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OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN. "PLEASE MR. PLEASE":prod by John Farrar) (Blue Gum,ASCAP). The overwhelming airplaychoice from her "Mellow" Ip is nowa charttopping-assured single. Oliv-ia's most country -oriented outing yetwill also speak as sweetly to hertotal audience for ". . Please"pleases pop just as perfectly! MCA40418.

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RINGO STARR, "IT'S ALL DOWN TO GOOD-NIGHT VIENNA" (prod. by RichardPerry) (Lennon/ATV, BMI). Cut fromwhich his most recent album drawsits name is a fitting follow-up to"No No Song." Recalling his morerock 'n rollin' hits of the past, thisJohn Lennon tune should give Ringohis third straight top 10 from the 1p.Apple 1882.

ROBERTA FLACK, "FEELIN' THAT GLOW" (prod-

by Rubino Flake) (Lonport, BMI).Once again surprising us after along wait for the next single, theever-increasing depth and breadthof her artistry shines through Ms.Fla:k funkifizes a bit more thanusual, and it's easy to feel this one'sanother ". . . Like Makin' Love."Atlantic 3271.

SAMMY JOHNS, "RAG DOLL" (prod. by JaySente- & Larry Knechtel) (Hampstead

(C% Heath, ASCAP). The guy who drovestraight past the million seller markin his "Chevy Van" turns his wheelsinto a continental ballad path whichshould likewise find itself pavedwith gold. The tune's elegant flowshould broaden his audience. GRC2052

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JANIS IAN, "AT SEVENTEEN" (prod. by BrooksArthur) (Mine/April, ASCAP). Not somuch advice to the lovelorn as re-flections on same-views that makesense out of solitude and sing ofyouth in very honest terms. No onecould hope to say it better norwould they now try. For in the tell-ing, Ms. Ian is freein' us all. Colum-bia 3-10154.

HUDSON BROTHERS, "RENDEZVOFJS" (prod. byBernie Taupin) (Lornhole, BMI). Asrecently debuted on the "Cher"TVer, the brothers rock out a torridteen turn -on that should take themhigher than ever. One meeting thatshould keep on goin' all Summerlong without any objections what-soever. Most seasonal love tale.Rocket 40417 (MCA).

LINDA LEWIS, "IT'S IN HIS KISS" (prod. by TonySilvester & Bert deCoteaux) (Hud-son Bay, BMI). Super productionshoots for the moon and twirls intoa stable hit orbit as it reconstructsthe former Betty Everett winnerfrom the base of its launching padon up. As one listen will immedi-ately tell you, it's in her grooves!Arista 0129.

NANCY NEVINS, "DON'T HOLD BACK" (prod.by Tom Catalano) (Cataclysmic,BM!). There's a lot of room betweenblue-eyed soul and teary -eyed soft-ness to fill these days and Nancy'sready to move right into it. FormerSweetwater vocalist chugs with dis-tinctive rock power on her solo de-but. Nothin' held back! Tom CatYB-10291 (RCA).

ALBUMSWINGS, "VENUS AND MARS." Influ-ences from the planet of love meet withthose from the satellite of war to forma combustible set from McCartney andtroupe. The sounds are tops aestheti-cally and commercially, though thesound spheres have expanded. The setis heavy with potential singles: "Spiritsof Ancient Egypt" and "Rock Show"dazzle. Capitol SMAS-1 1419 (6.98).

ROLLING STONES, "METAMORPHO-SIS." Take a step back in time fornever -before -released songs and pre-viously unheard versions of Stonesclassics from the bygone days ofBrian Jones and Andrew Oldham as-sociations. In the former milieu thesingle "I Don't Know Why" highlights;the latter genre is topped by "Out ofTime." Abkco ANA 1 (London) (6.98).

THREE DOG NIGHT, "COMING DOWNYOUR WAY." Those three voices thatwork oh so well as a unit and individu-ally merge to yield one of their mostviable sets to date. A steamy versionof Randy Newman's "You Can LeaveYour Hat On" excites; "Mind Over Mat-ter" is compellingly tackled; and "LeanBack, Hold Steady" packs a potentwallop. ABC ABCD-888 (6.98).

EDGAR WINTER, "JASMINE NIGHT -DREAMS." The gently sweet fragranceof the flower of the title is reflected inthe rich bouquet of sound adeptly ren-dered by Edgar and friends and rela-tions. Possible single buds sproutthroughout: "One Day Tomorrow,""Keep On Burnin' " and "Shuffle -Low"among the particularly pleasing petals.Blue Sky PZ 33483 (Columbia) (6.98).

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After years as a founding memberof Faces, Ronnie Lane decidedhe wanted more out of music

than superstardom. So he took a chance.After he left Faces he put together a rock and roll circus. He bought a Big Top,

formed a new band, and brought in acrobats, jugglers, trapeze artists, dancing girls,more musicians, and clowns. Then he toured the English countryside living out ofa gypsy wagon.

Now, with his traveling band, he's recorded an album that reflects his unusuallyhigh and engaging spirits. And it's catching on. It's been picked by all three trades,Record World named it "Sleeper of the Week;' and radio stations all over are playing it.

"Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance:" His first solo album. On A&M Records


Dedicated to the Needs Of the Music/Record Industry JUNE 7, 1975

RECORDDisco Hit PotentialSpurs Radio Interest

By LENNY BEER The disco craze has spreadfrom its roots in New York Cityinto most major markets aroundthe country to differing degrees.However, the question still re-mains as to how radio stationsare dealing with the phenome-non. In New York most of thedance floor hits are receivingsome airplay on both pop andr&b format stations, while thebiggest hits are being pro-grammed in heavy rotation.

The New York stations havetaken the position that a hit is ahit and are pounding as much ashalf their programming intodisco music. WBLS-FM has beenwith the disco records from thestart, WABC is breaking hit afterhit, WPIX-FM is doing specialdisco programming and all of theNew York stations are dancinginto the night.

Other markets have beenignoring some of the discosensations and receiving mixedresponse to some of the onesthey've been playing. There havebeen few national across-the-board hits that have been spurred

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A&M To DistributeHorizon Jazz Lineis LOS ANGELES - Jerry Moss,president of A&M Records, hasannounced the creation of a jazzseries called Horizon to be distri-buted by A&M. The Horizonseries, which will be based inNew York, will be a small qualityline, encompassing a broad jazzspectrum with a particularemphasis on the quality of themusic, engineering, and packag-ing of its product.

John SnyderJohn Snyder, formerly associ-

ated with Creed Taylor at CTI,will run the series in co-ordina-tion with Mel Furman, who willhandle the sales and exploitationof Horizon Jazz, in addition to hiscurrent responsibilities as direc-tor of A&M's New York office.

Snyder says the series will beseeking new artists and qualityinternational jazz product.

Horizon will be located atA&M Records, 595 MadisonAvenue, New York, N.Y. 10022;(212) 826-0477.

Elton LP Tops ChartIn First Week Out NEW YORK - Elton John'snew MCA album "CaptainFantastic and the Brown DirtCowboy" has become thefastest breaking album inRecord World history, de-buting this week at the num-ber one spot on The AlbumChart. The previous recordholder was Led Zeppelin's"Physical Graffiti" which de-buted at 5 some 12 weeks ago.

"Captain Fantastic . . . " isalso Salesmaker of the Week(with 17 out of a possible 20citings on The Retail Re-port) and The FM AirplayReport's "Most Active" album(with 13 out of a possible 14reports from key stations).Before official release, it waslast week's FM "Flashmaker."

NEW YORK - The currentcrop of top 10 packages on TheAlbum Chart have been on thestreet for less than half the num-ber of weeks that their counter-parts of last year required toreach the same sales status. El-ton John's debut at the top spotwith the first week of releaseof "Captain Fantastic . . ." (MCA,see separate story) leads the packof fast -breaking albums, butquicker -than -ever consumer re-sponse shows up in support of awide variety of new product.

Currently, the "weeks on chart"average figure for top 10 albumsis 7.5 as compared with a 19.8twelve months ago. While thenew Elton John album makeschart history, other acts, both es-

Consumers Showing Quick ResponseTo Wide Scope of New LP Product

By ROBERT ADELStablished and building, are like-wise taking part in bringing thataverage down to a surprisinglylow figure. The new DoobieBrothers (WB) package, "Stam-pede," has catapulted to a bul-letted 2 after only four chartweeks, making it their fastestbreaking album to date. Anotherrock band in the same time pe-riod has bulleted into the top 10for the first time at 8: ZZ Top(London) with "Fandango." Anestablished female singer -song-writer, Carly Simon (Elektra) hastaken "Playing Possum" to a bul-leted 7 position in just six weeks.In comparison, last year at thistime the shortest chart life foran ascending top 10 album was

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Bicentennial Works To Be Backed by NEA FundingBy MIKE SHAIN

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Be-tween now and 1977, the federalgovernment plans to spend atleast $1.5 million on music forthe nation's Bicentennial celebra-tion. More than half that amounthas already been committed tothe commissioning of specialworks by American composers,

collecting recordings for a hugefolk music anthology and under-writing various traditional musicfestivals around the country.

The National Endowment forthe Arts (NEA) is coordinating themusical activities and parcellingout the funds. Since 1973, Con-gress has almost doubled theagency's budget from $38.2 mil-

RIAA Reports Dollar IncreaseIn 1974 Record & Tape Sales NEW YORK - Manufacturers'sales of phonograph records andpre-recorded tapes in 1974soared to a new high of $2.2billion, an increase of nine per-cent over the $2.017 billion in1973, the Recording IndustryAssociation of America an-nounced.

RIAA spokesmen said the in-crease in dollar sales reflectedthe higher list prices that wereinstituted by record and tapecompanies during 1974 tocounteract escalating costs of re-cording and material. Althoughtotal unit sales were downslightly from the previous year,594 million against 616 million,RIAA said the over-all industryperformance was outstanding inview of the state of the Ameri-can economy generally.

Disc sales in 1974 climbed to$1.550 billion, compared with

$1.436 billion in 1973. Of thistotal, sales of long-playing rec-ord albums rose from $1.246billion in 1973 to $1.356 billionin 1974, an increase of 8.8 per-cent, while singles rose from$190 million to $194 million, up2.1 percent.

In terms of units, however,sales of long-playing albums de-clined from 280 million to 276million, a decrease of 1.4 percent,and singles declined from 228million in 1973 to 204 million,down 10.5 percent.

Total dollar sales of pre-re-corded tapes rose to $650 millionin 1974, compared with $581million in 1973, and total unitsales also increased from 108million units in 1973 to 114million units in 1974. The break-down by tape configuration wasas follows (unit sales in paren-


lion then to $75 million in fiscal1975. The added funds have al-lowed NEA to make larger andsignificant changes in the agen-cy's programs and to commissionspecial works in all the arts.

A unique innovation in musicalcommissions for the Bicentennialwill allow NEA to boast of severalhundred performances of newmusic from just a handful of com-missions. Four groups of metro-politan and regional orchestras-arranged by city size or geogra-phic location - have been as-sembled to commission and per-form four separate sets of work.The "big six" symphonies-NewYork, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleve-land, Chicago and Los Angeles-will share a $72,000 award. Eachwill commission a piece, performit and then ship it out to theother five symphonies to per-form.

The "second seven" orchestras-Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit,Minnesota, St. Louis, San Francis-co and the National of Washing-ton-will split slightly more than$200 thousand for seven commis-sions. Lesser grants are flowingto five small northeastern citysymphonies and another consor-tium in the southeast of 12 or-chestras.

Altogether, NEA calculates itsround-robin system of commis-sions will yield 15 new composi-


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First Phonogram/Phonodisc MeetStresses Commitment To Product CHICAGO - Irwin Steinberg,president of Phonogram, Inc./Mercury Records, asked Phono-disc, Inc., personnel to have"more knowledge of, interest in,feeling for, and commitment tothe product" of the Mercuryorganization. The statement waspart of the keynote address de-livered during the first meetingbetween national and fieldrepresentatives of the Phono-disc distributing organization,and the Phonogram staff onSaturday, May 23, in Chicago. Itwas both an orientation meetingaimed at familiarizing the distri-butor personnel with Mercury/Philips/Vertigo product prior tothe official entrance of Phono-gram/Mercury in the Phonodiscoperation on June 1 plus a get -acquainted session allowing per-sonnel of both organizations tomeet each other.

The meeting was part of a

three-day national conclave ofPhonogram/Mercury. On May 21,

Levinson Names Stern

Senior Vice President LOS ANGELES-The promotionof Mark Stern to senior vice presi-dent in charge of east coast opera-tions at Levinson Associates, Inc.,international public relations or-ganization, has been announcedby the firm's president, BobLevinson.

Mark Stern

Stern is in his fifth year withLevinson Associates, directingeastern activities from New Yorksince 1972. He was promoted tovice president in 1973. Sternjoined the PR firm following fiveyears with Capitol Records anda year as writer -producer ofthe weekly Metropolitan Operabroadcasts from the Met.

Stern headquarters at LevinsonAssociates, 10 West 66th Street,Suite 12b, New York 10023; (212)595-3336. Levinson supervisesworld operations from offices at6565 Sunset Blvd., Suite 225, LosAngeles, Calif. 90028; (213) 461-8441.

the regional marketing managersheld their national meeting andthe following day, the local andnational promotion staff didlikewise.

Much of the interaction ofMercury and Phonodisc person-nel took place at a cocktailparty/buffet dinner the eveningof the 22nd. Besides being anopportunity to meet each other,it proved to be a highly success-ful showcase for The Flock,whose debut Mercury album,"Inside Out," is being releasedJune 1.

At the Saturday meeting,Steinberg pointed to a quotefrom Nietzche's "The TwilightOf The Idols" which he said"Sums up our feelings here atPhonogram / Mercury. 'Nothingever succeeds which exuberantspirits have not helped to pro-duce.' You will find that ourexuberance runneth over.

"We are proud of our ac-complishments. We are proudthat Phonogram/Mercury is thefastest growing company in thebusiness. We are an innovative,dynamic, profitable, creativebusiness with a reputation foruniqueness, quality and imagina-tion. We insist on the samededication to excellence fromeveryone who works with us. Weare sure that you will help us


CBS Names Oberstein

Managing Director, U.K. NEW YORK-Maurice L. Ober -stein has been appointed manag-ing director of CBS Records U.K.,succeeding Dick Asher whomoves to New York to take upthe post of president, CBS Rec-ords International Division.

Obserstein, 46, joined CBSRecords in 1965 after running hisown budget record company,Rondo Records. In April of thatyear he moved to London to helpset up the operation of CBSRecords as an independent labelin Britain. His career since thenhas seen him operating as direc-tor of operations, then director ofmarketing and sales, and mostrecently as managing director ofmanufacturing.

Born in New York, he is theson of the late Eli Obserstein,one time head of RCA Recordsa& r.

A graduate chemical engineerfrom Clarkson Tech and an LLBfrom New York University,"Obie" includes among hismany credits a Guiness Book ofRecords entry as the producer(for Premier Albums) of theworld's fastest selling Ip - "TheJohn Kennedy Memorial Album."

ABC Taps Mael as VP LOS ANGELES - Si Mael hasbeen appointed to the newlycreated position of financial vicepresident of ABC Records. Hewill report directly to Jerold H.Rubinstein, ABC Records' chair-man.

Si Mael

Originally a CPA in public ac-counting practice, Mael gainedrecognition in the music industryas controller at United Artists,where he eventually became vicepresident and general manager.He subsequently operated his ownbusiness and management con-sultant organization, Si Mael As-sociates, and then became gen-eral manager of Polydor Recordsin New York.

Immediately prior to joiningABC Records, Mael was vice presi-dent and general manager ofMusical Isle of America.

Columbia To Release

'Chorus Line' Album NEW YORK - Columbia Rec-ords' Masterworks is currentlyrecording the original sound-track from the off-BroadwayShow, "A Chorus Line." Themusical, which has already beennamed "Musical Of The Year"by the New York Drama Critics,was conceived, choreographedand directed by Michael Ben-net and features music by thecomposer Marvin Hamlisch andlyrics by Edward Kleban. God-dard Lieberson will produce themusic for recording on behalf ofColumbia Masterworks.

The soundtrack from "AChorus Line" will be rush re-leased by Columbia immediatelyupon its completion, which is

scheduled for mid -June.

WEA Names Spingola VP LOS ANGELES-Joel Friedman,president of the Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corp., has announced thepromotion of Dick Spingola tovice president, corporate con-troller.

Previous to being named thefirm's controller in 1973, Spingolahad been operations manager ofthe WEA Chicago branch for twoyears.

He will continue to report toFriedman.

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Olivia Newton -John

A New Single

Please Mr. PleaseMCA -40418

From he: LP "Have You Never Been Mellow," MCA 2133. Produced by John Farrar.MCA RECORDS


Third Street School Honors Bacharach1! NEW YORK - Burt Bacharachand the F&M Schaefer BrewingCompany were honored onThursday, May 29 at the 80thAnniversary Luncheon for theThird Street Music School Settle-ment, which was held in theGrand Ballroom of the PlazaHotel. The Luncheon was co-chaired by Mr. and Mrs. AhmetErtegun and all proceeds went tothe Third Street Music School'sScholarship Fund. Students fromthe school also performed duringthe Luncheon.

Following introductory re-marks made by Kitty Carlisle,William Bayard Carlin, president,board of directors, Third StreetMusic School Settlement, pre-sented the School's DistinguishedService Music Award to WilliamJ. Schoen, president, F&MSchaefer Brewing Company. 1975marks the tenth Summer thatSchaefer has underwritten theMusic Festival in Central Park andhas also sponsored musicalevents in other boroughs ofNew York City.

The School's DistinguishedAchievement in Music Awardwas presented this year by Car-lin to composer -arranger -con-ductor -performer -producer BurtBacharach. The Award recog-nized Bacharach's contributionto the music world through hishit Broadway musical ("Promises,Promises") and his prodigiousnumber of hit songs, film scores

(most notably "Butch Cassidyand the Sundance Kid"), concertappearances and best-sellingalbums.

Prior to thetion, Carlin

awards presenta-announced that

Harris Danziger, director of theThird Street Music School Settle-ment, is retiring and will accepta post as director emeritus of theschool. Following this announce-ment, Danziger spoke briefly tothe audience and introduced thestudent performers.

GRT To MarketTV Packages SUNNYVALE, CAL.-GRT MusicTapes, a division of the GRT Cor-poration, has announced its en-trance into the TV broadcast pro-motion field with three newpackages: "The Everly Brothers(26 Hits)," "Basic Black (25 r&bHits)" and "Country Music (27Hits)."

According to Dave Law, GRTMusic Tapes TV broadcast mana-ger, "GRT has had solid responseto our first three TV packages, andwe are planning the release ofthree more before the end of theyear. GRT is looking to many ofexisting licensees and also or-ganizations outside the realm oftheir current licensing agreementsfor these new packages. GRT usesboth direct response and retailoutlets for marketing its TV pack-ages."

Epic, Monument Sign New Pact NEW YORK-Irwin Segelstein,president, CBS Records and FredFoster, president of MonumentRecords, have announced a newlong-term agreement betweenMonument and Epic Records,continuing the relationship withthis member of the CBS CustomLabel family. The pact wasreached by Ron Alexenburg, vicepresident and general manager,Epic and CBS Custom Labels, andFred Foster.

The Monument label, foundedin 1958 by Foster in Nashville,and based in country music, hasgrown to encompass many stylesof music. The Monument rosterincludes such recording artists asKris Kristofferson, Charlie McCoy,Billy Swan, Michael Bacon, Bare-foot Jerry, Tommy Roe, LarryGatlin, Lloyd Green, Boots Ran-dolph, Al Hirt, Larry Jon Wilson,Maxine Weldon, Ronnie Hawkinsand many others.

Shown at the official signing ceremony are (from left): Ron Alexenburg, vice presidentand general manager, Epic and CBS Custom Labels; Fred Foster, president, MonumentRecords; Mrs. Fred Foster; and Irwin Segelstein, president, CBS Records.

Paul Lovelace Resumes

20th Natl. Promo Post LOS ANGELES-Paul Lovelace,vice president, 20th Century Rec-ords has resumed his post as

national promotion chief of thelabel, effective immediately, ac-cording to Russ Regan, presidentof the firm. Lovelace moves overfollowing a tenure as VP, countryoperations.

Paul Lovelace

Simultaneously Lovelace has an-nounced two new appointmentsto the country department inNashville. Irving Woolsey, former-ly of ABC Records, now headscountry promotion while LynnSchultz, formerly with UA Rec-ords, will helm country sales.

Lovelace entered the recordindustry with Decca Records,Memphis, in 1969 as a local pro-motion man. Two years later hewas transferred to Nashville afterbeing promoted to director ofnational country promotion forthe company. In 1972, Lovelacewas tapped by Regan to join himin the formation of 20th CenturyRecords as national promotionmanager. Recently, when 20thentered the country field withJimmy Vienneau at the helm inNashville, Lovelace was appointedto the newly created position ofdirector of country marketing.

Warner/SpectorIn Promo Shift LOS ANGELES - Warner Bros.Records last week issued the fol-lowing statement: "Contrary torumor, Warner/Spector Recordsis not closing its doors. PhilSpector announced recently thathe has decided to change thepromotion set up of the label andindicated that new appointmentswithin the promotion team wouldbe forthcoming."

Spector recently entered into along term contract with WarnerBros. Records whereby he wouldrecord and produce artists underhis Warner/Spector label. Up-coming W/S releases includerecords by newly signed artistJerri Bo Keno, a single and an al-bum by Dion Dimucci and a

single by Darlene Love. Spectorwill also produce an album forthe Brewers, a new group fromLos Angeles.

E,W&F To AppearIn Shore Film NEW YORK - Earth, Wind &Fire, whose latest ColumbiaRecords album ("That's The WayOf The World") and single ("Shin-ing Star") recently topped the RWalbum and singles charts, respec-tively, will make its cinematicdebut in Sig Shore's up -comingfilm, "That's The Way Of TheWorld." The nine members ofEarth, Wind & Fire will portray arock 'n' soul band. The "That'sThe Way ..." album, according toColumbia, has sold more than amillion units.

The group - Maurice White,Verdine White, Philip Bailey, LarryDunn, Al McKay, Ralph Johnson,Johnny Graham, Andrew Woolfolkand Fred White-has three goldalbums to its credit, including"Open Our Eyes, Head To theSky" and "Last Days and Time,"in addition to the latest disc.

Says Jack Craigo, VP marketing,Columbia Records, "As the grouphas grown, Columbia Records hasexploited their vast potential audi-ence to help make Earth, Wind &Fire a tremendous commercialsuccess." He attributes much ofthe credit for breaking the groupto the CBS Records special mar-kets department and the specialmarkets promotion departmentunder the guidance of RichardMack. Mack is director, r&b pro-motion, CBS Records' special mar-kets.

Nancy Sinatra SignsWith Private Stock

Larry Uttal, president of Private StockRecords, has announced the signing ofNancy Sinatra to a long-term, worldwiderecording contract with the label. Workingwith producer Snuff Garrett, Ms. Sinatra'sfirst release for the label will be "Anna -bell of Mobile," authored by Bobby Rus-sell. Pictured above, from left, are Garrett,Ms. Sinatra and Uttal.

UA Adds Stan's RecordsTo Distributor Roster LOS ANGELES-Sal Licata, vicepresident, sales, United ArtistsRecords of America, has an-nounced the addition of Stan'sRecords to the roster of inde-pendent distributors for theUnited Artists, Blue Note andaffiliated label product. Stan'sRecords will handle the distribu-tion of product for the Shreveportmarket.

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LINDA LEWIS,ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!

The word for Linda is INCREDIBLE! There isno other way to describe an artist who canadd so much excitement to a song, who candeliver so much emotion, who can knockyou out of this world! Some of the lowest,highest, sweetest, strongest voices you'veever heard are all Linda Lewis. Her dynamicnew single has just been shipped and theword is already being passed- INCREDIBLE!

`IT'S INIS KISS"

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AGAC Rap Session NEW YORK - The AmericanGuild of Authors / Composers(AGAC) will sponsor another freeSongwriters Rap Session onWednesday, June 4th at the Bar-bizon -Plaza Hotel at 8 p.m. Thetopic for discussion will be "HowDoes A Record Get On The Air?"

Rick Sklar, vice president ofWABC radio, will moderate thediscussion and featured speakerswill be Dennis Elsas, WNEW-FMmusic director and deejay andBobby Jay, WWRL assistant pro-gram director and deejay.

Party Tymes

In celebration of the Tymes' successful tour of England, RCA Records hosted a gala for the group recently at Leviticus disco inNew York, during which time the group performed and accepted a gold record for their number one British hit "Ms. Grace."Pictured above during the festivities are, from left: Frankie Crocker of WBLS, a lady friend, TK recording artists George andGwen McCrae, and RCA's director of r&b Tom Draper; RCA a&r producer Carl Malts, manager of regional r&b promotionChip Donelson, Tymes producer Billy Jackson, r&b product manager Ray Harris, and RCA artist Weldon Irvine; WBLS musicdirector Wanda Ramos and Draper (left) flank the Tymes who surround Lucio Battisti and Billy Jackson (center).

Stewart Pacts with Warners LOS ANGELES - Rod Stewartnow records excusively for War-ner Bros. Records for worldwiderelease, it was announced inBurbank by Stewart, Warners'board chairman Mo Ostin, labelpresident Joe Smith and BillyGaff of Gaff Management.Stewart has recorded for thelabel for the last six years as amember of The Faces and theannouncement marks his move toWarner Bros. as a solo artist.

Pictured following the announcement ofUB's signing of Rod Stewart as a soloartist are, from left, Joe Smith, WBpresident, Stewart and Billy Gaff of GaffLlanagement.

Concurrently with the signing,Stewart announced the comple-tion of his latest album, to bereleased by Warner Bros. inAugust. Tentatively titled "At-lantic Crossing," the album wasproduced by Tom Dowd and re-corded in Muscle Shoals and LosAngeles. Musicians on the albuminclude the Muscle ShoalsRhythm Section, featuring BarryBeckett, Roger Hawkins, JimmyJohnson, Pete Carr and David

Rhinestone Label Bows LOS ANGELES - The Rhine-stone Record Company has beenformed here as a division ofAmerican Entertainment In-dustries. Ronald Levin, chairmanof the latter firm has announcedthe appointment of T. PhillipsJr. as president of the new labeland Ron Fight as vice president.

According to Levin, the label isin the process of acquiringartists; signings and distributionarrangements will be announcedin the near future.

Hood, and the Memphis RhythmSection, consisting of Al Jackson,Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn.The Los Angeles sessions includeperformances by Jesse Ed Davis,Fred Tackett, Lee Sklar, WillieSmith and Bob Glaub, amongother guest artists.

Promotional TourFollowing the release of the

album, Stewart will embark on apromotional tour for WarnerBros., meeting with radio, pressand WB sales and promotionstaffs in the major market cities.Beginning August 15, Rod Stewartjoins The Faces for a tour cover-ing 35 cities in America andCanada. The group will tourJapan, Australia, New Zealandand Europe next year.

'Straight ShooterIs Certified Gold NEW YORK-"Straight Shoot-er," the second album by SwanSong recording group Bad Com-pany, has been certified gold bythe RIAA under their new stan-dards which require more than500,000 retail sales. "StraightShooter" thus becomes the third"gold" album for Swan Song Rec-ords, following Bad Company'sfirst album ("Bad Co.") and LedZeppelin's "Physical Graffiti."

Bad Company has also becomethe first group on its initial head-lining tour of the United States tosell out Madison Square Garden,according to Swan Song. Thegroup's tour runs through June 22and features Maggie Bell as Spe-cial Guest Star.

Famous Holds Coast Meetings NEW YORK - Famous MusicPublishing staff met recently atParamount Studios in Hollywoodto coordinate recording and pro-motion plans for the music ofParamount Pictures' importantnew films "The Day Of TheLocust," "Framed," "Once Is NotEnough," "Life Guard," "Man -dingo," "Nashville" and "Posse,"and the new prime time weeklyABC-TV "Jim Stafford Show."

The meeting was headed by

Marvin Cane, chief operatingofficer of the music firm. Partici-pating in the two day conferencewere Julie Chester, west coastprofessional manager; Sid Her-man, VP of administration; AnnGardner, national promotiondirector; Hy Grill, director ofNashville operations; BillyMeshel, director of creative serv-ices and Dick Milfred, director,standard operations.

Seen at the annual meeting of the Famous Music Publishing Companies in Los Angelesare, from left: Billy Meshel, director of creative services; Marvin Cane, chief operatingofficer; Julie Chester, west coast professional manager; Dick Milfred, director, standardoperations; Ann Gardner, national promotion director; Hy Grill, director of Nashvilleoperations.

'1776 Song Book'Set by Hansen MIAMI BEACH - "The 1776Song Book," a collection of 1776songs totalling almost 1000pages, will be the contribution ofHansen Publications to the com-ing celebration of America's bi-centennial, it was announcedby Joe Carlton, executivevice president of the Hansencompany.

Charles Hansen, Jr.Compiled by Charles W. Han-

sen, Jr., the special bicentennialsong book will be offered as ahardcover, clothbound edition,with a special pre -publication,soft cover edition. The book willbe printed in two colors, with aunique, double -varnished, four-color cover. The soft cover edi-tion will be "perfect bound."

All art and graphics for "The1776 Song Book" have been de-signed and collected by Hansen'sin-house art department underthe direction of senior art direc-tor, Jim Shaffer.

International PromotionA special international sales

promotion program for "The1776 Song Book" will be an-nounced shortly by ArturoRainerman, vice president incharge of sales for HansenPublications.

New Label Debuts:Middle Earth RecordsI LOS ANGELES-The formationof Middle Earth Records, a newlabel based here has been an-nounced by George Renfro, presi-dent. First act set by the companyis "Classics," produced by CharlesVeal with arranagements by ArtFreeman.

DistributionDistribution will be through

independent channels with speci-fic information to be announcedsoon. National promotion andsales will be handled by Pat Bush,formerly of Chelsea Records. Thelabel is headquartered at 440 N.LaBrea Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.



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THE C ?PASTBy BEN EDMONDS

A REAL PUBLIC SERVICE: The Beach Boys/Chicago concert in Anaheim was totally devoid ofany of the gendarme rampage that has so patheti-cally characterized many recent Los Angeles areashows, with no small portion of the credit due Mr.Jim Guercio. To insure minimal search -and -seizureaction, Guercio resourcefully stationed his securitypeople well in advance of the police checkpoints,where they stopped incoming cars and warnedthe occupants to relieve themselves of whatever

illegal substances they might've been holding. The cars subsequentlystopped by the police were found to be clean, and the show cameoff without further harrassment. The Caribou people should be gen-erally complimented for their magnificent handling of the tour project,which has conclusively proven that large-scale rock & roll events neednot be the battlefields they appeared on the verge of becoming . .

Rod Stewart and Britt Ecklund are not, as we've been assuming forthe past few weeks, married. They did take a vow of sorts, but itwasn't legal (and maybe not even moral) . . . Specific informationwon't be available for some weeks yet, but The Who are definitblycommitted to a Stateside tour in the Fall. And barring unforseen and/or severe difficulties, there should be a new album to coincide withthe dates. This one will be a collection of songs; by this time it's apretty safe bet that the words "concept" and "opera" have been vol-untarily stricken from Pete Townshend's vocabulary . . . The ElectricFlag having gone the way of most reunion attempts, Michael Bloom-field is rumored to be putting together a new venture, to include theconsiderable talents of drummer Carmine Appice, bassist Rick Gretch,Barry Goldberg on keyboards and Ray Kennedy (whose voice wasfeatured prominently on the "Phantom Of The Paradise" soundtrack)on vocals and sax.

SUMMER OF LOVE ALMOST REVISITED: Eight years after theypioneered the San Francisco musi-cultural explosion, the GratefulDead seem on the verge of making a significant new record deal.Though Ron Rakow denies that the Dead are backing off from theirindependent label to re -join a major, an executive at one companystates categorically that the band has been negotiating with her label,and therefore probably others as well. This while word that anotherpremier San Francisco band is making label -switching noises . . . Ex -Three Dog Night players Floyd Snead (drums), Joe Schermie (bass)and Michael Allsup (guitar) have recruited three Louisiana natives(Wayne De Villier and Bobby Kimball on keyboards and guitaristStan Seymore) to form a band called S. S. Fools, which has raised morethan a few corporate eyebrows . . . The best news we've heard ineons is the Columbia speculation that they'll release the next BruceSpringsteen album in August . . . Having been tipped off that some-body put out a pie contract on his face, Billy Sherrill has retained theservices of a round-the-clock bodyguard to protect him from thecrippling whipped cream . . . At a Freddie King concert in Tulsa lastweek, Leon Russell unexpectedly showed up onstage to introduceFreddie, and then sat in on a couple of numbers . . . Lowell Georgeset to produce Tom Jans' next album, for Epic . . . Laura Nyro finallyback in the studio, with Charlie Calello arranging ... Maggie Bell saidto be close to tying the knot with an Oxford professor, who says heintends "to make an honest woman of her." (It'll take more than acollege education to accomplish that, buddy.) ... Johnny Rivers mak-ing the rounds with his latest studio efforts, among them a reportedlyexcellent version of "Help Me Rhonda" which features an assistfrom Brian Wilson . . . Congrats due Ode's Marshall Blonstein andwife Beverly on the birth of a baby girl. Likewise ICM's Dick Gilmoreand wife Malou, also proud parents of a new female addition to thefamily . .. Robert Palmer has been in town recording his next albumwith an assist from Little Feat and Gene Page. Among the tunes arethe Feat's "Trouble" and Toots & The Maytals' "Pressure Drop" . . .

