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A HARD DAY'S NIGHTThe Beatles-Capitol 5222
I GET AROUND 9Beach Boys-Capitol 5174
MEMPHIS 9Johnny Rivers-Imperial 66032
DANG ME 1Roger Miller-Smash 1881
CAN'T YOU SEE THAT SHE'SMINE
The Dave Clark Five-Epic 9692
EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY 5Dean Martin-Reprise 0281
LITTLE OLD LADY FROMPASADENA
Jan & Dean-Liberty 55704
GIRL FROM IPANEMA 1Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto-Verve 10323
WISHING 9f& HOPING 6Dusty Springfield-Philips 40207
UNDER THE BOARDWALK 4Drifters-Atlantic 2237
KEEP ON PUSHING 6Impressions-ABC 10554
MY BOY LOLLIPOP 9Millie Small-Smash 1893
NOBODY I KNOW 4Peter & Gordon-Capitol 5211
DON'T LET THE SUN CATCHYOU CRYIN' 10
Gerry 8 The Pacemakers-Laurie 3251
I WANNA LOVE HIM SO BAD 5Jelly Beans-Red Bird 10-003
NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO 8Chuck Berry-Chess 1898
PEOPLE 13
A WORLD WITHOUT LOVE 12
FARMER JOHN 5
STEAL AWAY 5
I BELIEVE 5
YOU'RE MY WORLD 6
CHAPEL OF LOVE 13Dixie Cups-Red Bird 10-001
I STILL GET JEALOUS
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Barbra Streisand-Columbia 42965
Peter & Gordon-Capitol 5175
Premiers-Warner Bros. 5443
Jimmy Hughs-Fane 6401
The Bachelors-London 9672
Cilia Black-Capitol 5196
Louis Armstrong-Kapp 597
Marvin Gaye-Tamla 54095
REMEMBER ME
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Rita Pavonc-RCA Victor 8265
BAD TO ME 8Billy J. Kramer & Dakotas-Imperial 66027
WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO 2Supremes-Motown 1060
DON'T THROW YOUR LOVE AWAY 9Searchers-Kapp 593
GOOD TIMESSam Cooke-RCA Victor 8368
LITTLE CHILDREN 15Billy J. Kramer & Dakotas-Imperial 66027
HANDY MAN 3Del Shannon-Amy 905
TELL METhe Rolling Stones-London 9682
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HOW GLAD I AM 4Nancy Wilson-Capitol 5198
HEY HARMONICA MAN 6Little Stevie Wonder-Tamla 54096
SHARE YOUR LOVE 7B. B. Bland-Duke 377
AL -DI -LA 3Ray Charles Singers-Command 4049
DON'T WORRY BABY 10Beach Boys-Capitol 5174
ANGELITO 6Rene & Rene-Columbia 43045
MIXED UP, SHOOK UP GIRL 3Patty & Emblems-Herald 590
JUST BE TRUE 3Gene Chandler-Constellation 130
DO I LOVE YOU 5Ronettes-Philles 121
C'MON AND SWIM 4Bobby Freeman-Autumn 2
I LIKE IT LIKE THAT 4Miracles-Tamla 54098
PEOPLE SAY 3Dixie Cups-Red Bird 10-006
LOVE ME WITH ALL YOURHEART 16
Ray Charles Singers-Command 4046
YESTERDAY'S GONE 13Stewart & Clyde-World Artists 1021
AIN'T SHE SWEET 2Beatles-Atlantic 6308
SUGAR LIPS 2Al Hirt-RCA Victor 8391
WALK DON'T RUN,' 64 1
Ventures-Dolton 96
I'M INTO SOMETHING GOOD 3Earl-Jean-Colpix 729
LAZY ELSIE MOLLY 6Chubby Checker-Parkway 920
FERRIS WHEEL 5Everly Bros.-Werner Bros. 5441
I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND 3Boston "Pops" Orch.-RCA Victor 8378
WALK ON BY 14Dionne Warwick-Scepter 1274
HOW DO YOU DO IT 2Gerry & The Pacemakers-Imperial 3261
SHE'S THE ONE 3Chartbusters-Mutual 502
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITHYOU, BABY 12
Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells-Motown 1057
HELLO DOLLY 24Louis Armstrong & All Stars-Kapp 573
YOU'RE MY REMEDY 4Marvelettes-Tamla 54097
IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE 3T. Bennett-Columbia 43073
SOMETHING YOU GOT 5A. Robinson-Tiger 104
SUNNY 3Neil Scdaka-RCA Victor 8382
SOLE SOLE SOLE 2Siw Malmkvist 8. Umberto Maracato-
Jubilee 5479
THE WORLD I USED TO KNOW 9Jimmie Rodgers-Dot 16595
LOVE IS ALL WE NEED 3Vic Dana-Dolton 95
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Jack Jones-Kapp 589
LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU 1
Kingsmen-Wand 157
A TEAR FELL 1
Ray Charles-ABC Paramount 10571
WORRY 1
Johnny Tillotson-MGM 13255
ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHATLOVE IS 2
Irma Thomas-Imperial 66041
EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY
TO LOVE 2Solomon Burke-Atlantic 2241
A QUIET PLACE 6Garnett Mimms-U. A. 715
PEG 0' MY HEART 5Robert Maxwell-Decca 23637
WHAT HAVE I GOT OF MY OWN 5Trini Lopez-Reprise 0276
IF I'M A FOOL FOR LOVING YOU 6Bobby Wood-Joy 285
I CAN'T HEAR YOUBetty Everett-Vee Jay 599
IT AIN'T NO USE 5Major Lance-Okch 7191
JOHNNY LOVES ME 1
Florraine Darlin-Ric 105
BEG ME 8Chuck Jackson-Wand 154
HAUNTED HOUSE 2Gene Simmons-Hi 2076
IT WILL STAND 1
Showmen-Imperial 66033
SAY YOU 1
Ronnie Dove-Diamond 167
WHAT CAN A MAN DO 1
Ben E. King-Atco 6303
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER 1The Beatles-Capitol 5222
BABY COME HOME 1
Ruby & Romantics-Kapp 601
INVISIBLE TEARS 1
Ray Conniff Singers-Columbia 43061
IN THE MISTY MOONLIGHT 2Jerry Wallace-Challenge 59246
BACHELOR BOY 2Cliff Richard-Epic 9691
ONLY YOUWayne Newton-Capitol 5203
IT'S A COTTON CANDY WORLD 2Jerry Wallace-Mercury 72292
NIGHTINGALE MELODYLittle Johnny Taylor-Galaxy 731
SHE'S MY GIRL 1
Bobby Shafto-Rust 5082
A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME 1
Brook Benton-Mercury 72303
I WANT YOU TO MEET MY BABY 1Eydie Gorme-43082
RINGO'S THEME (THIS BOY) 1
George Martin Orch.-United Artists 745
HEY GIRL DON'T BOTHER ME 1
Tams-ABC Paramount 10573
JAMAICA SKA 1
Ska Kings-Atlantic 2232
LOOKING FOR LOVE 1
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2 1 HELLO DOLLY 12L. Armstrong-Kapp KL-1364: KS -3364
3 4 RETURN OF THE DAVE CLARKFIVE 1
Epic LN-24104
4 3 GETZ/GILBERTOVerve V-8545: V6-8545
5 2 HELLO DOLLY 24Original Cast-RCA LOC-1087: LSO -1087
6 5 FUNNY GIRL 14B'way Cast-Capitol VAS -2059: SVAS-2059
7 7 ROLLING STONES 5London LL -3375
8 6 COTTON CANDY 10A. Hirt-RCA Victor LPM-2917
* 16 PINK PANTHER 11H. Mancini-RCA LPM-2795: LSP-2795
10 8 THE THIRD BARBRA
STREISAND ALBUM 23Columbia CL -2154: CS -2154
11 12 A WORLD WITHOUT LOVE 5Peter and Gordon-Capitol T-2155
12 10 THE BEATLES SECOND ALBUM 15Capitol T-2080: ST -2080
13 11 HONEY IN THE HORN 39A. Hirt-RCA LPM-2733: LSP-2733
14 17 JOHNNY RIVERS AT THEWHISKEY A' GO GO 6
Imperial LP -9264
15 15 SHUT DOWN, VOL. II 18Beach Boys-Capitol T-2027: ST -2027 24 BEATLES SONG BOOK 6Hollyridge Strings-Capitol T-2116
17 20 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE 12A. Williams-Columbia CL -2172: CS -8971
18 14 GLAD ALL OVER 17Dave Clark Five-Epic LN-24093: BN-26093
19 19 LITTLE CHILDREN 6B. J. Kramer-Imperial 9267: 12267
20 22 SOMETHING SPECIAL FORYOUNG LOVERS 17
R. Charles gingers-Command RS -866:RS -866 -SD
21 27 I LOVE YOU MORE AND MOREEVERY DAY/TEARS AND ROSES 5
A. Martino-Capitol 1-2107: ST -2107
22 25 BEWITCHED 6Jack Jones-Kapp KL-3365
23 13 TODAY, TOMORROW, FOREVER 9N. Wilson-Capitol T-2082
24 23 TODAY 16New Christy Minstrels-Columbia CL -2159:
CS -8959
25 32 THE MANY SIDES OF THESERENDIPITY SINGERS 5
Philips PHM-200-134
26 26 THE SECOND BARBRA
STREISAND ALBUM 41Columbia CL -2054: CS -8854 37 THE INTERNATIONAL TEENAGE
SENSATION 5Rita Pavone-RCA LPM-2900
28 29 CHUCK BERRY'S GREATEST HITS 9Chess LP -1485
29 18 MARY WELL'S GREATEST HITS 10Motown 616 (mono only)
44 I WALK THE LINE 5Johnny Cash-Columbia CL -2190 58 WONDERFUL WORLD OF MAKE
BELIEVE 3J. Mathis-Mercury MG -20913
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62 THE UNSINKABLE MOLLYBROWN 3
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33 38 MEET THE BEATLES 27Capitol T-2047: ST -2047
34 21 BACK IN TOWNo47
Kingston Trio-Capitol T-2081
35 31 LETTERMEN LOOK AT LOVE 1Capitol T-2083
36 28 IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOME-THING I SAID 11
Smothers Brothers-Mercury MG -20904:SR -60904
31 33 MORE THEMES FOR YOUNG
LOVERS 8P. Faith-Columbia CL -2167
38 35 WEST SIDE STORY 143Soundtrack-Columbia OL-5670: CS -2070
39 30 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE 9J. Jones-Kapp KL-1328 69 DON'T LET THE SUN CATCH
YOU CRYIN' 4Gerry 8 The Pacemakers-Laurie 2024
41 34 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 14Soundtrack-UA UAL -4114: UAS-5114
42 45 SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE 9R. Conniff-Columbia CL -2150
43 36 REFLECTIONS 9P. Nero-RCA LPM-2853
44 40 BOYS BOYS BOYS 8L. Gore-Mercury MG -20901: SR -60901
45 42 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIAWOOLF 15
J. Smith-Verve V-8583 V6-8583
46 41 HIGH SPIRITS 10Original Cast-ABC Paramount ABC 0C-1
47 52 IN THE WIND 33Peter, Paul & Mary-Warner Bros. WB-1507:
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48 41 THE AMERICAN TOUR 10Ed Rudy & The Beatles-News Documentary II
49 43 SHOWTIME 10J. Brown & His Orch-Smash MGS-27054:
SRS -.67054 63 THE FABULOUS VENTURES 3Dolton BLP-2029
51 59 DEAD MAN'S CURVE/NEW GIRL IN SCHOOL 5
Jan 8 Dean-Liberty LRT-3361
52 51 LET'S HAVE A PARTY 6Rivieras-Riviera U.S.A.-102 65 I WISH SOMEONE WOULD CARE 4I. Thomas-Imperial LP -9266
54 54 THE BARBRA STREISAND
ALBUM 61Capitol CL -2007
55 49 INTRODUCING THE BEATLES 25Vee Jay LP -1062: SR -1062 68 FADE OUT-FADE IN 3Original Cast-ABC Paramount OC-3
57 39 NEW ORLEANS AT MIDNIGHT 9P. Fountain-Coral CRL-57429
58 48 LILIES OF THE FIELD 13Soundtrack-Epic LM -24094: BN-26094 70 PRESENTING THE BACHELORS 5London LL -3353: PS -353
60 46 KISSIN' COUSINS 11E. Presley-RCA LPM-2894: LSP-2894
61 61 SWINGLE SINGERS GO BAROQUE 8Philips PHS-600135
62 50 MANHATTAN TOWER 15R. Goulet-Columbia OL-6050: OS -2450
63 53 BY REQUESTB. Lee-Decca DL -4507
64 56 SHANGRI-LA 16R. Maxwell-Decca DL -4461: DL -4421
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65 55 AIN'T THAT GOOD NEWS 19S. Cooke-RCA LPM-2899: LSP-2899
66 73 STAY AWHILED. Springfield-Philips 600-133
67 61 MEET THE SEARCHERS 17Kapp KL-1363: KS -3363
68 79 ON THE MOVE 17Trini Lopez-Reprise R-6112: R9-6112
69 60 SERENDIPITY SINGERS 20Philips PHS-600 35
70 72 JOAN BAEZ IN CONCERT, VOL II 36Vanguard-VRS-9113: VSD-2123
71 74 MOONLIGHT AND ROSES 4J. Reeves-RCA LPM-2854: LSP-2854
72 65 I WISH YOU LOVE 14G. Lynn-Everest 5226: 1226
73 71 DISCOVERY 9V. Carr-Liberty LRP-3554
74 83 DAWN 20Four Seasons-Philips PHM-20014: PHS-600124
15 64 LOUIE LOUIE 29Kingsmen-Wand 657 (mono only)
16 51 CHARADE 33H. Mancini-RCA LPM-2755: LSP-2755
86 DANCE DISCOTHEQUE 3Various Artists-Decca DL -4556: D1-74556
18 76 WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW 9T. Bennett-Columbia CL -2175: CS -8975
19 88 HAMLET 5R. Burton and Cast-Columbia DOL-302
80 87 I'LL SEARCH MY HEART 2J. Mathis-Columbia CL 2153
81 77 HEAR HEARSearchers-Mercury MG -20889
82 84 ENCHANTED WORLD OF
FERRANTE & TEICHER 5UA UAL -3375: UAS-6375
83 75 MARVIN GAYE AND MARYWELLS TOGETHER
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84 78 TOM JONESSoundtrack-UA UAL -4133: UAS-6133
85 82 FOREVERP. Drake-Smash MGS-27053: SRS -67053
86 80 SUSPICIONTerry Stafford-Crusader 1001M
87 91 ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS 2Soundtrack-Reprise F-2021
88 81 THE EARLY HITS OF 1964 18L. Welk-Dot DLP-3572: DLP-25572
89 94 ROGER AND OUT 2R. Miller-Smash MGS-27049
90 85 FOREVER 8B. Vaughn-Dot DLP-3578
91 95 BILL BLACK PLAYS TUNESBY CHUCK BERRY 2
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92 (-) HERE'S GODFREY CAMBRIDGE-READY OR NOT 1
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93 (-) THE FIRST NINE MONTHSARE THE HARDEST 1
Len Weinrib and Joyce Jameson-Capitol 1-2034
THE BEST OF HENRY MANCINI 1
RCA LPM-2693: LSP-2693
THE CARPETBAGGERS 1
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New Rack Jobbers MeetMftrs. At NARM July 2.8CHICAGO - The Mid -Year
Meeting and Person -to -PersonSales Conference of the NationalAssociation of Record Merchan-disers, Inc., will convene at theSheraton -Chicago Hotel Tues-day, July 28.
At the Board of Directorsmeeting on Monday, July 27, itwas announced by Jules Mala-mud, NARM Executive Director,11 applications for RegularMembership in NARM will bepresented for approval. This isthe largest number of recordmerchandisers ever to apply formembership in NARM, at onetime. The 11 companies whohave filed applications are thosewho were invited to attend theNARM Convention this pastApril in Miami Beach, as ob-servers. They were so impressedwith the operation of the asso-ciation and with the association'sdedication to the interests ofthe record merchandising seg-ment of the industry, that theyimmediately filed for member-ship at the beginning of theassociation's fiscal year. Thenew rack jobber members willbe included in the Person -to -Person appointment scheduleswith the manufacturers.
The Person -to -Person SalesConference sessions, which willbe preceded by an OpeningLuncheon for all Regular andAssociate (manufacturer) mem-bers of NARM, will begin Tues-day afternoon, July 28. The 20 -minute appointments betweeneach rack jobber and each manu-facturer at the Mid -Year Meet-ing have been set up accordingto a pre -arranged schedulewhich each manufacturer whohas registered for the Mid -YearMeeting will receive in advanceof the meeting. The Person -to -
Person Sales Conference ses-sions, now in their fourth yearof existence, is a highlight ofthe association year for manyof the Regular and AssociateMembers. Manufacturers in at-tendance include Columbia Rec-ords, RCA Victor Records, Capi-tol Records, Decca Records,Mercury Records, Dot Records,Epic Records, Warner Brothers,Reprise Records, Liberty Rec-ords, MGM/Verve R e c o r d s,Cameo Parkway Records, ColpixRecords, Disneyland Records andLondon Records.
The Mid -Year Meeting isstrictly business, and the timingof it this year, will enable themanufacturers, many of whomhave just completed their dis-tributor -sales meetings, to pre-sent their fall and holiday pro-grams and product to the rackmerchandisers.
Report on CRDCThe Regular Members will
meet (before the Person -to -Per-son) in a closed Breakfast -Meet-ing (Tuesday, July 28). At themeeting, the record merchan-disers will hear a completereport from their attorney, anti-trust specialist Albert A. Car-retta, on the Capitol RecordsDistributing Corporation situa-tion, as regards the recordmerchandisers who have beencut-off from buying Capitolproduct from CRDC. Carrettahas been in close contact withthe Bureau of Restraint ofTrade of the Federal TradeCommission on this matter, andwill report to the membershipon the current status of thecase. Other matters relative tothe operation of the associationwill be brought before the Reg-ular Membership at that time.
