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His last gold record. Jim Reeves displayed the gold record hereceived in South Africa for his best selling record of "FromA Jack To A King" in that country, when he returned fromSouth Africa after filming "Kimberly Jim" there last year.
Editorial
A Jim Reeves MemorialSadness, shock, disbelief. They still grip the country
music community as the incredible truth sinks in.The loss of an artist of the stature of Jim Reeves, at
the peak of his career, creates the kind of shock wavewhich, long after the initial impact, will continue tohave its residual effect.
But the immensity of the feeling of remorse for friendsand family, this also becomes tempered. There comes atime when one may ask, what to do to best memorializethe late Jim Reeves?
There are the obvious answers-rush out a new re-packaging of the "best hits" and put a special "memorialalbum" stamp across the front. But perhaps there is amore imaginative, constructive approach.
Suppose, for example, RCA Victor were to summonits country artist family to a recording studio. The fam-ily is a substantial one indeed-and people like ChetAtkins, Floyd Cramer, Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow, HankLocklin, Porter Wagoner, the Anita Kerr Singers, JohnD. Loudermilk, Skeeter Davis, and Jim Edward, Max-ine and Bonnie Brown, would be asked to record a two -pocket album of Jim Reeves favorites and best-sellers.
There is no question that these good citizens of thecountry music community, these friends of Jim Reeves,would be willing, yes eager, to waive their own re-muneration from this small effort to put it toward alarger goal-a Jim Reeves Memorial Fund.
The obvious administrator of such a fund would bethe Country Music Association. The fund could be usedas a scholarship aid to worthy and needy music students;as a pension or retirement fund for country artists; per-haps as a series of awards for creative achievement inthe field.
Assuming the recording project may be arranged forand executed promptly, the CMA might then appoint acommittee to study the project and be prepared to re-port during its annual convention next November.
This would be a worthy and befitting way of honoringone of the outstanding ambassadors of country music,the late Jim Reeves.
Jim Reeves' DeathStuns Nashville
NASHVILLE
Music City was shocked andstunned and joined its griefwith much of the rest of theworld over the tragic deathshere of world-famous countrymusic singer Jim Reeves andhis piano player -road manager,Dean Manuel, when their pri-vate plane crashed during athunderstorm late Friday af-ternoon.
The crash occurred in adensely -wooded area a fewmiles south of Nashville andonly five miles from their air-port destination. The body ofReeves, identified by his bill-fold, was found some 20 feetfrom the crash site but that ofManuel was still in the plane'scabin. Eddy Arnold, nationalcountry music star, was on thescene with State Highway In-spector J. J. Jackson. There wasonly slight evidence of fire anddeath is presumed to have re-sulted instantly from the vio-lent impact of the plane withthe surrounding wooded ter-rain.
Massive SearchAlthough the crash occurred
late Friday afternoon, theplane's wreckage was notfound until Sunday morningdespite a massive search overa 20 square mile area by a smallarmy of volunteers includingmany of the victims' Grand OleOpry colleagues. They wereaided by civil defense teams,Tennessee National Guard heli-copters and private planes. Theheavy shrubbery, however,prevented the wreckage's beingspotted from the air and notuntil civil defense workers hadcombed the area on foot wasthe plane's debris discovered.
The area covered by thesearch is one in which manyGrand Ole Opry Stars in re-cent years have built sumptu-ous homes with extensive acre-ages. Among the nearby resi-dents are such Opry luminariesas Marty Robbins who report-ed to police that he had hearda plane's engine sputtering andseemingly in trouble during
the thunderstorm. Also livingnearby are Eddy Arnold whoscoured the countryside in ajeep assisting in the hunt, CarlSmith who brought ridinghorses to the site and arrangedwith neighbors to bring othermounts to penetrate the closeshrubbery; Minnie Pearl,Stonewall Jackson, and Mari -john Wilkin.
The searching party was alsoswollen by dozens of other vol-unteers helmed by deejays,plus record company execs andstation managers.
Airport officials said theirlast radio contact with Reeveswas when he reported he hadrun into a heavy rain. Almostimmediately afterwards theplane disappeared from theradar screen.
Police Issue PleasThe crowds which thronged
the roads leading to the gen-eral area of the crash even be-fore the bodies had been found,were so huge that police issuedseveral pleas by radio askingmotorists to avoid the area soas not to hamper the search.
When found, the twisted steelof the engine and the splin-tered cabin indicated that theplane had hit the ground withgreat impact and that its oc-cupants apparently had diedinstantly.
Reeves and Manuel were re-turning from Arkansas wherethey had been negotiating areal estate transaction.
As word spread of the find-ing of the bodies, calls and tele-grams bearing condolences be-gan arriving from all parts ofthe world.
As the trade well knows,Reeves was one of those per-formers who successfullybridged the gap between coun-try and pop.
"As far as I know myself, Ihaven't changed style at all,"Reeves said recently. "I'm do-ing exactly the same thing Idid seven or eight years ago.I sing ballads and I don't knowwhether you can put them inany particular category."
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Chet's Big ShowChet Atkins, the quiet, softspoken a. & r. Nashville opera-tions manager for recording forRCA Victor Records, has pro-duced untold countless hitsfrom Nashville with Victorartists, and has produced astring of guitar albums starringhimself over the past decade.In fact he has had 28 guitarLP's, most of which have beenbest-sellers and which have in-fluenced guitarists throughoutthe world. Last week, at theTidelands Club in Houston, the"Chet Atkins Show," withChet, pianist Floyd Cramer,saxist Boots Randolph and pertthrush Vicki Carroll, broke allexisting one -week attendancerecords at the club. Tidelands'entertainment director BillNewkirk. who booked theclub's first country -orientedshow, said simply "I felt thatAtkins' track record of 28 best-selling albums spoke for itself,and .that an in -person appear-ance would pack the house." Itdid..
A & R Producer Dave Cava-naugh and George Shearingdiscuss upcoming recordingplans as the British -born pianistsigns a new, long-term exclusivecontract with Capitol Records,Inc. Shearing has been withCapitol for almost eight years.Cavanaugh has produced manyof Shearing's two -dozen plusCapitol albums.
Mormon Choir GoldiesThe Mormon Tabernacle Choirreceived two gold records fromColumbia last week, each rep-resenting sales of over $1,000,-000 worth of albums. Theaward was made at the TexasPavillions at the New YorkWorld's Fair. The award win-ning LP's are for the Choir'srecordings of Handel's Mes-siah, and The Lord's Prayer.The occasion was the 35th an-niversary of the Choir's CBSSunday Morning radio pro-gram.
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A total of fifteen new gov-ernors have been elected, andsix have been re-elected totwo-year terms on the LosAngeles Board of NARAS (Na-tional Academy of RecordingArts & Sciences) by the votingmembership of the chapter.
New members to the Boardof Governors are: Ken Darby,Barney Kessel, Tom Mack,Terry Gilkyson, Wally Heider,James Malloy, Bob Bain, ShellyManne, Ernie Freeman, JoelFriedman, Kenn Veeder, MelBlanc, Irving Taylor, MorrisStoloff and Roger Wagner.
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Hound Dog To BuffaloGeorge "Hound Dog" Lorenzwill be heard live again inBuffalo starting in September.The station will be WBLK, new50,000 watt stereo FM stationthere. And he will broadcast inthe evening. For Hound Dogthis is a return to the scene ofhis first triumphs. He firstgained attention as a deejay inBuffalo playing rock and rollover a decade ago. His ratingswere tops for the market.Lorenz' show is syndicated toa number of markets. His syn-dicator, World -Wide Program-ming, says that the Houng Dog
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ANOTHER GOLD RECORD FOR ELVISElvis Presley, who has been awarded more gold records thananyone else in the entire history of recording, was the recipientof still another gold record plaque recently. Presentation oc-curred when Mr. and Mrs. A. G. J. McGrath, visiting Hollywoodfrom South Africa, gave Presley the plaque for South Africansales of his single, "Kiss Me Quick." McGrath is director of TealRecord Co., RCA Victor's South African licensee.
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Inez' New TourInez Foxx and Sue Recordschief Juggy Murray left lastweek for a tour of the Carib-bean, along with Millie Smalland her manager, Chris Black-well. (Blackwell, by the way,handles the Sue label in Eng-land as part of his Island label.)Inez' trip is her second over-seas tour in recent weeks. Justlast month she was in England.She returns to that country inSeptember -October for a tourwith The Rolling Stones.
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ums being sponsored byASCAP. Set for the Septem-ber 10 meeting are panelistsErvin Drake, Harold Rome,Tom Jones and Jules Styne.Tickets for the six -week seriesare available through DickFrohlich, ASCAP PR Director.
Songwriters MoveCharles Koppelman and Don
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The Beach Boysride the trends
Songs about surfing, hot rods and motor scootershave made them the symbol of California youth
and helped them sell millions of records
They even do their own repair work
One of the most exciting new sounds inthe record business, created and startedby American artists and producers, is theWest Coast pop sound. It has taken itsplace as one of the powerful forces .inthe industry, sparked by a flock ofyoung, male artists on the West Coastlike The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, TheRip Chords, The Chantays, The Marketts,The Surfaris, and Dick Dale.
The West Coast pop sound has beenidentified as the "surf," the "hot rod,"the "motor scooter," or in general, theoutdoor sound, a sound loosely tied inwith various favorite outdoor sportspracticed by youthful cultists in the Cali-fornia sunshine.
Basically, the West Coast approachbreaks down into two catagories: thevocal style, as exemplified by the BeachBoys, Jan & Dean and the Rip Chords,and the instrumental music, proponentsof which are Dick Dale, The Chantaysand the Marketts.
The Beach Boys, one of the hottest actson record today, started their hit stringwith a surfing record on Capitol, andclaim to have sired the original surfmusic movement.
The Surfing Sound
Says Beach Boys leader, Brian Wilson:"All the kids were interested in surfingand I remember one day when mybrother Dennis came home from highschool telling me about his friends whothought I should write a song about surf-ing. I was always playing around with
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songs anyway, hoping maybe I could getinto the business some day, so I took acrack at it right away. We called it"Surfin'," and my two brothers and acouple of friends and I recorded it onour own. My brother Carl, who was 14,was the only one who could play aninstrument, the guitar, and he played iton the record. That was in September of'61 and we got the record out on a smalllabel.
"Then, a few months later, my father,Murry Wilson, got excited about our pos-sibilities and took one of our masters toCapitol Records where he saw Ken Nel-son. Mr. Nelson referred him to NickVenet who finally saw him after a five -week wait and flipped over the record."
Capitol's a. & r. vice president, VoyleGilmore, says that when Venet playedhim the tapes, he (Gilmore) said "Don'tlet that man get away. We want to signthese boys up." And that's what happened.
The two sides, "Surfin' Safari" and"409," were released right away. "Wethought the `Surfin' side would hit on theWest Coast and that '409' (which wasabout a Chevrolet) might hit in the East.But `Surfin', broke in Detroit and wefigured we had something," said Gilmore.
It was one of the first major so-called"surf" hits. At nearly the same time theMarketts, one of the beach -based instru-mental groups, came out with "Surfer'sStomp," and "Balboa Blue," examples ofanother wing of the evolving West Coastsound.
"After that one hit," said Wilson, agood looking young Californian, who pre-fers to sit in his office and think andwork to cavorting on the beach, "We alltook up instruments. We learned how toplay in a very few months. Now I playbass and we have two guitars and drums.We've evolved about 800 percent sincewe started and that's in just two years.What happened was that I learned theart of production. In fact, now, I thinkwe've evolved away from the strictlyWest Coast feeling. I've brought someeastern production values into our rec-ords, because you can't stand still in thisbusiness.
Riding the trend"We rode the surfing trend while it
was hot. There was a good identificationthere. You know, like the outdoor imageand that scene. But I saw a chance tomaybe broaden the appeal without reallychanging the style at all. You know howkids are with the cars. Well. I just start-ed writing different types of lyrics withthe same musical sound. and right awaywe had another something going for us."
