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vention here last week. This will form the basis forat least one documentary-type video spe. (Continuedon page 181 poZjrâor POLYDOR RECORDS "Where The New Excitement Is: Advertisementr John Mayal) pausen Mandrill Chick Corea www.americanradiohistory.com "Clap For The Wolfman" Billboard * Cashbox 24 Record World 26 . ..:... APL1/AP31/APK1/APpt/APT1-0405 Thesecond hitsinglefromTheGuess Who's smashalbum, "Road Food" Their extensivetour concludesinAnchorage. Alaska on September2nd and 3rd. RCARecordsandTapes www.americanradiohistory.com Atlantic-Elektra Asylum Merger Is Postponed LOS ANGELES-The merger be- tween Atlantic Records and Elektra/Asylum Records. first an- nounced two months ago, has been postponed for a "six-month study period." The firms will operate as separate entities, and both companies are back to answering the phones by their individual names rather than the "Atlantic/Elektra/Asylum" that was in use for several weeks. Sources at both firms say the merger is still beingstudied and that reasons for the delay are executive responsibilities, office and plant planning and tax and accounting (Continued on page 70) We're the Challenger: Phonodisc Pres. Farr at Polygram Conclave By NAT FREEDLAND SAN DIEGO-With threesingles in Billboard's top 10 Since Phonodisc was-until last year's purchase by chart slots, including the UA number one disk, Paul Anka's "(You're) Having My Baby," Phonodisc presi- dent Bill Farr opened the Polygram-owned distribution companies' first national salesconventionThursday (22) at the Sheraton Harbor Island Inn, saying: "Sure we've gotadistance to go to be numberone, butaskanydealer, anychain,any rackand I amconfidentall will agree that we are performing with a growing professional excel- lence and that we are theacknowledged challenger right Farrthen introduced totheaudienceof300represent- ing United Artists, MGM and Polydor, Kurt Kinkele, Polygram executive vice president, representing the 35- nation corporation's German ownership. New LP product presented by the labels on Thursday and Friday (22-23) totalled 21 UA releases, 12 MGM LPs and 22 from Polydor. Blue Thumb Office Closed By ABC In Reorganization LOS ANGELES-ABC has closed the Blue Thumb office, fired 12 persons and has taken over all functional responsibilities for the newly acquired label. The staff was told last Monday (20) that it was no longeremployed, with only minority stockholders Tommy Lipuma and Sal Licata re- maining as of last week. However, both executives are undecided as to their future pions under the new ABC ownership situation. LiPoma has been the a&r head; Licata the label president. Bob Krasnow, a founder ofthe label five years ago, sold his stock threeweeks ago and left. Responsibility for sales, promo- tion, international and production weretransferred over to theABC or- ganization followingthepurchaseof the Famous Music family of labels three weeks ago. All of Blue Thumb's licensees have been notified lo work through ABC. A new ABC/Blue Thumb logo has been designed. Key to Blue Thumb's roster are the Crusaders, the Pointer Sisters and Dan Hicks. Among those let go were Gary Rosenberg. operations manager: Richard Wagner. sales head: Jack Hakim. West Coast promotion: Barry Resnick, East Coast promo- tion: Larry Feder, college/FM pro- motion and Candy Hill.production. Tri-City Shutters PITTSBURGH-Nick Cenci has closed his Tri-City Distributingafter losing his main Tamla/Motown line. He will return to doing inde- pendentpromotion-thearea hefirst got involved in years ago here. Tamla/Motown has been given to Merit Music in Detroit which will handle the line here and in Cleve- land. Polygram, United Artist's IS branch UDC system-Kin- keleconcentrated onexplaining thescope ofPolygram's decade-long climb from comparative smallness to the third biggest worldwide record conglomerate, trailing only CBS and EMI. Since 1962, Polygram has quintupled its sales, quad- rupled its profits, and now consists of349 separate cor- porations with more than 11,000 employees. Outlining the breadth ofPolygram's operation, Kin- kele listed its ownership of eight European pressing plants, including the Continent's largest, 21 European TV stations, videodisk interests and five management firms. He concluded by stressing theimportance to Polygram ofU.S. market penetration and pledging the total deter- /Corn/nerd on page 10) NARM Looks For More Pub Action Against Pirates By STEPHEN TRAIMAN NEW YORK-In urging even moreinvolvementby musicpublish- ers in the tape piracy battle, Na- tional Assn. ofRecording Merchan- disers (NARM) executive director Jules Malamud praises the effortsof Curtom Publishingand Camad Mu- sic in their suit againstTexaco (Bill- board, Aug. 24). At the same time, he strongly re- jects the statement by Mary Stuart, Curtom vice president, who cited "the ineffectiveness of NARM and ., existing US. copyright laws in fighting bootleg records and tapes" as reasons for the legal action. (Continued on page 14) Chess/Janus Bill Graham Org Sets New Looks to Europe Series With Local Groups For Rock Talent NEW YORK-Chess/Janus Records is stepping up its interest in European progressive rock bands with the signingofEloy (Germany), Peter Barden's Camel and The Sev- enth Wave (both England). These new signs are in addition to al- readysigned and established acts in- cluding Al Stewart (England) and Tasavalian Presidenti (Finland). Chess/Janus president Marvin Schlachter says the label was only involved in black music until two years ago, and it dominated 90 per- cent ofits product. "Wearen'ttrying to phaseoutany kind of music with this progressive music move." he says. "We arc only trying to broaden our base and be- come a complete label with interests in rock, jazz, country, r&b and blues." SAN FRANCISCO-The Bill Gra- ham concert organization inaugu- ratesa seriesofTuesday nightshows at Winterland Oct. 1 featuring ex- clusively local rock talent. There has been. since the closing ofFillmore West no forum for local bands to display their wares in con- cert. The weekend Winterland shows are dominated heavily by English bands and by American hands which have already broken big nationally. The impetus for the Tuesday series is to provide such a forum again and to recharge the energy cellsoftheSan Franciscorock scene. A local band that draws well at a Tuesday show will then be in a posi- tion to negotiate for an opening-act slot on the bigger Graham bills and to promote themselves nationally. "There hasn'tbeen much happen- /Con/inner/ on page 70) ing in San Francisco lately," corn- 3 merits Graham spokesman Jerry Pompili, who will administrate the Tuesday series as well as the regular Winterlandshows. "We've only bro- ken a few acts out of here lately. Everyone is exactly where they were whenthe Fillmoresclosed.Thisused to be Rock and Roll City. I hope these Tuesday shows can help make it that again." The Oct. 1 bill will be headlined by Earth Quake, "which I feel," says c Pompili, "is thestrongest local band Cright now."TheRubfnoos will share try that bill. Alice Stuart will headline "1 October 8, backed by Clover, Jour- ney, the new band featuring ex-San- -' tenons Gregg Rolle and Neal Schon .1 and also English drummer Aynsley Dunbar, will headline Oct. 1, with t0 Rodwing sharing the bill. Third acts will be added to each oftheseshows: OW among the possibilities are Steamin' > Freeman, Link Wray, and the new G Frank Biner Band. The Consumer: A Customers Come In Numerous Inspector, se & Moods NEW YORK-Inthesummertime when things slow down, the record retailer has a chance to study the people who walk through his doors from morning until the closing hours. There are customers who know what they want, there are customers who don't know what they want. there are browsers who merely price and sometimes make unexpected purchases ...and then there are the record store "characters." These are the type of persons you don't need but have to live with. This is an off the cuff non-chronological list of characters record shop owners meet practically every week of a normal business year. The Mouse-So-called because of his peculiar style of browsing. He enters the store, ignores the sales- men, ignores the browser bins and heads for thebackofthestore where the remainder of the stock is stored. He then bends down to get a good viewofthe lowestshelfand remains that way for several minutes. To an outsider it would appear that he is taking inventory. To a salesman's question as to what heis lookingfor. his answer is imply, "Oh. I don't know ... I just want m see whatyou got!" Why he usually chooses the obscure stock sections is a mystery. The Music Lover-This character stops in once a week merely to listen to the records other people are buy- ing; always at a busy time so as not to be noticed by inquisitive sales- clerks. When confronted he admits that he doesn't have a phonograph By FRED PERRI some Pia.' Affair .Sherp. NYC "yet" and is "justaboutready"to get one. That is, as soon as "they" come out with the follow-up to the Quad System. The Advance Release Pest-Two weeks before a new LP is scheduled hebegins his appearances.Although told to come back in two weeks he pops in every otherday with a quick "Ya got it yet?" Ofcourse. when the LP doescomeout and thedealerhas double ordered due to the many requests,you know whonevershows up for his copy. The pricer-This one asks "How much are you charging for 'Caba- ret?'" There is a strong emphasis on the word "you." Also implied is that The "Mouse,' "Home Librarian," "Collector,' "Lost Sont" and "Advance Release Pest Cartoon by Don wlndon all frequent record shops. no mater what you say. you are way out of line. The "Pricer" has a blood relative called The "Shop- per." The "Shopper" merely asks, 'What are you getting for 'Caba- ret?'" often returns and purchases thealbum.The"Pricer"doesn'tbuy. doesn't return but occasionally let's off a big blast like, "You got some nerve charging so much!" The "Shopper" will make his purchase, grumbling-"Theguy down thestreet charges 54.70 for 'Cabaret' and you're charging me 54.98" The Tout-This one is rarely seen entering a store- He enters like a sneak thief. He is only noticed when a "cash customer" seems undecided about a certain recording. Just as thiscustomeris aboutto plunkdown his moneythe"Tout" appearsoutof nowhere and tells the customer why he must get a different album and why he dare not get the one origi- nally looked at. His specialty is switching customers from buying the Soundtracks to Original Casts. 