LA Convention A First For VJLOS Al N GE LE S - Randy
Wood has set the Beverly -HiltonHotel as the site for Vee-JayRecords' first annual Los An-geles distributors' convention forJuly 21, with over 75 distrib-utors from the U.S. and Canadain attendance.
In addition to President Wood,other Vee-Jay toppers, includingVice -President Jay Lasker, A&RDirectors Calvin Carter andSteve Clark, A&R staffer LeeYoung and Comptroller MarkSands, will conduct the meetings
which will emphasize the qualityand range of new albums beingprepared for the fall market onboth Vee-Jay and its subsidiarylabel Tollie, and to meet Vee-Jay artists in person.
Wind-up of the conclave willbe a gala banquet at which anumber of the company's artists,including Hoyt Axton, GeorgiaCarr, Victor Feldman, SamFletcher, Bill Marx, Cliff Nor-ton, Ray Whitley and MasonWilliams, will perform.
Mr. Freeman Regrets . . .
LONDON-Sorry I can't write my "London Lowdown" columnthis week, but we've got a postal strike on over here. And I'vecome to the aid of my country and am too busy sorting out our28,000,0000 letters! Sincerely,
Alan Freeman
U.S. SongsLabel HereNEW YORK-Leiber (Mike)
& Stoller (Jerry) joined withBert Bacharach and Hal Davidto form a new label, U. S. Songs,with George Goldner assumingthe same executive managerialduties with the new diskerythat he holds with Red Bird,Daisy and Tiger Records, alsoLeiber & Stoller enterprises.
The first release, "Show YouMean It, Too," by Me and Them,will be out in a week or two,at which time distribution willhave been set up around thecountry. In some cases, the dis-tribution will be different fromthe arrangements for Red Bird,Daisy and Tiger. Leiber, Stoller,Bacharach and David are super-vising all sessions and are ex-pected to announce new artistacquisitions to the U.S. Songslabel soon.
Noga Starts DiskeryBEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.-
Helen Noga, head of Noga En-terprises, has started her ownrecord label, Pharos. The firsttwo singles, "San FranciscoBay Blues" by The Nomadsand "Cricket" by The Polaras,have been getting much airplay in Southern California.
Motown's MaryStill ContractedDETROIT-Barney Ales, Vice
President of Motown RecordCorp., has announced that MaryWells is still under contract toMotown. Motown's legal depart-ment has sent telegrams to rec-ord companies believed to be ne-gotiating with Miss Wells advis-ing them of her contractualcommitments.
When Berry Gordy Jr., Presi-dent of Motown, learned thatMiss Wells apparently was re-ceptive to negotiations fromother companies, he was "sur-prised and hurt in view of MissWells having recently had theNo. 1 record in the country, 'MyGuy', as well as an extensivethree year sales and promotioncampaign to build her to thestature she has today."
Mrs. Aberbach DiesMONTICELLO, N. Y. - Mrs.
Anna Aberbach, mother of Jul-ian and Gene, heads of the Aber-bach group of world-wide pub-lishing concerns, died July 12.Mrs. Aberbach leaves her twosons and their wives and Jul-ian's three grandchildren, Belin-da, Ronnie and Dolphi Andrew.Mrs. Aberbach is buried inBethel Cemetery, Paramus, N.J.
JG Internat'lSet By Blaine
NEW YORK - Steve Blaine,President of Jay -Gee Record Co.,Inc., a division of The CosnatCorporation, has announced thecreation of a new label to beknown as Jay -Gee Internationalwhich will serve as the U.S. andCanadian distributor for for-eign masters that they havealready acquired and for thosewhich are in the process of con-summating deals around theworld.
Jubilee Records (another Jay -Gee subsid) is currently click-ing with an import called "SoleSole Sole" by Siw Malmkvist-Umberto Marcato, a currentchart record in the United Statesas well as a Top 10 record inEurope. Jay -Gee International'sfirst release is "LiebeskummerLohnt Sich Nicht" by Germany'sNo. 1 singing star, Siw Malm-kvist. This record is currentlyNo. 1 in Germany.
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This Summer's Most Sizzling New Singles
Are On Columbia Records
SAM HILLClaude King 4-43083
INVISIBLE TEARSRay Conniff 4-43061
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THEME FROM "A SUMMER PLACE"The J's With Jamie 4-43068
WAH-WAIIINI ciwONE PIECE TOPLESS BATHING SUIT
The Rip Chords 4-43093
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N L E S REVIEWS
PICKWHITSTHE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN (Al Gallio, BMI)
TALKIN' BOUT YOU (Progressive, BMI)
THE ANIIIALS-MGM 13264.
The Animals have this one in thenumber one spot on English chartsthese days. The reason why is appar-ent after one listen. The intensity ofthe slice is undeniable as it is lead byrelentlessly driving organ and guitarwork.
I'LL SET MY LOVE TO MUSIC(E. B. Marks, BMI)
VOGLIO BENE AL MONDO (E. B. Marks, BMI)
IriLF A-4 Corners 105.
Milva is an Italian songbird who hasa robustness and purity in her voicethat is most reminiscent of a JaneMorgan sound. Her song is the themefrom "Mondo Cane #2"-a melodythat many may find prettier than"More" from "Mondo Cane #1."
BECAUSE (Ivy, ASCAP)THEME WITHOUT A NAME (Beechwood, BMI)
THE DA1E GL1RK FII E-Epic 5-9704.
This Dave Clark outing is slowerthan what has gone before, but it's apretty one and an attractive one. Theboys sing directly and the ingratiatingsound should parley itself into bigsales once more. The flip is anotherextremely pretty Clark tune, an instru-mental.
AND I LOVE HER (Unart, BMI)IF I FELL (Unart, BMI)
THE BEATLES-Gapitol 5235.
The Beatles go through two of theslower tunes from their new screentuner, "A Hard Day's Night." Ofcourse, the ditties are by John Lennonand Paul McCartney and they incor-porate the L-McC trademarks of soft,subtle harmonies and simple lyrics.
WHEN YOU COME TO SCHOOL(B. F. Wood, ASCAP)
I'M GOING STEADY WITH A MEMORY(Mills, ASCAP)
MADDY HILL-Columbia 4-13088.
Maddy is given one of the prettiesttunes of the summer here. It's aboutlove lasting after the end of the sum-mer months. The arrangement is mel-low and banjoey. Teens will know ex-actly what this one is about.
I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU (Jobete, BMI)
BRENDA HOLLOWAY-Tamla 54099.
Brenda puts dynamism into her ren-dition of this strong song. The orches-tration is economical and allows thethrush to show off her vocal abilities.Ballad is a good one and will mean muchto the success of the side.
A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME (Diplomat, ASCAP)YOU'LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN (IF YOU
BREAK MY HEART) (Jac, ASCAP)
DIONNE 11 IRII K-Scepter 13&2.
Dionne follows her "Walk on By"smash with a side that is, if anything,better than its predecessor. The tuneis the powerful title ditty from theincoming "House Is Not A Home"flick. Thrush wails forcefully. She also(toes extremely well on the flip, a softand pretty thing.
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Unart, BMI)CARRIBE (Record Songs, ASCAP)
Emm it LIGHT ANDTHE LIGHT BRIGADE-Command 40450.
Enoch and the Brigade climb aboardthe Beatle bandwagon. The full ork-emphasis on the brass-tune swingsalong with a lot of drive and shouldget attention from all areas. Big bandfans, Beatle fans and fans of just plaingood music will like.
DREAM SKA (Andante, ASCAP)SKA FACE (Lad, BMI)
KER BILK-Arco 6311.
Acker comes up with one of the besttunes the ska has produced to date.His soulful playing of course helpsthe mood and the insistent ska beatmakes the whole atmosphere click intoplace. Could be a biggie.
STAY AWAKE (Wonderland, BMI)A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR (Wonderland, BMI)
L01 IS P11111.4-Prima 1018.
Louis does a pair of the tunes fromWalt Disney's "Mary Poppins" film.The top side was a lullaby when tune -smiths Robert and Richard Shermanpenned it, but Louis changes all thatinto a raucous fun -for -all.
MOZAMBIQUE (Paris, ASCAP)HAUNTED HOUSE BLUES (Showboat, ASCAP)
THE PILLAGE STOMPERS-Epic 5-95702.
The Stompers have a razzmatazz tunethat sounds as if it could be geographi-cally located somewhere between Ethi-opia and Dixie. There's a touch of theexotic and more than a touch of South-land jazz. Will have listeners marchingaround gaily.
A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR (Wonderland, BMI)FEED THE BIRDS (Wonderland, BMI)
MARY MARTIN AND THE DO -RE -MICHILDREN'S CHORUS-Kapp 605.
Mary Martin lends her purity andjoie de vivre to this tune from the"Mary Poppins" pis. The song is aimedfor the kids, but all Mary Martin fanswill relish her particular singing tal-ents. The other side is also from theDisney film.
I COULD CONQUER THE WORLD (Unart, BMI)HOW WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO LOVE YOU
(Leeds, ASCAP)
THE !I/WI ELLES-World Artists 1025.
The Shevelles are feeling on top ofthe world and they tell about the ex-hilarated sensation on a rinkytink rockside. The lyrics are literate and cleverand the tune is the same. The boys doa commendable chant job. Watch thisone go.
ME JAPANESE BOY I LOVE YOU (Jac, ASCAP)EVERYONE BUT ME (Unart, BMI)
BOBBY GOLDSBORO-United Artists 672.
Bobby has a quiet little Oriental -styletune that can boast an exceptional me-lodic line. The story is cute and alto-gether appealing. It's about a Japaneseromance and should catch listeners' fan-cies. Bobby sings it gently and sensi-tively.
ANGELITO (Epps -Gil, BMI)LATIN VILLAGE (Exotica, ASCAP)
MARTIN DENNY-Liberty 55717.Martin turns his baton to "Angelito"
and gives it a fresh and, needless tosay, exotic rendition. The enchantmentwoven is worth a few listens and willappeal to many buyers. Could put thistune on the chart again.
LET ME GET CLOSE TO YOU(Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI)
THE FACE OF A CLOWN (Moss Rose, BMI)
SKEETER DAVIS-RCA Victor 47-8397.
Skeeter is multitracked and joinedby a chorus for this one that has aningratiatingly syncopated beat and acute lyric. The melody is also invitingand should help make this anotherbead in her strand of hits.
P. S. I LOVE YOU (Commanders, ASCAP)SINCERELY (Arc, BMI)
THE PLATTERS-Mercury 72305.
The Platters revive this great one andgive it their personal touch which is justabout all it takes to produce a terrificside. The orchestra plays right alongwith the magnitude of the session.Could do it again for song and singers.
RECORD WORLD-July 25, 1964
E----11Merijr N L S REVIEWSSWEET WILLIAM (Budd, ASCAP)
WHAT AM I LIVING FOR (Tideland, BMI)
MILLIE SMALL-SninA 1920.
Millie has another boyfriend and an-other hit. Her ska ditty has bounce anda crisp brightness to it. The trumpetsback her up as before. And successseems to be just around the corner forthe side.
DON'T STAND UP IN A CANOE (BMI)IF YOU LOVE ME LAURIE (BMI)
RONA IE D NTE-Ilusie I olee
Ronnie is having his problems. Heand innumerable girls are carrying onin a canoe, and it's silly and goofy.The side is also silly and goofy andextremely infectious. Ronnie and somegirl songstresses sing out the happychoruses.
WHAT KINDA LOVE? (Dundee, BMI)WISHING (Nor Va Jak, BMI)
JIMMY GILMER-Dot 16642.
Jimmy has a midtempo item thatshould have teens answering its call.The situation is stock rock fodder andgets a good rendition from the talentedsinger. The flip features a Buddy Hollytune that is also good listening.
DARLA (LeBill, BMI)SOMEONE NEW (LeBill, BMI)
RICK IND THE KEENS-Tollie 9016.
Rick and the others sing a song abouta new girl next door. The lass is Darla,and Rick just goes into falsetto singingabout her. Beat is cha cha and hasa pleasing "Love is Strange" sound. Theguys do a nice chanting job.
PEARLY WHITE (Fred Rose, BMI)FOGGY RIVER (Milene, ASCAP)
ALLE.1 CURTIS-Hickory 1268.
Allen Curtis sings to a girl he knows.The beat is slow and deliberate and justthe right thing for slow dancing. Achorus backs him up in order to pro-vide a rich, mellow sound that teens willlike. This could become a big one.
DON'T FEEL RAINED ON (Cape Ann, BMI)(JUST A SUMMER AGO) MAGGIE
(Blue Grass, BMI)
BOBBY DOYLE THREE-Towne House 112.
The Bobby Doyle Trio has an ex-tremely pleasant sound which is totallyingratiating on this mild rhythm num-ber. They chant about not feeling badif love goes wrong. The advice is framedin a nice tune and could do well for thethreesome.
MISSISSIPPI *%??**&% (Sam Fox, ASCAP)SEA LION WOMAN (Sam Fox, ASCAP)
NINA SIMONE-Philips 40216.
Nina moves right along on this tunewhich has to do mostly with civil rightsand couldn't be more topical. The infec-tious tune is likely to carry this oneright to the top. A powerhouse of con-troversy-the real title of which is "Mis-sissippi Goddam "
WHAT ABOUT MINE (Four Star, BMI)IN THIS WORLD (Lar-Bell, BMI)
JANUARY JONES -20th Century Fox 523.
January is full on spunk on her newside. Her voice is full of life and power,too, and she wails away on a torchy rockand roll item. Plenty of action in the ar-rangement and a helpful chorus too.Good for many listens.
DOWN SO LONG (T. M., BMI)IN MY TENEMENT (T. M., BMI)
ROOSEI ELT (TRIER-Ric 112.
Roosevelt has his hold on a soulfulBobby Darin tune that will enlist thesympathy of listeners. The delivery isstrong and solemn at the same time andis the stuff sales are made of. Watch tosee this one catch on.
SINCERELY (Arc, BMI)DON'T YOU JUST KNOW IT (Ace, BMI)
PAT BOONE-Dot 16641.
Pat reprises the old sentimental fa-vorite, and it's just the thing for hisvocal talents. He's smooth and invitingon the side and listeners will want tohear the song all over again. The flip isalso an oldie, but with a fresh Booneboon.
I WISH YOU LOVE (Leeds, ASCAP)HELLO DOLLY (Morris, ASCAP)
HARRY "SWEETS" EDISON-Sue 101.
Harry makes this one extra sweet. It'sa reworking of the recently popular tune.His mute makes the music enticing andalluring. This is a moodsetter that willserve dancers well. The playing is softall the way around.
ORGANIZATION (Ironmarch, BMI)HONDA HAWK (Ironmarch, BMI)
BOB SUMMERS-Crusader 107.
Bob has an interesting instrumentalthat has a catchy theme which all theinstruments get for one or two go -rounds. The beat is perky and ingratiat-ing. Could turn into a big disk.
DON'T LAUGH AT ME (D. Toff, BMI)SOMEWHERE (Chappell, ASCAP)
ROBERT SILVER-World-Wide 200.
Robert is a singer with a strong,deep voice. He gets to give it fullshowing on this pretty ballad. A chorusand big orchestra back him up, but he'sway ahead already with his first-ratecrooning.
SA-BA-HOOLA (Carlson, BMI)CHICKEN' PICKIN' (Carlson, BMI)
LONNIE ti-Fraternity 932.Lonnie has a groovy instrumental
that features the same driving rhythmsof his previous hits. The teens seemto like it like that, so there's no reasonwhy this one won't repeat success ofthe past. Mack's playing is at the topof his form.
THE GIRL WITHOUT A TOP (Lar-Bell, BMI)
TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT
(4 Star Sales, BMI)THE 4 PREP'S-Capitol 5236.
The Preps use their velvety har-monies to tell about a girl in a toplessbathing suit. It seems she creates quitea stir and the stir makes for a cute sidethat should do all right now that top-less suits are in or on.
HEY LITTLE PEARL (LeBill, BMI)
ANGEL GIRL (Crock, BMI)R0.\ WILLIAMS -Pastel 404.
Ron talks sweet to his little girl anda girl chorus responds affectionately.In the back a group of harmonicasgoes through their antics and the up-shot is a cute ditty that deserves to getsome attention.
WHY DON'T THEY LET US FALL IN LOVE(Mather Bertha, BMI)
CHUBBY DANNY D. (Mother Bertha, BMI)
VERONICA-Phil Spector 2.Veronica asks a question teens will
want to hear the answer to. She doesit to a Phil Spector -Ellie Greenwich -Jeff Barry tune that has all the mak-ings of a hit. It's cute and staccato andhas a nice arrangement.
ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME(Blue Seas, ASCAP)
MAGIC POTION (Ross-Jungnickel, ASCAP)
Lou JOHNSON-Big Hill 552.Lou has a wailer of a torcher here
as he recalls his lost love. The tune isby the ubiquitous team of Burt Bach-arach and Hal David and bespeakstheir writing talents. Lou gives fullvoice to the proceedings, and the diskcomes off attractively.
RECORD WORLD-July 25, 1%4 9
PICK HITSWOODY ALLEN
Colpix 518.
Woody has found a humorous way tomake money from his neuroses and morepower (or more problems) to him. Thisdisk has his live audience in continualstitches, with hilarity likely to carryover to disk listeners who can identifyor feel superior to the much put-uponAllen. As an added incentive to buyerswho cook, the liner usual notes have beenreplaced by a number of exoticrecipes(?).
