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BABY COME HOME...Ruby & Romantics (Kapp)BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING...Four Tops (Motown)BABY THAT'S ME...Fashions (Cornea)BABY WON'T YOU TRY ME...101 Harris (Capitol)BACHELOR BOY...Cliff Richard (Epic)BAD TO ME...Billey J. Kramer (Imperial)BAMA LAMA BAMA LOO... Little Richard (Specialty)BEATLE DRUMS MotionsBECAUSE...Dave Clark Five (Epic)BETTER WATCH OUT BOYS...Accents (Challenge)BOYS CAMP/GIRLS CAMP...Michelle Scotti (Philips)BREAD AND BUTTER...Newbeats (Hickory)BREAKING POINT...Etto James (Argo)BRENDA LEE...Chuck Berry (Chess)
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SELECTIONS: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE A HARDDAY'S NIGHT CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE TOMJONES FATE IS THE HUNTER I COULD HAVEDANCED ALL NIGHT MONDO CANE No. 2 THESEVENTH DAWN ALL THE WAY HOME IT HADBETTER BE TONIGHT (From The Pink Panther)LOVE THEME FROM "THE CARPETBAGGERS"SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY (From Ensign Pulver) #871
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SELECTIONS: EL CUMBANCHERO LA PALOMA MALAGUENA JUNGLE DRUMS AMAPOLA
BRAZILIAN NOCTURNE RITUAL FIRE DANCE ROSITA CARMEN OPERA MEDLEY CIELITOLINDO A GAY RANCHERO YOURS #869
Plus 3 Hot SinglesSMASH HIT! BREAKING! JUST RELEASED!
THE The FantasticRAY CHARLES Instrumental Version Carol
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Records listed in BOLD FACE made the greatest upward rise from last week's chart. Check symbol (V) indicates new on chart this week.
National popularity based on sales data provided exclusively to Music Business by the nation's largest retail chains, plus radio play and sales by standard retail outlets, one stops and racks. "Hard Day's Night" All The Way!
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9 WISHIN' AND HOPIN'DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, Philips 40207
13 EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODYDEAN MARTIN, Reprise 0291
5 MEMPHISJOHNNY RIVERS, Imperial 66032
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NANCY WILSON, Capitol 519812 KEEP ON PUSHING
IMPRESSIONS, ABC Paramount 1055421 WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO
SUPREMES, Motown 106029 PEOPLE SAY
DIXIE CUPS. Red Bird 10-00619 TRY IT BABY
MARVIN GAYE, Tamla 5409524 HANDY MAN
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18 FARMER JOHNPREMIERS, Warner Brothers 5443
28 STEAL AWAYJIM HUGHES, Fame 6401
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GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS,Laurie 3251
27 I BELIEVEBACHELORS, London 9639
25 HEY HARMONICA MANLITTLE STEVIE WONDER, Tamla 54096
60 I'LL CRY INSTEADBEATLES, Capitol 5234
30 DO I LOVE YOURONETTES, Philles 121
45 TELL MEROLLING STONES, London 9682
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VIC DANA, Dolton 95AIN'T SHE SWEET
BEATLES, Atco 6308MY BOY LOLLIPOP
MILLIE SMALL, Smash 1893WALK, DON'T RUN '64
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THE WORLD I USED TO KNOWJIMMY RODGERS, Dot 16595
GOOD TIMESSAM COOKE, RCA Victor 8368
I'M HAPPY JUST TO DANCE WITH YOUBEATLES, Capitol 5234
I WANT YOU TO MEET MY BABYEYDIE GORME, Columbia 43082
A TEAR FELLRAY CHARLES, ABC Paramount 10571
YOU'RE NO GOODSWINGING BLUE JEANS, Imperial 86049
RINGO'S THEMEGEORGE MARTIN, United Artists 745
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DOWN WHERE THE WINDS BLOWSERENDIPITY SINGERS, Philips 40215
83 HERE COMES MY BABYDOTTIE WEST, RCA Victor 8374
92 HERE I GO AGAINMOLLIES, Imperial 66044
87 OH BABY GOT A GOOD THING GOIN'BARBARA LYNN, Jamie 1277
89 SELFISH ONE JACKIE ROSS, Chess 1903V ME JAPANESE BOY
BOBBY GOLDSBORO, United Artists 742V A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
BROOK BENTON, Mercury 72303MARVELETTES, Tamla 54097 BRUCE & TERRY, Columbia 32055 88 95 G.T.O.
42 51 I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER 4111- 86 LOOKING FOR LOVE RONNY & THE DAYTONO, Mala 481BEATLES, Capitol 5222 CONNIE FRANCIS, MGM 13253 89 90 TOP DOWN TIME
43 43 I'M INTO SOMETHING GOOD 66 75 NO ONE TO CRY TO ROCKAWAYS, Red Bird, 10-005EARL JEAN, Colpix 729 RAY CHARLES. ABC Paramount 10571 90 LIf FATHER SEBASTIAN
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48 56 INVISIBLE TEARS ELVIS PRESLEY, RCA Victor 8400 95 If HE'S IN TOWNRAY CONNIFF SINGERS, Columbia 43061 72 73 NEW FANGLED JINGLE JANGLE TOKENS, B.T. Puppy 502
49 50 LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU SWIMMING SUIT FROM PARIS 96 98 A TASTE OF HONEYKINGSMEN, Wand 157 FRANKIE AVALON, United Artists 748 TONY BENNETT, Columbia 43073
50 53 JUST BE TRUE V IF I FELL 97 74 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HANDGENE CHANDLER, Constellation 130 BEATLES, Capitol 5235 BOSTON POPS. RCA Victor 8378
51 34 PEOPLE V SWEET WILLIAM 98 V WHOBARBRA STREISAND, Columbia 42965 MILLIE SMALL, Smash 1920 NINO TEMPO AND APRIL STEVENS, Atco 6306
MAYBE I KNOW67 75 82 IT HURTS TO BE IN LOVE 99 NEVER PICK A PRETTY BOYLESLEY GORE, Mercury 72309 GENE PITNEY, Musicor 1040 DEE DEE SHARP, Cameo 329
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P. J. PROBYLondon 9688
HOLD ME (Ross Jungnickel/Rob-bins/World, ASCAP) (2:47)Little, Oppenheim, Schuster
Flip is "The Tip of My Fingers,"(Tree/Champion, BMI) (2:17)-Anderson
Proby, an American expatriot inBritain, is fops there now withthis wild rendition of a familiarstandard. Watch if go here too.
THE PRETTY THINGSFontana 1916
ROSALYN (Near North, BMI)(2:20)-Duncan, Farley
BIG BOSS MAN (Ludix/Conrad,BMI) (2:38)-Smith, Dixon
Yet another British group on the"hair" kick and They turn intwo strong, r and b styled ef-forts that could click.
BUTCH. PEGGY AND LITTLEJOHN
Old Town 1165IT MUST BE LOVE (Nuca/Mau-
reen, BMI) (2:50)-Verroca
Flip is "Tomorrow Night," (Nuca/Maureen, BMI) (2:19)-Verreca
A good new mixed group with asolid, rousing, down-to-earthsound. They have the touch withthis rhythm item.
KENNY HAMBERDe Jac 1254
SHOW ME YOUR MONKEY(Keetch, Caesar and Dino, BMI)(2: I 0 ).-Russel I, Leander
Flip is "Time," (Hewlett, BMI)(1:55)-Johnson
A lot of rocking and rolling onthis sharp, r. and b. type danceside. Shouting could make thegrade.
BRENDA LEEDecca 31654
WHEN YOU LOVED ME (Hill andRange/Ron-Bre, BMI) (2:14) -Byers, Tubert
HE'S SURE TO REMEMBER (Metric,BMI) (2:35)-De Shannon
Two of Brenda's top sides. First up isin the Nashville groove as weremany of her past smashes, whilethe flip is a strong pop ballad.
CHAD STUART & JEREMY CLYDEWorld Artists 1027
A SUMMER SONG (Unart/Woart,BMI) (2:38) - Metcalfe, StuartNoble
NO TEARS FOR JOHNNIE (Unart/Woart, BMI) (2:18)-Springfield
The boys scored with "Yesterday'sGone," and either of these twoclassy efforts could be the follow-up. Top has a slight edge.
CHRISTINE QUAITEWorld Artists 1028
WILL YOU BE THE SAME TOMOR-ROW (Glissando) (2:08) - An-drews
MR. STUCKUP (Four Star, BMI)(2:20)-Hall, Ewald
The British thrush has a powerful teensound on both these beat sides. She
can repeat her earlier success, andthen some.
JACKIE WILSONBrunswick 55269
SQUEEZE HER -TEASE HER (ButLove Her) (Merrimac, BMI) (1:56)-Tucker, Wilson
Flip is "Give Me Back My Heart,"(Merrimac, BMI) (2:40)-Tucker,Wilson
A solid new entry for Jackie. Goodteen -styled tune gets a top perform-ance.
THE SEARCHERSKapp 609
SOME DAY WE'RE GONNA LOVEAGAIN (McLaughlin, BMI) (1:57)-McMahan
NO-ONE ELSE COULD LOVE ME(Toby) (2:12)-Curtis
Two mighty listenable sides. First is
a medium beeer with good har-mony. Flip is in the ballad groove.Both could happen.
HENRY MANCINI ORKRCA Victor 8381
A SHOT IN THE DARK (Twin Chris,ASCAP) (2:30)-Mancini
THE SHADOWS OF PARIS (TwinChris, ASCAP) (2:55)-Mancini,Wells
Two strong Mancini sides, both fromthe score of the new picture. Topside, especially, looks like a winner.
BOOKER T. AND THE MG'sStax 153
SOUL DRESSING (East, BMI) (2:42)- Jones, Cropper, SteinbergJackson
Flip is "MG Party," (East, BMI)(2:22)-Jones, Cropper, Jackson,Dunn
A solid instrumental with a slinky beatand some fine organ breaks. A winner
for dancers.
RONNIE DANTEMusicvoice MV 503
DON'T STAND UP IN THE CANOE(APT, ASCAP)-Vance
Flip is "If You Love Me Laurie,"(APT, ASCAP)-Vance
Paul Vance, writer of "Itsy Bitsy Bi-kini" wrote this bright summer nov-elty and young Dante handles itwell on his first disk outing.
LOU JOHNSONBig Hill 552
(THERE'S) ALWAYS SOMETHINGTHERE TO REMIND ME (RossJungnickel/Blue Seas/Jac, ASCAP)(2:58).-Bacharach, David
Flip is "Magic Potion," (Ross Jung-nickel/Blue Seas/Jac, ASCAP)(2:1 6 )-Bacharach, David
Bacharach and David wrote a greatballad tune here and Johnson singsit with great heart. Could be big.
JACK JONESKapp 608
WHERE LOVE HAS GONE (Para-mount ASCAP) (2:28)-Cahn, VanHeusen
Flip is "The Lorelei," (Evergreen,BMI) (3:13)-Allen
A powerful performance of a melodicnew movie tune. Side is getting ahuge cross promotion from the filmcompany and diskery.
CAROL CHANNINGCommand 4051
WHEN YOU'RE SMILING (Mills,ASCAP) (2:07) - Shay, Fisher,Goodwin
Flip is "Ain't Misbehavin'," (Mills,ASCAP) (2:06)-Razaf, Waller,Brooks
The "Hello Dolly" star gives her owncute salute to "Louis" (Armstrong)here and then does a bang-up ver-sion of the tune to a dixie backing.
ROY CLARKCapitol 5233
IT'S MY WAY (Cedarwood, BMI)(2:35)-W. Walker
Flip is "I'm Forgetting Now," (Cen-tral Songs, BMI) (2:30)-Taylor
Clark, a solid country artist, had a
pop hit las+ year and he can haveanother with this pretty new tuneby Wayne P. Walker.
DIANE RENAY20th Century Fox 533
IT'S IN YOUR HANDS (Saturday,ASCAP) (2:27)-Crewe, Callelo
Flip is "A Present from "Eddie,"(2:36)-Crewe, Rambeau, Rehak
An effective, tuneful ditty and thethrush's meaningful singing couldgive her another chart contender.
THE SHEVELLESWorld Artists 1025
I COULD CONQUER THE WORLDLiner+, BMI) (2:10)-Evans
Flip is "How Would You Like Me toLove You," (Leeds, ASCAP) (2:23)-Weske
The British group got some initialaction on their last single and thisside is good enough to land themon the charts.
MARY MARTIN AND THE DO -RE -MI CHILDREN'S CHORUS
Kapp 605A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR (Won-
derland, BMI) (2:43)-Sherman,Sherman
Flip is "Feed the Birds," (Won-derland, BMI) (2:29)-Sherman,Sherman
The famous star is joined by a rous-ing kiddie chorus in this happysong from the upcoming, much -publicized picture, "Mary Popp'ns."
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK AUGUST 1, 1964
New "First Family"?It didn't take long. In fact
the recording was finished justsix days before the album hitthe market. The album: "I'dRather Be Far Right ThanPresident." It's on the DivineRight Records label (producedby Panic Productions) and theaddress on the jacket is "1776"Broadway, New York.
The Goldwater disk was cut"on a calculated gamble," saidone of the brains behind theventure, noted Greenwich Vil-lage boniface, Art D'Lugoff,"On the night of the Goldwaternomination. The cover showsa likeness of the Senator in asuit of armor on a steed goingoff to battle." The cast of theseries of skits and sketches onthe Goldwater saga, includesthe well-known mimic WillJordan, plus Len Maxwell,Adam Keefe and Elsie Downey.