Capitol and the Beach Boys actuallycontrived to break the new hot -rod trendwhile holding the surf beach -head at thesame time. That happened with the singlewhich coupled "Surfin' U.S.A." and "Shut-down." It's the only single in recentmemory that ever spawned two separatehit albums, each one bearing the title ofeach individual hit single side.
It also gave birth to a rash of hot rodalbums from a rash of West Coast labels.just as it happened at first with the surf
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Lads have built a solid campus following
"I Get Around" Hits MillionThe Beach Boys celebrated their
first million seller last week. RecordIndustry Association auditors quali-fied "I Get Around," as a gold recordwinner. An earlier hit, "Surfin'U.S.A.," is also nudging the millionmark, although out considerablylonger. Beyond all this, the boys' firstfive albums have sold a total of wellover a million.
The group has had an unusuallyhot summer, from the box office
standpoint, on an extended tourthrough the midwest and west. Forapproximately the first 20 dates(through July 28), they played to98,000 gate of 5,000) anddrew a total gross of $206,000 (foran average of $8,900). Their gross ata Sacramento concert last Saturday(1), where they were to do a livealbum recording, was $25,000, ofwhich the group received 70 percent.
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scene. Typically, the albums were pro-fusely illustrated with magnificent four-color photos of action surf scenes, and ofthe many kinds of favorite hot rods invogue with the drag -minded set.
"A lot of those albums were sold," Wil-son observed, "and for several reasons.Partly it was the material, but it was alsothe pictures and the information and thetables of words used by this group orthat group. They were playing on thetwo great loves of young kids, their music,and their fads.
The Honda scene"But now you don't see so many of the
surfing and the hot rod albums. Surfing,in fact is strictly passe. And hot rods havehit their peak too. Now it's the Hondascene. You've got to be on the motorscooter kick now to be really 'in'.
"We have a song about 'Little Honda,'in our new album and it's getting playedlike it was a single. That is the new kick.I don't know what will be next. Some ofthe younger people are trying sidewalksurfing now, where you get a board andput some wheels under it and stand up onit going down a hill just like you weregoing down a wave. But I don't thinkthat will catch on.
"As far as the Beach Boys are con-cerned, we just want to keep on identify -Mg with what the young people like todo and like to think about. It doesn't haveto be specifically about surfing or cars orscooters. Our new single will be called'When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)' Thatcertainly touches what every guy isthinking about.
"I'm a little afraid of limiting our sub-ject matter too much. In fact, I want usto just keep building as a good vocalgroup with a well -developed sound. Somepeople say some of our harmonies soundlike the Four Freshmen. That's no acci-dent. The Freshmen have been thegreatest for years. Their arranger, DickReynolds, is practically a god to me.What he does has been a great influenceon me and the group.
"I just want to keep developing thatsound. I don't know where we'll be fiveyears from now. I can't look that farahead. One year is enough and we'll behere, I hope, singing better than ever. Butthere's no sense in moving too fast.
"There's a lot of work in this but I likeworking. The other guys can have thefun, and they do. Dennis is the only realsurfer we've got and he still does it. Healso has an XKE and a Sting Ray. Carldrives around in a Grand Prix. But I'musually in the office thinking and writ -mg stuff. I don't go out of my way towrite a lot for others but I did writeSurf City,' Drag City' and 'New Girl
School' for Jan and Dean. Once inawhile I get out long enough to play sometennis. I played football in school and ILike the competitive sports, but I likerecord hits too."
Career vs. marriageOne of the boys in the group is already
married, and Brian Wilson is thinking of
it too. He has a girl friend, Marilyn
The "in" kick is motor scooters
Rovell, who sings with her sister, Diane,and a cousin, Ginger Blake, in a groupknown as the Honeys. The Honeys hadperhaps the first and one of the few girlsurfer records.
"I'd like to get married," Wilson con-tinued, "But there's a hang-up there forthe image. I don't think it would be goodright now. With the Beatles, it's different.John Lennon was married before theymade it. It's accepted. But to get marriedafter you're in the public eye couldshatter the illusion."
Why haven't girl artists made it withthe West Coast sound? Wilson has ananswer. "In all this music, there's an as-sociation of the outdoors and sports. Thisis a masculine identity. The girls are sortof spectators. Besides, there's been somuch female influence in the last coupleof years with all the eastern girl groups,I think it's kind of a reaction.
"When I said I thought surfing waspasse, I meant not as a sport, but thatother things are making more excitementon records, like the Hondas and the otherscooters. Other sounds are too, like theBeatles; they are as "in" as any soundcould ever be. They've done a number ofinteresting things, I think.
"For one thing they really broke thingswide open for vocal groups. They're anew concept too, because every one oftheir guys is a known personality in hisown right, separate from the group image.That has really never happened before.The Beatles also glorified the drummer.Drums will be even bigger in group workfrom now on.
"I admire the Beatles. They have a lotof creative ability and they present theirmusic well. It's a synthetic -sound in a
way, combining Chuck Berry, the EverlyBrothers, Buddy Holly and others. Butthey do it very well."
Watching the fieldWilson watches carefully what other
people are doing in records and willreadily offer thumbnail opinions . . . on,for example, who is making the big im-pact and why . . . like Burt Bacharach."He fascinates me. He has incornoratedgood music with the teen stuff and it justknocks me out to think about it.
"And Phil Spector. Some say he's coldnow but there's no such thing as a coldgreat talent and in any era he would bea great talent. He did so much for the pro-duction world, bringing in drums andsaxes like nobody else had done. AndTamla Motown. Well with them it's soobvious . . . like saying the sky is blue.
"And Chuck Berry. It's hard to reallystate how much his revival has meant.It's just tremendous. You hear that'Memphis' beat in dozens of the newrecords. Johnny Rivers had a hit with itbut the beat is everywhere. If there's asoul of rock and roll, Chuck Berry has tobe it."
As for the Beach Boys, Wilson wants to"expand our style and versatility. I hopewe can ramify our basic feel into just oneof the best vocal groups. There isn't anypat formula but it helps to know what theothers are doing in the business. We'venever been to the east but we'll be therein September to do some concerts, andthen in October, we hope, off to England,where our first hit 'I Get Around' is justbreaking now."
Eastern concerts and England are next for the boys
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"Swim" sweeps San FranciscoSexiest of the new dances is a smash inNorthern California, sparked by theBobby Freeman recording of "C'mon And Swim"
Not since the twist swept all before ittwo years ago has any dance created somuch excitement in the picturesque cityof San Francisco. It has caught on injust a few months and one of the reasons,besides the excitement inherent in thedance itself, is the Bobby Freeman record-ing. Disc, on the Autumn label, is in theTop 20 in sales in that city.
The recording of "C'mon and Swim"was made by Tom Donahue and BobMitchell of the Tempo Weekly Newsletter,a publication that tips the trade on currentand new best-sellers in that city. The duo,top rated jockeys of KYA in San Fran-cisco, say of the swim "We think it hasthe potential to become the biggest dancesensation since the twist."
An explanation of the popularity of theswim is apparent by a description of it ina story in Variety July 15. Story saysit is a variation of the twist, whichpantomimes various swimming strokes,like the breast stroke, dog paddle, back-stroke, etc. "Done well it is the mostgraceful of these dances. It is also far andaway the sexiest."
Another reason for the success of theswim in San Francisco could also beattributed to the fact that it is done inclubs along Broadway, the nightery areain North Beach, and in several of theseclubs by girls in topless bathing suits.Crowds usually gather before the openwindows of these clubs and try to peerin to see the dancers.
About 25 clubs in San Francisco's NorthBeach night club belt are now featuringthe swim. It's the biggest attraction theclubs have had in two years and SanFrancisco clubs play all types of acts,from nudes to hypnotists. Best known areThe Galaxie and The Condor.
Bobby Freeman is credited with havingoriginated the swim about a year ago.He taught it on his appearances at dancesand shows in the Bay Area. Suddenly itcaught on and turned into a high schoolsensation. One high school principalbanned the swim from school dances andit became famous.
The Bobby Freeman record, issued inMay, broke wide open in S.F. after aweekend of play by disc jockey JohnHardy of KDIA. Subsequently it caughton in Seattle, San Diego. Fresno, SanJose. Sacramento, Stockton and otherCalifornia cities.
"C'mon and Swim" has built into anational hit. The dance has yet to breakout of the West Coast. However, withthe Dick Clark show featuring the danceand with Freeman demonstrating it onthe Dick Clark tour, it could happen na-tionally too. BOB ROLONTZ
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Records listed in BOLD FACE made the greatest upward rise from last week's chart. Check symbol (I/) 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.
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1 1 A HARD DAY'S NIGHTBEATLES, Capitol 5422
2 2 WHERE DID OUR LOVE GOSUPREMES, Motown 1060
3 3 EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODYDEAN MARTIN, Reprise 0281
4 4 WISHIN' AND HOPIN'DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, Philips 40207
UNDER THE BOARDWALK-111b- 7 DRIFTERS, Atlantic 2237
411. 18 C'MON AND SWIMBOBBY FREEMAN, Autumn 2
7 6 RAG DOLLFOUR SEASONS, Philips 40211
8 8 (YOU DON'T KNOW) HOW GLADI AM
NANCY WILSON, Capitol 5198
Alb, 10 I WANNA LOVE HIM SO BADJELLY BEANS, Red Bird 10-003
10 5 LITTLE OLD LADY FROM PASADENAJAN & DEAN, Liberty 55714
This LastWeek Week11 13 PEOPLE SAY
DIXIE CUPS, Red Bird 10-006
20 BECAUSEDAVE CLARK FIVE, Epic 5-9704
is. 17 HOW DO YOU DO ITGERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS, Laurie 3261
28 WALK, DON'T RUN '64VENTURES, Dolton 96
15 15 HANDY MANDEL SHANNON. Amy 905
ilk 19 I'LL CRY INSTEADBEATLES, Capitol 5234
Al. 21 STEAL AWAYJIM HUGHES, Fame 6401
ilk 26 SUCH A NIGHTELVIS PRESLEY, RCA Victor 8400
19 9 DANG MEROGER MILLER, Smash 1881
as, 24 AIN'T SHE SWEETBEATLES, Ate° 6308
This LastWeek Week21 16 I GET AROUND
BEACH BOYS, Capitol 5174
ilk 41 JUST BE TRUEGENE CHANDLER, Constellation 130
23 14 GIRL FROM IPANEMAGETZ/GILBERTO, Verse 10322
ab. 35 I'LL KEEP YOU SATISFIEDBILLY J. K_RAMER & THE DAKOTAS,
Imperial 6604838 MAYBE I KNOW
LESLEY GORE, Mercury 7230933 SUGAR LIPS
AL HIRT, RCA Victor 8391
44 YOU NEVER CAN TELLCHUCK BERRY. Chess 12908
28 31 I LIKE IT LIKE THATMIRACLES, Tamla 54008
ilk 34 SHE'S THE ONECHARTBUSTERS. Mutual 502
a. 55 HOUSE OF THE RISING SUNANIMALS. MGM 13264
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I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTERBEATLES, Capitol 5222
CAN'T YOU SEE SHE'S MINEDAVE CLARK FIVE. Epic 9692
I WANT YOU TO MEET MY BABYEYDIE GORME, Columbia 43082
TELL MEROLLING STONES, London 9682
AND I LOVE HERBEATLES, Capitol 5235
MEMPHISJOHNNY RIVERS, Imperial 66032
KEEP ON PUSHINGIMPRESSIONS, ABC Paramount 10554
YOU'RE MY WORLDCILLA BLACK, Capitol 5196
IN THE MISTY MOONLIGHTJERRY WALLACE, Challenge 59246
IF I FELL
INVISIBLE TEARSRAY CONNIFF SINGERS, Columbia 43061
NOBODY I KNOWPETER AND GORDON, Capitol 5211
DO I LOVE YOURONETTES, Philles 121
MIXED UP, SHOOK UP GIRLPATTY AND THE EMBLEMS, Herald 590
RINGO'S THEMEGEORGE MARTIN, United Artists 745
I'M HAPPY JUST TO DANCE WITH YOUBEATLES. Capitol 5234
TRY IT BABY
BEATLES, Capitol 5235
MARVIN GAYE, Tamla 54095
HEY GIRL, DON'T BOTHER METAMS, ABC Paramount 10573
LOOKING FOR LOVECONNIE FRANCIS, MGM 13253
A TEAR FELLRAY CHARLES, ABC Paramount 10571
IT'S ALL OVER NOWROLLING STONES, London 9687
CLINGING VINEBOBBY VLNTON, Epic 9705
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NO ONE TO CRY TORAY CHARLES, ABC Paramount 10571
JOHNNY TILLOTSON, MGM 13255
BACHELORS, London 9630I BELIEVE
SWEET WILLIAMMILLIE SMALL, Smash 1920
G.T.O.RONNY & THE DAYTONAS, Mala 481
SELFISH ONEJACKIE ROSS, Chess 1903
YOU'RE NO GOODSWINGING BLUE JEANS, Imperial 66049
SHOUTLULU AND THE LOVERS, Parrot 9678
IT HURTS TO BE IN LOVEGENE PITNEY, Musicor 1040
BREAD AND BUTTERNEWBEATS, Hickory 1269
LITTLE LATIN LUPE LUKINGSMEN, Wand 157 .
