crowd of young boy,'

They're footing around in the corers Drunk and dressed in their best brown haggles /And their platform soles/ They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band/ it am i rho, then called rock h'roll /And the Sul ,

tans played creole. Saddled with an incredible hoot

Knopfer s detached vocals and luring the band's finest N

Die Straits

Although reteascd abroad several

months ago and at the top of the charts currently in Australia and Neu Zealand Dire Straits stunning debut album is Just beginning to make headway in the U.S The alhum, simply titled "Dire Straits." is

at 011ee a complex and spare work which already has earned the Eng- lish quartet considerable airplay Headed by )ournalut turned lyr- icusi /vocalist /guitansl Stark Knopf - ler. the group is an amalgam of soles forged M Dylan. Talking Heads and the Grateful Dead. l'el, n is not a

shameless replica of any of these The album begins on a moody

note with what sounds like a foghorn in the distance which flows into -'Down To The Waterline." a story of an aB- too-brief sexual encounter near the London docks Despite the tapir. Knopfler's inricuve lyrics are never cliched

Knopiler's quick linger picking style on the electric guitar and the tight hand which consists of David Knopf". on rhythm guitar, bassist John Ilkley and drummer Pick Withers. acid musteal depth to this tale of lase titleds wssn, then lost.

Three other songs ors stde one deal with lase .n one I.'rm Of another but "Down 1 1 he Waterline" out- shines Ificm t eedu,c al its Fusing of same tit Kn.pller's best imagery with sparse hot Interesting hacking.

.'Water 01 Luse," "Setting Me Up - and "Sutilhlyund Again;' although good and cteanls executed. lack the bete of this liest song. The latter two ',lure nice rstekabdh gutl.i 111 the lyrics aren't as ()Mil

,pc. lei( " \\amet(1t t_.i ''shuts. K nip Ile, hack in tap turns Ereallt but the ari.isleinent has an cars 16- /come emphases et loch fad, to çrah Ilan lastcnvi

Sale unc as rounded out M -Si, Blade both,' an cane vagncue Root Om tsuuptIsi life also.' someone ad dieted la t'alcnee as someone on dings

When i' iiii.ned with Kneepllcr's 1.islx. l.ou Regal- mspned %orals, the up-front Mass and loping. rhythm, "Nislhi.ide Kittle" shows Dire Smuts it one of its mans peaks.

Suite Iwo kicks oil with what in.is hceunte tune of the classic songs out

the '7th. "Sullins Of Swing." Os- tensibly about a day it) lite lift of ,r

south London dixieland hand play -

nig in a imearentpty chub em a rainy Clay. "Sultan:' speaks to Iwo issues

"Sultans Of Swing" hits with 7

Whereas in "Sultans," Kr takes a third party, journalist, proach to the dixieland bane. he were at a back table in the

London music hall, he takes, in In The Gallen.- Decryn hypocracy of the art world. Ilia

scathing indictment of thin: .control" artists s s Elvis Cc- "Radio. Radio' without Co. instrumental harshness.

No her. he nrw/dny comp, Nojunk, no bus of string /And ties tie ruhsadi.e /Thar far: mean a thing.

With "Wild West End," Kr may earn the reputation asa ! Bruce Spnngsteen because of mention to detail in his hitas. 55 n,

this is true of nearh all of Knopfler songs. "Wild West End" mak. feel as comfortable in Lon,. much of Springsteen's work one feel at home on the sue. Ncw Jersey.

The album ends on a pessimist,. note with "Lions" which deals with ..

woman (prostitute') who is attackecr by a drunken sailor. Put to a moder ale. dnsng heat. "Lions' eanjute- up told images.

The band, because it has emerge: from Britain within the past yea has been lumped with the new wa .

hands. However, though Dire (r stnps tick to its bare root - traces of nickabills and coun:r would he a mistake to dismiss th

group as Just another new wave as Dire Straits has it talented guitarist and lsrictsi n Knopfl. .n,!'i':.sits ductmtirt sluff \1

and full ( sR1 I1sh t IN,.

2 Snails Trigger L.A. Court Ruling

5 5 1 . 1 1 1 5 ( gran Ne.or,ts her, ,,eking a declaratory judg- ment .n Superior Court as to wh.' has nghtful use of the monickci "Scuds" in the rcr'ytrd/tape industry

K -Arts Inc_ Chicago, notified Ihc plaintiff rcevins that it has prior right to the name, which is utilizer 16 Ken Kraft and Bob O'Neil. who accord eselusieeh for Cream.

Mike Painter of Cooper. 1:ì-, ,l i lorewitz here is asking fin :e ,r5, sign that the Cream act's use of titi name does not infringe on li -:\u inc.