Brown Meggs a V.P.Brown Meggs, for the past yearEastern Operations chief ofCapitol Records, was promo-ted to the post of vice-presi-dent of Capitol Records Dis-tributing Corp. (CRDC) lastweek, for merchandising, ad-vertising and public relations.The post, a new one, movedMeggs up the executive ladderas a member of CRDC's seniormanagement team. The rest ofthat management team is StanGortikov, CRDC's vice presi-dent, and Bill Tallent, CRDC'snational sales manager.
In his new post Meggs re-turns to the Capitol Tower inHollywood. For the past twoyears Meggs has been in NewYork, heading Capitol's East-ern offices. Capitol Recordspresident Alan Livingston saidthat Meggs would not be re-
placed as director of Easternoperations. John Coveny, CRIcoordinator of Eastern activi-tie for Angel Records, will addthe post of New York officemanager to his responsibilitiesand will function as CRI'ssenior administrative executivein the East.
Meggs will now handle allCRDC merchandising, adver-tising and publicity activities.Album merchandising managerPaul Russell will report toMeggs. The Capitol Recordsdepartment of public relationshas been discontinued and itsfunctions have been trans-ferred to CRDC's departmentof press and information serv-ices. Meggs expects to appointa new manager for the newdepartment in the next fewweeks.
Meggs has been with Capitolfor six years. In the merchan-dising, publicity, and press de-partments. Before he joinedCapitol he was an advertisingcopywriter, and a writer ofarticles and fiction for nationalmagazines. His Harvard train-ing stood him in good steadduring the Beatles excitementin the early part of 1964, whenhe had to deal with the mostincredible demand for inter-views and information in theentire history of Capitol Rec-ords.
Beatle Week ReviewLast week United Artists
Records, which started thefrenzied Beatles record actionall over again with the issu-ance two weeks ago of thetrack from the lads' forthcom-ing movie, "A Hard Day'sNight," had the following toreport: The UA Beatles LP, injust two weeks, had sold 1.5million copies. They say it isthe best-selling sound track inhistory-and they are probab-ly right. They say it ranksamong the top selling albumsof all time-and they are prob-ably right again. With the pic-ture set to open July 11 and12 in major markets all overthe country, and with the boysdue to arrive here for theirtour on August 19, UA expectsmore and more Beatles salesover the next six weeks.
At Capitol meanwhile, wherethat firm just last Monday is-sued another Beatles album,called "Something New," sales
were also booming. Accordingto Capitol Records DistributingCorp. the pre-release saleamounted to 500,000 LP's. Cap-itol too expects that its BeatlesLP will become even more indemand due to the Beatles tourand the Beatles picture. CRDCpresident Stan Gortikov in factsaid that "dealers have asmuch enthusiasm today as theydid six months ago when weput out the first Beatle album."Six of the songs in the CapitolLP have never been issued be-fore in the U.S. Capitol willalso issue this month two moreBeatles singles, bringing thenumber of Beatles singles re-leased in July by Capitol tothree.
Capitol apparently doesn'tintend to let the Beatles bonan-za stop with records. The firmis now selling a series of fourportraits-of the four Beatles,natch-to stores. They are fourcolor, full sized, autographedpictures, all reproductions oforiginal art by Nick Volpe,Academy Award winner artist.Firm will advertise theportraits (all done in pastel)over radio stations, Top 40 sta-tions presumably. It marks thefirst time Capitol Records hasever sold anything not directlyconnected with records or rec-ord reproduction.
Tony's New MusicalLON DON
A new musical by "Stop TheWorld" team Anthony Newleyand Leslie Bricusse is expectedto open in London this fall.Titled "The Roar Of TheGrease Paint-The Smell OfThe Crowd" it will have a twoweek provincial try -out inNottingham, opening August3. Britain's top slapstick comicNorman Wisdom will star withSally Smith, Cy Grant andDillys Watling.
Donald Scott, who playedCaptain von Trapp in "TheSound Of Music" for twoyears on Broadway, has takenover the same role in the Lon-don show, which has been run-ning for over three years.
Another musical set to openin London in the fall is "Don'tAsk Me Ask Dad", written byBob Grant while he was in theLondon cast of Lionel Bart's"Blitz". It will be presentedby London's West End veter-ans Brian Rix and DonaldAlbery.
Capitol ChangesCapitol Records has made a
number of changes in the re-sponsibilities of key executivesat the label. Dan Bonbright,starting August 1, will add theduties of chief finance officerto his responsibilities as CRIvice chairman of the board.Simultaneously Alan Living-ston, president of the firm, willassume responsibility for allof Capitol's record club oper-ations. Reporting to Livingstonunder the reorganization willbe CRI vice president and gen-eral counsel Robert Carp andGrant Kenyon, new adminis-trator of management services.Edward Nash is the new direc-tor of marketing for the Capi-tol Record Club.
"Sound" Score IntactHOLLYWOOD
Word for word, note fornote, the score of the film ver-sion of "Sound of Music" willbe exactly as composed byRichard Rodgers and his latepartner Oscar Hammerstein2nd. Rodgers is making certainthat there will be no changesin the score and had alreadyvetoed suggested changes inthe lyrics.
The composer has added twonew songs, as reported weeksago in Music Business, to hisoriginal legitimate score, butwill not allow any alterationsin the lyrics as written by hislate partner, Oscar Hammer-stein 2nd.
Atlantic OverseasLONDON
Atlantic will have its ownlabel in Britain this week. Thelabel will be handled by Deccawhich previously put out At-lantic and Atco material onthe London label. Latter discshave featured a split logo:London -Atlantic.
First releases on the newAtlantic label will be BobbyDarin's "Milord", the Drifters'"Under The Boardwalk" andthe Ska Kings' "Jamaica Ska".
The news took the industryhere by surprise. Decca isknown to have resisted pres-sure from a number of U.S.labels that wanted their ownidentification in Britain. Deccahas just lost Dot, which alsohad been on London here.
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK
Melvin DaKroob was nameddirector of sales last week forthe Melody, Soul, and V.I.P. la-bels, subsidiaries of Tamla-Mo-town Records. DaKroob wasformerly with Arc Distributors inDetroit.
W.B. Club Move?Warner Brothers - Reprise
may shortly enter the Colum-bia Record Club on an exclu-sive basis. It is known thatnegotiations have been under-way for some time and havenow reached a final stage. Thiswould bring the club somepowerful additional materialin the form of such acts asFrank Sinatra, Trini Lopez,Peter Paul and Mary and Al-lan Sherman. The deal hinges,without doubt, on the outcomeof the FTC decision on certainoperating procedures of theclub. The examiner's decision,already postponed twice, isnow expected July 30.
NARM Mid -Year MeetCHICAGO
When the National Associ-ation of Record Merchandisersconvenes here this week forits annual mid -year meetingand person -to -person salesconference, it'll be the biggestin NARM's history. That's be-cause the participating rackmembership will be swelledby the addition of 11 newmembers since the group'sconvention last April.
The 11 new members, whoseapplications will be presentedfor approval Monday (27) atthe board meeting, are thosewho attended last April'sMiami Beach convention atthe invitation of NARM. "Theywere so impressed with the as-sociation's operation and ded-ication to the interests of therecord merchandising segmentof the industry," said execu-tive director, Jules Malamud,"That they immediately filedfor membership."
The NARM conclave will beheld at the Sheraton Chicago
Hotel, starting with the boardmeeting Monday (27). Person -to -person sales conferences be-tween the individual rackersand manufacturers will com-mence Tuesday afternoon (28)following an opening luncheonfor all regular and associate(manufacturer) members.
During a closed meeting forregular members only on Tues-day morning, the rackers willbe given an up-to-the-minutereport from attorney Albert A.Carretta on the "Capitol Rec-ords Distributing Corporationsituation." Last April, duringthe Miami rack convention,Carretta was directed by theNARM officers to bring to theattention of the Federal TradeCommission and the JusticeDepartment the fact that Cap-itol had allegedly refused tosell to some of NARM'smembers.
The NARM person -to -personmeetings will continue throughWednesday (29) and to mid-day Thursday 30). Amongmanufacturers expected to at-tend are Columbia, RCA Vic-tor, Capitol, Decca, Mercury,Dot, Epic, Warner Brothers -Reprise, Liberty, MGM -Verve,Cameo -Parkway, Colpix, Dis-neyland and London.
Davon OverseasDavon Music, west coast -
based publisher of "The WorldI Used to Know," had com-pleted arrangements last weekfor foreign discs of the tunein France, Germany, Spain andItaly. Jimmy Rodgers, who cutthe tune for Dot Records here,also plans to re-record his ver-sion in several languages.Davon president, Dave Hubert,also expects new domesticdiskings by Billy Vaughan onDot and the Johnny MannSingers on Liberty. Tune'scleffer, Rod McKuen, is nowon an overseas junket wherehe is actively plugging thesong through personal appear-ances and TV.
UA's New TracksUnited Artists Records has
released two new soundtracksets, "The Seventh Dawn" and"Zulu," to add to its alreadyking-sized soundtrack catalog.The label has the hottest sell-ing track of all right now inthe Beatles' "Hard Day'sNight," in addition to suchother recent entries as "FromRussia with Love" and "TomJones."
New at NARASNational Association of Re-
cording Arts and Sciences, LosAngeles chapter, added a hostof new members last week.Newly in the fold accordingto chapter president, LesBrown, are: Jackie DeShan-non, Jimmy Boyd, RichardAllen, Bodie Chandler, MarthaTilton, Harry Coles and Rob-ert Sheerer.
Blaine's Buxom BellesErstwhile bandleader, Jerry
Blaine, for years a fixture onthe indie distribution scene, isbroadening his horizons. Hehas just completed filming ofhis initial motion picture ven-ture and has now set in motionthe establishment of a TVproducing wing.
His first film, "The Candi-date," co-stars Mamie VanDoren and June Wilkinson.While awaiting release of thefilm, the busty leading ladieswere brought to a recordingstudio where they cut "Bikiniwith No Top on the Top," tocash in on the current interestin women's topless bathingsuits. The disk has been re-leased on another Blaine prop-erty, Jubilee Records. Galshave also recorded the titletheme from "The Candidate,"for simultaneous release withthe picture.
Roulette on the RoadRoulette's general sales
manager, Bud Katzel and fieldsales rep, Ron Roessler, wereon the road last week, pre-senting the label's fall albumline-up and plan to distribu-tors in their native habitats.
Katzel elected to hit theroad rather than summoningdistributors to a sales conven-tion because "they welcomenot having to go out of townto one more manufacturer'smeeting," and because it makespossible presenting the pro-gram "to some of the distribu-tor's key accounts.
"Today you can no longerjust present the program tothe distributor and sit back toawait results. You have to sellthe program at the same timeto the important large volumeaccounts," said Katzel.
Katzel and Roessler willmeet in Chicago this week forthe mid -year NARM meetingswhere they'll discuss 20 newalbums on Roulette, plus prod-uct on Tico, Roost, Squire andKenwood.
Shaw Renews PactArnold Shaw, nine year vet-
eran of Marks Music, has beensigned to a renewal contractas general professional man-ager of the 70 -year -old firm,according to president, HerbertMarks.
Shaw has kept the vener-able firm in the running inthe pop derby since joining theoperation in 1955 and hashelped bring the companymore and more into the show,TV and movie score fields aswell.
The bearded music man alsokeeps busy with his type-writer. He's the author of sev-eral books on the music busi-ness, is represented in EsquireMagazine's World of Jazz withthree articles, reviews booksfor the New York Times andwill soon give a course on pop-ular music at Fairleigh Dick-inson University, Madison, N.J.
S. Strohman PromotionSteve Strohman, former na-
tional inventory and opera-tions manager for CapitolRecords Distribution Carp. hasbeen upped to the post of na-tional distribution manager forCRDC. He will continue tohandle his former duties, andhe will report to Stan Gorti-kov, president of CRDC.
Chellman to StardayChuck Chellman, formerly
in charge of country musicsales and promotion for Mer-cury Records in Nashville, hasjoined Starday Records. He'llhead up the label's new na-tional sales and promotion de-partment, according to DonPierce, chief of Starday.
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MUSIC BUSINESS, AUGUST I, 1964
MUSIC BUSINESSAUGUST I, 1964
The Convention Scene -Part
Las Vegas To Hollywood
The second round of 1964 sales conventions held in the West
last week stressed stability, financial responsibility,
and profits. The day of the extra discount is ebbing
The West held the convention spotlightlast week, with activity centered in con-vention cities like Las Vegas and Holly-wood. Kapp Records held its conventionat Lake Tahoe, marking a first for thatcity for a record company gathering.
The tenor of sales meets over the pastyear has been financial conservatism. Itwas the same at the various sales meet-
ings held last week. Stability, solvency,profits, and financial responsibility werethe main themes of speeches and pro-grams. The era of the special sale, thebig discount and the extra deal may wellbe drawing to a close. Certainly it is ebb-ing. Here are the high spots of the fiveWestern conventions, Columbia, Epic,Warner Bros. -Reprise, Kapp and VeeJay.
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Columbia Keeps One -Price Warner's - Reprise ToPlan; Stresses Stability; Retain Own IdentitiesCelebrates Anniversary
LAS VEGASA re -dedication of the prin-
ciple of one, year-round priceto all and a steady programof releases, became the key-note last week of Columbia'sbiggest ever sales confab, heldat Las Vegas' Sahara Hotel.
In noting the success of thefirst year of the so-called "Ageof Reason" concept, marketingvice president, Bill Gallagherdefined this as "stability inaction," and said Columbia willdedicate itself to an "era ofprofessional salesmanship."