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Bandleader Quincy most comprehensive and thorough Jones' "Body Heat" has climbed to television advertising campaign Billboard's top IO with a minimum study ever made by a major label. of national advertising. The five-album push in some 15 Rick Wakeman's "Journey To markets is designed not only to sell The Center Of The Earth" is a hot records but to provide a mass ofde- title in the top 20. "The Ozark tailed information about the best Mountain Daredevils" did well fora way to use TV for record merchan- dising,according to A&M merchan- dising director Barry Grieff. "We are using a wide variety of TV spot placement approaches in the campaign and we are working five totally different types of al- buns;" says Grieff. "But the key element will be our close follow-up surveys with the par- ticipating retailers and other main stores in each market about the ef- fects of the TV on sales for at least three weeks afterward." The spots began appearing in spe- cific markers Aug. 18 and will end by early September. Time buys are being made by A&M in consultation with Doug Spellman of Vitt Media International in Los Angeles. A 30- second TV commercial for each al- bum was created by A&M'screative services department for the cam- paign. The conclusions from the current Each album chosen represents a experimental campaign will guide different marketing situation. Cat A&M's TV planning for at least the Stevens'"Buddah & The Chocolate next two years. rock group debutand is still hanging on in the top 100. Both Wakeman and the Daredevils are on concert tours and the TV coverage is coordi- nated with their dates. The final campaign album, Rita Coolidge's "Fall Into Spring," just dropped into the bottom quarter of the 200 Top LPs after 14 weeks on the chart. "We're going with saturation ad- vertising in some markets for some albums; in other situations we're taking the 'Midnight Special; 'In Concert' and 'Rock Concert' route." says Grief. "In still other instances we're picking specific programs and time slots for the messages. By the end ofSeptember, we expect to have a great deal more information about measuring the relationship of tele- vision advertising to record sales." 1-1 Ponders Paramount Put-Off m LOS ANGELES-Plans for film- - ing "No. 1 With A Bullet" have run en into a "mysterious" snag. Producer col- Al Ruddy, who was supposed to have Paramount involved in the Sproject, doesn't. And this has the < book's author Elaine Jessmer puz- zled. She's puzzled because of Para- mount's turnaround attitude. The film company has distribution ties with Motown and since the book is about a black-owned record com- pany, Ms. Jessmer feels this may have something to do with Para- mount's change ofheart. Motown has expressed concern over the story with lawsuits men- tioned. Ms Jessmer now wants to get outofher pact with Ruddy, she says, so she can legally take the property SCEPTER TO WEST COAST NEW YORK-Scepter Records has restructured is executive align- ment and established a West Coast office as part of general expansion move to increase its market strength and attract new artists to the label. President Florence Greenberg will divide her time between head- quarter offices here and the com- pany's new facility in Los Angeles, where Stanley Greenberg, vice pres- ident of a&r, will be located. Ed Kushins remains here in the role of vice president, sales and marketing, and Jack Hauptman continues as vice president, finance. Fred Frank is the new director of national promotion and East Coast a&r. He recently brought his Road Show label into the Scepter family, which also includes Wand and Hob. Top current Scepter talent in- cludes the Independents, General Crook, and the B.T. Express. Kush- ins says: "a major effort will he made to build the firm's artist ros- to some other film studio. She has obtained a lawyer and hopes to exercise a turnaround clause in her contract with Ruddy in which ifshe gives him back $50,000 she can have the film rights back. If Ruddy refuses and wishes to retain film rights, he has to pay her an ad- ditional $25,000, according to Ms. Jessmer. The book came out in June. It took her four years to write the fic- tional account of a black, family- owned record company. A former local publicist who han- dled several artists on Motown as well as several clubs which booked black acts like Pl's and Ciras, she admits the story is patterned after experiences which happened to her based on her associations with record companies, artists and night- clubs. Atlantic Sees Singles Surging: 3 Get Big Push NEW YORK-Atlantic Records, continuing its singles sales surge, has scheduled strong promotional pushes on "Honey, Honey" by ABBA, "Harem Scarem" by Focus and "1 Don't WantTo Be President" by Percy Mayfield. The label recently came of the biggest week for singles sales in its 26-year history when, for the week ending Aug. 2, a total of 1.5 million singles were sold, according to label executives. The week's activity included RIAA gold certification of Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin Love" and "Sideshow" by Blue Magic. In addition, other Atlantic-family sin- gles figuring on the Billboard Has 100 chart included entries by Eric Clapan, Dionne Warwicke and the Spinners, Fancy, Lobo, Betty Wright, Margie Joseph, ABBA and Bad Company. General News WEA photo TOPS-Mitch Huffman (left) re- ceives the Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corp.'s "Sales Manager Of The Year" Award from WEA President Joel Friedman. Presentation was made at the firm's annual sales managers meeting at La Costa, Calif. Traffic to Asylum: U.S., Canada Pact NEW YORK-Under a special U.S. and Canadian distribution agreement with U.K.-based Island Records, Asylum Records is setting a promotional and marketing cam- paign to back the group Traffic's "When The Eagle Flies" LP now slated for release Sept. 7. The campaign will coincide with the band's first U.S. tour in 13 months which begins Sept. 13 and covers some 35 dates in 33 cities. Asylum will also release a single, "Walking In The Wind" marking the first time in a number of years that the group has had a single on the market as they have been an LP oriented group. Traffic's last three LP's in the U.S. were distributed by Capitol. New Pub Firm Set By New York Times NEW YORK-The New York Times Music Publishing Corp. has formed a company with songwriters Mandel & Sachs to be known as Dorchester Publishing. Mandel & Sachs havejust completed the music and lyrics for"Gambler's Paradise," a musical to star Alfred Drake and scheduled to open in Toronto in Oc- tober. They are also working on a musical film for young audiences with Weintraub-Heller Associates, an opera to be presented at the 1976 Madewood Arts Festival. and the musical score for "Great Expecta- tions." In This 'Issue CAMPUS. 26 CLASSICAL 39 COUNTRY 42 INTERNATIONAL 50 JUKEBOX PROGRAMMING 39 LATIN 31 MARKETPLACE 40,41 RADIO 2B SOUL 37 TALENT 22 TAPE/AUDIO/VIDEO 32 FEATURES Stock Market Quotations 8 Vox Jos 28 Studio Track 26 CHARTS FM Action 38 Soul LP's 38 Hot Soul Singles 37 Hol Country LP's 46 Hot CountrySingles 45 Hot Latin LP's 31 Hot 100 64 Top 50 Easy Listening 30 Hits of theWorld 58 Top LP's 66,68 RECORD REVIEWS Album Reviews 60 Singles Renews 62 ExecutiveTurntable Four men are involved in the realignment of the a&r division ofCapitol Records in Hollywood. Rupert Perry has been appointed general manager, Bob Buaiak is executive assistant to senior vice president AI Coury, Stu Yahm moves up to executive producer and director of Capitol artist development, and Clan Daniels now is director of a&r operations. ROSICA Andrew Wickham is the new directorofcountry music forWarner Brothers Records. Wickham will be based in Burbank and will commute to Tennessee regularly. He's had seven years with the WB firm and has produced Goldie Hawn, Nancy Sinatra, Doug Kershaw and the Mighty Sparrow. ... James Frey has been appointed vice president and general manager ofPolydors clas- sical division. He is a former president ofAmpex Records. Polydor produces the Deutsche Grammophon label. John Rosira is performingtwo roles in his newjob with ABCRecords, New York. As vice president and general manager ofABC/Impulse Records, Ro- sica will be in charge ofintroducing new merchandising, promotion, advertis- ing and marketing approaches to the company'sjazz line. As manager ofthe firm's East Coast operations, he will devise the administrative groundwork and guide the staffin its day to day functions. He most recently was in charge ofmarketing at CFI Records. t After eight years with A&M Records in Los Angeles, Lance Freed moves up to executive director ofIrving/Almo Music with the firm. Freed succeeds the resigned ArtieWayne.... Peter Sale is new vice presidentofFourStar Mu- sic in Nashville. He started as an accountant; his new title includes general manager rank.... Herbert Couf, president of Royal, Music of Michigan, ac- cepts board ofdirectors position with Experience Group, Ltd....Far OutPro- ductions names Irwin Pincus director ofits music publishing subsidiary, Far Out Music, in Los Angeles. t Wooden Nickel Records adds Dave Vaughn as national promotion direc- tor. He formerly workedwith MCA and ParamountRecords.... New London Records' nationalpromotion manageris Brian Interlard,a 10-yearveteran.... Coordinating national promotion for Third World Promotions is Richard Chernel.... Folding his own firm, Dave Swaney swings over to McFadden, Strauss & Irwin Inc., to guide the public relations company's music depart- ment. He's an ex-Columbia Records man. Stan Goldstein is now affiliated with Magna Artists in Los Angeles after almost five years with the Agency ofthe Performing Arts....Rick Bloom has departed CMA and is setting up his own production-management operation in Los Angeles. Raymond J. Steiner, a Sony Corp. of America senior vice president, has been assigned marketing responsibility forall products. Also at Sony, Joe La. gore is a new vice president, sales.... Roger W. Ponto has been promoted to national sales manager and Charles L. McCabe is made special markets man- ager at Shure Brothers Inc., in Evanston, Ill. a ,. WEINSTEIN BRADLEY STANTON DAHL Peter K. Siegel has been appointed presidentofPye Records Group in the U.S. He was previously an Eleklra Records executive and for the last three years was national a&r directorofPolydor in New York (see separate story in international section).... Beverly Weinstein has been named vice president in charge ofproduction at Private Stock RecordsLtd. Priorto this, sheworked for 10years at Bell Records as a production executive, earninga vice presidency in 1971. JerryBradley has been appointed division vice presidentofNashvilleoper- ations for RCA Records. He joined the company in 1970 as an executive pro- ducer and as Chet Atkings' personal assistant.... Allen Stanton has been ap- pointed division vice president and general manager of Sunbury Music, DunbarMusicand Sunbar Productions. PriortojoiningRCA as general man- agerofmusic publishing,he resigned as vice president and general managerof the reamdy-formed Warner Bros.