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BiÌoo(d's Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 1/27/79

Number of siriges reviewed

this week 113 Lost week 90

DOOBIE BROTHERS -What A Fool Believes (3 41). rein

outer led lempleman, wilt', Michael McDonald, Kenny

loggms. publishers Snug BM!, WY. Money ASCAP Wa+net

Bros WBS872 TMs first single ham the group's "Minute 8y

Minute' LP was written by Michael McDonald and Kenny

I ogems the song starts on a melodic verse. building vocally

and instrumentally to a heart warming hook chorus EAU! lent use of synthesuers and vocals create another hrsl class

production from this lost class team

NEIL DIAMOND- Forever In Blue leans (3:30); producer

Bob Gaudio. writers R Bennet!. N Diamond. publisher Stonebndge ASCAP Columbia 310897 Diamond follows ho

smash duel with Barbra Streaaod with another cut Irom ho

You Don't Bring He Flowers' LP, now number lour on the

album chart The song conveys the youthlul. childlde moo

cence and optimism suggested by the title

GINO VANNELLI- Wheels 01 Ede (3:40); producers Gino

Vannelh. Joe Vannelh, Ross Vannelh, writer Gino Vanned

publisher Alm. /Gem ASCAP ABM 2114 The second release

Irom "Brother To Brother' et even stronger than the top five

I lust Winne Slop ' Starling sollte. strings lead the Intensity

which builds to the booming chorus lead vocal a eecep

tonal, as are the backing vocals and orchestration Should

cross to MOR playhsts as well

AL STEWART -Song On The Radio (4:10); producer Alan

Parsons. writer Al Stewart, publishers D I M -trabtous-Ap prorimate Arista AS0389 Stewart follows ho lop 10 hit

lime Passages with another cool ,c mime ballad the vota)

*smooth and even with an emended sao break in the middle giving the song dinamir

EDDIE MONEY -Maybe I'm A Fool (3:05); producer Bruce

Botmcb, miners [ Money L Chiale, L Garrett, publisher

Grapnca: Island BMI Columbia 310900 Thus is probably the

most sophsstcated single yet To Money. suggesting he's

moving rom the lop 40 pop of songs like 'Iwo lickels to Paradise' into more sophisticated adult oriented rock Full

bodied orchestration backs the singer, including a great say

sol°

HEART -Dog 8 Butterfly 15:07); producers Mike Flicker,

Heart, Michael fsher writers A Wilson, N Wilson, S Ennis.

pub/ *her Wdsone, Know ASCAP Portrait AS540 (CBS) On

the 12 inch version of this single, Ann Wilson opens with a

spoken eoplanaron that this o .a love song, sad but strong and loylul. Most of the groups most popular songs are in the

"Kok It Out 'rocker class. but this moody meandering ballad

could break through a combination of pop and MOR Slab

CAT STEVE%S -Sad Brakes (3:27); producers Paul Sam

hell SmOh, Cat Stevens, writers Cal Stevens, Alun Davies,

Publishers Colgems (MI ASCAP Á6M 2109 Stevens to produced thrs with Paul Samwetl Smith. who handled his

classic early hits like "Peace tram " This has much of the

Same chugging rhythmic sound, with Irrcsmohve sound el leas adding another hook

recommended ROBERTA RACK -You Are Everything (3:46); producer Feria

8 Flake orders Thom Bell, Linda Creed. publishers At

sorted/Bell Boy BMI Atlantic 3560

LOU RAWLS -Send In The Ctowsn 94:42); producer lohn Al

Faith, winter S Sondherm publishers Revelation, Wm, ASCAP Philadelpha Internabonat 1583672 (CBS)

le ricks c Coe,Ighl 1979, Balboard icelions. Inc No Part of Inn Publrcanon may De repoducte pos it In cameral system, or Irensrrinled- many loan or by any means electron,( meChan,[al

photocopying, recordl, or oihews.. wimoul the pool woken pear, b,or, 01100 publr,A.,

BONNIE TYLER -My Guns Are Loaded (3:45); producer.

Robin Gorey Cable. Ronnie Scott Steve Wolle. writer Stevie

Wolle publishers Scott Wolle /Prnrr III Wales ASCAP HCA

11111468

VAN MORRISON- Natalia (3'40); producer van Morrison.

writer Van Mo11rraio, puhlislmr Essential AMI Warner Bros

WBS8/41

KEANE BROTHERS- Dann' In The Moonlight (3:34); pro

durer Lamont Oiner writer Sherman Kelly. publishers United Artists'SI Nathanson ASCAP ABC A811445

GABRIEL-Ooo Wee Baby (3:30); producers Cad Madan

Bur: Richmond. writer F Bulorac, publishers Remo /Wdlov

Springs ASCAP Epic 850649

ANGEL -Don'I Take Your Lore (3:31); producer Eddie Leo

nettr, waters Greg Giulio. Frank DrMlno, publishers Made

In Heaven /Yellow Dog ASCAP Casablanca N8963D1

STONEBOLT -Love Struck (3:39); producers Walter Stewart

Roy Roper. miters Ray Roper, Dave Willis. puhlssher Co. bat, Deep Cove BMI Parachute RR522DI (Casablanca)

DR. JOHN -Dance The Night Away With You (3:35); produr

ers Tommy LrPuma. Hugh McCracken, enters Mac Rebell

rack. Doc Porous, publishers Irving: Skull /Starybo BMI

Notion 071175 IABMI

KAYAK -Keep The Change (3:38); producers DennsMacKae. Kayak. mater Soberpenreet, publisher Heavy BMI Janus

1278

KIM CARNES -It Hurls So Bad (3:02); producers Darnel

Moore. Dave Ellingson, Kan Carnes. wrller Kim Carnes pub

fishers Alma/flown Shoes /Ouroohc ASCAP EMI America

P80I1

NANCY BROOKS -I'm Not Gonna Cry Anymore 13:11); pro

durer Ernie Winfrey, writes Bobby bavld publisher Mande

ASCAP Arista AS0385

ORSA LJA -I Never Said I Love You (3:24); producers Hal Oa

wed. Archie lord... writers Hal David, Archie Jordan, pub

tither Cass David /Chess ASCAP Infinity 19050004 (MCA)