I'M INTO SOMETHING GOODEARL JEAN. Colpix 729
A HOUSE IS NOT A HOMEDIONNE WARWICK, Scepter 1282
EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODYTO LOVE
SOLOMON BURKE, Atlantic 2241SAY YOU
RONNIE DOVE, Diamond 167SOLE, SOLE, SOLE
MALMKVIST & MARCATO, Jubilee 5479HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO FADDAH (1964)
ALLAN SHERMAN, Warner Brothers 5449MAYBELLINE
JOHNNY RIVERS, Imperial 86056HAUNTED HOUSE
GENE SIMMONS. Hi 2076(THERE'S) ALWAYS SOMETHING THERETO REMIND ME
LOU JOHNSON, Big Hill 552ANGELITO
RENE AND RENE, Columbia 43054FARMER JOHN
PREMIERS, Warner Brothers 5443THANK YOU BABY
SHIRELLES. Scepter 1278
77 81 FATHER SEBASTIANRAMBLERS, Almost 311
78 83 SOMEONE, SOMEONEBRIAN POOLE, Monument 846
79 71 NEVER ENDINGELVIS PRESLEY, RCA Victor 8400
FRANKIE & JOHNNYGREENWOOD COUNTY SINGERS, Kapp 591
HE'S IN TOWNTOKENS. B. T. Puppy 502
82 85 ME JAPANESE BOYBOBBY GOLDSBORO, United Artists 792
IT'S A COTTON CANDY WORLDJERRY WALLACE, Mercury 72292
ALWAYS TOGETHERAL MARTINO, Capitol 5239
85 93 WHEN YOU LOVED MEBRENDA LEE. Decca 31654
86 76 A HOUSE IS NOT A HOMEBROOK BENTON, Mercury 72303
46. g/ JOHNNY LOVES ME '
FLORRAINE DARLIN, Rie 105-64I'M ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
LITTLE ANTHONY AND THE HIP,E741.41,15. DCP.110416. 99 REMEMBER
SHANGRI-LA'S, Red Bird 10-00890 92 HERE I GO AGAIN
HOLLIES, Imperial 6604491 87 HERE COMES MY BABY
DOTTIE WEST, RCA Victor 837492 V OUT OF SIGHT
JAMES BROWN. Smash 191993 1/0 WE'LL SING IN THE SUNSHINE
GALE GARNETT, RCA Victor 8388
94 140 SILLY OL' SUMMERTIMENEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS, Columbia 43092
95 V SOMEDAY WE'RE GONNA LOVE AGAINSEARCHERS, Kapp 609
96 V BABY I NEED YOUR LOVINGFOUR TOPS, Motown 1062
97 V YOU'LL NEVER -GET TO HEAVEN '
DIONNE WARWICK, Scepter 128298 V HE'S SURE TO -REMEMBER ME
BRENDA LEE, Decca'3165499 V I'M LONELY
BOBBY JAMESON. Tilanio 1934100 V HOLD ME
P. 1. PROBY, London 9688
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MUSIC BUSINESS SINGLE PICKS
Peggy's "Sin," Trini's "Michael" Are Tops
Chart Picks
PEGGY LEECapitol 5241MY SIN (DeSylva, Brown & Hender-
son, ASCAP) (2:17) - DeSylva,Brown & Henderson
Flip is "In the Name of Love," (Black-wood, BMI) (2:03)-Levitt, Rankin
A wonderful side by Peggy. The oldtune is done with deep feelingagainst soft piano and guitar back-ing. Could be a smash.
TRINI LOPEZReprise 0300MICHAEL (United Artists, ASCAP)
(2:52)1-Arr: CostaFlip is "San Francisco de Assisi,"
(Zeller, ASCAP) (2:20) - Lake,Green, Marmion
Trini opens softly, then rocks his waythrough this traditional folk item.
MARTHA AND THE VANDELLASGordy 7033DANCING IN THE STREET (Jobete,
BMI) (2:37)-Stevenson, GayeFlip is "There He Is (At My Door),"
(Jobete, BMI) (2:30) - Holland,Gorman
The gals are back with another bright,happy, rockin' ditty with the bigsound.
RICK NELSONDecca 31656THERE'S NOTHING I CAN SAY
(Chappell, ASCAP) (2:02) -Sar-rel, Stillman
Flip is "Lonely Corner" (Hilliard,BMI) (2:00)-Burnett, Murdoch
A strong, medium -paced ballad forRick, much in his familiar groove.Side could step out fast.
THE ORLONSCameo 332KNOCK KNOCK (Who's There) (Sat-
urday, ASCAP) (2:18) - Crewe,Santos
GOIN' PLACES (Saturday, ASCAP)2:27)-Crewe, Linzer. Randell
The Bob Crewe organization pro-duced this new one by the groupand both sides have a real sound.
THE FOUREVERSSmash 1921(Say I Love You) DOO BEE DUM
(Seventh Avenue, BMI) (2:19)-Tudanger, Di Benedetto
Flip is "Everlasting," (Seventh Ave-nue/Kusada, BMI) (2:17)-Adams,Kusik, Kasha
A good medium beat side with niceharmony vocalizing by the boys.Has a good chance.
JIMMY SMITHVerve 8587THE CAT (Hastings, BMI) (2:55)-
SchifrinFlip is "Basin Street Blues," (Mayfair,
ASCAP) (2:2I)-WilliamsThe swinging organist pumps out an-
other driving instrumental and
dancers will dig it plenty.
BARRY GORDONUnited Artists 730GO BACK LITTLE TEAR (Duchess,
BMI) (2:00)-Ross, CraneFlip is "Susan," (January, BMI) (1:58)
-Gluck, RaleighThe one-time child star who was mak-
ing disks at six, is now in his teens
and he has a mighty appealingballad rendition here.
MUSIC BUSINESS DISCOVERIESTHE YOUNG WORLD SINGERSDecca 31660RINGO FOR PRESIDENT (Jona-
than, ASCAP) (2:32)-Hilliard,Garson
Flip is "A Boy Like That," (Day,Hilliard, ASCAP) (2:30)-Hil-liard, Garson
A rousing new group with a verytimely item Reminiscent some-what of the Carefrees' earlier"We Love You Beatles."
JIMMY HANNANAtlantic 2247BEACH BALL (T. M., BMI) (1:52)
-Gari, McGuinnFlip is "You Gotta Have Love,"
(Damian, ASCAP) (2:40)-De-Angelis, Sawyer
Here's a new boy with a goodteen sound and a tune that'sright in season. Side was re-corded in Australia on the Festi-val label.
KELLI AND THE KITTENSSound Stage 7, 2526HAPPY TOWN (Tree, BMI) (2:00)
-C. WalkerFlip is "What Mama Don't Know,"
(Tree, BMI) (1:55) - Wilkins,Hurley
Here's a new gal group withmuch the sound of the Dixiecupson a medium beat tune, writtenby singer Charlie Walker.
JOEY COSTARCA Victor 8403TWO IS THE LONELIEST NUM-
BER (Gil, BMI) (2:17)-PerperFlip is "Don't Try to Change Me,"
(Hill & Range, BMI) (2:12)-Remus, Poncia, Andreoli
Costa has a warm, appealing styleand it shows nicely on thismelodic tune, employing a chor-us effect. Could score.
TOMMY GOODGordy 7034BABY I KISS YOU (Jobete, BMI)
(2:57 )r-StevensonFlip is "Leaving Here," (Jobete,
BMI) (2:53)-Holland, Dozier,Holland
A promising new chanter of theDetroit school who also gets thebenefit of a slick, big arrange-ment.
JESS DUBOYBrunswick 55270SILHOUETTES (Regent, BMI)
(2:27)-Slay, CreweFlip is "That's When Your Heart-
aches Begin," (Fred Fischer,ASCAP) (3:00)-Raskin, Hill
The old hit by the Rayes gets apleasant updating by a boywith a mighty attractive touchWorth watching.
DON GRAINERVista 435NICOLA (Disney, ASCAP) (1:55)
-GrainerFlip is "The Three Goddesses of
Love," (Disney, ASCAP) (1:26)-Grainer
A pretty and catchy instrumentalwith some of the quality of"Never on Sunday." From thesoundtrack of the picture, "TheMoon Spinners."
THE BREAKAWAYSMelbourne 1805THE FLIPPER (Beam/Jaspar,
BMI) (2:02)-TurnbullFlip is "Granada," (Southern,
ASCAP) (2:12)-Lara, DoddAn instrumental in a semi -surf
groove that moves along nicely.Spinnable side.
DAVID BOXJoed 116LITTLE LONELY SUMMER GIRL
(Eastwick, BMI) (2:10)-Box, PikeFlip is "No One Will Ever Know,"
Milene, ASCAP) (2:20) - Rose,Foree
A solid new artist here with a brightside that's already getting goodplay.
BOBBI MARTINCoral 62426DON'T FORGET I STILL LOVE YOU
(South Mountain, BMI) (2:42)-GuyON THE OUTSIDE (Looking In)
(Aberbach, BMI) (2:43) - Giant,Baum, Kaye
Another strong coupling for the thrush,both in the country groove. Shehasn't hit big yet, but one of thesecould do it.
LITTLE ANTHONY AND THEIMPERIALS
DCP 1104I'M ON THE OUTSIDE (Looking In)
(South Mountain, BMI) (2:55),-Randazzo, Weinstein
Flip is "Please Go," (South Moun-tain BMI) (I :56)-Randazzo, Wein-stein, Barberis
The group is reactivated here after along absence and they could havea hit. Fine rhythm ballad.
C&W Single PicksJIM NESBITTChart 1100IF YOU DON'T LOVE ME(Peach Music SESAC) (1:51)-Bill
MooreFlip is "Mother -In -Law"(Peach Music SESAC) (1:53)-
L. Casper
CARL BELEWRCA Victor -47-8406IN THE MIDDLE OF A MEMORY(4 Star Sales Co. Inc., BMI) (2:12)-
Carl Belew-Clyde PittsFlip is "Cheaters Never Prosper"(4 Star Sales Co. Inc., BMI) (2:01 )-
Baker Knight
ROY ACUFFHickory 1271THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN(Leeds Music Corp. ASCAP) (2:20)
-Bob MillerFlip is "Do You Wonder Why"(Acuff -Rose Pub., BMI) (2:55)-Roy
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"I want to be amusical comedy star ..."