-Phil Spector joint venture.... Steve Dahl hasjoined Stone Country, and he will work in the college area for the Denver firm. i Scepter Records has assigned Maye James the responsibility for homing artistrelations in additionto her r&b promotion chores in NewYork.... Diane Gardinerrejoins Rogers &Cowan, Inc.,in Los Angelesas an account executive in the R&C musicdivision. She has worked previously with Atlantic, Elektra, Onces and Buddah Records on both coasts. (Continuedon page i7) www.americanradiohistory.com I, "Second Avenue' -,0020 is Garfunkel's spectacular newsingle OnColumbia Records Produced by Garfunkel and Roy Halee © www.americanradiohistory.com B Billboard®Founded 1994 The International Music-Record-Tape Newsweekly Billboard PublicatiOW, Inc., 9000 Sunset Blvd., Lm Angst., Calif. 90069 (213) 273-7040 Cable: Billboy LA: NY Telex-1320523 EDITOR IN CHIEF: Lee 2hito G.A.) EDITOR EMERITUS: Paul Ackerman (N.Y.) MANAGING EDITOR: Eliot Tiegel (L.A.) NEWS BUREAUS & REGIONAL OFFICES CHICAGO. III. 60606. 150 N. 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VOL 86 No. 36 General News Atlantic photo GLAD SHAKE-Henry Allen, right, vice president of r&b product for Atlantic Records, celebrates theeight major awards garnered by Atlantic at thisyear's NATRA convention with Paul Johnson, the label's national director of r&b promotion (see separate story). CAMPBELL ON AFRTS Vast Audience Dials Hot 100 Radio Show LOS ANGELES-American mu- sic in all its popularforms reaches an international audience of an esti- mated 50 million persons via an American Forces Radio and TV Services show hosted by Tom Campbell now in its fifth year of presentation. The 55-minute show, unlike other AFRTS programs which specialize in one form ofmusic, is builtaround playing tunes offof Billboard's Hot 100 singles survey and presenting each week a guest disk jockey who gabs about happeningsin his market and then introduces the numberone tune in this community. The guest disk jockeys are re- quested by the military listeners along the network ofmore than 500 AM-FM stations and Navy ships which air the program daily. Lasweek, forexample,Campbell received requests from overseas lis- teners for the following guest disk Chicago Judge Sets Precedent In Records Suit CHICAGO-A precedent which could save thousands of dollars in litigation expenses and avoid geo- graphical difficultieshas been estab- lished in the circuit court of Cook County, Illinois, here. Judge Donald O'Brien has ruled in the case of the Ohio Players vs. Bridgeport Music Company and Westbound Records, Inc-, that the Chicago court does havejurisdiction in the suit. In his widespread impact deci- sion, Judge O'Brien has ruled that the sale ofphonograph records and sheet music within that state do con- stitute doing business to the extent they are amenable to service and therefore, could be sued in the state. The court has ordered defendants to file an answer within 30 days, at which time the suit will be heard on its merits. Key to this ruling is that previ- ously a lawsuit had to be filed in the home office area ofthe company or person being sued. The Ohio Play- ers, based in Chicago, are faced off against the label which is based in Detroit. Representing the plowlll s. the Ohio Players, who were with West- bound and recently switched to Phonogram/Mercury, is Eliot! Kal- cheim of Wallace, Shelton. Klein- man, and Kaltheim. jockeys: Jimmy Dunlap, WQAM- AM Miami; Chris Connor, KAFY- AM Bakersfield; Dave Bishop, WJNW-AM Canton, O.; Len Scott, WWGS-AM Tifton, Ga.; Alex Dunn. WSYB-AM Rutland. Ver- month: Mike Davis. KGRL-AM Bend, Ore. and Mort Crowley, KMOX-AM St. Louis. Campbell calls allthe diskjockeys from his San Francisco home and if they are agreeable to chatting-and they usually are-he tells them when to call AFRTS to tape their greet- ings. ampbell has done 4,160 shows in the sedes and estimates his had on 2,000 different disk jockeys, several on a repeat basis. Just about every majorcontempo- rary music station has been repre- sented on the show. Campbell has even has some country disk jockeys and there has also been one classical man. The guest DJs often receive letters from listeners after their appear- ances. Whenever possible, Camp- bell has guests in the studio and among those who have spent time talking to the overseas audience are Paul Williams, the Rowan Brothers, Bill Withers, Seals and Crofts, the Guess Who, Creedence Clearwatete Revival. Sam Neely, Commander Cody, John Kaye. Dr. Hook, Alvin Lee, Bobby Blue Bland, Procul Hamm, Three Dog Night, Steely Dan, the Crusaders. Eric Bardon, Edward Bear. Flo and Eddie and Sleeleye Span. Working with the Billboard Hot 100 lets Campbell "reflect the entire United States, not just San Fran- cisco" he says. The fact that music changes so of- ten means that the program doesn't sound redundant, he claims. When Cass Elliot died several weeks ago, he highlighted her music for one week. Although he is probably San Francisco's best known radio per- sonality, he still receives requests for other Bay Area personalities and tries to get them on the show. Campbell. through his own com- mercials production company, is heard daily on 14 Bay Area stations. selling goods and services. He has been with KYA-AM. KLOK-AM and KNEW-AM and is currently talking with several stations about a new air slot. In the interim. he has just been signed by Westinghouse to host a new TV game show over KPIX five days a week called "SuperBowling." Atlantic Named In NATRA List Of Year's Best LOS ANGELES-Atlantic was named record company of the year in the National Assn. of Television and Radio Announcers Golden Mike Awards. The other winners: Tom Bell. best producer; the Temptations'"1990" as best album and Stevie Wonder's "You Are My Sunshine,' best single. Best female group: the Pointers. Best vocalists: Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye. Most promising singers: William Devon and Margie Joseph. Best in- strumental LP: Herbie Hancock's "Head Hunters." Best group: Moth- ers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers, Best mixed group: Gladys Knight and the Pips. Best male vocalgroup: the Spinners. Most promising group: Blue Magic. But promotion man: Paul Johnson ofAtlantic. NATRA awarded a $5,000 check to former disk jockey William Roy Brown. who is paralyzed forlife as a result ofan accident two years ago. `Unfair,' Says RIAA of Sun. CBS-TV Stanza LOS ANGELES-The CBS-TV news special Sunday (II) was de- scribed as "terribly unfair" by the Recording Industry Assn. of Amer- ica. A review of the program, 'The Trouble With Rock" appears on page 10 of this issue. "The CBS special does not reflect an accurate picture of the music or is broadcast industries," a spokesman for the RIAA told Billboard. "It was largely a rehash of year-old mate- 11 rial, previously well publicized. "CBS News failed to distinguish between heresay and 'reported alle- gations regarding a few. and the honest, moral, law-abiding practices s. of the overwhelming majority of I those in the music and radio indus- tries. 'The broad-brush, sweeping alle- gations presented by CBS News taint the innocent along with those few who may be guilty. This is ter- II Ably unfair. "CBS News also failed to ten its I viewers that the recording industry has taken strong action to ensure that business practices are based on II sound legal and moral principles. Over a year ago, the member corn- g panics ofthe RIAA adopted a coon- prehensive Action Program. involv- ing thorough intro-company investigations and strictstandards of employee and corporate conduct. (The RIAA represents 55 menu-facturers of sound recordings, who produce about 85 percent of the records and tapes sold in the U.S.) At CBS Records, a spokesman said that most ofthe show's accusa- tions were dealt with and refuted in the statements by CBS Records which were quoted on the show- Furthermore, CBS Records offi- cials say that they have identified the ex-CBS employee appearing on the program as James Fouratt, who left the firm some five years ago, after less than a year with the label. They state that Fouratfs separation from CBS came years before any govern- ment investigation of the record in- dustry. 