Texas Governor Briscoe is expected next week to proclaim July 4thas "Willie Nelson Day" in the Lone Star State, this to coincide withWillie's third annual picnic extravaganza . . . And July 6th will be"Lynyrd Skynyrd Day" in Jacksonville Fla., by proclamation of thecity's mayor. They play the Jacksonville Colisseum on that date, andwill receive keys to the city. To celebrate, group members Ronnie VanZant and Gary Rossington punched out a bartender at an Ann Arbor,Michigan, Holiday Inn, for which they were promptly thrown in thecooler on a drunk & disorderly charge. Manager Peter Rudge's reac-tion? "Next time it better happen in a Top 40 town."

Greezy Wheels Slide In

London Records recently flew some key executives into the Austin, Texas area tocelebrate the release of the debut "Greezy Wheels" album on the label. Picturedabove at a press party are, from left, Buddy of H. W. Daily, Inc. of Houston, Londondirector of national promotion Brian Interland, Greezy Wheelers Cleve Hattersley, MaryEgan and Tony Loire, and London national sales manager Sy Warner.

Columbia Signs Wolfman Jack LOS ANGELES-CBS Recordshas announced the signing of ra-dio and television personalityWolfman Jack to an exclusive,worldwide recording contract.

Wolfman Jack, a familiar radio"voice" since the mid -Fifties, is

currently heard on a syndicatedprogram aired twice weekly onmore than 2,000 stations aroundthe world. He is the host of theweekly "Midnight Special" tele-vision program, and was featuredin the Universal City Studios top -grossing film, "American Graf-fiti."

Wolfman's first Columbia al-bum, titled "Fun and Romance,"will be released domesticallyJune 9. The album was producedby the Robb Brothers at Chero-kee Studios in Los Angeles, fortheir Cherryhill Productions inassociation with Wolfman Jack'sHowl Productions. The albumfeatures rock and roll oldies andspecial new material, all per-

formed in the Wolfman's oft -imi-tated manner.

The release of the album coin-cides with a 31 -date nationaltour, which begins in Akron,Ohio, on June 11. The concertpackage, produced by radio con-sultant Buzz Bennett, is beingpromoted under the title "I SawRadio - Fun and Romance."Wolfman Jack stars in a fullystaged and choreographed set-ting, where he is backed by arock band, singers and local ra-dio personalities who are incor-porated into each performance.

Columbia and the Don KelleyOrganization have planned anextensive promotion campaign,including in-store displays, brow-ser cards, posters, time buys andcocktail parties for local radiostations personnel. Album andtour promotion graphics havebeen coordinated for maximumimpact, as have all other phasesof the campaign.

Pictured following the signing are, from left, Columbia Records vice president of westcoast a&r Don Ellis, Buzz Bennett, manager Don Keiley and Wolfman Jack.



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TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF (prod. byGamble -Huff)(Mighty Three, BM!)

The whole world is now their oyster,being one of the biggest internationalgroups around. TCBin' tune that began itstop 10 trek in the U.K. comes home.

JACK JONES-RCA PB-10317WHAT I DID FOR LOVE (prod. by Mike Berniker &

Jack Jones) (Wren, BMI/Red Bullet, ASCAP)

Marvin Hamlisch has written a newmelody to rival his "The Way We Were"in the sheer beauty department. Firstrelease from "Chorus Line" is a Jones joy!

GLORIA GAYNOR-MGM 14808WALK ON BY (prod. by Meco Monardo, Tony

Bongiovi & Jay Ellis/DCA Records)(Blue Seas/Jac, ASCAP)

More soulful than her last two outings,the "Never Can Say Goodbye" gal selectsthe rap device to set her new sound outfront of the pack. Walkin' proud.

ROAD APPLES-Mums ZS8-6039 (Col)LET'S LIVE TOGETHER (prod. by David Kershenbaum)

(Landers-Roberts/April, ASCAP)Sounds like this one could prove to bethe sleeper Summer hit of '75! A oncetaboo top 40 topic should now receiveits due from programmers' open arms.

JOSE FELICIANO-RCA PB-10306TWILIGHT TIME (prod. by Janna Merlyn Feliciano &

Jose Feliciano) (Porgie, BMI)Ballads have become a magical means ofbringing back chart perennials. Taking aPlatters '58 memory and making it twinkleanew, this sounds like a biggie!

GUYS 'N' DOLLS-Epic 8-50109THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF LOVING (prod. by

Arnold -Martin -Morrow) (Dick James, BMI)

With a pure pop appeal, much like theSeekers, this vocal group bubbles over ona tune that suggests a soda commercialbut becomes their own sales pitch.

BARRABAS-Atco 7027HI -JACK (prod. by F. Arbex)

(Sunbury, ASCAP)

Spanish rock originators of the HerbieMann hit won the battle of the discosand now could see a vocal chart forayfollowing in the flute man's footsteps.

ELVIN BISHOP-CapricornCPS 0237 (WB)

SURE FEELS GOOD (prod. by Johnny Sandlin)(Crabshaw, ASCAP)

From his "Juke Joint Jump" sessions, thekind of light 'n bright lyric/melodymarriage that sure feels good in the Sum-mertime. A "Groovin'" for 1975.

SINGLE PICKSLINDA CARR & THE LOVE SQUAD-

Roxbury 2009 (Chelsea)HIGHWIRE

(prod. by Kenny Nolan)(Sounds of Nolan/Chelsea, BMI)

One of the best black female groups todebut in years. Gutsy lead is supported byother vocal foxes in a renaissance of theold Vandellas/Marvelletes sound.

TOM JONES-Parrot 5N-40083 (London)AIN'T NO LOVE (prod. by Gordon Mills)

(Mainstay, BMI)There's a momentum on this Jones jumperthat sets it apart from his most recentreleases. Steel drums should send himback up the charts with ". .. Love."

JEFF BECK-Epic 8-50112YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN (prod. by

George Martin/Equator Prod.) (Equator/B. Feldman, ASCAP)

Week after week, "Blow by Blow" climbsup The Album Chart, attesting to the com-merciality of hard rock guitar virtuositysans vocals. He means it here too.

CHER-Warner Bros. 8096GERONIMO'S CADILLAC (prod. by Jimmy Webb)

(Mystery, BMI)The first chart triumph for Michael "Wild-fire" Murphey returns as the first singlefrom her "Stars" Warners bow. Her high-est octane rating in two years!

PYRAMID-Bang 715SUNSHINE LADY (prod. by Pyramid)

(Web IV/Windfall, BMI)Atlanta -based band is into a nice Crosby -Stills -Nash harmony bag here with anaccent on southern roots. Their woman'son the rise for future chartin'.

PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE-RCA PB-10302TWO LANE HIGHWAY (prod. by John Boylan/

Great Eastern Gramophone Prod. (Rotgut, ASCAP)

Realigned group coming off a hot pasteffort in "Arnie" adds new spirit to theircountry -rock trip. Vehicle rides soundlydown a chart speedway.

GARY BONNER-Atlantic 3275I CAN'T TAKE IT (prod. by Bob Ezrin/Migration

Records) (Extragordonary, BMI)

Artist switches gears in order to head fordisco territory and so a new lease on hitlife. An upper that both radio and dancersshould find pleasant to take.

BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS-Island 027

LIVELY UP YOURSELF (prod. by Chris Blackwell &the Wailers) (Cayman, ASCAP)

The most successful natural proponentsof reggae music worldwide come up withthe genre's most commercial sound todate. Lively blues -tinged rouser!

MYSTIC MOODS-Soundbird 5002(Sutton -Miller)

HONEY TRIPPIN' (prod. by Hal Winn, Bob Todd,Don McGinnis & Brad Miller) (Ginseng/Medallion Avenue, ASCAP)

Concept studio group that used to be intomusic to just romance by now adds agyrating edge a la Love Unlimited Or-chestra. From their "Erogenous" Ip.

TAMMY JONES-Columbia 3-10156LET ME TRY AGAIN (prod. by Robin Blanchflower)

(Spanka, BMI/Flanka, ASCAP)

Paul Anka song normally associated withFrank Sinatra could become this ShirleyBassey-type's own signature tune. Hervibrato is a vibrant approach to MOR.

LETTERMEN-Capitol 4096YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE GIRL (prod. by

David D. Cavanaugh & Lettermen)(House of Gold, BMI)

Tune from the man who wrote and per-forms "It Hurts a Little Even Now" goesfar to show off the contemporary thrustof these guys with an MOR glow.

PABLO CRUISE-A&M 1695ISLAND WOMAN (prod. by Michael Jackson)

(Almo, ASCAP; Irving/Pablo Cruise, BMI)Out of the ashes of Stoneground and It'sa Beautiful Day comes this FM/top 40phenix-to-be. Blue-eyed jungle sagacreates its own unique tropical paradise.

RIPPLE-GRC 2060THIS AIN'T NO TIME TO BE GIVING UP (prod. by

L. Emmanuel & M. Davis) (Act One, BMI)Act that has the stuff to develop intoAtlanta's answer to Ohio Players takeshold of a fiery piece of crossover product.Givin' it all they got and then some!

PARLIAMENT-Casablanca 831CHOCOLATE CITY (prod. by George Clinton/

RSA Prod.) (Malbiz/Ricks, BMI)

Increasing black power latent in Americanurban centers, particularly Washington,D.C., is the musical focal point here. GilScott -Heron's got nuthin' on them!

VALERIE HARP-Buddah 469A WOUNDED BLACKBIRD CAN'T FLY (prod. by

Roger Grod & John Piolo) (Fox Fanfare, BMI)Doc Pomus soars back into the songwrit-ing scene with a powerful ballad ablyhandled by a debuting thrush. Healthyflight that should nest easily on the air.

TIGER-TIGER-Miccosukee Hopanke1001

HI-YA-NO-MIE' (prod. not listed)(Miccosukee, BMI)

Not all funk from Miami is black. Here'sa vivid example in red as AmericanIndian -influenced chantin' whoops up astorm. Could be another "Witchi Tai To."



DIAL GUETHE VIEWPOINTS OF THE INDUSTRY

Pete Smolen And The Record Bar StoryBy DAVID McGEE

When Pete Smolen needed aSummer job between semestersat Duke University, where he wasa pre-med student, he went towork at one of the two RecordBar stores in Durham, North Car-olina. At that time those were theonly Record Bar stores anywhere.Upon graduation from Duke,Smolen decided he didn't wantto be a doctor; unsure of hiscareer, he went back to work forRecord Bar and found the com-pany in the process of expandingto seven stores. Smolen was 21years old then. Seven years later, Record Bar is a 66 -store nationalchain and Smolen is director of purchasing for that chain. In thefollowing Dialogue, Smolen discusses the Record Bar operation andphilosophy.

Pete Smolen

Record World: How often do you turn your inventory?Pete Smolen: We try to get our inventory to turn somewhere in

the neighborhood of three and a half to four times a year. For exam-ple, when we break our sales down to cost and find we're doing $500thousand a year, that would mean we'd want to carry somewherein the neighborhood of $125 thousand in inventory. Multiply that$125 thousand by four and we come up with the cost value of sales.So what we want to do is keep it flowing around. We don't want tokeep any piece of product in the store too long, because if we do wetie up dollars.

RW: Why are most of the Record Bar stores located in malls?Smolen: Although you're paying a bit more for location, malls

bring the people to you. It's the same philosophy you'd use whenconsidering whether to locate downtown or on a side road. You payto go where the people are.

RW: Do you think it makes customers feel secure to shop in amall, to be where a lot of other people and stores are?

Smolen: I think that because of the way they're building mallsnow-really plush with a lot of eating places, with adequate parkingspots and the kind of facilities that make it easy for customers tospend a whole day shopping in one place-it's a very convenientenvironment to shop in.

RW: At the Record Bar convention you talked about early salesfeedback. Why is that so important?

Smolen: The way we base our whole reaction on records is a littletopsy-turvy as compared to the industry as a whole. Because we areretailers, we feel the way to do it is to react to actual sales and to thefeedback from our stores. What'll happen is that a new record willhit the stores, not as an established hit but as a work record-onewe're not sure is going to make it-and a couple of stores will reportit the first week.

We circulate this information, and watch the record closely. Wecheck each week to see how many more stores have picked it up andwe try to spread the sales around to our other stores. Take, for exam-ple, the Emmylou Harris album: one week we noticed one of thestores in the northeast moving out 10 copies of it and a couple ofother stores moving fives. So we went ahead and asked all of ourstores to work the record and by doing that we accomplished severalthings: We found out for ourselves what was really happening withthe record and at the same time we passed on to all of the stores theinformation that it had sales potential, that someone was doing some-thing with it. That's our early warning system.

RW: The managers of the Record Bar stores call Durham at leastonce a week. What do you talk about during those phone calls?

Smolen: The first part of it is basically a "let's find out what's hap-pening" kind of call. We have about 50 to 75 records a week thatwe check movement on-hits, new releases, regional breakouts, workrecords and so forth. So we more or less find out what they've sold,and while we're doing it we pass on any relevant information we haveon the album.

We go over any number of things. The managers also give feedbackto us, which is the most important thing. We base our reaction onwhat's happening at the store level; we don't go out under the pinetrees out here and listen to a record and say "Hey that's a hit," thenlay 100 copies into each store. My personal reaction to a record isabout third on the list of priorities.

RW: Do you ever buy strictly on intuition?Smolen: Very, very rarely will I buy on intuition. After the early

warning feedback on sales and so forth, we have to rely on ourcommercial ears. We take the new releases and sit down and listento them; we don't listen to them to find out whether we like themor not from a personal standpoint, but we listen to them from thestandpoint of sales potential. There may be a record that I'm wildabout but that I don't like at all; I'm wild about it because it hasgreat sales potential.

RW: Do you really enjoy music or is it strictly a way to make money?Smolen: I've always loved music. I'll put it like this: I wake up in

the morning and I put a record on. I'll hop in the shower, brush myteeth and shave and when I get out I'll put another record on. Thenwhen I get to my office, I'll throw another record on. A businessmanmust know his product. A guy who sells records has to be into themusic-all kinds of music. Like a lawyer-he has to keep up withevery new law that's passed. Someone who's in the record businesshas to listen to his own product whether he likes it or not. If there is ashortcoming I have it's that I don't listen enough to the music I likebecause there's so much to listen to, so much to think about.

RW: Can you explain your relationship, or the relationship youencourage, with local radio stations?

Smolen: I like to think of myself as a promotion man for everylabel. I probably wouldn't be a good promotion man for any labelbecause I like everyone's music too much and I see the potential ineveryone's music; but as I figure it, it's to our company's bettermentif I can get stations on certain records and alert our stores to what'shappening. In other words, find out what the stations are playing,make sure our stores are well aware of the potential of what is beingplayed, pass on to various stations our reaction from not only herebut from around the country so they can find the reaction to a recordand figure out what they're going to play based on actual sales-notbased on what they think is going to happen. It's one of the thingsI really enjoy doing; I enjoy branching out a bit and talking to stationsaround the country.

RW: And you encourage your other store managers to do the same,to go out and contact the stations?

Smolen: Oh, yes. You've got to have a good working relationshipwith radio stations. That's where you're going to find out what towork on. In-store play is one of our strongest selling points, in-storeplay is fantastic. But if it stops there, if a radio station is not awarethat in-store play is picking up a record, then that's bad for the station.From the same standpoint, if one of our stores is not aware that astation has gone on a record, then the store can suffer. We have towork very closely with radio stations who want to know what to play,what people want to hear and what to buy; and the store needs toknow what records are being played and what kind of reaction they'regetting.

RW: Are there ever any conflicts in working with stations or is itgenerally agreed that it's a two-way street?

Smolen: I think it's agreed upon, but the one problem is the narrowplaylist. Many times program directors will feel that a record's greatand would like to go on it, but it's not showing up high in the trades.

I think all of these decisions should depend on sales. By sales I'mtalking about studying all the charts and what's going out the door instores near the station. Everything has to be looked at and the ears-the commercial ears-can't be ignored. I think some of the guttinesshas gone out of the business; not enough people will take a standfor a record.

RW: At the convention you referred to a "right inventory mix."Would you define that?

Smolen: Essentially that means to look at your marketplace, seewhat kinds of products are selling and try to have what the customerwants. It would be a mistake for a store that doesn't sell country




RADIO W RLDDiscos and Radio (Continued from page 3)

by the discos. Yet disco recordscontinue to receive airplay andare week -by -week gaining incredibility. The industry is nowat a stage where most directorsare increasing their awareness torecords because of disco expo-sure, through sales reports andphone requests. This awarenesspoint is the key since every ad-vantage that can be gained inpromoting a record can be theone to make the difference.

We are currently in a situationwhere a record is bringing manymore people into the group ofbelievers in disco power: "TheHustle" by Van McCoy (Avco).This record started in New York'sdiscotheques, spread to r&b andpop stations in New York, whereit is currently the number onerecord on WABC and is doing al-most as well in every marketwhere it has received play. Thisthen could be a key record inchanging the skeptical minds.

As of now, here is what somemusic directors have to say aboutthe disco scene and its effect ontheir programming:

Don Anthony, the effusive andpersonable music director ofWNOE in New Orleans is also adisco consultant in his city. Hefeels that disco records definitelystirs up requests and activity onrecords in his market, increasinghis awareness to their possibleairing. "It also gets records intoshops, which is always helpful inadding to the possibility of play-ing a new record," he said. "Iwill consider a disco recordearlier if it is happening in theNew Orleans market; it's simplyanother source of information.The crucial factor is that I mustdecide if the record is good forboth listening and dancing.Some records just can't be sungalong with in an automobile."Further, Anthony notes that theNew Orleans discos still "like agood slow dance record" andpoints to the disco action onMajor Harris (Atlantic) as a factorin playing that record. Anthonyalso feels that the discos giveradio personnel a place to go andtalk to the people, an importantfactor in his record research.

WQXI's John Leader notesthat discos just aren't as big inAtlanta as they are in New Yorkand Philadelphia: "There are lessthan 10 in the city, but we dotalk to them. We also receivegood disco sales reports on discoproduct from the Peaches chainwhich helped 'The Hustle" re-ceive early play here. At thestation we read everything that's

being reported on disco singlesand make sure we get copies ofthe records. However, not everydisco record will be a top 40smash, especially here wherethere is less of a familiarity tothese records than in New York."Leader closed by mentioning thathe is playing about seven recordswhich are local disco hits, indi-cating that it must be a factor ofsome kind.

Jonnie King at KSLQ-FM in St.Louis, like Anthony, has an in-volvement with local discoswhere he used to work, but com-ments that discos are not havinga strong impact on sales or re-quest in his market. "We still relyon local sales action for addingrecords," he stated, "but we aredefinitely aware of the discorecords and listen to them. Weare also constantly checking ourmarket for action on any record;disco records of course areconsidered."

The WIXY music departmentheaded by Marge Bush is gettingheavily into introducing discohits to the Cleveland market. Lastweek they added 10 disco rec-ords to their playlist to be airedbetween 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. daily.They are testing these disco hitsand will move them into full-timenumbered rotation if they receivegood response. This commitmentis similar to the one that WPIX-FM in New York is making, butnot quite near the total discorecord policy on which JohnCatchings and his staff at KSFX inS.F. are banking their ratings.

There are some exceptionstaken to the disco influence, andrepresenting that side is JimSmith, whose tight, selectiverecords policy at WLS in Chicagohas sent his station soaring in theratings books of the past year.When asked our question as todisco influences, Smith re-sponded, "Not at all! First of all,the disco scene is not nearly asstrong in Chicago as in othermarkets. Further, disco recordstend to be r&b in content andwe've established our successwith white product mostly. It isobvious," Smith continued, "thatin New York, disco play can forceand support radio airplay, butwe are looking for the best re-gional action." WLS played someof the first disco hits with littleregional sales success.

So we see that in many casesthe disco records are becominga part of the life of today's musicdirector, but the case for totaldisco record success may not beclosed for some time to come.

AM ACTT N(Compiled by the Record World research department)

Wings (Capitol). These 'Wings' have clearly jet-propelled themselves in the second week ofactivity, and are being programmed in full rotationon more than half of the major market stations inthe nation. New adds this week include: WSAI (28),WCOL, WQXI, WCFL, 13Q, Y100 and WIBG. Very decentjumps reported on the following: 24-18 KDWB, HB-24WRKO, 30-28 KHJ, HB-27 KFRC, 29-28 WHBQ, HB-31 KILT,HB-29 KIMN, 22-21 KLIF, extra -25 WNOE and extra WTIX.Major Harris (Atlantic). Maintains consistent

positive action in nearly all markets, and fills insome of the last few holdouts on this tune withWABC, KJR and KDWB. Great jumps include: 21-12 WIXY,7-2 KFRC, 28-14 WHBQ, 24-17 KILT, 12-10 WTIX, 7-2Y100, 30-23 WCFL and #5 WQXI, #5 WFIL (previously#1), #5 KSLQ and #5 WNOE.

Captain and Tennille (A&M). Already'#1 for two weeks or more on KHJ, KIMNand WCOL, this disc takes powerfulstrides on the following: 5-3 WRKO,16-6 WHBQ, 14-4 KILT, 17-4 KDWB,13-10 WSAI, 26-18 WIXY, 5-3 KFRC,29-24 CKLW, 7-4 WQXI, 25-18 WFIL,6-2 KJR, 19-12 KSLQ, HB-24 WOKY,21-20 KLIF, 19-13 WIBG and 25-22 WNOE.

Also adds WDGY and Y100 to the list of heavies.Eagles (Asylum). Certainly one of the most added

records this past week, with new airplay on thefollowing stations: KILT, KIMN, KDWB and WCOL. Alsoon KJR (HB), WCFL (37-33), WSAI (extra) and KLIF.

Steely Dan (ABC). This new single1 continues to power through in anupward direction, garnering keystations along the way. Newly addedto heavies KLIF, WCFL and KIMN. Alsoon WCOL, WRKO, KJR and WIXY.

CROSSOVERSGene Watson (Capitol) "Love in the

Hot Afternoon." Indicating apotential for crossing over, this country tune nowgets a major pop test from KILT.

NEW ACTIONOlivia Newton-John (MCA) "Please Mr. Please."

Literally tons of airplay for the last two weeksprior to actual release! The new official adds are:WIXY, WHBQ, KLIF, KILT, WFIL, KDWB, KJR and WCOL,plus more. Also on WQXI, WSAI and KFRC. And they saythere's no such thing as an automatic anymore?!

lOcc (Mercury) "I'm Not in Love." One of thehottest, most added, most talked about records out,this disc is about to bring this group the longoverdue attention that comes from having a majortop 40 hit. Among the new adds are: WRKO, KFRC, WHBQand KIMN. Significant moves: HB-31 WCOL, extra -30WSAI, HB-35 KILT, HB-29 WQXI, 26-19 WFIL, HB-25 KJRand 11-9 KDWB.

Note: In preparation for the possible singlerelease of Elton John's "Someone Saved My LifeTonight," off the brand new #1 album, many stationshave already picked it and are playing it in fullrotation. For example: 26-8 KDWB from audiencereaction!!

Paul McCartney

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CONCERT REVIEW1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111011111M1111111111111 Supping with SparksEagles & FogelbergWith Mixed Bag of NEW YORK - Maybe thisshould read: "Out of the westthey rode, legendary figures all,mounted on the strongest, fast-est buckskins alive, brandishingtheir .45s menacingly at all whostood in their way."

But then this is 1975 and thesubject is not some outlaw gangfrom old Dodge City but a con-cert given by a rock group callingthemselves the Eagles (Asylum).

The Eagles appearance at theAcademy of Music (16)) was eag-erly awaited by a sellout throngwhich whooped and holleredthroughout the group's two hours -plus onstage. An 18 -song set ap-peared to take a lot out of thegroup, but it hardly fazed theaudience because, in their minds,the night was young.

Running the gamut from tenderballads ("Train Leaves Here ThisMorning," "Peaceful Easy Feel-ing," "Best of My Love") to re-constituted country ("MidnightFlyer") to intense rockers ("JamesDean") to the softer rock sound("Take It Easy") for which theyhave gained notoriety, the Eaglesoffered something for everyone.Perhaps one could pick out spotshere and there where the groupis weak, but even those are ex-tremely difficult to find: They singwell (all of them), they are awe-somely gifted instrumentalistsand, if their music is any indica-tion, they have good taste.

The Eagles opened with "TakeIt Easy" (an instant crowd-pleaser), went into "OutlawMan" (a rousing tale punched upby Bernie Leadon's athletic, ag-gressive lead guitar lines) andthen played a series of ballads. Itwas about the time the groupplayed "Peaceful Easy F eeling"that everything fell into place.

On a good night one can hearthat click in one's head whena group and an audience are to-gether exchanging energy andfeeding off of each other's highs.That point came early in this con-cert and, from "Peaceful Easy

Black 'n Brucie

Jay Black, former lead vocalist for Jay &the Americans, is out with his first singlein five years, entitled "Running Scared,"on the Atlantic -distributed Migration label.Last week Black was interviewed by radio -TV personality Bruce (Cousin Brucie) Mor-row for NBC radio and TV. Pictured above,from left, are Black, Morrow and Atlanticpromotion representative Steve Leeds.

Fly HighSolid SoundsFeeling" forward, the Eagles hadthe audience in their grip.

Dan Fogelberg (Epic) is pick-ing up a large audience rapidlyand, judging from the reactionto his opening set, he will verylikely become a major star inthe very near future. His musicspeaks to those among us whoare searching for something bet-ter in the way of self -definition;his is optimistic music, full of as-surances of second chances.

True, Fogelberg seems to lackmuch backbone at times, but justwhen one thinks he's getting toosyrupy sweet, along comes a sur-prisingly tough song such as "Liv-ing In the Country" or "It JustAin't True."

Watch this man - he's goingplaces. David McGee

Island recording group Sparks followed an Academy of Music stint in New Yorkwith a stopover at the local Burger King for a reception in their honor. The groupcompleted its first U.S. tour and currently is preparing material for a third Islandalbum, to follow the current "Propaganda." Pondering what to eat next are (fromleft): drummer Dinky Diamond (with mouth full), guitarist Trevor White, bass playerIan Hampton, keyboardist Ron Mael, and lead singer Russell Mael.

new york centralBy IRA MAYER

With Blue Oyster Cult as a drawing -card headliner, 25,000 peoplewere introduced to Pavlov's Dog and Journey at the Saratoga Perform-ing Arts Center, Saturday (24). The program was a freebie sponsoredby the Arts Center and Columbia Records-an afternoon concertwhich is becoming an annual event at the upstate New York amphi-theater and which Columbia director of artist development JonathanCoffino hopes will be a prototype for similar presentations in otherparts of the country.

The idea, of course, is to provide exposure in centrally locatedmarkets-exposure to kids, to promoters in the area and to radiopeople. Coffino, who organized the show in cooperation with ArtsCenter director Craig Hankenson, says he'd like to see similar showswherever he can find cooperative promoters with appropriate facili-ties. The investment on Columbia's part rules out the practicality ofa 3 or 4,000 seater, but there are Pine Knobs, Wolf Traps and Sarato-gas pretty well spread throughout the country.

As RW's Mitchell Kanner and Maddy Miller attest, the BOC/ Pavlov/Journey show was a considerable success, all three groups earningtheir encores, with Pavlov lead singer David Surkamp ("He sounds likeMarty Balin on helium," says Kanner) and the hour and three-quarter3 -encore BOC set the real standouts.

MOON OVER ROCKEFELLER PLAZA: While no one took our sug-gestion of posing nude on the carved ice "Bee Gees" insignia tooseriously, there was a lot of mingling, dancing and eating at the supperdance honoring the Bee Gees 20th anniversary. Thrown jointly byAhmet Ertegun and Robert Stigwood, the party attracted a healthy 300invitees and quite a few onlookers from the terrace which surroundswhat is, in Winter, an ice skating rink. Though this wasn't your typicalcelebrity attraction there were on hand Yvonne Elliman, Ben Vereen,Jimmie Walker, Sylvia Miles, AWB and Mo Ostin. But the event itselfwas really the star. Taste and elegance are coming back into style-and we don't mean the Great Gatsby way.

OTHER TRADING IN OUR JEANS NEWS DEPT.: A party at 21 cele-brating Gladys Knight and the Pips' second year with Buddah . . .

Visiting the Bottom Line for Manhattan Transfer's third outing there:Mary Martin, Barry Manilow, Alan Bates, Ben Vereen and Lionel Hamp-ton. Manilow was reportedly overheard saying of Ms. Martin's pres-ence, "Maybe if we all close our eyes and wish very hard . . . " Andfeting James Taylor's first of three performances at Carnegie Hall atJP's were Carly, Jack Nicholson, Sylvia Miles (she got around thatnight), Andy Warhol, Allen Klein, Peter Asher and Noel Redding.

THE FIELD IS OPEN: Or, The Flashmakers return, albeit not tootriumphantly-yet. In its season debut, the RW softball team wentdown (we can't say how gloriously) 12-6 against Atlantic. While thefull team wasn't on hand Tuesday night (there were a lot of concerts),there should be no small turnout when Penthouse is challenged, whichis next on the schedule. A report on that game will follow, and if theteam survives (bottoms up, folks) Captain David McGee will be search-ing for new opponents.

Mampe ReorganizesPhonogram Classical NEW YORK - Ms. ScottMampe, vice president/classicaldivision, Phonogram / MercuryRecords, has announced theappointment of Jill Kaufman tothe position of assistant to thevice president and Nancy Zanninias director of publicity andartist relations for the classicaldepartment.

DutiesMs. Kaufman, who has been

with Mercury Records since 1971and with the classical divisionsince April of 1972 will assistMs. Mampe in all aspects of ad-vertising and sales. She will alsobe responsible for the importa-tion of all classical product andall production for the MercuryGolden Imports series.

Nancy ZanniniMs. Zannini, previously classi-

cal a&r director for Polymusic(sister company of Phonogram),will be responsible for all pub-licity on the classical cataloguewith the trade and consumerpress, and the co-ordination ofall artist relations activities whichwill encompass radio promotion.

Nationwide SoundPromotes Holland NASHVILLE - NationwideSound Distributors has an-nounced the promotion of PatHolland to national promotiondirector of Soundwaves Records,and the publishing firms MusicCraft House (ASCAP) and Hit KitMusic (BMI).

Assistant to PresidentMs. Holland has worked with

Nationwide for the past year asexecutive assistant to Joe Gib-son, Nationwide's president.



ABC Sets 17 June Albums CONCERT REVIEW

ig LOS ANGELES-According toJerold H. Rubinstein, chairman ofABC Records, the label will re-lease seventeen albums in themonth of June.

Featured among the new re-leases are "Head Over Heels,"the first ABC album by country-rock group Poco; "Earthbound,"debut Ip for the label by the FifthDimension, and the soundtrackalbum for Robert Atlman's film"Nashville."

Country AlbumsCountry releases for the month

on ABC/Dot include Freddy Well-er's first album for the label,"Freddy Weller;" "Tommy Over -street's Greatest Hits - VolumeI;" and on ABC, "Strings," John-ny Carver's fourth album for thelabel; and Ferlin Husky's inter-pretation of "The Foster RiceSongbook."

R&B albums in June will rangefrom the debut of singer/song-writer Angelo Bond ("Bondage"),previously responsible for lyricsto three million -selling singles,through "Loneliness and Tempta-tion," the first album for thelabel by Clarence Carter, to"Kickin'," 12th effort by the

Sal/Wa Taps Richmond LOS ANGELES - Jamie Watts,executive vice president, Sal/WaRecords, has announced the ap-pointment of Stacye Kasee Rich-mond to the post of artist rela-tions and promotions managereffective immediately.

Ms. Richmond was with SussexRecords prior to joining Sal/Wa.While there she was assistant tothe national promotion directorand worked records for BillWithers and Creative Source.Before Sussex, Ms. Richmond waswith Greif-Garris Managementwhere she was assistant to GeorgeGreif. She was involved in thepreparation of itineraries andschedules for Barry White, LoveUnlimited and Love UnlimitedOrchestra's European Tour andnational appearances. Her recordcareer began in Memphis withStax Records where she held thepost of retail relations managerunder Paul Isbell.