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Soulc recommended

THE BRIDES OF FUNKENSTEIN- Amorous (3:36); producer

George Clinton. enters G Shrder R Dunbar, R Curers pub

fisher Malbu BMI Atlantic 3556

GEORGE IACKSON -Fast Young lady (3:24); producers Jimmy Johnson, Roger Amides, orders George Jackson, RaY

mond Moore, publisher Muscle Shoals SMI Muscle Shoals

Sound MSS9801A IT K )

CHUCK BROWN 8 THE SOUL SEARCHERS-Bustin' Lasse Part I (3:03); producer lames Purdle writer Chuck Brown, pub

Ushers Ascent/Nouveau BMI Source 5451804 IMCA)

ALTON McCIA0N -It Must Be Ewe (3:00); producer Frank

Wilson. writers 1 Footman, 1 Wieder, publishers Specooite/

Tract ASCAP Pofydor P014532

RANCE ALLEN GROUP -I Belong To You (3:29); producer Henry Cosby. writer Rance Allen, publishers StnraiDoclor lack ASCAP Star 5133217AM (Fantasy)

LAKESIDE -It's AB The Way lone (Pad I) (3:19); producer Out, Grittey Leon Sylrers lakeside, writes F Lewis. pub

tither Spectrum VII ASCAP Solar YBI1380 (RCA)

/ l ( Country

EMMYLOU HARRIS -Too For Gone (3:28); producer Brian

Ahern writer Billy Sherrill publr her Al Gallico. AMI Warner

Drs WBS8732 This tender love ballad has been culled from

Hanes' tales! LP, "Polk/Best Si Emmylou Harris " Produc

bon locus., on strings. piano and background singers as Hat

r* vocals sensitively lend a warm blue teehng

SUSIE ALIANSON -Wards (3:14); producer Ray Ruff,

enters B Grbh tt Cribb /M Cribb publisher Casserole, BMI

Elektra 46009 Powerhouse production punched by dynamic

percussion and piano adds rntensdy to this old Bee Gees

gem ARanson gees a /orchid vocal pectorma.ct that alter

rates between whispers and wails and makes this NO re

lease for her new label a strong contender for crossover ac

Iron

BOBBY BARE- Healn' (3:20); producer Steve Gibson

writer Bob MOD. publisher Hall Clement, BMI Columbra

310891 Bares lollowup to "Sleep Eight, Good Nighl Man Is

another single culled from ho "Sleeper Wherever I Fall' LP

Spohrnga nigh energy production Mghlighted by electric gui

tar. piano and gospelish background vocals, 'Hearin pro

odes Bare wdh a strong and veratde showcase

(all DAVIES -Someone Is Looking For Someone Lie You

(3:47); producer Tommy West. venter G Davos publishers

Beechwood.Olekenson, BMl Ldesong 1S81784 (CBS) Blend ing country and folk influences rnlo this light hearted song

Dawes handles both leads and harmonies with sweet assur

ante Acoustic and steel guitars complement the lecture of

tier voice volute keyboards and harmonica add 'nee touches

recommended 81 THOMAS -We Could Have Been The Closest 01 Fronds

(2:49); producer Chips Moman writer Steve Pippin John

Slate. publisher House of Gold HMI MCA 111986

1ERRY INMAN -Why Don't We be Down And Talk II Over

(2:41); producer Bob Montgomery, writers Robert lohn

locos, lames Bran Shaw. publisher ATV.'Btue Book BMl

Hello E46006

JIM ROONEY-No Eapedatons (2:48); producers lack Cle

ment P. Curl Allen. writers Mick logger Keith Richards, pub

Irober ABKO BMI 1M148

KIM CHARLES -I Want To Thank You (2:34); producer Eddie

Kilroy writer Rory Bourke. Publishes Chappell, ASCAP MCA

40987

BRENDA KAYE PERRY -Make Me Your Woman (2:53); pro doter Ray Pennington *inters Royce Pone;. tuck tones.

publisher MaRec'Porter Jones ASCAP MRC 1026

RONNY ROBBINS -Why'd The Last Time Have To Be The Best (2 :59); producer Eddy In. wider W I Wdlams. publisher Screen Gems'EMI, BMI Anrc AR 8182

JEWEL BLANCH -Can I See You Tonight (2:32); producer Pat

Ca.r,l r L,,i r,' ,.ten Rale Van Nov publishers .. : 4f,Á IH 1464

BONNIE NELSON -Love, From A Woman's Point 01 View

(5:87); Producer No1 Listed violets Date Vest: A Cunning ham, publisher Tommy Overstreet BMI Scorpion SC 0571

ANGE HUMPHREY- Somebody Wake Me (3:16); producer Kenny Sondes, writer Eddie Rabbits publisher Brrarpatch_

BMI Derby Town DER 310

BOBBY BULLETT -Gonna Get Your Loom' (2:42); producer

no, Davison. wilt* B Noltr O Conant publisher Linda. BMI Trend TR 711

BONET M- Dancing In The Streets (3:551: producer

Frank Fawn, writer loran. publisher Al Galata BIAI. Sire

SRE 1038 ens) TMs punchy. upbeat release Irom the popular

European foursome has an incredibly mfecfious hook, making

it the most American oriented single they ice released here co

far

THE GLASS FAMILY -Gary (7:40); producer hm Callon,

writers Callon. Lamont publishers Callon Lout BMI, Dade ASCAP 1710. lOT,121 Handclaps punctuate this uptempo