'Player' Goes Up LOS ANGELES-"The Player Part I" by FirstChoice on the Philly Groove labelwas incorrectlyprinted as number 81 on the Hot Soul Sin- gles chap in last week's issue. The correct position was 61 with a star- It is now 51 with a star this week. www.americanradiohistory.com "LOWELL GEORGE IS THE CLOSEST THING TO DYLAN WE HAVE!" -Fusion "ENORMOUS POWER... TIGHT... EXPLOSIVE !" -Billboard "THEY EXPAND THE PERIMETERS OF ROCK." -Washington Post FEATS DON'T FAIL MI NOW LITTLE FEAT Includes:Rock and Roll Doctor Spanish Moon Skin It Back/The Fan rhie one JISI 4SIIIRA01 III www.americanradiohistory.com o Financial INTEGRITY ENTERTAIN- MENT CORP. (The Wherehouse), Torrance, Calif.. voted a 2-for-1 stock split to shareholders of record Aug. 30. Proposed split subject to approval ofholders Oct. 4....Craig CoryCompton. Calif.. has decided to purchaseupto50,000ofits shares from time to time....The Treasury Department plans to exclude Sony from a customs service check being made to assure Japanese television sets are not being "dumped" in the U.S. * * AMPEX CORP., Redwood City, Calif., reports increased demand for professional video recorders and communications equipment con- tributed to higher operating net earnings in the first quarter ended Off theTicker AL SCHMID You and yourguest areinvitedtobe ourguestsfordinner, any nightthisweek! Call Joe D'Amoreat PATSY D'A50H0'S VILLA CAPRI 46í5-4148 6755 Yucca Street,Hollywood July 27, compared with a year ago. Net income figures for the quarter included 113 million receivedfroma settlement reached between Ampex and IBM which ended disputes in- volving allegations of patent in- fringement and antitrust violations. Pre-cox earnings, exclusive ofthe IBM settlement, were up 51 percent overthepre-tax income for the prior year's first quarter. Richard J. Elkus, chairman, told stockholders at the annual meeting that earnings in the current fiscal year will be greater than the previ- ous fiscal year's net income of $5.4 million, or SO cents a share. t f 4 ABC, New York. says its acquisi- tion of Word Inc., Waco, Texas. is subjectto certain conditions, includ- ing a favorable tax ruling and ap- proval ofstockholders. ABC has Signed an agreement to buy Word for stock valued at about $6 million, with Word shareholders receiving up to 300000 ABC com- monsharesinexchangeforcommon and preferred shares and warrants ofWord. Word and its subsidiaries re- ported consolidated annual revenue ofabout $14.5 million last year. * * WARNER COMMUNICA- TIONS, New York. has approved the purchase of up to one million Warnercommon shareson theopen market over a period of rime. The shares purchased would he used pri- marily to provide stock required un- der options, convertible preferred stock and convertible debt obliga- lions.... CBS, New York, reports that higher rates on television ne - workbillingsresulted in a 25 percent increase in second quarter profits. * 9 * UNITED ARTISTSCORP" Hol- lywood, says the newly formed United Artists Music & Records Group had total revenue of about $107million in 1973....AHEMIn- dustries, New York. reports a $225.031 loss. or 15 centsa share,on sales of $5,540,856 for the nine months endedJune 30, compared to earnings of $596,322, or 41 cents a share, on sales of18,164,771 for the same period a year ago. ,h * WELTRON CORP" Durham, N.C., has been acquired by LCA Corp., parent company of Vanity Fair Industries. Weltron received $1.5 million in cash, with LCA cov- eringWeltron's debtsequal toitsas- sets. Weltron reportedly had annual revenue of $5 million last year.... Philips N.V., Eindhoven, the Neth- erlands, reports net income rose 13 percent in the second quarter. The company expects sales and earnings to rise about 10 percent in 1974. For the first half, earnings increased 21 percent,whilesalesrose 14 percent Ir * * MCAINC" Universal City. Calif., has prepaid three $12 million loan installments, due March 1, 1976, 1977 and 1978, on its $100 million unsecured bank loan. The loan agreementalso provides for$50 mil- lion ofunsecured revolving credit. The Literary SENSATION OF THE YEAR Is A .RECORD... Not A Book! The earth-shaking, unprecedented events in Washington now make possible release of the most provacative, poignant, shocking, bitter revelations ever to be recorded ...and these are not a part of the "Watergate" tapes. Some will be too young to grasp its full impact. Those old enough to remember their not-so-ancient history will be numbed ...perhaps revolted ... by its awesome, shocking monstrousness. Only now, in the light of whathas stunned the world, can this incredible recording be released. -^ r ' GRAMOPHONE RECORDS COMPANY Presents THE MEETING ORIGINAL MASTER PREPARED FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION BY OLIVER BERLINER (RELEASED THAT HISTORIC FRIDAY, 9 AUGUST 1974) A Service ofAUDIO INTERNATIONAL, INC- A SPECIAL TELEPHONE LINE 634 South Victory Boulevard no (2131 849-1435 HAS BEEN SET ASIDE Burbank, California 91502 U.S.A. FOR PRESS & DEALER INQUIRES Market Quotations) 1974 Lew As 01 dogleg. Thurpsy. August 22. 1974 Ham n-E ?Al High la. Mee C1ung. 29% la% ABC all 478 20% 1911 19% 4% 2% Ampex 3.7 904 9% 3% s% 3% 2 Automata Radio 7.5 45 2% 2% as 9% 6 Awe 3.5 298 r es ex 26% 12% Bet& Rowe. 3.9 250 13% 12% 13% 40% 25 CBS, 9.9 1072 3514 34% 34% 4% 2 Columbia Pictures - 99 2% as 2% 3 1% CraigCoro. 2.4 14 2 2 2 5% 9 Creative Management 26 26 3% 3 3% 52% 33 Gainey. 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Earnings Reports CREATwE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES MORSE ELECIItO PRODUCE Jmu30: 1974 1975 Revenues 4.74$.909 5a,392000 Net income 157.001 150.000 Pershere .15 13 veraged...s 1515,5$ 1,00,786 CAPITOL INDUSTelrSEM1 INC. Year to . 1974 1973 SalaSala 5141.661.030 1130.978.000 per. 9.7I0.0 5.739.000 Pasture 215 135 L00from spec. 165],8881 1507,0001 Nova*for loss m disposal and -out (2841/301 7,322080 3624.000 Pershare 1.72 113 REC01015 CORP. mn. 1974 1973 Sala 52516.000 32567.930 Net means 75800 29800 Padua, 31 .m PHILIPS N.V. 7.4.ß.m Jugs. 1974 1973 Sala 32.310.000.000 52050000.900 Ma ,come 8680080D 76.401.000 6m1Y Sala 1318000.00D 3.950000000 Netinwme 17609000 146.501000 Computed at the raider's eurent rate. CBS INC ICb1.uNa Raubt 5M gm au Jute». 1974 1973 Sala 5421.990.000 5354.2013.000 Het e ® 29520.0 23.350000 1,1_re ,.03 .82 olx- e.m Sala 174600.000 717=000 Net income 58320800 45.610009 Pashare 1.76 1.60 SCHWARTZ BROS.INC. 6,nw is Jasele. 1974 130 Sala 59.114504 3E97E151 eemcllwl (622&1 169553 ,Lware (JNl .12 maelryeaii= Sales 4556,593 3.931518 %caavmcdas) (123767) 39538 Pet Mango.) 1.101 .® IN wm Jme30: SalaNai.o c Perdare 1974 1973 717.159,000 734.151.000 1.813,125 .740553 86 57 INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS CORP. lam}sYBemwe.,Cemad1 9 seten 1914 1973 Sala 5168.101,000 5140550.000 Heisbonle 1.035800 1431,000 Pechart .11 .15 ABsto INDUSTRIES INC. 3rd qr. to June. 1914 Revaue 51.615.905 Net income Ilari I8/1761 Perahare(loss/ 1.051 aaa.e Remnue 5.154040556 Net incomePoo) (1230111 Persharedoss) .151 Restate. 1973 51.45.514 169.9231 /.041 Ile/771 555,522 .41 AMPEX CORP. 1st gr. so John: 1974 130 eseenon 564.495,030 562000.000 Income h,.615.000 591800 sEUraadinaryeredit 5,510.000 278E00 eNamw,m 613.125.003 88800 aPee share .70 85 -Raul an income before ao.odiwyaediL 13-Includes pram insure sells million received Rem IBM seulemeot of andar.and you.Stig.. don. c-Taa-ke any.fo ta,d. .-Equal to 51.11 shoe in 1974 and eight ants awe a 1973. INTEGRITY SMTBTAINMEAT IThe Wheremmel Yew le J.mJO 194 Salm 522279527 Ne, 830687 arab.ae 35 k,.ópada Salo 5.822991 Natname 555.087 Offshore X a-FlJIy diluted. 130 5121®.517 216.691 .16 3414581 59.175 .04 GOODY, SAIN INC 6 me I0 Áe34 194 1973 Saks 515.626950 515551.353 Nnisemesgen1 167 PerenteaoN) it (Zx411' www.americanradiohistory.com SEXIS NOT THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING "LOVE IS THE ANSWER"by Van McCoy &The Soul City Symphony AV 4639 TOM McLAINE, Program Director, CKGM/Montreal: "That horn intro carries it all the way. It's a total smash-number four after only four weeks of airplay." JOHN BETTENCOURT, Program Director, KL1V/San Jose: "Record reached top ten. Heavy phones and wide demographics." DEAN TYLER, Program Director, WIP/Philadelphia: "Excellent listener response. Sounds great on the air. Very good sales reports." RON VANCE, Program Director, WING/Dayton: Have had very strong phone requests....lt has reached top ten here in Just two weeks." DAVC0 www.americanradiohistory.com 10 300 at Polygram Conclave 55 UA, MGM, Continuedfrompage 3 mination of Polygram to win the major share of this market. "Weestimate that Polygramlabels presently have at best a 5 percent share ofthe US. market, whereas in other major nations our share ap- proaches 30 percent," said Kinkele. "Although dollar de-evaluation has brought the U.S. share of total world's recording sales down in the past 10 years from 53 percent to 40 percent, it is still the world's biggest single market, as well as the most important single source of new trends, which is perhaps equally vi- tal to a worldwide music corporation such as ours." Don England, Phonodisc vice president for sales, said, "Sometimes I think we'd be a lot better off ifwe 7" - 33's LITRE LP's We also make big LP s-45 x- 8 tracks- cassetles Write for Price List New York Office 160 Pest 66th St. 12121 956-3186 Philadelphia Plant. 925 N. 3rd Street, Philadephie 12151 MA 7-2277 PLASTIC EXPOERS AMERICA 925 NORTH THIRD STREET PHILADELPHIA. PA. 19123 PHONE 12151627 2277 LABEE PLasrrx PHlta_ Pp. Highest prices paid far vinyl scrap, LP's, 45's & overstocks didn't have these crazy identi- fications; sales, merchandising. pro- motion. Maybe we should eliminate these time-worn old tags and all be called record marketing specialists. "The days are over when a sales- man's entire catalog checklist was probably on one 81/2 x I I sheet To- day's record salesman has got to be a merchandiser, an advertiser, an in- ventory expert and aware ofmusical trends," said England. "The days of the finger popper and shades are over. A promo man mast be aware of every marketing nuance which can be employed to generate sales." England cited four areas for spe- cial attention to his 0eldmen: "I know only loo well it's a natural tendency to go after the easy billing ofbig accounts. But there's also a lot of busineu out there in smaller ac- counts which can be the difference in hitting or missing your monthly targets. I want that broad base of smaller account represeniation. "Sell the product line. Tape now represents nearly 25 percent of ourLP business and up to 50 percent in the soul category. And the DCC line is a great catalog ofthe most dis- tinguished classical product in the world. Itshould he said as a line that accounts cannotbe without. lamnot concerned about whether you can pronounce the composer's name as long as you can sell it. "Sell catalog. Take inventories, bring up the levels and fill in the holes. 