Ms. Richmond's first project forSal/Wa will be coordinating BillyGuy and The Coasters new single,entitled "You Move Me," justreleased on the label. Ms. Rich-mond will work with WarrenGray, director of marketing forthe label.

Helfer Returns to LA LOS ANGELES - Mary Helfer,who recently exited his post asvice president of ABC Records,has returned to L.A. following abrief vacation. He will be an-nouncing his future plans shortly.

Mighty Clouds of Joy; plus, inan unusual stylistic departure,"Bobby 'Blue' Bland's NashvilleAlbum."

Sire Records, distributed byABC, will offer "Stamp Album,"the fourth album by the ClimaxBlues Band; and "Snakeships,Etc.," debut album by Nucleus,one of Britain's most excitingjazz-rock bands. On PassportRecords, "Night on Bald Moun-tain" will showcase the progres-sive rock explorations by Fire -ballet, a New Jersey -based group.

Anchor Records, distributed byABC, has two albums scheduledfor June: "Moonrider," the firstalbum by an English group of thesame name and "Bye Bye PrettyBaby," the debut as a solo artistof singer Susan Webb.

Finally, Bobby Vinton willlaunch "Heart of Hearts."

Silverstein To OpenMusic on the Mountain GREAT GORGE, N.J. - MusicOn The Mountain will inauguratetheir first Summer season at theVernon Valley Ski Lodge atGreat Gorge, N.J. on June 6-7.

Run by Abraham Silverstein,owner -operator of the RecordPlant Studios in New York, MusicOn The Mountain opens Friday,June 6 with Chris Hillman &Friends (Asylum) and Fallen An-gels (Arista). Kraftwerk is slatedfor Saturday, June 7 with showsboth nights at 9 p.m. and mid-night.

Club & DiscoMusic On The Mountain fea-

tures two rooms, one a club withtables and chairs (capacity 650),the other a live image disco-theque (capacity 800) with theconcert projected onto a 12 footscreen, and providing amplespace for dancing and hangingout. The $5.50 ticket price coversadmission to both rooms.

Other shows already scheduledare July 25 - Return to Forever,featuring Chick Corea, StanleyClarke, Lenny White and AlDimeola; and August 16-DavidBromberg. Booking is being doneby John Scher of the CapitalTheatre, Passaic, N.J.

Martinez Sets UpIndie Promo Firm LOS ANGELES-Eddie Martinezhas announced his resignation aswest coast professional managerof The New York Times MusicCorporation, to enter full time in-dependent record production. Asof June 2, 1975, his productioncompany, Jerami Productions, willbe located at 8265 Sunset Blvd.,Suite 108, Los Angeles, California90046. Telephone number will be(213) 656-2683.

Labelle: Entertainment Personified NEW YORK-Labelle, the Epicrecording trio comprised of NonaHendryx, Sarah Dash and PattiLaBelle, is sheer magic. If therewas any doubt surrounding thevalidity of that statement it wassurely dispelled during their ap-pearance (10) at New York'snever -before rock 'n rolled Hark-ness Theatre.

It is not so much their materialas their approach that makes thegroup so appealing. As a matter offact, they could have been singingthe telephone directory and stillbeen entertaining. The extrava-

gance of the production is bothtasteful and striking, most effec-tive during their entrance for thesecond "Nightbirds" portion ofthe evening's festivities, with thetrio cleverly disguised as stagedecor and Nona and Patti enteringthe stage via suspensions from theceiling. Costuming remains bizarreand impressive, and the voices areenthralling.

Vocal PowerAs vocalists they work well in

the group structure while simul-taneously retaining their individu-


Photo: Maddy MillerPictured above during one of several shows at New York's Harkness Theatre, is LauraNyro, up for a rare guest appearance with Labelle.

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101 101 DAMN IT ALL GENE COTTON-ABC 12087 (Combine, BMI)102 102 YOU NEED LOVE STYX-Wooden Nickel WB 10272 (RCA)

(Wooden Nickel, ASCAP)103 103 ANYTIME (I'LL BE THERE) FRANK SINATRA-Reprise 1327 (WB)

(Spanka, BMI)104 105 HOLDIN' ON TO YESTERDAY AMBROSIA -20th Century TC 2207

(Rubicon, BMI)105 106 EL BIMBO BIMBO JET-Scepter 120406 (Artie Wayne/ Reizner, ASCAP)106 107 ANOTHER NIGHT HOLLIES-Epic 8-50110 (Famous, ASCAP)107 121 THIRD RATE ROMANCE AMAZING RHYTHM ACES-ABC 12078

(Fourth Floor, ASCAP)108 109 SHOES REPARATA-Polydor 14271 (New York Times/Sona, BMI)109 112 AIN'T NO USE COOKE E. JARR & HIS KRUMS-Roulette 20426

(Adam R. Levy & Father/Missle, BMI)110 110 FUNNY HOW LOVE CAN BE FIRST CLASS-UK 5N 49033 (London)

(Southern, ASCAP)111 - IT'S ALL UP TO YOU JIM CAPALDI-Island 025 (Ackee, ASCAP)112 - BYE BYE BABY BAY CITY RO,LLERS-Arista 0120 (Saturday/

Seasons Four, BMI)113 114 FEELINGS MORRIS ALBERT-RCA PB 10279 (Fermata Intl., ASCAP)114 117 TAKE ME TO THE RIVER SYL JOHNSON-Hi 5N 2285 (London)

(Jec/AI Green, BMI)115 116 TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER RHODES KIDS-GRC 2059

(Screen Gems -Col, BMI)116 141 AT SEVENTEEN JANIS IAN-Columbia 10154 (Mine/April, ASCAP)117 119 CHRISTINA TERRY JACKS-Private Stock PS 023 (Rockfish/

E. B. Marks, BMI)118 118 SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT ERIC CLAPTON-RSO 505 (Atlantic)

(Casserole, BMI)119 120 TOP OF THE WORLD (MAKE MY RESERVATION) CANYON-

MagnaGlide MGN 323 (London) (Kasnat, BMI)120 122 LOOK AT YOU GEORGE McCRAE-TK 1011 (Sherlyn, BMI)121 123 BALLROOM BLITZ SWEET-Capitol 4055 (Chinnichap/RAK, BMI)122 124 FOREVER IN LOVE LOVE UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA -20th Century 2197

(Sa-Vette/January, BMI)123 125 (BABY) DON'T LET IT MESS YOUR MIND DONNY GERRARD-

Rocket 40405 (MCA) (Don Kirshner, BMI)124 126 SEVEN LONELY NIGHTS FOUR TOPS-ABC 1 2096

(Pocket Full of Tunes/Giant, BMI)125 140 MR. MAGIC GROVER WASHINGTON JR.-Kudu 924F (Motown)

(Antisia, ASCAP)126 128 FALLIN' IN LOVE HAMILTON, JOE FRANK & REYNOLDS-

Playboy 6024 (J.C., BMI)127 129 RUN TELL THE PEOPLE DANIEL BOONE-Pye 71011 (ATV)

(Page Full of Hits, ASCAP)128 138 WONDERFUL BABY DON McLEAN-United Artists XW614-X

(Unart/Yahweh, BMI)129 136 FREE MAN SOUTH SHORE COMMISSION-Wand 1287 (Scepter)

(Mighty Three, BMI)130 132 CALL ME UP (AND WE'LL GET DOWN) MAXIMILLION-

Columbia 3-10129 (Trojames/Maximillion, ASCAP)131 147 SHOW ME THE WAY PETER FRAMPTON-A&M 1693

(Almo/ Fram-Dee, ASCAP)132 - WOODEN HEART BOBBY VINTON-ABC 12100 (Gladys, ASCAP)133 - GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS-

Columbia 3-10151 (Maclen, BMI)134 135 WHAT TIME OF DAY BILLY THUNDERKLOUD & THE CHIEFTONES---

20th Century TC 2181 (Sawgrass, BMI)135 137 BEAUTIFUL LOSER BOB SEGER-Capitol 4062 (Geer, ASCAP)136 139 I BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW THAT FREDRICK KNIGHT-Truth TRA 3216

(Stax) (Two Knight/East-Memphis /Moonsong, BMI)137 104 YOU CAN'T GET OFF WITH YOUR SHOES ON BAREFOOT JERRY-

Monument Z58-8645 (Wormwood, BMI)138 142 CLASSIFIED C.W. McCALL-MGM 14801 (American Gramophone, SESAC)139 146 FEELINGS ANDY WILLIAMS-Columbia 3-10144 (Fermata Intl. ASCAP)140 111 SEEMS LIKE I CAN'T LIVE WITH YOU, BUT I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU

GUESS WHO-RCA PB 10075 (Cummings, Troiano/Cirrus/Septima, BMI)

141 145 MAKES ME FEEL SO GOOD SKY KING-Columbia 3-10115(Flying Crown, ASCAP)

142 131 HOW GLAD I AM KIKI DEE-Rocket 40401 (MCA)(Screen Gems -Columbia, BMI)

143 148 ALL CRIED OUT LAMONT DOZIER-ABC 12076 (Dozier, BMI)144 - HURT MANHATTANS-Columbia 3-10140 (Miller, ASCAP)145 113 BOY BLUE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-United Artists XW 634-X

(Yellow Dog, ASCAP)146 133 SURVIVORS JOHN STEWART-RCA PB 10277 (January, BMI)147 107 TOO LATE TO WORRY, TOO BLUE TO CRY RONNIE MILSAP-

RCA PB 10228 (Hill & Range/Elvis Presley/Norma, BMI)148 143 DIXIE ROCK WET WILLIE-Capricorn CPS 0231 (WB) (No Exit, BMI)149 149 THIS OL' COWBOY MARSHALL TUCKER BAND-Capricorn CPS 0228

(WB) (No Exit, BMI)150 134 BERTRAND MY SON LARRY JON WILSON-Monument ZS8-8647

(Col) (Combine, BMI)

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ATTITUDE DANCING Richard Perry LOVIN' YOU Scorbu Prod. (DickieBird,(C'Est/Jacob Brackman, ASCAP) 39 BMI) 74

AUTOBAHN Ralph Hotter & Florian MAGIC Alan Parsons (AI Gallico, BMI) 18Schneider (Intersong-USA, ASCAP) 62 MARY ANNE J. Slate & L. Henley (Tree,

BABY GET IT ON Ike Turner, Denny BMI) 90Diante & Spencer Proffer (Unart/Huh,BMI) 76

ME AND MRS. JONES J. L. Reynolds,Ron Banks, Don Davis (Assorted, BMI) 57

BABY THAT'S BACKATCHA Smokey MIDNIGHT BLUE Vini PonciaRobinson (Bertram, ASCAP) 46 (New York Times/Roumanian

BAD LUCK Gamble -Huff (Mighty Three, Pickleworks, BMI) 52BMI) 14 MINNESOTA (Bay Lake, ASCAP) 99

BAD TIME Jimmy lenner (Cram Renraff, MISTY Ray Stevens (Vernon, ASCAP) 42BMI) 7 99 MILES FROM L.A. Albert Hammond

BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS Hal David (Landers-Roberts/April/CasaHuey Meaux (Shelby Singleton, BMI) . 3 David, ASCAP) 80

BLACK FRIDAY Gary Katz (American OLD DAYS James William GuercioBroadcasting, ASCAP) 53 (Make Me Smile/Big Elk, ASCAP) 8

BLANKET ON THE GROUND Larry Butler ONE OF THESE NIGHTS Bill Szymczyk(Brougham Hall, BMI) 98 (Benchmark/Kicking Bear, ASCAP) 59

BLOODY WELL RIGHT Ken Scott & ONLY WOMEN Bob EzrinSupertramp (Almo/Delicate, ASCAP) 71 (Ezra/Early Frost, BMI) 11

BURNING THING Gary Klein ONLY YESTERDAY Richard Carpenter(Screen Gems-Columbia/Song Painter/Sweet Glory, BMI) 96

(Almo/Sweet Harmony/Hammer & Nails,ASCAP) 19

CHEVY VAN Jay Senter & Larry Knechtel PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM Gus Dudgeon(Act One, BMI) 79 (Big Pig/Leeds, ASCAP) 32

CUT THE CAKE Arif Mardin (Average/ PLEASE MR. PLEASE John FarrarCotillion, BMI) 20 (Blue Gun, ASCAP) 68

DISCO QUEEN Mickey Most (Finchley,ASCAP) 66

PLEASE PARDON ME (YOU REMIND MEOF A FRIEND) Bob Monaco

DON'T TELL ME GOODNIGHT (Kengorus/Palladium, ASCAP) 73Phil Gernhard (Famous, ASCAP) 77 RAG DOLL Jay Senter & Larry Knechtel

DYNOMITE Tony Camillo (Tonob, BMI) . 50 (Hampstead Heath, ASCAP) 93

EASE ON DOWN THE ROAD S. Schaefer RAINY DAY PEOPLE Lenny Waronker& Harold Wheeler (Fox Fanfare, BMI).. 65 (Moose, CAPAC) 63

EVERY TIME YOU TOUCH ME (I GET REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU TOHIGH) Billy Sherrill (Algee,BMI/Double R., ASCAP) 92

FORGET Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter(ABC Dunhill/One of a Kind, BMI) 21

GET DOWN, GET DOWN (GET ON THE RHINESTONE COWBOY Dennis Lambert &FLOOR) Raeford Gerald & Joe Simon Brian Potter (20th Century/House of(Gaucho/Belinda, BMI) 10 Weiss, ASCAP) 60

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT Neil BogartGamble -Huff (Mighty Three, BMI) 51 & Kiss (Cafe Americana/Rock Steady,

GOOD LOVIN GONE BAD Bad Company ASCAP) 91

(Badco, ASCAP) 54 ROCKIN' CHAIR Steve. Alaimo, WillieHE DON'T LOVE YOU (LIKE I LOVE YOU) Clarke & Clarence Reid (Sherlyn, BMI) 31

Hank Medress & Dave Appell SADIE Thom Bell (Mighty Three, BMI) 44(Conrad, BMI) 25 SAIL ON SAILOR Beach Boys (Brother,

(HEY WON'T YOU PLAY) ANOTHER BMI) 78SOMEBODY DONE SOMEBODY 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (BLOW YOUR WHISTLE)WRONG SONG Chips Moman (Press/ Rick Bleiwess & Bill StahlTree, BMI) 34 (Cookaway, ASCAP) 100

HEY YOU Randy Bachman (Ranbach/ SHACKIN' UP J.B.P. & Don DavisTop Soil, BMI) 27 (Groovesville, BMI) 97

HIJACK Herbie Mann (Dunbar, BMI) 48 SHAKEY GROUND Jeffrey Bowen &HOW LONG John Anthony (American Berry Gordy (Jobete, ASCAP) 43

Broadcasting, ASCAP) 9 SHINING STAR Maurice White w. CharlesI DON'T LIKE TO SLEEP ALONE Stepney (Saggiflame, ASCAP) 4

Rick Hall (Spanka, BMI) 23 SHOESHINE BOY Frank Wilson, LeonardI DREAMED LAST NIGHT Tony Clarke Caston (Stone Diamond, BMI) 29

(Justunes, ASCAP) 86 SISTER GOLDEN HAIR George Martin(WB, ASCAP) 2I WANNA DANCE WIT 'CHOO

Bob Crewe (Heart's Delight/Caseyem/Desiderata, BMI) 30

SLIPPERY WHEN WET James Carmichael &Commodores (Jobete, ASCAP) 72

I'LL DO FOR YOU ANYTHING YOU WANTME TO Barry White (Sa-Vette/January,

SNEAKIN' UP BEHIND YOU Randy Brecker(Carmine Street, BMI) 95

BMI) 67 SOONER OR LATER Ed TownsendI'LL PLAY FOR YOU (HEAR THE BAND) (Cherritown, BMI) 94

Louis Shelton (Dawnbreaker, BMI) 47 SPIRIT OF THE BOOGIE R. Bell, Kool &I'M NOT IN LOVE lOcc (Man -Ken, BMI) 40 the Gang (Delightful/Gang, BMI) 41

I'M NOT LISA Ken Mansfield & Waylon SWEARIN' TO GOD Bob CreweJennings (Baron, BMI) 16 (Heart's Delight/Caseyem/Desiderata,

IT HURTS A LITTLE EVEN NOW BMI) 33

Glen Spreen (House of Gold, BMI) 89 SWEET EMOTION Jack Douglas (Daksel,IT'S A MIRACLE Barry Manilow & BMI) 85

Ron Dante (Kamikaze, BMI) 75 T -R -O -U -B -L -E no producer listed

JACKIE BLUE Glyn Johns & David (Jerry Chestnut, BMI) 56

Anderle (Lost Cabin, BMI) 22 TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS (ROCK ME)Ted Templeman (Stone Agate, BMI) 6

JIVE TALKIN' Arif Mardin (Casserole,BMI)

JUDY MAE Boomer Castleman (Tree, BMI)7026

TAKE IT FROM ME Jerry Ragavoy(Society Hill, ASCAP)

THANK GOD I'M A COUNTRY BOY Milt87

JUST A LITTLE BIT OF YOU Brian Holland(Gold Forever/Stone Diamond, BMI) 88

Okun w. Kris O'Connor (Cherry Lane,ASCAP) 1

(JUST LIKE) ROMEO & JULIET Tony THE HUSTLE Hugo & Luigi (Van McCoy/Camillo (Jobete, ASCAP/Stone Agate, Warner -Tamerlane, BMI) 248MI) 64 THE IMMIGRANT Neil Sedaka &

KILLER QUEEN Ray Thomas & Queen Robert Appere (Don Kirshner, BMI;(Feldman/Trident, ASCAP) 45 Kirshner Songs, ASCAP) 8.4

LET THERE BE MUSIC Chuck Plotkin THE LAST FAREWELL Denis Preston(Borth, ASCAP/Mojohanna, BMI) 49 (Arcola, BMI) 17

LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAIDPaul McCartney (McCartney/ATV, BMI) 37

THE ROCKFORD FILES Mike Post (Leeds,ASCAP) 61

LIZZIE AND THE RAINMAN Snuff Garrett THE WAY WE WERE/TRY TO REMEMBER(House of Gold, BMI) 36 Ralph Moss (Colgems/Chappell, ASCAP) 38

LONG HAIRED COUNTRY BOY Paul TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT Jimmy PageHornsby (Kama Sutra/Rada Dara, BMI) 69 (Joaneline, ASCAP) 81

LONG TALL GLASSES (I CAN DANCE) WALKING IN RHYTHM Donald ByrdAdam Faith & David Courtney (Blackbyrd, BMI) 35(Chrysalis, ASCAP) 55 WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU Allen

LOOK AT ME (I'M IN LOVE) Toussaint (Gospel Birds, BMI) 83Goodman & Ray (Gambi, BMI) 82 WHEN WILL I BE LOVED Peter Asher

LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER Captain (Acuff -Rose, BMI) 15w. Toni Tennille (Don Kirshner, BMI) . 12 WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS? Jerry

LOVE WON'T LET ME WAIT Bobby Eli Goldstein with Lonnie Jordan(Mighty Three/Friday's Child/WMOT, (Far Out, ASCAP) 28BMI) 13 WILDFIRE Bob Johnston (Mystery, BMI). 5



DISC FILETOP 20

JUNE 7, 1975

1. EASE ON DOWN THE ROADCONSUMER RAPPORT-Wing & A Prayer

2. FREE MANSOUTH SHORE COMMISSION-Wand

3. THE HUSTLEVAN McCOY-Avco

4. BAD LUCKHAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES-

Phil. Intl. (Ip cut)5. SWEARIN' TO GOD

FRANKIE VALLI-Private Stock (lp cut)6. STOP AND THINK

TRAMMPS-Golden Fleece (lp cut)7. EL BIMBO

BIMBO JET-Scepter8. FOOT STOMPIN' MUSIC

BOHANNON-Dakar (Ip cut)9. PEACE AND LOVE

RON BUTLER & THE RAMBLERS-Playboy10. LOVE DO ME RIGHT

ROCKIN' HORSE-RCA (Ip cut)11. WHERE IS THE LOVE

BETTY WRIGHT-Alston12. HIJACK

BARRABAS-Atco (lp cut)13. ARE YOU READY FOR THIS

BROTHERS-RCA14. HELPLESSLY

MOMENT OF TRUTH-Roulette15. THREE STEPS FROM TRUE LOVE

REFLECTIONS-Capitol16. DISCO STOMP

BOHANNON-Dakar (lp cut)17. CRYSTAL WORLD

CRYSTAL GRASS-Polydor18. SUN GODDESS

RAMEY LEWIS-Columbia (lp cut)19. TORNADO

THE WIZ ORIGINAL CAST-Atlantic(lp cut/disco version)

20. SEXYMFSB-Phila. Intl.

Glitter Goes Disco

Arista recording artist Gary Glitter (center)recently flew in from England to team upwith producing duo Tony Sylvester (left)and Bert deCoteaux. The producers haverecently been successful with sides for BenE. King and Sister Sledge as well as work-ing on Bette Midler's forthcoming album.The first two sides to emerge from thedisco -oriented sessions are "Poppa OohMau Mau" and "Finders Keepers."

Korner To NarrateRolling -Stones Story NEW YORK - Columbia re-cording artist and British blues/rock legend Alexis Korner hasdone the narration for a specialseven -hour documentary on TheRolling Stones to be aired onmore than 80 AM and FM radiostations throughout the country.The broadcast, which will breakat the outset of The RollingStones' United States tour, ispresented by London Wave-length, U.S. distributors of BBCcontemporary music productions.

DISC FILE(A weekly report on current and upcoming discotheque breakouts)

By VINCE ALETTI Martin Ragusa and George Cucuzzella, two DJs who play at aMontreal club called the Tube, dropped in at the office this past week,prepared an impromptu Top 10 and pulled a few records out of abrown paper bag for us to hear. The most interesting was a Frenchsingle they say is without question the number one record in theirclub, a fascinating oddity called "Chinese Kung Fu" by Banzai (DisquesFleche), which has just begun filtering into New York. It's an instru-mental punctuated by kung fu shouts and threaded with a bright lineof Moog music, sounding like "Kung Fu Fighting" as it might beinterpreted by the Chakachas. The reverse of "Chinese Kung Fu" is"Rhythm Kung Fu," which cuts out the. Moog for a sparer effect. Bothare worth looking for. Other items on the Tube Top 10 are "LaBalanga," the carbon -copy follow-up to "El Bimbo" by Bimbo Jet(an import on Pathe which Scepter plans to release later this Summer)and another record in the same mold, "Ninas," by an Italian groupnamed Los Bomberos (Joker), who offer a further variation on thatfluid European sound (the A side of "Ninas" is yet another versionof "El Bimbo," this one Italian -made).

Ragusa and Cucuzzella say the Montreal discotheque scene includesmany elements of New York disco music, as evidenced by their list,but with strong European influence because of their easy access toimports, especially from France. "El Bimbo" peaked for them inFebruary when early copies from France were all over Montreal, andthey've moved on to more recent arrivals in that vein. Other recordsthey report are doing very well-all instrumentals with an interna-tional appeal: "Foot Stompin' Music" by Bohannon, the ArmadaOrchestra's "Do Me Right," "Shotgun Shuffle" by the Sunshine Bandand Juan Carlos Calderon's "Bandolero."

Other feedback: Howard Metz at Cabaret in Los Angeles reportsthat "Honey Trippin'," a breezy instrumental by the Mystic Moodsis doing very well there. Previously available as a cut on the group's


Discotheque Hit Parade(Listings are in alphabetical order, by title)

CABARET/LOS ANGELESDJ: Howard MetzCRYSTAL WORLD-Crystal Grass-

PolydorEASE ON DOWN THE ROAD-

Consumer Rapport-Wing & A Prayer(disco version)

FOOT STOMPIN' MUSIC-Bohannon-Dakar (lp cut)

HELPLESSLY-Moment of Truth-Roulette

HONEY TRIPPIN'-Mystic Moods-Soundbird

THE HUSTLE/FIRE-Van McCoy-Avco(single/Ip cut)

PEACE AND LOVE-Ron Butler & theRamblers-Playboy

STOP AND THINK-Trammps-Golden Fleece (lp cut)

THREE STEPS FROM TRUE LOVE-Reflections-Capitol

WHERE IS THE LOVE-Betty Wright-Alston

YESTERDAY/BOSTONDJ: Joe CarvelloBAD LUCK-Harold Melvin & the

Bluenotes-Phila. Intl. (lp cut)CRYSTAL WORLD-Crystal Grass-

PolydorGET DOWN TONIGHT-KC & the

Sunshine Band-TKTHE HUSTLE-Van McCoy-AvcoPEACE AND LOVE-Ron Butler & the

Ramblers-Playboy7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (BLOW YOUR WHISTLE)-

Gary Toms Empire-PIPSEXY-MFSB-Phila. Intl.SPIRIT OF THE BOOGIE-Kool & the Gang

-Del iteSTOP AND THINK/TRAMMPS DISCO

THEME-Trammps-Golden Fleecellp cuts)

SWEARIN' TO GOD-Frankie Valli-Private Stock (lp cut)

TUBE/MONTREAL, CANADADJs: Martin Ragusa & George CucuzzellaA.I.E. (AMWANA)-Black Blood-

MainstreamBAD LUCK-Harold Melvin & the

Bluenotes-Phila. Intl. (lp cut)CHINESE KUNG FU-Banzai-

Discues Fleche (French Import)EASE ON DOWN THE ROAD-

Consumer Rapport-Wing & A PrayerTHE HUSTLE-Van McCoy-AvcoLA BALANGA-Bimbo Jet-Pathe

(French Import)NINAS-Los Bomberos-Joker

(Italian Import)PEACE AND LOVE-Ron Butler & the

Ramblers-PlayboySTOP AND THINK-Trammps-

Golden Fleece (lp cut)SWEARIN' TO GOD-Frankie Valli-

Private Stock (lp cut)

BAREFOOT BOY/NEW YORKDJ: Larry SandersCHICAGO THEME-Hubert Laws-

CTI (lp cut)EASE ON DOWN THE ROAD-

Consumer Rapport-Wing & A Prayer(disco version)

FOREVER CAME TODAY-Jackson 5-Motown (lp cut)

FREE MAN-South Shore Commission-Wand

LADY, LADY, LADY-Boogie ManOrchestra-Boogie Man

LOVE DO ME RIGHT-Rockin' Horse-RCA (lp cut)

(SENDING OUT AN) S.O.S.-Retta Young-All Platinum

SEXY/MFSB-MFSB-Phila. Intl.(single/lp cut)

TRAMMPS DISCO THEME-Trammps-Golden Fleece (lp cut)

WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE-Supremes-Motown (lp cut)

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BAD TIME GRAND FUNK/Capitol 4046 10OLD DAYS CHICAGO/Columbia 3-10131 7HOW LONG ACE/Anchor ANC 2100 (ABC) 15

GET DOWN, GET DOWN (GET ON THE FLOOR)JOE SIMON/Spring 156 (Polydor) 11

ONLY WOMEN ALICE COOPER/Atlantic 3254 10

LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER CAPTAIN & TENNILLE/A&M 1672 7

LOVE WON'T LET ME WAIT MAJOR HARRIS/Atlantic 3248 12BAD LUCK (PT. I) HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES/

Phila. Intl. ZS8 3562 (Col) 10WHEN WILL I BE LOVED LINDA RONSTADT/Capitol 4050 9I'M NOT LISA JESSI COLTER/Capitol 4009 10THE LAST FAREWELL ROGER WHITTAKER/RCA PB 50030 10

MAGIC PILOT/EMI 3992 (Capitol) 10ONLY YESTERDAY CARPENTERS/A&M 1677 11

CUT THE CAKE AWB/Atlantic 3261 9REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU TO FORGET TAVARES/

Capitol 4010 8

JACKIE BLUE OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS/A&M 1654 17I DON'T LIKE TO SLEEP ALONE PAUL ANKA/

United Artists XW 615-X 13

THE HUSTLE VAN McCOY & THE SOUL CITY SYMPHONY/Avco 4653 7

HE DON'T LOVE YOU (LIKE I LOVE YOU) TONY ORLANDO& DAWN/Elektra 45240 14

JUDY MAE BOOMER CASTLEMAN/Mums ZS8-6033 (Col) 6

HEY YOU BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE/Mercury 73683 4WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS? WAR/United Artists XW 629-X 7SHOESHINE BOY EDDIE KENDRICKS/Tamla T54257F

(Motown) 16I WANNA DANCE WIT 'CHOO DISCO TEX & THE

SEX-O-LETTES Featuring MONTI ROCK III/Chelsea 3015 9

ROCKIN' CHAIR GWEN McCRAE/Cat 1996 (TK) 7PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM ELTON JOHN BAND/MCA 40364 14

SWEARIN' TO GOD FRANKIE VALLI/Private Stock 021 4(HEY WON'T YOU PLAY) ANOTHER SOMEBODY DONESOMEBODY WRONG SONG B.J. THOMAS/ABC ABP 12054 18WALKING IN RHYTHM BLACKBYRDS/Fantasy 736 16LIZZIE AND THE RAINMAN TANYA TUCKER/MCA 40402 6

LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID WINGS/Capitol 4091THE WAY WE WERE/TRY TO REMEMBER GLADYS KNIGHT

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ATTITUDE DANCING CARLY SIMON/Elektra 45246 5

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KOOL & THE GANG/Delite 1567 (PIP) 7

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70103 (Atlantic) 8

55 40 LONG TALL GLASSES (I CAN DANCE) LEO SAYER/Warner Bros. 8043 16

56 58 T -R -O -U -B -L -E ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA PB 10278 5

57 62 ME AND MRS. JONES RON BANKS AND THE DRAMATICS/ABC 12090 5

68 I'M ON FIRE DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND/Shelter 40380 (MCA) 5

75 ONE OF THESE NIGHTS EAGLES/Asylum 45257 2

74 RHINESTONE COWBOY GLEN CAMPBELL/Capitol 4095 2

73 THE ROCKFORD FILES MIKE POST/MGM 14772 3

62 53 AUTOBAHN KRAFTWERK/Vertigo VE 203 (Phonogram) 1263 42 RAINY DAY PEOPLE GORDON LIGHTFOOT/Reprise 1328 8

64 59 (JUST LIKE) ROMEO AND JULIET SHA NA NA/Kama Sutra 602 865 41 EASE ON DOWN THE ROAD CONSUMER RAPPORT/

Wing and a Prayer HS 101 F (Atlantic) 9

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78 LONG HAIRED COUNTRY BOY CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/Kama Sutra 601 4

79 JIVE TALKIN' BEE GEES/RSO 510 (Atlantic) 3

71 66 BLOODY WELL RIGHT SUPERTRAMP/A&M 1660 10

83 SLIPPERY WHEN WET COMMODORES/Motown M1338F 4

82 PLEASE PARDON ME (YOU REMIND ME OF A FRIEND)RUFUS Featuring CHAKA KHAN/ABC 12099 2

74 57 LOVIN' YOU MINNIE RIPERTON/Epic 8-50057 1975 39 IT'S A MIRACLE BARRY MANILOW/Arista 0108 15

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BearsvilleMAIN COURSE-Bee Gees-RSOMETAMORPHOSIS-Rolling Stones

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AsylumCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John

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Armatrading-A&MAMERICA'S CHOICE-Hot Tuna-

GruntAMBROSIA -20th CenturyCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John


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Martin Mull-CapricornKATY LIED-Steely Dan-ABCGORILLA-James Taylor-WBJANIS JOPLIN-Col (Soundtrack)

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Minnie Riperton-EpicDAYS OF WINE & NEUROSES-

Martin Mull-CapricornFOREST OF FEELING-David

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Blue ThumbTRYING TO BURN THE SUN-Elf-

MGMTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

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Michael Murphey-EpicCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John


A&MNUTHIN' FANCY-Lynyrd Skynyrd

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WORJ-FM/ORLANDOADDS:DAYS OF WINE & NEUROSES-

Martin Mull-CapricornGORILLA-James Taylor-WBINITIATION-Todd Rundgren-

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Blue ThumbTHERE'S NO PLACE LIKE AMERICA

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PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-Tomita-RCA

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Minnie Riperton-EpicFANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonMATCHING TIE & HANDKERCHIEF

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ShelterIAN HUNTER-ColSOAP OPERA-Kinks-RCA

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Blue ThumbSTRANGE UNIVERSE-

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AsylumPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-

ElektraSPIRIT OF AMERICA-Beach Boys

-CapitolSTAMPEDE-Doobie Bros.-WBSTRAIGHT SHOOTER-

Bad Company-Swan SongTOMORROW BELONGS TO ME-

Sensational Alex Harvey Band-Vertigo

TOYS IN THE ATTIC-Aerosmith-Col

WEBN-FM/CINCINNATIADDS:ADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John

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INITIATION-Todd Rundgren-Bearsville

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Hillman-Furay-AsylumTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure

Prairie League-RCAWARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME

-Hawkwind-AtcoHEAVY ACTION (airplay-

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Prairie League-RCAMETAMORPHOSIS-Rolling Stones

-AbkcoORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK-I Occ-

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Turner Overdrive-MercuryDIAMONDS & RUST-Joan Baez-

A&MSTAMPEDE-Doobie Bros.-WB

WSDM-FM/CHICAGOADDS:CHICAGO THEME-Hubert Laws-

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COMING DOWN YOUR WAY-Three Dog Night-ABC

FOREST OF FEELING-DavidSancious-Epic

FUSION III-Michal Urbaniak-ColJOE BECK-KuduSKULL SESSION-Oliver Nelson-

Flying DutchmanSONGS FOR A FRIEND-Jon Mark

-ColTALE SPINNIN'-Weather Report-

ColWE LOVE YOU-Lovecraft-

MercuryWELCOME TO RIDDLE BRIDGE-

Brewer & Shipley-CapitolHEAVY ACTION (airplay):ADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicBLOW BY BLOW-Jeff Beck-EpicBLUE SKY NIGHT THUNDER-

Michael Murphey-EpicCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John


A&MGORILLA-James Taylor-WBIN COLLABORATION WITH THE

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SNOW GOOSECAMELJanus

WKDA-FM/NASHVILLEADDS:COMING DOWN YOUR WAY-

Three Dog Night-ABCINITIATION-Todd Rundgren-

BearsvilleSTEPPIN'-Pointer Sisters-

Blue ThumbHEAVY ACTION (sales, airplay,

requests):BLOW BY BLOW-Jeff Beck-EpicCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John

-MCAFANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonGORILLA-James Taylor-WBNUTHIN' FANCY-Lynyrd Skynyrd

-MCA

All listings from keyprogressive stations

around the country arein alphabetical order by

title, except whereotherwise noted.