Punchy . , ri +'ist for the extended instrumen

tal breás- Four Tops style of soul. A busy

anangtmert Feig -'re energy level nigh

recommended G.Q. -Dura Nights (Rock.Freak) (3:46); producers Jimmy

Simpson. Beau Ray writer E Ranerm LeBlanc publishers. G Q ;Arista ASCAP Ar *ta ÁS03138

First Time Arouñd DIRE STRAITS -Sultans Of Swing (4:38); u'ooucer Dire

Straits. order Monk trawler. publisher Ono ASCAP

Warner Bros W8S8736 An easy beat. rncre4rble hoot and in.

telhgent lyrics mark this initial release from the 'Dire Straits" IP which is rapidly climbing the album chart The track

moves gracefully with its elegant rhythm and Mark Knot/Reis

clean guitar work

THE MARC TANNER BAND -Elena (3:29); producer Nat

lcOrey. wnlers Marc Tanner- Nat /'trey. left Monday. pub,

fishers Likewise'WB ASCAP Otherwrse BMI Elektra

E460030 A wailing or solo sparks this pop single which o

also highfignted by salon vocals and a punchy dynamic m

strumeotal backdrop

MYCHAEL -Stay (2:45); producer Pitt Williamson and

Mychael, writer Mychael. publisher Tree, 8Ml Free flight 1111415 RCA's Free Flight -the first Nashville baud poD

subsidiary. makes its debut with its first artest Laden won

electric guitars. heavy bass lines and sal flan, the single shows promise la singer Mychael.

recommended BOB RIMES -Theme Ersns luir' (Angela) 13:051; oroduces

Bob lames wrller B lames publishers Adder. Bob lames 8

DeShuBbn Admin Worldwide ASCAP Tappan Zee 310896

1Columbra

SEA LEVEL- Sneakers (Fitty'Fdur) (3:18); producer Stewart

Levine writer I Nahn publishers Under The Corer No E1,:

Will Capricorn CP5.0314

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Donny Hathaway

Funeral In Mo. SI I I II IN lwr' S SCFC held

err ,iii,..i.. l2 I) for sìngcr/aan- poser Dunn Hathaway. 33. who

died Saturday (13) in n plunge from the 15th floor of New York's Lsses

House Hotel. Hathaway, who won a Cranml\

award for his duel album with Ro- berta Flack in 1972. had returned from dinner at Flack's apartment shortly before the incident Zook

place. He and Flack had spent a d.is

in a recording studio here the) weir working on songs w linen hs Ifaih- away for another possible pairing

A native of Chicago. Ilathaw,is yew up In Si Louts where Ira grandmother was a swell -known gospel singer. a style that exerted a

heavy influence on his work He studied piano and theory at

Howard Univ. in Washington. D.C.. where he met Curtis Ni. field. who offered him ajob with C urtom. then based in Chicago. Hathaway worked there and at Chess Records as a producer for a while and also cut several disks with June Con - qunL billing thenisehes as Donny and June a forerunner to his pairing with Flack.

At various points. Hathaway free- lanced for Uni. Kapp and Stax Rec- ords in various capacities before meeting up with King Curtis. who brought him to the attention of At- lantic Records. a label affiliation which continued until his death.

He scored first in 1970 with the hit single. The Ghetto." establishing himself as a performer in addition to his talents as composer, arranger and conductor. "I Love You More Than You 'll Ever Know" was another hit for Hathaway.

In 1972 he first teamed with Flack to produce the hit "Where Is The Love.' and the pair repeated

rthat success with last years The

I Closer 1 Get To You" Another song linked to the pair was "You've Got A Friend," one of the more popular nuts from the "Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway" LP that earned him the Grammy award.

Hathaway was separated from his wife. Eulalah. He al-i it survived by two daughters.

Services In L.A. For Wayne Bennett

LOS ANGELES -Services were scheduled for Monday 122) for

.Wayne Bennett. 32. Cream Records vice president. who was murdered Jan. 13 by an unknown assailant in

his Studio City apartment house. Services scheduled for Wednes-

day (17) were postponed as the coro- .ner had w investigate the death since

it was a homocide. Bennett was found shot to death

at the bottom of the stairs leading to his apartment by a friend at 3 a.m. Sunday (14). Tenants of the building told police they had heard shots around II p.m. Saturday but had not gone to investigate the noise.

The young Bennett had had some health problems earlier last year and had survivied major surgery. He is survived by his father. the former president of Liberty Records and the founder of Cream; his mother. three daughters and a brother.

Cherokee To Court LOS ANGELES- Cherokee Re-

cording Studios is seeking a judg- ment against Far Out Productions and Steve Gold and Jerry Goldstein in Superior Court here.

The filing alleges that the defendants owe the studio $53.384.37 for sessions done at the studio between Dec. 1977 and April 1978.

Marriages

Bob Ilunsitr, director of business affairs for Front I inc Nlanugenirn i. in Los Angeles ,han. IJ to .linge 1lelenc Daois.

(dcon Friedman. with Chappell NIusie in Los Angeles, te Karol :%nn

Godwin .tan. 13 in Santa \lanice.

Joseph Newman, nu isiciun and ne- tor and son of personal managers I.ee'

Newman and Barbara nelle. to Sharon Pinkus last month in Las Vegas.

Mel Rosenthal to Fan Renilds, secretan to ABC Records president Stele Diener, Dec. 31 in Studio City, Calif.