THE LAWRENCE WELK TELEVISION SHOW10TH ANNIVERSARY
Various Artists-Dot 3591.This album is calculated to delight
all fans of the Lawrence Welk TVerbecause all the members of his tellyfamily get a chance to show off onthe bands. There's singing and playingby the whole bunch and plenty of funfor listeners.
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HAVE A SMILE WITH MERAY CH IRLE..S-ABL Paramount 495.
Ray sings some oldies and somenewies. The only prerequisite is thatthey be on the bright side. There's alot of fun packaged here and Ray andThe Raelets are responsible for everyounce of bounce. "Smack Dab in theMiddle" and "The Naughty Lady ofShady Lane" are two bands.
THREE WINDOW COUPE
THE RIP CHORDS-Columbia 2216.The Rip Chords mix surfing with hot
rodding for an album of slick rocksounds. Their recent hit, of course, ishere, but there are a number of otherreasons for buying. Teens'll know whatthe excitement is all about and wantto join in.
iHREEMPIXANCOUPErirr 2771 SITOKT
HELLO LOUIS!
BOBBY HACKETT-Epic 24099.
Bobby pays tribute to Louis Arm-strong and his compositions on this ami-able and relaxing disk. The tunes swing,but never too wildly. This is one to sitback and listen to. Fans of Louis, Bobbyand Dixie will cotton to the sounds."Someday You'll Be Sorry" is just oneof the bands.
THE TILLOTSON TOUCH
JOHNNY TILLOTSON-MGM 4224.
Johnny has "I Rise, I Fall" as well ashis new single, "Worry," on this one. Healso includes an inviting group of popand country standards. He treats themrespectfully and honestly and comes upwith a clutch of expert bands.
THE MOST IMPORTANT JAll ALBUMOF 1964/65
CHET BAKER-Colpix 476.
Chet's back and Colpix has got him.And that's quite a coup. After a longwax absence he shows now that he haslost none of his sensitivity and he hasmastered the fluegel horn. The pure,soulful, deeply felt music will involve
ing his voice like a substitute horn.
JENNIE
JENA IE SMITH-Dot 3586.
Jennie's pure voice sounds mightyfine on a dozen Steve Allen tunes.Thrush is known mostly through herassociation with the Allen TVer, butthis album will get her more attention.She sells the songs and the disk shouldsell as well.
SUMMER SURF
DICK DALE AND HIS DEL-TONES-
Capitol 2111.Dick has some more surf sounds for
his fans. His distinctive tones and waywith the music fad will attract ad-mirers. Sometimes he sings and some-times he just plays, but all the bandsare exciting either way. "Never onSunday" is probably the best knowntune included.
TONIGHT AT NOON
CHARLIE MINGUS-Atlantic 1416.
Mingus goes through five of his owncompositions here and the resultantsound is a curious mixture of contem-porary jazz and contemporary classicalmusic. The musical lines are unique andfascinating. So are some of the titles,like "Passions of a Woman Loved."
KEEP ON PUSHING
THE 111PRESMONS-Alit. Paramount 493.
The Impressions make a good one onthis album on which they mix themoods up successfully. They do theircurrent high -riding single and add anumber of other rockin' ditties. "TheTheme from 'Lilies of the Field'" is oneof the songs that gets red carpet treat-ment.
10 RECORD WORLD-July 25, 1964
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Show Scene
The Play Is The Thing Again:RCA Has 'Othello,' Col 'Roses'
BY DAVE FINKLE(Ed. note: Last week "RecordWorld" examined the potentialBroadway musical caster scene.Events this week have drama-tized the growing importance ofthe spoken word caster. The fol-lowing article explores the devel-opments and potential of thelatter field).
Acquisition of the recordingrights to two of the most no-table theatrical productions ofthe just -completed season servedlast week to underscore the in-creasing importance the spokenword disk plays in the busi-ness. Activity surrounding thesewing up of such album rightsrecalls the excitement gener-ated when sales potential ofmusical comedy albums wasfirst being exploited.
The two new acquisitions arethe much acclaimed LaurenceOlivier London production ofShakespeare's "Othello," whichwill come from RCA Red Seal,and the "sleeper" of the Broad-way dramatic season, "TheSubject Was Roses," which willbe a Columbia three -disk re-lease.
The significance of the"Othello" pacting is in the factthat the rights probably cameextremely high (although theannouncement mentioned nosale price), since bidding onthe rights was reportedly andinevitably very strong. Furthersignificance was added byRCA's Veep and General Man-ager, George R. Marek, in an-nouncing recording plans. Hesaid, "We are proud to be re-leasing it (`Othello') and willwork to see that this is only abeginning of our re-entry intothe dramatic field." The three -LP disk is slated for releasenext month.
(RCA recorded Olivier anumber of years back doingspeeches from "Hamlet" and"Henry V"-two of Olivier'saccoladed film productions ofShakespeare. Label also re-leased a complete "RichardIII," starring Sir Laurence. Inaddition, John Gielgud recordeda complete "Hamlet" for thelabel and the Old Vic recorded"Macbeth." Victor's main creditin contemporary drama field isArchibald MacLeish's "J. B.")
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The Olivier "Othello," inwhich the famed actor essayedthe role of the Moor for thefirst time and won unparalleledpersonal praise, is part of hisNational Theater repertoire andwas staged in conjunction withthe Shakespeare 400th anniver-sary. More than likely the pro-duction will be brought to theStates - an eventuality thatcould only aid sales on theRCA disks.
Col's signing of "The SubjectWas Roses," was announced byprexy Goddard Lieberson andcan be understood as Col's con-tinuing desire to be connectedwith the prestige productionsof the year whether immediatesales success is indicated or no."TSWR," is the season's biggestsucces d'estime but not yetsucces de box office.
By and starring relative un-knowns, the play opened on theMain Stem late in May, anotoriously chancy time for astraight play to raise its preemcurtain. Although the three -character show received thebest reviews of the season fora dramatic offering, there wastalk of closing the showquickly because of poor boxoffice response. The play hasstuck it out, however andweekly grosses have been gain-ing continually.
The waxing of the Frank D.Gilroy opus caps off a year inwhich Col was more active onthe spoken word front that it
George R. Marek
was on the muscial comedy one-certainly an indication of thechanging times.
Label's straight outings in-clude Richard Burton's "Ham-let" (at 79 on Record World'schart this week), Alec Guin-ness' "Dylan," "Spoon RiverAnthology" and off -Broadway's"In White America."
Time PaymentsThe Col philosophy, offered
by company's Robert Burr in arecent Record World interview,seems to be that the word diskadditions to the catalog willmore often than not pay off intime, and in the meantime theslower moving items will bebuoyed up by the immediatesuccesses.
The potential of these al-bums, it is becoming increas-ingly clear, because of thenames connected with themand the tie-in exposure' can beunlimited. Burton's "Hamlet"is a case in point. His lauded
(Continued on page 17)
SUBJECTIVE-The mike at the top of this photo indicates thatit's the recent Columbia recording session of the much -laudedBroadway drama, "The Subject Was Roses." Props (and appar-ently costumes, too) were used at the session to give authenticflavor to the three -disk set. Irene Dailey and Martin Sheen star.
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JOHNNY RIVERS
"BABY COME BACK"
"LONG LONG WALK"R-4565
ROULETTE
UPSINGLES COMING
1
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I'M THE ONEGerry 8. The Pacemakers-Laurie 3233
LOOKING FOR LOVEConnie Francis-MGM 13256
BRING IT ON HOME TO MEShirley Ellis-Congress 221
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MEXICAN SHUFFLEHerb Alpert's Tijuana Brass-A&M 742
SAILOR BOYChiffons-Laurie 3262
LOOKIN' FOR BOYSPin Ups-Stork 1
4 HAPPY I LONG TO BE 29 MAYBE I KNOWBetty Everett-C1 619 I, Cur, M. rear, 7230'.
5 A TASTE OF HONEY 30 SHAKE HANDS WIT -I A LOSERTony Bennett-Columbia 43073 Frankie Chervol-Mercury 72260
6 NO ONE TO CRY TO 31 IT'S ALL OVER NOWFats Domino-ABC Paramount 10573 Rolling Stones-London 9687
1 WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME 32 SUCH A NIGHTDole and Grace-- Mantel 930 Elvis Presley-RCA 8400
8 MORE AND MORE OF YOUR 33 THE NEW FRANKIE AND
AMOR JOHNNY SONG
Nat King Cole-Capitol 5219 Greenwood Singers-Kapp 5°1
9 THANK YOU BABY 34 HANGIN' ON TO MY BABYShirelles-Sceptor 1278 Tracey Dey-Amy 908
10 DREAM LOVER 35 IT HURTS TO BE IN LOVEParis Sisters-MGM 13236 Gene Pitney-Musicor 1040
11 IF YOU SEE MY LOVE 36 SHOUT
Lenny Welch-Cadence 1446 Lulu and Luvcrs-Parrott 9678
12 YOU'RE NO GOOD 37 A THING CALLED SADNESS
Swinging Blur leans--Impc no 166049 Chuck Howard-Fraternity 923
13 ALL GROWN UP38 CLOSE YOUR EYES
Arthur Prysock-Old Town 1163Crystals-Philles 122
14 ALL MY LOVING39 I BELIEVE IN ALL I FEEL
G Clefs-Regina 1314Hollyridge Strings-Capitol 5207
15 I'VE GOT NO TIME TO LOSE40 BECAUSE
Day, Clark Five -5-9705Carla Thomas-AtIontic 2238
16 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE41 UNDER PARIS SKIES
Andy Williams-Cadence 1447Wilson Pickett-Atlantic 2233
17 YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE42 I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
Bra ado Holloway Tamla 530.,Gerry and Pacemakers-Laurie 3261
43 BREAKING POINT18 MORE Etta James-Argo 5477
Danny Williams-U.A. 60144 HEARTS ARE MADE TO BE
19 BAMA LAMA BAMA 100 BROKENLittle Richard-Specialty 692 Sapphtr, a ABC 10559
20 PEPPERMINT MANTra4,,, a 60,01- 4010
45 MORE, MORE, MORE LOVE,
LOVE, LOVE
21 SECURITYJohnny Thunder-Diamond 169
Otis Redding-Volt 177 46 GOOFUS
22 I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVEBent Fabric-Atco 6304
TO YOU 47 GINO IS A COWARDRolling Stones-London 9682 Gino Washington-Ric Tic
23 NEW ORLEANS 48 G.T.O.
Bern Elliott and Fenmen-London 9670 Ronnie & Daytonas-Mala 481
24 I'LL CRY INSTEAD 49 MY HEART SKIPS A BEATBeatles-Capitol 5234 Buck Owens-Capitol 5136
25 MARY OH MARY 50 ON THE ROCKSFats Domino --ABC 10567 Wailers-Imperial 66045
LP'S COMING Ili1
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THE CONCERT SOUND OF
HENRY MANCINIRCA LPM-2897
MOMS -WOWSMoms Mablcy-Chess 1486
SOUL SERENADEKing Curtis-Capitol T-2095: ST -2095
LOOKING FOR LOVEConnie Francis-MGM E-4229
TALL COOL ONE
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LAWRENCE OF ARABIASoundtrack-Colpix CP-514: SCP-514
CAMELOTOriginal Cast-Columbia KOL-5620
FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRESoundtrack-Columbia OL 6060
THE GREAT YEARSJohnny Mathis-Columbia C2L-34
ROY ORBISON'S GREATEST
HITSWaders-Imperial LP -9262 Monument M-8000 (Mono only)
6 COMMAND PERFORMANCES 31 ENCOREVarious Artists-Command RS -868: 1 Gary-RCA LPM-2084
RS -868 -SD
1 MY GUY32 MANHATTAN
Mantovani-London LL -3328M. Wells-Motown M-617
8 TRINI LOPEZ AT P.J.'S33 ANY NUMBER CAN WIN
Jimmy Smith-Verve V-8552: V6-8552Reprise 6093
9 ALWAYS IN MY HEART34 BACH TO THE BLUES
Ramsey Lewis-Argo LP -732: LPS-732Los Indios Trabajaros-
RCA LPM-2912: LSP-291235 COMIN' HOME BABY
10 PAIN IN MY HEART J LaForge-Regina R309
0 Redding-Atco 16136 SWEET AND SOUR TEARS
11 HEY LITTLE COBRA R. Charles-ABC Paramount ABC -1954:ABCS-1954
Rip Chords-Columbia CL -2151: CS -8951
12 STAY31 BECKET
Soundtrack-Decco DL -9117 DL -79117Four Seasons-Vee Jay V1-1082
13 PROGRESSIVE PICKIN'38 ROBERT GOULET IN PERSON
Columbia CL -2088: CS -8888Chet Atkins-RCA LPM-2908
14 PETER, PAUL, AND MARY39 REFLECTING
C. Mitchell Trio-Mercury MG -20891:Warner Bros.-W-1449: WS -1149 SR -60891
15 MONDO CANE 40 AIN'T NOTHIN' YOU CAN DOSoundtrack-UA UAL -4105 Bobby Bland-Duke DLP-78
16 12 GREAT HITS 41 ON THE COUNTRYSIDE1. Rodgers-Dot DLP-3579: DLP-25579 Brook Benton-Mercury SR -60918
17 AMERICA, I HEAR YOU 42 I LOVE YOU BECAUSESINGING AI Martino-Capitol 1-1915
F. Sinatra, B. Crosby, F. Waring-Reprise F-2020: FS -2020 43 LIVERPOOL SOUNDS
18 OUR GREATEST HITS Bobby Vee-Liberty 3352
Drifters-Atlantic 809344 RING OF FIRE -THE BEST
19 THE BEST OF BUCK OWENS OF JOHNNY CASHCapitol T-2105 Columbia CL -2053
20 GLORIA, MARTY & STRINGS 45 BILL COSBY IS A VERYGloria Lynn-Everest BR -5220: FUNNY FELLOW, RIGHTSDBR-1220
B. Cosby-Warner Bros. W-1518
21 MUSCLE BEACH PARTY46 NEW ORLEANS: HOME OF
Annette- Vista 3314THE BLUES: VOL. II
22 TODAY'S ROMANTIC HITS Various Artists-Minit LP -0004
FOR LOVERS ONLY47 EVERY LITTLE BIT HURTS
J. Gleason-Capitol W-2056Brenda Holloway-Tarnla 257
23 HOW THE WEST WAS WON48 ASTRONAUTS ORBIT KAMPUS
Soundtrack-MGM-1E5: SIE5RCA Victor 2903
24 WHITE ON WHITE49 PAINTED, TAINTED ROSE
Danny Williams-UA UAL -3359:UAS-6359 A. Martino-Capitol T-1975
25 RAMBLIN' 50 WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUNNew Christy Minstrel,- Original Cast-Columbia DOL-6040:Columbia CL -2155: CS -8855 KOS-6040
14 RECORD WORLD -July 25, 1964
You May
Hear Other Versions
But This One's
THE HIT!
DIONNE
WARWICK
"A HOUSE IS NOT
A HOME" SCEPTER 1282
From The
JOSEPH E. LEVINE
Motion Picture"A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME"
Written ByHAL DAVID
BURT BACHARACH
Published By
DIPLOMAT MUSIC CORP.
SCEPTER MUSIC 254 W. 54th St., New York
Scepter 5523
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MUSIC CITYBerkeley, Calif.
1. Steal Away (Jimmy Hughes)2. Keep On Pushing (Impressions)3. Soulful Dress (Sugar Pie DeSanto)4. Help The Poor (B. B. King)5. Just Be True (Gene Chandler)6. It's All Over Now (Valentinos)7. Under The Boardwalk (Drifters)8. Rock Me Baby (B. B. King)9. Happy I Long To Be (Betty Everett)
10. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love(Solomon Burke)
LUENHAGEN'SHollywood, Calif.
1. Invisible Tears (Ray Conniff Singers)2. Frankie And Johnnie (Greenwood Singers)3. Deng Me (R. Miller)4. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)5. Angelico (Rene and Rene)6. Only You (Wayne Newton)7. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)8. I Still Get Jealous (Louis Armstrong)9. Litte Old Lady from Pasadena (Jan & Dean)
10. Can't You See That She's Mine(Dave Clark Five)
MUNICIPAL RADIO CO.Brooklyn, N. Y.
1. Where Did Our Love Go (Supremos)2. I Wanna Love Him So Bad (Jelly Beans)3. Under The Boardwalk (Drifters)4. Wishin' And Hopin' (D. Springfield)5. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)6. Just Be True (G. Chandler)7. Deng Me (R. Miller)8. Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)9. Hard Day's Night (Beatles)
10. Everybody Loves Somebody (D. Martin)
TRIANGLE MUSIC STOREWaukesha, Wisc.
1. Hard Day's Night (Beatles)2. C'mon Everybody (Elvis Presley)3. I Get Around (Beach Boys)4. Deng Me (R. Miller)5. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)6. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)7. People (B. Streisand)8. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)9. Little Children (Billy J. Kramer)
10. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'(Gerry and The Pacemakers)
NEW DEAL RECORD SERVICEBaltimore, Md.