Specifically, the firm also an-nounced. 1. A year roundfinancial program for itscustomers, designed to helpdealers in planning inventoriesto take advantage of volumeseasons and in planningfinancial outlays to coincidewith their times of maximum"cash flow" as Gallagher put it,and 2. A constant local ad-vertising fund to be availableto distributors and their dealercustomers all year round at asteady rate without increasingor diminishing at certain sea-sons. Yet another dealer toolannounced was the company'sfall and winter gift supple-ment aimed to reach 70,000,000record buyers at the peak ofthe fall selling season.
New product presentationwas highlighted by the "MyFair Lady" soundtrack and apeek at clips from the film it-self. Outlined too, were severalspecial retail plans for handlingof Masterworks material.
Unleashed at Vegas were atotal of 29 new pop and jazzalbums (Barbra Streisand,New Christys, Andy Williams,Ray Conniff, etc.) 22 Master-works LP's (Philadelphia Or-chestra, New York Philhar-monic, Mormon TabernacleChoir, among others) and sevenHarmony sets. In additionthere'll be 15 four -track stereotapes for August -Septemberrelease, including several newstraight drama, original casttapes at 3% inches -per -secondspeed, half the normal com-mercial tape speed. These willsell for the same price as theirdisk counterparts.
A dramatic highlight oc-curred when the firm's brass,headed by executive vice presi-dent Norman Adler, tossed aspecial banquet and a surprise
GODDARD LIEBERSON
NORMAN ADLER
BILL GALLAGHER
program for president God-dard Liberson, on the occasionof his silver (25th) anniversarywith the company.
The company, which thisyear celebrates the 75th birth-day of the Columbia label,brought together more than500 executives from allbranches of the Columbia Rec-ords family here and its af-filiates abroad. Playing a majorrole, in addition to Gallagher,was Ken Glancy, vice presi-dent of a.&r., who made theoverall product presentation,assisted by specialists inthe various areas of repertoire.
LAS VEGASWarner Brothers and Re-
prise, though part of the samefamily, will continue to de-velop and sustain their owndistinct images, according tostatements made here last weekduring the seventh annualWarners distributors salesmeeting.
There will be joint adminis-tration of the two labels, butseparate a. & r. operations, itwas emphasized, as new prod-uct was presented for bothlines under the conventiontheme "A wonderful world ofentertainment."
The assemblage of about 200distributor personnel at theSands Hotel, was paid a sur-prise visit by Columbia's mar-keting veepee, Bill Gallagher,who discussed his company'sone -year -old "Age of Reason"pricing and product policy.
Warner -Reprise Recordschief, John K. (Mike) Mait-land scotched any possible talk
of Warner's opening its ownbranches, when he told thedistribs of his intention to staywith independents all the way.He also urged distributors tobe aware of the "age of re-sponsibility" and to updatetheir own business procedureswith automated equipment forbetter inventory control.
Moe Ostin, general managerof Reprise, stressed the sep-arate identity theme and saidhis label would move evenmore actively into the teenfield. Merchandising directorJoel Friedman, intro'd newvisual materials and a newalbum and single label logo forWarners.
New product for the comingseason on Warners includessets by Peter, Paul and Mary,the Everlys and the Routers.On Reprise, the line-up in-cludes Dean Martin, Sinatra,Basie, Ellington, Sammy Davisand Trini Lopez.
Kapp Mounts Big PushOn Movie Theme Disc
As Kapp Records readied itsnational sales convention atLake Tahoe, the firm discloseda giant record -movie promo-tion on the new Jack Jonesrecord of "Where Love HasGone." The song, which Jonessings twice on the sound track,is the title of a new Joseph Le-vine movie. According to KappRecords, the movie firm wasspending $250,000 on radioplugs for the movie, using theJones disc as background forthe commercial.
Kapp Records had its ownpromotions planned, in largescale newspaper advertising,plus lots of point -of -sale mer-chandising items to help sellthe single and the new JonesLP-also called "Where LoveHas Gone." The aids included
,hangers, streamers, and easels.What might turn out to be
the party of the season wasplanned on producer JosephLevine's yacht, which was tobe anchored in the HudsonRiver, to greet disc jockeysand dealers from Boston toWashington, D.C. Party wouldrun for a number of days.There were also to be previewsof the movie for record spin-ners and dealers.
DAVE KAPP
MICKEY KAPP
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Epic "Hot Line" MarksBiggest LP Release
An air of confidence and thebiggest single LP release inthe firm's history marked thesales meeting of Epic Recordsat Miami (July 17) and at LasVegas last week. The con-fidence came from the fact that1964 would show for Epic, ac-cording to Len Levy, generalmanager of the firm, "thebiggest dollar volume andhighest net profit in the historyof the label." It was furtherbolstered by the fact thatamong the releases scheduledfor Fall was a new LP by TheDave Clark Five, the hottestselling act, along with BobbyVinton, on the label.
Epic Records held its EasternMeeting at the Eden RocHotel in Miami Beach, and theWestern half of it meets at theSahara Hotel in Las Vegas.Both meetings were addressedby Levy, and Victor Linn,Epic's merchandising and ad-ministrative manager.
Levy's speech dealt with therebirth of the Epic-Okeh labelfrom October 1961, when thenew team of Levy -Linn tookover, to the present. He pointedout that in a two and one-half year period, Epic-Okehhad developed into a "hot line."
He also noted the vastchanges that had occurred inthe record business over thepast year, since Columbia Rec-ords had introduced its "AgeOf Reason" (same price allyear round) policy, a policyEpic followed six months later.Levy said that his firm wasstill the only independent tofollow a price stabilizationpolicy like Columbia's. Thegeneral manager of Epic saidthat because his firm had fol-lowed that policy a new era ofgood relations with Epic'sdistributors had taken place.
Levy warned that indie dis-tributors would put themselvesout of business if they did notput their financial houses inorder. Profit, he said, is whatcounts, and distributors canonly profit if they promote andmerchandise their product.Epic, he said, was completelycommitted to the indie dis-tributor, but that the distribu-tor must be solvent.
In addition to the Dave ClarkLP "The American Tour,"other product being released byEpic includes new LP's by TheVillage Stompers, Max Morath,The Goldebriars, Scotty Moore,Lester Lanin, Rolf Harris andCliff Richard.
Veeiay Sets MajorExpansion For 1965
LOS ANGELES
VeeJay Records is headinginto a major expansion pro-gram to encompass product innumerous areas of music, ac-cording to statements made byRandall Wood and Jay Lasker,president and executive vicepresident of the firm, last weekto the company's annual salesconclave. The sessions wereheld Tuesday (21) at the Bev-erly Hilton Hotel.
The company's new line in-cludes more than 30 albumsin such diverse fields as coun-try (Orville Couch); folk(Hoyt Axton, who is now un-der exclusive VeeJay con-tract); movie mood music(Gordon Jenkins); jazz (VictorFeldman); pop vocals (Sam
Fletcher); (Dick Gregory andMason Williams); a groupgospel; sets, a lin of 10packages of music from vari-ous countries, and the firmwill also push hard on itsrepackaging of its originalBeatles album. VeeJay woncourt permission to repackagethe set, last week, over Capi-tol's objections.
Labels due for heavy promo-tion, are Tollie, Oldies 45, Old-ies 33, the Melic line and a newInterphon label, for release ofdisks acquired from overseasproducers.
All album product, thedistribs were told, will carrya "buy seven, get one free"deal while singles will carry a"buy nine, get one free" deal.
MB Names Len LevyExecutive Of The Year
LAS VEGAS
Leonard S. Levy, generalmanager of Epic Records, re-ceived the first annual "RecordExecutive Of The Year" awardfrom Music Business magazineat the firm's convention ban-
quet here. It was presented byMB publisher Sam Chase. Theaward, which will be given toLevy in the form of a plaque,reads "Outstanding Record Ex-ecutive of 1963, from MusicBusiness Magazine.
At the convention Epic's distributors and its regional sales managers received scrolls from the label for their helpin making 1964 "the most successful in the history of Epic Records." From left to right: Fred Frank, Epic SouthernRegional and Sales Manager; Marshall Verbit, Marnel Distributors, Philadelphia; Stan Hoffman, Marnel Distributors,Baltimore; Joe Martin, Apex -Martin Distributing Co., Newark; Bob Anderson, Cleve -Disc, Cinncinnati; Babe Elias,Topps Distributing, Miami; Leonard Levy, Epic's General Manager who presented the scrolls; Phil Goldberg, BertosDist., Charlotte, North Carolina; Gladys Pare, Portem, New York: Godfrey Dickey, Cleve -Disc, Cleveland; HowardRing, Dumont Dist., Boston; Tony Martell, Mid -West Regional Sales Manager; Marvin Jacobs, Music Merchants,Detroit; John Mahan, Eastern Regional Promotional and Sales Manager; Mort Hoffman, Eastern Regional SalesManager.
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Smash single. For five years "things havebeen moving cautiously for me," saidNancy Wilson last week. The masterpieceof understatement came in the wake ofthe Capitol thrush's first smash single(number 14 in the Pop 100 this week)and coverage in Time last week (andNewsweek this week) and a sensationallysuccessful opening recently at LosAngeles' venerable Coconut Grove.
"I went into the studio with the de-liberate idea of cutting a top 40 kind ofhit," she said. "Actually though, I didn'tsing any differently than I ever do. It'sthe material itself that did it and ofcourse the arrangement. As far as mysinging goes, I think it's always been popsinging really.
"People have labelled me as jazz. Idon't like that designation. I want to beable to reach everybody, not just the jazzcrowd. And besides, who is to say whata jazz singer is anyway? If it's scat sing-ing, I don't qualify, because I've neverscatted, never!
Cannonball. "It's true I once made analbum with Cannonball (Adderly). Maybethat's one reason I've gotten the label.And it's a good reason why I wouldn'treally want to do that kind of thingagain. Although I think Cannonball him-self is great. I actually sang with hisgroup for a stand back in my home townof Columbus, Ohio six years ago.
"I've been singing for years. Since I wasa kid in Columbus. I had my own TVshow there when I was 15. Five yearsago, I came to New York where I starteddoing night club work at places like theBlue Mirror in the Bronx. And later Iplayed Mister Kelly's in Chicago. But nowthings are different.
"I'm playing the biggest clubs, placeslike the Waldorf in New York (whereshe appeared earlier this year) the fancyplaces in Vegas and Reno, and right nowthe Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. I'mtired because there's been no let-up atall. From one night club to another. Andit's work, real work.
"Now I have to really entertain. Youcan't just get up there and be soulful inclubs like these. They expect a show andyou've got to give them one. But this issomething new and fresh and excitingfor me. Even if I'm tired it doesn't get mebugged. As I say, my career has gonealong nice and slow and I really thinkit's better for an artist to grow that way.
No time at home. "The only troublenow is that things have gotten so goodfor me, so big, that I don't have time athome at all. I love to be at home withmy husband. I love to play with our little17 -month old -son and cook and keephouse but there's so little time. I don'thave time for any leisure things likelistening to records. Really. Just once inawhile when I do, I listen to Jesse Belvin(the late singer was on RCA Victor) andShirley Horn. Shirley's a very good newsinger.
"After I'm through at the CoconutGrove, I've planned on a three weekvacation. We all need it here. Then I'mtaking the whole month of December off.I'd like to do that every year if I could.I've planned that month for a long time.
"It takes more than soul"
"Now I have to really entertain," says
rising Capitol Records' star Nancy Wilson, who
has graduated into the big time club circuit
"In the meantime, there are a lot ofnight club things to fill out the time be-tween now and then. Broadway I'd loveto do sometime. I suppose a musical, butfirst I'd like doing a straight drama, eitheron the stage or in a movie. No, there'snothing really in prospect. They haven'tcome to me to show me any kind ofscript. But when it comes along, I'll thinkabout it carefully before I jump. I alwaysgo slowly and hope I'll make the rightdecision.
Final decision. "It's the same way I workwith my records. I work closely with mya. and r. man, Dave Cavanaugh, but Idecide on every song myself. They canrecommend but I make the final decision,whether its albums or top 40 singles. AndI certainly do intend to continue makingsingles for the top 40 market, even thoughI don't see anything different because I
have a hit. I think it was all just happen-ing before that single came out. It's theicing on the cake or the extra gravy orwhatever you want to call it. It's just partof a total picture that makes anybodya more complete entertainer."
Meanwhile, Miss Wilson's continues tobe a familiar name in the album charts.Her latest "Today, Tomorrow and For-ever," which brought Time's comment "avoice of agile grace and knowing jazzinflection," is in the 11 spot this week. Anearlier performance, "Yesterday's LoveSongs," "Today's Blues,' is rated at 55this week. Fans can also look forwardto seeing Nancy on at least a couple ofmajor network TV showcases this fall("I haven't seen the contracts yet, butI'm sure I'll do them") before she takesher promised month off.
REN GREVATT
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The WABCFormula: Hits...Not Exclusives
While its competitors fight for firsts,
New York's WABC has secured the No. 1 slot
in the Pulse Ratings playing established hits
Building Ratings. Playing a record firstisn't necessarily the best way to increasestation ratings, as witness the emergenceof the ABC network flagship WABC, NewYork, as the No. 1 outlet in the last twoPulse studies from noon to midnightacross the board.
A key factor in WABC's rating success isthat while its local "Top 40" competitors,WINS and WMCA, have been waging anincreasingly bitter battle to obtain "ex-clusives" on new releases, WABC has con-centrated more and more on programmingestablished hits.
"We're giving listeners what they want,"says deejay Scott Muni, who sharesWABC's powerful night time slot with"Cousin" Bruce Morrow. "We don't careif we get a record first. We just play thehits, past and present. For example, oneof my peak rating periods (7:15-8 p.m.) isa `Solid Gold' segment, when I play onlyall-time bestsellers."