PIECES OF THE SKY-EmmylouHarris-Reprise

PLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-Elektra

STAMPEDE-Dooble Bros.-WBSTRAIGHT SHOOTER-Bad

Company-Swan SongTOMMY-Polydor (Soundtrack)

KOME-FM/SAN JOSEADDS:CAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John

-MCAFOREST OF FEELING-

David Sancious-EpicINITIATION-Todd Rundgren-

BearsvilleLISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID

isinglel-Wings-CapitalMEXICO Isingle)-Souther-Hillman-

Furay-AsylumMIDNIGHT ON THE WATER-

David Bromberg-ColSNOW GOOSE-Camel-JanusSONGS FOR A RAINY DAY-

John Shine-ColTALE SPINNIN'-Weather Report-

ColUPP-EpicHEAVY ACTION (sales,

airplay):BLOW BY BLOW-Jeff Beck-EpicCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John

-MCACHICAGO VIII-ColDIAMONDS & RUST-Joan Baez-

A&MJUKE JOINT JUMP-Elvin Bishop-

CapricornKATY LIED-Steely Dan-ABCNUTHIN' FANCY-Lynyrd Skynyrd

-MCAPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-

ElektraSTAMPEDE-Doobie Bros.-WBSTRAIGHT SHOOTER-

Bad Company-Swan Song

KWST-FM/LOS ANGELESADDS:ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, VOL. !-

Earl Scruggs Revue-ColJOE BECK-KuduMICHAEL BOLOTIN-RCAMOVING VIOLATION-Jackson 5

-MotownNIGHT LIGHTS HARMONY-

Four Tops-ABCSNOW GOOSE-Camel-JanusSUN RISE-Yvonne Elliman-RSOTHE SUPREMES-MotownWARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME

-Hawkwind-AtcoHEAVY ACTION (airplay-

in descendingorder):PLEASE MIND YOUR HEAD-

String Driven Thing -20thCentury

RUPERT HOLMES-EpicCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John

-MCAORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK-I Occ-

MercurySPARTACUS-Triumvirat-CapitolCRIME OF THE CENTURY-

Supertramp-A&MDAYS OF WINE £ NEUROSES-

Martin Mull-CapricornMETAMORPHOSIS-Rolling Stones

-AbkcoSTRAIGHT SHOOTER-

Bad Company-Swan SongSTAMPEDE-Doobie Bros.-WB

KZEL-FM/EUGENE, ORE.ADDS:BANKRUPT-Dr. Hook-CapitolCOLE YOUNGER-AnchorINITIATION-Todd Rundgren-

BearsvilleLISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID

Isinglel-Wings-CapitolNANCY NEVINS-Tom CatUPP-EpicWELCOME TO RIDDLE BRIDGE-

Brewer & Shipley-CapitolHEAVY ACTION (airplay,

phones):ADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, VOL. I-

Earl Scruggs Revue-ColBEAU BRUMMELS-WBCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John


A&MMIDNIGHT ON THE WATER-

David Bromberg-ColSLIM CHANCE-Ronnie Lane-

A&MTWO LANE HIGHWAY-

Pure Prairie League-RCA


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A REUNION.One of the happier events in

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This new elpee is for your home rackWith songs and stars to take you back

Some old, some new, some gone, some dueFrom days when people wrote for the fun of it

and played for the hell of itWith pictures taken when all was smart

and just another piece of artFrom sessions gone IN when friends dropped in

to play or stay or grin and drinkNo one kept a list to say

who played like thisor clapped that way

The toads of parking lots weren't around to statePay up or you've got no sound

So thank you Jimmy Page, John McLauglin, Mick Jaggei Phil Spector,Jack Nitzche, Gene Pitney Brian Jones, John Paul Jones, Joe Morretti,Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Art Greenslade, Mssrs. Leander,

and Whittaker,Tony Hicks, Graham Nash, Dave Hassinger, Glyn Johns,Jimmy Miller, and all those we remember had it on the rocks, but

forgot the rocks they got off on.Do you recall the diplomatic Jaggered Jagger and his henchman, Keith,whose image we heard firstListen to the songs they wrote and wrote,While Brian played his magic notes,A team of time that make us all remain with Lady Jane,But yesterday don't matter till its gone.... Andrew Oldham

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DON'T LIE TO ME IF YOU LET MEJagger/Richards Jagger/Richards

EACH AND EVERYDAY OF THE YEAR JNING SISTER FANNYJagger/Richards Jagger/Richards

HEART OF STONE DOWNTOWN SUZIEJagger/Richards B. Wyman

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RCA, the Met and Butterfly NEW YORKest and rarest experiences is tofind the memories on one's youthaccurate. Thanks to the enterpriseof Dario Soria, managing directorof the Metropolitan Opera Guild,and the charitable impulses ofKenneth D. Glancy, president ofRCA Records, such an occurrencecan now take place for a widenumber of people 35 and over.

The memory involves Licia Al-banese and Puccini's MadamaButterfly. She sang the role withdistinction before World War II,but it was after 1945 when theopera was allowed back into theMet's repertory that she madeCio-Cio-San her own. This lis-tener can remember ever so clear-ly the May performance in 1946when the Met first returned toDallas, Texas, after the war. "DerRosenkavalier" opened the series,followed by "Rigoletto," "Romeoet Juliette" and finally "MadamaButterfly." The last took place ona scorching Texas afternoon-with no air conditioning. Just inthe middle of Act II a tremen-

By SPEIGHT JENKINS- One of the nic- dous hail storm hit the State Fair

Auditorium, but it didn't matter.The magic of Miss Albanese andPuccini made the performanceever vibrant in the mind.

Post -War PerformanceThe first post-war performance

had taken place a few monthsearlier, on January 19, 1946, andit was broadcast. It is that per-formance that has now been is-sued. Acetates of the broadcastwere supplied to the Met by Jo-seph Gimma, Miss Albanese's hus-band, and proved far superior toany held by Texaco (the pro-gram's sponsor even then) orNBC.

Soria, who it will be remem-bered not only founded AngelRecords but instituted RCA's "So-ria Series," a handsomely pack-aged collection of operas, sug-gested that RCA might want tocontribute to the financially be-leagered Metropolitan Opera byturning out the records.

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CLASSIC OF THE WEEK

TOMITAPICTURES AT AN EXHIBITIONRCA

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BEST SELLERS OF THE WEEKTOMITA: PICTURES AT AN

EXHIBITION-RCABELLINI: I PURITANI-Sutherland,

Pavarotti, Ghiaurov, Bonyge-London

ROSSINI: SIEGE OF CORINTH-Sills,Verrett, Schippers-Angel

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, DELIUS,WALTON: GREENSLEEVES-Zukerman, Barenboim-DG

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SAM GOODY/N.Y.BACH: CANTATAS, VOL. XI-Harnoncourt

Telefunken-BACH: COMPLETE WORKS FOR SOLO

FLUTE-Rampal-RCABEETHOVEN: VIOLIN CONCERTO-

Grumiaux, Davis-PhilipsBEETHOVEN: VIOLIN SONATAS NOS. 1, 9

Pearlman, Ashkenazy-LondonBELLINI: I PURITANI-Sutherland,

Pavarotti, Ghiaurov, Bonynge-LondonFESTIVAL OF FLUTE CONCERTOS-Rampal

-RCAMENDELSSOHN: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS.

1, 2-Perahia, Marriner-ColumbiaMOZART: DIVERTIMENTO FOR STRING

TRIO-Stern, Zukerman, Rose-Columbia

ROSSINI: SIEGE OF CORINTH-Sills,Verrett, Schippers-Angel

RECORD HUNTER/N.Y.AFTER THE BALL-Morris, Bolcom-

NonesuchBACH: BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS-

Paillard-RCABELLINI: I PURITANI-Sutherland,

Pavarotti, Ghiaurov, Bonynge-LondonHADYN: MOZART: CANTATAS, ARIAS-

Baker, PhilipsORFF: CARMINA BURANA-Blegen,

Riegel, Thomas-ColumbiaLUCIANO PAVAROTTI IN CONCERT-

LondonROSSINI: SIEGE OF CORINTH-Sills,

Verrett, Schippers-AngelSTRAUSS: FOUR LAST SONGS, TOD UND

VERKLAERUNG-Janowitz, Karajan-DG

TOMITA: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-RCA

RECORD AND TAPECOLLECTORS/BALTIMORE

MENDELSSOHN: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS.1, 2-Perahia, Marriner-Columbia

MOZART: HORN CONCERTOS-Baumann-Telefunken

ORFF: STREETSONG-BASFROSSINI: SIEGE OF CORINTH-Sills,

Verrett, Schippers-AngelSAINT-SAENS: VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 3

-Ricci-VoxSTRAUSS: DIE FLEDERMAUS-Janowitz,

Windgassen, Waechter, Boehm-LondonSUK: SERENADE FOR STRINGS-

Marriner-ArgoTOMITA: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-

RCAVAUGHAN WILLIAMS, DELIUS, WALTON:

GREENSLEEVES-Zukerman, Barenboim-DG

WAGNER: ORGAN ORGY-Newman-Columbia

ROSE DISCOUNT/CHICAGOALBINONI: ADAGIO-Marriner-AngelBELLINI: I PURITANI-Sutherland,

Pavarotti, Ghiaurov, Bonynge-LondonBERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE-

Solti-LondonGOLDEN DANCE HITS OF 1600-

Archive (DG)ORFF: CARMINA BURANA-Blegen,

Riegel, Thomas-ColumbiaRODRIGO: CONCERTO DE ARANJUEZ-

Williams-ColumbiaROSSINI: SIEGE OF CORINTH-Sills,

Verrett, Schippers-AngelSTRAVINSKY: RITE OF SPRING-Solti-

LondonTOMITA: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-



TOWER RECORDS/SAN DIEGOBACH: TRANSCRIPTIONS-Stokowski-

RCABELLINI: I PURITANI-Sutherland,

Pavarotti, Ghiaurov, Bonynge-LondonBERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE-

Solti-LondonCOPLAND: EL SALON MEXICO-Copland

-ColumbiaDEBUSSY: ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, VOL. III-

Martinon-AngelDVORAK, BRUCH: CELLO CONCERTO,

KOL NIDREI-Casals-SeraphimFESTIVAL OF FLUTE CONCERTOS-Rampal

-RCAPACHELBEL: CANON-Paillard-RCASTRAVINSKY: RITE OF SPRING-Solti-

LondonTOMITA: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-

RCA

VOGUE BOOKS AND RECORDS/LOS ANGELES

BACH: CANTATAS, VOLUME XI-Harnoncourt-Telefunken

DEBUSSY: SELECTED ORCHESTRAL WORKS-Toscanini-Olympic

ELGAR: THE APOSTLES-Boult-EMI(Import)

RAMEAU: LES FETES-,Leppa rd-AngelRAVEL: COMPLETE ORCHESTRAL WORKS-

Skrowacewski-VoxSAINT-SAENS: SYMPHONY "URBS ROMA"

-Martinon-AngelSCHOENBERG: PIANO MUSIC-Jacobs--

NonesuchTOMITA: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-



VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SIR JOHN IN LOVE-Herincx-Angel

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WALDSALESMAKER OF THE WEEK

CAPTAIN FANTASTICELTON JOHNMCA

THE RETAIL REPORT

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TOP RETAIL SALES THIS WEEKCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-

MCAADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCAFOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-

Turner Overdrive-MercuryPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-

Elektra

FANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonGORILLA-James Taylor-WB

ABC/NATIONALBLUE SKY, NIGHT THUNDER-

Michael Murphey-EpicFANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonFOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-Turner

Overdrive-MercuryHEARTS-America-WBPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-ElektraSEDAKA'S BACK-Neil Sedaka-RocketSPIRIT OF AMERICA-Beach Boys-

CapitolSTAMPEDE-Doobie Brothers-WBSURVIVAL-O'Jays--Phila. Intl.TANYA TUCKER-MCA

CAMELOT/NATIONALBEST OF FREE-A&MCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCAFANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonFOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-Turner

Overdrive-MercuryGORILLA-James Taylor-WBJANIS-Janis Joplin-Col (Soundtrack)PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-Tomita-

RCA

STAMPEDE-Doobie Brothers-WBTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCAUSA-King Crimson-Atlantic

MUSICLAND/NATIONALAIN'T LIFE GRAND-Black Oak Arkansas

-AtcoCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCADIAMONDS & RUST-Joan Baez-A&MDISCO BABY-Van McCoy & the Soul City

Symphony-AvcoDYN-O-MITE-Jimmie Walker-BuddahFOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-Turner

Overdrive-MercuryJUST GET UP & CLOSE THE DOOR-

Johnny Rodriguez-MercuryMELISSA-Melissa Manchester-AristaSEX MACHINE TODAY-James Brown-

PolydorSTAMPEDE-Doobie Brothers-WB

RECORD BAR/NATIONALADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicBETWEEN THE LINES-Janis Ian-ColCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCADIAMONDS & RUST-Joan Baez-A&M

FOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-TurnerOverdrive-Mercury

GORILLA-James Taylor--WBMICKEY MOUSE CLUB-DisneylandORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK-I 0cc-MercurySTAMPEDE-Doobie Brothers-WBTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCA

SAM GOODY/EAST COASTAMERICA'S CHOICE-Hot Tuna-GruntAURA WILL PREVAIL-George Duke-

BASF

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCACHICAGO VIII-ColPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-ElektraSOAP OPERA-Kinks-RCASPIRIT OF AMERICA-Beach Boys-

CapitolTELLY SAVALAS-Audio FidelityTOMMY-Polydor (Soundtrack)USA-King Crimson-Atlantic

TWO GUYS/EAST COASTA SONG FOR YOU-Temptations-GordyAMERICA'S CHOICE-Hot Tuna-GruntBETWEEN THE LINES-Janis Ian-ColCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCADRESSED TO KILL-Kiss-CasablancaFANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonMATCHING TIE & HANDKERCHIEF-

Monty Python-AristaSOAP OPERA-Kinks-RCASURVIVAL-O'Jays-Phila. Intl.TOYS IN THE ATTIC-Aerosmith-Col

ALEXANDER'S/N.Y.-N.J.-CONN.A SONG FOR YOU-Temptations-GordyBLOW BY BLOW-Jeff Beck-EpicBLUEJAYS-Justin Hayward & John

Lodge-ThresholdCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCACHICAGO VIII-ColJUDITH-Judy Coll ins-ElektraPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-ElektraSURVIVAL-O'Jays-Phila. Intl.THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WO1ILD-

Earth, Wind & Fire-ColTOMMY-Polydor (Soundtrack)

DISCOUNT RECORDS/CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

AURA WILL PREVAIL-George Duke-BASF

BLUE SKY, NIGHT THUNDER-MichaelMurphey-Epic

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCADIAMONDS AND RUST-Joan Baez-

A&MGORILLA-James Taylor-WBINITIATION-Todd Rundgren-BearsvilleJUDITH-Judy Collins-ElektraPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-ElektraSOAP OPERA-Kinks-RCATHE WIZ-Atlantic

CUTLER'S/NEW HAVENADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCADISCOTHEQUE-Herbie Mann-AtlanticINITIATION-Todd Rundgren-BearsvilleMICHAEL BOLOTIN-RCAPILOT-CapitolSPARTACUS-Triumvirat-CapitolTALE SPINNIN'-Weather Report-ColTHE WIZ-AtlanticTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCA

GARY'S/RICHMONDBEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS-

Freddy Fender-ABC DotBLUE SKY, NIGHT THUNDER-Michael

Murphey-EpicDIAMONDS & RUST-Joan Baez-A&M

FANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonGORILLA-James Taylor-WBPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-ElektraSPIRIT OF AMERICA-Beach Boys-

CapitolSTAMPEDE-Doobie Brothers-WBSTRAIGHT SHOOTER-Bad Company-

Swan SongTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCA

POPLAR TUNES/MEMPHISADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicARMAGEDDON-A&MAURA WILL PREVAIL-George Duke-

BASFCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCAFANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonFOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-Turner

Overdrive-MercuryGORILLA-James Taylor-WBSPARTACUS-Triumvirat-CapitolTALE SPINNIN'-Weather Report-ColTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCA

NATL. RECORD MART/MIDWESTCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCAFANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonFOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-Turner

Overdrive-MercuryMISTER MAGIC-Grover Washington Jr.-

KuduPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-ElektraSPIRIT OF AMERICA-Beach Boys-

CapitolSTAMPEDE-Doobie Brothers-WBSTRAIGHT SHOOTER-Bad Company-

Swan SongSURVIVAL-O'Jays-Phila. Intl.TWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCA

RECORD REVOLUTION/CLEVELAND

ADVENTURES IN PARADISE-Minnie Riperton-Epic

ANDY FRAZER BAND-CBS England(Import)

BANKRUPT-Dr. Hook-CapitolCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCAFLASH FEARLESS-Chrysalis

GORILLA-James Taylor-WBINITIATION-Todd Rundgren-BearsvilleSPARTACUS-Triumvirat-CapitolSTONE PONEYS FEATURING LINDA

RONSTADT-CapitolTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCA

FOR THE RECORD/BALTIMOREADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicAURA WILL PREVAIL-George Duke-

BASFCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCACHOCOLATE CITY-Parliament-

CasablancaDYN-O-MITE-Jimmie Walker-BuddahEXPANSIONS-,Lonnie Liston Smith-

Flying DutchmanINSIDES OUT-Bohannon-DakarROLLING DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE-

Main Ingredient-RCATALE SPINNIN'-Weather Report-ColTHE WIZ-Atlantic

CIRCLES/ARIZONABLIND BABY-New Birth-BuddahCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCACHOCOLATE CITY-Parliament-

CasablancaDISCOTHEQUE-Herbie Mann-AtlanticMOVING VIOLATION-Jackson Five-

MotownSEASTONES-RoundSEX MACHINE TODAY-James Brown-

PolydorSPIRIT OF AMERICA-Beach Boys-

CapitolTALE SPINNIN'-Weather Report-Col

A survey of NEW product salesin the nation's leading retail outlets

listed alphabetically

YOUR MAMA WON'T LIKE ME-Suzi Quatro-Arista

ROSE DISCOUNT/CHICAGOADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCADIAMONDS 14 RUST-Joan Baez-A&MDISCO BABY-Van McCoy & the Soul City

Symphony-AvcoDRESSED TO KILL-Kiss-CasablancaJUDITH-Judy Collins-ElektraLAKESHORE DRIVE-Aliotta, Haynes &

Jeremiah-Big FootPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-ElektraSPIRIT OF AMERICA-Beach Boys-

CapitolSURVIVAL-0*Jays-Phila. Intl.

WHEREHOUSE/CALIFORNIAADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicAIN'T LIFE GRAND-Black Oak Arkansas

-AtcoCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCACOMIN' DOWN YOUR WAY-Three Dog

Night-ABCFOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-Turner

Overdrive-MercuryMOVING VIOLATION-Jackson Five-

MotownSNEAKIN' SALLY THROUGH THE ALLEY-

Robert Palmer-IslandSOAP OPERA-Kinks-RCASPARTACUS-Triumvirat-CapitolTOYS IN THE ATTIC-Aerosmith-Col

LICORICE PIZZA/LOS ANGELESA SONG FOR YOU-Temptations-GordyBETWEEN THE LINES-Janis Ian-ColCAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCADIAMONDS & RUST-Joan Baez-A&MFANDANGO-ZZ Top-LondonFOUR WHEEL DRIVE-Bachman-Turner

Overdrive-MercuryGORILLA-James Taylor-WBPLAYING POSSUM-Carly Simon-ElektraSOAP OPERA-Kinks-RCATALE SPINNIN'-Weather Report-Col

TOWER/LOS ANGELESADVENTURES IN PARADISE-

Minnie Riperton-EpicCOMIN' DOWN YOUR WAY-Three Dog

Night-ABCDYN-O-MITE-Jimmie Walker-BuddahLOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER-Captain &

Tennille-A&MMIDNIGHT ON THE WATER-

David Bromberg-ColMOVING VIOLATION-Jackson Five-

MotownNIGHT LIGHTS HARMONY-Four Tops-

ABC

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION-Tomita-RCA

THANK YOU BABY-Stylistics-AvcoTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCA

EVERYBODY'S RECORDS/NORTHWEST

ADVENTURES IN PARADISE-Minnie Riperton-Epic

AIN'T LIFE GRAND-Black Oak Arkansas-Atco

ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, VOL. !-Earl Scruggs-Col

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC-Elton John-MCAJOURNEY-ColMIDNIGHT ON THE WATER-

David Bromberg-ColNEW CITY-Blood, Sweat & Tears-ColPHONE CALL FROM GOD-Jerry Jordan-

MCA

SEASTONES-RoundTWO LANE HIGHWAY-Pure Prairie

League-RCA


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Atlantic SD 181309 PLAYING POSSUM CARLY SIMON/Elektra 7E-1033

21 FANDANGO ZZ TOP/London PS 691610 BLOW BY BLOW JEFF BECK/Epic PE 3340912 SPIRIT OF AMERICA BEACH BOYS/Capitol SVBB 113844 STRAIGHT SHOOTER BAD COMPANY/Swan Song SS 8413

(Atlantic)

17 SURVIVAL O'JAYS/Phila. Intl. KZ 33150 (Col)13 13 HEARTS AMERICA/Warner Bros. BS 285214 5 NUTHIN' FANCY LYNYRD SKYNYRD/MCA 213715 8 A SONG FOR YOU TEMPTATIONS/Gordy G6-96951

(Motown)16 11 HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN/

MCA 2133 1617 19 JUDITH JUDY COLLINS/Elektra 7E-1032 9

18 18 FIVE-A-SIDE ACE/Anchor ANCL-2001 (ABC) 10

23 MISTER MAGIC GROVER WASHINGTON, JR./KuduKU -201S (Motown) 11

20 22 HE DON'T LOVE YOU LIKE I LOVE YOU TONY ORLANDO &DAWN/Elektra 7E-1034 5

21 16 KATY LIED STEELY DAN/ABC ABCD 846 1022 14 PHYSICAL GRAFFITI LED ZEPPELIN/Swan Song

SS 2200 (Atlantic)46 FOUR WHEEL DRIVE BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE/

Mercury SRM1-102728 TOYS IN THE ATTIC AEROSMITH/Columbia PC 33471

25 24 GREATEST HITS ELTON JOHN/MCA 212826 26 THE WIZ ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST/Atlantic SD 18137

Eri 32 BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS FREDDY FENDER/ABC Dot DOSD 2020

28 27 WILL 0' THE WISP LEON RUSSELL/Shelter SR 2138 (MCA)133 36 AN EVENING WITH JOHN DENVER/RCA CPL -0764

30 20 TO BE TRUE HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES FeaturingTHEODORE PENDERGRASS/Phila. Intl. KZ 33148 (Col) 13

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SUPERNATURAL BEN E. KING/Atlantic SD 18132 5 F

DISCO BABY VAN McCOY & THE SOUL CITY SYMPHONY/Avco AV 69006

WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE CLUB MOUSEKEDANCEAND OTHER MOUSEKETEER FAVORITES Featuring theMIKE CURB CONGREGATION & VARIOUS ARTISTS/

Disneyland 1362STEPPING INTO TOMORROW DONALD BYRD/Blue Note

BN-LA 368G (UA)THE AURA WILL PREVAIL GEORGE DUKE/MPS/BASF 25613

ROLLING DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE MAIN INGREDIENT/RCA APL1-0644

SHEER HEART ATTACK QUEEN/Elektra 7E-1026

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CRIME OF THE CENTURY SUPERTRAMP/A&M SP 3647

IN THE POCKET STANLEY TURRENTINE/Fantasy F 9478

EXPANSIONS LONNIE LISTON SMITH/Flying DutchmanBOL1-0934 (RCA)

PHOEBE SNOW/Shelter 2109 (MCA)MY WAY MAJOR HARRIS/Atlantic SD 18119TOM CAT TOM SCOTT & THE L.A. EXPRESS/

Ode SP 77028 (A&M)THE LAST FAREWELL ROGER WHITTAKER/RCA APL1-0855

IT'LL SHINE WHEN IT SHINES OZARK MOUNTAINDAREDEVILS/A&M SP 3654 22

SUN GODDESS RAMSEY LEWIS/Columbia KC 33194 20JUKE JOINT JUMP ELVIN BISHOP/Capricorn CP 0151 (WB) 4

TWO LANE HIGHWAY PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE/RCAAPL1 -0933 1

BLIND BABY NEW BIRTH/Buddah BDS 5636 2

SOLID MANDRILL/United Artists UA-LA 408-G 5

FEELINGS PAUL ANKA/United Artists UA LA 367-G 8

IF YOU LOVE ME (LET ME KNOW) OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN/MCA 411 51

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER/Atlantic SD 18133 2

SONG FOR AMERICA KANSAS/Kirshner PZ 33385 (Col) 6FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/

Kama Sutra KSBS 2603 21 F

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THERE'S ONE IN EVERY CROWD ERIC CLAPTON/RSO SO 4806 (Atlantic) 9 F

AUTOBAHN KRAFTWERK/Vertigo VEL 2003 (Phonogram) 16 F

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YOUNG AMERICANS DAVID BOWIE/RCA APL1-0998 12 F

NIGHTBIRDS LABELLE/Epic KE 33075 22 E

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PUT IT WHERE YOU WANT IT AWB/MCA 475 8 F

JOHN DENVER'S GREATEST HITS/RCA CPL1 -0374 78 F

FOR EARTH BELOW ROBIN TROWER/Chrysalis 1073 (WB) 15 F

ALBUM CROSS REFERENCE ON PAGE 36AmericanRadioHistory.Com

You know about the Motown Sound. It began an entire generation of music. Well, times change and onegeneration leads to another. And just in case you haven't noticed, there's now more than one Motown Sound.May we present The Motown Sounds. You'll find Motown greats like The Jackson Five and The Supremes.You'll find collectors' classics like the new Marvelettes Anthology. You'll find exciting new energies likeYvonne Fair Brilliant new concepts like the Disc -O -Tech Series that brings instant, non-stop disco musicanywhere there's a turntable. And you'll find The Motown Country Way, with the premiere album release byT G. ("Devil in The Bottle") Sheppard on our Melodyland label.

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S UL TRUTHBy DEDE DABNEY

II HOLLYWOOD: Personal Pick: "I'veFound Someone Of My Own" -- SmokedSugar (20th Century). An old tuneredone in a manner that can only meana winner. This new group has theability to top the charts.DEDE'S DITTIES TO WATCH: "Summer

Madness" -- Kool & the Gang (Delite-MUPT) ; "Do It To Me" -- Southside

Movement (20th Century-UPT); "(Sending Out An)S.O.S." Retta Young (All-Platinum-UPT).WBLS-FM (New York) is currently going through

personnel changes. 3 Higginson is no longer on theair from 12-4 p.m. However, they have found areplacement in Jay D. Halloway

"Tribute To The Survival Of Blacks In The BusinessOf Music," a salute to those individuals responsiblefor such a successful area of communications, hasbeen postponed until further notice. This wasscheduled to be held May 30-31 in Memphis, Tenn.Ms. Jackie Harris, who left Crossover Records to

relocate in Los Angeles is now looking for a positionin promotion. Ms. Harris had been working withChelsea Records under the supervision of ChrisClafl On May 28 she was relieved of her duties atthat company.

Those people, black or white, who were let go byUA were released simply because the company decidedto go independent with new distributors. Thesedistributors have their own staffs.

Hometown Favorites

Columbia recording artists Ramsey Lewis and Earth, Wind & Fire visited their hometownChicago recently, where their return was greeted with enthusiasm and celebration.Both Lewis, whose current Columbia album, "Sun Goddess," was recently declaredgold, and Earth, Wind & Fire, who garnered gold with their latest album, "That's TheWay Of The World," and single, "Shining Star," are currently touring the UnitedStates. The Columbia Records branch in Chicago seized the opportunity of the visit topresent a special "Chicago's Own" award to these two acts. Shown from left at theceremony are: David Remedi, local promotion manager, Columbia Records, Chicago;Ramsey Lewis; Maurice White, leader of Earth, Wind & Fire; Granville White, assistantdirector, r&b promotion, CBS Records; and Charles Knox, local r&b promotion manager,CBS Records, Chicago.

You have notafter this topthat they will

Shown here from leftwith Record World's DedeDabney are Frank Floyd,Bunny McCullough, KittyWilliams and KrystalDavis, who make up thegroup known as ConsumerRapport, who are making aname for themselves withtheir "Ease On Down TheRoad." This particulartune is from the TonyAward -winning show "TheWiz."

heard the last of Consumer Rapport;tune there is no doubt in one's mindbe around for quite some time.

Blue Note Announces 2nd Reissue Series LOS ANGELES - Blue NoteRecords has announced the sec-ond release of its Blue Note re-issue series. Set for June, therelease includes recordings thatthe label considers among themost important, artistically, in thehistory of the jazz idiom. In ad-dition to recordings from theBlue Note archives, the reissueseries includes sessions originallyrecorded for the Aladdin, Transi-tion World Pacific and PacificJazz labels.

The June Blue Note reissueseries release includes: "LesterYoung," the complete Aladdincombo recordings in one pack-age, rare sides considered amongthe finest Young ever recorded;"Ornette Coleman," unreleasedtapes from the December 21,1962 Town Hall concert, withsupport from David Izenzon onbass and Charles Moffet ondrums; "Chambers/Coltrane," re-cordings by the team of the latefifties, including a newly -dis-covered session released for thefirst time; "Gil Evans," two long -unavailable Pacific Jazz dates bysuch stellar performers as Can-nonball Adderley, Art Blakey,Chambers, Curtis Fuller and SteveLacy; "Andrew Hill," three pre-viously unreleased sessions, in-cluding one featuring a unique

combination of jazz quartetcoupled with string quartet;"Jackie McLean," two previouslyunreleased sessions with thesaxophonist in quintet and sex-tet settings - sidemen includeLee Morgan, Charles Tolliver,Larry Ridley, and Jack DeJohn-ete; "Sam Rivers," two previouslyunreleased sessions by the influ-ential saxophonist, with supportfrom Donald Byrd, Julian Priester,Cecil McBee and the AndrewHill Quartet; "Cecil Taylor," tworare albums by an influentialleader of the new music - theTransition and United Artistsalbums brought together for thefirst time, with one original tunepreviously unreleased anywhere.

Gospel Action

Gospel artist Albertina Walker will be oneof the first artists featured on a new gos-pel series forthcoming from Polydor Rec-ords. Pictured above, from left, are RW'sgospel editor Irene Johnson Ware andMs. Walker.

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THE THREE DEGREES, "TAKE GOOD CAREOF YOURSELF" (Mighty ThreeMusic, BMI). Those interna-tional sweethearts have ahold on another teaser, show-ing off what they do the best:singing in harmony. Writtenby the dynamite duo of Gam-ble/Huff, this tune is fromtheir newest Ip, "Internation-al." Philadelphia InternationalZS8 3568 (Col).

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WIRE" (The Sound Of NolanMusic/Chelsea Music, Co.,BMI). Exploding into a vol-canic eruption, this new fe-male vocal group is a naturaland should garner heavychart action. Tight with force-ful lyrics, "Highwire" ischarged with energy. LoveSquad shows plenty of discopotential. Roxbury RB 2009(Chelsea).