1. I Get Around (Beach Boys)2. Rag Doll (Four Seasons)3. Within' & Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)4. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)5. Girl From Ipanema (Getz & Gilberto)6. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'
(Gerry & The Pacemakers)7. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)8. World Without Love (Peter & Gordon)9. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)10. Chapel Of Love (Dixie Cups)
LIEBERMAN'S IOWA RECORD ONE STOPDes Moines, Iowa
1. I Get Around (Beach Boys)2. Little Children (Billy J. Kramer)3. Deng Me (Roger Miller)4. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)5. Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan&Dean)6. World Without Love (Peter & Gordon)7. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)8. Rag Doll (Four Seasons)9. World I Used To Know (Jimmie Rodgers)
10. Nobody I Know (Peter & Gordon)ONE STOP, INC.Woburn, Mass.
1. A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles)2. Rag Doll (Four Seasons)3. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark five)4. You're My World (Cilia Black)5. Girl From Ipanema (Getz & Gilberto)6. Handy Man (Del Shannon)7. Farmer John (Premiers)8. I Wanna Love Him So Bad (Jelly Beans)9. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)
10. Deng Me (Roger Miller)NORTY'S ONE STOPLos Angeles, Calif.
1. Little Old Lady From. Pasadena (Jan & Dean)2. I Get Around (Beach Boys)3. Summer Means Fun (Bruce & Terry)4. Hard Day's Night (The Beatles)5. Tell 'Em I'm Surfin' (Fantastic Baggys)6. James Bond Theme (Billy Strange)7. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)8. Rag Doll (Four Seasons)9. Hey Boy -Hey Girl (Wink Martindale)
10. One Piece Topless Bathing Suit (Rip Chords)
KOSSUTH RADIOAlgona, Iowa
1. Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys)2. Chapel Of Love (Dixie Cups)3. Little Children (Billy J. Kramer)4. World Without Love (Peter and Gordon)5. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)6. Today (New Christy Minstrels)7. Deng Me (Roger Miller)8. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)9. Beans In My Ears (Serendipity Singers)
10. Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)
KEN'S RECORD SHOPScottsboro, Ala.
1. Haunted House (Gene Simmons)2. Deng Me (Roger Miller)3.(Viva Las Vegas (Elvis Presley)4. A Hard Day's Night (Beatles)5. Nobody I Know (Peter and Gordon)6. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)7. I Don't Love You Anymore (C. Louvin)8. If I'm A Fool For Loving You (B. Wood)9. I Get Around (Beach Boys)
10. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)BARKER'S, INC.
Monroe, La.1. I Get Around (Beach Boys)2. If I'm A Fool For Loving You (B. Wood)3. Chapel Of Love (Dixie Cups)4. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)5. Stealing Hubcaps (Billy Ledbetter)6. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)7. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)8. In The Misty Moonlight (Jerry Wallace)9. Deng Me (Roger Miller)
10. Good Times (Sam Cooke)
THE MUSIC SHOPSpringfield, Ill.
1. Every Little Bit Hurts (B. Holloway)2. Keep On Pushing (Impressions)3. Hard Day's Night (Beatles)4. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)5. Wishin' And Hopin' (D. Springfield)6. Bad To Me (B. J. Kramer)7. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)8. Nobody I Know (Peter and Gordon)9. Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys)
10. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'(Gerry and The Pacemakers)
BELMONT RECORD ONE STOPNewark, N. J.
1. Under The Boardwalk (Drifters)2. Keep On Pushing (Impressions)3. Good Times (Sam Cooke)4. I'll Be In Trouble (Temptations)5. Somethin' You Got (A. Robinson)6. Try It Baby (Marvin Gaye)7. The Carpetbaggers (J. McDuff)8. Oh Baby (Barbara Lynn)9. Giving Up (Gladys Knight and Pips)
10. Can I Get To Know You (B. Everett)
NEW DEAL RECORDS, INC.Long Island City, N. Y.
1. A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles)2. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)3. I Get Around (Beads Boys)4. Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)5. Everybody Loves Somebody (Dean Martin)6. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)7. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)8. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'
(Gerry and The Pacemakers)9. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark five)10. Nobody I Know (Peter and Gordon)
ROBERTS RECORDSMinneapolis, Minn.
1. I Get Around/Don't Worry Baby(Beach Boys)
2. Little Children/Bad To Me (B. J. Kramer)3. Memphis (J. Rivers)4. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)5. The Grind (Avantis)6. Dang Me (R. Miller)7. Viva Las Vegas (E. Presley)8. Peppermint Man (Trashmen)9. People (B. Streisland)
10. C'mon Everybody (E. Presley)
I. J. MORGAN CO.Philadelphia, Pa.
1. Where Did Our Love Go (Supremes)2. People Say (Dixie Cups)3. Looking For Love (Connie Francis)4. A Hard Day's Night (Beatles)5. Rag Doll (The Four Seasons)6. Wishin' And Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)7. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)8. Everybody Loves Somebody (Dean Martin)9. Al -Di -La (Ray Charles Singers)
10. Deng Me (Roger Miller)
TOP 40 STATIONS
eta glanceWLAV-Grand Rapids, Mich.
1. Rag Doll (Four Seasons)2. I Get Around (Beach Boys)3. Wishin' And Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)4. Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)5. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)6. Deng Me (Roger Miller)7. Handy Man (Del Shannon)8. My Boy Lollipop (Milhe Small)9. Don't Throw Your Love Away (Searchers)
10. Can't You See That She's Mine(Dave Clark Five)
CKLW-Detroit, Mich.
1. Where Did Our Love Go (Suoremes)2. Wishin' And Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)3. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)4. Under The Boardwalk (The Drifters)S. Don't Worry Baby (The Beach Boys)6. Do I Love You (Ronettes)7. I'm Into Somethin' Good (Earl -Jean)8. Nobody I Know (Peter and Gordan)9. A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles)
10. Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl(Patty and The Emblems)
WRMT-Rocky Mount, N. C.
1. Good News (Sam Cooke)2. Steal Away (Jimmy Hughes)3. If I'm A Fool (Bobby Wood)4. What's The Matter, Baby
(Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells)5. Every Little Bit Hurts (Brenda Holloway)6. Keep On Pushing (Impressions)7. Rag Doll (Four Seasons)8. Try It Baby (Marvin Gaye)9. I'll Be In Trouble
10. Precious Words (Wallace Bros)
KUZN-West Monroe, La.
1. I Get Around (The Beach Boys)2. If I'm A Fool For Loving You (B. Wood)3. Chapel Of Love (The Dixie Cups)4. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)
Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'(Gerry and The Pacemakers)
6. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)7. No Particular Place To Go (Chuck Berry)8. Stealing Hubcaps (Baly Ledbetter)9. A World Without Love (Peter and Gordon)
10. Rag Doll (The Four Seasons)
WABC-New York, N. Y.
1. Rag Doll (The Four Seasons)2. I Get Around (Beach Boys)3. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)4. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)5. Under The Boardwalk (The Drifters)6. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)7. Chapel Of Love (The Dixie Cups)8. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
(Gerry & The Pacemakers)9. Girl From Ipanema (Getz/Gilberto)
10. Wishin' And Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)
WSPR-Springfield, Mass.
1. A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles)2. Rag Doll (The Four Seasons)3. Everybody Loves Somebody (Dean Martin)4. Nobody I Know (Peter and Gordon)5. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)6. I Like It (Gerry and Pacemakers)7. Do I Love You (The Ronettes)8. The Girl From Ipanema (Getz/Gilberto)9. Wishin' And Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)
10. Looking For Boys (The Pin -Ups)
WJBK-Detroit, Mich.
1. Where Did Our Love Go (Supremes)2. Rag Doll (Four Seasons)3. Do I Love You (Ronettes)4. Wishin' And Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)5. I Wanna Love Him (Jelly Beans)6. Don't Worry/I Get Around (Beach Boys)7. Under The Boardwalk (Drifters)8. I'm Into Somethin' Good (Earl -Jean)9. Hard Day's Night (Beatles)
10. Nobody I Know (Peter & Gordon)
WIBG-Philadelphia, Pa.
1. Rag Doll (The 4 Seasons)2. I Get Around/Don't Worry Baby
(The Beach Boys)3. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)4. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)5. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
(Gerry & The Pacemakers)6. The Girl From Ipanema (Getz/Gilberto)7. Nobody I Know (Peter and Gordon)8. A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles)9. Good Times (Sam Cooke)
10. Dang Me (Roger Miller)
WLAM-Lewiston, Me.
1. A Hard Day's Night (Beatles)2. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)3. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)4. Nobody I Know (Peter and Gordon)5. Girl From Ipanema (Getz/Gilberto)6. Everybody Loves Somebody (Dean Martin)7. You're My World (Cilia Black)8. I Get Around (Beach Boys)9. Tell Me (Rolling Stones)
10. Little Old Lady (Jan and Dean)
CKWS-Kingston, Ont.
1. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)2. Chapel Of Love (The Dixie Cups)3. The French Song (Lucille Starr)4. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
(Gerry and The Pacemakers)5. Bad To Me (Billy J. Kramer)6. A World Without Love (Peter & Gordon/
Bobby Rydell)7. Milord (Bobby Darin)8. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)9. I Get Around/Don't Worry Baby
(The Beach Boys)10. Little Children (Billy J. Kramer)
KRIZ-Phoenix, Ariz.
1. Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan B Dean;2. I Get Around/Don't Worry Baby
(Beach Boys)3. Walk -Don't Run '64 (The Ventures)4. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)5. Nobody I Know (Peter & Gordon)6. Angelito (Rene and Rene)7. (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet (Reflections)8. The Girl from Ipanema (Getz and Gilberto9. The Mexican Shuffle (Tijuana Brass)
10. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)
WWIN-Baltimore, Md.
1. Just Be True (Gene Chandler)2. Under The Boardwalk (The Drifters)3. The Girl's Alright With Me (Temptations)4. Keep On Pushing (The Impressions)5. Good Times (Sam Cooke)6. It's All Over Now (The Valentines)7. Where Did Our Love Go (The Supremos)8. Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl
(Patty and Emblems)9. How Glad I Am (Nancy Wilson)
10. Beg Me (Chuck Jackson)
KJR-Seattle, Wash.
I. Can't You See That She's Mine(Dave Clark Five)
2. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)3. I Get Around (Beach Boys)4. Rag Doll (Four Seasons)5. Don't Throw Your Love Away (Searchers)6. Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)7. No Particular Place To Go (Chuck Berry)8. C'mon And Swim (Bobby Freeman)9. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
(Gerry and Pacemakers)10. I'm Into Something Good (Earl -Jean)
WILS-Lansing, Mich.
1. Rag Doll (4 Seasons)2. Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)3. Don't Worry Baby/I Get Around
(Beach Boys)4. Wishin' And Hopin' (D. Springfield)5. Handy Man (Del Shannon)6. Don't Throw Your Love Away (Searchers)7. Memphis (J. Rivers)8. Can't You See That She's Mine
(Dave Clark Five)9. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
(Gerry and Pacemakers)10. Love Is The Season (J.Powers)
CHUM -Toronto, Ont.
1. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)2. My Boy Lollipop (Millie Small)3. No Particular Place To Go (Chuck Berry)4. World Without Love (Peter & Gordon)5. Don't Throw Your Love Away (Searchers)6. Do You Love Me (Dave Clark Five)7. Chapel Of Love (Dixie Cups)8. Tall Cool One (The Wailers)9. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
(Gerry & The Pacemakers)10. I Get Around/Don't Worry Baby
(Beach Boys)
WWDC-Washington, D. C.
1. I Get Around/Don't Worry Baby(Beach Boys)
2. Memphis (Johnny Rivers)3. Under The Boardwalk (Drifters)4. Wishin' And Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)5. Rag Doll (The 4 Seasons)6. The Girl From Ipanema (Getz and Gilberto)7. Little Old lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)8. A Hard Days Night (Beatles)9. Just Ain't Enough Love (Eddie Holland)
10. Deng Me (Roger Miller)
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The Word Is Spoken Wordisks
performance and popularity forperipheral reasons spelled initialsuccess for the album, but themarket has even widened moresince then. Recently the JohnGielgud modern dress produc-tion was filmed for wide spreaddistribution by Warner Bros.meaning that many more buy-ers will be exposed to the offer-ing. (There's talk at Col of aone -record "Hamlet"-mainlysoliloquies - to accompany re-lease of the film.)
Not only the company, butstar Burton must be happy atthese prospects, because theactor has a substantial cut ofthe album and stands to makea tidy sum. The financial boonfor the actor able to commandpercentage of the disk willprobably lure other actors toBroadway and the recordingscene. And, of course, thebigger the names on the pack-age, the better the chance ofbig money sales.
Col's future activities are in-definite, but there is strongreason to believe that the labelwill tie down rights to ArthurMiller's "After the Fall," withJason Robards Jr., BarbaraLoden and the other LincolnCenter repertory members.
It was recently announcedthat Carlo Ponti has bought"After the Fall" for filming tostart in 1965 with Sophia Lorenand Paul Newman starred. In
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this case, the added draw ofthe stars might even bringabout a soundtrack version ofthe Miller play.
It certainly can't be ruledout as unlikely that there willbe a tracker of Col's successful"Who's Afraid of VirginiaWoolf?" package. Although thecast for the upcoming "Woolf"pic has yet to be announced,it's certain that the stars willbe big ones (Bette Davis?) andeven more likely to mean diskboxoffice than the Broadwayversion, with these names addedto the reputation of the Albeeplay and the increased ex-posure. So why not take advan-tage?
An original cast album of aBroadway musical followed bya soundtrack of its eventualfilm is a matter of course now.Therefore, it's highly possiblethat that pattern will soonbe established for successfulstraight plays as well.
Soundtracks for films with-out a Broadway cast fore-runner may also become athing. Next month RCA willrelease a one -disk package ofdialogues from the RichardBurton -Peter O'Toole film,"Becket." And it's almost cer-tain that a spoken word album(as well as a musical sound-track) of UA's "Greatest StoryEver Told" will be released.The film is due for Christmas
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Pop Singles I'M INTO SOMETHINGGOOD
(Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI)Earl -Jean-Colpix 729
I LIKE IT LIKE THAT(Jobete, BMI)Miracles-Tornio 54098PEOPLE SAY(Trio, BMI)Dixie Cups-Red Bird 10-006
AIN'T SHE SWEETBeatles-Atlantic 6308SUGAR LIPS(Tree, BMI)Al Hirt-RCA Victor 8391WALK DON'T RUN '64(Forshay, BMI)Ventures-Dolton 96
Long Play Albums
THE UNSINKABLEMOLLY BROWN
Soundtrack-MGM E 4234
DON'T LET THE SUNCATCH YOU CRYIN'
Gerry and the Pacemakers-Laurie 2024
THE FABULOUSVENTURES
-Dolton BLP 2029
opening. And what about some-thing like "Night of theIguana," which features notonly Richard Burton but Deb-orah Kerr's greatly praisedperformance?
With momentum gaining thereis no stopping the recording ofall types of stage or screenproductions. One area that isyet to be explored (with theexception of Capitol's two "Be-yond the Fringe" disks) iscomedy.
Humor a ProblemThe prohibitive element so
far is the visual aspect ofhumor, which though a prob-lem in transferring drama towax, is more easily surmountedthere. Usage of recognizableprop sounds (notice photo fromthe "Roses" session) helps tocreate the atmosphere andstimulate the listener's imagi-nation. And there seems to beless demand for rewrites.Edward Albee, according toColumbia spokesmen, needed tochange very little for the "Vir-ginia Woolf" sessions.
But it's in rewriting that theanswer to the whole problemlies, and that's probably whatwill be happening shortly. Theopportunities are too good topass up. For instance, it's wellknown that Neil Simon's com-edy smash, "Barefoot in thePark," was offered to manycompanies for recording, butseemed an unwise prospect be-cause of the heavy reliance onvisual humor.
Nonetheless, comedy writerSimon was also praised for thesteady flow of gags in the play.If he were able to translate thevisual facets of the play intosome kind of auditory equiv-alent, there would be a highlysaleable product. The show'sfame would certainly make itas marketable a product as anyof the dramatic presentationson wax-probably more so ifthe record sales ran in propor-tion to the show's box officereceipts.
It's reasonable to suspectthat record companies will de-cide to give this rewriting a try(maybe with a hefty fee forthe author's rewrites)-if notwith "Barefoot," with some-thing else. Everything's fairgame.
Jerry BlaineSets TV Arm
HOLLYWOOD-Jerry Blaine,President of Cosnat Corp., andPrexy of Cosnat Productions,has greenlighted the establish-ment of a television arm for thedevelopment and filming of tele-vision properties.
Blaine, who recently com-pleted filming on his initialmotion picture, "The Candidate,"will coordinate all of his filmactivities under direction of pro-ducer Maurice Duke.
!Mamie Van Doren and JuneWilkinson, who co-star in "Can-didate," have completed record-ings on three Sid Robin songs-two of which "Bikini With NoTop On The Top" and "So WhatElse Is New?"-will be releasednationally via Blaine's JubileeRecords. The third number isthe title song from the "Candi-date" pic and will be distributedsimultaneously with film's re-lease.
Blaine, meanwhile, has or-dered a first pressing of 25,000records on "Bikini" to meet dis-tributor orders and to cash inon the current "no top" swim-suit craze.
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Film Review
The Beatles' Hard Day'sNight' An Easy Success
BY DOUG McCLELLANDOkay, the wiseacres say, the
United Artists Records sound-track album from "A HardDay's Night" is one of the all-time smashes, and The Beatles'Capitol singles from their firstfeature film are soaring; buthow good can the movie be?
Very, that's how.The Beatles were unique-
still are, despite the similarlygimmicky groups that continueto emerge from Britain andother locales-so it is only fit-ting that their movie should beunique, too. Which it is, inspades, a melding of Europe'sNew Wave filmmaking with SamKatzman's quickie Americanfilm production, plus more thana smattering of TV's Huntley -Brinkley Report.
Virtuoso CameraworkFor here is the gray, often
dizzyingly virtuoso cameraworkindigenous to nouvelle vagueries ;the let's - get - it - out -before -thesmoke -clears scripting of aKatzman opus; and the expertdocumentary -like reporting ofan H -B effort. Indeed, alongwith the undeniable amiabilityof The Beatles (forgive themfor such recurrent referencesto people as "swine" and"clean"-the later a Liverpud-lian colloquialism?), the majordistinction of "A Hard Day'sNight" as moviemaking is thesuperb pace sustained by direc-tor Richard Lester and thedexterity and flair with which
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cinematographer Gilbert Taylorliterally composes each scene.Together, they capture on filmwhat surely was not in thepractically non-existent script.The barely controllable frenzyof fan adoration was neverbetter staged for a featuremovie (if it was staged), not inthe Presley heyday, not in theSinatra years, not even in Val -lee's time. It's all here on filmfor the ages and incredulousLate, Late Show eyes of theyear 2000.