'Support artist tours. When an artist is in your territory his product should be pre-sold, advertising plans laid and merchandising and promotional tie-ins consummated well in advance ofthe performance dates." PolydorInc. presidentGil Beltran, introducing his division's product presentation at the convention, said, -Themostcrucial decisions in a record company are very subjective deci- sions. There is no such thing as a sure hit. We're dealing with intangi- bles, gamblingand takingcalculated risks every time a decision is made. The only way to succeed is to in- crease the efficiency ofallocating re- sources to potential hits-before we know in actuality what they are." Beltran hailed the distributors as an integral part of the system, say- ing, "You are our arms and as such, you must not only take our product to the consumer butalso return to us with the facts and figures that repre- sent both positive and negative reac- tions ofthat complex demographic, so that we can make a timelyshift in our efforts if necessary." ov 4.104, Polydor LPs In. Presentation SAN DIEGO-The 1974 Phono- disc convention showcased 55 al- bums from United Artists and Polygram-owned MGM and Poly- dor. These counts includeall subsid- iary and custom labels. The UA LPs are from Paul Anka, Bonzo Dog Band, Vernon Burch, Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, Bobby Goldsboro (a 10th anniver- sary set), Ferrante & Teicher, Elec- tric Light Orchestra, Hawkwind, Don McLean, Ike and Tina Turner, Roy Wood's Wizzard and country artists Charlie Louvin and Slim Whitman. Releases on UA's Blue Notejazz line represent Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, Ronnie Foster, Gene Harris, Bobby Hutcherson, Duke Pearson, Monti Santos and Wayne Shorter. Bob Cato, UA's creative service director, designed the audio/visual program. MGM's fall lineup has LPs from the Osmonds, plus the new duo of Marie and Donny Osmond, Sammy Davis Jr,JimStafford,Johnny Bris tot and the Sylers. MGM country boasts Semi Jo, Hank Williams Jr., Eddy Arnold and Sherry Bryce. Wesley Rose's Hickory label will release LPs by Roy Acuff Jr., Redd Stewart and the Plainsmen. The multimedia product show was de- signed by Soto Productions. Polydor releases showcased are by Mandrill, Chick Corea, James Brown, John Mayall, Lighthouse, Richie Havens, Roy Ayers, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, Power ofAttorney, Barclay James Harvest, Link Wray, Rory Gallagher, Sweet Charles, Rare Bird, Joe Simon and the Atlanta Rhythm Section. The ECMjazz line fromGermany is going with Gary Burton, Study Cowell, Benny Maupin and Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stevenson quartet. DOG's John Frey, during his presentation, covered active catalog and reissues. Trust Will Give Funds Continuedfrompage I recently by the trustee to the New Yorkstate attorney general, declared that piracy was draining the MPTF of SI million annually (Billboard, Aug. 24), which represents about 11 percent of MPTF's yearly take. One ofthe snags facing the Fund in its fight against piracy is the fact that it is a public trust and as such cannot be a lobbying group. There- fore, any antipiracy campaign most be conducted in other ways. An MPTF report issued last week slates that it received $9.572.781 during the 10 months ending April 30 from contract signatories as com- pared to $8,519,596 received for the year ended June 30. 1973. Disburse- ments based on musical perform- ances in the IO months ending April 30, 1974 were $7,786,297 as com- pared to the year-end June 30, 1973 figure of$8.390337. Other figures ofsignificance show that total receipts, which include monies from co-sponsors, interest, etc., were $11,823,879 for the 10- month period ending April30, 1974. Receipts fortheyear ending June 30, 1973 totaled $12,272,284. Total dis- bursements in the 10-month period ending April 30, 1974 were $10,402,- 100; in theyearended June 30, 1973, disbursements totaled $12,433,089. Country Music Rates Top Parley Attention SAN DIEGO-An outspoken country music panel at the Phono- disc convention hammered home the point that country product is a lucrative and booming 16 percent of total U.S. record sales and deserves more active merchandising support than it has as a rule received in the past. On the dias were Jimmy Bowen, MGM's president; Bob Alou, MGM's national country promotion manager; Larry Butler, UA's coun- try a&r director; Jack Messier, UA's countrysales director; Lynn Schub , UA's national country promotion director; Wesley Rose. president of Hickory Records and Dan Mc- Kinnon, owner of San Diego's top country station KSON-AM. Chair- man was Jim Wilson, Phonodisc country marketing vice president. Messier said "Country product should be able to pay the rent for a label because of its unique staying power. The sales of LPs and lapes are getting almost equal in this field. Some LPs sell as much tape as LPs and country bootlegging is a partic- ularly active branch of piracy." Rose said: "A country artist doesn't depend on his next single to keep the catalog moving. It's not un- common today for a country record to sell 600,000 units without any cross-over. Hickory has seven full- time promotion men covering the entire country, not just chart report- ing stations." Bowen said: "Country should be the bedrock of every label. Before Capitol got the Beatles, itwas paying the bills with its country line and the same thing holds for MCA before Elton John. Also, a hit country LP That sells as many units as a rock LP probably cost in the studio less than one-fourth ofthe $85,000-$90,000 a rock star is likely to spend." Schulls said: "Country radio de- mographics are exploding. In some of the smaller major markets like Houston, in a given month the top countrystation has beaten out all the rock stations forthe numberone city ratings. A station like KLAC-AM in Los Angeles is sold out in advertis- ingavailability 60 days in advance." McKinnon told how KSON-AM in the early 1960s was a bankrupt station whose previous owner had committed suicide. Since eventually settling on a country format it now holds San Diego's highest adult rat- ings, though still trailing rockers for the teen audience. Butlersaid: "United Artists coun- try has hitartists who should be con- sistently selling two to three times more than they do. I'm going to work strong independent producers and go for a wider commercial sound." Aleo said: "Mel Tiflis sells more records at his own concerts than in stores and that's a shame. Too many promotion men ignore the country stations in their territory simply be- cause of fear of the unknown. They're not familiar with the artists or the program director or music di- rector. We also need to be more in- sistent about getting into the racks. In lower population areas, like Ar- kansas or Idaho, most ofthe custom- ers pick up records along with their groceries." BACK TO RETAILERS New Merchandising Trend? SAN DIEGO-John Shire, second in command at the high volume six- store Tower Records California re- tail chain, told the Phonodisc con- vention that the forefront ofaggres- sive merchandising is passing back from rackjobbera to retailers. "This is good for the record labels because retailers help sell your en- tire catalog," said Shire. "We do not dictate record product policy as do the racks who willonly stock top hits on their restricted shelfspace, in or- der to get the yearly turns they most have." He maintained that the taste of the young consumer has broadened extensively in recent years, "it's cool for a kid to buy the kind ofmusic he likes himselfnotjust whatever hap- Delegates Enjoy Two Strong Shows SAN DIEGO-Although plagued with last minute shifts due to a pair of unavoidable major star cancella- tions, the Phonodisc convention still boasted a strong live entertainment lineup. The Friday (23) banquet was headlined by MGM's country cross- over artist Semi Jo and introduced Vernon Burch, a former Bar Kay who also played lead guitar on the original Isaac Hayes "Shaft" hit. Thursday's (22) festivities began with a country show featuring MGM's Don Gibson and new UA artists Sunday Sharpe and Calico. The focus shifted to cross-overjazz with the high energy solo debut of Blue Note's Gene Harris, former keyboardiat ofthe Three Sounds. pens to be in with his peer group," said Shire. He attributed a large part of Tower's success to discounting cur- rent hits and maintaining full cata- log stock. "Rock hits bring in the kids, but it takes both hits and catalog to bring in the adults." he said. Shire called it a primary responsi- bility to music for major labels to maintain in stock outstanding older recordings. He particularly singled out MGM with its Verve jazz catalog in the vaults. "All the Verve titles are still being pressed in Japan so we may just import them as we do with im- portantnew European new releases. "Keeping specialty tides active, . whether blues, classical, folk or spo- ken word, should not be leftsolely to the poverty labels which are con- stantly struggling tostay alive." 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He believes that the industry, from manufacturer, to marketer, dis- tributor, sub-distributor. one-stop. rackjobber and retailer, recognizes the requirement ofmaking a reason- able profit over coat. Another effect of this new matu- rity is a stronger, more stable man- agement in the various industry seg- ments. "The industry, in aiming to be profitable, recognizes a need for better management. It takes good management to sell for profit. The spasmodic view ofthe past has been replaced by the key concept ofaim- ing to be profitable." Simon recognizes that stronger management results in higher bat- ting averages, better controls in budgeting, more information flow on inventories, royalties, etc., better use of computers than ever before, smaller artist roster, and a tighter nucleus ofmanagement people with a mom professional approach. 