YVONNE FAIR, "THE BITCH IS

BLACK." If you had any thoughtsco of whether or not Ms. Fair is a

soulful songstress, listen to her< rendition of "Tell Me Something

Good," the Stevie Wonder origi-nal. Yvonne Fair has gainedmany fans after her in -personhandling of Temptations tunessuch as "Funky Music Sho NuffTurns Me On" and "Let YourHair Down." Motown E5RS-7577.

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NEW RELEASES FROMTHE BRUNSWICK LABEL

"LOVE CAME Part I"Ronnie Limar

BRC 114

`ANOTHER TIMEANOTHER PLACE"

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"I NEED SOME"Wilbert Harrison

"POWER GREATERTHAN MAN"

Boobie Knight& The Universal Lady

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THE R&BwoRLD SINGLES CHART

JUNE 7, 1975

JUNE MAY7 31

1 ROCKIN' CHAIR GWEN McCRAE-Cat 1996 (TK)

1131 4 LOVE WON'T LET ME WAIT MAJOR HARRIS -Atlantic 32483 3 SPIRIT OF THE BOOGIE/SUMMER MADNESS KOOL & THE GANG-

Delite 15 67 (PIP)4 2 GET DOWN, GET DOWN JOE SIMON-Spring 156 (Polydor)

7 CUT THE CAKE/PERSON TO PERSON AWE -Atlantic 3 261

9 GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT O'JAYS--Phila. Intl. ZS8 3565 (Col)

7 5 BABY THAT'S BACKATCHA SMOKEY ROBINSON-Tamla T54 25 8F (Motown)

11 LOOK AT ME (I'M IN LOVE) MOMENTS -Stang 5 060(All Platinum)

13 THE WAY WE WERE/TRY TO REMEMBER GLADYS KNIGHT &THE PIPS-Buddah 463

16 SLIPPERY WHEN WET COMMODORES -Motown M13 38F

11 6 BAD LUCK (PART I)HAROLD MELVIN 8 THE

BLUENOTES-Phila. Int.ZS8 3562 (Col)

1:13 51 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (BLOW YOURWHISTLE)

GARY TOMS EMPIRE -PIP 6504

15 SHACKIN' UP 52 BABY -GET IT ONBARBARA MASON-Buddah 459 IKE 8 TURNER -United Artists

UA XW 598-X18 ME & MRS. JONES

RON BANKS 8 THEDRAMATICS -ABC 12990 1:13 56 SEVEN LONELY NIGHTS

FOUR TOPS -ABC 12096

20 THE HUSTLE 58 DO IT IN THE NAMEVAN McCOY 8 THE SOUL CITY OF LOVE

SYMPHONY-Avco 4653 BEN E. KING -Atlantic 327415 8 SHAKEY GROUND

TEMPTATIONS -Gordy G7142 gn 59 PLEASE PARDON ME (YOU

(Motown) REMIND ME OF A FRIEND)

ILI 24

17

WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS?WAR -United Artists XW 629-XKEEP THE HOME FIRES 57

RUFUS Featuring CHAKA KHAN-ABC 12099

COME AN' GET YOURSELF17 CEI

BURNING SOME

LATIMORE-Glades 1726 (TK) LEON HAYWOOD-

18 14 WHAT AM I GONNA DOWITH YOU

BARRY WHITE -20th Century

50 53

20th Century TC 2191

CRYSTAL WORLDCRYSTAL GRASS-

Polydor PD 15101TC 2177

51 55 ALL THE WAY IN OR ALL THE

1E1 29 TAKE ME TO THE RIVERSYL JOHNSON -Hi 5N 2285

(London)

WAY OUTBETTYE SWANN-Atlantic 3262

20 19 CHECK IT OUT 52 54 SWEARIN' TO GODBOBBY WOMACK- FRANKIE VALLI-

United Artists XW621-X Private Stock 021

21 12 HIJACK 60 SNEAKIN' UP BEHIND YOUHERBIE MANN -Atlantic 3246 BRECKER BROTHERS -

22 22 LEAVE IT ALONE Arista 0122DYNAMIC SUPERIORS -

Motown M1342F63 ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER

23 10 L -O -V -E (LOVE) THAN WORDS

24 28AL GREEN -Hi 2282 (London)SADIE

CHOCOLATE MILK -RCAPB 10290

SPINNERS -Atlantic 3268 65 SEXY

25 21 ROLLING DOWN A MFSB-Phila. Intl. ZS8 3567

MOUNTAINSIDE(Col)

MAIN INGREDIENT -RCA 62 SUGAR PIEPB 10024 SUGAR BILLY -Fast Tract

32 TAKE IT FROM ME FT 2503 (Mainstream)

DIONNE WARWICKE- 64 IT AIN'T NO FUNWarner Bros. WBS 8088 SHIRLEY BROWN -Truth

33 MISTER MAGIC TRA 3223 (Stax)

GROVER WASHINGTON JR.- 58 61 A.I.E. (A MWANA)Kudu 924F (Motown) BL 5567

41 SOONER OR LATERMRL 5567

IMPRESSIONS-CurtomCMS 0103 (WB) 111 66 CHOCOLATE CITY

PARLIAMENT -Casablanca 831

El 40 JUST A LITTLE BIT OF YOUMICHAEL JACKSON -

Motown 1349F

60 68 THREE STEPS FROM

TRUE LOVEREFLECTIONS -Capitol 4078

30 37 WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU? 61 30 PHILADELPHIA FREEDOMLABELLE-Epic 8-50097 ELTON JOHN BAND -

31 31 SEX MACHINE MCA 40364JAMES BROWN-Polydor 14270

11132 35 NO CHARGE73 PAIN

EDWIN STARR-Granite 522SHIRLEY CAESER-

Scepter/Hob 12402 63 26 GRANDDADDY (PART I)

33 38 ALL CRIED OUT NEW BIRTH-Buddah 464LAMONT DOZIER -ABC 12076 - FIGHT THE POWER, PART I

34 34 HERE I AM AGAIN ISLEY BROS.-T-Neck ZS8CANDI STATON- 2256

35 36Warner Bros. 8070

EASE ON DOWN THE ROADCONSUMER RAPPORT -Wing

and a Prayer HS 101F

65 69 GOD BLESS OUR LOVECHARLES BRIMMER-

Chelsea 3017

(Atlantic) 66 67 WENDY IS GONERONNIE McNEIR-Prodigal 614Ei 42 HURT

MANHATTANS - 67 70 GET DOWN TONIGHTColumbia 3-10140 KC 8 THE SUNSHINE BAND-

44 LOOK AT YOUTK 1009

GEORGE McCRAE-TK 1011 68 27 THANK YOU BABY

38 39 MY BRAND ON YOU STYLISTICS-Avco 4652

DENISE LaSALLE-20th Century/ 69 23 WANT TO BE FREEWestbound WT 5004 OHIO PLAYERS -Mercury 73675

50 I'LL DO FOR YOU ANYTHING 70 25 TOUCH ME BABYYOU WANT ME TO (REACHING OUT FOR

BARRY WHITE -20th Century YOUR LOVE)TC 2208 TAMIKO JONES -Arista 0110

40 43 LOVE BEING YOUR FOOL 70 72 THE BEGINNING OF MY ENDCHARLIE WHITEHEAD- FIRST CLASS -Ebony Sound

Island 007 ES 187 (Buddah)

47 FOREVER IN LOVE 71 - IS IT TRUELOVE UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA BARRET STRONG -Capitol 4052

-20th Century 2197 73 - DANCE LADY DANCE48 FREE MAN RIPPLE-GRC 2060

SOUTH SHORE COMMISSION - 74 49 WHATEVER'S YOUR SIGNWand 11287 (Scepter) BOBY FRANKLIN -Babylon 1123

43 46 REACH OUT FOR THE MOON 75 71 LOVE ME TILL TOMORROW(POOR PEOPLE) COMES

ANGELO BOND -ABC 12077 ROY C -Mercury 73672

Buddah To PresentSoul Extravaganza NEW YORK - Art Kass, presi-dent of Buddah Records, has an-nounced a "Soul of the BuddahGroup" festival which will be heldJune 6-8 at New York's ApolloTheatre. This three-day musicalextravaganza will feature 10 ofBuddah's r&b acts on one bill.

Headlining this music festivalwill be Buddah recording artistMelba Moore. Included in theBuddah Group billing will be re-cording artists Black Ivory, BarbaraMason, the Futures, the Modula-tions, Jae Mason, Fifth Avenue,Bobby Wilson, Jimmy Jackson andthe Sound Experience. BarbaraMason and the Futures will appearon the Friday shows only.

The "Soul of the BuddahGroup" is a new corporate con-cept aimed at providing "top-notch" entertainment at majordiscount prices to the New Yorkcommunity.

One hundred tickets each willbe given to radio stations WBLS,WWRL and WLIB for donations totheir favorite charities, and ticketscan be purchased at the box officeof the Apollo Theatre.

Picture Record BowsOn HSE RecordsII NASHVILLE -A picture record,featuring a full color picture oneach side of the album, has beenreleased by the Gerald Sisters onHSE Records, a division of HoytSullivan Enterprises in Nashville.The special process involved forthe pressing of the record wasdeveloped in Japan.

The Gerald Sisters are one ofthe top black gospel groups withthe firm. Several picture albumsare planned for the future.

Labelle(Continued from page 23)ality, an element that works tostrengthen the trio as a unit. Whenappropriate, they are separatelyfeatured as lead vocalists, witheach singer having established aparticular forte. And whether theybe affecting a blues, rock or bal-lad ambience, it is always a potentone.

The hall was packed with ador-ing fans. (Labelle fans are remark-ably steadfast.) The audiencethrilled to both the theatrics ofthe performance and the qualityof sound delivered, the latter abet-ted by a notable tight five -piecebacking troupe. Especially thrillingportions of the evening's excite-ment included a sensuous bluesrocker, "You Turn Me On," whichfeatured potent acappella sec-tions and the tune that hit thetop o' the charts, "Lady Mar-malade."Labelle -that's entertainment!

Roberta Skopp

rLP CHARTTHE R&B

JUNE 7, 19751. THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD

EARTH, WIND & FIRE -Columbia PC 33280

2. SURVIVALO'JAYS-Phila. Intl. KZ 33150 (Col)

3. MISTER MAGICGROVER WASHINGTON, JR.-

Kudu KU 20S1 (Motown)4. TO BE TRUE

HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUENOTESFeaturing THEODORE PENDERGRASS-Phila. Intl. KZ 33148 (Col)

5. DISCOTHEQUEHERBIE MANN -Atlantic SD 1670

6. A SONG FOR YOUTEMPTATIONS -Gordy G6 -969S1

(Motown)

7. MY WAYMAJOR HARRIS -Atlantic SD 18119

8. A QUIET STORMSMOKEY ROBINSON-Tamla

T6 -337S1 (Motown)9. CHOCOLATE CITY

PARLIAMENT -Casablanca NBLP 7014

10. THE DRAMATIC JACKPOTRON BANKS & THE DRAMATICS -

ABC ABCD 86711. ROLLING DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE

MAIN INGREDIENT -RCA APL1-0644

12. THE WIZORIGINAL CAST -Atlantic SD 18137

13. EXPANSIONSLONNIE LISTON SMITH -

Flying Dutchman BDL1-0934 (RCA)14. DISCO BABY

VAN McCOY & THE SOUL CITYSYMPHONY-Avco AV 69006

15. ADVENTURES IN PARADISEMINNIE RIPERTON-Epic PE 33454

16. BLIND BABYNEW BIRTH-Buddah BD 55636

17. JUST ANOTHER WAY TO SAYI LOVE YOU

BARRY WHITE -20th Century T 466

18. SOLIDMANDRILL -United Artists UA-LA

408-G19. AVERAGE WHITE BAND

Atlantic SD 7308

20. SUPERNATURALBEN E. KING -Atlantic SD 18132

21. CAUGHT IN THE ACTCOMMODORES -Motown M6 -820S1

22. SEX MACHINE TODAYJAMES BROWN-Polydor PD 6042

23. IN THE POCKETSTANLEY TURRENTINE-Fantasy F9478

24. INSIDES OUTBOHANNON-Dakar BK 6916 (Brunswick)

25. NEW AND IMPROVEDSPINNERS -Atlantic SD 18118

26. TWOBOB JAMES-CTI 6057 (Motown)

27. COSMIC TRUTHUNDISPUTED TRUTH -Gordy

G6 -970S1 (Motown)

28. STEPPING INTO TOMORROWDONALD BYRD-Blue Note BN-LA 368-G

(UA)29. HARD CORE POETRY

TAVARES-Capitol ST -11316

30. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WORLDIS COMING TO

BOBBY WOMACK-United ArtistsUA LA 353-G

31. MOVING VIOLATIONJACKSON FIVE -Motown M6 -829S1

32. SUN GODDESSRAMSEY LEWIS-Columbia KC 33194

33. THANK YOU BABYSTYLISTICS-Avco AV -69008

34. PERFECT ANGELMINNIE RIPERTON-Epic KE 32561

35. DYNAMIC SUPERIORSDYNAMIC SUPERIORS -M6 -822F

(Motown)36. BIRTH AND DEATH OF

A GANGSTERFANTASTIC FOUR -20th Century/

Westbound W20137. LATIMORE III

LATIMORE-Glades 7505 (T.K.)38. PUT IT WHERE YOU WANT IT

AVERAGE WHITE BAND -MCA 47539. NIGHTBIRDS

LABELLE-Epic KE 3307540. AMERICA TODAY

CURTIS MAYFIELD-Curtom CU5001(WB)



THE JAZZu, LP CHART

JUNE 7, 1975

1. MISTER MAGICGROVER WASHINGTON JR.-

Kudu KU 2051 (Motown)2. DISCOTHEQUE

HERBIE MANN -Atlantic SD 1670

3. EXPANSIONSLONNIE LISTON SMITH -Flying Dutchman

BDL 1-0934 (RCA)

4. IN THE POCKETSTANLEY TURRENTINE-Fantasy F9478

5. TWOBOB JAMES-CTI 6057 (Motown)

6. TOM CATTOM SCOTT & THE L.A. EXPRESS -

Ode SP 77029 (A&M)

7. CHASE THE CLOUDS AWAYCHUCK MANGIONE-A&M SP 4518

8. I NEED SOME MONEYEDDIE HARRIS -Atlantic SD 1169

9. POLAR ACFREDDIE HUBBARD-CTI 6065 (Motown)

10. SUN GODDESSRAMSEY LEWIS-Columbia KC 33195

1 1. THE AURA WILL PREVAILGEORGE DUKE-MPS/BASF MC 25613

12. RESTFUL MINDLARRY CORYELL-Vanguard BSD 79352

13. ATLANTISMcCOY TYNER-Mileston M 55002

(Fantasy)

14. FEELGEORGE DUKE-MPS/BASF MC 25355

15. TALE SPINNIN'WEATHER REPORT -Columbia PC 33417

16. NATIVE DANCERWAYNE SHORTER -Columbia PC 33418

1 7. STANLEY CLARKENemperor NE 431 (Atlantic)

18. BAD BENSONGEORGE BENSON-CTI 6045 (Motown)

19. STEPPING INTO TOMORROWDONALD BYRD-Blue Note

BN-LA 3685G (UA)

20. FLYING STARTBLACKBYRDS-Fantasy F 9472

21. WHO IS THIS BITCH ANYWAY?MARLENA SHAW -Blue Note

BN LA 397-G (UA)

22. THE BRECKER BROTHERSArista AL 4037

23. LINGER LANEBOBBY HUTCHERSON-Blue Note

BN-LA 369-G (UA)

24. GAMBLER'S LIFEJOHNNY HAMMOND-Salvation

SAL 702 (Motown)

25. BODY HEATQUINCY JONES-A&M SP 3617

26. CANNED FUNKJOE FARRELL-CTI 6052 (Motown)

27. SATIN DOLLBOBBI HUMPHREY-Blue Note

LA 3344-G (UA)

28. KOKOMOColumbia PC 33442

29. POTPOURRIJONES-LEWIS-Phila. Int. KZ 33152 (Col)

30. NO MYSTERYRETURN TO FOREVER Featuring

CHICK COREA-Polydor PD 6512

31. ALTERNATE TAKESJOHN COLTRANE-Atlantic SD 1668

32. STORIES TO TELLFLORA PURIM -Milestone 9058 (Fantasy)

33. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTESTHEADHUNTERS -Arista AL 4038

34. A TEAR TO A SMILEROY AYERS UBIQUITY-Polydor PD 6046

35. CUTTING EDGESONNY ROLLINS-Milestone M 5059

(Fantasy)

36. SOLIDMANDRILL -United Artists UA-LA 408-G

37. CHILDREN OF LIMAWOODY HERMAN -Fantasy 9477

38. ASTRAL SIGNGENE HARRIS -Blue Note

BN-LA 313-G (UA)

39. SUGARMANSTANLEY TURRENTINE-CT1 6052

(Motown)

40. FUSION IIIMICHAL URBANFAK-Columbia

PC 33542

Washington in L.A.

During his recent appearance as part of the CTI Spring Jazz Festival at L. A.'sAhmanson Theater, CTI's Grover Washington, Jr. (right), whose "Mr. Magic" isbulleted at 19 on RW's Album Chart, took time to thank Rod McGrew (center), KJLHprogram director and station manager. Accompanying Washington was Motown westcoast regional promotion manager, Sonny Woods (left).

Disco File (Continued from page 25)overlooked "Erogenous" album, originally released on Warner Brothersa year ago, "Honey Trippin'" is now out as a single on SoundbirdRecords, which has also re -issued the album and the rest of the MysticMoods catalogue . . . Joe Carvello, who plays in Boston at a clubcalled Yesterday, prompted me to go out and buy a copy of the newPhilly Devotions single so I could hear the B side, which he andseveral other DJs had mentioned. It's called "I Was a Lonely Man"and was worth the trip; upbeat and bouncy in a Trammps style,it's hidden on the other side of the group's current ballad release,"We're Gonna Make It" (Columbia).

An overload of albums this week. Most essential: MFSB's longed -for"Universal Love" album (Philadelphia Intl.), not quite up to itsadvance word, but, like Bohannon, a perfect example of the newmood music: loose, luxurious and fine for dancing or vibrant atmos-pheric tapes. "Sexy" has already been established as a single -pickedup instantly everywhere- and the next best thing here is "T.L.C.(Tender Lovin' Care)," though it's only 3:41. "Let's Go Disco" wouldbe more acceptable if the vocals were droped out and "K-Jee" is

difficult in points for an easy dance -through but is finally a diamond -sharp orchestration of the Nite-Liters' instrumental from a few yearsback. Note: a number of people have pointed out to me this weekthat MFSB's previous album, the already classic "Love Is The Message,"has just been made available in quadraphonic and is, reportedly,great.

Other recommended albums: "The Supremes" on Motown, high-lighted by "Where Do I Go From Here" (already on Larry Sanders'list from Barefoot Boy, a new club in New York), "He's My Man" anda sexy "Early Morning Love;" "The Legendary Zing Album," a

collector's item from Buddah that includes the material the Trammpsproduced for that label, notably "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart,"mixed here with the instrumental "Penguin at the Big Apple," whichis sort of an interpretation/progression of "Zing" just as "TrammpsDisco Theme" is a further progression of "Penguin" -also great:"Pray All You Sinners," like the others, a Baker, Harris & Young pro-duction; "International" by the Three Degrees (Phila. Intl.), which isgenerally softer than their last album but includes their just -releasedsingle, "Take Good Care of Yourself" -in the spirit and style of "WhenWill I See You Again" but a little more up- "Long Lost Lover" andthe full vocal version of "TSOP;" and, from "Feel It," the new BlackIvory album (Buddah), the title cut, with a nice "Rock Your Baby"feel, and the instrumental version of "Daily News."

Recommended singles: "Scaredycat" by the Doyley Brothers (Atco),a terrific, unexpected record that has nearly made my week but isnot for everyone -previously released in England and sent over awhile back to tantalize a few New York DJs, it's now available andworth investigating; Ronnie Limar's attractive, medium -tempo "LoveCame," with an instrumental Part 2 (BRC); the Rhythm Makers' sexy"Touch" (Vigor), for Ohio Players and B.T. Express fans; and GloriaGaynor's reading of "Walk On By" (MGM) has its moments.

4

People today aregenerally lonely and afraid.One of the responsibilities

of the artist is tosoothe that passage from

irresponsibilityto responsibility- from

life to rebirth.

Love is a touchstoneto bend the road -

to grind life's mountains -to spark the soul.

That's reallyTHE WAY I FEEL.

- Nikki Giovanni

NIKKI GIOVANNITHE WAY I FEEL

Produced by Arif Mardin NK 4

On Niktom RecordsDistributed by Atlantic Records

tc) 1975 Atlantic Recording Corp.A Warner Communications Company

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Dialogue (Continued from page 37)

important. They play things, they get feedback; we sell things andwe get feedback; the two have to mesh together along with the label'spriorities. The labels are hpying a lot less than they used to; they aregetting a lot better at setting their own priorities and working piecesof product that have potential.

RW: At a NARAS meeting last December, one of the panel membersstated that he believed a recession would be good for retailers be-cause consumers would think twice about spending thousands ofdollars for a car, but they would be less reluctant to spend hundredsof dollars on stereo equipment and records. Do you agree with thatstatement?

Smolen: I agree with it to a certain extent. I don't believe the recordbusiness has been hurt as much as other businesses; I know it hasn'tbeen hurt as much. But where we get hurt a bit is in the reducedtraffic. So we have to get more aggressive and bring people to us.We have to promote both outside the store and inside the store. Wecan't wait for records to happen; when we get a hit, we want it on thatcounter, we want it played in the store and we want every customerwho walks in the store to get a shot at buying it.

RW: What do you think of variable pricing?Smolen: What Columbia Records is doing is a very wise move for

the industry and I think it all comes down to the books-when peoplestart looking at their profits I think they'll agree it was a wise movefor Columbia. I think it makes the other groups attractive and lets therecord establish itself.

The thing I most disagree with in this business is the majors whotake their biggest acts and lower the price ridiculously on their al-bums. We have a policy in our company that we will not put a pieceof major hit product on sale for the first couple of weeks. There arecertain times in promoting an album when, if we do our job in thestores, we'll let the people know in the marketplace. In radio, a newpiece of product should be all over the air, they should be playing it,they should be on it. And why give it away when the demand is thathigh? You can say that lowering the price draws a lot of people intothe stores. But we've tried putting albums on sale immediately whenthey came out and to others we've given incredible merchandising-there's just not that much difference the first two weks, for ourselvesanyway, in putting a record on sale and in keeping it at full priceand concentrating on the merchandising. Something many peopledon't understand is that the most important thing in our businessis not the price; it's making the product look attractive, making sureyou get every sale you can. Weeks later, when the initial excitementsettles down, then we'll try to run a promotion on a record and we'lltry and get those people we don't know about in the marketplaceto come in and buy that record.

Record companies are coming out with elaborate cover art on theirrecords, but this doesn't necessarily help sell the record. What I thinkthis business needs is more top grade point of purchase material,things that will sit behind the records or hold the records or hangfrom the ceiling to point to records and take the customer right to theproduct you're trying to sell instead of a lovely piece of work thatwill hang on the wall. Customers will walk in and see a cover andsay "Hey, there's a great new album by so-and-so," but by the timehe gets through the store he's forgotten what he wants to buy. Thisis something we stress in our stores. You have to have something thatmakes the customer want to look at the record twice, pick it up andtouch it; to do that you have to have this strong point of purchasematerial. 0

'Gorilla' on the Loose

James Taylor, whose new Warner Bros. album, "Gorilla," was recently released, visitedthe studios of WBCN between concerts in Boston. Pictured in the station library are(from left) Ted Cohen, Warner Bros. artist development exec; Peter Asher, JamesTaylor's manager; Taylor; and Jim Perry of WBCN.

Phonogram/Phonodisc Meet (Continued from page 4)

sustain our excellence and toachieve your own."

In addition to various audio/slide/film presentations on cur-rent pop, country, r&b and classi-cal product as well as a look atupcoming releases, members ofthe Phonodisc and Phonogramorganizations spoke to thegroup on a variety of subjectsfrom a&r to marketing. Those

people included Dave O'Connell,Phonodisc president; Lou Simon,Phonogram/Mercury senior vicepresident/director of marketing;Jules Abramson, vice president/sales; Stan Bly, vice president/promotion; Charlie Fach, vicepresident/a&r; M. Scott Mampe,vice president/classical division;and Mike Gormley, nationaldirector of publicity.

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200 field and executive staff members of Phonogram and Phonodisc gathered togetherin Chicago on May 23 and 24 to renew old acquaintances and to strike up new friend-ships following the distribution agreement between the two companies. Shown fromleft, top row, are: Rich Merschantz, director of production, Phonogram; Peter Pallas,director, customer service, Phonogram; Mike Gormley, national director of publicity,Phonogram; Roger Sayles, promotion, Atlanta -Charlotte, Phonogram; Denny Rosencrantz,west coast a8r director, Phonogram; Mia (Mrs. Stan) Bly; Stan Bly, vice president,national promotion, Phonogram; Mel Price, east coast branch manager for Phonodisc.Bottom row, from left: Jan Cook, Polygram, Inc. controller; Lou Simon, senior vicepresident, marketing, Phonogram/Mercury; Bob Ford, vice president, management infor-mation service for Phonodisc; Doris Fussier, administrative assistant in sales, Phonodisc;Don England, vice president, sales, Phonodisc; Charlie Fach, vice president a&r,Phonogram.

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Valente, Woody Herman Display Polish, Poise NEW YORK-Catarina Valente-a gal with a musical somethingfor everyone - dominated theAvery Fisher Hall stage, capti-vated the audience and made itall seem so easy. All you need isprecision control of an excellentvoice, great charts and superbmusicianship, with songs in Rat-ion, French, Portuguese, Englishand Bossa Nova-ese. She is totallyat ease and "at -one" with hermusic, musicians and her audi-ence.

Ms. Valente's carefully selectedchoice of well orchestrated songsis designed to show a highlydiversified repertoire of tempos,rhythms, moods and emotions:"Malaguena;" "The Breeze andI;" a lighthearted arrangement ofnursery rhymes in bassa novatime; a dramatic rendition of"The Windmills of your Mind"(sung in the original French,naturally); a contemporary soundwith "You've Got a Friend;"

"Ipanema;" a medley of Italiansongs; and many, many morecrowd pleasers. For a change ofpace she did song, dance andcomedy routines (perhaps a littlebit too much) with her talentedbrother/conductor. The hour -and -a -half performance slipped by alltoo quickly. It all proves tHatyou don't have to be German toenjoy wiener -schnitzel.

The first half of the programhad the explosive Woody Her-man (Fantasy) igniting an audi-ence response of excitement thatgrew in magnitude for 60 up -tempo minutes. From the big -band -of -the -'40s -sound (the open-ing number, "WoodchoppersBall") to modern jazz, the cres-cendo built to a dramatic finishwith the trumpet section suddenlyappearing in the aisles in thecenter of the theater blowing upa storm, with the orchestra reallycooking on stage.



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tions, performed by 31 symphonyorchestras, or 320 separate per-formances between now and theend of 1976.

And the entire NEA programof fellowships to composers, justa year and a half old now and alegacy of its sudden budget in-creases, has been earmarked forthe Bicentennial celebration. Twogroups of composer fellowshipstotalling more than $800 thou-sand have been awarded already.Included in those direct grantsare commissions for operas ororatorios on Abraham Lincoln,Chief Justice John Marshall andWill Rogers; the restaging of threeJohn Phillip Sousa operas; andorchestral pieces inspired by thepaintings of American artist An-drew Wyeth, the McLain Familybluegrass band, Mardi Gras andthe U.S. "conquest of space."

The last cycle of composer fel-lowships designated as Bicenten-nial will close on June 30. An-nouncement of those projects,which must pass through a rigor-ous review and approval proced-ure, will not come before nextJanuary. The last grants are ex-pected to roughly total $400thousand for about 130 compo-sers and librettists as the twoprevious sets have.

In the comparatively tiny NEAoffice of folk, jazz and ethnicmusic, a $25,000 grant to the Li-brary of Congress is being read-ied for the production of a com-prehensive, 15 -record collectionof American folk and traditionalmusic. The Library of Congressproject is being freely compared

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with the Smithsonian Institution'snoted eight -record American jazzcollection, released about twoyears ago. The folk collection willretail for somewhere near $35and is the only discernable re-cording project in the Bicenten-nial scheme.

As well, the folk jazz/ethnicmusic office is providing smallgrants (less than $10,000) to theHartford Jazz Society, the BostonFoundation, the Western Colo-rado Center for the Arts, andEast Texas State College to sup-port festivals of traditional music,like the National Collegiate Fid-dlers Festival at East Texas Stateand the Western Slope Festivalin October at Grand Junction,Colo. The University of Mississip-pi has been given $3,500 for aspecial piece by big -band com-poser Alfred Bartles and its per-formance by Billy Taylor.

And, for the first time in thefolk program's five year history,grants are being made to individ-ual writers. Previously, all supporthad gone to institutions and ar-tists fees. This new individualsupport was also made possibleby the budget boosting, as wasthe first full-time staffer for theprogram hired last month. TheRev. Frederick Kirkpatrick of NewYork, one of the nation's leadingauthorities on urban folk music,has a $3,500 grant to "composeballads about the achievementsand accomplishments of the un-celebrated black heroes," accord-ing to the grant description.Songwriter Jerry P. Stevens ofAustin, Texas is also among the

Vivian Blaine Plays the Cabaret 'Doll' BROTHERS & SISTERS, NYC -Things haven't changed muchsince 1950 in one respect. There'sstill no cure for the common cold,but Vivian Blaine can still makeone sound funny. The great ladyof the American musical theaterbest known for her "a person candevelop la grip" showstopperfrom "Guys and Dolls," a tunelegitimately titled "Adelaide's La-ment," made her local solo night-club debut here (22) to a packedroom of admirers.

Her set was generally well-bal-anced. The familiar materialranged from a Rodgers & Hartmedley to fresher fare like "TheBest Thing That Ever Happened"and "Walkin' in Rhythm." Ms.Blaine gave both the old and thenew solid readings and a com-fortable sense of cabaret drama.Her original material was lesseven. A cleverly creative account-ing of her days as a musical starat 20th Century Fox studiosproved a model exercise in hu-morous nostalgia telling. Unfor-

tunately, her "Women's Libera-tion" routine smacked of reversechauvinism that seemed out ofplace with both the real move-ment and the real world-some-thing akin to watching an Afropeer out of a black sheet whileseeing the burning of a water-melon onto some enemy's frontlawn.

But the perfect blend of the"common" and the "class" whichhas always been Ms. Blaine'strademark showed through eventhe questionable segments of hershow and made for a thoroughlyenjoyable evening. Vivian Blaineis as always a Broadway "Doll"for all times!

Robert Adels

Capricorn Moves Young MACON, GA. --Capricorn Rec-ords has announced the transferof David Young, director of salesfor the label, from their homeoffices in Macon to their westcoast office in Burbank.

first individual grant recipient.Officials at NEA warn the $1.5

million figure for all Bicentennialmusic - classical and traditional- is deceptive. For instance, thewhole $1.2 million composersfellowship program has been des-ignated for Bicentennial worksbut only about a third is directlyrelated to historical themes.

"Many of these works," musicprogram chief Ralph Rizzilo said,"are obviously not RevolutionaryWar pieces. We've just used theBicentennial as an opportunity tosupply money to these compos-ers." The decision of whethereach commissioned work wouldbe on an historical or nationaltheme was left up to the grantee,he said.

Though there will likely not beany other major projects or pro-gram grants from NEA for the Bi-centennial year, NEA may be in-volved in future joint -commissionprojects. Already NEA is match-ing funds with the Farmers Bankof Delaware for a new Aaron Cop-land work to be performed by thePhiladelphia Orchestra in Wilm-ington in May 1976. Other simi-lar projects will be considered,Rizzilo said. "But in the main,"he added, "we're looking for on-going projects rather than one -shots."

'Mr. Music' ShowSet For Beacon NEW YORK - "Mr. Music," aradio show to be done live onstage, will be held Sunday, June15, at the Beacon Theater. NormN. Nite, known on WCBS-FM as"Mr. Music," will be featured,along with a combined cast of29 singers, dancers and musi-cians.

"Mr. Music" will be a chrono-logy of rock 'n' roll. Unlike anoldies show, it will employ newtalent. As part of this multi-media event on the phenome-non of rock 'n' roll, there will beslides and tapes as well as liveperformances.

The show was inspired as a

result of Nite's book, "Ro-' On,"an encyclopedia on rock 'n roll,and the recently released albumbased on the book, also entitled"Rock On." Steve Metz andSteve Singer of the BeaconTheater plan to eventually takethe show on the road.

"Mr. Music" is a productionof Metz in association withthe Beacon Theater. The show isscheduled to preview per-formances on June 13-14 at 7:30p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Openingnight Sunday, June 15, the showbegins at 8:00 p.m. Future per-formances are scheduled forweekends.