Millie Small, hitmaker at sixteen, intendsto return to her acting classes someday
"I am not a mod," said Millie Smallemphatically. "I am a singer. I knowthere's been a lot of talk about mods overhere, but just because I wear long bootsand black stockings, that doesn't makeme one."
With this simple statement, sweet, pe-tite Millie Small hushed all the curiousfuddy duddies who wanted to know whyshe doesn't look like a way-out, up-to-date version of yesterday's beatnik.
At sixteen, going on seventeen, Millie'sinstant success as a singer has somewhatcut into her earlier intentions of becom-ing a comedy actress.
"I studied for two months at actingschool in London, and then whoomph! Isuddenly had a hit disc on my hands. Ididn't expect it to be a hit, and I certainlywasn't geared for the changes in my life.I mean, I had to give up school, just likethat, make television appearances, go outon the road and think of a different careeraltogether.
"Chris Blackwell, my manager, hasbeen terrific. He originally discovered meduring a trip to Jamaica, and broughtme to England to learn everything aboutshow business.
"When he first saw me, I was fifteen,and singing in local concerts aroundClarendon, which is near Kingston. I'dhad three records in the Jamaican hit pa-rade, but I wanted to be an actress. Any -
What's A Mod?An English 'mod' (female) is an
up to date, sartorially better -dressedversion of yesterday's beatnik. Modgirls are middle to late teenagerswho lead the young field in Britishfashions. They originally created the'black leather look' for smart wear,and later extended the garb to in-clude black stockings and kneelength boots.
Currently, the mod girls are wear-ing daytime full length skirts withsimple shirts, long straight hair outto just below ear length, scads ofeye make up and no lipstick. Of late,they've even gotten around to shav-ing their eyebrows! (And pencilthem back again!) Mod fashions aredesigned by Kiki Byrne and MaryQuant, who have since become in-ternationally famous for their con-cept in design.
way, Chris persuaded my family that Ishould take training in London and that'swhere it all happened.
"I'm not really what you call a skasinger. I don't think there's any suchthing called ska. We call it a kind ofnational beat, which is tagged as 'bluebeat' in England. But whatever you call'Lollipop,' I don't know how long thiskind of music will last.
"Yes, 'My Boy Lollipop' did hit the topof the charts in England. Sure I was ex-cited, but I felt just as excited when itfirst hit the charts. When the record firstbegan to make it, I felt just like a littlegirl who'd had a big surprise present.Well, I am still a little girl, really. Afterall, sixteen's not very old, is it?"
Yet, even with her tender years, Mil -lie's own future policy is well thoughtout. Along with other girl artists like CiliaBlack, Dusty Springfield and Lulu andthe Luvers-who all come from the sameEnglish school in music-Millie is to theBritish kids their kind of girl next door.She is delightfully void of any kind ofacquired sophistication and, according toBlackwell, remains the same bright,bouncing personality she was when hefirst saw her.
"She can carry on a conversation witha High Commissioner or a coalman" saysChris. "She loves to talk and do all thenormal things of any other sixteen yearold."
Millie herself confesses she would liketo be a musical comedy actress.
"Americans may not have heard of aBritish comedienne called Dora Bryan"she said. "But she's very funny, and I'dlike to be like her.
"Course, I'll need a lot more training,and as soon as possible, I'll return to act-ing school.
"I love England, but I miss my familyin Jamaica. I never thought my first triphome would be paid for in record royal-ties. I think that's terrific, and it's lovelythat so many singers from Britain are sopopular in America.
"My own favorite group is the RollingStones. I think they're fabulous. I likegirl singers too, specially Dusty Spring-field and Lesley Gore. I loved meetingLesley at my press party and told herabout her new releases in England. I hopeI'll be there when she comes in Septem-ber, but I think I'll be back in Americafor Murray the K's show at the BrooklynFox.
"And fancy the World's Fair having aMillie Small Day! Has all this happenedbecause I had a hit record?
"Wow! What a trip. I came to Americafor 48 hours, was given a party by Smash,invited to do Murray's show, and thencome back for the World's Fair.
"I even managed to get some shoppingin too, while I was in New York. I thinkit's all just great."
JUNE HARRIS
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Music BusinessChicago rumor of the dem:1.e
. . . Mister Kelly, famed niteryand home of many recordingartists, may fold this year . . .
it has to do with losing rentaloptions!!!
Johnny Mathis, in his recentappearance at the Greek Thea-tre. borrowed the 36 voice"Young Americans" to insuresuccess . . Bourbon Streetnitery in the windy city is re-modeling . . . it'll seat 360people when it re -opens . . .
big -named artists are slated toappear.
Gordon and Sheila MacRaehave achieved a life longdream, a tv show to call theirown . . . they'll host three hourlong variety specials for theABC family during the 1964-
65 season . . . Sergio Franchi,Victor's darkhaired trouba-dour. walked off with guestinghonors on Victor Borge's andMeredith Wilison's tv specs . . .
CBS is considering the hand-some Mr. Franchi for his ownshow . .. Jill St. John is takingsinging lessons for a tuneshow. . . Walter Winchell is takingbows for agenting talented andnice guy John Gary into Holly-wood's Cocoanut Grove andNew York's Copacabana.
In Hollywood I
Ann Margaret, singing anddancing on "The PleasureSeekers", left everything forthe imagination . . . JanePowell does the pilot on the"Pink Jungle", A B'way playby Leslie Stevens . . . Janecould do herself a big, bigfavor by looking -into the mu-sic from the play . . . VernonDuke did the entire melodicscore . . . a big winning tune"Paris in New York" is slight-ly sensational . . Johnny(Memphis) Rivers recorded"Lucy B" in honor of thepresident's daughter . . . TonyBennett signed for a straightdrama role in "Burke's Law". . . MGM recorded ConnieFrancis live at the HollywoodBowl during her appearance. . . Domain and CouncilRecords have gone the el foldoroute.
Mickey Kapp, who set LouisArmstrong to wax "HelloDolly", will see if he's still amagician . . . he's asked JackJones to disk "People" . . .
Mario Thomas, daughter of
famed comedian DannyThomas, is taking singing les-sons . . . move over Miss St.John . . . The Beach Boys,whose rock 'n roll special "I
Get Around" tops the charts,have waxed a straight Christ-mas album for Capitol . . . it'sbacked by a 40 -piece orchestra. . . John Fisher resigned fromCrusader Records to form adiskery of his own calledB.B.J. . . . Capitol's Dave Axel-rod produced a new Kay Starralbum.
Liberty records Eddie Kafa-fian recovering from a slightauto accident . . . JimmyDurante spilled the beans onKHJ-TV's "Million DollarMatinee" . . . if George Jesselis allowed to be a toastmaster,I can be a singer . . .
Pianist George Shearing justpenned a long termer re-newal with Capitol . . . RonTepper, Capitol's assistant pub-licist, is gradually making therounds of the big city . . . a
very fine chap, and unlikeBilly James of Columbia, hereads poetry. Newly opened onSunset strip . . . the Disque-Covery Room, dedicated toyoung talent in the recordingindustry . . . first performer,Victor's Frankie Randall . . .
Vee Jay's Benny Carter re-corded a new album with 11saxes . . . it's lush!
Capitol's "First Nine Monthsare the Hardest" album, di-rected by emmy award winner
Carl Reiner, featuring lovelyJoyce Jameson and Len Wein-rib, may win the "PacifierAward" . . . it's a gasp and agroan . . . Hub Kapp and TheWheels, Dave Axelrod's pro-teges, open at the swingingCiro's on September 1 . . . VicDamone opens at the CocoanutGrove next week . . . andtalented Fran Warren and Joe& Eddie are the feature attrac-tions this week at Shelly Davis'Crescendo nitery . . . the FourSounds, appearing at theGalaxie nitery on the strip, hasmost of the top a & r menbidding for their services . . .
Patty McCormack, the formerchild star, now a lovely teen-ager, has signed to do an al-bum . . . Pete Rugalo, a giantin the recording business, ispredicting a "big career" formoppet recording artist DeniseRegan .. .
her recording of twoChristmas singles could be asbig as the "I Saw Mommy,etc." . . . and Nancy Wilsonis still doing S.R.O. business inLos Angeles.
Congratulations to promo-tion gal Pat Willard and JackBrown . . . they tied the knotJuly 28 at Shelly's Manne-hole. . . and to Jackie Vernon
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Wider world of World PacificOnce strictly a jazz label, World Pacifichas now moved into the country, folk and bigband areas and things are looking up for the firm
A few years ago the name World Pacific,and Pacific Jazz, meant only one thing,jazz records. Today World Pacific stillmeans jazz, but it means other things aswell, like country and folk for exampleand even pop music.
What made World Pacific move intoareas other than jazz? "Survival was oneof the reasons," says W -P president DickBock, the warm and effusive man behindthe label. "I think it is almost impossiblefor a jazz only label to exist today. Thereare less and less of the mama-poppa storesthat used to move the bulk of jazz product.The racks and the big chains need productthat has across-the-board appeal. Unlessyou have big names on your jazz label Ithink you must expand or die."
Bock pointed out that back in 1957 W -Pwas a very hot label with the nationalimportance of the entire West Coast schoolof jazz. "But by 1960, when the West Coastschool had cooled off, and you couldn'tgive their albums away, we got very coldtoo. That's when we turned to otherfields."
"Another thing," said Bock, "young mu-sic fans today like all good music, since themusical forms are so integrated today. Afan might like Miles Davis, Joan Baez, andJack Jones, and never think of them asbeing jazz, folk and pop, but only thinkof all three as being exceptional per-formers - which all three are. I admitthat I used to think that jazz was the onlypure music, but I don't think that way anylonger. A performer can be honest andsincere in any field, and if he is goodenough he'll reach everyone, no matterwhat category you place him in. RayCharles is a case in point. He started inthe rhythm and blues area, moved to pop,moved into country, and plays jazz aswell."
World Pacific, in addition to such strongselling jazz names as Les McCann, TheJazz Crusaders, Gerald Wilson, andmany other artists, has a number offolk albums out on the market, all ofwhich are doing well. Firm's twelve -stringbanjo albums, and twelve string dobrosets, have become standard sellers in thecountry, folk and pop fields. The Stone-man Family has started to become a strongseller on W -P Records (and they do verywell at concerts too). A World -Pacificalbum called "Folk 'N Flute" with BudShank on flute plus twelve string guitarhas also turned out to be a steady sellingitem.
The firm also has a subsidiary popsingles label called Aura. First record onAura, with Sonny Knight singing "If YouWant This Love." has become a hotr. & b. record in a number of markets,and is now getting an intensive promotiondrive from W -P sales -promotion chiefJack Pearce.
W -P owns its own studio out in LosAngeles, and uses it as a photographicstudio. "We photograph all of our coversin our own studio, and we do most ofour recording there. When we are not re-cording, we rent out the studio. It's a goodstudio and we have it rented out half thetime."
Commenting on today's business, Bocksaid that he felt the distributor was finallyback in the driver's seat which made it ahealthier business for everyone. "There isless stress on deals now and more onproduct." Bock also noted that there aremore opportunities today for a indie labelthan ever, as long as the label remainedalert and aware of the trends. "Moreyoung talented people, in all fields, arearound today than ever before. All youhave to do is look," he said.
Since it has gone folk, country, Latin,and big band in addition to jazz, W -P hasstarted a number of new national promo-tions and programs. Firm is now offeringsubscription services to radio stations, forWorld -Pacific and Pacific Jazz. Firm islooking for ideas from all of its distribu-
tors. It just concluded a contest for dis-tributor employees (from secretary tosnipping clerk) for coming up with albumconcepts for the label's artists, includingthe album title, selections to be recorded,and the cover idea. These and otherprograms are contributing to the newlook of World -Pacific, a label nowdedicated to good music in all fields.
BUD SHANK: From flute to folk
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The big questionis when will
Vee -Jay recordsbe 7 in sales?