Lori Lieberman. songwriter -

singer. to Neil Israel in Los Angeles .Ian. 9.

enerol News Vogel Assuming

Mushroom Reins Lifelines Births

Girl, Bianca Monique. to Leu Run Ilank.. RCA Records singer. and

wife Lily .lain. IS in Canoga Park, ('alit.

I ;if l. I.eilaui. tu I lenriettu and Lo- ren/4i Music in Los Angeles Ink 9.

'lulhcr is singer-composer.

Deaths Sara Caner naves, 80, last of the

Carter family country singers of a

heart condition .tan. It in Lodi. Calif. Back in the 1920h, she, her husband

A.P. Carter und her sister -in -law

Mnthcr" Muyhclle Carter pia.

neered in perfiirning und popu-

lari,iug country music un radin and

records. She is survived by two daughters and a son.

Tummy 1Volf. 53, pianist. c

poser and singer. Jan. 8 in Los An-

geles. Among his song credits are "Spring (an Rca!ly Hang You Up The Must.' "l'm Always Drunk In San Francisco" and All The Sad

Young Men." Ile is survived by his widow. u daughter. a brother and his father.

Chester Watson. 65, bass -baritone singer, in New York Jan. 8. An opera

and oratorio singer, he was featured on a number of Decca albums.

Or

Ralph Cherry, 73. hie band musician and AFM etecutisr of Local 77 in Philadelphia, ,Ian. 1 at County Ilnspital in ('lester, Pa.

111111% J. " Poppa" Alla. 77, Ita- waiian musician and teacher who had worked with Sain Kapu.,litinny and l'ua Almeida and other orchestras in the island. at his home in Waianae, Oahu. ,Ian. 1.

Benjamin V. Grasso, 67, long general manager of Associated Music Publishers. in Greenville, S.C.. Dee. 31.

1.0S AN( ,I I A Wilk Vogel. president it Nnshroum Records. will be i iIim..i more active rile in

the dayt,. .la ironing of the label in the wake of the death Wednesday (17) it Shelly Siegel. the 32- year -old ace president and general manager ,d Mushroom.

Vogel will he spending more time in Los Angeles instead of Vancouver where the label originated. regroup- ing and reorganizing the Mushroom slat I

Vogel has asked the organisation to group into departments. with a &r. picntotton and other wings reporting directly to hint. Ile has always shared in the adr decisions with Sie- gel and i.insuhed on :ill budget. per-

sonnel and Iinanetal matters. Siegel's death was due to a rup-

ture of a congenital berry aneurism (rupture of a blood vessel in the brain present since birth). according to Dr Arthur Waltuch.

Siegel a survived by his parents, Joseph Siegel of Detroit and Mary Siegel of Pompano Beach. Fla.: and three brothers

2nd DISCOEXPO GENOA, 25th APRIL - 1st MAY 1979

fiera internazionale di genova

National Market -exhibition or records, tapes and music

DISCOEXPO is the Italian market of the international record production. The Italian record market is constantly developing, both with respect to consumption and to production, thus confirming the notable success achieved by the 1st DISCOEXPO, held in Spring 1978. Its second edition, which will be held on the Genoa Fair premises from 25th April to 1st May 1979, will offer foreign entrepreneurs particularly favourable attendance conditions, letting appropriate boxes for masters' dealings. These boxes can be either exclusive for the whole exhibition at the cost of L. 300,000 + VAT, or booked every single time, upon request of an access card at the price of L. 100,000 VAT. DISCOEXPO is organized by Fiera di Genova, with the support of A.F.I. - Associazione Fonografici Italiani. DISCOEXPO offers entrepreneurs and public a series of shows for the introduction of new musical productions, for which Fiera di Genova makes available an auditorium lodging 900 people and an amphitheatre with 14,000 seats. DISCOEXPO is the only rendez-vous in Italy of the whole Italian record world.

For information. please apply to: FIERA INTERNAZIONALE DI GENOVA - p.le J . F. Ken-

nedy, 1 - I - 16129 Genova phone: (010) 59.56.51 -

59.56.71 telex 271424 Fierge cables Interfiera Genova.

Organization: Angelo Piccarreta: phone n" (010) 41.96.36.

To: DISCOEXPO '79 International Fair of Genoa - Pie Kennedy 1, 16129 GENOA - Phone: (010) 595651

telex 271424 Fierge cables Interfiera Genova.

FIRM:

PHONE:

ADDRESS:

NAME AND TITLE OF THE SIGNER:

CITY:

IS INTERESTED IN: booking no. 1 box (12 square meters) for the time of the show, at the price of Lire 300.000

using the rooms for negotiation and asking the special card.

Price: Lire 100.000 V.A.T.

At DISCOEXPO will be present the following persons:

DATE: FIRM STAMP AND SIGNATURE:

This form should be send to the Fair of Genoa, before the 28th February 1979.

V.A.T.



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I WILL SURVIVE

ANYBODY WANNA PARTY?