'The business is still great fun, but the kicks come in bring creative and profitable." MCA photo w COOL IDEA-MCA offers free Phoebe snow cones to patrons at Tower Fn Records in Los Angeles to help promote the group's new Shelter single, "Let The Good Times Roll." The snow conemachine with its plug forthe group will move around to Wherehouse and Licorice Pizza locations this month. Receiv. ingtheir goodies are from the left: Dennis Morngan, MCA's national LP pro- motion director; Wayne Tappin, sales manager for the Los Angeles branch; Don McGregor, local promotion manager; Dino Airali, Phoebe's manager and Ron Henry, Shelter's general manager. NARAS Adds 3 to Committee LOS ANGELES-Bill Lowery, national president ofNARAS, has named three more record executives, David Geffen, Ken Glancy and Russ Regan, to posts on his president's advisorycouncil,bringingthe total membership ofthis committee to 18. Other members include Ahmet Ertegan, Berry Gordy, Jay Lanker, God- dard Lieberson, Mike Maitland, Tony Martell, Bhaskar Menon, Jerry Moss, MoOstin, Marvin Schlachter, Jerry Schoenbaum,Joe Smith, Irwin Steinberg, Jim Stewart and Michael Stewart. The council was created two years ago to form a closer working relation- ship between theAcademy and the industry,and to make available to NARAS the benefits of top industry leaders' advice and counsel regarding Academy matters. New _Companies Velvet Productions has been formed in Los Angeles to operate in the areas ofsong placement, promo- tion and public relations, Claudia Rossetti is president ofthe firm,with Donald Tegeler handling song placement, Claire Silverman is vice president and comptroller and Vic- tor Rappoport is senior legal coun- sel. The firm is a division ofRossetti Enterprises, and initial clients in- clude singers Michael Allen and Harold Dumont and September Music, * * * Ron Terry opens Eagle Artists in Los Angeles and is working with Leon Russell, Isis, Sons of Cham- plin. Trapeze and Babe Ruth. He was formerly with Pinnacle Artists. Marty Otelsberg heads business af- fairs for the company. t r You & Me Management Inc. has been formed in New York by Dan Henderson,John Carter and Cecilia Foster. The (mnstarts with three art- ists under contract-Gil Scott-He- ron, Brian Jackson and Frank Fos- ter. Principles of the company have been involved in music publishing, management and promotion in past industry associations. t r * Burnett Bynum has formed Cargo Records and Bynum Music Publish- ing in Philadelphia. Musician/ar- rabger Burnett Bynum heads the firm and is preparing his first record for release in October. A newly-formed corporate entity to be known as Don Kirshner Pro- ductions has been launched by Kirshner with Merrill Grant, a for- mer vice president ofViacom Enter- prises, assuming the presidency of the new firm. DKP will concentrate on television productions. * ** Sutom Music has been formed in Hollywood by singer Sue Thomp- son. Jerry Barber is vice president and writerLeland Lawrence is being published by Summ. **r In Philadelphia, Molly Records is launched by Tommy Monte and Danny Luciano of Monte-Luciano Productions. They are rushing out their lust single by The Three ofUs. a Philly group. * ** Former lead singer with the Plat- ters, Sonny Turner, starts his own Sonny label in Atlanta. * * * Don Dorsch, a former officer and co-founder of Continental Artists Inc. in Memphis, has left that firm and formed his own booking and management firm, Don Dorsch In- ternational Inc. Other principals are Eddie Davis, vice president, and Jewell Holder, secretary. Arranger- producer Steve Wollner has formed Utopia Records. The Santa Ana, Calif., label will deal primarily with pop and country recordings, and the publishing wing is Early Bird Music affiliated with BMI. Ash, Pianist, Dies LOS ANGELES-Requiem mass for Marvin Ash, 59,jazz pianistwho had recorded as a soloist for Capitol and other labels, was held Saturday (24) following his death of a heart attack. Born in Kansas City. Ash had worked with Jack Teagarden. Wingy Manone and the Bob Crosby bands. Pam Mahl photo SURPRISE RIDER-Stevie Wonder surprises the Supremos during their ree' dltion of "Love Train" while performing at Magic Mountain outside Los An- geles. NARM Looks For Action Continuedfrompage 3 The suit seeks to establish the im- portant precedent of corporate re- sponsibility for the actions of its agents (franchised stations) that sell alleged pirate product. Malamud welcomes similar and more concerted action by other mu- sic publishers, since he claims their efforts to date, while important (Marks Music vs. Colorado Magnet- ics, Dutchess Music vs. Stern, etc.). have been for less extensive than those of record companies. He points out that for years NARM, the Recording Industry Assn. of America and the Country Music Assn. have been fighting pi- racy 365 days a year. 'The coopera- tive efforts ofthe industry organiza- tions am responsible for producing the Federal bill and laws in more than halfthe states," he notes. Malamud feels that Federal au- thorities (the FBI) and most state law enforcement agencies have been extremely cooperative with industry efforts. He recapped how NARM Shoppers Reports, utilized by thou- sands ofemployees ofNARM mem- ber companies and other dealers throughout the country, have pro- vided invaluable information to the FBI and state legal officials. As proof of the recent success of law enforcement efforts, Malamud points to the sentencing on Aug. 16 of Richard Take (Billboard, Aug. 24L the man who has been referred to as "the nation'sbiggest tape boot- legger." He also notes that in addition to the associations' joint efforts, many individual record companies have been spending huge amounts of time and money in lawsuits against bootleggers, mentioning Columbia, A&M, WEA and Mercury, among others. Malamud states that on a recent cross-country trip he personally wit- nessed the "flagrant sales ofpirated precinct in gas stations and truck stops from California to the East Coast." He also relates a new gimmick- some sellers ofillegal tapes are mix- ingthem with a small quantity ofle- gitimate label cutouts. Ata Standard Oil company owned station, the managerclaimedhe wasn't aware he was selling bootleg product, and pulled out several legit cutouts, pointing out the company logos and other legal identification. "But 90 percent of the tapes were pirated;" Malamud says, "and the great ma- jority was P product and subject to the Federal Copyright Act. "It would seem to me," Malamud concludes, "that rather than dis- parage any efforts in the fight against pirated product, the various industry segments should seek every opportunity to augmentand support each other's efforts. We know what infra-industry cooperation has done so far ... and welcome more music publishers into the battle." MOVIEREVIEW Old British Pink Floyd Flick Not One of Season's Best SAN FRANCISCO - "Pink Floyd," being billed as "More than a movie! An Explosive Cinema Con- cert!" has opened at theaters around the country. Produced by Adrian Maben. the movie was done about two years ago and has been showing in England. The film is not particularly explo- sive and certainly not "more than a movie." It is, in fact, rather dull, unimaginative and hokey and does not do justice to the Pink Floyd vi- sion. Most of the film was shot while the band played a lonely set in a ruined amphitheatre in Pompeii, the city south ofNaples. Other film was shot in the studio, and much of the movie seems to swivel around scenes in a greasy spoon where we watch the boys eat close up and hear them do clever things like ordering apple pie with- out the crust. Some of the scenes from Pompeii are enchanting but the idea is over- worked. The footage of the band is spliced with floaty film of ancient statues and artifacts, sunstruck shots ofthe boys cavorting carelessly over the hills. and cheap psychedelic-at- mospheric stuff that looks leftover from the mid-sixties mixed-media show. In short, the movie does not do what any good movie must-itdoes not make a statement of its own. The tunes performed include: "Echoes I and II." "Dark Side Of The Moon." "Careful With That Axe, Eugene." "Saucerful Of Se- crets,"'lone OfThese Days I'm Go- ing To Cut You Up Into Little Pieces." "Set The Controls For The Heart OfThe Sun," and a bitof"Us And Them'-mostly older stuffthat does not focus on the ongoing Floyd vision. JACK MCDONOUGH www.americanradiohistory.com SILfl't'L JG GOLD. AGAIN:Yep,just fourweeks ago, we shipped The Tymes single, "You LittleTrustmaker,"witha golden guarantee. Result: big numbers on all three charts already. And now... REJi jIO1J"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled lie)" We are putting ourselves on the line.Another winner all the way. You'll get it, play it and sell it. Orwe'll eat it. RCARecordsandTapes www.americanradiohistory.com II 16 General News W. Va. Federal Attorney Wages A Personal Antipiracy Campaign Ken vender photo With "extraordinary" investi- KINGS SIGN-Ittakes a big pencil for the King Family to sign a contract. This satire assistance from FBI agents one is fora TV promotion Christmasalbum being produced forLanginesSym- from Pittsburgh, informed coopera- phonette by Concept Marketing International. Longines' Bill Bell is below Lion oflocal legit retailers and indus- Kings at the left. try liaison through the Justice Dept. criminal division, Field builta series ofkey cases overa period ofseveral months in 1973. A grand jury returned tape piracy indictments against a wholesaler, a 40-store discount retail chain and a local "make-a-tape" operation, and Field announced a major crack- down on illegal music trafficking in the district. CHARLESTON, W. Va.