No Breaks. "We don't attempt to 'break'records," emphasizes Muni. "In fact, onlyfour to seven of the records on our weekly
play lists are new releases." However, inspite of their blase attitude towards "ex-clusives," the WABC play list last weeklisted five "exclusive" Beatles sides, onCapitol. The WABC play list, based onlocal record sales, national trade charts,requests and panel preferences, featuresfrom 30 to 50 records depending upon howmany disks qualify each week.
Promotion men may leave new releasesat the station any time during the week,but program director, Rich Sklar, willonly meet with them personally on Fridaymorning. Sklar screens the new releasesand submits those he deems important(on the basis of past performance, quality,or advance sales reaction) to a panel onTuesday morning.
The panel (Sklar and WABC jocksMuni, Morrow, Herb Oscar Anderson, BobDayton, Dan Ingram, Bob "Babalu" Lewisand Charlie Greer) then reviews thedisks and selects the new play -listplatters.
Own preferences. Although WABC isstrictly a "list" station, the jockeys are
111"Cousin" Bruce Morrow
Scott Muni
permitted to exercise their personal pref-erences within the play -list formula. Inother words they are allowed to playwhat they prefer from the list.
For example, Muni is violently opposedto the Rolling Stones and vows he won'tplay one of their records on his show"unless they have the number 1 record inthe country. I have an obligation to myyoung listeners" explains Muni. "I don'twant the kids to follow the Stones' ex-ample. The Beatles and the Dave ClarkFive dress immaculately, but the Stoneswear dirty clothes and brag about nottaking showers. I think it's disgusting!"
Muni hastens to add "I love gimmicks.I dig all the sounds and I play them, butyou have to draw the line somewhere.I don't want to promote that type of dressor attitude."
Beatles man. On the other hand, Muniis a big Beatles man. He started one ofthe first Beatles fan clubs and drew 500,000requests for membership in 40 days untilmanagement called a halt because theycouldn't cope with the mail.
Morrow and Muni visited the Worlds Fair by boat May 8, which was "WABC Day"at the Fair.
In line with WABC general managerWalter Schwartz' policy of backing hisdeejay staff with strong promotion asindividual personalities, Scott and Morroware cast as opposites. Morrow (10 p.m.midnight, Monday through Friday and7-11 p.m., Saturday) is a tall, personableclown who plays it for laughs with loudnoises and jokes. Muni, the dark romantictype, is more on the cool side, and actsas straight man for Morrow. However,notes Muni "We both swing."
The jocks make many appearances to-gether-their most recent being a series ofdates at local high schools. They also actedas co -emcees for two Dave Clark Fiveconcerts earlier this year.
It's interesting to note that Morrow andMuni were one-time rivals when Morrowwas with WINS and Muni on WMCA.They were even slotted in the same timeperiod for a couple of months.
Network Station. The success of WABCagainst the formidable competition ofindies, WMCA and WINS, is particularlyfascinating because WABC is a networkstation. Neither WNBC nor WCBS havebeen able to overcome the handicapsinherent in being a network outlet. It'sdifficult to integrate a local "sound" withnetwork programming, and it's a tributeto Schwartz and Sklar that WABCmanages to hold on to its "Top 40" -typeaudience in spite of such out -of -characternetwork segs as Don McNeill's folksy"Breakfast Club."
Another problem facing WABC andother network outlets is that, unlike theindies, they are not allowed to lure ratingsby "forced listening." (e.g. advising audi-ences to stay tuned to the dial to see iftheir number is called for contest prizes.)The National Association of Broadcasters'code prohibits the use of "forced listen-ing" gimmicks, and network stations areunder pressure to obey the code.
Coverage area. Nevertheless, being anetwork station also has its advantages.As the only 50,000 watts clear channel"Top 40" station in its market (WINSis 50,000, but not clear channel) WABChas a remarkable coverage area. Munireports mail from Iowa, Canada, Florida,Michigan, and a flock of other states.
The signal doesn't help the ratings, com-ments Muni, "but it does attract sponsorsand it should be of more interest to therecord industry. I don't think they fullyrealize the impact of such extended exposure on record sales. When we playedthe first Dave Clark Five hit, their Phila-delphia distributor received an order for3500 records in one week even thoughnone of the Philadelphia stations hadeven received the record. We've pulledmail from 58 colleges around the country,including Notre Dame and Michigan State,and that should be of interest to albumsales people as well as those sellingsingles."
JUNE BUNDY
TrashmenStay HotIn Mid -West"Surfin' Bird"Lads Do Solid
Club Business
The Trashmen have only had one bighit, "Surfin' Bird," which sold about 800,-000 copies on the Garrett label about ayear ago. The boys who recorded it, TheTrashmen, have had two follow-up rec-ords, "Bird Dance Beat," and "PeppermintMan," neither of which acheived the samesuccess.
The fact that they have yet to followup their hit makes little difference totheir fans in the mid -west, however,where The Trashmen are one of the hottestgroups extant, earning from $2,500 to$3,500 per week. Jim Thomas, the bookerwho owns the ballroom in Lake Benton,Minnesota, says that he does well withthem wherever they play, and he shouldknow, since he books them throughout theyear.
The Trashmen, Dal Winslow, SteveWard, Tony Andreason, and Bob Reed,have been a quartet for three years.Dal, Steve and Tony were together eightyears before that. They recorded "Surfin'Bird" as a gag for dealer -producer GeorgeGarrett of Minneapolis, who persuadeddistributor Amos Heilicher to handle it.Garrett is the group's manager. "Surfin'Bird" became a hit all over the world,including the Scandinavian countries,France and Australia. Their night clubsuccess since, points up again the meaningof a hit record for a good sight act, evenif the next hit is elusive.
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How To AppealTo EveryoneThe Lettermen have built a following on
the college, night club and concert circuit-
by just plain good singing.
"I guess our combined vocal range is41/2 octaves, but sometimes we find itpretty difficult trying to hit G above highC when we're singing bass.
"But then we don't profess to be a vocalgroup like the Hi-Lo's, whose range isinexhaustable. We're just a normal sing-ing trio, who like to sing, and don't reallystick to any basic ruling when it comesto harmony".
Really serious. Despite what would seema casual approach, the Lettermen reallyare very serious about their music, andthis policy has paved the way for theirsuccess. "The Way You Look Tonight"was their first hit and although it seemslong ago-the trio is still very much inits infancy, having only just celebratedits first three years together.
It's been three years in which they'vehad no changes in personnel and, to thecontrary, find they are even closer nowthan they were when they started.
First time. Even with the widespreadacceptance of their music and perform-ance, it was only this month that Letter-men played their first New York clubdate after varied and highly acclaimedstints from Vegas to Vancouver.
"Until now, we've been too busy toplay New York" said Tony Butala. "We'vehad offers in the past, but there are veryfew places in the city which are con-ducive to our kind of entertainment. How-ever, since our opening night, we've foundthe Latin Quarter is one of them, andwe now feel it was worth waiting untilwe hit the right spot".
The college look. Although they look likea fresh -out -of -college group, and theirmusic is designed to hit the student fra-ternity right between the eyeballs, theLettermen have the ability to adapt them-selves to any kind of engagement, be itcollege, concert tour or cabaret. It seemsa little incongruous that the trio-TonyButala, Jim Pike and Bob Engemann-whose ages are no higher than 26, shouldappeal to the Las Vegas set, yet theyplay a regular season there once a year.
"Really, we find it's not too difficultat all" said Jim Pike. "I think peoplehave the wrong impression about Vegasnight club audiences. They're there to beentertained, and if they like what theysee, they're very receptive.
The college circuit. "Six months out ofevery year, we do college tours, arranging
our schedule to tie in with each newsemester. We dig these dates, becausebeing ex -students ourselves, we find we'reon exactly the same level as our audi-ences. Besides, initially, this was thecircle of people responsible for our suc-cess".
Bob Engemann agrees that club datesare just as important to reach a level ofappreciation among adults. "Night clubsare very rewarding", he said. "Maybewe've been lucky, since we generally ap-pear with George Burns, who's a leader inthis field, and he has helped us tremen-dously."
Five million sales. Always on Capitol,and very happy with their deal there, theaggregate of Lettermen disc sales overthe past three years, is approaching 5,000,-000, and particularly in the album fieldhave their sales been high. Their lastLP, "The Lettermen Look at Love," hasbeen no exception to this rule, but Letter-men fans may be in for a surprise whentheir new album is released.
"We've cut an L.P. of other people'shits," Tony explained. "Pop things like'It's Over' and 'Don't Let The Sun CatchYou Crying.' But of course, we haven'tused the original arrangements. All we'vedone is sing and arrange them Lettermenstyle."
For those not too familiar with Letter-men style, this means that all three hiton one harmony line and work on theultimate product from there.
Two octave range. Bob Engemann ex-plained that Jim Pike's voice is capableof reaching two octaves, which makes itpretty easy for him to fit in with theranges of the other two boys.
"We don't make a point of reaching fora high note unless we have to" saidButala. "If we did that, we'd be accusedof being copyists.
"As it is, we've been lucky, for no-onehas started comparing us with any groupsyet. The only thing that does happen isthat show biz folk have compared ourcareer with that of the Kingston Trio,who started out about the same time asus. But we don't specialize in folk music,and most of the time only sing it as atribute to the people who have beensuccessful in this field.
Everywhere but England. A hit in mostlanguages, whether it's here or in Europe,the Lettermen are a little concerned with
The Lettermen, Capitol hitmakers, made theirNew York debut last week.
their lack of success in England. To putthings right, they're seriously consideringa promotional trip there just to gainprestige.
In the meantime, they remain in theU.S. through the summer to promote theirnew Capitol single "Put Away Your Tear-drops," and are set to hit the college cir-cuit again in September.
JUNE HARRIS
Music Business In Hollywood I
Dean Martin has broken theice off the top 40 set. His single,"Everybody Loves Somebody"is zooming. . . . Stan Getz hasthem standing in line atShelley's Manne-hole. His sin-gle "Girl from Ipanema" andthe Jobi^, albums are block-busters. Couldn't happen to anicer chap!
Lorez Alexandria's first al-bum for Impulse is catchingthe fancy of many of the ex-perts that spin records. Shesigned for an August 12th ap-pearance on the Steve AllenShow. . . . Johnny Hodges'Impulse album "EverybodyKnows" looks like a great fol-low-up to his "Mess of Blues"on Verve. . . . H. B. Barnum,the one and only, has a singlethat's hitting the charts
Keely Smith and Reprisehave become one again. JimmyBowen, the talented a & r man,may have been the catalyst inbringing about this reconcilia-tion. . . . Dick Bock, World -Pacific's major domo, leavesfor a national promo tour onJuly 20. He'll take time outto "cut" a new Les McCannalbum from Birdland, NewYork City. McCann's gettinghotter with each new release.
The word is to watch out forthe man in action. It happensto be Vee Jay's youthful veepJay Lasker. He's signing newtalent and masters for all labelsunder his aegis. . . . VictorFeldman, the renowned jazzinstrumentalist, inked with VeeJay. The ink wasn't dry yetwhen prexy Randy Wood askedfor his pen to write an an-nouncement regarding a newmodernized score for "Porgyand Bess." . . . Sig Sakowicz,Chicago disk jockey, will soonbe the center of attraction fora national news story on his2,500 mothers' fan club. It
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Moppet star Denise Reganslices two singles for the Cherielabel . . . it'll be a Christmasrelease, with Peter Rugolo do-ing the arranging . . . the "Sit-uation Columns" will soonfeature an ad for 3 talentedsingers looking for a new act. . . the George Burns Revue,featuring Connie Haines, JaneRussell, Beryl Davis andGeorge disbanded due to tvcommitments for the malemember of the group. . . . MelTorme, another Chicagoan do-ing well, goes the disk jockeyroute for one week followinghis Crescendo engagement.
A legend strikes, or StanPat goes west. Pat, in chargeof the Purcell Agency westcoast operations, created afantastic deal with the fastrising Big Beats in Hawaii. Itmust be good, Stan is planning
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Bits And PiecesBy Bob Rolontz
In case anyone wants toknow why The Lettermendo not appear on stage atthe Latin Quarter in NewYork at the end of eachshow, we are informed thattheir religious beliefs pro-hibit them from appearingon stage with half-cladwomen. . . . Speaking ofhalf-clad women, our SanFrancisco informant in-forms us that the WestCoast dance, the Swim, isdemonstrated in clubs thereby girls in topless bathingsuits. No wonder the Re-publicans selected San Fran-cisco for their convention.
Robert L. Makl, of 25Hope Terrace in LincolnPark, N.J., who has beenwriting songs for years (he'saffiliated with BMI), wouldlike to contact someone inour music industry whowould be interested in see-ing his material. He ischronically disabled and
can't get out of hishome to see publishers. . . .
Joy Music would like tohave material from cleffers(attention Bob Maki) sub-mitted to their new officesat 1790 Broadway in NewYork. Bob Schwaid is theman to see. . . . Mike Siegelis the new East Coast man-ager for Fortune Records ofDetroit. . . . Stan Cornyn,Warner Bros. Records edi-torial director and GailAnne MacCrystal, formermember of the art depart-ment of the label, are en-gaged.
Roger Gimbel, TV pro-
ducer who is in charge ofthe NBC-TV ThanksgivingSpecial to star Al Hirt, DeanMartin and Eydie Gorme, isproducing a movie, "The SeaMonks." . . . Steve Blainehas formed Jay -Gee Inter-national to handle the firm'sforeign master acquisitions.. . . A Peter De Rose Me-morial Concert was heldSunday (26) in AsburyPark, New Jersey.