The important thing, though,is that the boys seem to beworth all the trouble. John, thefather -image of the group;George, the no -image yet, un-fortunately, but likeably soft -sell nevertheless; and Paul, fullof Irish rebellion and thepranks of the Little People.Ringo, for whom the wordfloppy was invented, who isthe most winning two -leggedlapdog in captivity, deserves atleast a sentence or two of hisawn. He has a wonderful wall-to-wall smile he is too shyabout using, and while every-thing on his face is wrong,somehow it all comes out-Barbra Streisand should for-give me-right. Actually theleast facile actor of the four,he has something innate whichthe other three have to sweatfor: he has the audience withhim regardless. Viewers will letthe others go off and shift forthemselves and miss but hardlyworry about them; but they'renot sure a roaming Ringo willbe safe, Ringo of the childlikefascination for costume jewelryand the quizzical cocked -headlook of a mutt.
And in "A Hard Day's Night,"which (with probably less plotthan any full-length, allegedly"story" film ever made) detailsa few hours in the lives ofThe Beatles as they preparefor and perform on a TV showin England, audiences shouldworry about Ringo-but notfor long. Thinking his fellowBeatles mistreat him and takehim for granted, he wandersoff for a series of innocent in-cognito adventures which even-tually land him in jail. Buthe's not alone long: he's joinedthere by Wilfrid Brambell, atrouble -making, dotty old duf-fer who is also Paul McCart-ney's grandfather (in the filmonly).
Brambell gets co-star billing,incidentally, and almost as
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[0] COAST
CAPERSIt's The Market, Not The Record
BY TED RANDALIf you've talked to a record manufacturer or promotion man
recently you're familiar with his plaintive cry about how badbusiness is. However, in the same complaining breath it is notunlikely that he mentioned his plug record had already sold15,000 in Detroit or some other city of equal importance. Thoughhis sad tale may sound contradictory to the unseasoned ear, let'sface it, the singles record business just "ain't what it usedto be."
We all know that sales are down. That being the ease, whyis it that certain records seem to sell large amounts consistentlyin some areas? Or are all the fantastic figures we hear nothingbut hypes? In most cases I have found the figures quoted to berelatively accurate, so the key to the inconsistency has to bein the cities themselves. You may be able to get a better pictureof the situation if you will think carefully about the followingtheory:
The amount of single records sold in any given area isdirectly proportionate to the effort that must be expendedby any one radio station to acquire or keep the dominantratings in that area.
In other words, in those markets where there is a strong com-petitive struggle between two or more radio stations for thenumber one position, records are still selling well; in less com-petitive markets, single sales have fallen off considerably. Thereason for this is simple. Struggling stations sell records becauserecords are a station's basic weapons. In this battle the one whohas the best weapons and is the most skillful in displaying themto an audience wins their favor. If there is no battle the gladi-ators lose their skill, and the audience loses interest in even theprettiest weapons. What conclusion can be drawn? Start a fight,and you'll sell some records.
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It never ceases to be a pleasure to see an artist friend with whomyou've been out of touch for several years. Tommy Leonetti, whois a very enjoyable individual, stopped into my office the otherday, and we had a chance to say hello again for the first timein 10 years. Tommy's in town fora couple of weeks promotinghis new RCA record, "Don't Stand Up In A Canoe" ...The Astro-nauts are back in Los Angeles for an album session. They'repretty exicted about the news that their record "Movin'" is inthe Top 5 in Japan ...My wife and I spent all day on a recent Sat-urday at Disneyland with an old friend from Vancouver, B. C.,Buddy Clyde, and his recent discovery, Terry Black. Terry's Arcrecord of "Sinner Man" is one of the most popular in WesternCanada, and Buddy predicts a big future for the 16-year -old star.
Bill Marx opens at "The Losers" in Hollywood with AnnRichards for three weeks beginning Aug. 11. Last year, Ann andBill taped a very successful album of their appearance at thesame club for Vee-Jay. A & R director Steve Clark plans torecord another album with the pair using the new material fromtheir respective acts . . . Liberty A & R producer Dave Pell jetsto Washington, D.C. this week to record a "live" Bud & Travisalbum at the Cellar Door.
Siegel Vee-JayNat'l Sales Head
HOLLYWOOD - Bill Siegel,National Director of Rack Salesfor Vee-Jay Records, Inc., hasbeen upped to post of NationalSales Director, it was an-nounced this week by RandyWood, President of Vee-Jay.
Siegel moves from New Yorkto the label's West Coast head-quarters to assume duties un-der the new post. He will con-tinue to supervise rack sales,reporting directly to Wood.
Christys Get TVerColumbia Records' best-selling
folk singing group, The NewChristy Minstrels, have beensigned by the Ford Motor Com-pany for a major summer tele-vision series, "Ford PresentsThe New Christy Minstrels."
The program, which will betelevised nationally as the NBC-TV Network replacement for thepopular "Hazel" series on Thurs-days at 9:30 P.M., will debuton Aug. 6 and run through Sept.10. Produced by Gary Smith,the series will be taped and shoton location.
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Bewitching Hr.
Kapp Records' songster JackJones, right, is shown showinghis latest LP, "Bewitched," tohost Wayne Thomas during avisit to KHJ-Hollywood's "Mil-lion Dollar Matinee" show.Jones once hosted a teen showon that station, too.
Grogan To New Shaw Is Reappointed Marks GPMCapitol Post
HOLLYWOOD - Stanley M.Gortikov, President, CapitolRecords Distributing Corp.(CBDC), announced the pro-motion of Hal Grogan to thenewly -created position of Na-tional Inventory Manager.
Grogan will be responsible forthe development of procedures,techniques and controls leadingto the efficient utilization of in-ventories. According to Gorti-kov, the appointment is the firstof several aimed at obtaining"more effective management andadministration of Capitol andAngel inventories."
Epic Issues New De Rose ConcertClark 5 Single Guests SetEpic Records has released a
new single, "Because" coupledwith "Theme Without a Name,"by The Dave Clark Five, accord-ing to an announcement byLeonard S. Levy, General Man-ager of Epic.
"Because" is the original songcomposed by Dave Clark whichmarked the flip side of theBritish single, "Can't You SeeThat She's Mine." Frequent airplay of the British record byAmerican disk jockeys createda public demand for Epic to re-lease this single.
(Albums on chart 10 weeks or lessshowing greatest upward movement)
A HARD DAY'S NIGHTBeatles Soundtrack-United Artists
UAS 6366
BEATLES SONG BOOKHollyridgc Strings - Capitol T 2116
THE INTERNATIONAL TEENAGESENSATION
Rita Pavonc-RCA Victor LPM 2900
I WALK THE LINEJohnny Cash-Columbia CL 20913
WONDERFUL WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVEJ. Mathis-Mercury MG 20913
THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWNSoundtrack-MGM 4234
DON'T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYIN'Gerry and the Pacemakers-Laurie 2024
THE FABULOUS VENTURESDolton BLP 2029
I WISH SOMEONE WOULD CAREIrma Thomas-Imperial LP 9266
FADE OUT -FADE INOriginal Cast-ABC Paramount OC 3
PRESENTING THE BACHELORSLondon LL 3353; Ps 353
DANCE DISCOTHEQUEVarious Artists-Decca DL 4556; DL 74556
ASBURY PARK, N.J.-Band-leader Vincent Lopez, vocalistDolly Dawn and veteran lyri-cist Charlie Tobias will be guestperformers at the memorialconcert for composer Peter DeRose Sunday, July 26, at 8:30p.m. at the Arthur Pryor Board-walk Music Bowl. Frank Bryanconducts.
Mayor Thomas F. Shebellsaid that the concert will alsohonor Mrs. May Singhi BreenDe Rose, widow of the late DeRose, who now makes her per-manent home here. She starredfor many years on networkradio with her late husband,who wrote "Deep Purple" andother well known tunes.
NEW YORK-The reappoint-ment, under a new contract, ofArnold Shaw as General Pro-fessional Manager of Edward B.Marks Music Corp. and itsaffiliated companies has been an-nounced by Herbert E. Marks,President. Shaw has been withthe 70 -year -old BMI pubberysince 1955.
In the years of his incumbenceas head of the pop department,the firm has acquired a reputa-tion for aggressiveness and ver-satility that has more than keptone of the country's oldest andmost respected companies upamong the leading pop houses.(It currently has a c & w chart -climber in Johnny Cash's diskof "The Ballad of Ira Hayes"and has racked up a total ofmore than 470 different record-ings during the first six monthsof this year). Without losingcontact with the rock 'n' rollmarket - "Tell Laura I LoveHer" was a hit for Ray Peter-son, "`Wonderful! Wonderful !"for the Tymes, and "Hotel Hap-piness" for Brook Benton-Marks Music has been able inthe past three years to makestrong inroads in the show field,television and motion pictures.
Last year's hits included the"Mondo Cane" Theme, "More,"Academy Award contender, win-ner of a Grammy as the "BestInstrumental Theme" and al-ready established as a standardwith more than 80 different re-corded versions. Two other pic-ture scores handled by Marksin '63 were "Women of theWorld" and Federico Fellini's
Beatles' Film Reviewed(Cont inued
much footage as The Beatlesthemselves. He's a game cootbut also a bit of a forced fruit-cake after a while. The Londonpress compared the lads to TheMarx Brothers in this picture,a not entirely odious compari-son. (And in which case Bram-bell could be called a sort offoil for The Beatles a la Mar-garet Dumont, that grand dow-ager ravaged time after timeby Groucho.) Particularly re-mindful of the Marxes is JohnLennon when, in Groucho-likefashion, he tells a showgirl, "Ican get you on the stage," andshe replies, "Oh, where!", andhe embraces her saying, "Outthis door, turn left . . ." AndRingo, disguised in an over-size, Harpo-like coat, when hetakes it off and drops it overa mud puddle for an approach-ing pretty who smiles grate-fully and, of course, falls inup to her lacquer. There isalso a "silents" type sequence
itont page 181in which the boys frolic madlyon a field (aided by jerking,speeded -up camerwork) whichis going to be praised.
This is the picture, too,which asks the question, "Areyou a mod or a rocker?", towhich Ringo answers, "I'm amocker."
Biggest complaint: TheBeatles' thick Liverpool accentsare hard to understand evenwithout the squealing that issure to accompany showings ofthis Walter Shenson produc-tion for United Artists when itopens in August.
"A Hard Day's Night," aidedby liberal sprinklings of zestyMcCartney & Lennon -pennedsongs, is a brisk 83 minuteslong, giving adults little timefor criticism of any nature andshould also keep children en-thralled. But it's the teens,mostly, who, in the words ofa suporting player, will find thefilm "fab and all the otherpimply hyperboles."
Arnold Shaw"81/2," winner of the AcademyAward as "Best Foreign Film."Up-and-coming film scores in-clude "Mondo Cane #2,""Venere Imperiale" (starringGina Lollobrigida and StephenBoyd), "II Pelo Mel Mondo"and "I Malamondo."
In the TV field, in '63 Markspublished the Kenyon Hopkinsmusic for the award -winningseries "East Side/West Side",starring George C. Scott.Through a deal negotiated byShaw, Marks will also publishand promote the Dave Brubeckmusic for the new Garson Kaninseries "Mr. Broadway."
The Marks' calendar of fallshow scores includes the Alex-ander Cohen production of"Baker Street," starring IngaSwenson and Fritz Weaver.
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Col's 'Summer Stock' PromoStars B'way's Jack Cassidy
By DOUG McCLELLAND
NEW YORK-Nostalgia is avery merchandiseable commod-ity in show biz nowadays whenmany believe the good old dayswere really the good old days.And singer -actor Jack Cassidyis a major force in the trend.
Cassidy recently scored onBroadway as the 1930s shopsharpie in the musical "SheLoves Me"; is currently playinga '30s movie idol opposite CarolBurnett in "Fade Out - FadeIn" on Broadway; and ColumbiaRecords has just re -packaged,re -channeled (in stereo) and re-released Cassidy's six speciallyrecorded LP presentations offamous old Broadway shows-most of them, coincidentally,also from the '30s, and each a"must" in show buffs' libraries.
Or maybe it's not all so co-incidental; for Cassidy is amusical comedy leading man inthe grand tradition, handsome,debonair, vocally superior andblessed with a personal eleganceand style the like of which hastoo long been downtrodden bythe swing-or stagger-to "nat-uralism" on both the dramaticand musical stage. Almost single-handedly, Cassidy is sneakingcharm and grace back into thetheater; and his finesse comesacross on wax, too, as provedby his six show album re-pack-agings now out as part of Co-lumbia's "Summer Stock" LPpromotion, which includes thelabel's entire hefty catalog ofnoted stage and screen packages.
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"Up until now," Cassidy toldRecord World last week in hisMark Hellinger Theater dress-ing room, "these six albumshave been rather 'inside', evencollectors' items. 'The BoysFrom Syracuse,' for instance,was being sold in some storesfor $25 not long ago. At thetime I mentioned to GoddardLieberson, who produced themall, that it would be a good ideato re-release them, and he saidthey'd be good Christmas pack-ages. But I see they're in theSummer Stock issue, and doingwell.
"The thing that's makingthese albums sell, besides thegreat material, is the tenderloving care Goddard put intothem. He ad libbed many of thearrangements, you know, saying`This is the kind of a feeling Iwant . . .' His knowledge andtaste are impeccable. It is cer-tainly rare for a record companyexecutive to have the musicalcomedy savvy that Goddard has."
Cassidy said he'd love to domore albums like "Babes inArms," with Mary Martin; "OhKay!", "On Your Toes," "Ro-berta," "Brigadoon," with hiswife, cinemasongstress ShirleyJones, and "Boys From Syra-cuse." His bouquet to Columbiaprexy Lieberson won't hurt hischances to do so. He particularlywould like to do such as "ByJupiter," "Du Barry Was aLady," "50,000,000 Frenchmen"and "The New Yorkers." "Thesongs in those days were eachpearls, with the book sand-wiched in between. Today, thebook is all-important and themusic secondary."
Cassidy's voice has changeda bit from the time he recordedthe first of the lucky six,"Babes in Arms." "I was a realhigh tenor then," he recalled."They didn't want a big, boom-ing voice, and I had the light-ness they needed for the seriesGoddard was planning. Now I'ma lyric baritone. Of the oldershows, I guess I favor 'Oh,Kay!' Actually, though, I likewhat I did on 'Brigadoon' thebest of all.
" 'Brigadoon' was the last ofthe show series to be recorded-Shirley and I did it the yearafter we were married, in '57,and I like to think it was partlyresponsible for the City Centerrevival of the show which wasso successful it moved over to
Broadway."Shirley and I didn't do
`Brigadoon' together, incidental-ly. She was on the Coast doinga movie at the time. I did mysection here, she did hers there."
Cassidy enjoys his role in theCarol Burnett show (and, audio -wise, likes the ABC -Paramountcaster of it over the two -diskMGM recording of "She LovesMe," although "She Loves Me"is his favorite Broadway role).But he'd like to chuck the time-consuming grind of a play for aTV series. He has two prospectslined up, both comedy offerings.
"One thing to stay away fromin a TV series is show businessovertones. Remember the IdaLupino-Howard Duff series,`Mr. Adams and Eve?' It was so`inside.' The Dick Van DykeShow' takes a show biz premiseand turns it outside to make itwork. I think the best situationcomedy series on TV was the oldPhil Silvers -Sgt. Bilko series,and I'd like to do a kind ofcivilian Bilko in my show. Mycharacter would always comeup with an angle, but he wouldhave to lose-be a winning loser.I'm too slick, I've got to be out-rageous, larger than life. I'mattracted to the theatrical, butlife doesn't have the theatrics of
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TOP 40R&B1 UNDER THE BOARDWALK
Drifters-Atlantic 2237
2 GOOD TIMESS. Cooke-RCA 8368
3 KEEP ON PUSHINGImpressions-ABC 10554
4 NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GOC. Berry-Chess 1898
5 DO I LOVE YOURonettes-Philles 121
6 WALK ON BYD. Warwick-Scepter 1274
7 HEY HARMONICA MANS. Wonder-Tamla 54095
8 BEG MEC. Jackson-Wand 154
9 STEAL AWAYJ. Hughes-Fane 6401
10 TENNESSEE WALTZS. Cooke-RCA 8368
11 WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU BABYM. Gaye & M. Wells-Motown 1057
12 SHARE YOUR LOVEB. Bland-Duke 377
13 JUST BE TRUEG. Chandler-Constellation 130
14 I WANNA LOVE HIM SO BADJelly Beans-Red Bird 10-003
15 ONCE UPON A TIMEM. Gaye & M. Wells-Motown 1057
16 WHERE DID OUR LOVE GOSupremes-Motown 1060
17 SOMETHING YOU GOTA. Robinson-Tiger 104
18 TRY IT BABYM. Gaye-Tamla 54095
19 I LIKE IT LIKE THATMiracles-Tamla 54098
20 MY BABY DON'T DIG MER. Charles-ABC 10557
21 PEOPLE SAYDixie Cups-Red Bird 10-006
22 ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT LOVE ISI. Thomas-Imperial 166041
23 MY GUYM. Wells-Motown 1076
24 OH BABY (WE GOT A GOOD THINGGOIN1
B. Lynn-Jamie 1279
25 YOU'RE MY REMEDYMarvelletes-Tomla 54097
26 ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEEB. Benton-Mercury 72266
27 MIXED UP, SHOOK UP GIRLPatty & Emblems-Herald 590
28 SAILOR BOYChiffons-Laurie 3262
29 ALL GROWN UPCrystals-Philles 122
30 GIVING UPG. Knights & Pips-Manx 326
31 EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY TO LOVES. Burke-Atlantic 2241
32 (YOU DON'T KNOW) HOW GLAD I AMN. Wilson-Capitol 5198
33 GIRLSM. Lance-Okeh 7197
34 BABY COME HOMERuby & Romantics-Kopp 601
35 THE THINGS I USED TO DOJ. Brown-Smash 1908
36 HELP THE POORB. B. King-ABC 10552
37 PRECIOUS WORDSWallace Bros.-S,imms 174
38 SWEET WILLIAMMillie Small-Smash 1920
39 A TEAR FELLR. Charles-ABC 10571
40 WHAT CAN A MAN DOB. B. King-Atco 6303
Warner Bros. Records Edito-rial Director Stan Cornyn hasannounced his engagement toGail Anne MacCrystall, ofSherman Oaks, Calif. The bride-elect, formerly a member of theArt Department of Capitol Rec-ords, is the daughter of Mr.and Mrs. William F. MacCrys-tall of Denver, Col. MacCrystallis currently account executiveof WBTV, the ABC TV outlet inDenver, and was for manyyears associated with Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer Studios andKMGM in Hollywood. The wed-ding will take place Sept. 12 atSt. Cyril's Church, Encino.