-The youthful U.S. attorney for the West Virginia southern district confides that a bad personal experience with bootleg tapes first alerted him to the piracy problem. And he's been after pirates ever since. "I bought four cheap tapes around Christmas, 1972," recalls John A. Field III. "The quality of tapes these bootleggers put out is awful. Three of the tapes went bad in two weeks. l took the tapes back to the dealerand he said he couldn'tbe responsible.) asked whomade them. He wouldn't answer my question." Field, unlike the thousands of common customers who have been similarly burned in the music mar- ket. had recourse. And the result has been the most aggressive and effec- tive enforcement of federal copy- right law outside the major music markets. NARAS 'Fame' Ballots Mailed NEW YORK-Members of NARAS will be receiving their ini- tial nomination forts for entriesreeg into the NARAS Hall of Fame this Sweek. All recordings released prior jto the start of the Grammy Awards m in 1956 are eligible, and entries will 7. compose the initial nominated mrecordings submitted to the 90-man Elections Committee. Their votes M will pare down the list to 25 final ONE-STOP OLDIES SOURCE HAVE EVERY OLDIE EVER TO MAKE THE BILLBOARD CHARTS, 1955 THRU 1971. JUST ABOUT EVERY HIT EVER TO MAKE BILLBOARD 1950 TO 1954. Please Copy the Following Address for Your Future Wants. ONE-STOP 6375 Vine Street Vancouver V6M 4A9 B.C. CANADA nominations and then a second round ofvoting will determine next year's five entries into the Hall of Fame. A Hall of Fame committee has been formed to further develop the NARAS Hall ofFame concept and its voting procedures, and to assist co-chairmen Paul Weston and Frank Jones. Members include Murray Men, Brooks Arthur, Jay Cooper, Bill Denny, Lew Green, John Hammond, Goddard Lieber- son, Lincoln Mayorga, Wesley Rose, F.M. Scott Ill and John Scott Trot- ter. Junks Mail Orders; Mojo Signs Distribs LOS ANGELES-Although he launched his Mojo Records as a mail-order venture originally, or- ganist Jimmy Smith this week switched channels and now is setting up a skein of national distributors because of the inquiries he's getting for his "Paid In Full," LP. Buyers insist on waiting until an album is available in discount shops," says Smith. "With our com- ing distribution network we'll be able to accommodate them." ,SPO ó °GpJs \S 1/AS) O\Q13`. The firms were subsequently con- victed in U.S. District Court and fined. While in at least one case Field considers the sentence a mere slap on the wrist, he understandsthe per- spective of the Federal Judges in viewing copyright crime with much less gravity than kidnaping, bank robbery and drug dealing. In his personal legal view (not to be construed as that of the Justice Dept.), copyright violations under provisions ofthe currentfederal law, are properly a misdemeanor. In this regard he differs with the proposed Kastenmeier Antipiracy Bill, which would make unauthorized dupli- cation a felony. RIAA Record _Winners_ Albums Beach Boys' "Endless Summer"on Capitol; disk is group's tenth for the label although they no longer record there. Stylistics' "Let's Put It All To- gether" on Arco. Eric Claptnn's "461 Ocean Boule- vard" on RSO. Singles Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Mak-. in' Love" on Atlantic. The Hollies "The Air That I Breathe" on Epic. Blue Magic's"Sideshow"on Ateo. Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby" on UA. Papedace's "The Night Chicago Died" on Mercury. By RAY BRACK Field says he favors "stiffening the misdemeanor penalties, partic- ularly for larger firms and repeat violators. I'd favor fines up to $25,000 so that somebody big would know they've been penalized." Federal law could also be im- proved, Field suggests, by "putting intostatute a presumption that who- ever possesses five or more of the same illegal sound recording has the intention of violating the copyright law. Right now you have to prove that violators are willfully using the recording for profit." Both Rep. Robert W. Kasten- meier, Chairman of the House Copyright Subcommittee, and Rep. Jerome R. Waldie, the California Democrat who is concerned about losses to a major constituent indus- try, have called forcorrection of"se- rious deficiencies" in the current law, which epires December 31. In "dealing with" enforcement of the misting law, Field, a self-con- fessed music fan ( "In high school I was on top of all the hits"), has on occasion made purchases himself. It was his purchase ofan illicitcopy of Jams Taylor's "One Man Dog" LP which led to the successful prose- cution ofone ofthe largest and fast- est growing discount chains in the Mid South. Gathering evidence against a "make-a-tape" operator. Field conducted a buy-duplication transaction himself and wound up on the stand in the trial at the insist- ence of the defense. Though Field pores over the Dept of Justice computer readouts on protested product, he relies heav- ily on local retailers such as Max Turner for accurate advice when he runs across suspect tapes. He esti- mates there are "hundreds" of out- lets for illegal tapes in his district, and he refuses to accept the notion that a lot ofsuch dealers are naive about the legitimacy of their stock. "They know what tapes should cost, but it's the old story. There's a little larceny in everybody." In his zeal to curb the moonshine music racket, Field loses no oppor- tunity to identify himself and issue warnings to dealers. Not long ago a truck stop owner was accosted by a young man with longish hair. wear- Christian Solos Basis For New Tony Rizzi Unit LOS ANGELES-Tony Rizzi and four other guitarists unveiled a new septet last week at Donte's built around the legendary guitar wiz- ardry of the late Charlie Christian. The solos are carefully transcribed from original disks made a quarter- century ago when Christian was fea- tured with the Benny Goodman Sextet. Bob Cooper on tenor sax and Charlie Shoemake's vibraphone also are part ofthe Rizzi unit, which returns to Donte's Aug. 30-31. The act, patterning its music on solos by a well known jazz per- former, follows a similar path taken by Supersax which uses Charlie Parker solos as the foundation forits ensemble sound. Bah Parker and Christian were pioneers injazz. Supersax, ofcourse. has become a prominent act in per- son and on Capitol where it has done two albums. No record affiliation has been firmedyet forthe new guitargroup. ins dungarees and an old shirt, who had driven up in an old van sporting window curtains. To his astonish- ment, the owner was authoritatively informed that he was dealing boot- leg tapes in violation of federal law and informed brusquely what the penalty would be ifhe continued in violation. "I'd forgotten how I was dressed," Field laughs. "So I had to show him my Justice Department Identi- fication." Field is concerned whatWest Vir- ginia "seems to be a manufacturing and distribution center" for illegal music. Asked if his investigations have turned up evidence of organ- ized criminal activity in these areas, the 36-year-old prosecutor, while ac- knowledging "it would be a fertile field for organized crime," says he has no knowledge ofsuch activity. West Virginia's legitimate music dealers, whileapplaudingField's ef- forts, feel his campaign was under- mined seriously by the failure ofthe West Virginia legislature in a recent session to pass a strong anti-piracy law. Field admits to surprise at the legislature's failure to act following effective industry testimony, includ- ing appearances by ex-West Vir- ginians Tom T. Hall and Billy Edd Wheeler. In the debateoverthe bill, the leg- islature was troubled by an argu- ment that Field says he's "gettingall the time" from opponents in tape pi- racy cases. It's the price gouge argu- ment, and it's one Field thinks people listen closely to in these days of heightened consumer conscious- ness. Some West Virginia legislators ac- cused major record companies of over-charging for 8-track tapes, drawing analogies with major oil companies on the cost of gasoline. Pirates were equated with consumer advocacy. Foldobserves, 'There maybean- otherside to this. Thatis the idea the legitimate'industry is holdingup the publicon prices. I get this argument all the time. So there may be some room for introspection here on the part of the industry." Meanwhile, Field continues ac- tive in prosecution ofcopyright law violators. with emphasis on repeat offenders. "I plan to go back now and see how many of the retailers we've prosecuted are complying. They've been put on notice." he says. For while the courts and most other federal prosecutors may view copyrightcrime as a lesser violation, Field disdains such distinctions. "! intend to prosecute everything that comes across my desk," he insists. Faces' RonWoodon Road Exploiting LP NEW YORK-Ron Wood, a member of the Faces, is embarking on a national promotion tour to push his first solo album, "I've Got My Own AlbumToDo," on Warner Bros. Records. The tour encom- passes New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. Denver,San Francisco and Los Angeles. The album, which is being made available next week, includes guest artists such as Mick Jagger, George Harrison, Rod Stewart and ex-Sly and the Family Stone drummer Andy Newmark. www.americanradiohistory.com General News Monopoly Plea Out, Court Says EmersonLoew Photo THEY'VE GOT RHYTHM-Polydor Records holds a party to promote the At- lanta Rhythm Section, new group, that began with a short stop at Atlanta Gov. Jimmy Park Carter's office. Left to right are Buddy Buie, Atlanta Rhythm Section producer; Jerry Schoenbaum, head of Polydor Records; Bill Lowrey and Carter. Group's first LP is "Third Annual Pipe Dream." Promo- tion continues during date in New York Wednesday to Sunday (14-18) at Max's Kansas City. Graeme Edge Promo NEWYORK-London Records is backing the Graeme Edge Band de- but single "We Like To Do It"with a major marketing and promotional campaign. Coinciding with the campaign. the group will kick offa promotional visit to the U.S. Monday (26), and will visit such markets as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. London. meanwhile, recently held a mini-meeting involving all sales and promotional personnel from the eight Northeastern states serviced out of the label's New Jersey ware. Libra Goes With 'People' Promo NEW YORK-Libra Records has set a. national 12-distributor net to handle its original cast album ofthe off-Broadway sex musical "Let My People Come." The label is also making easel displays available for dealers, and has shortened and "cleaned up" several tunes from the album for release as singles. The show, written by Earl Wilson Jr., is also due fora series ofconcur- rent satellite runs. It opens in Lon- don .Aug. 29, and other showings will be held in Paris and several U.S. cities. Libra distributors include Alpha in New York, All-South in New Or- leans, Universal in Philadelphia, MS in Chicago, Bib in Charlotte, N.C., Tone in Miami, Arc-Jay-Kay in Detroit, Eric Mainland in San Francisco, Action Music in Cleve- land, Big State in Dallas, Supreme in Cincinnati,and Joseph M. Zamoiski in Baltimore. house and shipping depot. Herb Goldfarb. vice president of marketing and sales, says that the firm will continue to hold this type of meeting in all of the company's major sales/promotion centers to "strengthen and consolidate" the la- bel's sales and promotion efforts. Chuck Goldstein of Modernaires Dead FORT LEE, N.J.