I SAID YES GLORIA GAYNOR /LOVE TRACKS

SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING PEACHES & HERB /2 HOT

LET THE MUSIC PLAY (ALL CUTS) ARPEGGIO /LET THE MUSIC PLAY

HOT BUTTERFLY (ALL CUTS) GREGG DIAMOND /HOT BUTTERFLY

SYMPHONY OF LOVE

DANCE WITH THE LIGHT

DOWN LOW MIQUEL BROWN /SYMPHONY OF LOVE

I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE ALICIA BRIDGES /ALICIA BRIDGES

FAH BREAKING /NEW

FATBACK/BRITE LITES, BIG CITY SINGLE

FREAK THE FREAK THE FUNK (THE ROCK)

12 DISCO

FREAK THE FREAK THE FUNK (THE ROCK)

RAY DAHROUGE/

RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY 12 DISCO

I CAN SEE HIM MAKIN' LOVE TO YOU, BABY

ALTON McCLAIN & DESTINY SINGLE

IT MUST BE LOVE 12' DISCO

IT MUST BE LOVE CRAZY LOVE

SWEET TEMPTATION

ARPEGGIO/ LET THE MUSIC PLAY INGLE

LOVE S&

DESIRE 12" D1sco

LOVE & DESIRE

GREGG DIAMOND/

BIONIC BOOGIE I2 DISCO

CHAINS (BRAND NEW MIX) CREAM (BRAND NEW MIX)

ALICIA BRIDGES NEW SINGLE

BODY HEAT 12" DISCO

BODY HEAT IN THE NAME OF LOVE

MIQUEL BROWN 1. DISCO

SYMPHONY OF LOVE

JEAN MICHEL JARRE 12' DISCO

EQUINOXE PART 5

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COMING SOON

CHILLY AND THEIR EUROPEAN DISCO HIT

FOR YOUR LOVE

Week after week, we make disco action with big jumps and exciting breaking artists. And, it's all because we're in step with what's happening.

Check the charts. They tell our story better than anything else. Thank you everyone. And special thanks to David Steel and Tom Hayden.

On Polydor, Polydor /MVP, Polydor /Karam, and Spring Records and Tapes.



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MOTOWN RECORDS SALUTES THE COMMODORES

AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD WINNERS FAVORITE SINGLE, POP/ ROCK:

"THREE TIMES A LADY" M.1445I

GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEES SONG OF THE YEAR "THREE TIMES A LADY"

POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE BY A DUO, GROUP OR CHORUS - "THREE TIMES A LADY"

R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE BYA DUO GROUP OR CHORUS -

"NATURAL HIGH" M7.90281




Late General News

ExecuîveTurnobIe Continued from page 4

mg fi,r the U.S. and Canada Ile had hero pn,li.,l n,.11 ml., m., , 1..1 \lait, Blackwood -CBS Mus'. Publishing. Al,a, Paula pasha, w ih I(ockei Pu1,llsh ing since 1975. is appointed copyright administrator Both s, ill he.r,lyuarr.r in

New York Marti Sharon, farnierl, director or the West (o, i office of Wishbone Produsionl, and head ,d Iwens'ng for ( alambic future. Puhlica- lions, torn, the Lo, .- 1n_cles ,slliCc of Peer -Southern Orga,lsrah n :as West Coast director ,.(s recto e sen Ise, Steve Moir bec,.mes \Vesi (.,ast general professional manager for ('hrs,,rlis Music. L.A. Iles been with the label since 1977.... Paul Brown made proles anal nu:tnager of Lrvine Brown Music and Irwin Levine Music. New York. Cristina Vila named h, the mewls ;reared position of coordinator of 1 atm \fusee, U.S.. at Intenong Musa. New York She had been adruunislahsc ,ISsssl.ttl to the general manager of Inlcrsong. U.S.A.. since 1976.

Marketing CS. "Rus Hapgood named ,ice president of finance for the 1r -,lore

Record Bar chain. Durham. N C.. replacing Harr) Clements who is now operating, his own retail venture Ile had been Co troller of the chain

Related Fields Bob Varnnc, who joined Monarch Record Manula.turme Sun Valle,.

Calif.. semen In nilis ago after csecuuve pasts with Rt -,1 and Sal soul. become, general manager, Succceding John Willr:ons Ray 11. Pollack ha, ...atoned

responsibility for the newly created Select,Vision videodisk operation and solid slate division for RCA Corp., N.Y. ils ASO .,,n s,, . time president and general manager of consumer cicclronres Also .i.,, L h 'sauter, farnlcrl, division vice president and general manager of the n..mn. do r sion. Bernard V. Vonderschmitt will continue .n sae pr, manager of the solid state division. while Dr. Jay J. Brandhaa r

president. engineering. consumer electronic. Jown. la

vice president. SelcctaVnron videodisk operation, Richard \v ',aarw ntetdi, who spearheaded the technical development of the Sels. Idcodisk. becomes vice president. special corporate projects And Dr..1 l'erre Bingham will succeed Dr. Brandinger as disown vice president. engineerin, consumer electronics division. tic was formerly chief engineer. new products Lihorators

. Patrick Gorlick named director of special project, for NAR St, ('here 11111.