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RADIO AND TV
Breakouts & BeatlesBy June Bundy
We haven't heard somuch noise out of Pitts-burgh since Guy Mitchellcut a hit record of the samename some 12 years ago.The comments have beenstrongly worded - both proand con - on our August 1column wherein an uniden-tified Pittsburgh promotionman sounded off on howdifficult - in his opinion -it was to "break" a recordin that city.
Several Pittsburgh plug-gers, who also prefer to re-main anonymous, agreedwith him, but an equalnumber labeled it a "sourgrapes" complaint. Amongthe most vocal dissenterswere Jack Hakim and NickCenci of Fenway RecordCorporation, a Pittsburghdistribution firm.
In a two page, singlespaced letter (copies ofwhich were sent to Pitts-burgh radio stations KQV,KDKA and WEEP) theydefended Pittsburgh's rep-utation as a "breakoutpoint" for new records andlisted some 15 platters (in-cluding "Dang Me" and"Party Girl") which, theyclaim, started in Pittsburgh.
"Pittsburgh," they wrote,"thanks to broadcasterswho find time to break rec-ords, is up with any marketin the country and abovemost of them when it comesto finding room for newmusic on the playlists. . . .
In almost every major mar-ket in the country there isalways the promotion manwho places a bad light onour business simply becausehe is 'ice cold' or becausehis product just does nothave it to become a hit."
BEATLES EXCLUSIVE:Station WIBC, Indianapolis,finally brought off its long -delayed press conferencewith the Beatles. It allstarted last April whenWIBC asked listeners tosubmit questions they wouldlike asked of the Beatles.Michael Ruppe, Jr. WIBCpromotion manager, pulled35 queries out of 3,500 en-tries and sent a transcriptof them to England to beanswered on tape by theboys.
Unfortunately, what withRingo's tonsillitis and thegroup's Australian tour,WIBC didn't get the tapeback until last month. How-ever, the release of theBeatles' new movie "AHard Day's Night" herethis summer made the tapemore timely than ever soall is well with the WIBCpromotion department.
The tapes were played onDick Kemp's 9 p.m. -1 a.m.show July 16, 17 and 18,and more than 1,300 mailrequests (288 from 12 statesoutside Indiana) were re-ceived during the week ofJuly 19 for copies of thetranscript. Requests for thetranscript should be sent toRuppe at WIBC.
Meanwhile, Kemp (seephoto) has been appointedHonorary Chairman of theMid -America Chapter ofthe Beatles National FanClub, and is working withco -presidents Ann Sabloskyand Debbie Snively to in-crease its membership (at$2 per Beatle head.)
Some of the questions of-fer fascinating insight intothe mind of a teenager (atleast we hopefully presumethey're teenagers.) Amongthe more original querieswere: "Why doesn't Ringolike Donald Duck?" "DoesRingo really rinse his hairso the grey streaks won'tshow?" and "Do the Beatleswear their hair inside oroutside the bedcovers whengoing to bed at night?" Ourfavorite reply was made byBeatle George Harrison.When asked "What are yourideas of an ideal date?" heanswered with weary ir-relevance, `the 29th ofJuly."
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MUSIC BUSINESS POP LP'sAUGUST 15, 1964
Record below Top 10 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. Beatles & Beach Boys Hit Top 3
MONEY ALBUMSThis Last
Week Week1 1 HARD DAY'S NIGHT
BEATLES, United Artists UAL 3366
411. 27 SOMETHING NEWBEATLES, Capitol T 2108, ST 2108
16- 25 ALL SUMMER LONGBEACH BOYS, Capitol T 2108, ST 2108
4 2 HELLO, DOLLY!LOUIS ARMSTRONG, Kapp EL 1364, KS 3364
5 3 HELLO, DOLLY!ORIGINAL CAST, RCA Victor LOC 1087
6 6 GETZ/GILBERTOVerve V 8545, V6-8545
7 5 BEATLES' SONGBOOKHOLLYRIDGE STRINGS, Capitol T 2116
8 4 FUNNY GIRLORIGINAL CAST, Capitol SVAS 2059
9 9 ROLLING STONESLondon LL 3375
16. 18 UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWNORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK, MGM E 4232 ST
31 24 WORLD WITHOUT LOVEPETER AND GORDON, Capitol T 2155. ST 2155
32 31 LITTLE CHILDRENBILLY J. KRAMER & THE DAKOTAS,
Imperial LP 9267di 48 HERE'S GODFREY CAMBRIDGE
Epic FLM 1310134 32 INTRODUCING THE BEATLES
Vee-jay LP 1062.111. 74 CONCERT SOUNDS OF MANCINI
RCA Victor LPM 289736 38 SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM
Columbia CL 2054, CS 885447 THE GREAT YEARS
JOHNNY MATHIS, Columbia C2L 34, C2S 83438 29 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
SOUNDTRACK. United Artists UAL 511441 62 TELL ME WHY
BOBBY VINTON, Epic LN 24113 BN 26113,dt 60 I DON'T WANT TO BE HURT ANYMORE
NAT KING COLE, Capitol T 2118, ST 211841 19 BEATLES AMERICAN TOUR
WITH ED RUDYRadio News Pulseheat 1000
42 23 BEWITCHEDJACK JONES, Kapp EL 1365
43 45 IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING I SAIDSMOTHERS BROTHERS.
Mercury MG 20904, SR 6090444 33 GREATEST HITS MARY WELLS, Motown 61645 39 SERENDIPITY SINGERS
Philips PHM 200-115, PBS 600-115vf PETER, PAUL AND MARY IN CONCERT
Warner Brothers 2W 155547 40 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE
JACK JONES, Kapp KL 132848 34 MANY SIDES OF THE
SERENDIPITY SINGERSPhilips PHM 200-134, PHS 600-134
49 36 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?JIMMY SMITH, Verve V 8583, V6-8583
50 58 FADE OUT, FADE INORIGINAL CAST, ABC Paramount ABC OC 3
69 THE FIRST NINE MONTHSARE THE HARDEST
WEINRIB & JAMESON, Capitol T/ST 203452 42 DIMENSION 3
ENOCH LIGHT, Command RS 867 (SD)53 41 GOING BAROQUE
SWINGLE SINGERS, Philips P11131 200-126
This LastWeek Week11 8
12 14
13 11
14 7
15 15
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17 10
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BARBRA STREISAND/THIRD ALBUMColumbia CL 2154
COTTON CANDYAL HIRT, RCA Victor LPM 2917, LSP 2917
TODAY, TOMORROW, FOREVERNANCY WILSON, Capitol ST 2082
RETURN OF THE DAVE CLARK FIVEEpic LN 24104
HONEY IN THE HORNAL HIRT, RCA Victor LPM 2745, LSP 2745
WONDERFUL WORLD OFMAKE BELIEVEJOHNNY MATHIS. Mercury MG 20913, SR 60913BEATLES' SECOND ALBUM
Capitol ST 2080DON'T LET THE SUN CATCHYOU CRYING
GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS,Laurie LLP 2024
AT THE WHISKEY A' GO GOJOHNNY RIVERS, Imperial LP 9264
RAG DOLL FOUR SEASONS,Philips PHM 200-146, PHS 600-146
CHAPEL OF LOVEDIXIE CUPS, Red Bird RB 20-100
ON THE MOVETRINI LOPEZ, Reprise R 6112, RS 6112
EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODYDEAN MARTIN, Reprise RS 6130
BACK IN TOWNKINGSTON TRIO, Capitol T/ST 2081
ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODSSOUNDTRACK, Reprise F 2021
WIVES AND LOVERSJACK JONES, Kapp EL 7352
WOODY ALLENColpix 518
I WISH YOU LOVEGLORIA LYNNE, Everest 5226
YESTERDAY'S LOVE SONGS-TODAY'S BLUES
NANCY WILSON, Capitol T/ST 2011I WALK THE LINE
JOHNNY CASH, Columbia CL 2190THE BEST OF BUCK OWENS
Capitol T/ST 2105CHARADE
HENRY MANCINI, RCA Victor LPM 8356MOONLIGHT AND ROSES
JIM REEVES, RCA Victor LPM/LSP 2854MY BOY LOLLIPOP
MILLIE SMALL, Smash MGS 27055JOAN BAEZ IN CONCERT, PT. II
Vanguard VSD 2123KEEP ON PUSHING
IMPRESSIONS, ABC Paramount ABC 493IN THE WIND
PETER, PAUL & MARY,Warner Bros. W 1507
DANG ME-ROGER AND OUTROGER MILLER, Smash MGS 27049
THREE WINDOW COUPERIP CHORDS, Columbia CL 2216
COMMAND PERFORMANCESENOCH LIGHT. Command RS 868 (SD)
THE BEST OF JIM REEVESRCA Victor LPM/LSP 2890
BILL COSBY IS A VERYFUNNY FELLOW
REFLECTIONSWarner Bros. W 1518
STAN GETZ, Verve V 8559
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GLAD ALL OVERDAVE CLARK FIVE, Epic LN 24093
PINK PANTHER HENRY MANCINI,RCA Victor LPM 2795, LSP 2795
TEARS AND ROSES/I LOVE YOUMORE & MORE EVERY DAY
AL MARTINO, Capitol T 2011, ST 2011CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE
ANDY WILLIAMS, Columbia CL 2171, CS 8971SHUTDOWN VOL. 2
BEACH BOYS, Capitol T 2027FABULOUS VENTURES
Dolton BSPJ 2029SOMETHING SPECIAL FORYOUNG LOVERS
RAY CHARLES SINGERS,Command RS 806 (SD)
CHUCK BERRY'S GREATEST HITSChess LP 1485
BEST OF HENRY MANCINIRCA Victor LSP 2693
MEET THE BEATLESCapitol T 2047, ST 2047
TODAY AND OTHER SONGSNEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS, Columbia CL 2159LOOKING FOR LOVE
SOUNDTRACK, MGM E 4229, SE 4229DEAD MAN'S CURVE/NEW GIRLIN SCHOOL
JAN & DEAN, Liberty LRP 3361PRESENTING THE BACHELORS
London PS 353THE CARPETBAGGERS
ELMER BERNSTEIN, Ava 45BELAFONTE AT THE GREEK THEATRE
RCA Victor LOC/LSO 6009THE LETTERMEN LOOK AT LOVE
Capitol T/ST 2803KISSIN' COUSINS
ELVIS PRESLEY, RCA Victor LPM/2894DUSTY SPRINGFIELD ALBUM
Philips PHM 200-133RELFECTIONS
PETER NERO, RCA Victor LPM/LSP 2853HIGH SPIRITS
ORIGINAL CAST, ABC Paramount 0C-1OUR BIGGEST HITS
DRIFTERS, Atlantic 8091AIN'T NOTHIN' YOU CAN DO
BOBBY BLAND, Duke DLP 78MESS OF BLUES
JOHNY HODGES. Verve V 8570BACH'S GREATEST HITS
SWINGLE SINGERS, Philips PHM 200-097SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE
RAY CONNIFF, Columbia CL 2150COMIN' IN THE BACK DOOR
WYNTON KELLY, Verve V 8576HAMLET
RICHARD BURTON,Columbia DOL 302, DOS 702
THE LATIN ALBUMTRINI LOPEZ, Reprise 6125
TOM JONESSOUNDTRACK, United Artists UAL 4113
RITA PAVONERCA Victor LPM/LSP 2900
IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SWINGSINATRA & BASIE, Reprise FS 1012
MY GUYMARY WELLS, Motown 11 617
HAVE A SMILE WITH MERAY CHARLES, ABC Paramount ABC 495
A WINNER!
"IF YOU WANT
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MAN ABOUT MUSIC
King -Columbia Deal?