-Charles "Chuck" Goldstein, 59, founder of the Modernaires singing group and president of Chuck Goldstein Pro- ductions, died here Aug. 18. The group was formed by him while he was still in high school and it went on to perform with Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring and Glenn Miller in the heyday of the big bands. Goldstein is survived by the widow, Ruth: a daughter, a son, two sisters and four grandchildren. College Prof Issues `Silent Music' Disk NEW YORK-Jerry Cammarata. the Ncw York college professor who recently broke the world's record for the longest time spent singing in the shower, has released auditory Memory. an LP record described as the longest silent musical composi- tion ever written. The composition, 52 minutes. 10 seconds long, has already been en- tered into the Guinness Book of World Records, and, according to Cammarata, is available in cassette, 8 -track and open reel configura- tions. LExecutiveTurntable Cautbmed from page 4 New presidentofAudio Dynamics Corp. (ADC),subsidiary ofBSR, is Vic- tor Amador, former president of Acoustic Research. He succeeds Peter Prit- chard, who resigned effective Sept. 13. John Bubbers, former AR vice presi- dent, engineering, is now ADC vice president and general manager. a new post. Frank Dolik, formerly with Richard Drew Associates. has been named na- tional advertising and public relations managers ofAiko Corp., distributor of home and auto cassette players ...Mel Hunger has the new post ofvice presi- dent sales. forC. Itoh Electronics, Inc. He had been vice president, marketing and new products, for Benjamin Electronic Sound, duties taken over by Paul Gonzalez., national sales manager. * At Arvin Consumer Products. two new posts have bone to J. Pat Ellis,now vice president, consumer electronics sales. and Eugene Hittle, named vice president, consumer electronics product planning... ChristopherWright, for- mer CBS Records director ofmarketing, planning, operationsand budget, has been named marketing and sales manager for Advent Corp.'s Video Beam projection TV system. ALBUQUERQUE. N.M. - A Federal District Court here has ruled that an unlicensed duplicator being sued for unfair competition cannot use as his defense the claim that the legitimate company is at- tempting to monopolize the business and is therefore in violation ofanti- trust laws. The court also held that unli- censed duplicating violates the com- mon law of New Mexico, and that the compulsory license provision of the Federal Copyright Act does not give anyone a right to copy the recordings ofothers. U.S. District Court Judge Howard Bratton rendered that decision in dismissing a counterclaim by Copy Rite Recordings Inc.. and its head. Herbert "Speedy" Newman in a suit 'brought against them by CBS Inc. Croce Tribute Available Free LOS ANGELES-ACanadian ra- dio station is offering a 90-minute tribute to the late Jim Croce free to any American station interested. The show features 22 of his songs and actual interviews with the per- former plus comments from people who reportedly witnessed the crash ofthe private plane the singer was in at the time ofhis death. Interested stations should contact Chuck Mitchell. CJON, Box 2020, SI. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The Canadian outlet airs the special Sept. 21. Saxie Dowell Dies; Was Musician-DJ SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Susie Do- well, long featured with the late Hal Kemp's dance orchestra and a for- mer WGN-AM disk spinner in Chi- cago, died here last month. He was 70. II was Dowell's Navy band which was playing on the U.S.S. Franklin in the South Pacific when it was critically damaged in 1945. but the crippled ship somehow made its way back to Philadelphia and none of the band members perished. Dowell, a singer and composer. was the writer of "Three Little Fish- ier, "Playmates' and a dozen other tunes recorded by name bands ofthe swing era. Youth Orchestra Set AtSchoenberg Gala LOS ANGELES-Although plans are not yet complete for the Arnold Schoenberg Centennial at the versity of Southern Califomia in mid-September, mho Debut Orches- Ira ofthe Young Musicians Founda- lion will perform in concert on the final day. Gerhard Samuel will baton. The Califomia Ans Commission is granting the university money to present the tribute to the late com- pose r, who once taught music on the USC campus Twicethe Space For Colo. Firm DENVER-Reconl Sales of Colo- rado and the associated Musical Isle of America rackjobbing and one- stop branch have moved into new quarters which will give them twice the working space. Record Sales has acquired distri- bution of Island. Playboy and GRC. and it also handles Motown, 201h Century. Chess/Janus. Buddah, Scepter, Famous, BASF, Sussex. Vanguard. Mainstream- Savoy. All. Platinum and Defile. BILLBOARD'S GOTCHA COVERED? YOU WANT IT ...YOU GOT IT! 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James Cleveland, asked members of the Gospel Announcers' Guild (GAG) to get behind the newcomer recording act,in orderto strengthen blackgospel music. Cleveland, long considered the most dy- namic force in black gospel. recalled how in the early 50s, he sat in the waiting room of VetJay Records for 32 straight working days trying to audition. He was unsuccessful, eventually being signedbySavoy. Sixyears later. Veejaysought him. "I'm glad I am with Savoy: VeeJay went out of business. Many a precious gem is thrown away because of lack of recognition. We must be able to recognize and polish the nugget." At the GAG luncheon, sponsored by Savoy's Fred Mendelson and assisted by John Daniels, Bishop Al Hobbs. WTCL-FM, Indi- anapolis. President of GAG, pledged GAG would go all out to span the gap between record labels and the ultimate consumer. Mary Peake, head ofGospelTruth, stressed that outstanding talents like Clarence Smith, Rance Allen, and Henry Jackson chose God's music ratherthan commercial soul. She asked the gospel announcers to expose more of the good new talent. First foreign visitor to a black gospel na- tional convention, San Scott, who has one hourweeklyon British Capitol Radio, testified to the strength ofthe repertoire. He noted the di0iculty he has in getting gospel music sam- ples for English airplay. He said he had to buy much product through Joe Bostics Gospel One-Stop, New York City. He has no records by outstanding newcomers like Andre Crouch and Allen, he stated. "Send me only your good albums, please," he asked. Other label representatives who spoke in- cluded Mel Herman, Glori; Ron Henry, Shel- ter Records; Steve Washington. BeeGee; and Walter Comba, Schwartz Bros. Distributing, Washington, D.C. Michael Charlesasked forsamplerecords in that he is a religioussyndicated columnist cir- culating through the black press. Bertha Harris. Detroit gospel announcer. suggested that manufacturersgetaccuratelists ofgospel announcers' home addresses so that new product would not be lost. She said r&b program directors get the records. don't con- sider them important and never relay them to the gospel announcer. She told of many per- sonal calls made to labels to get new records. Meeting representativestold ofeffortstoget more gospel programming in St. Louis and in Houston, where new black stations are within striking distance ofreceiving FCC approval. Vernon Lee. WIKI-AM, Richmond, Va., provoked commentwhen hesaid that heoften stopped playing a record when his listeners could not get it. Brother Al. WPBF-AM and FM, Dayton/Middletown, Ohio, said he now has 33 hours weekly because he got it all to- gether-he tracked down distributors and la- belstohecould playgood new numbersonthe air. He recommended gospel announcers take all product home and listen to every cut. He said he had stood up for gospel music to sta- tion management and made them realize why he should have 33 hours weekly. He prints a professional survey and mails it to all regional record stores. He is the only black talent on a totally white station. Youthful Black BeeGee Label Credits Its Localized Distribution For SuccessCLEVELAND-BeeGee Records, an all-black-backed label, which be- gan two and half years ago in Los Angeles pointing toward a general catalog is now in its seventh month as a purely black gospel label with localized distribution as its current number one marketing tool. Dr. Byron Spears. DDS, president of the West Coast label, and Steve Washington, executive vice-presi- dent, met here (20) with six new-to- m the-record-industry distributor G groups and their salesmen working a out distributing policies. mJ Washington- a senior theological . studentatOakwood College, Hunts- m villa Ala., who is less than a year with the label, has worked outa sys- tem of novice distribution targeted to cover a far larger perimeter than s%a the traditional record distributor. Ñ Washington feels the first seven distributorships located in Chicago. j Louisville. Huntsville. Alabama. cc Denver, Nashville, Milwaukee and here will have to work many more possible avenues for specialized black gospel LP and tape ales. He has already instructed distrib- utors to make regular calls on churches during their periods of weekend worship, actual door-to- doorselling in black neighborhoods and calls on Bible bookstores. Washington zeroes in on two week-old releases, the Lady's of Song, with Billy Preston on the or- gan,and Rodena Preston, Billy'ssis- ter, with the