NJ. He had been a creative director al Seattle's KZO7_ -FM and has had experience In nlarkchnts. marketing research,.idseseang. promotion. publia relation, and publishing. Ken Rosenblum named sire president of sales for Shorewood Packaging Corp., N.Y. He had heen national sales manager for the

0 company. Ron Roberto named East Cuasi salts manager for Elcctrrxound CC Group. N.Y He was an account executive for Ivy Hill Communications.

a0 David Goldstein becomes vice preident of administration while Baron Lee is

m appointed vue president of manufacturing for Preferred Sounds. Rye. N Y .. Robert W. Warner Jr.. recently Southern advertising manager l'or Redbt.ok

E magazine. joins Broadcast Music. Inc., N.Y , in the newly created post ofdirec- en tor. licensing operations and administration.. Changes at Aller. Anaheim. m Calif.. see Robert T. Davis, formerly director of systems /applications env.

neermg, named vice president of professional market development; Irwin Ñ Zucker, formerly director of product development. promoted to vire president > of consumer market development Chris Christianson, formerly corporate dt.

rector of industrial relations. named to vice president of industrial relations, 7 and Curtis Pickelle. previously manager of marketing communications. pro-

moted to director of marketing communications. Ted Feigin Joins Alive -a Enterprises. Los Angeles. For two years he was partnered in Harris -I ergo

Management in New York. . Ida S. Langsam, ressntly publicity director with Mike's Management. appointed account director with the Iloard Bloom Or- ganization. N Y Charles Phillips, formerly sill: president. do isional manager. named senior y we president. operations for Radio Shack. 1 I Worth. Tex And John H. McDaniel. previously sice president. controller. named senior vice president. controller. David CranolT. formerly promotion and circulation assistant to the director at Dance magazine and After Dark. named director of the disco division at John Carmen Public Relations. Inc..N Y... Man Glogora, assistant to Monarch Entertainment Bureau president John Scher. named office manager of the New Jersey -based promoting firm.. Cadeen Anderson to head of marketing and promotion for Buu Cason Productions and Bern Hill Records, Nashville. Anderson formerly held a similar position with Republic Records and Commercial Records and Distributing Kalb) Arritstrong named as a new artist representa tisc tu Linda Miller and Assoc, ates. a Chnstian management agency, and Limited Edition Talent. his its hooking division.. . Changes al TF.AC, Montebello. Calif.. see Gary Becker- man. formerly director of operations. named general manager. Barry Gold- man, fomierly director of marketing for Corwin -Vega. named national sales manager for TEAL audio. replacing Joe Pershes who Bics ta Allied Artists Video Corp. as a vice president. Dane Oren, nahanal sales manager l'or Micro Seiki and Teas accessories. stade market pluming manager; Roy Kamin, formerly director of consumer rrlatiuns.as national training manager; and Bill Mohrholf, formerly national lield service manager for TEAC Ta warn. lagged national sales manager lier TF.AC Tascum, replacing Ken Sacks who has left the conipany.

Wally Robins named vice president of Tape ( ris. In.. NOV York I or the pasi seven years he has been vice president of MPCS Video 1ndu,tries. John Lesnick promoted to art director al Bridles Publications. New York III: has been an artist with the company for the past two tears Also, Laura May named production director orate lient aller having served as adnunisiratoe awistanl to the company's pn'sakcni end ecce preshlroi Rhonda Shure named account executive at the I toward Bloom Organii..ai ioa t 1.1 Nets 1 -,11

Shc had been with the firm as a touring publicist Si,. or .t 5% ok,o, named executive director of Carnegie Hall. New York Ili 11.; lion of acting director for a year Charles S. Grill pnnuutrd to the new!, created position of general manager. m,okemig somiwuwss iissts. of the von sumer electronics division of Sharp Fleetronas Corp.. Paramm, N 1 Ile had been marketing cummunicauons manager of the lonsumnr eleilri,nus d.,v Sion.... Anita Simeoli appointed executive sae picsidenl of It AM Manage ment in Chicago. John V. Roach named eve, nus c eue president of Ras,. Shack. fun Worth. 11e had been erse president ii,.mid.ri imtinr with resp,n, sibility for Radio Shack's 20 plants in the I S.. I ...ado lapon IS ors, and l'ai wan.... Roh Robinson now manager if RcVss',shes lia the t I S Ile, ten's t,. the Nashville company, front llarntan- K.tidon where he was assi -i,tit to IhC vice president of marketing.

THINK PINK -Paul Drew, manager of Japan's hot vocal duo. Pink Lady, introduces the act to U.S. industry figures irr Los Angeles. Interpreter Miriam Luttio. second from the right, participates in the ceremony. Act will be released on

Warner Curb.

InsideTrack There', a hole lot of shakin' going on in the code

pendcni label sector. Track would like to has its ear at

the Tuesday 1231 palaver in Clive Davis' office. w hen the

Arista topper discusses Pickwick international's distribution potential will Chuck Smith and Jack Bernstein. Is Pickwick ready to present Arsta and us other labels with the possibility it would go national?

Right now, Bernstein can offer St. Louis, Dallas, Min- neapolis. Los Angeles. Atlanta and Miami. The wholesaling /retailing giant has the bread to acquire indie dos-

tnhutorshrps or can add distribution facilities to its racking warehouses as aria hie in other essential localities. You can lay hears wilds that Davis and his Arista brass thoroughls dissected distribution potential al their Free- port Caribbean C.,ncntton this past weekend. which, in orientally. was planned oell hcfire the A &M /RCA bombshell exploded early Lot week.