By Bob RolontzAlthough it has been
pretty hush-hush up to nowthere have been talks be-tween responsible partiesrepresenting King Recordsand Columbia Records, withthe possible purchase ofKing by Columbia. So farthe talks are merely that,but there is a possibility thatthey could lead somewhere.If they do, insiders say, Kingwould sell its record catalogand publishing firms, but re-tain its pressing plant andstudios in Cincinnati.
Anyone who wants toknow what is happening intoday's music business, pop,Broadway, etc., should gethold of David Dachs newbook, called "AnythingGoes, The World Of PopularMusic." It is published byBobbs-Merrill and goes for$5. It tells all about themusic business, and wemean all - and it pulls nopunches. Must reading forthose in the business andfor many not in the busi-ness.
Arlene Biendenkopf, pri-vate secretary to Al Ben-nett, head of Liberty Rec-ords, can now use CPS afterher name. She is one of thefew top level secretarieswho has been honored by -the Institute For CertifyingSecretaries, a department ofthe National Secretaries As-sociation. . . . Cleffer MarvinMoore turned out specialmaterial for the Miss Uni-verse Pageant for the thirdsuccessive year. . . . HowardSinnott, who has been book-ing bands for years andyears is now on his own.Anyone interested in book-ing orchestras like RalphMarterie, Kai Winding,Buddy Morrow, Woody Her-man and others, can callhim in Roslyn Heights, L.I,New York. . . . Cleffer PaulVance has moved to a newoffice in New York at 150West 55th Street.
Victor Records has issuedthe first album recorded inthe Music Theater atLincoln Center, N.Y. Musicalis "The King And I" andstars Rise Stevens and Dar-ren McGavin. We hadstated in this column thatVictor paid a huge sum toget the recording rights to
these productions; price waslarge rather than huge-itwas less than $100,000. . . .
The Travelers 3 have beensigned by Capitol. . . . Whatwe would like to know ishas Capitol yet re-signedThe Kingston Trio or arethey off to another label?. . . Erroll Garner's com-position "No More Shadows"now has a lyric by EddieHeyman, one of America'stop lyricists, and the songhas been assigned to CorkO'Keefe's Plymouth Music.Feeling is this could beGarner's biggest composi-tion since "Misty."
Cover of the new UnitedArtists' album "Inside BettyCarter," shows the heart onthe wrong side. . . . StanGetz and Astrud Gilbertowill perform their hit "TheGirl From Pianema" in theNew Orleans sequence of theUniversal TV Project 120two hour television film.They will also do an original
called "Only Trust YourHeart."
Three well known namesin the jazz world, SaschaBurland, Father NormanO'Connor and Billy Taylor,have been elected NationalTrustees of NARAS, replac-ing George Avakian, JohnHammond (both ineligiblefor re-election) and DomCerulli (now very busy inhis new slot with GBB.)
The first premiere of a TVshow at the New YorkWorld's Fair was held lastweek when a special closedcircuit preview of "FordPresents The New ChristyMinstrels," was shown atthe Ford Pavilion of theFair. Show premiered lastweek, August 6, 9:30 p.m.Thursday, on NBC.
Inez and Charlie Foxxhave been set for a returntrip to England in the Fall.They will do one nightersand TV shows, and will tourwith The Rolling Stones.
. . The weekend of August1 and 2 was designatedas Mercury Weekend byPalisades Park in NewJersey. Mercury talent thereincluded Lesley Gore, Plat-ters, Quincy Jones, PixiesThree, Sherrys, Len Barrieand Dean Christie.
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This Week's Block Busters
(04r1141: I Dii;instrunleraal versions of TEE BEAMS big kits
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SONGS I SINGon the JACKIE GLEASON show
MORE SONGS I SING ON THEJACKIE GLEASON SHOW
FRANK FONTAINEABC -Paramount ABC -490Fontaine's dramatic pipes score again
in the already well proven formula.Watch this one.
EVERYBODY KNOWSSTEVE LAWRENCEColumbia CL 2227A recent single provides the title
here for a fine album of Lawrencesinging recent pop hits like "HelloDolly," "Ipanema" etc.
THE NEW CHRISTI MINSTRELS
LAND OF GIANTS
LAND OF GIANTSTHE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELSColumbia CL 2187Another Christys' musical treatise on
folk heroes of the country like "PaulBunyon," "Casey Jones" and nu-
merous others.
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NAT KING COLE SINGS MY FAIRLADY
Capitol SW 2117A bright concept here, matching
Nat's polished style, with some hu-mor touches, on the great Lernerand Loewe score.
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Lincoln Center musicals, starringRise Stevens, Darren McGavin, LeeVenora and Frank Poretta.
BE MY LOVEJERRY VALEColumbia CL 2181Jerry has gotten bigger and bigger
with disks, concerts and cafe datesin the last year and this set ofromantic ballads can be a big one.
WITHOUT YOUROBERT GOULETColumbia CL 2200More of Goulet's warm (and salable)
chanting with things like "What'sNew," "Without You," and "WhereAre You."
Chart Picks
YESTERDAY'S GONECHAD AND JEREMYWorld Artists WAM 2002A first for the British duo, with the
old hit ("Yesterday's Gone") andthe new one, ("A Summer Song")both included. Should step outsmartly.
MEET CHRIS CROSBYs.e6M E-4226lob Crosby's boy Chris is mighty fine,
'n the Rick Nelson type school andne can go a long way to making-«,e grade with this solid album.
7r.P.EAT LOVE SONGS IN SPANISHCIE GORME AND TRIO LOSPANCHOS
Co.umbia CL 2203- or," "Caminito" and other warm-atin melodies, done in Spanish byv'ss Gorme with the top -selling-o. Two potential markets here.
WII-SIC BUSINESS, AUGUST 15, 1964
RFDMARTY ROBBINSColumbia CL 2220Robbins at his best with a variety of
tunes like "Melba from Melbourne""Southern Dixie Flyer" and "Ur-gently Needed." One of his bestefforts.
GARBOMGM E -420I PA true collector's ifem with great
Garbo bits taken from a raft ofmemorable MGM soundtracks.
MOMS THE WORDMOMS MABLEYMercury SR 60907Moms is a howl as usual with some
singing, some joshing and all of itpounding across like another bighit album.
ZULUSOUNDTRACKUnited Artists UAS 5116A much -publicized new picture and the
score by John Barry (cleffer of"From Russia with Love") could bea winner.
CALIFORNIA SUITESAMMY DAVIS JR.Reprise RS 6126One side is taken up with Mel Torme's
California -styled "Manhattan Tow-er" with a group of Torme's tuneson +he flip. Expressive Davis wax.
THE TILLOTSON TOUCHJOHNNY TILLOTSONMGM E-4224A mixture of tunes, cut both in Nash-
ville and New York and reflectingthose special sounds. "Cold ColdHeart," and "Always" are samplesof the fare.
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SHEILA (THE YE YE GIRL)Philips PHS 600-144Here's a standout new teen thrush
from France. She sings all hersongs in French and they move androck. "Ouki Kouki" looks like itcould be a single winner.
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RADIO EXPOSURE CHARTShowing the positions of nearly 300 singles on the surveys of
the nation's leading radio stationsThis chart summarizes the standings of single records on the
latest local surveys made in major markets by key radio stationswhich influence record sales. Numerals next to each title showits rank order on the survey named at the top of each column.The letter "P" indicates the record was a "Pick" on survey; theletter "X" means it was an "Extra" without numerical rank. Ifno numeral or symbol appears in a column, the record was noton the station's latest survey.
TITLES
This chart provides a rapid summary of each record's localpopularity and radio exposure in leading markets. It also showsregional popularity and radio exposure by grouping markets inthe East, South, Midwest and West. Each week a different radiosample is used. Music Business has been officially authorized byeach station listed to publish its survey results, which have beenobtained by Music Business with the cooperation and approvalof the stations named.
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Gerry and the Pacemakers (Laurie)DON'T STAND UP IN A CANOE...Ronnie Dante (MV)DON'T THROW YOUR LOVE AWAY...Searchers (Kapp)DON'T WORRY BABY...Beach Boys (Capitol)DOWN WHERE THE WINDS BLOW...Serendipity Singers (Philips)DREAM LOVER...Paris Sisters (MGM)
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Hickory Records' Joe Lucusasks archly "What other labelcan get the President of theU. S. to plug its records?" Herefers, of course, to Hickory'snew "Bread and Butter" singleby The Newbeats and to Presi-dent Johnson's recent word toDemocratic leaders that theyshould stress "bread and but-ter" issues in the coming cam-paign, as told in wire servicereports. Hickory, smacking itslips over forthcoming sales,calls the disc "The nation's No.1 choice." For all this fine pro-
f motion, adds Lucus, "I guessI'll have to go democratic inthis election." . . .
Pamper Music Inc.'s promoman Wayland Stubblefield andFraternity artist Bobby Lewisnarrowly missed being serious-ly injured July 26 when theircar was demolished in a head-on collision near the New Or-leans Moisand airport. Stubble-field and Lewis were finishing atwo weeks deejay tour in thesouthwest and Lewis had justcompleted a PA at the Hayridein Ponchatula, La. Both Lewisand Stubblefield suffered brok-en ribs, lacerations and bruises.Stubblefield also lost a toothand was nursing severe cutson head and face. They re-turned to Nashville by trainthe next afternoon. Friends willbe reassured to know that af-ter a few more days they'lllook handsome as ever . . .
Bookers Face DilemmaBookers and programmers
over much of the nation whohad skedded or hoped to skedJim Reeves for appearancesover the next six months to ayear were in a dilemma lastweekend with Reeves' suddendeath in a plane crash. Formany of these shows Reeveswas due for top billing and to"carry the load." His name waswidely counted upon to sell theentire show. While Reeves pre-ferred not to do a considerableamount of traveling, he felt ita duty to his public to spendthe equivalent of a month ortwo each year to meet his fans.Finding a substitute for Reeveson these programs, it was con-ceded, will be very difficult.
Buzz Benson, WSIX person-ality (Nashville) for four anda half years, has left the sta-tion where he said he was No.1 in the 7 to 9 a.m. slot, to join
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Another Nashville switch wasmade on the same date byHairl (correct) Hensley, for-merly of WENO, who joinedWMAK as program director.He is also conducting the HairlHensley show 1 to 4 p.m.Hensley was with WKDA forfive years before joining WE -NO. . . . A 100 pct. "rock pat-tern" in program styling atthe Edison Hotel in Toronto,Canada, was changed to astrictly C&W format recentlyafter Roy Drusky began a twoweeks engagement July 27 andconsistently filled the place tooverflowing. . . . Using someof the royalties from his "Still,"Decca artist Bill Anderson hasmoved into his long dream for"California style home on theside of a hill" in suburbanNashville. He wonders shouldits name be "Still Hill"? His"Me" and "Cincinnati, Ohio"were flourishing
Tribute to AndersonThe Porter Wagoner TV
show recently featured a halfhour tribute to Bill Andersonand the songs he has written.The show, seen in some 50markets, was made up entirelyof Anderson songs. Andersonappeared as a special guest butwasn't told the show would bea tribute to him until he wason the air. . . . While in Eng-land, Bill Justus recorded asong written by ASCAP'sTeddy Bart. The record is onMonument. . . . Juanita Jones,
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ASCAP's roving rep, was dueto attend the national cham-pionship country music con-test at Warrenton, Va. Aug. land 2. Thence she was due toattend the Country Music As-sociation's board meeting atToronto Aug. 6 and 7. . . .
ASCAP writer -artist BeasleySmith was saddened recentlyby the death of his mother.
Russ Garner has just signeda three months contract withthe Four Seasons Restaurantand club in Denver, Colo.Working out of Los Angeles,Garner has just returned froman Alaskan tour. . . . The Rich-mond Organization announcesthat Hollis Music Inc. has ac-quired over 20 compositionsby Antonio Carlos Jobim,South American top melodywriter. . . . Linda Flanagan,new Decca vocalist, has signeda long term contract withHaze Jones of Hal Smith Art-ists Productions. Her new re-lease is "There's Love AllAround Me" backed with"Mama Kiss the Hurt Away". . . One of the largest crowdsin 12 years sat through adrenching rain at Belle, Mo.July 24 to hear Tompall andthe Glaser Bros. A small tentsheltered the artists but theaudience applauded repeated-ly despite the drenching. Therewere 6,900 paid admissions.The Glasers' "A Girl LikeYou" is picking up steam inmany regional charts.