The Gil -Pincus -Ambassa-dor Music firms have takenover "Amore Scusami" theItalian hit from publisherFranz Leonardi for the U.S.. . . Graham Gladwin, form-er show business personal-ity, has taken over thepublished and unpublishedworks of his late father, J.Stanton Gladwin, whosefirst successful song helpedinitiate radio broadcastingin the 1920's. Gladwin's pub-lishing activities, located inHollywood, will specializein, country gospel and showmusic. . . . Lennie Millerand Manny Wells introducedBritisher Glenda Graingerto the world of show busi-ness in America by takingover New York's Round-table and giving agency, TVand record reps a look see.. . . Mrs. Bonnie Bourne isin London relocating man-agement of Bourne Music,Ltd. there. . . . Irving Fieldsand his trio will mark their15th year at New York'sPark Sheraton Hotel whenthey return to the MermaidRoom in the fall.
Country Deejays MeetNASHVILLE
Announcements were re-ceived here last week of thefirst annual convention ofdeejays in the northeast setfor Glens Falls, N.Y. Sept.14, with emphasis on coun-try music. Opening withbreakfast at 9:30 a.m. at theChateau de Louis, the dis-cussions will include "HowTo Promote Country MusicPrograms in a Pop StationArea"; "Why Country Mu-sic at 5:30 a.m.?" and "ATop 40 C&W station?"
After luncheon at whichC&W pioneer Dusty Millerwill be emsee, the topics
will be "Why Not UseCountry Music For Adver-tising?" Area advertisersplus the personnel of one ofthe two all -country stationsin New York state will beon the panel. A banquetwill follow, the speaker tobe Swampwater Jake ofWGHM, Skowhegan, Maine,deejay and entertainer.
Registration cost whichincludes meals and exhibitspace is $10. Checks and in-quiries should be sent toDody Varney, chairman,6646 Old Plum Road, Ft.Edward, N. Y. - 12828.
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Today The Village
Tomorrow The WorldFred Weintraub, producer, manager,
club owner and philosopher, is building an
empire in the folk -pop entertainment field.
Fred Weintraub has a unique knack-he plays life by ear, and it works. Asowner of the Bitter End in GreenwichVillage and manager of the SerendipitySingers, plus a few other acts, it wouldseem that Fred's been blessed with anespecially good ear, but Fred says no."Any ear will do, you just have to learnto use it."
Defies categories. As a personality, Freddeftly defies the conventional categories.He doesn't work at it, it just happens.Now in his mid -thirties, a recap of Fred'shistory is as bizarre as a Ronald Firbankshort story.
Secret weapons. When Fred came to thiscountry (from the Bronx) he was alreadyarmed with some suspect weapons. Alongwith a prosaic degree in economics, he'dmanaged to sneak in a few semesters atan "ethical culture school," much to thedistress of his forebears. He cleaned theslate of propriety by dynamically achiev-ing great success in business-children'stoys and furniture, no less-and moon-lighted to produce a kiddies' TV series,"Freddie the Fireman," on Channel 5,New York.
Questioning the import of his currentrole in the human race, Fred decided tochuck it all-friends, wife and family (inScarsdale), job, everything. Cuba was hisnext stop, where he alternately operateda fishing rig, subbed as cocktail pianistat the Beachcomber in Varadero, andsomehow found himself smuggling in gunsfor Castro at the height of the revolution.Captured by the Batista regime, his hidewas spared the firing squad only by vir-tue of his U.S. citizenship. He was "asked"to leave.
Without beard. Arriving back in theStates (sans beard), Weintraub's returnto the business world found him the pro-ducer of over 100 television commercials,before the wanderlust got him again. Thistime he was off to Spain where, for oneyear, he did "absolutely nothing."
Fred Weintraub's operational base ...The Bitter End.
Things began to jell for Fred in 1961.He combined his propensity for the off-beat with profit making and bought acoffee house in New York's GreenwichVillage named the Cock 'n' Bull, whichhe re -named the Bitter End. In time, theclub offered him enough variety in ex-pressing himself, that a "career" tookhold.
His philosophy. Fred's philosophy is asimple one. "If I don'tenjoy what I'm do-ing, I can't possibly make a commitmentto it, whether it's profitable or not. I getbored. You have to have some sensationof creativity, or you die inside. You're nogood to anyone, least of all yourself."
Making a success of a coffee house inthe Village sounds easier than it is.Hundreds of them barely survive fromseason to season. The Bitter End issingular in its success.
Consistent image. "A club has to sellitself on its own personality-not that ofthe performer. The image must be a con-sistent one, or your business suffers. Atthe Bitter End I think the clientele haslearned to expect one thing: they alwaysget a first rate show. They go away enter-tained. And they return."
Since the cover charge is minimal, andthe absence of alcohol keeps the spendingdown (sodas are big), performers areusually paid the minimum scale require..ments. But performers who have grad-uated to bigger money frequently returnvoluntarily to perform there "becausethey like working the room." Theatmosphere is especially ideal for break-ing in new material. Weintraub is par-ticularly proud of the acoustics and soundequipment he has installed, at great ex-pense. The lighting is exceptionally pro-fessional too, not like the normal nite
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club setup, which even in big clubs isoften little more than make -shift.
Newcomer showcase. The Bitter End isa perfect showcase for young newcomers.Tuesday night is audition night, andWeintraub has had as many as thirtynew acts perform in a single night. Fromthe club, many have gone on to fame,such as Peter, Paul and Mary, flamencoguitarist Juan Serrano, the new Tarriers,Danny Meehan, comics Woody Allen andBill Cosby, and the Serendipity Singers.Recently, the Big 3 returned to the clubto break in their new act.
Fred's relationship with these artistsis strictly on a gentleman's agreementbasis-he's one of the few club ownerswho doesn't work on an option -to -returnbasis. "If they like the atmosphere there,they'll be back. They know I can onlypay so much, but many still return. Theyknow they've generally got a good audi-ence and it's perfect to break in newmaterial. For instance, Woody Allen willreturn for two weeks later this season."
Loyal to acts. Sticking with people hedigs, is second nature to Fred. He nowmanages the Serendipity Singers, JoanToliver, Jim, Jake and Joan, and is cur-rently preparing his newest act, the BitterEnd Singers, for a debut later this month."All my acts are booked by the same per-son, Ted Ashley, and all are, or will berecorded on the Philips -Mercury combine.They're good people to work with, andmy feeling is that when you've found agood home, it's pretty foolish to lookfurther."
Joan Toliver's rich contralto won herthe honor of representing the U.S. atthe International Popular Music Festi-val in Sopot, Poland this month.
As a manager, Fred is very serious inhis beliefs about what will sell. "You'vegot to have a specific personality, whichcan only be developed over a period oftime. Too many acts die from going 'bigtime' on television before their act orimage is set. It's a shame. If they don'tcome off the first time, they've had amillion people develop a bad or blaseattitude towards them. Clubs and collegeconcerts are the best showcases for thefirst few years. Then the act knows whatand who it is-not before. That's why Ionly handle a few acts. Any more andI couldn't do them justice."
Jim, Jake and Joan arename for themselves asfunny people. Their homeBitter End.
building athree verybase is the
Entertainment first. Fred is more than amanager. He stages and lights his actsas well. "It's a group thing. Our ultimatepurpose is to be 'entertaining.' Too manyacts are too wrapped up in themselves.That's why the folk scene has waned.The 'mystiques' killed it, by sitting therewith their head in their guitar, singingabout things they were just too damnedyoung to appreciate. People want to beentertained, not witness to some kid'sanxiety attacks."
For the past two years, Fred has beenproducer of the ABC-TV "Hootenanny"shows, so his views on the future of folksinging are somewhat expert. Just backfrom over thirty dates with the Seren-dipity Singers, he noted how well largegroups are received. And he's bankingon a change from the folknik groove todixie. His Bitter End Singers is comprisedof three boys, and three girls. "The girlsare professional actresses, each withplenty of stage experience. They're trueperformers, not just singers, and workingout their act has been more fun thaneffort."
Enthusiasm for entertainment and en-tertainers is carrying Fred into a newventure next fall, when he produces anddirects a new musical off-Broadway,called "Gogo Loves You," to star JudyHenske. Why? "I'm flipped over the score,and dying to try my hand at directinga stage venture. I've got good people withme on it, so why not? Mercury's alreadyset to record it."
So what's next on the agenda for FredWeintraub? "Ask me tomorrow."
BARRY K ITTLESON
Music BusinessIn Britain
Elvis Presley's next single in Britain willbe "Such A Night." This revival of theJohnnie Ray hit is taken from his LP"Elvis Is Back," which was first put outhere in April 1960. This surprise choice ofan old track for a single reflects RCA'sconcern at Presley's relative decline inpopularity in Britain. Though still a strongseller, he has been pushed from promi-nence by the Mersey boom. Before thegroups took their hold on the market Pres-ley invariably got to top or second placein the charts within a few day's of arelease. Critics have suggested that RCAshould issue old material, preferably notculled from a movie soundtrack. "SuchA Night" will be coupled with "NeverEnding," another non -movie numberwaxed in Nashville last year. Release dateis not yet set as Presley is still climbingthe Top Ten with "Kissin' Cousins," hisbest seller here for some months.
Danny Williams follows his current Brit-ish single "Today" with "Seventh Dawn."New releases have also been set for CiliaBlack and the Fourmost, both in BrianEpstein's NEMS stable. Cilia follows hercurrent American Capitol release "You'reMy World" with "It's For You." Pennedby John Lennon and Paul McCartney itwill be issued here July 31. The Fourmost(issued in America on Atlantic) waxed"How Can I Tell Her" for July 24 release.Columbia just issued last single by thelate Michael Holliday - "My Last DateWith You." This is Floyd Cramer's "LastDate" hit with words. Capitol issues thealbum "Shut Down Volume 2" by theBeach Boys next month. The group iscurrently scoring with "I Get Around," itsfirst hit since "Surfing U.S.A." here.
R. and B. discs will release materialfrom a Florida label, Buhl-International,come September. Chad Stuart and JeremyClyde's next release will be "SummerSong" at the end of July.
Peter and Gordon, the Searchers andMary Wells, will tour Australia as of theend of September. British pop singer JohnLeyton will play a lieutenant in the movie"Von Ryan's Express," which Frank Sin-atra starts shooting in Rome in August.
Associated Booking has signed BobbyShafto for U.S. appearances, and he'sthere right now. Currently scoring onRust with "She's My Girl" Sliftfto, whowas once an office boy in Lionel Bart'spublishing company, has never had a hitin Britain.
Decca has rushed out an LP by theLondon Symphony Orchestra conductedby Pierre Monteux. Originally scheduledfor October the album is available in monoand stereo. The LP features Mozart's FluteConcerto in D, Bach's Suite No. 2 in DMinor and Gluck's "Dance Of The BlessedSpirits" from "Orpheo and Eurydice." Thelate conductor's son Claude Monteux playssolo flute on the record, which is the onlyone featuring father and son-accordingto Decca.
Comedy group, the Massed Alberts haswaxed an answer disc to Louis Arm-strong's hit, titled "Goodbye Dolly."
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MUSIC BUSINESS POP LP'sAUGUST 1, 1964
Record below Top 10 listed in BOLD FACE made the greatest upward rise from last week's chart. Check symbol (00) indicates new on chart this week.National popularity based on sales data provided exclusively to Music Business by the nation's largest retell chains, plus radio play and sales by standard retailoutlets, one stops and racks.
Still No. 1-Beatles' SoundtrackMONEY ALBUMS
This LastWeek Week
1 1 A HARD DAY'S NIGHTBEATLES. United Artists UAL 3366
2 2 HELLO, DOLLY!LOUIS ARMSTRONG, Kapp KL 1364. KS 3364
3 4 HELLO, DOLLY!ORIGINAL CAST, RCA Victor LOC 1087
4 5 FUNNY GIRLORIGINAL CAST. Capitol SPAS 2059
5 3 GETZ/GILBERTOVerve V 8545, V6-8545
6 7 BARBRA STREISAND/THIRD ALBUMColumbia CL 2154
7 6 RETURN OF THE DAVE CLARK FIVEEpic LN 24104
8 8 BEATLES SECOND ALBUMCapitol ST 2080
9 9 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLEANDY WILLIAMS, Columbia CL 2171. CS 8971
10 11 COTTON CANDYAL HIRT, RCA Victor LPM 2917, LSP 2917
This LastWeek Week11 12 TODAY, TOMORROW, FOREVER
NANCY WILSON. Capitol ST 20824 29 BEATLES SONGBOOKHOLLVRIDGE STRINGS, Capitol T 2116
13 10 AT THE WHISKEY A' GO GOJOHNNY RIVERS, Imperial LP 9264
14 14 HONEY IN THE HORNAL HIRT. RCA Victor LPM 2745, LSP 2753
15 20 ROLLING STONES
16 15 GLAD ALL OVERDAVE ('LARK FIVE, Epic LN 24093
17 16 MEET THE BEATLESCapitol T 2047, ST 2027
18 17 SOMETHING SPECIAL FORYOUNG LOVERS
RAY CHARLES SINGERS,Command RS 866 (SD)
19 18 PINK PANTHER
20 13 BEWITCHED
London LL 3375
HENRY MANCINI,RCA Victor LPM 2795, LSP 2795
JACK JONES. Kapp KL 1365
This LastWeek Week
21 21 INTRODUCING THE BEATLESVee Jay LP 1062
22 25 SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUMColumbia CL 2054, CS 8854
23 24 BEATLES AMERICAN TOURWITH ED RUDY
Radio News Pulsebeat 100024 26 WORLD WITHOUT LOVE
PETER ANT) GORDON. Capitol T 2155. ST 215536 UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN
s"iindirack, JIGNI E 4232 ST26 22 SHUTDOWN, VOL. 2
BEACH BOYS, Capitol T 202727 28 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
SOUNDTRACK. United Artists UAL 511428 23 LITTLE CHILDREN
BILLY J. KRAMER & THE DAKOTAS.Imperial LP 9267
29 30 CHUCK BERRY'S GREATEST HITSchess LP 14854a 38 WONDERFUL WORLD OF
MAKE BELIEVE.1 oil MATO is Mercury MG 20913, SR 60913
ACTION ALBUMS31 33 TEARS AND ROSES/I LOVE YOU
MORE AND MORE EVERY DAYAL MARTINO, Capitol T 2011. ST 2011
32 31 ON THE MOVETRINI LOPEZ. Reprise It 6112. RS 6112
33 27 BACK IN TOWNKINGSTON TRIO, Capitol T 2081, ST 2081
34 40 MANY SIDES OF THESERENDIPITY SINGERS
Philips PHM 200-134. PHS 600-13435 19 GREATEST HITS MARY WELLS. Motown 61636 35 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
JIMMY SMITH, Verve V 8583, V6-858337 34 GOING BAROQUE
SWINGLE SINGERS. Philips PHM 200-12638 32 TODAY & OTHER SONGS
NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS, Columbia CL 215939 37 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE
JACK JONES. Kapp KL 1328 SOMETHING NEW
BEATLES, Capitol T 2108, ST 210841 42 IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING
I SAID SMOTHERS BROTHERS.Mercury MG 20904, SR 60904
42 46 FABULOUS VENTURES Dolton BSPJ 202043 39 I WISH YOU LOVE
GLORIA LYNNE. Everest 522n44 47 DIMENSION 3
ENOCH LIGHT, Command RS 867 (SI))45 45 SERENDIPITY SINGERS
Philips P1111 200-115, PHS 600-11546 49 SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE
RAY CONNIFF, Columbia CL 215047 54 DON'T LET THE SUN
CATCH YOU CRYINGGERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS.