Jay -Gee Records, Inc., hasinstituted suit against ColonialRecord Manufacturing Co.,Harry Finfer, ParamountPressing and all distribs han-dling a Tamara disk, "LastKiss," by J. Frank Wilson andThe Cavaliers. Jay -Gee reportsthat the record is signed ex-clusively to Jay -Gee and is cur-rently out on the Josie label.
Sid Bass, arranger, conductorand composer, has three newRCA Victor disks set forAugust release by Paul Anka,Tommy Leonetti and DellaReese.
The 50th anniversary cele-bration of the Cape Cod Canalhas resulted in two new record-ings by Robert W. Ransom ofPocasset: "Cape Cod CanalWelcomes You" and "MissCanal," issued on Ransom Rec-ords.
Rick Ward, director of pub-licity at ABC -Paramount Rec-ords, penned the lyrics to RayCharles' melody for the titlesong of the singer's starringfilm, "Light Out of Darkness,"recently completed in Dublin,London and Paris. Charles willrecord the song as a singleABC -Paramount disk to coin-cide with the film's release.
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style. But giving it a style makesit larger than life."
To get back to the albums,Cassidy added that he and Shir-ley had recorded two other al-bums for Columbia: "Speakingof Love" with Percy Faith and"With Love From Hollywood."
In parting, Cassidy said,"Give our 'Brigadoon' album aspecial push. I still get royaltiesfrom that one."
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Jerry Telser, Bill Bennett and John Petet of WLOL-Minnea-polis will be leading the station's broadcasts in honor of theMinneapolis Aquatennial's 25th year. It's also WLOL's 25thanniversary . . . Jolly Don McGraw is now taping country showsfor KXEL-Waterloo, Iowa, among numerous others . . . BobbyWilliams, affiliated with FBCW-Council Bluffs, Iowa, is off tryingto peddle a master called "The Sniper."
Ginny Arnell is off to WARM -Scranton, Pa. to participate in aJuly 22 celebration there . . . KQV-Pittsburgh is now using an"amphicar" for their news coverage. The vehicle goes on landor sea, John Rook writes ... Clark Weber is ruling over "Weber -land" in WLS-Chicago territory these days.
KWNIT-Davenport, Iowa, went fulltime country -western lastyear and is now the number one station in the area . . . DanDiamond will be supervising things when The Beatles arrive toparticipate in the WTIX-New Orleans Harmonica contest Sept.16 . . . Elliot Field of KFWB-Hollywood is studying with theTheatre Workship at Desilu Studios.
WWDC-Washington, D. C. is now programming uninterruptedmusic every night from 10 to 10:30 to give "tapenuts" a chanceto do their stuff .. . John H. Rue, who needs records for KBAR-Burley, Idaho, can be reached at P. 0. Box 461 there . . . BillBennett, WLOL-Minneapolis, St. Paul, was chosen officialtrack announcer for the 1964 Soap Box Derby held June 27.... Dave Lee has the all-night shift at KAFY-Bakersfield, Calif.,now.
Pat O'Day and Gaylen Blackford, KJR-Seattle moguls, recentlyheaded their station's Children's Orthopedic Hospital PennyDrive with a five-day campaign for 500 pounds of pennies. Theyreeled in almost two tons worth.
Jim Swenson, a Stanford University student, will sub for vaca-tioning KEX-Portland, Ore., staffers through September . . .
Alan Boyd is forwarding get -well cards from his WKUL-Cull-man, Ala., listeners to Ringo Starr, who is recovering fromsurgery (but is back on the concert trail nonetheless) . . . BillAdams is doing a Top 40 Show on WAEB-York, Pa.
Moe Preskell, Marketing Director at the reactivated FourCorners Records, received a unique package from Sam Sherwoodof KDWD-Minneapolis upon arrival at his new post, a vase withfour roses and the following note: "If it were 12 CornersRecords you'd have a complete dozen roses."
ABC Paramount Pushes RagtimeRagtime, pointed to by some
music business insiders forsome time as the next possiblemusical rage, gets a big pushfrom ABC -Paramount in thelabel's new group of album re-leases.
Three ragtime collectionsfeature pianist Hank Jones("This is Ragtime Now");banjoist Roy Smeck ("I Loveto Hear a Banjo"); and pianist
Knuckles O'Toole "The Bestof Knuckles O'Toole"). Collec-tively, the trio of albums repre-sents every aspect of the rag-time style, and should do muchto revive current interest inthe rhythm.
Highlighted in the LPs arestandards such as "AlabamyBound," "Bye Bye Blackbird"and "Maple Leaf Rag," as wellas original ragtime tunes.
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Board Room Luncheon, Hollywood
Recording artists Peter & Gordon, now engaged in a 22 -cityconcert tour of the U.S., were honored at a Capitol Towerluncheon in Hollywood last week. Attending were: (I. to r.)Brown Meggs, Dave Dexter, Glenn Wallichs, Buck Stapleton,Gordon, Bruce Davidson, Bill Tallant, Stan Gortikov, Jean Powell(representing Peter & Gordon's English management), Peter,Lloyd Dunn, Voyle Gilmore and Francis Scott.
Day Club Review
Glenda GraingerAt RoundtableNEW YORK-Glender Grain-
ger, a new thrush from GreatBritain, was introduced totradesters of all kinds in aunique way last week. Glenda'smanagers, Lennie Miller andManny Wells, wisely decidedthat the hest way to present anew night club personality torecording execs, press agentsand the press was in a nightclub atmosphere.
Therefore, they rented TheRoundtable for an afternoon,wined and dined the inviteesand then brought out the tal-ented songstress. The showcas-ing was well conceived andwell executed.
Londoner Glenda has donemost of her work in Spanish-speaking countries, strangelyenough, and has also managedto pick up a number of otherlanguages, making her a singerequipped to deal easily with awide range of material. Actwriters Sherry Cloth and BillyCosta exploited her ability inthese areas with rewarding re-sults.
Glenda sang in English(straight and Cockney), FrenchItalian and Spanish and herrepertoire went from the wellknown to the little known-alldone with the appropriate emo-tional qualities. Hers is a fin-ished act, slickly fashioned andworthy of exposure.
Representatives of many rec-ord companies were present,and a contract is probably inthe offering.
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Beatle PortraitsMake History
HOLLYWOOD-For the firsttime in its history, Capitol Rec-ords Distributing Corp. (CRDC)will promote and sell a productother than its usual line of rec-ords, tapes, phonographs andaccessories.
According to Bill Tallant,Vice -President and NationalSales Manager, CRDC, theCRDC sales force will launch anationwide promotion and salescampaign this week for life-size, full -color autographedBeatles pastel portraits.
The portraits (each one is141/4 x 181/4) are reproductionsof original art by Nick Volpe,the renowned artist who is anofficial Academy Award winnerartist. Volpe is also syndicatedin the Hearst newspapers with"By -Ways," an illustrated travelcolumn.
In making the announcement,Tallant said:
"Ever since the Beatle crazestarted we have been deluged byoffers to market merchandiseconnected with the group. TheVolpe portrait is the most com-mercial and marketable itemwe have seen."
Tallant said that the entirecampaign will be aided by ex-tensive ads on radio, particular-ly by Top 40 stations.
The portraits come in perma-nent display boxes that hold 100sets (there are four separateBeatle portraits to a set). Theyare also available in quantitiesof 25, without the display. Thereproductions will be marketedthrough CRDC's normal outletsfor record merchandise.
Cap Beatles LP 'Something New'HOLLYWOOD - "Something
New," Capitol's third Beatlealbum which goes on sale Mon-day, July 20, is one LP that livesup to its name.
Six of the tunes in the albumhave never before been releasedin the U.S. They were recordedby The Beatles after they com-pleted their first film, "A HardDay's Night" (Capitol releasedthe title as a single last weekand sales have already surpassedthe million mark.)
According to Stanley M. Gor-tikov, President, Capitol RecordsDistributing Corp. (CRDC) thepre-release sale for the album"has been fantastic." Over ahalf -million have been shippedto Districts throughout thecountry and orders have keptthe Scranton and Los Angelesplants working to capacity. Inaddition, Capitol has severaloutside sources pressing thedisk.
"The initial demand has beenamazing," Gortikov said. "Ithas demonstrated that dealershave as much enthusiasm todayas they did six months ago whenwe put out the first Beatle al-bum."
Gortikov attributed much ofthe excitement for the album toThe Beatles forthcoming tourand UA picture which couldmake "Something New" one ofthe biggest selling LPs in Capi-tol's history.
"There's also the fact," headded, "that this album isn'tjust a package with a new jacketsurrounded by old tunes."
Among the 11 songs on thealbum is the German version of"Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand,"better known to the U.S. recordbuyer as "I Want to Hold YourHand," the first Beatle singlereleased by Capitol. All of thesongs in the LP are Lennon -McCartney compositions withthe exception of "Slow Down"and "Matchbox."
Capitol will follow the releaseof "Something New" with twomore Beatle singles this month-"And I Love Her" (on theflip side is "If I Fell") and "I'llCry Instead" ("I'm Happy JustTo Dance With You"). Both arefrom the UA picture. This willbring the number of Beatlesingles released by Capitol thismonth to three.
Atlantic, Atco Enjoy Hot SpellNEW YORK - Atlantic and
Atco Records and the summerweather have something in com-mon-they are all hot.
The heat at Atlantic and Atcois being generated by a numberof fast moving singles and al-bums. In less than five weeksthe Atlantic disking of "UnderThe Boardwalk" by The Driftershas moved up into the top 15best-selling records in the coun-try. Many sources have reportedit as one of the three or fourfastest moving records in thenation. On the Atco label TheBeatles newly released single of"Ain't She Sweet" took on theappearance of a blockbuster atthe moment of its appearancehaving sold a quarter of a mil-lion copies in less than a week'stime.
A flock of other singles onthe Atlantic label have beenpulling strong sales, headed bySolomon Burke's "EverybodyNeeds Somebody To Love," CarlaThomas's "I've Got No Time ToLose," "Jamaica Ska" by theSka Kings and "Soul Dressing"by Booker T. and The MGs onthe Stax label, which is distrib-uted by Atlantic.
Besides The Beatles release,Atco sales are getting a bigboost from Bent Fabric's "Goo-fus." Nino Tempo and AprilStevens "I Surrender Dear" and"Who" has also caught the fancyof record buyers, as well as Otis
Redding's "Security" on theVolt label-distributed by Atco.
In commenting upon the broadsingles sales activity of Atlanticand Atco, Len Sachs, Directorof Album Sales and Merchan-dising, stated that "the 20 newalbums we released recentlyhave also stirred a great deal ofsales excitement among distrib-utors and dealers. Many distrib-utors who bought liberal quan-tities of these albums when weintroduced them at our annualdistributors' meetings have dis-covered they didn't buy enough.Even before these albums wereshown to many of their dealers,distributors found it necessaryto re -order substantial quanti-ties of the new LPs to covertheir first round of orders."
The strongest selling packageson the Atlantic label are "OurBiggest Hits" by The Drifters,Solomon Burke's "Rock 'N Soul,""The Ray Charles Story" (Vol-ume 4), "The Greatest Hits ofRay Charles" (in 8 -Track Ster-eo), Hank Crawford's "TrueBlue," "Sonny Stitt Plays Bird,""John Coltrane's Sound" andCarmen McCrae's "Bittersweet"LP on the Atlantic -distributedFocus.
On Atco the top selling albumsare "Ben E. King's GreatestHits," Bent Fabric's "OrganGrinders Swing," "A Touch OfLatin" by Mr. Acker Bilk,"Bobby Darin Winners" andThe Challengers' "K-39," Vault.
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DISKJOCKEYREPORTS
FRED KELLEYWFHK-Pell City, Ala.
1. I Guess I'm Crazy (Jim R )
2. Wine, Women, and Song (Loretta Lynn)3. The First Step Down (Bob Jennings)4. You Took Him Off My Hands (M. Worth)5. My Heart Skips A Beat (B. Owens)6. Forget Me Not (M. Singleton)7. Widow Maker (Jimmy Martin)8. Pompanette (Vic Norwin)9. Angel On Leave (J. Newman)
10. Me (Bill Anderson)
JIM COLEWYCA-Hammond, Indiana
1. Together Again (Buck Owens)2. Haunted House (Loretta Lynn)3. Cowboy In The Continental Suit
(Marty Robbins)4. Ask Marie (Sonny James)5. Guess I'm Crazy (Jim Reeves)6. Password (Kitty Wells)7. Burning Memories (Ray Price)8. Bad News (Johnny Cash)9. Then I'll Stop Loving You (The Browns)
10. Chit Atkins Make Me A Star (D. Bowman)MRS. MARY WILSON
KCLX-Colfaz, Washington1. Burning Memories (Ray Price)2. My Heart Skips A Beat (Buck Owens)3. Password (Kitty Wells)4. Sweet Adorable You (Eddy Arnold)5. Second Fiddle (Jean Shepard)6. Walking Advertisement (Norma Jean)7. Then I'll Stop Loving You (Jim Reeves)8. I Don't Love You Anymore (C. Louvin)9. Angel On Leave (J. Newman)
10. I Love To Dance With Annie (E. Ashworth)HAPPY DAY
KNEZ-Lompic, Calif.1. My Heart Skips A Beat (Buck Owens)2. Burning Memories (Ray Price)3. Wine, Women and Song (Loretta Lynn)4. Invisible Tears (Ned Miller)5. Deng Me (Roger Miller)6. Take Me Home (Stoneman Family)7. Rhinestones (Faron Young)8. Password (Kitty Wells)9. Sorrow On The Rocks (Porter Wagoner)
10. Love Is No Excuse (J. Reeves/D. West)FRANK KENNEDY
1. Dang Me (Roger Miller)2. Angel On Leave (Jimmy Newman)3. Together Again (Buck Owens)4. I Don't Love You Anymore (Charlie Louvin)5. If Anyone Can Show Cause (Glenn Barber)6. Circumstances (Billy Walker)7. Memories =1 (Webb Pierce)B. I'm Hanging Up The Phone
(Carl 8 Pearl Butler)9. Looking For More In '64 (Jim Nesbitt)
10. Out Of This World (Frankie Miller)JOE HOPPEL
WCMS-Norfolk, Va.1. Welcome Home, Broken Heart
(Jesse Travers)2. Dang Me (Roger Miller)3. Shiny Red Cadillac (Charlie Wiggs)4. Cowboy In Continental Suit (M. Robbins)5. Love To Dance With Annie (E. Ashworth)6. Walkin' Advertisement (Norma Jean)7. Cincinnati Ohio (Bill Anderson)8. Ballad Of Ira Hayes (Johnny Cash)9. Stronger Than Dirt (Glenn Barber)
10. Second Fiddle (Jean Shepard)COLEMAN O'NEAL
WEAS-Savannah, Ga.1. The First Step Down (Bob Jennings)2. Looking For More In '64 (Jim Nesbitt)3. Pick Of The Week (Roy Drusky)4. Be Better To Your Baby (Ernest Tubb)5. Missing Persons (Coleman O'Neal)6. Be Quiet Mind (Ott St )
7. Meet Me Tonight (Jim Howard)8. Frosty Window Pane (Joe Penny)9. Shiny Red Cadillac (Charlie Wiggs)
10. Talking To The Night Lights (Del Reeves)BOB NORRIS
KASH-Eugene, Oregon1. Memory =1 (Webb Pierce)2. Second Fiddle (Jean Shepard)3. Where Does A Little Tear Come From
(George Jones)4. Gold Cup (Buddy Cagle)5. A Million Miles Or More (Ray Baker)6. Everyone Knows (Buddy Simmons)7. Bluebird Let Me Tag Along (Rose Maddox)8. Take My Ring Off Your Finger (Carl Smith)9. Password (Kitty Wells)
10. I Don't Love You Anymore (Charlie Louvin)JOHNNY KOVAL
WTJH-Atlanta, Ga.1. Me (Bill Anderson)2. Meet Me Tonight (Jim Howard)3. Put Your Arms Around Her (Norma Jean)4. Be Quiet Mind (Ott Stephens)5. Your Name Is A Household Word
(Neal Nesbitt)6. Hand Of Fate (Joann Johnson/G. Byrd)7. I Don't Love You Anymore (Charlie Louvin)8. Walk Me To The Door (Darnell Miller)9. I Guess I'm Crazy (Jim Reeves)
10. More In '64 (Jim Nesbitt)
JIM THOMPSONWPAQ-Mount Airy, North Carolina
1. Keep On The Sunny Side(Carter Family and Johnny Cash)
2. I'm A Walking Advertisement (Norma Jean)3. Talking To The Nightlights (Del Reeves)4. God Laid His Hand On My Heart
(Early Upchurch)5. Memories =1 (Webb Pierce)6. I Don't Love You Anymore (Charlie Louvin)7. Ballad Of Ira Hayes (J. Cash)8. Keep Those Cards And Letters Comin'
(J. & J. Mosby)9. Not My Kind Of People
(Stonewall Jackson)10. Will There Ever Be Another
(Jones and Montgomery)
MARK MILLERWKMF-Flint, Mich.