Wilson Wins FansWith Honest Funk NASHVILLE - There's so manysinger -songwriters in this town,audiences have become some-what jaded as to their particularbrand of self-indulgence. Butjust when you think you've heardit all, along comes a Larry JonWilson (Monument) and thewhole city starts buzzing with ex-citement over its latest "overnightdiscovery."

This craggy -faced 34 -year oldnative of southern Georgia en-tranced packed houses recentlyat the Exit/In with his uniqueblend of down-home southernfunk and honesty. Blessed witha voice that almost makes TonyJoe White sound like FrankieValli, Larry Jon also displayedunusual stage presence for a manwho's only been working profes-sionally for a little over a year.Working his set acoustically, hedelivered letter-perfect renditionsof material from his recently re-leased Monument Records album,"New Beginnings." Highlights in-cluded his rockin' "OhoopeeRiver Bottomland;" the thoughtprovoking "Through The Eyes OfLittle Children;" the Ip's title song(dedicated to his wife 'Pot'); and,of course, his first single, "Bert-rand My Son," one of the mosttouching songs you'll ever hear.

Sharing the bill with Larry JonWilson were three young singer -songwriters, Michael Bacon, DonPotter and Rob Galbraith. Al-though each are signed as soloacts with different labels (Monu-ment, Columbia and RCA re-spectively), they work occasional-ly as a group called (surprise!)Bacon, Potter and Galbraith. Itcame as no surprise, however, todiscover they worked best whentaking turns with material fromtheir solo albums. Bacon sur-prised some when he whippedout a cello; Galbraith proved thathis "Damn It All" should havebeen a hit single; but the stand-out of their set was Don Potter's"Take It Out Mainstreet," a cornycrowd pleaser written by JohnHadley. Alvin Cooley

RIAA Figures(Continued from page 3)thesis): Eight -track cartridgetapes, $549.2 million in 1974 vs.$489 million in 1973 (96.7 mil-lion vs. 91 million); cassettes,$87.2 million against $76 million(15.3 million vs. 15.0 million);quadraphonic tapes, $11.3 mil-lion against $12 million (1.4 mil-lion vs. 1.5 million); and reel-to-reel tapes, $2.6 million against$3.6 million (.5 million vs. .7

million).All dollar figures are stated in

terms of manufacturers' sug-gested list price value.

RECORD WORLD JUNE 7, 1975 43


RECORD WORLD ww9R° LATIN AMERICANRecord World en Brasil

By OLAVO A. BIANCO Tenemos confirmacion de RCAde que el cantante Antonio Mar-cos, que ya volvie) a sus activida-des normales despues de la ter-rible colision que sufri6 en suautornovil, se presentara en elMadison Square Garden de Nue-va York el dia 5 de Octubre, pre-sentacion promovida por la Cay-tronics. Todavia no hay confir-macion de Ia presencia de Ro-berto Carlos (CBS) en esa oca-

Desde Madrid, confirma Geni-val Melo la presentacion de Nel-son Ned para una serie de pre-sentaciones en Espana que co-menzaran el 20 de Junio. El can-tante exclusivo de Copacabanasigue en Mexico actualmente, de-monstrando ampliamente su"Sangre Latina."

Sigue Ia prensa en generalhablando de la respetable ofertaque la empresa alemana Ariola"hubiera" hecho a Roberto Car-los (CBS) de un millon de dolares.Segt.in la prensa, la RCA brasilefiaestaria interesada en el asunto,sin embargo, Ia distribuciOn de

Ariola en Brasil esta en manos deContinental. Nuestros amigos dela RCA brasilelia dicen que nohay nada en el asunto. La prensainsiste ahora en que Ia CBS deEstados Unidos ayudaria a la bra-silefia para mantener en su elencoal mas vendedor de sus artistas.Por otra parte, se dice que el in-terprete, ahora en Espana, es muyposible regrese con dos contratosen su manos, tomando una deci-sion enseguida. Mas, Ia verdad esque el "manager" del cantante,su gran amigo Marcos Lazaronada dice y tiene una sonrisamas enignnatica que de Ia MonaLisa . mientras, la CBS brasilefiadice que no a todo y sostiene queel artista tiene contrato con Ia

empresa hasta el 1977.En el nuevo "album" de Nei

Matogrosso, se comenta, en lugarde mantener el silencio entre unainterpretacion y otra, el microsur-co Ilevara el sonido de pajaros yde tempestades . . . El disco sepondra a la yenta cerrado y alabrirlo se sentird un olor muy

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By TOMAS FUNDORA

En relacion con una nota nuestra publicada ensemanas pasadas en referencia a los resultados fi-nales del "Primer Festival de la Salsa," celebradorecientemente en Caracas, Venezuela, me visitaTony Rivas, popular discjockey y programador deWMCQ Radio de Miami, Florida, con el objeto deaclarar ciertos detalles que pudieran suscitar inter-pretaciones variadas en cuanto a su participaciondirecta en un cambio drastic° en la OrquestaPremiada en dicho Festival. Tony Rivas informa

que cada juez efectuaba una votacion por numeros de apreciaci6n,no por seleccion de orquestas, dandole mas o menos puntuacion acada una de las interpretaciones en total. Se calificaba por "set" ojuegos de interpretaciones por cada orquesta. Al final se sumaban laspuntuaciones que cada juez habia emitido en un modelo suministradopor los organizadores, la empresa Promociones Anton, y la suma totaldeterminaba la posicion por nOmeros de puntuaci6n emitidos. Pormotivos que el ignora, su boleta o modelo de votaciOn se mantuvoextraviada por cuatro dias, tiempo durante el cual se declare) a Tipica73 como Orquesta Ganadora del Festival, en la categoria Interna-cional, y Dimension Latina como ganadora de la categoria nacional.Las boletas emitidas constaban de una individual, para acelerar la

puntuacion y una maestra que pasaba a los or-ganizadores para un chequeo final. La boletainicial fue la extraviada y al efectuar lapuntos en Ia nnaestra, se note) que la puntuacionemitida por el no habia sido tomada en considera-cion en la tabulacion original, segon la empresaantes mencionada. Por lo tanto, no fue especifica-mente su votaciOn la que determine el triunfodel Gran Combo si la suma total de votos emitidospor el cuerpo de jueces. Su opini6n en general,en relacion con el mencionado Festival queda ex-presa de la siguiente manera: "ha sido Ia cosa

mas desorganizada que he visto en mi vida y lamento infinito habertornado parte como juez en el evento . . ifue un desastre!

Lanza RCA en Argentina un nuevo long playingde Los Iracundos, acompanados por Raul Paren-tella y su Orquesta. Entre los nameros se destacan"Me vas a dejar," (E. Franco) (Cada Noche Mia,"(E. Franco) y "Siento que to Amor se me Va."(D. Franco . . . Tambien en este sello un nuevo"album" titulado "Triunfadores" por Los Linces.Bellas las interpretaciones de "Sus Ojos se Cerra-ron" (Gardel LePera) y "Amores de Estudiante"(Gardel-LePera). Tambien con grandes posibili-dades "Hay Lagrimas en nuestra Despedida," (LaloFransen-Livi) "Todavia to Estoy Llorando" (Dino

Ramos) y "No Debemos Separarnos" (Palito Ortego . . . Tambienen RCA un simple de Larry Moreno con "Defiendete" (L. Moreno)

y "Disculpen Amigos Mios" (L. Moreno), ambosvalses peruanos . . . Proximamente saldra unalarga duraci6n en Estados Unidos del talentosoWilkins, ahora bajo el sello Velvet. jExitos!. . . Miguel Jurado en Espana, grabando unnuevo "elepe" para West Side Records de NuevaYork . . . Lanza Miami Records "Asi Canta Co-lombia Vol. 2" con Los Millonarios. Ritnnicoinstrumental por los afamados Diplomaticos deColombia . . . Inician jira por Peril, Venezuela,

Guillermo Lozano Ecuador, Colombia y Mexico, los integrantes delSexteto Tango. CBS ha editado el long playing

"Sexteto Tango para el Mundo" con la intencion de respaldar al grupomusical con el lanzamiento de esta grabacion en cada uno de los


DESDE NUESTRINCON INTERNACI°NAL

Wilkins

Miguel Jurado



LATIN AMERICAN HIT PARADE

Singles

Bakersfield, Cal.By KWAC (ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ)

1. MI CORAZON LLOROKING CLAVE-Orfeon

2. OH, CAROLKARINA-Gamma

3. UN MUNDO RAROJULIO IGLESIAS-Alhambra

4. HAY COSAS INOLVIDABLESLOS SOL ITARIOS-Peerless

5. VIVA MATAMOROSCONJ. TROPICAL CARIBE-Rovi

6. HOY TE VASLOS STRWCK-Melody

7. PLAYA BLANCANELSON ENRIQUEZ-Audiorama

8. MI AMIGA, MI ESPOSA, MI AMANTERIGO TOVAR-Nova-Vox

9. SANGRIA MEDICINALBANDA MACHO -Sultana

10. LA PELEA DE KUNG FUTONY ESCUDERO-Miami

El SalvadorBy YOLANDA PONCE V.

1. JOSEFINAANICETO MOLINA-Dideca

2. LADY MARMELADELABELLE-Indica

3. EL REYVICENTE FERNANDEZ-Indica

4. A FLOR DE PIELJULIO IGLESIAS-Dila

5. LLUEVE SOBRE MOJADOCAMILO SESTO-Dicesa

6. MIS OJOS TE ADORANFRANKIE VALLI-Indica

7. DE UN MUNDO RAROJULIO IGLESIAS-Dila

8. AMOR, AMARCAMILO SESTO-Dicesa

9. MUJER DE UN SOLO HOMBREPAUL ANKA-Dideca

1 C. CONTIGO QUISIERA ESTARRODOLFO-Boni

New York (Salsoul)By JOE GAINES

1. EL TODOPODEROSOHECTOR LAVOE-Fania

2. TOMAWILLIE COLON-Fania

3. UN DIA BONITOEDDIE PALMIERI-Coco

4. TRAICIONROBERTA ROENA Y SU APOLLO

SOUND -International5. VAGABUNDO

CORPORACION LATINA-Music Gem6. GUARARE

RAY BARRETTO-Fania7. A GUIRO PELAO

LOS HERMANOS LOPEZ-Rico8. MI GENTE

FANIA ALL STARS-Fania9. PANTEON DE AMOR

ORCH. ZODIAC-Horoscopo10. LA BATALLA DE LOS BARRIOS

ORCH. NOVEL-TRTE VAS ARREPENTIREL GRAN COMBO-EGC

Redlands, Cal.By KCAL

1. QUE ESPERABASJUANELLO-Caytronics

2. Y JAMAS LLORARELOS MARIANOS-Latin

3. HOYV IKKI CARR-Columbia

4. LLANTO Y AMORLOS MONCHIS-Latin

5. EL MUNDO ES MI TUMBAJOE FLORES (EL AVILENO)-Musimex

6. FLOR MORENALOS FEL INOS-Musart

7. ARRIBA CUESTA TRABAJORAY AVILA-Orfeon

8. SE FUEMOONLIGHTS -Moonlight

9. LA LIBERACIONLA FRONTERIZA-Musart

10. EL ESCLAVORAFAEL BUENDIA-Musart

Record World en MiamiBy OMAR MARCHANT

Quisieramos comentar sobre elIlamado y fracasado "Primer Festi-val Hispanoamericano De La Can-cion De Miami," pero sin darlecategoria de LP y si, de un malhecho "cuarenta y cinco." Todofuncion6 pesinnamente en los dosdias de funciones. Lo unico queestuvo bien, fue el departamentode contabilidad. Cada partici-pante tuvo que pagar $300 deinscripcion. Si no habia pago, nohabia ensayos y mucho menospresentacion. Pasaron de 37 losparticipantes y no nos equivoca-mos al decir que habia mas per-sonas en el escenario y detras deeste, que en el solitario lunetariodel "Dade County Auditorium."

El organizador de este "festival"lo fue el senor Antonio Alvarez,empresario que radica en NewYork y en Republica Dominicana,donde tiene negocios y aspira acelebrar prOximamente otro "fes-tival." Por pura coincidencia losganadores de los tres primeroslugares son de Republica Domini-cana y aunque jamas se dijo elnombre de los jurados, sabemosque en su gran mayoria tambieneran dominicanos.

En Ia Ultima noche-cuando el

senor Alvarez-anunciaba losganadores, hubo de formarse tre-mendo escandalo, interviniendola policia uniformada del Metro.Los protestantes pedian la devolu-cion del dinero entregado an-teriormente, alegando que habiafraude en la entrega de los pre-mios.

Otros incidentes se produjeronal "descalificar" el senor Alvarezal vendedor cantante espaiiolMoncho, anunciando que estehabia tocado el microfono. Por suparte la delegacion espanola ale-gaba que en nungun momento seinform() oficialmente a los par-ticipantes que no se podia tomarel microfono. Esto lo corrobara-ron otras delegaciones.

Con gran pesar hacemos estaresefia. Sabemos que no fue culpade nuestra ciudad. Que el eventono fue organizado por "ningunempresario de Miami." Que todoslos participantes, incluyendo a

los dominicanos, se dieron per-fecta cuenta de lo ocurrido. Lounico que creemos cierto en elpomposo nombre de: "PrimerFestival Hispanoamericano De LaCancion De Miami" es . . . lo de"Primer."

AlbumsPuerto Rico

By WAEL

New YorkBy EMILIO GARCIA

1. CAMILO SESTO 1. QUIERES SER MI AMANTECAMILO SESTO CAMILO SESTO-Pronto

2. LA VOZ 2. A QUE NO TE ATREVESHECTOR LAVOE LILY & EL GRAN TRIO -Montilla

3. FANIA ALL STARS LIVE 3. LA VOZFANIA ALL STARS HECTOR LAVOE-Fania

4. APOLLO SOUND 4. LAS GAITAS DE SIMONAPOLLO SOUND SIMON DIAS-All Art

5. TICO ALEGRE 5. A FLOR DE PIELALEGRE ALL STARS JULIO IGLESIAS-Alhambra

6. EL ANGEL NEGRO 6. LA CANDELAGERMAIN TIPICA 73 -Inca

7. A GUIRO PELAO 7. NUMERO 7LOS HNOS LOPEZ EL GRAN COMBO-EGC

8. CON SABOR A PUEBLOJOSE MIGUEL CLASS

8. PORQUE LLORA LA TARDESONIA SI LVESTRE-Karen

9. EN ESCENA9. THE SUN OF LATIN MUSIC ODILIO GONZALEZ-Dial

EDDIE PALMI ERI 10. CELIA & JOHNNY10. LEO DAN CELIA CRUZ & JOHNNY PACHECO-

LEO DAN Vaya

Nuestro Rincon (Continued from page 44)'Daises que actuen. Es indiscutible que hay un gran mercado tangueroen Latinoamerica en espera de jiras como estas. En la grabacion seincluyen interpretaciones de "viejo" y "nuevo" tango . . . Con granfortaleza en Espana, el cantautor vasco Patxi Andion, iniciard unajira por Suramerica, programada para Junio. Su long playing "Comoel Viento del Norte" recientemente editado en Espana seria un abre-puertas. iY por que no se mueve su gran sello espanol en todaspartes. iBien se lo merece el muy diferente Patxi! . . . Mis nnas cor-diales saludos al fraterno Guillermo Lozano de KCOR de San Antonio,Texas, corresponsal nuestro en el area . . . Lanzard Copacabana IagrabaciOn de Los Sobrinos del Juez (The Judge's Nephews) en pocassemanas . . . Comienza fuerte promoci6n de Oscar de Lugo en Ecua-dor, a tiempo en que Infocol de Colombia se apresta a lanzar tambiensu grabacion de "Tengo el Vicio" (Chico Novarro), triunfadora enmuchas areas . . . Y ahora . . . iHasta la proxima!

Tony Rivas, disc jockey and programmer of WCMQ Radio (Miami,Fla.) visited me this week with reference to my comments in a recentcolumn in which I mentioned the fact that after having been an-nounced as winners of the "First Festival of Salsa" that took place inCaracas, Venezuela, the members of La Tipica 73 found themselves ina strange position, since a few days later it was announced that thereal winner was El Gran Combo from Puerto Rico. Since the docu-ment in which the vote of Tony Rivas was cast was lost, it looked likehis ticket, when found, gave El Gran Combo the winning position.Since Rivas' first vote was missed, when the masters were added, theresults were quite different. Moved by all kinds of irregularities wit-nessed in this Festival, he refers to the whole thing as: "the mostdisorganized event I have ever seen and I deeply regret having actedas a judge on it . . . it was a disaster!"


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SUS ESTRELLAS DEL 75FAJARDO-Coco CLP 115 XXCon Carlos Alberto como vocalista, JoseFajardo, su flauta y sus Estrellas del 75ofrecen en esta grabacion un derroche deritmo, salsa y sabor tropical. "La Muertede Taca Taca," "El Nino de Napoleon,""Cuba, Cubera," "No Me Lo Pidas Mas,""Cabo Es," "Vamonos Pa'I Uno" y "TO-cala." Letra, mtisica y arreglos de Fajardo.

With Carlos Alberto as a vocalist, Jose Fajardo and his Stars offera super package full of spice, rhythm and salsa. "Tocala," "Guguancocon salsa," "Vamonos Pa'l uno" and "La Muerte de Taca Taca."

QUIERO VERTE A MI LADOROBERTO CARLOS (En Espanol)-Caytronics

CYS 1439En el tope de popularidad y yentas, salenuevamente Roberto Carlos de Brasil almercado en una nueva grabacion en cas-tellano. Resaltan "Yo te Recuerdo" (A.Manzanero), "Resumen" (M. Marcos-Bar-bosa-McCluskey), "Despedida" (R. Carlos -E. Carlos-McCluskey), "Como es grandemi amor por Ti" (R. Carlos) y "Usted" (R.Carlos -E. Carlos-McCluskey).

At the top of sales and popularity, Roberto Carlos from Brazil isback again with a new album in Spanish. Unique performances of"Yo te Recuerdo" (Manzanera), "Es preciso saber vivir" (R. Carlos -

E. Carlos-McCluskey), "Juego de Damas" (lsolda-M. Carlos-McClus-key) and "Yo solo quiero" (R. Carlos -E. Carlos-McCluskey).

MIMA LA PULULERAORIDUEST A INTERNAT IONAL-Mavi MVS 008En production de Rafael Viera, la OrquestaInternational se luce en la interpretationde "Guauguanco a Borinquen." Muybien tannbien en "Mima la Pululera" (I.Ortiz), "Falsos Rumores" (R. Rodriguez) y"Buscando Fluidos."

QUIN VERTE A AI LADO

Produced by Rafael Viera, Orchestra International offers a terrificperformance of "GuaguancO a Borinquen." Also good in "La Humani-dad" (R. Rodriguez), "TO Perdida y yo Gozando" (D. Solis) and"Mucha Control" (C. Rivera).

EL VALLE Y EL VOLCANJAIRO-Parnaso L-LPS 1175Va logrando cierto impacto Jairo con "ElValle y el Volcan" (Jairo-Ma. Elena Walsh)incluida aqui. Excelentes cortes tambien"Amigos Mios me Enannore" (GianfrancoPagliaro), "Al Principio fue mi sombra"(Jairo-L. Ganzdlez), "Habia una vez" y"Tienes algo nnas" (Jairo-L. Gonzalez).

Jairo is starting to move nicely with "El Valley y el Volcan" in-cluded in this package. Also "Estas o no" (Jairo-L. Gonzalez), "Jimena"(Jairo-L. Gonzalez), "Con Florcitas no es tan Trieste," others.

Nuestro Rincon (Continued from page 45)RCA released in Argentina a new album by Los Iracundos backed by

Raul Parentella and his Orchestra. Superb repertoire in which areincluded, among others, "Me vas a Dejar," "Cada Noche Mia" and"Siento que to amor se me va." Also on this label is a new albumby Los Linces titled "Triunfadores," in which they included two beau-tiful tangos, "Sus Ojos se Cerraron" and "Amores de Estudiante," bothcomposed by Gardel-Lepera. Also in the package: "Hay Lagrimas ennuestra Despedida," "No Debemos Separarnos" and "Todavia te es -toy Llorando" . . . RCA also released a single by Larry Moreno con-taining two beautiful Peruvian waltzes, "Defiendete" and "DisculpenAmigos Mios" . . . Wilkins, now signed with Velvet, will shortly beon the market with a new 1p . . . Miguel Jurado from West Side Rec-ords, New York, is in Spain recording a new 1p that will be rushedout by the label . . . Miami Records released in the States a newalbum by Los Millonarios (known in South America as Los Diploma-ticos). A superb and danceable instrumental album!

the Metropolitan; the contribu-tion is tax-deductible and neitherRCA nor anyone else gets anymoney out of it; everything goesto the opera company.

VibratoOn listening to the records, the

wonder of Miss Albanese's Cio-Cio-San comes home again. Shewas fragile yet never cutesy. Herpitch was shiningly accurate andher phrasing was so Italianate asto stir anyone's heart. She defi-nitely grows from the young 15 -year -old girl to the disillusionedwar bride, and vocally she tells uswhat agonies she suffers. The vi-brato in Miss Albanese's voice isincredibly feminine and wonder-fully controlled, and her deathscene would draw tears from astone.

En Brasil(Continued from page 44)agradable de esencias naturales. . . Matogrosso fue la voz nnasdestacada del grupo Secos y Mo-Ihados y el album es su primeraincursion como solista.

A fines de este mes, la cantanteCarmen Silva de RCA hard pre-sentaciones en Nueva York, Provi-dence, New Bedford y Toronto.Mientras tanto, Ia preciosa Car-men sigue en los "charts" con"Amor con Amor se Paga," unsingle que tiene gran fuerza enlas radioemisoras . . . Martinhoda Vila (RCA) ya tiene programa-do su viaje. Sale a mediados deMayo y se quedard hasta el 2 deJunio en Europa. Comienza enFranckfurt, Alemania, sigue haciaParis, donde hard cinco presenta-ciones en el Olimpia, despuesZurich, Ginebra, Milan, Salzburgo,Bruzelas, de nuevo paris, dondeacturard en Via Brasil, Niza, Ca-nnes, Lille, en una jira realizadaen combination con la televisionfrancesa y el grupo Manchete . . .

Un detalle muy alegre es el Garin°de Mexico por los brasilerios.Viene este hecho desde el Tor-neo Mundial de Football en 1970.Ahora, Morris Albert (Charger)Ilega hablando maravillas de laamistad y el cariiio que recibio.Al mismo tiempo se proyecta confuerza Ia figura de Nelson Ned(Copacabana) y se habla muchode su nueva imagen mostrada enuna fotografia publicada porTomas Fundora, al momento derecibir el Cupido de Oro enMexico. Nelson muestra un mag-nifico bigote en esa fotografia,quizas en homenaje al queridopals que tan grande amigo es delBrasil . . . Confirmada Ia visita dela cantante italiana Mina a Brasil.Grabard un album con mUsicas deChico Buarque, Vinicius de Mo-rals y otros compositores brasi-lerios . . . iHasta la proxima!

(Continued from page 32)

Another delight is James Mel-ton. A sometime musical comedystar and collector of antique cars,Melton hovers around the brainas a good-looking lightweightMet tenor of the war years. Wecould do with his like today. Hisvoice is light and lyric, but loadedwith virility. Though he tends oc-casionally to anticipate the beat,his performance is musical andstirring. John Brownlee's Sharp -less adds weight and good styleto the proceedings.

Pietro CimaraPietro Cimara conducts an ex-

citing, full-blooded account ofthe score. It's all well worth themoney. Even though there are agreat many Butterfly's availablein the Schwann catalogue, thisone has not only the sense ofperformance but the thrill of anevent.

In remarks last week at the Metwhen the album was presentedto Miss Albanese, she said, "Ithank RCA for doing this album.Now I no longer hold it againstthem that they never recordedmy Butterfly. Anyone who reallywants it can have it now."

The only way the Butterfly canbe bought is for a contribution of$100 or more to the MetropolitanOpera, Lincoln Center Plaza, NewYork, New York 10023.

Prime Cuts

Margaux Hemingway threw a squaredance and barbeque at Gallagher's SteakHouse in New York recently to celebratethe launching of Seals and Crofts' latestcross-country tour and the release of theirnew "I'll Play For You" single and album(Warner Bros.). Pictured introducing DashCrofts (left) and Jimmy Seals is Ms. Hem-ingway.

Gemini Taps Shefrin LOS ANGELES - Ira Okun,senior vice president of GeminiArtists Management, Ltd., hasannounced that Paul Shefrin hasjoined the firm and will functionin the college and concert area.He was formerly with the WilliamMorris Agency in Los Angeles.

46RECORD WORLD JUNE 7, 1975


Shown from left are: Ellen Weston, RW'sDavid McGee and Lesley Gore.

Lesley Gore Today: A Star Is RebornBy DAVID McGEE

NEW YORK-The voice comingover the Reno Sweeney soundsystem is comfortably familiar.For this reporter and many likehim in the Greenwich Villagenightclub on April 9, the voicecalls up memories of the awk-ward, painful, searching days ofyouth; days that have been mademellow with the passing of time.The voice belongs to Lesley Goreand now she is onstage singinga Peter Allen -Carol Bayer Sagersong entitled "Everything Old IsNew Again." How true.

The old days are less and less like quicksilver because Lesley Gorebrings them back dramatically. She is going to give her audiencesomething to hold onto-they really want that-and at the sametime she is going to show them a fine, mature singer who has cedednothing to the years. Years? She's only 28-her best years lay aheadand her star is ascending.

Here is Lesley Gore in 1975: older, prettier, still exciting and veryclassy, following up the Allen -Sager song with one that may wellbecome the trademark of her renewed success-"Immortality," whichwas written by Lesley and her songwriting partner (and roommate andconfidant) Ellen Weston. It's a moody song, dark in the verses, brightand upbeat in the choruses. And Lesley belts those choruses, goingdeep into herself and pouring forth emotion, just as she did in theold days . . .

Record World: Do you think your audience is relating to you asLesley Gore 1975 or Lesley Gore 1963?

Lesley Gore: I think they're coming to see the old Lesley Gore andthey enjoy that part of the show, but we take them a little bit further-we carry them into 1975. I think they're very happy that we makethat transition. We ask them to really do nothing but sit back andlisten and decide whether orI can judge by audience reaction, there is no problem anymore inmaking a transition.

Ellen Watson: It's a lot of nerve to go into a club and say topeople, "We're going to give you the hits, which is what you cameto hear, and then you're going to listen to an entire evening of newmaterial." It was a very difficult decision for us to make, but it wasall or nothing and Dick Fox (Lesley's agent) supported us all theway. I sit out front every night and I get nervous trying to figure outif the audience is going to relate to the old Lesley Gore instead ofthe new. And what happens consistently is that they are very happyto hear the old, because it brings back memories of wonderful times,but the instant she goes into the new stuff, they are absolutely with her.

Now Lesley sings some of the old songs and-sacre bleu!-they'redifferent. In most cases they're not as frenetic; they're jazzier andseveral nice riffs jump out at the listeners; Lesley's phrasing is purposelyerratic-she's lagging behind for a couple of beats here, then she'ssmoothing it out and sailing blissfully through those immortal melo-dies-"It's My Party," "Judy's Turn To Cry," "Maybe I Know" (EllieGreenwich, who wrote the latter song, is sitting in the back roomand when Lesley goes full stride into the chorus, "Oh -oh, maybe Iknow that he's been a-cheatin'," Ellie pounds appreciatively on thetabletop). Everything is right.

RW: Do you get any comments, pro or con, from your fansregarding the new arrangements of your old hits?

Gore: It's important to remember that we don't have a big band,and the original arrangements of the old songs would not workwithout the trumpet and sax lines running through nicely. So we hadto change them somewhat. I have received no comment at all onthese new arrangements. They seem to work for me as an artist, theyseem to work nicely with the four -piece combo and what I'm reallyconcerned about is that musically they not be too much like songsfrom the early '60s when I'm now doing material that is very definitelymid -'70s.

The Gore -Weston songs are different, but not radically so, fromLesley's early hits. They are, as Lesley says, "very definitely mid -'70s,"but with a dollop of the old charm. They're adult songs, more sensitiveto and accepting of life's sudden starts and stops. Lesley Gore 1975wouldn't say "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!"; she'd say "I

can handle it. Let's move on and see if we can't take something fromthe time we spent together." She sings and the audience feels hervibrations, understands her messages. Lesley embraces herself andher audience at once because she sings about real people and realemotions, without the exaggerations of the old days.

RW: How does your appearance at Richard Nader's Rock and RollRevival fit in with the direction your career is going now?

Gore: This was something that Dick Fox came up with and I thoughtit was a brilliant idea. My name had not been in front of the New Yorkpeople for many, many years and the Rock and Roll Revival was anopportunity to get some quick fast publicity, to go and do a showfor a lot of people, doing completely the old trip, exactly what theywere there to hear and to bring my name alive again in this city.So it worked perfectly because a lot of people who came to theGarden and loved what they saw have come into Reno Sweeney andhave loved what we're doing here.

Lesley sits down at the piano and sings "Child of Mine," a touchingsong written by Ellen Weston for her nine year old son. Concerningthe vagaries of adulthood, the song is rendered soft and true byLesley; who is illuminated by a single and very effective blue spotlight.

RW: When did you and Ellen start working together?Gore: We started working together about three and a half years

ago. She was working with a mutual friend of ours who also writesmusic and together they were writing a musical comedy. I heardsome of the songs, really liked the lyrics and I asked Ellen if shewould like to begin writing pop music-to which she answered shedidn't know what pop music was, but she would look into it. Thethings we did for my Mowest album were our initial efforts.

Then came the song that many in the audience had been waitingfor: "You Don't Owe Me." It's an anthem now-a song recognizedas being far ahead of its time in its recognition of a woman's rightto control her own destiny and to be more than a flower in herlover's lapel. Lesley sings with heart full of soul, with a clenched fistat her side and with a death grip on the microphone, demanding (notpleading): "DON'T put me on display, DON'T tell me what to say . . .

performance and the audience roars its approval. "Sunshine, Lollipopsand Rainbows," a light, "up" number, closes the show and Lesleycan smile. She has taken us back and brought us forward; she hasshown us that what was good in the past is good today. She singsof things timeless, of the very "real" surrealism of teenage love affairsand of the harsh realities of adulthood. Two different worlds, andLesley knows a lot about both.

RW: How do you view yourself in the entire scheme of things?What do you think is your place in the history of pop music?

Gore: I think that my place in pop music is not yet defined,because I'm now approaching it with a whole new feeling of open-ness and a desire to create new things. Years ago it was very difficultfor me. I was too young to understand most of what was going onand I think what I felt was a great deal of pressure and perhaps alittle bit of animosity, but I didn't know what it was from and I

didn't know how to handle it. Today it's a very different thing. TodayI'm doing the things that I want to do because they're the things I

love best. So there's a very different attitude toward my work; I hopethat I'm only beginning to have an effect on pop music. That's myhope.

Jon Mark Feted

Columbia recording artist Jon Mark recently made a special promotional visit to NewYork City in support of his new album, "Songs For A Friend." Mark's album- sub -titled"Bird With A Broken Wing Suite," was produced by Roy Halee and Jon Mark. Shownabove at a special luncheon thrown for Mark while he was in New York are, from left:Bruce Lundvall, vice president and general manager, Columbia Records; Jon Mark; andDon DeVito, director, merchandising, Columbia Records.



RECORD WORLD

CANADABy LARRY LeBLANC

TORONTO-Axe Records has announced theformation of a new label, called Rubber Bullet,with a distribution tie-in with Quality Records . . .

UA has issued a new Craig Ruhnke single, "Surfin'All Summer Long," which is not included on hisCTL Ip . . . Attic artist Shirley Eikhard is puttingtogether a backup band with the aid of ChuckArrons . . . New Angel single on UA is "It's Good,It's Funky, But It's White" . . . A&M's press officerCharley Prevost is currently on the west coast

working promo ties for A&M-distributed label Casino Records.First product for the newly -formed Taurus label (headed by Vic

Wilson and Ray Danneils) are: an Ip by Joe Mendelson, produced byAdam Mitchell; a single by Liverpool with Ian Thomas producing;and a single by Max Webster with Terry Brown producing. Distribu-tion for Taurus will be handled in Canada by London Records . . .

Gino Vannelli's scheduled to appear at the Colonial Tavern June 23,which ties -in with the release of his new A&M Ip "Storm at Sunup"

. Rush to play the Starwood in L.A. June 2-5.A re-formed Major Hoople's Boarding House has turned up on the

Axe label with a new single, "I'm Running After You," produced byGreg Hambleton . . . New single for Klaatu on Daffodil is "True LifeHero," produced by Terry Brown . . . Bernie Finkelstein and MurrayMcLauchlan very busy these days at Thunder Sound mixing Murray'supcoming double "live" Ip for True North . . . Chucklebait has beenrenamed Flier.