Laurie LLP 202448 52 BEST OF HENRY MANCINI
RCA Victor LSP 269349 56 THE GREAT YEARS
JOHNNY MATHIS, Columbia C2L 34, C2S 83450 44 COMMAND PERFORMANCES
ENOCH LIGHT, Command RS 888 (SD)51 43 REFLECTIONS
PETER NERO, RCA Victor LPM 2853. LSP 285352 51 IN THE WIND PETER. PAUL AND MARY.
Warner Brothers W 150753 41 THE LETTERMEN LOOK AT LOVE
Capitol T 2803, ST 2803
54 60
106" 65
56 53
57 50
58 55
59 48
76
81
62 62
63 64
64 58
65 59
66 61
67 66
68 74
95
70 71
71 75
72 85
73 63
74 69
99
76 57
CHARADEII \ ItY MANciNi. RCA Victor LPM 8356
YESTERDAY'S LOVE SONGS-TODAY'S BLUES
NANcY WILSON, Capitol T 2011, ST 2011WIVES AND LOVERS
JACK JONES. Kapp KL 7352REFLECTIONS
STAN GETZ, Verve V 8554. V6-8554MEET THE SEARCHERS/NEEDLES AND PINS Kapp KL 1363DEAD MAN'S CURVE/NEW GIRL IN SCHOOL
JAN AN!) 1)EA N. Liberty LRP 3361HERE'S GODFREY CAMBRIDGE
Epic FLM 13101RAG DOLL FOUR SEASONS.
Philips PHM 200-146, PHS 600-146MOONLIGHT AND ROSES
JIM REEVES. RCA Victor LPM 2854, LSP 2854I WALK THE LINE
JOHNNY CASH. Columbia CL 2190KISSIN' COUSINS ELVIS PRESLEY.
RCA Victor LPM 2894, LSP 2894HIGH SPIRITS
ORIGINAL CAST. ABC Paramount OC-1HAMLET
Richard Burton. Columbia DOL 302. DOS 702BELAFONTE AT THE GREEK THEATRE
RCA Victor LOC 6009, LSO 6009ALL SUMMER LONG
BEACH BOYS. Capitol T 2110. ST 2110CHAPEL OF LOVE
DIXIE CUPS, Red Bird RB 20-100ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS
SOUNDTRACK. Reprise F 2021CONCERT SOUND OF MANCINI
RCA Victor LPM 2897FADE OUT, FADE IN
ORIGINAL CAST. ABC Paramount ABC OC 3MARY WELLS AND MARVIN GAYETOGETHER Motown 613TOM JONES SOUNDTRACK,
soiled Artists UAL 4113, VAS 5113CARPETBAGGERS
ELMER BERNSTEIN, Ara 45MESS OF BLUES
JOHNNY HODGES. Verve V 8570, V6-8570
77 67 BY REQUEST BRENDA LEE. Decca DL 450778 79 DANG ME-ROGER AND OUT
ROGER MILLER.Smash JIGS 27049, SRS 67049
79 93 WOODY ALLEN coiptz 51880 82 LOOKING FOR LOVE
-Aten'"eFrancis. MGM E 4229, SE 42291/ TELL ME WHY
BOBBY VINTON. Epic LN 24113, BN 2611382 77 COMIN' IN THE BACK DOOR
IVYNTON KELLY. Verve V 8576. V6-8576THE FIRST NINE MONTHSARE THE HARDEST
WEINRIB AND JAAIESON.Capitol T 2034. ST 2034
84 70 GREAT VOICES OF THE CENTURYVARIOUS ARTISTS. Angel NP -4
85 80 HEAR, HEARSEARCHERS. Mercury, SR 60914
86 72 JOAN BAEZ IN CONCERT, PT 11Vanguard VSD 2123
87 88 DANCE DISCOTHEQUEVARIOUS ARTISTS, Decca DL 4556, CL 74556
88 73 WISH SOMEONE WOULD CAREIRMA THOMAS. Imperial LP 9266
89 94 BILL COSBY IS A VERYFUNNY FELLOW Warner Brothers W 1518
90 vo I DON'T WANT TO BEHURT ANYMORE
NAT KING COLE, Capitol T 211891 68 RITA PAVONE
RCA Victor LPM 2900, LSP 290092 86 LATIN FEVER
HERBIE MANN, Atlantic LP 142293 84 BACH'S GREATEST HITS
SWINGLE SINGERS. Philips PHM 200-09794 97 MY BOY LOLLIPOP
MILLIE SMALL, Smash MGS 2705595 96 DUSTY SPRINGFIELD ALBUM
Philips P1151 200-133, PHS 600-13396 98 LET'S HAVE A PARTY
RIVIERAS. United Artists UAL 10297 87 MANHATTAN TOWER
ROBERT GOULET, Columbia98 100 TRIO '64
BILL EVANS. Verve V 8578, V6-857899 91 MY GUY MARY WELLS, Motown M 617
100 90 SHANGRI-LAROBERT MAXWELL, Decca DL 74421
lozzaZumai ALBUM PICKS Rick and Roy Top Contenders
This Week's Block Busterssreweo
ME 1711111171/T flf
Nelson
THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOURICK NELSONDecca DL 74559The title tune is a hit and the album
should be too. "Love Is the Sweet-est Thing," "My Old Flame" and"I Don't Wanna Love You" areincluded.
THE MATYS BROS.Beer Pretteis + Music = Fun
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THE MATYS BROTHERSSelect SL 1108The boys had a good pop hit awhile
back and they're here with a lotof rousing, happy, rhythmic fare.Beer stein cover's a beauty.
MORE OF,GREATEST HITS
MORE OF RAY ORBISON'SGREATEST HITS
Monument 8024Orbison's earlier "Greatest Hits" al-
bum has been a big one. This onecan easily follow suit, with "It'sOver," "Mean Woman Blues," etc.
Pug 0. IkariROBERT MAXWELLHIS HARP AND ORCHESTRA
PEG 0' MY HEARTROBERT MAXWELLDecca DL 74563Strong wax here in Maxwell's second
album for Decca, based on hisnewest single.
Chart Picks
SOMETHIN' ELSEJACKIE WILSONBrunswick BL 754117Some wild sides here ("Twisting and
Shoutin'," etc.) and Jackie's newestsingle, "Squeeze Her -Tease Her,"as well. Watch this one.
LOTS MORE BLUES, RAGS ANDHOLLERS
KOERNER, GLOVER AND RAYElektra EKS 7267A tremendous performance by three
young white men from MinnRsotawho have an amazing grasp of the+rue Negro blues idiom. Should bea most successful follow-up to theirfirst top seller.
MUSIC BUSINESS, AUGUST I, 1964
FUN CITY U.S.A.THE SURFARISDecca DL 74560One of the top surfing instrumental
groups turns in some fine, danc-able sides like "Apache," "Murphythe Surfie" and "Go Go Go forLouie's Place."
LICORICE STICKPETE FOUNTAINCoral 757460Fountain is a good, steady seller with
his catalog of product and thisnewest, with "Hello Dolly" and"Tippin' In," will take its placewith +he other winners.
60 FRENCH GIRLS CAN'T BEWRONG
LES DJINNS SINGERSABC -Paramount ABC -491The seventh 'Djinn package of pleas-
ing, big chorus harmonies fromFrance. Tunes are all of Frenchorigin and are sung in the mothertongue.
MARY LOU WILLIAMSMARY FS 32843A new line, and a subsidiary of Folk-
ways, offers the first new perform-ance by this well-known pianist in
a long_ time. Collectors will wantit for sure.
NIGHT CLUB: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Village Gate, N.Y.
When Dizzy Gillespie broughthis celebrated combo (quintet)to the Newport Jazz Festivalearlier this month, the critics'corps was ecstatic. Such eruditeobservers of jazz as John Wil-son in the New York Timesand George Simon (he ofNARAS fame) writing in thecompeting New York HeraldTribune, both called Dizzy thehit of the show.
Now Dizzy has left the openair of Freebody Park andbrought his boys to the dankcellar cave in New York'sGreenwich Village, known asthe Village Gate. They areproving the simple point thatit doesn't matter what kind ofair they're breathing. Theyblow just the same.
In fact, when Dizzy puts thatcrazy, obtusely -angled trumpetto his lips and those huge,balloon cheeks puff out, thehorn swings in beautiful, soft,rounded tones. But more im-portant, almost, than how muchit swings, Dizzy and his boyshave a wonderful rapport witheach other and with theiraudience. They've gone a longway with their running chatterand comic abandon to erase
the memory of the all -too -familiar jazz cat who climbsinside himself carrying his hornbehind him and to hell withthe audience.
On the set caught at the Gate,Dizzy opened with "Desa-finado," the first great Getz -Byrd bossa nova hit. Heessayed first the role of tam-bourinist, eying his audiencewith a mischievous smile ashe beat and shook the skinand the bells. Everybody gotinto the extended soloing acton this one with Dizzy in hisown joyful mood, well back-stopped by Rudy Collins wholays down a stomping drumbeat; pianist Kenny Baron;veteran flutist-saxist, JamesMoody; and Chris White, anoutstanding bass man of newervintage.
White, in fact, is a humoristas well, keeping up with arunning line of Goldwatergags from the back of thestand. With a flair and aflourish ("viva Hagib Bor-guiba") Dizzy introduces Whitein "A Night in Algeria," fromhis "French Riviera" album,and White goes on to bringeverybody with him. His ex-tended solo with those eagerfingers fairly gobbling up thestrings was a joy to behold andhear.
The veteran Moody comes infor his share of the action too,particularly on the "Carnival"theme from "Black Orpheus,"which spotlight his long lilting,liquid flute solo.
Dizzy returns from an off-stage blast and smoke afterthis long individual concert towind things up with a vocal,"Lady Be Good," whichsteadily builds in intensity andrhythm to the final explosivewindup. It's a fine outing forDizzy and the band.
REN OREVATT
Starday Sales PlanNASHVILLE
Chuck Chellman, nation-al sales manager of StardayRecords, last week an-nounced the label's fifth an-nual country music spec-tacular sales plan effectiveAug. 1 through Sept. 30, totake advantage of summerrestocking by dealers inpreparation for fall sales.
Under the plan all dealerswill be offered a straight 20pct. discount on all regularpriced Starday albums, thecustomary 100 percent ex-change privilege, togetherwith special order blanks,Country Oldies prepacks,
all metal Country Cornerdisplay racks, trade paperstories and advertising. Inaddition, Starday will makea direct mailing to 7,000dealers.
This year's spectacularwill be in two phases. Thefirst, Aug. 1 to 31, will com-prise eight Starday andfive Nashville budget linealbums. The second phaseduring September will com-prise eight new Starday al-bums. Spotlight album dur-ing August will be theCountry Music Memorialalbum containing tracks bymany great C&W artists.
Musk Business in HollywoodContinued from
to swim over to attend theLuau's. . . . Billy James, theknowledgeable publicist forColumbia on the west coast,is an avid poetry reciter. . . .
the Mel Tormes are gettingunhitched. . . . Bobby Vintonalmost ruined his career andlife . . . a freak accident play-ing touch football caused semi -paralysis for three days ... he'smuch better now!
Congratulations to the MGM -Verve family for their artistswalking away with 9 firstfirst place positions in the an-nual Down Beat jazz poll. . . .
Ed Ames, of the Victor family,has a fast rising single. It'scalled "Give Me Back MyLife" . . . it's released to co-incide with the publicity an-nouncements of Ames beingadded to the fall tv series"Daniel Boone" . . . on thesubject of Victor, Margit Vigre,the all around gal of the pro-motion, publicity and a & rdepartments, has been serious-ly ill . . . a grand person, wewish her speedy recovery. . . .