1. Dann Me (Roger Miller)2. Wine, Women and Song (Loretta Lynn)3. Cincinnati, Ohio (Bill Anderson)4. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes (Johnny Cash)5. Password (Kitty Wells)6. I Don't Love You Anymore (Charlie Louvin)7. The Cowboy In The Continental Suit
(Marty Robbins)8. Memory =1 (Webb Pierce)9. Not My Kind Of People
(Stonewall Jackson)10. Tears And Roses (Al Martino)
GISELA RASMUSSENKFHA-Tacoma, Washington
1. Cowboy In The Continental Suit(Marty Robbins)
2. I Leaned Over Backwards (Jimmie Dickens)3. Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat
(Buck Owens)4. Dang Me (Roger Miller)5. Ballad Of John F. Kennedy (Autry Inman)6. I Don't Love You Anymore (Charlie Louvin)7. Have I Stayed Away Too Long
(Bobby Bare)8. Half Breed (Bobby Wayne)9. I Love To Dance With Annie
(Ernest Ashworth)10. Who Throwed Dat Rock (Ira Louvin)
BRIAN SUTCLIFFECHNS-Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1. My Heart Skips A Beat (Buck Owens)2. Dang Me (Roger Miller)3. Memory =.1 (Webb Pierce)4. Sorrow On The Rocks (Porter Wagoner)5. I Stepped Over The Line (Hank Snow)6. Where Does A Little Tear Come From
(George Jones)7. Looking For More In '64 (Jim Nesbitt)8 Cowboy In The Continental Suit
(Marty Robbins)9. Wine, Women and Song (Loretta Lynn)
10. Invisible Tears (Ned Miller)
BOB JENNINGSWLAC-Nashville, Tenn.
1. Take My Ring Off Your Finger (Carl Smith)2. Then I'll Stop Loving You (The Browns)3. I Don't Love You Anymore (Charlie Louvin)4. Password (Kitty Wells)5. I Guess I'm Crazy (Jim Reeves)6. Put Your Arms Around Her (Norma Jean)7. Pick Of The Week (Roy Drusky)B. I'd Rather Have America (Jimmy Martin)9. I Don't Want You This Way
(Margie Singleton)10. Sweet Adorable You (Eddy Arnold)
"SWAMPWATER JAKE"WGHM-Showhegan, Maine
1. Dang Me (Roger Miller)2. My Heart Skips A Beat (Buck Owens)3. Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be
(Ernest Tubb 8. Loretta Lynn)4. I Don't Love You Anymore (Charlie Louvin)5. Take My Ring Off Your Finger (Carl Smith)6. Second Fiddle (Jean Shepard)7. I'm A Walkin' Advertisement (Norma Jean)B. I've Thought Of Leaving You (Kitty Wells)9. Where Does A Little Tear Come From
(George Jones)10. Circumstances (Billy Walker)
TYWHOP JONESKWOW-Pomona, Calif.
1. They Bought The House (G. Riddle)2. If I Had One (D. Dudley)3. Wine, Women and Song (L. Lynn)4. You Don't Have Far To Go (M. Haggard)5. Valentino (F. Hart)6. Together Again (B. Owens)7. I Leaned Over Backwards (J. Dickens)8. Dang Me (R. Miller)9. I Tried To Make You Over (B. Morris)
10. Summer Skies & Golden Sands(J. Newman)
ITT v4WCOUNTRY SINGLEElk 4111\REViEWS
I WAS COMING HOME TO YOU (Lowery, BMI)HELLO HEARTACHE (E. B. Marks, BMI)
HANK LOCKLEN-IICA ictor 47-8399.Hank runs into an old girlfriend at a party. The tune tells
about what happens after that. He's got a compelling catchin his voice on this one. Sad listening, but appealing.
THE DOBRO'S CATCHING ON AGAIN (AND I'M GONNA BE A STAR)(Channel, ASCAP)
TV WESTERNS (Channel, ASCAP)
BEN COLDER -MGM 13262.Ben Colder, or Sheb Wooley, has a funny tune here about
becoming a star. The tale is frolicksome and bound to causea chuckle or two. Ben gives the tune a humorous narration.Ditto on the flip.
YELLOW ROSES (Fairway, BMI)BACK TO LONELINESS (Troy Martin, BMI)
CONNIE HALL-Decea 31652.Connie has a pretty voice and a pretty tune, and the com-
bination of the two make into a right pretty country tune. Theaccompaniment is comforting and will relax many a listener.
MAN WITH THE BLUES (Glad, BMI)THE STORM HAS JUST BEGUN (Glad, BMI)
WILLIE NELSON -Betty 5703.Willie knows the way to put over a country ditty. In fact,
he knows the way to put over two country ditties and he doesjust that on this double-barreled set,
MY OWN (Moss Rose, BMI)TAKE BACK MY HEART (Law, BMI)
JOHNNY FOS7'1,K-Caps 122.Johnny sings a sad song that will win him sympathy and
fanship. His voice is moving and he knows how to control itfor maximum emotional effect. Will catch on.
PINTO BEANS, TATERS AND CORNBREAD (Tronic, BMI)FOREICN CAR CRAZE (Tronic, BMI)
WILLL4M F. JAMES -Dixie 1042.William F. describes his daily diet and it sounds mighty
tasty. The side has all the needed ingredients for good countrylistening, too. Serves up a lot of bounce.
STOP, I'LL WALK WITH YOU (Stylecraft, BMI)OVER AT UNCLE JOE'S (Stylecraft, BMI)
COWBOY SLIM DORTCH-Lighting BriII WO.Cowboy Slim sings a song of love and of lost love on this
c/w tune. The cowboy wrote the tune and seems to know howhe wants it sung. Will get him many buyers.
SOUNDS LIKE A WINNER (English, BMI)TATDOED LOVER (English, BMI)
BILLY PARKER -Sines 184.Billy intones a good 'un here. The country crooner is joined
by a chorus on the slow but steadily riding ditty. This oneshould be showing up on charts soon.
RECORD WORLD -July 25, 1964 23
Promo Tour ForColpix' Toni
NEW YORK-Colpix Recordsis planning a star build-up forits new singing discovery, ToniWine. Miss Wine, at 17, isalready an accomplished ar-ranger, composer and musician.
The artist is currently at-tending Quintano's School forYoung Professionals. She hascompleted courses in classicaland jazz piano, theory andcounterpoint at The JuilliardSchool of Music.
The singer's latest Colpixsingle, "A Boy Like You" blw"Funny Little Heart," is sched-uled for release later thismonth. Miss Wine, in additionto her recording activities, isalso due to be tested by Colum-bia Pictures and Screen GemsTV.
As part of a pre -selling andpromotion campaign Colpix hasdesigned a special record sleeveand mailers to help create in-terest in Miss Wine's new disk.These will be enclosed in mail-ings to trade and consumer re-viewers and deejays. Severalradio interviews and featuresin teen magazines have beenset up for the young performer.Colpix also plans extensive ad-vertising in music trade pub-lications to introduce MissWine's new platter.
Distributor ChangesNASHVILLE - Hickory Rec-
ords has announced the follow-ing distributor changes: SeawayDistributing Co., Cleveland;Quaker Record Distributing,Philadelphia; and Florida MusicDistributing, Miami.
Sue Stars BackNEW YORK - Inez and
Charlie Foxx have returnedfrom their tour of Englandwhere they appeared on ITVand BBC TV, BBC Radio andnumerous night club shows. TheFoxxes, Sue Records topperJuggy Murray reports, will doanother British tour soon withThe Rolling Stones.
Queen of Country Music x
KITTY WELLS
DECCA 31622!.
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has a potential 1
"PASSWORD"
First Session
Willie Nelson, right, is pic-tured with Monument Records'Prexy Fred Foster, center, andFred Carter at Nelson's firstrecording session under hisnew Monument contract. Hehas an exclusive writer's con-tract at Pamper Music, Inc.,too.
Booth -Rush ProduceHOUSTON - Charles Booth
and Roy Rush have formed aproducing group. Their first re-lease is "Ain't That LovingYou" by Karl and The Jades tobe issued on the Charger label,a Crusader subsid.
Charger will also soon releasea Chinese version of "DangMe" by Buddy "Chow Mein"Mize, label's John Fisher re-ports.
TOP POP -5 YEARS AGOJULY 20, 1959
1. LONELY BOYP. Anko-RCA Victor
2. BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANSJ. Horton-Columbia
3. WATERLOOS. Jackson-Columbia
4. MY HEART IS AN OPEN BOOKC. Dobkins-Decca
5. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKESD. Washington-Mercury
6. A BIG HUNK 0' LOVEElvis Presley-RCA Victor
7. FORTY MILES OF BAD ROADDuane Eddy-Jamie
8. TIGERFabian-Chancellor
9. LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLARC. Francis-MGM
10. BOBBY SOCKS TO STOCKINGSF. Avalon-Chancellor
TOP R&B-5 YEARS AGOJULY 20, 1959
1. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKESD. Washington-Mercury
2. THERE GOES MY BABYDrifters-Falcon
3. WHAT'D I SAYRay Charles-Atlantic
4. I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOUFlamingos-End
5. PERSONALITYL. Price-ABC Paramount
6. YOU'RE SO FINEFalcons-Unart
7. LAVENDAR BLUEJ. Turner-Big Top
8. FORTY MILES OF BAD ROADDuane Eddy-Jamie
9. I'LL BE SATISFIEDJ. Wilson-Brunswick
10. THERE'S SOMETHING ON YOUR MINDB. J. McNeeley-Swingin'
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By ED HAMILTONThings have actually let up a little-but not much-on the
production scene here. Just a lull in the storm that still loomsbrightly on the business horizon. But it does give all the studiomusicians a chance to get in some time on the lake for a littleboating or fishing-or trading cars-or buying more real estate!Speaking of trading cars, Mercury's Jerry Kennedy is hoppingaround town in a solid white Continental Convertible-and boy,does he like it! Seems like he and Billy Willis have been at itagain-trading cars.
Actress Patty McCormack of "Bad Seed" fame is scheduledfor recording sessions here in the near future. Name of label wasnot available at press time.
Epic's Music City Producer, Billy Sherrill, and artist StanHitchcock were in Miami last week for that label's convention.Stan is rising high right now on his current release, "Old Bad."Also conventioning last week was Decca's Owen Bradley, inLos Angeles for a sales meeting; and Decca's Harry Silversteinin Chicago for the same type get-together. Columbia's Don Lawand Frank Jones spent the last few days in Las Vegas for theColumbia confab. ABC Paramount's Felton Jarvis in Florence,Ala., for sessions with a new group from Florida. Felton saysthey're "super -terrific!" Mercury's Jimmy Clanton is due in forsessions under the direction of Jerry Kennedy this week.Jerry was very busy last week with Pete Drake sessions. Pete'sgoing strong right now with his follow-up to "Forever"-"I'mSorry," the old Brenda Lee smash. Over at RCA Victor,Porter Wagoner's doing a blue -grass album and Hank Cochranis getting ready to do an album of some of the big hits he'swritten. He could do three or four albums! Ronnie Self-thesong writing-Self-has signed with Fred Foster's Monumentlabel and set for sessions this week. MGM's Jim Vienneau wasin town last week for split session with Merle Kilgore and writerGlenn Sutton. Also on hand to see that things came off OKwas Al Gallico in from New York. Former Music City-ite BuzzCason was in last week for a brief visit on his way back to theCoast from England where he's been touring with The Crickets.
RIC is excited over Ruby Wright's newie "Dern Ya," theanswer to "Dang Me."
Well, it finally happened. Regent Music's Bob Tubert andDecca's Demitriss Tapp got their long-awaited release! It camein the form of a big boy-they labeled him Devin Shawn-andwhat a day for him to come-the same day Bob got the wordthat the next Brenda Lee single would be one he wrote! How'sthat for happiness coming in bunches-or bundles? Both momand dad are doing fine.
Congratulations of another sort to Chuck Chellman, formerNational Promotional Director of Country & Western Music forMercury. Chuck's moved over to Don Pierce's Starday firm asNational Sales and Promotion Director. He certainly won't bea stranger to the country jocks because during his Mercurytenure he really let 'em know he was in the business. Keepup the good work Chuck!
Congrats To . . .
Columbia's Ed Price for a great new single in "I Don'tKnow Why" . . . Also to Pamper Music's Fred Carter fora great song: Victor's Bobby Bare -"He Was A FriendOf Mine" . . Decca's Bill Phillips for "Stepping Out" . . .
Columbia's Claude King and what in the "Sam Hill" is goingon here . . . Decca's lovely Linda Flanagan for "Mama KissThe Hurt Away" . . . Smash's Roger Miller for his first No. 1record after all these years . . . And to Record World's BobAustin for making it safely through all those conventions.
A parting word this week to all country and western jocks.We really appreciate your charts each week. Whether you knowit or not, those charts have a lot to do with what you see chart -wise in our magazine. We try to get a good sampling of what'shappening, record -wise, through what's played by you guys andwhat the dealers and distributors are selling. So, like I said,we 'preciate it. Keep 'em coming.
24 RECORD WORLD-July 25, 1964
TOP COUNTRY LP'S
MYWk.
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LastWk.
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LastWk.
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1 1 DANG ME 126 30 ME
B. Anderson-Decca 316305 1 1 MOONLIGHT AND ROSES 9
Jim Reeves-RCA Victor LPM-2854: LSP-2854
*2 6
R. Miller-Smash 1881
I'M HANGING UP THE PHONE 821 31 ASK MARIE
S. James-Capitol 51979
*2 6 I WALK THE LINEJohnny Cash-Columbia CL -2190: CS -8990
4
3 5
C. and P. Butler-Columbia 43030
WHERE DOES A LITTLE TEAR28 16 TOGETHER AGAIN
B. Owens-Capitol 5136
113 5 IN PERSON
Porter Wagoner-RCA Victor LPM-2840:LSP-2840
8
COME FROM 9 29 32 I THOUGHT OF LEAVING YOU 54 2 MORE HANK SNOW SOUVENIRS 14
G. Jones-U. A. 724 Wells-Decca 31622RCA LPM-2812: UP -2812
4 2 MEMORY = 1 14 30 33 I LOVE TO DANCE WITH ANNIE 3*5 11 THE BEST OF BUCK OWENS
Capitol T-2105: ST -21054
5 3
W. Pierce-Decca 31617
MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT 21 31 34
E. Ashworth-Hickory 1265
SUMMER SKIES AND GOLDEN6 8 THERE STANDS THE GLASS
Carl Smith-Columbia CL -2173: CS -897311
B. Owens-Capitol 15136 SANDS 4 7 9 GOLDEN COUNTRY HITS
*6 11 THE COWBOY IN THEJ. Newman-Decca 31609 Hank Thompson-Capitol 1-2089
CONTINENTAL SUIT 9 32 35 BE QUIET MIND 5 8 3 GUITAR COUNTRY 25M. Robbins-Columbia 43039 0. Stephens-Reprise 0272 Chet Atkins-RCA LPM-2783: LSP-2783
7 10 I STEPPED OVER THE LINEH. Snow-RCA 8334
1533 29 LOVE IS NO EXCUSE
J. Reeves & D. West-RCA 832422 9 4 BLUEGRASS HOOTENANNY
Jones & Montgomery-UA UAL -3353:UAS-6353
10
8 4 CIRCUMSTANCES 1434 24 GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT
YOU NOW 16
*10 16 THANKS A LOTErnest Tubb-Decca DL -4514: DL -74514
3
B. Walker-Columbia 43010S. Davis-RCA 8347 11 7 NIGHT LIFE 21
*9 13 SECOND FIDDLE 5 35 38 SOMETHING I DREAMED 5Ray Price-Columbia CL -1971: CS -8871
J. Shepard-Capitol 5169 G. Jones-U. A. 724 12 10 KITTY WELLS STORY 27
10 15 WINE, WOMEN AND SONGL. Lynn-Decca 31608
15 36 25 BLUEBIRD LET ME TAG ALONG 1R. Maddox-Capitol 5186
13 19
Decca DXB-174: DXBS-174
BEFORE I'M OVER YOULoretta Lynn-Decca DL -4541: DL -74541
4
11 14 SLIPPIN' AROUND 6 37 41 THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS 15 14 12 BLUE AND LONESOME 6M. Worth & G. Morgan-Columbia 43020 R. Price-Columbia 42971 George Jones-Mercury MG -20906
12 1 BURNING MEMORIES 20 38 44 WORKIN' IT OUT 2 15 22 THE SONGS WE LOVE BEST 8R. Price-Columoia 42971 Flatt & Scruggs-Columbia 43080
Jimmy Dean-Columbia CS -2188: CL -2188
*13 19 BE BETTER TO YOUR BABY 8 *39 48 ONE IF FOR HIM,16 18 OUR MAN IN TROUBLE
Don Bowman-RCA LPM-2831: LSP-28315
14 8
E. Tubb-Decca 31614
LOOKING FOR MORE IN '64 18TWO IF FOR ME
D. Houston-Epic 96902 17 17 ON THE BANDSTAND
Buck Owens-Capitol E-1879: ST -187927
J. Nesbitt-Chart 106540 42 IF I'M A FOOL FOR LOVING 18 13 LORETTA LYNN SINGS 27
15 17 PASSWORD 10 YOU 4Decca DL -4457: DL -4457
K. Wells-Decca 31622 B. Wood-Joy 285 19 21 THE BEST OF GEORGE JONES 27
16 23 BALLAD OF IRA HAYESJ. Cash-Columbia 43058
4 41 37 THEN I'LL STOP LOVING YOUThe Browns-RCA 8348
120 14
United Artists UAL -3291: UAS-3291
FOLK SONG BOOK 18Eddy Arnold-RCA LPM-2705: UP -2705
17 9 SORROW ON THE ROCKS 18 42 39 UNDERSTAND YOUR MAN 23 21 20 FLATT & SCRUGGSP. Wagoner-RCA 8338 J. Cash-Columbia 42968 AT CARNEGIE HALL 25
18 22 BAD NEWS 5 43 45 WALKIN' TALKIN' CRYIN' BARELY Columbia CL -2045: CS -8853
J. Cash-Columbia 43058 BEATIN' BROKEN HEART 8 22 15 BLUEGRASS SPECIAL
*19 27 PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND HER 5N. Jean-RCA 8328 44 47
J. Wright-Decca 31593
HEARTACHES IN TOWN 223 27
Bill Monroe-Decca DL -4382
BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARSJohnny Cash-Columbia CL -1930: CS -8730
5
20 20 RHINESTONES 6 H. Thompson-Capitol24 23 BILL ANDERSON SINGS 21
F. Young-Mercury 72271 45 50 GUESS WHAT, THAT'S RIGHT, Decca DL -4499: DL -74499
21 26 TAKE MY RING OFF YOUR SHE'S GONE 5 25 28 A WIDOW MAKER 2
FINGER 5 H. Williams, Jr.-MGM 13253 Jimmy Martin-Decca DL -4536: BL -74536
C. Smith-Columbia 43033 46 43 PICK OF THE WEEK 9 26 25 RAILROAD MANHank Snow-RCA LPM-2705: LSP-2705
21
22 21 I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMOREC. Louvin-Capitol 5173
5
47 46
R Drusky-Mercury 72265
WELCOME TO MY WORLD 3127 24 RING OF FIRE -THE BEST OF
JOHNNY CASH 2723 18 MY BABY WALKS ALL J. Reeves-RCA 8398
Columbia CL -2153: CS -8853
OVER ME 12 48 28 KEEPING UP WITH THE 28 (-) SONGS FOR MOM AND DAD 1
J. Sea-Philips 40164 JONESES 21 Leroy Van Dyke-Mercury MG -20422
24 12 INVISIBLE TEARS 11 M. Singleton & F. Young-Mercury 72237 29 26 SOMETIMES I'M HAPPY,N. Miller-Fabor 128
49 49 SAM HILL 4 SOMETIMES I'M BLUE 5*25 36 I GUESS I'M CRAZY 3 M. Haggard-Tally 178 Eddy Arnold-RCA LPM-2909: LSP-2909
Jim Reeves-RCA 883850 (-) LET ME GET CLOSE TO YOU 1 30 29 SAGINAW, MICHIGAN 18
(k indicates !trees upward movement this week.) S. Davis-RCA 8397 Lefty Frizzell-Columbia CL -2169: CS -8969
RECORD WORLD-July 25, 1%4 25
Classics: What Sells
NY's Record Hunter Makes Offbeat Up-;Double Exposure Via Mail Order, Promo
NEW YORK-How does thedealer who wants to sell productover price compete with the bigdiscount houses, many of whichoffer enticing price reductionson leading items to create traf-fic? A dramatic answer is foundin the manifold operations ofshops like New York's RecordHunter.