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yellow mailing piece whichdirects that you wet one sidefor the secret message. Themessage spotlights the NewInterns' (and their new loves)original soundtrack album. . . .
Another promo nifty is thatput out by Jamie/Guyden'sGunter G. Hauer, pushing"Happiest Birthday Party ofMy Life" by the Lolly -popsand "The Jazz Man Blues" bythe Littletown Girls on Car-ney. . . . It's a calendar andmemo minder all in one. . . .
Paul Charon, Nashville musi-cian and columnist, is in basictraining with the TennesseeNational Guard at Ft. Jackson,S. C. until December. . . .
James Pinkston, just advancedto record librarian at Ama-rillo's KZIP, says RCA andColumbia are giving goodsingle service but he needs tohear from others desperately,particularly C&W. . . . MusicCity's Charlotte Harden flewto Greenland last week with aU.S.O. troup for a month'sengagement and personal ap-pearances. Her newest single,"A Little Bit Bluer ThanBlue" backed with "Some-body's Talking" is moving upfast. . . . Decca's Bobby Gordonwas featured on the SteveAllen Show Aug. 3. . . . RexAllen will host the radio pro-gram "Man Talk" to be airedtwice every Saturday startingOct. 3 over monitor NBC. Thead agency, Fuller & Smith &Ross represented the sponsor-McCulloch's Saws, at thesigning.
"Mail Your Listings"Country music promoter
Slick Norris in his current"Hot News" bulletin, tellsprogrammers "Be sure to mailyour listings (top ten at least)every week to the trade pub-lications. A greater image ofcountry music can only be re-flected in our national chartsby doing this regularly. Youhold and control that imagewith the pen or typewriter atyour side". . . . Norris reportsthat Joe and Rose Lee Maphis'"Remember" backed with"Hoot 'n Annie" on Starday,is getting deejay spins in botheast and west. "Hoot" seemsto be the west coast favorite.
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Records, TV. MoviesThe multi -faceted Reeves
found expression in other ways.Starting as a recording star, hemoved to TV, to personal ap-pearances and to the movies.Only last year he starred in amovie, "Kimberly Jim," madein South Africa, and had en-tered negotiations for a sec-ond movie later this year.
As a recording artist, Reevesremains in the very top rank.Currently on national chartsare three big Reeves records-a single, "I Guess I'm Crazy,"and two albums, "Moonlightand Roses" and "The Best ofJim Reeves." At one timeReeves had his own ABC net-work radio program, the JimReeves Show. In 1959, he was asummer replacement for RedFoley on the Ozark Jubilee.
Started As YouthReeves was born in Panola
County, Texas, and acquired abroken down guitar at the ageof 10 in exchange for a basketof pears. Entering the Universi-ty of Texas, Reeves became atop pitcher on the Universitybaseball team which led to hisbeing signed with the St. LouisCardinals farm system. A leginjury, however, ended hisbaseball career and he turnedto his guitar and a musicalvocation.
Reeves' first big record camein 1953 when he recorded"Mexican Joe" on the Faborlabel and sales soared to over1,000,000. This in turn led tohis being signed by SteveSholes to an RCA -Victor con-tract in March, 1955. Under thedeal, RCA bought all of Reeves'masters from Fabor Robinsonof Fabor Records which insuresthe entire recording career ofJim Reeves on RCA -Victor.
CHARLIE LAMB
Joint Services HeldNASHVILLE
Joint Memorial Services forboth Jim Reeves and DeanManuel, killed in an airplanecrash in Nashville last week-end, were held at 2 p.m. Tues-day (4) at the Phillips -Robin-son Funeral Home here. Reeveswas buried the following dayat Carthage, Texas; and Manuelwas buried also the next day inSpringhill Cemetery, Nashville.
The families of both Reevesand Manuel requested that, in-stead of sending flowers,friends make gifts to charities.
Reeves is survived by hiswidow, Mary; his mother, Mrs.Beulah Reeves of De Berry,Texas; two brothers. BufordReeves of Dallas, Texas; and
0. D. Reeves of De Berry,Texas; and two sisters.
Manuel leaves his widow,Barbara (Bobbie); two daugh-ters, Brenda and Laura Man-uel; parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.D. Manuel of Planada, Calif.;a sister, Mrs. Laura Silva ofMerced, Calif. and a brother,Orion Manuel of San Francisco.
Series of TragediesNASHVILLE
The death of country musicstar Jim Reeves in an airplanecrash near Music City Fridaymarks another in a series oftragedies which have stalkedNashville's Grand Ole Opry inrecent years.
Early in March, 1963, CowboyCopas, Patsy Cline, HawkshawHawkins and Randy Hughes,flying to Nashville from Kan-sas City, met death when theirplane crashed in a rainstormin West Tennessee.
Several days later, Jack Ang-lin of the famous Johnnie andJack team, was killed whenhis car failed to make a curveon his way to Patsy Cline'sfuneral.
Two years before this, John-ny Horton, at the peak of hiscareer, riding on the crest of"Battle of New Orleans," waskilled in an automobile crash.
Meanwhile Texas Ruby, alongtime star in the countrysinging field, died when herhouse trailer caught fire.
Jim Denny, president of Ce-darwood Publishing Co., and along time champion of countrymusic, died of illness about ayear ago.
Other stalwarts based inNashville who have passedfrom the country music sceneincluded the great balladeer,Hank Williams; Rod Brasfield,Ruth Sullivan, wife of Oscar ofthe Lonzo and Oscar team,killed in a car crash in Nevadain 1959, in which Oscar's broth-er also was killed.
Country Music WeekWASHINGTON
Congressman Richard Fultonof Tennessee has introduced aresolution in the House pro-claiming November as Nation-al Country Music Month. It isexpected that President John-son will sign the resolutionupon passage by the Senateand House. Meanwhile, theboard of the Country MusicAssociation, meeting last weekin Toronto, blueprinted officialplans for promotion and ex-ploitation of the observance,which would be kicked off byWSM's annual country diskjockey festival next November5, 6 and 7.
Gov. Clement TributeGov. Frank Clement of
Tennessee, a long timechampion of country music,made the following state-ment after the death of JimReeves:
"The country music worldin particular and the entireentertainment world has losttwo outstanding performers.I knew Jim Reeves person-ally and he was in everysense 'Gentleman Jim.' Ijoin with Tennesseans ev-erywhere in expressing sin-cere condolences to the fam-ilies of these two fine men."
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MUSIC BUSINESS BIG 50 C&W HITSAUGUST 15, 1964
In the opinion of MUSIC BUSINESS' C&W chart research department, the following is a compilation of the nation's best selling and most played C&W phonograph records. Records listed
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1 2 COWBOY IN THE 17 17 I'M HANGING UP THE PHONE 34 33 WALKIN', TALKIN', CRYIN', BARELYCONTINENTAL SUIT Carl & Pearl Butler-Columbia 43030BEATIN' BROKEN HEARTMarty Robbins-Columbia 43049
Johnny Wright-Decca 3159318 20 ME2 3 PASSWORDKitty Wells-Decca 31622
Bill Anderson-Decca 31630 35 36 WEAKER MOMENTSPerlin Husky-Capitol 520619 19 SOMETHING I DREAMED3 7 I GUESS I'M CRAZY George Jones-United Artist 724 36 47 ASK MARIEJim Reeves-RCA Victor 47-8383Sonny James-Capitol 519720 22 ONE IF FOR HIM,4 5 MEMORY #1 TWO IF FOR ME 37 37 INVISIBLE TEARSWebb Pierce, Decca 31617 David Houston-Epic 9690 Ned hiller-Fabor 128
5 1 DANG ME 21 21 PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND ME 38 34 BURNING MEMORIESRoger Miller-Smash 81881 Norma Jean-RCA Victor 8328Ray Price-Columbia 42071
6 6 I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORECharlie Louvin-Capitol 5173
22 24 RHINESTONESFaron Young-Mercury 72271 39 38 THEN I'LL STOP LOVING YOU
The Wilburn Bros.-Decca 31625
7 4 WHERE DOES A LITTLE TEAR 23 29 THE NESTERLefty Prizzell-Columbia 43051 40 41 WORKIN' IT OUTCOME FROM Lester Flan & Earl Seruggs-Columbia 43080
George Jones-United Artist UA 724 24 30 MR. AND MRS. USED TO BEErnest Tubb & Loretta Lynn-Decca 31643 41 42 CHIT ATKINS, MAKE ME A STAR8 11 TAKE MY RING OFF Don Bowman-RCA Victor 3384YOUR FINGER
Carl Smith-Columbia 4303325 27 THE GOLD CUP
Buddy Cagle-Capitol 5154 42 43 SAM HILLClaude King-Columbia 430839 10 I LOVE TO DANCE WITH ANNIE
Ernest Ashworth-Hickory 126526 26 COTTON MILL MAN
Jim & Jesse-Epic 5-9676 43 * PLEASE TALK TO MY HEARTRay Price-Columbia 4308610 13 HERE COMES MY BABY
Dottie West-RCA Victor 837427 31 GUESS WHAT, THAT'S RIGHT,
SHE'S GONEHank Williams Jr.-MGM 13253
44 * TH' WIFEJohn D. Loudermilk-RCA Victor 8389
11 12 SECOND FIDDLEJean Shepard-Capitol 5169 28 23 LOOKING FOR MORE IN '64
Jim Nesbitt-Shart 106545 15 PICK OF THE WEEK
Roy Drusky-Mercury 7226312 14 BE BETTER TO YOUR BABY
Ernest Tubb-Decca 31614 29 18 BE QUIET MINDOtt Stephens-Reprise 0272
46 * OVERNIGHTMargie Bowes-Decca 31644
13 8 WINE, WOMEN AND SONGLoretta Lynn-Decca 31541 30 35 TALKING TO THE NIGHT LIGHTS
Del Reeves-Columbia 4304447 * DERN YA
Ruby Wright-RIK S-126-6414 28 BAD NEWS
Johnny Cash-Columbia 43053 31 25 I STEPPED OVER THE LINEHank Snow-RCA Victor 8334
48 46 SORROW ON THE ROCKSPorter Wagoner-RCA Victor 8304
15 9 THE BALLAD OF IRA HAYESJohnny Cash-Columbia 43053 32 32 MY HEART SKIPS A BEAT
Buck Owens-Capitol 513649 50 WALK TALL
Tom Tall-Chart 108516 16 CIRCUMSTANCES 33 40 FT. WORTH, DALLAS OR HOUSTON 50 48 TOGETHER AGAINBilly Walker-Columbia 43010 George Hamilton IV-RCA Victor 8392 Buck Owens-Capitol 5136 BIG C&W ALBUMSThis LastWeek Week
1 1 MOONLIGHT & ROSESJim Reeves-RCA Victor LPM/LSP 2854
2 2 I WALK THE LINEJohnny Cash-
Columbia CL 2169 (M); CS 8990 (5)
3 5 THERE STANDS THE GLASSCarl Smith-
Columbia CL 2173 (Si); CS 8973 (S)
4 4 GUITAR COUNTRYChet Atkins-RCA Victor LSP 2782
5 3 MORE HANK SNOW SOUVENIRSHank Snow-RCA Victor LPM 2819
6 7 PORTER WAGONER IN PERSONRCA Victor LPM 2840 (M); LSP 2840 (S)
7 8 LORETTA LYNN SINGSDecca DL 4499 (11); DL 74499 (S)
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BLUE AND LONESOMEGeorge Jones-
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* THE BEST OF JIM REEVESRCA Victor LPM 2840 (M); LSP 2890 (5)
17 DANG MERoger Miller-Smash MPS 27049/FRS 67049
12 ON THE BANDSTANDBuck Owens-Capitol T/ST 1879
* GOLDEN COUNTRY HITSHank Thompson-
Capitol T 2089 (M); ST 2089 (S)
14 FOLK SONG BOOKEddy Arnold-
RCA Victor LPM 2811 (M); LSP 2811 (S)
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RING OF FIREJolumy Cash-Columbia CL 2053
SAGINAW MICHIGANLefty Frizzell-Columbia CLS CS 2169
OUR MAN IN TROUBLEDon Bowman-
RCA Victor LPM 2831 (M); LSP 2831 (5)
FLATT & SCRUGGS RECORDED LIVEAT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Flatt & Scruggs-Columbia CL 2134; CS 8034
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK
HAPPY OCCASION. The instrument isa brand new 4 -valve horn (B-flat/A)fresh from the workshop of MeisterHerbert Fritz Knopf of Markneukir-chen Saxony, East Germany. Knopf, afamed pre -World War II horn maker,is now a very old man living behindthe Iron Curtain. He makes only afew instruments a year, and they arevery difficult to obtain.The Player is Brown Meggs, Capitol'snew v.p. for merch-ads-p.r., who im-ported the instrument with help ofCap's International Division. Despiterecent association with Beatles, Meggsis a horn player-well remembered inN. Y. for performances of his ownVariations for Horn on the Theme-Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand."