"The Astronauts" are now thenumber one best record sellersin Japan.
Contemporary records sub-sidiary label, Good Time Jazzand Dixieland, will release anew single series of all-timeDixie hits. . . . Sylvester (Pat)Weaver, boss man of Subscrip-tion TeleVision Programs, Inc.,selected Francis (Pete) Lyonas executive producer.... Lyonreceived an Oscar for directingthe immortal "Body and Soul.". . . Jimmy Witherspoon, thefamed blues singer who's wail-ing up a storm in England,will be very blue when he re-turns to Los Angeles . . . anarrest warrant awaits him. . . .
Johnny Fortune, rock 'n rollguitarist, signed a three yearpact with United Artists.
Lovely Joi Lansing hasUnited Artists and Ava Rec-ords bidding for her services. . . and maybe Reprise. Shewas seen with Frank Sinatrain New York and at a Jazzfestival in Massachusetts. Couldbe Sinatra's interested in sign-ing her . . . a nice guy to meetis the new owner of Ava rec-ords George Costin, a self mademillionaire . . . he's planningbig things with his newly ac-quired label.
Everybody's trying to getinto the act . . . this famoussaying is attributed to JimmyDurante . . . and applies tobeauteous Kim ("I'm fromChicago") Novak. She's eagerto learn vocalization. Her gui-
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tarist friend is aiding withselections of good tunes. . . .
Handsome Dick Chamberlain,allegedly Hollywood's "Mr.Nice Guy," records a new sin-gle for the MGM label. It's thetitle song from his new picture"Joy in the Morning." Thelovely gal he croons to iskittyish Yvette Mimieux. Whata kitten!
Congratulations to TonyLowe on his appointment asthe new West Coast regionalrecord promoter for Kapp. Thishas been a weak area for thatlabel, but things should getbetter. . . . Lorne Grene, thepapa of the Bonanza family,formed his own music pub-lishing firm. It's getting to bethat old line firms may haveto start working again. . . . JeffAlexander will compose themusical score for MGM's west-ern, "The Rounders." It starsGlenn Ford and Henry Fonda.Liberty Records opened a westcoast distributing office.
Colorful composer VernonDuke, whose tome on musicalappreciation, "Listen Here," isas colorful as the effervescentMr. Duke. It must be read tobe appreciated. . . . ThoseLiberate restaurants springingup across the country belongto brother George "Libby" isslightly hued that it bears thefamily name. . . . Vee Jayjoined the topless bathing suitcraze with a single by JonSavage. It's titled "The NewFangled Jingle -Jangle Swim -min' Suit from Paris." Too badthey couldn't wait, the Frenchdesigners turned thumbs downon the fad. And the Chicago"City Fathers" recently passedan ordinance (they don't waitin the "Windy City"), if anygal appears in public with atopless, it'll cost her $250 foreach appearance. After the firsttime, an added plus . a jailpenalty. What a way to killa craze!
Maury Wills, the talentedDodger baseball player, will befeatured in the first "GospelJazz Concert" on pay teevee.The way the ball club has beenperforming, he better concen-trate on baseball. . . . DavePell, Liberty's wonderful a & rproducer, jets to Washington.D.C. to record "live" a Bud &Travis album . . . the Standells,another of Liberty's artists, arebooming their single "YouCan't Help Yourself Baby"while appearing at the swing-ing P.J.'s in flickerville.
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"Mourning" Men?By June Bundy
There are undoubtedlymany early morning diskjockies who love getting upat 3:30 a.m. and wouldn'thave it any other way.However, personally weagree with veteran wake-upjock Gene Klavin, WNEW,New York, who titled hisrecent autobiography-"WeDie At Dawn."
SESAC Inc.'s station re-lations director JamesAylward, an ex -morningdeejay himself, is currentlyconducting a survey ofmorning deejays across thecountry for use in theSeptember issue of SESACMusic, which will be en-tirely devoted to the earlya.m. boys.
SESAC'S Jim AylwardSESAC is also sending
the morning jocks a sampleEP featuring six selectionsfrom eight albums onSESAC's new Pace Makerslabel. The albums featuremusic specially tailored formorning programming.
Aylward, formerly withWHIL, Medford, Mass., andWEEI, Boston, noted thatout of 75 replies to dateonly one morning jock saidhis listeners liked to listento rock and roll music. Theother 74 agreed that morn-ing music should be bright,cheerful and neither tooloud nor too raucous.
Among methods listed byjocks "for making it easierto get up," were a nagging
wife, a clock set on top ofa large pan, staying up allnight, and - most unique- sleeping with a large dognamed Floyd and a quarrel-some cat.
In answer to the query"Why do you do it?," onedeejay wrote "because no-body else will!" Anotherstated sadly, "It was sim-ple. The boss told me I hadto."
The new SESAC morningmusic series features morethan one artist on each LP.The lineup includes CountBasie, Chet Atkins, RichardHayman, Richard Maltby,Woody H erm a n, DickJacobs, Jose Melis, BillyTaylor, Warren Covington,Al Caiola and the AnitaKerr Singers.
The series has alreadybeen purchased for use inSeptember by WNEW, NewYork (for its early morn-ing team Gene Klavin andDee Finch) and by outletsin Reading Pa., AtlanticCity, and Framington, Mass.
Each album is pro-grammed in logical musicalsequence, and Aylwardpoints out hopefully "Incase of an emergency, themorning man could justleave the LP on and let itplay through."
LETTERS: Our columnon problems confrontingNew York City promotionmen trying to get local sta-tion play struck a nerve inone disheartened Pittsburghplugger. The promoter, whoprefers to remain anony-mous for obvious reasons,wrote "I'm happy to saythat I am a record promo-tion man, but unhappy tosay it has to be in Pitts-burgh. As far as I'm con-cerned Pittsburgh couldn'tbreak a record even if ithad a perforated linethrough the center of it.They would rather wait forthe smaller markets to takethe chance and then theparasites in Pittsburgh cantake the glory. Every timethey play a record nowthey say 'first in the world.'No more first in the city orstate or county - but theworld. They're nauseating!"
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BIG 50 C&W HITSAUGUST 1, 1964
In the opinion of MUSIC BUSINESS' C&W chart research department, the following is acompilation of the nation's best selling and most played C&W phonograph records. Records listed in BOLD FACE made the greatest upward rise from last week's charts.
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1 1 DANG ME 18 22 BE QUIET MIND 34 43 MR & MRS USED TO BERoger Miller-Smash 81881 Ott Stephens-Reprise 0272 Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn-Decca 31643
2 3 COWBOY IN THECONTINENTAL SUIT
19 17 BURNING MEMORIESRay Price-Columbia 42971
35 40 TALKING TO THE NIGHT LIGHTSDel Reeves-Columbia 43044
Marty Robbins-Columbia 4304920 24 HERE COMES MY BABY
36 45 RHINESTONESFaron Young-Mercury 72271
3 2 MEMORY #1Dottie West-RCA Victor 8374
Webb Pierce-Decca 31617 37 27 WEAKER MOMENTS21 23 PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND ME Ferlin Husky-Capitol 5208
4 5 PASSWORDNorma Jean-RCA -Victor 8328
Kitty Wells-Decca 31622 38 38 CITY OF SIN
22 18 INVISIBLE TEARSGlen Garrison-Big Country 5051
5 10 WHERE DOES A LITTLE TEAR Ned Miller-Fabor 128
COME FROMGeorge Jones-United Artists UA 724 23 * SOMETHING I DREAMED
39 39 I'D RATHER HAVE AMERICAJimmy Martin-Decca 31629
6 4 LOOKING FOR MORE IN '64
George Jones-United Artist 724 40 42 IMPOSSIBLEThe Wilburn Bros.-Decca 31625
Jim Nesbitt-Chart 1065 24 31 ONE IF FOR HIMTWO IF FOR ME 41 * GUESS WHAT, THAT'S RIGHT,
7 7 WINE, WOMEN AND SONG David Houston-Epic 965.0 SHE'S GONELoretta Lynn-Decca 31541
Hank Williams Jr.-MGM 13253
25 29 I STEPPED OVER THE LINE
8 8 SECOND FIDDLEHank Snow-RCA Victor 8334 42 37 I THOUGHT OF LEAVING YOU
Jean Shepard-Capitol 5169Kitty Wells-Decca 31622
26 30 COTTON MILL MAN9 9 PICK OF THE WEEK
Jim & Jesse-Epic 5-9676 43 33 SORROW ON THE ROCKS
Roy Drusky-Mercury 72265Porter Wagoner-RCA Victor 8304
10 11 THE BALLAD OF IRA HAYES27 41 ME
Bill Anderson-Decca 3163044 36 I'M WALKING ADVERTISEMENT
Norma Jean-RCA Victor 8328
Jolunly Cash-Columbia 4305328 32 THE GOLD CUP 45 50 LEFT OUT
11 12 I GUESS I'M CRAZYBuddy Cagle-Capitol 5154 Ray Pillow-Capitol 5180
Jim Reeves-RCA Victor 47-8383
29 * BAD NEWS 46 28 ANGEL ON LEAVE
13 15 I LOVE TO DANCE WITH ANNIE Johnny Cash-Columbia 43053 Jimmy C. Newman-Decca 81609
Ernest Ashworth-flickory 1265
14 14 I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE30 21 SLIPPIN' AROUND
George Morgan & Marion Worth-
47 49 A BIG MAN CRIEDSammy Masters-Galahad 533
Charlie Louvin-Capitol 5173 Columbia 43020
48 48 TOGETHER AGAIN
15 6 CIRCUMSTANCES 31 34 THE NESTERBuck Owens-Capitol 5138
Billy Walker-Columbia 43010 Lefty Frizzell-Columbla 4305149 * FT. WORTH, DALLAS OR
16 16 I'M HANGING UP THE PHONE 32 26 MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT HOUSTON
Carl & Pearl Butler-Columbia 43030 Buck Owens-Capitol 5136 George Hamilton IV-RCA Victor 8392
17 20 BE BETTER TO YOUR BABY 33 19 THEN I'LL STOP LOVING YOU 50 * ASK MARIEErnest Tubb-Deem 31614 The Browns-RCA Victor 8348 Sonny James-Capitol 5197
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1 1 MOONLIGHT & ROSES 8 3 SAGINAW MICHIGAN 15 15 RING OF FIREJim Reeves-RCA Victor LPM/LSP 2854 Lefty Frizzell-Columbia CLS CS 2169 Johnny Casio-Columbia CL 2053
2 2 MORE HANK SNOW SOUVENIRS 9 10 KITTY WELLS STORY 16 9 STORY SONGS FORHank Snow-RCA Victor LPM 2819 Kitty Wells-Deco:1 DST) 174 KXS 7174 COUNTRY FOLKS
3 8 I WALK THE LINEJohnny Cash, Columbia CL2169 (M);
10 * OUR MAN IN TROUBLEson Bowman-RCA Victor LPM 2831 (M)
Farm, Young-Mercury MG 20896
CS 8990 (S) LSP 2831 (S) 17 17 BLUEGRASS HOOTENANNYGeorge Jones & Melba Montgomery
4 4 GUITAR COUNTRY 11 11 ON THE BANDSTANDUnited Artist UAL 3352 HAS 6352
Chet Atkins-RCA Victor LSP2782 Buck Owens-Capitol T/ST 187918 18 THE BEST OF GEORGE JONES
5 5 THERE STANDS THE GLASS 12 12 LORETTA LYNN SINGS George Jones-United Artist HAS 6289
Carl Smith-Columbia CL 2173 NI Decca DL 4499 (1.1) DL 74499 (S)CS 8973 S
13 10 BUCK OWENS SINGS 19 6 NIGHT LIFERay Price-Columbia CL 1071
6 13 BLUE AND LONESOME TOMMY COLLINS(M)
CS 8771 (S)
George Jones-Mercury MG 20906 (M) Capitol T 1999 (94); ST 1989 (S)
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PORTER WAGONER IN PERSON14 14 FOLK SONG BOOK
Eddy Arnold-RCA Victor LPM 2811 (M)
20 20 FLATT & SCRUGGS RECORDED LIVEAT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
RCA Victor LPM 2840 (M) LSP 2840 RD LSP (S) 2811 Platt & Scruggs-Columbia CL 2134 CS 8034
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RHYTHM & BLUES 153 214 591 1,219
COUNTRY & WESTERN 78 205 354 1,020
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JAZZ 130 232 401 1,057
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Artful Showcaseby Barry Kiffleson
NBC -TV's artful Satur-day night program, Kaleido-scope 4, provided excellentexposure last week for theSerendipity Singers. Theprogram's producer, RaysaBonow, again expressed ex-ceptional taste in presentingthem in a variety of Man-hattan settings (riding ahorse-drawn stage coachthrough Central Park, atopthe roof of the NBC Build-ing in Rockefeller Center.on the top of railroad cars)while their Philips recordsprovided the musical track.It also served to plug theirlatest single, "Down Wherethe Wind Blows."
Incidentally, the Serendi-pity Singers appeared lastSunday (26) in a CommandPerformance on the WhiteHouse lawn. NBC's Big Wil-son emceed for the invitedteenage audience of LindaB. and Lucy B. Johnson.Theo. Bikel also performed.
Atlantic Records' newsinger, Anamari, has beengetting nibbles from clubowners and TV producerssince her album was re-leased this month. She madea surprise visit to the Pent-house last week and did animpromptu set with JoeMooney, to the delight ofthe guests. She's also signedwith the Joe Glaser officewhich is presently settingup a tour for her.