Promoter -writer -turned producer Ritchie Yorke has been workingwith new Toronto band Gotto, headed by ex-Fludd whiz kid GregGodovitz, at Thunder Sound. No label deal for the band has beenannounced as yet ... Eagles to headline one of the C.N.E. grandstandshows . . . WEA to release Diamondback Ip this week . . . ShawneJackson has signed a booking agreement with Music Shoppe . . .


GERMANYBy PAUL SIEGEL

BERLIN-This week Berlin saw an invasion ofwonderful American show business personalities.The great Philadelphia Orchestra under the direc-tion of Eugene Ormandy appeared throughoutGermany's key cities sponsored by RCA. Theinimitable Frank Sinatra, accompanied by DonCosta and orchestra, played to eager and anxiousaudiences in Vienna, Munich, Frankfort and Berlin. . . Celebrating a 30 -year anniversary is AFN(American Forces Network) in Munich, with station

director Lt. William Bryant throwing a big party for Germany's firstradio station.

On the singles scene the hot new female recording artist MaggieMae has a smash with her version of the Summer standard "Itsy BitsyTeenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini." It's released on M -Records(Ariola) and should bring a smile of delight to George Pincus . . .

Another hot single here is Nico Thien's "Ich Hab' Ein Geheimis" onEMI-Electrola.

UA albums are faring well with artists Ike & Tina Turner, ShirleyBassey and Paul Anka doing great business as usual here . . . On theclassical side of albums, Polyband has released "Concerto BetweenTwo Worlds" by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and that's garneringmuch attention.

One of Germany's publishers, Barbara Kist of Edition Maxim inBremen, is slated for an award soon, cited for her publishing wisdomand successful results . . . Dr. Reimund Hess of the SaarlandischerRundfunk (Radio Saarbrucken Europawelle) is busy with his team forthe coming Goldene Europa Festivities to be held in June . . . AufWiedersehn 'til next week!

INTERNATIONALENGLAND

By RON McCREIGHT LONDON-Following mounting speculation and the recent cancel-lation of a proposed American tour for Ten Years After, leader AlvinLee has confirmed that the band has now permanently split. On theother hand, Uriah Heep, still very much together, have dates sched-uled through to the end of the year throughout the world, includinga Hammersmith Odeon concert set for June 27th which coincides withthe release of their "Return To Fantasy" album (Bronze). The recentlyreformed Curved Air have already commenced a British tour of col-leges.

The record industry is undergoing something of a minor face -change with the recent departure of RCA and CBS managing direc-tors; United Artists branching out with their own sales force undernew general manager Cliff Busby; producers Tony Macaulay (formerlyassociated with GTO) and Roger Greenaway (recently associated withAIR London, DJM, and CBS) forming their own label; and rumorspredicting the parting of the ways of Charisma and the B&C Groupshortly. In the meantime, all's well at Phonogram where managing


Musexpo Adds Market Coordinators NEW YORK-Roddy Shashoua,president of Musexpo '75, the in-ternational music market that willtake place at the Las Vegas Con-vention Center from September21-24, has announced the ap-pointment of Musexpo '75 coor-dinators in five new markets: Italy,Lebanon, Spain, New Zealand andSouth Africa. He also announcedthe appointment of two additionalcoordinators in Brazil and in WestGermany, where Musexpo '75 al-ready has representation.

Vladimir Massone has beennamed Musexpo '75 coordinatorfor Italy, and can be reached atPatents International Affiliates, 8via Cardona, 20124 Milano;phone: 65-25-63. Telex is 34461.

In Lebanon, Musexpo is repre-sented by Ingrid Elias, managingdirector, Hermes Ltd., EsseilyBuilding, Riad Solh Squ., P.O. Box118511, Beirut. The phone num-ber is 220920; the telex is

21109LE.The contact in New Zealand is

David Forgie, manager of P.I.A.(New Zealand) Ltd., First Floor-Challenge House, Wolfe Street,P.O. Box 3117, Aukland. Phone is74545; telex is NZ2449.

Musexpo coordinators for SouthAfrica are Robin H. Stamper,and Noel W. K. Stamper, di-rectors of International ProjectAffiliates (PTY), Ltd., 18th floor,Sandton City, P.O. Box 78023,Sandton 2146, South Africa. Tele-phone is 33-5621; telex is 8-4661.

In Spain, coordinators are Mi-guel Guerrero and Rafael LlopartVazquez, directors of Technispan,Gral. Mola, 36-2° IZQDA, Madrid-1. Phones are: 226 75 98, 22675 02, 226 74 88, 226 74 16.

In Brazil, in addition to Myrian

S. Avanzi in Rio de Janeiro, Mu-sexpo will be represented byRoberto Luiz Bueno de Saboya,PIB/Patentes Internacionais S/C,Ltd., Rua Barao de Itapetininga,255-10° andar, Conjunto 1105,Sao Paulo-SP, 01042 Brazil. Thephone is 347 097; cable is EM-BRAPLAN.

The West German market willbe served by Bengt Landergren,P.I.A. (Germany), Ltd., AM ForstHaus Gravenbruch, 9; D-6087 NeuIsenburg, 2, in addition to JerryToger, who is based in Munich.The phone for Landegren is502-261; telex is 4185604.

In addition to broad generalbackgrounds in the internationaltrade show and exhibition field,each of these people have beendirectly affiliated with the Sha-shoua Group in coordinatingsimilar events and are fullyequipped to be of substantial aidin both planning and liaison forcompanies from their markets at-tending Musexpo '75.

It was further announced thatdue to the fact that the vast ma-jority of companies attending Mu-sexpo have taken booths, withunlimited registration privilegesfor all members of the companyincluded, the exhibit committeehas deemed it necessary to changenon -booth registration to individ-ual rather than company coverageas of June 1, 1975. This policychange, which does not affect anyregistrations received by Musexpobefore June 1, means that the$275 registration fee will be pay-able as a per -representative basisfor all participants in Musexpo'75, with the exception of thosecompanies taking booths at theLas Vegas Convention Center.



Canada (Continued from page 48)

R. Dean Taylor will make his Canadian tour debut in August withdates in Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Thunder Bay.

New Craig Matthews single on Ko'tai is "Every Road Leads Home". . . Keath Barrie has cut seven sides at RCA here with John Arpinproducing. Barrie is also working on a CBC-TV pilot to be shot inmid -June. United Artists has scheduled a western promo tour forthe MOR artist for July . . . Air Canada and GRT Records are settingup local contests across the country for Lighthouse's much -publicizedSummer seminar . . . Producer Jack Richardson is cutting an Ip withBrutus . . . Bruce Cockburn starts rehearsing in late June for recordingsessions in July . . .Whiskey Howl has broken up.

A&M artist Charity Brown is recording a French version of herCanadian hit "Take Me In Your Arms .(And Rock Me)." She's set toappear at Ramada's Inn Zodiac I, June 2-7, following Ian Thomas.Upcoming artists for Zodiac I include the Shirelles (9-14), the ChambersBrothers (16-21) and Shirley and Company (23-28) . . . A&M Recordsis gearing up a strong PR campaign around Peter Allen's appearanceat the Colonial. June 2-7 . . . Valdy currently working in L.A. withproducer Paul Rothchild.

CBC-Radio taped a 90 -minute appearance of Ella Fitzgerald forbroadcast on "The Entertainers." Ella was performing with the TorontoSymphony at Massey Hall for a pension fund concert. Handling choresfor radio was an all French-Canadian crew headed by Jacques Rivart,who is returning to a producer's role after five years. And interviewingElla for a one -hour radio special to be heard later this year wasChantal Beauregard . . . Spring has reunited with the addition ofRobbie King on organ, and are working on their first Ip in VancouverCan -Base Studios ... Bob Ansell has been appointed Ontario regionalpromotion rep for Polydor ... New April Wine single is "Oowatanite,"from the Aquarius Ip "Stand Back."

Capitol Records -EMI of Canada Ltd. has announced a reorganizationof the overall management responsibility for the company's retailoperations in Canada. Brian Josling, general manager of Sherman's/Mr. Sound retail stores in Eastern Canada, will also assume generalmanagement responsibility for the Scotty's/Mr. Sound chain in WesternCanada ... George Struth has been elected president, of the CanadianRecording Industry Association.

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director Tony Morris reports a 6 percent growth for the first fivemonths of the year compared with the same period in 1974. Morriscredits the phenomenal success of The Stylistics, both in the singlesand album markets, the All Platinum catalogue, the signing of 10cc,and the rapid development of Status Quo and Demis Roussos.

Scenes of hysteria at Radio One's day out at the Mallory Park racecircuit where the Bay City Rollers were forced to make a dramaticearly exit via a helicopter. Producers Dave Atkey and Mike Hawkesreported that evidence that crowds (which eventually totalled 60,000)were becoming far in excess of what was anticipated, together withmounting enthusiasm, forced them to conduct the planned DavidHamilton program from a small building on an island on the lakewhich the race circuit surrounds instead of from the Radio One"Roadshow" caravan. However, the water did not deter the obsessed"teenyboppers" from trying to reach the Rollers. Other reports ofsimilar scenes throughout their current British tour underline theirpresent status. The group makes its first movie next month underthe direction of TV producer Mike Mansfield.

Former Tremeloes singer Chip Hawkes becomes the first Britishsigning for Wes Farrell's Chelsea label. Mike Beaton, in announcingthe label's new acquisition, confirmed release of Hawkes' first solosingle within a few weeks.

Certain hit for Roger Daltrey whose "Get Your Love" is taken fromhis forthcoming "Ride A Rock Horse" album (Polydor). EMI is issuingOlivia Newton -John's version of John Denver's "Follow Me" takenfrom her "Mellow" album and Phonogram lifts 10cc's brilliant "I'mNot In Love" from their "Soundtrack" 1p, making it a very strong weekfor singles. Albums of the week are Paul McCartney & Wings' "Venus& Mars" (EMI) and Lesley Duncan's "Moonbathing" (GM).

EMI Publishing managing director Ron White and United Artists'American.chi.ef Michael Stewart have agreed to a deal whereby rever-sion dates on -certain copyrights will be backdated to January 1, 1975.Titles being returned to the American company include "Doctor Zhi-vago," "Three Coins In A Fountain" and "Love Is A Many SplendoredThing," and those reverting to EMI include "The Last Waltz,""Delilah" and "Birth Of The Blues."

ENGLAND'S T 25Singles

1 STAND BY YOUR MAN TAMMY WYNETTE/Epic2 WHISPERING GRASS WINDSOR DAVIES/DON ESTELLE/EMI

3 SING BABY SING STYLISTICS/Avco

4 THE WAY WE WERE GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PI PS/Buddah

5 THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN SHOWADDYWADDY/Bell

6 SEND IN THE CLOWNS JUDY COLLINS/Elektra7 THANKS FOR THE MEMORY SLADE/Polydor

8 I WANNA DANCE WIT CHOO DISCO TEX AND THE SEX-O-LETTES/Chelsea

9 LET -ME TRY AGAIN TAMMY JONES/Epic10 ROLL OVER LAY DOWN STATUS QUO/Vertigo11 ISRAELITES DESMOND DEKKER/Cactus

12 DON'T DO IT BABY MAC AND KATIE KISSOON/State13 LOVING. YOU MINNIE RIPERTON/Epic

14 ONLY YESTERDAY CARPENTERS/A&M

15 OH BOY MUD/Rak16 AUTOBAHN KRAFTWERK/Vertigo

17 HURT SO GOOD SUSAN CADOGAN/Magnet18 THE PROUD ONE OSMONDS/MGM

19 THE NIGHT FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS/Mowest

20 ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY IAN HUNTER/CBS

21 IMAGINE ME IMAGINE YOU FOX/GTO22 WOMBLING WHITE TIE AND TAILS WOMBLES/CBS23 LOVE LIKE YOU AND ME GARY GLITTER/Bell24 I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BARRY WHITE/20th Century25 SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT ERIC CLAPTON/RSO

Albums1 BEST OF THE STYLISTICS/Ayco

2 ONCE UPON A STAR BAY CITY ROLLERS/Bell

3 20 GREATEST HITS TOM JONES/Decca

4 TUBULAR BELLS MIKE OLDFIELD/Virgin

5 THE SINGLES: 1969-73 CARPENTERS/A&M

6 ROLLIN' BAY CITY ROLLERS/Bell

7 ROCK 'N' ROLL JOHN LENNON/Apple

8 TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF THREE DEGREES/Phila. Intl.

9 STRAIGHT SHOOTER BAD COMPANY/Island

10 THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 10cc/Mercury

11 ELTON JOHN'S GREATEST HITS/DJM

12 RUBYCON TANGERINE DREAM/Virgin

13 SHIRLEY BASSEY SINGLES ALBUM/UA

14 STAMPEDE DOOBIE BROTHERS/Warner Bros.

15 BEST OF TAMMY WYNETTE/Epic

16 AUTOBAHN KRAFTWERK/Vertigo

17 BLUEJAYS JUSTIN HAYWARD/JOHN LODGE/Threshold

18 MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR RICK WAKEMAN/A&M

19 JUST ANOTHER WAY TO SAY I LOVE YOU BARRY WHITE/20th Century

20 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL'S GREATEST HITS/CBS

21 GLEN CAMPBELL'S GREATEST HITS/Capitol

22 FOX/GTO

23 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD/Harvest

-24 TOMORROW BELONGS TO ME SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND/Vertigo

25 ON THE LEVEL STATUS QUO/Vertigo



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Axton's Wit & Style Secure Firm Following LOS ANGELES - With the witand spontaneity that makes hima unique performer, Hoyt Axton(A&M) recently made a rare ap-pearance at the Palomino Clubhere.

He began his first set of theevening with Chuck Berry's rockand roll classic, "Maybelline,"and proceeded to roll on, turn-ing the SRO audience into a roomfull of friends. The show went onat a fast and steady pace, withfamiliar songs that had the crowdsinging and clapping along withthe contagious energy Hoyt cancreate. Some of the highlights ofthe selections included "BoneyFingers," "Where Did The Mon-ey Go" and a popular favorite,"Drinking Ripple Wine," whichhad everyone jumping. He alsosang "The No No Song," whichwas recorded by Ringo Starr.

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Daredevils Do Justice

To Assorted Sounds NEW YORK - The Southernboogie band has become a main-stay of current pop culture, andalthough many of the art's practi-tioners play in a variety of modesrepresentative of the develop-ment of the music, few exploreroots as basic as do the OzarkMountain Daredevils. In close toan hour and a half on stage atthe Bottom Line (20) the A&Mgroup played everything fromjugband to boogie. If the transi-tions were taken a little toformally, making the set ateither end of the spectrum tooheavy, a bit of pruning and songshuffling can do the trick. In-deed, given a few years on theroad-both in terms of exposureto live audiences and of workingout the kinks-and the OzarkMountain Daredevils could turnout to be another AllmanBrothers. It was clear at the Bot-tom Line that that potential isthere, and also that they havemuch material suitable as a fol-low-up to their recent chart -topper, "Jackie Blue."

Capitol's Brewer & Shipley,who opened the show, soundedmuch as they did when "OneToke Over The Line" broughttheir names to AM fame. Theysang that song, as well as suchfavorites from those years as"Tarkio Road" and "Witch' TaiTo" in addition to material from"Welcome to Riddle Bridge,"their latest album. The title songand "Brain Damage" stood outin the latter category as continu-ing examples of Brewer andShipley's abilities at harmonizingand at writing easy flowingmelodies.

Ira Mayer

Axton was joined by TommySmothers, who was called to thestage to sing a version of "JumpDown Turn Around Pick A BaleOf Cotton." Smothers then pro-ceeded to take a long time tosing a little song. This sloweddown the pace considerably, butHoyt soon picked things up again,and regained the intitial spiritof the set.

Hoyt Axton is a natural per-former. His easy-going mannerand comfortable humor allowshim to get away with a lot ofthings other artists might not.Things such as repeatedly tuningand retuning his guitar, or stop-ping in the middle of a song toget a better sound go almost un-noticed because of the rapportbetween himself and his audi-ence.

Backed by a five piece bandthat fits right into his style, Axtondelivered an amiable and com-fortable set. He finished the showwith a powerful version of "WillThe Circle Be Unbroken" and"When It All Comes Down (I

Hope It Doesn't Land On You),"leaving the crowd singing, smil-ing and feeling good as theymade their way to the exits.

Adrienne Johnson

More BTO Gold CHICAGO - Bachman -TurnerOverdrive has been awarded itsfourth consecutive gold album byRIAA, for "Four Wheel Drive."

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Get African Gold LOS ANGELES - Loretta Lynnand Conway Twitty's MCA hit oflast year, "As Soon As I HangUp the Phone," has become agold record in South Africa.Gallo (Africa) Ltd., the Johannes-burg -based manufacturer anddistributor of MCA record pro-duct there, has stated that thesong is the fastest selling singlein their history.

Brewer & Shipley's Roads To Bridges

In New York for three day engagement at The Bottom Line, Capitol recording artistsBrewer and Shipley stopped by Record World's NY office to talk about their latestIp, "Welcome to Riddle Bridge." Pictured from left are: Paul Peterson, manager forBrewer and Shipley; Tom Shipley; Mike Brewer; and RW's Mitchell Kanner. The shortbearded man in front of Tom Shipley is Irwin Sirotta, New York promotion managerfor Capitol Records.

Twitty and Lynn WB To ReleaseNew Slade LP NEW YORK-As a prelude to aforthcoming American tour, a newalbum by Slade is to be releasednationwide by Warner BrothersRecords on June 6.

Entitled "Slade In Flame," thealbum is a slightly modified ver-sion of the soundtrack recordingof the movie "Flame." Two newlyrecorded songs, "Thanks for theMemory" and "Bangin' Man," arethe new additions for the Ameri-can market.

Mangione and Orch. Score at the Shubert LOS ANGELES-The problem ofintegrating the small jazz unitand its improvisational characterwith the more formal structureof a large orchestra has beentackled by numerous musicians-both the classically and thejazz -oriented - during the pasttwo decades. Some of the moresuccessful efforts to have beenundertaken in recent memorywere made by such highlyesteemed artists as Gil Evans andJohn Lewis, whose various pro-jects with Miles Davis and theModern Jazz Quartet, amongothers, opened new possibilitiesto a coming generation of musicaleclectics. Few composer/arrang-ers, though, have met with thedegree of popularity that hasengulfed Chuck Mangione (A&M),who appeared at the Shubertrecently and whose recent Ip,"Chase The Clouds Away," hasleft hard-core jazz audiencesdivided while attracting an audi-ence as broad as the flocks whodescended on record stores tobuy Deodato's first Ips.

Mangione's basic quartet, con-sisting of himself on flugelhorn,Joe LaBarbera on drums, ChipJackson on bass and Gerry Nie-wood-an exceptionally versatileplayer-on soprano and tenorsaxophones, flutes and percus-sion, remained in the forefrontthroughout the Shubert concert.Although members of the or-chestra were occasionally fea-tured as soloists, their primaryrole could be likened to that ofa sounding board for Mangioneand company's thematic voicings.

'A Big Hug'Per Mangione's own statement,

the intention was to have theorchestra "give the quartet a bighug by wrapping the orchestra-tions around us." The executionof that concept was flawless, withthe orchestra providing a glossytextural background for Man-gione's formula, one could per-haps have wished that suchexcellent players as Kai Winding,whose trombone was all but lostin the ensemble, could have beenfeatured in a more vital role.

Vocalist Esther Satterfield wasfeatured on several compositionsduring the performance and thestrikingly expressive quality of hervoice contributed immeasurablyto the total effect of the concert.The material on which she wasfeatured ranged from the Man-gione compositions "Soft" and"Love Is Stronger Far Than We"(on which she was accompaniedby guest Don Potter) to a surpris-ing rendition of an elusively titledSouth African folk tune whichearly aficionados of MiriamMakeba might remember fromthat artist's first Ip.

Highlights

Easily highlighting the evening'sconcert were performances ofMangione's two most strikingworks, "Land Of Make Belie"and "Chase The Clouds Away,"both of which served to remindthe audience that whatever hemay attempt, Mangione is an in-credibly gifted and lyrical com-poser.

Eliot Sekuler



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Fan Fair Announces Performer Line-up NASHVILLE - While officialFan Fair '75 activities begin onJune 11, a free slow pitch soft-ball tournament with teams madeup of country artists and musicindustry personnel is set forJune 9-10 at Nashville's TwoRivers Park.

Teams in the men's divisioninclude: ABC/Dot's CountryShindiggers, Bill Anderson's Po'Boys, Conway Twitty's TwittyBirds, Billboard's Music RowRebels, RCA's Little Nippers,WSM's Big Country Machine,

RCA Names PolivkaTo Country PositionIII NEW YORK - The appoint-ment of Maria Polivka as man-ager, western region countrymusic promotion, has been an-nounced by Tony Montgomery,national promotion director, RCARecords.

Montgomery said the position,a new one, has been createddue to country music's continu-ally growing acceptance through-out the world and therefore theneed for RCA to be representedin the important western states.

Maria Polivka

Ms. Polivka has been with RCARecords since 1972 and hasworked in both the local and re-gional promotion departmentsin the Los Angeles area.

the Tennessee Travelers, the Rayof Sunshine, Playboy's Chart -busters, MGM Records, theNashville Pickers and a com-bined team from United Talent/Coal Miners.

Competition in the women'sdivision will feature: the CBSWreckerds, the Capitol Punish-ment, The Mary Reeves Review,the Po' Girls, ABC/Dot's LadyShindiggers and WSM's Mouthof the South.

The games will begin at 1:00,preceded by live bluegrass musicat noon on both days.

The following is a day-by-dayschedule of the official Fan Fairshows and events, along with thenames of artists already con-firmed to appear:

Wednesday, June 11

Bluegrass Concert, noon -5:00 p.m.: BlueGrass Alliance, Lester Flatt, Jim & Jesse,Richard Jett Hoedowners, McClain Family,Clyde Moody, Bill Monroe, James Monroe,Outdoor Plumbing Company, Ralph Stanley,Carl Storey & Blue Ridge Mountaineers,the Sullivan Family, the Marshall Familyand Carl Tipton.

Thursday, June 12

Columbia Records, 10:00 a.m.-noon: JackBlanchard and Misty Morgan, David AllanCoe, Billy Grammer, Josh Graves, BobLuman, Charlie McCoy, Jody Miller, DavidWills, Troy Seals, Connie Smith, Joe Stamp -ley and The Oaks.

Capitol Records, 3:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m.:Stoney Edwards, Arlene Harden, FreddieHart, LaCosta, LaWanda Lindsey, BuckOwens and Susan Raye.

ABC/Dot Records, 7:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m.:Bobby Borchers, Johnny Carver, BrianCollins, Connie Eaton, Donna Fargo, NarvelFelts, Lefty Frizzell, Ferlin Husky, CarlMann, Jim Mundy, Tommy Overstreet, PatRoberts, Jeris Ross, Sue Richards, DianaTrask, Freddy Weller, Don Williams andBobby Wright.

Nashville Songwriters Association, 9:30p.m. -11:00 p.m.: Harlan Howard, Pee WeeKing, Kenny O'Dell, Ray Pennington, DonWayne and more to be added.

Friday, June 13Hickory Records, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 p.m.:

Roy Acuff, Sr., Roy Acuff, Jr., Don Gibson,Whitey Shafer, Carl Smith, and ReddStewart.

Four Star Recdrds, 11:30 a.m.-noon:Denny Denton, Jimmy Elledge, GeorgeMorgan, Marie Owens, Betty Jean Robinsonand Terri Stubbs.


RECORD WORLD COUNTRYNASHVILLE REP RTBy RED O'DONNELL

Singer George Morgan threw a scare at his rela-tives and friends when he blacked out on roof ofhis home while repairing an antenna. The first re-port was that he had suffered a heart attack, thenthat was changed to "heart failure." Final diagno-sis by the medicos: "He wasn't accustomed to thattype of exertion and overextended himself physi-cally." It was admitted, however, that Candy KissesGeorge has a heart valve that needs repairing.

Charlie Rich, his wife Margaret Ann and theirfour children are vacationing for the month of June near Destin, Fla.It's something we try to do every June," says Charlie.

Bobby Goldsboro just recovered from the mumps. "I think I

caught them at a show in St. Louis," says Bobby. Meanwhile, he'sstarring at the Thunderbird in Las Vegas and talking with "Filmation"producers about an animated Christmas TV program titled "Snuffy,the Elf Who Saved Christmas." Bobby has written several songs whichhe'll sing on the special, which will be pitched to the networks.

Homa recording artist Walt Wilder is on a tour promoting his singleof "I Love the Girl On the Centerfold of Playboy Magazine" in a"beautiful" style. He's traveling with Marilyn Lange, who is THE "un-covered" girl on the front and centerfold of the current issue of themagazine. Marilyn is from Hawaii, the record is a country music songand the Homa label is headquartered in Oklahoma City.

Speaking of magazines, Cosmopolitan did another article on LorettaLynn, the second in the past six months. I understand Loretta didn'tlike some of the quotes attributed to her?

Ray Stevens keeps coming up with the winners. "Misty" made it tothe top in the country charts; now it is moving up in the pop field.Song was co -written by Johnny Burke & Errol Garner. Garner thenmade it into a big, big hit-and that was 20 years ago.

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Showay, Hope Mergea NASHVILLE - Bennie Hess,president of Showay Produc-tions, Inc, has announced thathis firm has merged with HopeMusic Company of Youngstown,Ohio. In addition to the officepresently located at 820 18thAvenue South in Nashville, thefirm will also house offices at805 18th Avenue South inNashville, as well as several officebuildings in Youngstown, Ohioand North Carolina.

Bennie Hess and James Hopestated that the firm will produce8 track tapes and albums as wellas singles for artists.

TEM Pacts Alshire NASHVILLE-Ted Kirby, presi-dent of TEM Enterprises, hasannounced the signing of a distri-bution agreement with AlshireInternational, Burbank, California.

George Cooper III, owner ofCountry Collage, a nationalcountry promotion company,represented TEM at the meetingwith Al Sherman, president ofAlshire. After Cooper and Sher-man had completed negotiations,Sherman said, "Alshire will dis-tribute TEM records interna-tionally and will handle TEM'sproduct in all marketingfunctions."

COUNTRY PICKS OF THE WEEKW CARMOL TAYLOR, "BACK IN THE U.S.A."

z(Chuck Berry/Arc, BMI). Thisold Chuck Berry number getsa hit treatment country style,Carmol flavored. The tracksare movin' groovin, andprovin' that country rock andthe jitterbug are alive andwell. Don't drive through ra-dar when this is on the radio.Cookin'i Elektra E -45255-A.

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JOHNNY WRIGHT, "WILD PASSIONATELOVER" (Needahit, BMI). Fun-ky rendition of an earthy songabout a gal wilder than theoats she sows. Attention grab-bing lyrics, flowing productionand solid country instrumenta-tion make this a winner. Gooddrive -time sound, sure tomake its mark on the chartsand with requests and dimessure to be dropping. It's awild, passionate song! Capri-corn CPS 0232.

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WILLIE NELSON, "RED-HEADEDSTRANGER." The king of the Tex-as sound has his first album onColumbia and its a winner rightout of the chute. "Blue Eyes Cry-ing In The Rain" will move youlike nothing ever has, as will"Remember Me" and "Can I

Sleep In Your Arms Tonight,Lady." This is Willie's shot andit will echo all over country mu-sic. It'll play and play and play-and still get requests for more.Columbia L 33482.

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UNTRY HOT LINEBy MARIE RATLIFF

Station Check List

Reporting this week (alphabetically):

KBOX, DallasKBUL, WichitaKCKC, San BernardinoKCKN, Kansas CityKDJW, AmarilloKENR, HoustonKFDI, WichitaKIKK, HoustonKJJJ, PhoenixKKYX, San AntonioKLAK, DenverKRMD, Shreveport

K50, Des MoinesKSOP, Salt Lake CityKSPO, SpokaneKVOO, TulsaKWMT, Ft. DodgeWAME, CharlotteWCMS, NorfolkWENO, NashvilleWGBG, GreensboroWHK, ClevelandWHO, Des MoinesWHOO, Orlando

WHYD, ColumbusWIL, St. LouisWINN, LouisvilleWIRE, IndianapolisWJQS, JacksonWMC, MemphisWPNX, ColumbusWSLC, RoanokeWSLR, AkronWSUN, St. PetersburgWUBE, CincinnatiWUNI, Mobile

SURE SHOTS

Glen Campbell -- "Rhinestone Cowboy"

Eddy Arnold -- "Red Roses For A Blue Lady"

Olivia Newton -John -- "Please Mr. Please"

LEFT FIELDERS

Ronnie Dove -- "Things"

Johnny Carver -- "Strings

Arleen Harden -- "Teddy Bear's Picnic"

Fearless Forecast: Wynn Stewart is back on therecording scene, now on Playboy, and is sporting asure winner with "Lonely Rain." A natural hit!!!

Johnny Carver's "Strings" is blossoming suddenlyinto a big item! This week's converts include WMC,WSUN, WPNX, KSPO, WENO and KDJW.

On the heels of his first big play record, MikeLunsford strikes again with "How Can I Tell MyDreams." It'll be even bigger!

Ruby Falls continues to draw top response on "HeLoves Me All To Pieces." Particularly heavy inthe southwest and South!

Confirming last week's Fearless Forecast, DavidHouston is roaring onto national charts! Among theregional believers are KLAK, WINN, KRMD, KCKN,KFDI, KCKC, KSOP, WJQS, WENO and KWMT.

Donny & Marie Osmond are getting strong countryairing on the standard "Make The World Go Away."

Arleen Harden is picking up attention on "TeddyBear's Picnic" in Orlando, Nashville and Salt LakeCity. However, KSPO has opted for the flip,"Country Sunday."

"Things" is happening for Ronnie Dove at KENR,WHK, WINN.

LaWanda Lindsey's "Another Good Time Baby"showing a strong initial surge!

BobLy Wright's "It's For You, Hon," looking goodin Nashville and Mobile.Action beginning on Robert Allen Jenkins' "You

Just Loved Me" at KKYX and WGBG (pick).

Ace Cannon's "Raunchy" continues to pick upnumbers (KENR - 20) and play at KCKN and KDJW.

KWAM-FM/101 in Memphis is making the move toprogressive country!

AREA ACTION

Bobby Vinton -- "Wooden Heart" (WMC)

Bobby Smith -- "I Don't Like To SleepAlone" (KBOX)

Hank Beach -- "Run Right Back" (WUBE)

Ronnie Sessions -- "Love Hangover" (KSPO)

Nashville Office Opened by Playboy NASHVILLE-In a major moveaimed at the country market,Playboy Records and Music hasopened an office in Nashville, itwas announced by Sal lannucci,Playboy Enterprises vice presi-dent and corporate director ofthe entertainment division, andTom Takayoshi, executive vicepresident of Playboy Records andMusic.

Kilroy Is Here

Heading the new office as

director of country music is

industry veteran Eddie Kilroy.He will be responsible forall aspects of promotion andproduction for Playboy Recordsin Nashville and their countryartist roster, and will reportdirectly to Tom Takayoshi. Kilroyhas worked on an independentbasis with the label for the past18 months.

Kilroy was first associated withPlayboy Records when he pro-duced Mickey Gilley's first singlefor the label, "Room Full ofRoses," which went to the top ofthe Record World country charts,and was immediately followed by

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an album of the same name.In addition to producing

Mickey Gilley, who was the firstcountry artist on the label, Kil-roy has produced several othercountry artists for the label, in-cluding Barbi Benton. Her debutalbum was "Barbi Doll," andher most recent single, "BrassBuckles," hit the top 20 on theRW country charts. Kilroy hasalso produced Mike Wells, WynnStewart, Brenda Pepper andChuck Price for Playboy, andwill continue to oversee all pro-duction and promotion for allPlayboy artists in the countryfield.

Prior to his affiliation withPlayboy Records, Kilroy main-tained his own independentproduction and promotion officein Nashville. In the past, Kilroyhas worked with such artists asJerry Lee Lewis, Faron Young,Doug Kershaw and Roger Milleramong others.

Playboy's Nashville offices arelocated at 1511 Sigler, Suite 105,Nashville, Tennessee 37203;phone: (615) 242-4341.

Birmingham Concert Offers a TasteOf Country Music 'On the Road' BIRMINGHAM-It is not untilyou get "on the road" and see acountry show that you get a tasteof what country music is allabout: songs of truth and hon-esty played to an audience whichhas worked hard to afford theticket to watch the artists whosing about things they face everyday in their life.

It is also on these junkets thatyou see what a country enter-tainer is all about - the roadtrips playing with back-up bandsthey've never seen before, tryingsomehow to hide their tired facesand put on a show for a crowdthat has paid their hard earnedmoney to see them.