Is Joe Cohen of NARM psychic' Set for 2 p.m. meeting March 23 at the NARM conscntion is an independent distribution meeting. tided "Swan Or Rebirth'," which headlines Joe Simone of Progress Dis- tributing, Cleveland and Chicago, and Elliot Goldman of Arista Records .,, Will the RCA Records distributing arm take over the large warehousing facility occupied the past year hs A &M Pacific in Sun Valle) augment its present Arleta hase in Los Angeles? .. -Bertha Berg- man, wife of Ham-, chairman of the board of the Record Bar chain. Durham. N.C., is recovering from recent ah- dominal surgery She is the mother of Bar president Bar- rie and Mrs. Lane Golden, whose husband. Bill, is esecu- itse rice president of the growing chain.. . Norman (Hype I) Winter will do Just that when he appears on Tom Snyder 's "Tomorrow" show on NBC -TV Tuesday 1231 at one a.m. -

Bill Conti scoring Paul Mazursky's "A Man, A Woman And A Bank-" ,.. Wonder what happens at Universal City now that Sam Passamano Jr. has been made director of marketing and his father, Sam. and MCA Records distribution gray beard. is executives ice president at the distribution wing'' Docs the offspring address his Etcher as "Dad" in business' . One -time Top 40 radio program director Ken Draper, former program director at KFWB, now a news station in L A.. pleaded not guilts last week to felony charges that he took S 15.000 in kick- backs from fellow workers al that station The distract attorney's oilier charged Draper okayed overtime pay for work unperfixmei and then got the extra loot kicked hack ist him

More them one observer at the recent Phnnogram Dis- tribution cimscmtinn in New Orleans noted the obeisance paid Casablanca Records president Nell Bogart thhwgh- outMesonilisr BgarlIs just dropping "rumors. mind you. but cspect comedy in the form of Woody Allen and Lenny & Swiggy and kidlsks from the label :Moppet lace will be produced by Lew Merenline with a hinted McDonald's lie -in And there's a Bookwork, in the li. pant lutire, with the first paperback. "Flash Point." Ito gait predicts his label will better 1978's $102 million Its use its 1974

Al Coury of RSO Records said at the convention that the Bee Gees' new 58.98 album will get the biggest support ever accorded an album in industry history. It wok It months to record and the campaign will take an equal amount of time." Court pledged. He said a sequel to

"Grease" may star Andy Cobb and that a sequel script to "Saturday' Night Fever" is finished and "strone." Robert

rt Stigwod will huddle with John Travolta to !ram if hell repeat his role.

Look for Charlie Fach. executive vice president of Phonogram /Mercury Records, to lease that post and hie down to Nashssite where he'll hang out his shingle as a

producer. Fach was with Mercury 16 years.... Johnny Mandel wrote and scored the track for "Agatha; a First Artists presentation of a Casablanca FilmWorks/Sweet- Wall production for release b_y Warner Bros. soon. Sotr who gets the album release ?.. Cecil Halawhoswitched from Mercury to Capitol Records where he is vice preei- dent of soul a &r. his been named one of 10 corporate ex-

to the King rial Award M Dr. Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Council.

".

Elehtra /Asyiumjoins the growing label list to develop separate departments for film and video promotion and production.... -Tommy." the Who's hit album that be-

came ,t movie. bows Feb. 6 as a musical at London's Queen Tfieatrr Previously. the group performed it often in concert ... WBI-S -FM, New York, welcomed back

music director/air personalih Frankie Crocker at a bash

at Studio 54. New York. Crocker entered on a Inc horse to the tune of First Choice's -Hold Your Wild Horns" ... If you arc in New York sou can buy the chased hit albums hs Chic Parliament. Funlcaddic and the double pocket ELO "Out Of The Blue" made famous in Artie Mogull /CBS /Morris Les) Ith£ation for 53.99 each to a

limited sate offering at Jimmy's Music World. the chain that went bankrupt after a low-batiste spree.

John Farrar who composed and produced man) of Olivia Newton-John's hits. has left the British Perform- ing Rights Society to join BMl here.... Pete Bennett and his colleagues are holding open auditions fist the title role in their projected El.is Presley film Tuesday 123) at New f'ork's Theatre Eau from 1-6 p.m.

What's Geordie Hormel. owner of the Vlllag Recorder and ti comic Cher) Chew chattingabout^ Att the latest word out of the Village's new Studio D is that Fleetwood Mue will h.oe tts double pocket LP ready for Warner Bros ht June

Shia Nu Na is being braked for next month in the Ra- dio Cm Music Hall while the hassle over whether an of- fire building will he constructed over the venerable Lui,lnuark Continues The or spots which KRLA -AMb using tèatunng Bowser hadgenng diminutive oldies Art Imuboe are the hest .1.010;1 prvmcxt Track has seen* Cons The Copyright Societe of the U.S.A. holds i third annu.il nicctnug at (iurnrs's Inn, Montauk, L.1 N 1 11.0 ò 22 Interested parties can contact Alan Let muu, \t'5 I ,Ito ( enter. Jo \\'ashmgton Square Soul,, \,'.s \,,tl, lsiitl_

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Few Protests Continued from page 14

government. when Watergate on even tongue, when the Presiden was found to have an enemies lisk the songwriters turned away thont protest to an affirmation of the' goilness of life- the lay of respoo' stifle love. the happiness that the in!. ills 'dual can find in naturalness,' (Nun writes DAVE DEXTER



Get in on Rod Stewart's Blondes Have More Fun

(BSK 3261). It's aroused more radio

stations and soared past

Platinum sales faster than

any Rod Stewart album

in history.

Featuring the single

"Da Yaí pink I'm Sexy ?"

[WBS 8724).

Both produced by Tom Dowd.

Just released: Special 12"

disco version of the single

"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy ?"

(WBSD 8727).

Mixed by Jim Burgess.

Produced by Tom Dowd.

Management: Billy Gaff



Mo Ostin

is proud to announce

the formation of

Warner /RFC Records

with Ray Caviano

and the Warner /RFC

disco team.

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