Word reached us fromParis that Ruble Blakey,one-time soloist with LionelHampton, is operating as abooking agent there. He'slined up the Ted CursonQuartette for a world tour.
Ossie Davis and RubyDee, the husband and wifeteam from Broadway's"P ur lie Victorious" havekicked off a new comedy
act at the Village Vanguard.Mary Martin and Louis
Prima are on the same wavelength it seems. Both havecut a pair of tunes from theWalt Disney film "MaryPoppins." Mary's on Kapp,and Louis is, of course, onPrima Records.
Rose "Chi -Chi" Murphyis back in Manhattan at theHawaii Kai. During her en-gagement there she'll cuther first LP for ReginaRecords.
When La Scala, Milan,goes to Moscow in Septem-ber, Leontyne Price will be
the sole American included.She'll perform in the VerdiRequiem, under the direc-tion of Herbert von Kara-jan. It is all part of one ofthe largest, and most expen-sive, cultural exchanges todate. The Milanese will begetting the Bolshoi Operain November.
Met star Roberta Peterswill give a television recitalin Munich on August 10,
supported by the renownedpianist Gerald Moore. She'llreceive one of the highestfees ever paid in WesternGermany for the date.
Nick Venet and Fred Ben-son, who formed Beti-Venproductions in November1963, to act as an MGM rec-ords indie disk -producingcompany, have severed tieswith that company to as-sume a similar position withMercury records.
Ben-Ven will produce ex-clusively for Mercury withthe following exceptions:(1) Reprise Records, Tony,Vic and Manuel; (2) WarnerBros. Records, Richard(Groove) Holmes.
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Music Business in Nashville
CHARLIE LAMB
Nashville singer LawrenceLight, recently inducted intothe Army, has been recognizedas "outstanding sentry" of theSecond Training Brigade, Ft.Jackson, S.C. Dated July 8, acopy of the recognition wassent to Light's parents by In-fantry Commander Edwin J.Gravel. . . . It takes a lot toshock Columbia's Anita Bryantinto speechlessness. But that'swhat happened recently whenAnita read in a newspaper un-der an eight -column streamerheadline on page one, "Anita'sbaby Flips In New Orleans".It really happened. Anita wasin a New Orleans hotel roomwhen the baby, born in latewinter, for the first timeturned itself over on itsstomach to Anita's delightedconsternation. Gene Ferguson,Columbia's southern rep, ar-ranged with a New Orleansprinting establishment special-izing in such things, to printone page with the excitingnews and sent the paper to herhome base in Miami. She readit after she returned from herengagement at the Shrinerodeo in Monroe, La. a weeklater. The surprise made Anitaflip too. . . . Claude King's"Sam Hill" on Columbia be-gan drawing deejay raveswithin a week after its release.It got spins on St. Louis' WIL,New Orleans' WTIX, and on alot of Texas stations.
S. B. (Whitey) Haim of BMICanada Ltd., spent severaldays in Music City recently onhis swing through the south.He was excited by the BellRecords recording of "TheBaby Beatle Walk" by the AlMartin Six, which has sky-rocketed into the top play listin Canada with imminent pos-sibility of doing likewise in theU S Buster Doss, Nash-ville talent promoter and man-ager, and wife Kay Arnold, arecording artist in her ownright, became the parents July7 of an eight pound son,Michael Earl, born at BaptistHospital. . . .
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Dateline Music City
Robbins is SpeedsterColumbia's Marty Robbins,
wearing a crash helmet in-stead of his customary cowboyhat, was a race driver recent-ly on the Nashville Fair-grounds speedway. He drove a1959 Plymouth, nicknamed
Judy Lynn, popular C&W enter-tainer, the former "Miss Idaho,"has been contracted with hercompany of musicians to star inthe annual Ft. Worth LivestockShow Rodeo Jan. 29 -Feb. 7. Thesigning was by W. R. Watt, live-stock president -manager, left,who flew to Las Vegas whereJudy was appearing at theGolden Nugget.
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Columbia's Del Reeves, right,leaves for a two months personalappearance in the Orient, thencearound the world to England, toreturn to Music City Sept. 21.
Wishing him a good journey is,
left, Reeves' manager, HubertLong. Reeves' current disking is
"Talking To the Night Lights."
"Devil Woman" after one ofhis recordings. The race wasfor 75 laps over a half mileasphalt track. Robbins hasraced on dirt tracks but thiswas his first time on asphalt.How did he come out? Well,Robbins will stick to singing.. . . RCA -Victor's SkeeterDavis spent several days atVanderbilt Hospital recentlywhere she went for "correc-tive surgery". Asked whatthat meant, Skeeter's manager,Hubert Long, said he didn'tknow but thought it was some-thing better than "incorrec-tive surgery". . . . Dick Clarkbrought his "Caravan of Stars"
to Music City's Muncipal audi-torium last week. Entertainersincluded the Dixie Cups, BrianHyland, Gene Pitney, MikeClifford, Major Lance, RoundRobbin and Brenda Holloway.
Vern King of WMMB, Mel-bourne, Fla., has received ameritorious service awardfrom the Florida Highway pa-trol for his effective help inpromoting safety on Floridahighways. The award was pre-sented by Colonel Kirkman ofthe Florida Highway Patrol.Kirkman said King was theonly one in Brevard county toreceive such an award, one ofonly nine in the entire state.
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. . . A song written by 11 -year -old Paula Dubree of Marietta,Ga. and sung by La WandaJohnson on Tuneglow Records,is getting a lot of spins in At-lanta and elsewhere. . . . Asthe Tennessee Democraticprimary approaches early inAugust, Clyde Beavers and theEager Beavers continue towork on the Frank Clementcampaign for U.S. senator,along with Roy Acuff, WilmaLee and Stoney Cooper,Martha Carson, Merle Kilgoreand other C&W stars. . . . Ft.Worth's 50,000 watter, KCUL,one of the country musicgiants of the southwest, willstart broadcasting FM as wellas AM about Sept. 1, it was an-nounced by PD/deejay BillMack. "Nothing but pure coun-try music on a 24 -hours a daybasis", says Mack. OtherKCUL deejays are JerryParks, Tommy Crone, RussJohnston, Luke Butler andMorgan Choate. MeanwhileMack began hosting a specialone hour country music TVshow July 11-"The CowtownJamboree" from Panther Hallballroom in Ft. Worth. . . .
Bob Beckham, manager ofRaleigh Music, sees anothersmash for Elvis Presley in anew single, "Such A Night",taken from an album releasedsome time ago. Beckham isalso het up about "Coma -La -Vista" recorded for Mercuryby Janice and The LittlePeople-the little people rang-ing in age from seven to 13,all being students at Neeley'sBend School, Madison, Tenn.
"Jolly Fun" In BritainA card from Buzz Cason
says "Having jolly fun inmerrie olde England". He'stouring with the Crickets, fill-ing in for ailing singer JerryNaylor. . . . The VernonStewart fan club has been or-ganized under the presidencyof Mrs. Anna Foley, Box 81,Addison, Mich. . . . The JimMcCoy show has been playingto large crowds and takingbookings well into 1965. Mc-Coy's new coupling, "There'sNot a Thing In This World IWouldn't Do For You" backedwith "This Heart" is availableto deejays by writing to J. & J.Talent Service, c/o MarvinHoerner, Box 99, Amboy, Ill.. . . The June issue of "Hill-billy "magazine, published by
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Chuck Steiner in Basel,Switzerland, currently beingdistributed in Music City, is a36 page issue, printed in Ger-man plus English, with photosof Bobby Bare on the cover,and of Jimmy Dickens, MargieSingleton, Wilf Carter and TexHat and Jim Reeves inside.
Country Music is going"great guns" in Texas, saysSan Antonio's Billy Deaton.Jim Reeves and his Blueboysspent five days in the stateplaying to turn -away crowdseach night. Faron Young andhis Country Deputies didequally well. . . .Starday Rec-ords seems to have hit paydirtwith its new release by theHomesteaders, according toHouston's Walter Breeland.It's starting to sell and gettingheavy radio play. Breeland hasleft for an extensive tripthrough the northwest in be-half of the Homesteaders' disk,as well as Sheb Wooley's "BlueGuitar" and a new Willie Nel-son single. Deejays wantingcopies should write to Bree-land, 8708 Ruthby street,Houston.
Judy Lynn and her companyof western musicians havebeen signed for the annual Ft.Worth Livestock Show andRodeo Jan. 29 -Feb. 7. Signingof the former "Miss Idaho"was accomplished by W. R.Watt, livestock show presi-dent -manager, and Tom Yates,livestock show advertising di-rector after they flew to LasVegas to take in the JudyLynn show at the Golden Nug-get. Judy is due in Nashvillelater this month to cut a newalbum. . . . Tex Williams whohas been drawing impressivecrowds in a 10 -week tour ofJapan, Korea and the Philip-pines, will arrive back in theU.S. Aug. 10. After a few daysrest, he will again hit the trailon the Pacific coast and in themidwest. . . . Charlie M. Hona-ker, manager of Rural Enter-prises, Caledonia, Ohio, needsreleases to play on "All StarJubilee". He also advises thatCharley Brown, country dee-jay at WBCO, Bucyrus, Ohio,is hard pressed for new coun-try records. Every one re-ceived will be used, he says.
C & W Singles PicksWILMA BURGESSDecca 31653RAINING ON MY PILLOW(Forest Hills Music, Inc., BMI)
(2:26)-Lance CarpenterFlip is "This Time Tomorrow"(Cedarwood Publ. Co., Inc., BMI)
(2:23)-TiIlis-Carter, Jr.
JOHNNY SEYMOUREagle 104TALL TIMBER LUMBER JACK(Sandhills Music Co. & Sombrero
Alto Music Pub. Co.) (2:45)-Gay Lance
Flip is "This Song's A Love Letterto You"
(Sombrero Alto Music Pub. Co. &Sandhills Music Co.) (2:45)-Braxeal-Seymour
BOB WILLS & THE TEXASPLAYBOYS
Longhorn 545YOU CAN'T BREAK A HEART(Saran Music, Inc., BMI) (2:26)-
Joe AndrewsFlip is "All Night Long"(Saran Music, Inc., BMI) (2:45)-
Joe Andrews
CONNIE HALLDecca 31652BACK TO LONELINESS(Troy Martin Music Corp., BMI)
(2:29)-Jay-BrunerFlip is "Yellow Roses"(Fairway Music Corp., BMI) (2:11)
-Devine -Nichols
TEENIE CHENAULTAlear A-103IT'S A BIG OLD HEARTACHE(Alear Music Inc.) (2:14)-
Chenault-OvermanFlip is "I'm So Alone"(Alear Music Inc.) (2:49)-
Chenault-Tipton
C & W Album PicksTHE WORLD OF A COUNTRY AT THE FAIR WITH THE DUKE OF
BOY PADUCAHJOHNNY SEA THE DUKE OF PADUCAHPhilips PHM 200-139 Starday 288
MR. AND MRS. COUNTRY MUSICJOE AND ROSE LEE MAPHISStarday 286
DOWN MEMORYLULU BELLE ANDStarday 285
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Survival of the FittestOver 8,000 Kansas Citians
filled every nook and cran-ny at the Benjamin Stables"Rodeo Arena" last weekfor the "WHB Sulky Handi-cap" race. This was thelargest crowd in the 7 yearhistory of the Kansas CityRodeo, and they yelledthemselves hoarse rootingfor their favorite WHB dee-jay in the race that mayhave set back harness rac-ing a decade.
Six started in the raceand each had a Kansas CityChiefs football helmet, com-plete with face guard, toprotect his thinking appara-tus. It was fortunate thatthey wore helmets becausefour of the six sulkiesspilled before the race washalf over. No one wasseriously hurt, although afew feelings were badlybruised.
The winner was JerryMason, who crossed thefinish line with his sulkywheels locked by a run-away which had just spilledDon Armstrong. Second,and the only other finisher,was WHB Program Direc-tor Ron Martin. In racingparlance, the others were"also rans". However, inthis case, the others were"also spills." Mason waspresented with an appropri-ately engraved trophy aschampion duffer of theWHB Staff.
The Kansas City Rodeo isa project of the K.C. JuniorChamber of Commerce, anda portion of the proceedswent to the Jaycees charityproject. Over 43,000 turnedout for the 8 -day show,capped by the largest crowdin the Rodeo's history forthe final night's race.
Howard Benjamin, Rodeo Master, presents winner's trophy to
WHB's Jerry Mason, as Randy Neil, Kansas City Chiefs cheer-leader, offers his congratulations.
Hank Thompson, center, popular C&W recording artist and a
member of the board of directors of the National Association ofOrchestra leaders, collects checks from two other big countrymusic stars, Tex Ritter, left, and Johnny Cash, right, making themmembers of the association. The picture was taken in Tulsa, Oklawhen the three, along with other country acts, appeared at Tulsa's
new Assembly Center.
MUSIC BUSINESS, AUGUST I, 1964
Music BUSINESSAUGUST 1, 1964
PICTURE PARADEAt top Debbie Reynolds greets crowds at Stern'sDepartment Store in New York, where she auto-graphed her MGM soundtrack album "The Unsink-able Molly Brown." She is dressed in one of thegowns she wears in the picture. Marvin Gaye, atright, demonstrates "The Hitchhiker," a dancecreated to go along with his Tamla recording ofthe same name. The lovelies at bottom are with theFolies Bergere show now playing in New York.They won a game of water polo at Palisades Amuse-ment Park in New Jersey, against deejays of Sta-tion WJRZ of Newark, N.J. At middle left re-nowned artist Nick Volpe poses with his full color,life-size autographed Beatle portraits which arebeing sold by Capitol Records in record shopsthroughout the country.