The Record Hunter, and storeslike it, compete with the bigdiscounter by offering tremen-dous catalog spread. Well over10,000 titles on classics aloneare carried by the store. Butbesides this fabulous catalogspread, the Record Hunter makesit easy for consumers to buythe records of their choice. Thestore is staffed with experts inevery field: popular, jazz andwithin classics: Baroque, Vien-nese Classical, Romantic, PostRomantic, Opera, Lieder, Mod-ern 20th Century.
New Release BrowsersRecords are where consumers
can examine them minutely. Atthe front of the store, sixbrowsers are devoted to NewReleases. Browsers are oppositethe cash register, and you canbet that many impulse sales aremade from these browsers.
The Record Hunter, located at42nd Street and Fifth Avenue,gets the transient trade but alsoenjoys a steady clientele. TheHunter's steady customers gravi-tate to the New Release browsersas soon as they enter the store.Also up front is a rack withbest-sellers. Last week they werefeaturing such items as "HelloDolly," Bernstein's "Kaddish,"the Beatles soundtrack album,"Funny Girl" and "HighSpirits."
The 5th Ave. WindowThe Hunter uses its big Fifth
Avenue window to bring in cus-tomers. Every two weeks thewindow is changed. Last weekit was dominated by a big spreadof Deutsche Grammophon al-bums. The Hunter was thenoffering two D.G.G.s at $2.98each (or two for the price ofone.) The sale did well. Thisweek their window features abatch of recently reinstatedAllegro recordings at $1.98 perdisk.
And hereby lies the secret ofthe Record Hunter's success.They realize the record businessis a promotional business, andthat unless you can offer thepublic something unique in the
The Shop That Made Big BizOut of Discontinued Concert
Hall, MGM, Haydn Society LPsway of product and/or promo- hadn't been available for years.tional sales, you're dead. Kaufmann's recording of Viv-
aldi's Four Seasons (one of theLive Wires Schott, Maggid earliest LP recordings of this
popular work) started the Viv-aldi revival on LP and also soldvery well. The sale was so suc-cessful Maggid located a press-ing plant that had the ConcertHall masters and had them re-press top -moving selections onthe Hunter's own "Record Rari-ties" label. This second shipmentsold for $1.49 to $1.97 and didvery well.
Too many dealers are not pro-motion conscious. The RecordHunter is because they are ex-tremely fortunate in having twolive -wires: buyer Curt Schottwho continually shops manufac-turers for deals (as most buyersdo). And Jerry ,Maggid, who'sin charge of the Hunter's vastmail order business. Jerry turnssow's ears into silk purses byreviving discontinued merchan-dise (most of the time at aprice), drawing dyed-in-the-wool collectors like honeydraws flies. The Hunter beginsits campaign with an ad in theNew York Times, usually writ-ten by Maggid. The promotionalmerchandise is featured in thewindow for the first weeks ofthe sale. Supporting displaysand browsers in the store followthrough the window's alluringcome-on.
Gold in Cut OutsThe Record Hunter turned de-
letions into gold when theybought out a stock of ConcertHalls from the manufacturer at600 per disk a few years ago.They sold them at 990 per.
"I never saw anything likeit," said Maggid. "The ad ranin the New York Times musicsection on Sunday and by Tues-day we'd sold out the entire5,000."
Some had the original ConcertHall label, others the Crowell -Collier label (which had pur-chased many masters from Con-cert Hall for an ill-fated clubventure).
Off -Beat SellersWhat sold? The series of early
Mozart Symphonies conductedby Ackermann, recordings ofthe Pascal Quartet, the HummelPiano Concerto (with ArturBalsam), the "Ruins of Athens"by Beethoven (at that time theonly complete recording) ; Bee-thoven's oratorio: "Christ on theMount of Olives" (also an onlyrecording at that time) ; theBeethoven Piano Quartets, writ-ten when he was 15 years old,and other off -beat items that
"The MGMs Are Here!"With the success of the Con-
cert Hall deletions still fresh,Maggid shopped around forother deleted catalogs. He con-tacted Ed Cole who had put to-gether MGM's classical catalogand managed, after a long hasslewith MGM, to get an order ofmany prized items. They arrivedin plain white jackets with asee-through hole for the label.Maggid refused to accept themunless MGM supplied regularjackets. They compromised.MGM came up with jacketswhich were blank on one sideand bore the notes on the other.
Consumer response was enthu-siastic. Pull from the direct mailpiece was excellent. Among topmovers were the only recordingsof works by Kurt Weill (manyrarely heard chamber pieces) ;the John Field Piano Concertoby Sondra Bianca (Field, anIrish contemporary of Chopin,wrote a beautifully melodiousconcerto in the big romantictradition) ; Schubert's "Death ofLazarus"; a Rachmaninoff PianoSonata; the music of the modernAmerican composer Alan Hov-haness; and Weill's "JohnnyJohnson." This would have beena smash but the Hunter couldn'tget enough from MGM.
"Now," says Maggid, "every-body has the MGMs and we'reclosing them out at $1.88 per."But the sale was a success evenat the $3.50 per Hunter pricebecause of their promotion.
. . . And Haydn SocietyThe Hunter was the first to
bring back Haydn Society on anexclusive basis. For over twoyears they sold items like the
Curt SchottRecord Hunter Buyer
Haydn Quartets by the SchneiderQuartet; early and middleHaydn Symphonies by Woldike,Sternberg, etc., like there wasno tomorrow. The famous three -record collection of "Music Be-fore 1750" which featured manyoutstanding Danish musiciansand was accompanied by a textbook, published by Norton, alsosold very well.
Vox BoxesBoth Schott and Maggid agree
that Vox Boxes are tremendoustraffic makers with sales of wellover 50,000 per year. In fact,Vox was so impressed with theHunter's volume, they printed amailing piece at their expensewhich the Hunter is currentlymailing out to over 30,000 sub-scribers.
Vox is a promotional line. Aset of 3 LPs (a Vox Box) sup-posedly lists for $9.95 - TheHunter sells it for $4.49. TheVox Twins (two -record sets)list at $6.95. The Hunter sellsthem for $3.49. Vox has intro-duced two new series recently.The Vox Opera sets (a threeLP set that lists for $9.95) sellsat $5.95 at the Hunter. A two -record Vox Lieder set that listsfor $6.95, the Hunter sells for$4.49. Slightly higher prices onthe Opera and Lieder sets aredue to the bigger name artistson these recordings.
By far the biggest line arethe three -record Vox Boxes.What sells: oratorios by Bach;complete sets of Concerti Grossiby Vivaldi; Sandor playing Bar-tok; Novaes playing Chopin;three volumes of Mozart PianoConcerti featuring names likeNovaes, Haebler, Kraus. Alsothe Mozart operas "Marriage ofFigaro" and "Don Giovanni"with names like Stich -Randall,Danco and Moffo in the casts,etc.
Currently the Hunter is run-ning an "Under $2.00" sale inthe mail and in the store. Thisincludes the brilliant Baroquemusic recordings on the None-such label; RCA's Victrola andCamden series; Columbia's Har-
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mony; London's Richmond; therecently revived Allegros (withnames like Hoffman, Schumann,Segovia), and off -beat items likePurcell's opera "The FairyQueen" and the remainder ofthe Hunter's Concert Hall re -pressings.
Mailings that GuideFrom their experience, Schott
and Maggid know you can sellmany things through the mailyou can't give away in the store.And the Hunter's mailing pieces,prepared by Maggid, are thereasons for this success.
A Record Hunter mailing (sixof them go out every year toan average of 35,000 people) isa feast for the eye and the ear.Maggid breaks down categoriesof music within labels. A classicexample of this was a recentbrochure which offered, for thefirst time, a complete catalog ofthe various imported recordingsavailable from EMI. Maggidprovided a key of labels at thebeginning indicating what coun-try each came from. Each labelwas broken down by category(opera, vocal, symphonies, his-toric recordings, etc. and listedalphabetically by composer).The list was so good Capitolasked Maggid to run off an ad-ditional quantity for their ownsales force.
Imports, Piano Rolls, GobermanThese EMI imports which list
for $5.98/$6.98 each were soldin this mailing piece $4.79(mono) and $5.49 (stereo). Thepull was surprisingly strongconsidering the high price. Piecealso included a selection of thefamous Welte Mignon PianoRoll recordings of Hoffman,Paderewski and De Pachmannat a $12.50 list. Schott reportsexcellent store sales of thesealbums and also of the MaxGoberman "Library of RecordedMasterpieces" which bear an$8.50 price tag. These deluxealbums were to have encom-passed the complete Symphoniesof Haydn conducted by Gober-man with the Vienna SymphonyOrchestra had the conductorlived. (He died last year.) Al-bums include the complete score.Label also includes many only -recordings of Vivaldi Concerticonducted by Goberman.
While Goberman was alive theseries was only available throughthe mail, but the Hunter got achance to sell them because ofthe excellent trade they've builtup with school and college li-braries throughout the U.S.
For Schools and CollegesBiggest mailing of the year
is the Hunter's 96 -page "Institu-tional Order Book" which is across section of all Hunter mail-ings for the year. The Huntersells space to manufacturers.Each listing is prefaced witha few paragraphs which outlinethe items of interest in eachcatalog. Every off -beat item theHunter can offer is here as wellas representative lists by majorcompanies.
"We do an enormous businesswith small school and collegelibraries who despair of findingrecordings on labels like: Com-posers Recordings, Inc; Con-noisseur Society, Eterna; Ex-periences Anonymes; Lyrichord;Music Guild; Urania, Vox," saysMaggid. Over 6,000 went outthis year.
Schott Minds the StoreWhile Maggid shepherds the
mailing lists, Schott shops manu-facturers for buys. The Hunterdid well with the Heifetz saleoffering his catalog at $2.49 per.Schott sets up his windows tocoincide with special offers fea-tured in the mailing pieces. Hehas several racks up front loadedwith best-selling merchandise bythe majors.
"Over 75% of our store salesare in major lines," says Schott.This isn't true of our mail order,though. When we visited thestore Columbia had a step-downrack to itself with "Hamlet,"the "Kaddish," "Camelot," thethree Streisand albums and "ToBroadway With Love." Anotherrack held Philips' "Missa Luba"(a Congolese Mass) ; their re-cordings by the Ward SwingleSingers of "Bach's GreatestHits" and "Going Baroque";RCA's "Pink Panther" and"Hello Dolly"; ABC-Paramount'snew musical hit "Fade Out, FadeIn." Another rack-aimed at thetransients and teen-agers hadThe Beatles albums on Capitol,United Artists and V -J, Epic'sDave Clark Five-"Glad AllOver," the new comedy find"Godfrey Cambridge"; and Co-lumbia's "Homage to Shake -spear" and "South Pacific."
Big Names in BrowsersBrowser boxes along the walls
contain big -name major -labelrecordings which the Hunteroffers at nominal discounts.
Col Starts MasterworkMail Club
NEW YORK-In an attemptto explore the means of expand-ing the classical record marketand guaging buyer patterns andimpulses, Columbia Records lastweek launched a new mailingclub, the Columbia MasterworksSubscription Service. The clubwas kicked off via ads in a care-fully selected group of consumermagazines, including the Satur-day Review of Literature, HighFidelity and regional editionsof Time.
The club's features include(for a fiat yearly membershipfee of five dollars) a quarterlydisk called Audition which high-lights excerpts from the newadditions to the catalog alongwith commentary by the artistsinvolved. Other enticements arethe guarantee of having any diskbought through the club re-placed for one dollar in case ofdamage or wear and the guar-antee of replacing any hi-fi diskwith a stereo version for a onedollar fee. Also for each recordbought, label supplies a freedisk of member's choice. Thereis no obligation to buy any rec-ords whatsoever.
In announcing the new club,Columbia President GoddardLieberson stated: "During thepast few years major changeshave taken place in the classicalrecord market. There has been
For instance, a complete sec-tion is devoted to violinists. Allof them: Stern, Heifetz, Mil-stein, Francescatti etc. have theirown sections (within the violincategory) indicated by dividersbearing their name.. Thesebrowsers run along the wallsfrom the front to the back ofthe shop. Naturally, the bignames are up front. The low bar-gain price merchandise, pushedso hard in the mailing pieces, islocated in the rear of the store.
One of Schott's most success-ful promotions was a "TradeIn." Consumers were allowed asliding scale of allowances ontheir LPs toward the purchaseof new LPs. Trade in allowanceswere determined by the condi-tion and rarity of the item. TheHunter built up a large selectionof out -of -print LPs which soldat premium prices to many col-lectors.
There's a gimmick a minuteat the Record Hunter, andMessrs. Schott and [Maggidknow how to keep things jump-ing. We're proud to salute thepromotion -minded Record Hun-ter. May we have more like 'emin the years to come.
NEXT WEEK: LEGACY OFTHE GREAT CONDUCTORS!
a serious decline in the numberof record retailers who carry afull line of classical product. Therapidly increasing cost of re-cording classical music has madeit impossible for most compa-nies to continue to record classi-cal repertoire. A very largevolume of business has beenachieved by low priced directmail classical record packagessuch as those made by RCAVictor for the Reader's Digestand the offerings of the Lon-gines Symphonette.
"Because of Columbia Rec-ords' basic commitment to makethe best classical music availableto the public we must continu-ously experiment with new mar-keting concepts. The ColumbiaMasterplan 55, a retail plan, isone current innovation. TheColumbia Masterworks Subscrip-tion program is the latest mar-keting test which the companyis making through the ColumbiaRecord Club. This plan containsa number of experimental con-cepts such as record insurance,audition records, a continuouslyup -dated catalog, and an annualsubscription fee entitling sub-scribers to records at a lowerprice. This test program is anextremely limited one involvinga total magazine advertising ex-penditure of $16,000. A maxi-mum of 5,000 subscribers is be-ing sought nationally and theirpurchasing patterns will be keptunder continuous research andreview. No further space adver-tising expenditure is contem-plated.
"As a result of this test,Columbia Records hopes to eval-uate these innovations and ifany of them proves to stimulatethe classical record market itwill be considered for dealer use.The object of Columbia Recordsnow, as in the past, is to exploreevery means of increasing theclassical market and therebybenefiting the public, its dealersand its artists."
Foster Single BigMOBILE, ALA.-Capa Rec-
ords' Doc Whiting reports thatJohnny Foster's "My Own"b/w "Take Back My Heart" isa south-east breakout, andlooks to be one of the label'sbiggest singles.
At TanglewoodRCA Victor Records today
announced it will record "live"Allan Sherman's concert appear-ance with Arthur Fiedler andthe Boston Pops Orchestra atTanglewood, Wednesday, July22.
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