In Birmingham last weekend, acountry package show featuringBillie Jo Spears (UA, reviewed inRW last week), Freddy Fender(ABC/Dot), Moe Bandy (GRC)and Cal Smith (MCA) performedat the Auditorium to an enthusi-astic crowd-full but not packed.

Fender, hot with a number onerecord in both the country andpop fields, "Before The NextTeardrop Falls," is a Texas -Mexi-can who, until a short time ago,was playing clubs in the Texasarea, trying, like his audiences, toget along, feed his family andtake one day at a time. That wasbefore his monster hit, the"American Dream" come truewhich propelled him to instantfame after years of no recogni-

tion. As Kris Kristofferson oncesaid, "A guy can starve to deathbeing an overnight success."

Fender's show consisted of anumber of country standardssuch as "I Can't Help It If I'mStill In Love With You," "Today I

Started Loving You Again," "I Al-most Called Your Name," his newrelease "Wasted Days and WastedNights" and his now classic "Be-fore The Next Teardrop Falls,"which he had to perform twicebefore the crowd was satisfied.

Fender's English is slightlybroken and accented and thecrowd had trouble picking upwhat he was saying sometimes,but with his music as the com-mon denominator, he won thecrowd easily as he built the showto his smash single.

Following Fender was MoeBandy who has had a very suc-cessful career singing hard coun-try songs in today's marketof artists and producers tryingfor the pop/country crossoversmooth sound. Bandy's songsdeal with cheatin' and drinkin'and his voice delivers these mes-sages well-you can tell he'sbeen down a few roads himself.

Bandy is another Texas prod-uct, living in San Antonio andplaying clubs there before "I JustStarted Hating Cheating SongsToday" broke the ice for him andpropelled him into the national




COUNTRY RADIOBy CHARLIE DOUGLAS

a If you are in or associated with the field of country music, you havelost a friend. On May 19 Sam Wallace died in Atlanta. Sam Wallacewas with RCA for more years than most of us can remember, butthose of us who were privileged to know him will always rememberhim. Big Sam-always smiling, always glad to be wherever he was,always ready to help whoever needed it, quick to tell you about agood country act regardless of whose label he or she might be on,always knowledgeable, and most of all, always Sam. He neverchanged. You could not see Sam for four or five years, but whenyou did, his warmth was the kind that made you feel as if you hadbeen with him the day before.

Sam never seemed to quite fit the mold of that oft -abused title"promotion man," he couldn't be categorized, for Sam was a breedunto himself. Of the old school, Sam was most comfortable with theworld and wore the word gentleman with grace and charm. Even ifyou never had the good fortune of knowing him, he was your friendif you were a friend to country music. I first met Sam in Monroe,Louisiana at my first job in radio. Sam Wallace was my friend. I knewhim, respected him and loved him for more than 20 years. I willmiss him.

Larry James brought himself home some great numbers in theFebruary Pulse for Mobile, Ala. The WUNI morning man is a dominantnumber one in the 6-10 slot. The station as a whole does exceptionallywell in all time slots. Larry has more women 18+ than the next twostations put together. The WUNI bird flies high ... WKLC (St. Albans,W. Va.) is now country 24 hours, and Skeeter Dodd is happy . . .

Tom Torrance joins KWMT (Fort Dodge).There are so many rumors about one big-time country station

looking to make some changes in personnel that one has to wonderif there might not be some fire under the smoke . . . Bob Mitchellhas assumed the agenda chairmanship for the 1976 Country Seminarin Nashville. Bob is an articulate spokesman in behalf of the industryand will do an excellent job. Great choice.

William Carson, chief engineer and air peronality at WWJC(Commerce, Ga., where Bill Anderson started his radio career) is, asa member of the National Audubon Society, all upset about a linein the Johnny Cash "Old Kentucky Home" song. He says the words"shootin at the birds on the telephone line and picking them offwith this gun of mine" serve no useful purpose and display cheapdisdain for wildlife.

Billy Parker commented, with awe, at the beauty and simplicity ofthe Bob Wills funeral services in Tulsa. There was not a dry eye inthe house when the fiddles played "Faded Love," "San Antonio Rose"and "It Makes No Difference In Heaven" . . . There's a publicationout called Country Almanac. It's $15 a year and provides a countryview of daily happenings in the past. Looks to be a pretty goodservice. You get something for each day of the year: P.O. Box 978,Beloit, Wisc. 53511.

There are free one minute radio programs dealing with theBicentennial. Write RAEI, P.O. Box 94013, Tacoma 98494.

Fan Fair (Continued from page 51)

MCA Records, 3:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m.: BillAnderson, Jerry Clower, Loretta Lynn,Jeanne Pruett, Tanya Tucker, Mary LouTurner and Conway Twitty.

RCA Records, 7:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m.: ChetAtkins, Bobby Bare, Dottsy, Dickey Lee,Jerry Reed, Brian Shaw and more to beadded.

Elektra Records, 9:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m.:Henson Cargill, Tommy Cash, The Hagers,Melba Montgomery, Eddie Rabbit, EvenStevens and Carmol Taylor.

Saturday, June 14MGM Records, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Ava

Aldridge, Kathy Barnes, C. W. McCall, Tom -pall and Jerry Wallace.

Warner Brothers/Capricorn Records,11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Joe Allen, JohnnyDot, Hillman Hall, Larry Kingston, Lynda K.Lance and Kenny O'Dell.

Reunion Show, 2:00 p.m. -4:30 p.m.(includes artists who will attend, perform-ances not confirmed): Roy Acuff, BaiiesBrothers, Bailey Brothers, Buddy Bain,Alcyone Beasley, Bonnie Lou and Buster,

Blondie Brooks, Brother Oswald, Alex andOla Belle, Cousin Rachel, T. Tommy Cutrer,Smokey Dacus, Ethel Delaney, Duke ofPaducah, Buddy Durham, Jim Eanes, JimmyGately, Fruit Jar Drinkers, Lonnie Glosson,lssac Gordhead, Goober, Sid Harkreader,Paul Howard, Shot Jackson, Ramona Jones,Jordanaires, Pee Wee King, Ernie Lee,Wade Mainer, Joe and Rose Lee Maphis,Leon McAuliffe, Laura Lee McBride, theMcCormick Brothers, Patsy Montana, ClydeMoody, Zeke and Wiley Morris, HaroldMorrison, Minnie Pearl, Webb Pierce, LeonRausch, Red River Dave, Billy Sage, Sarrie,Jimmie Skinner, Ben Smathers, Red Speeks,Redd Stewart, Chester Studdard, FloydTillman, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant,Cousin Wilbur, Ray Whitley, Doc & ChickieWililams, Bob Wills Band, Lulu Belle &Scotty, Del Wood, and Skeets Yaney.

Sunday, June 15Fiddlin' Contest, Noon -6:00 p.m.: Wilma

Lee & Stoney Cooper, Herman Crook,Ramona Jones, Sam & Kirk McGee, RalphSloan & Tennesse Travelers and PorterWagoner.

Jimmie Rodgers Memorial FestivalAttracts Top Country Music Talent

By DON CUSICIn MERIDIAN, MISS. - The Jim-mie Rodgers Memorial Museumwas dedicated at ceremonies inMeridian, Mississippi last week asthe Jimmie Rodgers MemorialFestival was held in this smalltown on the Mississippi -Alabamaborder where Rodgers was bornand raised. The dedication of themuseum, built like a train station,came at the end of a week filledwith talent contests, wreath lay-ings, a parade and shows featur-ing top country talent, all appear-ing free in honor of the late Jim-mie Rodgers.

The week began with a wreathlaying on Rodgers' grave in theOak Grove Cemetery in Meridianand another wreath laying at theJimmie Rodgers Memorial inHighland Park. This park is alsothe location of the museum and alocomotive, set up in honor ofRodgers, known as "The SingingBrakeman," who popularized thetrain in his songs which still liveon, though he has been dead42 years. Participating in the cere-monies were Elsie McWilliams,Rodgers' sister-in-law; VirginiaHarvey, a cousin; and Nate Wil-liamson, a brother-in-law.

Later that evening, a dance washeld with the Bill Black Comboproviding most of the music. OnWednesday, a parade through thetown was held and featured localand out of town celebrities in-cluding Ernest Tubb, Biff Collie,Charlie Douglas, Mrs. Anita Court,Rodgers' daughter and others.

Shows were held Wednesday,

Thursday and Friday with artistsErnest Tubb, Pee Wee King, ReddStewart, the Collins Sisters, Way -Ion Jennings, Bill Monroe, MoeBandy, Leona Williams, JimmieSkinner, Hank Snow, Hank Lock-lin, Bill Anderson, Lonzo and Os-car, Don Williams, Charlie Mc-Coy, Tony Douglas, Don Gibson,0. B. McClinton, Linda Plowman,the Bill Black Combo, Dick Cur-less and Ray Griff appearing freeof charge, all proceeds going tothe Jimmie Rodgers MemorialFoundation.

Annual EventThe festival, held annually,

honors Hall of Famer Jimmie Rod-'gers, "The Blue Yodeler," whosesongs such as "In The JailhouseNow," "Waitin' For A Train,""Mule Skinner Blues," "PeachPickin' Time In Georgia" and fa-mous Blue Yodels made him atremendous influence on genera-tions of country music fans andperformers. His death, 42 yearsago at the age of 36 from tuber-culosis, came at the end of a ca-reer that saw him working for therailroads most of his life beforebecoming one of country music'sfirst superstars, writing, perform-ing and recording throughout theUnited States.

The foundation, establishedyears ago with Ernest Tubb aspresident and Hank Snow as vicepresident, reached one of theirmajor goals this year with thecompletion of the construction ofthe Jimmie Rodgers MemorialMuseum.

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Shown at the dedication of the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Museum in Meridian, Mis-sissippi last week ore, from left: Biff Collie, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Pee Wee Kingand Charlie Douglas. The museum, which was just completed this year, is built likea train station and will contain memorabilia and artifacts from "The Singing Brake-man," a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame-Jimmie Rodgers.



C UNTRYSINGLE PICKS

COUNTRY SONG OF THE WEEKJOE ALLEN-Warner Brothers WBS 8098CAROLYN AT THE BROKEN WHEEL INN (Jack, BMI)Superpicker Joe sings the lonesome cowboy sound about a gal whoprovides a home away from home. Penned by Bob McDill and JimRushing-headed for the top.

FREDDY FENDER-ABC/Dot DOA -17558WASTED DAYS AND WASTED NIGHTS (Travis, BMI)Freddy follows his "Teardrop" with a Cajun bounce number reminis-cent of old rock 'n waltzes. Rock on Freddy!

EVEN STEVENS-Elektra E -45254-ALET THE LITTLE BOY DREAM (Deb Dave, BMI)A song Even wrote to his son and the world saying let the little boydream while he can. Super request item.

JIM WEATHERLY-Buddah BDA 467IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE RAIN (Keca, ASCAP)Jim pens another hit-this time for himself. Soft melody and sensitivelyrics make this a winner.

MICKEY NEWBURY-Elektra E -45256-ASAIL AWAY (Acuff -Rose, BMI)The dean of Nashville songwriters has a hit single. Mickey shows herewhy he has been an influence on almost every songwriter today.Sail off!

PAT ROBERTS-ABC/Dot DOA -17559SHE CAME HERE FOR THE CHANGE (Chess, ASCAP)Lyrical twist about a gal working in a bar so she could have a change.Good honky tonk sound.

WYNN STEWART-Playboy P 6035LONELY RAIN (Singletree, BMI)Wynn debuts on his new label with an easy listening country sound.Super production and vocal delivery will make this popular-rain orshine.

GUY AND RALNA-Ranwood R-1029WE'VE GOT IT ALL TOGETHER NOW (Rodeo Cowboy, BMI)Popular duo from the Lawrence Welk Show has a solid country soundthat'll garner them plenty of radio airplay.

MEL TILLIS AND THE STATESIDERS-MGM M 14804WOMAN IN THE BACK OF MY MIND (Sawgrass, BMI)Tillis reaches for the soft country sound as he sings about the memorythat won't go away.

RONNIE SESSIONS-MCA MCA -40411LOVE HANGOVER (Tree, BMI)Drunk on love the night before, Ronnie wakes up with a love hang-over-and there ain't no cure for a memory. Will gather requestsand dimes.

DONNY AND MARIE OSMOND-MGM M 14807MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY (Tree, BMI)The old Eddy Arnold hit is brought back by this popuar young duo.Will fit any programmer's slot.

RUBY FALLS -50 States FS -33AHE LOVES ME ALL TO PIECES (Sandburn/Music Craftshop, ASCAP)Strong country ballad from newcomer songstress that'll put her onthe map. Hear Ruby Falls!

KAREN WILTZ-Hayride H -USA 751TEXAS STAR ON A TENNESSEE STAGE (Hayride, BMI)HAPPY FEELINGS (Rogan, BMI)You'll be hearing a lot from this young lady in the future-she hasthe makings of a star. This is her first release on a new label.

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Birmingham Concert (Continued from page 52) Hall Golf Tourney Draws Big Turnoutspotlight. Bandy's show, whichincludes back-up singer and gui-tarist Richard Little, won thecrowd quickly as he started offwith his first hit and continuedthrough songs such as "HonkyTonk Amnesia," "It Was AlwaysSo Easy To Find An UnhappyWoman" and his latest, "Don'tAnyone Make Love At HomeAnymore."

Self -Styled

Bandy has a following andstyle all hls own and it looks likehe'll be around for a long time.It is the Bandy style of country

music that anchors that genre ofmusic today, keeping it close toits roots and traditions.

Cal Smith finished the show,and his resonant, rich voice andhits such as "The Lord Knows I'mDrinkin'," "It's Time To Pay TheFiddler" and the award winning"Country Bumpkin" prove con-clusively he is an artist of staturewith a firm niche in country mu-sic. With a voice and repertoiresuch as his, you need only standup and sing-and that's just whathe did, and the crowd loved it.

Don Cusic

Nashville Report (Continued from page 51)"fooling around" in the studio. "I hit a few bars of the song on thepiano and the band joined in. It was one of those unplanned things.Frankly, I had no idea it was going to be a hit." A veritable "acciden-tal" million seller, no doubt?

Tanya Tucker is 16 but has the stage presence of a veteran. "Ilearned how to move on stage by watching Elvis Presley," the MCAartist admits."I'd never seen a girl imitate him, so I thought I'd try itas soon as I could get up enough nerve."

Offstage Tanya is a sports enthusiast. "My dad (Beau Tucker) couldtell you that," she says. "I'm just a kid who likes to ride horses, playbasketball, go to rodeos."

Don Davis is currently producing John and June Cash at the Houseof Cash Studios in Hendersonville.

Birthdaying: Carl Butler, Gordie Tapp, Annette Null, Wynn Stewart,Vernon Oxford, Clyde Beavers.

Publisher Jim Pelton's weekly contribution: "My not -always -with -itwife (Irene; thought that Bobby Womack's 'Check It Out' was a songabout the cash register girl at the supermarket!"

CHATTANOOGA - The entryof country music personalities inthe third annual benefit tourneylast week at Creek's Bend GolfCourse resulted in the event be-ing renamed the Tom T. HallBethel Celebrity Golf Tourna-ment and net proceeds of over$12,000 (nearly tripling last year'stake) going to Bethel BibleSchool at Hixson, Tennessee, ahome for children whose parentsare in prison.

ConcertThe two-day event was high-

lighted by a Friday night concertat the Memorial Auditoriumemceed by Ralph Emery, featur-ing Connie Smith, Dickey Lee,Chet Atkins, the Bluegrass Ex-

press, Marilyn Sellars, TerriStubbs, Ronnie Prophet, GarySergeants, Johnny Rodriguez andthe tourney's namesake andbenefactor, Tom T. Hall. JerryReed participated in the firstday's round of play before leav-ing to fill a prior engagament.

4 -Star Records president JoeJohnson won the trophy in hisflight, while Atlanta Falcons'linebacker Don Hanson led thesports world entrants. Also con-tributing to the festivities on thelinks were the likes of MusicCity executives Bob Neal of Wil-liam Morris Agency, CharlieMonk of ASCAP, Roger Sovine of

My Honky Tonk Ways(CPS 0233)

Kenny O'Dell

On Capricorn Records. Macon. Ga.Produced by Bob Montgomery by special arrangement with Phil Walden & Associates Inc

BM I, VP John Sturdivant ofRecord World, Ed Hamilton ofMega Records, Joe Light of JimHalsey Agency, Jerry Kennedy ofMercury Records, Bob Jennings of4 -Star and Chuck Chellman. Profootball greats included JohnnyUnitas, John Hannah, Ray Old-ham, Bobby Scott, Bert Jones andKim McQuilken.

Marie Ratliff

MCA, Datsun Launch'Travlin' Country' Promoin LOS ANGELES-MCA Recordsand Datsun of America have to-gether launched a half -milliondollar promotion, advertisingand merchandising campagn insupport of MCA's country artists,according to MCA media direc-tor Bob Siner. The campaign willbe called "Travlin' Country" andthe half -million dollar figure in-cludes prizes and advertising ex-penditures. The goal of thecampaign, according to the label,is to "increase awareness ofcountry music and broaden itsmarket."

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Entry blanks for the "Travlin'Country -Win a Datsun Li'lHustler Pickup" contest will beavailable at all participatingDatsun dealers and record stores.



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BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS FREDDY FENDER-ABC/DotDOSD-2020

PHONE CALL FROM GOD JERRY JORDAN-MCA 473BLANKET ON THE GROUND BIJ.LIE JO SPEARS-UA LA390 GWOLF CREEK PASS C. W. McCALL-MGM M3G-4989MICKEY'S MOVIN' ON MICKEY GILLEY-Playboy PB 405

6 3 I'M JESSI COLTER-Capitol ST 113637 2 REUNION B. J. THOMAS-ABC ABCP-868

11 IN CONCERT VARIOUS ARTISTS-RCA CPL2-1014

9 8 AN EVENING WITH JOHN DENVER-RCA CPL2-0765

111 16 KEEP MOVIN' ON MERLE HAGGARD-Capitol ST -11365

11 9 HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN-MCA 2133

12 10 OUT OF HAND GARY STEWART-RCA 1-090013 12 SONGS OF FOX HOLLOW TOM T. HALL-Mercury SRMI-50014 15 HEART LIKE A WHEEL LINDA RONSTADT-Capitol ST 1135815 13 FREDDIE HART'S GREATEST HITS-Capitol ST 11374

D 19 SINCERELY BRENDA LEE-MCA 477

EU 20 A LITTLE BIT SOUTH OF SASKATOON SONNY JAMES-Columbia KC 33428

D 22 TANYA TUCKER-MCA 2141

19 18 SOUTHBOUND HOYT AXTON-A&M SP 451020 21 SMOKEY MOUNTAIN MEMORIES MEL STREET-GRT 8004

25 CHARLIE RICH'S GREATEST HITS-RCA AP,L1-0857

EEI 26 LAST FAREWELL ROGER WHITTAKER-RCA APL1-0855

23 14 BARROOMS TO BEDROOMS DAVID WILLS-Epic KE 33353

29 HARD TIME HUNGRYS BOBBY BARE-RCA APL1-0906

30 YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND DON WILLIAMS-ABC/Dot DODS-2021

32 STILL THINKIN' ABOUT YOU BILLY CRASH CRADDOCK-ABC ABCD-875

27 23 PIECES OF THE SKY EMMYLOU HARRIS-Reprise 221328 17 A PAIR OF FIVES (BANJOS THAT IS) ROY CLARK & BUCK TRENT-

ABC/Dot DODS-201529 27 BOOGIE WOOGIE COUNTRY MAN JERRY LEE LEWIS-

Mercury SRM1-103035 LOIS JOHNSON -20th Century T 46530

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31 24 LINDA ON MY MIND CONWAY TWITTY-MCA 469 18

32 31 SOLID AND COUNTRY BILL BLACK COMBO-Hi SHL-32088 10

33 34 BACK HOME AGAIN JOHN DENVER-RCA CPL1-0548 45

40 GUITARS OF SONNY JAMES-Columbia KC 33477 3

35 28 BARGAIN STORE DOLLY PARTON-RCA APL1-0950 11

36 38 VASSAR CLEMENTS-Mercury SRM-1-1022 6

37 39 DON'T LET THE GOOD TIMES FOOL YOU MELBA MONTGOMERY-Elektra 7E-0598 5

133 43 GOOD HEARTED WOMAN CONNIE CATO-Capitol ST -11387 4

44 JOHN R. CASH-Columbia KC 33370 3

40 33 WRITE ME A LETTER BOBBY G. RICE-GRT 8003 7

41 36 A LEGEND IN MY TIME RONNIE MILSAP-RCA APL1-0846 17

42 42 CONNIE SMITH SINGS HANK WILLIAMS GOSPEL-Columbia KC 33414 5

1:0 52 JUST GET UP AND CLOSE THE DOOR JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ-Mercury SRM-1-1032 2

49 WONDERFUL WORLD OF EDDY ARNOLD-MGM M3G-4992 4

45 48 SPECIAL DELIVERY DAVE DUDLEY-UA LA366 G 7

46 47 I'M HAVING YOUR BABY SUNDAY SHARPE-UA LA 362 G 7

47 51 CLASSIC STYLE OF LEFTY FRIZZELL-ABC 861 3al 58 WITH ALL MY LOVE LaCOSTA-Capitol ST -11391 2

49 37 BACK IN THE COUNTRY LORETTA LYNN-MCA 471 15

50 41 JOE STAMPLEY-Epic KE 33356 14

56 SUNSHINE SAMMI SMITH-Mega MLPS-611 3

52 46 CHARLIE MY BOY CHARLIE McCOY-Monument KZ 33384 9

111 64 MIND YOUR LOVE JERRY REED-RCA APL1-0787 2

54 45 BARBI DOLL BARBI BENTON-Playboy PB-404 19

1133 - WHATCHA GONNA DO WITH A DOG LIKE THAT SUSAN RAYE-Capitol ST 11393 1

56 50 WHO'S SORRY NOW MARIE OSMOND-MGM M3G-4979 13

57 53 CRYSTAL GAYLE-United Artists UA LA365 G 12

58 54 ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD MAC DAVIS-Columbia PC 32027 16

59 57 ALIVE AND PICKIN' DOUG KERSHAW-Warner Bros. BS 2851 7

60 - I'M THE LONELIEST MAN DON GIBSON-Hickory H3G-4519 1

61 60 TANYA TUCKER'S GREATEST HITS-Columbia KC 33355 14

- BOCEPHUS HANK WILLIAMS, JR.-MGM M3G-4988 1

63 59 POOR SWEET BABY JEAN SHEPARD-UA LA363 G 12

64 55 THE BEST OF GEORGE JONES-Epic KE 33352 8

65 63 PROMISED LAND ELVIS PRESLEY-RCA APL1-0873 19

66 62 TAMMY WYNETTE'S GREATESTS HITS-EpicKE 33396 11

67 61 IT WAS ALWAYS SO EASY MOE BANDY-GRC GA 10007 15

68 66 CITY LIGHTS MICKEY GILLEY-Playboy PB-403 25

69 68 IF YOU LOVE ME (LET ME KNOW) OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN- MCA 411 53

70 67 JERRY WALLACE'S GREATEST HITS-MGM M3G-4900 9

71 69 HIS 30TH ALBUM MERLE HAGGARD-Capitol ST 11331 36

72 65 LOVIN' YOU BEATS ALL I'VE EVER SEEN JOHNNY PAYCHECK-Epic KE 33354 9

73 72 ROOM FULL OF ROSES MICKEY GILLEY-Playboy PB-128 52

74 74 MEL TILLIS & THE STATESIDERS-MGM M3G-4087 11

75 70 IT'S TIME TO PAY THE FIDDLER CAL SMITH-MCA 467 18

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2 WINDOW UP ABOVEMICKEY GILLEY

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6 YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND DON WILLIAMS/ABC/Dot DOA -17550 9

Ell 7 RECONSIDER ME NARVEL FELTS/ABC/Dot DOA -17649 10

Q 8 WHEN WILL I BE LOVED LINDA RONSTADT/Capitol 4050 8

El 11 TRYIN' TO BEAT THE MORNING HOME T. G. SHEPARD/Melodyland 6006 10

8 3 THANK GOD, I'M A COUNTRY BOY JOHN DENVER/RCA PB-10239 11

9 9 FROM BARROOMS TO BEDROOMS DAVID WILLS/Epic 8-50090 10

10 14 BRASS BUCKLES BARBI BENTON/Playboy P 6029 13

III 13 LIZZIE AND THE RAINMAN TANYA TUCKER/MCA 40402 7

12 4 I'M NOT LISA JESSI COLTER/Capitol 4009 16

Ea 17 FORGIVE AND FORGET EDDIE RABBITT/Elektra 45237 11

Ka 16 THERE I SAID IT MARGO SMITH/20th Century TC-2172 8

15 15 THESE DAYS (I BARELY GET BY) GEORGE JONES/Epic 8-50088 11

18 HE'S MY ROCK BRENDA LEE/MCA 40385 9

19 WORD GAMES BILLY WALKER/RCA PB-10205 12

21 LITTLE BAND OF GOLD SONNY JAMES/Columbia 3-10121 7

19 20 IT'S ALL OVER NOW CHARLIE RICH/RCA PB-10256 9

20 22 THE MOST WANTED WOMAN IN TOWN ROY HEAD/Shannon 829 9

21 12 TOO LATE TO WORRY, TOO BLUE TO CRYRONNIE MILSAP/RCA PB-10228 12

Ea 27 MISSISSIPPI YOU'RE ON MY MIND STONEY EDWARDS/Capitol 4051 9

31 DREAMING MY DREAMS OF YOU WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA PB-10270 6

ELI 30 SHE TALKED A LOT ABOUT TEXAS CAL SMITH/MCA 40394 7

25 29 SHE'S ALREADY GONE JIM MUNDY/ABC 12074 10

26 26 BEYOND YOU CRYSTAL GAYLE/United Artists UA-XW600-X 9

Eri 32 (THERE SHE GOES) I WISH HER WELL DON GIBSON/Hickory 345 9

28 28 COLINDA FIDDLIN' FRENCHIE BURKE & THE OUTLAWS/20th Century TC-2182 8

34 BOILIN' CABBAGE BILL BLACKS COMBO/Hi SN-2283 10

30 33 GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS EDDY RAVEN/ABC 12083 9

El 35 PICTURES ON PAPER JERIS ROSS/ABC 12064 7

LU 36 FIREBALL ROLLED A SEVEN DAVE DUDLEY/United Artists UA-XW630-X 7

Ell 38 PERSONALITY PRICE MITCHELL/GRT 020 8

Et3 40 TOUCH THE HAND CONWAY TWITTY/MCA 40407 3

LU 39 CLASSIFIED C. W. McCALL/MGM 14801 5

IE1:1 45 THAT'S WHEN MY WOMAN BEGINS TOMMY OVERSTREET/ABC/Dot DOA -17552 6

42 FREDA COMES, FREDA GOES BOBBY G. RICE/GRT 021 6

38 10 HURT CONNIE CATO/Capitol 4035 13

47 JUST GET UP AND CLOSE THE DOOR JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ/Mercury 73682 3

40 43 BURNING FERLIN HUSKY/ABC 12085 9

49 HELLO I LOVE YOU JOHNNY RUSSELL/RCA PB-10258 6

L13 52 MOVIN' ON MERLE HAGGARD/Capitol 4085 3

50 T -R -O -U -B -L -E ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA PB-10278 5

1301 51 EVERYTIME YOU TOUCH ME (I GET HIGH) CHARLIE RICH/Epic 8-50103 3

45 48 STEALIN' JACKY WARD/Mercury 73667 8

46 25 THE KIND OF WOMAN I GOT/WHERE HE'S GOINGHANK WILLIAMS, JR./MGM 14794 10

56 COUNTRY D. J. BILL ANDERSON/MCA 40404 4

58 WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME CONNIE SMITH/Columbia3-10135 4

49 55 GOD'S GONNA GET'CHA (FOR THAT) GEORGE & TAMMY/Epic 8-50099 5

50 61 EARLY SUNDAY MORNING CHIP TAYLOR/Warner Bros.WBS-8090 6

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59 HONEY ON HIS HANDS JEANNE PRUETT/MCA 40395

63 UNCHAINED MELODY JOE STAMPLEY/ABC/Dot DOA -17551

70 DEAL TOM T. HALL/Mercury 73686

64 WHAT TIME OF DAY BILLY THUNDERKLOUD & THECHIEFTONES/20th Century TC-2181

65 THE DEVIL IN MRS. JONES BILLY LARKIN/Bryan 1018

57 I THINK I'LL SAY GOODBYE MARY KAY JAMES/Avco CAV-610

(I'M DRINKIN' DOUBLES)GARY STEWART/RCA PB-10228

FLY AWAY KENNY PRICE/RCA PB-10260

HEARTS CLUB/WEEKEND DADDY/BUCK OWENS/Capitol 4043

CAN BARBARA FAIRCHILD/Columbia 3-10128

HOLD YOU IN MY DREAMS TONIGHTSTELLA PARTON/Country Soul IRDA-039

YOU KNOW JUST WHAT I'D DO LOIS JOHNSON/20th Century TC-2187

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58 60 BIRDS AND CHILDREN

59 24 41ST STREET LONELY

60 62 LET'S LOVE WHILE WE

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103 83 FARTHEST THING FROM MY MIND RAY PRICE/ABC 12095 2

65 67 I'M AVAILABLE KATHY BARNES/MGM 14797 7

79 MR. RIGHT AND MRS. WRONG MEL TILLIS & SHERRY BRYCE/MGM 14803 4

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HELLO LITTLE BLUEBIRD DONNA FARGO/ABC/Dot DOA -1755 1SEARCHIN' MELBA MONTGOMERY/Elektra 45247 4

RHINESTONE COWBOY GLEN CAMPBELL/Capitol 4095 1

MY HONKY TONK WAYS KENNY O'DELL/Capricorn CPS -0233 2ROLLIN' IN MY SWEET SUNSHINE DOTTIE WEST/

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DEAR WOMAN JOE STAMPLEY/Epic 8-50114I LOVE A RODEO ROGER MILLER/Columbia 3-10107MAY YOU REST IN PEACE MELODY ALLEN/Mercury 73674LION IN THE WINTER HOYT AXTON/A&M 1683BABY TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD & ANDRA WILLIS/

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I WON'T LOVE HER ANYMORE JOHNNY PAYCHECK/Epic 8-50111

JUST FOR THE LONELY ONES PORTER WAGONER/RCA PB-10281

THIS HOUSE RUNS ON SUNSHINE LaCOSTA/Capitol 4082

SPRING TANYA TUCKER/Columbia 3-10127GHOST STORY SUSAN RAYS/Capitol 4063I'LL BE YOUR STEPPING STONE DAVID HOUSTON/

Epic 8-50113PUT ANOTHER LOG ON THE FIRE TOMPALL/MGM 14800LYING IN MY ARMS REX ALLEN, JR./Warner Bros. WBS 8095DON'T DROP IT FARGO TANNER/Avco CAV-612YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO EASY DICKEY LEE/RCA PB-10289RED ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY EDDY ARNOLD/MGM 14780THEME FROM 'A SUMMER PLACE' CHARLIE McCOY &

LLOYD GREEN/Monument ZS8-8648LOVE YOU BACK TO GEORGIA FREDDY WELLER/ABC/Dot

DOA -17554BURNIN' THING MAC DAVIS/Columbia 3-10148A STRANGER IN MY PLACE ANNE MURRAY/Capitol 4072(HEY, WON'T YOU PLAY) ANOTHER SOMEBODY DONE

SOMEBODY WRONG SONG B. J. THOMAS/ABC 12054 14

SWEET SUSANNAH KRIS KRISTOFFERSON & RITA COOLIDGE/Monument ZS8-8646 2

DON'T ANYONE MAKE LOVE AT HOME ANYMOREMOE BANDY/GRC GR-2055 12

YOU'RE NOT THE WOMAN YOU USED TO BEGARY STEWART/MCA 40414

YOU BELONG TO ME JIM REEVES/RCA PB-10299MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY DONNY & MARIE OSMOND/

MGM 14807(YOU JUST) WOMAN HANDLED MY MIND BILLY SWAN/

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"'TRYING TO BEAT THE MORNING HOME." SECOND SMASH SINGLE FROM THE HIT ALBUM.

T. G. Sheppard. Tennesseesippin' music. Blended inthe true country tradition.Processed carefully withT. G.'s golden hits, "Devil inthe Bottle" and "Trying toBeat the Morning Home."T. G.'s music is smooth, light,

and easy on the ears. Agedin the studio and mellowednote by note into the finestcountry album you evertasted. "Devil in the Bottle."T. G. Sheppard. On Melody -land Records. Eat your heartout, ]ack Daniels.

COPYRIGHT 1975 MELODYLAND RECORDS/DISTRIBUTED EY MOTOWN RECORD CORPORATIONALSO AVAILABLE ON 8 -TRACK & CASSETTE


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