Darin's With CapitolBobby Darin has finally
signed a recording pact-andto the surprise of everyone inthe trade it is with CapitolRecords. Darin split withCapitol five months ago, ask-ing to be let out of his con-tract. which at that time hada few more months to run.The parting was friendly how-ever, and gave Bobby a chanceto stand off and look at theway his career was going.
A lot of labels wanted Bob-by Darin. When they heard hewas free he received offersfrom close to a dozen firms.One of the most intensive bid-ders was Colpix, where Bob-by's close friend Donnie Kirsh-ner heads the label.
While Bobby was standing
off from the disc scene, hispublishing -producing firm, T.M. Music, got hot. Among therecent and current hit songshis firm publishes are "TheShoop Shoop Song," "UnderThe Boardwalk," "SpanishBoy," "Beg Me," and "SayYou." Meanwhile Bobby wrotethe score and the songs to animportant new picture for theyoung crowd called "The Live-ly Set," starring James Darrenand Joanie Sommers.
By June or so Bobby startedto seriously consider some ofthe disc contract offers he hadreceived. He also knew thatCapitol wanted him back.Since he had maintained hisoffices in the Capitol Tower inHollywood, he had a chanceto see and talk to the execu-tives there on almost a dailybasis. Finally he concludedthat their offer was the bestof all, and he returned to theCapitol fold.
Capitol Records has beenthe hottest firm in the countrywith singles since the start of1964. The re -addition of Darinto the label should reinforcethis position. One thing is cer-tain, his first release will prob-ably get the biggest push fromCapitol Records since TheBeatles' first single.
Yorke Heads ColpixBob Yorke, former RCA Vic-
tor Records executive, is thenew head of Colpix-DimensionRecords. Yorke's name has fig-ured in the speculation of theColpix situation for weeks, al-though many prominent diskmen had been approached.
The Yorke appointmentmeans that Kirshner, who willcontinue to exercise overall su-pervision of the various musicand disc activities at ColumbiaPictures -Screen Gems, willnow concentrate his attentionon working directly with thepop writer element in the fold.In recent weeks, Kirshner has
already moved more activelyinto this area (an area inwhich he made his biggestsuccess in his earlier AldonMusic days) with good results.A number of the firm's tunesare now on the charts.
Meanwhile, Marvin Cane,who has been operating in re-cent months in general areasof the publishing and recordoperations, will now focus hisprimary attention on the movieand TV music areas of publish-ing.
Quaker City FormedPHILADELPHIA
Quaker City Record Distrib-utors has opened for businesshere, with Al Kelly, formerlyof Chips, moving in to becomegeneral manager. Principalsare said to be Harry Finferand Herbie Gordon, wellknown names along record rowhere.
The company is already mov-ing with Bobby Freeman's
Ray Peterson is shown signingan MGM Records contract. He isremembered for such recordhits as "Corinna Corinna", "TellLaura I Love Her", "The Wonderof You", "Goodnight My Love"and others.
Standing left to right are:Jim Vienneau, Arnold Maxin,President of MGM Records andBob McClusky, Ray Peterson'spersonal manager.
The attractive girl is June Wilkinson,in New York to plug her new record,"The Bikini With No Top On Top"which she has cut with Mamie VanDoren for the Jubilee label. Happyfellows surrounding our June areMickey Eichner, head of a. & r. atJubilee, and Jubilee President SteveBlaine.
"The Swim," and "Bread andButter" on the Hickory label,and Kelly is ready to take onmore lines. Address is 710 WestGirard Avenue. Kelly spenttwo years in sales promotionat Chips and at one timehandled jockey chores on near-by WHAT, Trenton.
Gould to MetricHOLLYWOOD
Mike Gould, veteran WestCoast music man, has signedon as general manager of Met-ric Music, Liberty Records'publishing affiliate. Gould willalso run the associated Postand Travis music firms, accord-ing to Liberty's executive vicepresident, Phil Skaff.
Most recently, Gould servedas U. S. rep for the Britishfirm, Campbell -Connelly, forwhom he helped push the tune"Glad All Over," Dave Clark'sfirst hit here, and "Telstar,"a hit awhile back for the Tor-nados. Gould joined Mills Mu-sic as a songplugger in 1940and since then has served withthe late Glenn Miller's MutualMusic; with Borne Music andwith Capitol Records, ArtImoreand Beechwood Music firms.
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IN THE TRADECapitol Names FC&BEver since Capitol decided
to dump its advertising agen-cies (one East coast, one Westcoast) over forty agencies hadapplied for the account. Lastweek, after much speculaton,Capitol Records finally let it beknown that Foote Cone & Beld-ing had the appointment.FC&B will handle both theCapitol and Angel lines, in-cluding pop albums, single rec-ords, Capitol Classics, (Prom-enade), the "Capitol Of TheWorld" series, and Angel Rec-ords. Only the Capitol RecordClub will be outside of thisgrouping, with the club's adsstill to be handled by FrankVos & Co. of New York.
The appointment means thatFC&B will be working out ofHollywood with Brown Meggs,newly appointed vice presidentof Capitol Records Distribut-ing Corps. (CRDC) in chargeof merchandising, advertisingand publicity. Meggs workedon much of the advertising forCapitol singles and showalbums when he was stationedin New York, which is all to
previously handled record ad-vertising.
Capitol also made some otherappointments last week. Theywere to its newly created pressdepartment happily called De-partment of Press and Infor-mation, under Meggs in CRDC.New manager of the depart-ment is Boots LeBaron, fromRogers and Cowan, the bigpublicity firm in the WestCoast. He will handle nationalpubicitly and press and con-sumer relations. Assistant man-ager of the operation is RonTepper, with Capitol since1963 as member of the no -longer -in -existence public re-lations department of CapitolRecords.
Repeal The TaxFor many years the record
industry has struggled alongunder a 10 per cent excise tax.It has borne it since 1941 whenit was imposed during WorldWar II. Not much has reallybeen done to convince Con-gress to eliminate the tax, butlast week the beginning of apotent campaign was launchedby the Record Industry As-sociation of America to haveit removed. Star presenter ofthe industry position was God-dard Liberson, articulate and
TONY GREETS HIS FANS
Tony Bennett autographs his albums at a recent appearance atE. J. Korvette's Fifth Avenue store. At Tony's left is Dave Roth-feld, record buyer for the E. J. Korvette organization. Thisappearance resulted in the sale of several hundred of Tony'smany albums, according 'to promotion manager of FrankCampana of Columbia Distributors, New York.
persuasive president of Col-umbia Records. Henry Briefthe executive secretary of theRIAA also testified, as didCharles Gary, associate execu-tive secretary of the MusicEducators National Conference,and Philip Miller, chief of theMusic Division of the NewYork Public Library.
Theme was: the tax is dis-criminatory since it imposedon a product largely culturaland educational in competitionwith books, sheet music andother art forms not taxed.
4 Star ExpandsHOLLYWOOD
4 Star Music Company, homeoffice in Hollywood, re -openedits New York office under theauspices of former Challengerecording artist Jerry Fuller.
Fuller, who has written sev-eral top tunes, including"Travelin' Man," "YoungWorld," "A Wonder Like You,""It's Up To You," etc., will bein charge of the entire eastcoast operation.
Four Star, currently ridingthe charts with "Misty Moon-light," was the publishers ofpast top hits "Tequila," "LimboRock," and "Lonely Street."
EMI Seeks ExemptionEMI has taken the lead to
keep price-fixing in the Britishrecord industry. EMI Records'managing director L. G. Woodannounced that the companywill seek exemption from the
bill outlawing price-fixing (theResale Price Act) which hasnow received Royal Assent(the equivalent of the U.S.President signing a bill).
Wood stated "EMI either onits own or in conjunction withother record manufacturerswill be registering with thecourt and will be asking forexemption in respect of gram-ophone records."
Suppliers who wish to fixprices have to register theterms for their products withthe Restrictive Practices Court.If they afterwards persuade thecourt that price-fixing on theirgoods is in the public interest,the court will grant an orderfor exemption.
All the other major manu-facturers, except Pye, havestated that they want to keepprice fixing. Pye has promiseda statement, but at the time ofL. G. Wood's statement, Pyemanaging director Louis Ben-jamin was abroad. A meetingof the manufacturers to dis-cuss presenting a combinedcase to the court is expectedshortly.
Silvers' New PostEd Silvers, formerly a. & r.
staffer for Liberty Records,and former professional mana-ger of Metric, Travers, PostMusic, has joined April -Black-wood Music as associate pro-fessional manager. He willwork under Jerry Teifer, pro-fessional manager of the firm.
Casuals vs. KasualsNASHVILLE
The Casuals, music groupunder the management of DubAllbritten, president of One -Niters Inc., was granted an in-junction in Chancery Courthere last week against TheKasuals, a competing musicgroup under the supervision ofteen-age idol Dick Clark, for-bidding further use of "TheKasuals" name.
The Court took cognisance ofspokesmen for The "Kasuals"promising that the name wouldbe dropped.
In the bill, filed by AttorneyW. Ovid Collins, Jr. represent-ing the Casuals-Albrittengroup, plaintiffs were listed asWilliam J. Smith, Joe F. Wat-kins and Richard G. Williams,all of Nashville. Defendantswere Jimmy Ford, Dick Clarkand others.
The Casuals have frequentlyserved as the backing groupin personal appearances and onTV of world-famous recordingstar Brenda Lee.
SG Suit SettledScreen Gems Columbia Mu-
sic, which lodged a suit againstvarious West Coast producers,performers, writers and man-agers, including Lou Adler,has dropped the suit, on thebasis of an out -of -court settle-ment of outstanding claims.
Under the settlement, a num-ber of copyrights recorded bysuch acts as Jan and Deanand Johnny Rivers, which hadbeen claimed by the WestCoast Trousdale Music firm,reverted to Screen Gems Col-umbia. Involved in the settle-ment were such tunes as"Little Old Lady from Pasa-dena," "Memphis," "Go Go GoMighty G.T.O.," "Dead Man'sCurve," and "Hey There It'sYogi Bear."
Various defendants in theoriginal action agreed not tointerfere in any contractual re-lationships which might existbetween Screen Gems Colum-bia and any other person. Itwas also agreed that record-ing, producing and writingagreements which had existedbetween Jan (Berry) and Dean(Torrence) prior to the insti-tution of the suit, with ScreenGems Columbia, would remainin effect for their full terms,which, with existing options,extend through 1969.
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